I think the filibuster in general is a load of crap. And for what it's worth, I think you have a point. It's a bunch of brinkmanship with regular people caught up in the middle and as far as I'm concerned, I'm quite disgusted with both parties. But these people won't change as long as we keep voting in the same assclowns.
I've told this story on/. before when OS/2 stories come about. OS/2 had the unfortunate luck of coming out at a time when IBM was running/trying to run all of its divisions as separate companies. Case in point: I had some true blue IBM PCs (PS/ValuePoints IIRC) with true blue IBM 5250 (minicomputer terminal) emulator cards, trying to connect them to true blue IBM System/38s and AS/400s (The predecessors to the iSeries). I could not get the emulator cards to work with the OS/2 installed on the PCs, and the IBM support people told me point blank that they did not support OS/2 with their cards and to get it to work I would need to install Windows 3.1. So my nascent OS/2 rollout at the company I worked for was stopped dead in its tracks because even IBM wouldn't support OS/2. It's a shame because OS/2 was superior in almost every way to the Windows of the same era.
You guys are all aware that the 2% increase in the payroll tax is just restoring it back to the level it was 2 or 3 years ago, and when they passed the cut then, they said it was temporary. I know we're all kind of skeptical when a politician uses the word "temporary", but in the case of any tax cut, it's a pretty fair bet they're normally telling the truth. Frankly, I was pleasantly surprised we got it extended through 2012.
The thing that bothered me was them talking about the "free meals" and the videogames, and the hipster kid on his scooter going through the office, like that's the life of a programmer. The reality for 99% of coders is they ARE going to work in some dungeon of nerd hell (e.g. a dingy cubicle writing programs that do purchase orders or inventory control). In reality, there's nothing really wrong with those sorts of jobs, but it's a far cry from what they're portraying. The video was a kind of lie, and if it's targeting kids, then they might as well say there really is a Santa Claus, too.
You do know physics has moved on from Newton, right? Or are you one of those people who still stubbornly think quantum mechanics is all a bunch of hokum?
There are instances of women doing these things because they cannot find anything else legal, that can give them the money they need to survive. Those women make up a grey area.
All the more reason to keep it legal, in my opinion. By making it illegal, it won't magically make it go away, but now you've attracted organized crime to take over the "regulation" of it, thereby making it more difficult for these women to extract themselves from the business if that's what they want to do. The women have now been pushed from a grey area to a black one.
It's not cheap, no, but not so expensive that it would add (much) to justify a 10,000 price tag. Quality watches have sapphire glass because it's very scratch resistant, but you can get such watches for as low as 300-400 bucks street price (and sometimes get a smokin' deal for considerably less). It's also (almost?) always a synthetic sapphire.
For me anyway, you do your credibility a good service just by spelling HIPAA correctly. Everytime I see someone trot that out like they know what they're talking about but spell it "HIPPA", I just laugh at them. It's stupid, perhaps, that I use that as a metric, but it seems to be a high bar in these sorts of discussions.:-)
If you have doubts about dark matter/energy, it could be argued that we are still in a pre-Michelson-Morley kind of place, and that those things are the luminiferous aether of the 21st century. Certainly they have some superficial similarities, but I am not up enough on physics to offer a competent opinion in either direction. Not trying to raise the hackles of anyone, just noting the similarity. Either way, we'll get the answer eventually, and I look forward to it.
Yes, python does still use the "whitespace thing" and no it's not that big a deal, and until I learned Python 12 years ago, I felt as you did. There are good reasons why as programmers we have almost genetic revulsion at syntactically or semantically significant whitespace, but python enforces with whitespace pretty much what as a good programmer you're doing anyway, which is consistently indenting your code. Most people don't even notice it after an hour, your editor will do it for you, and in my case, at least, it made me a better programmer in other languages because I cared more about proper indenting after learning it.
Comparing it to the fixed column parts of COBOL, FORTRAN and RPG would be vaguely akin to saying that JavaScript and C are the same because you use semicolons to terminate code lines. The ONLY thing python really has in common with those early languages is whitespace. The reasons for the whitespace are completely different.
They say that because they don't understand the marginal tax system. The top tax rate may be 39%, but each percentage level is only on that level of tax. If you make 100 dollars over that threshold, the 39% only applies to the 100 dollars in that band, not the entire income.
The moment the article talked about the school year as a factor, I knew it was pretty much a bullshit article written by someone who THINKS they know what professors do. I work in a research lab with professors (I'm not one of them, I'm a software engineer) and teaching classes is not even the main part of their job. My boss loves teaching and wishes he had MORE time for it, but can't teach but maybe one class per semester because of research time, lab management, grant proposals, and other commitments.
This. Many (most?) positions out there list BS/MS or equivalent work experience. I work in a NASA-funded lab AT a university, so you'd think a degree would be a hard and fast requirement, but although all our software engineers are currently degreed, we have had engineers in the past who didn't have theirs.
Americans think 200 years is a long time, but 200 miles is just a little jaunt. The English think 200 years was practically yesterday, but 200 miles is incredibly far away.:-)
I have a made-up narrative for an alter ego where I know all the answers to those questions (e.g., what's your mother's maiden name?) and I use those answers instead of the real ones. So you can do all the research you want on me, and you'll get wrong answers for those questions. But I'm weird that way...:-)
I keep mine in HTML because it renders on anything. If someone then asks for my resume in doc format the only reasons I can think of is they're technologically clueless or they want to edit it for their own purposes (and can't Word edit HTML documents too? See reason 1.) Both of those are red flags and give me a lot of information they probably didn't want to reveal to me.
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I think the filibuster in general is a load of crap. And for what it's worth, I think you have a point. It's a bunch of brinkmanship with regular people caught up in the middle and as far as I'm concerned, I'm quite disgusted with both parties. But these people won't change as long as we keep voting in the same assclowns.
I've told this story on /. before when OS/2 stories come about. OS/2 had the unfortunate luck of coming out at a time when IBM was running/trying to run all of its divisions as separate companies. Case in point: I had some true blue IBM PCs (PS/ValuePoints IIRC) with true blue IBM 5250 (minicomputer terminal) emulator cards, trying to connect them to true blue IBM System/38s and AS/400s (The predecessors to the iSeries). I could not get the emulator cards to work with the OS/2 installed on the PCs, and the IBM support people told me point blank that they did not support OS/2 with their cards and to get it to work I would need to install Windows 3.1. So my nascent OS/2 rollout at the company I worked for was stopped dead in its tracks because even IBM wouldn't support OS/2. It's a shame because OS/2 was superior in almost every way to the Windows of the same era.
So *you* were the other one. Nice to meet you finally. :-)
The Senate is not as Democrat controlled as people think they are: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2012/02/parliamentary-procedure
You guys are all aware that the 2% increase in the payroll tax is just restoring it back to the level it was 2 or 3 years ago, and when they passed the cut then, they said it was temporary. I know we're all kind of skeptical when a politician uses the word "temporary", but in the case of any tax cut, it's a pretty fair bet they're normally telling the truth. Frankly, I was pleasantly surprised we got it extended through 2012.
Or a 747 jam-packed with Blu-Ray discs. It's just that the latency for both of these really sucks. :-)
The thing that bothered me was them talking about the "free meals" and the videogames, and the hipster kid on his scooter going through the office, like that's the life of a programmer. The reality for 99% of coders is they ARE going to work in some dungeon of nerd hell (e.g. a dingy cubicle writing programs that do purchase orders or inventory control). In reality, there's nothing really wrong with those sorts of jobs, but it's a far cry from what they're portraying. The video was a kind of lie, and if it's targeting kids, then they might as well say there really is a Santa Claus, too.
Then this may not be the right site for you.
You do know physics has moved on from Newton, right? Or are you one of those people who still stubbornly think quantum mechanics is all a bunch of hokum?
All the more reason to keep it legal, in my opinion. By making it illegal, it won't magically make it go away, but now you've attracted organized crime to take over the "regulation" of it, thereby making it more difficult for these women to extract themselves from the business if that's what they want to do. The women have now been pushed from a grey area to a black one.
It's not cheap, no, but not so expensive that it would add (much) to justify a 10,000 price tag. Quality watches have sapphire glass because it's very scratch resistant, but you can get such watches for as low as 300-400 bucks street price (and sometimes get a smokin' deal for considerably less). It's also (almost?) always a synthetic sapphire.
For me anyway, you do your credibility a good service just by spelling HIPAA correctly. Everytime I see someone trot that out like they know what they're talking about but spell it "HIPPA", I just laugh at them. It's stupid, perhaps, that I use that as a metric, but it seems to be a high bar in these sorts of discussions. :-)
If you have doubts about dark matter/energy, it could be argued that we are still in a pre-Michelson-Morley kind of place, and that those things are the luminiferous aether of the 21st century. Certainly they have some superficial similarities, but I am not up enough on physics to offer a competent opinion in either direction. Not trying to raise the hackles of anyone, just noting the similarity. Either way, we'll get the answer eventually, and I look forward to it.
If there were a "+1, SG-1 Reference" mod, you would've gotten it.
Yes, python does still use the "whitespace thing" and no it's not that big a deal, and until I learned Python 12 years ago, I felt as you did. There are good reasons why as programmers we have almost genetic revulsion at syntactically or semantically significant whitespace, but python enforces with whitespace pretty much what as a good programmer you're doing anyway, which is consistently indenting your code. Most people don't even notice it after an hour, your editor will do it for you, and in my case, at least, it made me a better programmer in other languages because I cared more about proper indenting after learning it.
Comparing it to the fixed column parts of COBOL, FORTRAN and RPG would be vaguely akin to saying that JavaScript and C are the same because you use semicolons to terminate code lines. The ONLY thing python really has in common with those early languages is whitespace. The reasons for the whitespace are completely different.
Just a null reply to undo a bad moderation to your comment.
Well, that case, the encryption algorithm itself is the data. Perhaps "information" would be the better word rather than "data".
Does the State Department have any relevance here if there are no ITAR restricted data in play?
The furball is more readable and maintainable.
They say that because they don't understand the marginal tax system. The top tax rate may be 39%, but each percentage level is only on that level of tax. If you make 100 dollars over that threshold, the 39% only applies to the 100 dollars in that band, not the entire income.
The moment the article talked about the school year as a factor, I knew it was pretty much a bullshit article written by someone who THINKS they know what professors do. I work in a research lab with professors (I'm not one of them, I'm a software engineer) and teaching classes is not even the main part of their job. My boss loves teaching and wishes he had MORE time for it, but can't teach but maybe one class per semester because of research time, lab management, grant proposals, and other commitments.
This. Many (most?) positions out there list BS/MS or equivalent work experience. I work in a NASA-funded lab AT a university, so you'd think a degree would be a hard and fast requirement, but although all our software engineers are currently degreed, we have had engineers in the past who didn't have theirs.
Americans think 200 years is a long time, but 200 miles is just a little jaunt. The English think 200 years was practically yesterday, but 200 miles is incredibly far away. :-)
I have a made-up narrative for an alter ego where I know all the answers to those questions (e.g., what's your mother's maiden name?) and I use those answers instead of the real ones. So you can do all the research you want on me, and you'll get wrong answers for those questions. But I'm weird that way... :-)
I keep mine in HTML because it renders on anything. If someone then asks for my resume in doc format the only reasons I can think of is they're technologically clueless or they want to edit it for their own purposes (and can't Word edit HTML documents too? See reason 1.) Both of those are red flags and give me a lot of information they probably didn't want to reveal to me.