"I left my job thinking this would work, and it's getting harder and harder," Howard said. "They have to understand that some of us have decided to make this a full-time career." Howard
Yeah, fuck you. The world doesn't owe you anything and even Uber's own ad campaigns bend over backwards to emphasize that this is supposed to be a side gig to make some extra money.
No, fuck you. It doesn't matter if Uber insist that it's supposed to be a side gig. If they're willing to let people work full time then they should be willing to pay full time wages. If someone's working 40 hours per week then they shouldn't be sleeping in their car out of exhaustion because they're struggling to pay their bills. Nobody who works full time should live in poverty. Period.
I can't believe that so many people have been conditioned into thinking that poverty is something that's okay to inflict on people for making a non-glamorous career choice. If a business can't afford to pay its workers enough to get by on, it shouldn't be in business.
Producing their own original content was a smart more for Netflix. Everybody knows that their streaming movie selection sucks nowadays and you have to get the old fashioned DVDs in the mail for a decent choice. But for streaming TV shows of good quality it's a pretty good deal, especially since they allow people to share accounts. In fact they say the subscriber model for TV goes some way to explaining the rising quality of scripted TV in certain areas. Shows like Kings were really good but didn't do so well on conventional TV and didn't last very long. But Game of Thrones and the like lend themselves to long-term storytelling, and cord-cutting binge-watching streamers love that shit.
(I still think House of Cards shouldn't have been re-made though, I loved the British original and find the American version unwatchable.)
You get an email for *every* *single* *change* made to your tickets. Typical day:
mail 1: Your boss changed the delivery date of your task 1 minute later: Your boss changed the sprint. 30 seconds later: your boss changes the sprint back to its original 1 minute later: your boss attaches revised requirements document 30 seconds after that: revised unit testing spreadsheet. 1 minute later: email chain in which you discussed the change of scope w/boss pasted into comments. 2 minutes later: QA pastes the same email chain with an explanatory note regarding scheduling 1 minute later: boss changes the due date again. 30 seconds later: boss changes the sprint again. 30 seconds later: boss posts a question in the comments. 30 seconds later: boss changes the state of a ticket. 2 minutes later: you've been assigned a new task because X just went on vacation. 30 seconds later: Comment added to said task asking if you have bandwidth for this. 2 minutes after that: Said new task assigned to developer Y.
If you plan to work in an Agile environment then you might want to drop that attitude and make it your business to find out what these companies do.
Atlassian produces online collaboration tools like Jira and Confluence. Jira is a ticket-management system that lets you set up Kanban boards or SCRUM boards on which your team tracks the progress of tickets through the various stages to completion, and supports Agile visualizations such as burn-down charts. Confluence is a wiki-like tool for sharing documentation.
Plenty of employers are asking for Agile experience, so if you're familiar with these tools then it'll work in your favor.
Dunno if you're trolling or actually referring to the Arab and other Gulf states that depend on petro-dollars. But Saudi, under its newer and younger leaders, is beginning to diversify away from fossil fuels. Their citizens are even facing a new concept called taxation.
your conversations? That's the first thing I thought of when I saw the "geodesic dome shape" description. Sorry, no Amazon Echo for me and no Norton microphone router either. Kthxbye
No. But if you wear a tinfoil hat I hear that can stop such things from working.
None of the above: when you factor in the ~ 50% who couldn't in good conscience vote for either. So you have about 75% saying no to Trump and about the same saying no to Clinton.
We really need ranked choice voting.
In a democracy we count the votes of people who voted. Not the imaginary votes of people who stayed at home.
I can only imagine the outcry, if HRC had won and the republicans were asking to ignore the votes of Americans, because they voted incorrectly. Seriously, the people who were honestly hoping that the electoral college voters would ignore the votes of the people of their states, and simply disenfranchise however many million voters it would take, just so they can get their way?
I personally think Trump will be a horrible, horrible president. I cannot imagine any good coming from his presidency. The world climate alone may never recover. My only hope is that he will do something that can get him impeached relatively quickly, before too much damage can be done. Having said that, I still cannot understand the thought process behind attempting to tell 50% of the country, "your vote doesn't count, unless you vote the way you are supposed to". If that actually happened, the utter and complete demise of any semblance of democracy in the USA would have happened, and there would either be a) a revolt, or b) a new, non-democratic country.
"They're going to make it easier for you to trade across borders, because there are a lot of restrictions, a lot of problems. If you have any ideas on that, that would be great."
I thought he was against free trade. It was one of the defining features of his campaign, that he was going to back out of every trade deal going.
This is what I find so alarming.It's the sheer unpredictability of the guy. He's so scatterbrained that he can't even remember what was said a few minutes ago, to say nothing of months ago.
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"I left my job thinking this would work, and it's getting harder and harder," Howard said. "They have to understand that some of us have decided to make this a full-time career." Howard
Yeah, fuck you. The world doesn't owe you anything and even Uber's own ad campaigns bend over backwards to emphasize that this is supposed to be a side gig to make some extra money.
No, fuck you. It doesn't matter if Uber insist that it's supposed to be a side gig. If they're willing to let people work full time then they should be willing to pay full time wages. If someone's working 40 hours per week then they shouldn't be sleeping in their car out of exhaustion because they're struggling to pay their bills. Nobody who works full time should live in poverty. Period.
I can't believe that so many people have been conditioned into thinking that poverty is something that's okay to inflict on people for making a non-glamorous career choice. If a business can't afford to pay its workers enough to get by on, it shouldn't be in business.
First of all, there's no indication that President Trump is interested in an expansionist policy.
I know, mate. He'll probably sell Alaska back to Russia now.
And a barbarian sat on the throne of Rome.
But the BBC did. Why would you expect a BBC article to be written in bastardised American English?
Producing their own original content was a smart more for Netflix. Everybody knows that their streaming movie selection sucks nowadays and you have to get the old fashioned DVDs in the mail for a decent choice. But for streaming TV shows of good quality it's a pretty good deal, especially since they allow people to share accounts. In fact they say the subscriber model for TV goes some way to explaining the rising quality of scripted TV in certain areas. Shows like Kings were really good but didn't do so well on conventional TV and didn't last very long. But Game of Thrones and the like lend themselves to long-term storytelling, and cord-cutting binge-watching streamers love that shit.
(I still think House of Cards shouldn't have been re-made though, I loved the British original and find the American version unwatchable.)
It's an Automatic Tampon Remover.
Didn't GW Bush sign a "clear skies" act that defended the freedom of companies to pollute?
Between pedantic jackasses and failed comedians, the comments on /. have gone seriously downhill of late. Time to reevaluate the modding system?
You get an email for *every* *single* *change* made to your tickets. Typical day:
mail 1: Your boss changed the delivery date of your task
1 minute later: Your boss changed the sprint.
30 seconds later: your boss changes the sprint back to its original
1 minute later: your boss attaches revised requirements document
30 seconds after that: revised unit testing spreadsheet.
1 minute later: email chain in which you discussed the change of scope w/boss pasted into comments.
2 minutes later: QA pastes the same email chain with an explanatory note regarding scheduling
1 minute later: boss changes the due date again.
30 seconds later: boss changes the sprint again.
30 seconds later: boss posts a question in the comments.
30 seconds later: boss changes the state of a ticket.
2 minutes later: you've been assigned a new task because X just went on vacation.
30 seconds later: Comment added to said task asking if you have bandwidth for this.
2 minutes after that: Said new task assigned to developer Y.
Dude. Fix your settings. Don't blame the tool.
Any time I hear "Agile" or any of those other buzzwords, I run for the door.
Just you do that. If you don't want to learn a skill or method that employees are asking for then knock yourself out.
Take it up with your sys admin who should be on top of these things. I use Jira and Confluence every day. There's nothing wrong with them.
If you plan to work in an Agile environment then you might want to drop that attitude and make it your business to find out what these companies do.
Atlassian produces online collaboration tools like Jira and Confluence. Jira is a ticket-management system that lets you set up Kanban boards or SCRUM boards on which your team tracks the progress of tickets through the various stages to completion, and supports Agile visualizations such as burn-down charts. Confluence is a wiki-like tool for sharing documentation.
Plenty of employers are asking for Agile experience, so if you're familiar with these tools then it'll work in your favor.
You cared enough to comment.
Dunno if you're trolling or actually referring to the Arab and other Gulf states that depend on petro-dollars. But Saudi, under its newer and younger leaders, is beginning to diversify away from fossil fuels. Their citizens are even facing a new concept called taxation.
I hope nobody mods up the usual unfunny racist bullshit about curry.
your conversations? That's the first thing I thought of when I saw the "geodesic dome shape" description. Sorry, no Amazon Echo for me and no Norton microphone router either. Kthxbye
No. But if you wear a tinfoil hat I hear that can stop such things from working.
Sounds to me like it does still function after a year, it just doesn't have the extra security.
Bunkum. The electoral college is affirmative action for rednecks. It's time it was gone.
Um, who do you think won the popular vote?
None of the above: when you factor in the ~ 50% who couldn't in good conscience vote for either.
So you have about 75% saying no to Trump and about the same saying no to Clinton.
We really need ranked choice voting.
In a democracy we count the votes of people who voted. Not the imaginary votes of people who stayed at home.
I can only imagine the outcry, if HRC had won and the republicans were asking to ignore the votes of Americans, because they voted incorrectly. Seriously, the people who were honestly hoping that the electoral college voters would ignore the votes of the people of their states, and simply disenfranchise however many million voters it would take, just so they can get their way?
I personally think Trump will be a horrible, horrible president. I cannot imagine any good coming from his presidency. The world climate alone may never recover. My only hope is that he will do something that can get him impeached relatively quickly, before too much damage can be done. Having said that, I still cannot understand the thought process behind attempting to tell 50% of the country, "your vote doesn't count, unless you vote the way you are supposed to". If that actually happened, the utter and complete demise of any semblance of democracy in the USA would have happened, and there would either be a) a revolt, or b) a new, non-democratic country.
Um, who do you think won the popular vote?
And a barbarian sat on the throne of Rome
How about just building stores within walking distance of homes?
Obama will announce that the US is going to retaliate against China. Then nothing will happen.
You're thinking of Bush. The guy who said he'd get Bin Laden. Took Obama to finish that job.
Drivers have to be vetted by the DMV before they get a license. It stops other road users from getting killed.
Autonomous driving systems have to be vetted by the DMV before they get a permit. It stops other road users from getting killed.
"They're going to make it easier for you to trade across borders, because there are a lot of restrictions, a lot of problems. If you have any ideas on that, that would be great."
I thought he was against free trade. It was one of the defining features of his campaign, that he was going to back out of every trade deal going.
This is what I find so alarming.It's the sheer unpredictability of the guy. He's so scatterbrained that he can't even remember what was said a few minutes ago, to say nothing of months ago.