From a ethical point of view they are taking the product of fellow human beings endeavours without paying for them. Somewhat of a moral dilemma
When I stare at a pretty woman with nice make-up, I don't pay her anything, are you saying I should pay her because I'm enjoying someone her endeavours?
I would also ad a quote from Alan Grenspan's book p181
Venice, I realised is the antithesis of creative destruction. It exists to conserve and appreciate a past, not create a future... The city caters to a deep human need for stability and permanence as well as beauty and romance. Venice's popularity represents one pole of a conflict in human nature: the struggle between the desire to increase material well-being and the desire to ward off change and its attendant stress.
I used to work for a small software company targeting the energy sector and we were frequently in competition with much larger firms. Despite their size, we often beat them and won important contracts. Software patents would be a disaster because in these vertical markets you are bound to be violating some of the patents that the larger companies will have in their arsenals
Relax, if you violate a patent and a Judge awards damages, those damages will not be greater than the profit you made from that product.
You do need a working class, but that working class does not have to be poor (or doesn't have to be poor forever).
One extreme is a Communist state where the low paid workers would be "posted" to these low paid jobs because of their ability, and would be forced to stay here for a very long time. Socialism such as in Sweden would be the middle way, and incidentally Sweden came first on the UN Human Development Index. The other extreme is almost the US, but more India where there's a "job is your life, die or beg if unemployed" setup. We see classes appear in all 3 setups, in America would you give a beggar with pants on his head or someone with a criminal record a job? How about a transvestite, or a Muslim female wearing a traditional Afghanistan-style hijab?
In order for it to work at its best, you need a working class that is educated and dynamic (willing to change) because as markets, society, and technology evolves, it is always going to leave some people out of work
You can't genetically engineer an entire workforce. Supply and demand, currently there is a shortage for educated workers, if the reverse were to become true and say climate change dykes had to be built in a hurry, you would see uneducated construction jobs appearing that have higher pay than educated work. In the UK, a plumber gets paid more than most software engineers because he is willing to put his hands into muck and sh** which no office worker wants to do, hence he gets $160,000
There is also nothing inherent in capitalism that requires a permanent class or wealth based stratification of society - there will always be young, inexperienced, and uneducated people starting out looking for work
The uneducated will work flipping burgers, could they get a programming job with 10 years experience flipping burgers? Probably not, so a "class" of people flipping burgers/delivering pizzas etc is created. I agree that these limitations are not inherent in capitalism, but are more to do with preconceptios of hiring managers when looking at resumes.
They don't have to stay that way for the rest of their lives as long as equal opportunities are made available for them to advance, get educated, and make more money
These opportunites are much rarer than you make out, I'm gonna quoute this comment:
first, if you're good at what you do they'll want you to stay there instead of promoting you, because having to bring in a good I.T. manager is one thing they have to worry about, but promoting you gives them two things to worry about, whether you'll be a good manager and also where are they going to find someone to replace you
Anyway, moving on...
A majority of young people just starting out make very little money. Some work minimum wage jobs while attending college, for example. During that time, they are "poor". Ten years later, they may be upper middle class while another young person just starting out takes their old statistical position
Probably yes, my comment was about if all the people new to the workforce were removed and nobody new joined, there would be a macroeconomic effect due to price increases for the increased labour costs, and the wealth of all the rich classes would be reduced due to this inflation, especially if the rich person consumed a large amount of goods made predominantly by the poorer classes which rich people do without knowing it - a lambhorgini is built by hand and needs a lot of labour, these workers would no longer be able to buy cheap lunches due to the poor class being eliminated, necessitating a salary increase for them, increasing the cost of the lamborghini.
Studies that I have seen show that very few people in America stay in the same income and wealth categories th
We CAN make poverty history. We just have to be willing to pay the price and suffer for no other reason than it is the right thing to do
Incorrect.
Without poor people you do not have a working class, without a working class that is willing to accept low wages, inflation degrades peoples' wealth until a new group of poor people appears that is willing to work for the wages that customers/employers are willing to pay. For example, suppose everybody with a net worth of less than $10,000 suddenly got cryogenically frozen. Burgers would need to be fried by people who have over $10,000 who would naturally expect a higher salary. Higher salaries means the food becomes more expensive so that the people with over $10,000 suddenly can't afford any food any more, and only rich people with $20,000 can afford burgers.
Believe it or not there is a We CAN make poverty history. We just have to be willing to pay the price and suffer for no other reason than it is the right thing to doIncorrect.
Without poor people you do not have a working class, without a working class that is willing to accept low wages, inflation degrades peoples' wealth until a new group of poor people appears that is willing to work for the wages that customers/employers are willing to pay. For example, suppose everybody with a net worth of less than $10,000 suddenly got cryogenically frozen. Burgers would need to be fried by people who have over $10,000 who would naturally expect a higher salary. Higher salaries means the food becomes more expensive so that the people with over $10,000 suddenly can't afford any food any more, and only rich people with $20,000 can afford burgers.
Capitalism relies on a "poor" working class who can't afford anything, otherwise productivity decreases (supply of goods decreases causing inflation) and cost of food increases (goods becoming more expensive - the very definition of inflation)">Natural Rate of Unemployment. And if the unemployed are "removed" from society, work patterns will adjust until a new group of people become naturally unemployed according to this rate.
Wealth comes from two sources: production and predation
This book advances the notion that the unbridled pursuit of p[rivate individual gain does not maximise society's wealth because of the negative externality of redistributive activity
The powerless politician effect suggests... policies are determined by rational self-interested behaviour of all the players in the system. Not even the politicians are in charge because their vote-maximising actions are determined by the technology of collecting funds from special interests and distributing those funds to garner votes from general interests
Part 1 is about how lobbies and political parties interact to redistribute income through tariffs and trade restrictions
Now, if the problem is that students aren't being taught memory management, then that is obviously a problem, no matter what language is being used.
There are plenty of people who program using bad C++ memory management, I think they will just be bad at memory management no matter what language they use. I think the transition to programming in Java is timed correctly. Programmers nowadays don't need to use the more error-prone C++, they can leave us professionals to deal with that, in the same way a C++ program doesn't have to mess around with TLBs and page tables, we let the Operating System deal with that. I regard Java as a new Operating System, making everything easy for the average applications programmer who needs to build a program that does something, and needs to build it *fast*. In terms of "logic creation" Java is faster to program because you don't have to deal with the lower level stuff that C++ has, the same way that C++ doesn't let you have to deal with the rubbish that ASM has. I regard machine code --> ASM --> C++ --> Java as a natural transition to gradually higher and higher level languages with advantages and disadvantages as you go up.
Java has appropriate to teach new coders, because current machines like an AMD Barcelona with 2GB RAM can kick the ass of any older desktops/workstations and can run even badly coded Java programs with ease.
Java objects fall out of scope so you get "memory management for dumbasses". Even if the coder implements everything in main() they should be able to spot that they can reuse the variables on the first refactor, so they would save the garbage collector some cycles, making the program possibly more efficient but making the code a hell of a read for a non-trivial program, hopefully the programmer will eventually spot this and "learn" to use functions to split up his program. Don't forget, you can mess up memory management in C++ and all you'll have is a memory leak, on modern systems this could be unnoticable, especially on 64-bit systems which can address huge amounts of memory and open a 100GB swap file for the leak, while the scheduler maintains the important stuff in RAM
It's better than surfing the web or doing personal stuff at your desk because you could never be fired for taking too long to shit; that would be discrimination
I know a guy who was made redundant for spending too much time on the toilet, small company though so they could make up any excuse. Me, I sit on the toilet with my iphone an surf the web, it's great!
THERE's the start of your problem. Kids are not smart because you are a dork for being smart. fix that and you fix almost everything else
This is because all the technical jobs are gradually being outsourced, and the US Educations System is being altered to create a huge bunch of middle managers as opposed to geeks, because middle management is where the US job market is going to be over the next 50 years. Nothing to see here, move along now...
"All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renenwed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king." - Tolkien
I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool.
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
Love is know the pain of too much tenderness.
I dwell in possiblities.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Federalism is federalism...and that's all.
Specifically, private property in relation to material turned out to be a good idea for the human species. It very well might be that private property is entirely undesirable for another sentient species, because for example that species is much more hive minded.
When you see children playing they keep saying "That's my toy, that's mine, that's mine" thus the idea of private property where each child has their own is ingrained in our culture. Communism was based on a shortage of goods - that each child would have to share several toys and this would encourage the common good. But here's the thing - if each child wants a seperate toy, then production rates will have to increase to match high demand, people would be willing to work their entire lives to pay off a mortgage, believing in the end they have their own house, shortly beofre they die, whereupon it will be returned to the collective. Houses are based upon sup-ply/demand, in other words matched by a roughly 1:1 equivalent allocation by a command-control Socialist economy. By creating this illusion of private ownership via Government/shotgun enforcement, Capitalistic economies are able to operate at higher demand rates than other types of economy by making their workers work harder and managers to dratsically increase the efficiency of their companies by minimising labour wherever economical. Piracy prevents a mass production or production-line process of creating music and/or movies and is therefore anti-modern Capitalistic, so I think the Capitalist governments will vote for the RIAA/MPAA because it destroys the production line model status quo.
The first 2-5 years of your employment can be a crucial component to the success of the rest of your career. I get the feeling that you most definitely want to be coming to work everyday. Certainly you may change tracks, jobs, or even fields down the road, but the business/social skills that you'll learn and more importantly, the relationships you will develop are very important and seem impossible to foster over the phone or a video conference. Spending time at your company's office means you are working, eating, and socializing (work and recreational) with your peers.
Oh my God, you truly are fresh aren't you. Socialise with your friends from Uni. Coworkers will teach you the job and can help, but if you're a dev, most of the information is on the Internet, and trust me, spending time with coworkers just makes you feel, "Geez, these guys are incompetent" most of the time. I'm lucky to have not so dumb coworkers, but it doesn't affect my job, I don't pour my heart out to them because if their career is in the firing line, guess what - they're gonna tell the manager all your secrets. One of my coworkers didn't tell anybody his wife was pregnant until 1 month before she gave birth! Relaxed conversation is only with people who are outside of your "sphere of command" otherwise the relationship is quite formal. I work at one of the big 4 IT companies.
But young padwan learner, I think perhaps the only way to learn these things is to learn from experience, and it is best to get that young when your secrets affect only you, and not your girlfriend or whatever who you'll meet later, to avoid situations where your wife comes into the office and a coworker suddenly chooses this as an appropriate time to say, "Thanks for recommending that dating website to me, oh oops who's this?" So you want to learn politics. Enjoy!
Psychometric testing, followed by group excercise. Group excercise when I went in consisted of:
Seven people are stuck in a cave, the cave is unstable and could collapse at any moment, who do rescue and in what order, you can only rescue most of them:
The CEO of a large textile company
A four year old girl
An eight year old boy
A 16 year old man
An experienced caver but he has a broken leg
I don't remember the rest of the people
This was followed by a pseduo-code test set by IBM R&D which was multiple choice:
This code sets the sequence of an American traffic light which is Red-Green-Yellow-Red, what is the error?
What is wrong with the above code? Is it:
(a)Red light will come on straight after yellow light
(b)Yellow light will come on straight after green light
(c)Something else
I'm sure the/. crowd can come up with something more imaginitive to test l33t HaXoR pseudo-coding skillz
Followed by interview but I didn't get that far...:-(
I've traded employers twice like this. As I didn't burn any bridges, I actually work for my first real major employer again, and each time I've traded up in position, title, and of course compensation
One of my coworkers got a better job offer and left, but then his new employers fired him after a week! He went back to his previous employer and they said "No we're not gonna hire you back". He was unemployed for a year and then eventually his previous employer said, "OK, we'll hire you back now". He lost a year's salary because he took the other employer's job offer, so watch out!
The idea is to use their intelligence; not ignore it. They appreciate it and the job gets done. Most managers I've dealt with can't get around the not telling subordinates what to do. Sad.
As a worker, how do I find a workplace with a manager like you? How can I tell at an interview?
t's the "all kids must go to college" culture that we have--we even direct kids away from the things they're interested in in many cases using these kinds of arguments (which are really veiled threats in a way of what consequences await them if they don't go to college) and then they graduate expecting exactly the benefits that have been used as selling points for all these years.
No! When you submit your resume to a company, they usually use buzzword scanners to scan for "CS major" "java" or "C++", and if they aren't on there, you don't even get an interview!!! You have to go to college to be able to get on the career ladder at all nowadays. The expectations of the workplace has changed, otherwise you'll be carving meat in the abbattoire. Supply and demand, high supply of college-graduated IT labor = minimum demand that employers have
Imperial College year 1996-2000: Turing maze solve algorithm with text-based graphical output move by move, recursive -> C conurrent with 68000 assembler -> C++ concurrent with SQL and Operating Systems -> Miranda various programs -> Build a compiler with Miranda -> Parallel programming -> Microsoft Developer Studio C++ -> Java.
With certain course modules you also get AI and NAND gates + FPGA, MOSFETs, ASIC, machine code instruction-by-instruction, BGP, spanning tree algorithm, routing tables
I wish I could go on his course! Lots lots more that I don't remember, I've remembered about 30%
I started with BASIC on a BBC computer, moved onto simple assembly using registers, no memory management, then C++. I found C++ difficult because of pointers and memory management, because frankly I'm not that clever a person and I still don't understand why malloc() has to be used in Linux/GCC but not Visual Studio, then we did Java which was way easier to understand and I found it removed all that unnecessary memory cruft which encourages nasty hacks. I like it better in VB land although a lot of programming in VB is getting around M$ APIs that don't work as advertised.
Although it feels good knowing that if absolutely necessary I can go to a lower level and decrease my productivity by 99%
I wonder what the Internet, and the technologies built upon it, will enable government (substitute landowners or business owners if you like) to do in 15,20, or 30 years? What kind of rationalizations will the capitalist pigs come up with in 30 years to justify the rape and ruin of the working class? Are we on the road to ruin or salvation?
Planned obsolescence should keep manufacturing jobs safe, although these are moving to Countries with cheaper labour. The Intel/AMD/Microsoft planned obsolescence cycle should keep programmers and other IT workers busy for a while. As for the services industry - the ever widening gap between the haves and have nots, waiters versus CEOs just gets wider. I wonder what stops Google from building a Peoplebase - a database of people with their online identities, web pages, news articles, blogs, facebook/myspace/IM account combined for employers to search through. There is already a consolidated news source that you can search for information for instance to see if your prospective employees have gone into litigation against their previous employers, making people who enforce the Law unemployable. Please don't chop my arm off in the abbatoire in your rush to go ever faster to show your boss "I'm a better manager than the previous person - look at how much faster the slaughter line is"
Historically the workers "experienced" in the latest technology will be favoured for a time, the same as steel mill engineers and steam engine engineers in ages past. And then they will fall back into the White Collar sweatshop
Look at the criticisms where it is Capitalistically Pareto efficient to distribute a pie to 3 people equally, but also to merely halve the pie and give a piece to two people, and leave one person without a piece. Greedy Capitalist piggies are therefore encouraged to leave somebody without a piece if possible, unless the piggy is directly threatened with slaughter of course, pork - yum
Ok, well, your comment is nonsensical. Medicare is socialized medicine and donations are freakin charity. And farm subsidies? More communist income redistribution. None of these things have really any relation at all to the motivations of capitalism
The majority of income the US Govt receives is via taxes, taxes the little piggies and ants pay on their greedy hoardings. The US Govt allocates this Capitalism-generated money and puts it into medicare. So therefore the origin of medicare money is from Capitalism
Are donations charity? Or is it sad Capitalist piggies trying to prove to other piggies that they are not as greedy as they look, in order to better be able to cut deals with other piggies so they can hoard more for themselves? Why do relatives appear co-operative on matters of small money, and yet when it comes to it, they con you out of property etc. - they purchase your trust with trinkets and small money and rehearsed gestures, and then when they see the big money then they turn around and grab it from you. So since donations are a Capitalist piggy's attempt to purchase a soul/conscience, is that not a business transaction? And therefore by being unemployed, are you simply not a "customer" of this transaction. Hence even an unemployed man cannot escape Capitalism in the United States, how sad. And where did this unemployed man's bread come from? An employed farmer, an employed truck driver, an employed baker, therefore even an unemployed man is part of the Capitalist system. Is there truly no escape???
As for medicare - another transaction to give the impression to the Capitalist piggy that Capitalism in the US is "fair" and has conscience. A pitiful attempt to hide the harshness of Capitalism from the ants and piggies, pulling the wool over their eyes, so they believe their way is "right" and can be imposed on the rest of the World. The natural state of Capitalism is where poor people get thrown out of hospital without treatment, where those without housing freeze outside, where slavery-of-employee is commonplace (the employer can fire the worker taking away his right to hospital treatment removing his "Right to Life" and the employer seems surprised when the former employee his Right to Self-Defence by shooting the people in the office)
If the piggies and ants could see how much pure Capitalism is jerry-rigged by the US Govt using Communist ideals such as universal medicare and social housing in the ghettos, if only they could see...
Hello friend. I bet you believe you're above the Capitalist system, well even if you are homeless you draw:
Medicare at some point(s) in your life even if it is just carrying your dead body to the morgue
Free food from the Church donated from the excesses of other Capitalist piggies, the food itself probably sourced from Wheat and/or Corn which are traded on the Boston Options Exchange/Chicago Board of Options transported by truck (oil) watering system powered by coal/oil/ghas/nuclear etc. and financed by farm subsidies provided by the big momma of the Capitalist system
The best you can do is take the path of least risk by owning a home at a sea level rise-proof height and having cash in multiple Banks Capitalist pig-spotter. But then get this - if you keep your money in the Bank then the Bank can lend out the part of the money that is not covered by reserve ratio out to businesses so recycling your savings - so all your savings are an illusion created by the Capitalist system.
And I sit here watching trillions of pounds being created and destroyed by repos and think to myself "Hmmmmm"
For hundreds of millions of poor Indians, the brave new world of the 90s meant globalization of prices, Indianization of incomes. "As we moved to fortify our welfare state for the wealthy, the state turned its back on the poor, investment in agriculture collapsed, and with it, countless millions of lives. As banks wound down rural credit while granting loans for buying Mercedes Benzes in the cities at the lowest imaginable interest rates, rural indebtedness soared. In the 90s, for the first time in independent India the Supreme Court pulled up several state governments over increasing hunger deaths. Welcome to the world so loved by the Friedmans - Thomas and Milton".
From the mid-90s on, thousands of Indian farmers committed suicide, including over 5,000 in the single southern state of Andhra Pradesh. As employment crashed in the countryside to its lowest ever, distress migrations from the villages - to just about anywhere - increased in tens of millions.
Foodgrains available per Indian fell almost every year in the 90s and by 2002-03 was less than it had been at the time of the great Bengal famine of 1942-43. Even as the world hailed the Indian Tiger Economy, the country slipped to rank 127 (from 124) in the United Nations Human Development Index of 2003. It is better to be a poor person in Botswana, or even the occupied territories of Palestine, than one in India.
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Look at how much money they make! if they even put 10% of that into buying politicians every law could be rewritten!
I would also ad a quote from Alan Grenspan's book p181
One extreme is a Communist state where the low paid workers would be "posted" to these low paid jobs because of their ability, and would be forced to stay here for a very long time. Socialism such as in Sweden would be the middle way, and incidentally Sweden came first on the UN Human Development Index. The other extreme is almost the US, but more India where there's a "job is your life, die or beg if unemployed" setup. We see classes appear in all 3 setups, in America would you give a beggar with pants on his head or someone with a criminal record a job? How about a transvestite, or a Muslim female wearing a traditional Afghanistan-style hijab?
You can't genetically engineer an entire workforce. Supply and demand, currently there is a shortage for educated workers, if the reverse were to become true and say climate change dykes had to be built in a hurry, you would see uneducated construction jobs appearing that have higher pay than educated work. In the UK, a plumber gets paid more than most software engineers because he is willing to put his hands into muck and sh** which no office worker wants to do, hence he gets $160,000
The uneducated will work flipping burgers, could they get a programming job with 10 years experience flipping burgers? Probably not, so a "class" of people flipping burgers/delivering pizzas etc is created. I agree that these limitations are not inherent in capitalism, but are more to do with preconceptios of hiring managers when looking at resumes.
These opportunites are much rarer than you make out, I'm gonna quoute this comment:
Anyway, moving on...
Probably yes, my comment was about if all the people new to the workforce were removed and nobody new joined, there would be a macroeconomic effect due to price increases for the increased labour costs, and the wealth of all the rich classes would be reduced due to this inflation, especially if the rich person consumed a large amount of goods made predominantly by the poorer classes which rich people do without knowing it - a lambhorgini is built by hand and needs a lot of labour, these workers would no longer be able to buy cheap lunches due to the poor class being eliminated, necessitating a salary increase for them, increasing the cost of the lamborghini.
Without poor people you do not have a working class, without a working class that is willing to accept low wages, inflation degrades peoples' wealth until a new group of poor people appears that is willing to work for the wages that customers/employers are willing to pay. For example, suppose everybody with a net worth of less than $10,000 suddenly got cryogenically frozen. Burgers would need to be fried by people who have over $10,000 who would naturally expect a higher salary. Higher salaries means the food becomes more expensive so that the people with over $10,000 suddenly can't afford any food any more, and only rich people with $20,000 can afford burgers.
Believe it or not there is a We CAN make poverty history. We just have to be willing to pay the price and suffer for no other reason than it is the right thing to doIncorrect.
Without poor people you do not have a working class, without a working class that is willing to accept low wages, inflation degrades peoples' wealth until a new group of poor people appears that is willing to work for the wages that customers/employers are willing to pay. For example, suppose everybody with a net worth of less than $10,000 suddenly got cryogenically frozen. Burgers would need to be fried by people who have over $10,000 who would naturally expect a higher salary. Higher salaries means the food becomes more expensive so that the people with over $10,000 suddenly can't afford any food any more, and only rich people with $20,000 can afford burgers.
Capitalism relies on a "poor" working class who can't afford anything, otherwise productivity decreases (supply of goods decreases causing inflation) and cost of food increases (goods becoming more expensive - the very definition of inflation)">Natural Rate of Unemployment. And if the unemployed are "removed" from society, work patterns will adjust until a new group of people become naturally unemployed according to this rate.
For instance, from the book Black Hole Tariffs and Endogenous Policy theory:
Java has appropriate to teach new coders, because current machines like an AMD Barcelona with 2GB RAM can kick the ass of any older desktops/workstations and can run even badly coded Java programs with ease.
Java objects fall out of scope so you get "memory management for dumbasses". Even if the coder implements everything in main() they should be able to spot that they can reuse the variables on the first refactor, so they would save the garbage collector some cycles, making the program possibly more efficient but making the code a hell of a read for a non-trivial program, hopefully the programmer will eventually spot this and "learn" to use functions to split up his program. Don't forget, you can mess up memory management in C++ and all you'll have is a memory leak, on modern systems this could be unnoticable, especially on 64-bit systems which can address huge amounts of memory and open a 100GB swap file for the leak, while the scheduler maintains the important stuff in RAM
Thoughts appropriate to a recession:
"All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renenwed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king." - Tolkien
My thoughts on the economy:
I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool.
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
Love is know the pain of too much tenderness.
I dwell in possiblities.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Federalism is federalism...and that's all.
But young padwan learner, I think perhaps the only way to learn these things is to learn from experience, and it is best to get that young when your secrets affect only you, and not your girlfriend or whatever who you'll meet later, to avoid situations where your wife comes into the office and a coworker suddenly chooses this as an appropriate time to say, "Thanks for recommending that dating website to me, oh oops who's this?" So you want to learn politics. Enjoy!
IBM Graduate Recruitment process:
Psychometric testing, followed by group excercise. Group excercise when I went in consisted of:
Seven people are stuck in a cave, the cave is unstable and could collapse at any moment, who do rescue and in what order, you can only rescue most of them:
The CEO of a large textile company
A four year old girl
An eight year old boy
A 16 year old man
An experienced caver but he has a broken leg
I don't remember the rest of the people
This was followed by a pseduo-code test set by IBM R&D which was multiple choice:
This code sets the sequence of an American traffic light which is Red-Green-Yellow-Red, what is the error?
loop
light=red
delay 20s
light=green
light=yellow
delay 2s
light=Red
end loop
What is wrong with the above code? Is it:
(a)Red light will come on straight after yellow light
(b)Yellow light will come on straight after green light
(c)Something else
I'm sure the /. crowd can come up with something more imaginitive to test l33t HaXoR pseudo-coding skillz
Followed by interview but I didn't get that far... :-(
Ooooh! I got this from one of my friends -
Imperial College year 1996-2000: Turing maze solve algorithm with text-based graphical output move by move, recursive -> C conurrent with 68000 assembler -> C++ concurrent with SQL and Operating Systems -> Miranda various programs -> Build a compiler with Miranda -> Parallel programming -> Microsoft Developer Studio C++ -> Java.
With certain course modules you also get AI and NAND gates + FPGA, MOSFETs, ASIC, machine code instruction-by-instruction, BGP, spanning tree algorithm, routing tables
I wish I could go on his course! Lots lots more that I don't remember, I've remembered about 30%
Although it feels good knowing that if absolutely necessary I can go to a lower level and decrease my productivity by 99%
Technology changes, peple are fired, same old Capitalism as Schumpeter's creative destruction however what will these huge datacentres be used for and who will manage them, who will manage the new SANs? Old jobs destroyed, new jobs created.
Historically the workers "experienced" in the latest technology will be favoured for a time, the same as steel mill engineers and steam engine engineers in ages past. And then they will fall back into the White Collar sweatshop
Thank God I'm unionised
Look at the criticisms where it is Capitalistically Pareto efficient to distribute a pie to 3 people equally, but also to merely halve the pie and give a piece to two people, and leave one person without a piece. Greedy Capitalist piggies are therefore encouraged to leave somebody without a piece if possible, unless the piggy is directly threatened with slaughter of course, pork - yum
The majority of income the US Govt receives is via taxes, taxes the little piggies and ants pay on their greedy hoardings. The US Govt allocates this Capitalism-generated money and puts it into medicare. So therefore the origin of medicare money is from Capitalism
Are donations charity? Or is it sad Capitalist piggies trying to prove to other piggies that they are not as greedy as they look, in order to better be able to cut deals with other piggies so they can hoard more for themselves? Why do relatives appear co-operative on matters of small money, and yet when it comes to it, they con you out of property etc. - they purchase your trust with trinkets and small money and rehearsed gestures, and then when they see the big money then they turn around and grab it from you. So since donations are a Capitalist piggy's attempt to purchase a soul/conscience, is that not a business transaction? And therefore by being unemployed, are you simply not a "customer" of this transaction. Hence even an unemployed man cannot escape Capitalism in the United States, how sad. And where did this unemployed man's bread come from? An employed farmer, an employed truck driver, an employed baker, therefore even an unemployed man is part of the Capitalist system. Is there truly no escape???
As for medicare - another transaction to give the impression to the Capitalist piggy that Capitalism in the US is "fair" and has conscience. A pitiful attempt to hide the harshness of Capitalism from the ants and piggies, pulling the wool over their eyes, so they believe their way is "right" and can be imposed on the rest of the World. The natural state of Capitalism is where poor people get thrown out of hospital without treatment, where those without housing freeze outside, where slavery-of-employee is commonplace (the employer can fire the worker taking away his right to hospital treatment removing his "Right to Life" and the employer seems surprised when the former employee his Right to Self-Defence by shooting the people in the office)
If the piggies and ants could see how much pure Capitalism is jerry-rigged by the US Govt using Communist ideals such as universal medicare and social housing in the ghettos, if only they could see...
Hello friend. I bet you believe you're above the Capitalist system, well even if you are homeless you draw:
The best you can do is take the path of least risk by owning a home at a sea level rise-proof height and having cash in multiple Banks Capitalist pig-spotter. But then get this - if you keep your money in the Bank then the Bank can lend out the part of the money that is not covered by reserve ratio out to businesses so recycling your savings - so all your savings are an illusion created by the Capitalist system.
And I sit here watching trillions of pounds being created and destroyed by repos and think to myself "Hmmmmm"