I hope it's not because Java and Javascript is getting confused. I run into a surprising number of techies that think the two are closely related, and apart from some syntax they both inherited from C, the only thing the have in common is "Java" in the name, which is Netscape's fault, not Oracle's. True, Oracle owns the JavaScript trademark, but it's the Mozilla Foundation that actually develops it.
Oracle? Believe me, I've a got a hate on for Oracle and the list and litany against them is long and storied, but how are they responsible for 3rd party Javascript?
Maybe I'm weird, but I've been known to burn 10 bucks to get a 5 dollar charged reversed. What's the old saying? "Millions for defense, but not one penny for tribute?" Perhaps my sense of honor and rightness are a little too finely developed.:-)
I can back up at least some of the sub-par wage thing. As a senior software engineer, I got an offer in 2006 from Lucasfilm (not LucasArts) to help write tools to manage graphics assets. The job looked fun, I liked my potential co-workers. Then the offer came: $80,000/yr. Working in SF. No telecommute, no WFH even one day a week, not even working 4 longer days instead of 5. I got them to come up to 85k (Whoa, don't break anything there, George!), but compared to the region of the country I was working at the time that was like a 20% pay cut. The only way I could even remotely make it work would be to move way the fuck out to Tracy or something, and even then it would be tight. Spend 25 hours a week commuting? F that.
Assuming I got decent raises for the 7 years since, I'd even now only be making barely more than I am at my current job in Phoenix, where my commute is 20 minutes by train and I own a nice (not spectacular) house on a good-sized lot in town. What are the chances of me owning a house 20 minutes from the Presidio for a $922/month mortgage?
This. If you don't want leap seconds and don't care if you're synchronized to the sun, you already have two timebases to choose from. Do this and you take away a use case from others, and then have THREE to choose from.
Because the leap year doesn't have anything to do with time of day, but the position of the earth regarding its axial tilt in its orbit. If we quit using leap year days, noon would still be more or less noon every day but the seasons would start marching forward in the calendar and spring would start in April, then May...
The question I've always wanted answered is "How can you tell?" Just because the asker of a question (or anyone else) can't understand how answering it would possibly implicate the answerer in a crime doesn't mean it can't do so. So, if you're asked a question and assert your rights under the 5th amendment to not answer, how does anyone make the determination that seeking 5th amendment protection is genuine or not?
No wonder she cried the 5th, which btw, I'm going to do next April 15th, when I sign my tax forms, and they are blank. "I refuse to answer these questions on the grounds that it might incriminate me"
There's kind of a statute of limitations on spoliers. While it varies, I'd like to think that most can agree on a popular book that is almost 70 years old should be spoiler alert exempt.
Because your chances of killing yourself wandering around out here in the summer without water are MUCH higher than your chances of contracting Valley Fever. I've lived in the Phoenix area for 12 years and it's pretty much common knowledge as far as I can tell.
And thirst is not a good guide for when to drink. By the time you even feel thirst, you are already on your way to dehydration. That goes even more for hot dry places like Phoenix.
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I have worked at places that disprove your statement.
so Facebook will ban me too?
I hope it's not because Java and Javascript is getting confused. I run into a surprising number of techies that think the two are closely related, and apart from some syntax they both inherited from C, the only thing the have in common is "Java" in the name, which is Netscape's fault, not Oracle's. True, Oracle owns the JavaScript trademark, but it's the Mozilla Foundation that actually develops it.
Oracle? Believe me, I've a got a hate on for Oracle and the list and litany against them is long and storied, but how are they responsible for 3rd party Javascript?
If you have no right to sell what's yours, you don't own it at all.
Maybe I'm weird, but I've been known to burn 10 bucks to get a 5 dollar charged reversed. What's the old saying? "Millions for defense, but not one penny for tribute?" Perhaps my sense of honor and rightness are a little too finely developed. :-)
Guess who gets the call if what I want is a tasty meal?
Yeah, I hate it when people just assume I'm educated.
That's insensitive clod to you, mister!
I can back up at least some of the sub-par wage thing. As a senior software engineer, I got an offer in 2006 from Lucasfilm (not LucasArts) to help write tools to manage graphics assets. The job looked fun, I liked my potential co-workers. Then the offer came: $80,000/yr. Working in SF. No telecommute, no WFH even one day a week, not even working 4 longer days instead of 5. I got them to come up to 85k (Whoa, don't break anything there, George!), but compared to the region of the country I was working at the time that was like a 20% pay cut. The only way I could even remotely make it work would be to move way the fuck out to Tracy or something, and even then it would be tight. Spend 25 hours a week commuting? F that.
Assuming I got decent raises for the 7 years since, I'd even now only be making barely more than I am at my current job in Phoenix, where my commute is 20 minutes by train and I own a nice (not spectacular) house on a good-sized lot in town. What are the chances of me owning a house 20 minutes from the Presidio for a $922/month mortgage?
This. If you don't want leap seconds and don't care if you're synchronized to the sun, you already have two timebases to choose from. Do this and you take away a use case from others, and then have THREE to choose from.
Because the leap year doesn't have anything to do with time of day, but the position of the earth regarding its axial tilt in its orbit. If we quit using leap year days, noon would still be more or less noon every day but the seasons would start marching forward in the calendar and spring would start in April, then May...
I always had an affinity for "land of the fee, home of the slave" myself.
But if you made real driving tests before people could get their driver's license, who would buy all the cars?
Indeed.
The question I've always wanted answered is "How can you tell?" Just because the asker of a question (or anyone else) can't understand how answering it would possibly implicate the answerer in a crime doesn't mean it can't do so. So, if you're asked a question and assert your rights under the 5th amendment to not answer, how does anyone make the determination that seeking 5th amendment protection is genuine or not?
Never the Judean People's Front! Vote for the People's Front of Judea instead!
Good luck with that.
Yes, the cold war is indeed over. And while most can agree the US won it, I'm still not sure which side of ideological barrier won it.
There's kind of a statute of limitations on spoliers. While it varies, I'd like to think that most can agree on a popular book that is almost 70 years old should be spoiler alert exempt.
Didn't you get the memo? Globalization is for corporations only. You still need the masters to agree if you want to work off the plantation.
Case in point: My Ford Fusion was assembled in Mexico. My Honda Odyssey was assembled in Alabama.
"Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them." - John Milton
Nah, I have lots of those. Would you be interested in some? $9.99 each, but I'm running a special: 3 for $20!
Because your chances of killing yourself wandering around out here in the summer without water are MUCH higher than your chances of contracting Valley Fever. I've lived in the Phoenix area for 12 years and it's pretty much common knowledge as far as I can tell.
And thirst is not a good guide for when to drink. By the time you even feel thirst, you are already on your way to dehydration. That goes even more for hot dry places like Phoenix.