I can't imagine wanting to eat a 50 cent pie. Even if it tastes good, imagine the corners they have to cut to produce something so cheap.
I'd rather go to the farmer's market and buy a $20 pie baked by some local old lady using local berries.
Speaking of snow: In graduate school, I was driving through campus in a major snow storm (almost no traffic, almost no people out). I saw a woman exit a building up ahead and start walking down the sidewalk away from me (so her back was turned to me). She got to a diagonal crosswalk, and without any warning, stepped out into the road in front of me without looking first. There had been no indication she wanted to cross the road until the stepped off the sidewalk and into the road. I braked as fast as I could, anti-lock kicked in. I came to a stop just in front of the crosswalk with her glaring at me like it was my fault. She didn't stop before entering the crosswalk to make sure that 1) any oncoming cars saw that she wanted to cross the street and 2) they had time to come to a stop (especially considering there was accumulated snow in the road). I was the only car out there, so maybe she assumed there was no one around. I was driving a small off-road pickup (think toyota tacoma type truck with off-road suspension and aggressive on/offroad tires) -- my aggressive treads may have saved her ass. I was SURE I was going to kill this woman, but I stopped just in time. If I had been going any faster, it would not have ended well.
Lots of public open air places around me, like town parks, are designated 'smoke-free'. This has been the case for a long time. When I was in grad school slightly over a decade ago they designated the entire campus as 'smoke free'. This included all outside space, of course some people ignored it -- especially visitors to campus. It wasn't uncommon to see a couple people finishing their cigarette outside the hockey arena before heading in to watch the game. Maybe 5 years prior to that they had eliminated smoking dorms (they had a couple dorms that had designated smoking wings). I'm in a New England State so it isn't just the U.K.
Most of the PhD CS profs. (tenured) I know (at local State school, def. not a tier-1 CS program) are making in the $85-120K range, although in some cases they have decades of experience. At least at this school the CS profs make more than a history or philosophy professor (that might max out the 80s).
The campus of my company literally abuts Acadia National Park. I can be out my office door and hiking or running on park trails in 10 minutes. There are plenty of cities with awesome outdoor recreation opportunities. Your job might not keep you active, but that doesn't mean you have to sit on the couch and play video games when you get home either.
I work in computational biology at a large research laboratory located in a rural area in Maine. We are the only game in town, and the people we hire are often more senior developers that either want to move to a small town on the coast, or were originally from the state and left to pursue their career. I can only think of one recent hire straight out of college, and in that case the person grew up in the town with our flagship state university and chose to go to school out of state. If you want to avoid managerial work and focus on software engineering, think about leaving the financial industry and look towards other domains -- some of your knowledge will translate. We basically have two types of developers -- those writing research/analysis software and those writing large enterprise systems (like laboratory information management systems).
I used to work at a University doing research sponsored by the US Army, my area of expertise was high performance computing. I left to go work at a genetics research laboratory, which is becoming increasingly computationally driven. Historically a lot of our work is what one would consider "embarrassingly parallel", but the rate at which we can produce genetic data is growing exponentially. New approaches to storing and analyzing this data are needed. I've recently been dabbling in CUDA programming, and we are already using FPGAs.
there is a lot of excess capacity in the power grid at night. Most people would recharge their electric cars overnight, and not have to worry about it during the day. Its only on long trips that you would need to worry about daytime charging.
$150 million, not $5 billion. Microsoft bought 150 million dollars worth of non-voting shares as part of a patent licensing agreement, and also agreed to produce MS Office for OS X for at least 5 years (this was the important part, since many big software vendors had not yet committed to port their code to the new OS), and Internet explorer would be bundled as the default browser for 5 years (I think it was 5 years).
Apple was a multi-billion dollar company with 1.2 billion in cash at the time. It was in trouble financially, but it probably could have survived without that $150 million.
I was brought up Catholic, my parents were involved in the church choir, but we almost never talked about god or religion outside of church. We were never taught to give god thanks for everyday things. All success or failure was attributed to us. My parents would have considered themselves very spiritual, in her later years my Mother loved to read books about saints, and she made a pilgrimage to France. But I never felt like religion was part of our day to day lives. As a kid it was an hour a week, maybe two if we were doing "CCD" (religious education). I think they would be pretty upset to know I don't really believe, but they never mentioned having my son baptized, or the fact that we did not attend church.
I used to build my computers after carefully researching each component. The pre-built offerings were mostly junk. Then I switched to a Mac, and now I have a laptop and external display. For me a computer is a tool, and this does the job for me.
I work at a genetics research lab in New England and specialize in High Performance Computing. Let me know if you want to talk privately. I would be willing to give a little advice for free, or more as a consultant.
I remember working on a kernel extension for OS X on a previous job 5 or 6 years ago. We were having some trouble, so we started digging through the XNU source code. We found an email address of an engineer at apple in some of the comments and emailed him. After a few emails it was determined there was a bug (we were doing something rather strange, so this wouldn't normally affect developers), he offered a work around and opened a bug report for the issue. This wouldn't have happened had I been developing for windows.
I pay about $100 a month for digital TV plus DVR service. I rarely watch TV - there are a couple shows I make a point to watch, the rest of my TV viewing is usually food network, discovery, or history channel while I'm multi-tasking and hour or so before going to sleep. I could probably spend less than $10 a month on TV show rentals and I wouldn't really miss cable TV that much.
in my state (Maine), the age of consent is 16, but there is also an age differential test that comes into affect if one of the parties is under the age of 16. For people age 14 and up, they are able to consent as long as the age difference is no more than 5 years. This means a 14 year old can consent to sex with a 19 year old, but not a 20 year old. There are exceptions, such as teachers, employers, etc. E.g. a student that is 16 (someone of this age can consent to sex with anyone aged 14 and up) can not consent to sex with someone in a position of authority over them. People under the age of 14 can not legally consent.
I live in a neighborhood in a small Maine city that was developed in a couple phases, the first major phase was developed in the late 60s/early70s, the second was in the mid - late 90s. There are covenants here that somewhat limit what you can do with your property, many were concerned with the initial construction while a few were not (house must be a certain size/cost at construction, no mobile homes, no commercial vehicles parked in driveways,...). Most new subdivisions will, at the very least, have requirements on initial construction, and some require things like window blinds, outside lights that are kept on at night, and landscaping. Other towns in Maine have limitations on color/appearance of houses, especially in historic parts of town, but it a lot of rural areas in Maine it is indeed a free for all... and you end up with people that have 5 nonworking cars on their law, or a sailboat that hasn't seen water in 20 years.
We just filled a senior level programmer position with someone in their 50s. This person had a great resume, and did an awesome job in their interview - blew pretty much everyone else we looked at away. I'd say he's easily 1000X better than the last young intern we had (now a grad student in CS). I'd say most of the programmers here are in their late 30s to mid 40s. A few are older (50ish). I'm a young one here, a "senior" software engineer by title at the age of 30.
We're actually considering going after some young blood and spending the effort to mentor them because we have such a hard time recruiting older developers.
I have season tickets for a NCAA division 1 hockey team. For each game that I attend, they resurface the ice 4 times: once after warmups, between periods 1&2, between periods 2&3, and after the game is finished. That is 7250 games (ignoring practices, club hockey, etc) to recoup the cost of the "green" model. At 20 home games per season (NCAA hockey teams don't play a ton of games), we're talking 362.5 _seasons_ for a college hockey team to recoup the increases capital cost of the electric model through decreased operational costs. The electric mode _does_ cost more, unless you are resurfacing the ice an insane amount of times.
"Right now, I am giving presentations with impress. Slides to the projector, and my presenter screen on the laptop has the slide, the next slide, presenters notes and a clock."
Powerpoint can do that (at least the Mac version) as long as you don't setup the projector as a mirror of your desktop.
You can get the kernel source code. Once upon a time I was developing a kernel extension for a research project I was working on (very specialized memory manager). We were trying to figure out how something worked, so we took a look at the kernel source code. We ended up finding an Apple engineer's email address in one of the comments, we asked him a bunch of questions. He was a ton of help. We also discovered a bug, which he entered into their bug tracking system, and he offered a work around.
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I can't imagine wanting to eat a 50 cent pie. Even if it tastes good, imagine the corners they have to cut to produce something so cheap. I'd rather go to the farmer's market and buy a $20 pie baked by some local old lady using local berries.
Speaking of snow: In graduate school, I was driving through campus in a major snow storm (almost no traffic, almost no people out). I saw a woman exit a building up ahead and start walking down the sidewalk away from me (so her back was turned to me). She got to a diagonal crosswalk, and without any warning, stepped out into the road in front of me without looking first. There had been no indication she wanted to cross the road until the stepped off the sidewalk and into the road. I braked as fast as I could, anti-lock kicked in. I came to a stop just in front of the crosswalk with her glaring at me like it was my fault. She didn't stop before entering the crosswalk to make sure that 1) any oncoming cars saw that she wanted to cross the street and 2) they had time to come to a stop (especially considering there was accumulated snow in the road). I was the only car out there, so maybe she assumed there was no one around. I was driving a small off-road pickup (think toyota tacoma type truck with off-road suspension and aggressive on/offroad tires) -- my aggressive treads may have saved her ass. I was SURE I was going to kill this woman, but I stopped just in time. If I had been going any faster, it would not have ended well.
Lots of public open air places around me, like town parks, are designated 'smoke-free'. This has been the case for a long time. When I was in grad school slightly over a decade ago they designated the entire campus as 'smoke free'. This included all outside space, of course some people ignored it -- especially visitors to campus. It wasn't uncommon to see a couple people finishing their cigarette outside the hockey arena before heading in to watch the game. Maybe 5 years prior to that they had eliminated smoking dorms (they had a couple dorms that had designated smoking wings). I'm in a New England State so it isn't just the U.K.
Most of the PhD CS profs. (tenured) I know (at local State school, def. not a tier-1 CS program) are making in the $85-120K range, although in some cases they have decades of experience. At least at this school the CS profs make more than a history or philosophy professor (that might max out the 80s).
thats what he is saying. Even if you haven't bought a discrete card, you've still bought a video card (that was integrated into your motherboard)
The campus of my company literally abuts Acadia National Park. I can be out my office door and hiking or running on park trails in 10 minutes. There are plenty of cities with awesome outdoor recreation opportunities. Your job might not keep you active, but that doesn't mean you have to sit on the couch and play video games when you get home either.
I work in computational biology at a large research laboratory located in a rural area in Maine. We are the only game in town, and the people we hire are often more senior developers that either want to move to a small town on the coast, or were originally from the state and left to pursue their career. I can only think of one recent hire straight out of college, and in that case the person grew up in the town with our flagship state university and chose to go to school out of state. If you want to avoid managerial work and focus on software engineering, think about leaving the financial industry and look towards other domains -- some of your knowledge will translate. We basically have two types of developers -- those writing research/analysis software and those writing large enterprise systems (like laboratory information management systems).
I used to work at a University doing research sponsored by the US Army, my area of expertise was high performance computing. I left to go work at a genetics research laboratory, which is becoming increasingly computationally driven. Historically a lot of our work is what one would consider "embarrassingly parallel", but the rate at which we can produce genetic data is growing exponentially. New approaches to storing and analyzing this data are needed. I've recently been dabbling in CUDA programming, and we are already using FPGAs.
there is a lot of excess capacity in the power grid at night. Most people would recharge their electric cars overnight, and not have to worry about it during the day. Its only on long trips that you would need to worry about daytime charging.
The people that live in it. Probably 80% of Americans are idiots. I might be generous.
you're assuming the stock never split when you say they could have bought the shares on the open market in 2002 for less
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slave labor, almost free land, very little in the way of right-of-way disputes...
$150 million, not $5 billion. Microsoft bought 150 million dollars worth of non-voting shares as part of a patent licensing agreement, and also agreed to produce MS Office for OS X for at least 5 years (this was the important part, since many big software vendors had not yet committed to port their code to the new OS), and Internet explorer would be bundled as the default browser for 5 years (I think it was 5 years).
Apple was a multi-billion dollar company with 1.2 billion in cash at the time. It was in trouble financially, but it probably could have survived without that $150 million.
I was brought up Catholic, my parents were involved in the church choir, but we almost never talked about god or religion outside of church. We were never taught to give god thanks for everyday things. All success or failure was attributed to us. My parents would have considered themselves very spiritual, in her later years my Mother loved to read books about saints, and she made a pilgrimage to France. But I never felt like religion was part of our day to day lives. As a kid it was an hour a week, maybe two if we were doing "CCD" (religious education). I think they would be pretty upset to know I don't really believe, but they never mentioned having my son baptized, or the fact that we did not attend church.
I used to build my computers after carefully researching each component. The pre-built offerings were mostly junk. Then I switched to a Mac, and now I have a laptop and external display. For me a computer is a tool, and this does the job for me.
I work at a genetics research lab in New England and specialize in High Performance Computing. Let me know if you want to talk privately. I would be willing to give a little advice for free, or more as a consultant.
I remember working on a kernel extension for OS X on a previous job 5 or 6 years ago. We were having some trouble, so we started digging through the XNU source code. We found an email address of an engineer at apple in some of the comments and emailed him. After a few emails it was determined there was a bug (we were doing something rather strange, so this wouldn't normally affect developers), he offered a work around and opened a bug report for the issue. This wouldn't have happened had I been developing for windows.
I pay about $100 a month for digital TV plus DVR service. I rarely watch TV - there are a couple shows I make a point to watch, the rest of my TV viewing is usually food network, discovery, or history channel while I'm multi-tasking and hour or so before going to sleep. I could probably spend less than $10 a month on TV show rentals and I wouldn't really miss cable TV that much.
that seems excessive! What state is this?!
in my state (Maine), the age of consent is 16, but there is also an age differential test that comes into affect if one of the parties is under the age of 16. For people age 14 and up, they are able to consent as long as the age difference is no more than 5 years. This means a 14 year old can consent to sex with a 19 year old, but not a 20 year old. There are exceptions, such as teachers, employers, etc. E.g. a student that is 16 (someone of this age can consent to sex with anyone aged 14 and up) can not consent to sex with someone in a position of authority over them. People under the age of 14 can not legally consent.
I live in a neighborhood in a small Maine city that was developed in a couple phases, the first major phase was developed in the late 60s/early70s, the second was in the mid - late 90s. There are covenants here that somewhat limit what you can do with your property, many were concerned with the initial construction while a few were not (house must be a certain size/cost at construction, no mobile homes, no commercial vehicles parked in driveways, ...). Most new subdivisions will, at the very least, have requirements on initial construction, and some require things like window blinds, outside lights that are kept on at night, and landscaping. Other towns in Maine have limitations on color/appearance of houses, especially in historic parts of town, but it a lot of rural areas in Maine it is indeed a free for all... and you end up with people that have 5 nonworking cars on their law, or a sailboat that hasn't seen water in 20 years.
We just filled a senior level programmer position with someone in their 50s. This person had a great resume, and did an awesome job in their interview - blew pretty much everyone else we looked at away. I'd say he's easily 1000X better than the last young intern we had (now a grad student in CS). I'd say most of the programmers here are in their late 30s to mid 40s. A few are older (50ish). I'm a young one here, a "senior" software engineer by title at the age of 30.
We're actually considering going after some young blood and spending the effort to mentor them because we have such a hard time recruiting older developers.
RE: 29,000 floods to recoup costs
I have season tickets for a NCAA division 1 hockey team. For each game that I attend, they resurface the ice 4 times: once after warmups, between periods 1&2, between periods 2&3, and after the game is finished. That is 7250 games (ignoring practices, club hockey, etc) to recoup the cost of the "green" model. At 20 home games per season (NCAA hockey teams don't play a ton of games), we're talking 362.5 _seasons_ for a college hockey team to recoup the increases capital cost of the electric model through decreased operational costs. The electric mode _does_ cost more, unless you are resurfacing the ice an insane amount of times.
"Right now, I am giving presentations with impress. Slides to the projector, and my presenter screen on the laptop has the slide, the next slide, presenters notes and a clock." Powerpoint can do that (at least the Mac version) as long as you don't setup the projector as a mirror of your desktop.
You can get the kernel source code. Once upon a time I was developing a kernel extension for a research project I was working on (very specialized memory manager). We were trying to figure out how something worked, so we took a look at the kernel source code. We ended up finding an Apple engineer's email address in one of the comments, we asked him a bunch of questions. He was a ton of help. We also discovered a bug, which he entered into their bug tracking system, and he offered a work around.