Yes, before my money makes it to me, I'd want someone ELSE siphoning off a cut and then aggregating the cash to be steered toward their interests. Maybe even cutting off the Internet from me for a while to make this or that point.
>> if wages rose to acceptable levels, it was mostly due to unions
I'll be sure to bake my Software Architects Guild Local 1043 another batch of cookies to thank them this year. Thanks for the reminder!
Pretty much this. The only person in my extended family that owns an iPhone is the one who lives with their parents (and happens to be a waitress). The rest (business owner, physician, sports clothing company creative director, etc.) own Android phones.
Here's an idea: five singing and dancing teenage boys, each clean-cut but a little different and diverse. Then, take the most photogenic/slightly-talented of them and make them a solo star.
You're missing the point: the same kind of person that thinks it's OK to shlep in the area of security quality may also be shlepping in the area of code quality, or architecture, or ???.
I think the "editors" are just a collection of shared accounts used by the current collection of unpaid interns that actually run the site. From the quality of the work it seems unlikely that any of the editors have a college degree, and even the intern supervisor ("editor in chief?") should only be making a buck or two over minimum wage. Still, that would be like $1K per quality post so I wouldn't cry for them.
Musk will walk out of there with a $1M "feasibility study" contract to develop a white paper saying how a subway built by the Boring Company would provide the ideal solution to his mark's problem within 5-10 years.
>> Amazon has collapsed to a 28% market share, behind Google Home's 36% and ahead of China's Alibaba and Xiaomi with a combined 19%
This is GLOBAL share. To get to a 28%/36% global share counting the shole that is China and it's direct-to-BigBrother home "shopping/health" appliance is still pretty amazing. (That's a majority share in countries where free speech is still at least a concept.)
>> What, though, if the clothes worn by medical staff could actively help prevent bugs being passed around
First, please stop talking to us like we are stoned high schoolers. "Bugs" -> bacteria/viruses? "What, though, if" -> "Imagine if"
Second, no, having antibacterial threads would make almost no difference in the average medical facility. Just think of what gets tracked in on visitor shoes, lands on medical personnel's socks or skin after trips to the bathroom, trips between sick patients and between hand washings, and is festering in seldom-cleaned corners/ducts/etc.
>> Why bother trying to maintain their failed maps system when there are several others
Maps aren't a service tech companies want to provide to get you from point A to point B anymore. Instead, tech companies want to know where you are so you will be directed to nearby businesses (paying advertising fees) that will sell things to you. In other words, it might be best to say that Apple is reinvesting in a marketing platform that uses maps.
Actually, I'll blame other laptop makers. Build me something like Apple's MacBook only more upgradable and you can have my MacBook money. (For the same reason, Apple feels no pressure to upgrade its aging set.)
>> your only motivation for coming in to work and doing your job is so you don't make a mistake and have all 8 of your bosses stopping by
If you don't go into work, you won't have any bosses stopping by: problem solved! (In all seriousness, make sure this is really in your solution set and you'll be happier wherever you are.)
>> the percentage of Tech Workers that burnt out is higher than the 57% quoted, considering the possibility of even higher % of the severely burnout left IT for other fields, or worse, suffered ill health (physical of mental) and is now sitting at home broken
Over their lifetime? Yes, I'd say the "burned out at least once in their lifetime" number is higher than 57%. (I've been there myself twice in a twenty-year career.) My original point is that you need to understand that there's a real difference between "golly, this job is _hard_ and not everyone _likes_ me" and "I really can't handle this shit". If 57% of us were all at the second point ("I'm truly burned out") at any given point in time, then IT/tech would seriously cease to function.
Career-wise you just need to make sure you're making enough bank during the high-stress periods of your job that you CAN say "fuck it - I'm going home" on any given Tuesday at 2:14pm, if that's when you realize you're truly burned out (and your health/marriage/friendships/parenting/etc. is suffering).
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>> data unions and strikes
Yes, before my money makes it to me, I'd want someone ELSE siphoning off a cut and then aggregating the cash to be steered toward their interests. Maybe even cutting off the Internet from me for a while to make this or that point.
>> if wages rose to acceptable levels, it was mostly due to unions
I'll be sure to bake my Software Architects Guild Local 1043 another batch of cookies to thank them this year. Thanks for the reminder!
>> the waitresses are richer than me
Pretty much this. The only person in my extended family that owns an iPhone is the one who lives with their parents (and happens to be a waitress). The rest (business owner, physician, sports clothing company creative director, etc.) own Android phones.
>> Population reduction
Japan is trying that now. China will be soon. Long term it seems like a winning strategy but we haven't figured out the short term plan.
>> Netflix and Amazon are butthurt that some company owned by Fox is killing them in India
So what - it's two American companies competing with a third American company. No matter what, the USA seems to be winning.
>> Musicians like Lindsey Sterling are
Not sure that's a problem yet. I've never heard of this one. Punk band? Solo autotuner? I'd really need Google to tell.
Here's an idea: five singing and dancing teenage boys, each clean-cut but a little different and diverse. Then, take the most photogenic/slightly-talented of them and make them a solo star.
(I'm pretty sure that's never been done before.)
You're missing the point: the same kind of person that thinks it's OK to shlep in the area of security quality may also be shlepping in the area of code quality, or architecture, or ???.
>> He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
Good thing this doesn't happen anymore.
>> shitty admin password in 2018
So...Gentoo has assured us this is the only half-assed shortcut they've taken, right? OK, seems legit.
>> 0. Create a pre banking sorting tent outside.
Elon, is that you?
>> editors
I think the "editors" are just a collection of shared accounts used by the current collection of unpaid interns that actually run the site. From the quality of the work it seems unlikely that any of the editors have a college degree, and even the intern supervisor ("editor in chief?") should only be making a buck or two over minimum wage. Still, that would be like $1K per quality post so I wouldn't cry for them.
>> world owes it a collective thank you for its App Store
And a bigger "thank you" for jailbreaking. App stores are for luddites.
Musk will walk out of there with a $1M "feasibility study" contract to develop a white paper saying how a subway built by the Boring Company would provide the ideal solution to his mark's problem within 5-10 years.
e.g., https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/04/the-latest-hyperloop-feasibility-study-aims-to-connect-cleveland-and-chicago/
>> friends who respond so reliably that if they were to not respond for a couple hours I might actually genuinely worry they got into a car accident
Are "helicopter friends" now a thing? This is a little creepy. Your friends are grown men and women, right?
>> Then he called my GF to see if I was all right.
No, he was calling to hook up because he had pretty good evidence that you were out of touch.
>> Delivering Amazon Packages To the Top of the World
Who lives at the North Pole exactly? Or did someone's PR team shoot their load five months too early?
>> Amazon has collapsed to a 28% market share, behind Google Home's 36% and ahead of China's Alibaba and Xiaomi with a combined 19%
This is GLOBAL share. To get to a 28%/36% global share counting the shole that is China and it's direct-to-BigBrother home "shopping/health" appliance is still pretty amazing. (That's a majority share in countries where free speech is still at least a concept.)
Coffee drinkers tend to have jobs. Thus better income, more getting out of the house, etc. than the population as a whole.
>> What, though, if the clothes worn by medical staff could actively help prevent bugs being passed around
First, please stop talking to us like we are stoned high schoolers. "Bugs" -> bacteria/viruses? "What, though, if" -> "Imagine if"
Second, no, having antibacterial threads would make almost no difference in the average medical facility. Just think of what gets tracked in on visitor shoes, lands on medical personnel's socks or skin after trips to the bathroom, trips between sick patients and between hand washings, and is festering in seldom-cleaned corners/ducts/etc.
>> Why bother trying to maintain their failed maps system when there are several others
Maps aren't a service tech companies want to provide to get you from point A to point B anymore. Instead, tech companies want to know where you are so you will be directed to nearby businesses (paying advertising fees) that will sell things to you. In other words, it might be best to say that Apple is reinvesting in a marketing platform that uses maps.
>> blame Apple
Actually, I'll blame other laptop makers. Build me something like Apple's MacBook only more upgradable and you can have my MacBook money. (For the same reason, Apple feels no pressure to upgrade its aging set.)
>> Hayabusa 2 has been travelling toward the space rock Ryugu
Did someone intentionally sprinkle the name "Ryu Hayabusa" into mission? I have a bad feeling about this...
>> your only motivation for coming in to work and doing your job is so you don't make a mistake and have all 8 of your bosses stopping by
If you don't go into work, you won't have any bosses stopping by: problem solved! (In all seriousness, make sure this is really in your solution set and you'll be happier wherever you are.)
>> the percentage of Tech Workers that burnt out is higher than the 57% quoted, considering the possibility of even higher % of the severely burnout left IT for other fields, or worse, suffered ill health (physical of mental) and is now sitting at home broken
Over their lifetime? Yes, I'd say the "burned out at least once in their lifetime" number is higher than 57%. (I've been there myself twice in a twenty-year career.) My original point is that you need to understand that there's a real difference between "golly, this job is _hard_ and not everyone _likes_ me" and "I really can't handle this shit". If 57% of us were all at the second point ("I'm truly burned out") at any given point in time, then IT/tech would seriously cease to function.
Career-wise you just need to make sure you're making enough bank during the high-stress periods of your job that you CAN say "fuck it - I'm going home" on any given Tuesday at 2:14pm, if that's when you realize you're truly burned out (and your health/marriage/friendships/parenting/etc. is suffering).
>> gatekeep
The word you are looking for is "define". Yes, this survey did a piss-poor job of defining "job burnout" so I'm helping them with the task.