The Ecosystem is stable and in no particular danger. That's not the same as saying an Ecosystem that will support 7 billion humans is stable, but species extinction is part of the ultimate stabilization.
If the reports are correct he has a couple of felony charges to answer to before he is sworn in. What happens to those? If he still has to answer to them, what happens if he's convicted?
Some organization that I've never even heard of is asking Microsoft to, pretty please, compensate users in some unspecific fashion for an unclear problem. How did this make the news?
It's a much bigger issue than Uber. Binding arbitration basically privatizes the legal system, setting it's own rules and locking you out from join a group of people (class action) to get redress against an organization. Class action suits have been a very effective way of enforcing the rights of the group where an individual does not have the resources to take the matter to court.
I'd be more willing to give money anonymously to a charity because it drives me crazy that I make a donation the junk mail from any organization that is vaguely similar (but which is usually of no interest to me) starts rolling in.
If we have a story about a politician talking reasonably correctly about a technical topic, I have to question the source. I'm fairly sure that Trey Gowdy is not a BleachBit contributor. Who told him all this information and where's the supporting evidence?
Since I got as much done as when I worked 60+ hours, no one seemed to care.
All these comments are valid. I suspect that people would get as much done in a solid 30 hours of working than the do in 80 hours of burnout. There was time (70's 80's) where, because of striking coal miners causing power shortages, UK industries were forced to a 3-day work week. IIRC productivity in those 3 days was about 90% of the 5-day week. Whether that would have been sustainable we'll never know because once the strike was settled the week went back to 5 days.
I'd go for this in a heartbeat, except that the 40 hour work week is a myth at Amazon (and most large US companies for exempt employees). I suspect that 30hrs would become just a couple of hours less than the full time (60-80 hour) employees for 75% salary. If it was really 30 hours, you could work 30 at Amazon, 30 at Microsoft and get 150% of your salary for working the same number of hours as "full time".
This tax is a very small bone that was thrown to the taxi industry who wanted far more crippling regulation of their competition. The ride sharing companies won big in this law.
Actually the ride sharing companies should be celebrating the requirement to pay taxes on the rides. Once you have the government hooked on the revenue you're generating they won't outlaw the service and so kill the money stream.
It probably did - there are many things you don't know about your Grandma. Like that post she didn't put on the family reunion Facebook page that said: "You're all only here because I fucked Grandpa!".
The obvious solution is voice to text - which is available from most voice mail providers. So long as that can be made to work for voice notes all is well. That way you can get the 10 minute diatribe emailed to you so you can scan it for relevant information in 30 seconds. Maybe also email the mp3 for those 1 in 100 cases where I actually want to listen to the message.
To be fair, the person advocating this was a filmmaker, I can't think of an industry that more enjoys listening to the sounds of their own voice.
It seems that a significant portion of Sanders supporters are not willing to vote for Clinton no matter what. They either don't vote or vote for Trump. But Clinton supporters, on the other hand, seem to be willing to vote for Sanders even if Clinton lost the nomination.
I think it's a broader problem than that. A huge number of people in the US don't vote. I would argue that's because there's no candidate that would make any difference to their life. Sick child with no health care? Minimum wage job? No Job (remember it's official US government policy to keep unemployment around 5% so that there's no upward pressure on wages)? Reasonable tax rates for corporations and wealth individuals to cover education, infrastructure, etc.?
This is essentially the Sander's platform and former non-voters have been coming out to support it. Sander's has done well in any state with an open primary, and not so well in states where you had to specify well in advance that you wanted to participate in this particular lizard contest.
I contend that the vast majority of the non-voters are just not interested in spending their time when the outcome is, in their life-circle, the status quo. Whether there would be any change with ANY candidate is open for discussion, but clear the new Sander's voters feel it would be the case.
There isn't a better side. The president is a cosmetic figure who doesn't govern day to day affairs. Someone who is changed every 5 years simply doesn't have enough time to become an effective administrator. Instead president has to rely on actual bureaucrats who implement what they want. And president's only job is to present those bureaucratic decisions to people and to convince them that those are good decisions.
Is that you Sir Humphrey? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister)
Agreed. I've met a significant number of "coders" who have no idea how networking works, even to the point of not understanding IP addresses. These are, presumably, the same people who write websites where the credit card number has to have the correct formatting (spaces, no spaces, dashes, etc.) It's 16 DIGITS. Anything that isn't a digit is not part of the CC number, if you don't get 16, or the checksum doesn't match you don't have a valid CC number. (Pet peeve, see also phone NUMBER)
Just look at all of the shitty, shitty code that's out there. Any professional programmer will have encountered it. It turns out that nearly all of it is the product of these untrained programmers (they like to call themselves "autodidacts" to try to sound better than they are).
My experience is that most of that code is written by people who got a CS degree because they thought it was a good way to earn money. There's also a good body of such work from people who wrote the code because they had to and had some computer background (often IT or EE) but had no real aptitude for coding. The people who learned to code because they wanted to and would code if they had to work nights and weekends at McDonald's if they couldn't make a living coding, generally produce good code (there are CS,EE and a whole host of people in that category).
Department of Homeland Security $18B over budget and 5 years late on a software designed to update personnel files. "(Big software consultancy) was supposed to have finished the new project based on (popular technology in 2016) in 8 months for $6M. Six years later the system is not functioning correctly, is full of security holes and is already obsolete."
(Big software consultancy) noted that there were minor changes in the specification but that they expect money to be thrown at the project more or less indefinitely. "We pay our campaign contribution requirements regularly and so see no reason why we should be held accountable for any delays".
Slashdot Mirror
Yep! No more fake news for me, I'm going back to only believing it if it's in the supermarket tabloids.
The Ecosystem is stable and in no particular danger. That's not the same as saying an Ecosystem that will support 7 billion humans is stable, but species extinction is part of the ultimate stabilization.
If the reports are correct he has a couple of felony charges to answer to before he is sworn in. What happens to those? If he still has to answer to them, what happens if he's convicted?
Some organization that I've never even heard of is asking Microsoft to, pretty please, compensate users in some unspecific fashion for an unclear problem. How did this make the news?
It's a much bigger issue than Uber. Binding arbitration basically privatizes the legal system, setting it's own rules and locking you out from join a group of people (class action) to get redress against an organization. Class action suits have been a very effective way of enforcing the rights of the group where an individual does not have the resources to take the matter to court.
I'd be more willing to give money anonymously to a charity because it drives me crazy that I make a donation the junk mail from any organization that is vaguely similar (but which is usually of no interest to me) starts rolling in.
If we have a story about a politician talking reasonably correctly about a technical topic, I have to question the source. I'm fairly sure that Trey Gowdy is not a BleachBit contributor. Who told him all this information and where's the supporting evidence?
Since I got as much done as when I worked 60+ hours, no one seemed to care.
All these comments are valid. I suspect that people would get as much done in a solid 30 hours of working than the do in 80 hours of burnout. There was time (70's 80's) where, because of striking coal miners causing power shortages, UK industries were forced to a 3-day work week. IIRC productivity in those 3 days was about 90% of the 5-day week. Whether that would have been sustainable we'll never know because once the strike was settled the week went back to 5 days.
I'd go for this in a heartbeat, except that the 40 hour work week is a myth at Amazon (and most large US companies for exempt employees). I suspect that 30hrs would become just a couple of hours less than the full time (60-80 hour) employees for 75% salary. If it was really 30 hours, you could work 30 at Amazon, 30 at Microsoft and get 150% of your salary for working the same number of hours as "full time".
This tax is a very small bone that was thrown to the taxi industry who wanted far more crippling regulation of their competition. The ride sharing companies won big in this law.
Actually the ride sharing companies should be celebrating the requirement to pay taxes on the rides. Once you have the government hooked on the revenue you're generating they won't outlaw the service and so kill the money stream.
I prefer the observation that Android and Windows Phone accounted for 87% of the market.
It probably did - there are many things you don't know about your Grandma. Like that post she didn't put on the family reunion Facebook page that said: "You're all only here because I fucked Grandpa!".
There seem to be a lot of people call me to say "Low Quality Transcript Received" - they all get deleted...
The obvious solution is voice to text - which is available from most voice mail providers. So long as that can be made to work for voice notes all is well. That way you can get the 10 minute diatribe emailed to you so you can scan it for relevant information in 30 seconds. Maybe also email the mp3 for those 1 in 100 cases where I actually want to listen to the message.
To be fair, the person advocating this was a filmmaker, I can't think of an industry that more enjoys listening to the sounds of their own voice.
Two words: Dwarf Fortress.
Flappy Birds
So, is it now a federal crime to access someone's social media accounts with passwords that you coerced them to share (schools, companies, CBP, etc.)?
It seems that a significant portion of Sanders supporters are not willing to vote for Clinton no matter what. They either don't vote or vote for Trump. But Clinton supporters, on the other hand, seem to be willing to vote for Sanders even if Clinton lost the nomination.
I think it's a broader problem than that. A huge number of people in the US don't vote. I would argue that's because there's no candidate that would make any difference to their life. Sick child with no health care? Minimum wage job? No Job (remember it's official US government policy to keep unemployment around 5% so that there's no upward pressure on wages)? Reasonable tax rates for corporations and wealth individuals to cover education, infrastructure, etc.?
This is essentially the Sander's platform and former non-voters have been coming out to support it. Sander's has done well in any state with an open primary, and not so well in states where you had to specify well in advance that you wanted to participate in this particular lizard contest.
I contend that the vast majority of the non-voters are just not interested in spending their time when the outcome is, in their life-circle, the status quo. Whether there would be any change with ANY candidate is open for discussion, but clear the new Sander's voters feel it would be the case.
There isn't a better side. The president is a cosmetic figure who doesn't govern day to day affairs. Someone who is changed every 5 years simply doesn't have enough time to become an effective administrator. Instead president has to rely on actual bureaucrats who implement what they want. And president's only job is to present those bureaucratic decisions to people and to convince them that those are good decisions.
Is that you Sir Humphrey? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister)
Agreed. I've met a significant number of "coders" who have no idea how networking works, even to the point of not understanding IP addresses. These are, presumably, the same people who write websites where the credit card number has to have the correct formatting (spaces, no spaces, dashes, etc.) It's 16 DIGITS. Anything that isn't a digit is not part of the CC number, if you don't get 16, or the checksum doesn't match you don't have a valid CC number. (Pet peeve, see also phone NUMBER)
Just look at all of the shitty, shitty code that's out there. Any professional programmer will have encountered it. It turns out that nearly all of it is the product of these untrained programmers (they like to call themselves "autodidacts" to try to sound better than they are).
My experience is that most of that code is written by people who got a CS degree because they thought it was a good way to earn money. There's also a good body of such work from people who wrote the code because they had to and had some computer background (often IT or EE) but had no real aptitude for coding. The people who learned to code because they wanted to and would code if they had to work nights and weekends at McDonald's if they couldn't make a living coding, generally produce good code (there are CS,EE and a whole host of people in that category).
Only slightly tongue in cheek... What did the users do? 7 hours without TV, Tunes and Photos. There has to have been some major angst.
Another US-centric algorithm! Absolutely wrong for some of the world's major cities, Rome, Mexico City, Manila, etc.
What are the chances that someone who is using legacy technology is also in the group that doesn't/doesn't know how to read texts?
Department of Homeland Security $18B over budget and 5 years late on a software designed to update personnel files. "(Big software consultancy) was supposed to have finished the new project based on (popular technology in 2016) in 8 months for $6M. Six years later the system is not functioning correctly, is full of security holes and is already obsolete."
(Big software consultancy) noted that there were minor changes in the specification but that they expect money to be thrown at the project more or less indefinitely. "We pay our campaign contribution requirements regularly and so see no reason why we should be held accountable for any delays".
Doesn't it bother you that someone has created a site that tracks your every move, monitors your posts and even tries to detect your face in photos?