In the very Bad Old Days before vcrs and cable, buying a ticket for one movie and watching another one was also the best way for young teens to see R-rated movies, or see stuff more than once. I knew guys who would camp out all day and watch Star Wars over and over again.
First, let me commend the original poster on an irresistible troll.
"I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say 'Yeah it works but you're leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that.' I’ll just restart Apache every 10 requests." --Rasmus Lerdorf, the Original php guy
I am pushing 50 myself, and still getting gigs and know other, older folks who do as well. Most HR people and managers recognize that older developers can have the same chops as young guys, with the added benefit of not being prima donnas. I suspect older guys are also slightly less terrible at estimating time, but maybe that only applies to people who have experience with projects. (It's important to have skills that are current, too, but if you have done mobile stuff, you should be OK.)
I think one important reason that dev ages skew a little young is older folks who have kids are not so interested in crunches/death marches. Work is just not worth missing time with children, and so many people often move into other kinds of jobs as they get older. If that is an issue for you, you might want to look at basement-of-the-bank kind of gigs, rather than startup or game stuff.
Everything that you read on/. about intellectual property applies to the IP that Monsanto et al apply to their products and research. In fact, it's worse, because the wind doesn't blow proprietary software from nearby windows and OS X boxes onto your linux systems, causing you to owe the IP owners money and disabling your ability to build your own software.
But you would neither say that operating systems are therefore bad, or that Linux does not exist. This is why we need more publicly funded research, like the Rainbow papaya.
GMO seeds are also highly optimized to solve certain problems, and can fail miserably in other climates where local strains have been bred to adapt to local conditions.
That point has more to do with widely sold hybrid lines than GE. GE just adds on one or two traits, the rest of the breeding (which is conventional, non-biotech) is what determines the vast majority of the plants characteristics. That highlights the importance of locally adapted varieties and biodiversity, but is more an argument against the seed industry than genetic engineering. If you wanted to blame any technique for that, it would be conventional breeding and hybridization, not the cry protein for insect resistance or epsps or bar gene for herbicide tolerance, as neither of those are going to mean anything with respect to climatic interactions. The best thing to do would be to improve local varieties, and that is what some projects seek to do, for example, that's what the Golden Rice people plan to do, and I know there's some people at Cornell doing that with Bt eggplant. I know Monsanto does that in the US and Europe, and I'd have to assume they do it to a degree in other parts of the world.
The farmers in India who are committing suicide en masse because their crops have failed are not just phobic about science. They got fucked in the ass.
Here's a good piece on that I highly recommend reading for what the actual numbers say. It's a bit different than it is often made out to be. And when crops do fail, again, it is not the transgene responsible.
I agree with you all down the line that genetic engineering and GMO agriculture are not intrinsically bad. And I agree about diversity, and think my post could have been worded more clearly...the problem is not the new traits, but the absence of traits that have been bred for the local environment. I don't have knee-jerk anti-capitalist or anti-corporate politics--at least not any more--but the seed business seems to have been consistently evil and deceitful. So I don't think the problem is the idea of genetic engineering, just the monopoly by the people who are actually implementing the idea. And it's a pretty intractable problem.
Thanks for the pointer to the study on suicide. I will stop repeating the suicide factoid. But the farmers still got fucked in the ass, imo.
Publicly funded research sounds great. But I live in a country where evolution and climate change are political footballs. So it is a little hard to believe that publicly funded research can take place free of corporate influence. But I am a cynic.
The GMO salmon that are safe to eat are so big because they never stop growing, so they never stop eating. Is that a species that you think would have no ecological impact if accidentally released into the wild?
From what I hear (and keep in mind that I know a lot more about agronomy and horticulture than aquaculture, so this is hardly my area of knowledge here) the fish will be kept in tropical waters (well, in the mountains of Panama, so that if they do escape they will end up in tropical waters), which should prevent them from getting to wild populations even if they do escape (since salmon don't do well int tropica
I agree that the fear of *eating* GMO foods is science-phobia. But even if GMO foods are safe, GMO agriculture is bad for everybody.
Everything that you read on/. about intellectual property applies to the IP that Monsanto et al apply to their products and research. In fact, it's worse, because the wind doesn't blow proprietary software from nearby windows and OS X boxes onto your linux systems, causing you to owe the IP owners money and disabling your ability to build your own software.
GMO seeds are also highly optimized to solve certain problems, and can fail miserably in other climates where local strains have been bred to adapt to local conditions. The farmers in India who are committing suicide en masse because their crops have failed are not just phobic about science. They got fucked in the ass.
The GMO salmon that are safe to eat are so big because they never stop growing, so they never stop eating. Is that a species that you think would have no ecological impact if accidentally released into the wild?
True enough. But making sharp observations and reaching conclusions well founded in reality was Hitchens' stock in trade. Getting Iraq right should have been a slam dunk for him.
Hitch was good at commentary on what had already happened. But no one is good at predicting the future...we are just good at congratulating ourselves after we have guessed right. I do think he could have done much better at admitting that he had been wrong.
I agree with the topic of the thread, "more than just a secular humanist", but in this particular case I think his pro-war sentiment was rooted in his feelings about religion, and for Hitchens war in the Middle East was a way to take up arms, in a literal way, against religion. (Yes, I get that Iraq was a secular regime, but the big-picture neocon agenda was long term regional war.) Again, I am not an apologist and do not excuse him. I think he was terribly wrong, and it is a huge blemish on his legacy. But I do believe that he was expressing his beliefs in good faith, not selling them out.
I, too, was dismayed by Hitchen's support for the war, and of course the results of the war were terrible. But I take issue with "careerist," which I take to mean that he put forward an opinion that he did not believe in for the sake of money. He was wrong, but you don't need to ascribe an evil motive.
Bioinformatics seems to have an especially even spread of people over the continuum from comp sci to biology, so (from what I have seen) readers of C.V.s tend to focus on work and publications to figure out where you fall.
It's always possible that it is not your boring job that is making you depressed, it is depression that is making your job seem boring. Brain chemistry can be a real drag.
1. Colleges will stop having 12 directors and VPs for things like diversity who get paid $200,000 a year, stop paying $5,000,000 a year on gardens and lawns, and many other useless things because they have free money so why care?
Those people and things pay for themselves. At many schools, the endowment is as big a part of the financial picture as tuition, and the alumni who are writing checks care about things like diversity, gardens and lawns.
...through the machine that is tethered to the phone, right? You can do that now with your HTC Hero + PDANet. But Heroes are woefully underpowered, so you might as well upgrade anyway.
Having her sequence information doesn't really help to identify any mutation that might affect aging. You need a lot of subjects with the same phenotype (and you don't really know what the phenotype is) before you can start to identify the gene(s) you are looking for.
I am only saddened that Job's very successful methods of tax evasion and exploitation put him so far out of reach of more ethical men such as RMS.
What exactly would have happened if Stallman had gotten into reach of Jobs? I think he might have given him a handjob, but that is just my opinion based on my own telepathic conversations with Stallman regarding current events.
I didn't say that Stallman is wrong on substance. Do his style and timing matter? For a spokesman for a movement, yes.
Given the quantity of water you are carrying for RMS, you might want to be careful with the word "fanboi".
...is not that Stallman is wrong, or that he had an opinion about it, or that he expressed his opinion about it. It is that he offered his opinion, without being asked, while the corpse was still warm. It is just not nice to tell grieving people that they are stupid, even if maybe they are, a little, about one thing. Of course, he has the freedom to express his hurtful opinion. But what should be protected is only his right to say it. He is not protected from being called a dick.
Visitors arrived either through organic searches or through advertisements on other sites, and Aptiquant made a note of which browser each test taker was using
Targeting people who google for IQ Test seems like a great recipe for cherry-picking self-important douchebags. It's no wonder that they use niche browsers.
Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: `My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away".
--if you want a job in management, try failing as a programmer or admin --if you want to avoid firing (or laying off) people, don't go into management --if you want to avoid winding up with a job jacking off elephants at the zoo, don't look for career advice on slashdot
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^^this
In the very Bad Old Days before vcrs and cable, buying a ticket for one movie and watching another one was also the best way for young teens to see R-rated movies, or see stuff more than once. I knew guys who would camp out all day and watch Star Wars over and over again.
First, let me commend the original poster on an irresistible troll.
"I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say 'Yeah it works but you're leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that.' I’ll just restart Apache every 10 requests." --Rasmus Lerdorf, the Original php guy
I am pushing 50 myself, and still getting gigs and know other, older folks who do as well. Most HR people and managers recognize that older developers can have the same chops as young guys, with the added benefit of not being prima donnas. I suspect older guys are also slightly less terrible at estimating time, but maybe that only applies to people who have experience with projects. (It's important to have skills that are current, too, but if you have done mobile stuff, you should be OK.)
I think one important reason that dev ages skew a little young is older folks who have kids are not so interested in crunches/death marches. Work is just not worth missing time with children, and so many people often move into other kinds of jobs as they get older. If that is an issue for you, you might want to look at basement-of-the-bank kind of gigs, rather than startup or game stuff.
Everything that you read on /. about intellectual property applies to the IP that Monsanto et al apply to their products and research. In fact, it's worse, because the wind doesn't blow proprietary software from nearby windows and OS X boxes onto your linux systems, causing you to owe the IP owners money and disabling your ability to build your own software.
But you would neither say that operating systems are therefore bad, or that Linux does not exist. This is why we need more publicly funded research, like the Rainbow papaya.
GMO seeds are also highly optimized to solve certain problems, and can fail miserably in other climates where local strains have been bred to adapt to local conditions.
That point has more to do with widely sold hybrid lines than GE. GE just adds on one or two traits, the rest of the breeding (which is conventional, non-biotech) is what determines the vast majority of the plants characteristics. That highlights the importance of locally adapted varieties and biodiversity, but is more an argument against the seed industry than genetic engineering. If you wanted to blame any technique for that, it would be conventional breeding and hybridization, not the cry protein for insect resistance or epsps or bar gene for herbicide tolerance, as neither of those are going to mean anything with respect to climatic interactions. The best thing to do would be to improve local varieties, and that is what some projects seek to do, for example, that's what the Golden Rice people plan to do, and I know there's some people at Cornell doing that with Bt eggplant. I know Monsanto does that in the US and Europe, and I'd have to assume they do it to a degree in other parts of the world.
The farmers in India who are committing suicide en masse because their crops have failed are not just phobic about science. They got fucked in the ass.
Here's a good piece on that I highly recommend reading for what the actual numbers say. It's a bit different than it is often made out to be. And when crops do fail, again, it is not the transgene responsible.
I agree with you all down the line that genetic engineering and GMO agriculture are not intrinsically bad. And I agree about diversity, and think my post could have been worded more clearly...the problem is not the new traits, but the absence of traits that have been bred for the local environment. I don't have knee-jerk anti-capitalist or anti-corporate politics--at least not any more--but the seed business seems to have been consistently evil and deceitful. So I don't think the problem is the idea of genetic engineering, just the monopoly by the people who are actually implementing the idea. And it's a pretty intractable problem.
Thanks for the pointer to the study on suicide. I will stop repeating the suicide factoid. But the farmers still got fucked in the ass, imo.
Publicly funded research sounds great. But I live in a country where evolution and climate change are political footballs. So it is a little hard to believe that publicly funded research can take place free of corporate influence. But I am a cynic.
The GMO salmon that are safe to eat are so big because they never stop growing, so they never stop eating. Is that a species that you think would have no ecological impact if accidentally released into the wild?
From what I hear (and keep in mind that I know a lot more about agronomy and horticulture than aquaculture, so this is hardly my area of knowledge here) the fish will be kept in tropical waters (well, in the mountains of Panama, so that if they do escape they will end up in tropical waters), which should prevent them from getting to wild populations even if they do escape (since salmon don't do well int tropica
I agree that the fear of *eating* GMO foods is science-phobia. But even if GMO foods are safe, GMO agriculture is bad for everybody.
Everything that you read on /. about intellectual property applies to the IP that Monsanto et al apply to their products and research. In fact, it's worse, because the wind doesn't blow proprietary software from nearby windows and OS X boxes onto your linux systems, causing you to owe the IP owners money and disabling your ability to build your own software.
GMO seeds are also highly optimized to solve certain problems, and can fail miserably in other climates where local strains have been bred to adapt to local conditions. The farmers in India who are committing suicide en masse because their crops have failed are not just phobic about science. They got fucked in the ass.
The GMO salmon that are safe to eat are so big because they never stop growing, so they never stop eating. Is that a species that you think would have no ecological impact if accidentally released into the wild?
True enough. But making sharp observations and reaching conclusions well founded in reality was Hitchens' stock in trade. Getting Iraq right should have been a slam dunk for him.
Hitch was good at commentary on what had already happened. But no one is good at predicting the future...we are just good at congratulating ourselves after we have guessed right. I do think he could have done much better at admitting that he had been wrong.
I agree with the topic of the thread, "more than just a secular humanist", but in this particular case I think his pro-war sentiment was rooted in his feelings about religion, and for Hitchens war in the Middle East was a way to take up arms, in a literal way, against religion. (Yes, I get that Iraq was a secular regime, but the big-picture neocon agenda was long term regional war.) Again, I am not an apologist and do not excuse him. I think he was terribly wrong, and it is a huge blemish on his legacy. But I do believe that he was expressing his beliefs in good faith, not selling them out.
I, too, was dismayed by Hitchen's support for the war, and of course the results of the war were terrible. But I take issue with "careerist," which I take to mean that he put forward an opinion that he did not believe in for the sake of money. He was wrong, but you don't need to ascribe an evil motive.
There are probably three sides...Oracle, the nitwits who bought the system, and the administrators who are pissed at both of them.
It seems strange that Microsoft is now aspiring to be as evil as Apple. We have come a long way in the last ten years.
Bioinformatics seems to have an especially even spread of people over the continuum from comp sci to biology, so (from what I have seen) readers of C.V.s tend to focus on work and publications to figure out where you fall.
It's always possible that it is not your boring job that is making you depressed, it is depression that is making your job seem boring. Brain chemistry can be a real drag.
1. Colleges will stop having 12 directors and VPs for things like diversity who get paid $200,000 a year, stop paying $5,000,000 a year on gardens and lawns, and many other useless things because they have free money so why care?
Those people and things pay for themselves. At many schools, the endowment is as big a part of the financial picture as tuition, and the alumni who are writing checks care about things like diversity, gardens and lawns.
1. Do not talk about Breakfast Club.
America's New CIO is a Buzzword-Slinging Douche
...through the machine that is tethered to the phone, right? You can do that now with your HTC Hero + PDANet. But Heroes are woefully underpowered, so you might as well upgrade anyway.
Having her sequence information doesn't really help to identify any mutation that might affect aging. You need a lot of subjects with the same phenotype (and you don't really know what the phenotype is) before you can start to identify the gene(s) you are looking for.
I am only saddened that Job's very successful methods of tax evasion and exploitation put him so far out of reach of more ethical men such as RMS.
What exactly would have happened if Stallman had gotten into reach of Jobs? I think he might have given him a handjob, but that is just my opinion based on my own telepathic conversations with Stallman regarding current events.
I didn't say that Stallman is wrong on substance. Do his style and timing matter? For a spokesman for a movement, yes.
Given the quantity of water you are carrying for RMS, you might want to be careful with the word "fanboi".
...out of the way.
...is not that Stallman is wrong, or that he had an opinion about it, or that he expressed his opinion about it. It is that he offered his opinion, without being asked, while the corpse was still warm. It is just not nice to tell grieving people that they are stupid, even if maybe they are, a little, about one thing. Of course, he has the freedom to express his hurtful opinion. But what should be protected is only his right to say it. He is not protected from being called a dick.
Visitors arrived either through organic searches or through advertisements on other sites, and Aptiquant made a note of which browser each test taker was using
Targeting people who google for IQ Test seems like a great recipe for cherry-picking self-important douchebags. It's no wonder that they use niche browsers.
Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away".
Read this about programming language features:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(computer_programmer)#Blub
Now apply it to your education.
yet another red warning light that the revolution needs to happen and happen soon.
The revolution happened. We lost.
...give them admin privileges.
--if you want a job in management, try failing as a programmer or admin
--if you want to avoid firing (or laying off) people, don't go into management
--if you want to avoid winding up with a job jacking off elephants at the zoo, don't look for career advice on slashdot