That might be the case in my Silicon Valley neighborhood. The vast majority of overhead cables are now underground. Utility poles along some major thoroughfares take longer to get rid of.
If I need a full-featured IDE, it's typically NetBeans. That was the first IDE I used while learning every flavor of java for my associate degree in computer programming. (The school couldn't afford to renew the Microsoft site license for a few years.) Otherwise, it's Notepad++ for Windows and Text Wrangler for Mac.
My roommate mentioned this morning that LA is raising the minimum wage, and that California should do the same thing so he could make more money. I pointed out that he already made more than minimum wage in Silicon Valley (~$10 per hour), not including the commissions he gets from selling cellphones. If he spent more time learning how to sell than bitch about his boss, he would make more money.
Without progressive work reforms, you would be required to work from dawn to dusk without any breaks, work seven days a week, and, if you were really lucky, get Thanksgiving Day and Christmas off. Try to remember that day this coming Memorial Day weekend.
I had an interview at a Silicon Valley company that makes custom PCs for other companies. The company recruiter quoted $25 per hour. Went in for interview. Manager said he couldn't interview me because the line supervisor was out sick. Oh, BTW, the job only pays $15 per hour. I told the manager, and later called the recruiter, that I wasn't interested in the job at that pay rate.
Because my name was similiar to an employee's name at the company, the recruiter accidentally cc'd me the spreadsheet listing all the pay rate for the employees at that location. All the PC techs made $10 per hour. Only the manager and the line supervisors got paid more than that.
The recruiter called two weeks later that the job was still available but at $15 per hour. I laughed and hung up the phone. If I went in for a interview, the manager would probably say that the job was available for $10 per hour. Take it or leave it. And some people wonder why we need minimum wage laws.
A Comcast technician once knocked on my door, who noticed that I haven't signed up for their wonderful service when I got an apartment without a roommate, and offered to turn on the basic service for $250 in cash. Uh, right.
When my roommate had Comcast for cable and Internet, we always knew we would have trouble whenever a Comcast truck drove through the neighborhood. One day a technician installed something into the box out front. That killed our Internet service. Took a month to convince Comcast that the problem was outside in the box and not inside between the chair and keyboard. When they finally sent a technician out, he discovered that the last technician installed the bypass filter backwards.
Mastering the Excel spreadsheet is a better skill than putting a website together. Not all businesses require a website or presence on the Internet, but all business do have to deal with spreadsheets from time to time. Even programmers need to learn how to programmatically move data into and out of spreadsheets for other people to use.
you don't quit buying textbooks and going to class the moment you graduate college
I ran into this problem recently when I couldn't find something in a Python 2.5 programming book (copyright 2007) and couldn't find an answer on Google, but I knew that an answer existed because I've seen similar code to what I was trying to do. So I shot off a question to the Python email list, which provided the answer I was looking for and recommended that I get a newer book that covered Python 2.7/3.4.
As a help desk call rep for Google in 2008, I had to instruct a software engineer with a freshly-minted Ph.D on how to turn on his computer on. The only computers he used for school work at the university was in the computer labs, where the computers were always on and someone else took care of them. It never occured to him that a computer at an Internet company might be OFF.
See when they say diversify your assets they don't just mean buying stocks and bonds.
Most financial advisors recommend stocks, bonds and mutual funds. But most people don't realize that these are all paper assets. If the dollar goes belly up, so does the dollar-denominated paper assets.
I'm just pointing that I could buy a hamburger with a gold coin. I recenlty picked up a 1976 bicentennial $2 bill with the San Francisco mint mark in crisp uncirculated condition. Still legal tender. But I wouldn't try to buy anything with it. A store clerk is more likely to call the cops because it doesn't have any modern security features like the newer bank notes.
Go ahead and try to pay for a hamburger at McDonalds with your gold coins.
A one-ounce American Gold Eagle coin has a $50 face value (melt value is ~$1,227). I could go to McDonald and buy a hamburger with a Gold Eagle, and get a pair of twenties and then some back.
My point is that Apple created demand by putting money into developing new products that people didn't know that they wanted yet. Most companies that hoard cash aren't doing much of anything while waiting for the public to start spending money again.
When the dollar collapses and your paper assets (i.e., stocks, 401k and IRA) are worthless, you will sell your real estate to me for 30 ounces of silver to buy a loaf of bread. Bwuhuhuhaha!
Past bubbles were inflated and popped when small investors rush into the market because they don't want to miss out on the frenzy, not realizing that pros have already made their profits and moved on to something else. The current market isn't being inflated by the small investors, but corporate buybacks that aren't being reinvested back into the real economy.
The small investors are sitting on the sidelines, keeping their cash from inflating and popping a bubble. Stock buybacks are keeping the market afloat, as many corporations want to keep Wall Street happy than reinvest the money back into the economy to keep Main Street happy.
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That might be the case in my Silicon Valley neighborhood. The vast majority of overhead cables are now underground. Utility poles along some major thoroughfares take longer to get rid of.
If I need a full-featured IDE, it's typically NetBeans. That was the first IDE I used while learning every flavor of java for my associate degree in computer programming. (The school couldn't afford to renew the Microsoft site license for a few years.) Otherwise, it's Notepad++ for Windows and Text Wrangler for Mac.
My roommate mentioned this morning that LA is raising the minimum wage, and that California should do the same thing so he could make more money. I pointed out that he already made more than minimum wage in Silicon Valley (~$10 per hour), not including the commissions he gets from selling cellphones. If he spent more time learning how to sell than bitch about his boss, he would make more money.
Without progressive work reforms, you would be required to work from dawn to dusk without any breaks, work seven days a week, and, if you were really lucky, get Thanksgiving Day and Christmas off. Try to remember that day this coming Memorial Day weekend.
If the minimum wage law was indexed to inflation, it would be $17 per hour.
I had an interview at a Silicon Valley company that makes custom PCs for other companies. The company recruiter quoted $25 per hour. Went in for interview. Manager said he couldn't interview me because the line supervisor was out sick. Oh, BTW, the job only pays $15 per hour. I told the manager, and later called the recruiter, that I wasn't interested in the job at that pay rate.
Because my name was similiar to an employee's name at the company, the recruiter accidentally cc'd me the spreadsheet listing all the pay rate for the employees at that location. All the PC techs made $10 per hour. Only the manager and the line supervisors got paid more than that.
The recruiter called two weeks later that the job was still available but at $15 per hour. I laughed and hung up the phone. If I went in for a interview, the manager would probably say that the job was available for $10 per hour. Take it or leave it. And some people wonder why we need minimum wage laws.
A Comcast technician once knocked on my door, who noticed that I haven't signed up for their wonderful service when I got an apartment without a roommate, and offered to turn on the basic service for $250 in cash. Uh, right.
Up on the pole with the high voltage lines? I don't think so. Besides, we didn't know what the problem was until the second technician told us.
When my roommate had Comcast for cable and Internet, we always knew we would have trouble whenever a Comcast truck drove through the neighborhood. One day a technician installed something into the box out front. That killed our Internet service. Took a month to convince Comcast that the problem was outside in the box and not inside between the chair and keyboard. When they finally sent a technician out, he discovered that the last technician installed the bypass filter backwards.
Mastering the Excel spreadsheet is a better skill than putting a website together. Not all businesses require a website or presence on the Internet, but all business do have to deal with spreadsheets from time to time. Even programmers need to learn how to programmatically move data into and out of spreadsheets for other people to use.
you don't quit buying textbooks and going to class the moment you graduate college
I ran into this problem recently when I couldn't find something in a Python 2.5 programming book (copyright 2007) and couldn't find an answer on Google, but I knew that an answer existed because I've seen similar code to what I was trying to do. So I shot off a question to the Python email list, which provided the answer I was looking for and recommended that I get a newer book that covered Python 2.7/3.4.
As a help desk call rep for Google in 2008, I had to instruct a software engineer with a freshly-minted Ph.D on how to turn on his computer on. The only computers he used for school work at the university was in the computer labs, where the computers were always on and someone else took care of them. It never occured to him that a computer at an Internet company might be OFF.
Those corporations died from self-inflicted wounds of hubris.
Math is a lot easier with pencils and erasers.
Only if they can pass a DNA test.
See when they say diversify your assets they don't just mean buying stocks and bonds.
Most financial advisors recommend stocks, bonds and mutual funds. But most people don't realize that these are all paper assets. If the dollar goes belly up, so does the dollar-denominated paper assets.
I'm just pointing that I could buy a hamburger with a gold coin. I recenlty picked up a 1976 bicentennial $2 bill with the San Francisco mint mark in crisp uncirculated condition. Still legal tender. But I wouldn't try to buy anything with it. A store clerk is more likely to call the cops because it doesn't have any modern security features like the newer bank notes.
Go ahead and try to pay for a hamburger at McDonalds with your gold coins.
A one-ounce American Gold Eagle coin has a $50 face value (melt value is ~$1,227). I could go to McDonald and buy a hamburger with a Gold Eagle, and get a pair of twenties and then some back.
My point is that Apple created demand by putting money into developing new products that people didn't know that they wanted yet. Most companies that hoard cash aren't doing much of anything while waiting for the public to start spending money again.
Never mind that gold and silver were used as money for thousands of years before the printing press made it possible to issue fiat currency.
Thus, companies are waiting for consumers to come, and consumers are waiting for raises and job stability before they spend more.
That haven't stopped Apple from designing new products, creating demand and selling like crazy.
When the dollar collapses and your paper assets (i.e., stocks, 401k and IRA) are worthless, you will sell your real estate to me for 30 ounces of silver to buy a loaf of bread. Bwuhuhuhaha!
Past bubbles were inflated and popped when small investors rush into the market because they don't want to miss out on the frenzy, not realizing that pros have already made their profits and moved on to something else. The current market isn't being inflated by the small investors, but corporate buybacks that aren't being reinvested back into the real economy.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/02/kill-stock-buyback-to-save-the-american-economy/385259/
If you're worry about your money being inflated away, convert your fiat currency into precious metals like silver and gold.
The small investors are sitting on the sidelines, keeping their cash from inflating and popping a bubble. Stock buybacks are keeping the market afloat, as many corporations want to keep Wall Street happy than reinvest the money back into the economy to keep Main Street happy.