Let's emphasize that Yelp is PAYING this insultingly low wage in such an expensive city.
There are plenty of technical jobs in Silicon Valley that start off at $10 per hour — and plenty of people who take those jobs. Employers aren't going to raise their pay rates until they have difficulty finding people to fill those positions. For the kind of I.T. support work that I do, recruiters are offering $35 to $40 per hour to find people to work in southern Silicon Valley — San Jose, Santa Clara and Sunnyvale — because young hipsters can't commute more than 30 minutes away from San Francisco.
We can probably safely presume that since she got her degree in English Lit that math is probably not her strong suit.
Your point being what? I know plenty of people who graduated with liberal arts degrees and work in the technical fields throughout Silicon Valley. Some people don't even have a college education and taught themselves everything they need to know about technology.
Also, the low temperature doesn't get below freezing so there's no need to ever run a heater.
I live in San Jose and work in Palo Alto. I have to be at the bus stop at 6AM to take the express bus and be at work at 7AM. We had a few mornings where the temperature was 30 degrees. Most of the time the early morning temperature is 40 to 50 degrees. On those nights, I'm running the heater in addition to the extra blankets.
The person is making $10 per hour (before taxes) and working in San Francisco. That's a bad combination right there. I wouldn't work in San Francisco unless I was making $30+ per hour.
As an IT support contractor, Microsoft is a JOB SECURITY company that pays my salary. Every month the same Windows issues popped up on different computers that need remediation. I'm 20 years into my IT career with Windows. Woo-hoo!
I was prompted to select Microsoft Edge earlier this week and selected Google Chrome instead. Not sure if that was the forced update or gamma radiation.
TIME Magazine had a controversial cover in 1993 that showed a racially-blended woman with light brown skin color as being representative of Americans by the middle of the 21st century. Silicon Valley is a multicultural whirlpool of different languages, nationalities and religions, an experience that I'm living every day. My lily-white relatives in Idaho are horrified by this, can't understand why I accept being "minority" in a minority-majority state, or that the only other white people at my apartment complex works in the leasing office. All the fighting going on in the Republican Party is the fading away of a white power structure that dominated this country for 400+ years. Not a coincidence that a black man is president today and the next president may be a woman next year.
And that is representative of the rest of the country.
It's one-tenth of the US population. The future is here. Resistance is futile
If you do not know of any outside the population densities I mentioned, then just admit it.
I'm not that familiar with abortion beyond being a political football in general. This is a very strange little Slashdot thread that got me on a subject that I normally shy away from. I sometimes keep a thread going to see how far I can take it. Sometimes out of trolling, sometimes out of curiosity.
If so, spit them out because it seems to me that they are mostly concerned with the poor and minorities having babies.
California is a minority-majority state, where white people make up less than 50% of the general population. In short, everyone is a minority here. If you live in Silicon Valley and make less than $200.000+ per year, you are also poor. Hence, all abortion clinics in California are surrounded by the poor and the minorities.
And before you or anyone else chimes in to say it is just a fetus or some other stupid shit to rationalize abortion, it is an unborn child in religious circles
When I was a member of a non-denominational church, we didn't focus on politics in general or abortion politics in particular. In fact, some people left the church because the leadership was unwilling to stop seeking and saving the lost to stand on street corners with pictures of aborted fetus and shout hate at young women. One member had a late-term abortion after a miscarriage threaten her life, and the husband, with four grown kids from a previous marriage and three younger kids in his current marriage, quietly got himself fixed to prevent future pregnancies. The church supported them during this difficult time and they later became elders. Other churches would have run them out of town.
Microsoft Research never seems to turn into actual products, but maybe HoloLens will be a thing, and PhotoSynth was wicked cool.
I had a job interview at Microsoft Research a few years ago. That place was deader than a university campus during winter blizzard. Walk a few blocks down the street, Google was alive and well with unicorns dancing in the sunshine.
Most Christians in the US are protestant in which they do not revere the pope in the first place.
Conservative Catholics in the US are a minor but key voting bloc that the Republican Party can't afford to lose in the 2016 presidential election. Pope Francis is proving himself to be something of a maverick, dragging a 1,600-year-old church into the 21st century and recognizing that the world is a very different place since the Roman Empire legalized the church in the fourth century. If the pope becomes liberal, the voting patterns for many Catholics will also change.
I'm just curious. I like to know where stupidity is invented.
My comment is a reflection of this week's headlines and the political trends of the last 40 years. If you want to know where stupidity gets invented, go ask Donald Trump.
The IRS ruled against Yahoo on the tax treatment for selling off the stake in the Chinese search company. If Meyer shut down the company, shareholders will have to pay the tax bill.
Silicon Valley lives in such an SJW bullshit dreamworld now that she would have to kill the Pope for anyone to criticize a female CEO.
She would have to get in line behind Donald Trump annd the Republicans who are upset that Pope Francis has a liberal bent that conflicts with their Old Testament view of religion with an angry God who strikes down sinners, gays, liberals and minorities on a regular basis.
That's always the problem with R&D at Fortune 500 companies. The bean counters will scream bloody murder that traditional R&D is an expense to the bottom line, doesn't apply directly to existing or future product lines, and a true research breakout would kill all the cash cows. If R&D is integrated into the product lines, most companies just make a newer version of an existing product with some added features to justify a higher price tag.
I had a interviewed at 3Dfx in 1997. The interview with the QA manager went fine. The next person I interviewed was with... the marketing director. A thousand Dilbert comic strips flashed before my eyes. An engineering company being run by the marketing department is always a bad idea. The interview with the marketing director went south in a hurry. A few years later, the marketing department got this brilliant idea that 3Dfx should make their own boards and compete with their own customers. A few years after that went down in bankruptcy.
A tax consultant probably persuaded Yahoo that a R&D center would make a great tax write off, and, who knows, it might develop a product that could save the company from itself.
Because it is *partly* moral failing. Aside from some rare medical conditions, an obese person is not a *completely* innocent victim.
The doctor told my mother that she was carrying twin girls. She got a ten-pound baby boy instead. (A huge disappointment for her, a huge relief for my father.) My bone structure is three times larger than my mother's and twice as large as my father's. Due to a misdiagnosed hearing loss in one ear, I was diagnosed as mentally retarded by the school district and I spent eight years in special ed classes being treated like an idiot. I skipped high school and went to college because I was a lot smarter than adults gave me credit.
I don't understand why that's too complicated for so many people.
The only moral failing I can see in my circumstances is my parents getting drunk and having unprotected sex during the holidays. But, hey, let's blame the fat boy for that one too.
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Let's emphasize that Yelp is PAYING this insultingly low wage in such an expensive city.
There are plenty of technical jobs in Silicon Valley that start off at $10 per hour — and plenty of people who take those jobs. Employers aren't going to raise their pay rates until they have difficulty finding people to fill those positions. For the kind of I.T. support work that I do, recruiters are offering $35 to $40 per hour to find people to work in southern Silicon Valley — San Jose, Santa Clara and Sunnyvale — because young hipsters can't commute more than 30 minutes away from San Francisco.
We can probably safely presume that since she got her degree in English Lit that math is probably not her strong suit.
Your point being what? I know plenty of people who graduated with liberal arts degrees and work in the technical fields throughout Silicon Valley. Some people don't even have a college education and taught themselves everything they need to know about technology.
Also, the low temperature doesn't get below freezing so there's no need to ever run a heater.
I live in San Jose and work in Palo Alto. I have to be at the bus stop at 6AM to take the express bus and be at work at 7AM. We had a few mornings where the temperature was 30 degrees. Most of the time the early morning temperature is 40 to 50 degrees. On those nights, I'm running the heater in addition to the extra blankets.
You can be fired for not sounding cheerful enough when you greet your CEO in the elevator, if he so desires and is that petty.
*cough* Steve Jobs *cough*
The person is making $10 per hour (before taxes) and working in San Francisco. That's a bad combination right there. I wouldn't work in San Francisco unless I was making $30+ per hour.
Sounds like an April Fool's joke. It's a bit too early in the year for April Fool's jokes.
As an IT support contractor, Microsoft is a JOB SECURITY company that pays my salary. Every month the same Windows issues popped up on different computers that need remediation. I'm 20 years into my IT career with Windows. Woo-hoo!
I was prompted to select Microsoft Edge earlier this week and selected Google Chrome instead. Not sure if that was the forced update or gamma radiation.
What resistance is supposed to be happening?
TIME Magazine had a controversial cover in 1993 that showed a racially-blended woman with light brown skin color as being representative of Americans by the middle of the 21st century. Silicon Valley is a multicultural whirlpool of different languages, nationalities and religions, an experience that I'm living every day. My lily-white relatives in Idaho are horrified by this, can't understand why I accept being "minority" in a minority-majority state, or that the only other white people at my apartment complex works in the leasing office. All the fighting going on in the Republican Party is the fading away of a white power structure that dominated this country for 400+ years. Not a coincidence that a black man is president today and the next president may be a woman next year.
And that is representative of the rest of the country.
It's one-tenth of the US population. The future is here. Resistance is futile
If you do not know of any outside the population densities I mentioned, then just admit it.
I'm not that familiar with abortion beyond being a political football in general. This is a very strange little Slashdot thread that got me on a subject that I normally shy away from. I sometimes keep a thread going to see how far I can take it. Sometimes out of trolling, sometimes out of curiosity.
If so, spit them out because it seems to me that they are mostly concerned with the poor and minorities having babies.
California is a minority-majority state, where white people make up less than 50% of the general population. In short, everyone is a minority here. If you live in Silicon Valley and make less than $200.000+ per year, you are also poor. Hence, all abortion clinics in California are surrounded by the poor and the minorities.
How many abortion clinics do you know of that do not have a significant minority population around it?
Considering that white people are now a minority in the state of California, almost none. ;)
And before you or anyone else chimes in to say it is just a fetus or some other stupid shit to rationalize abortion, it is an unborn child in religious circles
When I was a member of a non-denominational church, we didn't focus on politics in general or abortion politics in particular. In fact, some people left the church because the leadership was unwilling to stop seeking and saving the lost to stand on street corners with pictures of aborted fetus and shout hate at young women. One member had a late-term abortion after a miscarriage threaten her life, and the husband, with four grown kids from a previous marriage and three younger kids in his current marriage, quietly got himself fixed to prevent future pregnancies. The church supported them during this difficult time and they later became elders. Other churches would have run them out of town.
In the world of Facebook, who has privacy anymore?
Sounds like thee Sears business plan: sell off the stuff that's making money and keep the parts that are losing cash.
What company will Yahoo buy that become the K-Mart of Silicon Valley? Those blue-light acquisitions never die.
Microsoft Research never seems to turn into actual products, but maybe HoloLens will be a thing, and PhotoSynth was wicked cool.
I had a job interview at Microsoft Research a few years ago. That place was deader than a university campus during winter blizzard. Walk a few blocks down the street, Google was alive and well with unicorns dancing in the sunshine.
Most Christians in the US are protestant in which they do not revere the pope in the first place.
Conservative Catholics in the US are a minor but key voting bloc that the Republican Party can't afford to lose in the 2016 presidential election. Pope Francis is proving himself to be something of a maverick, dragging a 1,600-year-old church into the 21st century and recognizing that the world is a very different place since the Roman Empire legalized the church in the fourth century. If the pope becomes liberal, the voting patterns for many Catholics will also change.
I'm just curious. I like to know where stupidity is invented.
My comment is a reflection of this week's headlines and the political trends of the last 40 years. If you want to know where stupidity gets invented, go ask Donald Trump.
That is because things never come out of R&D int the tech world. Microsoft and Google learned this a long time ago.
Yet Microsoft and Google spent more money on R&D than Apple does.
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/06/14/5-tech-companies-spending-more-on-rd-than-apple-in.aspx
The IRS ruled against Yahoo on the tax treatment for selling off the stake in the Chinese search company. If Meyer shut down the company, shareholders will have to pay the tax bill.
Silicon Valley lives in such an SJW bullshit dreamworld now that she would have to kill the Pope for anyone to criticize a female CEO.
She would have to get in line behind Donald Trump annd the Republicans who are upset that Pope Francis has a liberal bent that conflicts with their Old Testament view of religion with an angry God who strikes down sinners, gays, liberals and minorities on a regular basis.
That's always the problem with R&D at Fortune 500 companies. The bean counters will scream bloody murder that traditional R&D is an expense to the bottom line, doesn't apply directly to existing or future product lines, and a true research breakout would kill all the cash cows. If R&D is integrated into the product lines, most companies just make a newer version of an existing product with some added features to justify a higher price tag.
I had a interviewed at 3Dfx in 1997. The interview with the QA manager went fine. The next person I interviewed was with... the marketing director. A thousand Dilbert comic strips flashed before my eyes. An engineering company being run by the marketing department is always a bad idea. The interview with the marketing director went south in a hurry. A few years later, the marketing department got this brilliant idea that 3Dfx should make their own boards and compete with their own customers. A few years after that went down in bankruptcy.
A tax consultant probably persuaded Yahoo that a R&D center would make a great tax write off, and, who knows, it might develop a product that could save the company from itself.
Because it is *partly* moral failing. Aside from some rare medical conditions, an obese person is not a *completely* innocent victim.
The doctor told my mother that she was carrying twin girls. She got a ten-pound baby boy instead. (A huge disappointment for her, a huge relief for my father.) My bone structure is three times larger than my mother's and twice as large as my father's. Due to a misdiagnosed hearing loss in one ear, I was diagnosed as mentally retarded by the school district and I spent eight years in special ed classes being treated like an idiot. I skipped high school and went to college because I was a lot smarter than adults gave me credit.
I don't understand why that's too complicated for so many people.
The only moral failing I can see in my circumstances is my parents getting drunk and having unprotected sex during the holidays. But, hey, let's blame the fat boy for that one too.