That is, of course, once-removed from the situation I described.
And an interesting one. They were taking some chances regarding the IRS rules about employee classification, and I wasn't aware any contractors to the federal government did that.
Federal contractors working for the IRS, who ostensibly defines what a contractor is, meet your definition of "...are really employees."
Federal contractors working for the IRS are in fact statutory employees, of the agency which hires them out. There's no such thing as an independent contractor working for the IRS, and the employees' employer is subject to all the normal rules, including paying 1/2 of FICA/Medicare taxes, withholding the other 1/2, submitting, etc, and all the normal rules regarding wages, hours, workers' comp, etc.
They take bids for work; they're not employed by the company to go out as service providers, but rather take bids for services requested from the company by its clients. They can opt when to drive for Uber, and can decide to drive only where and when convenient for them, and only when the rates are sufficiently high or the job looks good...
As was pointed out, they are not at all as free as you try to pretend there. Nor do they "take bids" in the usual sense.
It's a great way to mislead an argument for the purposes of your political agenda.
The idea that people who are serious about filmmaking are ever going to use their cell phones to take video when they probably already have specialized equipment for that purpose is no less ludicrous...
Excepting, of course, the professionals who have used phones to film pro projects, quite successfully...
Which is also a problem since if you used to have an iPhone but switched to any other phone, Apple keeps iMessage texts sent to you within iMessage and blackholes them to a non-existant iPhone, instead of forwarding them over the SMS gateway to your new phone. Part of their user lock-in strategy. They're actually fighting in court for the right to keep doing this, instead of not being dicks and fixing it.
No, they did provide a fix for that stupidity, some time ago.
Was investigating back-end options that will support streaming updates better than Ruby on Rails. Node.js quickly popped up as the hot alternative. Bought a couple of books on Node.js. Read them. Immediately sold them on eBay. End of story;-)
When advocates go on and on defending a twisted inside-out semantic model "because evented asynch", apparently oblivious to all the systems out there which offer much cleaner ways of achieving the same thing, that's the warning flag to be suspicious of everything having to do with it. The confusion between a good (actually, necessary for many new apps) feature and an almost-broken implementation of it is a clue that certain people don't know their stuff.
Most cop haters think the cops will get the bad deal on body cams. But truth is police misconduct is few and far between and the camera's will now provide evidence on how unruly some suspects can be. It may even provide the cops with evidence to add further charges against a suspect.
Yep. I'll bet the video will help cops 9 times out of 10. BUT that 1 time in 10 is going to be very important to reforming the departments that need reform, stopping abuse, and rebuilding trust with the community.
As an aside, here in Denver we recently had a remarkable case of how self-absorbed a sociopath can be--I think the rest of the country is in for a shock as to the extent that abusive cops will not curb their behavior when being recorded...
Absolutely not. That's just 100% a strawman argument pulled out of your...
You conflating math with language and thus equating all languages to each other.
Nope. I am not.
My point, sir... is that there is a distinction between MATH as a scholastic subject taught in a university and LOGIC as a philosophical pursuit as taught in university or simply practiced in the school of hard knocks of life.
I am discussing math as taught in university, in the math department, by math professors.
My point is self evident.. You have a specific programming language that looks more like math than the others in its syntax? Okay. Good for you. That doesn't mean people coding Java programs are better at it if they mastered some field of higher mathematics or not.
Some of them look more like math than others, and that has nothing to do with my point; in fact it's what confuses many people about this point--they are all math, they are all ways of expressing functions in a specific category of math. And, actually, people who understand the math do have a deeper understanding of coding--doesn't necessarily mean they're better in practice.
The point of the article and my comment upon it is that programming and mathematics are cousins in the same philosophical school but neither one is subordinate to the other. They are related but different.
Yes, I get that. But you are claiming that an entire field of mathematics is "not math", and that is a completely wrong, silly, even, claim.
No it isn't. If I turned in a sheet of lamda calculus code in response to a test question on a math exam, I would get a ZERO.
That would depend entirely on whether or not the subject of that math exam was the lambda calculus. Your quote makes no more sense than saying that if you "turned in a sheet of partial differential equations in response to a test question on a math exam" you would get a zero. Sure you would, if the test question was on a different branch of math, but so what?
That you can have MATH in coding is not the same thing as saying that coding is math.
WHOOSH!
Every function, every expression, is a formula in the lambda calculus.
Every programming language is isomorphic to the lambda calculus; so the syntax is different, but the underlying operations are the same.
I suspect you did not even read the first paragraph of the linked article, but if you did, you might want to try again, more carefully this time...
That person might actually have a chance of writing maintainable code, instead of producing a "class" that's 5,000 lines long with 30 instance variables, and a 7 or 8 methods all marked "static."
Hehe, I read that and thought "a class that's 5,000 lines long, that's not that bad, it's not that uncommon for a complex problem to justify a 10-page class, HOLY MOTHER OF GOD NO THAT'S 100 PAGES WHAT THE HELL!!!"
So all the user has to do is have zero understanding of the computer, click allow on everything with out thinking, and ignore stuff that is obviously weird and broken? Sounds like this will work against 30% of the population. Add in that it gets you free porn and you got 10% more.
No. For an app from an unidentified developer, there is no "Allow" option presented. You have to know how to bypass that security setting in order to get the app to run, which is the whole point--the kind of users who blindly click "Allow" to everything are unlikely to know how to do that, and so won't be able to run this kind of app.
By default OS X machines come set to allow only Applications from the Mac App Store to run. Most people reduce this security setting to allow applications from "Mac App Store and identified developers" to run.
The default is to allow applications from Mac App Store and identified developers. But you're right about the rest.
Yep, click on the icon of a file, a window pops up, you type a UNIX command to manipulate the file. They totally had the whole GUI thing figured out and Apple did nothing but copy--oh, and add direct manipulation pervasively;-)
when i landed in Charles de Gaulle airport, almost the entire staff was apparently on strike. there were a few people milling about doing odd jobs, but no one at debarkation. the French arrivals seemed jaded to it, and the rest of us just shuffled, somewhat confused, through a barren airport and wandered into France without so much as a glance.
When you fly into Marseille, at baggage claim you find a plaque on the wall next to a phone, which translates to "if you have anything to declare, please use this phone to dial extension xxx and request a customs agent". On that trip I returned through Houston, crowded, miserable holding pen with drug-sniffing dogs working the mass of humanity. So what does our paranoia actually get us in terms of a safe society?
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My guess is something like that is going on.
The network is extremely open by design (ref: Aaron Schwarz), as is the physical campus.
That is, of course, once-removed from the situation I described.
And an interesting one. They were taking some chances regarding the IRS rules about employee classification, and I wasn't aware any contractors to the federal government did that.
I mean, seriously, what AM user has not already changed their password???
Federal contractors working for the IRS, who ostensibly defines what a contractor is, meet your definition of "...are really employees."
Federal contractors working for the IRS are in fact statutory employees, of the agency which hires them out. There's no such thing as an independent contractor working for the IRS, and the employees' employer is subject to all the normal rules, including paying 1/2 of FICA/Medicare taxes, withholding the other 1/2, submitting, etc, and all the normal rules regarding wages, hours, workers' comp, etc.
They take bids for work; they're not employed by the company to go out as service providers, but rather take bids for services requested from the company by its clients. They can opt when to drive for Uber, and can decide to drive only where and when convenient for them, and only when the rates are sufficiently high or the job looks good...
As was pointed out, they are not at all as free as you try to pretend there. Nor do they "take bids" in the usual sense.
It's a great way to mislead an argument for the purposes of your political agenda.
;-)
The idea that people who are serious about filmmaking are ever going to use their cell phones to take video when they probably already have specialized equipment for that purpose is no less ludicrous...
Excepting, of course, the professionals who have used phones to film pro projects, quite successfully...
I'm sure that the people who use microscopes to look at their phone displays might notice a difference, but will anyone else?
Taking 4K video, not just playing it. So you capture 4K, then play it on your home theater ;-)
From the article, the Feds maintain that ""With the benefits of corporate citizenship in the United States come corresponding responsibilities..."
So, are they really claiming that they can compel citizens to commit felonies in other countries? My, what a novel legal argument!
Which is also a problem since if you used to have an iPhone but switched to any other phone, Apple keeps iMessage texts sent to you within iMessage and blackholes them to a non-existant iPhone, instead of forwarding them over the SMS gateway to your new phone. Part of their user lock-in strategy. They're actually fighting in court for the right to keep doing this, instead of not being dicks and fixing it.
No, they did provide a fix for that stupidity, some time ago.
...the extraordinary clusterfuck that is node...
Was investigating back-end options that will support streaming updates better than Ruby on Rails. Node.js quickly popped up as the hot alternative. Bought a couple of books on Node.js. Read them. Immediately sold them on eBay. End of story ;-)
When advocates go on and on defending a twisted inside-out semantic model "because evented asynch", apparently oblivious to all the systems out there which offer much cleaner ways of achieving the same thing, that's the warning flag to be suspicious of everything having to do with it. The confusion between a good (actually, necessary for many new apps) feature and an almost-broken implementation of it is a clue that certain people don't know their stuff.
And the 1980's, and the 1990's, and the 2000's... CASE, 4GL, XP, ITIL, SEI, yadda yadda...
...my gut's takeaway from skimming TFS figured it also meant baselines, ie anything below N force won't turn blades at all...
Correct.
Most cop haters think the cops will get the bad deal on body cams. But truth is police misconduct is few and far between and the camera's will now provide evidence on how unruly some suspects can be. It may even provide the cops with evidence to add further charges against a suspect.
Yep. I'll bet the video will help cops 9 times out of 10. BUT that 1 time in 10 is going to be very important to reforming the departments that need reform, stopping abuse, and rebuilding trust with the community.
As an aside, here in Denver we recently had a remarkable case of how self-absorbed a sociopath can be--I think the rest of the country is in for a shock as to the extent that abusive cops will not curb their behavior when being recorded...
No, they're logical... math is a subset of logic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
You know what's really funny? That if you READ that link it talks about the branch of mathematics that analyzes logic.
By this reasoning any language is math.
Absolutely not. That's just 100% a strawman argument pulled out of your...
You conflating math with language and thus equating all languages to each other.
Nope. I am not.
My point, sir... is that there is a distinction between MATH as a scholastic subject taught in a university and LOGIC as a philosophical pursuit as taught in university or simply practiced in the school of hard knocks of life.
I am discussing math as taught in university, in the math department, by math professors.
My point is self evident.. You have a specific programming language that looks more like math than the others in its syntax? Okay. Good for you. That doesn't mean people coding Java programs are better at it if they mastered some field of higher mathematics or not.
Some of them look more like math than others, and that has nothing to do with my point; in fact it's what confuses many people about this point--they are all math, they are all ways of expressing functions in a specific category of math. And, actually, people who understand the math do have a deeper understanding of coding--doesn't necessarily mean they're better in practice.
The point of the article and my comment upon it is that programming and mathematics are cousins in the same philosophical school but neither one is subordinate to the other. They are related but different.
Yes, I get that. But you are claiming that an entire field of mathematics is "not math", and that is a completely wrong, silly, even, claim.
Apologist? It's a bug. Real one. Even some gurus are going to get stung by this one.
So, anyone who clarifies an error on this subject is automatically an apologist???
No it isn't. If I turned in a sheet of lamda calculus code in response to a test question on a math exam, I would get a ZERO.
That would depend entirely on whether or not the subject of that math exam was the lambda calculus. Your quote makes no more sense than saying that if you "turned in a sheet of partial differential equations in response to a test question on a math exam" you would get a zero. Sure you would, if the test question was on a different branch of math, but so what?
That you can have MATH in coding is not the same thing as saying that coding is math.
WHOOSH!
Every function, every expression, is a formula in the lambda calculus.
Every programming language is isomorphic to the lambda calculus; so the syntax is different, but the underlying operations are the same.
I suspect you did not even read the first paragraph of the linked article, but if you did, you might want to try again, more carefully this time...
Given inputs produce outputs using logical operations, theorems (e.g. libraries), and lemmas (other code snippets).
Yes, precisely.
Coding is not math
Yes, it is ;-)
That person might actually have a chance of writing maintainable code, instead of producing a "class" that's 5,000 lines long with 30 instance variables, and a 7 or 8 methods all marked "static."
Hehe, I read that and thought "a class that's 5,000 lines long, that's not that bad, it's not that uncommon for a complex problem to justify a 10-page class, HOLY MOTHER OF GOD NO THAT'S 100 PAGES WHAT THE HELL!!!"
it's going to be maintainable by that person, because they were the ones that wrote it.
No, actually it won't be. These kinds of programmers write code which even they cannot maintain, not an hour after they wrote it.
Otherwise, programming is not very mathematical.
All programming is discrete mathematics. Every. Single. Line.
So all the user has to do is have zero understanding of the computer, click allow on everything with out thinking, and ignore stuff that is obviously weird and broken? Sounds like this will work against 30% of the population. Add in that it gets you free porn and you got 10% more.
No. For an app from an unidentified developer, there is no "Allow" option presented. You have to know how to bypass that security setting in order to get the app to run, which is the whole point--the kind of users who blindly click "Allow" to everything are unlikely to know how to do that, and so won't be able to run this kind of app.
By default OS X machines come set to allow only Applications from the Mac App Store to run. Most people reduce this security setting to allow applications from "Mac App Store and identified developers" to run.
The default is to allow applications from Mac App Store and identified developers. But you're right about the rest.
Yep Xerox got the UI right.
Yep, click on the icon of a file, a window pops up, you type a UNIX command to manipulate the file. They totally had the whole GUI thing figured out and Apple did nothing but copy--oh, and add direct manipulation pervasively ;-)
when i landed in Charles de Gaulle airport, almost the entire staff was apparently on strike. there were a few people milling about doing odd jobs, but no one at debarkation. the French arrivals seemed jaded to it, and the rest of us just shuffled, somewhat confused, through a barren airport and wandered into France without so much as a glance.
When you fly into Marseille, at baggage claim you find a plaque on the wall next to a phone, which translates to "if you have anything to declare, please use this phone to dial extension xxx and request a customs agent". On that trip I returned through Houston, crowded, miserable holding pen with drug-sniffing dogs working the mass of humanity. So what does our paranoia actually get us in terms of a safe society?