The uncertainty is killing us. Since there's nobody with a reputation worth destroying left, us boys down in the basement are fearing for our jobs. Maybe we get some new positions in journalism, I heard they're looking for a few imaginative people to come up with news.
Sorry, buddy, but your little precious is to blame here. I know that isn't what you want to hear after she eliminated herself from the gene pool by her own stupidity, and if it makes you feel better, blame the world, the powers that are, the car and whatever else you could come up with, but in the end, what we have here is someone who was drunk and lost control over the vehicle. Even whether she had to avoid collision with another car isn't really established as a fact by now. So what's left is that your daughter's drunk driving killed herself and murdered her passenger.
All I can say is that at least she didn't take any innocent bystanders with her. With her passenger you can at least say "well, stupid enough to get into the car of a drunk driver", something you could not claim if she had killed someone by driving over them.
Dump our waste that will remain for all eternity into the area on our planet that we understand the least, and in case we fuck up, we have no way to undo it.
Is it me or does this sound like a really bad idea?
Well, let's put it that way: We're located in a smaller city, certainly more appealing if you have a family, the whole thing has more of a suburb-vibe, lots of shopping centers, great internet connectivity and WAY lower rents (600 bucks rent over 1000 sqft, less than 300k buy a house with more land than you probably want). All that with a very comparable salary means that you can usually save a lot more money than you could living downtown.
And even that's not required if you ask me. But what we have to do is to finally get our teaching methods out of the 1800s and get them into our current reality. As I like to say "I was once paid for what I know, today I'm paid for knowing where to look stuff up". And that becomes more and more true.
Information changes far more rapidly than it ever did before. What I was taught at school simply isn't true anymore. So what do I take out of my education? Very little of substance. And that doesn't change. And it has to.
Instead of teaching kids facts and dates, what we should teach them is how to look them up sensibly, where to find what and the more and more crucial skill of evaluating information for veracity. How do you cross check? How do you verify your sources? How do you tell propaganda and make-believe from reality?
That is the key skill for the future. And no human-machine-interface can solve that. Only we can solve that, by educating our people to identify bullshit.
This is actually true. Look at YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, you name it. What do you see? A lot of loud extremists that stir up a lot of noise. Do they represent the majority of people? Not by a long shot.
In the end, you will notice that it's always the same faces, always the same people, always the same channels that you hear absolutely outlandish demands from. It's fringe groups that get disproportional amounts of air time, not only on social media but now even on established media networks, where 99% of the viewers are basically wondering who the fuck that person could be and why the hell anyone thinks the drivel they spout is relevant.
That's what doubles for news these days. And it doesn't matter what end of the spectrum you look at, they exist on both ends.
I think it's about time we find our way back to moderation and realize that in the end there are really big problems rolling towards us and that now isn't really the best time to fight within over petty things that could well wait until the really pressing problems, i.e. the ones that affect 99% instead of 1% of the population, are at least under control.
If you end in "thank you" after asking me to do something that I should be doing anyway as part of my job, I'd actually consider it very polite that you thank me for doing my job, and I will of course do my best to deliver the best I could. "Please fix this problem for us which is in your job description that you should do it. Thanks a lot for your aid!". Love it! Thank you for being polite!
Saying "thank you" in a mail where you ask something from me that is by no means certain that I have to or even should do is rude. You basically establish that I "have to" do it now that you have already thanked me for it. Like, say, when asking for charity money. "Here's a letter begging for money. Thank for giving to us!" Screw you!
Yes, I know, it's a bit of a pet peeve of mine, but if you actually ask something from me that is my and only my decision whether or not I do it, thank me AFTER I made the decision to do it. Don't make that decision for me with a premature "thanks".
We have a near flawless record when it comes to keeping people, unless they want to leave on their own. Sadly, our company has pretty good ties with a lot of others, and in turn, since we do mostly consulting, this means that people working here get very good connections to other companies pretty quickly. Last year we lost three people, one went on to Google, one became the CISO of a Fortune 500 company and one left for our version of the DOD.
I can't remember a case where we actually fired a person (the hiring process usually weeds out the duds), once you're part of "the family", you usually stay 'til you decide to move on. Any turnover we have is actually due to people leaving on their own. And frankly, I cannot compete with Google...
I have had a 270 sqft apartment for most of my life. Why would I want more? I have a bed, I have a computer, I have a kitchen (ok... a place where I can cook) and I have a bathroom (sorta). People keep asking me why I don't move to something more "my speed", but frankly, why would I need more?
I never really got why apartments have to be larger than they really have to be. I guess it's the same reason cars need to have bigger engines than what's necessary to get from A to B.
Moving also means a considerable expense. Even ignoring any social or personal aspects that arise from uprooting yourself and moving away, moving always entails a considerable financial investment.
Now couple this with the general job (in)security and an insane turnover rate. Would you move across the country and spend what you might make in 3 months on it if you know that your chance to even still have the job in 3 months is really low?
The problem is that that is basically the only sensible option they have. Generation snowflake is also generation intern, a generation that moves from one intern position to the next until they're too old and the next batch of interns is available, baited with the same promise that you may get a fixed position if you test out ok, only to eventually learn that this is a false promise. All that happens is that you get replaced by the next intern.
I do not challenge that there are a lot of people without any marketable skill, qualification or degree. And their number is rising rapidly. Or, in the eternal words of a CEO that I better leave unnamed here, "No, we don't have a Diversity Officer, the people we hire have to do productive work". But that shouldn't distract from the real problem at hand, that we're looking at a generation that has no chance to EVER regain their college loans, even if they were smart enough to study something where there is a market for it.
I am facing a different problem: "I'm not willing to move there".
We're not exactly in the middle of nowhere, but also we're an about 1.5 hours drive away from the next large city. Don't get it wrong, this ain't backwater nowhere, you have great internet connection and VERY affordable housing around here, and we're paying VERY well. Yet people are not willing to move those 1.5 hours away from where they're living.
Hell, I know people that commute 1.5 hours each way every single day!
That's a nice way of saying he's slinging mud in all directions and watches to see where it sticks.
Basically he's a troll that will say anything to get a reaction. He's a rhetoric genius, I give him that, but so far I haven't heard much from him that wasn't aimed at creating a stink.
Which is sad, he does have the ability and talent to be a brilliant speaker.
I think it's kinda ironic that the article complains about a product being vaporware but doesn't even talk about WHAT it is supposed to be. I'm used to TFS not even mentioning it, pretty much assuming everyone has heard about some arcane project that is maybe interesting to 5 percent of the audience, but that the articles linked to don't explain it, that's new.
5 links deep in, we finally learn that it's yet another augmented reality gadget. At least that's what it looks like. Whether it is, I still don't know: All I really got was a YouTube video that had no sound (except some silly elevator music).
Slashdot Mirror
If you're Jesus, you've probably already been shoved south of the border by now.
The uncertainty is killing us. Since there's nobody with a reputation worth destroying left, us boys down in the basement are fearing for our jobs. Maybe we get some new positions in journalism, I heard they're looking for a few imaginative people to come up with news.
Don't drive rocket ships when you're drunk.
Sorry, buddy, but your little precious is to blame here. I know that isn't what you want to hear after she eliminated herself from the gene pool by her own stupidity, and if it makes you feel better, blame the world, the powers that are, the car and whatever else you could come up with, but in the end, what we have here is someone who was drunk and lost control over the vehicle. Even whether she had to avoid collision with another car isn't really established as a fact by now. So what's left is that your daughter's drunk driving killed herself and murdered her passenger.
All I can say is that at least she didn't take any innocent bystanders with her. With her passenger you can at least say "well, stupid enough to get into the car of a drunk driver", something you could not claim if she had killed someone by driving over them.
Hush, we're trying to establish a precedent here!
Yes, but who wants to see that?
I get the impression, most guys want a young ass with huge tits. Any woman around that doesn't hurt, but doesn't add much to the experience either.
This just in: Having a weird fetish means there is little free porn for you.
Why would they? That would be like a rock star reading a teen magazine.
Dump our waste that will remain for all eternity into the area on our planet that we understand the least, and in case we fuck up, we have no way to undo it.
Is it me or does this sound like a really bad idea?
Well, let's put it that way: We're located in a smaller city, certainly more appealing if you have a family, the whole thing has more of a suburb-vibe, lots of shopping centers, great internet connectivity and WAY lower rents (600 bucks rent over 1000 sqft, less than 300k buy a house with more land than you probably want). All that with a very comparable salary means that you can usually save a lot more money than you could living downtown.
And even that's not required if you ask me. But what we have to do is to finally get our teaching methods out of the 1800s and get them into our current reality. As I like to say "I was once paid for what I know, today I'm paid for knowing where to look stuff up". And that becomes more and more true.
Information changes far more rapidly than it ever did before. What I was taught at school simply isn't true anymore. So what do I take out of my education? Very little of substance. And that doesn't change. And it has to.
Instead of teaching kids facts and dates, what we should teach them is how to look them up sensibly, where to find what and the more and more crucial skill of evaluating information for veracity. How do you cross check? How do you verify your sources? How do you tell propaganda and make-believe from reality?
That is the key skill for the future. And no human-machine-interface can solve that. Only we can solve that, by educating our people to identify bullshit.
This is actually true. Look at YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, you name it. What do you see? A lot of loud extremists that stir up a lot of noise. Do they represent the majority of people? Not by a long shot.
In the end, you will notice that it's always the same faces, always the same people, always the same channels that you hear absolutely outlandish demands from. It's fringe groups that get disproportional amounts of air time, not only on social media but now even on established media networks, where 99% of the viewers are basically wondering who the fuck that person could be and why the hell anyone thinks the drivel they spout is relevant.
That's what doubles for news these days. And it doesn't matter what end of the spectrum you look at, they exist on both ends.
I think it's about time we find our way back to moderation and realize that in the end there are really big problems rolling towards us and that now isn't really the best time to fight within over petty things that could well wait until the really pressing problems, i.e. the ones that affect 99% instead of 1% of the population, are at least under control.
Mah, those spoiled millennial snowflakes! We drank our booze where we found it, and we were lucky when we didn't go blind!
So ... he's basically the gay Uncle Tom?
In before "Uncle Milo" becomes a meme! Remember kids, you heard it here first!
If you end in "thank you" after asking me to do something that I should be doing anyway as part of my job, I'd actually consider it very polite that you thank me for doing my job, and I will of course do my best to deliver the best I could. "Please fix this problem for us which is in your job description that you should do it. Thanks a lot for your aid!". Love it! Thank you for being polite!
Saying "thank you" in a mail where you ask something from me that is by no means certain that I have to or even should do is rude. You basically establish that I "have to" do it now that you have already thanked me for it. Like, say, when asking for charity money. "Here's a letter begging for money. Thank for giving to us!" Screw you!
Yes, I know, it's a bit of a pet peeve of mine, but if you actually ask something from me that is my and only my decision whether or not I do it, thank me AFTER I made the decision to do it. Don't make that decision for me with a premature "thanks".
We have a near flawless record when it comes to keeping people, unless they want to leave on their own. Sadly, our company has pretty good ties with a lot of others, and in turn, since we do mostly consulting, this means that people working here get very good connections to other companies pretty quickly. Last year we lost three people, one went on to Google, one became the CISO of a Fortune 500 company and one left for our version of the DOD.
I can't remember a case where we actually fired a person (the hiring process usually weeds out the duds), once you're part of "the family", you usually stay 'til you decide to move on. Any turnover we have is actually due to people leaving on their own. And frankly, I cannot compete with Google...
Dude, get professional help.
Tax deductible doesn't mean that you get paid for it by the IRS, it means that you get to pay no tax for the money spent on moving.
Ethanol = Sugar + time.
Damn straight, add a coke and you have all four important food groups: Fat, sugar, salt and caffeine.
I have had a 270 sqft apartment for most of my life. Why would I want more? I have a bed, I have a computer, I have a kitchen (ok... a place where I can cook) and I have a bathroom (sorta). People keep asking me why I don't move to something more "my speed", but frankly, why would I need more?
I never really got why apartments have to be larger than they really have to be. I guess it's the same reason cars need to have bigger engines than what's necessary to get from A to B.
Moving also means a considerable expense. Even ignoring any social or personal aspects that arise from uprooting yourself and moving away, moving always entails a considerable financial investment.
Now couple this with the general job (in)security and an insane turnover rate. Would you move across the country and spend what you might make in 3 months on it if you know that your chance to even still have the job in 3 months is really low?
The problem is that that is basically the only sensible option they have. Generation snowflake is also generation intern, a generation that moves from one intern position to the next until they're too old and the next batch of interns is available, baited with the same promise that you may get a fixed position if you test out ok, only to eventually learn that this is a false promise. All that happens is that you get replaced by the next intern.
I do not challenge that there are a lot of people without any marketable skill, qualification or degree. And their number is rising rapidly. Or, in the eternal words of a CEO that I better leave unnamed here, "No, we don't have a Diversity Officer, the people we hire have to do productive work". But that shouldn't distract from the real problem at hand, that we're looking at a generation that has no chance to EVER regain their college loans, even if they were smart enough to study something where there is a market for it.
I am facing a different problem: "I'm not willing to move there".
We're not exactly in the middle of nowhere, but also we're an about 1.5 hours drive away from the next large city. Don't get it wrong, this ain't backwater nowhere, you have great internet connection and VERY affordable housing around here, and we're paying VERY well. Yet people are not willing to move those 1.5 hours away from where they're living.
Hell, I know people that commute 1.5 hours each way every single day!
That's a nice way of saying he's slinging mud in all directions and watches to see where it sticks.
Basically he's a troll that will say anything to get a reaction. He's a rhetoric genius, I give him that, but so far I haven't heard much from him that wasn't aimed at creating a stink.
Which is sad, he does have the ability and talent to be a brilliant speaker.
I think it's kinda ironic that the article complains about a product being vaporware but doesn't even talk about WHAT it is supposed to be. I'm used to TFS not even mentioning it, pretty much assuming everyone has heard about some arcane project that is maybe interesting to 5 percent of the audience, but that the articles linked to don't explain it, that's new.
5 links deep in, we finally learn that it's yet another augmented reality gadget. At least that's what it looks like. Whether it is, I still don't know: All I really got was a YouTube video that had no sound (except some silly elevator music).