LinkedIn is great. I've applied to jobs with nothing but a link to my LinkedIn profile, gotten a phone interview, then had the job without even doing an in-person. I'd much rather "maintain" my LinkedIn profile by changing my job status and adding skills/keywords every couple years than bother with hand-crafted resumes for each potential employer. Hell, I get offers via LinkedIn about 5-6 times monthly for things ranging from jobs through collaboration AND it encourages employers to give you references or check off "does this person have experience with x" so you don't have to deal with that aspect either. It's easily the best extant site for asocial nerds.
I'm no fan of Google, but this action in itself is neither good nor evil, but a prerequisite to either good or evil. On the evil side they could of course take that information and hand it all over to the Chinese government such that dissenters are rounded up. On the good side they could categorize individuals by effectiveness in dissenting, send the ineffective ones to the Chinese government so they meet their quotas, and let the effective ones go on under the radar with unfiltered search results - something which would be impossible without actual identities tied to accounts to avoid letting unfiltered results go to the auditors.
Of course, being Google, their most likely approach will be to develop the aforementioned categorization and only use it in the "non-evil" manner when in the US and Europe, in order to further liberal extremism.
I don't disagree, but the police have had this tech for well over a decade in the form of handheld devices they can point at a home to view the occupants.
Anyway, to get back to the cynicism, what's the bet this company decides they own those genetic sequences once they've sorted them out?
They aren't hosting any themselves at this point and are just acting as an index (which has a download link which is broken on their site) of universities who signed on. So essentially, if they have anything already they decided not to share outside of that network.
Would be great if it worked that way, but rent-seekers are greedy fucks and usually have terms stating the tenant pays for anything that breaks - even normal wear and tear plus upgrades to make it cost more for the next guy if they can get away with it.
Towing ice from Antarctica to the desert so a bunch of oil drillers can work more efficiently at extracting oil to burn and fuel their iceberg-towing machinery? Why not, it's not like we need icebergs or should stop burning oil.
I seriously doubt there's anyone under 120 doing more than Wordpress, ops tends to be best around 125, business 135, middle management can likely do fine at 110.
As much as I'm for better treatment and perks for coders, the issue of "not enough good ones" isn't because of that. There's only so many smart people, dumb people and mediocre people don't make good coders. Some of the above-average ones might make the cut as maintenance coders or some incredibly soul-crushing AGILE environment where they don't actually have to think, but for the most part any programming position of note requires a 150+ IQ to do even moderately well.
Use Office 365. Office 2016 is still available, if it weren't then only idiots would use Windows (inclusive of "because work makes me.")
Using the cloud has consequences, this is a relatively minor one.
Unless Facebook and Twitter have been made public and are no longer private entities, they are not required to keep posted everything you write.
Fuck off with this tired old propaganda piece. They're corporations, they are only entities by virtue of the power granted by the government, the government does not have the right to quell free speech so neither does any corporation, period. They know damn well censorship is on shaky grounds and people are getting fed up with it, which is exactly why they're bitching about how much of a menace they themselves are. It's a tactic to try to get people to scream "please of please censor us, for you are clearly our wise superiors." Fuck them and fuck their sociopathic attempts to control the masses through censorship, and fuck you too for being dumb enough to be their halfwit shill.
People are more satisfying to punish when caught. If there's a hack on a computer not only may you never find the culprit, but the manufacturer, developers, etc have enough leniency to not go immediately to prison for life, which is wrong.
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Collaborate on things you suck at, war over every advantage you have. Typical of the Chinese.
LinkedIn is great. I've applied to jobs with nothing but a link to my LinkedIn profile, gotten a phone interview, then had the job without even doing an in-person. I'd much rather "maintain" my LinkedIn profile by changing my job status and adding skills/keywords every couple years than bother with hand-crafted resumes for each potential employer. Hell, I get offers via LinkedIn about 5-6 times monthly for things ranging from jobs through collaboration AND it encourages employers to give you references or check off "does this person have experience with x" so you don't have to deal with that aspect either. It's easily the best extant site for asocial nerds.
I'm no fan of Google, but this action in itself is neither good nor evil, but a prerequisite to either good or evil. On the evil side they could of course take that information and hand it all over to the Chinese government such that dissenters are rounded up. On the good side they could categorize individuals by effectiveness in dissenting, send the ineffective ones to the Chinese government so they meet their quotas, and let the effective ones go on under the radar with unfiltered search results - something which would be impossible without actual identities tied to accounts to avoid letting unfiltered results go to the auditors.
Of course, being Google, their most likely approach will be to develop the aforementioned categorization and only use it in the "non-evil" manner when in the US and Europe, in order to further liberal extremism.
I don't disagree, but the police have had this tech for well over a decade in the form of handheld devices they can point at a home to view the occupants.
Unless I'm already bed ridden and dying, no. Seriously!
That's literally their target consumer.
Anyway, to get back to the cynicism, what's the bet this company decides they own those genetic sequences once they've sorted them out?
They aren't hosting any themselves at this point and are just acting as an index (which has a download link which is broken on their site) of universities who signed on. So essentially, if they have anything already they decided not to share outside of that network.
On a reasonable budget they could do that many for about 200m, so x3 is about a normal rate for colleges.
Would be great if it worked that way, but rent-seekers are greedy fucks and usually have terms stating the tenant pays for anything that breaks - even normal wear and tear plus upgrades to make it cost more for the next guy if they can get away with it.
Yeah, that's a marvelous idea, let's give nukes to the state most likely to directly supply terrorists.
Towing ice from Antarctica to the desert so a bunch of oil drillers can work more efficiently at extracting oil to burn and fuel their iceberg-towing machinery? Why not, it's not like we need icebergs or should stop burning oil.
But apps.
I seriously doubt there's anyone under 120 doing more than Wordpress, ops tends to be best around 125, business 135, middle management can likely do fine at 110.
The thing about things which are real is that you don't have to select for them explicitly for them to be in effect.
This seems like a serious concern, but on the other hand if you're factoring in things like web "developers" this 58% is way way way too low.
I've met more hacks than that.
Also, 150+IQ people basically do not exist. I gather this is some wired non-standard US scale...
All the smart people moving to and living in the US doesn't make it a non-standard scale.
As much as I'm for better treatment and perks for coders, the issue of "not enough good ones" isn't because of that. There's only so many smart people, dumb people and mediocre people don't make good coders. Some of the above-average ones might make the cut as maintenance coders or some incredibly soul-crushing AGILE environment where they don't actually have to think, but for the most part any programming position of note requires a 150+ IQ to do even moderately well.
Idiot.
Use Office 365. Office 2016 is still available, if it weren't then only idiots would use Windows (inclusive of "because work makes me.")
Using the cloud has consequences, this is a relatively minor one.
Yeah, no. This is why you lost in 2016.
Unless Facebook and Twitter have been made public and are no longer private entities, they are not required to keep posted everything you write.
Fuck off with this tired old propaganda piece. They're corporations, they are only entities by virtue of the power granted by the government, the government does not have the right to quell free speech so neither does any corporation, period. They know damn well censorship is on shaky grounds and people are getting fed up with it, which is exactly why they're bitching about how much of a menace they themselves are. It's a tactic to try to get people to scream "please of please censor us, for you are clearly our wise superiors." Fuck them and fuck their sociopathic attempts to control the masses through censorship, and fuck you too for being dumb enough to be their halfwit shill.
"We can't control the narrative, this is horrible - the commoners can't be allowed to discuss things and vote!"
"Get the team together and figure out how to blame the user."
--every software shop ever
People are more satisfying to punish when caught. If there's a hack on a computer not only may you never find the culprit, but the manufacturer, developers, etc have enough leniency to not go immediately to prison for life, which is wrong.
This. We should bring back torture and move this particular patent troll to the front of the line. I mean, he's fucking 80, we're running out of time.