Also, $50k starting salary for someone with a BA is pretty damn good.
Meh, not really, considering we're talking about California, which has a higher cost of living than the average.
No doubt, teachers' salaries vary across the country, and they suck in many places. But in many places, they are very competitive with other jobs with the same education requirements.
Yes, when you consider that $50k is actually pay for 9 months of work, and the work day is less than 8 hours, then the pay starts to look better. I know, I know, someone's going to reply that teachers actually work all day long, because they're grading papers into the wee hours of the morning every night. Not most of them I know do though.
I can attest that we, your Spanish neighbours, are in the exact same situation. The only difference with your description is that, here, people don't say that Germans work 14 hours a day. Aside from that, you could substitute references from one country to another and everything would hold true.
I'm one of the lucky ones, I'm making way more than 10K€ a year despite having less than 5 years of experience.
When I was in Spain fifteen years ago, the unemployment was out of control (upwards of 20%). In an environment like that, it's easy to see how a worker would be afraid to stick up for their rights and push back against unfair work practices.
Translation: I am saving as much money as possible that I never intend to spend on anything you might enjoy. People who do not spend the absolute least amount of money possible, or who spend on things I consider trivial, are idiots. I am superior.
Hell, I never took vacation... maybe 3 or 4 days in the last year. I got laid off anyway, never mind a promotion. I got no severance pay, but they gave me 70% of my remaining vacation time in cash.
The lesson is: use your vacation. You may not get a chance later.
Yes, the larger lesson is, sadly, all that "take one for the team" and "we need everyone at 110% but things will improve" talk that discourages you from taking your vacation time is a one-way affair. A company that discourages using the vacation time that you have earned is attempting to screw their employees at the lowest possible level. Expect no difference in their behavior at higher levels.
In what way? Mythbusters use the scientific method to test claims. They measure, experiment, collect data on a variety of scenarios - controlling and testing different variables on each pass - and report on their findings.
Some of their findings have been challenged by members of the public, and repeat experiments have been conducted - some confirming the initial assessment and some forcing a revision. Their experiments and their results are available to anyone and are testable, repeatable, and refutable all the same, with further experiments refining the hypotheses under test.
That's called "science".
I'm afraid you've been poorly educated on the subject if you don't think so.
That's all well, but it boils down to the ability to prove a negative. The claims that they test and can reproduce, sure, it's proven. We just saw it done. Then there are the other claims that they test and cannot reproduce. All that test shows is that they were not able to do it, that one time.
If I claim "No one can eat this whole pizza", and then you sit down and eat it, I've just been proven wrong. If you can't eat it, all that shows is that you can't eat it, but proves nothing about my original claim.
The section with 2L bottles of pop was at least twice the size of an equivalent Canadian supermarket, and the section with actual fruit juice was probably only a third of the size of one here, with not nearly as much variety.
I mean, I love pop myself, but just how much of it do you guys drink down there? Is it served with every meal or something?
Lots of people will nurse a 1 liter or larger cup of soda most of the day. Aside from that, soda pop is hugely profitable, has a virtually unlimited shelf life, and needs no refrigeration. Fruit juice is opposite on all three points.
There is an upper limit on the square inches that the technology can support right now. When I spoke to two companies (eInk and Sipix) that make displays of this type, they were kind of cagey on details but it seems to be driven by both sheet yield and sheet resistance. The yield having an upper bound driven by defect rate, and the sheet resistance limiting how far away, physically, the pixel can be from the driver. They way they are doing things doesn't make it easy to seamlessly tile multiple smaller displays to form a larger one.
Also remember that I know exactly where you keep your medication because it makes a loud clanking noise when I shake your bag. If you put cotton balls in the bottle, I still know where the bottle will be because most people put meds in their toiletries bag. And then, even if you silence your bottle and keep it out the toiletry bag I will still find it because your pain medication is in a large orange bottle that tells me exactly what pills are inside.
After reading this, someone might be tempted to take their prescription medicine out of the bottle and put it somewhere else. Don't do this! You may get into a sticky situation with security or law enforcement types when they find pills hidden in your luggage. If you have to carry prescription medication, make sure you do it in the original bottle and keep it with you, not in luggage that you check.
Let Netflix handle the streaming, and merge Netflix's huge DVD library with the ability to exchange discs at the local Redbox. The problem would be that the redboxes would fill up with old movies that need to be shipped back to Netflix, but certainly that's not unsolvable.
You can't. Android has a re-implementation of libc, which is missing some things you'd expect. Like any of the normal IPC mechanisms. If you want to port GNU to Andoird, you have to bring your own libc with you.
Luckily, that is very doable. A handful of.so files, and programs compiled against GNU's libc run just fine. But, a more substantial hurdle might be some of the tweaks to the Linux kernel that Android introduces. Shouldn't be a problem for mainstream applications, but I'm sure there are corner cases where the kernel support just isn't there.
I'll add just one thing: budget some time and money for me to learn new things. Conferences, webcasts, books, whatever. If you don't want to lament in 5 years time why we're so horribly behind the times, the company must invest now to keep up on things.
He's going to be gone as soon as the semester's over; don't let him touch anything important. He should be on one-off, throw-away projects. Counting on his coding ability in your bread and butter code is not a good idea. Once he's full-time and has a vested interest in what your team is doing, then his opinion counts.
Now, that doesn't mean he's not right; your code may well suck. But, you're part of the team that's been crafting it for the last 10 years, and you're the team that will be maintaining it next year. Anyone can provide drive by criticism, but as he won't be there to see the fallout of his knee-jerk impression of your code, tell him to STFU, junior.
The boss is interested in the long term effects of having code that doesn't suck, such as lower maintenance time. If the boss wouldn't care when directly told this, that just shows he has bad management skills.
Rewriting is very often the last thing to do with working code. IChucking out working code and reproducing it usually involves relearning all of the reasons those last guys did it that horrible way.
A senior software engineer will not be significantly better than a junior one at solving trivial problems. If you want to evaluate his skill, ask him to do something that's relevant to the added value that's making you hire him in the first place.
I've seen interviewers ask experienced applicants with PhD in various fields of computer science to write the algorithm for quick sort on a whiteboard. Many people can't do it; after all, why would you know by heart an algorithm irrelevant to your domain that you never implement since it's already been done so many times? Even if you remember the principle it's the kind of thing that's difficult to re-code on a whiteboard. Young graduates have a better chance at this, since they just studied it as part of undergraduate computer science class. It's entirely useless and a waste of everybody's time.
Yes, it is important to gauge the interview questions to the level of work that will be expected of the potential hire. One of my pet peeves is interviewers who ask pointless questions or brainteasers, then sit back smugly and wait to see if the person being interviewed thinks the same or has seen this particular brainteaser before.
You really think that would be for a senior engineer position?
Unless it's an ungraduate assignment from a very specialized course it's going to be simple to do in less than 45 minutes.
But the fizzbuzz test isn't the only question to ask, and for anyone who's interviewing as a potential programmer, it should only take 5 minutes of interview time. The purpose is to avoid wasting anyone's time with the follow-up questions.
Yes, the fizzbuzz test is trivial for a senior engineer, but it is still valuable because a large portion of "senior engineers" will still fail it. There is a difference between engineers who have mastered the trivial and moved on to bigger things and those who have scraped by the trivial, never quite understanding it.
The last time I was involved in a round of hiring, they asked me to come up with 3 technical questions that we e-mailed to the candidates the week before the on-site, asking them to bring their solution with them to the interview. I had mixed feelings about the idea, since I usually don't code for companies that don't pay me, but we wanted to reduce the intimidation that some people have in interviews and allow them time to do their best work on their home turf. I wrote three questions to be solved with C: reverse a string given at the command line, print the prime numbers between 1 to 100, print an array of 10 integers in sorted order--that kind of stuff. I included my e-mail address and invited them to contact me with any questions. Fizzbuzz was given as the opening technical question at the on-site. While they pounded out their answer to fizzbuzz, we used that time to review their solutions to the other questions.
From just these 4 questions, it was amazing what we could learn. Some of the candidates didn't bring anything with them to the interview. Some asked for more time, as one week wasn't long enough to solve such complicated problems. Some solved the wrong problem, or "didn't understand the question", even though they were invited to contact us with any questions. Any of these was a no-hire vote from me.
We had one student who was very nervous and kept apologizing that this was his very first job interview, ever. That one we took a little more time to coach and encourage, inviting him to come see us again once he'd finished some sophomore-level coursework. How his resume got that far is yet another testament to the absurdity of requiring HR review of technical resumes.
This was for an opening that was advertised as having at least 5 years experience. So while not exactly a senior level position, it was not entry-level either.
Those who finished the fizzbuzz test in under 20 minutes (I kid you not) and had completed passable solutions to the other 3 questions moved on to more interesting questions. Those who didn't, the interview basically ended right there. We continued to talk with them as long as they wanted, but often some of the people on our side of the table excused themselves for other things.
The programming tests did their job; they weeded out the resume padders, the people who couldn't program or use Google, and those who couldn't follow instructions or ask for help when stuck. Did we miss out on some qualified people? Maybe; we might have missed some sharp people, but we were in a business, not a deep-thinkers' club. We didn't need more smart people who can't do simple things.
Well, I think the Obama administration at least has done a bit more than most in setting up the website and having some kind of dialog. But yes, people do overblow the petitions.
I can't tell you how many emails I've gotten from crazies I know who go on and on about how the apocalypse is upon us because half the states in the US just voted to secede.
If you think that the Obama administration has set up "some kind of dialog" with this website then mission accomplished, I suppose.
lack of choice.. I don't know when you were that age, but I'll bet work was more plentiful and the employment process a lot more direct and simple back then.
There's a job somewhere. If you mean getting a sweet apartment across town within walking distance of a great job so that you can still come home for Sunday dinner, then maybe not. I hear they're having a rough time filling all the open oil field positions in South Dakota and Wyoming. It's cold there right now, but for a single guy who who could work 12 hour shifts, it's like a gold rush.
My Dad did something like this to all 7 kids. * go to college - you pay the tuition. * go into the military * get a job and pay rent of $400/month. Food is not included. Kitchen access is not included. Car insurance, phone, laudry ARE NOT INCLUDED.
This was 25+ yrs ago, so $400/month was a crapload. Basically, Dad didn't want anyone that should be on their own living at home.
Kudos to your father for loving his children enough to finish the job of raising them.
It is just so simple, but parents these days are just so stupid. My dad gave me three options when I graduated from HS. Join the military, go to college, or GTFO. And for the current teens/twenty somethings I do not hate my father. In fact I respect the man.
As far as going to college, who exactly is going to pay for that, or is the definition of "success" today still somehow defined as a 22-year old human walking around with $80,000 worth of debt and still jobless...
Well, then shame on both the parents and child for waiting until their senior year of high school before finally wondering what they would do next year. $80k of student debt is asinine, and a sign that the parents have sheltered their child with the idea that "you can grow up to be anything you want!" and that they deserve to "fulfill" themselves by attending any school they wish to pursue any course of study, regardless of the cost or earning potential.
As far as the military goes, it's not quite as easy these days with 10 million other kids equally as qualified to do the same no-experience-necessary job. The world isn't exactly stable either.
Around here the military still has to actively recruit people, offering college tuition and signing bonuses, so I discount your idea that it's not easy. Yes, it would require effort and probably would inconvenience your life. We'll put that down as plan B, then. Welcome to adulthood; time to make some choices.
As far as the GTFO option, I've not heard of too many success stories that started out that way. I'd also challenge the average parent to actually put boot to ass and do this. It's an easy thing to talk about and a very hard thing to actually do.
Unfortunately, you're probably right. If the parents have failed to instill a sense of responsibility and work ethic in their child by the age of 23, another six months probably won't do it, either.
Yeah great, wonderful.. That was your personal experience back when the economy was booming.. Your experience is out of date, just like your assumptions.
So what do you say to those who didn't have your opportunities? Are they to spend the rest of their days being 'punished' for that, unable to get a job because no one will employ a homeless person? Dont be surprised if one of those people raids your family's home for food/money/valuables..
You can preach about responsibility all you want, but without opportunity to exercise it, the argument is worthless.
TFA was about a 23 year old child who decided that he didn't like his job and quit it, knowing that he had the safety net of his parents' house to fall back on. That isn't the story of someone who didn't have opportunity, it's the story of someone who decided it was easier to fly back to the nest than to build his own.
The US street are littered with kids whose parent did that instead of actual get professional help.
Really? Where? Reference?
Honestly, I've never heard that parents kicking deadbeat children out of their homes was a serious source of homelessness.
They're all in Portland. Also, most of them deserve it and would not contribute to society in any meaningful way regardless of whether they're on the streets or in their parents' homes.
Are you saying that organizing drum circles or juggling in the park for tips doesn't contribute to society? Man, you're a total sell-out, man. You used to be cool. BTW, can I crash on your couch tonight?
If the dude has the skills to get a job as a software dev, he can work as a gas station attendant, which would give him enough money to room up with someone and eat. From there, it's his problem.
Clearly you never tried living on your own on a gas station attendant's wage.
Clearly you never tried reading the post you are replying to that specifically stipulated *rooming with someone*. But you are correct even 40+ hours a week at a gas station (almost impossible to get since they prefer part-timers) is barely enough for rent, gas, and a little cheap (unhealthy) food. It sucks.
It's has to suck if this "tough love" approach is going to work. Maybe the job as a software engineer won't look too bad after this...
There is no excuse in oop languages. Goto type a.k.a. jmp opcodes are an esssntial part of assembly. In other non-structured programming languages they are likewise essential to flow control.
I'm still not understanding what the ability to use objects in a language has to do with goto. Perhaps you're saying that any language that is sufficiently high-level enough to offer objects also has some other features that obviate the need for goto?
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Also, $50k starting salary for someone with a BA is pretty damn good.
Meh, not really, considering we're talking about California, which has a higher cost of living than the average.
No doubt, teachers' salaries vary across the country, and they suck in many places. But in many places, they are very competitive with other jobs with the same education requirements.
Yes, when you consider that $50k is actually pay for 9 months of work, and the work day is less than 8 hours, then the pay starts to look better. I know, I know, someone's going to reply that teachers actually work all day long, because they're grading papers into the wee hours of the morning every night. Not most of them I know do though.
I can attest that we, your Spanish neighbours, are in the exact same situation. The only difference with your description is that, here, people don't say that Germans work 14 hours a day. Aside from that, you could substitute references from one country to another and everything would hold true.
I'm one of the lucky ones, I'm making way more than 10K€ a year despite having less than 5 years of experience.
When I was in Spain fifteen years ago, the unemployment was out of control (upwards of 20%). In an environment like that, it's easy to see how a worker would be afraid to stick up for their rights and push back against unfair work practices.
Translation: I am saving as much money as possible that I never intend to spend on anything you might enjoy. People who do not spend the absolute least amount of money possible, or who spend on things I consider trivial, are idiots. I am superior.
Hell, I never took vacation... maybe 3 or 4 days in the last year. I got laid off anyway, never mind a promotion. I got no severance pay, but they gave me 70% of my remaining vacation time in cash.
The lesson is: use your vacation. You may not get a chance later.
Yes, the larger lesson is, sadly, all that "take one for the team" and "we need everyone at 110% but things will improve" talk that discourages you from taking your vacation time is a one-way affair. A company that discourages using the vacation time that you have earned is attempting to screw their employees at the lowest possible level. Expect no difference in their behavior at higher levels.
In what way? Mythbusters use the scientific method to test claims. They measure, experiment, collect data on a variety of scenarios - controlling and testing different variables on each pass - and report on their findings.
Some of their findings have been challenged by members of the public, and repeat experiments have been conducted - some confirming the initial assessment and some forcing a revision. Their experiments and their results are available to anyone and are testable, repeatable, and refutable all the same, with further experiments refining the hypotheses under test.
That's called "science".
I'm afraid you've been poorly educated on the subject if you don't think so.
That's all well, but it boils down to the ability to prove a negative. The claims that they test and can reproduce, sure, it's proven. We just saw it done. Then there are the other claims that they test and cannot reproduce. All that test shows is that they were not able to do it, that one time.
If I claim "No one can eat this whole pizza", and then you sit down and eat it, I've just been proven wrong. If you can't eat it, all that shows is that you can't eat it, but proves nothing about my original claim.
The section with 2L bottles of pop was at least twice the size of an equivalent Canadian supermarket, and the section with actual fruit juice was probably only a third of the size of one here, with not nearly as much variety.
I mean, I love pop myself, but just how much of it do you guys drink down there? Is it served with every meal or something?
Lots of people will nurse a 1 liter or larger cup of soda most of the day. Aside from that, soda pop is hugely profitable, has a virtually unlimited shelf life, and needs no refrigeration. Fruit juice is opposite on all three points.
I started stopping the packet captures as soon as the interface dropped
Yes, that's usually when my packet captures stop, too.
There is an upper limit on the square inches that the technology can support right now. When I spoke to two companies (eInk and Sipix) that make displays of this type, they were kind of cagey on details but it seems to be driven by both sheet yield and sheet resistance. The yield having an upper bound driven by defect rate, and the sheet resistance limiting how far away, physically, the pixel can be from the driver. They way they are doing things doesn't make it easy to seamlessly tile multiple smaller displays to form a larger one.
Also remember that I know exactly where you keep your medication because it makes a loud clanking noise when I shake your bag. If you put cotton balls in the bottle, I still know where the bottle will be because most people put meds in their toiletries bag. And then, even if you silence your bottle and keep it out the toiletry bag I will still find it because your pain medication is in a large orange bottle that tells me exactly what pills are inside.
After reading this, someone might be tempted to take their prescription medicine out of the bottle and put it somewhere else. Don't do this! You may get into a sticky situation with security or law enforcement types when they find pills hidden in your luggage. If you have to carry prescription medication, make sure you do it in the original bottle and keep it with you, not in luggage that you check.
Let Netflix handle the streaming, and merge Netflix's huge DVD library with the ability to exchange discs at the local Redbox.
The problem would be that the redboxes would fill up with old movies that need to be shipped back to Netflix, but certainly that's not unsolvable.
You can't. Android has a re-implementation of libc, which is missing some things you'd expect. Like any of the normal IPC mechanisms. If you want to port GNU to Andoird, you have to bring your own libc with you.
Luckily, that is very doable. A handful of .so files, and programs compiled against GNU's libc run just fine. But, a more substantial hurdle might be some of the tweaks to the Linux kernel that Android introduces. Shouldn't be a problem for mainstream applications, but I'm sure there are corner cases where the kernel support just isn't there.
I'll add just one thing: budget some time and money for me to learn new things. Conferences, webcasts, books, whatever. If you don't want to lament in 5 years time why we're so horribly behind the times, the company must invest now to keep up on things.
He's going to be gone as soon as the semester's over; don't let him touch anything important. He should be on one-off, throw-away projects. Counting on his coding ability in your bread and butter code is not a good idea. Once he's full-time and has a vested interest in what your team is doing, then his opinion counts.
Now, that doesn't mean he's not right; your code may well suck. But, you're part of the team that's been crafting it for the last 10 years, and you're the team that will be maintaining it next year. Anyone can provide drive by criticism, but as he won't be there to see the fallout of his knee-jerk impression of your code, tell him to STFU, junior.
The boss is interested in the long term effects of having code that doesn't suck, such as lower maintenance time. If the boss wouldn't care when directly told this, that just shows he has bad management skills.
Rewriting is very often the last thing to do with working code. IChucking out working code and reproducing it usually involves relearning all of the reasons those last guys did it that horrible way.
A senior software engineer will not be significantly better than a junior one at solving trivial problems.
If you want to evaluate his skill, ask him to do something that's relevant to the added value that's making you hire him in the first place.
I've seen interviewers ask experienced applicants with PhD in various fields of computer science to write the algorithm for quick sort on a whiteboard. Many people can't do it; after all, why would you know by heart an algorithm irrelevant to your domain that you never implement since it's already been done so many times? Even if you remember the principle it's the kind of thing that's difficult to re-code on a whiteboard. Young graduates have a better chance at this, since they just studied it as part of undergraduate computer science class.
It's entirely useless and a waste of everybody's time.
Yes, it is important to gauge the interview questions to the level of work that will be expected of the potential hire. One of my pet peeves is interviewers who ask pointless questions or brainteasers, then sit back smugly and wait to see if the person being interviewed thinks the same or has seen this particular brainteaser before.
You really think that would be for a senior engineer position?
Unless it's an ungraduate assignment from a very specialized course it's going to be simple to do in less than 45 minutes.
But the fizzbuzz test isn't the only question to ask, and for anyone who's interviewing as a potential programmer, it should only take 5 minutes of interview time. The purpose is to avoid wasting anyone's time with the follow-up questions.
Yes, the fizzbuzz test is trivial for a senior engineer, but it is still valuable because a large portion of "senior engineers" will still fail it. There is a difference between engineers who have mastered the trivial and moved on to bigger things and those who have scraped by the trivial, never quite understanding it.
The last time I was involved in a round of hiring, they asked me to come up with 3 technical questions that we e-mailed to the candidates the week before the on-site, asking them to bring their solution with them to the interview. I had mixed feelings about the idea, since I usually don't code for companies that don't pay me, but we wanted to reduce the intimidation that some people have in interviews and allow them time to do their best work on their home turf. I wrote three questions to be solved with C: reverse a string given at the command line, print the prime numbers between 1 to 100, print an array of 10 integers in sorted order--that kind of stuff. I included my e-mail address and invited them to contact me with any questions. Fizzbuzz was given as the opening technical question at the on-site. While they pounded out their answer to fizzbuzz, we used that time to review their solutions to the other questions.
From just these 4 questions, it was amazing what we could learn. Some of the candidates didn't bring anything with them to the interview. Some asked for more time, as one week wasn't long enough to solve such complicated problems. Some solved the wrong problem, or "didn't understand the question", even though they were invited to contact us with any questions. Any of these was a no-hire vote from me.
We had one student who was very nervous and kept apologizing that this was his very first job interview, ever. That one we took a little more time to coach and encourage, inviting him to come see us again once he'd finished some sophomore-level coursework. How his resume got that far is yet another testament to the absurdity of requiring HR review of technical resumes.
This was for an opening that was advertised as having at least 5 years experience. So while not exactly a senior level position, it was not entry-level either.
Those who finished the fizzbuzz test in under 20 minutes (I kid you not) and had completed passable solutions to the other 3 questions moved on to more interesting questions. Those who didn't, the interview basically ended right there. We continued to talk with them as long as they wanted, but often some of the people on our side of the table excused themselves for other things.
The programming tests did their job; they weeded out the resume padders, the people who couldn't program or use Google, and those who couldn't follow instructions or ask for help when stuck. Did we miss out on some qualified people? Maybe; we might have missed some sharp people, but we were in a business, not a deep-thinkers' club. We didn't need more smart people who can't do simple things.
If they stopped a bomb/terrorist attack every day, I might be willing to put up with the erosion.
They're working on it. It's hard to trump up a bomb threat every day, but they're doing their best.
Well, I think the Obama administration at least has done a bit more than most in setting up the website and having some kind of dialog. But yes, people do overblow the petitions.
I can't tell you how many emails I've gotten from crazies I know who go on and on about how the apocalypse is upon us because half the states in the US just voted to secede.
If you think that the Obama administration has set up "some kind of dialog" with this website then mission accomplished, I suppose.
lack of choice.. I don't know when you were that age, but I'll bet work was more plentiful and the employment process a lot more direct and simple back then.
There's a job somewhere. If you mean getting a sweet apartment across town within walking distance of a great job so that you can still come home for Sunday dinner, then maybe not. I hear they're having a rough time filling all the open oil field positions in South Dakota and Wyoming. It's cold there right now, but for a single guy who who could work 12 hour shifts, it's like a gold rush.
My Dad did something like this to all 7 kids.
* go to college - you pay the tuition.
* go into the military
* get a job and pay rent of $400/month. Food is not included. Kitchen access is not included. Car insurance, phone, laudry ARE NOT INCLUDED.
This was 25+ yrs ago, so $400/month was a crapload. Basically, Dad didn't want anyone that should be on their own living at home.
Kudos to your father for loving his children enough to finish the job of raising them.
It is just so simple, but parents these days are just so stupid. My dad gave me three options when I graduated from HS. Join the military, go to college, or GTFO. And for the current teens/twenty somethings I do not hate my father. In fact I respect the man.
As far as going to college, who exactly is going to pay for that, or is the definition of "success" today still somehow defined as a 22-year old human walking around with $80,000 worth of debt and still jobless...
Well, then shame on both the parents and child for waiting until their senior year of high school before finally wondering what they would do next year. $80k of student debt is asinine, and a sign that the parents have sheltered their child with the idea that "you can grow up to be anything you want!" and that they deserve to "fulfill" themselves by attending any school they wish to pursue any course of study, regardless of the cost or earning potential.
As far as the military goes, it's not quite as easy these days with 10 million other kids equally as qualified to do the same no-experience-necessary job. The world isn't exactly stable either.
Around here the military still has to actively recruit people, offering college tuition and signing bonuses, so I discount your idea that it's not easy. Yes, it would require effort and probably would inconvenience your life. We'll put that down as plan B, then. Welcome to adulthood; time to make some choices.
As far as the GTFO option, I've not heard of too many success stories that started out that way. I'd also challenge the average parent to actually put boot to ass and do this. It's an easy thing to talk about and a very hard thing to actually do.
Unfortunately, you're probably right. If the parents have failed to instill a sense of responsibility and work ethic in their child by the age of 23, another six months probably won't do it, either.
Yeah great, wonderful.. That was your personal experience back when the economy was booming.. Your experience is out of date, just like your assumptions.
So what do you say to those who didn't have your opportunities? Are they to spend the rest of their days being 'punished' for that, unable to get a job because no one will employ a homeless person? Dont be surprised if one of those people raids your family's home for food/money/valuables..
You can preach about responsibility all you want, but without opportunity to exercise it, the argument is worthless.
TFA was about a 23 year old child who decided that he didn't like his job and quit it, knowing that he had the safety net of his parents' house to fall back on. That isn't the story of someone who didn't have opportunity, it's the story of someone who decided it was easier to fly back to the nest than to build his own.
The US street are littered with kids whose parent did that instead of actual get professional help.
Really? Where? Reference?
Honestly, I've never heard that parents kicking deadbeat children out of their homes was a serious source of homelessness.
They're all in Portland. Also, most of them deserve it and would not contribute to society in any meaningful way regardless of whether they're on the streets or in their parents' homes.
Are you saying that organizing drum circles or juggling in the park for tips doesn't contribute to society? Man, you're a total sell-out, man. You used to be cool. BTW, can I crash on your couch tonight?
If the dude has the skills to get a job as a software dev, he can work as a gas station attendant, which would give him enough money to room up with someone and eat. From there, it's his problem.
Clearly you never tried living on your own on a gas station attendant's wage.
Clearly you never tried reading the post you are replying to that specifically stipulated *rooming with someone*. But you are correct even 40+ hours a week at a gas station (almost impossible to get since they prefer part-timers) is barely enough for rent, gas, and a little cheap (unhealthy) food. It sucks.
It's has to suck if this "tough love" approach is going to work. Maybe the job as a software engineer won't look too bad after this...
There is no excuse in oop languages. Goto type a.k.a. jmp opcodes are an esssntial part of assembly. In other non-structured programming languages they are likewise essential to flow control.
I'm still not understanding what the ability to use objects in a language has to do with goto. Perhaps you're saying that any language that is sufficiently high-level enough to offer objects also has some other features that obviate the need for goto?