IANAL and I don't know for sure. Thank god I didn't have a need to find out either. My understanding, however, is that when you are signing a contract you basically agree to accept the result of arbitration either.
It is hard to evaluate IT skills, so many companies create some ridiculous number of hoops potential employee have to jump through, that it can take like half a year for a perfectly qualified candidate to actually "fill" the position.
The skilled workers are there. It is just that most companies (especially big ones, IMO) suck really hard at finding them. Of course they are not going to blame their process, they are going to say that there are no skilled people out there.
Occam's razor favors explanation with the fewest assumptions. Nowhere is says about simplicity in any other sense. Please don't spread this nonsense which I've seen too many times.
Now, If you start comparing the number of assumptions both of those theories make... well, you'll get completely different result here
Well, I was born and raised in Soviet Union, so, on the other side of the barricades. As you may guess, this sequence of events was taught a little bit differently there.
I guess you are kind of hinting at Idiocracy movie.
I think the main fallacy there is that smart parents=smart kids, stupid parents=stupid kids. The reality is way more complex than that and there are plenty of examples around.
I think that the real problem is that psychologists think too much about other people "problems"
I used to be interested in psychology, read a lot of books and stuff. I was so worried, because there was so many things "wrong" with me! I had a bunch of serious mental disorders and what not.
Then I realized that what really is wrong is their definition of "wrong". They have some stupid standard they came up with, to which everyone must confirm, or else. While in fact what you do with your life is nobody's business as long as you don't violate social norms. I mean, I understand that me coming to public park with a laptop and jerking off to Backdoor Sluts 9 can be considered a social problem. But if I do that at home, behind the closed curtains, it is nobody's business
Well, and I happen to know people who, while being pretty much hooked up on video games, still manage to make a decent amounts of money.
It is hard for me to judge how socially adapted or happy they are, but as long as they don't pose problems for other people (like living in parents' house), I think whatever rocks their boat
If somebody wants to spend all their free time masturbating to internet porn and don't want to deal with real women -- fine. As long as they still do their job, I don't care.
You know, 40 or so people interacting and socializing, variously discussing work, kids, vacations, cars... that kind of stuff.
Honestly, to me this sounds horrifying.
There is life outside of geek, and it can actually be quite rewarding.
Different people like different kind of stuff.
May be I'm just getting old too fast, but I find these social interactions more and more shallow and pointless. When I was young, going to this kind of social events was a good way to meet girls, but now that I'm married this point is gone. It can also be good for "networking", getting to know people you can have business relationship with. Looking back, however, I see that all my relationships with people I met this way are pretty shallow too. Many of them are geeks, but it turned out that even as geeks we are interested in different kind of stuff. Some of them are theoretical physicists, some electric engineers, some programmers, and at the end of the day, pretty much the only things we can talk about is stuff we equally suck at: finances, cars, etc.
With other activities, like surfing, biking, boating, skiing, whatever, I don't see any point in doing it in a social group too: people who are worse at it are just holding back those who are good. So, what is the reward, exactly?
Thanks to Napster, I got to know many obscure but good bands and later went to buy their CDs. Granted, this is mostly because buying a CD was the easiest way to get high quality sound quickly, but still.
Slashdot Mirror
Because Sampling is not something Gallup ever heard of.
The god is pretty elusive concept though. It keeps running away from the science.
Once it was a stone then an animal, then human, then he became a spirit and moved to the sky, but now it is evicted even from there.
We can observe species changing over time, i.e. evolving. We can even observe the creation of new species
We can observe complex molecules being created from simpler ones, in chemical reactions.
We can observe complex atoms being created from simpler ones, in nuclear reactions
When was the last time you saw people popping out of thin air?
TFA says this money go to Verisign, not Microsoft.
Exactly. I don't give a flying fuck about this trusted computing thingy. Where do I opt out?
I hope this thing breaks in some horrible way.
IANAL and I don't know for sure. Thank god I didn't have a need to find out either. My understanding, however, is that when you are signing a contract you basically agree to accept the result of arbitration either.
Money and incompetence.
It is hard to evaluate IT skills, so many companies create some ridiculous number of hoops potential employee have to jump through, that it can take like half a year for a perfectly qualified candidate to actually "fill" the position.
The skilled workers are there. It is just that most companies (especially big ones, IMO) suck really hard at finding them. Of course they are not going to blame their process, they are going to say that there are no skilled people out there.
Oh yeah, this mistake is the most disturbing thing in GP's post.
Microsoft is late to this game. The reality is that most of us probably already signed some document of this form with another company.
Do you have a credit card? Boom! The agreement includes "arbitration first" clause.
Ever filed taxes with HR Block or the likes? Boom! Arbitration.
This insanity is literally fucking everywhere these days. We are the sheep...
Occam's razor favors explanation with the fewest assumptions. Nowhere is says about simplicity in any other sense. Please don't spread this nonsense which I've seen too many times.
Now, If you start comparing the number of assumptions both of those theories make... well, you'll get completely different result here
Well, I was born and raised in Soviet Union, so, on the other side of the barricades. As you may guess, this sequence of events was taught a little bit differently there.
Dude!
Now I just *have to* try that!
/me went to have a talk with his wife
I guess you are kind of hinting at Idiocracy movie.
I think the main fallacy there is that smart parents=smart kids, stupid parents=stupid kids. The reality is way more complex than that and there are plenty of examples around.
I think that the real problem is that psychologists think too much about other people "problems"
I used to be interested in psychology, read a lot of books and stuff. I was so worried, because there was so many things "wrong" with me! I had a bunch of serious mental disorders and what not.
Then I realized that what really is wrong is their definition of "wrong". They have some stupid standard they came up with, to which everyone must confirm, or else. While in fact what you do with your life is nobody's business as long as you don't violate social norms. I mean, I understand that me coming to public park with a laptop and jerking off to Backdoor Sluts 9 can be considered a social problem. But if I do that at home, behind the closed curtains, it is nobody's business
Well, and I happen to know people who, while being pretty much hooked up on video games, still manage to make a decent amounts of money.
It is hard for me to judge how socially adapted or happy they are, but as long as they don't pose problems for other people (like living in parents' house), I think whatever rocks their boat
If somebody wants to spend all their free time masturbating to internet porn and don't want to deal with real women -- fine. As long as they still do their job, I don't care.
I've yet to see an ad on Amazon Instant Videos.
Exactly
It is not like they provide something essential to your survival or anything. Find a new use for your time. Period.
You know, 40 or so people interacting and socializing, variously discussing work, kids, vacations, cars ... that kind of stuff.
Honestly, to me this sounds horrifying.
There is life outside of geek, and it can actually be quite rewarding.
Different people like different kind of stuff.
May be I'm just getting old too fast, but I find these social interactions more and more shallow and pointless. When I was young, going to this kind of social events was a good way to meet girls, but now that I'm married this point is gone. It can also be good for "networking", getting to know people you can have business relationship with. Looking back, however, I see that all my relationships with people I met this way are pretty shallow too. Many of them are geeks, but it turned out that even as geeks we are interested in different kind of stuff. Some of them are theoretical physicists, some electric engineers, some programmers, and at the end of the day, pretty much the only things we can talk about is stuff we equally suck at: finances, cars, etc.
With other activities, like surfing, biking, boating, skiing, whatever, I don't see any point in doing it in a social group too: people who are worse at it are just holding back those who are good. So, what is the reward, exactly?
Wow, there was some hardcore war for the moon in sixties. I didn't know it was so intense.
I think people on drugs should be punished because drugs are immoral.
I'm so fucking sick of fucking moralists! Whatever your idea, if it implies this stupid know-it-all assholes get kicked, I'm onboard.
Can somebody please translate this summary to English.
Except you can't really bring your own phone.
...I barely get how the web even runs anymore.
In the cloud, obviously.
What, you didn't get the memo?
Thanks to Napster, I got to know many obscure but good bands and later went to buy their CDs. Granted, this is mostly because buying a CD was the easiest way to get high quality sound quickly, but still.
Except that for this to work every web site has to be classified as porn/non-porn. And this is where you can go wild with the rules.
Is 4chan a porn site?