This. As someone who has 16 years under my belt I'm finding it more and more difficult to branch into areas which I've had little experience because to justify my salary I'm expected to already be an expert. Which is a shame because I have at least another 20 years of new technologies to learn before I retire.
In this industry, where ageism is rampant and getting worse, don't count on it. 40 is the new 65.
Q: Describe to me the basic process of public/private key encryption.
A: (a long string of incomprehensible sounds, something like you might hear coming out of a pentacostal church when they "speak in tongues")
Q: Are you okay?
A: Sure, I answered your question. My answer is encrypted. The encryption is unbreakable.
(try proving otherwise.:-) )
Not true! If you forget the supervisor password to your Ricoh MFP they will charge you $300 to replace the NVRAM on the BICU-Board because you can't master reset the password. Now THAT is some major security!;)
Just archive it with a password, email them the archive, and phone them with the password. No need messing with keys, which the recipient probably doesn't have a clue how to do it.
Typically the ad centres on a 30-something white male who is supposed to be you the viewer, the mark, it being assumed that such a person has money and is gullible. This guy is acting like he is a few slices short of a loaf, and is corrected or advised by what is supposed to be a vastly more intelligent black man, or white woman;
These ads are actually targeted as the "more intelligent person." Every woman knows that men really can wash dishes, but just feign ignorance. Same as changing the roll of toilet paper, or changing the milk bag in the container, or washing their body hair off the soap after a shower.
Would you really trust someone else to do your eulogy?
Should you really trust someone else to do your eulogy?
What ever happened with If you want something done right, you have to write a script for it?:)
At least this way you'll get the last word.
I don't know - when I see the Coke Polar Bear commercial, the first thing that pops into my mind is that global warming is endangering them.
Or this stupid cottonelle speed-dating commercial. She whips out the toilet paper at the dining table, the guy is probably thinking "Awesome - she's into anal!"
Brand advertising is getting goofier and goofier in order to stand out, but standing out for the wrong reasons is not going to work.
I'm not so sure that the article's basic premise is accurate in today's world.
Instead, the findings show that people react to ads on Facebook in the same way they respond to ads on television.
What do people do when TV commercials are on? Go to the bathroom, wash the dishes, surf other channels...
Eye-tracking studies have shown that people have also become ad-blind. We've seen that inserting "add-ish" content into a page (sort of like a slashvertisement) doesn't really work.
Febrile seizures are not high-risk are not a big deal. The first time I saw one, I grabbed my neighbor and her kid and drove them to the hospital. Since it was 25 below zero outside, the child cooled off on the way there (I didn't wait for the engine to warm up, so the inside of the vehicle was COLD), and everything was fine within a couple of minutes. This is after immersion in a cool bath didn't work (I suspect their idea of a cool bath was too close to normal body temp to have any effect).
They can happen to any young child running a fever. Yes, they can happen, no, they're not cause for panic, and especially not a reason to refuse a vaccine that saves a million lives a year.
I wouldn't be so sure of the "unrestricted search engines" part. Since they customize search results based on your past history, you probably won't see the same results as your neighbor in a different industry and with different interests.
Of those accounts, how many are abandoned / never checked / not real humans ? Quantcast says about half are inactive.
I tried it a decade ago, totally useless. Just people who I didn't know asking for recommendations, and the discussions were well below even slashdot's post-dice. I mean, REALLY bad. Just a bunch of wannabes and wankers spending their day trying to impress each other so that maybe possibly by chance of some act of $DIETY they'd make a contact that would actually be productive.
And the recruiters with offers that had nothing to do with my field. My interest is c/c++, you couldn't pay me enough to do ruby on rails. And what part of "no recruiters" do you not understand? And the wannabe recruiters who make it seem like they have a bunch of clients, but when you dig into it, it's just some guy who got laid off from his job a month ago and figures he might as well go into recruiting even though it has nothing to do with his previous experience (sounds like the average recruitment agency staff, who only hang around until they find themselves a better job).
Gate keepers in an age of free communications? They're going to go the way of real estate agents.
Uber can't stop it from happening, especially in cities that decide to create their own integrated app (public transit, walking, biking, taxi, ride-sharing) and regulate what goes on within their borders.
Notice that my example was NOT for error-handing, which is the usual excuse. GOTO is fine, same as JMP, JNE, JLE, etc.
Do you also think that one-line ternary expressions are bad (or chained ternary expressions)? Or that people should code it as if(1==x) instead of if(x==1) because they might forget to use the second equal sign? I "get" the logic behind both, but experience fixes those problems.
I have my style of coding, and if you ask 10 programmers what the ideal style is, you'll get back 11 (or more) opinions. It's no big deal:-)
Unless the MDs specialized in this area, their opinion is as qualified, or unqualified, as mine. One of my sisters got into it with me over the way my endocrinologist and various other specialists were handling my case, going to the point of talking about it to several doctors who stopped by the pharmacy she works at. They said my doctors were wrong. I asked her if they were specialists, and how they can give an accurate opinion (which contradicts the unanimous opinion of half a dozen specialists) without actually seeing me.
The fact is that the two doctors you talked to today were absolutely not able to give a qualified opinion because they have neither seen the patient nor her file.
Life doesn't come with 100% guarantees. There's no guarantee that anybody won't have a seizure or stroke or heart attack or faint form one or another causes; it's about risk management.
You need to let this go, or at least try to be constructive and / or supportive. There is nothing in any post to indicate that she's having grand mal seizures (or even more than one seizure recently after 9 years being seizure-free), and it's also irrelevant how far away he is.
Why? Because, as I pointed out before, most seizures pass after a minute or two, and then the worst side effects are gone within half an hour. And in the worse case scenario, he can call 9-1-1.
People aren't banned from higher-risk activities such as driving because of something that "might happen." We don't ban insulin-dependent diabetics who are well controlled from driving, even though we are at higher risk of hypoglycemic events which can cause confusion, changes in vision, temporary loss of vision, passing out, etc.
That is so totally beyond belief stupid. First, if Putin cracks, who's to say he won't push the button to start TNWW1 (Thermo-Nuclear World War One)? After all, the Israelis have the same policy if they believe that they are about to be defeated - launch all the nukes and make sure that if they go down, so do their enemies.
Second, why would anyone take on the responsibility for hundreds of millions of people with a failed economy? Because you don't just get the land and slaughter everyone.
When you said "it has been shown in some specific fields", name it, give us the links, show it to us that those 'evidences' are valid
AC must be one of those guys who can't even use Google. If you do your own searching, you can control whether you're being fed only one side of the story. Since you can't do it, maybe you can have your female assistant do it for you:-)
Intel justifies this move as a way to, among other things, get a more diverse set of perspectives and inputs as it moves from being just a chipmaker into more diverse markets.
Hiring "more of the same" just reinforces the echo chamber of opinions and options - more of the same. In today's world that makes it more likely to be blindsided. That would be bad for Intel, their employees, suppliers, and yes, even the shareholders. So increased diversity is a "must have" going forward. In this scenario, the best technical chops simply aren't enough - they're just one more variable when looking at the "whole package."
It might be a "rule of thumb" but some of us aren't all thumbs. Returns in switch statements when no resource allocation has yet been done are clean and clear.
You know, a lot of the posts have been cruel and maybe a bit trollish, but I think that so far, you take the cake.
Are you genetically, physically, and mentally so perfect? I doubt it - at the least you seem to be in need of an empathy transplant.
She hasn't had a seizure in 9 years and her doctors were even thinking of weaning her off the medication. Do you ban everyone who "might" produce a child who has a chronic disease? And who decides? Before the discovery of insulin, type one diabetes was a death sentence. In 50 years, we'll probably have a permanent cure. 20 years ago there was one type of cancer that had a 100% fatality rate in children. Now - 5%. In the future - who knows?
The incidence of epilepsy increases dramatically beginning at age 60 years and the elderly are the fastest growing segment of the general population in developed countries.
Based upon the LR (lifetime risk) calculations in this population-based study, 1 in 26 people will develop epilepsy during their lifetime. Men have a higher risk of developing epilepsy (1 of every 21 males) than women (1 of every 28 females). This approach is more accurate than cumulative incidence, and it is better comprehended by most people who are accustomed to similar statistics provided for cancer.
The projected lifetime risk estimates suggest that approximately half the population (47-55%) will eventually have a mental disorder in six countries (Colombia, France, New Zealand, South Africa, Ukraine, United States)
And lets not forget chronic physical diseases - heart, kidneys, diabetes, eyes, cancer, bladder, colon, etc.
If you look at the stats, it's pretty much impossible that anyone on the whole planet is "perfect" and will never develop problems.
I'm sorry for you and your wife's situation, as well as the hostile, non-constructive way that many posters have replied. Then again, this is slashdot... You might want to check more than one place that provides service dogs, because it's not like they only start training them when someone needs one - there are always dogs in the pipeline, partially because some dogs turn out not to be suitable, but more because people who need a service dog of any sort simply can't wait a year or two to get one. You might even want to look at nearby states or provinces.
In the meantime you might want to try borrowing an ordinary dog during the day from a neighbor is isn't home during the day. Any dog can bark a LOT when something is wrong. You'll hear it if you're monitoring pretty much any room in the house, and your neighbor will appreciate having the dog not being left alone all day. Then when you get the service dog, you don't have to "abandon" the other dog - just give it back to the owners. Or keep having it over for daytimes, even if it's just once in a while. Probably not all that practical, but you never know.
Good luck to the 4 of you, and maybe you can find some way to keep us up to date:-)
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This. As someone who has 16 years under my belt I'm finding it more and more difficult to branch into areas which I've had little experience because to justify my salary I'm expected to already be an expert. Which is a shame because I have at least another 20 years of new technologies to learn before I retire.
In this industry, where ageism is rampant and getting worse, don't count on it. 40 is the new 65.
Q: Describe to me the basic process of public/private key encryption. :-) )
A: (a long string of incomprehensible sounds, something like you might hear coming out of a pentacostal church when they "speak in tongues")
Q: Are you okay?
A: Sure, I answered your question. My answer is encrypted. The encryption is unbreakable.
(try proving otherwise.
And what does that have to do with you not having a physical copy of your driver's license?
Not true! If you forget the supervisor password to your Ricoh MFP they will charge you $300 to replace the NVRAM on the BICU-Board because you can't master reset the password. Now THAT is some major security! ;)
That's what they told you? :-)
Just archive it with a password, email them the archive, and phone them with the password. No need messing with keys, which the recipient probably doesn't have a clue how to do it.
Typically the ad centres on a 30-something white male who is supposed to be you the viewer, the mark, it being assumed that such a person has money and is gullible. This guy is acting like he is a few slices short of a loaf, and is corrected or advised by what is supposed to be a vastly more intelligent black man, or white woman;
These ads are actually targeted as the "more intelligent person." Every woman knows that men really can wash dishes, but just feign ignorance. Same as changing the roll of toilet paper, or changing the milk bag in the container, or washing their body hair off the soap after a shower.
Would you really trust someone else to do your eulogy? :)
Should you really trust someone else to do your eulogy?
What ever happened with If you want something done right, you have to write a script for it?
At least this way you'll get the last word.
If you have a friend (or a script) to randomly make posts and click on "Likes", just how will fb know you're dead?
I don't know - when I see the Coke Polar Bear commercial, the first thing that pops into my mind is that global warming is endangering them.
Or this stupid cottonelle speed-dating commercial. She whips out the toilet paper at the dining table, the guy is probably thinking "Awesome - she's into anal!"
Brand advertising is getting goofier and goofier in order to stand out, but standing out for the wrong reasons is not going to work.
Instead, the findings show that people react to ads on Facebook in the same way they respond to ads on television.
What do people do when TV commercials are on? Go to the bathroom, wash the dishes, surf other channels ...
Eye-tracking studies have shown that people have also become ad-blind. We've seen that inserting "add-ish" content into a page (sort of like a slashvertisement) doesn't really work.
And what happens if you go to a state or country that doesn't accept "license-in-a-phone"? Have fun visiting Canada or Mexico.
It used to be that around once a decade, the major version number got bumped up. 3.0 was released in 2011. What's the rush all of a sudden?
If you're going to change it, use something more sensible, like kernel-2015-05-20 rather than having arbitrary version numbers.
Thanks. No problemo :-)
Febrile seizures are not high-risk are not a big deal. The first time I saw one, I grabbed my neighbor and her kid and drove them to the hospital. Since it was 25 below zero outside, the child cooled off on the way there (I didn't wait for the engine to warm up, so the inside of the vehicle was COLD), and everything was fine within a couple of minutes. This is after immersion in a cool bath didn't work (I suspect their idea of a cool bath was too close to normal body temp to have any effect).
They can happen to any young child running a fever. Yes, they can happen, no, they're not cause for panic, and especially not a reason to refuse a vaccine that saves a million lives a year.
I wouldn't be so sure of the "unrestricted search engines" part. Since they customize search results based on your past history, you probably won't see the same results as your neighbor in a different industry and with different interests.
Of those accounts, how many are abandoned / never checked / not real humans ? Quantcast says about half are inactive.
I tried it a decade ago, totally useless. Just people who I didn't know asking for recommendations, and the discussions were well below even slashdot's post-dice. I mean, REALLY bad. Just a bunch of wannabes and wankers spending their day trying to impress each other so that maybe possibly by chance of some act of $DIETY they'd make a contact that would actually be productive.
And the recruiters with offers that had nothing to do with my field. My interest is c/c++, you couldn't pay me enough to do ruby on rails. And what part of "no recruiters" do you not understand? And the wannabe recruiters who make it seem like they have a bunch of clients, but when you dig into it, it's just some guy who got laid off from his job a month ago and figures he might as well go into recruiting even though it has nothing to do with his previous experience (sounds like the average recruitment agency staff, who only hang around until they find themselves a better job).
Gate keepers in an age of free communications? They're going to go the way of real estate agents.
Uber can't stop it from happening, especially in cities that decide to create their own integrated app (public transit, walking, biking, taxi, ride-sharing) and regulate what goes on within their borders.
Notice that my example was NOT for error-handing, which is the usual excuse. GOTO is fine, same as JMP, JNE, JLE, etc.
Do you also think that one-line ternary expressions are bad (or chained ternary expressions)? Or that people should code it as if(1==x) instead of if(x==1) because they might forget to use the second equal sign? I "get" the logic behind both, but experience fixes those problems.
I have my style of coding, and if you ask 10 programmers what the ideal style is, you'll get back 11 (or more) opinions. It's no big deal :-)
Unless the MDs specialized in this area, their opinion is as qualified, or unqualified, as mine. One of my sisters got into it with me over the way my endocrinologist and various other specialists were handling my case, going to the point of talking about it to several doctors who stopped by the pharmacy she works at. They said my doctors were wrong. I asked her if they were specialists, and how they can give an accurate opinion (which contradicts the unanimous opinion of half a dozen specialists) without actually seeing me.
The fact is that the two doctors you talked to today were absolutely not able to give a qualified opinion because they have neither seen the patient nor her file.
Life doesn't come with 100% guarantees. There's no guarantee that anybody won't have a seizure or stroke or heart attack or faint form one or another causes; it's about risk management.
You need to let this go, or at least try to be constructive and / or supportive. There is nothing in any post to indicate that she's having grand mal seizures (or even more than one seizure recently after 9 years being seizure-free), and it's also irrelevant how far away he is.
Why? Because, as I pointed out before, most seizures pass after a minute or two, and then the worst side effects are gone within half an hour. And in the worse case scenario, he can call 9-1-1.
People aren't banned from higher-risk activities such as driving because of something that "might happen." We don't ban insulin-dependent diabetics who are well controlled from driving, even though we are at higher risk of hypoglycemic events which can cause confusion, changes in vision, temporary loss of vision, passing out, etc.
That is so totally beyond belief stupid. First, if Putin cracks, who's to say he won't push the button to start TNWW1 (Thermo-Nuclear World War One)? After all, the Israelis have the same policy if they believe that they are about to be defeated - launch all the nukes and make sure that if they go down, so do their enemies.
Second, why would anyone take on the responsibility for hundreds of millions of people with a failed economy? Because you don't just get the land and slaughter everyone.
When you said "it has been shown in some specific fields", name it, give us the links, show it to us that those 'evidences' are valid
AC must be one of those guys who can't even use Google. If you do your own searching, you can control whether you're being fed only one side of the story. Since you can't do it, maybe you can have your female assistant do it for you :-)
Intel justifies this move as a way to, among other things, get a more diverse set of perspectives and inputs as it moves from being just a chipmaker into more diverse markets.
Hiring "more of the same" just reinforces the echo chamber of opinions and options - more of the same. In today's world that makes it more likely to be blindsided. That would be bad for Intel, their employees, suppliers, and yes, even the shareholders. So increased diversity is a "must have" going forward. In this scenario, the best technical chops simply aren't enough - they're just one more variable when looking at the "whole package."
It might be a "rule of thumb" but some of us aren't all thumbs. Returns in switch statements when no resource allocation has yet been done are clean and clear.
You know, a lot of the posts have been cruel and maybe a bit trollish, but I think that so far, you take the cake.
Are you genetically, physically, and mentally so perfect? I doubt it - at the least you seem to be in need of an empathy transplant.
She hasn't had a seizure in 9 years and her doctors were even thinking of weaning her off the medication. Do you ban everyone who "might" produce a child who has a chronic disease? And who decides? Before the discovery of insulin, type one diabetes was a death sentence. In 50 years, we'll probably have a permanent cure. 20 years ago there was one type of cancer that had a 100% fatality rate in children. Now - 5%. In the future - who knows?
You might want to consider your own future - because you are at risk.
The incidence of epilepsy increases dramatically beginning at age 60 years and the elderly are the fastest growing segment of the general population in developed countries.
Based upon the LR (lifetime risk) calculations in this population-based study, 1 in 26 people will develop epilepsy during their lifetime. Men have a higher risk of developing epilepsy (1 of every 21 males) than women (1 of every 28 females). This approach is more accurate than cumulative incidence, and it is better comprehended by most people who are accustomed to similar statistics provided for cancer.
Now throw in mental illnesses:
The projected lifetime risk estimates suggest that approximately half the population (47-55%) will eventually have a mental disorder in six countries (Colombia, France, New Zealand, South Africa, Ukraine, United States)
And lets not forget chronic physical diseases - heart, kidneys, diabetes, eyes, cancer, bladder, colon, etc.
If you look at the stats, it's pretty much impossible that anyone on the whole planet is "perfect" and will never develop problems.
I'm sorry for you and your wife's situation, as well as the hostile, non-constructive way that many posters have replied. Then again, this is slashdot ... You might want to check more than one place that provides service dogs, because it's not like they only start training them when someone needs one - there are always dogs in the pipeline, partially because some dogs turn out not to be suitable, but more because people who need a service dog of any sort simply can't wait a year or two to get one. You might even want to look at nearby states or provinces.
In the meantime you might want to try borrowing an ordinary dog during the day from a neighbor is isn't home during the day. Any dog can bark a LOT when something is wrong. You'll hear it if you're monitoring pretty much any room in the house, and your neighbor will appreciate having the dog not being left alone all day. Then when you get the service dog, you don't have to "abandon" the other dog - just give it back to the owners. Or keep having it over for daytimes, even if it's just once in a while. Probably not all that practical, but you never know.
Good luck to the 4 of you, and maybe you can find some way to keep us up to date :-)