My transititon to a new career started when I was 32. Recognizing that my new job as a lead video game tester was a dead end, I started earning my IT certifications and went back to school to learn computer programming. I've already left the video game industry when I turned 35. It's hard to hate a job you no longer have.
I wonder if it's worth the 99 cents just for more laughter!
Since you're a cheap literary critic looking for cheap shots, why don't you read the short story, "Sunday In The Park With Dawei," for FREE at Smashwords (coupon code LE67R, valid through 8/31/2017).
By the way, anybody who's not a total virgin will tell you that small breasts with dark nipples feel like bags of sand, Creimer. Bags of sand. Not solar panels.
If you bother to read my short story beyond the free sampler, you would have found out that the character in question was an android.
I'm not sure the author reached the right conclusion.
The TFA doesn't mention a specific time period that the data was collected. If recent, say, post-Great Recession, there's a lot of people who felt that had no choice but to stay in their current job or risk not finding another job. That's an unhappy bunch. Probably bitter that other people took the risk of finding a new job, getting a pay raise and moving on in life.
I was transitioning from being a lead video game tester to an IT Support technician when I was 35. While I enjoyed being a video game tester for six years, it was a dead end job with few opportunities for promotion. I'm quite happy with cleaning out IT closets for the last 13 years.
Of course! We've been 3D printing houses for YEARS now! Get with it, pops!
No one has done a tilt up in years. It's all mixed development with concrete garages and storefronts at ground level, and four stories of wood housing on top.
The more suave bricklayers can look into a woman's eye halfway across the construction site and make her blush as she walks down the sidewalk without ever saying a word.
Not much bricklaying in Silicon Valley. Will the robot be able to lay 1,000 cinder blocks, place horizontal rebars every other course and tie them to the vertical rebars, and then grout the wall?
From what I read in "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez, Facebook takes its own data and combines it with third-party data to create profiles on every user, whether logged in or browsing anonymously. If Facebook can do that, everyone else can do the same thing.
See what happens when you make an actual contribution to the discussion? Keep it up, and I might actually grow to APPRECIATE your contributions here.
I'm just baiting my trolls so I can ignore them and see how they respond. This past weekend they accused me of gaining weight for the last ten years by taking anti-psychotic drugs. Made fo interesting reading.
Polymath is a word I haven't come across in years or even decades. Seems like a fancy word for generalist. Most of the comments fall into the generalist vs. specialist debate. Based on my 20+ year technical career, it's better to be a generalist most of the time, and a specialist as needed some of time. Then again, the highlight of my resume is cleaning out IT storage closets.
How many years did it take the auto industry to be shamed by Ralph Nader into providing safety features for their customers?
Suggesting that these cars will intentionally prioritize avoiding mechanical damage over human life is absurd.
Depends on the business model. Not every business model will prioritize human life. Based on the business model is how these self-driving cars will be programmed.
The business model should include protecting people and pedestrians at all cost. A car that protects itself while getting everyone killed probably won't have a great used car value.
That would be a switch, considering the Allied Powers spent a good six years shooting every Nazi they could find, and then had some trials in Nuremberg to hang or imprison the rest of them.
It took the Germans a few more decades to remove Nazi influence from daily life.
Teach them mathematics. Programming didn't make sense to me until I took algebra, learned about functions in general and the order of operations in particular. Not that you need mathematics to learn programming, but it does help in figuring out what is supposed to be done in what order.
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And you called your post "not in my experience"??
My transititon to a new career started when I was 32. Recognizing that my new job as a lead video game tester was a dead end, I started earning my IT certifications and went back to school to learn computer programming. I've already left the video game industry when I turned 35. It's hard to hate a job you no longer have.
The sad thing is, your story is not intended as comedy, but I howled and howled through the free sampler.
It's a parody of "Sunday in The Park with George". You're supposed to laugh.
I wonder if it's worth the 99 cents just for more laughter!
Since you're a cheap literary critic looking for cheap shots, why don't you read the short story, "Sunday In The Park With Dawei," for FREE at Smashwords (coupon code LE67R, valid through 8/31/2017).
By the way, anybody who's not a total virgin will tell you that small breasts with dark nipples feel like bags of sand, Creimer. Bags of sand. Not solar panels.
If you bother to read my short story beyond the free sampler, you would have found out that the character in question was an android.
To paraphrase a line from Star Trek 6: Undiscovered Country, "Not all androids keep their solar panels in the same place."
BTW, A female editor accepted this short story for publication in her anthology, and she had no problems with my descriptions of female hardware.
I'm not sure the author reached the right conclusion.
The TFA doesn't mention a specific time period that the data was collected. If recent, say, post-Great Recession, there's a lot of people who felt that had no choice but to stay in their current job or risk not finding another job. That's an unhappy bunch. Probably bitter that other people took the risk of finding a new job, getting a pay raise and moving on in life.
I was transitioning from being a lead video game tester to an IT Support technician when I was 35. While I enjoyed being a video game tester for six years, it was a dead end job with few opportunities for promotion. I'm quite happy with cleaning out IT closets for the last 13 years.
You can hear a nice interview with that author on WNYC's Note-to-Self podcast with Manoush Zomorodi here:
Thanks for the reference! I'll check it out.
Er, "If Facebook can do X, so can everyone else" doesn't follow. At all.
It helps not to overthink it. I certainly don't with my comments. ;)
Of course! We've been 3D printing houses for YEARS now! Get with it, pops!
No one has done a tilt up in years. It's all mixed development with concrete garages and storefronts at ground level, and four stories of wood housing on top.
Do those folks still do this stuff?
The more suave bricklayers can look into a woman's eye halfway across the construction site and make her blush as she walks down the sidewalk without ever saying a word.
Not much bricklaying in Silicon Valley. Will the robot be able to lay 1,000 cinder blocks, place horizontal rebars every other course and tie them to the vertical rebars, and then grout the wall?
I shouldn't even have bothered... Your thing doesn't even work....
Looks like I need to strip out the extra crap that Slashdot puts into their links in my scraping script. Thanks for pointing this out!
Corrected URL: "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley"
From what I read in "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez, Facebook takes its own data and combines it with third-party data to create profiles on every user, whether logged in or browsing anonymously. If Facebook can do that, everyone else can do the same thing.
We simply put the pieces together.
Translation: We made shit up, as we usually do.
We also noticed you seem to have pulled all content from the last few months on your blog.
The top three popular links for my blog this past weekend was the Hello, Slashdot, The Original Slashdot F.A.Q., and, of course, the tag for all my Slashdot-related blog posts.
Best to forget that little episode now that you're normal!
Sorry, I took my vitamins this morning.
"XBOX" stands for "X Box One X"!
Brilliant! Someone should tell Microsoft. ;)
There are two x's in Xbox.
See what happens when you make an actual contribution to the discussion? Keep it up, and I might actually grow to APPRECIATE your contributions here.
I'm just baiting my trolls so I can ignore them and see how they respond. This past weekend they accused me of gaining weight for the last ten years by taking anti-psychotic drugs. Made fo interesting reading.
Polymath is a word I haven't come across in years or even decades. Seems like a fancy word for generalist. Most of the comments fall into the generalist vs. specialist debate. Based on my 20+ year technical career, it's better to be a generalist most of the time, and a specialist as needed some of time. Then again, the highlight of my resume is cleaning out IT storage closets.
In the real world, resources are always finite.
How many years did it take the auto industry to be shamed by Ralph Nader into providing safety features for their customers?
Suggesting that these cars will intentionally prioritize avoiding mechanical damage over human life is absurd.
Depends on the business model. Not every business model will prioritize human life. Based on the business model is how these self-driving cars will be programmed.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/542626/why-self-driving-cars-must-be-programmed-to-kill/
The business model should include protecting people and pedestrians at all cost. A car that protects itself while getting everyone killed probably won't have a great used car value.
That would be a switch, considering the Allied Powers spent a good six years shooting every Nazi they could find, and then had some trials in Nuremberg to hang or imprison the rest of them.
It took the Germans a few more decades to remove Nazi influence from daily life.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/20/why-there-are-no-nazi-statues-in-germany-215510
So many IT storage closets to clean, so little time between Slashdot comments.
Teach them mathematics. Programming didn't make sense to me until I took algebra, learned about functions in general and the order of operations in particular. Not that you need mathematics to learn programming, but it does help in figuring out what is supposed to be done in what order.