I think you are thinking of a complete belief in magical thinking, whereas this is talking about the "magical" type of thought that "this car does not like you to use full throttle until its warmed up", or feeling anger at a beer bottle with a top thet "doesn't want to come off". If you stop and reflect of course you know its nonsense, but I bet you sometimes have those thoughts anyway.
Maybe, but at that point you're not really talking about beliefs, you're talking about the quirks of language, which is something very different. For example, in the case of the bottle cap "not wanting" to come off, you're not anthropomorphising the bottle at all. You don't believe that the bottle has a life or a mind of its own. More often than not, you're commenting on your own inability to achieve the desired result. Maybe it evolved linguistically from magical belief, but I doubt it.
And before anyone gets too excited about all this, I found a research paper which finds that most findings in research papers are false.
Maybe taxes are always arbitrary, but I don't see how a terabyte tax this late in the same wouldn't affect consumers. I guess it's yet another example of technically illiterate politicians passing stupid laws that they don't understand the ramifications of . If Portugal has any kind of technology industry, this is likely to drive it elsewhere in the EU.
Just this morning, I was reading the Wall St Journal, and there was an article bashing Google for the Moto purchase. It's was pretty hard on them. The first paragraph of the article mentioned that it was a bad idea, and the rest of it was spent going over every possible reason it was a bad idea, droning over and over again about how Google is probably not a company that actually wants to make stuff. This isn't the first one I've seen either. The coverage of Google+ has been brutal. The coverage of the patent wars has been so incredibly mean spirited at times, that it borders on unprofessional.
And don't even get me started on the totally illiterate, comments from people who didn't read any further than the headline.
You can't compare the coverage Microsoft gets to the coverage Google gets, and say that Google gets a free ride. The argument just doesn't make sense.
Not saying they're going easy on Microsoft, but let's face it. Post Gates Microsoft isn't especially interesting.
Yes. They do. It was part of why I left my last job. Social media marketing companies in particular are notorious for wanting to snoop around. They also do things like create social media profiles in your name that they swear will change when you go. And their word is as good as the paper it's printed on. Personally, I wouldn't work with any company that demanded my facebook information. While not technically illegal everywhere, it's in bad taste.
Wow, that's crazy. I haven't been to New York for years, but here in Kansas City, there haven't been any phone booths for years. I saw one a few months ago that was kind of half up at a gas station on my way to Saint Louis. I thought it was interesting enough to take a closer look. When I got closer, I noticed that there was in fact a phone in it. But someone had cut off the receiver. Probably years ago.
Most of mine are usually all variations on that one, give or take the angle and number of folds in the wings. The conventional paper airplane, the classic is pretty good too, if you fold larger section of the tip down, which gives it a little more weight on the front end. It'll make it fly longer, if you adjust the angle of the wings from quarter to half. That's my two cents.
Hope that helps.
I was really worried this guy was going to try to keep going. The way he speaks reminds me of Hitler, in both subject matter and candor. This whole business of fighting the good culture warrior fight makes me very nervous. I don't like Romney either, but he doesn't scare the bejeepers out of me the way Santorum did.
but this never would have occurred to me. And I don't think my project manager would have thought about it either. At least here, we're way to busy working. If this is a real problem anywhere, there's only going to be one cause. Not enough to do. My advice for any manager who is legitimately worried about this: get busy, and this problem will magically go away. It's uncanny.
You know, I totally get why they want to do personal search like this, but I think that they're missing the bigger picture. On all but a very small subset of topics, I don't need or want something that's customized to me individually. The fact that it's there at all means that something I'm directing a client to look for is going to be harder for them to find, if we both have highly customized search enabled (?) when we visit the web search page.
I've also found that Google news has noticed that I don't like to read right wing political content. So they've been giving me less of it. That's another problem, as I never asked them to do it. Maybe the solution here is letting users sculpt their own experiences, based on what they actually tell Google they want? Automating this has the potential for being absolutely disastrous if they don't get it right.
I think people seriously need to get over this nuclear phobia they have about this. Nuclear power is safe, cost effective, and it miniaturizes well. I'll buy that nuclear car the first day they let me damnit. But nuclear flying machines is okay for now.
Sure does seem like that, doesn't it. There was a reason I switched to Chrome as my surfing browser. What concerns me more about what this whole thing says about the open and free nature of Firefox. You know you can't publish anything for Metro without Microsoft's express consent, right? I'm not saying the M wouldn't approve it, but even if it did; especially if it did, you would be installing yet another piece of Microsoft approved software on your desktop. Think about that for a minute. If you're in the business of using Microsoft approved browsers to begin with, why would you care that Firefox even exists in the first place. Answer? You wouldn't.
Windows 8 runs just fine with regular Windows apps. I'm using it at home as my main OS because Ubuntu shit on itself, and Mac OSX won't install with my video card. Even though I have Windows 8, I'm really not enjoying Metro. I have yet to see a compelling need or app for it. I spend most of my time in Desktop mode because it works better. It's pretty much identical to Windows 7, with a much improved start menu system. That I like. I just think Metro, and Firefox are for the birds. That's all.
I've had interviews where I'm asked all of those questions, and then some. I've been propositioned on interviews. Asked to give up bodily fluids and hair. I've had interviewers slander me for no good reason. Or worst of all of them, I can't tell you how many times I've showed up for an interview and the person who I was supposed to talk to was "too busy." Or simply not there. Hasn't been so bad over the last ten years or so, but during the.com boom, it really made me feel unimportant. Once, I was sent to an abandoned warehouse in San Francisco, where I met a crazy Indian woman who wanted me to work for "equity only." Once, in Indiana, I was sent to an address that didn't even exist.
On the other hand, I've also had some pretty decent interviews, and I like to think that when I interview people, that my process is fair, legal, and honest.
I find all mention of the word water offensive, as I am a witch from Oz, which means that water is very dangerous to me. I'm sure there are enough witches from the Land of Oz, that feel the same way. I just hate how the city administrators are so indifferent to our cause. We are a totally viable minority, and we do contribute to the community. Sure, we occasionally go on a rampage and destroy a city here and there, but we're people too. I'm very disappointed that they're not censoring their tests, and other public documents with us in mind.
Razor is a great little technology. It reminds me a lot of the old asp classic style of coding.
So you get all the awful practice, and a much deeper level of system access. On the up side, it does make.net much easier to work with.
I've been working in the cloud since July. The company I work for really likes the idea of it. But I'll tell you something. As a programmer and systems administrator responsible for something that lives in the cloud, I'm just not seeing the value of it. At least the way it's implemented at Rackspace. We've had problems that are absolutely bizarre, that seemingly have no explanation, that take weeks to resolve, that don't originate on our side. We've had issues with data integrity that don't happen on regular servers, and while we're able to "scale," we're very limited in the ways we're allowed to do it. Maybe this kind of set up works for other companies and groups, but I can't see myself choosing a cloud provider over traditional collocation and the standard three tier server model for 99% of what I need to do.
The field totally crashed in 2000, and before it recovered, there were more massive layoffs in 2009.
Today, IT jobs are offshored at a furious rate. And the few IT jobs that cannot be offshored, are being filled by foreign visa workers. The IT field may be okay for those who got in at the right time, and now have 15 years of experience. But I think other Americans may be well advised to avoid the field.
Just because something worked for, at a very different time, does not mean the same strategy will work for others.
Honestly, it depends on what sized company you're working with, and what their philosophy about outsourcing is. Some companies do outsource everything, but they have been finding that the quality of work hasn't been as high, and that they're not really saving enough money for it to make a difference. H1b visas are in short supply these days, and only the big players have a lot of sponsored workers. Meanwhile, ICE has been cracking down on companies that are hiring foreign workers for common skillsets. Most companies still have a few guys, but the overall percentage is less than 20% of the total workforce.
Then there's all this talk about the 2009 bust. You knew, 2009 was just the most recent. We had one in 1999, another in 2001, one after that in 2003, another in 2005, and then that one. That said, it looks like the market has been stabilizing for awhile now, and the experts are saying we're expanding at a rate faster than the national average for the other sectors of the economy. So that's a good thing. I wouldn't tell anyone to avoid the field, just to make sure that they join it at a time when they're sharp and prepared for challenging work.
Only thing about OSS is that it's brutal. You're probably going to go through more rejection on your way up through OSS than any other method. But it's worth it.
I would advise that even more important than developing your ability to do whatever job it is that you want to do, that you might be just as well served by learning to talk about the job you're looking to do. Every industry and skill set has it's own shop talk. If you can pull it off, or even the shop talk for one skillset up, you're going to make an interviewer feel better about hiring you for it.
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I think you are thinking of a complete belief in magical thinking, whereas this is talking about the "magical" type of thought that "this car does not like you to use full throttle until its warmed up", or feeling anger at a beer bottle with a top thet "doesn't want to come off". If you stop and reflect of course you know its nonsense, but I bet you sometimes have those thoughts anyway.
Maybe, but at that point you're not really talking about beliefs, you're talking about the quirks of language, which is something very different. For example, in the case of the bottle cap "not wanting" to come off, you're not anthropomorphising the bottle at all. You don't believe that the bottle has a life or a mind of its own. More often than not, you're commenting on your own inability to achieve the desired result. Maybe it evolved linguistically from magical belief, but I doubt it.
And before anyone gets too excited about all this, I found a research paper which finds that most findings in research papers are false.
Enjoy
Maybe taxes are always arbitrary, but I don't see how a terabyte tax this late in the same wouldn't affect consumers. I guess it's yet another example of technically illiterate politicians passing stupid laws that they don't understand the ramifications of . If Portugal has any kind of technology industry, this is likely to drive it elsewhere in the EU.
This is awesome. It would be a great way to introduce the kids to retro gaming.
Just this morning, I was reading the Wall St Journal, and there was an article bashing Google for the Moto purchase. It's was pretty hard on them. The first paragraph of the article mentioned that it was a bad idea, and the rest of it was spent going over every possible reason it was a bad idea, droning over and over again about how Google is probably not a company that actually wants to make stuff. This isn't the first one I've seen either. The coverage of Google+ has been brutal. The coverage of the patent wars has been so incredibly mean spirited at times, that it borders on unprofessional.
And don't even get me started on the totally illiterate, comments from people who didn't read any further than the headline.
You can't compare the coverage Microsoft gets to the coverage Google gets, and say that Google gets a free ride. The argument just doesn't make sense.
Not saying they're going easy on Microsoft, but let's face it. Post Gates Microsoft isn't especially interesting.
Yes. They do. It was part of why I left my last job. Social media marketing companies in particular are notorious for wanting to snoop around. They also do things like create social media profiles in your name that they swear will change when you go. And their word is as good as the paper it's printed on. Personally, I wouldn't work with any company that demanded my facebook information. While not technically illegal everywhere, it's in bad taste.
Wow, that's crazy. I haven't been to New York for years, but here in Kansas City, there haven't been any phone booths for years. I saw one a few months ago that was kind of half up at a gas station on my way to Saint Louis. I thought it was interesting enough to take a closer look. When I got closer, I noticed that there was in fact a phone in it. But someone had cut off the receiver. Probably years ago.
Most of mine are usually all variations on that one, give or take the angle and number of folds in the wings. The conventional paper airplane, the classic is pretty good too, if you fold larger section of the tip down, which gives it a little more weight on the front end. It'll make it fly longer, if you adjust the angle of the wings from quarter to half. That's my two cents. Hope that helps.
Damn right. Nobody in their right mind would vote for him. What scares me is how many people are not in their right minds.
I was really worried this guy was going to try to keep going. The way he speaks reminds me of Hitler, in both subject matter and candor. This whole business of fighting the good culture warrior fight makes me very nervous. I don't like Romney either, but he doesn't scare the bejeepers out of me the way Santorum did.
If for no other reason than that we know they still have phone booths in New York City!
It's not actually a big brother chip unless it reads your thoughts too.
but this never would have occurred to me. And I don't think my project manager would have thought about it either. At least here, we're way to busy working. If this is a real problem anywhere, there's only going to be one cause. Not enough to do. My advice for any manager who is legitimately worried about this: get busy, and this problem will magically go away. It's uncanny.
You know, I totally get why they want to do personal search like this, but I think that they're missing the bigger picture. On all but a very small subset of topics, I don't need or want something that's customized to me individually. The fact that it's there at all means that something I'm directing a client to look for is going to be harder for them to find, if we both have highly customized search enabled (?) when we visit the web search page.
I've also found that Google news has noticed that I don't like to read right wing political content. So they've been giving me less of it. That's another problem, as I never asked them to do it. Maybe the solution here is letting users sculpt their own experiences, based on what they actually tell Google they want? Automating this has the potential for being absolutely disastrous if they don't get it right.
I think people seriously need to get over this nuclear phobia they have about this. Nuclear power is safe, cost effective, and it miniaturizes well. I'll buy that nuclear car the first day they let me damnit. But nuclear flying machines is okay for now.
Sure does seem like that, doesn't it. There was a reason I switched to Chrome as my surfing browser. What concerns me more about what this whole thing says about the open and free nature of Firefox. You know you can't publish anything for Metro without Microsoft's express consent, right? I'm not saying the M wouldn't approve it, but even if it did; especially if it did, you would be installing yet another piece of Microsoft approved software on your desktop. Think about that for a minute. If you're in the business of using Microsoft approved browsers to begin with, why would you care that Firefox even exists in the first place. Answer? You wouldn't.
Windows 8 runs just fine with regular Windows apps. I'm using it at home as my main OS because Ubuntu shit on itself, and Mac OSX won't install with my video card. Even though I have Windows 8, I'm really not enjoying Metro. I have yet to see a compelling need or app for it. I spend most of my time in Desktop mode because it works better. It's pretty much identical to Windows 7, with a much improved start menu system. That I like. I just think Metro, and Firefox are for the birds. That's all.
I find Metro to be counter productive, distracting, and unfriendly. Why are they doing anything with Metro?
This will come in handy when I need to slay a dragon in Seattle.
Dude, this is Slashdot. It's okay to let one rip occasionally.
I've had interviews where I'm asked all of those questions, and then some. I've been propositioned on interviews. Asked to give up bodily fluids and hair. I've had interviewers slander me for no good reason. Or worst of all of them, I can't tell you how many times I've showed up for an interview and the person who I was supposed to talk to was "too busy." Or simply not there. Hasn't been so bad over the last ten years or so, but during the .com boom, it really made me feel unimportant. Once, I was sent to an abandoned warehouse in San Francisco, where I met a crazy Indian woman who wanted me to work for "equity only." Once, in Indiana, I was sent to an address that didn't even exist.
On the other hand, I've also had some pretty decent interviews, and I like to think that when I interview people, that my process is fair, legal, and honest.
I find all mention of the word water offensive, as I am a witch from Oz, which means that water is very dangerous to me. I'm sure there are enough witches from the Land of Oz, that feel the same way. I just hate how the city administrators are so indifferent to our cause. We are a totally viable minority, and we do contribute to the community. Sure, we occasionally go on a rampage and destroy a city here and there, but we're people too. I'm very disappointed that they're not censoring their tests, and other public documents with us in mind.
Razor is a great little technology. It reminds me a lot of the old asp classic style of coding. .net much easier to work with.
So you get all the awful practice, and a much deeper level of system access. On the up side, it does make
Good stuff.
I've been working in the cloud since July. The company I work for really likes the idea of it. But I'll tell you something. As a programmer and systems administrator responsible for something that lives in the cloud, I'm just not seeing the value of it. At least the way it's implemented at Rackspace. We've had problems that are absolutely bizarre, that seemingly have no explanation, that take weeks to resolve, that don't originate on our side. We've had issues with data integrity that don't happen on regular servers, and while we're able to "scale," we're very limited in the ways we're allowed to do it. Maybe this kind of set up works for other companies and groups, but I can't see myself choosing a cloud provider over traditional collocation and the standard three tier server model for 99% of what I need to do.
The field totally crashed in 2000, and before it recovered, there were more massive layoffs in 2009.
Today, IT jobs are offshored at a furious rate. And the few IT jobs that cannot be offshored, are being filled by foreign visa workers. The IT field may be okay for those who got in at the right time, and now have 15 years of experience. But I think other Americans may be well advised to avoid the field.
Just because something worked for, at a very different time, does not mean the same strategy will work for others.
Honestly, it depends on what sized company you're working with, and what their philosophy about outsourcing is. Some companies do outsource everything, but they have been finding that the quality of work hasn't been as high, and that they're not really saving enough money for it to make a difference. H1b visas are in short supply these days, and only the big players have a lot of sponsored workers. Meanwhile, ICE has been cracking down on companies that are hiring foreign workers for common skillsets. Most companies still have a few guys, but the overall percentage is less than 20% of the total workforce.
Then there's all this talk about the 2009 bust. You knew, 2009 was just the most recent. We had one in 1999, another in 2001, one after that in 2003, another in 2005, and then that one. That said, it looks like the market has been stabilizing for awhile now, and the experts are saying we're expanding at a rate faster than the national average for the other sectors of the economy. So that's a good thing. I wouldn't tell anyone to avoid the field, just to make sure that they join it at a time when they're sharp and prepared for challenging work.
Only thing about OSS is that it's brutal. You're probably going to go through more rejection on your way up through OSS than any other method. But it's worth it.
I would advise that even more important than developing your ability to do whatever job it is that you want to do, that you might be just as well served by learning to talk about the job you're looking to do. Every industry and skill set has it's own shop talk. If you can pull it off, or even the shop talk for one skillset up, you're going to make an interviewer feel better about hiring you for it.