There's a huge number of small fish that love eating mosquito larvae, with a large number of fish (and birds, frogs, snakes, etc) that eat those small fish, etc, and even larger animals that eat those fish...
My 15 year old me is kicking me for saying this, but learning how to integrate into society, listening to other people's thoughts, and learning how to agree and disagree without going all Fox News screamy-shouty goes a long way. Learning to know how to build consensus or at least know when to build consensus (and when to go your own way).
Competition: learning how to win and how to lose without making a complete douche of yourself in either instance. You won't win every battle in the workplace, in your academic endeavors, in your love life; learn how to deal with it, learn how to learn from it, etc.
Learn how to set goals and how to take steps to achieve those goals.
These aren't tech specific, but I'd wager if a student can master any of these, they can do well in whatever field they wish to enter.
So... how many years would you have given it, at a cost of a billion dollars a day? Hrm? And how would you pay for it, hrm? 12 fucking years in the hole and yet YOU STILL WANT TO STAY THERE. Fuck off and die.
How many more can you fit in the same footprint as a traditional windmill, though? And could one build them at different heights to take advantage of more vertical windspace? And then could you hook them up to a keyboard and have some mad scientist play them like a pipe organ?
Judo is pretty cheap. One can frequently find classes at the local YMCA for $10-20/month. BJJ, on the other hand, is very proud of what they offer. If you can find lessons for $100/month or less, good luck!
The amusing part will be that the water bottlers will most likely just run the "recycled" water through an industrial RO unit (if we're lucky) so we'll still be getting the same damned water, just with a shiny label and a higher pricetag.
Shit, sign me up. Not everyone needs a a 1500 square foot single family dwelling. I wish there were MORE of these, especially here in LA where we're facing housing shortages.
The only real problem I have with Uber is their insistence that they are not a taxi service. Their weasel wording attempt at trying to redefine their business using semantics triggers every bullshit alarm and it sounds like they're trying to pull a fast one. If they would just admit to being a taxi service, require their drivers to carry full commercial insurance, and focus on being the best goddamned taxi service in the world and following the rules that are in place to protect consumers (and drivers), I'll be happy to support them. If they wish to overhaul the taxi regulations, I'll be happy to hear their arguments and then vote (literally) my decision. As it stands, I can't support such asshattery disguised as "freedom". I can't wait to see a startup that dumps radioactive waste into the ocean because they're just tired of the radioactive waste lobby preventing new players from entering the market and besides, who needs the invasive regulations of the EPA? While we're at it, let's get some child labor up in here. Tiny hands = tiny solder joints.
Send me some job links. I'm in my 40s and looking to get off the cutting edge and settle down into maintenance mode code bases. I was *built* for drudge work.
What region are you in? Most of the COBOL stuff I've been exposed to are with.gov contracts. The USPS still has mainframes and the shop I used to work at had around 15 graybeards (and one quickly graying 30 something developer they poached from another team). FedEx may still have a COBOL team if they haven't migrated from their mainframes yet (they may have completed their migration to java), and that whole DC/VA corridor is apparently full of government contract companies that still write and maintain COBOL codebases. In Silicon Valley? Not so much. Maybe Sacramento, I think they still have a ton of payroll and tax stuff. Chances are, most of these positions are already filled before they even list the job. They bring some "bright" person over from accounting or they poach from the local community college that still has a COBOL class or two (Southwest Tennessee Community College, for example, still has a COBOL based track as of 2002; but not sure how it is now.. AS/400, etc).
Bread and butter has been C# the past few years, currently enamored with f# and racket. I don't think I'll be able to find a job with these, but it certainly has returned me to a "fun" mode.
Awesome. So 12 years isn't enough? How many more? Who pays for it? What endgame would you create to make it acceptable to "pull out" of a region that neither wants us nor desires us to be there (but please keep giving them money, kthxbai)? Hrm?
At the very least, make it a survey course prior to selecting your major. I remember my first EE class (sorta). We basically discussed what EE was, where it was going, who the major players in EE were in terms of physics, mathematics, etc. All sorta dry and uninteresting until we got to the "applications" part. Our EE professor worked on optics research being used on the AH64 Apache and the like and since we had just started bombing/blowing shit up in Iraq, he showed us what his team was working on, etc. Yes yes, horrible stuff, blowing up people, but to my 18 year old mind it was absolutely amazing. "This.. THIS is what I can do with an EE degree!" I imagine there were a lot of peaceniks who were not so enthused. Now, imagine a similar class, but instead of showing us the wonders of war and destruction (or.com billionaires), show how a simple engineering solution eradicates worms in Africa, how to make potable water for villages in need of water (like Los Angeles, apparently). I can see most guys shrugging but women becoming interested in these issues. How about that? You've basically just added a single class that can contextualize the next 4-8 years of what an engineering degree leads to that appeals to women and gets them into the field. That's a win in my book.
I also remember how devoid of women the math and engineering departments were in college. Anything to get that number up without having to resort to taking Sociology is a win for your potential dating pool.
I dunno, but I guarantee you that in my college years had we had "Engineering solutions to kill people from orbit", I'd have signed up for that shit in a heartbeat.
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See everyone? Apple doesn't invent anything! They just do it with more polish.
There's a huge number of small fish that love eating mosquito larvae, with a large number of fish (and birds, frogs, snakes, etc) that eat those small fish, etc, and even larger animals that eat those fish...
Youtube flint knapping.
for .NET dev.
I like the IntelliJ family for other stuff.
My 15 year old me is kicking me for saying this, but learning how to integrate into society, listening to other people's thoughts, and learning how to agree and disagree without going all Fox News screamy-shouty goes a long way. Learning to know how to build consensus or at least know when to build consensus (and when to go your own way).
Competition: learning how to win and how to lose without making a complete douche of yourself in either instance. You won't win every battle in the workplace, in your academic endeavors, in your love life; learn how to deal with it, learn how to learn from it, etc.
Learn how to set goals and how to take steps to achieve those goals.
These aren't tech specific, but I'd wager if a student can master any of these, they can do well in whatever field they wish to enter.
So... how many years would you have given it, at a cost of a billion dollars a day? Hrm? And how would you pay for it, hrm? 12 fucking years in the hole and yet YOU STILL WANT TO STAY THERE. Fuck off and die.
How many more can you fit in the same footprint as a traditional windmill, though? And could one build them at different heights to take advantage of more vertical windspace? And then could you hook them up to a keyboard and have some mad scientist play them like a pipe organ?
I'd love to see them fly into an asteroid.
Judo is pretty cheap. One can frequently find classes at the local YMCA for $10-20/month. BJJ, on the other hand, is very proud of what they offer. If you can find lessons for $100/month or less, good luck!
GODDAMNED CYBORGS WILL BE THE DEATH OF US ALL!!!!11!1!!!!!!!
my apologies to silicon valley. liberties taken with actual quote.
The amusing part will be that the water bottlers will most likely just run the "recycled" water through an industrial RO unit (if we're lucky) so we'll still be getting the same damned water, just with a shiny label and a higher pricetag.
I can't wait until the peeping toms start posting videos all over youtube captured using their remotely piloted quad+ copters.
Shit, sign me up. Not everyone needs a a 1500 square foot single family dwelling. I wish there were MORE of these, especially here in LA where we're facing housing shortages.
The only real problem I have with Uber is their insistence that they are not a taxi service. Their weasel wording attempt at trying to redefine their business using semantics triggers every bullshit alarm and it sounds like they're trying to pull a fast one. If they would just admit to being a taxi service, require their drivers to carry full commercial insurance, and focus on being the best goddamned taxi service in the world and following the rules that are in place to protect consumers (and drivers), I'll be happy to support them. If they wish to overhaul the taxi regulations, I'll be happy to hear their arguments and then vote (literally) my decision. As it stands, I can't support such asshattery disguised as "freedom". I can't wait to see a startup that dumps radioactive waste into the ocean because they're just tired of the radioactive waste lobby preventing new players from entering the market and besides, who needs the invasive regulations of the EPA? While we're at it, let's get some child labor up in here. Tiny hands = tiny solder joints.
First, we have to find the alien reactor...
Send me some job links. I'm in my 40s and looking to get off the cutting edge and settle down into maintenance mode code bases. I was *built* for drudge work.
What region are you in? Most of the COBOL stuff I've been exposed to are with .gov contracts. The USPS still has mainframes and the shop I used to work at had around 15 graybeards (and one quickly graying 30 something developer they poached from another team). FedEx may still have a COBOL team if they haven't migrated from their mainframes yet (they may have completed their migration to java), and that whole DC/VA corridor is apparently full of government contract companies that still write and maintain COBOL codebases. In Silicon Valley? Not so much. Maybe Sacramento, I think they still have a ton of payroll and tax stuff. Chances are, most of these positions are already filled before they even list the job. They bring some "bright" person over from accounting or they poach from the local community college that still has a COBOL class or two (Southwest Tennessee Community College, for example, still has a COBOL based track as of 2002; but not sure how it is now.. AS/400, etc).
Bread and butter has been C# the past few years, currently enamored with f# and racket. I don't think I'll be able to find a job with these, but it certainly has returned me to a "fun" mode.
Awesome. So 12 years isn't enough? How many more? Who pays for it? What endgame would you create to make it acceptable to "pull out" of a region that neither wants us nor desires us to be there (but please keep giving them money, kthxbai)? Hrm?
Shut the fuck up.
All those 80s era AI LISPers are rejoicing.
I'd love to have 30 job OFFERS a day. These are not offers.
Maybe they should've claimed they were just tunes-sharing. Like Uber.
Verizon will "fix" this quickly.
At the very least, make it a survey course prior to selecting your major. I remember my first EE class (sorta). We basically discussed what EE was, where it was going, who the major players in EE were in terms of physics, mathematics, etc. All sorta dry and uninteresting until we got to the "applications" part. Our EE professor worked on optics research being used on the AH64 Apache and the like and since we had just started bombing/blowing shit up in Iraq, he showed us what his team was working on, etc. Yes yes, horrible stuff, blowing up people, but to my 18 year old mind it was absolutely amazing. "This.. THIS is what I can do with an EE degree!" I imagine there were a lot of peaceniks who were not so enthused. Now, imagine a similar class, but instead of showing us the wonders of war and destruction (or .com billionaires), show how a simple engineering solution eradicates worms in Africa, how to make potable water for villages in need of water (like Los Angeles, apparently). I can see most guys shrugging but women becoming interested in these issues. How about that? You've basically just added a single class that can contextualize the next 4-8 years of what an engineering degree leads to that appeals to women and gets them into the field. That's a win in my book.
I also remember how devoid of women the math and engineering departments were in college. Anything to get that number up without having to resort to taking Sociology is a win for your potential dating pool.
I dunno, but I guarantee you that in my college years had we had "Engineering solutions to kill people from orbit", I'd have signed up for that shit in a heartbeat.