if you would also sign a document stating that we could let you starve in the street (with no complaint from you), should you run out of private funds after your retirement, we'd be OK with that, too.
I wouldn't be OK with that. The issue isn't that someone might complain when they are starving in the street, the issue is that no matter how idiotically someone has conducted themselves, the public as a whole is not going to let them starve in the street, whether they complain or not.
Social Security prevents psychopaths (those who find it acceptable when someone in a wealthy country where people are paid to not grow food starves to death in the street) from being free riders on the backs of those with a conscience.
On the technical side, read a lot of code. Write a lot of code. Learn about data structures and algorithms. Read books and blogs about software development. Don't wait for permission to learn a new skill, just show up one day and start doing it. Experience counts, so does enthusiasm. All the really stupid mistakes have already been made, there isn't any reason to repeat them. Have fun. If you aren't, find a different job.
On the non-technical side, be smart, and get things done. Be reliable. If you say you are going to do something, do it. Find out what your manager wants to get accomplished and accomplish it.
When I worked as a reporter, I always judged my job on controversial issues by the number of complaints I got from both sides. If they were nearly evenly divided, I knew I did well.
This explains everything that is wrong with modern "journalism" in one simple statement.
Someone says the earth is flat. Someone else says it is round. The "reporter" judges the success of his alleged "reportage" by whether the number of complaints from those holding one viewpoint is equal to those holding the other.
Thanks for helping to fuck our country up in the name of balance.
"Gentlemen, get the thing straight once and for all -- the policeman isn't there to create disorder, the policeman is there to preserve disorder."
-Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley.
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I would assume that there is a cross reference table of the ingredients of each recipe, and that cookbook is a view the DBA created to stop the developers from incessantly whining about having to do joins.
If we are poor at understanding, predicting, and/or controlling the building blocks, how are we supposed to do any better at the larger picture? So my point stands.
Your "point" most certainly does not stand.
Which can be predicted with the most confidence:
1) The temperature it will be at noon on January 1, 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada. 2) The average high temperature for all of January 2008 in North America. 3) The annual global temperature for 2008.
The answer, for those playing along at home, is that 3) can be predicted to within one degree Celsius with high confidence. 1) is weather, 3) is climate, and 2) is somewhere in between.
For the record, the above post is disinformative rather than informative.
Every point that the above post raises has been convincingly shot down over and over in the scientific literature as well as at sites such as realclimate.org.
Stop confusing "ignorant as a damn neoconservative" with "informative". Our species future depends on you doing so.
Of course walking up several flights of stairs because you live in a big city, or havin (sic) to bike several miles a day to work, or having to walk a mile to get some groceries at the corner store is going to burn more calories than sitting at home, but forcing everyone to live this kind of lifestyle is a bit Maoist if you ask some random idiot like me blah blah blah some conclusion that justifies the decision of the original poster to call him or itself an idiot, etc.
Wait a minute here. Forcing me to pay for roads and other infrastructure in suburbs I will never visit is Maoist. Deciding on a command economy basis that single passenger vehicles will be subsidized by everyone else is Maoist.
There are neighborhoods in the United States where the city has decided not to subsidize road construction in suburbs, and instead let the residents pay for the cost of their own roads. You should go visit one of these places sometime. Be sure to take a vehicle with high clearance, the potholes are really deep. Those are the roads the non-Maoist economy will provide you. The non-Maoist economy will certainly not provide you with toll free 6 lane traffic-choked highways connecting directly to your dead-end McMansion-lined street, financed with taxes on people who don't own cars. Only pure Maoism provides that, for your apparent enjoyment.
1) Low population density 2) Single use zoning 3) Car dependent communities
Let X = # of places worth walking to within walking distance of your home Let Y = % of places within walking distance that have pedestrian friendly access
Walking opportunities = X * (Y/100)
Low population density decreases X. Single use zoning decreases X. Car dependent communities decrease Y.
When work, and play, and shopping, and exercise, and home are all within a short distance of each other, and are all accessible by pedestrian-friendly means, you have more walking opportunities than when they aren't. And if the former is true...you don't live in the sprawl.
Given that Los Angeles is the most densely populated place in the continental United States (25% denser than New York City), it makes a poor poster child for sprawl.
So perhaps another city might be better for your thought question. Atlanta, maybe?
As a financial naif, when I first heard about this problem, I immediately looked to see if I could sell short the stocks being pumped. What I found was that it wasn't possible, as far as I could tell, to short penny stocks.
Fix that, and the whole issue goes away, doesn't it?
Free trade (in labour as well as in commodities) ultimately benefits everyone.
This is not true. Increasing trade between two countries may harm the vast majority of people in both countries. It will, if the models most economists use are correct (an incomprehensibly large "if"), make the countries involved better off, provided you have a disturbingly economic view of what it means to be "better off". But making countries better off and making all the individuals living in those countries better off are two different things.
For example, you could decrease the barriers to trade in your country, and 25 years later, median wages might be no better than before, workers vacation, sick days, and pensions might have been cut, and the risk of long-term unemployment for the workers - as well as other risks faced by the workers - might have increased greatly.
When advice on to how to deal with the current state of the employment market is summed up as, "They're already paying you to do you job," blah blah blah
Given your multitudinous misspellings, I assume your command of English is quite weak, either due to speaking English as a foreign language, or possibly due to an undiagnosed brain tumor. Given that, I will go well beyond my agreed upon job as an occasional Slashdot smart ass, and offer you the English comprehension lesson for the day.
The word "advice" is a noun. It means, "Opinion about what could or should be done about a situation or problem".
Notice that "They're already paying you to do you (sic) job" is not advice.
Notice that "Don't expect anything and you won't be dissappointed (sic)" is advice.
When advice on to how to deal with the current state of the employment market is summed up as, "Don't expect anything and you won't be dissappointed", perhaps it is time for workers to get pissed off, and start doing something about it.
The government is not your parent. It is not your child's parent. Please memorize these indisputable facts for convenient future reference.
If we as a society raise our kids in that manner, we should fully expect they will be precisely as ready to handle a democratic society as the Iraqis are.
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if you would also sign a document stating that we could let you starve in the street (with no complaint from you), should you run out of private funds after your retirement, we'd be OK with that, too.
I wouldn't be OK with that. The issue isn't that someone might complain when they are starving in the street, the issue is that no matter how idiotically someone has conducted themselves, the public as a whole is not going to let them starve in the street, whether they complain or not.
Social Security prevents psychopaths (those who find it acceptable when someone in a wealthy country where people are paid to not grow food starves to death in the street) from being free riders on the backs of those with a conscience.
Funny how people claiming cigarettes will kill me when I've been smoking them for years and it keeps not happening.
Hahaha. Election.
Stupid gringos.
On the technical side, read a lot of code. Write a lot of code. Learn about data structures and algorithms. Read books and blogs about software development. Don't wait for permission to learn a new skill, just show up one day and start doing it. Experience counts, so does enthusiasm. All the really stupid mistakes have already been made, there isn't any reason to repeat them. Have fun. If you aren't, find a different job.
On the non-technical side, be smart, and get things done. Be reliable. If you say you are going to do something, do it. Find out what your manager wants to get accomplished and accomplish it.
Those are the main things...
When I worked as a reporter, I always judged my job on controversial issues by the number of complaints I got from both sides. If they were nearly evenly divided, I knew I did well.
This explains everything that is wrong with modern "journalism" in one simple statement.
Someone says the earth is flat. Someone else says it is round. The "reporter" judges the success of his alleged "reportage" by whether the number of complaints from those holding one viewpoint is equal to those holding the other.
Thanks for helping to fuck our country up in the name of balance.
"Gentlemen, get the thing straight once and for all -- the policeman isn't there to create disorder, the policeman is there to preserve disorder."
-Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley.
I would assume that there is a cross reference table of the ingredients of each recipe, and that cookbook is a view the DBA created to stop the developers from incessantly whining about having to do joins.
It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.
If we are poor at understanding, predicting, and/or controlling the building blocks, how are we supposed to do any better at the larger picture? So my point stands.
Your "point" most certainly does not stand.
Which can be predicted with the most confidence:
1) The temperature it will be at noon on January 1, 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
2) The average high temperature for all of January 2008 in North America.
3) The annual global temperature for 2008.
The answer, for those playing along at home, is that 3) can be predicted to within one degree Celsius with high confidence. 1) is weather, 3) is climate, and 2) is somewhere in between.
Why should we pay attention to anything you say when you are too developmentally challenged to understand the difference between weather and climate?
For the record, the above post is disinformative rather than informative.
Every point that the above post raises has been convincingly shot down over and over in the scientific literature as well as at sites such as realclimate.org.
Stop confusing "ignorant as a damn neoconservative" with "informative". Our species future depends on you doing so.
Thank you for your help.
what needs to be done to encourage more students to take the courses
Stop importing scabs when wages for computer scientists go up.
That's all.
Of course walking up several flights of stairs because you live in a big city, or havin (sic) to bike several miles a day to work, or having to walk a mile to get some groceries at the corner store is going to burn more calories than sitting at home, but forcing everyone to live this kind of lifestyle is a bit Maoist if you ask some random idiot like me blah blah blah some conclusion that justifies the decision of the original poster to call him or itself an idiot, etc.
Wait a minute here. Forcing me to pay for roads and other infrastructure in suburbs I will never visit is Maoist. Deciding on a command economy basis that single passenger vehicles will be subsidized by everyone else is Maoist.
There are neighborhoods in the United States where the city has decided not to subsidize road construction in suburbs, and instead let the residents pay for the cost of their own roads. You should go visit one of these places sometime. Be sure to take a vehicle with high clearance, the potholes are really deep. Those are the roads the non-Maoist economy will provide you. The non-Maoist economy will certainly not provide you with toll free 6 lane traffic-choked highways connecting directly to your dead-end McMansion-lined street, financed with taxes on people who don't own cars. Only pure Maoism provides that, for your apparent enjoyment.
Spawl != Less walking opportunities
Sprawl is a combination of 3 things:
1) Low population density
2) Single use zoning
3) Car dependent communities
Let X = # of places worth walking to within walking distance of your home
Let Y = % of places within walking distance that have pedestrian friendly access
Walking opportunities = X * (Y/100)
Low population density decreases X. Single use zoning decreases X. Car dependent communities decrease Y.
Sprawl absolutely decreases walking opportunities.
When work, and play, and shopping, and exercise, and home are all within a short distance of each other, and are all accessible by pedestrian-friendly means, you have more walking opportunities than when they aren't. And if the former is true...you don't live in the sprawl.
Given that Los Angeles is the most densely populated place in the continental United States (25% denser than New York City), it makes a poor poster child for sprawl.
So perhaps another city might be better for your thought question. Atlanta, maybe?
As a financial naif, when I first heard about this problem, I immediately looked to see if I could sell short the stocks being pumped. What I found was that it wasn't possible, as far as I could tell, to short penny stocks.
Fix that, and the whole issue goes away, doesn't it?
100 years ago, pink clothing was worn mostly by men, and blue by women. Isn't it amazing how fast evolution happens?
Free trade (in labour as well as in commodities) ultimately benefits everyone.
This is not true. Increasing trade between two countries may harm the vast majority of people in both countries. It will, if the models most economists use are correct (an incomprehensibly large "if"), make the countries involved better off, provided you have a disturbingly economic view of what it means to be "better off". But making countries better off and making all the individuals living in those countries better off are two different things.
For example, you could decrease the barriers to trade in your country, and 25 years later, median wages might be no better than before, workers vacation, sick days, and pensions might have been cut, and the risk of long-term unemployment for the workers - as well as other risks faced by the workers - might have increased greatly.
You may even know of such a country.
I'm not sure whether to fucking laugh or cry.
Why not get mad instead? Anger can be power, did you know that you can use it?
When advice on to how to deal with the current state of the employment market is summed up as, "They're already paying you to do you job," blah blah blah
Given your multitudinous misspellings, I assume your command of English is quite weak, either due to speaking English as a foreign language, or possibly due to an undiagnosed brain tumor. Given that, I will go well beyond my agreed upon job as an occasional Slashdot smart ass, and offer you the English comprehension lesson for the day.
The word "advice" is a noun. It means, "Opinion about what could or should be done about a situation or problem".
Notice that "They're already paying you to do you (sic) job" is not advice.
Notice that "Don't expect anything and you won't be dissappointed (sic)" is advice.
Any questions?
When advice on to how to deal with the current state of the employment market is summed up as, "Don't expect anything and you won't be dissappointed", perhaps it is time for workers to get pissed off, and start doing something about it.
just why do you hate Microsoft?
I don't hate them. I just feel better when they're not around.
...end up owning you.
Absolutely. It's called "being a parent."
The government is not your parent. It is not your child's parent. Please memorize these indisputable facts for convenient future reference.
If we as a society raise our kids in that manner, we should fully expect they will be precisely as ready to handle a democratic society as the Iraqis are.
We?
You're wrong. There is no limit to the amount of free speech I allow in schools.
Don't assume everyone has the same poor opinion of young people that you have.