Seriously you should never allow yourself to be pushed into doing crap quality work. By doing what you did, you just undermined your own professionalism and reputation badly no matter what the actual reason. People will always quickly forget that you got them out the shit at the time, but bad code with your name on it will be there for all to see for ever. I understand you were on a deadline, but you should have instead pushed back when you got given the task and told your boss that it wouldn't be possible to do it within that time constraint. If he then chooses to give that task to someone else, be happy. Remember there are a million people out there that claim they can write good code but not many actually can and even less actually do. That's what you always use to differentiate your skilsl and therefore yourself. Don't allow your work to ever prove you are just another half-assed programmer that just claims they write good code.
isn't that what Android already does? At least what my S3 does is at install time it gives you a screen telling you exactly which permissions the app needs while you can choose not to install it.
I have actually but for several reasons I wont be buying one. They are too expensive for what they are, I was going to call them ugly but actually they aren't even that, just very soulless and bland-looking, I don't want a 4 door, I actually dont want a slient car, prefer the sound of a V8, and I also think the big ipad-thing in the middle of them looks hideous. I actually hate the idea of my car being "always connected". I do like their implementation of door handles though, but thats about it. Not that street performance means that much to me, by my Jag will still pass one. And the best thing is... I already have the car I want. No need to buy another car.
I totally agree with you however I doubt very much that the government would want large commercial vehicles such as 16-wheeler semi rigs to ever pay a truly proportional cost of the damage to the road and environment that they cause. That would make road-hauling too costly so be too much of a damper on the US economy.
It seems you are yet another person who thinks the primary purpose of "green" cars is to save their owners money. I don't know why that myth won't die. Their actual purpose is to reduce impact on the environment, at basically any cost to the owner. They're actually intended to address a whole different issue than you and many Americans apparently think they do.
>> Adapt. Because we're no longer going to subsidize your roads and your parking.
Oh yes you are. Several states are already looking at implementing an extra tax specifically only on electric & hybrid vehicles because those people aren't paying "their fair share" of the gas tax (even though in nearly all states, collected gas tax doesn't actually get spent on roads, which was the justification used for its introduction).
The IRS already knows that the vast majority of motorists are already used to and semi-OK with paying at least $n per mile. If enough people find a way to pay less than n (say because they aren't buying gas any more), the government finds ways to get its greedy hands on your cost savings instead of you. They just introduce a new tax on the cost-saving method itself to bring its net cost up to n again. (the level most people have already shown they will put up with). Consequently they eliminate any financial benefit to making changes in the status quo. Thats why many people will still be driving gas cars decades from now.
The fact that the government aren't providing any new or improved service to the people they collect the new tax from is not exactly going to keep them awake at night either.
>> it's all driven by bottom line economics--crowding more people into smaller spaces saves money....and massively decreases productivity. Its amazing how most managers can never see the obvious unless it has a directly quantifiable $ value.
I'm not American so don't really know, but it seems to me that Obama probably had little or nothing to do with this. The timeline is just coincidental. Am I right?
I mean it would be like saying someone in the Clinton administration invented the internet. Oh wait....
Numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Catalyst in 2006 indicated that women comprise 27-29% of the computing workforce.A National Public Radio report in 2013 stated that about 20% of all US computer programmers are female. Yet there is endlessly more public whining about that than the fact that only 6% or so of nurses are male. Now do you understand?
Google glass is a lot like bluetooth earpieces: It makes you look like a complete dick but at least a tradeoff exists where you possibly might get useful information....I just don't get why anyone would continue to wear one when its turned off for an extended period, e.g. at the movies?
>> now that we have systematically pushed women and minorities out of the field.
Thats utter bullshit. I've been a software developer (both permie and contract) for 35 years, I have worked at many companines in multiple EU countries and the US, and never once actually saw any place that was discriminating against people because of their race or gender, let alone encouraging people out of the field because of it. The company I work for currently has a very wide demographic of races, and my boss is a woman.
Actually my experience has been that Indians and orientals are often somewhat over-represented in the field compared to their ratio found in the local general population.
There's only one reason why there aren't more women in the field: the vast majority of them aren't interested in CS (or pretty much any science/engineering type role) in the first place.
Have you considered getting all the residents together to beat up the HOA or whoever it is that controls the shortsighted covenants, in order to get them to make an exception for cable?
This is asymmetric bullshit. Where, for example, are all the calls for affirmative action to encourage more white men into nursing? (which is 91.4% filled by women, and health is a field that African Americans are more likely to work in than any other )?
>> it might double down on Windows 8's controversial 'Modern' (previously known as 'Metro') design interface.
I hope they do continue wasting all efforts flogging this dead horse, as yet another flop would do a lot to kill or at least end more dependency on the piece of shit that is Windows.
1) A few dacades ago, cars had stylish, artful individual appearances. The car you drove was an extension and public declaration of your identity. Cars are now all identical-looking anonymous grey boxes who's shape is determined only by the most optimal windtunnel performance. You mostly can't even tell what brand they are any more without looking at the badge. Consequently cars have become white-good dispoable items like a dishwasher or microwave. Its why classic cars are reaching crazy values now. They are the only cars left with any character. Personally I'd rather pay the extra 0.8 cents a mile in gas lost from aerodynamic inefficiency in order to drive something that doesn't look and feel like an upside-down jelly-mould, but apprently I am in a very small minority.
2) Way too much ludicrously heavy-handed legislation such as ridiculously low speed limits everywhere in direct response to politicised pressure groups with hidden agendas like MADD, have taken a lot of the pleasure out of driving.
3) Driving is often unaffordable for younger adults now since drivers have always been seen as a fat and almost infinite source of tax revenue, so the government keep heaping more taxes on road users. Driving is at least triple-taxed compared to anything else. (vehicle 'luxury' tax + gas tax + road licence tax + toll roads + the purpose of low speed limits/traffic tickets/automatic cameras and that most cops are traffic cops rather than the type who actually solve crimes, is all to do with revenue generation rather than anything at all to do with road safety).
3b) As car insurance is compulsory, car insurance companies are making out like bandits especially from young people. (A very relvant message about obamacare here too somewhere).
4) Just the large increase in the amount of traffic (mostly commercial) on the road. You are far more likely to encounter heavy traffic especially large slow-moving vehicles wherever you drive now, compared to a few dacades ago. This makes it hardly fun to drive anywhere any more.
Farley said "We do not track our customers in their cars without their approval or consent."... directly after stating that's exactly what they actually do.
Dont' read anything real into it, other than it being so factually incorrect it's laughable which clearly indicates that its just yet another politician who doesn't even understand the basics of the thing he is trying to legislate aganst.
He doesn't understand because he privately doesn't actually give a shit, he's just pretending he does because he's getting a large backhander from some monopolist corporation such as Microsoft just for creating more anti-opensource FUD.
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Seriously you should never allow yourself to be pushed into doing crap quality work. By doing what you did, you just undermined your own professionalism and reputation badly no matter what the actual reason. People will always quickly forget that you got them out the shit at the time, but bad code with your name on it will be there for all to see for ever.
I understand you were on a deadline, but you should have instead pushed back when you got given the task and told your boss that it wouldn't be possible to do it within that time constraint. If he then chooses to give that task to someone else, be happy.
Remember there are a million people out there that claim they can write good code but not many actually can and even less actually do. That's what you always use to differentiate your skilsl and therefore yourself. Don't allow your work to ever prove you are just another half-assed programmer that just claims they write good code.
...so could this "lunar rocket" be "accidentally" targeted at Palestine?
isn't that what Android already does?
At least what my S3 does is at install time it gives you a screen telling you exactly which permissions the app needs while you can choose not to install it.
I have actually but for several reasons I wont be buying one.
They are too expensive for what they are, I was going to call them ugly but actually they aren't even that, just very soulless and bland-looking, I don't want a 4 door, I actually dont want a slient car, prefer the sound of a V8, and I also think the big ipad-thing in the middle of them looks hideous. I actually hate the idea of my car being "always connected".
I do like their implementation of door handles though, but thats about it.
Not that street performance means that much to me, by my Jag will still pass one.
And the best thing is... I already have the car I want. No need to buy another car.
No thanks.
There is nothing that would make me trade my V8 supercharged convertible Jag for your Toyota Pious.
For me, the pleasure of driving my car is worth every penny (and then some) of the extra maybe $40 in gas a month.
I totally agree with you however I doubt very much that the government would want large commercial vehicles such as 16-wheeler semi rigs to ever pay a truly proportional cost of the damage to the road and environment that they cause.
That would make road-hauling too costly so be too much of a damper on the US economy.
You know silicon is one of the most common elements in the world right? It makes up the majority of the Earth's crust.
It seems you are yet another person who thinks the primary purpose of "green" cars is to save their owners money. I don't know why that myth won't die. Their actual purpose is to reduce impact on the environment, at basically any cost to the owner. They're actually intended to address a whole different issue than you and many Americans apparently think they do.
>> Adapt. Because we're no longer going to subsidize your roads and your parking.
Oh yes you are. Several states are already looking at implementing an extra tax specifically only on electric & hybrid vehicles because those people aren't paying "their fair share" of the gas tax (even though in nearly all states, collected gas tax doesn't actually get spent on roads, which was the justification used for its introduction).
The IRS already knows that the vast majority of motorists are already used to and semi-OK with paying at least $n per mile. If enough people find a way to pay less than n (say because they aren't buying gas any more), the government finds ways to get its greedy hands on your cost savings instead of you. They just introduce a new tax on the cost-saving method itself to bring its net cost up to n again. (the level most people have already shown they will put up with). Consequently they eliminate any financial benefit to making changes in the status quo. Thats why many people will still be driving gas cars decades from now.
The fact that the government aren't providing any new or improved service to the people they collect the new tax from is not exactly going to keep them awake at night either.
>> it's all driven by bottom line economics--crowding more people into smaller spaces saves money. ...and massively decreases productivity. Its amazing how most managers can never see the obvious unless it has a directly quantifiable $ value.
I'm not American so don't really know, but it seems to me that Obama probably had little or nothing to do with this. The timeline is just coincidental. Am I right?
I mean it would be like saying someone in the Clinton administration invented the internet. Oh wait....
>> Do you understand that it hasn't been that long since women were second class citizens that couldn't couldn't even vote?
Women got the vote in the 1920's. This is 2014. Get over it already.
Numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Catalyst in 2006 indicated that women comprise 27-29% of the computing workforce.A National Public Radio report in 2013 stated that about 20% of all US computer programmers are female.
Yet there is endlessly more public whining about that than the fact that only 6% or so of nurses are male.
Now do you understand?
Google glass is a lot like bluetooth earpieces: It makes you look like a complete dick but at least a tradeoff exists where you possibly might get useful information. ...I just don't get why anyone would continue to wear one when its turned off for an extended period, e.g. at the movies?
then you just look more guilty, and it also gives them an excuse to detain you for longer.
McAffee products such as antivirus and especially smartfilter, is and pretty much always has been useless.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/john-...
All the evidence seems to suggest that Smartfilter's classification ratings are controlled by someone with a determined but very fucked-up agenda.
You actually just confirmed my point in that you pretty much have to look hard to find an example of it.
>> now that we have systematically pushed women and minorities out of the field.
Thats utter bullshit.
I've been a software developer (both permie and contract) for 35 years, I have worked at many companines in multiple EU countries and the US, and never once actually saw any place that was discriminating against people because of their race or gender, let alone encouraging people out of the field because of it. The company I work for currently has a very wide demographic of races, and my boss is a woman.
Actually my experience has been that Indians and orientals are often somewhat over-represented in the field compared to their ratio found in the local general population.
There's only one reason why there aren't more women in the field: the vast majority of them aren't interested in CS (or pretty much any science/engineering type role) in the first place.
Have you considered getting all the residents together to beat up the HOA or whoever it is that controls the shortsighted covenants, in order to get them to make an exception for cable?
This is asymmetric bullshit.
Where, for example, are all the calls for affirmative action to encourage more white men into nursing? (which is 91.4% filled by women, and health is a field that African Americans are more likely to work in than any other )?
>> it might double down on Windows 8's controversial 'Modern' (previously known as 'Metro') design interface.
I hope they do continue wasting all efforts flogging this dead horse, as yet another flop would do a lot to kill or at least end more dependency on the piece of shit that is Windows.
I put it down to these things:
1) A few dacades ago, cars had stylish, artful individual appearances. The car you drove was an extension and public declaration of your identity. Cars are now all identical-looking anonymous grey boxes who's shape is determined only by the most optimal windtunnel performance. You mostly can't even tell what brand they are any more without looking at the badge. Consequently cars have become white-good dispoable items like a dishwasher or microwave. Its why classic cars are reaching crazy values now. They are the only cars left with any character. Personally I'd rather pay the extra 0.8 cents a mile in gas lost from aerodynamic inefficiency in order to drive something that doesn't look and feel like an upside-down jelly-mould, but apprently I am in a very small minority.
2) Way too much ludicrously heavy-handed legislation such as ridiculously low speed limits everywhere in direct response to politicised pressure groups with hidden agendas like MADD, have taken a lot of the pleasure out of driving.
3) Driving is often unaffordable for younger adults now since drivers have always been seen as a fat and almost infinite source of tax revenue, so the government keep heaping more taxes on road users. Driving is at least triple-taxed compared to anything else. (vehicle 'luxury' tax + gas tax + road licence tax + toll roads + the purpose of low speed limits/traffic tickets/automatic cameras and that most cops are traffic cops rather than the type who actually solve crimes, is all to do with revenue generation rather than anything at all to do with road safety).
3b) As car insurance is compulsory, car insurance companies are making out like bandits especially from young people. (A very relvant message about obamacare here too somewhere).
4) Just the large increase in the amount of traffic (mostly commercial) on the road. You are far more likely to encounter heavy traffic especially large slow-moving vehicles wherever you drive now, compared to a few dacades ago. This makes it hardly fun to drive anywhere any more.
Thank you :*)
Farley said "We do not track our customers in their cars without their approval or consent." ... directly after stating that's exactly what they actually do.
> It's hard to imagine that the shooter was anything but mentally ill.
Yeah the bit about him being a police captain already gave that away.
Dont' read anything real into it, other than it being so factually incorrect it's laughable which clearly indicates that its just yet another politician who doesn't even understand the basics of the thing he is trying to legislate aganst.
He doesn't understand because he privately doesn't actually give a shit, he's just pretending he does because he's getting a large backhander from some monopolist corporation such as Microsoft just for creating more anti-opensource FUD.