I blame the nerds for driving everyone else out of certain fields with their naked and open hostility towards: women, minorities, political groups, windows users
If no CS graduates use Windows, then who does MS hire to write it and all their other software, and who writes all the other third-party Windows software out there? As much as I dislike Windows, it is by far the most prevalent desktop OS and is used by most companies in the world.
console players,
So who writes all the console games? CS grads who hate console games?
facebook users,
So all the programmers at Facebook hate Facebook?
sports fans,
So all those sports video games are written by people who hate sports?
This is Slashdot, not HRhangout. We know they're two different languages. We also know they're closely related and share a lot of similarities, since C++ is, after all, a descendant of C (with a lot of big changes, obviously). So "C/C++" is a convenient way to save some keystrokes.
We can't help it if a bunch of HR morons think they're the same language.
Sorry, but this doesn't support your assertions at all. Many of the things on your list there aren't racist at all. Anti-gay groups and sentiment (which of course does seem to be the current focal point for a lot of the right-wingers) has nothing to do with racism; gay people come in all races. Anti-immigration sentiment isn't necessarily racist either; try illegally immigrating into various European countries or Canada and see what happens to you there. Every nation has the right to set immigration laws and limit immigration. In Canada, you need either a job offer for a job they couldn't find a citizen to take, or $300K to deposit into a Canadian bank account, before you're allowed in. Anti-immigrant groups are simply against immigration. Anti-Muslim groups aren't necessarily racist either, they're against a certain religion. Try traveling to Mecca and reciting Bible verses in public and see what happens to you there; most religions are intolerant of other religions. While many of these issues are indeed strong among conservative groups today, to call them "racist" is simply a way of attempting to marginalize them rather than discuss the issues and deal with them directly, and is why this country is so hopelessly polarized, because people on each side utterly refuse to engage in any debate any more, and simply cast the other side as "evil".
As for the rest, those are all pathetically small splinter groups that no one takes seriously. Black separatists? Really? How many of those are out there? "Christian Identity"? I've never even heard of that group. Holocaust deniers are about as numerous and taken as seriously as flat-earthers. KKK and neo-Nazis are the same. The rest are groups less numerous than that.
I'm an American, and I think we Americans are crazy. Between the Bible-belters and global warming deniers and Creationists and flag-waving nationalists (most of these groups overlap obviously), groups which are all growing in numbers and power, I think it's safe to say that America is just as nutty, if not more so, than those other countries.
However, more "home-grown" groups, promoting similar ideologies but without swastikas or German-language slogans, do get a significant amount of traction in the US --- if you wrap up the ugliest racism, xenophobia, and far-right authoritarianism in an American flag, you can attract quite a following.
Citation needed. The KKK is probably even more marginalized than the Neo-Nazis (probably because they look so ridiculous with those white hoods). There's no racist groups in the US that have any significant power whatsoever.
If they're not giving it to you for free, and making it hard to develop using their products, then maybe you should ask yourself, "why am I using their products instead of products which I can get for free?"
I don't think it's "harsh", it's about using what you paid for. What's the point in giving thousands of dollars to a vendor if you're not going to take advantage of the services the vendor offers you? If you have questions about your vendor's products (which you've already decided to use and base your business on), then you might as well ask the vendor, not some random collection of people.
Not only that, he's asking the wrong forum. If you have questions about all these Microsoft technologies, why not go to the experts at Microsoft and ask them? That's what you're paying all that money for with that MSDN account. I'm sure they'll be happy to advise you on how to proceed.
If you can't afford an MSDN account, then you really have no business doing MS development work. If you're working with MS technologies at work, they're supposed to provide that stuff for you.
Nope. Go re-read your own link. New York City doesn't allow right turns on red, unless a sign specifically permits it. What you're referring to is state law; some municipalities override that.
Actually, this sounds like a solder ball problem, not a capacitor problem. There's two main problems with electronics these days: 1) shitty capacitors (electrolytic, low-quality Chinese-made, frequently under-specced; problem easily solved by replacing high equivalent-capacitace Japanese caps with 105C and higher voltage ratings), and 2) lead-free solder. There have been a lot of cases of products failing because of lead-free solder balls under BGA packages. Reflowing them helps, but a more permanent and durable solution is to "re-ball" them with leaded solder balls instead. Leaded solder is far superior to lead-free types, as it melts at a lower temperature, is much less brittle, and doesn't grow tin whiskers.
It's not a problem for Mac owners if their computer dies. They can just go to an Apple store and buy a new model. I'm sure the store employees will even help them transfer their data over (perhaps for an extra fee). Apple owners don't mind paying through the nose for stuff like this.
What part was it? Was it electronic? I've seen a lot of consumer appliances and electronics failing because of bad capacitors (well after the "capacitor plague" of the early 2000s). It's a lot cheaper to replace a few caps than a whole board.
Not yet, but the attendance numbers don't look good, so obviously there's lots of people like me, and a theater business would not be something wise to invest in. Its days may well be numbered. Perhaps theater companies should try to do a better job attracting customers to counteract this trend, but as poorly managed as corporations are these days, I wouldn't expect very many theaters to do anything meaningful on this front. So what we'll have is a very few small theater companies like Alamo Drafthouse catering to people sick of the regular theaters, but the industry as a whole dying out. Eventually even the ADs will go out of business because a few art theaters aren't enough to keep the industry going; maybe they'll resort to only showing art films instead of blockbusters.
Nice compromise, but seating space is already at cattle-car tightness now. I can only imagine what it would squeeze everyone down to if you had to accommodate a frickin' room with soundproofing.
Not only that, but who gets to use the room? Half the passengers will want to go in there and stay for the whole flight. People aren't usually fans of confined spaces, but when the alternative is being jammed between two smelly obese people for the entire flight, they'll happily opt for the soundproof room they can get to themselves. They'll just go in there and go to sleep.
It's bad enough when a few drunks get on a plane and yammer away for half the flight even after the flight attendant tells them multiple times to sit down and shut up because other passengers are complaining; having lots of people jabbering on their cellphones will make plane travel 10x more miserable than it already is.
There's lots of markets besides consumer markets, many of which aren't getting any investment because the economy sucks and the government is mismanaged: space exploration, public transit services (incl. high-speed rail), aerospace, industrial robotics, etc. You could employ engineers building better machines to build the same "mousetraps" they're already buying, you could employ engineers to build more efficient transport systems, you could employ engineers to build new space missions, etc. I'm sure there's lots of other stuff I haven't thought of.
- High speed efficient transportation systems. Well... we don't even have that. We should have that.
Go read about SkyTran. Imagine the impact on our oil consumption if we switched to that. Last I heard, they're actually building this system in Israel, so it isn't sci-fi any more.
comprehensive social programs (that I have no problems paying for)
The keyword here is "comprehensive". The social programs we do have have a terrible track record of not actually helping to alleviate poverty. Why are we importing Mexicans to work in fields in the South, for instance, when we have people receiving assistance and not working? They could be sent to do that work instead.
- Science. Less funding for NASA
Huh? NASA funding has been hugely successful in improving our technology and economy. Various studies have estimated enormous returns to the nation's economy from the Apollo program alone. There's tons of resources in space (both mineral and energy), which we should exploit not only for economic but also environmental reasons. And the things we've learned through our pursuit of space exploration have had all kinds of not so easily quantifiable effects in other industries and endeavors. Of course, we also need lots of other research, including biomedical.
We gave outsourcing a shot and it sucked. Don't listen to this garbage, being a good EE will probably be a safe job for a long time.
The number of companies doing this is far less than the number jumping into outsourcing headfirst. Going into EE is only a good idea if you plan to leave the country, hopefully before the economy completely crashes in about 10-20 years and the nation breaks apart. I hear Europe is hiring lots of engineers.
You're reading it too literally. "it takes another decade to (get the 4 year EE, then another 4 in a 'job training' track?) on top of highschool?" Seriously, what kind of person takes 10 years to get a 4-year degree? That doesn't even make sense. My explanation makes more sense. It would be nice it epyT-R would respond here and clarify his statement though.
I don't see where he made a value judgment either way.
He seemed to imply that increasing standardization made many engineers' jobs redundant, and most people consider layoffs a "bad thing".
Assuming there is something new to work on, it's within their skillset (or close enough that they can retrain) etc.
That's not a problem. In a healthy economy, there's always something new to work on, new technologies to develop, new markets to take advantage of, etc. You can always "build a better mousetrap". There's always something new you can develop. Hell, I'm constantly coming up with new ideas for inventions, new products, etc. It's not hard, what's hard is actually making products that are economical and will sell and support a company. In a good economy, this isn't so hard. In a lousy economy, it is, because no one wants to spend money on anything. We have a lousy economy, so we have an employment problem among engineers. It's as simple as that. Blaming it on standardized interfaces is a good example of why we have the maxim "correlation does not imply causation".
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I blame the nerds for driving everyone else out of certain fields with their naked and open hostility towards: women, minorities, political groups, windows users
If no CS graduates use Windows, then who does MS hire to write it and all their other software, and who writes all the other third-party Windows software out there? As much as I dislike Windows, it is by far the most prevalent desktop OS and is used by most companies in the world.
console players,
So who writes all the console games? CS grads who hate console games?
facebook users,
So all the programmers at Facebook hate Facebook?
sports fans,
So all those sports video games are written by people who hate sports?
Your post really doesn't make much sense.
(there is no such thing as C/C++)
This is Slashdot, not HRhangout. We know they're two different languages. We also know they're closely related and share a lot of similarities, since C++ is, after all, a descendant of C (with a lot of big changes, obviously). So "C/C++" is a convenient way to save some keystrokes.
We can't help it if a bunch of HR morons think they're the same language.
Sorry, but this doesn't support your assertions at all. Many of the things on your list there aren't racist at all. Anti-gay groups and sentiment (which of course does seem to be the current focal point for a lot of the right-wingers) has nothing to do with racism; gay people come in all races. Anti-immigration sentiment isn't necessarily racist either; try illegally immigrating into various European countries or Canada and see what happens to you there. Every nation has the right to set immigration laws and limit immigration. In Canada, you need either a job offer for a job they couldn't find a citizen to take, or $300K to deposit into a Canadian bank account, before you're allowed in. Anti-immigrant groups are simply against immigration. Anti-Muslim groups aren't necessarily racist either, they're against a certain religion. Try traveling to Mecca and reciting Bible verses in public and see what happens to you there; most religions are intolerant of other religions. While many of these issues are indeed strong among conservative groups today, to call them "racist" is simply a way of attempting to marginalize them rather than discuss the issues and deal with them directly, and is why this country is so hopelessly polarized, because people on each side utterly refuse to engage in any debate any more, and simply cast the other side as "evil".
As for the rest, those are all pathetically small splinter groups that no one takes seriously. Black separatists? Really? How many of those are out there? "Christian Identity"? I've never even heard of that group. Holocaust deniers are about as numerous and taken as seriously as flat-earthers. KKK and neo-Nazis are the same. The rest are groups less numerous than that.
I forgot to mention the "free market" worshipers.
I'm an American, and I think we Americans are crazy. Between the Bible-belters and global warming deniers and Creationists and flag-waving nationalists (most of these groups overlap obviously), groups which are all growing in numbers and power, I think it's safe to say that America is just as nutty, if not more so, than those other countries.
However, more "home-grown" groups, promoting similar ideologies but without swastikas or German-language slogans, do get a significant amount of traction in the US --- if you wrap up the ugliest racism, xenophobia, and far-right authoritarianism in an American flag, you can attract quite a following.
Citation needed. The KKK is probably even more marginalized than the Neo-Nazis (probably because they look so ridiculous with those white hoods). There's no racist groups in the US that have any significant power whatsoever.
If they're not giving it to you for free, and making it hard to develop using their products, then maybe you should ask yourself, "why am I using their products instead of products which I can get for free?"
I don't think it's "harsh", it's about using what you paid for. What's the point in giving thousands of dollars to a vendor if you're not going to take advantage of the services the vendor offers you? If you have questions about your vendor's products (which you've already decided to use and base your business on), then you might as well ask the vendor, not some random collection of people.
Not only that, he's asking the wrong forum. If you have questions about all these Microsoft technologies, why not go to the experts at Microsoft and ask them? That's what you're paying all that money for with that MSDN account. I'm sure they'll be happy to advise you on how to proceed.
If you can't afford an MSDN account, then you really have no business doing MS development work. If you're working with MS technologies at work, they're supposed to provide that stuff for you.
Nope. Go re-read your own link. New York City doesn't allow right turns on red, unless a sign specifically permits it. What you're referring to is state law; some municipalities override that.
I think Digi-Key has a super-cheap first class shipping option for small orders. Mouser also has a cheaper option I think.
Actually, this sounds like a solder ball problem, not a capacitor problem. There's two main problems with electronics these days: 1) shitty capacitors (electrolytic, low-quality Chinese-made, frequently under-specced; problem easily solved by replacing high equivalent-capacitace Japanese caps with 105C and higher voltage ratings), and 2) lead-free solder. There have been a lot of cases of products failing because of lead-free solder balls under BGA packages. Reflowing them helps, but a more permanent and durable solution is to "re-ball" them with leaded solder balls instead. Leaded solder is far superior to lead-free types, as it melts at a lower temperature, is much less brittle, and doesn't grow tin whiskers.
Apple hates their customers. I have no clue why anyone does business with them.
I can give you one explanation: Windows 8.
It's not a problem for Mac owners if their computer dies. They can just go to an Apple store and buy a new model. I'm sure the store employees will even help them transfer their data over (perhaps for an extra fee). Apple owners don't mind paying through the nose for stuff like this.
Why should Apple give a shit? People are going to buy their stuff regardless.
What part was it? Was it electronic? I've seen a lot of consumer appliances and electronics failing because of bad capacitors (well after the "capacitor plague" of the early 2000s). It's a lot cheaper to replace a few caps than a whole board.
Not yet, but the attendance numbers don't look good, so obviously there's lots of people like me, and a theater business would not be something wise to invest in. Its days may well be numbered. Perhaps theater companies should try to do a better job attracting customers to counteract this trend, but as poorly managed as corporations are these days, I wouldn't expect very many theaters to do anything meaningful on this front. So what we'll have is a very few small theater companies like Alamo Drafthouse catering to people sick of the regular theaters, but the industry as a whole dying out. Eventually even the ADs will go out of business because a few art theaters aren't enough to keep the industry going; maybe they'll resort to only showing art films instead of blockbusters.
Your reply is like telling someone in Boston to stop complaining about Best Buy and go shopping at Fry's instead.
Hmmm... Talk in a movie theater, get shot by crazy people who are "standing their ground".
Only in Florida (and probably Texas too).
Nice compromise, but seating space is already at cattle-car tightness now. I can only imagine what it would squeeze everyone down to if you had to accommodate a frickin' room with soundproofing.
Not only that, but who gets to use the room? Half the passengers will want to go in there and stay for the whole flight. People aren't usually fans of confined spaces, but when the alternative is being jammed between two smelly obese people for the entire flight, they'll happily opt for the soundproof room they can get to themselves. They'll just go in there and go to sleep.
It's bad enough when a few drunks get on a plane and yammer away for half the flight even after the flight attendant tells them multiple times to sit down and shut up because other passengers are complaining; having lots of people jabbering on their cellphones will make plane travel 10x more miserable than it already is.
There's lots of markets besides consumer markets, many of which aren't getting any investment because the economy sucks and the government is mismanaged: space exploration, public transit services (incl. high-speed rail), aerospace, industrial robotics, etc. You could employ engineers building better machines to build the same "mousetraps" they're already buying, you could employ engineers to build more efficient transport systems, you could employ engineers to build new space missions, etc. I'm sure there's lots of other stuff I haven't thought of.
- High speed efficient transportation systems. Well... we don't even have that. We should have that.
Go read about SkyTran. Imagine the impact on our oil consumption if we switched to that. Last I heard, they're actually building this system in Israel, so it isn't sci-fi any more.
comprehensive social programs (that I have no problems paying for)
The keyword here is "comprehensive". The social programs we do have have a terrible track record of not actually helping to alleviate poverty. Why are we importing Mexicans to work in fields in the South, for instance, when we have people receiving assistance and not working? They could be sent to do that work instead.
- Science. Less funding for NASA
Huh? NASA funding has been hugely successful in improving our technology and economy. Various studies have estimated enormous returns to the nation's economy from the Apollo program alone. There's tons of resources in space (both mineral and energy), which we should exploit not only for economic but also environmental reasons. And the things we've learned through our pursuit of space exploration have had all kinds of not so easily quantifiable effects in other industries and endeavors. Of course, we also need lots of other research, including biomedical.
We gave outsourcing a shot and it sucked. Don't listen to this garbage, being a good EE will probably be a safe job for a long time.
The number of companies doing this is far less than the number jumping into outsourcing headfirst. Going into EE is only a good idea if you plan to leave the country, hopefully before the economy completely crashes in about 10-20 years and the nation breaks apart. I hear Europe is hiring lots of engineers.
You're reading it too literally. "it takes another decade to (get the 4 year EE, then another 4 in a 'job training' track?) on top of highschool?" Seriously, what kind of person takes 10 years to get a 4-year degree? That doesn't even make sense. My explanation makes more sense. It would be nice it epyT-R would respond here and clarify his statement though.
I don't see where he made a value judgment either way.
He seemed to imply that increasing standardization made many engineers' jobs redundant, and most people consider layoffs a "bad thing".
Assuming there is something new to work on, it's within their skillset (or close enough that they can retrain) etc.
That's not a problem. In a healthy economy, there's always something new to work on, new technologies to develop, new markets to take advantage of, etc. You can always "build a better mousetrap". There's always something new you can develop. Hell, I'm constantly coming up with new ideas for inventions, new products, etc. It's not hard, what's hard is actually making products that are economical and will sell and support a company. In a good economy, this isn't so hard. In a lousy economy, it is, because no one wants to spend money on anything. We have a lousy economy, so we have an employment problem among engineers. It's as simple as that. Blaming it on standardized interfaces is a good example of why we have the maxim "correlation does not imply causation".