there's also some pretty decent night life around Clarkson and 40. South Lindbergh is also good for night life just as it always has been... Helen Fitzgerald's is always good for a laugh.
Must be an age-difference thing. Olive/Clarkson and 40 to me means some meh restaurants, but I don't think of restaurants that close by 9:00 or Harpo's Chesterfield to be night life. Helen Fitzgerald's is just crap. Night life outside the City is limited to Maplewood and the Loop as far as I'm concerned.
The sweet spot is the XHTML syntax of HTML5; it gets you the advantages of using all your existing XML tooling and strict conformance checking with modern HTML5 web app support.
With his basic contempt for his fellow Americans and blatant disregard for the Constitution, it is incredible that Maricopa County keeps re-electing Joe Arpaio. It's unsurprising he would try to intercept the mail of his critics.
Who says making fracked oil in the U.S. unprofitable is a negative consequence? Fracking has had a negative impact on the environment, and I'd just rather say good riddance.
You're obviously not a Java developer. We're a Java shop where I work, and we make heavy use of Apache: Apache Commons (org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils.isNotBlank, anyone?), Struts, XMLBeans, Axis2, and of course ant for our build scripts.
So you're wondering what hot young thing you want to get to know this summer? Is she going to be JSON, MongoDB, WebGL, or maybe Node.js? The reality is The Business doesn't care. The Business only cares about one thing and one thing only: that you're driving value-add moving forward. Getting to know Clojure is only so much developer indulgence; The Business doesn't care, and they only see that it will make you more valuable to some other employer instead of them. You are better served learning all the intricacies of the ancient information system that's mission critical. Learn all the contradictory layers and business rules that have accumulated over the years. Learn what keeps it happy. You should be a SME, a go-to guy The Business can call on when it has questions. Then learn about Gantt charts and a bit of project management. The all-coveted tower of Lead is found on a path through these. You will code less and sit in meetings and on bridges more. You may even add a process of your own to the bureaucratic machine.
Look to your elders. How did they become Leads and architects? It wasn't by learning new technologies, APIs, and languages; it was by understanding The Business, respecting the chain of command, following process, and paying their dues. Just play your role as a well-greased cog in the corporate machine and grind on and on.
IANAL: Nintendo holds the copyright on its video games, obviously. A walkthrough may fall under the category of "derivative work." When a user uploads a video to YouTube, presumably they agree to YouTube's terms and conditions: a license to use the uploaded work. YouTube in turn has agreements of its own with other copyright holders like Nintendo. Presumably Nintendo could try to make the case that the walkthrough violates their copyright and/or trade dress protections. Instead, they "settle" with the walkthrough creator by taking their ad money.:)
Maybe the content uploaders can be given the option to have the video taken down instead of the ad revenue going elsewhere.
So let me get this straight: You want the business to spend millions of dollars so the secretary can jerk around on Tweeter and Face-In-a-Book? Sure, for a "hip" startup of a few twentysomethings who sit around and play with Nerf darts all day and grow out their beards, upgrading to The New Shiny isn't a big deal, but real businesses get work done. We don't care if you're some alpha geek badass who knows all the latest functional programming fooey and open-source Lunix whatever; we want you to obey: do what we say, do it efficiently, and do it cheaply. We just want what worked yesterday to work tomorrow and keep raking in the dough.
We still use Windows XP Professional and Microsoft Office 2003 where I work. I think some machines have been upgraded to Windows 7 and a newer version of Office, but at least we developers are still on XP.
Yes, your employer cares about your productivity and the value you bring to the bottom line, but they also care about exerting control. In the Middle Ages, the lord of the manor had a vested interest in exerting control over his serfs. Much of corporate policy is based on no more than this: everything from dress codes to dictating the tools you can use for the job. The executive class is fed conceits like they are the almighty job creators, and freedom is their right to grind the worker's nose into the grindstone, grind it bloody and raw. Why do you think they dictate everything from whether you can grow facial hair to having to wear a tie to sit in a cubicle interacting with almost no one?
I work in an office with that extreme quiet, too, and it's definitely a morale killer. Put on a tie, do the commute, and then sit for nine hours as everyone eats lunch at their desk, and then drive back home to take the tie off. I just assume the managers must be brain dead.
Everyone's different. For me, too much quiet and inactivity around me actually wrecks my concentration. I like a certain level of activity, interaction, and dynamism to keep me feeling engaged. Unfortunately, I work in an office where it's almost always very quiet, and people diligently sit in their cubicles. The end result is that my brain is mush by the afternoon; in comparison to that, working from home is more productivity because at least I can be more relaxed, move around, etc. We do have our team scattered across a few offices to begin with, so almost everything requires screen sharing and conference calls anyway.
To be perfectly blunt, I've been sick of being the youngest person on my team for the past six years. Not that I want to be surrounded by H1Bs either, but having a few coworkers who are at the same stage in life as you isn't a bad thing. A young single is going to want coworkers to get a beer with after work and maybe chat up some ladies, not a bunch of old timers who are raising families or coasting into retirement.
I'll take a shot at this one. First let's look at a couple of etymologies. For 'corporation', think of 'corpse' or 'body', which is the Latin meaning; for 'capital', think 'head', again from the Latin. Think of then a business in capitalism, or a corporation, as an organic body composed of individuals. Capital is the head, the brains that think, plan, and create. The rest of the body is labor: the arms, legs, and strong trunk that build at the behest of the head that commands.
What happens when the body is flush with arrogance and decides to form unions and starts getting radical ideas: that it does not need its own head, for example? Communism is the body's notion that it can chop off its head and then organize itself into a headless "collective" that can think by combining the cells of its arms and strong torso, yet muscle cells and are not brain cells, so tyranny is inevitable.
I think the difference is that it really doesn't matter if most people don't care. The average person may in principle agree, for example, that child labor in overseas countries is wrong, but a small, idealistic minority actually care enough to raise a stink about their principles. Likewise, the openness of at least some of the software we've come to depend on for much of our lives has come to be seen as an inherent good for a certain idealistic subset. Some people see value in a completely free, open mobile computing platform, and obviously there are plenty of non-free choices as well. The average American doesn't really take full advantage of the freedoms they're afforded by their Constitution, but they indirectly benefit from the minority who do care enough to stand against popular consensus.
Russian and German are actually both inflected languages as is Latin although the Romance languages lost much of their inflection over time. Old English too was inflected, but like the Romance languages, English also lost most of its inflections over time.
English and Mandarin are actually both analytic languages, which means they rely more on the order of words in a sentence than on inflections to determine whether a word is, for example, the subject of a verb or its direct object.
Where I work, we're a Microsoft Windows XP Professional (32-bit) and Office 2003 shop; about a year or two ago, we moved from IE 6 to IE 7 and more recently IE 8. Fortunately, we also have Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome as options since we are devs. When it comes to an upgrade, there's always the question of what's the value to the Business? The newer machines fortunately have more than 2 GB RAM, but I hear there are plans to upgrade to 32-bit Windows 7 eventually, which is quite frustrating since I already run out of heap space.
It isn't novelty per se but external/sensory stimulation, which novelty can be a form of. In Eysenck's theory, everyone has an optimal level of arousal; they feel overwhelmed and anxious if it is passed and bored if it isn't met. Extraverts' brains seem to be optimized to take in, process, and respond to information coming in from the environment while introverts' brains are optimized for a slower response with more time spent on "deep processing" in the prefrontal cortex. This biological difference is thought to underpin the higher-order differences seen between extraverts and introverts: sociability, activity level/pace, assertiveness, and positive affect.
Besides novelty (i.e., perception of change in the environment), other forms of stimulation can be sheer intensity (think extreme sports and rock concerts), competition, and viscerally rewarding experiences like food and sex. Ironically, many of the sociable, outgoing extraverts seem to be quite happy with the status quo and relatively incurious; but then again, openness to experience is a separate dimension of personality in many models, and it is that dimension that captures people's tendencies to engage in intellectual pursuits, experience different cultures or more of their own culture, and try new things or question their beliefs.
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there's also some pretty decent night life around Clarkson and 40. South Lindbergh is also good for night life just as it always has been... Helen Fitzgerald's is always good for a laugh.
Must be an age-difference thing. Olive/Clarkson and 40 to me means some meh restaurants, but I don't think of restaurants that close by 9:00 or Harpo's Chesterfield to be night life. Helen Fitzgerald's is just crap. Night life outside the City is limited to Maplewood and the Loop as far as I'm concerned.
Maybe so, but Java's generics are still far better than having Java without generics.
Generics a bad thing, really? As a developer who was stuck using 1.4.2 when Java SE 6 was already available, I longed for generics.
Arpaio has done many more and frankly worse things than intercept a few people's mail. He's brought his department numerous lawsuits.
The sweet spot is the XHTML syntax of HTML5; it gets you the advantages of using all your existing XML tooling and strict conformance checking with modern HTML5 web app support.
With his basic contempt for his fellow Americans and blatant disregard for the Constitution, it is incredible that Maricopa County keeps re-electing Joe Arpaio. It's unsurprising he would try to intercept the mail of his critics.
Who says making fracked oil in the U.S. unprofitable is a negative consequence? Fracking has had a negative impact on the environment, and I'd just rather say good riddance.
You're obviously not a Java developer. We're a Java shop where I work, and we make heavy use of Apache: Apache Commons (org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils.isNotBlank, anyone?), Struts, XMLBeans, Axis2, and of course ant for our build scripts.
In Java land, we've been waiting for lambda functions for a long time.
Has Microsoft made any strides in developer friendliness since Microsoft Programmers' Workbench, released c. 1993?
So you're wondering what hot young thing you want to get to know this summer? Is she going to be JSON, MongoDB, WebGL, or maybe Node.js? The reality is The Business doesn't care. The Business only cares about one thing and one thing only: that you're driving value-add moving forward. Getting to know Clojure is only so much developer indulgence; The Business doesn't care, and they only see that it will make you more valuable to some other employer instead of them. You are better served learning all the intricacies of the ancient information system that's mission critical. Learn all the contradictory layers and business rules that have accumulated over the years. Learn what keeps it happy. You should be a SME, a go-to guy The Business can call on when it has questions. Then learn about Gantt charts and a bit of project management. The all-coveted tower of Lead is found on a path through these. You will code less and sit in meetings and on bridges more. You may even add a process of your own to the bureaucratic machine.
Look to your elders. How did they become Leads and architects? It wasn't by learning new technologies, APIs, and languages; it was by understanding The Business, respecting the chain of command, following process, and paying their dues. Just play your role as a well-greased cog in the corporate machine and grind on and on.
IANAL: Nintendo holds the copyright on its video games, obviously. A walkthrough may fall under the category of "derivative work." When a user uploads a video to YouTube, presumably they agree to YouTube's terms and conditions: a license to use the uploaded work. YouTube in turn has agreements of its own with other copyright holders like Nintendo. Presumably Nintendo could try to make the case that the walkthrough violates their copyright and/or trade dress protections. Instead, they "settle" with the walkthrough creator by taking their ad money. :)
Maybe the content uploaders can be given the option to have the video taken down instead of the ad revenue going elsewhere.
So let me get this straight: You want the business to spend millions of dollars so the secretary can jerk around on Tweeter and Face-In-a-Book? Sure, for a "hip" startup of a few twentysomethings who sit around and play with Nerf darts all day and grow out their beards, upgrading to The New Shiny isn't a big deal, but real businesses get work done. We don't care if you're some alpha geek badass who knows all the latest functional programming fooey and open-source Lunix whatever; we want you to obey: do what we say, do it efficiently, and do it cheaply. We just want what worked yesterday to work tomorrow and keep raking in the dough.
We still use Windows XP Professional and Microsoft Office 2003 where I work. I think some machines have been upgraded to Windows 7 and a newer version of Office, but at least we developers are still on XP.
Hate to say it, but the House Republicans take the majority of the blame for this one. Some on the Right see crippling the government as a good thing.
Yes, your employer cares about your productivity and the value you bring to the bottom line, but they also care about exerting control. In the Middle Ages, the lord of the manor had a vested interest in exerting control over his serfs. Much of corporate policy is based on no more than this: everything from dress codes to dictating the tools you can use for the job. The executive class is fed conceits like they are the almighty job creators, and freedom is their right to grind the worker's nose into the grindstone, grind it bloody and raw. Why do you think they dictate everything from whether you can grow facial hair to having to wear a tie to sit in a cubicle interacting with almost no one?
I work in an office with that extreme quiet, too, and it's definitely a morale killer. Put on a tie, do the commute, and then sit for nine hours as everyone eats lunch at their desk, and then drive back home to take the tie off. I just assume the managers must be brain dead.
Everyone's different. For me, too much quiet and inactivity around me actually wrecks my concentration. I like a certain level of activity, interaction, and dynamism to keep me feeling engaged. Unfortunately, I work in an office where it's almost always very quiet, and people diligently sit in their cubicles. The end result is that my brain is mush by the afternoon; in comparison to that, working from home is more productivity because at least I can be more relaxed, move around, etc. We do have our team scattered across a few offices to begin with, so almost everything requires screen sharing and conference calls anyway.
To be perfectly blunt, I've been sick of being the youngest person on my team for the past six years. Not that I want to be surrounded by H1Bs either, but having a few coworkers who are at the same stage in life as you isn't a bad thing. A young single is going to want coworkers to get a beer with after work and maybe chat up some ladies, not a bunch of old timers who are raising families or coasting into retirement.
I'll take a shot at this one. First let's look at a couple of etymologies. For 'corporation', think of 'corpse' or 'body', which is the Latin meaning; for 'capital', think 'head', again from the Latin. Think of then a business in capitalism, or a corporation, as an organic body composed of individuals. Capital is the head, the brains that think, plan, and create. The rest of the body is labor: the arms, legs, and strong trunk that build at the behest of the head that commands.
What happens when the body is flush with arrogance and decides to form unions and starts getting radical ideas: that it does not need its own head, for example? Communism is the body's notion that it can chop off its head and then organize itself into a headless "collective" that can think by combining the cells of its arms and strong torso, yet muscle cells and are not brain cells, so tyranny is inevitable.
I think the difference is that it really doesn't matter if most people don't care. The average person may in principle agree, for example, that child labor in overseas countries is wrong, but a small, idealistic minority actually care enough to raise a stink about their principles. Likewise, the openness of at least some of the software we've come to depend on for much of our lives has come to be seen as an inherent good for a certain idealistic subset. Some people see value in a completely free, open mobile computing platform, and obviously there are plenty of non-free choices as well. The average American doesn't really take full advantage of the freedoms they're afforded by their Constitution, but they indirectly benefit from the minority who do care enough to stand against popular consensus.
Russian and German are actually both inflected languages as is Latin although the Romance languages lost much of their inflection over time. Old English too was inflected, but like the Romance languages, English also lost most of its inflections over time. English and Mandarin are actually both analytic languages, which means they rely more on the order of words in a sentence than on inflections to determine whether a word is, for example, the subject of a verb or its direct object.
Alternatively, we can just arm kindergarteners with pistols. Semi-automatics would probably be overkill for that age bracket, though.
Where I work, we're a Microsoft Windows XP Professional (32-bit) and Office 2003 shop; about a year or two ago, we moved from IE 6 to IE 7 and more recently IE 8. Fortunately, we also have Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome as options since we are devs. When it comes to an upgrade, there's always the question of what's the value to the Business? The newer machines fortunately have more than 2 GB RAM, but I hear there are plans to upgrade to 32-bit Windows 7 eventually, which is quite frustrating since I already run out of heap space.
It isn't novelty per se but external/sensory stimulation, which novelty can be a form of. In Eysenck's theory, everyone has an optimal level of arousal; they feel overwhelmed and anxious if it is passed and bored if it isn't met. Extraverts' brains seem to be optimized to take in, process, and respond to information coming in from the environment while introverts' brains are optimized for a slower response with more time spent on "deep processing" in the prefrontal cortex. This biological difference is thought to underpin the higher-order differences seen between extraverts and introverts: sociability, activity level/pace, assertiveness, and positive affect.
Besides novelty (i.e., perception of change in the environment), other forms of stimulation can be sheer intensity (think extreme sports and rock concerts), competition, and viscerally rewarding experiences like food and sex. Ironically, many of the sociable, outgoing extraverts seem to be quite happy with the status quo and relatively incurious; but then again, openness to experience is a separate dimension of personality in many models, and it is that dimension that captures people's tendencies to engage in intellectual pursuits, experience different cultures or more of their own culture, and try new things or question their beliefs.