The poster was saying that if the coal was less than a million years old, it didn't count. Try to follow along next time (yes, I'm in a bad mood. My dog died 2 days ago).
Most blind people weren't blind at birth. You wouldn't have to describe colors for them. As for those who never saw the color blue, it's the same as those who were not blind at birth - it's totally useless information. It would be like telling a blind person to only cross the street when the light is green. Even their guide dong can't tell the color of the traffic lights. The blind person uses their ears to determine the traffic flow, and when it's safe to cross. The color of the lights, or the existence or non-existence of a stop sign, means nothing.
Also those who are born blind, their visual cortex changes function so that it can be used to build up a map of the surroundings from sounds, echos, tactile sensations, even the angle of the foot on the street (the street has a crown in the center to help drainage, and you can tell when you're half-way across when your ankle changes angle. You know how many paces it took to get to the center, it'll probably take an equal number to get to the other sidewalk). If they suddenly became sighted, they would not be capable of understanding what they are seeing. Their brain has no knowledge of colors, and has changed function.
Exactly, 90% if everythubg s shit - that includes managers and programmers. Problem is, the 90% of managers can't tell the difference, so they hire from the larger pol. This encourages people who should not be coding to stay in the field. And with this surplus of labour, plenty of ideas that should not see the light of day are funded in the hope of striking it rich
Amd don't hold your breath expecting that 90% of shit managers to say that the people they hired are shit - not if they want to keep their job and milk it for all it's worth before hopping to another company and repeating the cycle.
First, having others come over wouldn't be for an all-day session. It woud just be for when you need to get together with 1 or more co-workers to thrash something out. And no, this is not "telecommute from a common location." Are you being purposefully thick? If the people are competent and they know what has to be done by each of them, there's not much need for either form of communication. If they are interrupting you every 10 minutes, either fire them or assign them to something else and get people who know what they're doing. And probably fire the person who set up such a stupid team that is doomed to go way over the deadline and produce unsatisfactory results.
Second, you may all live in the same area, but the workplace may be far from you. It's ridiculous to have to fight traffic both ways for a total of 3 hours when it's not necessary (the office site was chosen - in another city - for the convenience of the President and VP, not the employees).
BTW, visiting nurses receive their scheduled destinations and don't stay in touch with the central location unless there's something that they can't handle, such as a patient needing to be seen by a doctor. You're the one who doesn't have a handle on how things work, not me. You can NOT tell if a nurse is doing a good job "by simply asking is the patient alive." Stop thinking like a child.
From your comjment, you're a fucking idiot who has never had to manage either an office or a team.
And to contradict that, we have the written word, in books, for centuries. O'Reilly makes coin on the fact that even specialized knowledge is transferable in print. Or just google it. No need for in person meetings.
Mentoring is best done one-on-one. Not in an office. People will be afraid to ask stupid questions, so everything gets screwed up. That alone is reason enough to get out of the office - go to a restaurant, pizza joint, donut shop - anywhere else.
So meet in the local pub for a bull session and pens to draw on the back of napkins. Richard Berry came up with the lyrincs for Louie Louie and wrote them on toilet paper. W.C. Fields sold a plot idea he had written (Never Give a Sucker an Even Break) on the back of his grocery order to Universal for $25,000.00. The Star Spangled Banner was written on the back of a letter Francis Scott Key had in his pocket. Arthur Laffer used a cocktail napkin to explain the Laffer Curve to Donald Rumsfeld, Ford's economic adviser. The original idea for the VW bus was sketched on a napkin. So was the idea for the original Compaq Computer. And the automatic fire hose nozzle. And (fittingly) the AMC Gremlin.
You don't need to be sitting in an office in front of a white board to get an idea across. More informal settings also work.
Don't be silly. If your dog is in the garage and your garage door automatically opens when you pull in the driveway, your dog is gone. Same with kids if they're in the back yard and the door leading to the garage is open.
Managers don't know enough about the ins and outs of the job, so they substitute butts warming seats instead of proper performance metrics.
Other reasons, such as mentoring, are fullof sh*t. There's no reason a group of coders, documentation writers, even accountants, can't rotate meeting at each other's homes in small groups of 2 to 6 people, especially if they all live in the same area. This also takes care of the "communications work better in person", because sometimes having a frank discussion to find out what is bothering a co-worker isn't ever going to happen under the watchful eyes of everyone else.
As for the "creativity happens in the hallway", first, consider the source. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer banned telecommuting, and Yahoo fell into the shitter - over and over and over. There is no reason for ANYONE to be stupid enough to write an article on October 4th, 2016 (the date of the article) with advice from Marissa Mayer, unless it's "How to ruin a business, screw over employees and shareholders, and collect a golden parachute". Seriouisly. WTF was Esther Schindler thinking? Or EditorDavid, for that matter?
"Managing remote workers is harder" - sure, if you don't understand what they're doing, don't trust them, don't have a way to measure performance, and want to justify your job as a manager by being seen managing those chair-warming butts. Don't use the manager's incompetence as an excuse. It indicates that whoever hired the manager should also be fired.
"It's more complicated." Aw, gee whiz. If you're going to use that excuse, put a gun in your mouth and eat a bullet. LIFE is complicated. Other companies can do it, managing nurses visiting patients in their homes, truck drivers on deliveries, any company that dispatches workers to the job. Anyone making the excuse that it is complicated should be ashamed of themselves,
As for "we've always done it this way", we could have used the same excuse to keep the old outhouse around. Both are equally full of shit.
Absolutely useless. Where do you think that all the carbon we're pumping into the atmosphere by burning coal came from? Plants.
Planting trees today doesn't permanently remove carbon - the Fort McMurray fire earlier this year represents 10% of all Canada's greenhouse gas emissions. Burying it won't work either - it will just rot and produce methane - more than an order of magnitude worse as a greenhouse gas.
The only solution, both short and long term, is to stop burning stuff.
Opening a garage door with your smartphone is stupid and dangerous when you're pulling into your driveway. Unlike a regular garage door remote, you can't do the smartphone purely by feel. Also, pretty much impossible when riding your bike, whereas again, it can be done by feel from 100 feet away, no problem. AND no internet needed.
A regular remote, you have to be within range. An IoT remote, you can open someone's door from anywhere in the world. Really stupid. Your insurance is going to bitch about covering you when you get robbed repeatedly because some prankster wants to have fun and swatting you is too high-risk.
That's pretty much it. IoT devices have to be cheap to be even remotely attractive, to make up for the obvious uselessness of many of them, Most of these devices have no real justification, or the hazards outweigh the benefits.
It's a tendency for humans to always overshoot the mark when trying to reverse a trend. It's the sort of illogic that says that if you have one foot in a bucket of boiling water, and the other in a bucket of ice water, on average you should be comfortable.
One might argue that labelling a spectrum of motivations and behaviors with a single term is unhelpful.
One might, and one would be right. Unfortunately, some people are so eager for attention that they'll jump onto any bandwagon, and so nasty that they'll use any socially acceptable means to dominate others.
Actually there are - both male and female. However, achieving equality isn't in the SJW's agenda, and the definition of feminist has been transformed into something ugly and repulsive to many of both sexes.
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The poster was saying that if the coal was less than a million years old, it didn't count. Try to follow along next time (yes, I'm in a bad mood. My dog died 2 days ago).
Most blind people weren't blind at birth. You wouldn't have to describe colors for them. As for those who never saw the color blue, it's the same as those who were not blind at birth - it's totally useless information. It would be like telling a blind person to only cross the street when the light is green. Even their guide dong can't tell the color of the traffic lights. The blind person uses their ears to determine the traffic flow, and when it's safe to cross. The color of the lights, or the existence or non-existence of a stop sign, means nothing.
Also those who are born blind, their visual cortex changes function so that it can be used to build up a map of the surroundings from sounds, echos, tactile sensations, even the angle of the foot on the street (the street has a crown in the center to help drainage, and you can tell when you're half-way across when your ankle changes angle. You know how many paces it took to get to the center, it'll probably take an equal number to get to the other sidewalk). If they suddenly became sighted, they would not be capable of understanding what they are seeing. Their brain has no knowledge of colors, and has changed function.
Exactly, 90% if everythubg s shit - that includes managers and programmers. Problem is, the 90% of managers can't tell the difference, so they hire from the larger pol. This encourages people who should not be coding to stay in the field. And with this surplus of labour, plenty of ideas that should not see the light of day are funded in the hope of striking it rich
Amd don't hold your breath expecting that 90% of shit managers to say that the people they hired are shit - not if they want to keep their job and milk it for all it's worth before hopping to another company and repeating the cycle.
First, having others come over wouldn't be for an all-day session. It woud just be for when you need to get together with 1 or more co-workers to thrash something out. And no, this is not "telecommute from a common location." Are you being purposefully thick? If the people are competent and they know what has to be done by each of them, there's not much need for either form of communication. If they are interrupting you every 10 minutes, either fire them or assign them to something else and get people who know what they're doing. And probably fire the person who set up such a stupid team that is doomed to go way over the deadline and produce unsatisfactory results.
Second, you may all live in the same area, but the workplace may be far from you. It's ridiculous to have to fight traffic both ways for a total of 3 hours when it's not necessary (the office site was chosen - in another city - for the convenience of the President and VP, not the employees).
BTW, visiting nurses receive their scheduled destinations and don't stay in touch with the central location unless there's something that they can't handle, such as a patient needing to be seen by a doctor. You're the one who doesn't have a handle on how things work, not me. You can NOT tell if a nurse is doing a good job "by simply asking is the patient alive." Stop thinking like a child.
From your comjment, you're a fucking idiot who has never had to manage either an office or a team.
And to contradict that, we have the written word, in books, for centuries. O'Reilly makes coin on the fact that even specialized knowledge is transferable in print. Or just google it. No need for in person meetings.
Mentoring is best done one-on-one. Not in an office. People will be afraid to ask stupid questions, so everything gets screwed up. That alone is reason enough to get out of the office - go to a restaurant, pizza joint, donut shop - anywhere else.
It's extremely relevant to any discussion of when coal seams were first formed. Go fuck yourself.
so why does Esther Schindler get to blogspam Slashdot...???
Because she had five "points" - they mistook it for a Schindler List.
Wally would be the more likely to get promoted because, being a slacker, he had more opportunity to have "face time" with the managers.
There are enough people in India without indoor flush toilets that they could make a line from here to the moon. No thanks.
So meet in the local pub for a bull session and pens to draw on the back of napkins. Richard Berry came up with the lyrincs for Louie Louie and wrote them on toilet paper. W.C. Fields sold a plot idea he had written (Never Give a Sucker an Even Break) on the back of his grocery order to Universal for $25,000.00. The Star Spangled Banner was written on the back of a letter Francis Scott Key had in his pocket. Arthur Laffer used a cocktail napkin to explain the Laffer Curve to Donald Rumsfeld, Ford's economic adviser. The original idea for the VW bus was sketched on a napkin. So was the idea for the original Compaq Computer. And the automatic fire hose nozzle. And (fittingly) the AMC Gremlin.
You don't need to be sitting in an office in front of a white board to get an idea across. More informal settings also work.
Welcome to the late 20th century, where email exists.
Don't be silly. If your dog is in the garage and your garage door automatically opens when you pull in the driveway, your dog is gone. Same with kids if they're in the back yard and the door leading to the garage is open.
You're replying to the wrong person :-( You should have replied to the reply above mine.
Duh, how long ago did that carbon get pulled out of the atmosphere? If the answer is less than millions of years it's carbon neutral.
It was more than a million years - more like 300 million or more. It's called the carboniferous period for a reason.
So "duh" right back at you. Didn't you learn this in grade school?
Managers don't know enough about the ins and outs of the job, so they substitute butts warming seats instead of proper performance metrics.
Other reasons, such as mentoring, are fullof sh*t. There's no reason a group of coders, documentation writers, even accountants, can't rotate meeting at each other's homes in small groups of 2 to 6 people, especially if they all live in the same area. This also takes care of the "communications work better in person", because sometimes having a frank discussion to find out what is bothering a co-worker isn't ever going to happen under the watchful eyes of everyone else.
As for the "creativity happens in the hallway", first, consider the source. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer banned telecommuting, and Yahoo fell into the shitter - over and over and over. There is no reason for ANYONE to be stupid enough to write an article on October 4th, 2016 (the date of the article) with advice from Marissa Mayer, unless it's "How to ruin a business, screw over employees and shareholders, and collect a golden parachute". Seriouisly. WTF was Esther Schindler thinking? Or EditorDavid, for that matter?
"Managing remote workers is harder" - sure, if you don't understand what they're doing, don't trust them, don't have a way to measure performance, and want to justify your job as a manager by being seen managing those chair-warming butts. Don't use the manager's incompetence as an excuse. It indicates that whoever hired the manager should also be fired.
"It's more complicated." Aw, gee whiz. If you're going to use that excuse, put a gun in your mouth and eat a bullet. LIFE is complicated. Other companies can do it, managing nurses visiting patients in their homes, truck drivers on deliveries, any company that dispatches workers to the job. Anyone making the excuse that it is complicated should be ashamed of themselves,
As for "we've always done it this way", we could have used the same excuse to keep the old outhouse around. Both are equally full of shit.
Crap article by someone who is stuck in the past.
Automatic doors and gates are real great, until you have pets and kids running around on the property.
What do you mean, next week? You missed Hurricane Matthew? The increase in severity of forest fires, droughts, etc? It's already here.
Cellulose to fuel won't work. What do you think cellulose is? C6-H10-O5 You'll just be putting all that carbon back into the atmosphere as CO2.
Absolutely useless. Where do you think that all the carbon we're pumping into the atmosphere by burning coal came from? Plants.
Planting trees today doesn't permanently remove carbon - the Fort McMurray fire earlier this year represents 10% of all Canada's greenhouse gas emissions. Burying it won't work either - it will just rot and produce methane - more than an order of magnitude worse as a greenhouse gas.
The only solution, both short and long term, is to stop burning stuff.
Opening a garage door with your smartphone is stupid and dangerous when you're pulling into your driveway. Unlike a regular garage door remote, you can't do the smartphone purely by feel. Also, pretty much impossible when riding your bike, whereas again, it can be done by feel from 100 feet away, no problem. AND no internet needed.
A regular remote, you have to be within range. An IoT remote, you can open someone's door from anywhere in the world. Really stupid. Your insurance is going to bitch about covering you when you get robbed repeatedly because some prankster wants to have fun and swatting you is too high-risk.
So where do I collect my prize?
That's pretty much it. IoT devices have to be cheap to be even remotely attractive, to make up for the obvious uselessness of many of them, Most of these devices have no real justification, or the hazards outweigh the benefits.
It's a tendency for humans to always overshoot the mark when trying to reverse a trend. It's the sort of illogic that says that if you have one foot in a bucket of boiling water, and the other in a bucket of ice water, on average you should be comfortable.
One might argue that labelling a spectrum of motivations and behaviors with a single term is unhelpful.
One might, and one would be right. Unfortunately, some people are so eager for attention that they'll jump onto any bandwagon, and so nasty that they'll use any socially acceptable means to dominate others.
Dude. There are no feminists on this web site.
Actually there are - both male and female. However, achieving equality isn't in the SJW's agenda, and the definition of feminist has been transformed into something ugly and repulsive to many of both sexes.