Working with the Treo handheld computing device he helped create, Jeff Hawkins can easily recount exactly what he did three years ago on Sept. 8, factor 9,982 and Pi, or describe a weather system over the Pacific Ocean.
it really, really is the end of the golden age of american software development- and that is good!
It is not good. The reason isn't that competition is bad, the reason is that competition isn't present in all jobs. So, while my salary goes from 80k to 50k to 20k, a guy with a service job (like a burger flipper or a barber) keeps making the same amount of money. This means that I make less money with a desirable skill (at least on a global level) simply because it is possible to do my job remotely. Someone doing a fairly unskilled job that requires physical presence is unaffected. That is not fair.
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This could be another good reason to follow the advice of being well-hydrated before/during serious exercise.
Working with the Treo handheld computing device he helped create, Jeff Hawkins can easily recount exactly what he did three years ago on Sept. 8, factor 9,982 and Pi, or describe a weather system over the Pacific Ocean.
How exactly does one go about factoring Pi?
it really, really is the end of the golden age of american software development- and that is good!
It is not good. The reason isn't that competition is bad, the reason is that competition isn't present in all jobs. So, while my salary goes from 80k to 50k to 20k, a guy with a service job (like a burger flipper or a barber) keeps making the same amount of money. This means that I make less money with a desirable skill (at least on a global level) simply because it is possible to do my job remotely. Someone doing a fairly unskilled job that requires physical presence is unaffected. That is not fair.