True, by our standards the math portion of their test would be simple by the standards of anyone applying to Harvard (and seriously expecting to get in), where top tier students are learning advanced calculus in high school. It's interesting that although history and geography haven't changed much, our focus is very different, being far less focused on ancient history and far more focused on the past few hundred years (including, in the US, events occurring shortly before 1869!).
I suspect candidates back then would be stumped with our math/science tests, even if we played fair on the latter by only testing on scientific development that occurred before 1869. It's interesting how focus has changed.
"Superior" is a word that could get you in trouble, but there is scientific value in discussing some politically incorrect topics: - What are the various differences between races, speculations on why they exist and how they came about - what are the differences between men and women, beyond the obvious ones, we most certainly are NOT equal - What happens in homosexual people that makes them find same sex partners?
The differences between biggotry and scientific investigation is simply in what you do with the data. Discussing the subject should NOT brand you as a racist. Even using the word "superior" is not necessarily incorrect, some key differences are about trading superiority in one domain for another.
Debating evolution is fair game, science advances as a result of argument and experimentation. Religion is what has suffered over the years as a result of too many people asking too many good questions.
So to tax junk food, we need to set up a committee to determine what is junk food and appropriate labelling to identify "junk food" versus "food". This in turn will drive the food industry in some particularly weird contortion to ensure their products aren't necessarily labelled junk food. And a new government agency we can't get rid of.
The net result will be food that tastes like shit, that punishes both the slim and the fat equally, that will be avoided. Then, like we already have in NYC (at least a few years ago when I was there), there will be bootleggers bringing in "the good stuff" and selling it out of their cars cheap to avoid the added tax.
No, and given that Arizona is already of the excessively tea-party bent, most likely their underfunded program is the result of them not collecting money for it. Charging fat people and smokers is just another way of setting up the strawman for everyone to hate on, similar to blaming all tax problems on drug addled welfare moms popping out kids for government money. Sure, it does happen, but it's not the whole story or even an accurate one.
In any event this doesn't affect me, I can continue being a fat ass on a corporate funded health insurance program (which incidentally, already does charge extra for smokers and discounts followers of a completely bogus "wellness" program whose primary goal is to get my private health information from me and into corporate hands).
Let's play devil's advocate. He makes $174k/yr, in 2010 he would have paid 28% in federal income tax, $6198.02 +.0675 * 25280 in his state. His net income was roughly $117k/yr (I did not do a real tax return, I know he probably gets a bit more than this). The "average wisconsin" which I'll take as 55k since I can't find that number easily, paid 15% in federal plus 1443.27 + 1293.5, so a net of $44k/yr. So assuming I haven't screwed up my math or implementation of tax rules, and willfully neglecting various tax deferred investments and deductions anyone may make, he makes 3.1x gross income, and nets 2.67x income.
So actually I really don't have a lot of sympathy for his plight yet. Now, for some reason he has 6 children, responsible adults know that there are a number of ways not to end up with that many children. I won't detail them all here, but suffice it to say there are ways of avoiding them that are compatible with every religion. Regardless, he has them, the average family has 2 children (can't find the exact census number what I can find says 1.8, I don't trust that, I believe it is less than the famous 2.5 number of days past). If you assume that each head in the house is truly 1:1, then he has 3x the costs, but 2.67x the income. Now any of us who has kids or who has a stay at home spouse and has investigated their budget, knows that there are economies of living under one roof and sharing resources, each extra head isn't 1:1, but over 5 heads or so doesn't scale as well if you have to buy a larger house. I am willing to give him one extra head at 60% extra cost, based around my own budget, and I think this is generous, so he needs 1.8x to be in the same condition as the average wisconsin. He's still doing substantially better.
So I think it is fair to say his complaints are due to poor money management and financial planning on his part, and I acknowledge the real news is the GOP trying to cover this up which is so mind bogglingly stupid they should all quit their party immediately.
And that in '99 he was 41, and it was handwritten. Probably not a computer guy, and probably a symbol system that's relatively easy for him to remember and apply reasonably quickly.
I taught myself pascal, C and assembly when I was about 12 too, over the course of a few months perhaps. And no, my code looks way better now than it did back then. But there's a difference between acquiring what is known and using it. He's acquired a lot of knowledge at his young age that almost no one else would have. He's trying to apply it, I'm sure it will go poorly at first, but certainly his efforts will improve significantly as long as he keeps going at it.
There are lots of questions we can ask if we want to sneer at the kid, including would he learn all this quicker with a more mature mind at 18, while getting to enjoy his childhood some while he's 12? Will his ability to ability to apply this information be benefited from learning it at such a young age, or perhaps he's doing more memory and less problem solving and he may get stuck? Will his efforts to teach himself deepen his understanding of these subjects, or does he risk isolating himself and being unable to relate to the community of people who use math? No one can answer these questions, as a useless anecdote I knew someone like this at age 12 who was learning calculus while I was in algebra, and he's doing ok. You won't know his name if I posted it, but he's also not in a nuthouse or living in a refrigerator box.
I'd take stories like this as interesting side notes about what people are capable of, but continue on living life and raising children as I have been.
While I won't argue with the substance of what you're saying and I haven't ever considered "Labview experience" in a resume, there are a few scenarios where it might be pertinent to ask if you have a particular language experience, primarily if you're deep at the hardware layer or doing kernel (Linux, NT, custom) level stuff. While I expect that with an MS in EE/CS you should have no trouble learning C, or even understanding calling conventions and interfacing with assembly, some of the problems I want you to be solving are hard and not related to your need to pick up the language.
Kind of if you don't already know C, understand how elements within a program are mapped physically into hardware elements, you're going to have a harder time in my interview. It's not that I will throw your resume away if your other credentials look good, but you're going to need to convince me you really understand compilers at least, and that C will just be a syntax to you. Similar arguments can be made about Java coding, particularly for performance. Java is a language with a huge API, you'll learn that quick, I have no doubt. Do you know how it really works below the syntax level enough to solve the problems I'm solving here? I'm going to poke at it some.
I would question whether someone who lists.NET on their resume is the kind of candidate I'm looking for, but it's idiotic to use it as a trivial reject mechanism. Especially given the job market where HR and managers are looking for any reason to throw your resume out. Failing to put down a skill you have that they may need will certainly get your resume discarded more frequently than putting down a skill that someone doesn't like. These days I have an entire section of my resume dedicated to "keyword discard". Interviewers ask why I list "Windows", as an electrical engineer, I respond with "The job requisition said I needed to know Windows". Most do, even though...duh. For companies with an HR department, never make assumptions. Engineers aren't that retarded, but HR? They're paid to not find candidates...
This would be a good thing for the US job market, part of our comparative disadvantage is that our competitors aren't paying the insanely high licensing costs we are. We've (those below director level) tried in the past to smoke them out, but they're not obligated to prove to us that they're not using pirated software. It just seems suspicious and they never seem to be able to get support when they run across a bug we had found and fixed a while back.
Given the high levels of incompetence I run across over there, it doesn't have to come out to cost parity for the balance of power to shift back.
First, this is great news for Microsoft and Meego. When manufacturers will start to get really sued for all the patent issues Google ignores, they will look at other possibilities. HTC has always been both Android and Windows Phone 7 supporter, so they will drop Android and just make Windows Phone 7 devices.
Way to make the inferior product de-facto. Same old Microsoft, this is why we wanted them destroyed, remember?
It is probably fairer to say that the H1Bs hired to fill the slots were clearly inferior to the local hires that might be available, but were cheaper. Because good H1Bs do exist.
Not all engineering is about schematics, logic design, software design or poking things with instrumentation. There's a high demand right now for "system engineers" which do what you're suggesting, in addition to existing demands for apps engineers, and technical marketing. All of these are "smart" jobs, in the sense that you have to be sharp, understand technology often at a very fundamental (read: physics, chemistry) level and be able to apply it to higher level jobs. Excel, PowerPoint and Word are common capture tools for this. I wouldn't sneer at them, what some of them are doing is hard, thinking work. Requirements, if they are properly conceived, are sometimes the hardest things to write. It's far easier to say "do it my way" than "follow these rules", and be confident the end result meets your needs.
However, these are the riskiest of engineering jobs to take, as without strong discipline and a stronger job market, you can quickly find yourself obsolete. It's difficult to stay technical if you aren't immersed in it. As a result most employers (including my own) are having a hard time filling these positions and trying to strong arm those of us in design positions to move. We're demonstrating we'd rather leave first. We know from experience that our employer will drop us in those positions, use us up and burn us out, and leave us in 5-10 years as out of date technical has-been's.
Keep in mind an engineer making at or above $100K/yr right now (depending on your region) is going to have trouble finding a job, the centerline for mid-grade engineer is well below that, H1Bs will fill the deficit until H1Bs run out, and senior positions aren't that common right now. Some of this is the economy in "recovery", but most of it is H1B/outsourcing dickery. Companies would prefer to hire locally, and they prefer H1Bs to cut costs. They then have to decide if the remaining positions can be filled with offshore labor, or if they really need to pay the price for an expensive local hire.
Sometimes there's a fine line between "bashing" and "detracting" but it's there. An app that encourages gay people to not be gay is hardly bashing, even if you don't approve of the underlying assumptions.
I think he's implying that Microsoft Windows is in fact alien technology, a duplication so profound that even the security holes are the same. All he had to do was upload his virus to "The Cloud", and whammo. Meanwhile the Apple computer he was using was a ground-up reverse-engineer, minus the flaws, so it would be able to interact without dying.
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True, by our standards the math portion of their test would be simple by the standards of anyone applying to Harvard (and seriously expecting to get in), where top tier students are learning advanced calculus in high school. It's interesting that although history and geography haven't changed much, our focus is very different, being far less focused on ancient history and far more focused on the past few hundred years (including, in the US, events occurring shortly before 1869!).
I suspect candidates back then would be stumped with our math/science tests, even if we played fair on the latter by only testing on scientific development that occurred before 1869. It's interesting how focus has changed.
"Superior" is a word that could get you in trouble, but there is scientific value in discussing some politically incorrect topics:
- What are the various differences between races, speculations on why they exist and how they came about
- what are the differences between men and women, beyond the obvious ones, we most certainly are NOT equal
- What happens in homosexual people that makes them find same sex partners?
The differences between biggotry and scientific investigation is simply in what you do with the data. Discussing the subject should NOT brand you as a racist. Even using the word "superior" is not necessarily incorrect, some key differences are about trading superiority in one domain for another.
Debating evolution is fair game, science advances as a result of argument and experimentation. Religion is what has suffered over the years as a result of too many people asking too many good questions.
Actually, relatively easy to sight angels in Anaheim during this time of year with very limited education and just the cost of airfare.
If that's the point I am glad I didn't RTFA. It's both obvious and useless at the same time, it's obviless.
So to tax junk food, we need to set up a committee to determine what is junk food and appropriate labelling to identify "junk food" versus "food". This in turn will drive the food industry in some particularly weird contortion to ensure their products aren't necessarily labelled junk food. And a new government agency we can't get rid of.
The net result will be food that tastes like shit, that punishes both the slim and the fat equally, that will be avoided. Then, like we already have in NYC (at least a few years ago when I was there), there will be bootleggers bringing in "the good stuff" and selling it out of their cars cheap to avoid the added tax.
No, and given that Arizona is already of the excessively tea-party bent, most likely their underfunded program is the result of them not collecting money for it. Charging fat people and smokers is just another way of setting up the strawman for everyone to hate on, similar to blaming all tax problems on drug addled welfare moms popping out kids for government money. Sure, it does happen, but it's not the whole story or even an accurate one.
In any event this doesn't affect me, I can continue being a fat ass on a corporate funded health insurance program (which incidentally, already does charge extra for smokers and discounts followers of a completely bogus "wellness" program whose primary goal is to get my private health information from me and into corporate hands).
Nothing wrong with owning a BMW either, but you don't complain to people about how your finances are suffering.
Let's play devil's advocate. He makes $174k/yr, in 2010 he would have paid 28% in federal income tax, $6198.02 + .0675 * 25280 in his state. His net income was roughly $117k/yr (I did not do a real tax return, I know he probably gets a bit more than this). The "average wisconsin" which I'll take as 55k since I can't find that number easily, paid 15% in federal plus 1443.27 + 1293.5, so a net of $44k/yr. So assuming I haven't screwed up my math or implementation of tax rules, and willfully neglecting various tax deferred investments and deductions anyone may make, he makes 3.1x gross income, and nets 2.67x income.
So actually I really don't have a lot of sympathy for his plight yet. Now, for some reason he has 6 children, responsible adults know that there are a number of ways not to end up with that many children. I won't detail them all here, but suffice it to say there are ways of avoiding them that are compatible with every religion. Regardless, he has them, the average family has 2 children (can't find the exact census number what I can find says 1.8, I don't trust that, I believe it is less than the famous 2.5 number of days past). If you assume that each head in the house is truly 1:1, then he has 3x the costs, but 2.67x the income. Now any of us who has kids or who has a stay at home spouse and has investigated their budget, knows that there are economies of living under one roof and sharing resources, each extra head isn't 1:1, but over 5 heads or so doesn't scale as well if you have to buy a larger house. I am willing to give him one extra head at 60% extra cost, based around my own budget, and I think this is generous, so he needs 1.8x to be in the same condition as the average wisconsin. He's still doing substantially better.
So I think it is fair to say his complaints are due to poor money management and financial planning on his part, and I acknowledge the real news is the GOP trying to cover this up which is so mind bogglingly stupid they should all quit their party immediately.
Kadir beneath Mo Moteh.
Every block of "words" appears to have a suffix like te/se/be, kind of like pig latin.
And that in '99 he was 41, and it was handwritten. Probably not a computer guy, and probably a symbol system that's relatively easy for him to remember and apply reasonably quickly.
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I taught myself pascal, C and assembly when I was about 12 too, over the course of a few months perhaps. And no, my code looks way better now than it did back then. But there's a difference between acquiring what is known and using it. He's acquired a lot of knowledge at his young age that almost no one else would have. He's trying to apply it, I'm sure it will go poorly at first, but certainly his efforts will improve significantly as long as he keeps going at it.
There are lots of questions we can ask if we want to sneer at the kid, including would he learn all this quicker with a more mature mind at 18, while getting to enjoy his childhood some while he's 12? Will his ability to ability to apply this information be benefited from learning it at such a young age, or perhaps he's doing more memory and less problem solving and he may get stuck? Will his efforts to teach himself deepen his understanding of these subjects, or does he risk isolating himself and being unable to relate to the community of people who use math? No one can answer these questions, as a useless anecdote I knew someone like this at age 12 who was learning calculus while I was in algebra, and he's doing ok. You won't know his name if I posted it, but he's also not in a nuthouse or living in a refrigerator box.
I'd take stories like this as interesting side notes about what people are capable of, but continue on living life and raising children as I have been.
While I won't argue with the substance of what you're saying and I haven't ever considered "Labview experience" in a resume, there are a few scenarios where it might be pertinent to ask if you have a particular language experience, primarily if you're deep at the hardware layer or doing kernel (Linux, NT, custom) level stuff. While I expect that with an MS in EE/CS you should have no trouble learning C, or even understanding calling conventions and interfacing with assembly, some of the problems I want you to be solving are hard and not related to your need to pick up the language.
Kind of if you don't already know C, understand how elements within a program are mapped physically into hardware elements, you're going to have a harder time in my interview. It's not that I will throw your resume away if your other credentials look good, but you're going to need to convince me you really understand compilers at least, and that C will just be a syntax to you. Similar arguments can be made about Java coding, particularly for performance. Java is a language with a huge API, you'll learn that quick, I have no doubt. Do you know how it really works below the syntax level enough to solve the problems I'm solving here? I'm going to poke at it some.
I would question whether someone who lists .NET on their resume is the kind of candidate I'm looking for, but it's idiotic to use it as a trivial reject mechanism. Especially given the job market where HR and managers are looking for any reason to throw your resume out. Failing to put down a skill you have that they may need will certainly get your resume discarded more frequently than putting down a skill that someone doesn't like. These days I have an entire section of my resume dedicated to "keyword discard". Interviewers ask why I list "Windows", as an electrical engineer, I respond with "The job requisition said I needed to know Windows". Most do, even though...duh. For companies with an HR department, never make assumptions. Engineers aren't that retarded, but HR? They're paid to not find candidates...
This would be a good thing for the US job market, part of our comparative disadvantage is that our competitors aren't paying the insanely high licensing costs we are. We've (those below director level) tried in the past to smoke them out, but they're not obligated to prove to us that they're not using pirated software. It just seems suspicious and they never seem to be able to get support when they run across a bug we had found and fixed a while back.
Given the high levels of incompetence I run across over there, it doesn't have to come out to cost parity for the balance of power to shift back.
They will state that God created man out of the clay and dust found right here in Texas, which turns out to have been partially prefab.
Also, "Tornadoes"? Or Breath of life!
A flailing human hits Vt around 125 mph
Isn't this oddly specific.
If only he were as effective with this line on girlfriends...
It's more likely that this article is a troll, and reveals that limewire represents 7% of P2P music sharing THAT THEY KNOW ABOUT.
First, this is great news for Microsoft and Meego. When manufacturers will start to get really sued for all the patent issues Google ignores, they will look at other possibilities. HTC has always been both Android and Windows Phone 7 supporter, so they will drop Android and just make Windows Phone 7 devices.
Way to make the inferior product de-facto. Same old Microsoft, this is why we wanted them destroyed, remember?
And an academic version that helps you prepare to not pay child support.
It is probably fairer to say that the H1Bs hired to fill the slots were clearly inferior to the local hires that might be available, but were cheaper. Because good H1Bs do exist.
Not all engineering is about schematics, logic design, software design or poking things with instrumentation. There's a high demand right now for "system engineers" which do what you're suggesting, in addition to existing demands for apps engineers, and technical marketing. All of these are "smart" jobs, in the sense that you have to be sharp, understand technology often at a very fundamental (read: physics, chemistry) level and be able to apply it to higher level jobs. Excel, PowerPoint and Word are common capture tools for this. I wouldn't sneer at them, what some of them are doing is hard, thinking work. Requirements, if they are properly conceived, are sometimes the hardest things to write. It's far easier to say "do it my way" than "follow these rules", and be confident the end result meets your needs.
However, these are the riskiest of engineering jobs to take, as without strong discipline and a stronger job market, you can quickly find yourself obsolete. It's difficult to stay technical if you aren't immersed in it. As a result most employers (including my own) are having a hard time filling these positions and trying to strong arm those of us in design positions to move. We're demonstrating we'd rather leave first. We know from experience that our employer will drop us in those positions, use us up and burn us out, and leave us in 5-10 years as out of date technical has-been's.
Keep in mind an engineer making at or above $100K/yr right now (depending on your region) is going to have trouble finding a job, the centerline for mid-grade engineer is well below that, H1Bs will fill the deficit until H1Bs run out, and senior positions aren't that common right now. Some of this is the economy in "recovery", but most of it is H1B/outsourcing dickery. Companies would prefer to hire locally, and they prefer H1Bs to cut costs. They then have to decide if the remaining positions can be filled with offshore labor, or if they really need to pay the price for an expensive local hire.
Sometimes there's a fine line between "bashing" and "detracting" but it's there. An app that encourages gay people to not be gay is hardly bashing, even if you don't approve of the underlying assumptions.
"Yah, and monkeys will fly out of my butt."
Strangely, it would seem Wayne's World has this tense covered.
I think he's implying that Microsoft Windows is in fact alien technology, a duplication so profound that even the security holes are the same. All he had to do was upload his virus to "The Cloud", and whammo. Meanwhile the Apple computer he was using was a ground-up reverse-engineer, minus the flaws, so it would be able to interact without dying.