In one of my previous jobs, I was responsible for interviewing and hiring new web app developers.
Over and over again, I kept seeing people list "HTML" as one of the "programming languages" they knew. I got so annoyed with this, I developed a quick two question filter to get rid of the idiots.
First, I asked them to confirm whether or not HTML was a "programming language".
If they said no it wasn't, it was just markup/typesetting, I would then ask them why they included it under programming languages on their resume. Usually they would reply that it was just easier or more convenient etc... They'd lose points for clarity, but ok, no biggie. Occasionally they would say something like "because HR people are idiots and don't understand the difference", fair enough, no problem with that.
... BUT *most* of the time, they would emphatically declare that: "yes HTML was a programming language". These people then got my followup question:
Here's a pen and paper. Show me how to do iteration and conditionals in HTML pseudocode.
For those people, that was the end of the interview, bye!
Sorry, but you are wrong. That kind of microwave weapon will actually induce enough current in the device's circuits to fry them. The drone would be dead dead dead.
When I was younger, it was fun and novel to update my OS everytime something "new" came out, so I would. I spent a lot of my weekends and weeknights doing this. Hell, sometimes I would completely wipe my machine just to try a new OS or two for fun.
However, once I actually got into the workforce, I found I valued a stable platform a whole lot more than exploring "new" OS features (which are really never that "new" anyways). It got a lot less fun to spend all weekend trying to get something to work right, only to be left with a semi-stable environment that I couldn't use for work on Monday morning... Installing, re-installing or upgrading OSes gets old pretty quick when you need a stable environment to work in.
Now I get annoyed if they drop support for my installed OS less than 3 years after I installed it.
Now get off my lawn and quit waving those Windows 10 and Mint 17 install disks at me!
If you want me to respect your education, then don't get it from a school where they graduate students just because their parents/grandparents etc... gave the school a bunch of money.
Except you are entirely missing the point. The medical subject is irrelevant when saying what's being transplanted. By convention, what is being transplanted where is determined entirely from the surgeon's point of view, not the subject's. And that convention says that it's the smaller part which is being transplanted to the larger part.
What the functions of the parts being transplanted are, or their relative importance to the subject, is utterly irrelevant in terms of which is the subject and which is the object (of the transplant).
I'm not saying I agree with the convention, but it is what it is.
You're not wrong, but that's not the point I was making.
The determination of what is being transplanted is made from the surgeon's point of view, not the subject's. And from the surgeon's point of view, what's being transplanted is whichever part is smaller
Like if you put your old battery in a new car, you've replaced the battery in your new car. You wouldn't say you've replaced your old battery's car.
How is excluding someone from a job based solely on gender not sexism?
That's easy, it's down to the current attempt to redefine "sexism" to mean ONLY "systemic sexism" or "discrimination + oppression". Therefore by that definition it's IMPOSSIBLE to be sexist against men, since they hold the "power" and aren't "oppressed".
That's idiotic. Companies most certainly DO NOT exist "to produce profits".
Companies exist to make products or provide services. Profits are a side-effect that act as an incentive for people to form companies to provide products or services. The raison d'etre of a company is to PRODUCE something - the profits from efficient overproduction are just encouragement for those with the means to produce something of value to the rest of us.
The fact that there are people like you who have lost sight of the real reason why companies exist - to provide products or services - and think they exist solely to line the pockets of the rich - is the major travesty of modern capitalism. It's the rot at the core.
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In one of my previous jobs, I was responsible for interviewing and hiring new web app developers.
Over and over again, I kept seeing people list "HTML" as one of the "programming languages" they knew. I got so annoyed with this, I developed a quick two question filter to get rid of the idiots.
First, I asked them to confirm whether or not HTML was a "programming language".
If they said no it wasn't, it was just markup/typesetting, I would then ask them why they included it under programming languages on their resume. Usually they would reply that it was just easier or more convenient etc... They'd lose points for clarity, but ok, no biggie. Occasionally they would say something like "because HR people are idiots and don't understand the difference", fair enough, no problem with that.
... BUT *most* of the time, they would emphatically declare that: "yes HTML was a programming language". These people then got my followup question:
Here's a pen and paper. Show me how to do iteration and conditionals in HTML pseudocode.
For those people, that was the end of the interview, bye!
Easy. ALL the RAM.
Aerial salvage?
Now I want a video of this!
Try your hands. Article said it was only hovering 10 feet in the air.
Sure, but it's a whole lot easier and low-tech.
Sorry, but you are wrong. That kind of microwave weapon will actually induce enough current in the device's circuits to fry them. The drone would be dead dead dead.
There has to be a better way to take down drones.
Sure, just toss a net over it.
When I was younger, it was fun and novel to update my OS everytime something "new" came out, so I would. I spent a lot of my weekends and weeknights doing this. Hell, sometimes I would completely wipe my machine just to try a new OS or two for fun.
However, once I actually got into the workforce, I found I valued a stable platform a whole lot more than exploring "new" OS features (which are really never that "new" anyways). It got a lot less fun to spend all weekend trying to get something to work right, only to be left with a semi-stable environment that I couldn't use for work on Monday morning... Installing, re-installing or upgrading OSes gets old pretty quick when you need a stable environment to work in.
Now I get annoyed if they drop support for my installed OS less than 3 years after I installed it.
Now get off my lawn and quit waving those Windows 10 and Mint 17 install disks at me!
In Soviet UK, phone charges you?
So you think it is far more appropriate for them to have to develop a nonstandard plug...
Wait. This is the UK right? Aren't they already using nonstandard plugs?
If I'd made a game for Macs. I'd be apologizing too...
LOL
I see even Slashdot isn't immune to getting suckered into posting fake news?
Indeed. Useless MtG cards are an existential threat to humanity...
... Canadians are 'stealing' US Netflix ...
Damn straight! And we ain't giving those shows back neither, suckas!
If you want your Game of Thrones, you're going to have to come and get it! Ha!
Exactly.
I don't care if you respect my education or not.
Great! Then why do you give two shits about my opinion?
How did you decide which schools take legacies?
I don't. The schools themselves do that.
If you want me to respect your education, then don't get it from a school where they graduate students just because their parents/grandparents etc... gave the school a bunch of money.
Except you are entirely missing the point. The medical subject is irrelevant when saying what's being transplanted. By convention, what is being transplanted where is determined entirely from the surgeon's point of view, not the subject's. And that convention says that it's the smaller part which is being transplanted to the larger part.
What the functions of the parts being transplanted are, or their relative importance to the subject, is utterly irrelevant in terms of which is the subject and which is the object (of the transplant).
I'm not saying I agree with the convention, but it is what it is.
You're not wrong, but that's not the point I was making.
The determination of what is being transplanted is made from the surgeon's point of view, not the subject's. And from the surgeon's point of view, what's being transplanted is whichever part is smaller
Like if you put your old battery in a new car, you've replaced the battery in your new car. You wouldn't say you've replaced your old battery's car.
If all of the people coming out of your school have diplomas, but no clue ... eventually people look at diplomas from your school as being worthless.
This is precisely the reason I just toss any application from someone who went to a school that takes legacies...
The convention is that it's the smaller part which is being transplanted, not the larger.
So technically "head transplant" is accurate, if somewhat misleading for the layperson.
How is excluding someone from a job based solely on gender not sexism?
That's easy, it's down to the current attempt to redefine "sexism" to mean ONLY "systemic sexism" or "discrimination + oppression". Therefore by that definition it's IMPOSSIBLE to be sexist against men, since they hold the "power" and aren't "oppressed".
Companies exist to produce profits
That's idiotic. Companies most certainly DO NOT exist "to produce profits".
Companies exist to make products or provide services. Profits are a side-effect that act as an incentive for people to form companies to provide products or services. The raison d'etre of a company is to PRODUCE something - the profits from efficient overproduction are just encouragement for those with the means to produce something of value to the rest of us.
The fact that there are people like you who have lost sight of the real reason why companies exist - to provide products or services - and think they exist solely to line the pockets of the rich - is the major travesty of modern capitalism. It's the rot at the core.