I hate managing with "rockstar" developers because they're always too arrogant and full of themselves. They detract from the team, argue and refuse to listen to others
Those aren't rock-star developers. As another poster said, you likely have never worked with a rock-star developer. They are great at what they do, *and* they make the team better. They are rare, but it's awesome when you see somebody that inspires others around them by what they can do
This, and 10^9999999999 this !!
It is so sad to read comments by the know-nothings who think that they knew everything
They never get any chance to meet with the real top notch talents and the arrogant, disruptive PITAs that they claim to be "rock star developers" do not even come close to the real stuff
I have have the fortune to work with several of the legendary programmers and when I use the word "legendary" I really mean it
They are legendary not only because of their programming skills, not only because of their extra-ordinary ability to conceptualize and implement and produce things that had never exist before, but also because of their willingness to share, to motivate the team, to lead the team to go with them on the most wonderful journey of power achievements
... Most likely outcome: the agent, whose entire compensation is based on separating me from as much cash as possible, manages to take more than that difference and I get screwed while thinking I got a good deal...
If you are of the top 1% talent you wouldn't be feeling so butthurt over how much that "agent" skims over what you take
Look, I've been in the industry even before Al Gore started his "information superhighway" stump
I worked as a grunt in research labs, buried deep within the big corporate behemoths, I started my own joints, one after the other (they were not known as "startups" back then), sold some, re-invest the $$ by help funding other startups, and so on... and along the ways I got acquainted with many legendary talents, some still with me, some parted ways, but I never stop searching for talents
Back then there were no "agencies". Heck! Back then there was no linkedin or anything like that, but when we needed talents we went crowdsourcing (no, that phrase wasn't invented either) and via our network of friends and/or acquaintances we got what we want
And yes, I do pay those who helped find me the talent I need, and no, I do not count the money I paid to those (so-called) agents as part of the money I am willing to pay the talent
What we have are business opportunities. What we want is to make money. And to make money we are willing to hire the right person to do the job, and we are willing to pay.
If you are really good, you will be paid what you are worth. Whatever those "agent" skims from you will not eat into your worth
Pretty sure having working landing gear would have solved the problem
These are all Monday morning quarterbacking, but truth is that all of us should learn from the unfortunate design mistakes that ESA has made
Working landing gear is one, but a bigger design flaw is that they (the ESA probe landing team) assumed that they could land the probe on a comet just like they land a probe the size of the Moon or Mars
All they have, before they release the probe, was a series of GO / NO GO checklist, on the few chosen "preferred landing spot" on that comet
There was no contigensy plan for the many "what ifs" that may happen
And the design of their probe (the shape of it) is exactly like the probe others have used on Mars / Moon - a box with a few legs beneath it
Instead of design the probe with a shape that could deal with more "what if" scenario --- that might greatly enhance the survival of the probe if the probe ended up in non-optimal spots
And the power supply --- why send up a thing to a piece of flying rock in space, chase it for 10 long years, and by the time the space craft reaches the destination, it only has hours of power supply left??
The ESA Rosetta mission turns out to be a showcase of a series of what _not_ to do if one wants to launch a space probe to space
Lawmakers weren't reading from the same script as U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz when it came to assessing the U.S.'s place in the supercomputing world. Moniz said the awards "will ensure the United States retains global leadership in supercomputing." But Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.) put U.S. leadership in the past tense. "Supercomputing is one of those things that we can step up and lead the world again," he said
Let us see what else are in the past tense...
How many of the microwave ovens / teevee sets are being made inside the United States of America?
How many of the American jobs have been "outsourced" to places like India or the Philippines?
How many top American companies are using foreigners as their CEOs?... and the list continues...
AT&T Mobility, the nation's second-largest cellular provider, says it's no longer attaching hidden Internet tracking codes to data transmitted from its users' smartphones. The practice made it nearly impossible to shield its subscribers' identities online
Would be nice to hear something similar from Verizon
really makes me cringe!
First of all, why on earth we, the users, putting ourselves at the mercy of companies such as Verizon or AT&T?
I mean, WE PAID THEM to do the "data carrier job" for us, or in other words, they are not our boss
Why are we letting them having the power to inserting "super cookies" (or whatever fuck else they can come up with) inside the datastreams that we paid them to carry?
So many people making so much noise about FREE SERVICES search engines / social sites such as Google or FB for "tracking" them, where the hell are those people when PAID SERVICES such as AT&T and/or Verizon doing the same thing to them??
Why are we giving away so much of our own rights??
Coincidentally, the National Geographic just came out with a new article - "How Green Are Those Solar Panels, Really?" http://news.nationalgeographic...
I am all for the environment but there are times I think those who are trumpeting the "renewable energy" are blowing smokes
Take the solar panel for example --- a common solar panel (not that expensive kind) with a rating of 12% can generate about 10W of power per square foot --- and in places like Denmark, the average hour of sunshine in cloudless sky per day is, -- let me be generous and put it as, -- 5 hours a day
Simple arithmetic tells us that for a one square foot of solar panel installed in Denmark it will produce about 18.25KWH per year. Multiply that by 75% (to account for dust / grime or whatever that blocks the sunlights) we get around 13.69KWH, per year
Now, what is the total energy use of a first world country like Denmark? How many square feet of solar panels must we use to generate enough power for Denmark?
I do reckon that there are other means of renewable energy - like wind turbines or geo-thermal but let's face the reality --- how many wind turbines can Denmark erect before all the birds in Denmark ended up in slices?
I am an American Chinese currently in America, and unlike you, I was born in China, and knew China from inside and out so much so that I ran away from it
The current China is more capitalistic than the United States of America - in China you won't see nonsense like the Obamacare because, according to the Chinese culture everyone is supposed to taking care of one's own life, and health
The government's job is to protect the country and to ensure that the society doesn't falter. It ain't the government's job to cuddle the people (at least Confucius never says so)
Although I ain't a Chinese national anymore I am still a(n ethnic) Chinese through and through and I happen to agree with what the government of China is doing
To say that China is going back to Communism is to lie with both eyes wide open. Xi is no communist, in fact, he is *VERY* afraid of the "deep red" faction within the CCP, that is why there are so much "anti-graft" operations around --- all designed to crush his opponents, the "deep red" faction of the Tai Zhi Dang
If both companies in China can undercut everyone else anyway, China is going to win the market regardless of whether it merges those two companies or not. However, with the companies merged, the undercutting will be reduced, which means there is more of an opportunity for foreign companies to underbid and stay alive
Sometimes I wonder if you guys are talking about the subject at hand, or not
Guys, this ain't 99cent coffee mug that we are talking about. It's multi-million dollar (sometimes in the BILLIONS) infrastructure investment, and when governments have to spend such an amount of money, price isn't everything !
But of course, China still has a trump card that others may not have... China can FINANCE the deal with ridiculous no-question-ask and no-string-attached loan
Please remind me how their is no corruption in your country again
Easy, we give the politicians the power to define what is corruption and what isn't
Since we already gave the politicians the power to define what is Liberty what isn't, why not?
Next they can get to define what is wealth, what is poverty; Who we are allowed to mingle with; What we are allowed to think; What kind of life we deserve to have; What is war, what is peace; and before we know it, George Orwell yells from his grave, "I TOLD YOU SO ! I TOLD YOU SO !!!!"
Consider the pictures that I link below --- to the Conservatives they are totally inexcusable. On the other hand, to the Liberals, those are consider *MEAT*
Warning! Please do not click on any of the links below if your threshold of gore has been set too low
... Could they have imagined a government where something akin to the Dutch East India Company simply walked in and individually bribed every single Congressman and the President to do their bidding, without the American people even realizing it?
I am a citizen of the United States of America. I realize what is going on
But how many of my fellow Americans know?
And more importantly, how many of them give a damn?
Many people says that TOR is the only weapon we have left to keep ourselves out of the prying eyes of the spooks - but is it truly secured ?
If TOR is not totally secured then we will end up fooling ourselves thinking that we are under protection but in actuality our every.move is being monitored / recorded / analyzed by spooks
Ironically, the atheist bloc tend to propagate myths like this without any evidence to support their claims or being open to rational discourse
There are faults on all sides
No matter if it's the Church or the atheist bloc, when one goes to the extreme, reason is no longer a valid commodity for them
Some of those so-called "atheists" are so anti-Christianity that they actually siding themselves with Islamic extremists in opposing anything that has to do with Christ
What makes the "underprivileged schools" underprivileged is not only the facilities sux, the students sux, it's also because the teachers there (not all of them, but most) sux
While money cannot buy guaranteed success, at the very least, if the $750M is used to hire much better teachers, it would go much __much__ further to help the students than those "fancy gifts"
If one studies the Bible one will understand that Jesus Christ ain't a dude who will say *NO!* to the non-believers
In fact, the only character Jesus says *NO!* to is the Satan
There are many stories inside the new testaments which tell us Jesus, before he was killed, was an open-minded kind of dude
I _am_ a Christian, and damn proud to be one, although I ain't a fundie. And as a Christian I do have a duty to correct wrong impressions about Jesus Christ
I am from China. At the time I left China it was really deep in communism, so deep that the entire society went upside down and a lot of people died because of it
But the China of today is very different. China of today is much more capitalistic than the United States of America --- since I am from China and that I am a citizen of the United States of America after staying in the US for decades, if I am to compare the two I would say that the USA is becoming more and more socialistic (turning more and more pinko) while China has turned blue, deeeeep blue
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A lot of lonely empty people in this world, and they are so afraid of being feeling left alone they would _anything_ to attract attention
In fact, many of those who committed suicide are did what they did, in the vain hope that their death would attract some attention
I hate managing with "rockstar" developers because they're always too arrogant and full of themselves. They detract from the team, argue and refuse to listen to others
Those aren't rock-star developers. As another poster said, you likely have never worked with a rock-star developer. They are great at what they do, *and* they make the team better. They are rare, but it's awesome when you see somebody that inspires others around them by what they can do
This, and 10^9999999999 this !!
It is so sad to read comments by the know-nothings who think that they knew everything
They never get any chance to meet with the real top notch talents and the arrogant, disruptive PITAs that they claim to be "rock star developers" do not even come close to the real stuff
I have have the fortune to work with several of the legendary programmers and when I use the word "legendary" I really mean it
They are legendary not only because of their programming skills, not only because of their extra-ordinary ability to conceptualize and implement and produce things that had never exist before, but also because of their willingness to share, to motivate the team, to lead the team to go with them on the most wonderful journey of power achievements
If you are of the top 1% talent you wouldn't be feeling so butthurt over how much that "agent" skims over what you take
Look, I've been in the industry even before Al Gore started his "information superhighway" stump
I worked as a grunt in research labs, buried deep within the big corporate behemoths, I started my own joints, one after the other (they were not known as "startups" back then), sold some, re-invest the $$ by help funding other startups, and so on ... and along the ways I got acquainted with many legendary talents, some still with me, some parted ways, but I never stop searching for talents
Back then there were no "agencies". Heck! Back then there was no linkedin or anything like that, but when we needed talents we went crowdsourcing (no, that phrase wasn't invented either) and via our network of friends and/or acquaintances we got what we want
And yes, I do pay those who helped find me the talent I need, and no, I do not count the money I paid to those (so-called) agents as part of the money I am willing to pay the talent
What we have are business opportunities. What we want is to make money. And to make money we are willing to hire the right person to do the job, and we are willing to pay.
If you are really good, you will be paid what you are worth. Whatever those "agent" skims from you will not eat into your worth
This ain't a zero sum game, man !
Pretty sure having working landing gear would have solved the problem
These are all Monday morning quarterbacking, but truth is that all of us should learn from the unfortunate design mistakes that ESA has made
Working landing gear is one, but a bigger design flaw is that they (the ESA probe landing team) assumed that they could land the probe on a comet just like they land a probe the size of the Moon or Mars
All they have, before they release the probe, was a series of GO / NO GO checklist, on the few chosen "preferred landing spot" on that comet
There was no contigensy plan for the many "what ifs" that may happen
And the design of their probe (the shape of it) is exactly like the probe others have used on Mars / Moon - a box with a few legs beneath it
Instead of design the probe with a shape that could deal with more "what if" scenario --- that might greatly enhance the survival of the probe if the probe ended up in non-optimal spots
And the power supply --- why send up a thing to a piece of flying rock in space, chase it for 10 long years, and by the time the space craft reaches the destination, it only has hours of power supply left??
The ESA Rosetta mission turns out to be a showcase of a series of what _not_ to do if one wants to launch a space probe to space
The arts are indeed impressive ! However, they are "sculptures" that do not have movable joints
If only they can make bots that small imagine how many amazing feats that can be achieved !
Lawmakers weren't reading from the same script as U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz when it came to assessing the U.S.'s place in the supercomputing world. Moniz said the awards "will ensure the United States retains global leadership in supercomputing." But Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.) put U.S. leadership in the past tense. "Supercomputing is one of those things that we can step up and lead the world again," he said
Let us see what else are in the past tense ...
How many of the microwave ovens / teevee sets are being made inside the United States of America?
How many of the American jobs have been "outsourced" to places like India or the Philippines?
How many top American companies are using foreigners as their CEOs? ... and the list continues ...
Reading the TFA
AT&T Mobility, the nation's second-largest cellular provider, says it's no longer attaching hidden Internet tracking codes to data transmitted from its users' smartphones. The practice made it nearly impossible to shield its subscribers' identities online
Would be nice to hear something similar from Verizon
really makes me cringe!
First of all, why on earth we, the users, putting ourselves at the mercy of companies such as Verizon or AT&T?
I mean, WE PAID THEM to do the "data carrier job" for us, or in other words, they are not our boss
Why are we letting them having the power to inserting "super cookies" (or whatever fuck else they can come up with) inside the datastreams that we paid them to carry?
So many people making so much noise about FREE SERVICES search engines / social sites such as Google or FB for "tracking" them, where the hell are those people when PAID SERVICES such as AT&T and/or Verizon doing the same thing to them??
Why are we giving away so much of our own rights??
Poster Buchenskjoll http://slashdot.org/~Buchenskj... generously shares with us a very useful link - http://www.abaka.dk/energi/sol... - which puts it about a fourth of your estimate ... ~ 130 KWh / M^2 / year, but I get your point
Coincidentally, the National Geographic just came out with a new article - "How Green Are Those Solar Panels, Really?"
http://news.nationalgeographic...
It's worth a read
I am all for the environment but there are times I think those who are trumpeting the "renewable energy" are blowing smokes
Take the solar panel for example --- a common solar panel (not that expensive kind) with a rating of 12% can generate about 10W of power per square foot --- and in places like Denmark, the average hour of sunshine in cloudless sky per day is, -- let me be generous and put it as, -- 5 hours a day
Simple arithmetic tells us that for a one square foot of solar panel installed in Denmark it will produce about 18.25KWH per year. Multiply that by 75% (to account for dust / grime or whatever that blocks the sunlights) we get around 13.69KWH, per year
Now, what is the total energy use of a first world country like Denmark? How many square feet of solar panels must we use to generate enough power for Denmark?
I do reckon that there are other means of renewable energy - like wind turbines or geo-thermal but let's face the reality --- how many wind turbines can Denmark erect before all the birds in Denmark ended up in slices?
In some Islamic countries if you dare to search for the above you will automatically be tagged by the authority as A CRUSADER !!
So be forewarned !
Source: I'm a Chinese American currently in China
I am an American Chinese currently in America, and unlike you, I was born in China, and knew China from inside and out so much so that I ran away from it
The current China is more capitalistic than the United States of America - in China you won't see nonsense like the Obamacare because, according to the Chinese culture everyone is supposed to taking care of one's own life, and health
The government's job is to protect the country and to ensure that the society doesn't falter. It ain't the government's job to cuddle the people (at least Confucius never says so)
Although I ain't a Chinese national anymore I am still a(n ethnic) Chinese through and through and I happen to agree with what the government of China is doing
To say that China is going back to Communism is to lie with both eyes wide open. Xi is no communist, in fact, he is *VERY* afraid of the "deep red" faction within the CCP, that is why there are so much "anti-graft" operations around --- all designed to crush his opponents, the "deep red" faction of the Tai Zhi Dang
If both companies in China can undercut everyone else anyway, China is going to win the market regardless of whether it merges those two companies or not. However, with the companies merged, the undercutting will be reduced, which means there is more of an opportunity for foreign companies to underbid and stay alive
Sometimes I wonder if you guys are talking about the subject at hand, or not
Guys, this ain't 99cent coffee mug that we are talking about. It's multi-million dollar (sometimes in the BILLIONS) infrastructure investment, and when governments have to spend such an amount of money, price isn't everything !
But of course, China still has a trump card that others may not have ... China can FINANCE the deal with ridiculous no-question-ask and no-string-attached loan
Please remind me how their is no corruption in your country again
Easy, we give the politicians the power to define what is corruption and what isn't
Since we already gave the politicians the power to define what is Liberty what isn't, why not?
Next they can get to define what is wealth, what is poverty; Who we are allowed to mingle with; What we are allowed to think; What kind of life we deserve to have; What is war, what is peace; and before we know it, George Orwell yells from his grave, "I TOLD YOU SO ! I TOLD YOU SO !!!!"
Both Bombardier and Siemens are products of Capitalism, and both are free to choose any business partner they want
If, like you say, combining Bombardier and Siemens are such a DREAM TEAM they would have done it a long long time ago already
After all, which shareholder doesn't want the company that they invested in become part of a DREAM TEAM?
Consider the pictures that I link below --- to the Conservatives they are totally inexcusable. On the other hand, to the Liberals, those are consider *MEAT*
Warning! Please do not click on any of the links below if your threshold of gore has been set too low
http://images.sodahead.com/pol...
http://pro-lifetube.com/upload...
http://images.sodahead.com/pol...
http://clinicquotes.com/wp-con...
http://www.fletcherarmstrongbl...
I am a citizen of the United States of America. I realize what is going on
But how many of my fellow Americans know?
And more importantly, how many of them give a damn?
Many people says that TOR is the only weapon we have left to keep ourselves out of the prying eyes of the spooks - but is it truly secured ?
If TOR is not totally secured then we will end up fooling ourselves thinking that we are under protection but in actuality our every.move is being monitored / recorded / analyzed by spooks
The government of the United States of America is behaving very much like an accomplice to a crime
Their unexplained decision to delete EVERY.SINGLE.RECORD regrading the H1-B program is tantamount of the DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE !
How can the Americans allow their government to turn so rogue, so fast ?
Ironically, the atheist bloc tend to propagate myths like this without any evidence to support their claims or being open to rational discourse
There are faults on all sides
No matter if it's the Church or the atheist bloc, when one goes to the extreme, reason is no longer a valid commodity for them
Some of those so-called "atheists" are so anti-Christianity that they actually siding themselves with Islamic extremists in opposing anything that has to do with Christ
Anyone can use the same "The FBI told me" claim you use
Anyone !!
Any hacker group that relies on the same malware code on their hacking, for 6 year straight, deserves no respect
If that Chinese hacker group "Axiom" really uses the same "Hikit" code all these years then they are no better than a bunch of lazy script kiddies
What makes the "underprivileged schools" underprivileged is not only the facilities sux, the students sux, it's also because the teachers there (not all of them, but most) sux
While money cannot buy guaranteed success, at the very least, if the $750M is used to hire much better teachers, it would go much __much__ further to help the students than those "fancy gifts"
If one studies the Bible one will understand that Jesus Christ ain't a dude who will say *NO!* to the non-believers
In fact, the only character Jesus says *NO!* to is the Satan
There are many stories inside the new testaments which tell us Jesus, before he was killed, was an open-minded kind of dude
I _am_ a Christian, and damn proud to be one, although I ain't a fundie. And as a Christian I do have a duty to correct wrong impressions about Jesus Christ
I am from China. At the time I left China it was really deep in communism, so deep that the entire society went upside down and a lot of people died because of it
But the China of today is very different. China of today is much more capitalistic than the United States of America --- since I am from China and that I am a citizen of the United States of America after staying in the US for decades, if I am to compare the two I would say that the USA is becoming more and more socialistic (turning more and more pinko) while China has turned blue, deeeeep blue
The negative thinkers/pessimists get all the work done, then the positive thinkers say "See, there was nothing to worry about" and take all the credit
In reality no one can be said to be absolutely pessimistic nor absolutely optimistic
Most often the one who truly gets the work done follows the "Expect the _worst_ but hope for the _best_" adage