Well you don't just fire a bunch of staff, we know that doesn't work. Take the slow road and just move roles sideways then stop hiring into the void. You can lose half a dept of staff in just a few years.
Thanks for the rant. I hate the modern incarnation of the Unions as much as the next guy, but don't think for one moment that Google or Apple is the hero of the story that will come and save the day with their flying/driverless/superinvincibility car. That shit will never work, and if they could fuck you over just as bad they would.
You realise the printer simply forms the structure, even with a 3D printer you'd still have to do all the other painful steps (prep/cleanup etc). It's like those magic food mixer commercials. The magic isn't having a blender that works, it's all the prep and clean up that makes cooking your own food hard.
Another reason you don't make them by hand is that you can go to a place called a restaurant, and for a small fee have someone else make them for you. In that fee includes use of a table, chair and cutlery, ambient lighting and music, electricity, cooking, drink service and clean up. Even if I had a machine I still have the labour involved with buying storing and preparing ingredients, and all the other guff that makes this claim pretty ridiculous.
The best solution I have found is to just pretend the old technology didn't exist. Bin your computer and forget you ever had it. I know it sounds like a cop out, but it worked for me.
You've hit in on the head. The Entertainment industry is chock full of idiots willing to sell their souls to be famous. And where there are fools and money there are leeches there to sell them the dream for a fee. The scam works because the agents are generally smarter than the talent they represent, so can continue the illusion of value add. In IT this is not the case. As we all know, agents are sales people that can't even grasp the simplest terminology or technical concept, so any attempt to sell a bullshit story never gains any traction.
I have worked with a few real 10x-ers -- in the systems field, not development.
No offence, but you can't really have a 10x systems guy. 2x maybe, or in extreme cases 3x, but never 10x. Development is creative, so a clever and creative type can produce 10x more than a regular. A systems guy is just maintenance. Like a guy who cleans toilets, or dig holes, even the very best is only marginally more productive than the average.
Excellence breeds arrogance so what if their was a genuine 10x-er out there that was a douche? They're still worth it. I've worked with plenty of fuckwits in my time, so I'd much prefer a fuckwit with real skills than not.
= 'what makes you such a great fit?' and 'what do you looooove about our company?' Motherfuckers I want a job, your work is interesting, and the pay is commensurate. beyond that im still human capital remember?
This is me in a nutshell. I go to work to get paid. I don't care about your company or your culture, I come in at 9, go home at 5, and take the agreed sum for my efforts.
"The program is designed to replace potentially bad ads with safer ones"
Why would anyone choose this? I mean is this an opt-in thing, or do they just force it on you? I can't imagine anyone cognitively choosing a product that replaces ads with other ads, when there are other products already on the market that replace ads with no ads instead.
Someone must have modeled this, but a footpath full of aware pedestrians is surprisingly functional as everyone magically navigates small gaps to make space for others. I work in the centre of a large city, and it's surprising how well things work until a jerk on a phone enters the fray, or a tourist staring and pointing while drifting in the another direction. I am also tall and bigger than most, with a history of rugby under my belt I will quite happily drop the shoulder on some unsuspecting jerk who thinks they don't have to play their part. It's surprising how far to can send someone flying when they aren't expecting it.
"a Google search for "buy VPN" in Persian returns 2 million results".
Why is this still a thing? I remember pre-Google, people would always quote search result numbers as if this meant something. 2 million hits doesn't mean 2 million VPN providers, or 2 million customers. Anyone is has ever ventured the the dark recesses of page 2 of Google search results knows that after the first 10 or 15 hits, it's all noise.
Wow, holy crap is this article being intentionally bad at characterizing what Nye said in the article. The "F" rating was for overall population in the USA
The US is a funny place. It is very large compared to most other western nations, so hard to generalise the entire population into one statement, but that still won't stop me:)
I found the US to be full of dumb shits. I traveled from coast to coast by land and nearly every person I met was as dumb as a post. Most of them didn't even understand the concept another country is not the same as another state. Granted I probably encountered lowest rung of the ladder as I was mostly interacting with service workers, and it's quite there's some really smart cookies there, but in a functioning democracy you really need the average voter to be a lot smarter than what I witnessed.
I know security types like to trot out the old security through obscurity line all the time, but the simple fact is that most of the time obscurity is good enough.
This will rapidly be entered into the "big book of best practices" for criminals.
Are these the same criminals that post photos of themselves bragging about their crimes on social media? I think you're overestimating the IQ of your average thug.
But if you can hear the difference, it is there, right?
Now how much tweaking and money you want to throw at this pursuit, that is a very subjective thing. But dissing it and ridiculing it is also wrong. It is only one of the many things that continue to fascinate us as a species. And music is indeed very very special to most of us. We just don't pay enough attention to this sense.
There's a paradox with audiophilia (is that a word?). I bought some decent gear years ago, then some more, then realised the more I invested the less satisfied I was, and so had to spend even more to try and be satisfied only to find myself back on square 1. I decided that in this case especially, ignorance is bliss.
So now I stick with lossy mp3 and $20 headphones, and as long as the sound is not really bad, I don't care.
I actually have some $450 Bose QC3 noise cancelling headphones, which are awesome for noise cancelling. But in all honesty the sound isn't $430 better than my other $20 pair.
I'm sure there's some stupid people out there who fell for this, but quite frankly they deserve it.
Even if you fell for all the other shit, the giving your card to a courier is as stupid as it gets.
Slashdot Mirror
You don't even need to pay anyone. Bundle the functionality into the next release of COD and utilise a whole army of skills for free.
Only if you don't have enough aerostats.
Well you don't just fire a bunch of staff, we know that doesn't work. Take the slow road and just move roles sideways then stop hiring into the void. You can lose half a dept of staff in just a few years.
Thanks for the rant. I hate the modern incarnation of the Unions as much as the next guy, but don't think for one moment that Google or Apple is the hero of the story that will come and save the day with their flying/driverless/superinvincibility car. That shit will never work, and if they could fuck you over just as bad they would.
You realise the printer simply forms the structure, even with a 3D printer you'd still have to do all the other painful steps (prep/cleanup etc). It's like those magic food mixer commercials. The magic isn't having a blender that works, it's all the prep and clean up that makes cooking your own food hard.
Another reason you don't make them by hand is that you can go to a place called a restaurant, and for a small fee have someone else make them for you. In that fee includes use of a table, chair and cutlery, ambient lighting and music, electricity, cooking, drink service and clean up. Even if I had a machine I still have the labour involved with buying storing and preparing ingredients, and all the other guff that makes this claim pretty ridiculous.
The best solution I have found is to just pretend the old technology didn't exist. Bin your computer and forget you ever had it. I know it sounds like a cop out, but it worked for me.
You've hit in on the head. The Entertainment industry is chock full of idiots willing to sell their souls to be famous. And where there are fools and money there are leeches there to sell them the dream for a fee. The scam works because the agents are generally smarter than the talent they represent, so can continue the illusion of value add. In IT this is not the case. As we all know, agents are sales people that can't even grasp the simplest terminology or technical concept, so any attempt to sell a bullshit story never gains any traction.
I have worked with a few real 10x-ers -- in the systems field, not development.
No offence, but you can't really have a 10x systems guy. 2x maybe, or in extreme cases 3x, but never 10x. Development is creative, so a clever and creative type can produce 10x more than a regular. A systems guy is just maintenance. Like a guy who cleans toilets, or dig holes, even the very best is only marginally more productive than the average.
Excellence breeds arrogance so what if their was a genuine 10x-er out there that was a douche? They're still worth it. I've worked with plenty of fuckwits in my time, so I'd much prefer a fuckwit with real skills than not.
= 'what makes you such a great fit?' and 'what do you looooove about our company?' Motherfuckers I want a job, your work is interesting, and the pay is commensurate. beyond that im still human capital remember?
This is me in a nutshell. I go to work to get paid. I don't care about your company or your culture, I come in at 9, go home at 5, and take the agreed sum for my efforts.
To be clear, it's not that frequent, just special times when it's called for. Evil happens when good men do nothing. Or some shit.
I'm guessing the irony of this comment is lost on you..
"The program is designed to replace potentially bad ads with safer ones" Why would anyone choose this? I mean is this an opt-in thing, or do they just force it on you? I can't imagine anyone cognitively choosing a product that replaces ads with other ads, when there are other products already on the market that replace ads with no ads instead.
Someone must have modeled this, but a footpath full of aware pedestrians is surprisingly functional as everyone magically navigates small gaps to make space for others. I work in the centre of a large city, and it's surprising how well things work until a jerk on a phone enters the fray, or a tourist staring and pointing while drifting in the another direction. I am also tall and bigger than most, with a history of rugby under my belt I will quite happily drop the shoulder on some unsuspecting jerk who thinks they don't have to play their part. It's surprising how far to can send someone flying when they aren't expecting it.
"a Google search for "buy VPN" in Persian returns 2 million results". Why is this still a thing? I remember pre-Google, people would always quote search result numbers as if this meant something. 2 million hits doesn't mean 2 million VPN providers, or 2 million customers. Anyone is has ever ventured the the dark recesses of page 2 of Google search results knows that after the first 10 or 15 hits, it's all noise.
Of course. It started with you nit-picking, and ended with you telling others not to nit-pick.
Wow, holy crap is this article being intentionally bad at characterizing what Nye said in the article. The "F" rating was for overall population in the USA
The US is a funny place. It is very large compared to most other western nations, so hard to generalise the entire population into one statement, but that still won't stop me :)
I found the US to be full of dumb shits. I traveled from coast to coast by land and nearly every person I met was as dumb as a post. Most of them didn't even understand the concept another country is not the same as another state. Granted I probably encountered lowest rung of the ladder as I was mostly interacting with service workers, and it's quite there's some really smart cookies there, but in a functioning democracy you really need the average voter to be a lot smarter than what I witnessed.
I'm guessing the irony of this comment is lost on you...
I know security types like to trot out the old security through obscurity line all the time, but the simple fact is that most of the time obscurity is good enough.
This will rapidly be entered into the "big book of best practices" for criminals.
Are these the same criminals that post photos of themselves bragging about their crimes on social media? I think you're overestimating the IQ of your average thug.
So all frauds should be legal because, caveat emptor?
No, just the really, really stupid ones
What about if you cut it in half?
But if you can hear the difference, it is there, right?
Now how much tweaking and money you want to throw at this pursuit, that is a very subjective thing. But dissing it and ridiculing it is also wrong. It is only one of the many things that continue to fascinate us as a species. And music is indeed very very special to most of us. We just don't pay enough attention to this sense.
There's a paradox with audiophilia (is that a word?). I bought some decent gear years ago, then some more, then realised the more I invested the less satisfied I was, and so had to spend even more to try and be satisfied only to find myself back on square 1. I decided that in this case especially, ignorance is bliss.
So now I stick with lossy mp3 and $20 headphones, and as long as the sound is not really bad, I don't care.
I actually have some $450 Bose QC3 noise cancelling headphones, which are awesome for noise cancelling. But in all honesty the sound isn't $430 better than my other $20 pair.
I'm sure there's some stupid people out there who fell for this, but quite frankly they deserve it. Even if you fell for all the other shit, the giving your card to a courier is as stupid as it gets.