I subscribe to The Economist. I read some of it online, but I find that I typically will read the dead tree version cover to cover. On my iPad or on the web I skip a lot of the European and British content. So for me, the paper version is superior.
I am solidly on the "left" and I support immigration law enforcement. However, unlike most of the people on the "right" that I debate, I believe that we should target the demand. The undocumented immigrants come here because somebody is offering them a job (or they can get a job for vastly more than they can make in their home country). If you want to stem the tide, you start putting business owners who knowingly, and willingly hire the undocumented to pay a lower wage, and to avoid tax.
I worked much of my way through college cooking in various restaurants. I worked with lots of undocumented workers. The owner/manager knowingly rely on labor that was willing to work 10 - 12 hours a day, for about 1/2 the minimum wage. Stop that practice, and only drugs will come across the boarder.
Again true, but they can pick and choose among the easy to find consulting gigs. However, once this group retires, I fear that the drought will be long until some young'uns decide that Analog is a profitable career path. There remains many things that can't be done better in digital.
It's now automatically assumed by the schools that nobody will ever have to do any integrated analog design.
And that is a damn shame, because finding a decent analog savvy EE is damned hard these days. Alas, it is the dinosaurs, nearing retirement age, that can whip out a high slew rate clean HV amp system (for use in an AFM). And they are becoming as scarce as hen's teeth.
Not quite right. Harley was getting their asses handed to them by the Japanese 750CC bikes. Better performance, reliability and fuel economy for a lot less. Congress (at the urging of St. Reagan) instituted a tariff on 750CC bikes and above. It just caused all the makers to make their bikes 700CCs to avoid the tariff.
The 2 stroke dirt bikes was a 70's folly by HD. They imported and rebadged Aeromacchi bikes from Italy. They were true pieces of shit, even less reliable than the Bultaco's of Spain.
You can pimp a pinto all you want. But it'll still be a shitty beater in the end.
Funny you should mention the Pinto. In high school a buddy of mine did just that. By the time he was done, he had spent a shit-ton of money, dropped in a Boss 302 motor (from a wrecked Mustang) and he still had a fast piece of shit. Probably could have gotten a real Boss 302 Mustang for what he had into it.
If you want the big silicon valley salary, move to silicon valley. I know that when they put remote developers in Hyderabad, you typically get 4 (surprisingly good) SW engineers for the cost of one silicon valley salary. Companies pay higher salaries in silicon valley because the cost of living there is really high.
If half your team is "air thieves", then you might want to start searching for another job.
I just can't understand why people work in environments where the perceived lack of trust/competency is as high as I read about here. If it is that bad, leave. If I find my self in a toxic situation where I thought half the team I worked with were a waste of skin, by staying I become as bad as them.
To add to your stealth layoff thought, if Yahoo is like other companies that I know of (and worked at), they paid silicon valley wages to workers in Iowa, North Dakota, and Kansas etc. You get to live like a king in one of those places with your Yahoo! paycheck.
If remote workers were paid local prevailing salaries for the city/state they live in, you would find a lot less people enamored of being remote.
I care, because I often do deep literature searches. Unfortunately, this requires me to plow through 20 or 30 citations to understand the prior research. About 90% of those are behind paywalls. It typically costs $30 - $45 per paper to get access to the whole thing. And about 2/3rds the time it was worthless.
It is very easy to blow a couple hundred dollars to review tangential research that may have been relevant.
How many of these papers were written with government grants? Darned close to 100%. If you take public money for your research, then we should be able to access the paper without cost.
I still have, on my desk at work, my HP41CV. I have had it rebuilt once, and it can be a pain to find N cells for it. I also have a perfect emulator on my iPhone, with the roms (warts and all), but 9 time out of 10, I unzip the case and fire up the HP41CV.
Two of the best courses I took in pursuit of my Physics degree were a Communications class on debate, and US History. I use lessons from the debate course all the time when I present to groups (which I do a LOT of), and better than an english composition class, the History class was paper heavy, and forced me to really learn how to write papers.
As someone who has been through an E-Discovery process (lawsuit by a patent troll we were fighting) there is amazing forensic analysis technology that goes into collecting and collating emails, IM's, and documents.
Uh, no. Most people care about having shiny baubles, and them being cheap. They may "claim" to care about privacy, but in practice, they give it up pretty freely.
Just googled it myself. I am not a coder, and have never held that position, but I know I can solve this problem in C, Pascal, Basic (shiver) and probably with about 10 minutes of refreshing my memory, Fortran. And I really haven't written anything since I left college almost 25 years ago.
However, at my last job, we had a hot host programmer, really great Win32 API guy who wrote great C and C++ code. I had to explain to him trigonometry, and how to do coordinate transformations (simple rotations combined with translations). Apparently, he never learned about transcendentals in school.
I don't hire programmers, but if I did, a simple test like this would certainly be on the interview schedule.
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I subscribe to The Economist. I read some of it online, but I find that I typically will read the dead tree version cover to cover. On my iPad or on the web I skip a lot of the European and British content. So for me, the paper version is superior.
Agreed. I am down to the Economist, and Physics Today.
I am solidly on the "left" and I support immigration law enforcement. However, unlike most of the people on the "right" that I debate, I believe that we should target the demand. The undocumented immigrants come here because somebody is offering them a job (or they can get a job for vastly more than they can make in their home country). If you want to stem the tide, you start putting business owners who knowingly, and willingly hire the undocumented to pay a lower wage, and to avoid tax.
I worked much of my way through college cooking in various restaurants. I worked with lots of undocumented workers. The owner/manager knowingly rely on labor that was willing to work 10 - 12 hours a day, for about 1/2 the minimum wage. Stop that practice, and only drugs will come across the boarder.
Again true, but they can pick and choose among the easy to find consulting gigs. However, once this group retires, I fear that the drought will be long until some young'uns decide that Analog is a profitable career path. There remains many things that can't be done better in digital.
It's now automatically assumed by the schools that nobody will ever have to do any integrated analog design.
And that is a damn shame, because finding a decent analog savvy EE is damned hard these days. Alas, it is the dinosaurs, nearing retirement age, that can whip out a high slew rate clean HV amp system (for use in an AFM). And they are becoming as scarce as hen's teeth.
1^googleplex is still 1. Just sayin'
Not quite right. Harley was getting their asses handed to them by the Japanese 750CC bikes. Better performance, reliability and fuel economy for a lot less. Congress (at the urging of St. Reagan) instituted a tariff on 750CC bikes and above. It just caused all the makers to make their bikes 700CCs to avoid the tariff.
The 2 stroke dirt bikes was a 70's folly by HD. They imported and rebadged Aeromacchi bikes from Italy. They were true pieces of shit, even less reliable than the Bultaco's of Spain.
I wonder if the District court in Marshall Texas has one...
It is a full day event to go to the library, so no, I won't be able to go spend 2 days a week at the local university.
Funny you should mention the Pinto. In high school a buddy of mine did just that. By the time he was done, he had spent a shit-ton of money, dropped in a Boss 302 motor (from a wrecked Mustang) and he still had a fast piece of shit. Probably could have gotten a real Boss 302 Mustang for what he had into it.
If you want the big silicon valley salary, move to silicon valley. I know that when they put remote developers in Hyderabad, you typically get 4 (surprisingly good) SW engineers for the cost of one silicon valley salary. Companies pay higher salaries in silicon valley because the cost of living there is really high.
If half your team is "air thieves", then you might want to start searching for another job.
I just can't understand why people work in environments where the perceived lack of trust/competency is as high as I read about here. If it is that bad, leave. If I find my self in a toxic situation where I thought half the team I worked with were a waste of skin, by staying I become as bad as them.
To add to your stealth layoff thought, if Yahoo is like other companies that I know of (and worked at), they paid silicon valley wages to workers in Iowa, North Dakota, and Kansas etc. You get to live like a king in one of those places with your Yahoo! paycheck.
If remote workers were paid local prevailing salaries for the city/state they live in, you would find a lot less people enamored of being remote.
I care, because I often do deep literature searches. Unfortunately, this requires me to plow through 20 or 30 citations to understand the prior research. About 90% of those are behind paywalls. It typically costs $30 - $45 per paper to get access to the whole thing. And about 2/3rds the time it was worthless.
It is very easy to blow a couple hundred dollars to review tangential research that may have been relevant.
How many of these papers were written with government grants? Darned close to 100%. If you take public money for your research, then we should be able to access the paper without cost.
Classic "Like a boss" meme
I still have, on my desk at work, my HP41CV. I have had it rebuilt once, and it can be a pain to find N cells for it. I also have a perfect emulator on my iPhone, with the roms (warts and all), but 9 time out of 10, I unzip the case and fire up the HP41CV.
Why oh why did my mod points expire yesterday?
Two of the best courses I took in pursuit of my Physics degree were a Communications class on debate, and US History. I use lessons from the debate course all the time when I present to groups (which I do a LOT of), and better than an english composition class, the History class was paper heavy, and forced me to really learn how to write papers.
Both are skills that I use day in and day out.
IE is alive and well, and in fact our Oracle BI suite ONLY works in IE (how wack is that?!?!?)
Wish I could believe this, but it is too soon to declare victory.
As someone who has been through an E-Discovery process (lawsuit by a patent troll we were fighting) there is amazing forensic analysis technology that goes into collecting and collating emails, IM's, and documents.
Uh, no. Most people care about having shiny baubles, and them being cheap. They may "claim" to care about privacy, but in practice, they give it up pretty freely.
Thanks for the clarification!
That seems to be a limit on congress. Does that apply to states? (just asking, my civic class was more than 30 years ago)
Gah, I learned PDP11 assembly back in college (yeah, I am that old).
Just googled it myself. I am not a coder, and have never held that position, but I know I can solve this problem in C, Pascal, Basic (shiver) and probably with about 10 minutes of refreshing my memory, Fortran. And I really haven't written anything since I left college almost 25 years ago.
However, at my last job, we had a hot host programmer, really great Win32 API guy who wrote great C and C++ code. I had to explain to him trigonometry, and how to do coordinate transformations (simple rotations combined with translations). Apparently, he never learned about transcendentals in school.
I don't hire programmers, but if I did, a simple test like this would certainly be on the interview schedule.