It sure seems like that could be illegal. I could see how it might be "parody". I can't see the courts allowing that defense for an entire event.
It could be that by the time it comes to trial, if that's how it works out, the courts will have been seeded with people for whom "fair use" means "pay us now or pay us later".
We could start a conversation with Kim Jong Un about nukes-n-missiles-n-other-fun-stuff by voting him in as head of the human rights council, ala Gaddafi.
*bad thing happens* "THIS IS EXACTLY LIKE TRUMP!!"
I'm confused. Over a hundred responses and this is the ONLY mention of whatzis name. At least there's a helpful reference to obsessive thought patterns. That helps indicate one AC with OCPD.
This -- healthy working hours, vacation time, enough time off to cook healthy food and spend time with family = less stress....
I think some Europeans figured that out a long time ago. They also take flak from Americans for being lazy & unproductive.
We like our workforce to feel a bit desperate.
So I guess what we need is a health care system that ensures that anyone needing to pay for medical attention needs to have a full-time job with a health plan. They also need to suspect they'll be RIFFed if they're not putting in 60+ hrs/wk. Not saying that's how it is.... it's just a plan.
I work at Amazon at AWS. One of our main principles is customer obsession - we try REALLY hard not to break any customers' workflows. Sometimes it means supporting awkward API features misconceived more than 10 years ago.
For big customers we also try to bend over backwards to accommodate them. "Pain to deal'? Hardly. There's a reason why CIA has chosen Amazon over IBM.
Supporting legacy is a pain but helps with customer retention which, in turn, makes the sales guys happy and adds to the bottom line. It can have unintended consequences as "old API think" can interfere with "the new way of doing things". In an attempt to support old and new, a product can become contorted, like someone with a bad knee who can't afford a replacement or doesn't want surgery. They learn to walk funny to relieve the knee pain and, as a result, develop hip, spine and neck problems.
Tech companies behave this way because most employees are young and haven’t worked anywhere else and because the behavior reflects the character of the ounder. If the boss tells you to beat up customers and partners and it’s your first job out of college, then you beat up customers and partners because that’s the only world you know.
It was a joke. EMACS uses a lot of CONTROL / ALT / FN / WHATEVER combinations. Personally I'd have a hard time doing that on a tiny little android keyboard. Eclipse does have an EMACS plugin if you dont want to use VIM, which also depends on key combinations.
A way to distinguish the one prediction that's going to be right from the millions that aren't.
I disagree with that assumption. I think the spectrum of predictions is graduated; not binary. I believe that more than a few prognosticators will be absolutely correct; many will be partially correct but incomplete; some partially right/partially wrong, others mostly wrong and about 50% fully worng. My reason for that number is that I think that life on earth is far more complicated, interconnected and inter-dependent that we yet realize. Once the links are broken or disturbed, some life will evolve, adapt and survive in surprising ways. Other life will cease to exist. Those adaptions and failures will, in turn, induce further changes. This goes on all the time. IMHO, rapid, intrusive climate change just pokes at the gradual evolutionary processes with a pointed stick.
We have that. It's called science.
And while we're on the subject, science does get things wrong despite its best efforts. But the most important thing about science is that it is in a constant state of trying to correct and improve itself.
Is it that science is wrong, or that people are wrong? Science is science. People have foibles, flaws, misinterpretations, lack of imagination and hidden agendas.
It's only a matter of time before the bad guys learn how to tap into the video and keyboard stream. The corporation has bugged their own offices and now the bad guys or competition can listen in. Carried to the next step, what if video or audio can be injected by the bad guys and it appears to be coming from the company's own employees?
Forty or fifty years from now, the nurses at the old farts home will get their kicks by casually mentioning that Hillary Clinton is thinking of making another run for the presidency. The hillary haters will rattle their walkers, piss their pants, and get nose-bleeds as their blood pressure spikes. "Harvey! I told ya that bitch would come back from the dead to haunt us! She's the spawn of the devil!"
But don't mind me. I'm still pissed at Lincoln for wiping out all the vampires.
I'm holding out for the AI quantum gluten-free HDD.
Designed near Boulder CO, so it's also gotta be carbon-neutral organic free-range homeopathic grass pheno-fed and spagyric OG skunk kush grass-finished twin turbo astrobotanical gemstone infused.
... YOU ARE A LIAR FUCK YOU And a preemptive GO FUCK YOURSELVES to all of you puny brained MOTHERFUCKING ASSHOLES who are so incredibly fucking stupid... and tell me I have a bad attitude FUCK ALL OF YOU EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU IS COMPLETE SHIT FUCK YOU ALL TO HELL... You GET FUCKED UP THE ASS...Shut up, you lying sack of shit
My first layoff was in 2009. I was a couple years older than you. Typical storage industry downsizing. I'd been at the company just shy of 20 years. Oh well. At the time I thought it was the end of the world. I didn't know it but I had been stagnating. Three months later I was doing contract work on the east coast for considerably less pay, but vastly increased exposure to technology and problems and out-of-the-box thinking. Found that job through Craigslist, not Indeed or Monster. Two years after that I took an offer from the company that created the tools I had been supporting for the last 12 years. I worked in their professional services group, gaining even more exposure to unusual problems. and customers using the tools in unusual ways. That really broadened my knowledge. After 2 years that company did a 35% downsize. Out again. I ended up being an semi-independent consultant for a couple years, but trying to do that and provide daily care for a very sick wife was stressful and difficult. I interviewed with a friend of a friend and got a FT job with a big consulting company. By that point I had earned the label "subject matter expert".
So what am I saying? Don't give up hope. For me, every layoff has been a blessing in disguise. Each time I been able to broaden my skills, gain exposure to people and ideas, and learn to boldly go where no man has gone before.
It's not about what you know; it's about who you know, and who knows you. Go to Meetups. Stay in contact with people. Get your name out into the back channels.
One little trick to get your resume past the stupid HR filters. At the end of your resume add a section entitled "Software and products I've used or been exposed to:" and list every language you've written more than 1 line in, every technology and product you've used even if just once. Everything that you can legitimately claim to have been exposed to. Even if it was a demo. Now format that section in 1 pt font, white text. It becomes invisible in MS-WORD and in PDF, but the HR scanners care about content, not format. They will see all those magic buzzwords and your name comes out near the top of every search. It actually gets to be a pain when the endless Indian consulting firms begin matching you for every possible technology known. And now that that little trick is out there, it won't last long. Act appropriately, and good luck.
Within the upper echelons of many financial firms, there's a lot of soul searching...Privately, many confide to peers, consultants and sometimes journalists that they're worried about what will happen to their staffs...
I'm pretty sure the "upper echelons of financial firms" don't give a rat's ass about their staff, or anyone else for that matter.
Agreed. They care about their dicks and worry about Weinstein-spillover and obscene bonuses for fjnorking the dumbass worker class.
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It sure seems like that could be illegal. I could see how it might be "parody". I can't see the courts allowing that defense for an entire event.
It could be that by the time it comes to trial, if that's how it works out, the courts will have been seeded with people for whom "fair use" means "pay us now or pay us later".
We could start a conversation with Kim Jong Un about nukes-n-missiles-n-other-fun-stuff by voting him in as head of the human rights council, ala Gaddafi.
*bad thing happens* "THIS IS EXACTLY LIKE TRUMP!!"
I'm confused. Over a hundred responses and this is the ONLY mention of whatzis name. At least there's a helpful reference to obsessive thought patterns. That helps indicate one AC with OCPD.
This -- healthy working hours, vacation time, enough time off to cook healthy food and spend time with family = less stress....
I think some Europeans figured that out a long time ago. They also take flak from Americans for being lazy & unproductive.
We like our workforce to feel a bit desperate.
So I guess what we need is a health care system that ensures that anyone needing to pay for medical attention needs to have a full-time job with a health plan. They also need to suspect they'll be RIFFed if they're not putting in 60+ hrs/wk. Not saying that's how it is .... it's just a plan.
I work at Amazon at AWS. One of our main principles is customer obsession - we try REALLY hard not to break any customers' workflows. Sometimes it means supporting awkward API features misconceived more than 10 years ago. For big customers we also try to bend over backwards to accommodate them. "Pain to deal'? Hardly. There's a reason why CIA has chosen Amazon over IBM.
Supporting legacy is a pain but helps with customer retention which, in turn, makes the sales guys happy and adds to the bottom line. It can have unintended consequences as "old API think" can interfere with "the new way of doing things". In an attempt to support old and new, a product can become contorted, like someone with a bad knee who can't afford a replacement or doesn't want surgery. They learn to walk funny to relieve the knee pain and, as a result, develop hip, spine and neck problems.
Any input on this paragraph from the article:
Tech companies behave this way because most employees are young and haven’t worked anywhere else and because the behavior reflects the character of the ounder. If the boss tells you to beat up customers and partners and it’s your first job out of college, then you beat up customers and partners because that’s the only world you know.
It was a joke. EMACS uses a lot of CONTROL / ALT / FN / WHATEVER combinations. Personally I'd have a hard time doing that on a tiny little android keyboard. Eclipse does have an EMACS plugin if you dont want to use VIM, which also depends on key combinations.
What a great idea. Using EMACS?
Normally ACs are off in the weeds but this is the most insightful post here.
Exactly. Today it is smelly shitty fucking ugly hindu-chimps leeching off of america.
Exterminate these parasites.
Mod parent way, way down. Poster too busy with all the people living rent-free in his head.
You mean world history?
White people invented all the shit everyone else appropriates for granted.
Fuck off.
Mod parent way down. Way off topic.
Seems like it's the white guys with guns causing most of the trouble lately. Maybe that's a conversation we should have.
Mod parent down. Off Topic.
...We need real mods not these fake ass mods...
said the AC
A way to distinguish the one prediction that's going to be right from the millions that aren't.
I disagree with that assumption. I think the spectrum of predictions is graduated; not binary. I believe that more than a few prognosticators will be absolutely correct; many will be partially correct but incomplete; some partially right/partially wrong, others mostly wrong and about 50% fully worng. My reason for that number is that I think that life on earth is far more complicated, interconnected and inter-dependent that we yet realize. Once the links are broken or disturbed, some life will evolve, adapt and survive in surprising ways. Other life will cease to exist. Those adaptions and failures will, in turn, induce further changes. This goes on all the time. IMHO, rapid, intrusive climate change just pokes at the gradual evolutionary processes with a pointed stick.
We have that. It's called science.
And while we're on the subject, science does get things wrong despite its best efforts. But the most important thing about science is that it is in a constant state of trying to correct and improve itself.
Is it that science is wrong, or that people are wrong? Science is science. People have foibles, flaws, misinterpretations, lack of imagination and hidden agendas.
Power failure!
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It's only a matter of time before the bad guys learn how to tap into the video and keyboard stream. The corporation has bugged their own offices and now the bad guys or competition can listen in. Carried to the next step, what if video or audio can be injected by the bad guys and it appears to be coming from the company's own employees?
Fake News according to President Tramp.
Forty or fifty years from now, the nurses at the old farts home will get their kicks by casually mentioning that Hillary Clinton is thinking of making another run for the presidency. The hillary haters will rattle their walkers, piss their pants, and get nose-bleeds as their blood pressure spikes. "Harvey! I told ya that bitch would come back from the dead to haunt us! She's the spawn of the devil!"
But don't mind me. I'm still pissed at Lincoln for wiping out all the vampires.
You keep your weed in there man!
I don't know man. I don't want my weed next to Jimmy Hoffa. Or vice-versa.
I'm holding out for the AI quantum gluten-free HDD.
Designed near Boulder CO, so it's also gotta be carbon-neutral organic free-range homeopathic grass pheno-fed and spagyric OG skunk kush grass-finished twin turbo astrobotanical gemstone infused.
Great. I'm gonna need a bigger camera.
... YOU ARE A LIAR FUCK YOU And a preemptive GO FUCK YOURSELVES to all of you puny brained MOTHERFUCKING ASSHOLES who are so incredibly fucking stupid ... and tell me I have a bad attitude FUCK ALL OF YOU EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU IS COMPLETE SHIT FUCK YOU ALL TO HELL ... You GET FUCKED UP THE ASS...Shut up, you lying sack of shit
I love you too honey bunny. See you next weekend.
Yea. TMI. Gotta learn to get to the point or punch line. Or in this case, have one.
Python just means there is an unlimited potential for improvement. Maybe the Rusty OP was considering a Rust rewrite.
My first layoff was in 2009. I was a couple years older than you. Typical storage industry downsizing. I'd been at the company just shy of 20 years. Oh well. At the time I thought it was the end of the world. I didn't know it but I had been stagnating. Three months later I was doing contract work on the east coast for considerably less pay, but vastly increased exposure to technology and problems and out-of-the-box thinking. Found that job through Craigslist, not Indeed or Monster. Two years after that I took an offer from the company that created the tools I had been supporting for the last 12 years. I worked in their professional services group, gaining even more exposure to unusual problems. and customers using the tools in unusual ways. That really broadened my knowledge. After 2 years that company did a 35% downsize. Out again. I ended up being an semi-independent consultant for a couple years, but trying to do that and provide daily care for a very sick wife was stressful and difficult. I interviewed with a friend of a friend and got a FT job with a big consulting company. By that point I had earned the label "subject matter expert".
So what am I saying? Don't give up hope. For me, every layoff has been a blessing in disguise. Each time I been able to broaden my skills, gain exposure to people and ideas, and learn to boldly go where no man has gone before.
It's not about what you know; it's about who you know, and who knows you. Go to Meetups. Stay in contact with people. Get your name out into the back channels.
One little trick to get your resume past the stupid HR filters. At the end of your resume add a section entitled "Software and products I've used or been exposed to:" and list every language you've written more than 1 line in, every technology and product you've used even if just once. Everything that you can legitimately claim to have been exposed to. Even if it was a demo. Now format that section in 1 pt font, white text. It becomes invisible in MS-WORD and in PDF, but the HR scanners care about content, not format. They will see all those magic buzzwords and your name comes out near the top of every search. It actually gets to be a pain when the endless Indian consulting firms begin matching you for every possible technology known. And now that that little trick is out there, it won't last long. Act appropriately, and good luck.
Agreed. They care about their dicks and worry about Weinstein-spillover and obscene bonuses for fjnorking the dumbass worker class.