Actually, it was the drop in the price of oil that brought the USSR to ruin. We bribed the Saudi's into oversupplying the world market, and the USSR was hardest hit. By the end of the USSR, defense spending had already fallen through the floor to make room for perestroika initiatives and to foster greater autonomy and self-reliance in satellite states.
SDI was not a real thing. It was posturing with the sole purpose of creating psychological leverage. I expect both sides of this current issue are the same thing.
The people that would be called upon to do all this seizing are the military and police. Do you know any? Because all the ones I know are total and complete libertarian-leaning gun nuts. That whole hypothetical scenario you laid out will not proceed the way you think it will.
I worked at a job that has seasonal crunch-times, followed by a season of long, long hours to support the released product. Think 60-80 hours a week. When I first started, the season of long hours was technically a code freeze; we only checked in critical bug fixes, and code pushes were arranged long ahead of schedule. Emergency code pushes were vetted by the chief architect. All in all, most of that time was spent killing time, waiting, and watching.
One season, everything changed. My boss (dev manager) left to go work for a competitor, and was replaced by someone from Sales. At that moment, the dev team became a boiler room. He over-promised his bosses, and expected us to deliver. Scrum become a bullshit "sign off on this estimate or else." If you tried to be conservative in your estimate, the meeting would drag on while he badgered you about why your estimate was so low ("I just don't see..." was his favorite phrase). Eventually you agreed just to put the meeting out of its misery; and you would be held to that estimate. So the crunch-time became almost unbearable. At the same time, my daughter was born. The combination of these things sent by blood pressure through the roof. My doctor warned me that I was extremely hypertensive (170/100) and that drastic action was needed. I took pills, changed my diet, I did everything but change my job.
You see, my coworkers (the ones that were all quitting around this time) used to joke and call me a "company man." I had never quit a job. Ever. I had only held two jobs before, and lost them both due to problems at the company (the first got hit by the dot-bomb, the second sold email software to ISP's [you can draw your own conclusions]).
The company owners were great; they really loved the employees, and they tried to make it the best they could. Unfortunately, they were blind to the problems with middle-management. The past year, to alleviate the work stress, they changed company policy on long hours. Basically, the new understanding was that, since we had remote capability and were on-call, it was no longer necessary for us to sit around 60-80 hours for a whole season doing nothing. For other divisions, this meant 40 hour work weeks. My manager's takeaway, however, was that the 60-80 hours could not be filled with actual work. Velocity was expected to increase by 50%-100%.
Soon after that first season ended, we had a week vacation and then geared up for another crunch period (yay! Only 40 hours, now!). One week shy of my daughter's first birthday, I woke up in the middle of a Friday night with my chest thumping. But it couldn't be a heart-attack; after all, I'm a hypochondriac, and it has never been a heart attack before. So I scheduled a same-day appointment that Saturday morning with my GP. Turns out I had had a total blockage of my lower-left ventricle for over 12 hours. Three stents, and lucky not to have permanent cardiac tissue damage. Luckier still not to be dead; my brand new cardiologist informed me that I was only hours from a catastrophic and unrecoverable cardiac event. I would not have survived the evening.
My cardiologist and GP agreed on this point: it was not diet, or exercise, or any other external factor that caused my heart attack; it was 100% stress. It should not have happened, especially at my age. They said I had to cut out the stress immediately.
So, being the company man that I am, I gave the company another season of long hours. But this time I did it right. I didn't let my boss get to me, I didn't volunteer for useless and unrewarding tasks, and all in all stopped being the jump-up-and-go guy I had been before. My manager informed me two weeks before my review that I was going to get poor marks for work throughput. I had not received a bad in 18 years, and I was not going to get one now. I put out my resume, and got hired by the first place I submitted it to (keyword search "work-life balance"). I handed in my resignation the day before my review.
Work will always be work, but it doesn't have to be terrible (and shouldn't be).
tl;dr: Don't wait until your job kills you to leave.
They're still trying decide what upsert pattern to use. SELECT first? UPDATE first? It takes time to decide these architectural issues. Give them another couple decades.
Because Apple, as all the Android fans on/. are quick to point out, is non-dominant also-ran in the phone market. Just going by sales numbers alone, there is no anti-trust case to be made against Apple.
Article 15 applies regardless of previous agreements, as stated in the very text itself. I must not be much of a programmer, because I actually read the documentation.
That is absolutely a problem for open-source. 1) Developer A writes free software B under an open-source license. 2) Companies X, Y, and Z incorporate B into their products. 3) X, Y, and Z make a brazillion dollars.
This happens all the time. Now we can add step 4: 4) A asserts his Article 15 rights to extract money from X, Y, and Z.
Maybe that seems fair to you. But if this scenario happens with any regularity, companies will cease using FOSS altogether. People will be putting out free software and the corporate world will say "don't look, don't touch."
And when the GOP didn't pass spending bills to Obama's liking, he made it clear he wouldn't sign (slim majority, no veto override power). Thus we got shutdowns that were blamed on Congress. So eventually the GOP caved every time and ran up the deficit. But since they're getting blamed anyways, they should have said "fuck it" and just let the shutdown continue indefinitely. Good money-saver.
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That support for the civil rights movement was very unpopular among the traditional southern Democrats, so they left the Democrat party, just like the Republicans had 30 years earlier. They ended up in the Republican camp.
Then you would expect deep southern states to have turned red during that period, except they did not. They did not turn Republican until the 90's (some early, some late). For most so-called "dixiecrats", political identity was second only to God.
Or I can look at year-over-year global GHI trends and--oh, look--they're all going down. Besides, three miles from my house are slums with the poorest Americans and rampant obesity.
iPhones are replaced every six to nine months due to peer pressure to have the most recent model.
You sure? I've been on the iPhone since the beginning, and only replace ever 2 or 3 years; about ever 3rd or 4th model. Even my Mac cultist friends don't buy every model that gets released.
Plus the batteries won't hold a charge within a year
Demonstrably false. I have never replaced an iPhone battery, or felt the need to.
To be fair, they had a vote before the Kickstarter even ended, to vastly increase the scope of the game. It's wasn't even close. This is what the backers wanted. I, myself, didn't hop on the wagon until after the project scope increased, because that's the game I wanted. I've since gotten married and had a baby, so it will be a couple more years until I can play any video games at all, so the pace of development is sitting pretty with me. I think lot of backers are in my spot; we're older, a bit more money, and we're willing to wait patiently for the game we've always wanted since WC1.
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Actually, it was the drop in the price of oil that brought the USSR to ruin. We bribed the Saudi's into oversupplying the world market, and the USSR was hardest hit. By the end of the USSR, defense spending had already fallen through the floor to make room for perestroika initiatives and to foster greater autonomy and self-reliance in satellite states.
SDI was not a real thing. It was posturing with the sole purpose of creating psychological leverage. I expect both sides of this current issue are the same thing.
The people that would be called upon to do all this seizing are the military and police. Do you know any? Because all the ones I know are total and complete libertarian-leaning gun nuts. That whole hypothetical scenario you laid out will not proceed the way you think it will.
EDIT: "could *NOW* be filled", not "not be filled"
Slashdot, let me edit!!!
I worked at a job that has seasonal crunch-times, followed by a season of long, long hours to support the released product. Think 60-80 hours a week. When I first started, the season of long hours was technically a code freeze; we only checked in critical bug fixes, and code pushes were arranged long ahead of schedule. Emergency code pushes were vetted by the chief architect. All in all, most of that time was spent killing time, waiting, and watching.
One season, everything changed. My boss (dev manager) left to go work for a competitor, and was replaced by someone from Sales. At that moment, the dev team became a boiler room. He over-promised his bosses, and expected us to deliver. Scrum become a bullshit "sign off on this estimate or else." If you tried to be conservative in your estimate, the meeting would drag on while he badgered you about why your estimate was so low ("I just don't see..." was his favorite phrase). Eventually you agreed just to put the meeting out of its misery; and you would be held to that estimate. So the crunch-time became almost unbearable. At the same time, my daughter was born. The combination of these things sent by blood pressure through the roof. My doctor warned me that I was extremely hypertensive (170/100) and that drastic action was needed. I took pills, changed my diet, I did everything but change my job.
You see, my coworkers (the ones that were all quitting around this time) used to joke and call me a "company man." I had never quit a job. Ever. I had only held two jobs before, and lost them both due to problems at the company (the first got hit by the dot-bomb, the second sold email software to ISP's [you can draw your own conclusions]).
The company owners were great; they really loved the employees, and they tried to make it the best they could. Unfortunately, they were blind to the problems with middle-management. The past year, to alleviate the work stress, they changed company policy on long hours. Basically, the new understanding was that, since we had remote capability and were on-call, it was no longer necessary for us to sit around 60-80 hours for a whole season doing nothing. For other divisions, this meant 40 hour work weeks. My manager's takeaway, however, was that the 60-80 hours could not be filled with actual work. Velocity was expected to increase by 50%-100%.
Soon after that first season ended, we had a week vacation and then geared up for another crunch period (yay! Only 40 hours, now!). One week shy of my daughter's first birthday, I woke up in the middle of a Friday night with my chest thumping. But it couldn't be a heart-attack; after all, I'm a hypochondriac, and it has never been a heart attack before. So I scheduled a same-day appointment that Saturday morning with my GP. Turns out I had had a total blockage of my lower-left ventricle for over 12 hours. Three stents, and lucky not to have permanent cardiac tissue damage. Luckier still not to be dead; my brand new cardiologist informed me that I was only hours from a catastrophic and unrecoverable cardiac event. I would not have survived the evening.
My cardiologist and GP agreed on this point: it was not diet, or exercise, or any other external factor that caused my heart attack; it was 100% stress. It should not have happened, especially at my age. They said I had to cut out the stress immediately.
So, being the company man that I am, I gave the company another season of long hours. But this time I did it right. I didn't let my boss get to me, I didn't volunteer for useless and unrewarding tasks, and all in all stopped being the jump-up-and-go guy I had been before. My manager informed me two weeks before my review that I was going to get poor marks for work throughput. I had not received a bad in 18 years, and I was not going to get one now. I put out my resume, and got hired by the first place I submitted it to (keyword search "work-life balance"). I handed in my resignation the day before my review.
Work will always be work, but it doesn't have to be terrible (and shouldn't be).
tl;dr: Don't wait until your job kills you to leave.
They're still trying decide what upsert pattern to use. SELECT first? UPDATE first? It takes time to decide these architectural issues. Give them another couple decades.
Weird. Slashdot ate my link tag. That's never happened before. Here's my [citation needed]: https://www.statista.com/stati...
Because Apple, as all the Android fans on /. are quick to point out, is non-dominant also-ran in the phone market. Just going by sales numbers alone, there is no anti-trust case to be made against Apple.
Oh geez, I'm going to hell for this, but would you say it makes them wet?
4) A asserts hs Article 15 rights and _requests_ money.
4b) Companies say: 'Tits or GTFO! LOL'
Wow. Things sure do work differently in Europe.
Article 15 applies regardless of previous agreements, as stated in the very text itself. I must not be much of a programmer, because I actually read the documentation.
That is absolutely a problem for open-source.
1) Developer A writes free software B under an open-source license.
2) Companies X, Y, and Z incorporate B into their products.
3) X, Y, and Z make a brazillion dollars.
This happens all the time. Now we can add step 4:
4) A asserts his Article 15 rights to extract money from X, Y, and Z.
Maybe that seems fair to you. But if this scenario happens with any regularity, companies will cease using FOSS altogether. People will be putting out free software and the corporate world will say "don't look, don't touch."
I will endeavor not to smuggle my child across another nation's border illegally. Thanks for the tip.
And when the GOP didn't pass spending bills to Obama's liking, he made it clear he wouldn't sign (slim majority, no veto override power). Thus we got shutdowns that were blamed on Congress. So eventually the GOP caved every time and ran up the deficit. But since they're getting blamed anyways, they should have said "fuck it" and just let the shutdown continue indefinitely. Good money-saver.
Tell them to leave off the flimsy trunk liner. That's your $400 right there.
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That literally has nothing to do with TFA.
Hold on, is it my fault, or none of my business? It can't be both.
That support for the civil rights movement was very unpopular among the traditional southern Democrats, so they left the Democrat party, just like the Republicans had 30 years earlier. They ended up in the Republican camp.
Then you would expect deep southern states to have turned red during that period, except they did not. They did not turn Republican until the 90's (some early, some late). For most so-called "dixiecrats", political identity was second only to God.
Or I can look at year-over-year global GHI trends and--oh, look--they're all going down. Besides, three miles from my house are slums with the poorest Americans and rampant obesity.
These products are why rampant starvation is a thing of the past. Your statement is a REAL example of white privilege.
GitHub is a for-pay service with a free version for public code.
iPhones are replaced every six to nine months due to peer pressure to have the most recent model.
You sure? I've been on the iPhone since the beginning, and only replace ever 2 or 3 years; about ever 3rd or 4th model. Even my Mac cultist friends don't buy every model that gets released.
Plus the batteries won't hold a charge within a year
Demonstrably false. I have never replaced an iPhone battery, or felt the need to.
If I was a cringey fedora-wearing neckbeard redditor, here is where I would say, "oh, my sweet Summer child" or some other edgy bullshit.
Oh, wait, I just said it...
To be fair, they had a vote before the Kickstarter even ended, to vastly increase the scope of the game. It's wasn't even close. This is what the backers wanted. I, myself, didn't hop on the wagon until after the project scope increased, because that's the game I wanted. I've since gotten married and had a baby, so it will be a couple more years until I can play any video games at all, so the pace of development is sitting pretty with me. I think lot of backers are in my spot; we're older, a bit more money, and we're willing to wait patiently for the game we've always wanted since WC1.