I've been in your shoes. People who haven't have no idea what it's like. #1 really used to drive me insane, and then I just stopped caring about those idiots. #2 is just plain ignorance/liberalism. I try to ignore it.
As someone who sells thousands of dollars worth of merchandise a month, with processing going through Paypal, I can't emphasis enough how much I want to move away from those bastards. Already talking to other processors to get the hell away from Paypal. Can't wait...
If your lifestyle allows, buy a used motorcycle for a couple thousand dollars. Then enjoy the benefits of 70 MPG mileage while at the same time getting stares from chicks. All the while eschewing a quite electric engine in favor of a real hair raising powerhouse.
I'm so glad the government takes money out of my paycheck each week so they can hand it over to people buying electric cars. This way, with income redistribution, the Feds can make sure to punish those who live their lives differently, and reward those who live the lives the Feds approve of.
I stopped overclocking years ago. Today's CPUs are just fine compared to what we had in the 90's and early 00's.
The attitude nowadays is that we have shit to do, and if the hardware is fast enough, we move onto what it is we actually need the PC for. That's how it is with office desktops. You don't even need a high end machine to run Win 7, Office 2010, and a few proprietary business apps.
So, the leeches of society, the unproductive yet powerful politicians seek to control and destroy those who are productive, who create something for the public. Where have I seen this before? Oh yes, Ayn Rand.
"Government “help” to business is just as disastrous as government persecution the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off."
I'd like to point out a major potential flaw with putting your laptop in your trunk. If the thief sees you get out of the car and put your laptop into the trunk, he'll know to break in there. That's a common enough situation. You run back to your car after a meeting and throw your crap into the car and take off. Then when you park somewhere and decide to put the laptop in the trunk, you can be seen doing that.
That's not greed you're describing, that's being short sighted.
Greed means you want to make the most money, total. And that's a good thing. How you make the most is a difficult balancing act determining the optimal price point. A savvy businessman looks for the optimal point that generates the most total money. That's either low amount * higher volume or high amount * less volume or somewhere in between.
When studios charge high prices which yield low volume, that's not greed. That's stupidity.
Hulu does this all the time and I have to rush to lower the volume if it's later at night. And if I'm wearing headphones, the loud and sudden burst hurts my ears because it takes a few seconds to hit the button to lower the volume.
Netflix > *
One of the many reasons, related to this topic, is that you avoid commercials. Yay Netflix.
Instead of focusing on behavior and individual technologies as they come on, let's instead focus on the driving itself.
If cops focused on the dangerous driving instead of what's causing it, they could be more effective. It's the same rationale behind eliminating drunk driving laws. Instead of arresting people who blow a.08 BAC, and setting up checkpoints, free cops to patrol for the dangerous drivers. Police checkpoints, for example, waste hours of time for at least 4-6 cops who are pulling people over in violation of the 4th amendment. It's expensive overtime, and a waste of resources. Let them patrol for the drivers, which has been proven more effective. Besides, checkpoints are just revenue generators. Guess what happens in addition to MAYBE finding a drunk driver at these checkpoints? The cops pull in thousands of dollars worth of minor fines (seatbelt, expired registration, inspection stickers, etc).
The Foxconn suicide scare has been disproven. Given their large workforce, they're going to have suicides. When taken against the national average, it's actually lower.
But no; everyone just looks at absolute numbers and not relative numbers.
That's certainly the case sometimes. But age rarely factors into it. It's more based on the competency of the individual.
Some fresh young grads will understand concepts but not have experience with the industry tools. That's not the worst case and I don't ding them too much during the interview in those cases.
What I won't accept is when someone can't understand basic concepts, despite showing a number of years using software tool X. Can't stand those guys. Those are the people that took a Saturday course at the local Holiday Inn titled "How to use Excel as a database" (yes, I get that spam, this is a real course).
My own start in the world of CS was by messing around with some random C programs doing relatively simple things. Over time that grew more complex and I started reading from programming books. But then I got into college and studied Computer Science. It taught me concepts I NEVER would've learned on my own.
People who are self taught have motivation. That's a big plus. The big downside is that they sometimes are click-monkeys who only know the tools they played with, but don't understand any fundamental concepts. This is very true with people I interview for database work. They might know the tool they played with well, but can't draw an ER diagram to save their life or understand normal form and when over-normalizing is a bad thing for example.
There's a perfect Cyanide and Happiness comic for this post, but I can't find it on the Googles. A guy is sitting at his dorm room studying. Then there's an idea balloon over his head. Final frame, he's drinking with a lampshade over his head.
I use SugarCRM extensively and would like to see some articles published about that. Granted, it's not a strict CMS in the Drupal/Joomla fashion, but it's OSS and used in much the same way.
Another angle to this story is that it's yet another attempt by government at pre-crime.
The cops should stick to arresting people for the actual crimes they commit when hacking, like: unauthorized intrusion, damage to service, theft of data, etc. They don't need to ban tools that can be used for good or for bad. That's silly. Stay away from banning things further up the pipeline and focus on the actual crime itself. That gives the highest degree of freedom to the people, while giving government the narrowest and least necessary power.
This is akin to banning guns, for example, instead of sticking to the laws already on the books against assault or murder. Stick to the action that harms another party, and not whatever inanimate objects are involved.
I installed Drupal back when it was version 4 years ago for my personal site. That got me away from d***ing around with hand coding files and got me on track to working on actual content like I wanted.
For a personal site, it's perfect. Wordpress is great too, but if your site grows, you're very limited. Drupal can handle a basic install as a blog easily. And then if you want more features, you always have the option.
This could be a big problem for me as well.
In my startup, we'll continue using Dropbox as it's proven invaluable for a company of 50 spread across US, Canada, China, and Australia.
But for companies that are more conservative, and especially for large firms with more to lose, this is a potential deal breaker.
The way I mitigate risk for my company is to keep all sensitive documents like legal filings, tax docs, etc off of Dropbox and in another system that's less accessible.
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I never give candidates puzzles to solve during an interview. Why? Because they're not 10 years old; they're adults.
I've been in your shoes. People who haven't have no idea what it's like. #1 really used to drive me insane, and then I just stopped caring about those idiots. #2 is just plain ignorance/liberalism. I try to ignore it.
As someone who sells thousands of dollars worth of merchandise a month, with processing going through Paypal, I can't emphasis enough how much I want to move away from those bastards. Already talking to other processors to get the hell away from Paypal. Can't wait...
Yeah... let me know how that works out...
200GB of email? When I see figures like that, I always ask if they include attachments or not. Of so, reduce the figure by at least 80%.
If your lifestyle allows, buy a used motorcycle for a couple thousand dollars. Then enjoy the benefits of 70 MPG mileage while at the same time getting stares from chicks. All the while eschewing a quite electric engine in favor of a real hair raising powerhouse.
I'm so glad the government takes money out of my paycheck each week so they can hand it over to people buying electric cars. This way, with income redistribution, the Feds can make sure to punish those who live their lives differently, and reward those who live the lives the Feds approve of.
"or you've got some kind of "range survivalist syndrome" where you're always worried about "what if I run out of juice and then ZOMBIES ATTACK!?""
I see nothing wrong with that concern. In the colder parts of the US, you certainly wouldn't want to get stuck far from home during a snow storm.
I stopped overclocking years ago. Today's CPUs are just fine compared to what we had in the 90's and early 00's.
The attitude nowadays is that we have shit to do, and if the hardware is fast enough, we move onto what it is we actually need the PC for. That's how it is with office desktops. You don't even need a high end machine to run Win 7, Office 2010, and a few proprietary business apps.
So, the leeches of society, the unproductive yet powerful politicians seek to control and destroy those who are productive, who create something for the public. Where have I seen this before? Oh yes, Ayn Rand.
"Government “help” to business is just as disastrous as government persecution the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off."
"little monetary discomfort as coders discover there's no bonus (for them like the other of the 99%)"
I'm part of the "99%" and I get a healthy bonus. It all depends on who you work for.
I'd like to point out a major potential flaw with putting your laptop in your trunk. If the thief sees you get out of the car and put your laptop into the trunk, he'll know to break in there. That's a common enough situation. You run back to your car after a meeting and throw your crap into the car and take off. Then when you park somewhere and decide to put the laptop in the trunk, you can be seen doing that.
That's not greed you're describing, that's being short sighted.
Greed means you want to make the most money, total. And that's a good thing. How you make the most is a difficult balancing act determining the optimal price point. A savvy businessman looks for the optimal point that generates the most total money. That's either low amount * higher volume or high amount * less volume or somewhere in between.
When studios charge high prices which yield low volume, that's not greed. That's stupidity.
Hulu does this all the time and I have to rush to lower the volume if it's later at night. And if I'm wearing headphones, the loud and sudden burst hurts my ears because it takes a few seconds to hit the button to lower the volume.
Netflix > *
One of the many reasons, related to this topic, is that you avoid commercials. Yay Netflix.
How about we ban all the bans?
.08 BAC, and setting up checkpoints, free cops to patrol for the dangerous drivers. Police checkpoints, for example, waste hours of time for at least 4-6 cops who are pulling people over in violation of the 4th amendment. It's expensive overtime, and a waste of resources. Let them patrol for the drivers, which has been proven more effective. Besides, checkpoints are just revenue generators. Guess what happens in addition to MAYBE finding a drunk driver at these checkpoints? The cops pull in thousands of dollars worth of minor fines (seatbelt, expired registration, inspection stickers, etc).
Instead of focusing on behavior and individual technologies as they come on, let's instead focus on the driving itself.
If cops focused on the dangerous driving instead of what's causing it, they could be more effective. It's the same rationale behind eliminating drunk driving laws. Instead of arresting people who blow a
"As long as the quotas are being filled, is there a problem?"
Yes, that's fraud.
If the contracting firm is charging for 1,000 people, and only using 100, that's fraud.
Your assumption, that as long as the work is done that everything's fine, would only be acceptable if that's what they charged for.
So if the contracting firm charged for X units of work, and not X people, then it'd be fine however it gets the work done.
The Foxconn suicide scare has been disproven. Given their large workforce, they're going to have suicides. When taken against the national average, it's actually lower.
But no; everyone just looks at absolute numbers and not relative numbers.
That's certainly the case sometimes. But age rarely factors into it. It's more based on the competency of the individual.
Some fresh young grads will understand concepts but not have experience with the industry tools. That's not the worst case and I don't ding them too much during the interview in those cases.
What I won't accept is when someone can't understand basic concepts, despite showing a number of years using software tool X. Can't stand those guys. Those are the people that took a Saturday course at the local Holiday Inn titled "How to use Excel as a database" (yes, I get that spam, this is a real course).
I have to 2nd this.
My own start in the world of CS was by messing around with some random C programs doing relatively simple things. Over time that grew more complex and I started reading from programming books. But then I got into college and studied Computer Science. It taught me concepts I NEVER would've learned on my own.
People who are self taught have motivation. That's a big plus. The big downside is that they sometimes are click-monkeys who only know the tools they played with, but don't understand any fundamental concepts. This is very true with people I interview for database work. They might know the tool they played with well, but can't draw an ER diagram to save their life or understand normal form and when over-normalizing is a bad thing for example.
There's a perfect Cyanide and Happiness comic for this post, but I can't find it on the Googles. A guy is sitting at his dorm room studying. Then there's an idea balloon over his head. Final frame, he's drinking with a lampshade over his head.
I use SugarCRM extensively and would like to see some articles published about that. Granted, it's not a strict CMS in the Drupal/Joomla fashion, but it's OSS and used in much the same way.
Another angle to this story is that it's yet another attempt by government at pre-crime.
The cops should stick to arresting people for the actual crimes they commit when hacking, like: unauthorized intrusion, damage to service, theft of data, etc. They don't need to ban tools that can be used for good or for bad. That's silly. Stay away from banning things further up the pipeline and focus on the actual crime itself. That gives the highest degree of freedom to the people, while giving government the narrowest and least necessary power.
This is akin to banning guns, for example, instead of sticking to the laws already on the books against assault or murder. Stick to the action that harms another party, and not whatever inanimate objects are involved.
Ah yes, the EU. Bringing freedom to the people of Europe.
I installed Drupal back when it was version 4 years ago for my personal site. That got me away from d***ing around with hand coding files and got me on track to working on actual content like I wanted. For a personal site, it's perfect. Wordpress is great too, but if your site grows, you're very limited. Drupal can handle a basic install as a blog easily. And then if you want more features, you always have the option.
This could be a big problem for me as well. In my startup, we'll continue using Dropbox as it's proven invaluable for a company of 50 spread across US, Canada, China, and Australia. But for companies that are more conservative, and especially for large firms with more to lose, this is a potential deal breaker. The way I mitigate risk for my company is to keep all sensitive documents like legal filings, tax docs, etc off of Dropbox and in another system that's less accessible.