Developers definitely benefit from computer science degrees. That's true even 20 years after the fact. Frankly, I wouldn't hire a developer without a degree. Yeah sure, maybe I might miss out on that diamond in the rough. I'd rather not deal with the uncertainty. With a degree, a developer shows that they've been exposed to a basic set of information and persevered through difficult circumstances
And I am not sure I would hire you as a manager with a statement like that. While I value education, I have hired developers with no degree or college experience that can run circles around experienced college grads with the same workplace experience. How do we filter them out? The same way we filter out college grads during the interview process. You are measuring ability and intellect. Code proficiency is easily demonstrated during the interview process, their ability to answer questions about data structures, how to use them in a real world scenario.
At the time Comey took the notes he was a government employee. When he left government employment he should have been required to turn over everything work-related to the government so that it could be included in government records. Normally you must sign a document certifying that you have turned over everything. I believe that holding back documents would be breaking the law. It doesn't matter whether or not the information was classified. In other words, Comey probably broke the law in order to get revenge on Trump.
Revenge? That is ridiculous! He WAS protecting himself, which is why he stated during his testimony he met with the FBI leadership to discuss the situation.
Comey wrote an unclassified memo precisely for this eventuality.
What's less easy to understand is why Slashdot is shilling articles for a traitor sitting in Russia at this very moment for stealing classified material.
Because people do not like admitting they made a mistake?
What the attempt to strongarm Comey into "loyalty" and the attempt, no matter how weakly, to get Comey to drop the Flynn investigation do indicate is a man who, possibly out of ignorance, but maybe some malice as well, either doesn't know or doesn't care about the necessary limitations of his office or of the at-arms length nature of the FBI. It suggests Trump is a pretty piss poor president, at the very least, but whether it rises to the level of impeachment will take a lot more time, and really, the final calculus will be as much about whether the GOP thinks Trump remaining president as the mid-terms approach will threaten the party's political fortunes.
I do agree with quite a few of your points: I must add though when you are president there is no weak attempt at strong arming anyone. Even a hint (which based on Comey's testimony was stronger than a hint) is significant. The president discussing an investigation like this and "hinting" (I'll bite and call it that) that someone should be let off or implying he is a good guy (whats next a stand up man?) is beyond the limits of Trump's office and if you or I had done that in any position of power, we'd be screwed.
But yes, at minimal - this proves Trump is not mature enough and also lacks the common sense to be president.
Worse than either of them would be Pence. Pence could rally the Republicans in Congress to do serious damage whereas el Presidente Tweetie is too busy inhaling nitrous oxide in the hopes of inflating his ego just a bit more. And the end of a Pence presidency, he'd lead a Republican congress in prayer sessions to take away the last shred of freedom in the U.S.
No, they are already doing serious damage. The Financial Choice Act is one act they are going to try and sneak through the house during the Comey testimony today. Trump is the perfect distraction for them to push crap through. If anything Trump is going to help them sneak stuff through, now whether they are re-elected is a different story, but if they sneak through the garbage they want to then the people that are paying them off to push this garbage will make sure they are rewarded.
US workers are absolutely terrified of taking time off lest it gets used against them in a review and they get fired and replaced at a moment's notice. How many people really think anyone at Netflix or elsewhere takes advantage of the ludicrous notion of 'unlimited holidays'? But hey, the American dream........
Seems to be the consensus around my work place. Director above me gave up 7 vac days last year. Close friend, she has given up 2 - 3 days this year. "There is so much work to do!" sure there is. And after spending the last year doing 50 - 60 hours a week, I am taking my vacation time off. I REFUSE to lose vacation time. It is cheating myself and my family.
If he doesn't know what's going on around him and in his administration, then he shouldn't be running it. In that case it's the 25th. In any other case, it's 18 USC 1505. Take your pick: Trump is being impeached.
thanks to our medical system their parents are going to be broke leaving nothing but medical debt and a "reverse" mortgage that means even their house gets claimed by debtors when they die.
It's called, "inherited debt." Check out the term, "filial responsibility".
Once the boomers start to die off en masse there will be a lot of homes available. Look for housing prices to fall.
The average life expectancy in the US is 78.94 lets call it 80 as it is a nice round number. the baby boom started in 1946 ending in 1964 so average boomer was born in 1955. the the should start dying in numbers around 2035. So the menials (1980-1995) wont be able to buy their homes until they are in their mid 40s to 50s.
Nah. Healthcare won't be affordable by then. To use the GOP logic the harsh reality is these people need to die anyway if they cannot afford to live. Their aging is going to cause a massive burden on our country, it's better they just die off quickly, another good way to save social security. Socially speaking it would be better for the country too and not just financially.
"68% of millennials have saved less than $1000 towards a down payment on buying a house."
But probably 100% of them have spent twice that much for a smart phone and data plan within the last year.
Not to mention games.
Have you ever considered that most millennials lied in the survey? Most of the millennials I know (I am 38 btw) don't want the burden of home ownership. They grew up DURING recessions, grew up with terrorism. They grew up seeing uncertainty in the job market. Who the fuck wants to be saddled with that debt at that young age? Selling a house you can't afford anymore is a tough situation especially when you are in a recession. They would rather live life and not have to get stuck in the sinking rat race and be mobile enough to go where the jobs are.
My only desire is they saved more - but shit, most Americans do not save well. The old timers are some of the worst and it has been that way for generations. Why in the world do you think social security was created? If the older generations really did so well, there would not have been the need for the new deal.
So yeah, pick on the kids because they have different values than you, pick on them because they have seen what dedication and devotion got their parents and grandparents, lost houses, lost finances they spent a lifetime building and working for. No, they are not whiners, they are basically broken because WE broke them even before they were born and now they have to deal with the fallout of our bad decisions.
People are more likely to "eat out" than ever before
With what money, exactly? They money they get from switching to hairdressing?
Exactly. Bring up the idea that low-level jobs will be replaced by robots, then suggest that a lot of people are not wired to do more "advanced" level work. What is the eventual conclusion? These people will have no income or the ability to survive. So either we try to retrain them and hopefully we succeed or we provide a basic survival income for these people. The problem is, our country (USA, apologies if you come from elsewhere) will need to grow up a _HELL_of_a_lot_ more. We need to get over this, "but it's my money! MINE! DEAD BEATS DEAD BEATS!" crap.
The elite have done a very nice job of manipulating our country (basically since its inception) to look down upon those less fortunate that need a little help. They have created this entire, "It's you against everyone else." mentality. We are stronger together and operating in a cooperative and supportive society.
But you are even more of a coward, as "that" destructive person (and all those before him) are directly responsible for your safety. Someone has to make the hard choice. The "peace and love" mentality will never do you any good against a culture openly promoting the destruction of yours. At some point, somebody has to pick up a gun and pull the trigger.
Do you really consider the willful termination of another human being's life on mere moral disagreement to be a joke ?
I guess that depends on your perspective. When the target of such "jokes" willfully talks about taking out families of terrorists, sending people back to environments (refugees) where it is likely their termination would be imminent, admires "strong" leaders who routinely have their opponents murdered, then I guess they really don't care about life, so joking about their termination is par for their course right?
I for one wish no one dead, but I am not above a smile once in a while when a truly destructive person to our society and world rattles off the mortal coil.
I'm sticking with him not having a clue as to what is happening in the FTC. Seems like Trump is in that 30% that doesn't know what Net Neutrality is.
Trump is never going to stop Pai on technical grounds, Trump is going to fire Pai after he anger millions of voters. That's something that Trump will pay attention to.
Doesn't matter if it is a technical understanding or not. Trump has been told and has parroted the anti-net neutrality talking points and has made it apart of his campaign and his administration staff have stated they will start reversing Obama era title 2 see here for references to the Spicer press release statements. The administrations/Trump's tact is that it was an overreach. No matter how you cut it, Trump is involved and has talked about it multiple times.
So yes, this is a Trump goal and a Republican goal.
During my time at Big Blue, we asked to be allowed to work from home one day per week. We were told that if we were saying our jobs could be done from any location that we needed to keep in mind that our jobs could be done from ANY location. At that point our entire team agreed that our jobs required us being at our desk 5-7 days a week. Go Big Blue!
At which time, I would have told them "Aboslutely! I am working from home all the time! thanks for pointing out I do not need to sit in the office."
You gave up something because you were scared of a job loss. Did you learn from this experience?
I got my contract written as a minimum of two days a week WfH and wish I had demanded three! I have a nine-year-old boy who loves attention and a wife that does too;) (how dare she!:P). But here are some basic steps to maintaining professionalism at home:
1) Closing door. I.e. an office.
2) People knock and await "come in" before entering unless it is a dire emergency. If it is not an emergency and they do not hear come in, then they can either knock again or come back later.
3) My office hours are just that. I need to spend time in my office which means no, I cannot help you build a Lego project, no I cannot help load the dish washer. When I take a break, I can help, but only then.
4) My family needs to keep the noise down.
5) IM always up and I try to respond almost immediately. If I cannot I mark myself as busy, if I am marked as available then I expect myself to respond in 60 seconds. This also includes soft phone, always on.
6) If there is a reason to be in the office I come in. I don't resist it. One SIT for a recent project made sense for me to be in the office, so for two weeks I came in, got SIT done and remediation and then back to my normal schedule.
I personally thrive working from home as my commute time generally becomes a part of my normal day. If I have tight project deadlines, I will tell my mgr. not to expect me in the office for a bit. I still attend meetings remotely, I still beat on project mgrs. to either open a Skype call or a conference line (no excuse not to, even people in the office sometimes take meetings from their desk so they can multitask).
Communications is the key and delivering what you promised on time is also the key. I collaborate with my fellow developers and we do so quite well and white boarding digitally is a lot nicer than a physical non-smart board.
Now there are people that do not do well working from home, they either do not get their work done or they become depressed with the lack of human contact. From my observations, I find those that do not work well from home (not the ones that get depressed with lack of human contact) have a pretty poor focus and planning skills in the office and outside of it. So you help them build that ability. You help them to use proper time management skills, you help them prioritize their workload and come up with a plan of attack for the day.
Unless these accounts were revealing classified information, who gives a shit - altUSEPA is just that an account prefixed with "altUS" not an actual official government account and no different than the accounts you or I create. There is a verification process for Twitter and such official accounts are marked as verified so it should be obvious to anyone looking at an alt account it is not verified nor official. If Twitter wants to implement a policy where alt govt accounts will NEVER be verified, so be it. But that is their choice and not the orange one.,
And yet when women do it they get high fives for being strong and independent. Truth be told, at least his kink involves just subjugating women that are into it rather than subjugating an entire gender the way that typical American women do it.
The assumption has been made that he is the dominate one; that is not always the case in BDSM relationships. Often ppl play switch or men are the submissives, either way, unless he was contacting project users or members, talking about it in Drupal forums, people need to keep their self-righteous attitudes to themselves.... wide stance.
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Developers definitely benefit from computer science degrees. That's true even 20 years after the fact. Frankly, I wouldn't hire a developer without a degree. Yeah sure, maybe I might miss out on that diamond in the rough. I'd rather not deal with the uncertainty. With a degree, a developer shows that they've been exposed to a basic set of information and persevered through difficult circumstances
And I am not sure I would hire you as a manager with a statement like that. While I value education, I have hired developers with no degree or college experience that can run circles around experienced college grads with the same workplace experience. How do we filter them out? The same way we filter out college grads during the interview process. You are measuring ability and intellect. Code proficiency is easily demonstrated during the interview process, their ability to answer questions about data structures, how to use them in a real world scenario.
At the time Comey took the notes he was a government employee. When he left government employment he should have been required to turn over everything work-related to the government so that it could be included in government records. Normally you must sign a document certifying that you have turned over everything. I believe that holding back documents would be breaking the law. It doesn't matter whether or not the information was classified. In other words, Comey probably broke the law in order to get revenge on Trump.
Revenge? That is ridiculous! He WAS protecting himself, which is why he stated during his testimony he met with the FBI leadership to discuss the situation.
Comey wrote an unclassified memo precisely for this eventuality.
What's less easy to understand is why Slashdot is shilling articles for a traitor sitting in Russia at this very moment for stealing classified material.
Because people do not like admitting they made a mistake?
What the attempt to strongarm Comey into "loyalty" and the attempt, no matter how weakly, to get Comey to drop the Flynn investigation do indicate is a man who, possibly out of ignorance, but maybe some malice as well, either doesn't know or doesn't care about the necessary limitations of his office or of the at-arms length nature of the FBI. It suggests Trump is a pretty piss poor president, at the very least, but whether it rises to the level of impeachment will take a lot more time, and really, the final calculus will be as much about whether the GOP thinks Trump remaining president as the mid-terms approach will threaten the party's political fortunes.
I do agree with quite a few of your points: I must add though when you are president there is no weak attempt at strong arming anyone. Even a hint (which based on Comey's testimony was stronger than a hint) is significant. The president discussing an investigation like this and "hinting" (I'll bite and call it that) that someone should be let off or implying he is a good guy (whats next a stand up man?) is beyond the limits of Trump's office and if you or I had done that in any position of power, we'd be screwed.
But yes, at minimal - this proves Trump is not mature enough and also lacks the common sense to be president.
Comey also told us that yes, Pence knew...
Worse than either of them would be Pence. Pence could rally the Republicans in Congress to do serious damage whereas el Presidente Tweetie is too busy inhaling nitrous oxide in the hopes of inflating his ego just a bit more. And the end of a Pence presidency, he'd lead a Republican congress in prayer sessions to take away the last shred of freedom in the U.S.
No, they are already doing serious damage. The Financial Choice Act is one act they are going to try and sneak through the house during the Comey testimony today. Trump is the perfect distraction for them to push crap through. If anything Trump is going to help them sneak stuff through, now whether they are re-elected is a different story, but if they sneak through the garbage they want to then the people that are paying them off to push this garbage will make sure they are rewarded.
If my phone can monitor my facial expressions while at work some AI is going to call the white coats on me or think I am about to go postal ;)
US workers are absolutely terrified of taking time off lest it gets used against them in a review and they get fired and replaced at a moment's notice. How many people really think anyone at Netflix or elsewhere takes advantage of the ludicrous notion of 'unlimited holidays'? But hey, the American dream........
Seems to be the consensus around my work place. Director above me gave up 7 vac days last year. Close friend, she has given up 2 - 3 days this year. "There is so much work to do!" sure there is. And after spending the last year doing 50 - 60 hours a week, I am taking my vacation time off. I REFUSE to lose vacation time. It is cheating myself and my family.
Clapper: "Yes, wittingly."
If he doesn't know what's going on around him and in his administration, then he shouldn't be running it. In that case it's the 25th. In any other case, it's 18 USC 1505. Take your pick: Trump is being impeached.
Negligence and ignorance does not excuse him.
thanks to our medical system their parents are going to be broke leaving nothing but medical debt and a "reverse" mortgage that means even their house gets claimed by debtors when they die.
It's called, "inherited debt." Check out the term, "filial responsibility".
Seconded. Millenials are whiney snow-flakes.... but us X-ers are pretty much a lost generation.
And the boomers are the destroyers of the United States, it has just taken decades for their BS viewpoint and policies to come back and haunt us.
Once the boomers start to die off en masse there will be a lot of homes available. Look for housing prices to fall.
The average life expectancy in the US is 78.94 lets call it 80 as it is a nice round number. the baby boom started in 1946 ending in 1964 so average boomer was born in 1955. the the should start dying in numbers around 2035. So the menials (1980-1995) wont be able to buy their homes until they are in their mid 40s to 50s.
Nah. Healthcare won't be affordable by then. To use the GOP logic the harsh reality is these people need to die anyway if they cannot afford to live. Their aging is going to cause a massive burden on our country, it's better they just die off quickly, another good way to save social security. Socially speaking it would be better for the country too and not just financially.
"68% of millennials have saved less than $1000 towards a down payment on buying a house."
But probably 100% of them have spent twice that much for a smart phone and data plan within the last year.
Not to mention games.
Have you ever considered that most millennials lied in the survey? Most of the millennials I know (I am 38 btw) don't want the burden of home ownership. They grew up DURING recessions, grew up with terrorism. They grew up seeing uncertainty in the job market. Who the fuck wants to be saddled with that debt at that young age? Selling a house you can't afford anymore is a tough situation especially when you are in a recession. They would rather live life and not have to get stuck in the sinking rat race and be mobile enough to go where the jobs are.
My only desire is they saved more - but shit, most Americans do not save well. The old timers are some of the worst and it has been that way for generations. Why in the world do you think social security was created? If the older generations really did so well, there would not have been the need for the new deal.
So yeah, pick on the kids because they have different values than you, pick on them because they have seen what dedication and devotion got their parents and grandparents, lost houses, lost finances they spent a lifetime building and working for. No, they are not whiners, they are basically broken because WE broke them even before they were born and now they have to deal with the fallout of our bad decisions.
People are more likely to "eat out" than ever before
With what money, exactly? They money they get from switching to hairdressing?
Exactly. Bring up the idea that low-level jobs will be replaced by robots, then suggest that a lot of people are not wired to do more "advanced" level work. What is the eventual conclusion? These people will have no income or the ability to survive. So either we try to retrain them and hopefully we succeed or we provide a basic survival income for these people. The problem is, our country (USA, apologies if you come from elsewhere) will need to grow up a _HELL_of_a_lot_ more. We need to get over this, "but it's my money! MINE! DEAD BEATS DEAD BEATS!" crap.
The elite have done a very nice job of manipulating our country (basically since its inception) to look down upon those less fortunate that need a little help. They have created this entire, "It's you against everyone else." mentality. We are stronger together and operating in a cooperative and supportive society.
But you are even more of a coward, as "that" destructive person (and all those before him) are directly responsible for your safety. Someone has to make the hard choice. The "peace and love" mentality will never do you any good against a culture openly promoting the destruction of yours. At some point, somebody has to pick up a gun and pull the trigger.
How am I coward?
Do you really consider the willful termination of another human being's life on mere moral disagreement to be a joke ?
I guess that depends on your perspective. When the target of such "jokes" willfully talks about taking out families of terrorists, sending people back to environments (refugees) where it is likely their termination would be imminent, admires "strong" leaders who routinely have their opponents murdered, then I guess they really don't care about life, so joking about their termination is par for their course right?
I for one wish no one dead, but I am not above a smile once in a while when a truly destructive person to our society and world rattles off the mortal coil.
I'm sticking with him not having a clue as to what is happening in the FTC. Seems like Trump is in that 30% that doesn't know what Net Neutrality is.
Trump is never going to stop Pai on technical grounds, Trump is going to fire Pai after he anger millions of voters. That's something that Trump will pay attention to.
Doesn't matter if it is a technical understanding or not. Trump has been told and has parroted the anti-net neutrality talking points and has made it apart of his campaign and his administration staff have stated they will start reversing Obama era title 2 see here for references to the Spicer press release statements. The administrations/Trump's tact is that it was an overreach. No matter how you cut it, Trump is involved and has talked about it multiple times.
So yes, this is a Trump goal and a Republican goal.
Thank you for being willing to say this on your main account. I'm still not.
Still not openly racist eh?
Why do you call this a Republican plan? Trump is not paying one iota of attention to what is going on in the FCC.
Cause he already has commented on it? https://m.facebook.com/DonaldT...
He obviously was very confused by the term net neutrality or since Obama was pushing title 2 he had to be against this funky title 2 crap!
Roger!!! You've come back!
During my time at Big Blue, we asked to be allowed to work from home one day per week. We were told that if we were saying our jobs could be done from any location that we needed to keep in mind that our jobs could be done from ANY location. At that point our entire team agreed that our jobs required us being at our desk 5-7 days a week. Go Big Blue!
At which time, I would have told them "Aboslutely! I am working from home all the time! thanks for pointing out I do not need to sit in the office."
You gave up something because you were scared of a job loss. Did you learn from this experience?
haha! suck it paranoid bastards!
I got my contract written as a minimum of two days a week WfH and wish I had demanded three! I have a nine-year-old boy who loves attention and a wife that does too ;) (how dare she! :P). But here are some basic steps to maintaining professionalism at home:
1) Closing door. I.e. an office.
2) People knock and await "come in" before entering unless it is a dire emergency. If it is not an emergency and they do not hear come in, then they can either knock again or come back later.
3) My office hours are just that. I need to spend time in my office which means no, I cannot help you build a Lego project, no I cannot help load the dish washer. When I take a break, I can help, but only then.
4) My family needs to keep the noise down.
5) IM always up and I try to respond almost immediately. If I cannot I mark myself as busy, if I am marked as available then I expect myself to respond in 60 seconds. This also includes soft phone, always on.
6) If there is a reason to be in the office I come in. I don't resist it. One SIT for a recent project made sense for me to be in the office, so for two weeks I came in, got SIT done and remediation and then back to my normal schedule.
I personally thrive working from home as my commute time generally becomes a part of my normal day. If I have tight project deadlines, I will tell my mgr. not to expect me in the office for a bit. I still attend meetings remotely, I still beat on project mgrs. to either open a Skype call or a conference line (no excuse not to, even people in the office sometimes take meetings from their desk so they can multitask).
Communications is the key and delivering what you promised on time is also the key. I collaborate with my fellow developers and we do so quite well and white boarding digitally is a lot nicer than a physical non-smart board.
Now there are people that do not do well working from home, they either do not get their work done or they become depressed with the lack of human contact. From my observations, I find those that do not work well from home (not the ones that get depressed with lack of human contact) have a pretty poor focus and planning skills in the office and outside of it. So you help them build that ability. You help them to use proper time management skills, you help them prioritize their workload and come up with a plan of attack for the day.
Unless these accounts were revealing classified information, who gives a shit - altUSEPA is just that an account prefixed with "altUS" not an actual official government account and no different than the accounts you or I create. There is a verification process for Twitter and such official accounts are marked as verified so it should be obvious to anyone looking at an alt account it is not verified nor official. If Twitter wants to implement a policy where alt govt accounts will NEVER be verified, so be it. But that is their choice and not the orange one.,
And yes I realize that Gorean implies male dominance over females, but that is changing from.... uhhh social circles (I do not partake).
And yet when women do it they get high fives for being strong and independent. Truth be told, at least his kink involves just subjugating women that are into it rather than subjugating an entire gender the way that typical American women do it.
The assumption has been made that he is the dominate one; that is not always the case in BDSM relationships. Often ppl play switch or men are the submissives, either way, unless he was contacting project users or members, talking about it in Drupal forums, people need to keep their self-righteous attitudes to themselves. ... wide stance.