I'm not sure what textures you can or can't handle so it's not clear you can come down on anyone for 'missing' what you're saying.. When my son was born almost 13 years ago, we stopped eating processed or fast food... It took a bit to get used to, I'll admit... But there's a wide variety of options for making your own food from basic ingredients and where you also have control over texture and taste. ie: it's easy to make a healthy tomato sauce with the same texture as Ragu but without all the salt and HFCS... There are a ton of wonderful soups you can make that are healthy and nutritious with the same texture as a milkshake which you can probably handle...
The difference is you have to _want_ to... One of the side benefits of learning to cook and making wonderful meals is that you will gain a whole new pretext for inviting potential mates over for meals at your place... It will make you more attractive to potential mates as well...
I like to think of it as "Silting up"... big companies with little apparent strategic direction tend to lose their most talented employees to 'churn'... The least talented employees have fewer options so they stay put marking time.. They become silt..
In the late 1800's, Dr. Emmett Brown and Marty McFly got a train up to just over 88mph before it careened off the end of a bridge still being constructed. No rockets were used in that endeavor. Just carefully staged fuel pellets. I watched a documentary on this a long time ago.
I always cringe when I read local headlines like "John Doe of 123 Apple Street was today charged with distributing images of young children engaged in sexual acts"... Or "Such and such a teacher is accused of engaging in sexual relations with one of her students and is currently suspended with pay pending investigation.".... Anyone can be charged with anything... Way to ruin someone's life. Everyone thinks that if it's in the paper, then there must have been some basis in fact even if the person was later exonerated.
I'm a self taught no-degree 25+ year embedded guy. Sure, maybe I'm one of the 'good ones'... Don't know, don't really care. My point in replying is that in my 25+ years, i've encountered more degree-holding high-functioning idiots who interview well and can spew knowledge like the best of them; but ultimately they can't really code their way out of a paper bag... I'm thinking of a few recent examples who created code of disastrous proportions and eventually got moved to middle management... Of all the senior developer types I work with, (about 10 in my current position), only 2 have CS or EE degrees... The rest are either self-taught, or have degrees in other unrelated disciplines (chemistry, history, physics)... They're the ones churning out the long lasting product code that is reused in future projects; is highly maintainable, and portable. The degree isn't the key here, it's the self-teaching we've all done along the way.
I believe you're filtering on the wrong attributes... Maybe you're one of those degree-holding coders that got moved to middle management; out of harms way...
I agree with you 100%. I'm near 50 now and have lived in the same modest house for 20 years and drive older used vehicles... But my modest house has more than tripled in value in those 20 years, and 8 years ago I started my retirement job... The job that I will keep until I retire. I'm building my own retirement with sweat equity in a retirement property... In about 5 years, I'll be able to quit my tech job; sell my modest house in the city, and combined with other investments, will have enough retirement income to live in the country... But I probably won't; I'll keep working until I get bored or they get tired of me.. Then I'll do something else that's slower and more interesting...
The biggest mistake I made was not switching jobs in my early years. I stuck with the same job for 7 years, then 11 years, then another 7... I'd have bigger investment accounts now if I'd had more jobs in the first 20 years.
Correction. He posted a message saying that he was in the middle of building a pulley system. That's not the same as having actually built it. It's consistant with him building a fantasy scenario on that site..
I can't help but think the people you really want to antagonize are the employees and contractors... A Blimp that says something like "amoral and unethical people work here and spy on you" might do more to create unrest... The people who work there probably live in the community or surrounding community... If you can make someone uneasy about their employer, that's probably better...
this is my fundamental problem with this sort of thing. You buy a smart-device and the first thing it wants is to authenticate with some cloud service... I understand it's easier to deal with firewalls and such if the device 'polls' the cloud for remote commands... But what if my home is out in the middle of the forest, miles from anything resembling internet connectivity... That's a home I want automated more than the home I sleep in the other 5 days a week.
Around these parts, I'm not allowed to swing into the oncoming lane if there's a solid line on my side; even if you're riding on the shoulder... Around here, the rural roads have about 12 inches of 'shoulder' before it's grass or gravel. Just this last weekend, I came across one of you tour-de-france wannabes (complete with the colorful jersey and aerodynamic helmet) riding up a hill at 8kph... I had to slow down and stay behind you while waiting for an oncoming truck to finally arrive... You motioned to me to pass but legally I could not. When I finally came to the dashed line on my side, I was able to pass... I have no idea why you gave me the finger though... I certainly didn't want to lose all that time creeping along behind you and I would have loved to have passed you while staying completely inside the double-solid line. The law very clearly says that a bicycle is equivalent to a car.
Sure, you can be out for a leisurely Sunday ride... But note the effect you have on others who might just want to get home and not follow you up the hill... Maybe you could pull off to the side and let cars go by?
I've worked with many men and women over the years... I would say that women, predominantly, are the ones who leave the work force after they have a child or three, only to not return... Some return but many do not... So while you might end up trying to hire 30% women, your demographics will eventually show them to be much lower... I don't think I'm out of line suggesting that about half leave the work force to stay at home... At least around these parts. That gets us down in the range of the numbers reported by google.
If you were just some normal Joe Schlub who wouldn't even consider being an Uber driver, but some cop stopped you and induced you into driving him somewhere in exchange for a nice shiny $20 bill, then that's entrapment... If you are a registered Uber driver, and a cop reserves you, and you agree to drive the cop somewhere, then that it something you would normally do and is not entrapment.
At least that's how I read it and have always understood it.
Oh, and I don't trust computer techs who don't game.
For any tangible reason or merely to justify the many hours you wile away in front of some game when you could be hacking instead?
I've been 'hacking' (in both senses) since 1976 but my gaming stopped when I realized it was more interesting to disassemble the games and see how they worked. (about 1980)
I had it when I was 18. That was 30 years ago. I was miserable for two weeks. I bathed in calamine lotion three times a day when the itching became irrepressible.. I was essentially holed up in a dark room the entire time with nothing to think about except for the itching. TV caused my eyes pain. I've been prone to getting shingles over the subsequent years of my life, usually in response to stress. The shingles are probably related. I still have marks on my body where I had pox.
I hadn't heard of Beats until last week. I was in a Future Shop (like Best Buy) with my son and he was all gaga over some of these Beats headphones on display... So I put them on and listened. It was like I was listening to music through a tin can while someone tapped on the can with a pencil... I'm far from a 'golden ear' audiophile wanker... I have a pair of mid-low end Sennheisers on my head 8 hours a day at work...
Thanks. I could never figure out what the big deal was with that guy? I sat through several seasons of his show and don't think I so much as cracked a smile through any of it...
I have a friend who, along with his wife, have also chosen to be childless. They enjoy the children of their siblings but choose not to have their own. Unfortunately, the two of them are very bright people and I can't help but think we need more people like them to breed than the mouth-breathers with 4 kids you see at Walmart.
I do respect their decision and have never brought the issue up with them... Doesn't mean I'm not allowed to have my own opinion.
A human can see a train approaching a level crossing far sooner than a self-driving car... If the lights at the level crossing aren't working; will the human be sitting there wondering if the car will notice the train in time?
Wrong. It's Control4, apparently. Regardless, I can see you're one of these know-it-alls that comes in and tears apart everything someone else has done and puts in his/her own religion... "It's ILLEGAL! OH NOES!"... If your 'solution' requires the customer call you in order to change the controls in their home, then you're just the same level of asshole...
I'm glad you've been making a shitload of money... I'm glad there are people willing to pay it... I don't see the appeal either.. One friend of mine has such a system.. After the install, he asked the installer for the configuration software so he can change the 'mood' or 'scene' settings in his home and the installer said "well, technically i'm not allowed to do that. I license the software from the manufacturer and am not allowed to let the end-user have it. I can see you're more than capable of dealing with it so do you mind if I throw this old version in your garbage can here?"... I mean, that was awfully nice of him but seriously? Get fucked. Another acquaintance of mine is one of these filthy rich folks... They had us over at christmas one year but the christmas lights on the trees out front didn't come on early enough so she got the installer on the phone and he made the changes remotely for her for only $150/hr... Don't get me started on the multi-colored light switches that no one else knows how to use except the home-owners. If I ever become so stupid that I can't hit a light switch in whatever room I walk into, I need a bullet to the head.
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I'm not sure what textures you can or can't handle so it's not clear you can come down on anyone for 'missing' what you're saying.. When my son was born almost 13 years ago, we stopped eating processed or fast food... It took a bit to get used to, I'll admit... But there's a wide variety of options for making your own food from basic ingredients and where you also have control over texture and taste. ie: it's easy to make a healthy tomato sauce with the same texture as Ragu but without all the salt and HFCS... There are a ton of wonderful soups you can make that are healthy and nutritious with the same texture as a milkshake which you can probably handle...
The difference is you have to _want_ to... One of the side benefits of learning to cook and making wonderful meals is that you will gain a whole new pretext for inviting potential mates over for meals at your place... It will make you more attractive to potential mates as well...
I like to think of it as "Silting up"... big companies with little apparent strategic direction tend to lose their most talented employees to 'churn'... The least talented employees have fewer options so they stay put marking time.. They become silt..
In the late 1800's, Dr. Emmett Brown and Marty McFly got a train up to just over 88mph before it careened off the end of a bridge still being constructed. No rockets were used in that endeavor. Just carefully staged fuel pellets. I watched a documentary on this a long time ago.
I always cringe when I read local headlines like "John Doe of 123 Apple Street was today charged with distributing images of young children engaged in sexual acts"... Or "Such and such a teacher is accused of engaging in sexual relations with one of her students and is currently suspended with pay pending investigation." .... Anyone can be charged with anything... Way to ruin someone's life. Everyone thinks that if it's in the paper, then there must have been some basis in fact even if the person was later exonerated.
It's a rare venue that will allow my wife to show up in her lingerie and then hit pause partway through the film so she can jump me ...
I don't understand the movie industry's penchant for penalizing people by forcing them to go to a public place to watch their fresh releases...
I'm a self taught no-degree 25+ year embedded guy. Sure, maybe I'm one of the 'good ones'... Don't know, don't really care. My point in replying is that in my 25+ years, i've encountered more degree-holding high-functioning idiots who interview well and can spew knowledge like the best of them; but ultimately they can't really code their way out of a paper bag... I'm thinking of a few recent examples who created code of disastrous proportions and eventually got moved to middle management... Of all the senior developer types I work with, (about 10 in my current position), only 2 have CS or EE degrees... The rest are either self-taught, or have degrees in other unrelated disciplines (chemistry, history, physics)... They're the ones churning out the long lasting product code that is reused in future projects; is highly maintainable, and portable. The degree isn't the key here, it's the self-teaching we've all done along the way.
I believe you're filtering on the wrong attributes... Maybe you're one of those degree-holding coders that got moved to middle management; out of harms way...
Just saying...
I agree with you 100%. I'm near 50 now and have lived in the same modest house for 20 years and drive older used vehicles... But my modest house has more than tripled in value in those 20 years, and 8 years ago I started my retirement job... The job that I will keep until I retire. I'm building my own retirement with sweat equity in a retirement property... In about 5 years, I'll be able to quit my tech job; sell my modest house in the city, and combined with other investments, will have enough retirement income to live in the country... But I probably won't; I'll keep working until I get bored or they get tired of me.. Then I'll do something else that's slower and more interesting...
The biggest mistake I made was not switching jobs in my early years. I stuck with the same job for 7 years, then 11 years, then another 7... I'd have bigger investment accounts now if I'd had more jobs in the first 20 years.
Correction. He posted a message saying that he was in the middle of building a pulley system. That's not the same as having actually built it. It's consistant with him building a fantasy scenario on that site..
I can't help but think the people you really want to antagonize are the employees and contractors... A Blimp that says something like "amoral and unethical people work here and spy on you" might do more to create unrest... The people who work there probably live in the community or surrounding community... If you can make someone uneasy about their employer, that's probably better...
this is my fundamental problem with this sort of thing. You buy a smart-device and the first thing it wants is to authenticate with some cloud service... I understand it's easier to deal with firewalls and such if the device 'polls' the cloud for remote commands... But what if my home is out in the middle of the forest, miles from anything resembling internet connectivity... That's a home I want automated more than the home I sleep in the other 5 days a week.
Around these parts, I'm not allowed to swing into the oncoming lane if there's a solid line on my side; even if you're riding on the shoulder... Around here, the rural roads have about 12 inches of 'shoulder' before it's grass or gravel. Just this last weekend, I came across one of you tour-de-france wannabes (complete with the colorful jersey and aerodynamic helmet) riding up a hill at 8kph... I had to slow down and stay behind you while waiting for an oncoming truck to finally arrive... You motioned to me to pass but legally I could not. When I finally came to the dashed line on my side, I was able to pass... I have no idea why you gave me the finger though ... I certainly didn't want to lose all that time creeping along behind you and I would have loved to have passed you while staying completely inside the double-solid line. The law very clearly says that a bicycle is equivalent to a car.
Sure, you can be out for a leisurely Sunday ride... But note the effect you have on others who might just want to get home and not follow you up the hill... Maybe you could pull off to the side and let cars go by?
I've worked with many men and women over the years... I would say that women, predominantly, are the ones who leave the work force after they have a child or three, only to not return... Some return but many do not... So while you might end up trying to hire 30% women, your demographics will eventually show them to be much lower... I don't think I'm out of line suggesting that about half leave the work force to stay at home... At least around these parts. That gets us down in the range of the numbers reported by google.
At least we'd have cat photos.
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
If you were just some normal Joe Schlub who wouldn't even consider being an Uber driver, but some cop stopped you and induced you into driving him somewhere in exchange for a nice shiny $20 bill, then that's entrapment... If you are a registered Uber driver, and a cop reserves you, and you agree to drive the cop somewhere, then that it something you would normally do and is not entrapment.
At least that's how I read it and have always understood it.
Google is Apple's competitor so obviously they didn't 'google it'...
They 'Bing'd it.
Oh, and I don't trust computer techs who don't game.
For any tangible reason or merely to justify the many hours you wile away in front of some game when you could be hacking instead?
I've been 'hacking' (in both senses) since 1976 but my gaming stopped when I realized it was more interesting to disassemble the games and see how they worked. (about 1980)
I had it when I was 18. That was 30 years ago. I was miserable for two weeks. I bathed in calamine lotion three times a day when the itching became irrepressible.. I was essentially holed up in a dark room the entire time with nothing to think about except for the itching. TV caused my eyes pain. I've been prone to getting shingles over the subsequent years of my life, usually in response to stress. The shingles are probably related. I still have marks on my body where I had pox.
I wouldn't wish adult pox on anyone.
A friend said "Give it a chance..." I think I stopped part way into the 3rd season.
I hadn't heard of Beats until last week. I was in a Future Shop (like Best Buy) with my son and he was all gaga over some of these Beats headphones on display... So I put them on and listened. It was like I was listening to music through a tin can while someone tapped on the can with a pencil... I'm far from a 'golden ear' audiophile wanker... I have a pair of mid-low end Sennheisers on my head 8 hours a day at work...
Thanks. I could never figure out what the big deal was with that guy? I sat through several seasons of his show and don't think I so much as cracked a smile through any of it...
I have a friend who, along with his wife, have also chosen to be childless. They enjoy the children of their siblings but choose not to have their own. Unfortunately, the two of them are very bright people and I can't help but think we need more people like them to breed than the mouth-breathers with 4 kids you see at Walmart.
I do respect their decision and have never brought the issue up with them... Doesn't mean I'm not allowed to have my own opinion.
A human can see a train approaching a level crossing far sooner than a self-driving car... If the lights at the level crossing aren't working; will the human be sitting there wondering if the car will notice the train in time?
Wrong. It's Control4, apparently. Regardless, I can see you're one of these know-it-alls that comes in and tears apart everything someone else has done and puts in his/her own religion... "It's ILLEGAL! OH NOES!" ... If your 'solution' requires the customer call you in order to change the controls in their home, then you're just the same level of asshole...
In kernel space, no one can hear you scream.
I'm glad you've been making a shitload of money... I'm glad there are people willing to pay it... I don't see the appeal either.. One friend of mine has such a system.. After the install, he asked the installer for the configuration software so he can change the 'mood' or 'scene' settings in his home and the installer said "well, technically i'm not allowed to do that. I license the software from the manufacturer and am not allowed to let the end-user have it. I can see you're more than capable of dealing with it so do you mind if I throw this old version in your garbage can here?" ... I mean, that was awfully nice of him but seriously? Get fucked. Another acquaintance of mine is one of these filthy rich folks... They had us over at christmas one year but the christmas lights on the trees out front didn't come on early enough so she got the installer on the phone and he made the changes remotely for her for only $150/hr... Don't get me started on the multi-colored light switches that no one else knows how to use except the home-owners. If I ever become so stupid that I can't hit a light switch in whatever room I walk into, I need a bullet to the head.
No thanks.