Everyone does 80-85 out in Montana anyway. You don't have a problem with tailgating out there, but there are a few places where you start to think that if you broke down you could die before help arrives. I've gone 2-3 hours out there on major interstates without ever seeing another car in either direction.
It's been impossible to get up to the speed limit since they made pot legal in Colorado! Pick any random road and everyone's driving 10-15 under! Ticket revenues are drying up fast, and people in a hurry are experiencing a lot more RROOOAD RRRAGE! It's either this or Taco Bell needs to start delivering, thus removing any need for those people to be out on the road!
If your speech shows you might be mentally unbalanced, no one's likely to complain if someone checks up on that. Well, except maybe the mentally unbalanced person. But no one really cares what they think. They're mentally unbalanced. That's probably why they'd think their speech was in some what protected by the first amendment.
Everyone gets all bent out of shape about their freedom of speech getting stepped on. You can say anything you want to, but you might also have to live with the consequences of that speech. The first amendment does not absolve you of that.
You can do this with the cyanogenmod privacy manager. Of course, then you have to root your phone. Adding that functionality ought to be a no-brainer, but Google owns Youtube and Youtube just HAS to have access to your phone's camera for some reason. I'm guessing so they can watch you while you're masturbating.
Because that's what they're paying you to do? Well, that and I hate getting called on the weekend. Last project I put that much effort into, we'd take the weekends in shifts and the programmer on duty was guaranteed to get a frantic call that the system was down again. So I went in, added some data structures, redesigned how the program was launched so that if a data file crashed it, that file would be moved out of the way so processing could continue, and fixed about 150 memory overflows. We went from several hundred crashes a month to maybe one or two on a bad month. And that one or two turned out to be a corrupt index in a SQL database. After about 4 months, we stopped talking about the on call rotation. For the next three years after that, until the project ended, none of us ever got a call on a weekend again.
I'd say that depends on where you live and what you bring to the company. Can you afford it if that developer leaves? If he tells you he's going, would you make a counter offer? What would that counter offer be? Personally I'm not inclined to accept counter offers because it shows me the company is only interested in paying me the least amount it can get away with to continue to retain my employment, and not my actual technical merit. If I'm made a counter offer, I'll ask why I wasn't given that to begin with before I walk out the door. I'm one of those technical people there's a shortage of, and I don't like to work for dicks. That's why there's a shortage of me at any particular company.
We want things like roads and bridges and water and electricity, but we don't want to pay for them? The last major investment we made as a country was the Interstate Highway System, and we no longer understand the concept of investment or the idea of investing in infrastructure. The whole point of having a power network is that everyone doesn't need their own power generation capability, since that's expensive and a large electrical plant will be more efficient. But if you want a solid guarantee that your lights will be on at any given point, you're going to have to invest in your own generation capability. In the last three years I've had two outages that lasted more than 24 hours. The average outage where I live is between 1 and 3 hours.
While we're on the subject of investing in infrastructure, we've got a water crisis coming up very soon now. With undeniable climate change, a large part of the country is never going to have to enough water, while another large part of the country is always going to have way too much. I think we need an interstate highway system level project to move water around the country as needed. I think this will be vital for the well being of tens of millions of Americans over the next couple of decades, but no one is even thinking about such at thing right now.
Your communications are being monitored at work. Never type anything into IM unless you have to, never log on to personal E-Mail from a work computer and for the love of God never log into your bank from there. And never log into work IM or Email from a personal computer.
It's not just the last few years. I've found that about 10% of developers are in this because they like programming. I've never met someone who liked programming who wasn't also good at what he did. Of the remaining 90%, most of them got into this because they heard it was a decent salary. They stop being programmers at the end of the day and go home to their families. They're a mixed bag. Over the course of my career, I've seen dozens of them who do a pretty good job programming what you tell 'em to, though I've never seen one go out of their way to write or bring in a data structure library if it would help the quality of the project. I've also seen 4 or 5 who had no technical skills whatsoever and managed to bluff their way into the job. Of those, I recommended against hiring one of those and was overridden by the hiring manager who was impressed by a shiny degree. That one went right back out the door in the next round of layoffs.
The quality's been pretty consistent for the last 30 years, which is about how long I've been in the field. And pretty much how long the field's been around, now that I think about it. The main difference now is that a lot of candidates are gaming the system to try to get through HR, and HR is getting much more aggressive about screening potential candidates out. I haven't seen a good candidate in three or four years and couldn't hire one if I did. If the problem here is HR and asshats, it's not that hard to eliminate both from the picture. Just fire HR, ask your developers to recommend people they'd want to work with again and actively recruit developers with proven track records from open source projects.
If you want skilled tech workers, fire most of your HR department except for the one person who fields the sexual harassment claims about Gary in accounting, refuse to do business with any recruiter and start doing your own recruitment off github and recommendations from your good developers. If you want to retain those people, show them some respect, pay them a decent wage and offer them meaningful work. It would also help if you understood the market you're targeting and the problems you're trying to solve. If you don't understand what your developers are capable of and what they're doing, the only means you have to evaluate them is the market response to your product.
I think the "tech worker shortage" is really just a shortage of people who have no idea how to run a technical company.
I guess race relations can wait for another decade. There can be no rest for anyone as long as a mother must fear for her child's life every time he leaves the house, because his skin is the "wrong" color.
That's true, but the celestial spheres are an orderly place. The math to predict an orbit is fairly straightfroward. (Castor is a better link if you want more than a quick overview.) Watching it go around the body it's orbiting is like watching the hands on a clock. So I don't find it particularly strange that if there's a bunch of loose junk on an orbit that intersects us, that we'd run through it on a regular basis. I'd be more surprised if it was just random.
Yah, you can build a rocket out of any ol pipe, really. If you want a reasonable guarantee that it won't explode the moment you turn it on, it'll cost a good bit more.
And if you write useful open source code, you can always negotiate alternate licensing and support terms with any company that might want to use your work without having to release their code back to the community. So really, releasing your copyright to a company for an ambiguous promise of future payment is doubly silly.
That pretty well covers it. I also don't like the screen off to the side like that. I want to be able to overlay an augmented-reality HUD over what I'm looking at. That would actually be potentially useful. Having to take my eyes off what I'm looking at and glance at a screen, not so much. Hell I'd be OK with a single color pixels, if the entire lens was the screen.
But we could forbid the laws preventing cities from running their own. My city ran fiber back in the '90's but before they were able to act on it, the state passed a law that cities couldn't be internet providers. The law specified that individual cities could opt out of the law by passing a ballot referendum in which residents of the city vote to opt out of the law. We did that a couple years ago by a solid margin (Something like 80% I forget exactly.) The work crews were just going through marking power lines and stuff last week in preparation to start laying fiber to houses. Already Comcast and Centurylink seem to be scrambling to try to keep customers here. Other cities in the area are also scurrying to jump on that bandwagon as they're concerned they're going to use businesses and residents to mine. The benefits in the few cities around the USA that have done this are clear enough that it's obvious the anti-competitive laws are holding the market back.
*Ahem* Fuck you, David Cameron! We kicked your ass off this continent once over this issue and we'll do it again! And also Avatar was nothing both soft core furry porn! So there!
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Everyone does 80-85 out in Montana anyway. You don't have a problem with tailgating out there, but there are a few places where you start to think that if you broke down you could die before help arrives. I've gone 2-3 hours out there on major interstates without ever seeing another car in either direction.
It's been impossible to get up to the speed limit since they made pot legal in Colorado! Pick any random road and everyone's driving 10-15 under! Ticket revenues are drying up fast, and people in a hurry are experiencing a lot more RROOOAD RRRAGE! It's either this or Taco Bell needs to start delivering, thus removing any need for those people to be out on the road!
If your speech shows you might be mentally unbalanced, no one's likely to complain if someone checks up on that. Well, except maybe the mentally unbalanced person. But no one really cares what they think. They're mentally unbalanced. That's probably why they'd think their speech was in some what protected by the first amendment.
Everyone gets all bent out of shape about their freedom of speech getting stepped on. You can say anything you want to, but you might also have to live with the consequences of that speech. The first amendment does not absolve you of that.
One day rock be used to kill someone. Og think mankind is the real monster.
I foresee an ice age in our future!
You can do this with the cyanogenmod privacy manager. Of course, then you have to root your phone. Adding that functionality ought to be a no-brainer, but Google owns Youtube and Youtube just HAS to have access to your phone's camera for some reason. I'm guessing so they can watch you while you're masturbating.
Because that's what they're paying you to do? Well, that and I hate getting called on the weekend. Last project I put that much effort into, we'd take the weekends in shifts and the programmer on duty was guaranteed to get a frantic call that the system was down again. So I went in, added some data structures, redesigned how the program was launched so that if a data file crashed it, that file would be moved out of the way so processing could continue, and fixed about 150 memory overflows. We went from several hundred crashes a month to maybe one or two on a bad month. And that one or two turned out to be a corrupt index in a SQL database. After about 4 months, we stopped talking about the on call rotation. For the next three years after that, until the project ended, none of us ever got a call on a weekend again.
I'd say that depends on where you live and what you bring to the company. Can you afford it if that developer leaves? If he tells you he's going, would you make a counter offer? What would that counter offer be? Personally I'm not inclined to accept counter offers because it shows me the company is only interested in paying me the least amount it can get away with to continue to retain my employment, and not my actual technical merit. If I'm made a counter offer, I'll ask why I wasn't given that to begin with before I walk out the door. I'm one of those technical people there's a shortage of, and I don't like to work for dicks. That's why there's a shortage of me at any particular company.
While we're on the subject of investing in infrastructure, we've got a water crisis coming up very soon now. With undeniable climate change, a large part of the country is never going to have to enough water, while another large part of the country is always going to have way too much. I think we need an interstate highway system level project to move water around the country as needed. I think this will be vital for the well being of tens of millions of Americans over the next couple of decades, but no one is even thinking about such at thing right now.
Your communications are being monitored at work. Never type anything into IM unless you have to, never log on to personal E-Mail from a work computer and for the love of God never log into your bank from there. And never log into work IM or Email from a personal computer.
The quality's been pretty consistent for the last 30 years, which is about how long I've been in the field. And pretty much how long the field's been around, now that I think about it. The main difference now is that a lot of candidates are gaming the system to try to get through HR, and HR is getting much more aggressive about screening potential candidates out. I haven't seen a good candidate in three or four years and couldn't hire one if I did. If the problem here is HR and asshats, it's not that hard to eliminate both from the picture. Just fire HR, ask your developers to recommend people they'd want to work with again and actively recruit developers with proven track records from open source projects.
I think the "tech worker shortage" is really just a shortage of people who have no idea how to run a technical company.
I guess race relations can wait for another decade. There can be no rest for anyone as long as a mother must fear for her child's life every time he leaves the house, because his skin is the "wrong" color.
That's true, but the celestial spheres are an orderly place. The math to predict an orbit is fairly straightfroward. (Castor is a better link if you want more than a quick overview.) Watching it go around the body it's orbiting is like watching the hands on a clock. So I don't find it particularly strange that if there's a bunch of loose junk on an orbit that intersects us, that we'd run through it on a regular basis. I'd be more surprised if it was just random.
Says the country that finds Jerry Lewis to be funny. But yeah, the Internet was so much better before the Americans came along and... invented it!
Yah, you can build a rocket out of any ol pipe, really. If you want a reasonable guarantee that it won't explode the moment you turn it on, it'll cost a good bit more.
It's targetted! If we wanted to target your backdoor with a trojan, we'd give you about six beers first!
And if you write useful open source code, you can always negotiate alternate licensing and support terms with any company that might want to use your work without having to release their code back to the community. So really, releasing your copyright to a company for an ambiguous promise of future payment is doubly silly.
Nope!
There are like 4 towns in the USA doing this. Figure it out :-P
But I think we all know it's going to turn out like this.
That pretty well covers it. I also don't like the screen off to the side like that. I want to be able to overlay an augmented-reality HUD over what I'm looking at. That would actually be potentially useful. Having to take my eyes off what I'm looking at and glance at a screen, not so much. Hell I'd be OK with a single color pixels, if the entire lens was the screen.
But we could forbid the laws preventing cities from running their own. My city ran fiber back in the '90's but before they were able to act on it, the state passed a law that cities couldn't be internet providers. The law specified that individual cities could opt out of the law by passing a ballot referendum in which residents of the city vote to opt out of the law. We did that a couple years ago by a solid margin (Something like 80% I forget exactly.) The work crews were just going through marking power lines and stuff last week in preparation to start laying fiber to houses. Already Comcast and Centurylink seem to be scrambling to try to keep customers here. Other cities in the area are also scurrying to jump on that bandwagon as they're concerned they're going to use businesses and residents to mine. The benefits in the few cities around the USA that have done this are clear enough that it's obvious the anti-competitive laws are holding the market back.
*Ahem* Fuck you, David Cameron! We kicked your ass off this continent once over this issue and we'll do it again! And also Avatar was nothing both soft core furry porn! So there!