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  1. Re:Work is a virtue on Ontario Launches Universal Basic Income Pilot (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    You know what sucks worse than working in Dubai? Staying in Bangladesh and starving.

  2. Re:Pilots don't work on Ontario Launches Universal Basic Income Pilot (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Only telling half the story:

    How much do they make in their underground cash jobs? (e.g. smuggling tobacco/booze from places with reasonable taxes, running a still, growing pot, whoring etc).

    How many different 'bene' accounts does the average parasite maintain?

  3. Re:Yep. on Ontario Launches Universal Basic Income Pilot (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Everybody gets a pony. But it's an identification pony, they have to have it with them at all times.

    Vote for Vermin Supreme. He's the thinking man's candidate.

  4. If recruiters, not former coworkers are your best route to a new job, you aren't very good at your job.

  5. Re: Look for the Productive Class to Shrink on Ontario Launches Universal Basic Income Pilot (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Working.

  6. Re:Unintended consequences II on Ontario Launches Universal Basic Income Pilot (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 0

    You pay them less than the cost of a brat for each one they pop out. Make it a guaranteed money loser. e.g. 'fuckwit' money is enough to live a basic life without kids. With kids they will need 'shitjob' money on top of the 'fuckwit' money, just to survive.

  7. Re:Fear on Wall Street IT Engineer Hacks Employer To See If He'll Be Fired (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    HR checks typically have _nothing_ to do with competence.

    The best employees come in via the 'side door', bypassing HR. Those people usually know enough other people that they are the quickest to get hired, bypassing the HR morons saves time.

  8. Re:The problem is depth perception on Grand Theft Auto V Is Being Used To Help Teach Self-Driving Cars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Your eyes don't have enough parallax for depth perception to be that accurate in the ranges needed for driving. Each pixel does not have to be independently matched.

    Which isn't to gloss over the difficulties to 3d vision in real time. The depth perception part is solved by two meters of parallax.

  9. Re:Hmmmm Maybe Not? on Grand Theft Auto V Is Being Used To Help Teach Self-Driving Cars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Hard reverse and hard right when a cop walks up to your door to give you a ticket! Then burn off over his body.

  10. You were clearly well indoctrinated by your public school education.

  11. Re: My experience... on 95% Engineers in India Unfit For Software Development Jobs: Report (gadgetsnow.com) · · Score: 1

    _All_ cats are assholes. Some just have enough redeeming features to be OK.

  12. What focus on education? The word is 'indoctrination'.

  13. Get back to us when you finish middle school.

  14. Re:Well there's your problem on Tesla Recalls 53,000 Model S, Model X Cars For Stuck Parking Brakes (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Just not true. GM's, Ford and most MOPARs self adjust with each e-brake use. Some old mopars self adjust with each reverse. No drum brake self adjusts with each brake application. You are thinking of disk brakes.

  15. Re:Well there's your problem on Tesla Recalls 53,000 Model S, Model X Cars For Stuck Parking Brakes (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If nothing else, you should learn to use it in a turn. Good fun.

  16. Re:Well there's your problem on Tesla Recalls 53,000 Model S, Model X Cars For Stuck Parking Brakes (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Funny, in all the decades I've driven, I've never had a single incident with a mechanical parking brake.

    There are two kinds of people...

    Stick shift people. They use their parking/turning/emergency brakes. The mechanism does need occasional attention.

    Automatic people. They never use their parking brakes. This means that in the old days of drum brakes their brake self adjuster never actuated (most brands and years, exceptions exist that self adjusted in reverse or needed manual adjustment). They ended up with cars that did 100% of their braking on the front wheels and parking brake cables rusted in place.

    Only the second kind _think_ they've never had an e-brake issue.

  17. Re:CC'ing The Boss on CC'ing the Boss on Email Makes Employees Feel Less Trusted, Study Finds (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    Another argument for BCC.

  18. To: Whiners.

    'Genders studies' classes have nothing to do with misogyny or the real world in any way. Fuck your feelings too.

    Issue addressed.

    Thank you
    The boss.

  19. Re:Then it wouldn't really help on CC'ing the Boss on Email Makes Employees Feel Less Trusted, Study Finds (hbr.org) · · Score: 2

    By the time you have to CC the boss about coworkers BCC usually works better.

    It's not like this was the first time. What you want is for him/her to do his/her usual bullshit, but for all to see.

    The fact that I'm CCing the boss says: 'I don't trust you' not 'you should feel less trusted'.

  20. Re:My experience... on 95% Engineers in India Unfit For Software Development Jobs: Report (gadgetsnow.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is why you aren't an idiot about exactly how you teach them to do it wrong.

  21. Smoke that crack.

  22. Good CS and Engineering grads are also self taught programmers. They didn't study 'programming' in college, but had it, more or less, down in high school.

    How much programming do you think is actually taught in CS/EE? Typically you get an introductory course, which really sucks for those that don't already have a good handle on it. After that you are just expected to pick-up languages with increasing proficiency while actually putting effort into learning how various types of libraries work.

  23. Re: My experience... on 95% Engineers in India Unfit For Software Development Jobs: Report (gadgetsnow.com) · · Score: 1

    Who do you think they learned their business model from?

    Big American consultancies. The reason that the Indians can get away with it, is they are just doing what EDS has done for decades and charge less for similar results.

    What I don't get is how Tata, Infosys, EDS, Accenture, Toilet and Douche etc can even get in the door to pitch the executives anymore. It's not like any of this is a secret. Marketers must give awesome head.

  24. Re:My experience... on 95% Engineers in India Unfit For Software Development Jobs: Report (gadgetsnow.com) · · Score: 2

    Train them _wrong_, aka 'doing the needful'.

  25. Re:My experience... on 95% Engineers in India Unfit For Software Development Jobs: Report (gadgetsnow.com) · · Score: 1

    Agile is a one page manifesto full of obvious things and truisms.

    Agile in the field is an excuse.