It was only recently, say around the dotcom boom where people working in SF or Silicon Valley would consider moving to Stockton. Stockton is really far when you consider the terrain, culture, and infrastructure. So there is good rail and passenger lines from Stockton but it mainly design to connect Sacramento-Stockton-San Jose. San Francisco is in the wrong direction plus you have the bay meaning the rail has to go around or through expensive tunnels.
We have a pretty efficient system called BART but is was mainly designed to circle the bay and not go to the far reaches east and south. Back when it was designed, the east bay (Richmond, Oakland, Hayward) were the affordable boondocks for SF workers. BART is starting to reach east but Stockton is just too far. If Mrs. James wants a better commute but still have some affordability, she should consider renting around Pittsburg Bay Point.
In Lee's time people were deeply attached to their home state. The Army was mustered through the states. When it came to pick a side he said something to the effect that he couldn't fight his home state. He didn't so much as join the Confederacy but rather resigned to command the troops of his home state of Virginia.
Do you advocate tearing down the Korean War memorial in DC? The Wall for those killed in Vietnam?
The statues of Confederate soldiers and generals are to remember their leadership and sacrifice regardless of the politics behind the war. Even the US Army, the Union Army, has numerous honors for Robert E. Lee and other Confederate generals.
Communism advocates class struggle (i.e. line up the property owners and intellectuals against the wall). Islam advocates violence against infidels, Jews most of all. Feminism advocates free and freely available abortions (i.e. killing certain unborn persons). We can go on and on.
The ACLU defended the Unite the Right group in Charlottesville when the city revoked their permit to demonstrate. So is the ACLU a supporter of hate speech and thus needs to be purged?
It doesn't. You can find BLM projects on GoFundMe. Nation of Islam too. The usual Marxist/Socialist movements too. This is a one sided ban. Virtue signaling.
Why did you study history and literature at Harvard? Why not computer science? Did you try and were thwarted by sexist students and professors? Or did you just pursue your interest?
In my experience, the best learning (at least for science and engineering) is at night 8pm - 2am. Perhaps the 11am classes are better because it gives the productive night owls a chance to work late into the night without having to show up to an early class half asleep.
I, and my direct reports, would get so much more done if we didn't have meeting after meeting called by managers to check on our status and to berate us for not getting things done.
Blame your European/Asian ancestors. The US miliary used to be comparatively small and the government isolationist but stupid facist Europeans and Asians dragged us into two World Wars and a decades long Cold War threatening nuclear annihilation. You reap what you sow.
I'd also pay for HD European cycling with complete coverage from start to the podium with minimal commentary from a retired pro (just so I'd know, for example, who's in the break, grade of the climb, etc.) and no stupid life stories or let's look at the countryside like US broadcasters often do.
and keep it short. My company has daily stand-ups that don't help me. Sure they are short but they are in the middle in the morning right when I'm getting into the "zone". It takes might right out of the "zone" and, with all the other stupid office distractions it can take me another hour to get back into my work. If the dev team needs daily stand-ups to stay on track then you don't have the right crew.
Another thing is don't make developers multitask. That is don't assign them to more than one project. They aren't like sales people that can hop from customer to customer every half hour. Developers need to focus on one thing and carry it out to completion. Furthermore, if you assign them to more than one project, they'll have that many more meetings to go to and if you have more than two meetings in a day, your whole day can shot to hell.
If a woman can't work the standard 9-5 because of duties at home (raising kids is a more than fulltime job!) flextime just means she'll have two jobs: one paid and one unpaid. She'll be working +80 hours per week and so we'll still see a pay gap. If you want pay parity the only solution is to not have kids!
I'm using it right now. Embedded system, Python 2.7 (many legacy modules not 3.x compatible) on a multicore processor. I'm working on an existing Python based project that is very similar to something I did previously at another company in C++. Python is certainly easier to bootstrap a project but once you start dealing with high loads and trying to squeeze all the processing power out of a CPU I'm finding Python much harder to use over C++.
Python's GIL. Pythonistas keeping pushing for Python everywhere but don't realize that Python does have its limits and is not the language of choice if you need performance on multiple cores. In my experience, when you try to emulate multithreading in Python using some message passing scheme you end up with something that is more complicated, harder to debug and tune, harder to maintain, than the equivalent written in good C++.
which is the burying of critical stories. All these released tapes and allegations of sexual assault should have come out long ago, at least before the RNC primary. Instead they were intentionally held to benefit HRC.
Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, sit in 6 hours of evening lectures, come home, do another 6 hours of physics and math homework with single piece of paper and lump of coal to write with, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
Every company I've worked for forced us to change passwords regardless of complexity. So I, and probably everyone else, used a simple phrase with a number to increment. I would have liked it if I picked a long, complex, hard to crack password that I'd be rewarded with a longer period before requiring to change my password. Would this make sense in practice?
Europe and Russia had a long history of pogroms before the Nazis, pogroms where thousands of Jews would be killed by mobs. The anti-semitism and willingness to kill was already there. The Nazis just exploited it. Add that to a society that glorified the military and strict obedience to command authority and you end up with an institution willing to kill innocent civilians.
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It was only recently, say around the dotcom boom where people working in SF or Silicon Valley would consider moving to Stockton. Stockton is really far when you consider the terrain, culture, and infrastructure. So there is good rail and passenger lines from Stockton but it mainly design to connect Sacramento-Stockton-San Jose. San Francisco is in the wrong direction plus you have the bay meaning the rail has to go around or through expensive tunnels.
We have a pretty efficient system called BART but is was mainly designed to circle the bay and not go to the far reaches east and south. Back when it was designed, the east bay (Richmond, Oakland, Hayward) were the affordable boondocks for SF workers. BART is starting to reach east but Stockton is just too far. If Mrs. James wants a better commute but still have some affordability, she should consider renting around Pittsburg Bay Point.
In Lee's time people were deeply attached to their home state. The Army was mustered through the states. When it came to pick a side he said something to the effect that he couldn't fight his home state. He didn't so much as join the Confederacy but rather resigned to command the troops of his home state of Virginia.
Do you advocate tearing down the Korean War memorial in DC? The Wall for those killed in Vietnam?
The statues of Confederate soldiers and generals are to remember their leadership and sacrifice regardless of the politics behind the war. Even the US Army, the Union Army, has numerous honors for Robert E. Lee and other Confederate generals.
Communism advocates class struggle (i.e. line up the property owners and intellectuals against the wall). Islam advocates violence against infidels, Jews most of all. Feminism advocates free and freely available abortions (i.e. killing certain unborn persons). We can go on and on.
So who's free speech do you want to ban?
The ACLU defended the Unite the Right group in Charlottesville when the city revoked their permit to demonstrate. So is the ACLU a supporter of hate speech and thus needs to be purged?
It doesn't. You can find BLM projects on GoFundMe. Nation of Islam too. The usual Marxist/Socialist movements too. This is a one sided ban. Virtue signaling.
Why did you study history and literature at Harvard? Why not computer science? Did you try and were thwarted by sexist students and professors? Or did you just pursue your interest?
Next thing you know your doctor is a self-help kiosk with a $15/hr nurse watching over a room full of them.
In my experience, the best learning (at least for science and engineering) is at night 8pm - 2am. Perhaps the 11am classes are better because it gives the productive night owls a chance to work late into the night without having to show up to an early class half asleep.
I, and my direct reports, would get so much more done if we didn't have meeting after meeting called by managers to check on our status and to berate us for not getting things done.
Blame your European/Asian ancestors. The US miliary used to be comparatively small and the government isolationist but stupid facist Europeans and Asians dragged us into two World Wars and a decades long Cold War threatening nuclear annihilation. You reap what you sow.
I would pay for that.
I'd also pay for HD European cycling with complete coverage from start to the podium with minimal commentary from a retired pro (just so I'd know, for example, who's in the break, grade of the climb, etc.) and no stupid life stories or let's look at the countryside like US broadcasters often do.
and keep it short. My company has daily stand-ups that don't help me. Sure they are short but they are in the middle in the morning right when I'm getting into the "zone". It takes might right out of the "zone" and, with all the other stupid office distractions it can take me another hour to get back into my work. If the dev team needs daily stand-ups to stay on track then you don't have the right crew.
Another thing is don't make developers multitask. That is don't assign them to more than one project. They aren't like sales people that can hop from customer to customer every half hour. Developers need to focus on one thing and carry it out to completion. Furthermore, if you assign them to more than one project, they'll have that many more meetings to go to and if you have more than two meetings in a day, your whole day can shot to hell.
If a woman can't work the standard 9-5 because of duties at home (raising kids is a more than fulltime job!) flextime just means she'll have two jobs: one paid and one unpaid. She'll be working +80 hours per week and so we'll still see a pay gap. If you want pay parity the only solution is to not have kids!
A craftsman can write good code in any language.
Everyone else writes crap in every language.
I'm using it right now. Embedded system, Python 2.7 (many legacy modules not 3.x compatible) on a multicore processor. I'm working on an existing Python based project that is very similar to something I did previously at another company in C++. Python is certainly easier to bootstrap a project but once you start dealing with high loads and trying to squeeze all the processing power out of a CPU I'm finding Python much harder to use over C++.
Python's GIL. Pythonistas keeping pushing for Python everywhere but don't realize that Python does have its limits and is not the language of choice if you need performance on multiple cores. In my experience, when you try to emulate multithreading in Python using some message passing scheme you end up with something that is more complicated, harder to debug and tune, harder to maintain, than the equivalent written in good C++.
Quite a few Spaghetti Westerns were filmed there because it looks like the desert southwest region of the USA.
which is the burying of critical stories. All these released tapes and allegations of sexual assault should have come out long ago, at least before the RNC primary. Instead they were intentionally held to benefit HRC.
Actually it was Anthony Daniels. Kenny Baker did the R2D2 voice over.
Oh, sorry. Wrong Kenny.
Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, sit in 6 hours of evening lectures, come home, do another 6 hours of physics and math homework with single piece of paper and lump of coal to write with, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
She's the character Shahna from the episode "The Gamesters of Triskelion". Google her to see the costume.
You can turn in your nerd card on the way out.
Every company I've worked for forced us to change passwords regardless of complexity. So I, and probably everyone else, used a simple phrase with a number to increment. I would have liked it if I picked a long, complex, hard to crack password that I'd be rewarded with a longer period before requiring to change my password. Would this make sense in practice?
Europe and Russia had a long history of pogroms before the Nazis, pogroms where thousands of Jews would be killed by mobs. The anti-semitism and willingness to kill was already there. The Nazis just exploited it. Add that to a society that glorified the military and strict obedience to command authority and you end up with an institution willing to kill innocent civilians.