1999 and 2000 there was a small surplus under Clinton, of tens of billions (exactly how much depends on what you count). This surplus carried over into 2001 which was a budget passed in 2000. Before and after that it's red ink.
And vice-versa; Clinton won in 1992 partly due to the (R) vote being split between Bush and Perot. Or, more accurately, more people who would have voted for Bush (or not voted) than people who would have voted for Clinton (or not voted) voted for Perot. Maybe. You see how complicated this is? Without Perot in the 1992 election it's impossible to say what would have happened -- would the Perot voters have stayed home, or voted for Clinton, or Bush? Even a survey at the polling locations couldn't tell for sure.
There have been other elections with "independents" where the vote was split in odd ways, like the 2006 gubernatorial election in Texas, where Rick Perry (the incumbent, on the (R) ticket) was up against Carole Keeton Strayhorn, a (R) who skipped the primaries since she couldn't win them, the (D) candidate Chris Bell, a libertarian candidate, the truly independent and famous (in Texas) Kinky Friedman, and a write-in campaign for someone forgettable. The vote broke down as:
39% Perry (R) 29.8% Bell (D) 18% Strayhon 12.6% Friedman 0.6% Libertarian
Now, whose votes did Kinky Friedman "steal"? And whose did Strayhorn? And what would have happened with an IRV system? And how many elections in the U.S. would be different (in ways good and bad) with an IRV election?
I've noted quite the dynamic tension between my wife any myself when it comes to kids safety. I want them to have fun and I'm not worried about much of anything; she's a worrywort. I suspect this is essentially natural and that where we meet is a good place. But our laws and playgrounds are too much mommy-fear and not enough daddy-fun now.
It's illegal to pay H1B less than other employees and at least for my peers I'd be very surprised if we pay them less. Meanwhile, do you really want to believe that non-Americans can do *better* work than Americans, in the aggregate?
This angers me beyond belief! We have plenty of development talent here in the United States.
We don't, in the sense that the company I work for has open headcount and we can't find enough qualified people to fill it, either from the USA or anywhere else in the world. We've got a decent number of folks from Russia, India, Australia, Britain, Germany, etc. Neither the engineers nor the recruiters where I work think any specific nationality is "better" at writing software. We just hire the best wherever they come from.
If a large sector of America is unemployed, why are we importing labor?
Because none of the unemployed people can write good software? I dunno; I just know what resumes I see and who I interview and the majority don't meet our hiring bar.
Are you saying that there are? If so -citation needed.
Isilon's product is based on FreeBSD. ISLN was recently acquired by EMC (perhaps you've heard of them?) for 2.5 billion. At the most recent BSDCan there was a meeting of various vendors who sell a product based on FreeBSD, and there were other recognizable names in the room.
See anything committed by mdf to the FreeBSD svn repository. FreeBSD's review policy is mostly after-commit since all commits generate email to a mailing list, and the community is active in reviewing things that way. (Note that most of my commits for work are not to FreeBSD, so... yeah.)
I love code reviews; I usually like doing them and I really want my code reviewed too. But it can be like pulling teeth to get co-workers to do them in a timely manner. So yeah, I commit unreviewed code unless it feels risky.
My kids like to print out color stuff from the web. They don't care if it's photorealistic. For that matter I rarely print stuff at home (or at work) and I don't need it to look awesome either. So yeah, there's still a good reason for some people to have an inkjet printer.
This was the most expensive the childcare got to, because one was a baby under 6 months, and the other was still under 3 and so was in the 4:1 ratio classroom. As they age they get cheaper. But in fact my wife quit her job (she wasn't very happy there anyways) and has been a SAHM for over 3 years now. Even as an attorney my wife wasn't adding a lot of money to the bottom line, because the hours required by her job also meant we needed to pay for someone else to do lawn care, house cleaning, some grocery shopping, etc, plus dry-cleaning her clothes, and other assorted business expenses.
For most middle-class people, I don't see that two working jobs adds a lot of money to the household while there are preschool aged kids around. But for most professional women it's very hard to re-enter the labor force after a few years off raising kids, due to a resume gap, so there's not a lot of choice.
How much more do trucks damage the road than a car? Now how much worse is the truck's mileage? Last I heard (and this is old and probably out of date) an 18-wheeler could get as little as 4mpg. So is it doing more than 8x the damage of a sedan?
Yeah, even in Austin my 1290 sq ft home cost $1300/mo for mortgage and insurance and taxes. When I moved to the 1800 sq ft home after the second kid was born (better school district) my mortgage was $1700/mo. Of course at that time the day care for two kids was $1900/mo since my wife still worked.
In Seattle you can rent about 200 sq ft a little over 5 miles from downtown for $2000ish / mo. You can't buy that cheaply unless you have about 80K+ for a down payment.
Except in Seattle living downtown is very family unfriendly. Not only is it more expensive than most 2-income middle class families can afford, but my experience is that most Seattle-ites get pretty unhappy having to "deal with" other people's children. That part is cultural, though. Even places 6 miles from downtown like Ballard are not traditionally affordable for the middle class with a family. This is why most people with kids seem to live out in Shoreline and beyond, and this is what makes I-5 so congested.
Yeah, I didn't RTFA, but my equipment at home is slower and cheaper than what I have at work. I don't own a smartphone for work or personal use. I don't have a quad-core box at home or a 30 inch screen, but I do at work.
So no, I don't think I want to use my personal equipment for business use, since it's not adequate to the task.
It's very simple. You are paid to think. The quality of your thoughts after 8 hours working in a day is not nearly as good as in the first few hours. Except for a short stint, the quality of thinking after 10 hours is so poor that you will spend more time cleaning up the messes you made when tired than you saved by working longer.
Yeah, I cheated once in undergrad as well. My freshman Physics class my prof got ill and we got a new prof halfway through the quarter. On an exam a few weeks later he wanted us to derive some formulas that he had been teaching (mostly before starting our section; there were two sections of this class), and I... well, I didn't want to learn that since I liked the old teacher better. So I programmed the basics into my calculator to copy back onto the test.
This was 1994 when not everyone had a calculator that could store that kind of info.
If I had it to do over again, I wouldn't do it, but mostly because my reasons were childish (I didn't want to study something for a few hours). I have no philosophical objection to occasional cheating like what you describe, but for my own moral framework I need better justification than "I don't want to".
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What's this "object oriented" thing you speak of? If you can't do it in C or LISP, is it really necessary?:-)
On of the saddest things for me moving from Austin to Seattle was the lack of Alamo Drafthouse. Cinebarre isn't the same -- for one thing, the pre-show is not very good. And they don't do the themed food / feasts like Alamo does.
I have a BnL cup that had my septuacentennial cupcake-in-a-cup in it. The Feast for Pirates of the Caribbean was awesome. And I am bummed I missed out on the hobbit food at the LotR trilogy showing.
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I've interviewed a lot of people for the company I currently work for. We have quite a few H1B employees because we *can't* find enough qualified people to fill our slots. We've got people on board from India, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, and probably a lot of places I am not thinking of at the moment. We made an offer recently to a guy from Italy. We also have a ton of U.S. citizen employees (including me), but just finding qualified people is hard. Limiting our pool to U.S. citizens would make it impossible.
We're still trying to hire more people, so if qualified Americans come to our attention we'll hire them too.
AFAIK, mainframe users are usually charged by the cycle. This is one reason co-processors are hot in mainframes -- the licensing and charges are for the main compute CPUs, so farming off work to a dedicated Java CPU or dedicated Crypto CPU doesn't get charged at the same rate.
So more cycles per second on the main compute CPUs means the owner charges more per unit time, assuming they maintain the utilization. That's profit for the mainframe owner, and the users benefit too because their jobs take less time to run.
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hahaha, dammit, my mod points expired yesterday. You, sir, made me LOL. I assume you're a guy since there's no exclamation points or smileys! :-)
1999 and 2000 there was a small surplus under Clinton, of tens of billions (exactly how much depends on what you count). This surplus carried over into 2001 which was a budget passed in 2000. Before and after that it's red ink.
And vice-versa; Clinton won in 1992 partly due to the (R) vote being split between Bush and Perot. Or, more accurately, more people who would have voted for Bush (or not voted) than people who would have voted for Clinton (or not voted) voted for Perot. Maybe. You see how complicated this is? Without Perot in the 1992 election it's impossible to say what would have happened -- would the Perot voters have stayed home, or voted for Clinton, or Bush? Even a survey at the polling locations couldn't tell for sure.
There have been other elections with "independents" where the vote was split in odd ways, like the 2006 gubernatorial election in Texas, where Rick Perry (the incumbent, on the (R) ticket) was up against Carole Keeton Strayhorn, a (R) who skipped the primaries since she couldn't win them, the (D) candidate Chris Bell, a libertarian candidate, the truly independent and famous (in Texas) Kinky Friedman, and a write-in campaign for someone forgettable. The vote broke down as:
39% Perry (R)
29.8% Bell (D)
18% Strayhon
12.6% Friedman
0.6% Libertarian
Now, whose votes did Kinky Friedman "steal"? And whose did Strayhorn? And what would have happened with an IRV system? And how many elections in the U.S. would be different (in ways good and bad) with an IRV election?
I've noted quite the dynamic tension between my wife any myself when it comes to kids safety. I want them to have fun and I'm not worried about much of anything; she's a worrywort. I suspect this is essentially natural and that where we meet is a good place. But our laws and playgrounds are too much mommy-fear and not enough daddy-fun now.
It's illegal to pay H1B less than other employees and at least for my peers I'd be very surprised if we pay them less. Meanwhile, do you really want to believe that non-Americans can do *better* work than Americans, in the aggregate?
Using Pluto's density of 2.03 g/cm^3, I compute (at 21 mile diameter) the moon is 4.2e16 kg.
With a 4.2e16 kg mass and 1.7e4 m radius, I compute an escape velocity of 18 m/s, or 40 miles per hour.
So I suspect you could jump really hard and not come back down, assuming I didn't misplace a decimal point.
Hiring is the same in the Bay area (so I read), but the cost of living is higher.
This angers me beyond belief! We have plenty of development talent here in the United States.
We don't, in the sense that the company I work for has open headcount and we can't find enough qualified people to fill it, either from the USA or anywhere else in the world. We've got a decent number of folks from Russia, India, Australia, Britain, Germany, etc. Neither the engineers nor the recruiters where I work think any specific nationality is "better" at writing software. We just hire the best wherever they come from.
If a large sector of America is unemployed, why are we importing labor?
Because none of the unemployed people can write good software? I dunno; I just know what resumes I see and who I interview and the majority don't meet our hiring bar.
Ditto. Here in Seattle every software shop I know of is hiring like crazy.
Are you saying that there are? If so -citation needed.
Isilon's product is based on FreeBSD. ISLN was recently acquired by EMC (perhaps you've heard of them?) for 2.5 billion. At the most recent BSDCan there was a meeting of various vendors who sell a product based on FreeBSD, and there were other recognizable names in the room.
post your code here and we'll review it :)
See anything committed by mdf to the FreeBSD svn repository. FreeBSD's review policy is mostly after-commit since all commits generate email to a mailing list, and the community is active in reviewing things that way. (Note that most of my commits for work are not to FreeBSD, so ... yeah.)
I love code reviews; I usually like doing them and I really want my code reviewed too. But it can be like pulling teeth to get co-workers to do them in a timely manner. So yeah, I commit unreviewed code unless it feels risky.
My kids like to print out color stuff from the web. They don't care if it's photorealistic. For that matter I rarely print stuff at home (or at work) and I don't need it to look awesome either. So yeah, there's still a good reason for some people to have an inkjet printer.
This was the most expensive the childcare got to, because one was a baby under 6 months, and the other was still under 3 and so was in the 4:1 ratio classroom. As they age they get cheaper. But in fact my wife quit her job (she wasn't very happy there anyways) and has been a SAHM for over 3 years now. Even as an attorney my wife wasn't adding a lot of money to the bottom line, because the hours required by her job also meant we needed to pay for someone else to do lawn care, house cleaning, some grocery shopping, etc, plus dry-cleaning her clothes, and other assorted business expenses.
For most middle-class people, I don't see that two working jobs adds a lot of money to the household while there are preschool aged kids around. But for most professional women it's very hard to re-enter the labor force after a few years off raising kids, due to a resume gap, so there's not a lot of choice.
How much more do trucks damage the road than a car? Now how much worse is the truck's mileage? Last I heard (and this is old and probably out of date) an 18-wheeler could get as little as 4mpg. So is it doing more than 8x the damage of a sedan?
Yeah, even in Austin my 1290 sq ft home cost $1300/mo for mortgage and insurance and taxes. When I moved to the 1800 sq ft home after the second kid was born (better school district) my mortgage was $1700/mo. Of course at that time the day care for two kids was $1900/mo since my wife still worked.
In Seattle you can rent about 200 sq ft a little over 5 miles from downtown for $2000ish / mo. You can't buy that cheaply unless you have about 80K+ for a down payment.
Except in Seattle living downtown is very family unfriendly. Not only is it more expensive than most 2-income middle class families can afford, but my experience is that most Seattle-ites get pretty unhappy having to "deal with" other people's children. That part is cultural, though. Even places 6 miles from downtown like Ballard are not traditionally affordable for the middle class with a family. This is why most people with kids seem to live out in Shoreline and beyond, and this is what makes I-5 so congested.
Benjamin Franklin was elected President? :-)
Yeah, I didn't RTFA, but my equipment at home is slower and cheaper than what I have at work. I don't own a smartphone for work or personal use. I don't have a quad-core box at home or a 30 inch screen, but I do at work.
So no, I don't think I want to use my personal equipment for business use, since it's not adequate to the task.
It's very simple. You are paid to think. The quality of your thoughts after 8 hours working in a day is not nearly as good as in the first few hours. Except for a short stint, the quality of thinking after 10 hours is so poor that you will spend more time cleaning up the messes you made when tired than you saved by working longer.
Yeah, I cheated once in undergrad as well. My freshman Physics class my prof got ill and we got a new prof halfway through the quarter. On an exam a few weeks later he wanted us to derive some formulas that he had been teaching (mostly before starting our section; there were two sections of this class), and I ... well, I didn't want to learn that since I liked the old teacher better. So I programmed the basics into my calculator to copy back onto the test.
This was 1994 when not everyone had a calculator that could store that kind of info.
If I had it to do over again, I wouldn't do it, but mostly because my reasons were childish (I didn't want to study something for a few hours). I have no philosophical objection to occasional cheating like what you describe, but for my own moral framework I need better justification than "I don't want to".
What's this "object oriented" thing you speak of? If you can't do it in C or LISP, is it really necessary? :-)
On of the saddest things for me moving from Austin to Seattle was the lack of Alamo Drafthouse. Cinebarre isn't the same -- for one thing, the pre-show is not very good. And they don't do the themed food / feasts like Alamo does.
I have a BnL cup that had my septuacentennial cupcake-in-a-cup in it. The Feast for Pirates of the Caribbean was awesome. And I am bummed I missed out on the hobbit food at the LotR trilogy showing.
I've interviewed a lot of people for the company I currently work for. We have quite a few H1B employees because we *can't* find enough qualified people to fill our slots. We've got people on board from India, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, and probably a lot of places I am not thinking of at the moment. We made an offer recently to a guy from Italy. We also have a ton of U.S. citizen employees (including me), but just finding qualified people is hard. Limiting our pool to U.S. citizens would make it impossible.
We're still trying to hire more people, so if qualified Americans come to our attention we'll hire them too.
Didn't we retire the Ghz wars 5 years ago?
AFAIK, mainframe users are usually charged by the cycle. This is one reason co-processors are hot in mainframes -- the licensing and charges are for the main compute CPUs, so farming off work to a dedicated Java CPU or dedicated Crypto CPU doesn't get charged at the same rate.
So more cycles per second on the main compute CPUs means the owner charges more per unit time, assuming they maintain the utilization. That's profit for the mainframe owner, and the users benefit too because their jobs take less time to run.