"q" is a bad variable name, just as "i", "j", "k" etc. are bad for counters. That's why I was taught to use "qq" or "ii" or "jj" as variable names. Easily grepped for and found, and still short enough not to interfere with variables that need to be better documented with descriptive names.
I've been a software developer for almost 30 years professionally, and my salaries/contract rates peaked in 2000, and have been declining year over year since. I'm now working at a place making about the same dollar amount I was making in 1993, but there's been a wee bit of inflation since then...
I'm 53 and I had a 6 month dry spell in '08 here in the DC area. One word of advice that has worked amazingly well for me:
DO NOT WRITE A CHRONOLOGICAL RESUME!
I took the early years off my resume when I revised it earlier this year, leaving only the last three jobs with dates going back to 2006. I left off my graduation date, and lumped all 22 years of my pre-2006 projects/companies into "Other experience" at the end. When I updated it on Dice (on a whim, since the one there was 4 years old) I started getting flooded with phone calls and emails.
Now, if I was in the market to move (I've got a job with crappy pay but decent benefits, so I'm hanging on to it) I'd likely have to dye my hair so the interviewer wouldn't kick me out. But it's better than being told by one interviewer verbatim, "The customer likes your skills but you're too old. He wants someone who will 'grow into the position' over 5 years." I wish I had had a recorder on my phone, but playing the "age card" is something you can only do once, because even winning an age discrimination lawsuit means you're radioactive as far as getting any other jobs.
Considering that the "local mom&pop" only has to worry about the one rate that they are responsible for, it's not surprising they can keep track of it.
Indeed I was. The story is likely apocryphal, but I've witnessed variations on the underlying mindset. I didn't have to exaggerate very much to obtain absurdity.
New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles (the skyscraper part, not the evil sprawl part), and Chicago. Anyone who doesn't fit can have excess parts removed. Dams and levees can fall apart naturally, farms and fields in the dangerous areas can return to woods and grasslands, and all the people in the sustainable, low-impact, short commute cities can still get their food from their local grocery stores.
Why is it "The Government are going to do something" instead of "The Government is going to do something", since "Government" is a singular noun and should take a singular conjugated verb?
Plus, if "mathematics" is plural, what's an example of a single "mathematic"?
Even better, why is "mathematic" formed like an adjective, when it's being treated like a noun? Should members of the "Democratic Party" be called "Democratics" instead of "Democrats"?
It really matters where in the brain the TIA occurs, and the harsh matter is, they most often don't leave a trace. Often the only way to really tell is by the symptoms, depending on what part or parts of the brain the TIA occurs.
I can definitely sympathize with what you're going through taking care of her. You're used to this person being able to do things for themselves, and even teaching you how to do things, only to have them become more and more helpless. It's a disturbing feeling, and don't be surprised to find yourself getting frustrated and angry at her at times. This is natural, just find a way to take a break for a short time, enough to cool down and try to understand. You will likely have to make decisions that won't sit well with family, but that's the way it goes, you have to consider what's best for the one hurting most. If you have to, see if you can find a neighbor or friend of hers that can come stay with her for a few hours, to give yourself time to rest, and to think. Even being able to take a nap to clear your head can do wonders.
Humans aren't made to take constant stress, and you can end up hurting yourself more (and being able to help less) if you don't make some time for yourself. Believe me, I know this from painful experience, taking care of a parent who is slowly (or like my father, rapidly) slipping away mentally and physically can tear up everything in your body. I was laid up for a couple of days in the hospital with what turned out to be gastritis but could easily have been an ulcer, while trying to take care of Dad. For me, going to church helped, and being able to talk out frustrations with others gave me the way of letting off steam which prevented my stomach from getting worse.
You need to find some outlet yourself, because frustration and helplessness can build on each other, and stress can cloud your judgement and make it seem like there are no solutions, when really the solutions are there if you have a rested mind to see them. Hang in there, you can make it, don't give up, get some rest and take some time to *not* think about the problems. It does work.
You need to get your mother to a neurologist ASAP. It sounds like she's having transient ischemic attacks, which some call "mini-strokes". My mom had them before she had her real strokes, including the one that ended her life. TIAs can cause all kinds of physical and mental problems, which pass as the brain manages to work around the minor damage, but which have cumulative effects.
I had to help my Mom take care of my Dad when he had Alzheimers, we managed to take care of him at home until almost the end, but it did get to the point where we couldn't handle the stress and the medical problems any more. We ended up putting him in a dismal hellhole of a "home" where he lasted about 3 months before the last medical emergency.
I never married and have no kids, so I'm used to living alone, but it sure would be nice to have things that can help me once I start getting to the point of needing help lifting or walking, or remembering, for example.
Well, last I checked, $422M + $160M is about half of the JPSS budget. Seems like one is just a wee bit more important than the other, and surely there are other redundancies and superfluous spending projects that can afford to be cut. Of course, that doesn't conform to the Narrative, and so we must continue to spend on everything, and more so, or else we'll never get out of debt.
Why is it we can fund NPR and the National Endowment for the Arts, and all kinds of fluffy things, but when it comes to cutting the budget all the demagogues can think of is cutting essential funding? Oh, wait, I forgot they don't have the best interests of the nation in mind.
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"q" is a bad variable name, just as "i", "j", "k" etc. are bad for counters. That's why I was taught to use "qq" or "ii" or "jj" as variable names. Easily grepped for and found, and still short enough not to interfere with variables that need to be better documented with descriptive names.
It's the Union Way.
And still no one is taking advantage of the ease of exploitation.
Yes, I've been stored in many a cool, dark place in my career...
I've been a software developer for almost 30 years professionally, and my salaries/contract rates peaked in 2000, and have been declining year over year since. I'm now working at a place making about the same dollar amount I was making in 1993, but there's been a wee bit of inflation since then...
DO NOT WRITE A CHRONOLOGICAL RESUME!
I took the early years off my resume when I revised it earlier this year, leaving only the last three jobs with dates going back to 2006. I left off my graduation date, and lumped all 22 years of my pre-2006 projects/companies into "Other experience" at the end. When I updated it on Dice (on a whim, since the one there was 4 years old) I started getting flooded with phone calls and emails.
Now, if I was in the market to move (I've got a job with crappy pay but decent benefits, so I'm hanging on to it) I'd likely have to dye my hair so the interviewer wouldn't kick me out. But it's better than being told by one interviewer verbatim, "The customer likes your skills but you're too old. He wants someone who will 'grow into the position' over 5 years." I wish I had had a recorder on my phone, but playing the "age card" is something you can only do once, because even winning an age discrimination lawsuit means you're radioactive as far as getting any other jobs.
Memories, mammaries, same thing. Or, they soon will be...
So women would start including number of bytes in their measurements.
They would use special bras to squeeze the last bit of storage...
Oh hell, I'd better stop there...
Yeah, I took the bus to Hawaii once, took forever. Drive a bit, come up for air, dive back down, drive a bit more, come up for air...
It was obviously a schadenfreudian slip...
Yeah, she hates being anthropomorphized...
Death to the counter-revolutionary running-dog lackeys of the imperialist Rationality-Industrial complex!
I can give the two-word reason why there won't be any impeachment and removal: "President Biden".
Considering that the "local mom&pop" only has to worry about the one rate that they are responsible for, it's not surprising they can keep track of it.
Apples and orchards.
Indeed I was. The story is likely apocryphal, but I've witnessed variations on the underlying mindset. I didn't have to exaggerate very much to obtain absurdity.
New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles (the skyscraper part, not the evil sprawl part), and Chicago. Anyone who doesn't fit can have excess parts removed. Dams and levees can fall apart naturally, farms and fields in the dangerous areas can return to woods and grasslands, and all the people in the sustainable, low-impact, short commute cities can still get their food from their local grocery stores.
Why is it "The Government are going to do something" instead of "The Government is going to do something", since "Government" is a singular noun and should take a singular conjugated verb?
Plus, if "mathematics" is plural, what's an example of a single "mathematic"?
Even better, why is "mathematic" formed like an adjective, when it's being treated like a noun? Should members of the "Democratic Party" be called "Democratics" instead of "Democrats"?
English, she is a cruel mistress...
It really matters where in the brain the TIA occurs, and the harsh matter is, they most often don't leave a trace. Often the only way to really tell is by the symptoms, depending on what part or parts of the brain the TIA occurs.
I can definitely sympathize with what you're going through taking care of her. You're used to this person being able to do things for themselves, and even teaching you how to do things, only to have them become more and more helpless. It's a disturbing feeling, and don't be surprised to find yourself getting frustrated and angry at her at times. This is natural, just find a way to take a break for a short time, enough to cool down and try to understand. You will likely have to make decisions that won't sit well with family, but that's the way it goes, you have to consider what's best for the one hurting most. If you have to, see if you can find a neighbor or friend of hers that can come stay with her for a few hours, to give yourself time to rest, and to think. Even being able to take a nap to clear your head can do wonders.
Humans aren't made to take constant stress, and you can end up hurting yourself more (and being able to help less) if you don't make some time for yourself. Believe me, I know this from painful experience, taking care of a parent who is slowly (or like my father, rapidly) slipping away mentally and physically can tear up everything in your body. I was laid up for a couple of days in the hospital with what turned out to be gastritis but could easily have been an ulcer, while trying to take care of Dad. For me, going to church helped, and being able to talk out frustrations with others gave me the way of letting off steam which prevented my stomach from getting worse.
You need to find some outlet yourself, because frustration and helplessness can build on each other, and stress can cloud your judgement and make it seem like there are no solutions, when really the solutions are there if you have a rested mind to see them. Hang in there, you can make it, don't give up, get some rest and take some time to *not* think about the problems. It does work.
You need to get your mother to a neurologist ASAP. It sounds like she's having transient ischemic attacks, which some call "mini-strokes". My mom had them before she had her real strokes, including the one that ended her life. TIAs can cause all kinds of physical and mental problems, which pass as the brain manages to work around the minor damage, but which have cumulative effects.
I had to help my Mom take care of my Dad when he had Alzheimers, we managed to take care of him at home until almost the end, but it did get to the point where we couldn't handle the stress and the medical problems any more. We ended up putting him in a dismal hellhole of a "home" where he lasted about 3 months before the last medical emergency.
I never married and have no kids, so I'm used to living alone, but it sure would be nice to have things that can help me once I start getting to the point of needing help lifting or walking, or remembering, for example.
Well, last I checked, $422M + $160M is about half of the JPSS budget. Seems like one is just a wee bit more important than the other, and surely there are other redundancies and superfluous spending projects that can afford to be cut. Of course, that doesn't conform to the Narrative, and so we must continue to spend on everything, and more so, or else we'll never get out of debt.
Why is it we can fund NPR and the National Endowment for the Arts, and all kinds of fluffy things, but when it comes to cutting the budget all the demagogues can think of is cutting essential funding? Oh, wait, I forgot they don't have the best interests of the nation in mind.
Never mind.
I thought IRC was for people who couldn't figure out torrents...
Kidding. I was around before both, and still remember what IRC stands for.
I prefer my old FORTRAN utensils...
If that's the "bar" what's the "foo?"
No, he's not a Marxist, he's just Mussolini. Who can't even make the trains run on time, and has us involved in a war in North Africa. Again.
About the time the "fascists" started calling themselves Whigs, Democrats, Republicans, Tories, Liberals, Conservatives...