This ban came about because the Republicans were arguing about banning funding for sex changes. They couldn't come to an agreement that would pass so the conservatives went to Trump for help. He solved the problem by banning transgender without discussing the implications with very many folks. We can have all the social engineering discussions we want but this out-of-the-blue decision resulted from a mixing of finance and politics.
Maybe the man-ly men in the military care more about their boy's club that letting everyone serve their country.
They are still dealing with the anger over why men can't publicly share naked pictures of their coworkers. https://news.slashdot.org/stor... . Can you imagine any civilian positions where this would even be a discussion?
+1 One of those rare occasions when I wish I was active enough to have mod points.
Seriously, this is a joke right? If some guy thinks he's a good enough golfer to maybe make it on the pro-circuit but just needs practice time, should an employer pay him if he goes golfing during working hours? How is this any different than someone 'working on a personal project'...it's assumed to be an 'IT/programmer' project here I'm sure but why does that have to be the case? It could be an invention for a new toilet or something. You're at work, you do work for the company. In fact ANYTHING you do while working for the company during company hours is likely the company's property anyway and/or if not at the direction of your manager it's grounds for being fired.
I struggle to understand the mentality of someone that even needs to raise this as a question? What have they been taught growing up that makes them think that working on 'personal projects' during work hours & not being fired for it is a 'management issue'? Hell, if a person has that much free time on their hands they have a choice of sitting & twiddling their fingers, collecting a pay cheque for a cushy/easy job or going to their management, throwing out an idea of something they think would be valuable to the company and asking for support to work on it.
If, through more efficient methods, I finish my task before the deadline, then I should be free to work on whatever projects I may deem necessary until the next project starts. If you want me to work on additional projects or do others work for you, then we can talk about compensation for doing so. Otherwise, I have completed my task.
Maybe you should help the rest of your "team"? Please tell me you I was just punk'd or that you are Millennial so that my stereotypes have been reinforced.
Good shops require at least tone reviewer for each code change. This paper describes the effectiveness of code reviews based on previous studies https://www.cs.umd.edu/project...
I got lucky and got a student job in the computer repair group in college (NERDC?) It was during the last few years of punch cards / hammer printers and the beginning of PC labs.
One of our jobs was to repair the 132 pin printers. There were 132 individual hammers that could be individually replaced / tuned. We'd get a report that some of the columns were light or had some other problems. We'd go in and first try tuning the hammer impact strength by slightly bending the hammers. I can't remember it well any more but I think new hammers had to be tuned also. Sometimes you got luck and sometimes you were there for a while. A couple of the techs developed a real feel for the tweaks that returned the printouts to best appearance.
Less fun was the job of fixing card reader machines. They had blowers and rollers that separated the cards before sucking them into the machine to be read. Students would often put their card stacks in the readers without taking the rubber bands off. The rubber bands would then get pulled into the machine and wound around rollers. Of course it was always "some other person" that had done that when we got the repair call.
I loved that job and the team. It was like being part of a backstage crew.
The manager countered that they thought the industry had a problem and that the place they worked was great. Seems like a candid response that builds up their company.
When there are multiple applications for a job, we only interview H1Bs if there is no local US person applying who seem qualified.
I've never worked at a place where that was true. Generally a company creates an opening. Then they filter folks for some short period of time to meet the requirements. Then we spend the next 6 months interviewing only H1-Bs.
Our county abandon their electronic touchscreen voting machines and moved to bubble scan. They scan it in front of you and the hard copy ends up in a bin.
I can't imagine what it cost to replace the touchscreen systems that were only a few cycles old.
Interfaces are foreign to a lot of developers in certain environments. Java moved strongly to this partially based on Spring and Dependency Injection. A lot of C# folks still don't like dependency injection or understand the need/use for interfaces. I don't use Ruby, Perl, Python or Node.js so I have no idea where there thinking is on interfaces.
I really can't see how this is going to make ICANN more responsive or more trustworthy. We'll just end up with a bunch of questionable actors pushing their own (more restrictive) agendas. Look at how Iceland and Japan have been trying to stack the International Whaling bodies or what happens when you put Saudi Arabia and China on Human Rights boards. Some NGOs are sock puppets for their governments or corporations. European governments aren't any more trustowrthy. They drank from the same data tap trough as the US government.
You may not like having a US agency be a key player but at least you only have one player to monitor/harass/attack. Now you will end up with a whole bunch of players from non-accountable organizations.
This is actually good news. We finally have a security vulnerability card to play for reducing the number of browser versions we have to support in business apps.
My team has been trying drop "older" browser support in our partner (B2B) applications. 25% are still on IE7/8/9. This really restricts our ability to deliver certain types of functionality. Maybe now our and our partner security teams will gain enough leverage to force an upgrade...
Change the law so that all LE officials use them. They represent the largest semi-trained pool of gunhandlers and are most at risk from firearm takeaways. They also have enough buying power to fund development and create a reasonable cost structure.
The government has been pushing / legislating smart guns for years but always exempting law enforcement.
We have 6 machines. 4 of them upgraded no problem. One had a legacy bios / efi upgrade problem. Windows 10 is nice, an improvement over Windows 7. Everyone here really likes it.
The 6th machine on the other hand is a single partition machine that has gone from XP to 8.1 without a hitch. Windows 10 repartitions the disk and leaves it unusable (RAW) every time the upgrade runs. Auto upgrade there would wipe out the machine:-(
Pick something hosted that you don't have to manage. There are only a couple well supported systems.
I'm going to lose credibility with my peeps but....
VisualStudio.com is probably the easiest to spin up. We use it when we have to do a multi-company PoC or joint project. It comes with task management, scrum boards and other bits. You can set up your repositories as either TFS or as Git. They treat GIT as a first class citizen.
GIT is an expert's tool. There are several hosted repositories, GITHub , AWS Code Commit, BitBucket, the previously mentioned VisualStudio.com, etc..
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No it doesn't. It's total BULLSHIT.
The max consumer burden for a good US private insurance policy is $6000 or less. That's pocket change for anyone making $150K. Or rather it should be.
That isn't true. I currently pay $1200/mo for Silver coverage for a middle aged couple. HSA/visit fees and deductible are added on top of that.
Maybe you meant $6000/per person per year + deductible?
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Note to self: Remember to preview prior to posting to make sure quote boundaries are correct :-(
No it doesn't. It's total BULLSHIT.
The max consumer burden for a good US private insurance policy is $6000 or less. That's pocket change for anyone making $150K. Or rather it should be.
That isn't true. I currently pay $1200/mo for Silver coverage for a middle aged couple. HSA/visit fees and deductible are added on top of that.
Maybe you meant $6000/per person per year + deductible?
This ban came about because the Republicans were arguing about banning funding for sex changes. They couldn't come to an agreement that would pass so the conservatives went to Trump for help. He solved the problem by banning transgender without discussing the implications with very many folks. We can have all the social engineering discussions we want but this out-of-the-blue decision resulted from a mixing of finance and politics.
Maybe the man-ly men in the military care more about their boy's club that letting everyone serve their country. They are still dealing with the anger over why men can't publicly share naked pictures of their coworkers. https://news.slashdot.org/stor... . Can you imagine any civilian positions where this would even be a discussion?
Seriously, this is a joke right? If some guy thinks he's a good enough golfer to maybe make it on the pro-circuit but just needs practice time, should an employer pay him if he goes golfing during working hours? How is this any different than someone 'working on a personal project'...it's assumed to be an 'IT/programmer' project here I'm sure but why does that have to be the case? It could be an invention for a new toilet or something. You're at work, you do work for the company. In fact ANYTHING you do while working for the company during company hours is likely the company's property anyway and/or if not at the direction of your manager it's grounds for being fired.
I struggle to understand the mentality of someone that even needs to raise this as a question? What have they been taught growing up that makes them think that working on 'personal projects' during work hours & not being fired for it is a 'management issue'? Hell, if a person has that much free time on their hands they have a choice of sitting & twiddling their fingers, collecting a pay cheque for a cushy/easy job or going to their management, throwing out an idea of something they think would be valuable to the company and asking for support to work on it.
It's actually more complicated than you realize.
No it's not.
If, through more efficient methods, I finish my task before the deadline, then I should be free to work on whatever projects I may deem necessary until the next project starts. If you want me to work on additional projects or do others work for you, then we can talk about compensation for doing so. Otherwise, I have completed my task.
Maybe you should help the rest of your "team"? Please tell me you I was just punk'd or that you are Millennial so that my stereotypes have been reinforced.
Good shops require at least tone reviewer for each code change. This paper describes the effectiveness of code reviews based on previous studies https://www.cs.umd.edu/project...
I got lucky and got a student job in the computer repair group in college (NERDC?) It was during the last few years of punch cards / hammer printers and the beginning of PC labs.
One of our jobs was to repair the 132 pin printers. There were 132 individual hammers that could be individually replaced / tuned. We'd get a report that some of the columns were light or had some other problems. We'd go in and first try tuning the hammer impact strength by slightly bending the hammers. I can't remember it well any more but I think new hammers had to be tuned also. Sometimes you got luck and sometimes you were there for a while. A couple of the techs developed a real feel for the tweaks that returned the printouts to best appearance.
Less fun was the job of fixing card reader machines. They had blowers and rollers that separated the cards before sucking them into the machine to be read. Students would often put their card stacks in the readers without taking the rubber bands off. The rubber bands would then get pulled into the machine and wound around rollers. Of course it was always "some other person" that had done that when we got the repair call.
I loved that job and the team. It was like being part of a backstage crew.
The manager countered that they thought the industry had a problem and that the place they worked was great. Seems like a candid response that builds up their company.
When there are multiple applications for a job, we only interview H1Bs if there is no local US person applying who seem qualified.
I've never worked at a place where that was true. Generally a company creates an opening. Then they filter folks for some short period of time to meet the requirements. Then we spend the next 6 months interviewing only H1-Bs.
Electric busses may make a lot of sense in city traffic. How do the long "refuel" cycles impact fleet availability?
"Fastest Growing" is a meaningless term without context...
Our county abandon their electronic touchscreen voting machines and moved to bubble scan. They scan it in front of you and the hard copy ends up in a bin. I can't imagine what it cost to replace the touchscreen systems that were only a few cycles old.
This sounds great. I can play games at home on my Xbox/TV and on the road on my PC. Not really sure why anyone is complaining about this.
Interfaces are foreign to a lot of developers in certain environments. Java moved strongly to this partially based on Spring and Dependency Injection. A lot of C# folks still don't like dependency injection or understand the need/use for interfaces. I don't use Ruby, Perl, Python or Node.js so I have no idea where there thinking is on interfaces.
I really can't see how this is going to make ICANN more responsive or more trustworthy. We'll just end up with a bunch of questionable actors pushing their own (more restrictive) agendas. Look at how Iceland and Japan have been trying to stack the International Whaling bodies or what happens when you put Saudi Arabia and China on Human Rights boards. Some NGOs are sock puppets for their governments or corporations. European governments aren't any more trustowrthy. They drank from the same data tap trough as the US government.
You may not like having a US agency be a key player but at least you only have one player to monitor/harass/attack. Now you will end up with a whole bunch of players from non-accountable organizations.
This is actually good news. We finally have a security vulnerability card to play for reducing the number of browser versions we have to support in business apps. My team has been trying drop "older" browser support in our partner (B2B) applications. 25% are still on IE7/8/9. This really restricts our ability to deliver certain types of functionality. Maybe now our and our partner security teams will gain enough leverage to force an upgrade...
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...
Change the law so that all LE officials use them. They represent the largest semi-trained pool of gunhandlers and are most at risk from firearm takeaways. They also have enough buying power to fund development and create a reasonable cost structure. The government has been pushing / legislating smart guns for years but always exempting law enforcement.
And the rest of the world is laughing because the US is crippling itself again...
We have 6 machines. 4 of them upgraded no problem. One had a legacy bios / efi upgrade problem. Windows 10 is nice, an improvement over Windows 7. Everyone here really likes it.
:-(
The 6th machine on the other hand is a single partition machine that has gone from XP to 8.1 without a hitch. Windows 10 repartitions the disk and leaves it unusable (RAW) every time the upgrade runs. Auto upgrade there would wipe out the machine
TFA said there was a previous version that was 110V. They probably changed the charge pump / aconverter design to increase the zap voltage.
GIT is a power tool. You can saw a lot of wood with it. Occasionally you cut off one of your own limbs or digits.
You may wish to start with simpler hand tools for your first project.
I worked at a place with millions of LoC in Perforce. It was a nice system.
Sign up for a free repo at VisualStudio.com. You can set up your project as GIT or as TFS.
The Microsoft TFS team has been upgrading their GIT repo to have feature parity with native TFS.
Pick something hosted that you don't have to manage. There are only a couple well supported systems.
I'm going to lose credibility with my peeps but....
VisualStudio.com is probably the easiest to spin up. We use it when we have to do a multi-company PoC or joint project. It comes with task management, scrum boards and other bits. You can set up your repositories as either TFS or as Git. They treat GIT as a first class citizen.
GIT is an expert's tool. There are several hosted repositories, GITHub , AWS Code Commit, BitBucket, the previously mentioned VisualStudio.com, etc..