... you do realize he completely validated every single post anyone ever made about the Deep State, right? I mean this is as Deep State as Deep State gets.
Actually, no. The Deep State (conspiracy) refers to "the career bureaucracy of government" who are "who are relatively permanent and whose policies and long-term plans are unaffected by changing administrations." This anonymous op-ed was from someone within The White House itself, and is most likely a staffer or member of the Cabinet, as are the people involved in the described Trump babysitting -- all brought in and/or appointed by the Administration itself. So this is exactly opposite of the "deep state".
or work for the interests of who you are working for.
The American people?
While it pains me greatly to say this, here's the problem with that and this:
... anonymous staffer in the Trump administration, who has "vowed to thwart parts of [President Trump's] agenda and his worst inclinations," citing the president's amorality.... we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.
Like it or not, Trump was elected President -- Trump -- not the staffers and/or cabinet members *protecting* us from Trump. They are not the President; they should not be running the Administrative Branch. If they really think Trump is unfit, they should exercise the 25th Amendment (as they apparently discussed) and try to declare Trump unfit to be President, not play babysitter and try to take away his pen and toys. (Not that VP Pence would be any better...) Otherwise, the people who voted for Trump need to experience the consequences of their actions. Ya, it'll suck for *everyone*, but that's Democracy. Maybe we'll learn to not make the same fucking stupid mistake again.
They will quickly find, much to their chagrin, that people will still end up watching Marvel movies rather than some movie about everyone in a French village being struck with a devastating plague of ennui.
In my limited exposure to French films, it seems that they are usually well made and photographed, but the dialog sucks or is unnecessarily obtuse.
That said, I liked Luc Bessons' Nikita ("La Femme Nikita") about as much as the American remake Point of No Return, (although I do think the dialog is better written in the American version) as well as his Angel-A. Hm, maybe just like films by Luc Besson...
Amazon employs over half a million people. If you give each and every one of them a $1.00/hour raise, that's a billion dollars a year.
On the other hand, as a company now worth (or, rather, "valued at") a trillion dollars, Amazon could afford that. And it wouldn't even have to be *all* their employees, as the non part-time, minimum-wage wage employees -- corporate, programmers, etc... -- already make a competitive wage (or so I imagine).
Prospective employers will accommodate for a strange schedule if you are a desirable enough employee.
Which, of course, is the problem with being a low-skilled employee at companies like Amazon and Walmart -- you're just not that special and/or desirable, you're just an easily replaceable cog in a machine. In addition, the companies have zero incentive for you (or to help you) become more desirable. And, if you're scraping by on 32 hours a week of part-time, minimum-wage pay, it's hard to better yourself and/or your situation.
The summary makes it plain that Google wants something to replace current HTTP:// style URLs because they're cryptic and easy to create misleading versions of.
I imagine Google will have Chrome (and encourage other browsers to) send the URLs to Google where they will be logged, and perhaps analyzed and cleaned up, and a token will be sent back to the browser with information for the browser to use, like the URL and display name... This will allow Google to track even more users, their information and browsing habits. I'll add my "No thanks" to the already long list of others who don't want this.
Why does the ship sink, though? Is the material stable in its granular form...
Other people did a good job explaining this, but you can also see this effect in the movie, and chapter 15 of the book, The Martian, during the launch failure of the Iris re-supply probe. (The scene also explained here).
From The Martian, Chapter 15:
At the microscopic level, the protein cubes were solid food particles suspended in thick vegetable oil. The food particles compressed to less than half their original size, but the oil was barely affected at all. This changed the volume ratio of solid to liquid dramatically which in turn made the aggregate act as a liquid. Known as "liquefaction," this process transformed the protein cubes from a steady solid into a flowing liquid.
Stored in a compartment that originally had no leftover space, the now-compresses sludge had room to slosh.
The shimmy also caused an imbalanced load, forcing the sludge toward the edge of the compartment. This shift in weight only aggravated the larger problem and the shimmy grew stronger.
This was part of a cascade failure. The vibrations from the rocket caused the protein cubes to liquefy, which sloshed around, creating an unbalanced load, causing a procession, causing a launch failure.
Facebook, twitter, etc should all (voluntarily) require all users to complete an identity verification process, and then real names should be used as handles.
If you aren't anonymous, then you are far less likely to be a jerk.
It's called the Scunthorpe problem because it has the word "cunt" in it, and that prevented the good people of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England from creating accounts with AOL back when that was relevant.
Thor reportedly had trouble getting an AOL account for this very same reason. (He had a summer home there.)
Trump wages war daily against the bedrock values that made Western Civilization great. Generally Western Civilization has considered dishonesty, hypocrisy, infidelity, deceit, corruption, narcissism, bullyism as negative character attributes. Trump revels in these daily. Trump as someone has recently noted has embarrassed us in front of our children. The Evangelical Christians cheer him on.
The Ends justify the Means - their Ends, his Means. Honor and integrity just get in the way so it's okay to ignore them.
Actually . . . I prefer to use a language that let's others, who don't know what they are doing . . . understand what I am doing, who ends up doing it for them.
That's largely a factor of the programmer, not the language. One can write (un)readable code in any language. For example, just because Perl allows one to write cryptic code, doesn't mean one must and doesn't mean one can't add documentation when appropriate and/or to clarify cryptic code when used.
For example, several of my co-workers have mentioned that they can identify a piece of my code in (say) C, Java, Ksh and Perl by my style, structure, clarity and documentation and have no problems following my code. I always try to write my code so someone else can pick it up should I get "hit by a bus", no matter the language used.
I want: local/global "goto" operations; unchecked pointers and arrays; brace *and* white-space (for you Python freaks) block delineation; weird operators like "+-+", "=!=", "-+/*" and "..."; support for casting on the *left* side of the assignment (ya, I did that on 4.3 BSD w/K&R C); random requirements for some variable to be in UPPER case and/or start with specific letters (for you FORTRAN fans)...
Feel free to add to this; I'll be back after I get a fourth cup of coffee.
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Employees are our most valuable asset? I'm pretty sure it's actually still money.
However: expand - verb ...
(1) become or make larger or more extensive
(2) give a fuller version or account of.
Yup, I know; I was married to an English teacher for 20 years, but using the first definition was funnier. :-)
Remember Sue...
Why?
Politics of course..
Could you please expand?
P o l i t i c s o f c o u r s e.
Excessive hype is always followed by a trough of disillusionment.
Pro Tip: Get out in front and mention this *before* taking your date home. Better for her to hear it from you than her working it out on her own ... :-)
Yup, I agree, but (as much as I dislike Trump) it's still not their job to play President; they weren't the one elected.
Tallest hexagon in the Solar System, folks. Taller than under Obama -- or even Lincoln. Really tall... tallest *ever*.
[ You... just... wait. :-) ]
... you do realize he completely validated every single post anyone ever made about the Deep State, right? I mean this is as Deep State as Deep State gets.
Actually, no. The Deep State (conspiracy) refers to "the career bureaucracy of government" who are "who are relatively permanent and whose policies and long-term plans are unaffected by changing administrations." This anonymous op-ed was from someone within The White House itself, and is most likely a staffer or member of the Cabinet, as are the people involved in the described Trump babysitting -- all brought in and/or appointed by the Administration itself. So this is exactly opposite of the "deep state".
or work for the interests of who you are working for.
The American people?
While it pains me greatly to say this, here's the problem with that and this:
... anonymous staffer in the Trump administration, who has "vowed to thwart parts of [President Trump's] agenda and his worst inclinations," citing the president's amorality. ... we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.
Like it or not, Trump was elected President -- Trump -- not the staffers and/or cabinet members *protecting* us from Trump. They are not the President; they should not be running the Administrative Branch. If they really think Trump is unfit, they should exercise the 25th Amendment (as they apparently discussed) and try to declare Trump unfit to be President, not play babysitter and try to take away his pen and toys. (Not that VP Pence would be any better...) Otherwise, the people who voted for Trump need to experience the consequences of their actions. Ya, it'll suck for *everyone*, but that's Democracy. Maybe we'll learn to not make the same fucking stupid mistake again.
These aren't anything like tariffs, so it's perfectly fine to get red^h^h^h orange in the face at Trump over those.
FTFY
They will quickly find, much to their chagrin, that people will still end up watching Marvel movies rather than some movie about everyone in a French village being struck with a devastating plague of ennui.
In my limited exposure to French films, it seems that they are usually well made and photographed, but the dialog sucks or is unnecessarily obtuse.
That said, I liked Luc Bessons' Nikita ("La Femme Nikita") about as much as the American remake Point of No Return, (although I do think the dialog is better written in the American version) as well as his Angel-A. Hm, maybe just like films by Luc Besson ...
Amazon employs over half a million people. If you give each and every one of them a $1.00/hour raise, that's a billion dollars a year.
On the other hand, as a company now worth (or, rather, "valued at") a trillion dollars, Amazon could afford that. And it wouldn't even have to be *all* their employees, as the non part-time, minimum-wage wage employees -- corporate, programmers, etc... -- already make a competitive wage (or so I imagine).
Prospective employers will accommodate for a strange schedule if you are a desirable enough employee.
Which, of course, is the problem with being a low-skilled employee at companies like Amazon and Walmart -- you're just not that special and/or desirable, you're just an easily replaceable cog in a machine. In addition, the companies have zero incentive for you (or to help you) become more desirable. And, if you're scraping by on 32 hours a week of part-time, minimum-wage pay, it's hard to better yourself and/or your situation.
The summary makes it plain that Google wants something to replace current HTTP:// style URLs because they're cryptic and easy to create misleading versions of.
I imagine Google will have Chrome (and encourage other browsers to) send the URLs to Google where they will be logged, and perhaps analyzed and cleaned up, and a token will be sent back to the browser with information for the browser to use, like the URL and display name... This will allow Google to track even more users, their information and browsing habits. I'll add my "No thanks" to the already long list of others who don't want this.
Why does the ship sink, though? Is the material stable in its granular form ...
Other people did a good job explaining this, but you can also see this effect in the movie, and chapter 15 of the book, The Martian, during the launch failure of the Iris re-supply probe. (The scene also explained here).
From The Martian, Chapter 15:
At the microscopic level, the protein cubes were solid food particles suspended in thick vegetable oil. The food particles compressed to less than half their original size, but the oil was barely affected at all. This changed the volume ratio of solid to liquid dramatically which in turn made the aggregate act as a liquid. Known as "liquefaction," this process transformed the protein cubes from a steady solid into a flowing liquid.
Stored in a compartment that originally had no leftover space, the now-compresses sludge had room to slosh.
The shimmy also caused an imbalanced load, forcing the sludge toward the edge of the compartment. This shift in weight only aggravated the larger problem and the shimmy grew stronger.
This was part of a cascade failure. The vibrations from the rocket caused the protein cubes to liquefy, which sloshed around, creating an unbalanced load, causing a procession, causing a launch failure.
Facebook, twitter, etc should all (voluntarily) require all users to complete an identity verification process, and then real names should be used as handles.
If you aren't anonymous, then you are far less likely to be a jerk.
Perhaps, but not always ...
Is Agile some kind of religion for coders?
Almost right. It's a religion for managers.
A Dilbert for this sentiment was actually posted today...
It's called the Scunthorpe problem because it has the word "cunt" in it, and that prevented the good people of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England from creating accounts with AOL back when that was relevant.
Thor reportedly had trouble getting an AOL account for this very same reason. (He had a summer home there.)
Donald Trump, king of fake news, lies again. Film at 11.
[ 4,229 false or misleading claims in 558 days ~ 7.6/day as of 2018-08-01 -- as noted and graphed ]
Just not in the way many conservatives think.
Trump wages war daily against the bedrock values that made Western Civilization great. Generally Western Civilization has considered dishonesty, hypocrisy, infidelity, deceit, corruption, narcissism, bullyism as negative character attributes. Trump revels in these daily. Trump as someone has recently noted has embarrassed us in front of our children. The Evangelical Christians cheer him on.
The Ends justify the Means - their Ends, his Means. Honor and integrity just get in the way so it's okay to ignore them.
He has done more to undermine public faith in journalism than ANY Western leader in history.
Are you seriously implying that having faith in journalists is a good thing?
Skepticism is good. Faith is not.
Be sure to remind Trump supporters that ...
Mini-Accelerator Passes First Test
Which Mini? Hardtop 2 Door, Hardtop 4 Door, Countryman, Clubman, Convertible, ... - what?
It is ugly with weird limitations.
Ya, I want that too - especially if the limitations are undocumented and inconsistent. After all, it's language for developers "who want it all" ... :-)
[ Frelling MIT wonks - think they know stuff. ]
Actually . . . I prefer to use a language that let's others, who don't know what they are doing . . . understand what I am doing, who ends up doing it for them.
That's largely a factor of the programmer, not the language. One can write (un)readable code in any language. For example, just because Perl allows one to write cryptic code, doesn't mean one must and doesn't mean one can't add documentation when appropriate and/or to clarify cryptic code when used.
For example, several of my co-workers have mentioned that they can identify a piece of my code in (say) C, Java, Ksh and Perl by my style, structure, clarity and documentation and have no problems following my code. I always try to write my code so someone else can pick it up should I get "hit by a bus", no matter the language used.
C is lightning fast and is the tool for when you know what you're doing.
Python is .. for everything else.
So Python when (a) you don't need fast and (b) you don't know what you're doing. :-)
[ And when you don't want C, but want fast and you know what you're doing, use Perl. ]
... for developers "who want it all" ...
I want: local/global "goto" operations; unchecked pointers and arrays; brace *and* white-space (for you Python freaks) block delineation; weird operators like "+-+", "=!=", "-+/*" and "..."; support for casting on the *left* side of the assignment (ya, I did that on 4.3 BSD w/K&R C); random requirements for some variable to be in UPPER case and/or start with specific letters (for you FORTRAN fans) ...
Feel free to add to this; I'll be back after I get a fourth cup of coffee.