And most importantly: allow public schools to expel students who are violent or chronically disruptive. Get the most severe troublemakers out of the traditional classroom and into an alternative jail-like school, and allow those who want to learn to be able to do so without continuous distractions.
Plenty of good teachers are willing to teach in poor neighborhood schools. It's usually the young eager ones with a "I can change the world" mindset. Unfortunately they usually burn out after a couple of years of that, once they have that youthful naive optimism beaten out of them.
That's the way all Democrat-run shithole cities work; San Francisco just has a more concentrated and thus noticeable problem. It's not a problem city officials have any desire to solve, for various reasons. But they will always pay lip service to some eventual solution that never actually materializes.
Gun control laws don't hurt either. Venezuela and Nicaragua both passed blanket gun bans, and their violence levels are a fraction (as in 1/1000) of what they were before the bans. NYC has a blanket gun ban, and is the safest place in the US, even in rural areas.
Throughout my career I've had to deal with most if not all of the issues you cite above. However in most cases I've found these problems were introduced not by code monkeys, but by hotshot wannabe leet-coders who could easily pass any interviewing programming test and can quickly rattle off complex algorithms. But they don't think beyond getting a cool quick solution that "works on my machine" at which point they move onto the next project.
Test code? We don't need to test, because we're so good at what we do. Performance testing, not my department. Slow database access, blame the DBA.
I'd rather deal with a system built by code monkeys who know they suck and thus do a lot of testing vs a system built by leetcoders that falls over and dies at the slightest abnormality.
Then why doesn't Apple hit them with a countersuit? With all of Apple's patents, surely there are at least a couple that anyone using a computer is possibly violating?
That would have been a cumbersome security policy even in 2001. In 2018 it's a non-starter. Any admin who was incapable of providing reasonable security in a less draconian way would be replaced with someone competent.
I've never heard of an ERP/SAP/Peoplesoft implementation that was anything other than a horrendous clusterfuck. Why companies keep buying this shit is beyond me.
Are you completely brain dead? You are concerned about the safety of driverless cars which have killed few enough people to count on the fingers of one hand. Where is your concern for the moronic human drivers who kill dozens every single day? Replacing these idiots with not-quite-perfect autonomous cars will save many many lives. You'd already realize this if you could actually interpret facts rather than being guided by media hysteria like the simple-minded sheep you are.
Cars have had "complicated plumbing of antifreeze" for decades now. All you have to do to activate it is pull forward on that same little stick that operates the wipers.
Many restaurant owners simply freak out whenever they see an expense anywhere. They don't even figure out if the expense is justified or even if it helps them make more money. They just start cutting any expense they possibly can, and then wonder why their restaurant is failing. Hint: if you cut costs by cutting food quality, customers soon notice and stop coming. The more people that do this, the more costs the restaurant owner then cuts, and the worse the customer experience, then the restaurant death spiral deepens.
Right on. Hearing restaurant owners bitch about labor costs is just tiring. What other business with similar revenues has such low labor costs? The only people in a restaurant that make any decent money are the cooks (sometimes) and management.
Servers and bartenders are paid solely from tips. The "wage" is next to nothing. The restaurant probably pays more for FICA than towards their tipped employees wages. Then there's hostesses, barbacks, bus boys, dishwashers, all of who make minimum wage and often even less if paid under the table.
High rent is the one thing that often really screws over restaurants. But luckily there's an answer for that on the delivery side: pick a location that's undesirable for a retailer, such as a second story spot, back of a strip mall, or some other slightly inconvenient location. The rent will be a LOT cheaper and the subpar location won't matter for a delivery business, so long as the drivers can reach the customers in a somewhat timely manner.
Yes they do. Shareholders elect board members. If they know they will lose money should the company misbehave, they'll start taking their board member elections a lot more seriously.
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And most importantly: allow public schools to expel students who are violent or chronically disruptive. Get the most severe troublemakers out of the traditional classroom and into an alternative jail-like school, and allow those who want to learn to be able to do so without continuous distractions.
Plenty of good teachers are willing to teach in poor neighborhood schools. It's usually the young eager ones with a "I can change the world" mindset. Unfortunately they usually burn out after a couple of years of that, once they have that youthful naive optimism beaten out of them.
That's the way all Democrat-run shithole cities work; San Francisco just has a more concentrated and thus noticeable problem. It's not a problem city officials have any desire to solve, for various reasons. But they will always pay lip service to some eventual solution that never actually materializes.
Sony has never been good at playing to their strengths, despite having numerous strengths. I don't expect this to suddenly change.
Forbes is all about the clickbait. They published the article just to enrage people and get them to indignantly share it.
Because stupid hipster designers have to ruin everything. God forbid any modern app be usable, it must only be stylish.
Pretty much. Anyone still buying Cisco products won't stop just because of something like this.
Walgreen's online pharmacy sucks balls. They should be very fearful of any real competition, especially from a company known to do things right.
Gun control laws don't hurt either. Venezuela and Nicaragua both passed blanket gun bans, and their violence levels are a fraction (as in 1/1000) of what they were before the bans. NYC has a blanket gun ban, and is the safest place in the US, even in rural areas.
Bullshit
The fact that you had time to post that waste-of-space comment of yours proves that you are one of the "pampered first worlders".
Throughout my career I've had to deal with most if not all of the issues you cite above. However in most cases I've found these problems were introduced not by code monkeys, but by hotshot wannabe leet-coders who could easily pass any interviewing programming test and can quickly rattle off complex algorithms. But they don't think beyond getting a cool quick solution that "works on my machine" at which point they move onto the next project.
Test code? We don't need to test, because we're so good at what we do. Performance testing, not my department. Slow database access, blame the DBA.
I'd rather deal with a system built by code monkeys who know they suck and thus do a lot of testing vs a system built by leetcoders that falls over and dies at the slightest abnormality.
Pointless. Security. Theater.
Otherwise known as the American Way.
Then why doesn't Apple hit them with a countersuit? With all of Apple's patents, surely there are at least a couple that anyone using a computer is possibly violating?
That would have been a cumbersome security policy even in 2001. In 2018 it's a non-starter. Any admin who was incapable of providing reasonable security in a less draconian way would be replaced with someone competent.
That's a great way to run a company if you are only interested in cutting costs, and care nothing about the future viability of your company.
I've never heard of an ERP/SAP/Peoplesoft implementation that was anything other than a horrendous clusterfuck. Why companies keep buying this shit is beyond me.
Are you completely brain dead? You are concerned about the safety of driverless cars which have killed few enough people to count on the fingers of one hand. Where is your concern for the moronic human drivers who kill dozens every single day? Replacing these idiots with not-quite-perfect autonomous cars will save many many lives. You'd already realize this if you could actually interpret facts rather than being guided by media hysteria like the simple-minded sheep you are.
Tends to be way less controversial than a child porn analogy, yes.
People love to invent rules for other people. The more complicated the better. If it's not working, make it more complicated, until it starts working.
Indeed. And there is an entire profession dedicated to this practice. They even refer to their firm as a "practice".
Cars have had "complicated plumbing of antifreeze" for decades now. All you have to do to activate it is pull forward on that same little stick that operates the wipers.
Many restaurant owners simply freak out whenever they see an expense anywhere. They don't even figure out if the expense is justified or even if it helps them make more money. They just start cutting any expense they possibly can, and then wonder why their restaurant is failing. Hint: if you cut costs by cutting food quality, customers soon notice and stop coming. The more people that do this, the more costs the restaurant owner then cuts, and the worse the customer experience, then the restaurant death spiral deepens.
Right on. Hearing restaurant owners bitch about labor costs is just tiring. What other business with similar revenues has such low labor costs? The only people in a restaurant that make any decent money are the cooks (sometimes) and management.
Servers and bartenders are paid solely from tips. The "wage" is next to nothing. The restaurant probably pays more for FICA than towards their tipped employees wages. Then there's hostesses, barbacks, bus boys, dishwashers, all of who make minimum wage and often even less if paid under the table.
High rent is the one thing that often really screws over restaurants. But luckily there's an answer for that on the delivery side: pick a location that's undesirable for a retailer, such as a second story spot, back of a strip mall, or some other slightly inconvenient location. The rent will be a LOT cheaper and the subpar location won't matter for a delivery business, so long as the drivers can reach the customers in a somewhat timely manner.
Yes they do. Shareholders elect board members. If they know they will lose money should the company misbehave, they'll start taking their board member elections a lot more seriously.
Best case scenario, he would only get pelted with rotten tomatoes. I can't imagine why he wouldn't show...
Hillary Was Going To Save It.
Bahahahahahahahahaha!