When one side has been playing that game for a decade, now is not the time to interrupt them when they're digging their own grave. The only way to get this pathological partisanship out of the system is with fire - let it burn its' proponents but good.
A gravitational lens is a distribution of matter (such as a cluster of galaxies) between a distant light source and an observer, that is capable of bending the light from the source as the light travels towards the observer. This effect is known as gravitational lensing, and the amount of bending is one of the predictions of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity. (Classical physics also predicts the bending of light, but only half that predicted by general relativity.)
Although either Orest Khvolson (1924) or Frantisek Link (1936) is sometimes credited as being the first to discuss the effect in print, the effect is more commonly associated with Einstein, who published a more famous article on the subject in 1936.
Fritz Zwicky posited in 1937 that the effect could allow galaxy clusters to act as gravitational lenses. It was not until 1979 that this effect was confirmed by observation of the so-called "Twin QSO" SBS 0957+561.
I know that there's a tradition here of being late with the news, but THAT late?
Trump keeps making a fool of himself. Why would anyone opposed to his agenda want to muzzle him? Even with both feet in his mouth, he keeps proving that his mental faculties are questionable, that he doesn't understand how the real world works. and that Republicans nominated and elected the worst-qualified president in history.
The Saudis are now laughing at how easily he was manipulated.
Even William Henry Harrison, the 9th president, had a better first 100 days in office, and he died after one month.
... because drunks usually have a "failure to launch", even with viagra. But their memories seem to be uniformly affected as they boast to everyone about the mind-blowing sex they had. The only thing blown is their memory.
Slightly intoxicated folks tend to enjoy having conversations with slightly intoxicated folks the same way that heavily intoxicated folks tend to enjoy having conversations with other heavily intoxicated folks. But even slightly intoxicated folks don't want to talk with those same heavily intoxicated folks. And the bullshit factor rises quickly with every drink. After a certain point, nobody can put up with a drunk's bullshit. Or someone who's slightly intoxicated and doesn't realize they're being boorish or offensive.
Beer did not save the world. Improved agricultural techniques have endangered the world by allowing overbreeding. So rather than just killing off humans by famine, we're killing off the whole planet. And this has been happening for several thousand years, as humans have hunted one species to another to extinction, and destroyed habitats by converting them to... wait for it... farming. Plagues of locusts are more benign.
People always minimize their consumption. A couple of months ago a medical professional was taking my history, and asked me about my alcohol consumption and I laughed. She said that usually means either you drink a LOT or none at all. I told her that the only times I had any alcohol last year were Thanksgiving and Christmas at family suppers, and it wasn't much. Getting loaded is considered bad form and makes you a boring conversationalist, even if YOU think you're brilliant.
You really lack insight into how badly you are projecting your own insecurities. Well, I've wasted my 10 minutes on the internet - gotta go do another day of disaster relief. Enjoy your life. I'm sure as hell enjoying mine.
Still dodging the topic I see. Look, I'm far too busy nowadays doing disaster relief to even burn off my mod points, there's a lot of people who are depending on me for the duration of the emergency, so I really don't have the time for your bullshit. I've been pushing so hard I put on a crap-load of muscle, so much that I stripped off the membrane on a couple of bones and had to spend my birthday in the hospital emergency ward Saturday so I could get back to it Sunday, today, tomorrow, the day after...
I could have begged off for the next week, but I'm not going to stop pushing the limits until things are more or less back to normal. So continue with your mental masturbation, I'm going to be in the real world making a real difference. And I'll say something, I find it far more fulfilling than writing software ever was. I've talked with the families who lost everything, whose cars were completely submerged and are total write-offs, whose homes are red-tagged as uninhabitable, who are not allowed to go back and salvage stuff, and it's something else to be able to give them all the food and other grocery goods that they need to get started and keep them going for a while, because the local community donated 100s of tons of food, both to where I'm working, and to other organizations (but I think the bulk went through us, and that's a LOT of unloading, sorting, boxing, palettizing, and shipping to where it's needed, lots of hot meals for victims in shelters and relief workers, on top of the regular food box distribution that feeds over 700 people every week.
Sorry that you will never know that feeling. It puts shit like this in perspective.
Both the US and Russia (and the former Soviet Union) as well as the UK have a LOOONG history of interfering in the internal politics of other countries by covert and illegal means. You reap what you sow - and that applies equally to everyone.
You also completely failed to address the topic, because you can't refute my observation that requiring a doctor's note is an invasion of privacy., so you childishly avoid the question the same way a 5-year-old who's told "No" does when they don't get what they want - mommy says "No", 5-year-old changes the topic to "You're a big meanie."
Au contraire, unlike you, I'm not a sheeple. I flat out refuse to get a doctor's note for an employer, same as I refused to give my employer the court's jury duty paper explaining that I would be absent for 4-5 weeks for a murder trial. If they don't trust me, I don't want to work for them.
There is absolutely NO legal requirement to provide a doctor's note to an employer for an absence. It's my private business, my time, same as on days off and non-working hours. You're continuing to show you're a fool who cannot conceive that anyone can possibly have a better idea than you. Must be frustrating knowing in the back of your mind that I'm right.
Obviously it does, or you would be doing something other than trolling women on the internet. What a loser virgin. (Your right hand doesn't count as a sexual partner).
Oh come one, you know I LIVE for when people snark me:-) You can do it! I have faith in you.
On a more serious note, the whole Apps mania is just another sign of the shift that has made software development "not fun" any more. Long ago, the thrill was in developing something that was useful or entertaining in its' own right, there wasn't this hysterical drive to monetize asap and walk away (serial entrepreneur now is just another term for huckster).
Things really started for fall apart with the "we must have a new version every year, and it must have a zillion new features", which caused a huge decline in quality - see what happened to Corel at version 4 as one example. Michael Copeland just had to juice his stock every year on schedule, so the motivation was monetary, not "We'll have the best of breed and the money will come." They're not quite the same when it comes to work environment and execution. Hence the rise of the psychopathic manager - and this happened all across the employment market, not just in IT. I blame Reagan. After all, even fish rot from the head. It certainly killed Borland. (side note - just to show how far it's declined, spell checker didn't recognize either Corel or Borland).
It's gotten to the point that major portions of the economy (IT, the military) need to continuously inflate bubbles. Crazy. And not sustainable.
Your interpretation of the statistics is full of shit. You've eliminated whole swaths of stuff that should be included, like caring for children. Here's the actual totals from the same site
On the days they did household activities, women spent an average of 2.6 hours on
such activities, while men spent 2.1 hours.
--On an average day, 22 percent of men did housework--such as cleaning or laundry--compared
with 50 percent of women. Forty-three percent of men did food preparation or cleanup,
compared with 70 percent of women. Men were slightly more likely to engage in lawn and
garden care than were women--12 percent compared with 8 percent.
Women worked around the home more than twice as many days as men, and spent more time each day that they did than men did.
2.6 hours average per day that women did housework, x 3.5 days = 9,1 hours (this does NOT include caring for children or elderly parents, which also falls mostly on women).
2.1 hours per day that men did housework, x 1.54 days per week = 3.234 hours per week. That's way less than half as much. If it's so insignificant, why aren't men doing it. That 50.8 minutes a day extra, 7 days a week, works out to 101 minutes each day that women do housework. Considering the day has 24 hours, and that work takes 8.5 hours, leaving 15.5 hours. Now throw in commute time - 2 hours, leaving 13.5 hours. Let's not forget sleep - 8-3/4 hours according to your chart, leaving 5.25 hours. At some point you have to eat breakfast and supper, say you round down the number on your chart to 1 hour total. That leaves 4.25 hours. Oh, and you have to shower and sh*t, do it quick because you don't have much time, and get dressed and undressed. Your chart gives 40 minutes a day for "personal grooming", but we'll throw in taking a dump, just because we're generous. Leaves you 3.58 hours.
And we still haven't included things like caring for children, parents, etc., helping with homework (which is NOT housework), where the hell do you find almost 2.6 hours for housework every second day? 3.58 hours - 2.6 hours = just under an hour of "free time" to do ALL other things - watch tv, play with the kids, talk to family and friends, nag the hubby for not doing his fair share, etc. An extra 40 minutes would be HUGE.
Well, it's not just the App. There's the promotion, support, etc. It certainly takes more than one person to do that for an app in the top 1,000. No matter how good it is, if it isn't promoted properly it won't be going anywhere, and crappy support will kill it quickly.:-)
Plus, I hate the whole "App Mania." It's a huge diversion of resources that could be better deployed elsewhere. I've spent the last month doing flood disaster relief work, and I've seen firsthand how what I do, along with everyone else, is improving people's lives in real ways. No app is going to give you the same emotional high that helping people who have literally lost everything except the clothes on their backs. And the need isn't going away tomorrow, or even next month...
Honestly, I'd rather continue to do that. Consider it a kind of "don't be evil" as opposed to "don't do evil." It's simply wrong (aka "evil") to ignore someone who is in need if you can help them. I think most people feel that way, bu there are so many inhibitions and practicalities that prevent them from rising to the occasion. I get that, so I'm not going to judge those who don't act, but I've got to say, the hundreds of tons of food donated to feed the victims can't leave you unmoved. In the last week alone, we've probably distributed food to 1,000 people, plus making lunch for hundreds of clean-up volunteers, and the other regular stuff like community suppers for $2 a head, $5 a family for a 3-course meal, fund raising, etc. It's f'ing awesome.
At one point yesterday we had 3 families (representing 20 people - blended families tend to get large) simultaneously filling up shopping carts and trolleys to overflowing with whatever they needed. They've lost their homes and their cars. But when they left, they knew the community was behind them 100%. It's a real privilege to be able to do this.
The real problem is employers who treat their employees like children. "Bring a note from the doctor." Kind of like when you were a kid and if you missed school you had to "bring a note from your parents."
Mine thought it was stupid, and gave me a blanket note at the beginning of the year saying that if I was absent it was with their permission. Trust. Instill it, then build on it.
Look at the potential for personal information leakage from a doctor's note. They just look up the doctor, and if it's a specialist, they can draw some prejudicial conclusions.
Cancer specialist? Oops - they're going to be a big insurance liability - better fire them.
Psychiatrist? Oops, they might be a nut case - better fire them.
Doctor specializing in sex changes? If they were female at birth, they're going to want a pay raise after the operation - better fire them.
And if they were born male? We don't need bathroom wars disrupting business - better fire them.
They're not paying you for the time off, so what makes them think they're entitled to pry into what is by definition private time, not time that you're employed? Just sign the thing "Arnold Horshak's mother" and when they ask WTF, say "Did I ever tell you about my uncle Max?":-)
I'm glad you asked. It's easy to calculate what the average is for those who aren't in the top 1,000.
$70 billion 2.2 million current apps gives 31k per app per 9 years. say 3.5 k per year. Now you have to deduct for apps that used to be in the store but are no more, so let's be generous and say the rate of attrition is 50% over the last 9 years (it's probably much higher). That means the average app makes $1.75 k per year.
So let's be nice again, and say that the top 1,000 apps take 90% of the revenue (it's probably much more). That leaves the 4.4 million apps (we have to include those that are no longer there, remember?) to split $7 billion over 9 years, or $1,509 each over 9 years, which works out to $176 a year.
So, how many apps does the average app developer have to crank out to make $10 an hour ($20,800 per year) for a 40 hour week (260 days, no 2 weeks holiday for YOU!) You would need to crank out 118 apps in 260 working 8-hour days in a year..That's more than 2 apps a day. With no money left for overhead, income tax, etc., and no time or budget for promoting your app or support.
Most app devs are either suckers or they've got a customer who is a sucker.
And remember, this is an average. Half will be making less than $10 an hour pumping out 118 apps a year.
Well, except that there were other languages before basic that didn't use line numbers. That moldy golden oldie, assembler, jumped to offsets (usually defined as a symbolic name), not line numbers. But if you want to call me a youngster, at my age I'll take it as a compliment:-p
BTW - you could use variables longer than 2 letters, just that only the first two were significant, so COUNT and COW were the same. As long as you kept that limitation in mind, it made for more readable code. And if you didn't, well, have fun debugging... But at least it made code more readable.
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When one side has been playing that game for a decade, now is not the time to interrupt them when they're digging their own grave. The only way to get this pathological partisanship out of the system is with fire - let it burn its' proponents but good.
A gravitational lens is a distribution of matter (such as a cluster of galaxies) between a distant light source and an observer, that is capable of bending the light from the source as the light travels towards the observer. This effect is known as gravitational lensing, and the amount of bending is one of the predictions of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity. (Classical physics also predicts the bending of light, but only half that predicted by general relativity.) Although either Orest Khvolson (1924) or Frantisek Link (1936) is sometimes credited as being the first to discuss the effect in print, the effect is more commonly associated with Einstein, who published a more famous article on the subject in 1936.
Fritz Zwicky posited in 1937 that the effect could allow galaxy clusters to act as gravitational lenses. It was not until 1979 that this effect was confirmed by observation of the so-called "Twin QSO" SBS 0957+561.
I know that there's a tradition here of being late with the news, but THAT late?
Nope. Never seen it. I;m at the point where tv, the internet, pretty much everything "virtual" is a poor value in return for time invested.
Actually, they're mostly pissed off, because no matter how outrageous a scenario they dream up, Trump keeps topping them.
Trump keeps making a fool of himself. Why would anyone opposed to his agenda want to muzzle him? Even with both feet in his mouth, he keeps proving that his mental faculties are questionable, that he doesn't understand how the real world works. and that Republicans nominated and elected the worst-qualified president in history.
The Saudis are now laughing at how easily he was manipulated.
Even William Henry Harrison, the 9th president, had a better first 100 days in office, and he died after one month.
And boy, do they regret telling those stories after they sobered up. Especially the ones that involve a goat :-)
... because drunks usually have a "failure to launch", even with viagra. But their memories seem to be uniformly affected as they boast to everyone about the mind-blowing sex they had. The only thing blown is their memory.
Slightly intoxicated folks tend to enjoy having conversations with slightly intoxicated folks the same way that heavily intoxicated folks tend to enjoy having conversations with other heavily intoxicated folks. But even slightly intoxicated folks don't want to talk with those same heavily intoxicated folks. And the bullshit factor rises quickly with every drink. After a certain point, nobody can put up with a drunk's bullshit. Or someone who's slightly intoxicated and doesn't realize they're being boorish or offensive.
Beer did not save the world. Improved agricultural techniques have endangered the world by allowing overbreeding. So rather than just killing off humans by famine, we're killing off the whole planet. And this has been happening for several thousand years, as humans have hunted one species to another to extinction, and destroyed habitats by converting them to ... wait for it ... farming. Plagues of locusts are more benign.
0.5 to 1% near beer poured in your morning gruel to kill pathogens during medieval times is not what we're talking about here. False comparison.
People always minimize their consumption. A couple of months ago a medical professional was taking my history, and asked me about my alcohol consumption and I laughed. She said that usually means either you drink a LOT or none at all. I told her that the only times I had any alcohol last year were Thanksgiving and Christmas at family suppers, and it wasn't much. Getting loaded is considered bad form and makes you a boring conversationalist, even if YOU think you're brilliant.
You really lack insight into how badly you are projecting your own insecurities. Well, I've wasted my 10 minutes on the internet - gotta go do another day of disaster relief. Enjoy your life. I'm sure as hell enjoying mine.
Still dodging the topic I see. Look, I'm far too busy nowadays doing disaster relief to even burn off my mod points, there's a lot of people who are depending on me for the duration of the emergency, so I really don't have the time for your bullshit. I've been pushing so hard I put on a crap-load of muscle, so much that I stripped off the membrane on a couple of bones and had to spend my birthday in the hospital emergency ward Saturday so I could get back to it Sunday, today, tomorrow, the day after ...
I could have begged off for the next week, but I'm not going to stop pushing the limits until things are more or less back to normal. So continue with your mental masturbation, I'm going to be in the real world making a real difference. And I'll say something, I find it far more fulfilling than writing software ever was. I've talked with the families who lost everything, whose cars were completely submerged and are total write-offs, whose homes are red-tagged as uninhabitable, who are not allowed to go back and salvage stuff, and it's something else to be able to give them all the food and other grocery goods that they need to get started and keep them going for a while, because the local community donated 100s of tons of food, both to where I'm working, and to other organizations (but I think the bulk went through us, and that's a LOT of unloading, sorting, boxing, palettizing, and shipping to where it's needed, lots of hot meals for victims in shelters and relief workers, on top of the regular food box distribution that feeds over 700 people every week.
Sorry that you will never know that feeling. It puts shit like this in perspective.
Both the US and Russia (and the former Soviet Union) as well as the UK have a LOOONG history of interfering in the internal politics of other countries by covert and illegal means. You reap what you sow - and that applies equally to everyone.
You also completely failed to address the topic, because you can't refute my observation that requiring a doctor's note is an invasion of privacy., so you childishly avoid the question the same way a 5-year-old who's told "No" does when they don't get what they want - mommy says "No", 5-year-old changes the topic to "You're a big meanie."
There is absolutely NO legal requirement to provide a doctor's note to an employer for an absence. It's my private business, my time, same as on days off and non-working hours. You're continuing to show you're a fool who cannot conceive that anyone can possibly have a better idea than you. Must be frustrating knowing in the back of your mind that I'm right.
Obviously it does, or you would be doing something other than trolling women on the internet. What a loser virgin. (Your right hand doesn't count as a sexual partner).
Oh come one, you know I LIVE for when people snark me :-) You can do it! I have faith in you.
On a more serious note, the whole Apps mania is just another sign of the shift that has made software development "not fun" any more. Long ago, the thrill was in developing something that was useful or entertaining in its' own right, there wasn't this hysterical drive to monetize asap and walk away (serial entrepreneur now is just another term for huckster).
Things really started for fall apart with the "we must have a new version every year, and it must have a zillion new features", which caused a huge decline in quality - see what happened to Corel at version 4 as one example. Michael Copeland just had to juice his stock every year on schedule, so the motivation was monetary, not "We'll have the best of breed and the money will come." They're not quite the same when it comes to work environment and execution. Hence the rise of the psychopathic manager - and this happened all across the employment market, not just in IT. I blame Reagan. After all, even fish rot from the head. It certainly killed Borland. (side note - just to show how far it's declined, spell checker didn't recognize either Corel or Borland).
It's gotten to the point that major portions of the economy (IT, the military) need to continuously inflate bubbles. Crazy. And not sustainable.
On the days they did household activities, women spent an average of 2.6 hours on such activities, while men spent 2.1 hours. --On an average day, 22 percent of men did housework--such as cleaning or laundry--compared with 50 percent of women. Forty-three percent of men did food preparation or cleanup, compared with 70 percent of women. Men were slightly more likely to engage in lawn and garden care than were women--12 percent compared with 8 percent.
Women worked around the home more than twice as many days as men, and spent more time each day that they did than men did.
2.6 hours average per day that women did housework, x 3.5 days = 9,1 hours (this does NOT include caring for children or elderly parents, which also falls mostly on women).
2.1 hours per day that men did housework, x 1.54 days per week = 3.234 hours per week. That's way less than half as much. If it's so insignificant, why aren't men doing it. That 50.8 minutes a day extra, 7 days a week, works out to 101 minutes each day that women do housework. Considering the day has 24 hours, and that work takes 8.5 hours, leaving 15.5 hours. Now throw in commute time - 2 hours, leaving 13.5 hours. Let's not forget sleep - 8-3/4 hours according to your chart, leaving 5.25 hours. At some point you have to eat breakfast and supper, say you round down the number on your chart to 1 hour total. That leaves 4.25 hours. Oh, and you have to shower and sh*t, do it quick because you don't have much time, and get dressed and undressed. Your chart gives 40 minutes a day for "personal grooming", but we'll throw in taking a dump, just because we're generous. Leaves you 3.58 hours.
And we still haven't included things like caring for children, parents, etc., helping with homework (which is NOT housework), where the hell do you find almost 2.6 hours for housework every second day? 3.58 hours - 2.6 hours = just under an hour of "free time" to do ALL other things - watch tv, play with the kids, talk to family and friends, nag the hubby for not doing his fair share, etc. An extra 40 minutes would be HUGE.
Well, it's not just the App. There's the promotion, support, etc. It certainly takes more than one person to do that for an app in the top 1,000. No matter how good it is, if it isn't promoted properly it won't be going anywhere, and crappy support will kill it quickly. :-)
Plus, I hate the whole "App Mania." It's a huge diversion of resources that could be better deployed elsewhere. I've spent the last month doing flood disaster relief work, and I've seen firsthand how what I do, along with everyone else, is improving people's lives in real ways. No app is going to give you the same emotional high that helping people who have literally lost everything except the clothes on their backs. And the need isn't going away tomorrow, or even next month ...
Honestly, I'd rather continue to do that. Consider it a kind of "don't be evil" as opposed to "don't do evil." It's simply wrong (aka "evil") to ignore someone who is in need if you can help them. I think most people feel that way, bu there are so many inhibitions and practicalities that prevent them from rising to the occasion. I get that, so I'm not going to judge those who don't act, but I've got to say, the hundreds of tons of food donated to feed the victims can't leave you unmoved. In the last week alone, we've probably distributed food to 1,000 people, plus making lunch for hundreds of clean-up volunteers, and the other regular stuff like community suppers for $2 a head, $5 a family for a 3-course meal, fund raising, etc. It's f'ing awesome.
At one point yesterday we had 3 families (representing 20 people - blended families tend to get large) simultaneously filling up shopping carts and trolleys to overflowing with whatever they needed. They've lost their homes and their cars. But when they left, they knew the community was behind them 100%. It's a real privilege to be able to do this.
The real problem is employers who treat their employees like children. "Bring a note from the doctor." Kind of like when you were a kid and if you missed school you had to "bring a note from your parents."
Mine thought it was stupid, and gave me a blanket note at the beginning of the year saying that if I was absent it was with their permission. Trust. Instill it, then build on it.
Look at the potential for personal information leakage from a doctor's note. They just look up the doctor, and if it's a specialist, they can draw some prejudicial conclusions.
Cancer specialist? Oops - they're going to be a big insurance liability - better fire them.
Psychiatrist? Oops, they might be a nut case - better fire them.
Doctor specializing in sex changes? If they were female at birth, they're going to want a pay raise after the operation - better fire them.
And if they were born male? We don't need bathroom wars disrupting business - better fire them.
They're not paying you for the time off, so what makes them think they're entitled to pry into what is by definition private time, not time that you're employed? Just sign the thing "Arnold Horshak's mother" and when they ask WTF, say "Did I ever tell you about my uncle Max?" :-)
How is that my problem? Oh wait, it's only a problem for wannabe trolls.
I'm glad you asked. It's easy to calculate what the average is for those who aren't in the top 1,000.
$70 billion 2.2 million current apps gives 31k per app per 9 years. say 3.5 k per year. Now you have to deduct for apps that used to be in the store but are no more, so let's be generous and say the rate of attrition is 50% over the last 9 years (it's probably much higher). That means the average app makes $1.75 k per year.
So let's be nice again, and say that the top 1,000 apps take 90% of the revenue (it's probably much more). That leaves the 4.4 million apps (we have to include those that are no longer there, remember?) to split $7 billion over 9 years, or $1,509 each over 9 years, which works out to $176 a year.
So, how many apps does the average app developer have to crank out to make $10 an hour ($20,800 per year) for a 40 hour week (260 days, no 2 weeks holiday for YOU!) You would need to crank out 118 apps in 260 working 8-hour days in a year..That's more than 2 apps a day. With no money left for overhead, income tax, etc., and no time or budget for promoting your app or support.
Most app devs are either suckers or they've got a customer who is a sucker.
And remember, this is an average. Half will be making less than $10 an hour pumping out 118 apps a year.
Prove it!
Well, except that there were other languages before basic that didn't use line numbers. That moldy golden oldie, assembler, jumped to offsets (usually defined as a symbolic name), not line numbers. But if you want to call me a youngster, at my age I'll take it as a compliment :-p
BTW - you could use variables longer than 2 letters, just that only the first two were significant, so COUNT and COW were the same. As long as you kept that limitation in mind, it made for more readable code. And if you didn't, well, have fun debugging ... But at least it made code more readable.