Hell, I would never say you shouldn't cover yourself, but advising someone to run before they've even found out what the management are like seems a bit presumptuous to me. They could be shit and looking for a fall-guy (but really, that's alot of expense and effort, why bother?), but they could just want someone to contribute to their project...
If he makes it work, the original "respected" designer will jump in and claim all the credit.
If he doesn't, he, as the scapegoat contractor, will get all the blame.
No-win situation. Leave now.
If you want to be unprofessional and only ever want to take easy jobs, fine that's a route you can take. Other times you can work like an actual adult and solve the problems.
Depends depends. People scoffed at buying Youtube but that seems to have worked out alright. There's a (slightly breathless) but interesting take on what Nest might be for here:
Gotta say this is probably a better state for Android to be in from a "standard platform" point of view, a company making hardware and licencing its software to other hardware manufacturers hasn't work out very well in computing in the past. Either own the lot (Apple) or provide yourself as a service but don't compete (Microsoft pre-Surface). If you compete and licence, you end up being Apple during the clone years, or Palm. Companies might take a free ride on a crocodile, but they'll get off when they can cause it's not very safe...
Lenovo has done a decent job with Thinkpad, so it's not entirely doom for Moto either.
This makes me consider developing Chrome apps where previously I had not considered it.
Excellent. Please don't, though.
As a phone user (as well as a developer) I appreciate fast, easy to use, properly designed software. I have yet to see any piece of javascripted HTML that comes close to what a native app achieves. Even after all this time, all those javascript engine improvements, all those faster processors, anything that isn't pretty basic web *sucks* on mobile. That and the culture of web development never seems to take offline / unreliable connection as a serious issue, or supporting less-than-latest phones. Can we give up on the web-app emperors new clothes now?
Once again, what does this have to do with ordinary citizens? Yes, agreed that Snowden's disclosure of PRISM was relevant, but he's just grasping at straws with this one.
That's pretty extreme myopia to decide that it doesn't matter because 'ordinary citizens' aren't affected... it doesn't have to directly immediately target normal people to affect them.
But to answer your question, ordinary citizens *are* directly affected, they have jobs in these companies. Ordinary citizens are shareholders of these companies (Even non-explicit shareholders, of you have a pension then you have shares one way or another).
Artists should support free speech even when its their speech that is being commented upon.
That's not really how art or artists work... Good art is nearly always the product of a strict hierarchical or one-man's-vision approach to a creation. And OpenTTD is a bit more than just 'inspiration' isn't it... the interface and graphics and copied *exactly*, with extra features. It might be entirely legal, but we're not jumping off from inspiration to new game, we're copying the first game and extending it.
Also, it's not a matter of free-speech, he's not tried to shut the project down, he just doesn't like it. That is entirely his prerogative.
The only way it doesn't work, is if you are actually stupid enough to keep talking.
They don't have to charge you! They can take you into custody without charging you for 48 hours! (72 in some states). I don't know how you can not think that's a problem. You want to play hardball, they can also do that.
Also, I'd like to see how well your police system works if everybody genuinely followed that advice. It would be impossible.
Your empathy with someone wrongly harassed and detained is impressive. Tell me, can you be so sure when faced with professional interrogators that you would do exactly the 'correct' thing that you claim? They know what they are doing, you know, they're not idiots. Wouldn't they just change their tack... can you anticipate their every move?
Try to be annoyed at the right people, this stuff matters. Rights are not supposed to be just for the people who know how to play the system.
The only thing lamer than cultivating an extensive on-line social network is doing it during evenings and weekends instead of during working hours like 99.9% of social network enthusiasts.
I would assume that a potentially worthwhile employee is doing something a little more enriching and/or constructive during their free time.
Such judgement for a leisure activity! People have off-hours, people who work hard need off-hours even more. Some people read books, some watch cat videos, some poke around in other people's lives on Facebook. Again: judge people on the task that you want them to do for you, not what they choose to do outside of their interaction with you.
And if I were a recruiter, I'd probably consider having extensive profiles online a negative quality -- indicative of spending too much time posing and not enough actually working.
Yeah, those horrible employees that have evenings and weekends where they can do things other than working for you, how dare they.
Stick with the simplest, what people do in their own time is their own concern.
However, pretty much *all* those systems are single-payer,
Bullshit.
Admittedly, having looked closer, that statement was bullshit.
European health care systems aren't "radically cheaper to run"; they spend a bit more than half of what Americans spend per capita
I'd say almost half the price is a huge difference. But it's worse than that. In the UK we pay half but get a system that covers the entire population. You pay twice, and end up with something that *doesn't* cover the big swathe that don't have healthcare. You're paying more, and then still getting less.
What's more is that it isn't either/or. It's *both*. You can get private healthcare in the UK, but we *also* have a system that covers everybody.
It takes the kind of sheep-like population that the UK has to accept them.
Oh fuck you you obviously know nothing about this country. It also sounds like you've been fed propaganda about the state of the NHS.
You have a healthcare system that doesn't cover your population. It is so expensive that a proportion simply cannot afford it. That to me seems like a bad position to be in.
This anecdote doesn't match my experience of the NHS or the figures. Screening is common here, as are vaccinations. Life expectancy is longer in the UK than the US. People visit the doctor more in the UK than the US. This is directly counter to your manager's anecdotal hypothesis.
The primary goal of the NHS isn't to keep its costs down, it's not a business! The goal is to improve public health, and that's how the decisions are taken. Anyway, giving someone a vaccination to prevent illness, or catching a cancer early is a much cheaper than treating at an advanced stage.
The UK single payer system is no more efficient or cheaper than other European health insurance systems, many of which operate completely differently. Therefore, your assertion that the UK system magically results in cost control relative to private or other insurance systems is bullshit.
However, pretty much *all* those systems are single-payer, and radically cheaper to run than the American system, so what we can determine is that the American system as is is astonishingly inefficient. I would have thought when you look at a foreign system that's much more efficient, you'd want to know why and find out why yours is so expensive, rather than just dismissing it.
And the payments would be progressive (more paid by the rich, less or nothing paid by the poor).
Yeah, but what they've done here is completely pointless, and potentially cost him dearly, because he was a bit sarcastic about being fired! I mean, who hasn't reacted like that? Must we graciously bow to our employers even when they throw us on the street? They've taken time out of what must be a very busy period with all the admin and wrapping up to target this guy. It's petty, and vindictive.
Safeway have *failed* their employees. By closing a store they have admitted that they cannot effectively run a business and have now caused suffering for those previously loyal employees. The least they could do is take some criticism on the chin.
No, it's on Slashdot because it's a nice anti-corporate story to stir up outrage. The hivemind loves those.
By the 'hive mind' do you mean common decency and respect, expectation of a human to treat another in a fair and balanced manner, and not kick them when theyr'e down? Ah yes, the 'hive mind'... You know, I think I'm alright to follow the mindless hordes who have some sense that people should be treated as well as possible, especially when they're in the process of losing their job through no fault of their own.
Tagging "hive mind" does not make things automatically wrong.
If all of the competent people working on Wayland would stop wasting time on it and improve the X server, think how much better it might be.
Fairly obviously you're not a developer, because if you were you'd know that after a certain point a codebase can't be fixed. Long-live deeply engrained problems in a system cannot just be fixed. Sometimes you need to start again with fresh perspective, without having to live with choices made 10 years ago.
When the French log in and view something from another country, that is not a business doing business in France. There's no rational reason for that business to pay a stipend to the French for the French logging in.
Indeed. Though I would imagine (we don't know from the article but it generally works like this) that because Google has a business presence in France and collects advert sales revenue there, they *are* doing business in France, and that would bring them under French tax law.
Do you live in France or do business in France? If you do then respect their laws. If not then there is nothing you need to concern yourself. There are other valid forms of government that don't necessarily follow how you would prefer to be governed.
Actually, the only real way France will learn is to simple ignore them. By ignore them, I mean completely pull out of the France. No french versions of websites. No, french youtube, no French google or bing.
I'm trying to think of a more subtle way of saying 'fuck you', but I can't. You realise how outstandingly arrogant you sound? That you would have foreign corporations put such massive pressure on a government to act in a way that they want?
I don't particularly think this tax is a great idea, and it's likely to limit what gets offered to France, but guess what, it's up to *France* to make their decision on the tradeoff and then *Google* etc to decide whether it's worth it to do business in that country. And you can bet your life that they still will. Just because you have an anarchist / libertarian / bully hardon for making governments do your bidding, doesn't mean the real world works like that.
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Hell, I would never say you shouldn't cover yourself, but advising someone to run before they've even found out what the management are like seems a bit presumptuous to me. They could be shit and looking for a fall-guy (but really, that's alot of expense and effort, why bother?), but they could just want someone to contribute to their project...
If he makes it work, the original "respected" designer will jump in and claim all the credit.
If he doesn't, he, as the scapegoat contractor, will get all the blame.
No-win situation. Leave now.
If you want to be unprofessional and only ever want to take easy jobs, fine that's a route you can take. Other times you can work like an actual adult and solve the problems.
Depends depends. People scoffed at buying Youtube but that seems to have worked out alright. There's a (slightly breathless) but interesting take on what Nest might be for here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
ie it's about the server tech for running appliances.
Gotta say this is probably a better state for Android to be in from a "standard platform" point of view, a company making hardware and licencing its software to other hardware manufacturers hasn't work out very well in computing in the past. Either own the lot (Apple) or provide yourself as a service but don't compete (Microsoft pre-Surface). If you compete and licence, you end up being Apple during the clone years, or Palm. Companies might take a free ride on a crocodile, but they'll get off when they can cause it's not very safe...
Lenovo has done a decent job with Thinkpad, so it's not entirely doom for Moto either.
This makes me consider developing Chrome apps where previously I had not considered it.
Excellent. Please don't, though.
As a phone user (as well as a developer) I appreciate fast, easy to use, properly designed software. I have yet to see any piece of javascripted HTML that comes close to what a native app achieves. Even after all this time, all those javascript engine improvements, all those faster processors, anything that isn't pretty basic web *sucks* on mobile. That and the culture of web development never seems to take offline / unreliable connection as a serious issue, or supporting less-than-latest phones. Can we give up on the web-app emperors new clothes now?
Once again, what does this have to do with ordinary citizens? Yes, agreed that Snowden's disclosure of PRISM was relevant, but he's just grasping at straws with this one.
That's pretty extreme myopia to decide that it doesn't matter because 'ordinary citizens' aren't affected... it doesn't have to directly immediately target normal people to affect them.
But to answer your question, ordinary citizens *are* directly affected, they have jobs in these companies. Ordinary citizens are shareholders of these companies (Even non-explicit shareholders, of you have a pension then you have shares one way or another).
Artists should support free speech even when its their speech that is being commented upon.
That's not really how art or artists work... Good art is nearly always the product of a strict hierarchical or one-man's-vision approach to a creation. And OpenTTD is a bit more than just 'inspiration' isn't it... the interface and graphics and copied *exactly*, with extra features. It might be entirely legal, but we're not jumping off from inspiration to new game, we're copying the first game and extending it.
Also, it's not a matter of free-speech, he's not tried to shut the project down, he just doesn't like it. That is entirely his prerogative.
Funnily enough, *I* miss the days before people started telling everyone that the site was better in the old days...
OMG! Some VIP gave a false statement on a corporate press event. Is there a front page post on /. every time that happens?
Yes, it should be. So must we tolerate falsehoods now?
The only way it doesn't work, is if you are actually stupid enough to keep talking.
They don't have to charge you! They can take you into custody without charging you for 48 hours! (72 in some states). I don't know how you can not think that's a problem. You want to play hardball, they can also do that.
Also, I'd like to see how well your police system works if everybody genuinely followed that advice. It would be impossible.
Your empathy with someone wrongly harassed and detained is impressive. Tell me, can you be so sure when faced with professional interrogators that you would do exactly the 'correct' thing that you claim? They know what they are doing, you know, they're not idiots. Wouldn't they just change their tack... can you anticipate their every move?
Try to be annoyed at the right people, this stuff matters. Rights are not supposed to be just for the people who know how to play the system.
How could this ever be more than a guess? How could it ever be determined, documented, or verified?
Don't worry about it, it's just an interesting conversation...
The only thing lamer than cultivating an extensive on-line social network is doing it during evenings and weekends instead of during working hours like 99.9% of social network enthusiasts.
I would assume that a potentially worthwhile employee is doing something a little more enriching and/or constructive during their free time.
Such judgement for a leisure activity! People have off-hours, people who work hard need off-hours even more. Some people read books, some watch cat videos, some poke around in other people's lives on Facebook. Again: judge people on the task that you want them to do for you, not what they choose to do outside of their interaction with you.
The snobbery on this site is so tiring.
And if I were a recruiter, I'd probably consider having extensive profiles online a negative quality -- indicative of spending too much time posing and not enough actually working.
Yeah, those horrible employees that have evenings and weekends where they can do things other than working for you, how dare they.
Stick with the simplest, what people do in their own time is their own concern.
However, pretty much *all* those systems are single-payer,
Bullshit.
Admittedly, having looked closer, that statement was bullshit.
European health care systems aren't "radically cheaper to run"; they spend a bit more than half of what Americans spend per capita
I'd say almost half the price is a huge difference. But it's worse than that. In the UK we pay half but get a system that covers the entire population. You pay twice, and end up with something that *doesn't* cover the big swathe that don't have healthcare. You're paying more, and then still getting less.
What's more is that it isn't either/or. It's *both*. You can get private healthcare in the UK, but we *also* have a system that covers everybody.
It takes the kind of sheep-like population that the UK has to accept them.
Oh fuck you you obviously know nothing about this country. It also sounds like you've been fed propaganda about the state of the NHS.
You have a healthcare system that doesn't cover your population. It is so expensive that a proportion simply cannot afford it. That to me seems like a bad position to be in.
This anecdote doesn't match my experience of the NHS or the figures. Screening is common here, as are vaccinations. Life expectancy is longer in the UK than the US. People visit the doctor more in the UK than the US. This is directly counter to your manager's anecdotal hypothesis.
The primary goal of the NHS isn't to keep its costs down, it's not a business! The goal is to improve public health, and that's how the decisions are taken. Anyway, giving someone a vaccination to prevent illness, or catching a cancer early is a much cheaper than treating at an advanced stage.
The UK single payer system is no more efficient or cheaper than other European health insurance systems, many of which operate completely differently. Therefore, your assertion that the UK system magically results in cost control relative to private or other insurance systems is bullshit.
However, pretty much *all* those systems are single-payer, and radically cheaper to run than the American system, so what we can determine is that the American system as is is astonishingly inefficient. I would have thought when you look at a foreign system that's much more efficient, you'd want to know why and find out why yours is so expensive, rather than just dismissing it.
And that's a good thing because...?
Oh... you're one of *those*.
No, if a friend needs to use your computer then you need to monitor their use at all times
Errr... what's wrong with your friends?
You could still call it the 'Land of the free-er-than-most.'
Is this what the US aspires to now? To be slightly better than average? What happened to the "best country in the world"?
Yeah, but what they've done here is completely pointless, and potentially cost him dearly, because he was a bit sarcastic about being fired! I mean, who hasn't reacted like that? Must we graciously bow to our employers even when they throw us on the street? They've taken time out of what must be a very busy period with all the admin and wrapping up to target this guy. It's petty, and vindictive.
Safeway have *failed* their employees. By closing a store they have admitted that they cannot effectively run a business and have now caused suffering for those previously loyal employees. The least they could do is take some criticism on the chin.
No, it's on Slashdot because it's a nice anti-corporate story to stir up outrage. The hivemind loves those.
By the 'hive mind' do you mean common decency and respect, expectation of a human to treat another in a fair and balanced manner, and not kick them when theyr'e down? Ah yes, the 'hive mind'... You know, I think I'm alright to follow the mindless hordes who have some sense that people should be treated as well as possible, especially when they're in the process of losing their job through no fault of their own.
Tagging "hive mind" does not make things automatically wrong.
If all of the competent people working on Wayland would stop wasting time on it and improve the X server, think how much better it might be.
Fairly obviously you're not a developer, because if you were you'd know that after a certain point a codebase can't be fixed. Long-live deeply engrained problems in a system cannot just be fixed. Sometimes you need to start again with fresh perspective, without having to live with choices made 10 years ago.
When the French log in and view something from another country, that is not a business doing business in France. There's no rational reason for that business to pay a stipend to the French for the French logging in.
Indeed. Though I would imagine (we don't know from the article but it generally works like this) that because Google has a business presence in France and collects advert sales revenue there, they *are* doing business in France, and that would bring them under French tax law.
Do you live in France or do business in France? If you do then respect their laws. If not then there is nothing you need to concern yourself. There are other valid forms of government that don't necessarily follow how you would prefer to be governed.
Actually, the only real way France will learn is to simple ignore them. By ignore them, I mean completely pull out of the France. No french versions of websites. No, french youtube, no French google or bing.
I'm trying to think of a more subtle way of saying 'fuck you', but I can't. You realise how outstandingly arrogant you sound? That you would have foreign corporations put such massive pressure on a government to act in a way that they want?
I don't particularly think this tax is a great idea, and it's likely to limit what gets offered to France, but guess what, it's up to *France* to make their decision on the tradeoff and then *Google* etc to decide whether it's worth it to do business in that country. And you can bet your life that they still will. Just because you have an anarchist / libertarian / bully hardon for making governments do your bidding, doesn't mean the real world works like that.