That's pretty much the way I remember it. I guess many of us will be rummaging around to dig out the dvd and watch it again - not that it will likely settle anything, same as people still argue about who shot first, vi vs emacs, init scripts vs systemd, etc.
I thought Gaff leaving the last unicorn behind was a message to Deckard that he (Gaff) knew what was going on, had been sent to terminate the skin job (Rachel), but for old time's sake was going to look the other way, for once.
If Deckard was a replicant as well, Gaff would have just terminated the two of them.
My vote is Deckard is human, or at least not a replicant.
A professional organization would make sense, except that herding programmers is worse than herding cats. A union with a limited charter (pay for hours worked and no more assuming that employers can pay 40 and squeeze out 80 "because it's crunch time", a grievance process, a union rep present when meeting with HR, stuff like that).
The source said that means the company will take advantage of rules governing intra-company transfers, which require employees to work for at least one year at a company subsidiary before being transferred to the U.S. He says the result will be a net disadvantage for Canada.
How much will these trainees cost our universal health care system? It's not like, as trainees, they're going to be making beaucoup bux.
I suggest abandoning "IT", whatever that is (something from the 20th century, like data processing?), and becoming a software developer.
Software development is part of Information Technology, and it was what I did.
I suspect a blind developer would do far better than a blind welder.
Nah - the welder has a union:-) That's something that programmers have needed for years, if not decades, if only to prevent the worst abuses. Sometimes we're our own worst enemies.
The docs have restored most of my vision in one eye, but the other isn't so good. So the question is, do I really want to spend the time before they go again writing code for some ingrate? The answer is "no."
If you're not ever more in demand as you gather more years of skill, perhaps you've let your skills grow stale (thinking "the cloud" isn't important is the new thinking "the internet" isn't important), or perhaps you have 1 year of experience 20 times, instead of 20 years of growth.
Neither insults nor denial will change the facts. IT has several problems, including ageism, racism, and misogamy.
But for back-end/infrastructure coding, things change more slowly, with a slow drift from C++ to Java over 10 years, and now Python just starting to be taken seriously, maybe in another 10 years it will be important. If you can't keep up with that sort of change, how'd you learn the field in the first place?
Of course, if you never want to change tools, there's a job as a kernel dev waiting if you can hack it - they still party like it's 1989!
Around 1985, assembler, then c, c++, then clipper and a bunch of other database development tools, then switched to windows for a while, pascal and delphi, switched to linux near the end of the century, the "p" languages (php, python, perl), bash scripting, javascript, java (I was late for Java because it was TOO DARN SLOW). At some point I had to use windows concurrently to do flash development and a few other things.
So, neither 1 year of experience repeated 20 times, nor a reluctance to try new things - whatever gets the job that I was being paid for done.. That came to an end 3 years ago when my retinas started to bleed too much and I couldn't use a computer until a few months ago. I miss programming for a living, but I don't miss all the garbage that seems to be inextricably entangled with it, such as the "pissing contests", the hoarding of information, the sexism, the insane hours, the constant changing of designs "because someone saw something really neat and we need it too". Besides, the treatment of people with visual (or other) handicaps also generally sucks.
I guess it's time to end with the almost-obligatory "now get off my lawn, kid" comment, but my heart's not really in it.
The ones that give you a nasty hangover, you mean?
I've never had a hangover from Hop Stoopid. What kind of nasty beer are you drinking?
[_] One that lets him sober up between binges?
[_] Whatever it is, he's obviously not drinking enough the next morning.
[_] That's what happens when you mix good whiskey with beer.
[_] CowboyNeal already drank all the good stuff.
The article is bogus. If you'll note, the article was written to attack a study by the TD Bank that debunked the whole "skilled shortage" myth. It was written by an employer lobby group, without citing a single statistic to back it up. As has been pointed out many times since, there is no skills shortage - just a shortage of people willing to work for far less than they used to under the threat of "we'll replace you with someone off-shore/with a visa/whatever".
The rules are clear - companies are supposed to look at the local talent pool to see if a Canadian can do the job before looking elsewhere -- and this deal blows yet another hole in that regulation.
The federal government has granted an exemption to Microsoft Canada that will allow the company to bring in an unspecified number of temporary foreign workers to British Columbia as trainees without first looking for Canadians to fill the jobs.
And when you write:
(CS workers as the proletariat, ha!)
Times have changed. Ageism is battling with misogamy as THE issue in IT. You may want to read this
Software Engineers Will Work One Day for English Majors
41 Apr 22, 2012 6:00 PM EDT
April 23 (Bloomberg) -- Which of the following describes careers in software engineering?
A. Intellectually stimulating and gratifying.
B. Excellent pay for new bachelor’s degree grads.
C. A career dead-end.
The correct answer (with a “your mileage may vary” disclaimer) is: D. All of the above.
...
Many programmers find that their employability starts to decline at about age 35.
Employers dismiss them as either lacking in up-to-date technical skills -- such as the latest programming-language fad -- or "not suitable for entry level." In other words, either underqualified or overqualified. That doesn’t leave much, does it?
Statistics show that most software developers are out of the field by age 40.
In my opinion, it is very positive for us to have high educated and motivated individuals working here.
They won't be working long-term in Canada. FTFA:
The government notice says the new training and development centre will focus on "software and engineering." The notice also says foreign workers will be given 24-month work permits to allow them to stay in Canada "until they are transitioned by Microsoft into a new position elsewhere.
That "elsewhere" is the US.
Karen Jones, Microsoft’s deputy general counsel, said the deal will allow Microsoft to bypass stricter U.S. rules on visas for foreign workers.
Earlier this year, Mr. Kenney announced that employers with good reputations would be allowed to fast track the hiring of temporary foreign workers and be allowed to pay them 15 per cent less than the average wage for a particular job. Labour groups and the NDP opposition slammed the move, accusing the Conservatives of driving down wages on behalf of employers.
It's not just a surplus in CS - in some areas it's a HUGE surplus. This is just a continuation of the exemptions granted to the banks to bring in foreign workers and have the current workers train them to do their jobs and then get laid off, ditto fast-food chains who don't want to hire Canadians who know their rights and as such are "too uppity", etc.
FTFA:
Karen Jones, Microsoft’s deputy general counsel, said the deal will allow Microsoft to bypass stricter U.S. rules on visas for foreign workers.
"The U.S. laws clearly did not meet our needs. We have to look to other places," she told the wire service. She went on to say Microsoft didn’t choose to expand in Vancouver "purely for immigration purposes, but immigration is a factor."
The source said that means the company will take advantage of rules governing intra-company transfers, which require employees to work for at least one year at a company subsidiary before being transferred to the U.S. He says the result will be a net disadvantage for Canada.
Bad enough the Burger King - Tim Hortons deal was a blatant tax dodge at a time when governments everywhere are trying to get corporations to behave more responsibly... I guess the Harper government decided to "double-double down."
This article pretty much sums it up for the general situation.
Which of the following describes careers in software engineering?
A. Intellectually stimulating and gratifying.
B. Excellent pay for new bachelor’s degree grads.
C. A career dead-end.
The correct answer (with a “your mileage may vary” disclaimer) is: D. All of the above.
... and...
Many programmers find that their employability starts to decline at about age 35.
Employers dismiss them as either lacking in up-to-date technical skills -- such as the latest programming-language fad -- or "not suitable for entry level." In other words, either underqualified or overqualified. That doesn’t leave much, does it? Statistics show that most software developers are out of the field by age 40.
Go cry me a river - trying to relabel pedophiles as "pedosexuals" isn't going to change the reality that minors are not capable of consent.
Many adults are also incapable of consent from handicap or intoxication for example
And having sex with them is also illegal if their mental state is such that they cannot give consent. Or are you really Bill Cosby trying to "muddy the waters" on what consent is?
The LGBT community wants nothing to do with pedophiles, having had to fight the wrong notion that, for example, gay men are pedophiles. As a troll, you fail it.
As opposed to victims of trannies, who consented to be with a person of a given gender and were tricked? Their consent doesn't matter in the slightest?
Depends on what you mean by "trannies", which is both ambiguous and derogatory. The way I see it, if the person is legally the gender they presented themselves as and you can't tell by looking at the private parts, their previous medical history is simply none of your darned business, and you have no basis to cry "I've been tricked." Same as they have no basis to say they've been "tricked" if you've had your teeth capped, dye your hair to look younger than you are, have had a knee replacement, been treated for a mental illness, have kids you "forgot" to mention, or need viagra.
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Because they think they're hotshots and have the kinds of attitudes you see in the posts for this story.
"Here, give me the keyboard, why don't you write up the results or something."
You seem to have forgotten that teachers will be supervising the activities.
You'd also then have to teach them to teach.
No. Kids "teach" each other all the time just by playing. All they'd need is supervision, which the teacher is supposed to be providing anyway.
reduce the intimidation factor of young men, already seasoned programmers, who dominated the class.
Why not assign each of these to pair up with someone who isn't as far along, instead of saying "you can't go here"?
That's a story from a series of Blade Runner books. Not the plot of Blade Runner 2, the movie.
That's pretty much the way I remember it. I guess many of us will be rummaging around to dig out the dvd and watch it again - not that it will likely settle anything, same as people still argue about who shot first, vi vs emacs, init scripts vs systemd, etc.
I thought Gaff leaving the last unicorn behind was a message to Deckard that he (Gaff) knew what was going on, had been sent to terminate the skin job (Rachel), but for old time's sake was going to look the other way, for once.
If Deckard was a replicant as well, Gaff would have just terminated the two of them.
My vote is Deckard is human, or at least not a replicant.
From a man who starred in such unwatchable turds as "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"and "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"?
Why do I hear the voice of Troy McClure from The Simpsons?
A professional organization would make sense, except that herding programmers is worse than herding cats. A union with a limited charter (pay for hours worked and no more assuming that employers can pay 40 and squeeze out 80 "because it's crunch time", a grievance process, a union rep present when meeting with HR, stuff like that).
It does now. Phillip K, Dick - the gift that keeps on giving.
A country that speaks English without a thick accent
You've obviously never been to Newfoundland ... or Quebec, where the English have adopted a lot of French words...
The source said that means the company will take advantage of rules governing intra-company transfers, which require employees to work for at least one year at a company subsidiary before being transferred to the U.S. He says the result will be a net disadvantage for Canada.
How much will these trainees cost our universal health care system? It's not like, as trainees, they're going to be making beaucoup bux.
I suggest abandoning "IT", whatever that is (something from the 20th century, like data processing?), and becoming a software developer.
Software development is part of Information Technology, and it was what I did.
I suspect a blind developer would do far better than a blind welder.
Nah - the welder has a union :-) That's something that programmers have needed for years, if not decades, if only to prevent the worst abuses. Sometimes we're our own worst enemies.
The docs have restored most of my vision in one eye, but the other isn't so good. So the question is, do I really want to spend the time before they go again writing code for some ingrate? The answer is "no."
If you're not ever more in demand as you gather more years of skill, perhaps you've let your skills grow stale (thinking "the cloud" isn't important is the new thinking "the internet" isn't important), or perhaps you have 1 year of experience 20 times, instead of 20 years of growth.
Neither insults nor denial will change the facts. IT has several problems, including ageism, racism, and misogamy.
But for back-end/infrastructure coding, things change more slowly, with a slow drift from C++ to Java over 10 years, and now Python just starting to be taken seriously, maybe in another 10 years it will be important. If you can't keep up with that sort of change, how'd you learn the field in the first place?
Of course, if you never want to change tools, there's a job as a kernel dev waiting if you can hack it - they still party like it's 1989!
Around 1985, assembler, then c, c++, then clipper and a bunch of other database development tools, then switched to windows for a while, pascal and delphi, switched to linux near the end of the century, the "p" languages (php, python, perl), bash scripting, javascript, java (I was late for Java because it was TOO DARN SLOW). At some point I had to use windows concurrently to do flash development and a few other things.
So, neither 1 year of experience repeated 20 times, nor a reluctance to try new things - whatever gets the job that I was being paid for done.. That came to an end 3 years ago when my retinas started to bleed too much and I couldn't use a computer until a few months ago. I miss programming for a living, but I don't miss all the garbage that seems to be inextricably entangled with it, such as the "pissing contests", the hoarding of information, the sexism, the insane hours, the constant changing of designs "because someone saw something really neat and we need it too". Besides, the treatment of people with visual (or other) handicaps also generally sucks.
I guess it's time to end with the almost-obligatory "now get off my lawn, kid" comment, but my heart's not really in it.
The ones that give you a nasty hangover, you mean?
I've never had a hangover from Hop Stoopid. What kind of nasty beer are you drinking?
[_] One that lets him sober up between binges?
[_] Whatever it is, he's obviously not drinking enough the next morning.
[_] That's what happens when you mix good whiskey with beer.
[_] CowboyNeal already drank all the good stuff.
The article is bogus. If you'll note, the article was written to attack a study by the TD Bank that debunked the whole "skilled shortage" myth. It was written by an employer lobby group, without citing a single statistic to back it up. As has been pointed out many times since, there is no skills shortage - just a shortage of people willing to work for far less than they used to under the threat of "we'll replace you with someone off-shore/with a visa/whatever".
"Canadian jobs"? Do Canadians own those jobs?
The rules are clear - companies are supposed to look at the local talent pool to see if a Canadian can do the job before looking elsewhere -- and this deal blows yet another hole in that regulation.
The federal government has granted an exemption to Microsoft Canada that will allow the company to bring in an unspecified number of temporary foreign workers to British Columbia as trainees without first looking for Canadians to fill the jobs.
And when you write:
(CS workers as the proletariat, ha!)
Times have changed. Ageism is battling with misogamy as THE issue in IT. You may want to read this
Software Engineers Will Work One Day for English Majors
41 Apr 22, 2012 6:00 PM EDT
April 23 (Bloomberg) -- Which of the following describes careers in software engineering?
A. Intellectually stimulating and gratifying.
B. Excellent pay for new bachelor’s degree grads.
C. A career dead-end.
The correct answer (with a “your mileage may vary” disclaimer) is: D. All of the above.
Many programmers find that their employability starts to decline at about age 35.
Employers dismiss them as either lacking in up-to-date technical skills -- such as the latest programming-language fad -- or "not suitable for entry level." In other words, either underqualified or overqualified. That doesn’t leave much, does it?
Statistics show that most software developers are out of the field by age 40.
In my opinion, it is very positive for us to have high educated and motivated individuals working here.
They won't be working long-term in Canada. FTFA:
The government notice says the new training and development centre will focus on "software and engineering." The notice also says foreign workers will be given 24-month work permits to allow them to stay in Canada "until they are transitioned by Microsoft into a new position elsewhere.
That "elsewhere" is the US.
Karen Jones, Microsoft’s deputy general counsel, said the deal will allow Microsoft to bypass stricter U.S. rules on visas for foreign workers.
And that stripper program?
Earlier this year, Mr. Kenney announced that employers with good reputations would be allowed to fast track the hiring of temporary foreign workers and be allowed to pay them 15 per cent less than the average wage for a particular job. Labour groups and the NDP opposition slammed the move, accusing the Conservatives of driving down wages on behalf of employers.
Same crap, different day.
It's not just a surplus in CS - in some areas it's a HUGE surplus. This is just a continuation of the exemptions granted to the banks to bring in foreign workers and have the current workers train them to do their jobs and then get laid off, ditto fast-food chains who don't want to hire Canadians who know their rights and as such are "too uppity", etc.
FTFA:
Karen Jones, Microsoft’s deputy general counsel, said the deal will allow Microsoft to bypass stricter U.S. rules on visas for foreign workers.
"The U.S. laws clearly did not meet our needs. We have to look to other places," she told the wire service. She went on to say Microsoft didn’t choose to expand in Vancouver "purely for immigration purposes, but immigration is a factor."
The source said that means the company will take advantage of rules governing intra-company transfers, which require employees to work for at least one year at a company subsidiary before being transferred to the U.S. He says the result will be a net disadvantage for Canada.
Bad enough the Burger King - Tim Hortons deal was a blatant tax dodge at a time when governments everywhere are trying to get corporations to behave more responsibly ... I guess the Harper government decided to "double-double down."
Blame Canada.
Shame, Canada.
Oh, Canada.
Oh-oh Canada.
Magnets... how do they work?
It's magic!
the LGB community didn't accept transsexual monsters just a few decade ago.
Sure they did. And not as "monsters" either. Quit making things up.
This article pretty much sums it up for the general situation.
Which of the following describes careers in software engineering?
A. Intellectually stimulating and gratifying.
B. Excellent pay for new bachelor’s degree grads.
C. A career dead-end.
The correct answer (with a “your mileage may vary” disclaimer) is: D. All of the above.
... and ...
Many programmers find that their employability starts to decline at about age 35.
Employers dismiss them as either lacking in up-to-date technical skills -- such as the latest programming-language fad -- or "not suitable for entry level." In other words, either underqualified or overqualified. That doesn’t leave much, does it? Statistics show that most software developers are out of the field by age 40.
IT today is a toxic environment.
Go cry me a river - trying to relabel pedophiles as "pedosexuals" isn't going to change the reality that minors are not capable of consent.
Many adults are also incapable of consent from handicap or intoxication for example
And having sex with them is also illegal if their mental state is such that they cannot give consent. Or are you really Bill Cosby trying to "muddy the waters" on what consent is?
The LGBT community wants nothing to do with pedophiles, having had to fight the wrong notion that, for example, gay men are pedophiles. As a troll, you fail it.
Neither psychiatry nor psychology recognizes any mental condition called "unsane."
As opposed to victims of trannies, who consented to be with a person of a given gender and were tricked? Their consent doesn't matter in the slightest?
Depends on what you mean by "trannies", which is both ambiguous and derogatory. The way I see it, if the person is legally the gender they presented themselves as and you can't tell by looking at the private parts, their previous medical history is simply none of your darned business, and you have no basis to cry "I've been tricked." Same as they have no basis to say they've been "tricked" if you've had your teeth capped, dye your hair to look younger than you are, have had a knee replacement, been treated for a mental illness, have kids you "forgot" to mention, or need viagra.
The military doesn't have the same problems dealing with civilians, even in a war zone, that the police do.