Preposterous. Slightly less preposterous would be renaming "TL;DR" because that's essentially what it's for - taking something complex and reducing it to something simple for a wide audience to be able to grasp the key points of very quickly.
Put yourself in their position. Let's say as a software engineer, in order to ply your craft, you are legally required to obtain a certificate from the government that costs 100 grand, up front, before you can ever get a job. You can't get around it, you can't operate out of Belize, you can't just do it on the side on the downlow. You want that job at google? Pay the 100K. You want that freelance job developing your cousin's business website? Pay the 100K or get arrested when the IRS finds out you didn't get the 100K token. It's not your fault, you have to do it.
Now say some startup bullies their way into the market with offshore workers out of India and places them in the jobs you are competing for for free, without having to get the tokens for them, without having to pay malpractice insurance, without having to even file taxes.
You gonna be cool with that? I mean it's not your fault you had to jump through the hoops to ply your trade.
Solution? Either make this startup pay for tokens and get insurance for them and do everything YOU have to do, or have the token system abolished and make it so you don't have to have insurance to work AND make the startup compensate you by refunding your token for you as a requirement to enter the market and compete with you.
Just remember: if somebody is interested in finding out what you are doing, and they have unlimited resources to do so, then you WILL get caught no matter how good you think your tools are, no matter how careful you think you are.
The process that saw the rise of Senator Palpatine to Emperor cannot really be compared to anything you might have seen in any western democracy any time recently. It's more the sort of thing that you saw give rise to the Kim dynasty in North Korea but even that, I can't think of anything comparable.
1) Senator Palpatine becomes Chancellor by capitalizing on Trade Federation's aggression on his home planet
2) Chancellor Palpatine invokes extraordinary powers to take action against separatists, to fight a war. He commissions a grand army for the republic, a federal army so to speak, as opposed to each system (state) having its own security apparatus. The senate approves because it's war and everything. The twist though, is he is the one behind the separatist uprising. He's controlling both sides. So maybe if you buy in to the idea that 911 was an inside job, that would be comparable with Bush Cheney and Rumsfeld doing away with the niceties of civil rights and all.
3) The Jedi discover that Palpatine is a Sith Lord and attempt to assassinate him. After easily killing the 4 jedi who come for him, he rallies the senate to turn the army against the Jedi and eradicate them. That's a pretty rational response if you think about it, from the senate and the population's point of view, they don't know what a Sith Lord is. The Jedi are an eccentric cult that bullies and intimidates its opponents.
4) Senator Jar Jar Binks takes part in the vote to give Palpatine imperial powers and Palpatine eventually disbands the senate
Reminds me of the movie "The Wolf of Wall Street", the senior trader giving tips to the new guy advising him to use cocaine in order to "stay sharp between the ears." And "That's not a recommendation, it's a prescription". Pulls out a little tubular dispenser, uses some right there in front of everybody. I'm inclined to think that that part of the movie is not an exaggeration of what goes on on Wall Street and in those big law firms.
I'm sorry to hear you've struggled so much, seems that this drug has been very beneficial to you. Nobody is saying that there are not people who legitimately need it. The focus of the story & discussion is that people are abusing it to get ahead. Think of those douchebags who go to medical marijuana dispensaries because they want to get high. How does that make all of the people who legitimately need it look and feel? Like you, I imagine. Really terrible, and then politicians want to ban it. The worst part is these abusers don't care that legit users might lose it because of them. Likewise there is massive abuse of drugs like ambien. Most people who take it are not suffering from the kind of debilitating insomnia it's supposed to be used for.
It only works out if we're all SURE that everybody else is going to abide by that promise. Yada yada yada, we all violate the agreement. Not me, I'm too old.
Way back in the day when Microsoft was unleashing IE onto the world, everybody howled that they were introducing new IE specific things for websites to be able to provide, eg ActiveX. Now it seems that google is doing the same thing with Chrome. In both cases the idea is to take ownership of the web...
I know how to copy and paste in vim (yank/put), but I always use the mouse anyway. Do you know what happens when you paste something with tabs? Converted to spaces. Now it's all messed up.
Also, when you prepend a # in front of lines to comment them out, it goes all over the place.
The Japanese leadership did not see the atomics as significantly worse than what they had already suffered due to the sustained bombings their cities had endured in which many more civilians died than from both the bombs combined. What did it for them was the Soviet Union declaring war on them and rapidly taking Manchuria and able to invade via the relatively undefended north and western borders in very short order, like one or two weeks time instead of the months it would take the Americans to get on with it.
There was no point to a valiant stand against the Americans, they would be slaughtered by the Soviets from the other end. At this point they surrendered and to save face, in a way, they attributed their defeat to the magic bomb against which there was no honor in facing.
The US knew this of course, that neither invasion nor the abomb were necessary to end the war because the Soviets would take care of it, but then it was about who got to dictate the terms of surrender and keeping Japan's resources and conquered territories out of Soviet hands. Not an unreasonable motive, which is hard to say when 150-200 thousand civilians died by the bombs, but many more than that would have died by a Soviet invasion or an American one or both. Some in Hirohito's inner circle wanted to bring it to that, fight till the last man woman and child.
Also, the bombs were punitive. I'm not saying this to express approval or disapproval of this, but after all - it is these civilians who sent their sons to massacre the Chinese, taught them that they were the master race to rule the world, commit atrocities, etc. Nanking, Unit 731 (thought Auschwitz was the worst place you could possibly imagine?), etc etc etc
Lastly, just as the Japanese were able to have a "neat" reason to surrender, the Americans wanted a big final bang to symbolize victory and to take their place as the world's #1 superpower, knowing the Soviet Union was going to be competing with them for that claim.
Disagree. Exercise is of course fantastic for keeping your heart and muscles fit, as well as for your mind, but it makes zero difference to me when the goal is weight loss, only what I eat.
If you start counting calories like "ok, 30 mins on the treadmill will burn off that scoop of ice cream I had last night" nope doesn't work that way. Have to stop eating ice cream, period. Have to eat smaller portions, low fat low carb, just basically reduce calories and make the ones you do consume worthwhile. That's it.
I know this because I've been ~30-40 lbs overweight all my adult life and I've tried the exercise approach, the no carb thing, etc. Nope. It took having an ulcer where I could not eat much without feeling sick for like 6 months to lose 40 lbs with no change in my non-existent exercise regimen. Kind of happy about the body image change (yes, I'm a victim of the culture and what endless torment by my school peers ingrained in me), but pretty darn worried about where this all going.
And so it begins. Google and Apple are building their own private armies. First it starts with these security people that are just for show. Then after some kind of incident they get weapons. Yada yada yada, Google and Apple have nuclear arsenals.
I have first hand experience in this so let me tell you why: because at big companies like Yahoo, 9 out of 10 of full-time telecommuters are unproductive. It's impossible to really coordinate with them. They're never available when you need them. They're always out shuttling their kids or whatever they do. They're not the heroic always-on rock stars like startups have. In other words, it's a privilege that is abused. Yahoo forcing people to come in to work to you know, work, is a good and clever way to get rid of those unproductive people. Right or wrong, doesn't matter, but I reckon the productivity is up over there.
I've been contacted by recruiters out of the blue on LinkedIn, gone through the interview process for the fabulous job they were peddling, and then not do well enough in the interview to get the job. The recruiter was warm and encouraging and friendly throughout the process... until I didn't get the job. Some dick behavior along with a "They found a substantially more qualified candidate" message. Wtf? Would it not be sufficient to just say "Unfortunately they have decided to move forward with another candidate." Was it really necessary to kick me while I was already down, disappointed I didn't get the job? Word to the wise: a recruiter finds you on Linkedin and is all friendly, it's not going to last. Like used car salesmen these people. Once you're no longer useful to you they'll discard you like you're trash.
How would you characterize your college experience? As you were so young it must have been difficult to engage in those crucial interactions with your peers outside of class, eg dinners out, parties where alcohol was involved, etc. Or were you more like the kid in the "Revenge of The Nerds" movie?;-)
It used to be that you'd go in and you'd be asked to talk about the projects that are on your CV, talk about what challenges you faced and how you solved them, and you'd be asked some basic technical questions to confirm that you hadn't completely made it all up.
Now, nobody gives a crap about your CV. The last time I went through it, to be a PHP/MySQL developer, the tech lead or whatever came in without my resume in hand, gave a curt look and a limp handshake, and launched into it:
"I have 3 questions."
First off:
"Design a game of blackjack." with no further explanation. A silent stare as I asked for clarification. Okay you want me to give you an object model. Doing that.
Much pain later and condescension and derision later (yet in my opinion done well enough to be functional,) comes the second question with only 10 minutes in the hour remaining:
"Design an algorithm to efficiently sort a list of trillions of elements."
And I barely got off the ground on that one. Bounced some thoughts at him with the same derision and impatience in return. Needless to say I never got to hear what the third question was.
His colleagues were not much nicer. I didn't get the job, but fuck them. I wouldn't want to work with these miserable assholes anyway. As I was walked out I saw their big developer pit or whatever they call it, this nightmarish contraption with no privacy and all this agile frenzy going on. No windows, all artificial light in the middle of the day, these giant monitors mounted on walls showing the build status or whatever the fuck, this cheap synthetic carpet, not a single person smiling. I'm sure they are very productive and God bless em.
Ahem, what about those of us who live in the vicinity of Mountain View and aren't multi-millionaires? Our rents are high enough here. Googlers can live wherever the hell they can afford to and so can you.
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Preposterous. Slightly less preposterous would be renaming "TL;DR" because that's essentially what it's for - taking something complex and reducing it to something simple for a wide audience to be able to grasp the key points of very quickly.
Put yourself in their position. Let's say as a software engineer, in order to ply your craft, you are legally required to obtain a certificate from the government that costs 100 grand, up front, before you can ever get a job. You can't get around it, you can't operate out of Belize, you can't just do it on the side on the downlow. You want that job at google? Pay the 100K. You want that freelance job developing your cousin's business website? Pay the 100K or get arrested when the IRS finds out you didn't get the 100K token. It's not your fault, you have to do it.
Now say some startup bullies their way into the market with offshore workers out of India and places them in the jobs you are competing for for free, without having to get the tokens for them, without having to pay malpractice insurance, without having to even file taxes.
You gonna be cool with that? I mean it's not your fault you had to jump through the hoops to ply your trade.
Solution? Either make this startup pay for tokens and get insurance for them and do everything YOU have to do, or have the token system abolished and make it so you don't have to have insurance to work AND make the startup compensate you by refunding your token for you as a requirement to enter the market and compete with you.
Just remember: if somebody is interested in finding out what you are doing, and they have unlimited resources to do so, then you WILL get caught no matter how good you think your tools are, no matter how careful you think you are.
The process that saw the rise of Senator Palpatine to Emperor cannot really be compared to anything you might have seen in any western democracy any time recently. It's more the sort of thing that you saw give rise to the Kim dynasty in North Korea but even that, I can't think of anything comparable.
1) Senator Palpatine becomes Chancellor by capitalizing on Trade Federation's aggression on his home planet
2) Chancellor Palpatine invokes extraordinary powers to take action against separatists, to fight a war. He commissions a grand army for the republic, a federal army so to speak, as opposed to each system (state) having its own security apparatus. The senate approves because it's war and everything. The twist though, is he is the one behind the separatist uprising. He's controlling both sides. So maybe if you buy in to the idea that 911 was an inside job, that would be comparable with Bush Cheney and Rumsfeld doing away with the niceties of civil rights and all.
3) The Jedi discover that Palpatine is a Sith Lord and attempt to assassinate him. After easily killing the 4 jedi who come for him, he rallies the senate to turn the army against the Jedi and eradicate them. That's a pretty rational response if you think about it, from the senate and the population's point of view, they don't know what a Sith Lord is. The Jedi are an eccentric cult that bullies and intimidates its opponents.
4) Senator Jar Jar Binks takes part in the vote to give Palpatine imperial powers and Palpatine eventually disbands the senate
EXTREME PROGRAMMING!!!
Ugh.
Yes but if you never offer the opportunity for people of those different groups to generate that code you'll never see it
Maybe so but what you describe is still illegal. Let's change some of your words: replace 'older' with 'black'. Now what?
Reminds me of the movie "The Wolf of Wall Street", the senior trader giving tips to the new guy advising him to use cocaine in order to "stay sharp between the ears." And "That's not a recommendation, it's a prescription". Pulls out a little tubular dispenser, uses some right there in front of everybody. I'm inclined to think that that part of the movie is not an exaggeration of what goes on on Wall Street and in those big law firms.
I'm sorry to hear you've struggled so much, seems that this drug has been very beneficial to you. Nobody is saying that there are not people who legitimately need it. The focus of the story & discussion is that people are abusing it to get ahead. Think of those douchebags who go to medical marijuana dispensaries because they want to get high. How does that make all of the people who legitimately need it look and feel? Like you, I imagine. Really terrible, and then politicians want to ban it. The worst part is these abusers don't care that legit users might lose it because of them. Likewise there is massive abuse of drugs like ambien. Most people who take it are not suffering from the kind of debilitating insomnia it's supposed to be used for.
Then let's all agree not to take it.
It's the Prisoner's Dilemma http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
It only works out if we're all SURE that everybody else is going to abide by that promise. Yada yada yada, we all violate the agreement. Not me, I'm too old.
Yep, another deadly weapon to use for the AI system we eventually turn over everything to. We best begin to plot the Butlerian Jihad now.
Way back in the day when Microsoft was unleashing IE onto the world, everybody howled that they were introducing new IE specific things for websites to be able to provide, eg ActiveX. Now it seems that google is doing the same thing with Chrome. In both cases the idea is to take ownership of the web...
I know how to copy and paste in vim (yank/put), but I always use the mouse anyway. Do you know what happens when you paste something with tabs? Converted to spaces. Now it's all messed up.
Also, when you prepend a # in front of lines to comment them out, it goes all over the place.
I hate tabs.
The Japanese leadership did not see the atomics as significantly worse than what they had already suffered due to the sustained bombings their cities had endured in which many more civilians died than from both the bombs combined. What did it for them was the Soviet Union declaring war on them and rapidly taking Manchuria and able to invade via the relatively undefended north and western borders in very short order, like one or two weeks time instead of the months it would take the Americans to get on with it.
There was no point to a valiant stand against the Americans, they would be slaughtered by the Soviets from the other end. At this point they surrendered and to save face, in a way, they attributed their defeat to the magic bomb against which there was no honor in facing.
The US knew this of course, that neither invasion nor the abomb were necessary to end the war because the Soviets would take care of it, but then it was about who got to dictate the terms of surrender and keeping Japan's resources and conquered territories out of Soviet hands. Not an unreasonable motive, which is hard to say when 150-200 thousand civilians died by the bombs, but many more than that would have died by a Soviet invasion or an American one or both. Some in Hirohito's inner circle wanted to bring it to that, fight till the last man woman and child.
Also, the bombs were punitive. I'm not saying this to express approval or disapproval of this, but after all - it is these civilians who sent their sons to massacre the Chinese, taught them that they were the master race to rule the world, commit atrocities, etc. Nanking, Unit 731 (thought Auschwitz was the worst place you could possibly imagine?), etc etc etc
Lastly, just as the Japanese were able to have a "neat" reason to surrender, the Americans wanted a big final bang to symbolize victory and to take their place as the world's #1 superpower, knowing the Soviet Union was going to be competing with them for that claim.
Disagree. Exercise is of course fantastic for keeping your heart and muscles fit, as well as for your mind, but it makes zero difference to me when the goal is weight loss, only what I eat.
If you start counting calories like "ok, 30 mins on the treadmill will burn off that scoop of ice cream I had last night" nope doesn't work that way. Have to stop eating ice cream, period. Have to eat smaller portions, low fat low carb, just basically reduce calories and make the ones you do consume worthwhile. That's it.
I know this because I've been ~30-40 lbs overweight all my adult life and I've tried the exercise approach, the no carb thing, etc. Nope. It took having an ulcer where I could not eat much without feeling sick for like 6 months to lose 40 lbs with no change in my non-existent exercise regimen. Kind of happy about the body image change (yes, I'm a victim of the culture and what endless torment by my school peers ingrained in me), but pretty darn worried about where this all going.
And so it begins. Google and Apple are building their own private armies. First it starts with these security people that are just for show. Then after some kind of incident they get weapons. Yada yada yada, Google and Apple have nuclear arsenals.
I have first hand experience in this so let me tell you why: because at big companies like Yahoo, 9 out of 10 of full-time telecommuters are unproductive. It's impossible to really coordinate with them. They're never available when you need them. They're always out shuttling their kids or whatever they do. They're not the heroic always-on rock stars like startups have. In other words, it's a privilege that is abused. Yahoo forcing people to come in to work to you know, work, is a good and clever way to get rid of those unproductive people. Right or wrong, doesn't matter, but I reckon the productivity is up over there.
I've been contacted by recruiters out of the blue on LinkedIn, gone through the interview process for the fabulous job they were peddling, and then not do well enough in the interview to get the job. The recruiter was warm and encouraging and friendly throughout the process... until I didn't get the job. Some dick behavior along with a "They found a substantially more qualified candidate" message. Wtf? Would it not be sufficient to just say "Unfortunately they have decided to move forward with another candidate." Was it really necessary to kick me while I was already down, disappointed I didn't get the job? Word to the wise: a recruiter finds you on Linkedin and is all friendly, it's not going to last. Like used car salesmen these people. Once you're no longer useful to you they'll discard you like you're trash.
How would you characterize your college experience? As you were so young it must have been difficult to engage in those crucial interactions with your peers outside of class, eg dinners out, parties where alcohol was involved, etc. Or were you more like the kid in the "Revenge of The Nerds" movie? ;-)
It used to be that you'd go in and you'd be asked to talk about the projects that are on your CV, talk about what challenges you faced and how you solved them, and you'd be asked some basic technical questions to confirm that you hadn't completely made it all up.
Now, nobody gives a crap about your CV. The last time I went through it, to be a PHP/MySQL developer, the tech lead or whatever came in without my resume in hand, gave a curt look and a limp handshake, and launched into it:
"I have 3 questions."
First off:
"Design a game of blackjack." with no further explanation. A silent stare as I asked for clarification. Okay you want me to give you an object model. Doing that.
Much pain later and condescension and derision later (yet in my opinion done well enough to be functional,) comes the second question with only 10 minutes in the hour remaining:
"Design an algorithm to efficiently sort a list of trillions of elements."
And I barely got off the ground on that one. Bounced some thoughts at him with the same derision and impatience in return. Needless to say I never got to hear what the third question was.
His colleagues were not much nicer. I didn't get the job, but fuck them. I wouldn't want to work with these miserable assholes anyway. As I was walked out I saw their big developer pit or whatever they call it, this nightmarish contraption with no privacy and all this agile frenzy going on. No windows, all artificial light in the middle of the day, these giant monitors mounted on walls showing the build status or whatever the fuck, this cheap synthetic carpet, not a single person smiling. I'm sure they are very productive and God bless em.
OTOH, yup, I'm still looking for full time work.
I''m so ronery, ronery!
The actor they got to play Kim Jong Un looks a helluvalot more serious and intimidating than the real guy.
Ahem, what about those of us who live in the vicinity of Mountain View and aren't multi-millionaires? Our rents are high enough here. Googlers can live wherever the hell they can afford to and so can you.