I see what you're saying, and you're *mostly* right. It's just that every now and then you do need to get your hands into the nuts and bolts of an algorithm (in my own case, about twice a year I need to look at something related to graphs or optimization).
It is rare in practice that the compsci knowledge is needed, but knowing such stuff ahead of time is the difference between knowing how to just get on with the things and struggling for weeks on end, or just staring blankly at the screen, or just writing some kludge code that "kinda works".
Is that once you've reached the upper echelons of management in any major corporation you have job security for the rest of your life. There seems to be no fuck-up too big, no verbal slip too ridiculous, to relegate you to indefinite unemployment. On the contrary demonstrated incompetence appears to have no bearing on future job prospects. It's more like a game of musical chairs chairs chairs...
Heroes don't run when they know they're 100% right.
Spoken like a true armchair hero. More importantly, this isn't about Snowden as a superhero. Look, it's a bird, it's a plane, no it's Super Snowden! In fact this isn't about Snowden at all, but about what he's released. Trying to turn this into a debate about Snowden is a person as a ridiculous distraction.
There's also quality of life factors to consider: big cities are great for the young and accomodating ("Sure I can work through the weekend."), but as for the rest of us schlubs, there are other things to keep in mind, like family, and life outside the office. Basically the best bits of your workforce have matured to the point where having living in a cramped metropolitan area - to compete ferociously for seats on the metro, housing, parking spaces, schools - doesn't have quite the same, ah, aura, to it that it may have once had when career was the only thing. And it doesn't have to be this way, it really doesn't: this is a technological problem with a technological solution.
Network effects from being close to all those other tech companies. (Seriously. This is why cities are generally more economically effective, and why large cities tend to be more effective than small cities; the effect is super-linear.)
In a day and age fairly decent telecommuting options are available, it appears that the IT industry is heading in exactly the opposite direction, towards physical concentration into technological hubs in a misguided attempt to recreate Silicon Valley.
In other words; Wall Street is a great place to make a big impact with new (if carefully designed) systems, contemporary terminology, and excellent engineering.
ha.. hA. HA. HAHAHAHA!
Whoever told you this was either utterly ignorant, or just taking the piss, mate.
Terrible idea. The sweet time is long gone. Financial engineering is now a well-established field, where boredom and politics predominate. The heady days of new ideas and big bonuses are over. Now it's all about regulation and answering audit points and unwinding toxic trades.
Look: do something interesting. If you're really interested in money, like big money, then you may need reevaluate your life's trajectory.
Now if you'll excuse me, political boredom awaits.
is the lack of anything approaching a healthy reaction on a sufficiently large scale, by people, by officials, by media. Then you have the apologists for the current administration, and those who try to paint Snowden as some kind of traitor - many of them representatives of the US government (and notice my sardonic use of the word "representative"), and now this survey - I have seldom been more disgusted with my former country.
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I see what you're saying, and you're *mostly* right. It's just that every now and then you do need to get your hands into the nuts and bolts of an algorithm (in my own case, about twice a year I need to look at something related to graphs or optimization).
It is rare in practice that the compsci knowledge is needed, but knowing such stuff ahead of time is the difference between knowing how to just get on with the things and struggling for weeks on end, or just staring blankly at the screen, or just writing some kludge code that "kinda works".
They're magically judicious!
Is that once you've reached the upper echelons of management in any major corporation you have job security for the rest of your life. There seems to be no fuck-up too big, no verbal slip too ridiculous, to relegate you to indefinite unemployment. On the contrary demonstrated incompetence appears to have no bearing on future job prospects. It's more like a game of musical chairs chairs chairs...
"CHAIR!"
is what the author of TFA is. Obviously he's being disingenuous.
This is simply a lot of ink spilt in order to sell more newspapers, nothing more.
Heroes don't run when they know they're 100% right.
Spoken like a true armchair hero. More importantly, this isn't about Snowden as a superhero. Look, it's a bird, it's a plane, no it's Super Snowden! In fact this isn't about Snowden at all, but about what he's released. Trying to turn this into a debate about Snowden is a person as a ridiculous distraction.
Spoken like Ned Stark.
Also, investors won't enjoy having to go to Bumfuck, Iowa to talk to you and see the operation.
Honey, don't knock it till you've tried it.
Mod this shit up.
There's also quality of life factors to consider: big cities are great for the young and accomodating ("Sure I can work through the weekend."), but as for the rest of us schlubs, there are other things to keep in mind, like family, and life outside the office. Basically the best bits of your workforce have matured to the point where having living in a cramped metropolitan area - to compete ferociously for seats on the metro, housing, parking spaces, schools - doesn't have quite the same, ah, aura, to it that it may have once had when career was the only thing. And it doesn't have to be this way, it really doesn't: this is a technological problem with a technological solution.
if that's true, then $flavor is the new hidden valley.
Network effects from being close to all those other tech companies. (Seriously. This is why cities are generally more economically effective, and why large cities tend to be more effective than small cities; the effect is super-linear.)
ya but dat was before *DA INTERNETS*.
stupid?
In a day and age fairly decent telecommuting options are available, it appears that the IT industry is heading in exactly the opposite direction, towards physical concentration into technological hubs in a misguided attempt to recreate Silicon Valley.
Am I the only one who finds this ridiculous?
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Gonna get a Street View of Hobbiton.
Because this could NEVER-EVER be misused.
Might as well be a total asshole.
And MAYBE assholes like you are why people are afraid to leave their homes.
And MAYBE certain people on slashdot need a goddamn funny bone transplant.
JESUS. FUCKING. CHRIST.
"oh no but this is a serious affliction that affects millio..." BZZZZT!!!
These days it seems you're not a full-fledged member of society until you've chosen your particular brand of victimhood.
http://imgur.com/lbzhxoE
FTFY.
"Of course these people should be offered all the help they can get. Of course!"
"But MAYBE if they have so much trouble socializing as part of a highly social species, they should be ignored and allowed to die out."
In other words; Wall Street is a great place to make a big impact with new (if carefully designed) systems, contemporary terminology, and excellent engineering.
ha.. hA. HA. HAHAHAHA!
Whoever told you this was either utterly ignorant, or just taking the piss, mate.
Terrible idea. The sweet time is long gone. Financial engineering is now a well-established field, where boredom and politics predominate. The heady days of new ideas and big bonuses are over. Now it's all about regulation and answering audit points and unwinding toxic trades.
Look: do something interesting. If you're really interested in money, like big money, then you may need reevaluate your life's trajectory.
Now if you'll excuse me, political boredom awaits.
and basically says "meh."
is the lack of anything approaching a healthy reaction on a sufficiently large scale, by people, by officials, by media. Then you have the apologists for the current administration, and those who try to paint Snowden as some kind of traitor - many of them representatives of the US government (and notice my sardonic use of the word "representative"), and now this survey - I have seldom been more disgusted with my former country.
to purchase a little Temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
This, this, a thousand times this.
"Would counsel please approach the bench?" "Oh yeahhh!"
When Dice purchased Slashdot?
And they only paid $20M for it. I feel so cheap and dirty.
Also, when was the "Bill of Borg" symbol for Microsoft replaced by "Microsoft"?