I work in the Bay area and we used to have an avid hunter who worked at our company. He brought in all types of meat to company parties from wild pig sausage to venison jerky. I never noticed any negative behavior towards him because of that, and a decent amount of the employees are vegetarian.
Your own experience, while possibly true (though I have my doubts) is not everyone's experience.
I can't imagine it would be that difficult to write your own filter to customize your slashdot experience. So either do that and stop whining or propose a solution. "X SUCKS" isn't a solution.
We don't have the technology for any type of hibernation space travel now, which is why I think its so important to follow these types of research. Even if it takes 100000 years to travel to a new planet, that's pittance compared to what it took for current level sentient life to develop on Earth.
Finding a "twin" earth, no matter the distance (assuming if we can see it, we can get to it at some point in the future) is possible _the_ most important thing for the continuation of the human race.
As for being harder than "we" thought, to me at least (IANAA) it seems pretty damn hard to me. Even if we find a planet that could have human life, would it have life on it? Would that life be toxic to us? etc...
If they did cut and paste right for 1.0/2.0 then something else would have been dropped. You can't simply add more people to software development and expect a linear (or even positive) gain.
Everyone knows that Robocop was vastly superior to ED-209 because of his human brain, its plain fact. If they are going to install these things at red lights they need to have human brains in them.
Yep. Where I live now I could fairly easily get around without a car, but when I lived in the midwest a car was required between the longer commutes, weather, and lack of public transportation.
I'm not sure why that matters though, is it simply because it produces a bigger number?
Conversely I could say that you take home far less than you are payed do to taxes. So you may say "I'm paying you $100,000", I would say "I'm making $50000".
kind-12th isn't just about book education, it is also about social education. Some people are quick at books and slow at social, some are the opposite.
Also univeristy is (or should be) much more than simply going to class. There are tons of opportunities from working with professors, to using lab resources, to part time jobs. Most people don't see these opportunities though, and to be honest I question why they are going.
Especially for software, you can learn 80% of the stuff on your own in a reasonable amount of time, it is the resources (both physical and human) that in my view is the real reason I payed.
This is why I pretty much beg friends/acquaintances who are in college to do independent work and to get internships early. Yes you may be fetching coffee as a freshman intern, but that's way better than fetching it as a senior and having nothing to put on your resume.
Yep, just like the developer may be encouraged to write quick code over manageable code, his superiors may be encouraged to promote this type of environment all the way up to the top.
I think this is in fact part of the reason for obfuscation/lack of documentation. I never experienced it but I heard a lot of stories of developers training their outsourced (out of the country) replacements. They thought they were just training, but were fired immediately afterward. I don't know if this still happens but I do know those stories have stuck with me.
While I'm sure there were documentation problems before this type of thing happened it sure doesn't make me feel good about training others how to do my job.
Coding and documentation are two different beasts.
For me (others) pulling the all-nighter coding session is not something I could do with documentation. They are two different beasts entirely. One is fun, the other is work.
No it isn't always managements fault, but it is part of managements job to foster and environment where documenting is encouraged and does not become a horrible horrible chore.
Also not everyone is like you, there are plenty of people who find coding orders of magnitude easier than documentation. A lot of it may simply be overcome with practice, but its not something you can switch on.
While that is true, it greatley decreases the usefulness of the internet. While I don't know if there is a way to avoid it, continuous demanding (and subsequent acquiescing to the demand) of data is harmful to society.
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Also they include both Silicon Valley and San Francisco. Personally I don't think whoever wrote the list has been to any of these places.
New Mexico is ok, but there isn't a whole lot to do there besides drink.
I work in the Bay area and we used to have an avid hunter who worked at our company. He brought in all types of meat to company parties from wild pig sausage to venison jerky. I never noticed any negative behavior towards him because of that, and a decent amount of the employees are vegetarian.
Your own experience, while possibly true (though I have my doubts) is not everyone's experience.
I can't imagine it would be that difficult to write your own filter to customize your slashdot experience. So either do that and stop whining or propose a solution. "X SUCKS" isn't a solution.
We don't have the technology for any type of hibernation space travel now, which is why I think its so important to follow these types of research. Even if it takes 100000 years to travel to a new planet, that's pittance compared to what it took for current level sentient life to develop on Earth.
Finding a "twin" earth, no matter the distance (assuming if we can see it, we can get to it at some point in the future) is possible _the_ most important thing for the continuation of the human race.
As for being harder than "we" thought, to me at least (IANAA) it seems pretty damn hard to me. Even if we find a planet that could have human life, would it have life on it? Would that life be toxic to us? etc...
It is clearly ADAM at work.
If they did cut and paste right for 1.0/2.0 then something else would have been dropped. You can't simply add more people to software development and expect a linear (or even positive) gain.
Everyone knows that Robocop was vastly superior to ED-209 because of his human brain, its plain fact. If they are going to install these things at red lights they need to have human brains in them.
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Yep. Where I live now I could fairly easily get around without a car, but when I lived in the midwest a car was required between the longer commutes, weather, and lack of public transportation.
If it isn't safe to cross the street then something needs to be done. But I'm sorry, I don't appreciate robots enforcing law.
Ah I see your point. It would be nice if universities had entrepreneurial business classes as part of CS/Eng programs.
I'm not sure why that matters though, is it simply because it produces a bigger number?
Conversely I could say that you take home far less than you are payed do to taxes. So you may say "I'm paying you $100,000", I would say "I'm making $50000".
kind-12th isn't just about book education, it is also about social education. Some people are quick at books and slow at social, some are the opposite.
Also univeristy is (or should be) much more than simply going to class. There are tons of opportunities from working with professors, to using lab resources, to part time jobs. Most people don't see these opportunities though, and to be honest I question why they are going.
Especially for software, you can learn 80% of the stuff on your own in a reasonable amount of time, it is the resources (both physical and human) that in my view is the real reason I payed.
This is why I pretty much beg friends/acquaintances who are in college to do independent work and to get internships early. Yes you may be fetching coffee as a freshman intern, but that's way better than fetching it as a senior and having nothing to put on your resume.
Yep, just like the developer may be encouraged to write quick code over manageable code, his superiors may be encouraged to promote this type of environment all the way up to the top.
In this economy I think most people would say "I like _having_ my current job".
Non-compete clauses are illegal in california at least (even out of state ones), probably other areas as well.
I think this is in fact part of the reason for obfuscation/lack of documentation. I never experienced it but I heard a lot of stories of developers training their outsourced (out of the country) replacements. They thought they were just training, but were fired immediately afterward. I don't know if this still happens but I do know those stories have stuck with me.
While I'm sure there were documentation problems before this type of thing happened it sure doesn't make me feel good about training others how to do my job.
Coding and documentation are two different beasts.
For me (others) pulling the all-nighter coding session is not something I could do with documentation. They are two different beasts entirely. One is fun, the other is work.
No it isn't always managements fault, but it is part of managements job to foster and environment where documenting is encouraged and does not become a horrible horrible chore.
Also not everyone is like you, there are plenty of people who find coding orders of magnitude easier than documentation. A lot of it may simply be overcome with practice, but its not something you can switch on.
While that is true, it greatley decreases the usefulness of the internet. While I don't know if there is a way to avoid it, continuous demanding (and subsequent acquiescing to the demand) of data is harmful to society.
By "friends", do you mean people I've raided with on WoW?
He should have had a Digg facade where his persona was an angry troller to counteract any "happy" that was on facebook.
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