Yeah, I don't really understand the anti-shorting rhetoric.
HFT I vehemently disagree with, it's so divorced from anything to do with the stock or company being traded that it's ridiculous. But shorting?
Shorting is trying to monetise knowledge (or presumed knowledge) of a stock movement. It's just that the knowledge is about a future fall instead of a future rise.
UK salaried programmers are very rarely paid on a scale comparative to the wages you mention for the US. Well, not now the exchange rate is closer to 1.5 than the 2 it used to be... The only way to make that sort of money is to go work for the financial industry in London. Conversely, contractors with a bit of experience can make 300-500 pounds a day outside of the London financial bubble, more within.
This is likely due to a number of factors - employees have many, many more rights in the UK than most places in the US, (for instance there is no 'at-will' here), the tax implications can be lower at both sides, contractors do not expect training, etc.
To the contractor It offers a way to opt out of corporate bullcrap (are you engaging with the technical community? We need a team meeting! The company pension fund is getting worse again...), have more control over their own life and (very important!) significantly more money. It has downsides - you need to find new work every few months and there's no such thing as job security - but is there anyway? It probably helps that I view this as an intermediate stage until I get the big idea and launch a software company.
Maybe these differences arise due to the different financial and employment situations in the US and Europe?
Except most good programmers won't take a contract job
Most good programmers I know are scared to take a contract job but also sort of idolise it.The money is better and you get to change scene more often. Most of them stay in place in permanent employment because it's 'safe'.
I'm changing this for myself and I know half a dozen folks at my level (above average, 12 years experience) who are watching closely to see if it works
What this process used to be called is 'probation', where the applicant and the company both work under a low/no notice condition for a while before full employment kicks in. The difference being that probation is paid.
This line of reasoning would be easier to appreciate if GNOME 3 had been a new project, or had been built with a new namespace so as to be able to coexist with 2.x on the same system.
It seems that steps were taken to deliberately force people to choose and move, and deliberately break the older stuff.
Stable, sure. But with testing or unstable you get a fantastic OS that does have a lot of the new hotness. I've been running testing as my business desktop in a large corporate for some years now.
Not my experience with the networking or walking into a job, but then I never really wanted to talk to most people from school again, let alone hit them up for employment
They do pretty much guarantee entrance to a decent university, but that's because they deliver good grades, and I don't believe that is done at the expense of breadth of education or anything like that. Being able to segregate or refuse to teach disruptive kids (whose parents won't help control them) is part of it, IMHO.
Yet in other countries (UK for instance) the better off folk send their kids to private schools that have longer holidays, and still achieve brilliant results.
You're right (IMHO) that the kids and parents caring is a big factor. I'm not convinced taking away the summers of youth is a good idea though.
Well yes, any gnome 3 messaging service, so that means empathy. Other things that used to work in the systray equivalent are relegated to a semi-transparent life elsewhere in the UI, for no good reason can tell. This is not useful, especially where there are protocols and services empathy does not support. I have yet to hear any good reason why other systray/notification area apps are not allowed, but it fits in with the whole "you can't customise anything" ethos, as well as the record of just throwing things out.
As for virtual desktops, it's to do with control, or rather the lack of it given to the user. Also the fact that the dynamic nature of them means that things are not always in the same place. I'm sure if you search for "Gnome 3 virtual desktop" on Google you'll find all sorts of things about it.
Because I love life, and so far as I can tell I will always want more of it.
But you're right, I deeply fear death too. I do not want to end. I do not want to go. I fear dying but that's utterly secondary to the existential dread of there no longer being a me.
I can't understand how anyone can accept it. I'd like to, because it's not like we get a choice in the matter, but can't.
I'd take a day in pain and feces over oblivion any day of the week. Maybe I've never experienced true pain but it seems to me that *anything* is better than nothing.
Not with anything like that prevalence anywhere in the western world.
I'm sure it's commonplace in developing nations, but if so then please stop trying to tell me it doesn't happen! Or that I'm working from preconceptions or prejudice! There are vast, vast numbers of people in India for whom the question 'is the tata nano good enough?' is so far off the radar as to be ridiculous.
Then maybe he shouldn't have responded to my comment about the poor, which was nothing to do with market for cars.
It was a criticism of the twit that thought the poor in India were turning their noses up at the tata nano. They aren't, they're trying damn hard just to stay alive.
Are you trying to tell me what I saw with my own eyes?
I went to India late last year, to multiple cities. I directly observed these things, street sleepers in vast numbers, families living in makeshift shelters at the side of the road, people grazing animals in the central reservations.
These may be cliches, they may even be preconceptions, but they are very true in modern India.
This does not explain why it's often 30-50% cheaper to buy from a foreign source and pay individual shipping from overseas. Even taking into account the 10% GST it's obvious Australians are being charged more becsause people think they can get away with it.
These same people are now kicking and screaming because the internet destroys their easy scam.
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Yeah, I don't really understand the anti-shorting rhetoric.
HFT I vehemently disagree with, it's so divorced from anything to do with the stock or company being traded that it's ridiculous. But shorting?
Shorting is trying to monetise knowledge (or presumed knowledge) of a stock movement. It's just that the knowledge is about a future fall instead of a future rise.
You haven't worked in the UK then!
UK salaried programmers are very rarely paid on a scale comparative to the wages you mention for the US. Well, not now the exchange rate is closer to 1.5 than the 2 it used to be... The only way to make that sort of money is to go work for the financial industry in London. Conversely, contractors with a bit of experience can make 300-500 pounds a day outside of the London financial bubble, more within.
This is likely due to a number of factors - employees have many, many more rights in the UK than most places in the US, (for instance there is no 'at-will' here), the tax implications can be lower at both sides, contractors do not expect training, etc.
To the contractor It offers a way to opt out of corporate bullcrap (are you engaging with the technical community? We need a team meeting! The company pension fund is getting worse again...), have more control over their own life and (very important!) significantly more money. It has downsides - you need to find new work every few months and there's no such thing as job security - but is there anyway?
It probably helps that I view this as an intermediate stage until I get the big idea and launch a software company.
Maybe these differences arise due to the different financial and employment situations in the US and Europe?
Except most good programmers won't take a contract job
Most good programmers I know are scared to take a contract job but also sort of idolise it.The money is better and you get to change scene more often. Most of them stay in place in permanent employment because it's 'safe'.
I'm changing this for myself and I know half a dozen folks at my level (above average, 12 years experience) who are watching closely to see if it works
Yup.
What this process used to be called is 'probation', where the applicant and the company both work under a low/no notice condition for a while before full employment kicks in. The difference being that probation is paid.
These folks are just exploiting people.
This line of reasoning would be easier to appreciate if GNOME 3 had been a new project, or had been built with a new namespace so as to be able to coexist with 2.x on the same system.
It seems that steps were taken to deliberately force people to choose and move, and deliberately break the older stuff.
Stable, sure. But with testing or unstable you get a fantastic OS that does have a lot of the new hotness. I've been running testing as my business desktop in a large corporate for some years now.
We should make them promise never to drink as well then, because drug test don't just pick up what's active in the system.
I couldn't give a crap if the pilot smoked a spliff three days ago, but I would like to know if s/he's drunk now.
Not my experience with the networking or walking into a job, but then I never really wanted to talk to most people from school again, let alone hit them up for employment
They do pretty much guarantee entrance to a decent university, but that's because they deliver good grades, and I don't believe that is done at the expense of breadth of education or anything like that. Being able to segregate or refuse to teach disruptive kids (whose parents won't help control them) is part of it, IMHO.
I'm really not sure how to read this. Troll or not?
It actually will help you get a job, and maybe have a reasonable life, and interests and all the things that make life better.
Yet in other countries (UK for instance) the better off folk send their kids to private schools that have longer holidays, and still achieve brilliant results.
You're right (IMHO) that the kids and parents caring is a big factor. I'm not convinced taking away the summers of youth is a good idea though.
Well yes, any gnome 3 messaging service, so that means empathy. Other things that used to work in the systray equivalent are relegated to a semi-transparent life elsewhere in the UI, for no good reason can tell. This is not useful, especially where there are protocols and services empathy does not support. I have yet to hear any good reason why other systray/notification area apps are not allowed, but it fits in with the whole "you can't customise anything" ethos, as well as the record of just throwing things out.
As for virtual desktops, it's to do with control, or rather the lack of it given to the user. Also the fact that the dynamic nature of them means that things are not always in the same place. I'm sure if you search for "Gnome 3 virtual desktop" on Google you'll find all sorts of things about it.
Integrated messaging and notifications if you use our approved messaging client
And most folks seem to think the virtual desktop stuff is actually far, far worse.
Sure.
But it's a far more pressing concern for most people that they not be ripped of on a daily basis by unscrupulous sellers and conmen.
Most people are buyers, not sellers. As a result they prefer financial instruments that offer them protection from fraudulent sellers.
Back to school, now, seriously.
Who said they can't coexist?
I'm simply saying that in India they do exist, and in large numbers, much larger than in the west. It's not prejudice or preconception, it's fact.
Because I love life, and so far as I can tell I will always want more of it.
But you're right, I deeply fear death too. I do not want to end. I do not want to go. I fear dying but that's utterly secondary to the existential dread of there no longer being a me.
I can't understand how anyone can accept it. I'd like to, because it's not like we get a choice in the matter, but can't.
This so much.
The only thing that placates me at all is that the universe itself is not going to last forever, so there is no real forever.
I'd still happily sign up for a millionfold or more increase in life expectancy though.
I'd take a day in pain and feces over oblivion any day of the week. Maybe I've never experienced true pain but it seems to me that *anything* is better than nothing.
Not with anything like that prevalence anywhere in the western world.
I'm sure it's commonplace in developing nations, but if so then please stop trying to tell me it doesn't happen! Or that I'm working from preconceptions or prejudice! There are vast, vast numbers of people in India for whom the question 'is the tata nano good enough?' is so far off the radar as to be ridiculous.
Then maybe he shouldn't have responded to my comment about the poor, which was nothing to do with market for cars.
It was a criticism of the twit that thought the poor in India were turning their noses up at the tata nano. They aren't, they're trying damn hard just to stay alive.
Are you trying to tell me what I saw with my own eyes?
I went to India late last year, to multiple cities. I directly observed these things, street sleepers in vast numbers, families living in makeshift shelters at the side of the road, people grazing animals in the central reservations.
These may be cliches, they may even be preconceptions, but they are very true in modern India.
India's poor are too busy sleeping on the street or grazing their goat at the side of the freeway to turn their noses up at anything.
This does not explain why it's often 30-50% cheaper to buy from a foreign source and pay individual shipping from overseas. Even taking into account the 10% GST it's obvious Australians are being charged more becsause people think they can get away with it.
These same people are now kicking and screaming because the internet destroys their easy scam.
No, no it does not mean anything of the sort.