There are so many openings right now, I would classify the unemployment rate to be negative in tech.
Obviously it depends on where you live or are prepared to move to. But in any case there is a difference between "working in tech" and being a qualified, experienced developer with an in-demand skillset.
It's a bit like saying that because highly skilled brain surgeons can always find well paid work anywhere they want to live, then anyone working in healthcare can write their own terms and conditions too.
There are plenty of nurses and medical secretaries and janitors who would disagree.
Yeah, firefighters are the type of people that go around destroying people's property for no reason, and then laugh in their face. We can't trust them. They enter homes without knocking all the time.
Look, they work for The Government don't they? As such, they are all part of the conspiracy to impose a New World Order, just as much as the NSA and the lizard king Trump.
You know how great the moderation system is when a post that comments on the moderation of a post that completely misses the point and is at +5 is at +5.
Skipping over the fact we have absolutely no technology to extract this He3 at the minute concentrations on the Moon, what, exactly, are we supposed to *DO* with it? Tell me, what 10 billion$ market is there for He3?
Isn't it for our fusion reactors which will be online in a few years' time?
Actually I've written commercial software that I know somebody has pirated and then sold for a profit. I just shrugged it off and decided not to get bent out of shape over it.
And who gets to decide that someone has been "ripped off"? If instead of there being a privileged class of people "creating" things I like, there was more of an effort to make tools that make it easier to bring things into existence things people like, the world would be a far better place.
Oh please, there has never been an easier time to make music, movies, games or anything else.
Having free tools available doesn't make everyone into a musician, film director or games programmer.
Nit picking the difference between physical end electronic goods doesn't actually detract from his excellent example of price elasticity.
I disagree. It's meaningless talking about price elasticity when you are comparing any cost with zero. The assumption is that, just because you can copy something, it has no intrinsic value. This would be plausible if software (or games, music, movies) cost nothing to create, but that's not true.
And the problem is that you can't really let the market sort it out, since no one can compete with free.
So you end up with the people who create the goods having no way to even cover their costs, let alone make a profit. Seems crazy in a capitalist society to me.
In simpler terms, if somebody didn't get your software for free, they would have simply gone without it anyways.
That would only be true if (a) no one ever bought software and (b) it was considered fair for all creators of digital works to give their time for free and absorb any other incidental expenses.
As it is, this software developer had no chance to try out the market for his work, as it is clearly impossible to compete on price with zero.
we don't posses technology to communicate between stars (all but the nearest) or travel between them
The point is that if other more advanced civilisations can't do this either, we're never going to be in contact. So even if they do exist, we will never know.
Depending on the invention of FTL travel is pretty much the same as saying it's impossible.
but how many of those are strong enough to travel light years? i use my smartphone daily but i doubt some alien NSA will be looking at what i'm doing in a few hundred or thousand years. same with TV and radio. FM radio can barely go a hundred miles at the strength most radio stations are transmitting it, how is it going to travel the stars?
Do you think electromagnetic waves just sort of stop after a while when they get a stitch?
Which part of Fermi's Paradox? Does your argument boil down to "They aren't going to find anything because no one has found anything so far"?
Isn't Fermi's paradox more like "they aren't going to find anything because if anything was going to be found it would have been found already"? It's not quite the same thing.
I find it difficult to believe that teenagers would hack a website because they are morally outraged about the practice of adultery.
You must be joking. Teenagers can be the most self-righteous little shits in the world. They often have little wider experience of the world and see things purely in black and white.
Youthful idealism is not just about extreme simplified politics.
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There are so many openings right now, I would classify the unemployment rate to be negative in tech.
Obviously it depends on where you live or are prepared to move to. But in any case there is a difference between "working in tech" and being a qualified, experienced developer with an in-demand skillset.
It's a bit like saying that because highly skilled brain surgeons can always find well paid work anywhere they want to live, then anyone working in healthcare can write their own terms and conditions too.
There are plenty of nurses and medical secretaries and janitors who would disagree.
The interviewer is asking you the question so he can see how you approach the problem, not to see if you know trivia about elevator design.
Surely this should be self evident to anyone other than a self-styled genius programmer who thinks he is above mere business details?
Yeah, people are working until retirement age now
I think that by definition people have always worked up until their retirement.
Yeah, firefighters are the type of people that go around destroying people's property for no reason, and then laugh in their face. We can't trust them. They enter homes without knocking all the time.
Look, they work for The Government don't they? As such, they are all part of the conspiracy to impose a New World Order, just as much as the NSA and the lizard king Trump.
As a bonus it would probably blow the fire out too.
Single shot, nobody will know. Just do it. It's your property anyways. Nobody calls the cops when I shoot a snake in my backyard.
That's fine until it crashes in your neighbour's yard killing their dog and causing his pregnant wife to miscarry in shock. You sick bastard.
You know how great the moderation system is when a post that comments on the moderation of a post that completely misses the point and is at +5 is at +5.
Skipping over the fact we have absolutely no technology to extract this He3 at the minute concentrations on the Moon, what, exactly, are we supposed to *DO* with it? Tell me, what 10 billion$ market is there for He3?
Isn't it for our fusion reactors which will be online in a few years' time?
Actually I've written commercial software that I know somebody has pirated and then sold for a profit. I just shrugged it off and decided not to get bent out of shape over it.
Lucky you for not having to worry about money.
Children of engineers don't get royalty checks just because daddy helped build the Golden Gate Bridge
If daddy owned a toll bridge then the kids could still be earning toll fees from it.
And who gets to decide that someone has been "ripped off"? If instead of there being a privileged class of people "creating" things I like, there was more of an effort to make tools that make it easier to bring things into existence things people like, the world would be a far better place.
Oh please, there has never been an easier time to make music, movies, games or anything else.
Having free tools available doesn't make everyone into a musician, film director or games programmer.
It's not my responsibility to see that anybody gets paid.
Nor is it anyone's responsibility to provide you with free stuff.
You are perfectly free to make your own software, music or movies.
Nit picking the difference between physical end electronic goods doesn't actually detract from his excellent example of price elasticity.
I disagree. It's meaningless talking about price elasticity when you are comparing any cost with zero. The assumption is that, just because you can copy something, it has no intrinsic value. This would be plausible if software (or games, music, movies) cost nothing to create, but that's not true.
And the problem is that you can't really let the market sort it out, since no one can compete with free.
So you end up with the people who create the goods having no way to even cover their costs, let alone make a profit. Seems crazy in a capitalist society to me.
In simpler terms, if somebody didn't get your software for free, they would have simply gone without it anyways.
That would only be true if (a) no one ever bought software and (b) it was considered fair for all creators of digital works to give their time for free and absorb any other incidental expenses.
As it is, this software developer had no chance to try out the market for his work, as it is clearly impossible to compete on price with zero.
Could this data be used for something other than searching for ET?
Clearly this is something to do with the NASA and KGB collecting personal information for use in brain-washing experiments.
we don't posses technology to communicate between stars (all but the nearest) or travel between them
The point is that if other more advanced civilisations can't do this either, we're never going to be in contact. So even if they do exist, we will never know.
Depending on the invention of FTL travel is pretty much the same as saying it's impossible.
All manner of people, smart and otherwise, hold all manner of dubious beliefs.
*cough* all religions *cough*
Outside the singularity nuts, you don't often find people advocating for a video game afterlife.
Apart from teenagers who enjoy video games but have no skill at reality.
Listening to a radio telescope in no way helps aliens find us.
That's what they want you to think, sure.
but how many of those are strong enough to travel light years? i use my smartphone daily but i doubt some alien NSA will be looking at what i'm doing in a few hundred or thousand years. same with TV and radio. FM radio can barely go a hundred miles at the strength most radio stations are transmitting it, how is it going to travel the stars?
Do you think electromagnetic waves just sort of stop after a while when they get a stitch?
Which part of Fermi's Paradox? Does your argument boil down to "They aren't going to find anything because no one has found anything so far"?
Isn't Fermi's paradox more like "they aren't going to find anything because if anything was going to be found it would have been found already"? It's not quite the same thing.
I find it difficult to believe that teenagers would hack a website because they are morally outraged about the practice of adultery.
You must be joking. Teenagers can be the most self-righteous little shits in the world. They often have little wider experience of the world and see things purely in black and white.
Youthful idealism is not just about extreme simplified politics.
"I'm lying to my wife about dangerous behavior that could endanger her mental/physical health, maybe even her life."
Mr Puritanism meet Mr Paternalism. I'm sure you'll get on very well.
You apparently never played D&D.
There's a difference between playing a game and thinking it accurately reflects reality.
You either love your S/O or you do not.
Typical slashdot geek binary thinking. Life must be so happy in your simple world.