Also, I'm an academic, so much for your presumptive "anti-intellectual" bullshit.
An academic can quite easily have stupid opinions outside their own field of expertise. This is known as Nobel disease after the impressive number of Nobel prize winning scientists who are racists, global warming deniers or believers in homeopathy.
Procrastination led me to be able to code for 24 hours or more in a row while staying productive. Handy when an unplanned emergency occurs. Some co-workers wonder how I can do it.
I consider it a major achievement staying awake for 24 hours in a row using drugs and talking utter bollocks. God knows how you manage to actually do any work.
> average Google engineer would be a star virtually anywhere else in the industry.
How could you possibly know that? Do you have access to parallel universes where they work for other companies? Nah. It's just while your fingers doing the typing while your pompous asshole dictates.
I'm taking a wild guess that OP is or was an average Google engineer, and therefore, gosh, a star.
One thing I've been wondering. Since I was a nerd and a geek long before that was cool, do I count as a hipster?
Only if you're not a real nerd and geek. Hipsters are no more nerds because they have an iPad than they are lumberjacks because they wear check shirts and stupid beards.
my salary negotiation each year was "so and so is incompetent and they're making $x, plus that represents an increase of $y over the year before that. Also, so and so always comes to me for help and he's been here 15 years and makes $z". I felt bad for my boss, as there was simply no refutation.
The refutation is: I'm the boss and I decide who's incompetent or not.
Defense contractors would be able to make money in a free market, but we don't have a free market. Whether right or wrong (different discussion and interesting) the Government restricts what people make, how much they make, and who they can sell things to. They limit software as well as hardware, and in some cases even concepts and ideas. A company like Lockheed Martin can not sell a military plane to Bill Gates even though he could easily afford one or two. Let alone selling a plane to Sudan or Russia, which would be how a defense company would operate in a free market.
The point is that, without governments, there'd be no defence contracts. You'd have a world of petty warlords and fiefdoms, none of which would have the resources to pay for attack helicopters, aircraft carriers or fleets of tanks. If they could, they'd be big enough to be governments by definition.
The trouble with posting everyones' salaries is that....it DOES tend to trend towards everyone getting paid the same, which penalizes those folks that work harder, are worth more...and are better negotiators.
It's the "better negotiators" part that sticks in most people's throats. It's just another example of some people who are actually less good at their actual job getting rewarded unfairly over others. Like people who are good at internal politics or self advertisment getting promoted.
If you're a good negotiator, be a salesman and get your sales bonuses fairly and squarely.
You would be surprised. Just ask. The worst thing that ever happened to me when I asked for more money was "no". Don't be so scared. I guarentee the execs are negotiating every year their compensation aggressively.
In case you hadn't noticed, there are different rules for those at executive/director level, where they are indeed expected to negotiate aggresively.
Do the same if you're a middle ranking employee and you'll be told there are plenty of other people who can do your job on your current salary.
I know it's slashdot and we're all special rockstar snowflakes driving our supermodel girlfriends around in Lamborghinis, I'm talking about the Little People.
Fun fact: Arabs are just as Semitic as Jews, so describing anti-Jewish bias by Arabs as "anti-Semitism" makes very little sense.
In normal English "anti-Semitic" means "anti-Jewish". The ancient history of language groups is irrelevant, unless you're having a technical philological or linguistic discussion.
Don't get me started on Actors, Artist and Musicians who to often don't choose the backstop of a college education and end up running a cash register at a big box store..
Getting a college education hasn't guaranteed you a solid career since about 1980.
Anyway, the world needs actors, artists and musicians. Not everyone can be a STEM hero like Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg.
I thought they sent a peacekeeping force to protect the native Turkish Cypriots from being massacred by the terrorist ultra right wing Greek Orthodox Christian Cypriots?
Reality has no bias, but it very much appears biased, because one entire side of the political spectrum (the Right) has abandoned it altogether and only exists inside a fantasy world where:
- the US is the only nation that matters, and Europe, Canada, and Australia either doesn't exist, or are considered to be socialist hellholes, even though they live longer, safer lives, with less violence, less poverty, more education, more freedom, less debt, better healthcare
- all the worlds scientists are engaged in a global conspiracy to force evolution and global warming, and other lies of satan upon the world
- the only knowledge worth having, be it political and economic theory, social studies, science, or philosophy, comes from the Bible
- more guns = more safety, even though the rest of the world has already patently disproved that notion many times over
- immigrants are evil people intent on killing us in our sleep, even though they actually commit crimes at a lower rate than the native population
- terrorist threats are imminent, terrorist = muslims, and the president is a secret member
- the entire constitution only applies to Christians, everyone else is SOL
- the "war on poverty" is a lost cause, even though history clearly shows that social programs (aka welfare) have reduced it and improved the quality of life of society's weakest members, and in other nations that have gone even farther than we have, have even lower rates of poverty
- trickle down economics works
- Obama/Clinton are felons, somehow, because 4 people died Libya, even though countless investigations by the very people blaming them continually fail to find them at actual fault, and also somehow Bush/Cheney are completely blameless for all that they did
- we somehow can't afford to take care of troops when they come home, but we can spend 1000x that amount on going to war in the first place
The list goes on and on and on.
So yes, reality effectively does have a bias, in the sense that only one side actually lives in and acknowledges it.
That would be a good precis of the comments in a typical slashdot thread, although you'd have to add something about how Bill Gates has caused more deaths than Hitler
Ironically when a story does break, the talking heads in here usually have far more insight than on TV. I remember when that jet went missing over Malaysia we had Pilots, Traffic controllers, Navy guys, GPS experts, all in here discussing the finer detail, then when I switched on the News it was the like the play school version by comparison.
Though half the people who act like experts on this site have just read a bit more than you on the subject and then act like they know what they're talking about.
Yes, it's amazing what you can learn about being a Pilot, Traffic controller, Navy guy and GPS expert from an hour on wikipedia. It's like Keanu Reeves learning to fly that helicopter in one of the Matrix films.
What once, many years ago, was known as the "Fouth Estate", has now become the "US Department of Propaganda", that will tout whatever the current administration tells it to...It doesn't matter which party is in power, they both use the "propaganda department" to LIE to you...
There are plenty of other news sources than television.
Well, it's 3 minutes of news cycle, then 22 minutes of talking heads going on about nothing important,
This is why I stopped watching the news. People love information, which is why the News is so popular, but watching a 'breaking story' where there is zero information and talking heads speculate over possible scenarios is just trash.
The sad part is that media is one of the pillars of a strong democracy, and by cheapening the news, it results in people switching off and caring just that little bit less.
Ironically when a story does break, the talking heads in here usually have far more insight than on TV. I remember when that jet went missing over Malaysia we had Pilots, Traffic controllers, Navy guys, GPS experts, all in here discussing the finer detail, then when I switched on the News it was the like the play school version by comparison.
There is a difference between news and comment.
The news tells me that David Bowie has died, which I want to know. People's comments on how good/bad his music was I can take or leave as I see fit.
Sites like slashdot are just republishing news from elsewhere to generate discussion, you can only rely on them for news because the original news sites exist.
The fact that I cant on my cellphone put in 1800* to block every single 800 number from calling my phone is stupid. the phones can do it, why the hell doesnt google bake this into the damn os?
And you're right, the idea isn't that you'll answer yes, it's that if you answer no and turn out to be a terrorist or have supported terrorism, etc..., then you've committed a felony by having lied to a federal officer. (YES. Lying to feds is a crime. The First Amendment doesn't protect you from that.) So they can arrest you and throw away the key, at least for a while.
But it's only a lie if you have been convicted of terrorism, surely?
In which case, serving an extra year or two for lying to the Feds on top of the forty eight thousand years you'll get for actual terrorism seems irrelevant.
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Also, I'm an academic, so much for your presumptive "anti-intellectual" bullshit.
An academic can quite easily have stupid opinions outside their own field of expertise. This is known as Nobel disease after the impressive number of Nobel prize winning scientists who are racists, global warming deniers or believers in homeopathy.
There would have been a problem if I had company over, but that never happened anyway.
As this is slashdot, that is redudant information, like saying "but I never had sex with a whole professional cheerleading team at once".
Procrastination led me to be able to code for 24 hours or more in a row while staying productive. Handy when an unplanned emergency occurs. Some co-workers wonder how I can do it.
I consider it a major achievement staying awake for 24 hours in a row using drugs and talking utter bollocks. God knows how you manage to actually do any work.
> average Google engineer would be a star virtually anywhere else in the industry. How could you possibly know that? Do you have access to parallel universes where they work for other companies? Nah. It's just while your fingers doing the typing while your pompous asshole dictates.
I'm taking a wild guess that OP is or was an average Google engineer, and therefore, gosh, a star.
One thing I've been wondering. Since I was a nerd and a geek long before that was cool, do I count as a hipster?
Only if you're not a real nerd and geek. Hipsters are no more nerds because they have an iPad than they are lumberjacks because they wear check shirts and stupid beards.
Depending on how much you make that might help you (or hurt you) in the dating department!
Sure, if you want to date shallow psychopaths.
my salary negotiation each year was "so and so is incompetent and they're making $x, plus that represents an increase of $y over the year before that. Also, so and so always comes to me for help and he's been here 15 years and makes $z". I felt bad for my boss, as there was simply no refutation.
The refutation is: I'm the boss and I decide who's incompetent or not.
Defense contractors would be able to make money in a free market, but we don't have a free market. Whether right or wrong (different discussion and interesting) the Government restricts what people make, how much they make, and who they can sell things to. They limit software as well as hardware, and in some cases even concepts and ideas. A company like Lockheed Martin can not sell a military plane to Bill Gates even though he could easily afford one or two. Let alone selling a plane to Sudan or Russia, which would be how a defense company would operate in a free market.
The point is that, without governments, there'd be no defence contracts. You'd have a world of petty warlords and fiefdoms, none of which would have the resources to pay for attack helicopters, aircraft carriers or fleets of tanks. If they could, they'd be big enough to be governments by definition.
The trouble with posting everyones' salaries is that....it DOES tend to trend towards everyone getting paid the same, which penalizes those folks that work harder, are worth more...and are better negotiators.
It's the "better negotiators" part that sticks in most people's throats. It's just another example of some people who are actually less good at their actual job getting rewarded unfairly over others. Like people who are good at internal politics or self advertisment getting promoted.
If you're a good negotiator, be a salesman and get your sales bonuses fairly and squarely.
Then they sued me.
What for? Stealing the petty cash? Hospitalising your boss?
I've never heard of any normal person being sued because they quit their job.
You would be surprised. Just ask. The worst thing that ever happened to me when I asked for more money was "no". Don't be so scared. I guarentee the execs are negotiating every year their compensation aggressively.
In case you hadn't noticed, there are different rules for those at executive/director level, where they are indeed expected to negotiate aggresively.
Do the same if you're a middle ranking employee and you'll be told there are plenty of other people who can do your job on your current salary.
I know it's slashdot and we're all special rockstar snowflakes driving our supermodel girlfriends around in Lamborghinis, I'm talking about the Little People.
I've actually worked an honest 30 hour day. Including 15 hours billable travel time.
I wish I got paid for sleeping. Sorry, consulting.
Fun fact: Arabs are just as Semitic as Jews, so describing anti-Jewish bias by Arabs as "anti-Semitism" makes very little sense.
In normal English "anti-Semitic" means "anti-Jewish". The ancient history of language groups is irrelevant, unless you're having a technical philological or linguistic discussion.
Don't get me started on Actors, Artist and Musicians who to often don't choose the backstop of a college education and end up running a cash register at a big box store..
Getting a college education hasn't guaranteed you a solid career since about 1980.
Anyway, the world needs actors, artists and musicians. Not everyone can be a STEM hero like Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg.
Turkey did invade Cyprus late last Century.
I thought they sent a peacekeeping force to protect the native Turkish Cypriots from being massacred by the terrorist ultra right wing Greek Orthodox Christian Cypriots?
Reality has no bias, but it very much appears biased, because one entire side of the political spectrum (the Right) has abandoned it altogether and only exists inside a fantasy world where: - the US is the only nation that matters, and Europe, Canada, and Australia either doesn't exist, or are considered to be socialist hellholes, even though they live longer, safer lives, with less violence, less poverty, more education, more freedom, less debt, better healthcare - all the worlds scientists are engaged in a global conspiracy to force evolution and global warming, and other lies of satan upon the world - the only knowledge worth having, be it political and economic theory, social studies, science, or philosophy, comes from the Bible - more guns = more safety, even though the rest of the world has already patently disproved that notion many times over - immigrants are evil people intent on killing us in our sleep, even though they actually commit crimes at a lower rate than the native population - terrorist threats are imminent, terrorist = muslims, and the president is a secret member - the entire constitution only applies to Christians, everyone else is SOL - the "war on poverty" is a lost cause, even though history clearly shows that social programs (aka welfare) have reduced it and improved the quality of life of society's weakest members, and in other nations that have gone even farther than we have, have even lower rates of poverty - trickle down economics works - Obama/Clinton are felons, somehow, because 4 people died Libya, even though countless investigations by the very people blaming them continually fail to find them at actual fault, and also somehow Bush/Cheney are completely blameless for all that they did - we somehow can't afford to take care of troops when they come home, but we can spend 1000x that amount on going to war in the first place
The list goes on and on and on. So yes, reality effectively does have a bias, in the sense that only one side actually lives in and acknowledges it.
That would be a good precis of the comments in a typical slashdot thread, although you'd have to add something about how Bill Gates has caused more deaths than Hitler
Ironically when a story does break, the talking heads in here usually have far more insight than on TV. I remember when that jet went missing over Malaysia we had Pilots, Traffic controllers, Navy guys, GPS experts, all in here discussing the finer detail, then when I switched on the News it was the like the play school version by comparison.
Though half the people who act like experts on this site have just read a bit more than you on the subject and then act like they know what they're talking about.
Yes, it's amazing what you can learn about being a Pilot, Traffic controller, Navy guy and GPS expert from an hour on wikipedia. It's like Keanu Reeves learning to fly that helicopter in one of the Matrix films.
What once, many years ago, was known as the "Fouth Estate", has now become the "US Department of Propaganda", that will tout whatever the current administration tells it to...It doesn't matter which party is in power, they both use the "propaganda department" to LIE to you...
There are plenty of other news sources than television.
Well, it's 3 minutes of news cycle, then 22 minutes of talking heads going on about nothing important,
This is why I stopped watching the news. People love information, which is why the News is so popular, but watching a 'breaking story' where there is zero information and talking heads speculate over possible scenarios is just trash. The sad part is that media is one of the pillars of a strong democracy, and by cheapening the news, it results in people switching off and caring just that little bit less. Ironically when a story does break, the talking heads in here usually have far more insight than on TV. I remember when that jet went missing over Malaysia we had Pilots, Traffic controllers, Navy guys, GPS experts, all in here discussing the finer detail, then when I switched on the News it was the like the play school version by comparison.
There is a difference between news and comment.
The news tells me that David Bowie has died, which I want to know. People's comments on how good/bad his music was I can take or leave as I see fit.
Sites like slashdot are just republishing news from elsewhere to generate discussion, you can only rely on them for news because the original news sites exist.
The fact that I cant on my cellphone put in 1800* to block every single 800 number from calling my phone is stupid. the phones can do it, why the hell doesnt google bake this into the damn os?
Cyanogenmod. Enable wildcards. 1800.*
Are you some sort of terrorist?
And you're right, the idea isn't that you'll answer yes, it's that if you answer no and turn out to be a terrorist or have supported terrorism, etc..., then you've committed a felony by having lied to a federal officer. (YES. Lying to feds is a crime. The First Amendment doesn't protect you from that.) So they can arrest you and throw away the key, at least for a while.
But it's only a lie if you have been convicted of terrorism, surely?
In which case, serving an extra year or two for lying to the Feds on top of the forty eight thousand years you'll get for actual terrorism seems irrelevant.
I think the best part is no worries about money drying up after retirement. Work hard, party hard, die of heart attack at 45!
If you're working 100+ hours a week you are not also partying hard.
WTF is with this thread? Is Dice paying people to generate fake comments now?
Agreed, there can't be that many identical morons in the world.
Getting crushed by agile meetings! Also, the methodology doesn't allow a day off.
Then get a new methodology.
You people are like turkeys who think Christmas and Thanksgiving are great for business.
And lack of vacation just makes that worse. I haven't had a full week off since 1992.
No offence, but you're a fucking idiot then.