Says the non-essential person who will get laid off when the Republicans shut down the government in the next four weeks. Don't worry. I'll take good care of your workstation while you're gone.
I have an A.A. degree in general education (1994) and an A.S. degree in computer programming (2007). I haven't worked a minimum wage job in 20+ years.
Government Worker - check
I'm two years into a five-year contract that's fully funded. If the Republicans shut down the government before or after the election, I'll still be working.
Complete Asshole - redundant
I wouldn't be working in I.T. if I wasn't a complete asshole.
Isn't that just about all that is worth watching on Youtube?
Uh, no. There are many niche channels. I personally watch technology, programming, woodworking and tropical fish videos. The few channels that do indulge in explicit language already beep out the words to keep their content advertiser friendly.
All the pissing, moaning and groaning by a few YouTube content creators makes for nice click bait video to drive their revenue streams for their videos. Wait a few months... They will find something else to piss, moan and groan about for another click bait video. It's not censorship, it's opportunism.
they already are like microsoft in many respects. they're not as backstabbing yet, but that'll come.
I disagree. When I had an interview at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View a few years ago, it was dead from everyone hiding in their cubicles. Go down the street towards Google, everyone was joyously walking about and unicorns were farting rainbows. Completely different.
After years of spending money like drunken sailors, the bean counters have commandeered the Google Lollipop and unprofitable projects are walking the plank..
My iPod Touch (1st Gen) lasted eight years before the battery gave out. I replaced it with an iPhone 6s. I typically upgrade my cellphone every three years or so. I'm in no rush to upgrade any time soon. If the iPhone last eight years, I'll be very happy.
Makes even less sense to use spaces in Python or whitespace sensitive languages. Lots of frustration here from merging code bases from multiple people who decided to use a different # spaces to define a tab.
PEP 8 recommends spaces over tabs. Most IDEs will default to four spaces.
I read an interesting rocket story in "Computing in the Middle Ages: A View From the Trenches 1955-1983" by Severo Ornstein. The author had to jiggle a tracking antenna connected to a computer during a rocket launch at Cape Canaveral. When the rocket launched, the top and middle stages went in opposite directions while the bottom stage sat unlit on the launch pad. When the self destruct signal got sent out, the bottom stage blew up because the explosives were located only in that stage, and the launch pad got destroyed. The other two stages crash landed downrange.
The ultra-rich residents of University Avenue don't want people with mere $100K+ incomes clogging up "their" street and using "their" shops.
As a $50K per year virtual ditch digger who commutes in from San Jose, I have no problems eating at the Panda Express on El Camino and Cambridge in Palo Alto.
None of which work well enough to allow for a density increase.
Until more people get out of their cars to use public transit, there's isn't enough demand to upgrade existing infrastructure for higher density. One reason for building mixed developments along the major transit lines is to simulate the demand.
The company I work for is located on the East Coast. At one point, they got confused between Palo Alto, CA, and Palo Alto, VA. They sent a team out to Palo Alto, VA, and found empty fields. I told management on the conference call that places in different states can have the same name.
The bigger problem is the lack of transit, which is necessary to enable the density increase.
Palo Alto has plenty of transit systems: Caltrain, VTA, Dumbarton Express, Stanford Shuttles and employer buses (Google/VMware).
And with the county spending on Bart to San Jose and ignoring Mountain View, PA, etc. it doesn't seem like that will change.
BART was originally supposed to encircle the San Francisco Bay Area, but the Peninsula route got nixed in the 1970's and the San Jose route is 30+ years late. The only major transit system upgrade through Mountain View and Palo Alto is the electrician of Caltrain.
I played around with the https://haveibeenpwned.com/ website, confirming that very old email addresses were compromised in the last few years. But how legit is this website?
Slashdot Mirror
Don't you know I'm a GS-13?
Says the non-essential person who will get laid off when the Republicans shut down the government in the next four weeks. Don't worry. I'll take good care of your workstation while you're gone.
Would you like fries with that degree - check
I have an A.A. degree in general education (1994) and an A.S. degree in computer programming (2007). I haven't worked a minimum wage job in 20+ years.
Government Worker - check
I'm two years into a five-year contract that's fully funded. If the Republicans shut down the government before or after the election, I'll still be working.
Complete Asshole - redundant
I wouldn't be working in I.T. if I wasn't a complete asshole.
Wow your life sucks.
Really? I haven't noticed.
Isn't that just about all that is worth watching on Youtube?
Uh, no. There are many niche channels. I personally watch technology, programming, woodworking and tropical fish videos. The few channels that do indulge in explicit language already beep out the words to keep their content advertiser friendly.
All the pissing, moaning and groaning by a few YouTube content creators makes for nice click bait video to drive their revenue streams for their videos. Wait a few months... They will find something else to piss, moan and groan about for another click bait video. It's not censorship, it's opportunism.
Very true in rural, conservative areas of the US.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/02/upshot/new-geography-of-prisons.html
Thank god for pedantry! What are you: 12?
I'm a 47-year-old English Lit major who works in government IT.
There's no fourth option. Only combinations of these three choices.
The combination of any three options is a fourth option. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200.
Zzz... WTF?! Zzz...
they already are like microsoft in many respects. they're not as backstabbing yet, but that'll come.
I disagree. When I had an interview at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View a few years ago, it was dead from everyone hiding in their cubicles. Go down the street towards Google, everyone was joyously walking about and unicorns were farting rainbows. Completely different.
After years of spending money like drunken sailors, the bean counters have commandeered the Google Lollipop and unprofitable projects are walking the plank..
My iPod Touch (1st Gen) lasted eight years before the battery gave out. I replaced it with an iPhone 6s. I typically upgrade my cellphone every three years or so. I'm in no rush to upgrade any time soon. If the iPhone last eight years, I'll be very happy.
Although the world didn't end in 2012, hackers were quite busy that year.
Makes even less sense to use spaces in Python or whitespace sensitive languages. Lots of frustration here from merging code bases from multiple people who decided to use a different # spaces to define a tab.
PEP 8 recommends spaces over tabs. Most IDEs will default to four spaces.
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#tabs-or-spaces
Only because I use Python.
I read an interesting rocket story in "Computing in the Middle Ages: A View From the Trenches 1955-1983" by Severo Ornstein. The author had to jiggle a tracking antenna connected to a computer during a rocket launch at Cape Canaveral. When the rocket launched, the top and middle stages went in opposite directions while the bottom stage sat unlit on the launch pad. When the self destruct signal got sent out, the bottom stage blew up because the explosives were located only in that stage, and the launch pad got destroyed. The other two stages crash landed downrange.
https://www.amazon.com/Computing-Middle-Ages-Trenches-1955-1983/dp/1403315175/
The ultra-rich residents of University Avenue don't want people with mere $100K+ incomes clogging up "their" street and using "their" shops.
As a $50K per year virtual ditch digger who commutes in from San Jose, I have no problems eating at the Panda Express on El Camino and Cambridge in Palo Alto.
None of which work well enough to allow for a density increase.
Until more people get out of their cars to use public transit, there's isn't enough demand to upgrade existing infrastructure for higher density. One reason for building mixed developments along the major transit lines is to simulate the demand.
Palo Alto, VA, maybe?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto,_Virginia
The company I work for is located on the East Coast. At one point, they got confused between Palo Alto, CA, and Palo Alto, VA. They sent a team out to Palo Alto, VA, and found empty fields. I told management on the conference call that places in different states can have the same name.
The bigger problem is the lack of transit, which is necessary to enable the density increase.
Palo Alto has plenty of transit systems: Caltrain, VTA, Dumbarton Express, Stanford Shuttles and employer buses (Google/VMware).
And with the county spending on Bart to San Jose and ignoring Mountain View, PA, etc. it doesn't seem like that will change.
BART was originally supposed to encircle the San Francisco Bay Area, but the Peninsula route got nixed in the 1970's and the San Jose route is 30+ years late. The only major transit system upgrade through Mountain View and Palo Alto is the electrician of Caltrain.
If the FAA will allow it. Too many flight paths over Palo Alto. Most buildings in San Jose are limited to 22 stories because of the flight paths.
Otherwise known as HELL ON EARTH!
I played around with the https://haveibeenpwned.com/ website, confirming that very old email addresses were compromised in the last few years. But how legit is this website?
reading The Wall Street Journal
You keep saying as if anyone gives a damn. Do you get paid by the mention or somesuch?
This is Slashdot. Of course, everyone gives a damn. You must be new around here.
It's ok though, because no one is calling or texting you anyway.
I get 20+ calls from recruiters per day.