Founded just over six years ago, Postmates has shaped up to be one of the more prominent of the startups leading the challenge against Amazon and others in the world of on-demand deliveries.
Hm. And I've never heard of them. Granted, I don't go for food delivery, but I've heard of Blue Apron, HelloFresh, and Doordash.
Never heard of any of them, probably because I'm not too lazy to do my own grocery shopping. I especially wouldn't trust someone else to pick out produce for me.
This is something that has been done for ages (think cooks, maids and errand boys.) It still occurs today as such services exist in other countries (without the glamorous internet or pre-IPO label.)
It's all about 1) convenience, 2) social/bizness trust (aka fidelity) 3) disposable income, and 4) how much you value your time on an hourly rate.
I wouldn't trust someone I don't know (or who has no recommendations) to pick my produce back in my 3rd-world country of origin, or say, China or India.
But in the US, the EU or Japan where quality and contracts are built-in in society, yes, I would (specially if the price is right in my comfort-vs-expense personal equation.)
Yeah- you're talking about things that are 1 error in 20. If that. The fact that you actually believe the bullshit you're spouting scares the shit out of me- I truly hope I don't use anything you've ever worked on.
You actually might. But with an absolutist, dogmatic answer such as yours, let's pretend that you are right and that somehow you have hurt my feelings or whatever the fucks that tickles your intellectual fancy.
Haskell is a language where once you get your program to run at all it usually runs correctly.
That's a dangerous way to even think. Very few bugs are actually programming mistakes- the vast majority, and the harder to fix are design mistakes. Just because it compiles doesn't mean its anywhere close to right.
The vast majority of programming and logical mistakes can be represented as syntactical errors by coding standards and types in such a way that makes detectable by a compiler. Consider the old C/C++ safety habit of putting rvalues on the left side of an equality operator: it allows the compiler to catch the programming error of using '=' instead of '=='.
Higher level languages take such approaches and formalize them into types. Haskell goes all the way out so that syntactical correctness closely implies logical correctness.
It is a PITA to program in Haskell, however. Not my cup of tea. But it is no bs to argue that if a Haskell program runs it is most likely correct.
Less extreme examples of this approach can be found in SPARK or Ada using the Ravenscar profile for critical systems. Or an even more pedestrian, day-to-day example would be coding in Node.js using jshint's most aggressive features.
Don't the nearly ubiquitous Smart TVs pretty much kill the need for Roku for many users? Assuming that it's for Netflix and then Amazon Prime Video a distant second... (Amazon couldn't be sad if their firestick dies either since it's just a means to an end).
No, it doesn't. I own a Smart TV which isn't as smart as it claims to be. I love its large display capabilities, but the "smart" in it, it ain't that smart (same goes to most, if not all smart TVs.)
It has an interface that sucks, but you don't want to update its firmware, for it bricks from time to time. That's when I got me a Roku streaming stick (and later a Roku 2 with an Ethernet adapter.)
Both are convenient and when are on travel, we can take the streaming stick with us to plug it on a TV at a hotel (though good hotel now offer Netflix and Hulu as well.)
Even if Smart tv manufacturers were to get their shit together and truly deliver smart software in them, I'd rather decouple them. There is a point where embedding makes no sense, with integration being the more advantageous alternative for the consumer.
If a Smart TV firmware bricks or its wireless adapter go toast, what do you do? Buy a new one? In the meantime a portable streaming device that you can hook to the TV's hdmi port (and preferably with an Ethernet adapter) that costs you a double-figure? That sounds like a more reasonable alternative.
I'm not buying TVs for their smartness anymore, just its display capabilities.
I'm not sure what has happened with the latest family of Roku products, but I cannot complain with what I have right now.
This sort of thing is where prepaid credit cards really shine. Use them, and only load them with the amount of money needed for the purchase. Worst case, your losses would be limited to just that amount.
I still haven't tied a credit card to any of my mobile phones or accounts (mainly because there hasn't been a mobile app released yet that's worth paying for), but I get that there's a market out there, especially among the less tech-savvy out there.
But this class of gizmos really confuses me: which consumers are really tying their credit cards to a microphone that can start buying random items based on the words that fall out of people's mouths (or the TV/radio shows they listen to loudly)? And what confuses me more is that they aren't free - people actually part with their money to buy them - why?
You don't tie these devices to a credit card. You tie them to a service you already have a subscription for. So rather than going to a browser to play Rhapsody songs or order a frequent item off Amazon Prime (or say, buying diapers with Amazon Dash), or to order pizza off Dominoes as one would do it via Dominoe's web site) you simply tell it.
There are obvious security issues to be concerned with, but there is nothing as flagrant as storing a credit card in the open. Besides, devices such as Alexa do a lot more than just shopping.
We should be cautious without falling into severe pessimism.
You mention languages as being hyped and then mention that people want other languages and give a list of more hyped languages.
People don't use Swift or Go or Rust, nobody uses it as a serious alternative to the established C/C++, Java. People by and large don't even want to use Python/C# if they were starting from scratch.
Dude, people are moving away from Objective-C to Swift for new development in the iPhone area, and Kotlyn has some serious usage in Android. I'm in South Florida, not a hot market like the Bay Area, and here I'm seeing large companies using Go for platform development.
I don't see people moving away from Java on the enterprise, nor C/C++ in systems programming. But there are other areas where some (not all) new languages are seeing heavy use.
Teach them to think, and mental discipline. We do not need more code monkeys.
Because apparently teaching them to think and teaching them programming are mutually exclusive or that there is no way to use programming as a way of thinking/rollseyes.
Businesses have no responsibility to provide services to such a group and it isn't oppression or censorship to refuse them service, in fact it would be oppression and censorship to force them to support them.
This is exactly right. However, infrastructure business have a responsibility to uphold free speech.
Use potassium permanganate. Just buy some of the powder off ebay (whatever size you buy will last the rest of your life). Put a small amount in some warm water. When I say small amount, I mean small. Like the amount that you can get on the end of a house key. You want enough water to cover your feet, and enough potassium permanganate to dye the water a light pink. If it's purple, you used too much. If it's dark, you went way, way too far. Anyway, you can also add some epsom salt to the water. Make sure it's nice and warm, and soak your feet for a half-hour every couple of days until it clears up. Trust me, it will. In order for it to work, you'll need to treat your shoes with boric acid (again, ebay. Get a big bag.). A good dusting is all you need. Also, wash your socks in hot water, and keep your socks on around the house. Bleach your shower and bathroom floor daily. It's all easy stuff. Follow the protocol and your athlete's foot will be gone.
This. Potassium permanganate. This was how we treat athlete's foot and most nail fungal infections back in my country of origin. Pretty safe to use when we follow the instructions. Same things with Borax or boric acid, bleach or hydrogen peroxide.
Hell, I suffered all my life of sinus infections till I started doing nasal rinses with a neti pot using a solution containing borax and diluted alkalol. Alkalol helps breaks mucus when/if I have a stuffy nose, but it is borax the thing that has eliminated whatever fungal/bacterial problems I had.
On remote areas, one way to deal with scabies (typically when in contact with an infected animal), we'd apply kerosene to the area. Painless and effective. We'd also give kerosene baths to dogs infected with scabies. Not the best thing to do to a family pet, but that was the first (and many times) course of action for people who could not afford make a trip to a vet.
Nothing beats AutoZone and O'Reilly Auto Parts. Did the whole car-part purchasing from Amazon, ended in fail. Did you know that regardless of make/model, brake rotor size depends on if the car was manufactured in Japan or not? Yup, only the VIN will tell you that (or you measure the part directly), and Amazon doesn't have a way of filtering based on that either. At least locally, you can return the part that day and swap in time to finish the job.
This. There are specialty things that are best purchased directly from more "domain-specific" sites (from AutoZone to Buy Buy Baby or Etsy) as well as directly from Target or even Walmart. Books I usually buy them from Amazon out of convenience, but I do try to buy and pick up from Barnes & Noble.
I also buy a lot of seeds and plants for gardening off ebay or the local nurseries (even though the same things are typically available on Amazon.)
MLK was a Republican, so the Democrats did call it "a staggering lack of good judgment" when he was assassinated by a Democrat.
Because apparently the great switch didn't happen during Nixon's Southern Strategy, and the Republicans of old are the same as the Republicans of today, and the Democrats of the time weren't a bunch of fucking bastards that jumped to the GOP when they were forced to let the darkies drink from the same water fountain.
So... standing up for what you think is right, despite knowing there may be negative consequences, shows "a staggering lack of good judgement?"
Depends on what you think is right. There are people out there standing up to their belief black people are inferior, regardless of obvious consequences. Should we not then consider their stupid behavior a staggering lack of good judgment?
Since when the strength of a believe makes it right or moral or worth having?
So MLK wasn't a civil rights leader, he was just some angry, ranting guy with bad judgement?
MLK's beliefs were right. Damore's are not. Fucking false equality.
Fuck if I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
Find a rope. If you can't own your own know why your analogy is wrong, you won't be missed.
Is Google being harmed by its gender policies? Was he? At the end of the day, one presumes he was hired as a software developer or engineer, and not to write screeds against his employer's hiring practices.
Then what of other employees' calls for his punishment and declaring that they'd refuse to work with him?
Oh yeah, employees (in particular female) are going to want to work with him after he lectured them in how their biological differences and lack of testicles would probably make them less efficient than him at software (the job they do.)
Yeah totally the others' fault for not wanting to work with him.
Do you guys even hear yourselves? Do you think Google owes you assholes a place where you can spew your views?
He was trying to open a dialogue about problems with the way things were being run at work
There were no fucking problems to discuss. The only problem is his attitude.
This is a man who, while in MIT, had the brilliant idea of doing a vulgar joke at a meeting, so vulgar that professors had to apologize for it.
We know now that before his manifesto, he was at a HR session where he felt "harassed" because he was told he couldn't say certain things because they were inappropriate and sexist. Considering his previous experience at MIT, I'd side with HR first.
Stop making excuses for this asshole. Now we have alt-right assholes making death threats against google employees. Fuck that guy and all that he stands for.
It also coincides with "return to urban centers" movement.
It's more than that. It's a general trends for cities with a certain mix of ingredients (universities, trade, enough mass) that are getting the big winz. Check Enrico Moretti The New Geography of Jobs.
These trends have been occurring everywhere on the planet, even in poor countries. We have just been slow to recognize it (and thus capitalize on the advantages and to deal with the human cost in cities and towns that cannot make the transition.)
I wouldn't mind a long break in the middle of the day, and maybe a nap. Doesn't sound insane to me at all.
I would. I have children at home to care. If I were to take long breaks, either I'd be home late (and not being able to spend time with my wife and kids), or get up very fucking early for no other reason than to have a long break in the middle of the day.
Eh, I pass. I can see the appeal to some, though. But for me (or more precisely, my current needs), this is highly inefficient.
The problem becomes how does an American company compete against a foreign company that is not abiding by the same standards?
We aren't supposed to compete on prices for labor-intensive manufacturing. We are supposed to out-innovate to a degree that creates wealth that flows. But for that we need safety nets for people with lesser means and to reduce the personal risk involved in going solo/entrepreneurial. And we need a systematic approach to cultivate our human capital, to develop a workforce more educated than other competing countries have.
If a labor-intensive worker in the US does not have a competitive advantage in terms of education or output against a labor-intensive worker in China, then shit dude, the last thing we want is to try to compete in prices for labor-intensive, low-value-added products.
Forget safety and labor regulations for a moment. Do you think for a moment that if China had the same type of regulations we do, that their cost of operations would be the same as ours????? No, they wouldn't. They'll still be cheaper.
Cost of labor and regulation aren't the bulk of cost. After all, Japan is expensive and still they out-manufactured us.
The problems are deeper than just "fair competition and regulations."
You get government benefits, and there is an H2B job available, you take that job or lose your benefits.
It's the whole "get paid to not work" that makes this kind of BS possible. You wanna watch TV in an apartment instead of watch street traffic from a refrigerator box? Get a fucking job.
Disabled? I'm sure there is an H2B job somewhere you can take.
That's bullshit. That there are people who exploit loopholes in welfare, that does not imply the majority are. I mean, for fuck's sake, we have families of serving members of the military depending on food stamps to make ends meet.
The majority of people who depend on some type of welfare are already fucking working. I mean, shit, Walmart has a program for his workers (full time and part time alike) on how to apply for welfare benefits to make ends meet. That should tell you something.
There are people in the Palm Beach area that would do these H2B jobs. They are simply not being hired. This isn't any different from companies skipping Americans and legal residents over H1B workers for jobs locals could do.
The only difference is that The Great Orange One is doing it, so that's all fine because somehow 'MURKA NUMMR WUN!
If Trump were clever, he would allow unlimited H1B's in Rust Belt areas, with protections for local IT workers (assuming he won't support a free market, which is pretty much a given).
Silicon Valley CEO's don't want to go anywhere but down their mountain to work, but the massive influx of workers into one area is making things miserable for non CxO workers because of the density/demand-driven prices.
Want to see how badly the VC-fueled ventures really want to consume their H1B workers?
That wouldn't do anything of the sort (not to mention the deflationary effect of excessive H1B usage applied to the entire economy).
You simply can't pour resources in economically unsustainable locations. Knowledge economies rely on demographic agglomeration. It already happened massively in Japan and it is happening everywhere, including in poor, developing countries.
America is no exception. It just so happen that its people haven't gotten the memo (even though the phenomenon started in the 80's and was in full swing by the 90's.)
Read Enrico Moretti's "The New Geography of Jobs". Hell, the phenomenon was predicted way before the 80's. Your urban area needs to have a minimum critical mass (say, 250K people in it) and have key characteristics that attract talent in tech, pharma or finance. Otherwise it is going to struggle.
This is the sad reality, Rural/Flyover America will continue to depopulate and many towns or even small cities will become ghost towns. People will inevitably go to where the jobs are.
No amount of MAGA Trumpian bullshit will change that.
Trump's credit no single fucking president, Dem or Rep, has had an answer to the problem (and I doubt none of them - or the average American citizen - has ever recognized the true nature of the problem.)
Absolutely correct... for businesses. Also correct for consumers who want to always have the latest (greatest is arguable), and who lease almost everything else too (cars, especially, so they can ride a class or 2 above their purchasing power). Not so great for those who have a budget, and who (mandatory car analogy) keep it 'til it dies and can't reasonably be fixed any more. So diffren' strokes etc.
I'm NOT in love with O365 and Office Mobile. Both require constant connection to the Internet, in addition to monthly payments.
You can work with O360 in offline mode, at which point you only need a connection when it's time to verify the license at regular internals. And most people in urban areas (pretty much most people) have constant internet connection. I can see your point, but this mechanism of delivery still works for the general consumer.
A monthly payment for using something is also another customer choice. I pay my home insurance once a year, and I could do the same with my car insurance, but I prefer to do so every 6 months also. Same with many other services where I choose the frequency of payments. For most folks, paying a monthly fee to use O360 is a no brainer.
Besides, if a person cannot make such a monthly payment, then by logic, they'll have more problems coming up with an upfront only-once license fee. For that type of person, the situation hasn't changed. But the monthly fee scheme has opened up access to the software for many who couldn't (or wouldn't) before.
The latter is a choice - though even public TV and radio are pushing for their monthly dip into your checking account now, and blocking online access (even of old stuff) unless you do it. The constant connection requirement is a deal-killer for me (even if I weren't otherwise satisfied with LO) because of dodgy internet service and (with the tablet) lack of any service at all when in the field.
Really, I'm not aware of that. Are we talking about public TV and radio like PBS and NPR, doing those things you are saying?
GDI was replaced with GDI+ a couple of decades ago (Windows 9x->NT transition, IIRC, but don't quote me on that). GDI+ was replaced by DXGI over a decade ago (Vista release). DXGI has had several major upgrades, too. It's at version 1.5 now, as best as I can figure. (source) Each 0.1 version bump after 1.0 came with a full windows release except 1.5, which was released with the Win10 Creator's Update and DirectX 12.1.
And "NT" stands for New Technology.
A couple of decades ago. Yeah don't worry, I won't quote you on that.
Humans are the most virulent form of disease. We've done more damage to this planet, as well as to ourselves, than any other sentient being. No wonder no other beings will openly communicate with us; barring those that see us as part of the food chain.
Another emotional response with pretensions of depth. Someone call the wambulance.
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Well, according to the article:
Founded just over six years ago, Postmates has shaped up to be one of the more prominent of the startups leading the challenge against Amazon and others in the world of on-demand deliveries.
Hm. And I've never heard of them. Granted, I don't go for food delivery, but I've heard of Blue Apron, HelloFresh, and Doordash.
Never heard of any of them, probably because I'm not too lazy to do my own grocery shopping. I especially wouldn't trust someone else to pick out produce for me.
This is something that has been done for ages (think cooks, maids and errand boys.) It still occurs today as such services exist in other countries (without the glamorous internet or pre-IPO label.)
It's all about 1) convenience, 2) social/bizness trust (aka fidelity) 3) disposable income, and 4) how much you value your time on an hourly rate.
I wouldn't trust someone I don't know (or who has no recommendations) to pick my produce back in my 3rd-world country of origin, or say, China or India.
But in the US, the EU or Japan where quality and contracts are built-in in society, yes, I would (specially if the price is right in my comfort-vs-expense personal equation.)
Yeah- you're talking about things that are 1 error in 20. If that. The fact that you actually believe the bullshit you're spouting scares the shit out of me- I truly hope I don't use anything you've ever worked on.
You actually might. But with an absolutist, dogmatic answer such as yours, let's pretend that you are right and that somehow you have hurt my feelings or whatever the fucks that tickles your intellectual fancy.
Haskell is a language where once you get your program to run at all it usually runs correctly.
That's a dangerous way to even think. Very few bugs are actually programming mistakes- the vast majority, and the harder to fix are design mistakes. Just because it compiles doesn't mean its anywhere close to right.
The vast majority of programming and logical mistakes can be represented as syntactical errors by coding standards and types in such a way that makes detectable by a compiler. Consider the old C/C++ safety habit of putting rvalues on the left side of an equality operator: it allows the compiler to catch the programming error of using '=' instead of '=='.
Higher level languages take such approaches and formalize them into types. Haskell goes all the way out so that syntactical correctness closely implies logical correctness.
It is a PITA to program in Haskell, however. Not my cup of tea. But it is no bs to argue that if a Haskell program runs it is most likely correct.
Less extreme examples of this approach can be found in SPARK or Ada using the Ravenscar profile for critical systems. Or an even more pedestrian, day-to-day example would be coding in Node.js using jshint's most aggressive features.
Don't the nearly ubiquitous Smart TVs pretty much kill the need for Roku for many users? Assuming that it's for Netflix and then Amazon Prime Video a distant second... (Amazon couldn't be sad if their firestick dies either since it's just a means to an end).
No, it doesn't. I own a Smart TV which isn't as smart as it claims to be. I love its large display capabilities, but the "smart" in it, it ain't that smart (same goes to most, if not all smart TVs.)
It has an interface that sucks, but you don't want to update its firmware, for it bricks from time to time. That's when I got me a Roku streaming stick (and later a Roku 2 with an Ethernet adapter.)
Both are convenient and when are on travel, we can take the streaming stick with us to plug it on a TV at a hotel (though good hotel now offer Netflix and Hulu as well.)
Even if Smart tv manufacturers were to get their shit together and truly deliver smart software in them, I'd rather decouple them. There is a point where embedding makes no sense, with integration being the more advantageous alternative for the consumer.
If a Smart TV firmware bricks or its wireless adapter go toast, what do you do? Buy a new one? In the meantime a portable streaming device that you can hook to the TV's hdmi port (and preferably with an Ethernet adapter) that costs you a double-figure? That sounds like a more reasonable alternative.
I'm not buying TVs for their smartness anymore, just its display capabilities.
I'm not sure what has happened with the latest family of Roku products, but I cannot complain with what I have right now.
This sort of thing is where prepaid credit cards really shine. Use them, and only load them with the amount of money needed for the purchase. Worst case, your losses would be limited to just that amount.
Bingo. That's what prepaid cards are for.
I still haven't tied a credit card to any of my mobile phones or accounts (mainly because there hasn't been a mobile app released yet that's worth paying for), but I get that there's a market out there, especially among the less tech-savvy out there. But this class of gizmos really confuses me: which consumers are really tying their credit cards to a microphone that can start buying random items based on the words that fall out of people's mouths (or the TV/radio shows they listen to loudly)? And what confuses me more is that they aren't free - people actually part with their money to buy them - why?
You don't tie these devices to a credit card. You tie them to a service you already have a subscription for. So rather than going to a browser to play Rhapsody songs or order a frequent item off Amazon Prime (or say, buying diapers with Amazon Dash), or to order pizza off Dominoes as one would do it via Dominoe's web site) you simply tell it.
There are obvious security issues to be concerned with, but there is nothing as flagrant as storing a credit card in the open. Besides, devices such as Alexa do a lot more than just shopping.
We should be cautious without falling into severe pessimism.
You mention languages as being hyped and then mention that people want other languages and give a list of more hyped languages.
People don't use Swift or Go or Rust, nobody uses it as a serious alternative to the established C/C++, Java. People by and large don't even want to use Python/C# if they were starting from scratch.
Dude, people are moving away from Objective-C to Swift for new development in the iPhone area, and Kotlyn has some serious usage in Android. I'm in South Florida, not a hot market like the Bay Area, and here I'm seeing large companies using Go for platform development.
I don't see people moving away from Java on the enterprise, nor C/C++ in systems programming. But there are other areas where some (not all) new languages are seeing heavy use.
Teach them to think, and mental discipline. We do not need more code monkeys.
Because apparently teaching them to think and teaching them programming are mutually exclusive or that there is no way to use programming as a way of thinking /rollseyes.
Businesses have no responsibility to provide services to such a group and it isn't oppression or censorship to refuse them service, in fact it would be oppression and censorship to force them to support them.
This is exactly right. However, infrastructure business have a responsibility to uphold free speech.
Wuuuuut?
Use potassium permanganate. Just buy some of the powder off ebay (whatever size you buy will last the rest of your life). Put a small amount in some warm water. When I say small amount, I mean small. Like the amount that you can get on the end of a house key. You want enough water to cover your feet, and enough potassium permanganate to dye the water a light pink. If it's purple, you used too much. If it's dark, you went way, way too far. Anyway, you can also add some epsom salt to the water. Make sure it's nice and warm, and soak your feet for a half-hour every couple of days until it clears up. Trust me, it will. In order for it to work, you'll need to treat your shoes with boric acid (again, ebay. Get a big bag.). A good dusting is all you need. Also, wash your socks in hot water, and keep your socks on around the house. Bleach your shower and bathroom floor daily. It's all easy stuff. Follow the protocol and your athlete's foot will be gone.
This. Potassium permanganate. This was how we treat athlete's foot and most nail fungal infections back in my country of origin. Pretty safe to use when we follow the instructions. Same things with Borax or boric acid, bleach or hydrogen peroxide.
Hell, I suffered all my life of sinus infections till I started doing nasal rinses with a neti pot using a solution containing borax and diluted alkalol. Alkalol helps breaks mucus when/if I have a stuffy nose, but it is borax the thing that has eliminated whatever fungal/bacterial problems I had.
On remote areas, one way to deal with scabies (typically when in contact with an infected animal), we'd apply kerosene to the area. Painless and effective. We'd also give kerosene baths to dogs infected with scabies. Not the best thing to do to a family pet, but that was the first (and many times) course of action for people who could not afford make a trip to a vet.
Nothing beats AutoZone and O'Reilly Auto Parts. Did the whole car-part purchasing from Amazon, ended in fail. Did you know that regardless of make/model, brake rotor size depends on if the car was manufactured in Japan or not? Yup, only the VIN will tell you that (or you measure the part directly), and Amazon doesn't have a way of filtering based on that either. At least locally, you can return the part that day and swap in time to finish the job.
This. There are specialty things that are best purchased directly from more "domain-specific" sites (from AutoZone to Buy Buy Baby or Etsy) as well as directly from Target or even Walmart. Books I usually buy them from Amazon out of convenience, but I do try to buy and pick up from Barnes & Noble.
I also buy a lot of seeds and plants for gardening off ebay or the local nurseries (even though the same things are typically available on Amazon.)
It is really hard to beat the convenience though.
MLK was a Republican, so the Democrats did call it "a staggering lack of good judgment" when he was assassinated by a Democrat.
Because apparently the great switch didn't happen during Nixon's Southern Strategy, and the Republicans of old are the same as the Republicans of today, and the Democrats of the time weren't a bunch of fucking bastards that jumped to the GOP when they were forced to let the darkies drink from the same water fountain.
So... standing up for what you think is right, despite knowing there may be negative consequences, shows "a staggering lack of good judgement?"
Depends on what you think is right. There are people out there standing up to their belief black people are inferior, regardless of obvious consequences. Should we not then consider their stupid behavior a staggering lack of good judgment?
Since when the strength of a believe makes it right or moral or worth having?
So MLK wasn't a civil rights leader, he was just some angry, ranting guy with bad judgement?
MLK's beliefs were right. Damore's are not. Fucking false equality.
Fuck if I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
Find a rope. If you can't own your own know why your analogy is wrong, you won't be missed.
Is Google being harmed by its gender policies? Was he? At the end of the day, one presumes he was hired as a software developer or engineer, and not to write screeds against his employer's hiring practices.
Then what of other employees' calls for his punishment and declaring that they'd refuse to work with him?
Oh yeah, employees (in particular female) are going to want to work with him after he lectured them in how their biological differences and lack of testicles would probably make them less efficient than him at software (the job they do.)
Yeah totally the others' fault for not wanting to work with him.
Do you guys even hear yourselves? Do you think Google owes you assholes a place where you can spew your views?
He was trying to open a dialogue about problems with the way things were being run at work
There were no fucking problems to discuss. The only problem is his attitude.
This is a man who, while in MIT, had the brilliant idea of doing a vulgar joke at a meeting, so vulgar that professors had to apologize for it.
We know now that before his manifesto, he was at a HR session where he felt "harassed" because he was told he couldn't say certain things because they were inappropriate and sexist. Considering his previous experience at MIT, I'd side with HR first.
Stop making excuses for this asshole. Now we have alt-right assholes making death threats against google employees. Fuck that guy and all that he stands for.
An engineer who was forced to sit through non-technical things.
The horror, the horror.
It also coincides with "return to urban centers" movement.
It's more than that. It's a general trends for cities with a certain mix of ingredients (universities, trade, enough mass) that are getting the big winz. Check Enrico Moretti The New Geography of Jobs.
These trends have been occurring everywhere on the planet, even in poor countries. We have just been slow to recognize it (and thus capitalize on the advantages and to deal with the human cost in cities and towns that cannot make the transition.)
The end.
That's not what he said. That's what you chose to read.
I wouldn't mind a long break in the middle of the day, and maybe a nap. Doesn't sound insane to me at all.
I would. I have children at home to care. If I were to take long breaks, either I'd be home late (and not being able to spend time with my wife and kids), or get up very fucking early for no other reason than to have a long break in the middle of the day.
Eh, I pass. I can see the appeal to some, though. But for me (or more precisely, my current needs), this is highly inefficient.
The problem becomes how does an American company compete against a foreign company that is not abiding by the same standards?
We aren't supposed to compete on prices for labor-intensive manufacturing. We are supposed to out-innovate to a degree that creates wealth that flows. But for that we need safety nets for people with lesser means and to reduce the personal risk involved in going solo/entrepreneurial. And we need a systematic approach to cultivate our human capital, to develop a workforce more educated than other competing countries have.
If a labor-intensive worker in the US does not have a competitive advantage in terms of education or output against a labor-intensive worker in China, then shit dude, the last thing we want is to try to compete in prices for labor-intensive, low-value-added products.
Forget safety and labor regulations for a moment. Do you think for a moment that if China had the same type of regulations we do, that their cost of operations would be the same as ours????? No, they wouldn't. They'll still be cheaper.
Cost of labor and regulation aren't the bulk of cost. After all, Japan is expensive and still they out-manufactured us.
The problems are deeper than just "fair competition and regulations."
Try harder.
You get government benefits, and there is an H2B job available, you take that job or lose your benefits. It's the whole "get paid to not work" that makes this kind of BS possible. You wanna watch TV in an apartment instead of watch street traffic from a refrigerator box? Get a fucking job. Disabled? I'm sure there is an H2B job somewhere you can take.
That's bullshit. That there are people who exploit loopholes in welfare, that does not imply the majority are. I mean, for fuck's sake, we have families of serving members of the military depending on food stamps to make ends meet.
The majority of people who depend on some type of welfare are already fucking working. I mean, shit, Walmart has a program for his workers (full time and part time alike) on how to apply for welfare benefits to make ends meet. That should tell you something.
There are people in the Palm Beach area that would do these H2B jobs. They are simply not being hired. This isn't any different from companies skipping Americans and legal residents over H1B workers for jobs locals could do.
The only difference is that The Great Orange One is doing it, so that's all fine because somehow 'MURKA NUMMR WUN!
If Trump were clever, he would allow unlimited H1B's in Rust Belt areas, with protections for local IT workers (assuming he won't support a free market, which is pretty much a given).
Silicon Valley CEO's don't want to go anywhere but down their mountain to work, but the massive influx of workers into one area is making things miserable for non CxO workers because of the density/demand-driven prices.
Want to see how badly the VC-fueled ventures really want to consume their H1B workers?
That wouldn't do anything of the sort (not to mention the deflationary effect of excessive H1B usage applied to the entire economy).
You simply can't pour resources in economically unsustainable locations. Knowledge economies rely on demographic agglomeration. It already happened massively in Japan and it is happening everywhere, including in poor, developing countries.
America is no exception. It just so happen that its people haven't gotten the memo (even though the phenomenon started in the 80's and was in full swing by the 90's.)
Read Enrico Moretti's "The New Geography of Jobs". Hell, the phenomenon was predicted way before the 80's. Your urban area needs to have a minimum critical mass (say, 250K people in it) and have key characteristics that attract talent in tech, pharma or finance. Otherwise it is going to struggle.
This is the sad reality, Rural/Flyover America will continue to depopulate and many towns or even small cities will become ghost towns. People will inevitably go to where the jobs are.
No amount of MAGA Trumpian bullshit will change that.
Trump's credit no single fucking president, Dem or Rep, has had an answer to the problem (and I doubt none of them - or the average American citizen - has ever recognized the true nature of the problem.)
Absolutely correct ... for businesses. Also correct for consumers who want to always have the latest (greatest is arguable), and who lease almost everything else too (cars, especially, so they can ride a class or 2 above their purchasing power). Not so great for those who have a budget, and who (mandatory car analogy) keep it 'til it dies and can't reasonably be fixed any more. So diffren' strokes etc.
I'm NOT in love with O365 and Office Mobile. Both require constant connection to the Internet, in addition to monthly payments.
You can work with O360 in offline mode, at which point you only need a connection when it's time to verify the license at regular internals. And most people in urban areas (pretty much most people) have constant internet connection. I can see your point, but this mechanism of delivery still works for the general consumer.
A monthly payment for using something is also another customer choice. I pay my home insurance once a year, and I could do the same with my car insurance, but I prefer to do so every 6 months also. Same with many other services where I choose the frequency of payments. For most folks, paying a monthly fee to use O360 is a no brainer.
Besides, if a person cannot make such a monthly payment, then by logic, they'll have more problems coming up with an upfront only-once license fee. For that type of person, the situation hasn't changed. But the monthly fee scheme has opened up access to the software for many who couldn't (or wouldn't) before.
The latter is a choice - though even public TV and radio are pushing for their monthly dip into your checking account now, and blocking online access (even of old stuff) unless you do it. The constant connection requirement is a deal-killer for me (even if I weren't otherwise satisfied with LO) because of dodgy internet service and (with the tablet) lack of any service at all when in the field.
Really, I'm not aware of that. Are we talking about public TV and radio like PBS and NPR, doing those things you are saying?
GDI was replaced with GDI+ a couple of decades ago (Windows 9x->NT transition, IIRC, but don't quote me on that). GDI+ was replaced by DXGI over a decade ago (Vista release). DXGI has had several major upgrades, too. It's at version 1.5 now, as best as I can figure. (source) Each 0.1 version bump after 1.0 came with a full windows release except 1.5, which was released with the Win10 Creator's Update and DirectX 12.1.
And "NT" stands for New Technology.
A couple of decades ago. Yeah don't worry, I won't quote you on that.
Humans are the most virulent form of disease. We've done more damage to this planet, as well as to ourselves, than any other sentient being. No wonder no other beings will openly communicate with us; barring those that see us as part of the food chain.
Another emotional response with pretensions of depth. Someone call the wambulance.