The union? God forbid that their employees be paid a non-slave wage and be given civilized amounts of time off. There should be more unions for tech workers, not less.
They're transitioning to fiber to the premises from copper. I'd take fiber over a wireless link shared by half my neighbors and dependent on the right phase of the moon to have decent speed. The idea isn't to replace copper with wireless mediocrity, but to go to fiber with guaranteed speeds.
If you don't want government or corepirate scum hoovering up your data and giving it to whomever their little black hearts desire, keep it locally, on your own servers or on your own computer(s). At least then they will need a warrant to break into your home and access it. (If not a warrant, there's likely to be physical evidence of a break-in).
The law restricts the spread between highest and lowest premiums for plans bought from an exchange to 1:3. And only allows rating based on age, location, and smoking status.
In civilized states, the spread is often lowered to 1:1.
Options (3,4,5) leave the industry, go to academia, or even leave the US under a skilled-worker visa.
If you have experience, you can also come back as a consultant, set your own hours, and charge 2-3x as much as if you were an employee. Thanks to Obamacare, in civilized states, everyone pays the same price for insurance regardless of pre-existing status.
Programmers don't realize they have more power over their employers than they think. One programmer being fired may be easy to replace. A group of five or ten working on a poorly-documented business-critical piece of software, not so much...
If demand is really greater than supply, then programmers should be able to ask for reasonable accommodation from employers (i.e. reasonable working hours and vaca time). If people actually showed a backbone, this has the potential to chance cultures.
If Anchorage is really so underserved, could you have a market if you started a brick 'n mortar electronics store that didn't treat customers like dirt? It's not a small city -- 300,000 people.
The CUNY schools I just listed have masters and Ph. D. level programs. They're a city-owned university system -- don't confuse it with "community college."
The city in question has more population than many US states. Think of them as state schools with more vertical campuses.
The top CUNY schools (read: Brooklyn, Queens, Hunter, CUNY uptown, Lehman) provide an amazing education, especially considering their cost, which is under $7,000 per year. (Or free under certain circumstances.) For professional/grad programs, SUNY has some amazing and also cheap schools -- tuition at SUNY Downstate, an excellent medical school, is 50% of that of most other schools for in-state students.
I can't find nationwide rankings for public schools, only regional, but the CUNY schools usually come out top-ranked.
My local grocery, where there are probably only 5 people working total, has refunded me cash for bad/moldy fruit, no questions asked, no receipt. Then again, they probably remember that I bought it.
California and NY both have first-rate public university systems, which is more than can be said for 75% of US states. Texas, Michigan, New Jersey, Massachusetts, North Carolina are up there, but plenty of states concentrate more on jocks and sports than students.
You mean military protection racket? Military protection wouldn't be as needed if they weren't part of the US, which has managed to annoy a lot of the world with its brainless meddling.
NY and CA would be much better off if their residents didn't have to pay Federal tax (i.e. NYExit and CALExit). NY and CA pay more money to DC than they get back, to support (often) red states whose residents profess to dislike them.
Signaling is being upgraded and a lot of subway cars in NYC are new/better. There are even plans for open-gangway cars, where the connection between cars is almost as wide as the car itself, and passengers can more freely between segments.
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The union? God forbid that their employees be paid a non-slave wage and be given civilized amounts of time off. There should be more unions for tech workers, not less.
Better yet, pull a Bell Telephone and split it up into local utilities.
They're transitioning to fiber to the premises from copper. I'd take fiber over a wireless link shared by half my neighbors and dependent on the right phase of the moon to have decent speed. The idea isn't to replace copper with wireless mediocrity, but to go to fiber with guaranteed speeds.
If you don't want government or corepirate scum hoovering up your data and giving it to whomever their little black hearts desire, keep it locally, on your own servers or on your own computer(s). At least then they will need a warrant to break into your home and access it. (If not a warrant, there's likely to be physical evidence of a break-in).
Cloud = Someone Else's Computer.
"Agile" is another cult, just like Six Sigma.
And why is working 9:30 to 4:00 such a mortal sin if you can hack it? Some of us have other interests than flying a desk for 15 hours a day.
The law restricts the spread between highest and lowest premiums for plans bought from an exchange to 1:3. And only allows rating based on age, location, and smoking status. In civilized states, the spread is often lowered to 1:1.
Options (3,4,5) leave the industry, go to academia, or even leave the US under a skilled-worker visa. If you have experience, you can also come back as a consultant, set your own hours, and charge 2-3x as much as if you were an employee. Thanks to Obamacare, in civilized states, everyone pays the same price for insurance regardless of pre-existing status.
Programmers don't realize they have more power over their employers than they think. One programmer being fired may be easy to replace. A group of five or ten working on a poorly-documented business-critical piece of software, not so much...
If demand is really greater than supply, then programmers should be able to ask for reasonable accommodation from employers (i.e. reasonable working hours and vaca time). If people actually showed a backbone, this has the potential to chance cultures.
Yep, that's right, keep listening to the propaganda instead of doing something useful.
If Anchorage is really so underserved, could you have a market if you started a brick 'n mortar electronics store that didn't treat customers like dirt? It's not a small city -- 300,000 people.
Salk did more for humanity than most CEOs. Blank was an innovator and one of the founders of Fairchild Semi.
Why is being a big dick in corporate America vs a scientist or engineer so fucking important?
Also...
Colin Powell (general)
Jonas Salk (scientist)
Bernard Baruch (Wall St. CEO)
Julius Blank (basically created Silicon Valley)
The CUNY schools I just listed have masters and Ph. D. level programs. They're a city-owned university system -- don't confuse it with "community college."
The city in question has more population than many US states. Think of them as state schools with more vertical campuses.
The top CUNY schools (read: Brooklyn, Queens, Hunter, CUNY uptown, Lehman) provide an amazing education, especially considering their cost, which is under $7,000 per year. (Or free under certain circumstances.) For professional/grad programs, SUNY has some amazing and also cheap schools -- tuition at SUNY Downstate, an excellent medical school, is 50% of that of most other schools for in-state students.
I can't find nationwide rankings for public schools, only regional, but the CUNY schools usually come out top-ranked.
My local grocery, where there are probably only 5 people working total, has refunded me cash for bad/moldy fruit, no questions asked, no receipt. Then again, they probably remember that I bought it.
PA driver's licenses had magstripes in the early 2000s, and apparently still do.
California and NY both have first-rate public university systems, which is more than can be said for 75% of US states. Texas, Michigan, New Jersey, Massachusetts, North Carolina are up there, but plenty of states concentrate more on jocks and sports than students.
The real cretins are the ones that believe that the US as it now exists is remotely sustainable.
I'm not in Brooklyn enough to speak to it, but the E/F train in Queens was pretty abysmal (slow, often running local) through most of 2016/7.
You mean military protection racket? Military protection wouldn't be as needed if they weren't part of the US, which has managed to annoy a lot of the world with its brainless meddling.
NY and CA would be much better off if their residents didn't have to pay Federal tax (i.e. NYExit and CALExit). NY and CA pay more money to DC than they get back, to support (often) red states whose residents profess to dislike them.
Signaling is being upgraded and a lot of subway cars in NYC are new/better. There are even plans for open-gangway cars, where the connection between cars is almost as wide as the car itself, and passengers can more freely between segments.
Cars purchased 20 years later -- in 2016 -- have a max speed of 55 mph...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Doubt that ALL cars are limited to 40 mph, maybe some older cars were for a while. Signaling system is another issue/can of worms.
This thread says that cars were capped at 55 mph after the 1995 crash, not 40 mph:
https://www.nyctransitforums.c...