Is there a word for something that's between a "job" and a "hobby"?
It's a phenomenon you'll often see among people who don't need to work, but for whatever reason choose to be employed. Their job's characteristics include:
1) Very flexible work hours
2) Low stress
3) Little or no metrics for determining success
4) Little or no involvement of a supervisor/boss
5) Undemanding
6) Modest pay
The people I see who have these types of "jobs" generally have wealth from some other source (nearing retirement, rich parents, rich spouse, etc). Their financial picture probably wouldn't change significantly if they suddenly quit. So they've got reasons for working that are non-financial.
Whatever you'd call their gig, it'd be inaccurate to call it a "hobby", because it's not enjoyable enough, and it generates a non-trivial (albeit modest) amount of income. Yet given its very undemanding and flexible nature, I think it's unfair to call it a full-fledged job. And there's nothing wrong with these types of "jobs", but it's really frustrating when people start comparing them with real jobs that people have to work because they need an income.
Every time I see "this question is closed as "not constructive", I'd like to give StackOverflow a taste of their own medicine. For example, StackOverflow exec's would be having an board meeting over the phone, and all of a sudden the phone clicks off and a pre-recorded voice says, "This meeting has been closed as primarily opinion-based and not constructive".
On a somewhat related note, every time I read the slashdot.com url, I read it as "slash 'department of transportation'" -- like it's some right-wing group trying to defund the DOT.
I've never cried after seeing something on the Internet, and I least expected it to happen on Slashdot, but I cried after reading this post. Your post really shows the daily struggles that bald people experience. I really hope they find the cure to baldness someday. Don't despair though. Science is ever making advances. I'm sorry if I ever offended anyone with my ignorance about baldness, and will never make light of it again.
Leaving aside the question of whether or not a god exists, do you think belief in god can give one an evolutionary advantage? Daniel Dennett postulates a war between a gold army and a silver army: "The gold soldiers believe that God is on their side, that God will answer their prayers, that if they die they will go to heaven and be rewarded by God. The silver soldiers are well-informed and highly trained economists. They are taking out insurance policies, laying out side bets, they’re doing very well informed cost-benefit analysis, they’ve got exit strategies both personal and by group."
I'm not so sure that these engineers are very well paid. Last year, Apple CEO Tim Cook was awarded $378 million in compensation. According to the above survey, the average software engineer at Apple makes $114,413 a year. In order to make the same amount as the CEO, the engineer would have to work 3300 years. So let's ask the question: When would the engineer have had to start working in order to have the same amount of money as the CEO? The engineer's first day of work would be 1300 years before Jesus of Nazareth would be born. And keep in mind this is an engineer. Consider junior level employees. According to an article by the New York Times, a salesman working at an Apple store makes about $11.25 an hour. He would make the same amount as the CEO in about 16 thousand years —- that would put his first day of work well into the stone age -- if you’re a creationist, his work time would be longer than the age of the universe.
I feel the ease-of-installation is one of the main things we can do to switch people from Windows to Linux. In past versions of Fedora Core/ Red Hat, new installations have seamless. However, the Fedora Core V release seems to have been very poorly tested in this regard. My users ran into one problem after another. I would be interested in hearing comments for future Fedora Core versions on this issue.
I think we should be doing just the reverse. We should be trying to a higher percentage of more informed voters to the polls, not high numbers who would only care about a lottery.
To do this, I propose all voters should pass a political literacy quiz. The quiz could even be posted in major newspapers 10 days before the election, to give everyone a fair shot. For example, to vote, you should have to answer 3 or more of the following questions correctly. I have attached the percent who failed to answer. Keep this is mind if you think you are an uninformed voter.
1. Name a single Supreme Court justice [64% percent of Americans can't] 2. Identify a single department of the president's cabinet [58 percent can't] 3. Locate Afghanistan, Iraq or Israel on a map [85 percent of young American adults can't] 4. Name one of the following: your governor, congressman or one senator. 5. Who is the vice president?
The answers are left as an exercise for the reader.
I wonder if once nerds lose their jobs and therefore their money, they will return to the bottom of the social pyramid again.
I'm not sure if you're just trying to troll, but there is a lot of truth in this. When I was in my 20's, before so many people were making so much money with software, a nerd was an extremely pejorative term to call someone. Today people in our industry get so much more respect. I fear that once money starts leaving high tech, we will again be returned to this position.
No, it's just the reverse. It's your vote that is wasted.
When you say you'll vote for a candidate no matter what, the issues you care about as a voter are irrelevant. You see this on both sides. For example, pro-lifers generally vote Republican no matter what. The Republicans control the presidency, house, and senate. Has the abortion rate declined? The left has equally foolish voters. Many of them are against the Iraq war and Patriot act, yet vote for a candidate who is in favor of both. They just can't figure out why Kerry voted for the Iraq War and Patriot Act so quickly.
You can't expect a politician to care about your issues when you will vote for them no matter what.
It's unfortunate, but this article should not be in the "Funny" section. Most experts on politics agree that having a "macho" images is very important for both of the candidates. So, while we all laugh at this, a lot of swing voters will pick the guy who seems more "manly".
This is probably going to get modded as flame bait, but compare how many photo-ops that Bush and Kerry have showing them doing some sort of physical activity, and then see how many they have posing with groups that demand truth about the Iraq war and 9-11, truths that many of us consider sacred.
The point is, you're blind to American politics if you write physical image off as inconsequential.
*You have two distinct groups, yet both unite to launch an evil war.
*Both are obsessed with power. Although Sauron is more powerful and Saruman helps him in his aims, Saruman secretly hopes to one day replace him as the dark lord. The 2004 election is like a future middle earth where the forces of evil had already successfully launched their wars, the damage is done, and Saruman is challenging Sauron's rule.
The base problem with this article is the author actually believes you can put a dollar value on life. Once one believes this, crazy statements like this follow:
"Execute the people who write computer worms"
"Harvard professor Kip Viscusi estimates the value of a life at $4.5 million overall, $7 million for a blue-collar male and $8.5 million for a blue collar female"
Sounds like the Green Party and universal health care.
Oh well, politics is politics.
George Bush is calling for universal broadband by 2007. He doesn't say how, or who's going to pay for it, or who's going to build it, but hey, isn't almost good enough?
How would you feel if because of a doctor's mistake, you were left paralyzed for life, and you only received an $100,000 settlement? Don't imply there are no valid 7-figure medical malpractice suits.
I don't think online voting is a good idea, not necessary for security reasons but for political reasons. If voting is as easy as "pointing and clicking", we are going to get a lot more votes from people who have done little to nothing to follow the election. If someone is willing to register to vote and then take time from their busy day to actually vote, it's much more likely that they've at least studied a little about the candidates; e.g. they aren't just randomly at their computer clicking on a "Vote Now!" link.
Has anyone else noticed that you can not cut and paste into the search-box? If we were ever going to seriously use this, that would be a real draw-back.
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What are your thoughts on the MEAN stack ( MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, and Node.js)?
Is there a word for something that's between a "job" and a "hobby"? It's a phenomenon you'll often see among people who don't need to work, but for whatever reason choose to be employed. Their job's characteristics include:
1) Very flexible work hours
2) Low stress
3) Little or no metrics for determining success
4) Little or no involvement of a supervisor/boss
5) Undemanding
6) Modest pay
The people I see who have these types of "jobs" generally have wealth from some other source (nearing retirement, rich parents, rich spouse, etc). Their financial picture probably wouldn't change significantly if they suddenly quit. So they've got reasons for working that are non-financial. Whatever you'd call their gig, it'd be inaccurate to call it a "hobby", because it's not enjoyable enough, and it generates a non-trivial (albeit modest) amount of income. Yet given its very undemanding and flexible nature, I think it's unfair to call it a full-fledged job. And there's nothing wrong with these types of "jobs", but it's really frustrating when people start comparing them with real jobs that people have to work because they need an income.
Every time I see "this question is closed as "not constructive", I'd like to give StackOverflow a taste of their own medicine. For example, StackOverflow exec's would be having an board meeting over the phone, and all of a sudden the phone clicks off and a pre-recorded voice says, "This meeting has been closed as primarily opinion-based and not constructive".
On a somewhat related note, every time I read the slashdot.com url, I read it as "slash 'department of transportation'" -- like it's some right-wing group trying to defund the DOT.
I've never cried after seeing something on the Internet, and I least expected it to happen on Slashdot, but I cried after reading this post. Your post really shows the daily struggles that bald people experience. I really hope they find the cure to baldness someday. Don't despair though. Science is ever making advances. I'm sorry if I ever offended anyone with my ignorance about baldness, and will never make light of it again.
Leaving aside the question of whether or not a god exists, do you think belief in god can give one an evolutionary advantage? Daniel Dennett postulates a war between a gold army and a silver army: "The gold soldiers believe that God is on their side, that God will answer their prayers, that if they die they will go to heaven and be rewarded by God. The silver soldiers are well-informed and highly trained economists. They are taking out insurance policies, laying out side bets, they’re doing very well informed cost-benefit analysis, they’ve got exit strategies both personal and by group."
I'm not so sure that these engineers are very well paid. Last year, Apple CEO Tim Cook was awarded $378 million in compensation. According to the above survey, the average software engineer at Apple makes $114,413 a year. In order to make the same amount as the CEO, the engineer would have to work 3300 years. So let's ask the question: When would the engineer have had to start working in order to have the same amount of money as the CEO? The engineer's first day of work would be 1300 years before Jesus of Nazareth would be born. And keep in mind this is an engineer. Consider junior level employees. According to an article by the New York Times, a salesman working at an Apple store makes about $11.25 an hour. He would make the same amount as the CEO in about 16 thousand years —- that would put his first day of work well into the stone age -- if you’re a creationist, his work time would be longer than the age of the universe.
I feel the ease-of-installation is one of the main things we can do to switch people from Windows to Linux. In past versions of Fedora Core/ Red Hat, new installations have seamless. However, the Fedora Core V release seems to have been very poorly tested in this regard. My users ran into one problem after another. I would be interested in hearing comments for future Fedora Core versions on this issue.
Guess I'll dare...
n _r el_q2_05.mspx
39 million in 4 years? Microsoft made nearly 11 billion just last quarter.
http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnings/FY05/ear
If that is not money, I dare not fathom what is.
> Outsourcing!
> Let's see Bush is for it. Kerry is against it.
Even though he has publicly announced that outsourcing can't (read won't) be stopped...
http://in.news.yahoo.com/041009/43/2h7og.html
I think we should be doing just the reverse. We should be trying to a higher percentage of more informed voters to the polls, not high numbers who would only care about a lottery.
To do this, I propose all voters should pass a political literacy quiz. The quiz could even be posted in major newspapers 10 days before the election, to give everyone a fair shot. For example, to vote, you should have to answer 3 or more of the following questions correctly. I have attached the percent who failed to answer. Keep this is mind if you think you are an uninformed voter.
1. Name a single Supreme Court justice [64% percent of Americans can't]
2. Identify a single department of the president's cabinet [58 percent can't]
3. Locate Afghanistan, Iraq or Israel on a map [85 percent of young American adults can't]
4. Name one of the following: your governor, congressman or one senator.
5. Who is the vice president?
The answers are left as an exercise for the reader.
I wonder if once nerds lose their jobs and therefore their money, they will return to the bottom of the social pyramid again.
I'm not sure if you're just trying to troll, but there is a lot of truth in this. When I was in my 20's, before so many people were making so much money with software, a nerd was an extremely pejorative term to call someone. Today people in our industry get so much more respect. I fear that once money starts leaving high tech, we will again be returned to this position.
No, it's just the reverse. It's your vote that is wasted.
When you say you'll vote for a candidate no matter what, the issues you care about as a voter are irrelevant. You see this on both sides. For example, pro-lifers generally vote Republican no matter what. The Republicans control the presidency, house, and senate. Has the abortion rate declined? The left has equally foolish voters. Many of them are against the Iraq war and Patriot act, yet vote for a candidate who is in favor of both. They just can't figure out why Kerry voted for the Iraq War and Patriot Act so quickly.
You can't expect a politician to care about your issues when you will vote for them no matter what.
It's unfortunate, but this article should not be in the "Funny" section. Most experts on politics agree that having a "macho" images is very important for both of the candidates. So, while we all laugh at this, a lot of swing voters will pick the guy who seems more "manly".
This is probably going to get modded as flame bait, but compare how many photo-ops that Bush and Kerry have showing them doing some sort of physical activity, and then see how many they have posing with groups that demand truth about the Iraq war and 9-11, truths that many of us consider sacred.
The point is, you're blind to American politics if you write physical image off as inconsequential.
I think of Bush as Sauron and Kerry as Saruman.
There are lots of similarities:
*You have an evil and a lesser-evil.
*You have two distinct groups, yet both unite to launch an evil war.
*Both are obsessed with power. Although Sauron is more powerful and Saruman helps him in his aims, Saruman secretly hopes to one day replace him as the dark lord. The 2004 election is like a future middle earth where the forces of evil had already successfully launched their wars, the damage is done, and Saruman is challenging Sauron's rule.
I wonder if they'd have the ethics training handbook available. I'd definitely buy that.
The base problem with this article is the author actually believes you can put a dollar value on life. Once one believes this, crazy statements like this follow:
"Execute the people who write computer worms"
"Harvard professor Kip Viscusi estimates the value of a life at $4.5 million overall, $7 million for a blue-collar male and $8.5 million for a blue collar female"
This guy will never appreciate open source defense projects like OMGS that contain SQL statements like:
UPDATE Base SET Belong.To='Us' WHERE Belong.To='You'
Nope.
Can we really trust closed-source venders, such as Cisco, to develop secure products that are free of backdoors?
You should look into the history of the secret ballot if you think political privacy is unimportant or a bad idea.
I don't see what the problem is with making this kind of information public.
Sounds like the Green Party and universal health care.
Oh well, politics is politics.
George Bush is calling for universal broadband by 2007. He doesn't say how, or who's going to pay for it, or who's going to build it, but hey, isn't almost good enough?
How would you feel if because of a doctor's mistake, you were left paralyzed for life, and you only received an $100,000 settlement? Don't imply there are no valid 7-figure medical malpractice suits.
I don't think online voting is a good idea, not necessary for security reasons but for political reasons. If voting is as easy as "pointing and clicking", we are going to get a lot more votes from people who have done little to nothing to follow the election. If someone is willing to register to vote and then take time from their busy day to actually vote, it's much more likely that they've at least studied a little about the candidates; e.g. they aren't just randomly at their computer clicking on a "Vote Now!" link.
Has anyone else noticed that you can not cut and paste into the search-box? If we were ever going to seriously use this, that would be a real draw-back.
I wonder if this would get the same praise if the 747-simiulator were being built in say, Islamabad instead of Sydney.