I am in a city of 1.26 million people, in a second world country called the United States and I have only 2 choices over 4Mbps. and zero choices over 24Mbps
Most companies seem to think Node.js developers are comfortable getting paid just barely enough for beard-wax, pabst blue ribbon, and double decker bicycles.
Whereas Java developers expect to get paid market wages so they can live in houses and buy cars, that sort of thing.
I have 5 kids, 4 of which are school age. They are all homeschooled, not all of them have always been homeschooled, we move back and forth if needs arise or if a situation is not working.
There is a joke we told at my telecommute job.
"It's so nice for the bank that we work from home, because now we are in the office 24 hours a day."
That is the same attitude we have about school. Every second I spend with my kids has at least an undertone of me trying to keep them excited, curious, and intellectual about the world.
It isn't that they never go to school, because they are home. It is that they never LEAVE school, because our family is a school, with very clear and persistent intellectual goals and pursuits.
This is hard. It is expensive. It is a privilege afforded to us by only needing a single income. Every day we challenge our kids intellectually and academically, there is no other school that we could send them to that could boast that.
In my experience, someone in Texas or North Carolina or wherever makes 10k MORE than someone on the coast. For some reason, the higher the cost of living in the area I am offered a job, the lower the salary.
What you have is a handful of companies (Facebook, Google) paying absofuckinglutely outrageous salaries and benefits.
If you think facebook and google pays outrageous salaries then either you are 20 years old, you have never interviewed there. They pay about 60% of the going market rate. The vast majority of people prefer to be paid in money, not nap pods and gourmet dinners during "optional" (expected) overtime.
My kids range in age from 5 to 9. This is already how they see the world.
Their first hint that the internet is a thing that you have to think about was when they got wifi devices and tried to use them in the car as we drove away from the house.
Before they made that realization, it was just something that things did. Part of the expected infrastructure of existence.
Humanity is doomed because we will never get past the human rights/religious obligation thing when attempting a large-scale rescue of the human race. Removing free will from the generations of host females, and treating tens of thousands of embryos as volatile memory for the human genome will never get past the religious views that tie up significant portions of the capital both political and physical that would be required to spread the human race to other planets. Hell today, in fertility treatment, gender selection is "controversial"... Embryo disposal is "controversial"... This is that times a million.
It is perfectly possible to build a generation ship to reach for the stars and colonize planets thousands of years of travel away.
Just not in the way that we think of generation ships...
Cryo-sleep is how science fiction solves this problem, but the only known state of human that can survive cryogenic freezing is the human embryo.
a crew of around 6 females, and 40,000 frozen embryos, a new generation of females is implanted via ivf and then born through live birth every 25-30 years.
Long story short, spreading humanity out across the stars with our current technology would require massive shifts in how humanity sees morality.
Building a colony on mars, populated with people who have free will, and not risking the wrath of the religious right, sure... that's easier.
Netflix has ensured that every user who reads the news (or facebook) now has the correct string of words to google in order to get around the country code restrictions mandated by netflix's contracts with content owners.
I predict a surge in "netflix vpn how" google searches
followed by netflix "negotiations" with content owners to relax country restrictions that "obviously don't even work"
don't worry about it... chances are the guy next to you is currently eating a bowl of home made deep fried curried broccoli farts and stale baked stinkfish. Nobody will even notice, they might even ask for a bite of your tire-fire masala before they realize it was just a fart.
The board and the (new)CEO handed down the "open concept directive"
100% of employees voiced issues ranging from visual distractions, to "how the hell are customer support employees supposed to talk to people on the phone?"
3 employees quit on the first day of "open concept"
Every "town hall" meeting included mostly questions about how to mitigate the negative effects of open concept.
The COO (of 13 years) blew up in a town hall meeting, confided in us that he fought it all the way, then he put in his resignation.
Our company was so paralyzed by it that we moved the developers to their own office building, because it was affecting deadlines to have constant interruptions and loud overheard phone calls by sales and support. It literally cost double, because we could no longer function in a single office.
Slashdot Mirror
the ocean is about 0.023% of the earth's total mass.
Even if we captured ALL of it, we would be hard pressed to make any real difference in earth's rotation.
I am in a city of 1.26 million people, in a second world country called the United States and I have only 2 choices over 4Mbps. and zero choices over 24Mbps
Congrats, I know you probably had to eat a lot of artifacts to get where you are today.
Most companies seem to think Node.js developers are comfortable getting paid just barely enough for beard-wax, pabst blue ribbon, and double decker bicycles.
Whereas Java developers expect to get paid market wages so they can live in houses and buy cars, that sort of thing.
Node.js - I don't want to pay my programmers
Java - I don't want to pay microsoft
zing!
ton(UK) 2240lb
ton(US) 2000lb
Tonne or Metric ton 1000kg (2204.62lb)
so yes, it matters.
These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Which, as they kiss, consume
->
Boy meets the wrong girl, they die for love.
->
Boy, girl, dead.
->
people.forEach(die)
I mean, sure it gets the job done, but man, might as well just pay someone in India to write and read it.
What is the caloric content of poop?
This question alone should be enough to shut down every single "conventional" conversation about diet and exercise.
Otherwise we are just talking about perfectly spherical cows.
I agree, I was referring to this article a day ago http://science.slashdot.org/st...
Everything ever about diet and exercise.
I guess we need to rehash this?
A Staples store is a warehouse for their office supply delivery business. The retail presence is more there for brand awareness and a showcase.
To contrast, Radio Shack is a cellphone kiosk that once sold electronics.
This is about like wondering how Bank of America can stay in business if nobody uses safety deposit boxes anymore.
I have 5 kids, 4 of which are school age. They are all homeschooled, not all of them have always been homeschooled, we move back and forth if needs arise or if a situation is not working.
There is a joke we told at my telecommute job.
"It's so nice for the bank that we work from home, because now we are in the office 24 hours a day."
That is the same attitude we have about school. Every second I spend with my kids has at least an undertone of me trying to keep them excited, curious, and intellectual about the world.
It isn't that they never go to school, because they are home. It is that they never LEAVE school, because our family is a school, with very clear and persistent intellectual goals and pursuits.
This is hard. It is expensive. It is a privilege afforded to us by only needing a single income. Every day we challenge our kids intellectually and academically, there is no other school that we could send them to that could boast that.
In my experience, someone in Texas or North Carolina or wherever makes 10k MORE than someone on the coast. For some reason, the higher the cost of living in the area I am offered a job, the lower the salary.
And hats, hats, as far as the eye can see!
What you have is a handful of companies (Facebook, Google) paying absofuckinglutely outrageous salaries and benefits.
If you think facebook and google pays outrageous salaries then either you are 20 years old, you have never interviewed there. They pay about 60% of the going market rate. The vast majority of people prefer to be paid in money, not nap pods and gourmet dinners during "optional" (expected) overtime.
My kids range in age from 5 to 9. This is already how they see the world.
Their first hint that the internet is a thing that you have to think about was when they got wifi devices and tried to use them in the car as we drove away from the house.
Before they made that realization, it was just something that things did. Part of the expected infrastructure of existence.
Children do not have rights. Especially at school. Sad but true.
Finally, a nationally branded computer science educational program, we need to build our brands for captive audiences, or we might lose grip.
Art - Photoshop 101
Literature - Kindle Classics
Math - MSExcel
Writing - MSWord
History - Amazon Prime Presents: Ken Burns - American Minutiae
That way our kids won't know how to do anything without a license fee.
did you even see this? The political and social commentary might be a bit muted, but it is there.
Humanity is doomed because we will never get past the human rights/religious obligation thing when attempting a large-scale rescue of the human race. Removing free will from the generations of host females, and treating tens of thousands of embryos as volatile memory for the human genome will never get past the religious views that tie up significant portions of the capital both political and physical that would be required to spread the human race to other planets. Hell today, in fertility treatment, gender selection is "controversial"... Embryo disposal is "controversial"... This is that times a million.
Blame religion.
It is perfectly possible to build a generation ship to reach for the stars and colonize planets thousands of years of travel away.
Just not in the way that we think of generation ships...
Cryo-sleep is how science fiction solves this problem, but the only known state of human that can survive cryogenic freezing is the human embryo. a crew of around 6 females, and 40,000 frozen embryos, a new generation of females is implanted via ivf and then born through live birth every 25-30 years.
Long story short, spreading humanity out across the stars with our current technology would require massive shifts in how humanity sees morality.
Building a colony on mars, populated with people who have free will, and not risking the wrath of the religious right, sure... that's easier.
Netflix has ensured that every user who reads the news (or facebook) now has the correct string of words to google in order to get around the country code restrictions mandated by netflix's contracts with content owners.
I predict a surge in "netflix vpn how" google searches
followed by netflix "negotiations" with content owners to relax country restrictions that "obviously don't even work"
don't worry about it... chances are the guy next to you is currently eating a bowl of home made deep fried curried broccoli farts and stale baked stinkfish. Nobody will even notice, they might even ask for a bite of your tire-fire masala before they realize it was just a fart.
The board and the (new)CEO handed down the "open concept directive"
100% of employees voiced issues ranging from visual distractions, to "how the hell are customer support employees supposed to talk to people on the phone?"
3 employees quit on the first day of "open concept"
Every "town hall" meeting included mostly questions about how to mitigate the negative effects of open concept.
The COO (of 13 years) blew up in a town hall meeting, confided in us that he fought it all the way, then he put in his resignation.
Our company was so paralyzed by it that we moved the developers to their own office building, because it was affecting deadlines to have constant interruptions and loud overheard phone calls by sales and support. It literally cost double, because we could no longer function in a single office.