One of our primary focuses this quarter has been "right-sizing" our teams to fit within the new budget constraints. As you'll be pleased to note, I've achieved a 30% reduction in expenses -- well under our target of 25% -- while actually increasing the size of our engineering team. Moving forward, we have a much stronger team with a better attitude to complete the goals that lie before us.
My success has not gone unnoticed -- Bain Capital (Gotham City) has offered me a senior position in their M&A department where I will lead efforts to cut costs while maintaining an efficient workforce.
After coming back from my vacation in Aruba, I've decided that in these times of trouble we need to do more with less. We're in a troubled economy -- do you realize how much yacht gas has gone up in the past year? In addition, the Affordable Care Act has made it cost ineffective for our FTNE (Full Time Non-Employee) initiative to continue.
Moving forward, we'll need to tighten our belts and take on other responsibilities. Some of you will work longer hours than usual. My performance bonus is based on how much money we can save, so I'm simply going to let go anyone who refuses to comply with this iniative -- I'm sure I can find someone to replace you.
It's city's fault for not designing streets for both residents and expected number of visitors
No, it's the visitor's fault for not taking public transit. San Francisco has some of the best public transit in the country. BART is ~$4 round trip, runs past 1 AM and parking at the stations is free on the weekend. And now the rent is higher than NYC, any spare space should be devoted to housing.
It's vastly more efficient use of space to park your car outside the city and make the city navigatable with transit (see Tokyo, Berlin, Prague, etc).
It's not the first time I've heard it, but the from an ontological view it's important to declare the rights exist independent of the government in power to enforce or restrict them....
Then I learned that rights always come from a perspective. "Property rights" was a crowd-favorite from the Dred Scott decision.
All you have to do to claim your FREE drone strike is to simply mention the word "Allah" and criticize US policy in a comment below! It's that easy! Here at the Homeland Department, we've reduced the amount of government red tape you need to get a drone strike on your house. Annoying procedures like "trials" and "juries" have been removed -- saving you time and money!
But wait, there's more! Reply in the next 10 minutes, and we'll even throw in a 2nd drone strike for your family! That's right, two drones strikes for one comment.*
* Offer can only be redeemed in the Middle East. Offer void in Saudi Arabia. Some terms and restrictions apply. Must be 18 or older unless your parents signs up for the "family plan".
I've followed your work on behalf of free culture for years sir, and let me just say "Thank you".
The importance of your current campaign cannot be overstated; no country can be truly "free" it is in fact owned by a few tyrants. Corruption was bad before Citizens United and it's almost uncontroversial to say it's the worst in our history. Aside from donating money, how can individuals help? I'm sure you know this crowd has no shortage of technical skills and I'd be happy to volunteer myself.
Until politicians stop being bought by the highest bidder, there can be no political progress in this country. While not everyone may agree with Lessig representing them, you may want to take some time to research the terrific things he's done as lawyer for the EFF.
For example, many/. may dislike the "unlimited copyright" rule where companies essentially own a copyright forever. Lessig fought the good fight in the Supreme Court.
Unless politicians represent actual people and not the Supreme Court's idea of people, corruption won't end in our political process.
much higher mileage of gasoline cars (33mpg vs 28mpg)...and in 1993, most Fords got ~22 mpg
Wear and tear on roads is largely based on vehicle weight and time. I used to work in the Delaware Department of Transportation and we'd use wear rates based on usage and its observed current state to calculate when maintenance was needed. One of the main ways vehicles have gained mileage is by reducing weight which also reduces road wear and tear.
many more trucks used for shipping (70% more in 2007 than in 1997)...and trucks weigh a ton more (quite literally) and thus have a lower MPG (and pay more in gas taxes).
If anything, our gas taxes are probably the most "fair" tax in the country. If hybrids become too big of a problem, it's probably pretty easy to make electric vehicles pay an "road fee" whenever you get your license plate renewed.
...and we have 5-6 cities where existing by public transit alone is reasonable (NYC, SF Bay, Boston, Philly, and Chicago). Strangely, while SF has under a million people, it's a much more walkable city than say...Houston (which, has a single above-ground rail line) population 2.61 million or LA (there's a movie about how LA lost its public transit that you've probably seen too).
Simply living in an "urban area" does not guarentee decent public transit access.
Someone from a Government IP address last year added a statement that "Assad and Syria were proven to have used Sarin on it's own population"....Every day I would remove and correct information
I thought the grammar police worked for the government?
No. Criminals have proven that they are not capable of self-regulation They're not criminals until they commit a crime. Until then, they're law-abiding citizens. Many of the massacres we've seen are first offenses.
no or outside regulation and no amount of regulatory burden on the law abiding will stop that. Yeah, if we outlaw guns, only criminals will have guns...but that's precisely the point. We now know who to arrest the person with the assault rifle who walked into a school. To wit, if regulating guns didn't work, we would expect countries with tough gun regulation to have higher gun violence.
If only every other CEO had the same courage. Also, if he's willing to do this for SpaceX, I have no problems with a private company doign space exporation.
As the saying goes "haters gonna hate", but really, it's a big accomplishment. To pass the Turing test, you'd need to choose some "identity" for your AI. The idea of using a kid with limited cognative skills was clever, but not cheating -- but it's also not simulating a professor. If there is truly intellgient AI in the future, it's reasonable to expect its evolution to start with easier people to emulate before trying harder.
According to the report, 40% of new Ph.D.s won't be able to find tenure-track jobs... The MLA doesn't want to reduce enrollments, but they think the grad school programs should be quicker to complete and dissertations should be shorter and less complex.
So since there's already too many PhDs competing for too few tenure jobs, their "solution" is to decrease the effort of getting the degree, which econ 101 tells us will increase the number of teachers. With increased supply (PhDs in humanities) and the same demand (no new teaching slots), price (wages in this case) should go down.
...maybe it makes a good case for humanities PhDs taking some economics courses during their decade of school?
I for one, welcome our robotic overlords and wish them luck in the human cloning of Apple's founder -- one Jobs wasn't enough we need 240K and that should be enough for anybody!
When I was in middle school, I got a TI81. On those things, the only way to transfer a program was to manually copy it. After copying a few, I got an idea about the language/syntax and starting coding my own. Friends wanted me to copy my programs to their calculators and by the time the "cabled" calculators came out, I was a being asked for games I had written by strangers in HS. While it's not Lisp/Java/C, TI Basic gave me a love of programming (creating things!) that got me through university with a CS degree and I'm typing this from a senior level engineering position in silicon valley a couple decades later.
But without that calculator? Who knows. Coding while in algebra through differential equations classes in grade school/high school was also a great way to look like I was "paying attention";)
From the tutorial: ---- static struct buffer *buffer_alloc(unsigned long size) {
struct buffer *buf;
buf = kzalloc(sizeof(*buf), GFP_KERNEL);
if (unlikely(!buf))
goto out; ---- I haven't seen a tutorial written where "goto" was recommended...ever. When I was taught C back in the late 20th century, we weren't taught how to use goto or when. Now that I'm older and wiser, the instruction has its place -- especially in code where performance is paramount -- but it can also be less confusing than other control structures in the right situation. (I'm still uncomfortable using it myself.)
Any wise old vets want to chime in about when to use "goto" and when not to?
Have you read the qur'an and hadith, and the writings of islamic scholars who have studied islamic scripture?
I have! In fact, you're supposed to inform people about Islam and give them a chance to repent before killing them. Compare this to Abrahamic religion 1.0, where you were simply slaughtered for being unable to pronounce the word "Shiboleth". Progress indeed! Some Christians weren't terribly fond of this approach, of course, and came up with the more egalitarian "Kill them all and let God know his own" in response during the middle ages.
In most deistic religions, there is evil and that evil must periodically personified in the infidel and "cleansed". There only difference between a crusade and a jihad* is the creed of the slaughtered innocents.
[And that "jihad" may be translated as either an internal or external struggle.]
Linus is quite polite until you prove yourself an idiot -- then not so much. He didn't build a community of thousands of contributers by spewing insults at anyone and everyone.
I love John Lassester (Pixar, including Toy Story and Bug's Life ).
From your link: On June 22, 2007, management of DisneyToon Studios was turned over to the control of Ed Catmull and John Lasseter under the banner of renamed Feature Animation studio, now called Walt Disney Animation Studios. As chief creative officer, Lasseter called for the cancellation of all future films in production or development at DisneyToon Studios that weren't connected to a Disney Consumer Products franchise. As a result, planned or in-progress sequels to Dumbo, Chicken Little, Meet the Robinsons and The Aristocats were all cancelled, among other projects.[1][9] A few days later, it was announced that DisneyToon Studios would no longer produce future sequels to Disney animated films, but will instead focus on spin-offs and original films.[10]
Slashdot Mirror
Dear Upper Management,
One of our primary focuses this quarter has been "right-sizing" our teams to fit within the new budget constraints. As you'll be pleased to note, I've achieved a 30% reduction in expenses -- well under our target of 25% -- while actually increasing the size of our engineering team. Moving forward, we have a much stronger team with a better attitude to complete the goals that lie before us.
My success has not gone unnoticed -- Bain Capital (Gotham City) has offered me a senior position in their M&A department where I will lead efforts to cut costs while maintaining an efficient workforce.
It was an honor working with you,
PHB
Dear team,
After coming back from my vacation in Aruba, I've decided that in these times of trouble we need to do more with less. We're in a troubled economy -- do you realize how much yacht gas has gone up in the past year? In addition, the Affordable Care Act has made it cost ineffective for our FTNE (Full Time Non-Employee) initiative to continue.
Moving forward, we'll need to tighten our belts and take on other responsibilities. Some of you will work longer hours than usual. My performance bonus is based on how much money we can save, so I'm simply going to let go anyone who refuses to comply with this iniative -- I'm sure I can find someone to replace you.
Cheers!
PHB
It's city's fault for not designing streets for both residents and expected number of visitors
No, it's the visitor's fault for not taking public transit. San Francisco has some of the best public transit in the country. BART is ~$4 round trip, runs past 1 AM and parking at the stations is free on the weekend. And now the rent is higher than NYC, any spare space should be devoted to housing.
It's vastly more efficient use of space to park your car outside the city and make the city navigatable with transit (see Tokyo, Berlin, Prague, etc).
Thank you!
It's not the first time I've heard it, but the from an ontological view it's important to declare the rights exist independent of the government in power to enforce or restrict them....
Then I learned that rights always come from a perspective. "Property rights" was a crowd-favorite from the Dred Scott decision.
Good new everyone!
All you have to do to claim your FREE drone strike is to simply mention the word "Allah" and criticize US policy in a comment below! It's that easy! Here at the Homeland Department, we've reduced the amount of government red tape you need to get a drone strike on your house. Annoying procedures like "trials" and "juries" have been removed -- saving you time and money!
But wait, there's more! Reply in the next 10 minutes, and we'll even throw in a 2nd drone strike for your family! That's right, two drones strikes for one comment.*
* Offer can only be redeemed in the Middle East. Offer void in Saudi Arabia. Some terms and restrictions apply. Must be 18 or older unless your parents signs up for the "family plan".
I've followed your work on behalf of free culture for years sir, and let me just say "Thank you".
The importance of your current campaign cannot be overstated; no country can be truly "free" it is in fact owned by a few tyrants. Corruption was bad before Citizens United and it's almost uncontroversial to say it's the worst in our history. Aside from donating money, how can individuals help? I'm sure you know this crowd has no shortage of technical skills and I'd be happy to volunteer myself.
I don't have any points today.
Until politicians stop being bought by the highest bidder, there can be no political progress in this country. While not everyone may agree with Lessig representing them, you may want to take some time to research the terrific things he's done as lawyer for the EFF.
For example, many /. may dislike the "unlimited copyright" rule where companies essentially own a copyright forever. Lessig fought the good fight in the Supreme Court.
Unless politicians represent actual people and not the Supreme Court's idea of people, corruption won't end in our political process.
much higher mileage of gasoline cars (33mpg vs 28mpg) ...and in 1993, most Fords got ~22 mpg
Wear and tear on roads is largely based on vehicle weight and time. I used to work in the Delaware Department of Transportation and we'd use wear rates based on usage and its observed current state to calculate when maintenance was needed. One of the main ways vehicles have gained mileage is by reducing weight which also reduces road wear and tear.
many more trucks used for shipping (70% more in 2007 than in 1997) ...and trucks weigh a ton more (quite literally) and thus have a lower MPG (and pay more in gas taxes).
If anything, our gas taxes are probably the most "fair" tax in the country. If hybrids become too big of a problem, it's probably pretty easy to make electric vehicles pay an "road fee" whenever you get your license plate renewed.
...and we have 5-6 cities where existing by public transit alone is reasonable (NYC, SF Bay, Boston, Philly, and Chicago). Strangely, while SF has under a million people, it's a much more walkable city than say...Houston (which, has a single above-ground rail line) population 2.61 million or LA (there's a movie about how LA lost its public transit that you've probably seen too).
Simply living in an "urban area" does not guarentee decent public transit access.
Someone from a Government IP address last year added a statement that "Assad and Syria were proven to have used Sarin on it's own population"....Every day I would remove and correct information
I thought the grammar police worked for the government?
No. Criminals have proven that they are not capable of self-regulation
They're not criminals until they commit a crime. Until then, they're law-abiding citizens. Many of the massacres we've seen are first offenses.
no or outside regulation and no amount of regulatory burden on the law abiding will stop that.
Yeah, if we outlaw guns, only criminals will have guns...but that's precisely the point. We now know who to arrest the person with the assault rifle who walked into a school. To wit, if regulating guns didn't work, we would expect countries with tough gun regulation to have higher gun violence.
Can you tell which countries those are?
Thank you Elon Musk.
If only every other CEO had the same courage. Also, if he's willing to do this for SpaceX, I have no problems with a private company doign space exporation.
I didn't have an argument. I was only pointing out the collective hypocracy.
And there's no one crossing the border. Please go see a therapist about your anger issues.
I totally agree.
They came over from another country and then rewrote the laws so they could stay. That's just illegal no matter how you think of it.
It's really time the Europeans go back to Europe.
As the saying goes "haters gonna hate", but really, it's a big accomplishment. To pass the Turing test, you'd need to choose some "identity" for your AI. The idea of using a kid with limited cognative skills was clever, but not cheating -- but it's also not simulating a professor. If there is truly intellgient AI in the future, it's reasonable to expect its evolution to start with easier people to emulate before trying harder.
We've traded someone who flings rascist insults to a grown man who flings chairs.
Who said progress wasn't dead?
According to the report, 40% of new Ph.D.s won't be able to find tenure-track jobs... The MLA doesn't want to reduce enrollments, but they think the grad school programs should be quicker to complete and dissertations should be shorter and less complex.
So since there's already too many PhDs competing for too few tenure jobs, their "solution" is to decrease the effort of getting the degree, which econ 101 tells us will increase the number of teachers. With increased supply (PhDs in humanities) and the same demand (no new teaching slots), price (wages in this case) should go down.
I for one, welcome our robotic overlords and wish them luck in the human cloning of Apple's founder -- one Jobs wasn't enough we need 240K and that should be enough for anybody!
When I was in middle school, I got a TI81. On those things, the only way to transfer a program was to manually copy it. After copying a few, I got an idea about the language/syntax and starting coding my own. Friends wanted me to copy my programs to their calculators and by the time the "cabled" calculators came out, I was a being asked for games I had written by strangers in HS. While it's not Lisp/Java/C, TI Basic gave me a love of programming (creating things!) that got me through university with a CS degree and I'm typing this from a senior level engineering position in silicon valley a couple decades later.
But without that calculator? Who knows. Coding while in algebra through differential equations classes in grade school/high school was also a great way to look like I was "paying attention";)
From the tutorial:
----
static struct buffer *buffer_alloc(unsigned long size)
{
struct buffer *buf;
buf = kzalloc(sizeof(*buf), GFP_KERNEL);
if (unlikely(!buf))
goto out;
----
I haven't seen a tutorial written where "goto" was recommended...ever. When I was taught C back in the late 20th century, we weren't taught how to use goto or when. Now that I'm older and wiser, the instruction has its place -- especially in code where performance is paramount -- but it can also be less confusing than other control structures in the right situation. (I'm still uncomfortable using it myself.)
Any wise old vets want to chime in about when to use "goto" and when not to?
Have you read the qur'an and hadith, and the writings of islamic scholars who have studied islamic scripture?
I have! In fact, you're supposed to inform people about Islam and give them a chance to repent before killing them. Compare this to Abrahamic religion 1.0, where you were simply slaughtered for being unable to pronounce the word "Shiboleth". Progress indeed! Some Christians weren't terribly fond of this approach, of course, and came up with the more egalitarian "Kill them all and let God know his own" in response during the middle ages.
In most deistic religions, there is evil and that evil must periodically personified in the infidel and "cleansed". There only difference between a crusade and a jihad* is the creed of the slaughtered innocents.
[And that "jihad" may be translated as either an internal or external struggle.]
No mod points today, but parent is spot-on.
Linus is quite polite until you prove yourself an idiot -- then not so much. He didn't build a community of thousands of contributers by spewing insults at anyone and everyone.
I love John Lassester (Pixar, including Toy Story and Bug's Life ).
From your link:
On June 22, 2007, management of DisneyToon Studios was turned over to the control of Ed Catmull and John Lasseter under the banner of renamed Feature Animation studio, now called Walt Disney Animation Studios. As chief creative officer, Lasseter called for the cancellation of all future films in production or development at DisneyToon Studios that weren't connected to a Disney Consumer Products franchise. As a result, planned or in-progress sequels to Dumbo, Chicken Little, Meet the Robinsons and The Aristocats were all cancelled, among other projects.[1][9] A few days later, it was announced that DisneyToon Studios would no longer produce future sequels to Disney animated films, but will instead focus on spin-offs and original films.[10]
Ronald Reagan's first election was leader of a labor union (Screen Actors Guild).
Gosh, screen actors and professional athletes get paid well. I sure it must their union...er...I'm sorry Mr. Reagan, I meant the "free market".