Read title: Hmm, that seems like a tax that's hostile toward cyclists! That must be terrible!
Read blurb: Oregon has no sales tax. Tax on bikes pretty low. Amount they're raising is low in the great scheme of things. This will actually help cyclists.
Well, nothing to see here. Reasonable alternative to sales tax for improving bike paths and saving cyclist lives by not requiring them to be on the road with 2-ton death machines. Sounds good to me.
If it's missing features on the mobile version, it's NOT A RESPONSIVE WEBSITE.
"Responsive websites shall not remove functionality." - The laws of the Internet, written by me. Also probably some smarter people.
Honestly, you're describing a terrible website. It's not a site that provides a fair or reasonable example of responsive web design as a comparison. Just because someone calls a car an egg, doesn't make it an egg.
Instead of making an affordable option they're going for the high-end market, trying to perfect the experience for everyone, and then heaping DRM on top of that.
Since I was a kid I wanted even a VFX... as garbage as it was I tried it at Comdex and wanted it so bad.
I don't want to pay top dollar for DRM locked down garbage, however. It's a display! There's no need for that crap.
I have a 3D TV and we barely use it only because half of my household doesn't like the effect, really. We go to 3D movies but using the glasses at home almost never happens. We also don't have access to a lot of 3D content on Neflix that I'm aware of and we don't often buy 3D blu-rays. I have one, and it's Tron, and that movie wasn't really all that re-watchable.
All this rambling is to say that EVEN IF THEY PERFECT IT, probably a small portion of people will still be able to enjoy it. Stereoscopic images simply give some people headaches. They don't calculate depth in their brains by separation alone. By chasing that perfection to the exclusion of everything else, they're missing out on the mid-tier market.
I tried out the DK1 dev kit for Occulus and LOVED it. I could play TF2 for a half hour before even slightly noticing nausea, and I wasn't even sure if that was because I was actually sick that day or the device.
Yet I can't be positive if I buy one that it would be compatible with the games that come out for the finished device. What a pain in the fragmented ass... I just want a display, that goes on my head, with head tracking and a decent resolution. Head tracking doesn't need to be spot on. My mind can easily compensate.
I have some small savings and RRSP, and the Canadian government MIGHT give me a tiny stipend to live on if they force me out of work at 65+.
That said I don't think I could ever stop being creative and making things. I will always be looking for ways to make a living at it but it might be nice to not have that stress and simply make things I like.
I might also be the exception to the rule. At 25 I never expected to be allowed to retire. Our social assistance had just been freshly gutted by Mike Harris and previous gaffes. We had been told in no uncertain terms that we would not be getting the same retirement deal as our parents.
I think most of my generation prefers not to think about it. It's terrifying to think of not being allowed to work as a professional and make the same money, or not being able to, and having no safety net whatsoever.
My sincere hope is that our government will have at least a little compassion for us.
+1 for the ZX81. It was my dad's and I can't recall if he built it from a kit or if it was a whole machine he purchased. We used tapes with it. Eventually it stopped working. The headphone-jack style power was a bad idea. That thing arced if it was plugged in and it came out.
Dad eventually gave me the ZX81 and I played with it a while but being 4 or 5 at the time, my understanding of BASIC was pretty limited.
I got a lot more mileage out of the CoCo 2 my dad gave me once he got his first PC.
Dad was pretty cool. He ran computer lessons for all of the kids in the neighbourhood and printed out lessons for them.
I'm worried I'll be stuck in stinky Toronto forever if I want to keep working and making decent money. (It's fun, but I want to move somewhere smaller for my health.) But I don't know if the wage I'd make in a smaller city would be the same if I change jobs.
I'm supporting both myself and my partner on about 95k right now doing web dev work. To find that wage I had to do remote work for a company in the US. That said, since I'm a sole-proprietor I've gotten used to saving 50% of my wages, 26% of which will go into taxes minus deductions. So I could probably live on less. But then how will I retire? I'm screaming toward forty. I need to make the most of the next ~25 years.
I see on Glassdoor that the average wages for front-end developers are a bit lower in Canada. Whenever I leave a job I have companies lining up to interview me but I suspect that's because the hiring industry is so inflated right now. It could be because I'm a developer with a long history on Linked-in but I always have that twinge of impostor syndrome.
When I was in university my friend and I did freelance work for local businesses, so by the time I was in my final year I already had a bit of a career going. Before university I was reading the RFCs for Internet protocols, reading hacker docs and the jargon files. I really WANTED to be in programming. Long story short, I haven't even finished university. I hate how maths are presented and I could never finish the courses. So I took a gig at a marketing company and I've been doing full-stack or front end web development ever since.
All of that said, my university career was in the early 2000s. The Internet was HYOOOOOOJ. There was far more unchecked excitement in general and among investors. My career was all but guaranteed. I was born at the right time. I think we are starting to see the plateau of computer careers. There will be spikes just like any industry but I think the demand will be a lot more stable but possibly less from now on.
The outsourcing issue certainly is one. Half of my co-workers are from around the world. The reason is that the wage is cheaper than it is in the US. I don't know what to say there. The USD is stronger than ours and they can buy more work from us for each dollar. There are a lot of strange things going on in the economy and for the social welfare of Americans that goes far beyond the scope of this post. My sincere hope is that the US decides to care for its own and invest in its future by nurturing its relationships with foreign countries. This current trajectory probably will end in disaster for a lot of people, and probably not the cronies of the people making it happen.
(Sorry this reads like an anonymous CV but I think the context matters.)
On the other side you have an awful businessman, an awful man, and a really shitty plan that will bankrupt your country and only serve to make the rich not pay a bit of taxes (if they bother to pay taxes at all).
This is presented as if it's some big surprise. Did you know: everything Hilary did that she's being reamed for is something her colleagues had told her to do, and that they had done themselves in the past?
Like... I'm sorry but your whiteness is showing. I'm white too and even I can see, because I bother to watch the ugly truth. Even I can see that someone reaching for their registration when asked to reach for their registration is following orders. Could have done nothing. Shot in front of their fucking kids.
If you reward your hardest working employees by fucking them over at every turn ("My go-to for weekends and holidays!") then it's little surprise when your best employees leave.
She wasn't a shitty worker. She was an abused one.
This is a clear engineering failure and it's resulted in two high-profile accidents. One where a parking car damaged the windscreen and this one.
The flaw is already known. The Tesla's sensors don't see anything high up enough to prevent these beheading accidents.
Fools will be fools, so as engineers it behoves us to expect that. Give someone something called cruise control, and an old man will walk to the back of his Winnebago to make coffee on a long straight stretch and end up in an accident when the road turns (This happened).
Give people auto-steering called auto-pilot and they'll surely be negligent. I'd say Tesla bears part of the blame here but of course I'm going to be voted down by those who think highly of themselves and their levels of silliness at all times, until it's them making a fatal mistake.
Showing different body types baring skin doesn't mean that the issue is attraction.
The issue is that fat women (and men!) get a lot of shit that they don't deserve from other people imposing their "concern" on them.
The issue might be about FEELING attractive because as human beings that's important.
The issue is that it's their body and they should be allowed to dress as they see fit. If you think it's obscene, that's your issue. You don't have to like it, but you also don't have any right to harass them over it.
On the other hand, when presented with groups about literal neo nazis, white supremicists, hate groups of all kinds they claim those groups don't violate their terms of service.
Same thing for posts which espouse bigoted views. Nope, not a TOS violation. They won't take it down.
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Give the contract back, with the non-disparagement clause stroked out.
Tell them you won't sign away your rights.
Find a better job.
If they still want you, and delete the clause, great! If not... see ya, suckas. I don't want to work for you anyway.
Considering you need to run a script on your server to prove you own it, what avenue of attack are they not performing due diligence on?
Unless an attacker could poison DNS between Letsencrypt and their fake server, there isn't really any trivial way of spoofing that I could think of.
They could get a URL with visually identical unicode characters, if that's possible. But then that's only valid for that visually identical domain.
I still don't see what they can really do. They are there to serve the little guy who can't buy an expensive SSL cert to comply with new requirements.
Read title: Hmm, that seems like a tax that's hostile toward cyclists! That must be terrible!
Read blurb: Oregon has no sales tax. Tax on bikes pretty low. Amount they're raising is low in the great scheme of things. This will actually help cyclists.
Well, nothing to see here. Reasonable alternative to sales tax for improving bike paths and saving cyclist lives by not requiring them to be on the road with 2-ton death machines. Sounds good to me.
If you disagree with me and you're a web developer: congrats, you're bad at your job.
If it's missing features on the mobile version, it's NOT A RESPONSIVE WEBSITE.
"Responsive websites shall not remove functionality." - The laws of the Internet, written by me. Also probably some smarter people.
Honestly, you're describing a terrible website. It's not a site that provides a fair or reasonable example of responsive web design as a comparison. Just because someone calls a car an egg, doesn't make it an egg.
...prove the point of the summary.
Instead of making an affordable option they're going for the high-end market, trying to perfect the experience for everyone, and then heaping DRM on top of that.
Since I was a kid I wanted even a VFX... as garbage as it was I tried it at Comdex and wanted it so bad.
I don't want to pay top dollar for DRM locked down garbage, however. It's a display! There's no need for that crap.
I have a 3D TV and we barely use it only because half of my household doesn't like the effect, really. We go to 3D movies but using the glasses at home almost never happens. We also don't have access to a lot of 3D content on Neflix that I'm aware of and we don't often buy 3D blu-rays. I have one, and it's Tron, and that movie wasn't really all that re-watchable.
All this rambling is to say that EVEN IF THEY PERFECT IT, probably a small portion of people will still be able to enjoy it. Stereoscopic images simply give some people headaches. They don't calculate depth in their brains by separation alone. By chasing that perfection to the exclusion of everything else, they're missing out on the mid-tier market.
I tried out the DK1 dev kit for Occulus and LOVED it. I could play TF2 for a half hour before even slightly noticing nausea, and I wasn't even sure if that was because I was actually sick that day or the device.
Yet I can't be positive if I buy one that it would be compatible with the games that come out for the finished device. What a pain in the fragmented ass... I just want a display, that goes on my head, with head tracking and a decent resolution. Head tracking doesn't need to be spot on. My mind can easily compensate.
Physical disable: dark tape. At least for the camera.
I have some small savings and RRSP, and the Canadian government MIGHT give me a tiny stipend to live on if they force me out of work at 65+.
That said I don't think I could ever stop being creative and making things. I will always be looking for ways to make a living at it but it might be nice to not have that stress and simply make things I like.
I might also be the exception to the rule. At 25 I never expected to be allowed to retire. Our social assistance had just been freshly gutted by Mike Harris and previous gaffes. We had been told in no uncertain terms that we would not be getting the same retirement deal as our parents.
I think most of my generation prefers not to think about it. It's terrifying to think of not being allowed to work as a professional and make the same money, or not being able to, and having no safety net whatsoever.
My sincere hope is that our government will have at least a little compassion for us.
Oh! I recall we had the expansion RAM for the ZX81 as well. Dad purchased it with the machine.
+1 for the ZX81. It was my dad's and I can't recall if he built it from a kit or if it was a whole machine he purchased. We used tapes with it. Eventually it stopped working. The headphone-jack style power was a bad idea. That thing arced if it was plugged in and it came out.
Dad eventually gave me the ZX81 and I played with it a while but being 4 or 5 at the time, my understanding of BASIC was pretty limited.
I got a lot more mileage out of the CoCo 2 my dad gave me once he got his first PC.
Dad was pretty cool. He ran computer lessons for all of the kids in the neighbourhood and printed out lessons for them.
I'm worried I'll be stuck in stinky Toronto forever if I want to keep working and making decent money. (It's fun, but I want to move somewhere smaller for my health.) But I don't know if the wage I'd make in a smaller city would be the same if I change jobs.
I'm supporting both myself and my partner on about 95k right now doing web dev work. To find that wage I had to do remote work for a company in the US. That said, since I'm a sole-proprietor I've gotten used to saving 50% of my wages, 26% of which will go into taxes minus deductions. So I could probably live on less. But then how will I retire? I'm screaming toward forty. I need to make the most of the next ~25 years.
I see on Glassdoor that the average wages for front-end developers are a bit lower in Canada. Whenever I leave a job I have companies lining up to interview me but I suspect that's because the hiring industry is so inflated right now. It could be because I'm a developer with a long history on Linked-in but I always have that twinge of impostor syndrome.
When I was in university my friend and I did freelance work for local businesses, so by the time I was in my final year I already had a bit of a career going. Before university I was reading the RFCs for Internet protocols, reading hacker docs and the jargon files. I really WANTED to be in programming. Long story short, I haven't even finished university. I hate how maths are presented and I could never finish the courses. So I took a gig at a marketing company and I've been doing full-stack or front end web development ever since.
All of that said, my university career was in the early 2000s. The Internet was HYOOOOOOJ. There was far more unchecked excitement in general and among investors. My career was all but guaranteed. I was born at the right time. I think we are starting to see the plateau of computer careers. There will be spikes just like any industry but I think the demand will be a lot more stable but possibly less from now on.
The outsourcing issue certainly is one. Half of my co-workers are from around the world. The reason is that the wage is cheaper than it is in the US. I don't know what to say there. The USD is stronger than ours and they can buy more work from us for each dollar. There are a lot of strange things going on in the economy and for the social welfare of Americans that goes far beyond the scope of this post. My sincere hope is that the US decides to care for its own and invest in its future by nurturing its relationships with foreign countries. This current trajectory probably will end in disaster for a lot of people, and probably not the cronies of the people making it happen.
(Sorry this reads like an anonymous CV but I think the context matters.)
Why does that even matter?
On the other side you have an awful businessman, an awful man, and a really shitty plan that will bankrupt your country and only serve to make the rich not pay a bit of taxes (if they bother to pay taxes at all).
This is presented as if it's some big surprise. Did you know: everything Hilary did that she's being reamed for is something her colleagues had told her to do, and that they had done themselves in the past?
NO? Well now you do.
Could it be that they are simply using 8 chips in parallel to make the 128 and 256GB sizes?
Or that the larger sizes can access more layered wafers in parallel?
Well duh! Paint the town with WiFi and it'll still be fast and allow them to undercut ISPs.
People who want to pay for the last mile or communities where the cost isn't vast will be able to convince them to run fibre maybe.
Would be a much more doable strategy.
I know the point of this whole exercise was 1+Gb FTTH, but perhaps finding a 300mbps happy medium would serve communities well for now.
I had a Corsair SSD give up the ghost in a spectacular way once.
It BSOD'ed Windows 7 and when I tried to look at the partitions on an Ubuntu boot disc it was empty and all zeroes.
Turned out it was the drive's fault. Returned it and they sent me a new one (probably with a firmware update to fix the bug).
I'm surprised, are you? I'm surprised...
Like... I'm sorry but your whiteness is showing. I'm white too and even I can see, because I bother to watch the ugly truth. Even I can see that someone reaching for their registration when asked to reach for their registration is following orders. Could have done nothing. Shot in front of their fucking kids.
How... fucking... dare... you.
Doing nothing but following police instruction sure worked well for all of the shot black people, hunh?
If you reward your hardest working employees by fucking them over at every turn ("My go-to for weekends and holidays!") then it's little surprise when your best employees leave.
She wasn't a shitty worker. She was an abused one.
That's a lovely pretend wonderland you live in, there.
http://www.askamanager.org/2016/07/my-best-employee-quit-on-the-spot-because-i-wouldnt-let-her-go-to-her-college-graduation.html
This is a clear engineering failure and it's resulted in two high-profile accidents. One where a parking car damaged the windscreen and this one.
The flaw is already known. The Tesla's sensors don't see anything high up enough to prevent these beheading accidents.
Fools will be fools, so as engineers it behoves us to expect that. Give someone something called cruise control, and an old man will walk to the back of his Winnebago to make coffee on a long straight stretch and end up in an accident when the road turns (This happened).
Give people auto-steering called auto-pilot and they'll surely be negligent. I'd say Tesla bears part of the blame here but of course I'm going to be voted down by those who think highly of themselves and their levels of silliness at all times, until it's them making a fatal mistake.
Showing different body types baring skin doesn't mean that the issue is attraction.
The issue is that fat women (and men!) get a lot of shit that they don't deserve from other people imposing their "concern" on them.
The issue might be about FEELING attractive because as human beings that's important.
The issue is that it's their body and they should be allowed to dress as they see fit. If you think it's obscene, that's your issue. You don't have to like it, but you also don't have any right to harass them over it.
Redundant term is redundant.
On the other hand, when presented with groups about literal neo nazis, white supremicists, hate groups of all kinds they claim those groups don't violate their terms of service.
Same thing for posts which espouse bigoted views. Nope, not a TOS violation. They won't take it down.
As noted by someone above, it goes both ways.