I think the problem with centralizing knowledge work, especially something like software development which has a creative element, is not so much the remote versus centralized issue, as the kind of environment centralized workers find themselves in. There are definite advantages to bringing a team together to work face to face, even if the benefits are difficult to quantify. Where it goes wrong is a cube-farm office, which has all the disadvantages but few advantages, for example being an environment which is both isolating and impersonal and at the same time full of distractions from the nearby presence of your co-workers. What's needed is a better balance of interaction and isolation.
If Al Gore, Leo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, et. al. are going to be held up as paragons of truth...
Denialists are the only ones who say that. The rest of us think that actual scientists who have no conflicts of interest and who have actual evidence are the ones to believe.
Hiding the base on Hoth was Luke Skywalker's one major leadership decision.
The base was discovered and attacked before even becoming fully operational. Although the rebels themselves escaped, there would have been a massive loss of costly and difficult to replace military hardware.
Skywalker did at least have the sense not to show his face again except for personal rescue attempts in The Empire Strikes Back and then not to even attempt to participate in the actual rebellion until after the strategic decisions had already been finalized in The Return of the Jedi.
Except now with have the genomes of humans and many other species. Punctuated equilibrium is understood perfectly well and there are no missing links.
The problem with evolution is that it's a broad principle and is not single theory in the classical sense. Specific theories which are corollaries to evolution, for examples ways a species optimizes its metabolism for energy use and foraging behaviour, can be tested quantitatively and proven. Evolution itself is more of a mathematical principle, rather the way the mathematics of inverse-square relations underlie Newtonian gravity.
Microsoft may be an unstable monopoly that harbours the seeds of its own destruction, but it's already done a lot to largely (no, not entirely) hold back progress and innovation in its industry by about 15 years.
"The "open" democracy experiment of 1776 is still ongoing"
No, it isn't.
Democracy was not newly invented in 1776 - the rebellion in the American provinces came about because people, somewhat mistakenly, thought their democracy was being taken away, and they fought to preserve it.
And now that it's the 21st century we're pretty sure it works.
They are at least thinking about the issue before there are lawsuits.
Hopefully they will think a little more and come up with something less outrageous. My university's policy was that the student owned the copyright but the university acquired a royalty-free licence for its own use.
Exactly. I'm sure there's some value in finding more detailed statistics for the scientific community, but we already knew men are disproportionately represented in crime and high-risk activities in general.
Add to that that intelligence is largely *shared* intelligence. We do intelligent things because we pool knowledge, including knowledge of other communities and knowledge from the past in the form of oral and written records.
I wonder if it's actually another aspect of context - lines from a book might be consistently good and therefore no individual line is remarkable, whereas an interesting or even grammatically correct sentence on Facebook chat will be memorable merely because it contrasts so radically with the other material around it.
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Work is 40 hours a week for the lucky ones and unemployment and poverty for the rest.
But on average....
Specifically the lack thereof.
You may laugh now, but with their proactive approach sparrows will be the ones surviving the zombie apocalypse.
I think the problem with centralizing knowledge work, especially something like software development which has a creative element, is not so much the remote versus centralized issue, as the kind of environment centralized workers find themselves in. There are definite advantages to bringing a team together to work face to face, even if the benefits are difficult to quantify. Where it goes wrong is a cube-farm office, which has all the disadvantages but few advantages, for example being an environment which is both isolating and impersonal and at the same time full of distractions from the nearby presence of your co-workers. What's needed is a better balance of interaction and isolation.
That is the field they trained for.
Language will catch up. It does with every other form of progress.
If Al Gore, Leo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, et. al. are going to be held up as paragons of truth...
Denialists are the only ones who say that. The rest of us think that actual scientists who have no conflicts of interest and who have actual evidence are the ones to believe.
I work in a department of about 50 people and the job titles of every single person across four levels of hierarchy are nearly identical.
Let's not forget...
Hiding the base on Hoth was Luke Skywalker's one major leadership decision.
The base was discovered and attacked before even becoming fully operational. Although the rebels themselves escaped, there would have been a massive loss of costly and difficult to replace military hardware.
Skywalker did at least have the sense not to show his face again except for personal rescue attempts in The Empire Strikes Back and then not to even attempt to participate in the actual rebellion until after the strategic decisions had already been finalized in The Return of the Jedi.
The only person with no bias is the person with no education?
So, she was fired for bias but now it turns out that her alleged bias was based on reality.
Clearly she had the wrong kind of bias.
I also thought "JavaFX replaces Swing" didn't sound right either.
I figured JavaFX didn't really have a purpose....
Civilian is not synonymous with non-military. Members of the clergy are not civilians either.
Except now with have the genomes of humans and many other species. Punctuated equilibrium is understood perfectly well and there are no missing links.
The problem with evolution is that it's a broad principle and is not single theory in the classical sense. Specific theories which are corollaries to evolution, for examples ways a species optimizes its metabolism for energy use and foraging behaviour, can be tested quantitatively and proven. Evolution itself is more of a mathematical principle, rather the way the mathematics of inverse-square relations underlie Newtonian gravity.
...could even ask this question.
"Can I assume that most programmers understand the English language well enough that I may forego localizing the UI?"
The answer is:
a) No.
b) Even if you could making the assumption would be horribly disrepectful to your audience/customers/whoever you want to have listen to you.
Microsoft may be an unstable monopoly that harbours the seeds of its own destruction, but it's already done a lot to largely (no, not entirely) hold back progress and innovation in its industry by about 15 years.
"The "open" democracy experiment of 1776 is still ongoing"
No, it isn't.
Democracy was not newly invented in 1776 - the rebellion in the American provinces came about because people, somewhat mistakenly, thought their democracy was being taken away, and they fought to preserve it.
And now that it's the 21st century we're pretty sure it works.
They are at least thinking about the issue before there are lawsuits.
Hopefully they will think a little more and come up with something less outrageous. My university's policy was that the student owned the copyright but the university acquired a royalty-free licence for its own use.
"laser-based tech", like sharks.
"They're rated on how many people they can convince to go away in an hour."
Single most perceptive thing I've read in years.
They do, just very short (in galactic terms) distances.
Soon their own totalitarianism will be the only one left.
Exactly. I'm sure there's some value in finding more detailed statistics for the scientific community, but we already knew men are disproportionately represented in crime and high-risk activities in general.
Add to that that intelligence is largely *shared* intelligence. We do intelligent things because we pool knowledge, including knowledge of other communities and knowledge from the past in the form of oral and written records.
I wonder if it's actually another aspect of context - lines from a book might be consistently good and therefore no individual line is remarkable, whereas an interesting or even grammatically correct sentence on Facebook chat will be memorable merely because it contrasts so radically with the other material around it.