The impression I've had about Pence ever since he got picked by Trump is that he's just not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Pence is what every VP since Humphrey was: An assassination insurance. Any assassin planning to shoot the president is supposed to think "Wait! Stop! If I off him, this goofball is gonna take over! Ok, call it of, that's even worse."
Oh, I didn't know inhuman ideas are allowed. Well, then it's easy. Slaughter some of the fat cats, I'm pretty sure the money Zuck alone has is enough to keep half of the US fed and sheltered for a year.
That point has already been reached. Our economy is in the situation it is in because the whole "keeping up with the Joneses" isn't working out anymore because people can't do that.
What we currently do with our economy is creating an artificial hype over having the latest product in a line that doesn't change because the market itself got so tiny that we have to sell the same shit to the same people over and over. You might have noticed that the last 3-4 versions of a certain cell phone were essentially the same. Why do you think they reinvent the wheel every year?
We already have deflation. Look at the interest rates, look at the "inflation" rate we're having. Essentially we have already arrived at what our economy dreads the most: Most people don't have money to satisfy their needs, while those that still have money have had their needs satisfied already and have nothing left to satisfy.
The trickle-down myth turned out to be a myth and the only thing the invisible hand is doing is fisting the economy.
That's the problem: That doesn't work this time around.
Back when agriculture was modernized so that we didn't need 70+ percent of the workforce in the production of food anymore, the people that worked on the fields before moved to the towns and worked in factories, and farmhands became factory workers. When factories started to modernize and automatize, people went into services and factory workers became waiters and salespeople.
The problem is that now we're replacing these people and there isn't anything they could move towards. There is no new sector opening that would hoover up that free workforce this time.
That's why I turned HR into a pass-through for me. I have them forward everything to me. We're specialized enough and our requirements insane enough that we have only a handful of applicants anyway, no need to waste those precious few on people who can't tell Javascript from Assembler.
That's fine if you have standard problems. Not so much when you don't.
We don't have standard problems. For the standard problems, there are standard solutions. And I don't need people for that, libraries will do just fine.
What I need is problem solvers. So actually, I DO test what they don't know. I don't want to know what they know. I want to know how they find solutions to problems they didn't already solve.
What I want to test with my "unreasonable" questions is your ability to think abstractly, and to find a solution to a problem you have not faced before. I'm aware that you cannot solve the problem. I am also not interested in a solution (at least not in the interview). What I want to see is how you tackle an unknown problem. What do you do? How do you approach it? I'm well aware that it's very, very unlikely that you can simply toss a solution at me (and if, all you'd get is a different problem because, again, I don't care for a solution, I care for your approach to an unknown problem).
I also give you absolutely free rein in what you do. I actually had an applicant whip out his cellphone and call someone. Another one mailed me a solution a day after the interview.
In my field we're constantly facing new problems nobody has solved before. So asking you for an existing solution is worse than useless to me. I want to see what you do with a problem you have no ready made solution for.
I don't want you to barf something onto the whiteboard that you can look up in 10 seconds or what has been done to death in libraries. Basically, the correct answer for "how to do a linked list" is "#include ".
Definition "works": Does what was obviously the intention.
Yes, I know there is ancient production code in every project that does nothing sensible because it's been patched and patched and patched until you end up with two branches of an if clause that do exactly the same but nobody has the guts to simply get rid of it and instead maintains both branches, painstakingly putting every change in both branches. Yes, those things exist.
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As long as they all burn I don't give a shit who won, as far as I care you could have Sanders as prez as long as we get to burn them ALL.
A courageous trailblazer that already dealt in fake news before it was cool.
They pretty much have to be if they're willing to pay 10-15 bucks more for a game than PC gamers...
The impression I've had about Pence ever since he got picked by Trump is that he's just not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Pence is what every VP since Humphrey was: An assassination insurance. Any assassin planning to shoot the president is supposed to think "Wait! Stop! If I off him, this goofball is gonna take over! Ok, call it of, that's even worse."
Only 'cause the GOP has a closer and historic relationship with business instead of a predisposition of sitting in an echo chamber.
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Wow. That's a good one, are you available for corporate events, and do you have a complete stand-up routine?
For a moment I thought there's really one area where the Dems are even stupider than the GOP.
The world is in balance again.
As long as ESA and NASA don't collab and some idiot uses imperial units, it should be fine.
Actually, I do count on the imagination, curiosity and drive of 6 billion unemployed and hungry, and thus VERY motivated humans...
Oh, I didn't know inhuman ideas are allowed. Well, then it's easy. Slaughter some of the fat cats, I'm pretty sure the money Zuck alone has is enough to keep half of the US fed and sheltered for a year.
That point has already been reached. Our economy is in the situation it is in because the whole "keeping up with the Joneses" isn't working out anymore because people can't do that.
What we currently do with our economy is creating an artificial hype over having the latest product in a line that doesn't change because the market itself got so tiny that we have to sell the same shit to the same people over and over. You might have noticed that the last 3-4 versions of a certain cell phone were essentially the same. Why do you think they reinvent the wheel every year?
We already have deflation. Look at the interest rates, look at the "inflation" rate we're having. Essentially we have already arrived at what our economy dreads the most: Most people don't have money to satisfy their needs, while those that still have money have had their needs satisfied already and have nothing left to satisfy.
The trickle-down myth turned out to be a myth and the only thing the invisible hand is doing is fisting the economy.
So asked the farmhand back two hundred years, who will drive those machines that mow your fields and harvest your potatoes? You cannot get rid of me!
True. we still need one person to drive that machine.
Instead of thousands harvesting by hand.
That's the problem: That doesn't work this time around.
Back when agriculture was modernized so that we didn't need 70+ percent of the workforce in the production of food anymore, the people that worked on the fields before moved to the towns and worked in factories, and farmhands became factory workers. When factories started to modernize and automatize, people went into services and factory workers became waiters and salespeople.
The problem is that now we're replacing these people and there isn't anything they could move towards. There is no new sector opening that would hoover up that free workforce this time.
Sorry, dude, but where exactly have you been those past 25ish years? Living in a sheltered bubble or ... how could you NOT see this happen before?
We are talking about an effin' interview example. If you start splitting hairs here, I don't want to hire you based on this.
Mining for use in space... maybe. Does anyone know what's more expensive in terms of dV, Moon to Earth orbit or Earth to Earth orbit?
You really, really, REALLY have to be into homeopathy if you think at that dilution it can have any meaningful effect on you.
And honey is bee barf. And you don't even want to know where that milk comes from.
That's why I turned HR into a pass-through for me. I have them forward everything to me. We're specialized enough and our requirements insane enough that we have only a handful of applicants anyway, no need to waste those precious few on people who can't tell Javascript from Assembler.
That's fine if you have standard problems. Not so much when you don't.
We don't have standard problems. For the standard problems, there are standard solutions. And I don't need people for that, libraries will do just fine.
What I need is problem solvers. So actually, I DO test what they don't know. I don't want to know what they know. I want to know how they find solutions to problems they didn't already solve.
What I want to test with my "unreasonable" questions is your ability to think abstractly, and to find a solution to a problem you have not faced before. I'm aware that you cannot solve the problem. I am also not interested in a solution (at least not in the interview). What I want to see is how you tackle an unknown problem. What do you do? How do you approach it? I'm well aware that it's very, very unlikely that you can simply toss a solution at me (and if, all you'd get is a different problem because, again, I don't care for a solution, I care for your approach to an unknown problem).
I also give you absolutely free rein in what you do. I actually had an applicant whip out his cellphone and call someone. Another one mailed me a solution a day after the interview.
In my field we're constantly facing new problems nobody has solved before. So asking you for an existing solution is worse than useless to me. I want to see what you do with a problem you have no ready made solution for.
#include vector...
Dammit HTML, we meet again you cruel mistress...
I don't want you to barf something onto the whiteboard that you can look up in 10 seconds or what has been done to death in libraries. Basically, the correct answer for "how to do a linked list" is "#include ".
Definition "works": Does what was obviously the intention.
Yes, I know there is ancient production code in every project that does nothing sensible because it's been patched and patched and patched until you end up with two branches of an if clause that do exactly the same but nobody has the guts to simply get rid of it and instead maintains both branches, painstakingly putting every change in both branches. Yes, those things exist.
Assume they don't when you go to a job interview.