Don't even wait for failure. Every year I buy a hard drive, and I replace either the backup, or the backup's backup. I also have a pair of USB Flash drives I use for critical info - family pictures, financial and legal data, etc. I just copy select folders from the backup drives to the flash drives.
Alt harkens back to the days before Microsoft. By switching to the Windows key, they can leave an enduring legacy of who innovated the shit out of modern UIs.
The senior people should be doing less of the work, and more of the organizing and supervising of the work. If the old fart is stuck looking at debug screens all day, you are probably not tapping his experience properly. He should be mentoring the team, monitoring the work, and steering the work packages to the people who can best accomplish them. If something comes his way that he is good at, then he can take that work to "stay in the game". But his value comes from understanding the people around him.
Forty-seven percent of respondents said yes, game developers should unionize, while 16 percent said no and 26 percent said maybe. However, developers weren't exactly hopeful about unionization efforts. Just 21 percent of respondents said they thought the industry would unionize, and 39 percent said maybe. Twenty-four percent said it simply wasn't going to happen.
While a lot of them want a union, they expect "the industry" to plop it in their lap. They want someone else to do the work of rallying everyone to do it. This means that while they want it, they don't want to work or sacrifice for it, which means they really don't want it.
Software engineering jobs are in high demand right now. If you don't like your working conditions, beat feet and get another job in a different industry. You'll take a hit in pay/prestige because you need to start over, but you might find that your game software design skills bring a new perspective to your new industry, which can be very lucrative. I've bounced from PC peripherals, to medical devices and am now in defense work. That varied experience makes me more valuable to my boss than the guy next to me who has been with the company for 30+ years and only know one way to do things.
I meant to say that "employer paid health insurance" should be eliminated. Employers should just give the money to the individual to save and/or buy the policy that they need. This would return it to a true insurance package to protect you against oddball diseases and mishaps. They day to day stuff - wellness visits, broken bones, etc. should be covered with the money in the HSA.
The key point is to put the individual in control of where the money goes - not your HR director, not a government bureaucrat, the individual. Only they can make the proper decision for themselves and their family.
When this happens, the market will shift because individuals have the option of not sending any money to the insurance companies. Right now, the insurance companies have gotten fat and they feel entitled to the money that is part of your compensation package. They spend it before you even see it. And then they hold it back and make you fight for *your earnings* when you need it. Take that entitlement away from them and they will have to earn their money like every other business - by providing quality service at a competitive price point. Otherwise people will not send them the money if they do not perceive value.
Hopefully this is the first step in getting rid of insurance companies. The hassle of all this is what the insurance companies use to stay in business.
1. Billing errors are almost always in their favor. You either spend your valuable time haggling with them to correct it, or it gets paid because you don't notice it or don't have time to deal with it.
2. The time you spend correcting their mistakes also requires people working in the insurance company to correct them. Insurance companies are regulated by the state, and so they often need to justify their rates. The customer service people serve that purpose. The rates are often negotiated such that they are allowed to make a 10-30% profit on their "service". More expenses means more profit. This behavior, which would normally kill a business, becomes something that strengthens it because of the way government has their fingers in this industry.
4. Doctors now have full time people who do nothing more than haggle with the insurance companies to get paid. This further drives up the cost of care, which again benefits the insurance companies.
5. Because we have turned healthcare into an "insurance" product, you decouple a service from its price because everything is handled in aggregate. Remember from Finance 101, insurance products are designed to "make you whole" if an unlikely event occurs. Healthcare is a certainty, so paying for it as an insurance product makes no sense. That'd be like having "food insurance" or "housing insurance" to pay for your groceries and rent/mortgage. It is unnecessary and only adds cost. Then the added cost becomes a barrier and the insurance companies sell themselves as helping to overcome the barrier that they erected.
6. Healthcare is a giant jobs program. All those people haggling over costs would be out of a job things changed significantly. This is the main reason the system won't change.
7. Individuals cannot change the market because they do not purchase the insurance. Their employers do. Therefore, health insurance companies' customers are not the people receiving the service. Insurance companies provide just enough service to entice HR directors to choose them. Employers are interested in a healthy workforce, but at the end of the day it is a dollars decision that the employee does not get to make. This serves to distort the market.
Personally, I think the solution is to eliminate health insurance, and take the premiums that companies pay and just deposit that into the employee's health savings account. Then let the employees buy whatever they need. If they want insurance they can choose the plan that is right for them. Kinda like buying car insurance They can also just save the money and pay providers directly - but they need the up-front pricing information to make those decisions. For those that need assistance, the government or charities can deposit money into people's HSA is they need assistance. Then the market will return to something more normal simply because *** the people making the decisions are the people receiving the service. ***
This idea is hilarious. Tax text messages to pay for phones for the poor, who will then use it to send text messages! This is the government equivalent of a perpetual motion machine.
This is like the lottery, or a tax on milk. It will hit the people it is trying to serve much harder than "the rich".
Connect to the controller board on the address and data lines for the flash chips, and manipulate them to access the chips. Then you would need to have a program that understands how this controller manages things and can reconstruct the sectors that it presents to the outside world.
Note that most of those sentences come from Journalism, not Science. The scientific papers will have probabilities and distributions and often alternative explanations, but the general public can't cope with that, so the journalist breaks it down to "Science proves..."
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Ohh! What wouldn't I have given to have Pascal! I sometimes would hang awake at night dreaming of a practical language.
BASIC and Assembly (in DOS's Debug). I didn't get access to a compiler until I got to Uni.
I guess I'm too old for HornWumpus. He'd rather have the kids that know 10 languages and make a chat program that takes up 500MB.
Don't even wait for failure. Every year I buy a hard drive, and I replace either the backup, or the backup's backup. I also have a pair of USB Flash drives I use for critical info - family pictures, financial and legal data, etc. I just copy select folders from the backup drives to the flash drives.
Feature Request: an inverse mode
Alt harkens back to the days before Microsoft. By switching to the Windows key, they can leave an enduring legacy of who innovated the shit out of modern UIs.
Maybe on later Windows. My 8.1 machine allows me to go through the list by repeatedly hitting the tab key after the initial Alt+tab.
This works fine in my opinion, which means that Microsoft is going to innovate this out of the next product.
as long as I'm using a standard keyboard.
Introducing the new and improved Microsoft Keyboard, with the Alt and TAB keys removed!
In fact ...
https://assets.amuniversal.com...
Wisdom is what you get after you need it.
The senior people should be doing less of the work, and more of the organizing and supervising of the work. If the old fart is stuck looking at debug screens all day, you are probably not tapping his experience properly. He should be mentoring the team, monitoring the work, and steering the work packages to the people who can best accomplish them. If something comes his way that he is good at, then he can take that work to "stay in the game". But his value comes from understanding the people around him.
The problem is in the numbers. Quoth the summary:
Forty-seven percent of respondents said yes, game developers should unionize, while 16 percent said no and 26 percent said maybe. However, developers weren't exactly hopeful about unionization efforts. Just 21 percent of respondents said they thought the industry would unionize, and 39 percent said maybe. Twenty-four percent said it simply wasn't going to happen.
While a lot of them want a union, they expect "the industry" to plop it in their lap. They want someone else to do the work of rallying everyone to do it. This means that while they want it, they don't want to work or sacrifice for it, which means they really don't want it.
Software engineering jobs are in high demand right now. If you don't like your working conditions, beat feet and get another job in a different industry. You'll take a hit in pay/prestige because you need to start over, but you might find that your game software design skills bring a new perspective to your new industry, which can be very lucrative. I've bounced from PC peripherals, to medical devices and am now in defense work. That varied experience makes me more valuable to my boss than the guy next to me who has been with the company for 30+ years and only know one way to do things.
If I only had mod points
If they catch you.
I meant to say that "employer paid health insurance" should be eliminated. Employers should just give the money to the individual to save and/or buy the policy that they need. This would return it to a true insurance package to protect you against oddball diseases and mishaps. They day to day stuff - wellness visits, broken bones, etc. should be covered with the money in the HSA.
The key point is to put the individual in control of where the money goes - not your HR director, not a government bureaucrat, the individual. Only they can make the proper decision for themselves and their family.
When this happens, the market will shift because individuals have the option of not sending any money to the insurance companies. Right now, the insurance companies have gotten fat and they feel entitled to the money that is part of your compensation package. They spend it before you even see it. And then they hold it back and make you fight for *your earnings* when you need it. Take that entitlement away from them and they will have to earn their money like every other business - by providing quality service at a competitive price point. Otherwise people will not send them the money if they do not perceive value.
Hopefully this is the first step in getting rid of insurance companies. The hassle of all this is what the insurance companies use to stay in business.
1. Billing errors are almost always in their favor. You either spend your valuable time haggling with them to correct it, or it gets paid because you don't notice it or don't have time to deal with it.
2. The time you spend correcting their mistakes also requires people working in the insurance company to correct them. Insurance companies are regulated by the state, and so they often need to justify their rates. The customer service people serve that purpose. The rates are often negotiated such that they are allowed to make a 10-30% profit on their "service". More expenses means more profit. This behavior, which would normally kill a business, becomes something that strengthens it because of the way government has their fingers in this industry.
4. Doctors now have full time people who do nothing more than haggle with the insurance companies to get paid. This further drives up the cost of care, which again benefits the insurance companies.
5. Because we have turned healthcare into an "insurance" product, you decouple a service from its price because everything is handled in aggregate. Remember from Finance 101, insurance products are designed to "make you whole" if an unlikely event occurs. Healthcare is a certainty, so paying for it as an insurance product makes no sense. That'd be like having "food insurance" or "housing insurance" to pay for your groceries and rent/mortgage. It is unnecessary and only adds cost. Then the added cost becomes a barrier and the insurance companies sell themselves as helping to overcome the barrier that they erected.
6. Healthcare is a giant jobs program. All those people haggling over costs would be out of a job things changed significantly. This is the main reason the system won't change.
7. Individuals cannot change the market because they do not purchase the insurance. Their employers do. Therefore, health insurance companies' customers are not the people receiving the service. Insurance companies provide just enough service to entice HR directors to choose them. Employers are interested in a healthy workforce, but at the end of the day it is a dollars decision that the employee does not get to make. This serves to distort the market.
Personally, I think the solution is to eliminate health insurance, and take the premiums that companies pay and just deposit that into the employee's health savings account. Then let the employees buy whatever they need. If they want insurance they can choose the plan that is right for them. Kinda like buying car insurance They can also just save the money and pay providers directly - but they need the up-front pricing information to make those decisions. For those that need assistance, the government or charities can deposit money into people's HSA is they need assistance. Then the market will return to something more normal simply because *** the people making the decisions are the people receiving the service. ***
I only suggested that their primary concern is not necessarily defense.
The Five Eyes are concerned, not because the Chinese might spy, but because the Chinese equipment does not enable *them* to spy.
This idea is hilarious. Tax text messages to pay for phones for the poor, who will then use it to send text messages! This is the government equivalent of a perpetual motion machine.
This is like the lottery, or a tax on milk. It will hit the people it is trying to serve much harder than "the rich".
Change your billing address to your parents house.
I can see someone making a "game" that has a chat feature, just to dodge the tax.
This will be an endless cat and mouse game between developers and regulators. I look forward to the hilarious shenanigans that will follow.
Don't forget Smokey Cove.
Connect to the controller board on the address and data lines for the flash chips, and manipulate them to access the chips. Then you would need to have a program that understands how this controller manages things and can reconstruct the sectors that it presents to the outside world.
It is a distraction to divert attention away from the government's failure to secure the data of millions of security clearance applicants.
OMB data breach - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management_data_breach
ARe you referring to AutoCAD, LISP, or the unholy marriage of the two?
Note that most of those sentences come from Journalism, not Science. The scientific papers will have probabilities and distributions and often alternative explanations, but the general public can't cope with that, so the journalist breaks it down to "Science proves ..."
Except for the github source code, which is in Subversion.
http://spatula-city.org/~im14u2c/images/dilbert_user_friendly_computer.gif