The entire article's response to the question is based on the premise that the guy that is 'daylighting' on the job is an exceptional worker and gets all of his jobs done in a fraction of the time it takes his peers. The author gives an example of a programmer that does 50% more work than his peers, but doesn't get any bonuses, promotions, or pay increases when performance reviews come about. So, that employee starts putting out the same amount of work as his peers and then spends the rest of his time doing his own things. Most people are not that far above average. The entire argument is worthless outside of a few exceptions.
The answer to the question is simple. If he is not doing his job, he should not be working for the company. He is hired to develop software during business hours. That is his job. He is not hired to 'complete 4 tasks per day' as the article describes. This whole article seems like it is trying to shift the blame on to the employer, instead of forcing the employee to take responsibility for his actions.
I think it's a great thing that people who typically vote for more corporate freedom finally get to see the price of unrestrained corporatism.
And I think it is awful that people use stereotypes to express their own opinions as facts and insults.
Being a farmer doesn't necessarily make you vote for one party or another. I have met farmers that have opposing political views. You cannot claim all farmers think and act a certain way any more accurately than you can claim all people from large cities are gang-bangers and thugs.
Is the news so slow today that they must fall back to this waste of time? Or was this an attempt to show more advertisements on the website by trolling the readers with stupid claims to get them to go to the comments page?
You have over a thousand developers. They won't be working on the same types of projects. They will have different needs. You need to break it down by departments or project types and find out what those developers need. It sounds very ignorant to ask what the "best" of anything is when dealing with over a thousand people that do different things. I have worked for two different small-to-medium sized companies, developing in-house software that is only used by other employees and systems. My needs at each company were completely different. The only things that are really the same is that I still sit at a chair in front of a desktop with at least two monitors.
It does have person/object tracking. I am not sure of it's reliability, but can select a "target" through the display on the controls and follow in 3 modes.
1) It can follow behind the person.
2) "Profile" mode allows it to move parallel to the person with the drone roughly 90 degrees to the right or left side.
3) 'Spotlight' mode (which I think is circling above a target).
The Mavic also has forward collision avoidance which will help when following behind a person.
It's very hard to find a millennial-aged person that is not concerned about climate change.
Of course Millennials are concerned about it. Modern school systems and society have basically indoctrinated Millennials in the belief of man-made climate change. Society often considers them to be fools or ignorant for even questioning the belief, instead of encouraging them to ask "why" and search for truths and data that supports or refutes climate change theories. Furthermore, Millennials have never been taught or seen the things that make some of the older people doubt the validity of claims related to global climate change.
The fact that Millennials believe in things related to climate change really has nothing to do with greater acceptance of scientific research. It is just a product of their upbringing.
When I was in my 20's and looking for my first programming job, something I heard several times is, "It came down to you and this other guy, but we chose the other guy because he had several more years of experience." That meant "the other guy" would have been in at least in his 30's, if not older. I think it really comes down to the type of company you work at and the type of work they need their programmers to do. If you are truly worried about a 20 year old replacing you, then either the quality of your work is poor or you need to work for a different company.
And Democrats reject Republican bills before they come out. This isn't anything new.
Have you noticed that, over the years, many Democratic and Republican candidates have said things like, "I will bridge the aisle to get things done." Guess what? It never works. People often believe that their own view on a topic is the only correct one and rarely put a significant amount of effort into understanding opposing views. Instead they watch news sources and read blogs that reinforce their own views. The belief that their own view is the only correct one makes people feel that any compromise related to the subject is the wrong thing to do in that situation. In other words, crossing the aisle to work with the opposing party is a nice campaign selling point when thought about it in an abstract manner, but the politician's constituents and financial backers rarely actually want that when presented with a real world scenario or bill. Furthermore, in these situations, compromise by a representative is often viewed as a sign of weakness by his/her supporters. Weak politicians that do not do what their financial backers and constituents want will not be reelected.
Even if the number of crimes did not change, did lack of lighting impact the ability to solve or identify and convict the crimes that did occur? Also, did they check if the various types of traffic changed?
If you have never heard of a programming language the company uses, there is a good chance it is not a good language to work with and you should probably stay away. If a business wants you to program in RPG for OS/400 systems, run away.
They are just hypothetical at right now... but if they do exist, they will have mass and travel faster than the speed of light. They do not violate the theory of relativity because they always travel faster than c.... they do not start at speeds less than c and accelerate to or beyond the speed of light.
Some readers may fail to actually read the assignment. But whether you read exactly what the assignment requests or not, the parent is right in his statement that the problem used an overly complex method to teach students.
I had never even heard of a "number line" until a saw the problem shown in your link. After taking a moment, I can see how it could be used to determine an answer. However it is overly complex and takes the students in a direction that shouldn't be used because number lines cannot be used when the student moves beyond basic arithmetic. While the assignment wasn't to create a number line, it was still asking a student to realize what was incorrect with one that was given to them. This means actual students are taught to use number lines when solving basic arithmetic problems, like 427- 316 = 111. Basic arithmetic is a foundation and can typically be carried out in a very simple manner by writing one number over the other and performing the correct action on each column of digits. It is simple and can be used in their future endeavors and studies. Drawing lines with many nodes for 1's, 10's, and 100's cannot be used beyond basic arithmetic problems. Why confuse the students by adding an overly complex method of doing things when they can be taught to write two numbers and calculated the difference in a simple and easy to understand manner?
Second, when children are young and still learning a concept, they should not be shown problems that are incorrect when learning about the concept. Searching for an error and explaining it may allow a person's understanding of a topic to grow if they already understand the subject matter. However, when students are still learning the basic principles of something, they should not be shown incorrect ways of doing things. Lets say a child knows that a problem has one flaw in it, but everything else in the problem is right... just like in this homework assignment. If the child is incorrect in determining which part is flawed and which parts are correct, then the problem could actually reinforce the incorrect way of doing things.
The parent was correct in his rant. If the assignment insists on having a student determine what "Jack" did wrong when solving a math problem with an overly complex method, then the answer is that Jack should just subtract 316 from 427 and should not draw a diagram.
Why are you bring the Nobel Prize into the discussion? What does a man-made award have to do with Truth? Science is supposed to be about determining facts and truth. The Nobel Prize is something created by man to recognize what is believed to be a significant achievement. As we learn more about the world, we sometimes learn that our earlier theories are incorrect. It is part of how we expand our knowledge.
Ilguido is correct in stating that "an inaccurate scientific prediction is wrong by definition" and those predictions/theories cannot be used to prove anything. Changing and revising our hypothesis and theories when our observations and experiments do not give the predicted results is part of the scientific method.
Maybe I am way off base here, but I thought that when a person flies to another country,the traveler isn't considered to be in the country before clearing customs. If travelers do not get through the customs checks, they are prevented from entering the country. If this is the case, how can a person that has not cleared customs be sent to a New Zealand jail for 3 months for breaking NZ laws when they are not in NZ?
Unless they implement things like attendance tracking, a gradebook, a solid method for it to interact with the school's SiS, and several other things, no school will consider it to be an LMS and Blackboard will have nothing to worry about. This will only be useful to individual teachers that want to use tech in their classes instead of their school's LMS (assuming it has one).
Are there any specific reasons you went with Canvas instead of D2L? I work at a local college and we are going to switch LMSs and we are currently considering those two.
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For that price, you could buy 50 regular Android tablets and luggage to keep them in. Just grab a new tablet when you break one.
That's fine... unless you have data saved on the broken tablet.
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The entire article's response to the question is based on the premise that the guy that is 'daylighting' on the job is an exceptional worker and gets all of his jobs done in a fraction of the time it takes his peers. The author gives an example of a programmer that does 50% more work than his peers, but doesn't get any bonuses, promotions, or pay increases when performance reviews come about. So, that employee starts putting out the same amount of work as his peers and then spends the rest of his time doing his own things. Most people are not that far above average. The entire argument is worthless outside of a few exceptions.
The answer to the question is simple. If he is not doing his job, he should not be working for the company. He is hired to develop software during business hours. That is his job. He is not hired to 'complete 4 tasks per day' as the article describes. This whole article seems like it is trying to shift the blame on to the employer, instead of forcing the employee to take responsibility for his actions.
I think it's a great thing that people who typically vote for more corporate freedom finally get to see the price of unrestrained corporatism.
And I think it is awful that people use stereotypes to express their own opinions as facts and insults.
Being a farmer doesn't necessarily make you vote for one party or another. I have met farmers that have opposing political views. You cannot claim all farmers think and act a certain way any more accurately than you can claim all people from large cities are gang-bangers and thugs.
Is the news so slow today that they must fall back to this waste of time? Or was this an attempt to show more advertisements on the website by trolling the readers with stupid claims to get them to go to the comments page?
You have over a thousand developers. They won't be working on the same types of projects. They will have different needs. You need to break it down by departments or project types and find out what those developers need. It sounds very ignorant to ask what the "best" of anything is when dealing with over a thousand people that do different things. I have worked for two different small-to-medium sized companies, developing in-house software that is only used by other employees and systems. My needs at each company were completely different. The only things that are really the same is that I still sit at a chair in front of a desktop with at least two monitors.
I started to feel old when I realized that no one under the age of thirty will have any clue what you are talking about.
It does have person/object tracking. I am not sure of it's reliability, but can select a "target" through the display on the controls and follow in 3 modes.
1) It can follow behind the person.
2) "Profile" mode allows it to move parallel to the person with the drone roughly 90 degrees to the right or left side.
3) 'Spotlight' mode (which I think is circling above a target).
The Mavic also has forward collision avoidance which will help when following behind a person.
Two years ago, I embedded Assembly Code into something that operated on Terabytes of transaction data. It wasn't stupid.
The person that must maintain your code in the future may disagree with your claim when he or she discovers assembly is involved.
Put in a cage, having to deal with stupid humans all day... and be nice all the time... and with a blade at its neck...
Ok, so we shouldn't force the AI to work at a help desk.
It's very hard to find a millennial-aged person that is not concerned about climate change.
Of course Millennials are concerned about it. Modern school systems and society have basically indoctrinated Millennials in the belief of man-made climate change. Society often considers them to be fools or ignorant for even questioning the belief, instead of encouraging them to ask "why" and search for truths and data that supports or refutes climate change theories. Furthermore, Millennials have never been taught or seen the things that make some of the older people doubt the validity of claims related to global climate change.
The fact that Millennials believe in things related to climate change really has nothing to do with greater acceptance of scientific research. It is just a product of their upbringing.
When I was in my 20's and looking for my first programming job, something I heard several times is, "It came down to you and this other guy, but we chose the other guy because he had several more years of experience." That meant "the other guy" would have been in at least in his 30's, if not older. I think it really comes down to the type of company you work at and the type of work they need their programmers to do. If you are truly worried about a 20 year old replacing you, then either the quality of your work is poor or you need to work for a different company.
And Democrats reject Republican bills before they come out. This isn't anything new.
Have you noticed that, over the years, many Democratic and Republican candidates have said things like, "I will bridge the aisle to get things done." Guess what? It never works. People often believe that their own view on a topic is the only correct one and rarely put a significant amount of effort into understanding opposing views. Instead they watch news sources and read blogs that reinforce their own views. The belief that their own view is the only correct one makes people feel that any compromise related to the subject is the wrong thing to do in that situation. In other words, crossing the aisle to work with the opposing party is a nice campaign selling point when thought about it in an abstract manner, but the politician's constituents and financial backers rarely actually want that when presented with a real world scenario or bill. Furthermore, in these situations, compromise by a representative is often viewed as a sign of weakness by his/her supporters. Weak politicians that do not do what their financial backers and constituents want will not be reelected.
The modern flight controllers (which I use and love) are like exploit kits for script kiddies.
That is one of the best analogies I have heard regarding to this topic.
Even if the number of crimes did not change, did lack of lighting impact the ability to solve or identify and convict the crimes that did occur? Also, did they check if the various types of traffic changed?
If you have never heard of a programming language the company uses, there is a good chance it is not a good language to work with and you should probably stay away. If a business wants you to program in RPG for OS/400 systems, run away.
They are just hypothetical at right now... but if they do exist, they will have mass and travel faster than the speed of light. They do not violate the theory of relativity because they always travel faster than c.... they do not start at speeds less than c and accelerate to or beyond the speed of light.
That would be like the end of War Games. The only winning move is not to play.
Some readers may fail to actually read the assignment. But whether you read exactly what the assignment requests or not, the parent is right in his statement that the problem used an overly complex method to teach students.
I had never even heard of a "number line" until a saw the problem shown in your link. After taking a moment, I can see how it could be used to determine an answer. However it is overly complex and takes the students in a direction that shouldn't be used because number lines cannot be used when the student moves beyond basic arithmetic. While the assignment wasn't to create a number line, it was still asking a student to realize what was incorrect with one that was given to them. This means actual students are taught to use number lines when solving basic arithmetic problems, like 427- 316 = 111. Basic arithmetic is a foundation and can typically be carried out in a very simple manner by writing one number over the other and performing the correct action on each column of digits. It is simple and can be used in their future endeavors and studies. Drawing lines with many nodes for 1's, 10's, and 100's cannot be used beyond basic arithmetic problems. Why confuse the students by adding an overly complex method of doing things when they can be taught to write two numbers and calculated the difference in a simple and easy to understand manner?
Second, when children are young and still learning a concept, they should not be shown problems that are incorrect when learning about the concept. Searching for an error and explaining it may allow a person's understanding of a topic to grow if they already understand the subject matter. However, when students are still learning the basic principles of something, they should not be shown incorrect ways of doing things. Lets say a child knows that a problem has one flaw in it, but everything else in the problem is right... just like in this homework assignment. If the child is incorrect in determining which part is flawed and which parts are correct, then the problem could actually reinforce the incorrect way of doing things.
The parent was correct in his rant. If the assignment insists on having a student determine what "Jack" did wrong when solving a math problem with an overly complex method, then the answer is that Jack should just subtract 316 from 427 and should not draw a diagram .
Why are you bring the Nobel Prize into the discussion? What does a man-made award have to do with Truth? Science is supposed to be about determining facts and truth. The Nobel Prize is something created by man to recognize what is believed to be a significant achievement. As we learn more about the world, we sometimes learn that our earlier theories are incorrect. It is part of how we expand our knowledge.
Ilguido is correct in stating that "an inaccurate scientific prediction is wrong by definition" and those predictions/theories cannot be used to prove anything. Changing and revising our hypothesis and theories when our observations and experiments do not give the predicted results is part of the scientific method.
So... They didn't test the iPad / content combo to establish usability / feasibility / usefulness prior to dropping all this cash?
If you replace "iPad" with "Apple device", you will have a sentence that describes most Apple Fanboys when Apple releases a new product.
This is a high school prank, nothing more.
The kid wasn't even in high school. It it is a middle school prank.
Maybe I am way off base here, but I thought that when a person flies to another country,the traveler isn't considered to be in the country before clearing customs. If travelers do not get through the customs checks, they are prevented from entering the country. If this is the case, how can a person that has not cleared customs be sent to a New Zealand jail for 3 months for breaking NZ laws when they are not in NZ?
400,000 / 32000 = 12.5 So twelve died and one is mostly dead?
Unless they implement things like attendance tracking, a gradebook, a solid method for it to interact with the school's SiS, and several other things, no school will consider it to be an LMS and Blackboard will have nothing to worry about. This will only be useful to individual teachers that want to use tech in their classes instead of their school's LMS (assuming it has one).
Are there any specific reasons you went with Canvas instead of D2L? I work at a local college and we are going to switch LMSs and we are currently considering those two.
For that price, you could buy 50 regular Android tablets and luggage to keep them in. Just grab a new tablet when you break one.
That's fine... unless you have data saved on the broken tablet.