I'm not sure what year your photo is supposed to be from, but a photo of the actual U.S. team in the 2018 International Mathematical Olympiad, led by coach Po-Shen Loh, leads one to a similar conclusion.
> What's your favorite *nix OS / distribution, and why?
What? I'm a professional, not a hobbyist. My "favorite" is whatever I'm being paid to work on. If I'm working for a Fortune 500 company whose mission-critical app is running on a network of 15-year-old RHEL 3 boxes with ancient utilities (actual job situation), then that is what I work with to best of my ability. I don't spend my time whining to management about how they should be using Mint or Ubuntu instead.
Don't forget acrylamide. It is found in roasted coffee, toast, baked goods, cereals, and potato products, and will cause cancer if you live in California.
I've long suspected that governments retaliate against funding cuts by cutting necessary and popular programs while leaving their own pet projects unscathed.
Of course I couldn't be bothered to Read The Fine Article, but did they consider the possibility that people who have to do manual labor for a living generally have a less healthy lifestyle than knowledge workers?
> in High School in the late 70's early 80's, I remember tons of folks parking in the student parking lot with gun racks in their truck, with loaded rifles in them....no problem.
In the same era, my school even had marksmanship classes for PE credit. We all got in a bus and they drove us to the police firing range and handed us.22 rifles.
> These cars need to recognize that they shouldn't hit anything in the road no matter if it is a person, pothole, or box
That's not always the best strategy. What if you're driving 60 mph and a tumbleweed blows in front of your car? And there is a fully-loaded cement truck behind you. Do you really want to slam on the brakes in that situation? There is more to safe driving than just "avoid hitting things". Sometimes complex decisions need to be made based on the consideration of multiple risk factors.
Lenovo had $43 billion in revenue last year. If my math is correct, this "massive" fine is about what Lenovo makes in 43 minutes. That's not even a slap on the wrist.
You're pulling on your pants, and suddenly notice the curious way that dust motes in ray of sunlight swirl on the thermal currents of the room. It occurs to you that maybe that's the way a space battle might look like, with thousands of ships moving in three dimensions.
I like the way you think. You are obviously experienced at this.
I've been writing code for well over 40 years and there's tons of stuff I still don't know about the craft.
I've been coding for 30 and I know less every year. When PCs first came out, one reasonably bright and curious person could get a pretty good grasp on everything important there was to know about them -- hardware, operating systems, programming languages, networking, and major applications. But with every passing year, no matter how hard you try to keep up, everything you know is a shrinking proportion of everything there is to know.
a utopian idea, of people freed from labor if they wish, to pursue education, or just hang out and enjoy life.
In practice, having a large unemployed class with lots of time on their hands doesn't work out so well. Do we really want a nation of aspiring rap artists working to turn their lives around?
The percentage of hourly paid workers earning the prevailing federal minimum wage or less declined from 3.3 percent in 2015 to 2.7 percent in 2016. This remains well below the percentage of 13.4 recorded in 1979, when data were first collected on a regular basis.
Every generation says the same crap about the next generation.
And every new generation says the same crap about their parents. We all do the best we can, and we all come up with imperfect solutions to the difficult problems of our generation. And thirty years from now, your kids will be saying the same thing about you.
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> Name a single successful tech company started by an over-50.
How about E-Trade? Bill Porter, age 54.
I'm not sure what year your photo is supposed to be from, but a photo of the actual U.S. team in the 2018 International Mathematical Olympiad, led by coach Po-Shen Loh, leads one to a similar conclusion.
https://www.cmu.edu/news/stori...
> What's your favorite *nix OS / distribution, and why?
What? I'm a professional, not a hobbyist. My "favorite" is whatever I'm being paid to work on. If I'm working for a Fortune 500 company whose mission-critical app is running on a network of 15-year-old RHEL 3 boxes with ancient utilities (actual job situation), then that is what I work with to best of my ability. I don't spend my time whining to management about how they should be using Mint or Ubuntu instead.
https://www.knowablemagazine.o...
I've long suspected that governments retaliate against funding cuts by cutting necessary and popular programs while leaving their own pet projects unscathed.
Curse you, Slashdot 1990s character handling. â" was supposed to be an em dash.
That makes me think of the yin-yang symbolâ"two opposites with each one containing a tiny piece of the other.
You can show Most Recent all the time by bookmarking https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr
Of course I couldn't be bothered to Read The Fine Article, but did they consider the possibility that people who have to do manual labor for a living generally have a less healthy lifestyle than knowledge workers?
> in High School in the late 70's early 80's, I remember tons of folks parking in the student parking lot with gun racks in their truck, with loaded rifles in them....no problem.
In the same era, my school even had marksmanship classes for PE credit. We all got in a bus and they drove us to the police firing range and handed us .22 rifles.
> These cars need to recognize that they shouldn't hit anything in the road no matter if it is a person, pothole, or box
That's not always the best strategy. What if you're driving 60 mph and a tumbleweed blows in front of your car? And there is a fully-loaded cement truck behind you. Do you really want to slam on the brakes in that situation? There is more to safe driving than just "avoid hitting things". Sometimes complex decisions need to be made based on the consideration of multiple risk factors.
> more sites have set their robots.txt to not allow archiving.
robots.txt is only a suggestion. Nobody is obligated to obey it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Lenovo had $43 billion in revenue last year. If my math is correct, this "massive" fine is about what Lenovo makes in 43 minutes. That's not even a slap on the wrist.
Since the poster lives in Oregon, I think, perhaps, he is referring to this.
Normally I don't bother responding to ACs, but this was just too easy: https://www.mamavation.com/201...
That was just the top of the list. There are plenty more where that came from. May I suggest Google?
--another JMJ fan
I like the way you think. You are obviously experienced at this.
Thank you, Streisand effect! I didn't know about this site until now.
I've been coding for 30 and I know less every year. When PCs first came out, one reasonably bright and curious person could get a pretty good grasp on everything important there was to know about them -- hardware, operating systems, programming languages, networking, and major applications. But with every passing year, no matter how hard you try to keep up, everything you know is a shrinking proportion of everything there is to know.
In practice, having a large unemployed class with lots of time on their hands doesn't work out so well. Do we really want a nation of aspiring rap artists working to turn their lives around?
+100
I hate the phrase "Human Resources". A resource is something you extract and burn, then discard the ashes.
I'm still looking for an alternative to "resource" when talking about a fellow worker. The best I have so far is "team member".
You're right. https://www.bls.gov/opub/repor...
I am surprised to learn that it is so low.
That's hilarious. Even their keyboard app wants access to my Contacts list.
And every new generation says the same crap about their parents. We all do the best we can, and we all come up with imperfect solutions to the difficult problems of our generation. And thirty years from now, your kids will be saying the same thing about you.