As to suits: It bears repeating, though: know your audience.
This. A thousand times this. Also, for those who are considering relocation, this varies from region to region. Northeast and urban midwest and south will have slightly higher clothing standards than the more laid back west coast and mountain states. And, of course, the more you're meeting with the public, the better you'll be expected to dress.
That's debatable. At least with "theory loaded CS colleges" you learn the theory. And, if you have the moxie to get an actual CS degree, you're probably not going to have a lot of trouble filling in that "big skills gap" on your own time, which generally means having knowledge of the programming language/toolkit du jour (and which is, surprisingly enough, what you'll be asked to do on the job as a programmer in the real world - do you really think that companies pay for technology training anymore?).
For "pure" IT? Setting up, configuring, and maintaining systems? Maybe your path makes sense, but even in this realm, I've seen a lot more scripting recently that tends to be maintained over a long enough time frame that, as such, needs to be done with a modicum of design skill. And most of that would benefit from knowing theory.
Not a nation of laws. A nation of men. And a particularly base and uninspiring kind of man at that.
We get the men and women we deserve as leaders, as we keep voting them in to oversee the decline of the American empire. The only thing that Franklin got wrong with the quote "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." is that he was expecting the plebeians to engineer this decline, not ones who were the top holders of wealth in the country. But that's what always happens in the empire game... Franklin was always a bit naive.
If you have a design, you will know what call things.
Not necessarily. Quite often, you can have many name choices for the same conceptual object that can have serious implications for downstream code. For example, might the object someday be part of a larger model which might benefit from a different name to support naming parts of that model? Or is the name that you think is obvious something new for which nomenclature hasn't yet solidified? Or are you sure that the name is actually what the people who are maintaining the code are going to call it?
And, please, refactoring folks. don't tell me it's easy to change names. I know it seems that way, but it's not always. Not only do you need to change the name of the object, but often those of many of the methods in your object and sometimes the contagion spreads to related objects. Then there's the issue of comments in the code. Or did you forget to change them?
Yeah, I think putting naming at #1 is about right for the technical stuff. Hell, I once worked on a tool for a consulting company whose whole raison d'etre was to get an organization using the same vocabulary to reduce the amount of miscommunication in the organization. Of course, after that they often performed other heinous actions upon the corporate body, but I ramble... In any case, naming is hard.
The better solution would be to break the US into about nine different countries - Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, Rustbelt, Northern Plains, Texas/Okie, Desert/Rockies, California, and Pacific Northwest. Give them the current constitution as a start and require them to hold constitutional conventions to make mods. Apportion debt proportionally to GDP of new countries. Let the military stay where they are and let the new states form alliances of mutual protection. The exact dividing lines between the new countries would need to be debated, but I'm pretty sure that all of these regions would be much much more homogeneous and happier not having to try to get along with the rest of the other crazies in this country.
Heritage is a right-wing think tank - I'll trust Krugman's analysis before I trust theirs. At least his work was vetted by other economists (many of whom were Chicago-school) before publication. The only vetting anything done by Heritage ever gets is whether or not it adheres to right-wing talking points.
Having lots of money and possessions is somehow exclusive? I don't see this "by definition".
It's not "by definition", it's "by metric". I.e., people tend to gauge their own wealth not in absolute numbers - if they did, where would you put the magic dividing line for "rich"? - and instead look at money and possessions with respect to their closest associates. And, since people tend to associate with others much like themselves (no, this is not a classless society), most people consider themselves "middle class", regardless of whether they're in the 20'th percentile of wealth or in the 90'th. But these people also know that, since they're "middle class", there are others much better off than them. As such, most people consider themselves "not rich".
I cannot think of a single device I've had where either USB standard has failed on me.
I've had two phones (different non-Apple manufacturers) where the micro-USB connectors have failed. So I think my anecdotal evidence trumps yours, 2-0. Granted, the little bastards don't exactly "break" - they just make it so that, if you wiggle the USB connection slightly, they disconnect and stop charging. But that's broken enough for me, as I sort of like the connection to remain connected, even if the device is bumped slightly.
The first translation, being more forthright, is better than the second, which requires much more inference to grasp the meaning evident in the first. The language of the first might be more antiquated, but it is actually much more clear than that of the second.
Well, without food, the "Life" part is going away fairly quickly (a few weeks at most). Shelter? I guess it's a luxury in some places all of the time, and in some of the places some of the time, but probably not in all of the places, all of the time, unless you like expiring of hypothermia. And I'd dare say that reasonable transportation is a pretty big prerequisite to many who are looking for Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Not to mention that the stress of not having food, shelter, and reasonable transportation would tend to make maintenance of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness rather difficult. But then, I'd throw in access to clean water and clean air and to health care as fundamental rights, too... Just sayin'.
It was time to vote for a person who did not grow up privileged and connected by wealth.
Anyone who grew up in this country in the sixties knows that there's more to the equation than this. And in this case, the conservative is being more honest than you are. If the majority of folks had your PC'ness on this issue, it would make any discussion of tacit racism and its effects on this country taboo. That would not be good.
I would like to know if there are any connections between contractors and those awarding the contracts - ie Family ties, business connections, etc...
No. You could investigate until the cows come home and not more than a handful of cases. There are, after all, very strict regulations about this.
That being said, what you do find is that quite often, retirees of the government who work in contracting often make their second career inside larger companies who contract. No, they're not usually in Purchasing, buying contracts, as they did in their former career. Instead, they are hired as consultants, advisers, special assistants, etc., etc., whose main purpose is to talk to the folks they worked with in the military, who are still in the business of granting contracts.
So, no, there's no pro-forma quid pro quo while the employee is working for the government - instead, there's only a tacit agreement that, if you don't make waves and if we believe we've gotten our fair share of contracts, you'll be hired with a substantial salary after your government gig has run it's course.
This sort of thing also happens in upper-level management ranks in other parts of the Executive branch and in Congress, as well. I assume that there's a similar "revolving door" system in private industry going on at the CxO/VP levels, too (because that's where the significant deals are actually cut in private industry).
The country flourished when taxes on success were a LOT lower. Come to think of it, the huge taxes started around 1970, then the country went to shit.
WTF? As someone who has been alive since the 1950's, I'd like to know where you get your figures. Income taxes in the 50's and 60's topped out at a 90% rate. All taxes (other than payroll - which could be lowered if we could get rid of the current cap on high salaries) have dropped precipitously during the last 60 years (and especially the last 30 of that 60). So, again, WTF?
No, now... Let's not resort to hyperbole. Copper doesn't rot, it oxidizes. Which, of course, leads to brittleness and breakage, as well as lower bandwidth.
That being said, the "Lies" portion of your statement is totally correct.
So large financial interests control the government to make their criminal actions legal, but we still need the government?
Yes and no. Yes we need a government (as shown by millennia of history), but we don't necessarily need this government. This statement is not a contradiction, no matter what you think.
There have already been studies comparing high-deductible insurance policy usage vs. traditional plans. They indicate the behavior posited by GP, i.e., people with high-deductible plans, who are more cost sensitive about their care, are less likely to utilize their benefits compared to those on traditional plans until they are sicker. No, I don't have references, but the data is out there.
Interestingly it is likely that PDP-11 programmers will be needed till 2050 due to usage in nuclear reactors.
Then they will be the last to remember a well-designed architecture that supported probably the last of the processor and system families that could be understandable in toto by a single human.
You know that 17.9% GDP the US spends inefficiently on healthcare? The good news, google's gonna streamline that to only 9.7%, the bad news, they're taking 1% of the total for their effort.
It's better than the 5% or so the insurance companies currently skim off the top. Plus, I'd say a 40+% cut in expenditures would deserve a reward of that size.
Yeah, but the ultra-amazing cow would just surgically carve a hunk of muscle tissue off herself every day for the next ten weeks, timing things just right so that she carves off the last hunk and waits to finish the last load of dishes before walking outside to a hole she's dug herself, falling into it as she dies.
The solution to food stamps that we can actually implement is to reform our tax codes and otherwise stop doing the things that make businesses want to move jobs overseas.
Except that most businesses don't pay as much in taxes as they can save by moving jobs overseas. Plus, even with taxes at 0%, if a business can save money by moving jobs overseas, why wouldn't they? Some magic gratitude dust or something? Why don't you actually think about what you're saying?
The other great solution is to put into federal prison the people who crashed our economy...
Well, we can agree on that, although I figure we'd disagree on whom those people were.
... making sure they go into the general population of inmates.
Why would we want the rest of the inmates to have that much training for a new career in fraud?
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As to suits: It bears repeating, though: know your audience.
This. A thousand times this. Also, for those who are considering relocation, this varies from region to region. Northeast and urban midwest and south will have slightly higher clothing standards than the more laid back west coast and mountain states. And, of course, the more you're meeting with the public, the better you'll be expected to dress.
They're swirling! I think they have about two years before the inevitable "Drain of Doom".
Dinosaurs on Europa! We should go there, bring a couple of 'em back, and open a theme park! I'll call it "Jurassic Park XIV: The End of the World"!
And something like the OP will happen when pigs fly, making the Floydian metaphor complete.
You really don't need a mirror this large to spy on your neighbor.
It depends on how large the neighbor is...
That's debatable. At least with "theory loaded CS colleges" you learn the theory. And, if you have the moxie to get an actual CS degree, you're probably not going to have a lot of trouble filling in that "big skills gap" on your own time, which generally means having knowledge of the programming language/toolkit du jour (and which is, surprisingly enough, what you'll be asked to do on the job as a programmer in the real world - do you really think that companies pay for technology training anymore?).
For "pure" IT? Setting up, configuring, and maintaining systems? Maybe your path makes sense, but even in this realm, I've seen a lot more scripting recently that tends to be maintained over a long enough time frame that, as such, needs to be done with a modicum of design skill. And most of that would benefit from knowing theory.
Not a nation of laws. A nation of men. And a particularly base and uninspiring kind of man at that.
We get the men and women we deserve as leaders, as we keep voting them in to oversee the decline of the American empire. The only thing that Franklin got wrong with the quote "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." is that he was expecting the plebeians to engineer this decline, not ones who were the top holders of wealth in the country. But that's what always happens in the empire game... Franklin was always a bit naive.
If you have a design, you will know what call things.
Not necessarily. Quite often, you can have many name choices for the same conceptual object that can have serious implications for downstream code. For example, might the object someday be part of a larger model which might benefit from a different name to support naming parts of that model? Or is the name that you think is obvious something new for which nomenclature hasn't yet solidified? Or are you sure that the name is actually what the people who are maintaining the code are going to call it?
And, please, refactoring folks. don't tell me it's easy to change names. I know it seems that way, but it's not always. Not only do you need to change the name of the object, but often those of many of the methods in your object and sometimes the contagion spreads to related objects. Then there's the issue of comments in the code. Or did you forget to change them?
Yeah, I think putting naming at #1 is about right for the technical stuff. Hell, I once worked on a tool for a consulting company whose whole raison d'etre was to get an organization using the same vocabulary to reduce the amount of miscommunication in the organization. Of course, after that they often performed other heinous actions upon the corporate body, but I ramble... In any case, naming is hard.
The better solution would be to break the US into about nine different countries - Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, Rustbelt, Northern Plains, Texas/Okie, Desert/Rockies, California, and Pacific Northwest. Give them the current constitution as a start and require them to hold constitutional conventions to make mods. Apportion debt proportionally to GDP of new countries. Let the military stay where they are and let the new states form alliances of mutual protection. The exact dividing lines between the new countries would need to be debated, but I'm pretty sure that all of these regions would be much much more homogeneous and happier not having to try to get along with the rest of the other crazies in this country.
Heritage is a right-wing think tank - I'll trust Krugman's analysis before I trust theirs. At least his work was vetted by other economists (many of whom were Chicago-school) before publication. The only vetting anything done by Heritage ever gets is whether or not it adheres to right-wing talking points.
Having lots of money and possessions is somehow exclusive? I don't see this "by definition".
It's not "by definition", it's "by metric". I.e., people tend to gauge their own wealth not in absolute numbers - if they did, where would you put the magic dividing line for "rich"? - and instead look at money and possessions with respect to their closest associates. And, since people tend to associate with others much like themselves (no, this is not a classless society), most people consider themselves "middle class", regardless of whether they're in the 20'th percentile of wealth or in the 90'th. But these people also know that, since they're "middle class", there are others much better off than them. As such, most people consider themselves "not rich".
I cannot think of a single device I've had where either USB standard has failed on me.
I've had two phones (different non-Apple manufacturers) where the micro-USB connectors have failed. So I think my anecdotal evidence trumps yours, 2-0. Granted, the little bastards don't exactly "break" - they just make it so that, if you wiggle the USB connection slightly, they disconnect and stop charging. But that's broken enough for me, as I sort of like the connection to remain connected, even if the device is bumped slightly.
The first translation, being more forthright, is better than the second, which requires much more inference to grasp the meaning evident in the first. The language of the first might be more antiquated, but it is actually much more clear than that of the second.
Well, without food, the "Life" part is going away fairly quickly (a few weeks at most). Shelter? I guess it's a luxury in some places all of the time, and in some of the places some of the time, but probably not in all of the places, all of the time, unless you like expiring of hypothermia. And I'd dare say that reasonable transportation is a pretty big prerequisite to many who are looking for Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Not to mention that the stress of not having food, shelter, and reasonable transportation would tend to make maintenance of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness rather difficult. But then, I'd throw in access to clean water and clean air and to health care as fundamental rights, too... Just sayin'.
It was time to vote for a person who did not grow up privileged and connected by wealth.
Anyone who grew up in this country in the sixties knows that there's more to the equation than this. And in this case, the conservative is being more honest than you are. If the majority of folks had your PC'ness on this issue, it would make any discussion of tacit racism and its effects on this country taboo. That would not be good.
I would like to know if there are any connections between contractors and those awarding the contracts - ie Family ties, business connections, etc...
No. You could investigate until the cows come home and not more than a handful of cases. There are, after all, very strict regulations about this.
That being said, what you do find is that quite often, retirees of the government who work in contracting often make their second career inside larger companies who contract. No, they're not usually in Purchasing, buying contracts, as they did in their former career. Instead, they are hired as consultants, advisers, special assistants, etc., etc., whose main purpose is to talk to the folks they worked with in the military, who are still in the business of granting contracts.
So, no, there's no pro-forma quid pro quo while the employee is working for the government - instead, there's only a tacit agreement that, if you don't make waves and if we believe we've gotten our fair share of contracts, you'll be hired with a substantial salary after your government gig has run it's course.
This sort of thing also happens in upper-level management ranks in other parts of the Executive branch and in Congress, as well. I assume that there's a similar "revolving door" system in private industry going on at the CxO/VP levels, too (because that's where the significant deals are actually cut in private industry).
The country flourished when taxes on success were a LOT lower. Come to think of it, the huge taxes started around 1970, then the country went to shit.
WTF? As someone who has been alive since the 1950's, I'd like to know where you get your figures. Income taxes in the 50's and 60's topped out at a 90% rate. All taxes (other than payroll - which could be lowered if we could get rid of the current cap on high salaries) have dropped precipitously during the last 60 years (and especially the last 30 of that 60). So, again, WTF?
Lies to keep rotting copper profitable...
No, now... Let's not resort to hyperbole. Copper doesn't rot, it oxidizes. Which, of course, leads to brittleness and breakage, as well as lower bandwidth.
That being said, the "Lies" portion of your statement is totally correct.
So large financial interests control the government to make their criminal actions legal, but we still need the government?
Yes and no. Yes we need a government (as shown by millennia of history), but we don't necessarily need this government. This statement is not a contradiction, no matter what you think.
There have already been studies comparing high-deductible insurance policy usage vs. traditional plans. They indicate the behavior posited by GP, i.e., people with high-deductible plans, who are more cost sensitive about their care, are less likely to utilize their benefits compared to those on traditional plans until they are sicker. No, I don't have references, but the data is out there.
FISA is a court, it might be a ridiculous court that rubber stamps every government request, but it's still a court.
No, FISA is a law. FISC is the court which was created by FISA. Get your terminology straight.
Interestingly it is likely that PDP-11 programmers will be needed till 2050 due to usage in nuclear reactors.
Then they will be the last to remember a well-designed architecture that supported probably the last of the processor and system families that could be understandable in toto by a single human.
You know that 17.9% GDP the US spends inefficiently on healthcare? The good news, google's gonna streamline that to only 9.7%, the bad news, they're taking 1% of the total for their effort.
It's better than the 5% or so the insurance companies currently skim off the top. Plus, I'd say a 40+% cut in expenditures would deserve a reward of that size.
Yeah, but the ultra-amazing cow would just surgically carve a hunk of muscle tissue off herself every day for the next ten weeks, timing things just right so that she carves off the last hunk and waits to finish the last load of dishes before walking outside to a hole she's dug herself, falling into it as she dies.
The solution to food stamps that we can actually implement is to reform our tax codes and otherwise stop doing the things that make businesses want to move jobs overseas.
Except that most businesses don't pay as much in taxes as they can save by moving jobs overseas. Plus, even with taxes at 0%, if a business can save money by moving jobs overseas, why wouldn't they? Some magic gratitude dust or something? Why don't you actually think about what you're saying?
The other great solution is to put into federal prison the people who crashed our economy...
Well, we can agree on that, although I figure we'd disagree on whom those people were.
Why would we want the rest of the inmates to have that much training for a new career in fraud?