But if one company denies claims excessively, they will get a bad reputation and people will flee to other companies. I agree with you. Health insurance companies should be regulated, but by the consumer, not some crony in Washington.
Insurance for everything else works just fine. Auto, Fire, Homeowners, etc... These are the industries government isn't involved. It's only when government gets involved do things go south.
The government is the cause of the whole health care debacle starting with them driving up the cost of education, creating the HMO and limiting the choices of doctors for patients, creating Medicare, etc...
Social Security is a failure. It's broke! So is the US government. They can't afford anything. All they can do to make good on their social security obligation is print more dollars to pay people their benefits, which means those benefits will come at the expense of the rest of those naive enough to be holding dollars. Taking more from billionaires(a million isn't a lot these days due to perpetually incompetent government policy) won't do a thing because the obligations for social security are some $50 trillion. You could take every last dime from every billionaire in the US and it would still be broke!
Fire is different than Social Security. Fire is an unanticipated event, retirement is planned for. Of course we need the fire departments, but that's run poorly as well. In the state of California, we pay these guys $90k to work out at 24 hour fitness all day long. I'm sure in states like Texas that actually know how to balance a budget, it's fine.
Social Security is coercion, and a failure. If people want insurance for the ailments you mentioned they should choose to buy it from private businesses who understand how to turn a profit, not the government who only knows how to steal, spend and lose money.
If the government gives me back the near 50% of my life's work they've stolen from me, I would gladly donate to charities that I felt were of benefit to the needy.
When I'm interviewing someone, I prefer to have intelligent discussions about what they've been doing. You should be able to get a feel about their ability from the way they respond.
The language one chooses to program in is inconsequential. Any software engineer should be able to pick up any language within about a week.
You say that people who know what they're doing use C++, but C++ has drawbacks. It sounds like you'd be better off going after people who have programmed in assembly, or designed CPU's. People who have a true understanding of how the machine works(yet are willing to embrace the usefulness of higher level tools). If one has this understanding, they would generally be the better engineer. In fact, some people have an engineering mind and others don't. It sounds like you're finding the ones that don't.
Perhaps that's true, but I don't think that's the best metric for measuring ability or intelligence.
How many programmers do you know that could come up with a Turing Algorithm to recognize palindromes? It's definitely more difficult than writing a binary tree in C++, but clearly it's useless for anything we'd do in the professional world.
It's been maybe 15 years since I've designed a full adder. I could do the former because I just did it last week, but I doubt I could do the latter without pulling out a book or googling.
Being able to do the Turing Algorithm doesn't make me better than all of the Software Engineer's that can't do it, and similarly not being able to do the full adder doesn't make me incapable of coding other algorithms.
Careful with your terminology. The American economy contradicts capitalism. We would be jailed if we used a currency that competed with the dollar, and capitalism is about competition.
I can write write a linked list and a binary tree. Since I'm a Software Engineer though, I choose not to. I reuse the code from the one time I did it 10 years ago. If a company asks me to do it on the spot, I ask them if they think reinventing the wheel is good idea or I'll pull out my laptop and show them my code. It generally doesn't go over well. All joking aside, I've worked at companies where every programmer writes their own data structures, the code becomes redundant, bloated, buggy, and very difficult to read. So I avoid those companies.
It goes both ways though. I've worked with non-degrees and they were useless. Although I have a degree, and I would think that about 3 of the 4 years in school were wasted(from an intellectual standpoint that is. The partying and hooking up with semi random strangers was certainly not a waste).
A union also helped bring GM to bankruptcy and cost the rest of us billions of dollars as unwitting participants in their bail out. The Ralph's union also drives up prices for groceries(and at the same time provides us with the worst possible service) which hurts those that shop there unless people stop going there(which they will unless the government creates another monopoly).
Henry Ford has contributed way more to society than Ron Gettlefinger has.
You're not a real programmer. You should be writing in machine language. Real programmers don't use unpredictable tools like assemblers and compilers. You shouldn't use a keyboard either to input these opcodes. That's cheating, you should be using punch cards. Ugh, I can't stand people who use kiddie languages like C, C++, Ada, Fortran, or assembly.
The US Government lives in fantasy land. They created the Tech Bubble, Housing Bubble, and in hindsight can't even figure out why either happened. They believe that the unemployment rate can go down while the number of people employed goes down. The Tech bubble has given our industry a plethora of incompetence chasing after that "lucrative" salary. In reality most software engineers I know do alright, but none are wealthy and ALL are pretty miserable(mostly from the 70-80 hour weeks).
Far too many people think they aren't allowed to have any weaknesses (and we all do in some area or another) so they talk a big game, and when push comes to shove, they will actively block people who actually know more than they do about the subject at hand.
In my experience, the size of the game they talk is inversely proportional to the amount of real knowledge they have.
In response to the title of the thread, George Boole - Mathematician.
Do you know where the text for the original Executive Order is? Why is it so hard to find?
Why is the White House refusing to talk about it?
Why should an international organization's rights differ from any domestic entity?
I once had a supervisor(now unemployed because he's incompetent) who did nothing but annoy everyone in the office. My strategy to get him out of my office was to make it more unpleasant for him to talk to me than vice versa. It really wasn't hard with this guy either. Simply by being precise in communicating my thoughts, and calling him out on his lack of precision ultimately drove him crazy.
who gets it into young kids heads that they should be like Britney Spears, or Michael Jordan. These people are morons and should not be put on a pedestal. I guess the redeeming part is that the media loves to prop them up, and then chop them down(Michael Jackson).
That's the way the earth works. It rotates and it orbits the sun.
When you read books like "The Salem Witch Trial" and wonder how could people have been so stupid...Well, we're living it!
There are men that are unproductive in society just as well. So what. Although I've never seen a Playboy magazine with a naked man in it.
Productive - Building houses, roads, computers, toilets, cars, etc...
Unproductive - What I listed previously + Real Estate Agents, Lawyers, Politicians, etc...
Teaching doesn't produce anything. I've never seen a lugnut result from a tutoring session. Just look at the tests that they use to measure how successful students are in the school systems. Asking convoluted questions that one has a 1 in 4 chance of answering correctly is a terrible way to measure knowledge.
"So, who TAUGHT you how to read and write?" My Mom and my Dad for the former, and the latter is pretty much obsolete.
"Where'd you learn how to use a computer?" My Dad handed me a computer and said "Here son, go play with this". And so I did. That was far more useful in my everyday life than anything I did from K-12. Furthermore, when Calculus came up in High School...I was teaching the teacher how to do it. She walked up to me before class to check her answers with mine. When she was doing a problem on the board and got stuck, I guided her through it.
"Are you using knowledge you gained from teachers in your life?" Why did you ask the question and answer it?
Most women produce babies. That is their most primal desire, not creating software.
That's why there's not a lot in software. If they do, they don't stick around long.
Furthermore, there are way too many people in the field. This is the fault of the phony American economy. The tech boom of the 90's brought a plethora of incompetence into the field.
Women don't generally work hard on anything. Most women that are employed hold jobs that are unproductive. Teaching(non-sense in the public schools mind you), planning a company party, selling Gucci hand bags, or posing for Playboy are not good ways to grow an economy.
If one considers manipulating men to do all of their work, then yes they probably are smart. Take men out of the equation though, and you're left with nothing. (My apologies for straying a little off topic)
Any company or government institution can put whatever they want on your credit report and you have no right to defend yourself. Serial killers even get a trial.
Actually, yes you can do that. My roommate did that, and they shut off my internet access. Once he removed it from his machine they turned it back on. No fines or punishment whatsoever other than the phone call to get access turned back on.
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But if one company denies claims excessively, they will get a bad reputation and people will flee to other companies. I agree with you. Health insurance companies should be regulated, but by the consumer, not some crony in Washington.
Insurance for everything else works just fine. Auto, Fire, Homeowners, etc... These are the industries government isn't involved. It's only when government gets involved do things go south.
The government is the cause of the whole health care debacle starting with them driving up the cost of education, creating the HMO and limiting the choices of doctors for patients, creating Medicare, etc...
Social Security is a failure. It's broke! So is the US government. They can't afford anything. All they can do to make good on their social security obligation is print more dollars to pay people their benefits, which means those benefits will come at the expense of the rest of those naive enough to be holding dollars. Taking more from billionaires(a million isn't a lot these days due to perpetually incompetent government policy) won't do a thing because the obligations for social security are some $50 trillion. You could take every last dime from every billionaire in the US and it would still be broke!
Fire is different than Social Security. Fire is an unanticipated event, retirement is planned for. Of course we need the fire departments, but that's run poorly as well. In the state of California, we pay these guys $90k to work out at 24 hour fitness all day long. I'm sure in states like Texas that actually know how to balance a budget, it's fine.
Social Security is coercion, and a failure. If people want insurance for the ailments you mentioned they should choose to buy it from private businesses who understand how to turn a profit, not the government who only knows how to steal, spend and lose money.
If the government gives me back the near 50% of my life's work they've stolen from me, I would gladly donate to charities that I felt were of benefit to the needy.
When I'm interviewing someone, I prefer to have intelligent discussions about what they've been doing. You should be able to get a feel about their ability from the way they respond.
The language one chooses to program in is inconsequential. Any software engineer should be able to pick up any language within about a week.
You say that people who know what they're doing use C++, but C++ has drawbacks. It sounds like you'd be better off going after people who have programmed in assembly, or designed CPU's. People who have a true understanding of how the machine works(yet are willing to embrace the usefulness of higher level tools). If one has this understanding, they would generally be the better engineer. In fact, some people have an engineering mind and others don't. It sounds like you're finding the ones that don't.
Perhaps that's true, but I don't think that's the best metric for measuring ability or intelligence.
How many programmers do you know that could come up with a Turing Algorithm to recognize palindromes? It's definitely more difficult than writing a binary tree in C++, but clearly it's useless for anything we'd do in the professional world.
It's been maybe 15 years since I've designed a full adder. I could do the former because I just did it last week, but I doubt I could do the latter without pulling out a book or googling.
Being able to do the Turing Algorithm doesn't make me better than all of the Software Engineer's that can't do it, and similarly not being able to do the full adder doesn't make me incapable of coding other algorithms.
Careful with your terminology. The American economy contradicts capitalism. We would be jailed if we used a currency that competed with the dollar, and capitalism is about competition.
I can write write a linked list and a binary tree. Since I'm a Software Engineer though, I choose not to. I reuse the code from the one time I did it 10 years ago. If a company asks me to do it on the spot, I ask them if they think reinventing the wheel is good idea or I'll pull out my laptop and show them my code. It generally doesn't go over well. All joking aside, I've worked at companies where every programmer writes their own data structures, the code becomes redundant, bloated, buggy, and very difficult to read. So I avoid those companies.
It goes both ways though. I've worked with non-degrees and they were useless. Although I have a degree, and I would think that about 3 of the 4 years in school were wasted(from an intellectual standpoint that is. The partying and hooking up with semi random strangers was certainly not a waste).
A union also helped bring GM to bankruptcy and cost the rest of us billions of dollars as unwitting participants in their bail out. The Ralph's union also drives up prices for groceries(and at the same time provides us with the worst possible service) which hurts those that shop there unless people stop going there(which they will unless the government creates another monopoly). Henry Ford has contributed way more to society than Ron Gettlefinger has.
You're not a real programmer. You should be writing in machine language. Real programmers don't use unpredictable tools like assemblers and compilers. You shouldn't use a keyboard either to input these opcodes. That's cheating, you should be using punch cards. Ugh, I can't stand people who use kiddie languages like C, C++, Ada, Fortran, or assembly.
The US Government lives in fantasy land. They created the Tech Bubble, Housing Bubble, and in hindsight can't even figure out why either happened. They believe that the unemployment rate can go down while the number of people employed goes down. The Tech bubble has given our industry a plethora of incompetence chasing after that "lucrative" salary. In reality most software engineers I know do alright, but none are wealthy and ALL are pretty miserable(mostly from the 70-80 hour weeks).
Although Bush and Bin Laden having dinner would be less likely to surprise me.
intimidating too.
Far too many people think they aren't allowed to have any weaknesses (and we all do in some area or another) so they talk a big game, and when push comes to shove, they will actively block people who actually know more than they do about the subject at hand.
In my experience, the size of the game they talk is inversely proportional to the amount of real knowledge they have. In response to the title of the thread, George Boole - Mathematician.
Pleasuring her is not my primary concern.
Do you know where the text for the original Executive Order is? Why is it so hard to find? Why is the White House refusing to talk about it? Why should an international organization's rights differ from any domestic entity?
I once had a supervisor(now unemployed because he's incompetent) who did nothing but annoy everyone in the office. My strategy to get him out of my office was to make it more unpleasant for him to talk to me than vice versa. It really wasn't hard with this guy either. Simply by being precise in communicating my thoughts, and calling him out on his lack of precision ultimately drove him crazy.
Good shit!
who gets it into young kids heads that they should be like Britney Spears, or Michael Jordan. These people are morons and should not be put on a pedestal. I guess the redeeming part is that the media loves to prop them up, and then chop them down(Michael Jackson).
That's the way the earth works. It rotates and it orbits the sun. When you read books like "The Salem Witch Trial" and wonder how could people have been so stupid...Well, we're living it!
There are men that are unproductive in society just as well. So what. Although I've never seen a Playboy magazine with a naked man in it. Productive - Building houses, roads, computers, toilets, cars, etc... Unproductive - What I listed previously + Real Estate Agents, Lawyers, Politicians, etc... Teaching doesn't produce anything. I've never seen a lugnut result from a tutoring session. Just look at the tests that they use to measure how successful students are in the school systems. Asking convoluted questions that one has a 1 in 4 chance of answering correctly is a terrible way to measure knowledge. "So, who TAUGHT you how to read and write?" My Mom and my Dad for the former, and the latter is pretty much obsolete. "Where'd you learn how to use a computer?" My Dad handed me a computer and said "Here son, go play with this". And so I did. That was far more useful in my everyday life than anything I did from K-12. Furthermore, when Calculus came up in High School...I was teaching the teacher how to do it. She walked up to me before class to check her answers with mine. When she was doing a problem on the board and got stuck, I guided her through it. "Are you using knowledge you gained from teachers in your life?" Why did you ask the question and answer it? Most women produce babies. That is their most primal desire, not creating software.
That's why there's not a lot in software. If they do, they don't stick around long. Furthermore, there are way too many people in the field. This is the fault of the phony American economy. The tech boom of the 90's brought a plethora of incompetence into the field. Women don't generally work hard on anything. Most women that are employed hold jobs that are unproductive. Teaching(non-sense in the public schools mind you), planning a company party, selling Gucci hand bags, or posing for Playboy are not good ways to grow an economy. If one considers manipulating men to do all of their work, then yes they probably are smart. Take men out of the equation though, and you're left with nothing. (My apologies for straying a little off topic)
Grandma's get intrigued by these types of tabloids.
Any company or government institution can put whatever they want on your credit report and you have no right to defend yourself. Serial killers even get a trial.
Actually, yes you can do that. My roommate did that, and they shut off my internet access. Once he removed it from his machine they turned it back on. No fines or punishment whatsoever other than the phone call to get access turned back on.