I tried Snapchat. I cried at the lack of any sort of sanity the UI had. Now my buddy showed me his Reddit app, that looked clean. Twitter also presents a UI that I can dig. As near as I can tell, the main draw of the Snapchat was that it opens up to a mirror of the user - what narcissist could resist?
All things considered, I'm getting old and retiring to LiveJournal. I will create a virtual lawn and tell children to not stand on it. Or click on it. Whatever. You can see the senility is already taking hold.
Cooking is not an exact science and never will be. Even the lowliest fast food worker is still visually inspecting everything he/she so autonomously cooks to make sure the meat is cooked all the way through, that the lettuce hasn't turned, etc. Those food service workers with a bit more freedom are playing with recipes and checking for variance in the cooking process. We'll still have servers delivering food to tables, visually inspecting the food one last time, then checking back regularly that the dining experience. We already pay those in the food service very low rates, and if a food service worker gets sick then they are easily replaced on the line by a cross-trained co-worker. If a robot breaks in an assembly-line fashion kitchen, it's like to bring the whole system down until a very costly technician comes out and repairs the system. Is that going to cost hours, days, or weeks worth of sales? Until robots can experiment with food recipes, tell the difference between good and bad lettuce at a glance, smell expired ingredients, self-repair, and provide friendly interactive experience with humans, don't experience food service jobs to take a major hit from robots any time soon.
Trump is also for legalizing marijuana. It's his drug czar that's against it. It's not like Trump has the authority to replace officials that disagree with his policies or the power to strongly encourage current officials to follow his policies. Okay, maybe the sarcasm was a bit heavy-handed there. I doubt many sitting presidents have dealt with as much resistance to his policies from other departments as he has. Then again, he makes some pretty outrageous requests.
I stopped fact-checking after your first assertion. It's not that your assertion was wrong, it's that your assertion applied as easily to "most people regardless of age" as it did "Most millennials". We get it, you hate people that are younger than you, and people that are stupider than you, and enjoy distracting people from the topic at hand.
Formal education should easily be implied when discussing this topic. When a hiring manager asks what level of education one has achieved, they are asking what degrees one possesses. I do however appreciate your passion for semantics.
Yes, context is key. I learned that in college, often when a professor would yell "You knew what I meant!" at me. Believe it or not, one can develop a skill without any kind of education whatsoever, formal or informal. One does not have to read the documentation to start hacking the code, poor choice though it may be. Even worse, someone with a formal education may assume that they don't need to read the documentation because they think they already understand everything about the topic. But yes, when an employer asks you if you what level of education you have achieved, they are talking about what degree you have, and it's imperative that one distinguishes that to have a product conversation on this topic.
Inb4 this boils down to a "millennials are such jerks and diversity is st00pid" thread. The context of the story is that the IBM CEO is urging companies to consider skills training ("informal education") to be as important as degrees ("formal education"). Surely my context was clear in this case - when I speak of "education", I specifically mean "formal education". I apologize if that was not abundantly clear and am happy to disambiguate that for you.
Citation provided with a single Google search providing a link to a reputable research center. Please consider my statement in context to the story - The IBM CEO is urging employers to consider skills over degrees, what is traditionally consider a formal education. Inb4 this boils down to a "young people are soo st00pid" thread.
Millennials make up possibly the most well-educated American generation ever. Suggesting that millennials value skills over education as a whole is counter-intuitive. In fact, millennials make up almost 50% of the workforce. Has this "millennial mindset" changed the makeup of the white-collar workforce in spades? Why would the IBM CEO feel the need to make this statement of opinion if it has already become a fact in HR? Finally, if you were in charge of hiring for a new project that leveraged a new technology, would you rather hire someone with two year's experience in this new technology or someone with a four-year degree that they received at a university whose curriculum did not include said technology?
Very much so. Ray Croc discovered that the McDonald's brothers had created a kitchen that optimized workflow efficiency and pumped out consistent quality food. He struck a deal with the McDonald's brothers where he went around the country franchising out the McDonald's business model. However, Ray was not profiting as handsomely as he'd like from franchising. He eventually added a clause that McDonald's franchises had to be built on land leased from a second realty company that he created. After that, Ray did a hostile takeover of the McDonald's brothers, who had never been a part of the realty company. One of the stipulations of the buyout was that the McDonald's brothers were gagged about telling people that Ray Croc was not the actual found of McDonald's, and the McDonald's brothers are slowly forgotten from the franchise's history. I do not discredit the McDonald's brothers for running a good business, I simply note that Ray Croc may very well have invented the move that the WeWork CEO is using - using realty to buy out the whole the business from those that really built it.
This. There's a reason that Ray Croc's face is on display at darn near every McDonald's in the nation and it's not because he came up with the McDonald's business model as much as he came up with the McDonald's realty scam. There was an interesting movie about it on Netflix not too long ago.
All these anecdotes are wonderful yet seem to be cherry-picked from industries where this sort of work week is practical. I'm willing to bet most of these companies pay their employees salary anyway and those hours can easily change with the regular ebb and flow of business. I'd be surprised if any of these companies were paying an hourly rate. The companies would have to do a 25% hourly pay increase to keep their hourly employees at the same level of income. Overtime would be that much more expensive to pay out. I'll be more excited about this being a permanent change to America culture when it starts seeping into blue-collar industries.
The author is correct that this is an important distinction and breaking it down into the simplest of terms is absolutely essential. For regulatory bodies to successfully exert authority over a business it is important for that business to be neatly classified. We can see this issue popping up when we see broadband service providers rejecting FTC due to their business classifications, opting for FCC rulings instead.
This might cause further problems for Facebook down the line. The trust busters might decide that the technology part of Facebook is truly independent of the marketing and sales department and could force them to split into different companies. With so much of Facebook's technology being released open-source, a split like that would force the technology department to monetize the technologies they are building in some useful way. It could get ugly.
The auto industry is one of the few markets where we actually see the "trickle-down effect" take place. Lower income Americans cannot afford brand-new cars but they sure can afford used cars. Anything that encourages higher income Americans to buy a brand-new car also encourages them to re-sell their current vehicle at a depreciated value.
I used to collect Spider-Man trading cards as a child. There was a fairly good probability of scoring a hologram card in a pack. The pack cost three dollars and I'd resell the card to the shop. The shop would re-sell the card for thirty dollars. I'd compulsively buy cards until I was broke. I did cash out one time for eighty bucks. Not bad for a twenty dollar investment.
Don't even get me started on Magic: The Gathering. My buddy could probably use his Black Lotus as equity on a loan.
This is probably an example of government waste due to bad parenting
I, for one, welcome our TypeScript overlords. JavaScript continues to work its way deeper and deeper into the tech stack. It was okay playing fast and loose with types at first when the code was relatively simple and straightforward and not hard to debug and didn't cause the whole stack to fail. Not so much any more.
Then there's all those JavaScript best practices. My favorite is when I'm told that the code is "self-documenting" (read - no comments, no docs), then I jump into some "self-documenting" code and I'm being fed a value whose type is not clearly defined nor its source clearly documented. Maybe if I'm lucky the default property type and even a default value is defined in the file, courtesy of yet another library.
My opinion is such that JavaScript is not scaling well as it gets implemented further and further and that a lot of what I've seen called JavaScript best practices would be called sheer laziness in any other language. TypeScript relieves us of a couple of those woes.
My sister just gave my dad his first tablet because Verizon keeps giving her more tablets. If I were to buy one, I'd check Craigslist before Best Buy for a deal. I'm also willing to bet that there are retailers that over-stocked on tablets at one point. That more than likely forces retailers to sell over-stock at unexpected discounts in the hopes that they move old models before they're obsolete. If the old model becomes obsolete then I wish them good luck in moving those units at all for any price. With a couple of years of consumer data, retailers have surely adjusted their orders to more accurately predict actual sales.
Just pass some common sense internet privacy laws. Install ad-blockers and track-blockers by default on new systems. Shrink their ad revenue, watch the over-inflated stock pop like a bubble.
There certainly are parallels between the two. There are some things that we don't want people to see or touch without permission, ethical and moral implications aside. If things were exactly alike then we wouldn't use an analogy to compare them.
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I tried Snapchat. I cried at the lack of any sort of sanity the UI had. Now my buddy showed me his Reddit app, that looked clean. Twitter also presents a UI that I can dig. As near as I can tell, the main draw of the Snapchat was that it opens up to a mirror of the user - what narcissist could resist?
All things considered, I'm getting old and retiring to LiveJournal. I will create a virtual lawn and tell children to not stand on it. Or click on it. Whatever. You can see the senility is already taking hold.
Where are my mod points when I need them? Your sarcasm is duly noted, and humor well-conveyed. Gold star for you.
Cooking is not an exact science and never will be. Even the lowliest fast food worker is still visually inspecting everything he/she so autonomously cooks to make sure the meat is cooked all the way through, that the lettuce hasn't turned, etc. Those food service workers with a bit more freedom are playing with recipes and checking for variance in the cooking process. We'll still have servers delivering food to tables, visually inspecting the food one last time, then checking back regularly that the dining experience. We already pay those in the food service very low rates, and if a food service worker gets sick then they are easily replaced on the line by a cross-trained co-worker. If a robot breaks in an assembly-line fashion kitchen, it's like to bring the whole system down until a very costly technician comes out and repairs the system. Is that going to cost hours, days, or weeks worth of sales? Until robots can experiment with food recipes, tell the difference between good and bad lettuce at a glance, smell expired ingredients, self-repair, and provide friendly interactive experience with humans, don't experience food service jobs to take a major hit from robots any time soon.
Trump is also for legalizing marijuana. It's his drug czar that's against it. It's not like Trump has the authority to replace officials that disagree with his policies or the power to strongly encourage current officials to follow his policies. Okay, maybe the sarcasm was a bit heavy-handed there. I doubt many sitting presidents have dealt with as much resistance to his policies from other departments as he has. Then again, he makes some pretty outrageous requests.
I stopped fact-checking after your first assertion. It's not that your assertion was wrong, it's that your assertion applied as easily to "most people regardless of age" as it did "Most millennials". We get it, you hate people that are younger than you, and people that are stupider than you, and enjoy distracting people from the topic at hand.
Formal education should easily be implied when discussing this topic. When a hiring manager asks what level of education one has achieved, they are asking what degrees one possesses. I do however appreciate your passion for semantics.
Yes, context is key. I learned that in college, often when a professor would yell "You knew what I meant!" at me. Believe it or not, one can develop a skill without any kind of education whatsoever, formal or informal. One does not have to read the documentation to start hacking the code, poor choice though it may be. Even worse, someone with a formal education may assume that they don't need to read the documentation because they think they already understand everything about the topic. But yes, when an employer asks you if you what level of education you have achieved, they are talking about what degree you have, and it's imperative that one distinguishes that to have a product conversation on this topic.
Inb4 this boils down to a "millennials are such jerks and diversity is st00pid" thread. The context of the story is that the IBM CEO is urging companies to consider skills training ("informal education") to be as important as degrees ("formal education"). Surely my context was clear in this case - when I speak of "education", I specifically mean "formal education". I apologize if that was not abundantly clear and am happy to disambiguate that for you.
Citation provided with a single Google search providing a link to a reputable research center. Please consider my statement in context to the story - The IBM CEO is urging employers to consider skills over degrees, what is traditionally consider a formal education. Inb4 this boils down to a "young people are soo st00pid" thread.
Millennials make up possibly the most well-educated American generation ever. Suggesting that millennials value skills over education as a whole is counter-intuitive. In fact, millennials make up almost 50% of the workforce. Has this "millennial mindset" changed the makeup of the white-collar workforce in spades? Why would the IBM CEO feel the need to make this statement of opinion if it has already become a fact in HR? Finally, if you were in charge of hiring for a new project that leveraged a new technology, would you rather hire someone with two year's experience in this new technology or someone with a four-year degree that they received at a university whose curriculum did not include said technology?
Clearly this wall money is to be nothing but a huge slush fund.
Ah, now we arrive at the heart of the Republican agenda...
Easy for you to say when you're not logged in!
Very much so. Ray Croc discovered that the McDonald's brothers had created a kitchen that optimized workflow efficiency and pumped out consistent quality food. He struck a deal with the McDonald's brothers where he went around the country franchising out the McDonald's business model. However, Ray was not profiting as handsomely as he'd like from franchising. He eventually added a clause that McDonald's franchises had to be built on land leased from a second realty company that he created. After that, Ray did a hostile takeover of the McDonald's brothers, who had never been a part of the realty company. One of the stipulations of the buyout was that the McDonald's brothers were gagged about telling people that Ray Croc was not the actual found of McDonald's, and the McDonald's brothers are slowly forgotten from the franchise's history. I do not discredit the McDonald's brothers for running a good business, I simply note that Ray Croc may very well have invented the move that the WeWork CEO is using - using realty to buy out the whole the business from those that really built it.
This. There's a reason that Ray Croc's face is on display at darn near every McDonald's in the nation and it's not because he came up with the McDonald's business model as much as he came up with the McDonald's realty scam. There was an interesting movie about it on Netflix not too long ago.
All these anecdotes are wonderful yet seem to be cherry-picked from industries where this sort of work week is practical. I'm willing to bet most of these companies pay their employees salary anyway and those hours can easily change with the regular ebb and flow of business. I'd be surprised if any of these companies were paying an hourly rate. The companies would have to do a 25% hourly pay increase to keep their hourly employees at the same level of income. Overtime would be that much more expensive to pay out. I'll be more excited about this being a permanent change to America culture when it starts seeping into blue-collar industries.
The author is correct that this is an important distinction and breaking it down into the simplest of terms is absolutely essential. For regulatory bodies to successfully exert authority over a business it is important for that business to be neatly classified. We can see this issue popping up when we see broadband service providers rejecting FTC due to their business classifications, opting for FCC rulings instead. This might cause further problems for Facebook down the line. The trust busters might decide that the technology part of Facebook is truly independent of the marketing and sales department and could force them to split into different companies. With so much of Facebook's technology being released open-source, a split like that would force the technology department to monetize the technologies they are building in some useful way. It could get ugly.
The auto industry is one of the few markets where we actually see the "trickle-down effect" take place. Lower income Americans cannot afford brand-new cars but they sure can afford used cars. Anything that encourages higher income Americans to buy a brand-new car also encourages them to re-sell their current vehicle at a depreciated value.
I used to collect Spider-Man trading cards as a child. There was a fairly good probability of scoring a hologram card in a pack. The pack cost three dollars and I'd resell the card to the shop. The shop would re-sell the card for thirty dollars. I'd compulsively buy cards until I was broke. I did cash out one time for eighty bucks. Not bad for a twenty dollar investment. Don't even get me started on Magic: The Gathering. My buddy could probably use his Black Lotus as equity on a loan. This is probably an example of government waste due to bad parenting
I, for one, welcome our TypeScript overlords. JavaScript continues to work its way deeper and deeper into the tech stack. It was okay playing fast and loose with types at first when the code was relatively simple and straightforward and not hard to debug and didn't cause the whole stack to fail. Not so much any more. Then there's all those JavaScript best practices. My favorite is when I'm told that the code is "self-documenting" (read - no comments, no docs), then I jump into some "self-documenting" code and I'm being fed a value whose type is not clearly defined nor its source clearly documented. Maybe if I'm lucky the default property type and even a default value is defined in the file, courtesy of yet another library. My opinion is such that JavaScript is not scaling well as it gets implemented further and further and that a lot of what I've seen called JavaScript best practices would be called sheer laziness in any other language. TypeScript relieves us of a couple of those woes.
My sister just gave my dad his first tablet because Verizon keeps giving her more tablets. If I were to buy one, I'd check Craigslist before Best Buy for a deal. I'm also willing to bet that there are retailers that over-stocked on tablets at one point. That more than likely forces retailers to sell over-stock at unexpected discounts in the hopes that they move old models before they're obsolete. If the old model becomes obsolete then I wish them good luck in moving those units at all for any price. With a couple of years of consumer data, retailers have surely adjusted their orders to more accurately predict actual sales.
Just pass some common sense internet privacy laws. Install ad-blockers and track-blockers by default on new systems. Shrink their ad revenue, watch the over-inflated stock pop like a bubble.
There certainly are parallels between the two. There are some things that we don't want people to see or touch without permission, ethical and moral implications aside. If things were exactly alike then we wouldn't use an analogy to compare them.
You do realize there are practical reasons for encrypting your data, right?