Interesting how many of the comments here are fighting the numbers. It's not like West Virginia leads the nation in drug-related deaths - oh, wait, they do:
In 2016, the five states with the highest rates of death due to drug overdose were West Virginia (52.0 per 100,000), Ohio (39.1 per 100,000), New Hampshire (39.0 per 100,000), Pennsylvania (37.9 per 100,000) and (Kentucky (33.5 per 100,000).
Those of us in the array-programming communities have been aware of the limitations of working memory - and the concomitant problems - for decades: http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki... .
James Clapper, head of the NSA, lied to congress while under oath and suffered no consequences whatsoever: http://www.slate.com/articles/... .
That's what I call lack of enforcement.
Here we go again - people with their eyes closed saying how dark it is.
It's like saying that French is impossible to read or speak when you've never even tried to learn the language.
I've worked several large, complex systems written in APL and maintained by one or two people. I've also seen any number of failed attempts to re-write an APL-based system, usually with teams several times the size of the APL one.
Perhaps he says that because Nestle is known for dressing saleswoman as nurses to encourage poor Africans not to breastfeed - which has a lot of health benefits for infants - but to spend money on baby formula.
This is just the logical next step for someone so self-delusional - representing equally delusional and cowardly people - that he actually believes the latest lie out of his mouth, even if it contradicted the one before it.
I have managed to keep programming though I'm a member of a sales group for a complex piece of software but our company allows for "technical" positions even under the sales umbrella.
I basically got no responses when I was looking for a programming job several years ago - can't hide the fact that I graduated college in 1981.
Programming is what I like to do and I think I'm pretty good at it after more than 40 years of practice but I also want to get paid, so no one wants to look at me, especially since all organizations I've seen are clueless about measuring ability, and are typically unaware that there is a tremendous range of abilities among people who can churn out a piece of working code.
I was originally hired into a QA area, so I've seen a lot of really bad code that is in production and working with some of the people writing code makes me wonder how they got hired in the first place.
The way things work currently, valuing youth over experience, leaves me unsurprised whenever I learn of gross problems with code, like the time Microsoft's Zune failed to account for the leap year in 2008: https://www.computerworld.com/... .
I hear a lot, especially from one side, about how excessive regulations are crippling the US's ability to compete but never about this sort of regulation that hampers individual employees.
This is a sign of the success of things like the right-wing attacks on actual reporting of fact being derided as "fake news". People who see faith as having primacy over reason will shut their ears to things they don't like, regardless of how true it is.
From the article, quoting David Hopkins, co-author of "Asymmetric Politics: Ideological Republicans and Group Interest Democrats":
The conservative critique of the social sciences in the mid- and late-1900s, he said, has grown to include the hard sciences in the last 20 years, largely among subjects like stem-cell research, climate change, and evolution.
When people were looking into using AI in finance in the 80s, a major showstopper was that we would be unable to explain the rationale behind investment decisions. You would have no way of distinguishing between dumb luck that seemed to work but would eventually bankrupt you and reasonable decisions that could be justified even in the face of short-term losses.
I'm reading "Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts", by Caroll Tavris, Elliot Aronson, in hopes that it may help me understand "those" people on the other side of our polarized country.
Also, Hugo-winner "Downbelow Station" by C. J. Cherryh, just because.
Recently finished the two books, so far, in a series starting with "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss - excellent fantasy. Am eagerly awaiting the next one.
Last month I enjoyed reading "A Man for All Markets", the autobiography of Edward Thorp, who is arguably one of the most successful investors of all time but who got his start in "investing" and iconoclastic thinking when he developed card-counting for blackjack and wrote "Beat the Dealer".
Have also recently enjoyed a couple of books by William Hertling that may appeal to computer nerds: "Avogadro Corp" and "Kill Process".
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...not doing a good job? I'm shocked! Absolutely shocked!
In 2016, the five states with the highest rates of death due to drug overdose were West Virginia (52.0 per 100,000), Ohio (39.1 per 100,000), New Hampshire (39.0 per 100,000), Pennsylvania (37.9 per 100,000) and (Kentucky (33.5 per 100,000).
[https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/statedeaths.html]
But that's probably a big coincidence.
Well, yeah, now they would. Thanks a lot, West Virginia.
Those of us in the array-programming communities have been aware of the limitations of working memory - and the concomitant problems - for decades: http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki... .
James Clapper, head of the NSA, lied to congress while under oath and suffered no consequences whatsoever: http://www.slate.com/articles/... . That's what I call lack of enforcement.
> ...that went largely unnoticed/uncovered by mainstream media.
Like these two articles in the NY Times?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...
Here we go again - people with their eyes closed saying how dark it is.
It's like saying that French is impossible to read or speak when you've never even tried to learn the language.
I've worked several large, complex systems written in APL and maintained by one or two people. I've also seen any number of failed attempts to re-write an APL-based system, usually with teams several times the size of the APL one.
HR's job is to protect the company, not the employees.
Perhaps he says that because Nestle is known for dressing saleswoman as nurses to encourage poor Africans not to breastfeed - which has a lot of health benefits for infants - but to spend money on baby formula.
This is just the logical next step for someone so self-delusional - representing equally delusional and cowardly people - that he actually believes the latest lie out of his mouth, even if it contradicted the one before it.
I have managed to keep programming though I'm a member of a sales group for a complex piece of software but our company allows for "technical" positions even under the sales umbrella.
I basically got no responses when I was looking for a programming job several years ago - can't hide the fact that I graduated college in 1981.
Programming is what I like to do and I think I'm pretty good at it after more than 40 years of practice but I also want to get paid, so no one wants to look at me, especially since all organizations I've seen are clueless about measuring ability, and are typically unaware that there is a tremendous range of abilities among people who can churn out a piece of working code.
I was originally hired into a QA area, so I've seen a lot of really bad code that is in production and working with some of the people writing code makes me wonder how they got hired in the first place.
The way things work currently, valuing youth over experience, leaves me unsurprised whenever I learn of gross problems with code, like the time Microsoft's Zune failed to account for the leap year in 2008: https://www.computerworld.com/... .
Not that I'm bitter or anything.
Well, there's capital markets, art, literature, entertainment, science and medicine; aside from that, almost nothing.
Isn't Russia the home of Chernobyl?
'Cuz no age discrimination? Just keep repeating this as you pass 40 and so on....
Not that I'll read it.
For instance, this "couch potato" article from 2008: https://www.newscientist.com/a... (may be paywalled).
Some ideas what to do about it: https://www.newscientist.com/a... (may be paywalled).
and this: https://www.newscientist.com/a... (OK - I keep giving NS articles because I subscribe and there's no paywall for me.)
I hear a lot, especially from one side, about how excessive regulations are crippling the US's ability to compete but never about this sort of regulation that hampers individual employees.
How about it, anti-regulation crowd?
*crickets*
The conservative critique of the social sciences in the mid- and late-1900s, he said, has grown to include the hard sciences in the last 20 years, largely among subjects like stem-cell research, climate change, and evolution.
Now I'm definitely going to watch that episode.
If they really have such a "cast" system, couldn't they easily address the complaints of unfair foreign competition by something like this:
Programmer = (American) IndianProgrammer;
?
Or work makes you sick.
When people were looking into using AI in finance in the 80s, a major showstopper was that we would be unable to explain the rationale behind investment decisions. You would have no way of distinguishing between dumb luck that seemed to work but would eventually bankrupt you and reasonable decisions that could be justified even in the face of short-term losses.
Also, Hugo-winner "Downbelow Station" by C. J. Cherryh, just because.
Recently finished the two books, so far, in a series starting with "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss - excellent fantasy. Am eagerly awaiting the next one.
Last month I enjoyed reading "A Man for All Markets", the autobiography of Edward Thorp, who is arguably one of the most successful investors of all time but who got his start in "investing" and iconoclastic thinking when he developed card-counting for blackjack and wrote "Beat the Dealer".
Have also recently enjoyed a couple of books by William Hertling that may appeal to computer nerds: "Avogadro Corp" and "Kill Process".
Why do conservatives have so much difficulty distinguishing between sexual assault and consensual sex?
Only if you consider demonstrated, utter contempt for rule of law to be moderate, not to mention appointments based solely on loyalty to Der Donald.