If SOPA manages to pass, I hope that some 4chan group gets together and starts taking over corporate support forums to share pirate torrent and download links.
Most "good" managers I've met are not good because of skills or training, but from simply being personable, intelligent, and able to solve problems (real world problems, generally very different from the types of problems programmers face). It takes a minimal amount of training to get a good manager, as long as you start with the right person, who possesses those innate abilities. There is plenty of management material to be found among software engineers, programmers, IT, etc. The problem is that, like you said, execs will often just assume someone good in one position will do fine managing that position, and promote them without any management training.
The truly unfortunate thing is that it generally takes much more skill and training to be a good software engineer than it does to be a good manager, and yet management pay generally BEGINS where every other job maxes out. My biggest problem with about 90% of all management I've worked with in my life is that I (or many other people I know) could do their jobs better than them with a week or two of training, and yet they're making twice what I make. At the same time, most of them also face less stress and work fewer hours.
EVERYONE does EVERYTHING they do because of genes and/or upbringing. That's why people steal and murder each other. You can't say that's an excuse. You can feel sorry for the person for having shitty parents, but you can't simply excuse someone's behaviour because of it.
There are many great television shows, both educational and entertaining. Cutting yourself off from an entire medium because a lot of it sucks is as bad as cutting yourself off from books or music because most of them suck... which is true for every medium in human history.
A huge part of that lack of R&D you're talking about is "not cutting passengers in half during a 10mph fender bender" and the simulations and crash tests to prove that won't happen under any circumstances.
Ad blocking has nothing to do with it. Even if 100% of users viewed twice as many ads, Slashdot would still run advertisements as stories, because it makes them more money (short-term, anyway).
You're right, but that's not the angle the parent post meant.
Traditionally, the Japanese ruling class have "honorably" killed themselves after a major fuck-up out of disgrace. The current generation of leaders, however, have followed the western path of diverting blame, cover-ups, and just flat out not giving a fuck. So after a major screw-up that would, in the past, have shamed them into at the very least stepping down from their post, nowadays they just keep on trucking, holding power and shamelessly raking in cash no matter how often or badly they screw up.
Handling dangerous waste for thousands of years is a problem, but a lot of that can be taken care of by just reusing the waste in newer types of reactors. Banning nuclear technology by preventing new nuclear plants from being built just makes the problems worse, because you can't build modern reactors that reduce or eliminate the problems with the older ones. Meanwhile, the old ones are just getting older and more dangerous, but can't be replaced because it's illegal to build any new ones...
And making several square miles of land is not a very big deal unless you've got an extremely high population density like Japan. And compared to coal mining, even if standard practice was to just abandon old nuclear reactors once they ran for a couple of decades, they'd still be wasting less land.
If I steal $50 million dollars and give it to my son, does he have to give the money back? What about when he passes it on to his kid? And they pass it on to their kids? What if they spend the $50 million on building a business empire, or buy a massive mansion, or convert it to gold, or (hint hint) spend it on the best connections and education money can buy, guaranteeing them an advantage over everyone else around them?
What do you believe the statute of limitations should be on reparations?
Except that healthcare costs in America are twice what they are in the countries that have socialized health care, while at the same time people aren't playing the lottery with their life every day.
As a browser, I loathe Firefox. I used it as my primary browser for maybe a year about 4-5 years ago. It is slow, cumbersome, has stupid url bar functionality, and the new update cycle is ridiculous with breaking addons and getting in my way.
However, Firefox with Firebug, Live Http Headers, a ruler and eyedropper addon, and maybe a few other things as needed, and you have the best web development tool available. Other browsers have been trying to add similar features, but nothing even comes close to measuring up at this point.
Chrome seems to be gaining the most ground in that area, and as soon as they can do everything Firefox can, Firefox will be dead to me, tossed in a bin next to IE and opened only for cross browser testing.
You're kidding, right? If you're poor (or rather, poor but not poor enough to qualify for medicare/medicaid) and have a serious problem, you go without treatment right to the verge of death, at which point they'll hook you up to a machine that will keep you alive for a few months until you finally croak.
My parents have medical insurance and still ended up with $40k in medical bills last year just for things that keep them walking and breathing. And they're really not in bad shape for people of their age (early 60s), and none of their problems are caused by stupid lifestyle choices (diet, smoking, etc).
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Those stations you say are pushing lefty politics would be considered right-wing in nearly every other first world country.
That sounds exactly like GoDaddy's official position.
Foreign speakers make "they're their there" errors far less than native English speakers, so your point doesn't really hold.
And who gets to define exactly what X entails? You, or the company who holds your future (and a pack of lawyers) in their hand?
If SOPA manages to pass, I hope that some 4chan group gets together and starts taking over corporate support forums to share pirate torrent and download links.
Most "good" managers I've met are not good because of skills or training, but from simply being personable, intelligent, and able to solve problems (real world problems, generally very different from the types of problems programmers face). It takes a minimal amount of training to get a good manager, as long as you start with the right person, who possesses those innate abilities. There is plenty of management material to be found among software engineers, programmers, IT, etc. The problem is that, like you said, execs will often just assume someone good in one position will do fine managing that position, and promote them without any management training.
The truly unfortunate thing is that it generally takes much more skill and training to be a good software engineer than it does to be a good manager, and yet management pay generally BEGINS where every other job maxes out. My biggest problem with about 90% of all management I've worked with in my life is that I (or many other people I know) could do their jobs better than them with a week or two of training, and yet they're making twice what I make. At the same time, most of them also face less stress and work fewer hours.
That's right, this isn't creepy, because StreetView itself is the creepy part. This is just refining it.
It doesn't matter how good of a teacher you are, your two-year old will still stick toys in his mouth.
It doesn't matter how observant a parent you are, there will still be moments where you look away.
EVERYONE does EVERYTHING they do because of genes and/or upbringing. That's why people steal and murder each other. You can't say that's an excuse. You can feel sorry for the person for having shitty parents, but you can't simply excuse someone's behaviour because of it.
There are many great television shows, both educational and entertaining. Cutting yourself off from an entire medium because a lot of it sucks is as bad as cutting yourself off from books or music because most of them suck... which is true for every medium in human history.
All I can hear is "boo hoo, I'm a top 2% and wish I were a 1% but now I have to pay a little bit more to fly my private jet into SJC now"
A huge part of that lack of R&D you're talking about is "not cutting passengers in half during a 10mph fender bender" and the simulations and crash tests to prove that won't happen under any circumstances.
At the same time, though, any boss who would fire someone for serving on jury duty should themselves be fired and put in jail.
Jury duty is not a paying job, it's your duty (hence the name) to help keep a just society functioning.
If anything, your payment is living in a land that isn't (yet) totalitarian. Avoiding jury duty is as bad for society as skipping out on paying taxes.
Ad blocking has nothing to do with it. Even if 100% of users viewed twice as many ads, Slashdot would still run advertisements as stories, because it makes them more money (short-term, anyway).
You're right, but that's not the angle the parent post meant.
Traditionally, the Japanese ruling class have "honorably" killed themselves after a major fuck-up out of disgrace. The current generation of leaders, however, have followed the western path of diverting blame, cover-ups, and just flat out not giving a fuck. So after a major screw-up that would, in the past, have shamed them into at the very least stepping down from their post, nowadays they just keep on trucking, holding power and shamelessly raking in cash no matter how often or badly they screw up.
Handling dangerous waste for thousands of years is a problem, but a lot of that can be taken care of by just reusing the waste in newer types of reactors. Banning nuclear technology by preventing new nuclear plants from being built just makes the problems worse, because you can't build modern reactors that reduce or eliminate the problems with the older ones. Meanwhile, the old ones are just getting older and more dangerous, but can't be replaced because it's illegal to build any new ones...
And making several square miles of land is not a very big deal unless you've got an extremely high population density like Japan. And compared to coal mining, even if standard practice was to just abandon old nuclear reactors once they ran for a couple of decades, they'd still be wasting less land.
It's not illegal because when politicians pass the laws banning disgusting practices like this, they specifically exempt themselves from it.
Even worse, it sometimes turns out that YOU wrote the code 10+ years ago, and you have absolutely no clue why it was written that way.
If I steal $50 million dollars and give it to my son, does he have to give the money back? What about when he passes it on to his kid? And they pass it on to their kids? What if they spend the $50 million on building a business empire, or buy a massive mansion, or convert it to gold, or (hint hint) spend it on the best connections and education money can buy, guaranteeing them an advantage over everyone else around them?
What do you believe the statute of limitations should be on reparations?
If you're fine with waiting at least few hundred thousand years for that kind of diversity to even think about beginning to reappear.
That's completely false. When has a Slashdot editor ever edited anything?
Except that healthcare costs in America are twice what they are in the countries that have socialized health care, while at the same time people aren't playing the lottery with their life every day.
As a browser, I loathe Firefox. I used it as my primary browser for maybe a year about 4-5 years ago. It is slow, cumbersome, has stupid url bar functionality, and the new update cycle is ridiculous with breaking addons and getting in my way.
However, Firefox with Firebug, Live Http Headers, a ruler and eyedropper addon, and maybe a few other things as needed, and you have the best web development tool available. Other browsers have been trying to add similar features, but nothing even comes close to measuring up at this point.
Chrome seems to be gaining the most ground in that area, and as soon as they can do everything Firefox can, Firefox will be dead to me, tossed in a bin next to IE and opened only for cross browser testing.
You're kidding, right? If you're poor (or rather, poor but not poor enough to qualify for medicare/medicaid) and have a serious problem, you go without treatment right to the verge of death, at which point they'll hook you up to a machine that will keep you alive for a few months until you finally croak.
My parents have medical insurance and still ended up with $40k in medical bills last year just for things that keep them walking and breathing. And they're really not in bad shape for people of their age (early 60s), and none of their problems are caused by stupid lifestyle choices (diet, smoking, etc).