This is spot-on. Skill, productivity, and fitness for the position are all very hard to measure but salary expectation is an exact number that directly affects the bottom line. Also, in any large organization, salary levels are tied to titles and expected responsibilities. If all the higher earners are expected to have management responsibilities, it's hard to justify an expensive developer who would only analyze, design, and code, no matter how much benefit this would bring to a team.
When the law is in your favor, argue the law. When the facts are in your favor, argue the facts. When neither is in your favor, pound on the table and shout.
I'd be interested if the OP had a feel for whether adherence to certain practices does, in fact, result in a better codebase. Personally, I'm skeptical that they do, even though I think that some of them are probably Good Things to Do, simply because they might help.
Is there a difference between "religious hatred" and "mocking religion", or "criticism of religion", or "discussion of religion"? Assuming even the Aussie PM would allow for discussion of religion, what if this discussion includes pointing out the superstitious, non-rational nature of religion or of a particular religion?
How do rules against "religious hatred" differ from rules against blasphemy, insofar as a prohibition against blasphemy is clearly a weapon to be applied arbitrarily by those in power against their enemies?
This is actually the important implication of this paper: emissions go up during a boom but fall less than they went up during a following slump. The author postulates that booms bring more infrastructure that remains in use subsequently.
For the more numerate among you: a progressive income tax + a lot of poor people = many people paying little or no income tax. They still pay all sorts of other taxes.
Also, what proportion of serving members of our armed forces come from families in the "47%" - do you think it's proportional to the population as a whole or perhaps the poor are hugely over-represented here?
So continues a recent tradition in the auto industry of poor interface design: replacing speedometer dials - easy to read approximately but quickly - with digital speed displays which give unnecessarily precise information; replacing tactile radio buttons with digital displays and moving numerous other devices that could be used without looking at them to a (single point of failure) screen that requires taking ones eyes off the road.
I've sometimes wondered if the US Constitution's First Amendment groups together freedom of religious practice (in part by _prohibiting_ Congress from passing a law respecting an establishment of religion) and freedom of speech because of the Founding Fathers' awareness of the scourge of blasphemy laws which were in effect in much of Europe at that time.
The charge was going AWOL, which was probably true, but you're right that one of the items of evidence was faked and this was enough to sink the whole issue.
When I saw the large number of the usual bogus arguments - http://www.circinfo.net/anti_circumcision_lobby_groups.html - being trotted out for this post, I wondered if I had accidentally stumbled on one about anthropogenic global warming.
Personally, I think even a small reduction of the risk of HIV or penis cancer is worth a minor surgery I can't even recall.
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When I was on grand jury duty, we had a few cases involving DNA evidence. Each time, the crime lab tech would repeat the same well-rehearsed statement that the odds against finding a match by chance would require something like "100 trillion earths with a population of 10 billion individuals" to find someone with a particular DNA sequence.
I regret not using my prerogative as a grand juror to ask them if the chances of contamination or a lab error were less than that number.
How many (hundreds) of simultaneous users will your cheap configuration support? What (fraction of a percent) is your unplanned downtime under load?
Comparing mainframe MIPs to PC MIPs makes no sense - PCs have nowhere near the throughput or reliability. I used to work on a mainframe when PCs first came out. Even then, it was clear that the two or three or four MIPs on the PC were in no way superior to the 1 MIP on a 4341 mainframe - the mainframe supported about a dozen users doing moderately compute-intensive tasks. At that time, there was no configuration to allow the PC to handle more than one user, but even if that had been possible, it would have choked on the throughput for two or three.
I'm not sure the "nuclear winter" scenario really counts as part of the climate debate as it's more about atomic weapons. I guess it really is unfair to focus mostly on the bad effects of global nuclear war.
The "they used to tell us we were heading into an Ice Age" is a favorite bogus argument of deniers. There was a single peer-reviewed paper in the '70s proposing this hypothesis which made the cover of Newsweek but was retracted less than a year later (see http://atheistethicist.blogspot.com/2009/12/climate-change-ice-age-fears-of-1970s.html).
As for the fears of a liberal conspiracy to take away our profligate llifestyle, all I can say is: don't worry little scaredy-cat, selfishness will prevail as it always has.
Because innovation is the same way - Ballmer doesn't want to be out-innovated in any of the established "hot" areas but he doesn't know what he doesn't know.
> Ayn Rand is their idolized ideological forebear.
I'm not sure what kind of bear she was but I do know she opposed government restrictions on abortion, unlike many of the right-wing wackos dressed in libertarian clothing.
The Economist has a funny quote in their article -http://www.economist.com/node/21556800 - on how faster-than-expected warming in the Arctic will open up previously inaccessible resources:
"Oil companies are reluctant to admit that climate change plays a part in their northward shift. They do not want to be seen to be profiting from the environmental damage to which their activities have contributed."
Gate of Worlds by Robert Silverberg The Dueling Machine by Ben Bova The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
This latter one is more sophisticated but a book of short stories - like the collections from the '50s edited by H.L. Gold - might be a good starting point.
My degree was in Philosophy but I'd been programming since Junior High, so that helped. What really helped was that I had skills in a niche language (APL). Later on, it helps to have pertinent non-tech skills like business knowledge or a domain-relevant degree - I got a CFA charter for work in finance.
Actually, based on experience, CS majors often are not very good programmers - at least right out of school. Fortunately for them, business and HR people don't know this and have not a clue how to test for it.
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Remember, too, the attempted coup against the emperor by members of the Japanese military in an attempt to prevent him from surrendering: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%ABj%C5%8D_Incident .
This is spot-on. Skill, productivity, and fitness for the position are all very hard to measure but salary expectation is an exact number that directly affects the bottom line. Also, in any large organization, salary levels are tied to titles and expected responsibilities. If all the higher earners are expected to have management responsibilities, it's hard to justify an expensive developer who would only analyze, design, and code, no matter how much benefit this would bring to a team.
...-based reasoning, reality will continue to take on an increasingly liberal tinge.
When the law is in your favor, argue the law.
When the facts are in your favor, argue the facts.
When neither is in your favor, pound on the table and shout.
I'd be interested if the OP had a feel for whether adherence to certain practices does, in fact, result in a better codebase. Personally, I'm skeptical that they do, even though I think that some of them are probably Good Things to Do, simply because they might help.
Is there a difference between "religious hatred" and "mocking religion", or "criticism of religion", or "discussion of religion"? Assuming even the Aussie PM would allow for discussion of religion, what if this discussion includes pointing out the superstitious, non-rational nature of religion or of a particular religion?
How do rules against "religious hatred" differ from rules against blasphemy, insofar as a prohibition against blasphemy is clearly a weapon to be applied arbitrarily by those in power against their enemies?
This is actually the important implication of this paper: emissions go up during a boom but fall less than they went up during a following slump. The author postulates that booms bring more infrastructure that remains in use subsequently.
This - from the Economist http://www.economist.com/node/21563343 :
Only 8% of households pay no federal tax at all...
For the more numerate among you: a progressive income tax + a lot of poor people = many people paying little or no income tax. They still pay all sorts of other taxes.
Also, what proportion of serving members of our armed forces come from families in the "47%" - do you think it's proportional to the population as a whole or perhaps the poor are hugely over-represented here?
So continues a recent tradition in the auto industry of poor interface design: replacing speedometer dials - easy to read approximately but quickly - with digital speed displays which give unnecessarily precise information; replacing tactile radio buttons with digital displays and moving numerous other devices that could be used without looking at them to a (single point of failure) screen that requires taking ones eyes off the road.
I've sometimes wondered if the US Constitution's First Amendment groups together freedom of religious practice (in part by _prohibiting_ Congress from passing a law respecting an establishment of religion) and freedom of speech because of the Founding Fathers' awareness of the scourge of blasphemy laws which were in effect in much of Europe at that time.
> Man certainly has not affected the prior 2 dozen major worldwide ice age cycles.
Yes, all 7+ billion of us on the planet now have not done that historically.
Because coding and design are totally separate disciplines - Holy Waterfall, Batman!
The charge was going AWOL, which was probably true, but you're right that one of the items of evidence was faked and this was enough to sink the whole issue.
I forget who originated the quote, but it goes something like "Democracy does not mean that your ignorance has an equal voice with my knowledge."
One of the Dilbert collections is titled "When did Ignorance become a Point of View?"
When I saw the large number of the usual bogus arguments - http://www.circinfo.net/anti_circumcision_lobby_groups.html - being trotted out for this post, I wondered if I had accidentally stumbled on one about anthropogenic global warming.
Personally, I think even a small reduction of the risk of HIV or penis cancer is worth a minor surgery I can't even recall.
When I was on grand jury duty, we had a few cases involving DNA evidence. Each time, the crime lab tech would repeat the same well-rehearsed statement that the odds against finding a match by chance would require something like "100 trillion earths with a population of 10 billion individuals" to find someone with a particular DNA sequence.
I regret not using my prerogative as a grand juror to ask them if the chances of contamination or a lab error were less than that number.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
How many (hundreds) of simultaneous users will your cheap configuration support? What (fraction of a percent) is your unplanned downtime under load?
Comparing mainframe MIPs to PC MIPs makes no sense - PCs have nowhere near the throughput or reliability. I used to work on a mainframe when PCs first came out. Even then, it was clear that the two or three or four MIPs on the PC were in no way superior to the 1 MIP on a 4341 mainframe - the mainframe supported about a dozen users doing moderately compute-intensive tasks. At that time, there was no configuration to allow the PC to handle more than one user, but even if that had been possible, it would have choked on the throughput for two or three.
I'm not sure the "nuclear winter" scenario really counts as part of the climate debate as it's more about atomic weapons. I guess it really is unfair to focus mostly on the bad effects of global nuclear war.
The "they used to tell us we were heading into an Ice Age" is a favorite bogus argument of deniers. There was a single peer-reviewed paper in the '70s proposing this hypothesis which made the cover of Newsweek but was retracted less than a year later (see http://atheistethicist.blogspot.com/2009/12/climate-change-ice-age-fears-of-1970s.html).
As for the fears of a liberal conspiracy to take away our profligate llifestyle, all I can say is: don't worry little scaredy-cat, selfishness will prevail as it always has.
Work smarter, not harder: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1997-07-06/ .
Because innovation is the same way - Ballmer doesn't want to be out-innovated in any of the established "hot" areas but he doesn't know what he doesn't know.
> Ayn Rand is their idolized ideological forebear.
I'm not sure what kind of bear she was but I do know she opposed government restrictions on abortion, unlike many of the right-wing wackos dressed in libertarian clothing.
The good news about the one of world's most popular delivery systems for the world's most popular psychoactive drug keeps coming: http://dietaryfiberguide.com/high-fiber-foods/dietary-fiber-coffee/ .
The Economist has a funny quote in their article -http://www.economist.com/node/21556800 - on how faster-than-expected warming in the Arctic will open up previously inaccessible resources:
"Oil companies are reluctant to admit that climate change plays a part in their northward shift. They do not want to be seen to be profiting from the environmental damage to which their activities have contributed."
You already are revolting.
And they're probably on the less complex side:
Gate of Worlds by Robert Silverberg
The Dueling Machine by Ben Bova
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
This latter one is more sophisticated but a book of short stories - like the collections from the '50s edited by H.L. Gold - might be a good starting point.
My degree was in Philosophy but I'd been programming since Junior High, so that helped. What really helped was that I had skills in a niche language (APL). Later on, it helps to have pertinent non-tech skills like business knowledge or a domain-relevant degree - I got a CFA charter for work in finance.
Actually, based on experience, CS majors often are not very good programmers - at least right out of school. Fortunately for them, business and HR people don't know this and have not a clue how to test for it.