And what exactly do you expect me to tell you if I've been doing Java on Windows (deployed usually on Solaris) for the last ten years? Some of us just slid in such positions, and try to get out. I have extensive Linux and OpenBSD skills because that's what I do at home, but I cannot provide a single professional reference to that.
I know I sound like a stupid American ignorant of the wole C.V. thing, but is there no way to list your hobby experience on your C.V.? If not why not a cover letter? I mean if I was a.NET shop I'd want people with.NET experience. However, some shops are multiple technology shops. For that I'd be interested in a candidate that had professional experience in one of our technologies, and hobby experience in another. I'd also like someone that was a hobbyist on technologies other than what they do professionally because it shows they are not stuck in one mindset. They will adapt.
Sometimes you need some heavier unit tests just to pick up little bugs like these.
Was that flamebait aimed at stirring up responses from all the people that were thinking about looking into unit tests until they got permission from Knuth to not use them in his recent interview? BTW, this bug didn't exactly blow the world away, and this is the sort of heavy load testing that you don't have time to run in your "make tests" phase or your xUnit derived unit testing platform.
Dude, the government exists to help us when we need help, and this is one of those cases. That your extremist mind applied "nanny" to it is sad.
I'm using a term to evoke a specific point. Granted it was intended to mat that point emotionally and not intellectually. However, calling me an extremist was an emotional attack not an intellectual one.
I am not against using the courts to solve problems. I am against using them as a first recourse, unless I am in a situation where that would be sensible. Now, your knowledge of experiences leads you to believe that asking yahoo directly would be a waste of time. However, after all that PR, they might have developed a new policy that would make a court order unnecessary. That being said, I would not fault you for going directly with a court order in this instance since you believe you would have to go that route eventually.
My rule of thumb, give people a chance to do the right thing before you force them to. Corporations are made up of people, and if you misinterperate the 14th amendment correctly, corporations are people.
I disagree... A simple court order would open up any account they want. Why people go to these companies and ask "permission" is beyond me... That is why our legal system is there, and it is quite good at getting what it wants...
Yes God forbid we try to solve problem on our own first without seeking the nanny state.
Now, these entities might have policies that basically say, "get a court order so we can cover our ass." If you are sure this is the case, then by all means forgo asking the entity and go directly for the court order. However, don't go wasting the courts time and everyone's tax dollars unnecessarily.
At that point, I don't care if anyone else can afford to eat meat. My plan is to repurpose an acre of the pasture as a garden, then cull the herd and eat meat until the vegetables ripen. I read that you need 1.9 acres per person. However, you obviously know more about these things than me.
The way out of the ghetto is sacrifice.
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Think of the Trump family, the Hilton family, or any of the other success stories. The point is, you sacrifice now so your offspring has it easier.
I just hope your grandkids grow up to be Don and Ivona Jr and not Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie.
Yes their is responsibility to your family and offspring. However, in addition to ensuring your kids get to do what they want to do, you also have to teach them to want to do more than shop and go clubbing.
Sorry to go on a tandem there, but if you are seriously thinking about "working the land" and "accomplishing something" and feeling tired from good hard work at the end of the day, don't do it. It's a crap shoot these days.
There is always other blue collar work like auto mechanic. If we can no longer afford cars, someone will have to fix the busses, motorcycles and bikes. After listening to my mechanic I am convinces that most factory trained mechanics are the equivalent of paper MCSEs. So if you can actually troubleshoot problems instead of replace parts, you can probably be useful in that field. Also, with rising transportation costs and the falling dollars, we might have to build factories here.
Thirty years in the IT industry, and my fallback career is cattle rancher. My in-laws own a small ranch where I work from time to time. If peak oil predictions prove to be optimistic, I'll still be able to put food on the table.
If enough people can afford to eat meat at that point. I'm not an anti vegan by any means. Although I've never had the opportunity, I want to slaughter and animal and eat it, and have my children witness the same at a young age as well as do the same when they get old enough. However, a vegetarian diet is cheaper and easier to sustain.
isn't libertarian war-monger a contradiction in terms?
I believe all people should be able to defend themselves, therefore right to bear arms. That in itself is quite libertarian. I believe that nations should be allowed to defend themselves from foreign opposing forces. Even anarchist philosophy supports that, with the caveat that once they make us all anarchists we stop fighting wars. I believe in the ability to go on the offensive against foreigners if necessary. I don't believe this is a far departure from libertarian philosophy.
While I'm all for the abolishing of public schools, but barring that, I'd prefer they teach you how to fire a gun and march in gym class. I think practical battlefield skills would be a better syllabus than the current JROTC program. Indoctrination into army culture should be reserved for boot camp and officer training programs. That would also serve to keep the goverment scared of its own people and therefore willing to listen to their will.
I never served, and I am still within draft age, but I would probably support reinstating the draft. I am a firm believer of social contract in that aspect. That being said, I want to read Starship Troopers and other Helien works to see if his idea of earning citizenship makes sense to me.
I usually do concentrate on the fiscal aspects of libertarianism, and if I enumerated them you'd consider me a libertarian. One of my few departures from "pure libertarian belief" is that I am very hawkish, which is why I say I am a libertarian war monger.
Stay the course, fiscal conservatives! You still haven't hit rock bottom!
Our undoing will not be because of fiscal conservatism. I consider myself a libertarian war monger. I'd vote for Ron Paul if he was only pro war. That being said I do acknowledge that my military spending beliefs are not fiscally conservative.
Unless we're talking murder or some serious crime, you're probably going to have a hard time getting the police interested in investing the resources to try to identify the perp and hunt them down and arrest them.
Well regular thieves eventually get caught, and the police might be able to give the DA a solid case for two robberies not one if they have pictures from a previous one. Also, if you get a license plate number, the police would trace the owner of that. Finally, it might be someone you know.
As I pointed out, customizable to a developer usually means software, not hardware.
Software is just as customizable on laptop as it is on a desktop.
I can run 2 LCDs off it, as well as the lappy's screen, as is (no ExpressCard expansion card needed). What's more to want if you're a developer concerned with screen real estate?
Any desktop as powerful as a "desktop replacement" laptop probably supports two monitors out of the box. Also, as a developer a PCI graphics card is just fine, and my Dual P3 450 can support 8 monitors just fine. Find me a laptop that supports more than 2.
Newer laptops probably have at least the same ram and hd space as a developer's desktop from a couple of years ago, so if you're a dev, you might want to use your lappy nowadays. Also, you have more freedom to customize your machine...
Uh, how is a laptop more customizable than a desktop. A desktop will have multiple PCI slots in addition to more USB slots than you can shake a stick at. Some have WI-FI on the motherboard, and all have more room for internal accessories. Also, This will counter the only redherring of a counter argument I can imagine you making.
After all, if my livelyhood depends on fixing problems with my code, what incentive do I have to ship it bug-free to begin with?
First, you have to write code good enough to make it into a redhat distro in order for them to pay you to fix it. Secondly, you have to write enough code for them to just hire you to maintain it for long term profitability in this manner. Thirdly, once someone else writes a replacement package, or cleans up your code base well enough, they get paid by redhat to maintain your code.
wait til everyone in china eats as much meat as a western european or north american......
We can export our meat to them! We revert to an agrarian society, but still prosper. The Jeffersonian model of America becoming an agricultural utopia is realized. We resume "making stuff" so the American working class benefits from globalization.
Also, this is a self solving problem. When meat gets too expensive the poor will eat cheaper foods. This will reduce the demand for meat, so their will be less animals eating edible plant matter. This will make the edible plant matter drop in price.
It's really the meat eaters that should be worried.
I fail to see how "no travel" is a perk. Who in their right minds would turn down an opportunity to see new places, especially when your employer will foot the bill?
Maybe he has a family. I've never gone anywhere worth going when I traveled on the companies dime. Its a nice change of pace for me, but would not be worth it if I had kids. I prefer to pay for my travel so I can spend all day seeing the place I go to.
That, and a two day business trip gives you no time to do much besides get sloshed at the airport bar before getting on the return flight.
It's really sad, because these people are risking allowing some truly horrible and often fatal diseases to come back decades after they were virtually wiped out. I'd much rather have a minuscule and totally unproven chance of a few kids getting autism, which is not fatal, than have a virtual certainty of thousands of kids getting fatal and/or permanently disfiguring diseases like pertussis or polio.
I'll take polio over autism any day. I am pretty socially inept, but if i had autism I sure as hell wouldn't be able to hold a job, even if I was one of the "lucky" ones to end up with hyper intelligence.
Just make up some fake diplomatic immunity plates for it. No-one's going to believe a parking inspector who tells people "I couldn't ticket the panzer because of Iraqi Diplomatic Immunity".
Actually diplomatic immunity or a NYPD parking permit are about the only ways that or any other vehicle will get to park "wherever the hell its wants" in the five boroughs. A traffic enforcement tow truck would find a way to tow that thing.
everyone has a password that they hate ( could not pass up on that ).
Its hard to sell people on that idea as a group, but its easier individually if they have a reason to want their password long, like the think a coworker is accessing their systems.
No I'm not suggesting you put that idea in a users head. However, I had a user that wanted their password changed, and I showed them how to make a secure password like "bUdw31ser," which said user loved at that point.
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And what is wrong with nationalism?
And what exactly do you expect me to tell you if I've been doing Java on Windows (deployed usually on Solaris) for the last ten years? Some of us just slid in such positions, and try to get out. I have extensive Linux and OpenBSD skills because that's what I do at home, but I cannot provide a single professional reference to that.
I know I sound like a stupid American ignorant of the wole C.V. thing, but is there no way to list your hobby experience on your C.V.? If not why not a cover letter? I mean if I was a .NET shop I'd want people with .NET experience. However, some shops are multiple technology shops. For that I'd be interested in a candidate that had professional experience in one of our technologies, and hobby experience in another. I'd also like someone that was a hobbyist on technologies other than what they do professionally because it shows they are not stuck in one mindset. They will adapt.
I didn't know traveling to Canada affected nes chances of citizenship.
Considering Catholics would be heretic Jews, until Paul cam along and made them heretic pagans, you didn't do much to fix it.
BTW I am a practicing Catholic. But I'm jut pointing out the definition of heritic is relative.
IBM didn't hire guys with beards? Well that completely explains AIX.
Was that flamebait aimed at stirring up responses from all the people that were thinking about looking into unit tests until they got permission from Knuth to not use them in his recent interview? BTW, this bug didn't exactly blow the world away, and this is the sort of heavy load testing that you don't have time to run in your "make tests" phase or your xUnit derived unit testing platform.
The spice must flow.
I'm using a term to evoke a specific point. Granted it was intended to mat that point emotionally and not intellectually. However, calling me an extremist was an emotional attack not an intellectual one.
I am not against using the courts to solve problems. I am against using them as a first recourse, unless I am in a situation where that would be sensible. Now, your knowledge of experiences leads you to believe that asking yahoo directly would be a waste of time. However, after all that PR, they might have developed a new policy that would make a court order unnecessary. That being said, I would not fault you for going directly with a court order in this instance since you believe you would have to go that route eventually.
My rule of thumb, give people a chance to do the right thing before you force them to. Corporations are made up of people, and if you misinterperate the 14th amendment correctly, corporations are people.
Asking permission => Free
A "simple" court order => Not free
Amen.
Yes God forbid we try to solve problem on our own first without seeking the nanny state.
Now, these entities might have policies that basically say, "get a court order so we can cover our ass." If you are sure this is the case, then by all means forgo asking the entity and go directly for the court order. However, don't go wasting the courts time and everyone's tax dollars unnecessarily.
I just hope your grandkids grow up to be Don and Ivona Jr and not Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie.
Yes their is responsibility to your family and offspring. However, in addition to ensuring your kids get to do what they want to do, you also have to teach them to want to do more than shop and go clubbing.
There is always other blue collar work like auto mechanic. If we can no longer afford cars, someone will have to fix the busses, motorcycles and bikes. After listening to my mechanic I am convinces that most factory trained mechanics are the equivalent of paper MCSEs. So if you can actually troubleshoot problems instead of replace parts, you can probably be useful in that field. Also, with rising transportation costs and the falling dollars, we might have to build factories here.
If enough people can afford to eat meat at that point. I'm not an anti vegan by any means. Although I've never had the opportunity, I want to slaughter and animal and eat it, and have my children witness the same at a young age as well as do the same when they get old enough. However, a vegetarian diet is cheaper and easier to sustain.
I believe all people should be able to defend themselves, therefore right to bear arms. That in itself is quite libertarian. I believe that nations should be allowed to defend themselves from foreign opposing forces. Even anarchist philosophy supports that, with the caveat that once they make us all anarchists we stop fighting wars. I believe in the ability to go on the offensive against foreigners if necessary. I don't believe this is a far departure from libertarian philosophy.
While I'm all for the abolishing of public schools, but barring that, I'd prefer they teach you how to fire a gun and march in gym class. I think practical battlefield skills would be a better syllabus than the current JROTC program. Indoctrination into army culture should be reserved for boot camp and officer training programs. That would also serve to keep the goverment scared of its own people and therefore willing to listen to their will.
I never served, and I am still within draft age, but I would probably support reinstating the draft. I am a firm believer of social contract in that aspect. That being said, I want to read Starship Troopers and other Helien works to see if his idea of earning citizenship makes sense to me.
I usually do concentrate on the fiscal aspects of libertarianism, and if I enumerated them you'd consider me a libertarian. One of my few departures from "pure libertarian belief" is that I am very hawkish, which is why I say I am a libertarian war monger.
Our undoing will not be because of fiscal conservatism. I consider myself a libertarian war monger. I'd vote for Ron Paul if he was only pro war. That being said I do acknowledge that my military spending beliefs are not fiscally conservative.
Well regular thieves eventually get caught, and the police might be able to give the DA a solid case for two robberies not one if they have pictures from a previous one. Also, if you get a license plate number, the police would trace the owner of that. Finally, it might be someone you know.
As I pointed out, customizable to a developer usually means software, not hardware.
Software is just as customizable on laptop as it is on a desktop.
I can run 2 LCDs off it, as well as the lappy's screen, as is (no ExpressCard expansion card needed). What's more to want if you're a developer concerned with screen real estate?
Any desktop as powerful as a "desktop replacement" laptop probably supports two monitors out of the box. Also, as a developer a PCI graphics card is just fine, and my Dual P3 450 can support 8 monitors just fine. Find me a laptop that supports more than 2.
Uh, how is a laptop more customizable than a desktop. A desktop will have multiple PCI slots in addition to more USB slots than you can shake a stick at. Some have WI-FI on the motherboard, and all have more room for internal accessories. Also, This will counter the only redherring of a counter argument I can imagine you making.
First, you have to write code good enough to make it into a redhat distro in order for them to pay you to fix it. Secondly, you have to write enough code for them to just hire you to maintain it for long term profitability in this manner. Thirdly, once someone else writes a replacement package, or cleans up your code base well enough, they get paid by redhat to maintain your code.
We can export our meat to them! We revert to an agrarian society, but still prosper. The Jeffersonian model of America becoming an agricultural utopia is realized. We resume "making stuff" so the American working class benefits from globalization.
Also, this is a self solving problem. When meat gets too expensive the poor will eat cheaper foods. This will reduce the demand for meat, so their will be less animals eating edible plant matter. This will make the edible plant matter drop in price.
It's really the meat eaters that should be worried.
Maybe he has a family. I've never gone anywhere worth going when I traveled on the companies dime. Its a nice change of pace for me, but would not be worth it if I had kids. I prefer to pay for my travel so I can spend all day seeing the place I go to.
That, and a two day business trip gives you no time to do much besides get sloshed at the airport bar before getting on the return flight.
I'll take polio over autism any day. I am pretty socially inept, but if i had autism I sure as hell wouldn't be able to hold a job, even if I was one of the "lucky" ones to end up with hyper intelligence.
Actually diplomatic immunity or a NYPD parking permit are about the only ways that or any other vehicle will get to park "wherever the hell its wants" in the five boroughs. A traffic enforcement tow truck would find a way to tow that thing.
Its hard to sell people on that idea as a group, but its easier individually if they have a reason to want their password long, like the think a coworker is accessing their systems.
No I'm not suggesting you put that idea in a users head. However, I had a user that wanted their password changed, and I showed them how to make a secure password like "bUdw31ser," which said user loved at that point.