In fact I'm absolutely sure it come with absolutely no due process whatsoever. Kinda like Guantanamo or the no fly list.
There are no similarities with Guantanamo, that's only for foreign nationals who were caught engaging in terrorist activities or on the field of battle.
The No Fly List is a bit closer, but it's hard to make the case that having bad credit or smoking on a train is the same as being a suspected terrorist.
Government agencies don't appear to understand how to manage the process, and vendors tend to take advantage of that.
The fundamental problem is that people don't want to accept limitations in their shiny new software. If the buyer would accept a simple reliable system that has some limitations it wouldn't cost five or ten times what it should, but no project manager wants to have their name on a system that doesn't do X and Y in three different languages with 99.999% uptime and runs on OSX, Windows, iPhones, Android phones, and can easily be ported to Linux...oh, and it must have a voice interface and be handicapped friendly, and use AI and Deep Learning just because.
I would much rather pay a higher price and be without all that crap. If vendors would offer that as an option I expect they would be surprised how many people would take it.
I'd really like to see the body cam video if Hofer's stop. The fact that he's an activist in Oakland, CA makes me wonder if he wasn't fully cooperative.
But in the end, the license plate reader did not make a "mistake", the car was indeed reported stolen.
Clickbait articles like this will increase in shrillness as we approach 2020. What happened to poor Hillary can never, ever be allowed to happen to a Democrat again; social media can only be used against Republicans.
Pay attention to what Nixon actually said: Vote Republican in the upcoming election and the economy will be so good you'll soon be working 4 day weeks.
Smaller companies experimenting with the four-day week have found performance has been better in the first few weeks as excitement about the project took hold, before falling slightly.
A 240 person staff is pretty small, and eight weeks (over Christmas no less) isn't enough time to draw any conclusions.
The productivity increase isn't any surprise though. The employees are offered the day off *if* they could get the same amount of work done in a shorter time. Of course people will respond to a reward like that...for a while. Makes you wonder what would happen if people were offered a 20% pay increase for working five days per week but getting 20% more work done.
So there were 8 people left who had the required skills too complete the requested task?
1: If they were looking for Mac users they should have screened for them in the first place
2: If being familiar with using a Mac is the main qualification then it worked (but see #1). Otherwise they screwed themselves by rejecting good candidates who could have become familiar with a Mac in a week or two. Very stupid and inefficient.
it will happen when you use your collective voice to bargain for a fair share of the wealth you create every day
How about instead of working for that company you head down to Mom's basement and create some wealth on your own? You can't.
If you can be replaced by another competent developer who can do the same job then you aren't creating the wealth. You get paid a salary to do a job, and if you don't think the salary is worth what's asked of you, leave.
For big projects you need rigid type checking, complex data structures, fine tuned encapsulation, compile time error checking, static and dynamic analysis, verifiable memory allocation and release, etc.
All the selling points for Java. But most big Java projects I saw were nightmares anyway.
Those companies should be thankful they aren't rewriting giant mountains of garbage C++ code written by twenty something year old hipsters or older researcher type people.
The implication is that traditional grocery stores have some kind of altruistic drive to sell fresh produce at no profit. They subsidize it with higher prices on canned goods. But these evil dollar stores don't sell the unprofitable stuff so the grocery stores can't fulfill their mission.
The problem with capitalism is that any changes you make to it are government regulation and no longer pure capitalism.
That is definitely *not* a problem with the capitalistic system we have in the US. Nor does anyone (other than a tiny lunatic fringe) support the idea of "pure capitalism". Our existing system is not "holding Americans back", the economy is doing great - employment is at an all time high.
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In fact I'm absolutely sure it come with absolutely no due process whatsoever. Kinda like Guantanamo or the no fly list.
There are no similarities with Guantanamo, that's only for foreign nationals who were caught engaging in terrorist activities or on the field of battle.
The No Fly List is a bit closer, but it's hard to make the case that having bad credit or smoking on a train is the same as being a suspected terrorist.
Government agencies don't appear to understand how to manage the process, and vendors tend to take advantage of that.
The fundamental problem is that people don't want to accept limitations in their shiny new software. If the buyer would accept a simple reliable system that has some limitations it wouldn't cost five or ten times what it should, but no project manager wants to have their name on a system that doesn't do X and Y in three different languages with 99.999% uptime and runs on OSX, Windows, iPhones, Android phones, and can easily be ported to Linux...oh, and it must have a voice interface and be handicapped friendly, and use AI and Deep Learning just because.
It doesn't need to be updated because (I'm guessing) it isn't connected to the internet. Air-gapped systems can run for years without being updated.
How hard is this?
Pretty much impossible when your TV service is supplied via internet and/or wireless router.
Britain isn't a real big country as it is. If they change miles to kilometers it would be 62% smaller.
Porch pirates would have stolen them
I would much rather pay a higher price and be without all that crap. If vendors would offer that as an option I expect they would be surprised how many people would take it.
I'd really like to see the body cam video if Hofer's stop. The fact that he's an activist in Oakland, CA makes me wonder if he wasn't fully cooperative.
But in the end, the license plate reader did not make a "mistake", the car was indeed reported stolen.
paid propagandists
Yea, the incessant stream of anti-Trump comments does get old.
Clickbait articles like this will increase in shrillness as we approach 2020. What happened to poor Hillary can never, ever be allowed to happen to a Democrat again; social media can only be used against Republicans.
It's in orbit, not flying.
Pay attention to what Nixon actually said: Vote Republican in the upcoming election and the economy will be so good you'll soon be working 4 day weeks.
The eight-week experiment...
Smaller companies experimenting with the four-day week have found performance has been better in the first few weeks as excitement about the project took hold, before falling slightly.
A 240 person staff is pretty small, and eight weeks (over Christmas no less) isn't enough time to draw any conclusions.
The productivity increase isn't any surprise though. The employees are offered the day off *if* they could get the same amount of work done in a shorter time. Of course people will respond to a reward like that...for a while. Makes you wonder what would happen if people were offered a 20% pay increase for working five days per week but getting 20% more work done.
Which doesn't change the fact that the article really *is* clickbait horse shit to keep this Russia nonsense alive.
So there were 8 people left who had the required skills too complete the requested task?
1: If they were looking for Mac users they should have screened for them in the first place
2: If being familiar with using a Mac is the main qualification then it worked (but see #1). Otherwise they screwed themselves by rejecting good candidates who could have become familiar with a Mac in a week or two. Very stupid and inefficient.
it will happen when you use your collective voice to bargain for a fair share of the wealth you create every day
How about instead of working for that company you head down to Mom's basement and create some wealth on your own? You can't.
If you can be replaced by another competent developer who can do the same job then you aren't creating the wealth. You get paid a salary to do a job, and if you don't think the salary is worth what's asked of you, leave.
For big projects you need rigid type checking, complex data structures, fine tuned encapsulation, compile time error checking, static and dynamic analysis, verifiable memory allocation and release, etc.
All the selling points for Java. But most big Java projects I saw were nightmares anyway.
Those companies should be thankful they aren't rewriting giant mountains of garbage C++ code written by twenty something year old hipsters or older researcher type people.
It relied on the assumption that most people are rational, which in fact they were not.
Democracy is far better than being ruled by a cadre of irrational tyrants.
It's a high-grade gaming experience and it's free to play
So giving away games for free hurts the competition. Who knew?
Nor will it be important tomorrow or the day after. Deal with it.
This is precisely why patents are granted. Duh.
"world's second largest internet market" = lots of people
"generating very little revenue" = no money
The implication is that traditional grocery stores have some kind of altruistic drive to sell fresh produce at no profit. They subsidize it with higher prices on canned goods. But these evil dollar stores don't sell the unprofitable stuff so the grocery stores can't fulfill their mission.
The problem with capitalism is that any changes you make to it are government regulation and no longer pure capitalism.
That is definitely *not* a problem with the capitalistic system we have in the US. Nor does anyone (other than a tiny lunatic fringe) support the idea of "pure capitalism". Our existing system is not "holding Americans back", the economy is doing great - employment is at an all time high.