You are majorly fucking up if you have to worry about your expenses on a $300K income. I earn well under that and I honestly don't have anything sensible to spend my money on.
That is bullshit. There are plenty of places in Europe where cash is not accepted. In fact, many, many Government Offices (certainly a few I deal with in Germany) will not accept cash.
Because most (almost all) people are really bad at analysing risk.
That's how insurance companies make so much money.
They sell you insurance for things that are extraordinarily unlikely to happen, but, try to get insurance for something that has a 100% chance of happening, and see what happens.
A really simple page like the plain old Google (http://www.google.com) is now 30,000 + bytes of crap.
That's why we all need gigabit to the home. Web Content providers are asshats who don't even think for a second about how much totally unnecessary garbage they ship with their pages.
Want to make yourself feel sick, analyse how much of a typical webpage is absolutely unnecessary, redundant, unused HTML (or JS, or whatever). Count how many times the font is specified, or how many times duplicated code is used (instead of a function call). It's just slop, lazy, stupid. That's why I don't consider Web Programmers to be programmers at all.
I think you would be surprised how many Fedora installations are actually important servers in very, very large corporations - especially tech companies.
Fedora is great, the kernel is surprisingly stable, important libraries like the latest version of OpenCL are current with the latest kernels.
...I wrote a tool to find duplicate files in Windows NT.
I was very careful to not include links (believe it or not NT supported the equivalent of unix Hard Links and SoftLinks), and also once suspicious duplicates were found - first I sorted by file size, then check-summed duplicate sized files, then matching files got the bytewise comparison - a bytewise comparison was performed to ensure an exact match before naming culprits.
It was always a source of amazement to find the exact same file located in at least 3 different sub-directories of Windows/System. Thankfully I stopped using Windows not long after NT 3.51, so I was spared the torture of Windows as it is today.
I am always looking for a new job, anyone who isn't is a fool.
So, I was/am happily employed by a medium sized,very high tech , company. I'm a sys-integration guy, which means I used to be an very good developer, then got more interesting in the bigger picture. Since I was never satisfied with my knowledge in any aspect of computing, I became very good with OS fundamentals, networking, file systems, and all the other peripheral stuff associated with software development (revision control, ticketing, testing, deployment, you name it, I know about it ) So Integration came easy.
I recently found a significantly better paying, more interesting job, so gave notice. My company hired an H1B to replace me.
He is useless. After 3 weeks of fairly intensive OJT, he is still unable to even start to resolve the few minor problems that come up.
I have very, very little faith that he will be able to take over for me.
I know for a fact that he is being paid less than half of what I am earning. I also know that totally qualified locals are available, for about 85% of my rate.
So, I have told him, he shouldn't even have the job, he is taking a decent paying position from a properly qualified local, and that he should be happy I'm not his boss, cause I'd fire his ass immediately. I have a pretty good suspicion that he was hired because the project manager' wife (indian) has a H1B recruiting company in India. She's a bitch and a half too.
Needless to say we're not really on speaking terms.
Fuck the H1B program. It's just a way to abuse the labor market. There's no skills shortage, there's a corporate greed problem.
Seriously, I'm a developer, have been for nearly 30 years. I've been very well paid throughout that time.
Sorry, poor young Techies , $3000 a month for a quality apartment in the nice parts of the city is absolutely nothing to complain about. I was paying that 6 years ago.
I could have lived somewhere cheaper but that would involve other tradeoffs that I am not willing to make. There's a reason that $3000 apartment costs that much, you're competing with me, and it sounds like you're losing.
This ruling, which is totally obvious, will spell the end to auto insurance companies, they'll be swallowed up by the big auto companies, and will be just another part of their businesses. I say that's a good thing, since the manufacturer carries *all* the risk for their product, instead of the current model, where they (implicitly) lay the risk off to the insurance company.
As long as consumer protection laws are enforced - and adjusted for this new business model - I see good things, not dead people.
Ok, so that OP's idea won't work, although it was creative.
How about a similar solution.
Encase the offending components in something (glass?) and position that in such a way that it gets folded into a subduction zone. Then it gets melted into the earth - kind of like where it came from anyway.
All innovation is simply a series of very small steps. All "discoveries" or "inventions" are at their root, fairly minor enhancements to existing knowledge or craft.
Sure, sometimes those minor enhancements were not at all obvious to anyone except the exceptional person (or team) who made them, but, once the enhancement is announced, it's completely obvious, to anyone willing to analyse it, how it rests on all the past development.
I challenge anyone to find an example of any discovery, invention or other innovation which does not fall into this rule.
Nothing annoys me more (well, not many things anyway, dirty dishes, unmade beds,....) than people wandering around talking about be "entrepreneurs" , and "creatives", with this shit-faced superiority that only ignorance and inexperience can produce.. Most (98%+) of end up failing, spectacularly, because they think all the value is in the idea, rather than the implementation of the idea. Reality shows us, 99.999999% of the value is in the implementation of the idea, the idea is nearly worthless.
I think this is what Linus would say if he had conferred with me first.
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You are majorly fucking up if you have to worry about your expenses on a $300K income. I earn well under that and I honestly don't have anything sensible to spend my money on.
I find Netflix is consistently delivering good quality shows - at least, shows I look forward to watching.
:
I've really enjoyed
Better Call Saul
The Patriot
The Bridge (American version)
and a few others that I can't remember the names of right now (too many beers, it's Friday)
The subscription is almost free, and I never pay extra for premium stuff. It doesn't have commercials, I watch on my schedule, etc, etc..
What's not to like ?
That is bullshit. There are plenty of places in Europe where cash is not accepted. In fact, many, many Government Offices (certainly a few I deal with in Germany) will not accept cash.
Because most (almost all) people are really bad at analysing risk.
That's how insurance companies make so much money.
They sell you insurance for things that are extraordinarily unlikely to happen, but, try to get insurance for something that has a 100% chance of happening, and see what happens.
A really simple page like the plain old Google (http://www.google.com) is now 30,000 + bytes of crap.
That's why we all need gigabit to the home. Web Content providers are asshats who don't even think for a second about how much totally unnecessary garbage they ship with their pages.
Want to make yourself feel sick, analyse how much of a typical webpage is absolutely unnecessary, redundant, unused HTML (or JS, or whatever). Count how many times the font is specified, or how many times duplicated code is used (instead of a function call). It's just slop, lazy, stupid. That's why I don't consider Web Programmers to be programmers at all.
I think you would be surprised how many Fedora installations are actually important servers in very, very large corporations - especially tech companies.
Fedora is great, the kernel is surprisingly stable, important libraries like the latest version of OpenCL are current with the latest kernels.
Welfare fraud is already extremely rare. If it gets any more rare, it will be statistically nonexistent
Thanks for the clarification.
...I wrote a tool to find duplicate files in Windows NT.
I was very careful to not include links (believe it or not NT supported the equivalent of unix Hard Links and SoftLinks), and also once suspicious duplicates were found - first I sorted by file size, then check-summed duplicate sized files, then matching files got the bytewise comparison - a bytewise comparison was performed to ensure an exact match before naming culprits.
It was always a source of amazement to find the exact same file located in at least 3 different sub-directories of Windows/System. Thankfully I stopped using Windows not long after NT 3.51, so I was spared the torture of Windows as it is today.
...education and social media usage. The more educated, the less it is used.
From personal observation, I concur. My most educated acquaintances use it significantly less than the less well educated.
Perhaps we're hitting upon a core truth here !
You should be looking for another one.
You're going to be out of a job soon
clearly, I need glasses, cause that 44 million km diameter dot looks very small to me.
If you suffered *any* injuries from walking a few miles, you have bigger problems. See a doctor, quickly !
CODE: It's a great choice since formatting is always maintained
What language is that?
Perhaps you meant "tended to have cut off"
You call yourself an editor? No wonder I have so little regard for you soft skilled types.
... training my replacement, after I gave notice.
,very high tech , company. I'm a sys-integration guy, which means I used to be an very good developer, then got more interesting in the bigger picture. Since I was never satisfied with my knowledge in any aspect of computing, I became very good with OS fundamentals, networking, file systems, and all the other peripheral stuff associated with software development (revision control, ticketing, testing, deployment, you name it, I know about it ) So Integration came easy.
I am always looking for a new job, anyone who isn't is a fool.
So, I was/am happily employed by a medium sized
I recently found a significantly better paying, more interesting job, so gave notice. My company hired an H1B to replace me.
He is useless. After 3 weeks of fairly intensive OJT, he is still unable to even start to resolve the few minor problems that come up.
I have very, very little faith that he will be able to take over for me.
I know for a fact that he is being paid less than half of what I am earning. I also know that totally qualified locals are available, for about 85% of my rate.
So, I have told him, he shouldn't even have the job, he is taking a decent paying position from a properly qualified local, and that he should be happy I'm not his boss, cause I'd fire his ass immediately. I have a pretty good suspicion that he was hired because the project manager' wife (indian) has a H1B recruiting company in India. She's a bitch and a half too.
Needless to say we're not really on speaking terms.
Fuck the H1B program. It's just a way to abuse the labor market. There's no skills shortage, there's a corporate greed problem.
As apposed to every other solution which creates a dependency upon a different company.
What's your point ?
... to be able to grow tomatoes.
Tomatoes ?? I hear you ask.
Well, of course, you can't eat Fries without Ketchup, can you ?
...to call BullShit on this story. Assuming someone hasn't already done so)
Sorry, it's simply not believable that he would have been given such a test, with such explicit, and actually fairly demanding questions.
Try again.
Troll ?
My comments reflect the majority of posts on this thread.
Pussy Mods.
you're !
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Seriously, I'm a developer, have been for nearly 30 years. I've been very well paid throughout that time.
Sorry, poor young Techies , $3000 a month for a quality apartment in the nice parts of the city is absolutely nothing to complain about. I was paying that 6 years ago.
I could have lived somewhere cheaper but that would involve other tradeoffs that I am not willing to make. There's a reason that $3000 apartment costs that much, you're competing with me, and it sounds like you're losing.
Life's tough, deal with it!
...primarily financial services companies.
This ruling, which is totally obvious, will spell the end to auto insurance companies, they'll be swallowed up by the big auto companies, and will be just another part of their businesses. I say that's a good thing, since the manufacturer carries *all* the risk for their product, instead of the current model, where they (implicitly) lay the risk off to the insurance company.
As long as consumer protection laws are enforced - and adjusted for this new business model - I see good things, not dead people.
Ok, so that OP's idea won't work, although it was creative.
How about a similar solution.
Encase the offending components in something (glass?) and position that in such a way that it gets folded into a subduction zone. Then it gets melted into the earth - kind of like where it came from anyway.
Would something like that work ?
totally obvious to any half-way observant person.
....) than people wandering around talking about be "entrepreneurs" , and "creatives", with this shit-faced superiority that only ignorance and inexperience can produce.. Most (98%+) of end up failing, spectacularly, because they think all the value is in the idea, rather than the implementation of the idea. Reality shows us, 99.999999% of the value is in the implementation of the idea, the idea is nearly worthless.
All innovation is simply a series of very small steps. All "discoveries" or "inventions" are at their root, fairly minor enhancements to existing knowledge or craft.
Sure, sometimes those minor enhancements were not at all obvious to anyone except the exceptional person (or team) who made them, but, once the enhancement is announced, it's completely obvious, to anyone willing to analyse it, how it rests on all the past development.
I challenge anyone to find an example of any discovery, invention or other innovation which does not fall into this rule.
Nothing annoys me more (well, not many things anyway, dirty dishes, unmade beds,
I think this is what Linus would say if he had conferred with me first.