I'd expect a self motivated worker to already be looking for a new one.
easier to teach brilliant problem solvers some time management skills
That's an optinion that not many employers share. Companys that take it upon themselves to teach basic skills tend to hire people without them. And then everyone suffers, because everyone is expected to help out the special snowflakes.
If you are logging on to boxes, you are getting too close to operations and too far away from architecture.
This is a very good point. And failure to maintain an abstract, high level view of the enterprise is one reason that so many (poor) EAs get their panties in a bunch over system architecture and administration issues.
P.S. Errr, 1500 VM's for 3000 employees?
That may not be too far out of line. The days of one big mainframe or server handling a multitude of tasks seem to be behind us. In an IT intense business, there may be valid reasons to spawn a VM instance for each type of task being done.
That's true for hard sciences as well as social sciences.
Much more so for social sciences. It's much more difficult to account for variations caused by subtle differences in test and control populations of individual experiments. It is often best to run a series of experiments, each with its own test groups and then examine the results to 'average out' the effect of conditions that were not properly accounted for. This requires a statistically complex analysis to determine whether the individual test give the same results. And as we all know, 62% of all scientists are bad at statistics.
Cops stops car in the road. Bus behind it (manually operated, because unions) keeps going, rear ends car. Car bursts into flames, killing occupants. Who pays?
According to TFS, this program went back to 2010. And in all that time, nobody with a modicum of IT experience looked at the growth of the dat, calculated the estimated time to fill the disk and pot a new hard drive on the department budget?
Oh yeah. Windows XP. Nobody thought to plan budget for an upgrade from an out of support system?
... to a boarding school in the NRQZ in West Virginia. Where the curriculum includes moonshine, banjo, musket marksmanship and making sissy outsiders squeal like a pig.
And even, in the case of Tesla, that's still semi-justified. As it is a car, and needs to optimise for drag to increase effciency and fuel (or in this specific case: battery) consumption.
Problem solved on aircraft door handles for quite some time. Sure, the automatic handles are cool. But would it have been much of a proplem to make it so puching on one end of the handle rocks the other end out?
So, who was the informant? Maybe a paranoid conspiracy theory nut. Or perhaps another science fiction author with an axe to grind because his stuff wasn't selling as well.
Everyone likes a bit of novelty to spice up their sex life after a few years. Some people can get by with the occasional vacation at Club Med. Some people buy the Little Red Riding Hood and Big Bad Wolf costumes. Other people need another person, even if its just a fling.
Men have been socialized to understand the difference between a relationship and sex. Women, not so much. So, when the hormones kick into high gear, their mind tells them it must be true love. Which means the marriage must be over. That is not really the case, because eventually the boy toy will get just as monotonous as the husband was.
There is also a 'type' of woman (and man) that fall in love with tragedy. For them, an affair is just a tool used to break up a marriage. Maybe they were abused as kids and this is just the adult version of cutting (self inflicted injury). Personnally, I've steered clear of women who get get to wrapped up in soap operas featuring psychological basket cases.
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but bored in their current job?
I'd expect a self motivated worker to already be looking for a new one.
easier to teach brilliant problem solvers some time management skills
That's an optinion that not many employers share. Companys that take it upon themselves to teach basic skills tend to hire people without them. And then everyone suffers, because everyone is expected to help out the special snowflakes.
We put a spoiler on a Prius.
If you are logging on to boxes, you are getting too close to operations and too far away from architecture.
This is a very good point. And failure to maintain an abstract, high level view of the enterprise is one reason that so many (poor) EAs get their panties in a bunch over system architecture and administration issues.
P.S. Errr, 1500 VM's for 3000 employees?
That may not be too far out of line. The days of one big mainframe or server handling a multitude of tasks seem to be behind us. In an IT intense business, there may be valid reasons to spawn a VM instance for each type of task being done.
That's true for hard sciences as well as social sciences.
Much more so for social sciences. It's much more difficult to account for variations caused by subtle differences in test and control populations of individual experiments. It is often best to run a series of experiments, each with its own test groups and then examine the results to 'average out' the effect of conditions that were not properly accounted for. This requires a statistically complex analysis to determine whether the individual test give the same results. And as we all know, 62% of all scientists are bad at statistics.
Person is researching python lambda function list comprehension for a programming project. Gets sidetracked for a couple of hours by popup puzzles.
Yep. This is the employee we want.
Cops stops car in the road. Bus behind it (manually operated, because unions) keeps going, rear ends car. Car bursts into flames, killing occupants. Who pays?
According to TFS, this program went back to 2010. And in all that time, nobody with a modicum of IT experience looked at the growth of the dat, calculated the estimated time to fill the disk and pot a new hard drive on the department budget?
Oh yeah. Windows XP. Nobody thought to plan budget for an upgrade from an out of support system?
If the kid is that sensitive, the microwave oven down the block should make him convulse.
And even, in the case of Tesla, that's still semi-justified. As it is a car, and needs to optimise for drag to increase effciency and fuel (or in this specific case: battery) consumption.
Problem solved on aircraft door handles for quite some time. Sure, the automatic handles are cool. But would it have been much of a proplem to make it so puching on one end of the handle rocks the other end out?
It all comes down to cost. Just like any other engineering or design issue.
senior management â" with their strategic perspective
This usually means that there is some financial input not available to engineering for decision making. Like kickbacks or Hookers & Blow.
I can see a marketing association with a phrase like that really going wrong.
So, who was the informant? Maybe a paranoid conspiracy theory nut. Or perhaps another science fiction author with an axe to grind because his stuff wasn't selling as well.
L. Ron Hubbard?
Hey Rambo. I think you just tripped over another wing nut. Either that, or an example of Poe's Law
We can't have people doing that. That's the government's job.
it would just be read shifted.
This must explain old Slashdot articles.
Oh, oh. He's on to us. Shut it down!
More likely: "Tell Archduke Ferdinand to watch his back."
How can you be sure that all those settings do what they say?
I checked the "I want a pony" option. We'll see.
Personally, I welcome our thermostatic overlords
Everyone likes a bit of novelty to spice up their sex life after a few years. Some people can get by with the occasional vacation at Club Med. Some people buy the Little Red Riding Hood and Big Bad Wolf costumes. Other people need another person, even if its just a fling.
Men have been socialized to understand the difference between a relationship and sex. Women, not so much. So, when the hormones kick into high gear, their mind tells them it must be true love. Which means the marriage must be over. That is not really the case, because eventually the boy toy will get just as monotonous as the husband was.
There is also a 'type' of woman (and man) that fall in love with tragedy. For them, an affair is just a tool used to break up a marriage. Maybe they were abused as kids and this is just the adult version of cutting (self inflicted injury). Personnally, I've steered clear of women who get get to wrapped up in soap operas featuring psychological basket cases.
Fun fact: Having sex with a second mate often increases sexual desire for the first one
Sometime referred to as the Coolidge Effect.