Yes, but I am concerned a new government plan could cause me to lose the employer coverage I have today. More government bureaucracy will only create more problems, not solve the ones we have.
(Sorry, my account was hacked by a clever survey!:b)
A lot of credit card companies are headquartered there. If you blow it up, how will we be able to tell that the economic crisis is over? I'm counting on those dozens of otherwise-useless credit card offers to let me know when it's safe!
You have to be amazed at someone who corners the gold market not just for the gold, but to raise the price of wheat so that farmers will sell more grain and use his railroad more. But the way people hated him was almost as amazing. Picture Ben Bernanke crossed with Bernie Madoff, Rick Wagoner, and Bill Gates (the evil monopolistic parts only). Scrooge was a piddly little amateur.
You say that because you're not running two wires to every office/cubicle in the building and attaching them to an expensive Cisco router... and then doing it all again when you have to reconfigure the cubes in three years. And you're not trying to run stuff through an older home that didn't come with built-in 10gigE wall jacks.
I'll go beyond that (even as a Republican with some Libertarian sympathies) and say that anthropogenic global warming seems like a reasonably certain thing anyway. What's not certain is:
the extent of its impact
policy recommendations for reducing or dealing with that impact
balancing these matters with the rest of the world economy
the integrity of the processes for generating information to drive those policy recommendations
Seems a trifle off. Something about "equal protection under the law" and not having the institution too subject to the whims of the ruling party and the lobbyists of the week.
The food supplies of those who are likely to consume this drug aren't really strongly related to those of the world's starving, for better or worse. At least not at the moment.
Technical leads with good experience are employable even now (and probably more so than a few months ago). You might have to consider relocation, and/or a bit of a salary cut, but if the alternative is an unwelcome career shift it could be worth it.
Go browse Monster/Dice/etc, see if anything seems to match your experience; don't assume you're trapped, even now.
The unemployment rate of people who have graduated college is still in the low single digits (3 or 4% last I checked) - still well above normal, but hardly devastatingly so. It's the non-college-educated crowd that's well into the double-digits of unemployment, something like 25%... crunch.
For what it's worth, I was making more than that ($9/hr) during an internship with the local university in high school (my junior year). IBM has a standard formula for interns that should get you around $15-$25/hr or so.
They have a competitor on the board since the competitor elected itself to the board with all the shares which they bought. No one but this competitor is happy with this setup.
Perl 5.10.0 was out this year, and introduced snazzy new features like the defined-or operator and easier state variables. It's not like they've been neglecting the rest of the language, and it's not like it's going to be difficult to activate backwards compatibility.
I'd worry more about the continuing relevance of Perl in a niche which has come to be dominated more and more by PHP (eww!) and Ruby in recent years.
It's not going away, certainly, but its relevance to the future of computing may be somewhat limited despite its technical merit.
We address this matter with a fairly rigorous team-wide coding style (which is easier to impart because we do pair programming, which is a great way to expose new developers to the team's practices and the product's quirks) and a massive battery of unit tests. These tests effectively serve as the basic low-level documentation of how something is supposed to work. There are a few comments here and there (to label the unit tests, or if there's a particularly tricky / confusing / subtle line or behavior). The tests say 'what', the code says 'how', and the comments say 'why'. Even the best comments don't prevent you from writing broken code. A good set of unit tests does.
We also wax a bit functional in our programming. You do need a modicum of competence to understand and write something like
but once you have that, it's a lot easier to
understand (and harder to mess up) than a series of loops that try to do the same thing. Functional programming is a good thing when you can do it:
the matter becomes less of what the code does and more about what the code is.
Sorry: preparing your own meat is icky and no longer socially acceptable today. Therefore, you must be one of those darn rednecks, and presumably of subhuman intelligence. Moreover the guy in the euthanasia thread (above) doesn't think your doing enough productive work for society, so you're going to be euthanized.
.... I don't know, dude. Maybe you should invest in branding. "It's sustainable, local, organic meat!"
And then after it becomes socially acceptable, it becomes socially unacceptable to stick around and be "a drain on society" and people have the attitude "oh, why won't she just get herself killed already and spare us the trouble of her existence." (It's worse if you're rich and have heirs, presumably.)
(Old people in Holland are already afraid of going to the doctors' one day and not coming back. But hey, their medical system saves a bundle on palliative care!)
Myself, I think it's a rather dehumanizing notion that the life of an old person no longer has any dignity and the only value an individual has is his or her ability to perform Productive Work for Society, and extraordinarily selfish for us to be promoting it. (Even Communism recognizes something about "to each according to his needs".) I suppose the next step is open class warfare on the "less productive".
At my office, most of the developers have at least two monitors (1600x1200 Dell 2007FP or something like that). They're rotated 90 degrees (more vertical space for coding) and configured as a dual-monitor setup. A few developers have expanded things to 3 or 4 monitors. The machines in question sometimes have trouble booting up with two video cards (they're somewhat cheap old motherboards), but the drivers and desktop setup (Nvidia binary blobs under Ubuntu) were always pretty easy to get running and Just Worked with the nvidia config tool.
If you're on $garbage_DNS and you're served an advertisement/search page instead of NXDOMAIN, you (or your browser's auto-search) won't search Google. For that matter, just having something like this around will discourage $garbage_DNS.
Google cares about the Internet. It's where they make their money.
The difference between SETI and your private bittorrent tracker is that SETI is fairly easily related to topics in science and education.
Really, I think the people of Arizona would be better off if the school district officials were less interested in making a big showy news article about UFOs and filing criminal charges and dragging the legal system into things (and spending money on lawyers and courts and such) and more interested in just running the system effectively (let the guy go, quietly, and leave it at that). The world is a better place for everyone when we leave the legal system as a last resort. Of course, since these are officials in government service, let's ignore sense and guess which move will do more to further their career - the showy one, or the one that makes sense?
The bit about equipment from the school at home is interesting, but I wouldn't say it's outside the realm of possibility that he brought that sort of stuff home to work on it as part of his administrative duties. I'm not adequately informed to say one way or another.
As for the software being "essential to his work function", the machines in question are presumably used (or at least viewed) by school students at some point or another. I'd think the SETI@Home screensaver is, all else being equal, a fine way to encourage an interest in science among young children. Pretty wavy squiggly lines! Space! Aliens! Digital signal processing! Fast Fourier Transforms! Gaussian distributions! Cool!
They were his machines to configure, as a technology supervisor. It's not like he hacked into the machines in the dark of night to set things up on the sly. Sure, his configuration may have been a failure as far as the business needs of the school system were concerned, but when TFA is claiming "there may be charges filed!!"...
Look, kids, it's a 1-million-dollar civics lesson. "Screw up in county-level government, and we'll sic the cops on you and paint you up as a UFO-worshipping freak or something." Uh-huh. And they wonder why the school systems of the nation can't hire anyone competent.
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(Sorry, my account was hacked by a clever survey! :b)
A lot of credit card companies are headquartered there. If you blow it up, how will we be able to tell that the economic crisis is over? I'm counting on those dozens of otherwise-useless credit card offers to let me know when it's safe!
You have to be amazed at someone who corners the gold market not just for the gold, but to raise the price of wheat so that farmers will sell more grain and use his railroad more. But the way people hated him was almost as amazing. Picture Ben Bernanke crossed with Bernie Madoff, Rick Wagoner, and Bill Gates (the evil monopolistic parts only). Scrooge was a piddly little amateur.
You say that because you're not running two wires to every office/cubicle in the building and attaching them to an expensive Cisco router... and then doing it all again when you have to reconfigure the cubes in three years. And you're not trying to run stuff through an older home that didn't come with built-in 10gigE wall jacks.
Seems a trifle off. Something about "equal protection under the law" and not having the institution too subject to the whims of the ruling party and the lobbyists of the week.
The food supplies of those who are likely to consume this drug aren't really strongly related to those of the world's starving, for better or worse. At least not at the moment.
The unemployment rate of people who have graduated college is still in the low single digits (3 or 4% last I checked) - still well above normal, but hardly devastatingly so. It's the non-college-educated crowd that's well into the double-digits of unemployment, something like 25%... crunch.
For what it's worth, I was making more than that ($9/hr) during an internship with the local university in high school (my junior year). IBM has a standard formula for interns that should get you around $15-$25/hr or so.
Antitrust concerns.
They have a competitor on the board since the competitor elected itself to the board with all the shares which they bought. No one but this competitor is happy with this setup.
I'd worry more about the continuing relevance of Perl in a niche which has come to be dominated more and more by PHP (eww!) and Ruby in recent years. It's not going away, certainly, but its relevance to the future of computing may be somewhat limited despite its technical merit.
We address this matter with a fairly rigorous team-wide coding style (which is easier to impart because we do pair programming, which is a great way to expose new developers to the team's practices and the product's quirks) and a massive battery of unit tests. These tests effectively serve as the basic low-level documentation of how something is supposed to work. There are a few comments here and there (to label the unit tests, or if there's a particularly tricky / confusing / subtle line or behavior). The tests say 'what', the code says 'how', and the comments say 'why'. Even the best comments don't prevent you from writing broken code. A good set of unit tests does.
We also wax a bit functional in our programming. You do need a modicum of competence to understand and write something like
but once you have that, it's a lot easier to understand (and harder to mess up) than a series of loops that try to do the same thing. Functional programming is a good thing when you can do it: the matter becomes less of what the code does and more about what the code is.
Myself, I think it's a rather dehumanizing notion that the life of an old person no longer has any dignity and the only value an individual has is his or her ability to perform Productive Work for Society, and extraordinarily selfish for us to be promoting it. (Even Communism recognizes something about "to each according to his needs".) I suppose the next step is open class warfare on the "less productive".
At my office, most of the developers have at least two monitors (1600x1200 Dell 2007FP or something like that). They're rotated 90 degrees (more vertical space for coding) and configured as a dual-monitor setup. A few developers have expanded things to 3 or 4 monitors. The machines in question sometimes have trouble booting up with two video cards (they're somewhat cheap old motherboards), but the drivers and desktop setup (Nvidia binary blobs under Ubuntu) were always pretty easy to get running and Just Worked with the nvidia config tool.
If you're on $garbage_DNS and you're served an advertisement/search page instead of NXDOMAIN, you (or your browser's auto-search) won't search Google. For that matter, just having something like this around will discourage $garbage_DNS.
Google cares about the Internet. It's where they make their money.
8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4.
It's a nice idea, but the legal theory there seems kinda... situational. Equal protection under the law, anybody?
The only way to win is not to play.
Why couldn't they leave the 'Moderate' button to rest in peace?!?!?!
Really, I think the people of Arizona would be better off if the school district officials were less interested in making a big showy news article about UFOs and filing criminal charges and dragging the legal system into things (and spending money on lawyers and courts and such) and more interested in just running the system effectively (let the guy go, quietly, and leave it at that). The world is a better place for everyone when we leave the legal system as a last resort. Of course, since these are officials in government service, let's ignore sense and guess which move will do more to further their career - the showy one, or the one that makes sense?
The bit about equipment from the school at home is interesting, but I wouldn't say it's outside the realm of possibility that he brought that sort of stuff home to work on it as part of his administrative duties. I'm not adequately informed to say one way or another.
As for the software being "essential to his work function", the machines in question are presumably used (or at least viewed) by school students at some point or another. I'd think the SETI@Home screensaver is, all else being equal, a fine way to encourage an interest in science among young children. Pretty wavy squiggly lines! Space! Aliens! Digital signal processing! Fast Fourier Transforms! Gaussian distributions! Cool!
Look, kids, it's a 1-million-dollar civics lesson. "Screw up in county-level government, and we'll sic the cops on you and paint you up as a UFO-worshipping freak or something." Uh-huh. And they wonder why the school systems of the nation can't hire anyone competent.