I totally commend people willing to clean up the existing mess, but yes, we need to stop the source. On Monday I attended a lunch lecture from Beth Terry, author of Plastic Free. It was part of a series hosted by Oceana (https://oceana.org).
Here's a short post I wrote on medium: https://medium.com/@davepander...
I think the question is more about what is better? Some would say that the "big-brother" monitoring and tracking of TNCs deters more bad-actors (on both driver and passenger side) than a one-time fingerprint check. Does anyone have any data showing that background checks have prevented people from driving? Or is there a correlation between people with "records" driving with TNCs and committing assaults?
Are people debating universal finger-printing as a measure to "make things more safe" or just a "Taxi's have to do it, so everyone else should bear the same economic barrier to entry" argument? If GPS tracking and profiles are more safe, then the taxi industry should adopt that and drop the fingerprinting.
An interesting thing about the political process is that the drivers and companies have to deal with the TNCs' technological and social media advantage. I have seen it many times: TNC's can easily accelerate the political process because they have their customers' email addresses. They can get petitions signed much more easily. Cab Companies and Taxi drivers do not have this option. This fact alone has distorted what city councils across America see, TNCs can get their customers to click a few buttons to complain with an email blast or social media post, while taxi companies have a much harder time getting petitions signed. I'm not saying this is "unfair" but more that it's a structural reality in the current TNC vs. Taxi industry conflict.
I think that link has a 300 MB 28 day plan for $1.50 per month, so it's not like the poster is too far off in saying that one third of that would cost less than an dollar.
Wow, I subscribed to Stratfor as a grad student and really appreciated their balanced analysis. Not only that, they talked about travel safety and freely published the bulk of their analysis.
I always saw them as a great source of information that wasn't colored by the politically influenced mass media. What a shame, Anonymous just lost a lot of credit in my book. Now they took my Debit Card #? I hope my rent check doesn't bounce, things are still tight.
Does no one else see the typo? That's what leads to these issues. "Updated" vs. "Update" should be noticed. Creativity should be important enough to be checked by the creator.
My passion for programming started long before I attended a well-regarded liberal arts college where I minored in CS. After graduating I found myself in an environment (a start-up) where I was able to prove myself as a software engineer, a much more rewarding experience in the long-run.
Within five months I was working alongside peers with CS majors from engineering schools, sometimes taking the lead on design. After a year, we were using frameworks that had not been taught in school --mine or theirs.
I'd say that 90% of my useful software engineering skills came from my on the job learning. It's a question of what you want to do with your degree. My CS studies were a casual continuation of a personal passion, which in the end has turned into a career. I've also worked in finance (not as an engineer, but as an analyst), and find myself now in more a product management position with the ultimate goal of starting my own company. My liberal arts education has definitely helped me leverage technical skills in the business world. Some of my engineering focused friends have to work harder to not be pigeon-holed (i.e. go back for MBA's or Masters).
No one is blaming the online-pet stuff on the programmers.
As far as finding good business people, would you trust an MBA who has a software engineering background more? If so, why? What are the lessons learned from software engineering that can help make a better product? I ask because I am about to start an MBA after seven years as a software engineer.
With the advent of fines, Spammer's started paying tax. They consider a fine as a cost of doing business, and I am sure that they would continue even if we increased their cost of mailing by 1 cent per message. Yes, they would have to adjust their economics, but they already do that on a daily basis.
Therefor, a tax would not stop SPAM at all, and would only hamper useful communication for the rest of us.
I have heard of proactive IT departments interfacing class rosters and schedules with the wifi network. The result is each student's adapter is not active while they are in class. The minute the class is over, the connection is restored and everyone's email floods in creating a cacophony that marks the end of the period.
Funny thing is I did see a guy with an iPod at the coffee shop yesterday morning. I looked over his shoulder to see what he was listenting to... Yanni.
This reminds me of the call to arms of a small country seeking international recognition. Bangladesh? Seeking freedom from Pakistan and using the US as a megaphone via their fellowships. They mastered some simple press releases announcing that they were viable, and look at them today. Geography was on their side, but there is no geography in opensource.
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I totally commend people willing to clean up the existing mess, but yes, we need to stop the source. On Monday I attended a lunch lecture from Beth Terry, author of Plastic Free. It was part of a series hosted by Oceana (https://oceana.org). Here's a short post I wrote on medium: https://medium.com/@davepander...
I think the question is more about what is better? Some would say that the "big-brother" monitoring and tracking of TNCs deters more bad-actors (on both driver and passenger side) than a one-time fingerprint check. Does anyone have any data showing that background checks have prevented people from driving? Or is there a correlation between people with "records" driving with TNCs and committing assaults? Are people debating universal finger-printing as a measure to "make things more safe" or just a "Taxi's have to do it, so everyone else should bear the same economic barrier to entry" argument? If GPS tracking and profiles are more safe, then the taxi industry should adopt that and drop the fingerprinting. An interesting thing about the political process is that the drivers and companies have to deal with the TNCs' technological and social media advantage. I have seen it many times: TNC's can easily accelerate the political process because they have their customers' email addresses. They can get petitions signed much more easily. Cab Companies and Taxi drivers do not have this option. This fact alone has distorted what city councils across America see, TNCs can get their customers to click a few buttons to complain with an email blast or social media post, while taxi companies have a much harder time getting petitions signed. I'm not saying this is "unfair" but more that it's a structural reality in the current TNC vs. Taxi industry conflict.
I think that link has a 300 MB 28 day plan for $1.50 per month, so it's not like the poster is too far off in saying that one third of that would cost less than an dollar.
Wow, I subscribed to Stratfor as a grad student and really appreciated their balanced analysis. Not only that, they talked about travel safety and freely published the bulk of their analysis. I always saw them as a great source of information that wasn't colored by the politically influenced mass media. What a shame, Anonymous just lost a lot of credit in my book. Now they took my Debit Card #? I hope my rent check doesn't bounce, things are still tight.
Does no one else see the typo? That's what leads to these issues. "Updated" vs. "Update" should be noticed. Creativity should be important enough to be checked by the creator.
My passion for programming started long before I attended a well-regarded liberal arts college where I minored in CS. After graduating I found myself in an environment (a start-up) where I was able to prove myself as a software engineer, a much more rewarding experience in the long-run. Within five months I was working alongside peers with CS majors from engineering schools, sometimes taking the lead on design. After a year, we were using frameworks that had not been taught in school --mine or theirs.
I'd say that 90% of my useful software engineering skills came from my on the job learning. It's a question of what you want to do with your degree. My CS studies were a casual continuation of a personal passion, which in the end has turned into a career. I've also worked in finance (not as an engineer, but as an analyst), and find myself now in more a product management position with the ultimate goal of starting my own company. My liberal arts education has definitely helped me leverage technical skills in the business world. Some of my engineering focused friends have to work harder to not be pigeon-holed (i.e. go back for MBA's or Masters).
No one is blaming the online-pet stuff on the programmers.
As far as finding good business people, would you trust an MBA who has a software engineering background more? If so, why? What are the lessons learned from software engineering that can help make a better product? I ask because I am about to start an MBA after seven years as a software engineer.
With the advent of fines, Spammer's started paying tax. They consider a fine as a cost of doing business, and I am sure that they would continue even if we increased their cost of mailing by 1 cent per message. Yes, they would have to adjust their economics, but they already do that on a daily basis. Therefor, a tax would not stop SPAM at all, and would only hamper useful communication for the rest of us.
I have heard of proactive IT departments interfacing class rosters and schedules with the wifi network. The result is each student's adapter is not active while they are in class. The minute the class is over, the connection is restored and everyone's email floods in creating a cacophony that marks the end of the period.
Funny thing is I did see a guy with an iPod at the coffee shop yesterday morning. I looked over his shoulder to see what he was listenting to... Yanni.
This reminds me of the call to arms of a small country seeking international recognition. Bangladesh? Seeking freedom from Pakistan and using the US as a megaphone via their fellowships. They mastered some simple press releases announcing that they were viable, and look at them today. Geography was on their side, but there is no geography in opensource. Mentors for us all.