Exactly. The NLRA was even enacted after the arbitration act. No jurist for almost a century thought it was possible to dislodge the NRLA by amending employment contracts, and for good reason:)
A bank going broke is a bad thing because it hurts people who are unrelated to the bank's behavior. For example, a plumber could lose his pension; a butcher could lose access to his current account; a big payment to a hospital could be lost.
An economy runs better it has a trustworthy financial system. We should share the cost of bank failures so we all sleep better.
Obviously, that means the price of the expansion is also $60.:)
I think that's on the high side, especially giving economic conditions. It's also a bit sad that they require you to buy the earlier expansions as well. That's a very high barrier for new players.
First, when you buy the new expansion, you get a level boost to 90 for free. You only need to buy it separately if you want multiple characters at 90.
Secondly, being good with your class is now only required for Flex level raids and higher. You can see all of the game without knowing how to play your character. Blizzard has at times re-introduced minor difficulty in 5-mans (heroic 5-mans at the start of Cataclysm, Icecrown 5-mans) but while some people liked that, most of the players didn't.
Thirdly, you say you'd be "mad to pay" $60. I could easily see myself having $60 worth of fun trying out another character class. What other things can you buy for $60? You can easily spend more just eating out in a good restaurant, and that'll give you only two hours of fun.
Google has had a huge positive influence on people's lives the last decade. Search, Android, Maps... wow. They took a lot of real risk and made the right choices.
Banks are basically part of government. I'm not quite sure what JP Morgan does, but I don't think they made many people's lives better. They also don't take any real risk (they're government backed, after all) and... they did not make quite the right choices.
The numbers are too large, but I do not doubt that Google's number should be larger.
Totally agree. I've maintained a couple of C++ codebases in my time. It would take weeks to expand my C++ knowledge to where I could understand the favorite language patterns of the old maintainer.
Running old C++ code through Valgrind is hilarious. It's hard to believe how many things even experienced C++ coders get wrong.
It's not stealing; that would be taking someone else's software away.
It's more like sharing what you do not have a right to share. So if you put up a song, you get to pay for it a hundredfold. Seems pretty punitive to me.
Telco's are basically searching for a way to get a share of Google's profits. The plan was to introduce new subscriptions that would allow them to block Google. Unless Google agreed to pay them per search.
This wouldn't work if there was real competition. But there are just 3 telco's and they're all hurt by decreasing income form voice and sms.
This law will encourage telecoms to compete on bandwidth and network quality instead of financial trickery and monopoly abuse. Should be a good thing for consumers.
I think they were afraid if the company and I contacted each other (i.e. I interviewed) without an agreement in place for the recruiter, the company would somehow be able to duck their fee.
Fees are usually between one and three month salaries, which is real money. In addition, they can negotiate a lower salary without a recruiter present.
Recruiters are just doing their job. Don't call someone "self-serving" just because his interests are not aligned with yours.
The money I make a year on songwriting could maybe buy a nice dinner. Without someone looking out for my interests, I'd make nothing.
I've heard that maybe 1% of the price people pay for songs ends up going to the artists.
The idea of a programmer getting better in transitions is a fantasy. Programmers start out good or bad, and on average don't improve much. They move up the ladder by getting more knowledgeable about the organization; coding less, and talking more.
You sound like you moved past the coding long ago.
[quote]But the reality is that anyone who thinks they are a DTP isn't one, and they'll cut too many corners, and produce something that is the equivalent of a go-cart that makes it through one race and then falls to bits, because duct tape just isn't that durable, and people who rely on it in production environments are dangerous idiots.[/quote]
Netscape transformed the face of IT; maybe even of humanity.
And guess what, they're right. If you show UI early on, people get a better mental image of where you are going. You can then respond to feedback early in the development cycle, which is priceless.
The strategy you ironically list as "unrewarding" results in an excellent code base that doesn't solve anyone's problem.
It boils down to quality. The TNG episodes have more of that than DS9 and Voyager. Why? Well, just watch them! A TNG episode will keep you clustered to the screen, while DS9/Voyager makes you zap to see the eight o'clock news.
In the Appeals Court, Microsoft attorneys are honey-tongued and very kind to the judges. In the District Court, they offended the judge, lied, and used every legal obstacle to extend the trial.
Microsoft's strategy is to get the district court to issue an unreasonable ruling, and then get the appeals court to overturn it. (And, perhaps, for an unprecendented second time assign the case to another judge!)
Let's hope they don't succeed.
Nobody should be able to overturn a case by managing to make the trial judge loose his temper!
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Exactly. The NLRA was even enacted after the arbitration act. No jurist for almost a century thought it was possible to dislodge the NRLA by amending employment contracts, and for good reason :)
In the market, useful websites beat secure websites.
So by natural selection, developers that ignore security multiply, while those that focus on security die out.
Agreed, Oracle engineers are typically well off. Or even people who work for a 3rd party Oracle consultancy.
If you contrast the lifestyle of an Oracle engineer with an open source engineer... well, let's just say only one can afford a car.
A bank going broke is a bad thing because it hurts people who are unrelated to the bank's behavior. For example, a plumber could lose his pension; a butcher could lose access to his current account; a big payment to a hospital could be lost.
An economy runs better it has a trustworthy financial system. We should share the cost of bank failures so we all sleep better.
Obviously, that means the price of the expansion is also $60. :)
I think that's on the high side, especially giving economic conditions. It's also a bit sad that they require you to buy the earlier expansions as well. That's a very high barrier for new players.
First, when you buy the new expansion, you get a level boost to 90 for free. You only need to buy it separately if you want multiple characters at 90.
Secondly, being good with your class is now only required for Flex level raids and higher. You can see all of the game without knowing how to play your character. Blizzard has at times re-introduced minor difficulty in 5-mans (heroic 5-mans at the start of Cataclysm, Icecrown 5-mans) but while some people liked that, most of the players didn't.
Thirdly, you say you'd be "mad to pay" $60. I could easily see myself having $60 worth of fun trying out another character class. What other things can you buy for $60? You can easily spend more just eating out in a good restaurant, and that'll give you only two hours of fun.
Google has had a huge positive influence on people's lives the last decade. Search, Android, Maps... wow. They took a lot of real risk and made the right choices.
Banks are basically part of government. I'm not quite sure what JP Morgan does, but I don't think they made many people's lives better. They also don't take any real risk (they're government backed, after all) and ... they did not make quite the right choices.
The numbers are too large, but I do not doubt that Google's number should be larger.
It's impossible to use templated code (even "well tested" code like the STL) without having to debug template issues yourself.
Even std::list is so unbelievably tricky to use that writing your own C list would give you better quality.
For a reasoned distaste of C++, see:
http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/defective.html
A proper distaste of C++ is best acquired by taking over a legacy C++ project.
Reading Linux Torvalds on C++ might be instructive:
http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus
Totally agree. I've maintained a couple of C++ codebases in my time. It would take weeks to expand my C++ knowledge to where I could understand the favorite language patterns of the old maintainer.
Running old C++ code through Valgrind is hilarious. It's hard to believe how many things even experienced C++ coders get wrong.
The LWN article linked to is about "Copyright assignment" (http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/529522/854aed3fb6398b79/)
The author seems to complain that he cannot retain copyright over his work.
Does that mean he doesn't want to code for free anymore?
Big companies tend to negotiate long payment periods. We're I work we don't pay anyone within 6 months. We also make it a point to dispute invoices.
Our suppliers have professional salesmen that make a living trying to rip us off.
That's the environment. Play the game- charge more for your next contract, keep trying to collect your invoice, and above all,stay on friendly terms.
It's not stealing; that would be taking someone else's software away.
It's more like sharing what you do not have a right to share. So if you put up a song, you get to pay for it a hundredfold. Seems pretty punitive to me.
Telco's are basically searching for a way to get a share of Google's profits. The plan was to introduce new subscriptions that would allow them to block Google. Unless Google agreed to pay them per search.
This wouldn't work if there was real competition. But there are just 3 telco's and they're all hurt by decreasing income form voice and sms.
This law will encourage telecoms to compete on bandwidth and network quality instead of financial trickery and monopoly abuse. Should be a good thing for consumers.
I think they were afraid if the company and I contacted each other (i.e. I interviewed) without an agreement in place for the recruiter, the company would somehow be able to duck their fee. Fees are usually between one and three month salaries, which is real money. In addition, they can negotiate a lower salary without a recruiter present. Recruiters are just doing their job. Don't call someone "self-serving" just because his interests are not aligned with yours.
The money I make a year on songwriting could maybe buy a nice dinner. Without someone looking out for my interests, I'd make nothing. I've heard that maybe 1% of the price people pay for songs ends up going to the artists.
The idea of a programmer getting better in transitions is a fantasy. Programmers start out good or bad, and on average don't improve much. They move up the ladder by getting more knowledgeable about the organization; coding less, and talking more.
You sound like you moved past the coding long ago.
[quote]But the reality is that anyone who thinks they are a DTP isn't one, and they'll cut too many corners, and produce something that is the equivalent of a go-cart that makes it through one race and then falls to bits, because duct tape just isn't that durable, and people who rely on it in production environments are dangerous idiots.[/quote]
Netscape transformed the face of IT; maybe even of humanity.
What kind of impact do your programs have?
No, I don't forgive them for writing obfuscated spaghetti code and leaving it for me to maintain.
"Spaghetti code" is just a term used by programmers to describe someone else's work.
And guess what, they're right. If you show UI early on, people get a better mental image of where you are going. You can then respond to feedback early in the development cycle, which is priceless.
The strategy you ironically list as "unrewarding" results in an excellent code base that doesn't solve anyone's problem.
What be happening mon?
You concept of evolution is slow compared to our daily respec.
It would suck to reload the front page without seeing any good articles. And then find you're charged for them...
Why not charge for articles that you read the comments for (i.e., that you find interesting.)
It boils down to quality. The TNG episodes have more of that than DS9 and Voyager. Why? Well, just watch them! A TNG episode will keep you clustered to the screen, while DS9/Voyager makes you zap to see the eight o'clock news.
In the Appeals Court, Microsoft attorneys are honey-tongued and very kind to the judges. In the District Court, they offended the judge, lied, and used every legal obstacle to extend the trial. Microsoft's strategy is to get the district court to issue an unreasonable ruling, and then get the appeals court to overturn it. (And, perhaps, for an unprecendented second time assign the case to another judge!) Let's hope they don't succeed. Nobody should be able to overturn a case by managing to make the trial judge loose his temper!