Many places can't afford people at all, let alone top-end salary highly-experienced people.
That wouldn't be so bad if the same company couldn't easily find the money for as many project managers as programers, odd roles like "Human resources diversity manager", a "director's assistant PA" (as well as director's PA) and a chauffeur.
They *THINK* they can get someone younger for much less pay.
And they *THINK* they will get all the experience from that younger person too.
What sets us "old farts" apart from the younger folks is that when we started, computers, software and infrastructure weren't half as complex as they are today. And we have seen it all grow. With that, we still know what happens under the hood. We still recognize a failing harddisk, a bad memory problem, a network routing issue etc, when the young guys just see their mouse, tablet or app not doing what they expect. The young folks know where to look when things work. We know where to look when things fail. Employers do not recognize that until they are hit by disaster.
Interestingly we have a number of young-ish programmers who do get that... and all of them come from Poland. They put it down to having to cobble together systems from whatever was available during their education!
What are you talking about? He's discovered the holy grail. What do you do with a bad developer? Kill him and the company will hire a replacement. Brilliant.
Much better than our company's policy... which is promote them to Manager.
If by Islamaphobia you mean resisting attempts to impose a system which has no freedom of speech, inequality of women, death for homosexuals, death for changing religion from Islam, inequality in law for non-Muslims, penalty taxes on non-muslims --- then I consider this to be generally good rather than "for once".
Do you also oppose Christianity, or are you a hypocrite? Christianity has done all of those in the past, and still has some elements of that.
I would oppose them if I did it now. The fact is they don't any more. Would you suggest that we oppose the Germans now because of Naziism, or oppose the US government because of the McCarthy trials?
Christianity has similar rules for non-christians. Research the word "ghetto" and its origins to find out more.
Modern contemporary Christianity does not. If there is some Christian group doing it somewhere it is wrong. The same applies to anyone else who promotes discrimination and violence. This sort of equivocation is typical of the pro-Sharia lobby. If anyone else at any time in history has done something wrong then it is OK for Muslims to do it now. Thus the Unibomber in an Islamophile's eyes means that the Boston marathon bombing is acceptable as "a non muslim did it too", violence against women is "OK" because it was common in Victorian England, and so on.
The Muslims should be responsible for their own actions - and not seek to justify them on the basis that once upon a time someone else was bad.
Well well, your Islamophobia is pushing you to do something good for once.
If by Islamaphobia you mean resisting attempts to impose a system which has no freedom of speech, inequality of women, death for homosexuals, death for changing religion from Islam, inequality in law for non-Muslims, penalty taxes on non-muslims --- then I consider this to be generally good rather than "for once".
The classical pusher-argument. If I didn't sell smack someone way more evil than me would.
Except in this case its true. If Western countries stopped pumping oil then prices would rise and Muslim countries would have more money to support terrorism. I don't like it, but its a fact. The best thing would be to switch as much energy production as possible to nuclear and renewables and make up the rest from Western sources,
I don't think it can. I looked at a map and its sort of suck between the USA and the arctic as far as North South moves go and between Greenland and Siberia East and West.
Chancellorsville has one of the most advanced air defense systems in the Navy[...]
But it could not defend itself against a runaway drone. Very impressive.
There are multiple reasons that could have happened. It could have been too close to defend against - e.g. coming in to land, or the IFF could have been tagged as friendly.
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Many places can't afford people at all, let alone top-end salary highly-experienced people.
That wouldn't be so bad if the same company couldn't easily find the money for as many project managers as programers, odd roles like "Human resources diversity manager", a "director's assistant PA" (as well as director's PA) and a chauffeur.
They *THINK* they can get someone younger for much less pay. And they *THINK* they will get all the experience from that younger person too.
What sets us "old farts" apart from the younger folks is that when we started, computers, software and infrastructure weren't half as complex as they are today. And we have seen it all grow. With that, we still know what happens under the hood. We still recognize a failing harddisk, a bad memory problem, a network routing issue etc, when the young guys just see their mouse, tablet or app not doing what they expect. The young folks know where to look when things work. We know where to look when things fail. Employers do not recognize that until they are hit by disaster.
Interestingly we have a number of young-ish programmers who do get that ... and all of them come from Poland. They put it down to having to cobble together systems from whatever was available during their education!
In case you hadn't noticed, women are the most expensive thing on the planet.
Sometimes, supply and demand is quite literally a bitch.
Quite literally? ..... But bestiality is illegal in many countries.
I certainly hope you were being sarcastic. Because if we wanted to take your comment literally, then all fathers would be pedophiles.
Maybe GP poster is Harriet Harman
Modded 5 for random speculation....
... that the first law of thermodynamics applies to the Tesla
Sorry it was meant as a joke. I apologise if I offended you
Do you know how you can tell a queer?
He drinks Pimms while we drink beer
I don't know if this is a universal rule, but I'd say in British University bars at least there is a pretty strong correlation.
Beer is good.
I'll take that Ph.D. now.
Hey is that you Homer Simpson
What are you talking about? He's discovered the holy grail. What do you do with a bad developer? Kill him and the company will hire a replacement. Brilliant.
Much better than our company's policy ... which is promote them to Manager.
But it sounds like he's dead. I mean, no one just gives up on an open source project.
I blame a Microsoft hit squad. Or maybe Oracle.
Practice tweeting
I'm in the shower ... Iron-man Stan has dropped the soap and asked me to pick it up ... AAAAAAAAA
If by Islamaphobia you mean resisting attempts to impose a system which has no freedom of speech, inequality of women, death for homosexuals, death for changing religion from Islam, inequality in law for non-Muslims, penalty taxes on non-muslims --- then I consider this to be generally good rather than "for once".
Do you also oppose Christianity, or are you a hypocrite? Christianity has done all of those in the past, and still has some elements of that.
I would oppose them if I did it now. The fact is they don't any more. Would you suggest that we oppose the Germans now because of Naziism, or oppose the US government because of the McCarthy trials?
If there is some Christian group doing it somewhere it is wrong.
Ah, the "No True Scotsman" fallacy. You, sir, are a hypocrite.
You had better look up the "No true Scotsman" falicy. Clue it is not:
McDonald is a Scotsman
McDonald murdered someone
Murdering someone is wrong
Christianity has similar rules for non-christians. Research the word "ghetto" and its origins to find out more.
Modern contemporary Christianity does not. If there is some Christian group doing it somewhere it is wrong. The same applies to anyone else who promotes discrimination and violence. This sort of equivocation is typical of the pro-Sharia lobby. If anyone else at any time in history has done something wrong then it is OK for Muslims to do it now. Thus the Unibomber in an Islamophile's eyes means that the Boston marathon bombing is acceptable as "a non muslim did it too", violence against women is "OK" because it was common in Victorian England, and so on.
The Muslims should be responsible for their own actions - and not seek to justify them on the basis that once upon a time someone else was bad.
Well well, your Islamophobia is pushing you to do something good for once.
If by Islamaphobia you mean resisting attempts to impose a system which has no freedom of speech, inequality of women, death for homosexuals, death for changing religion from Islam, inequality in law for non-Muslims, penalty taxes on non-muslims --- then I consider this to be generally good rather than "for once".
The classical pusher-argument. If I didn't sell smack someone way more evil than me would.
Except in this case its true. If Western countries stopped pumping oil then prices would rise and Muslim countries would have more money to support terrorism. I don't like it, but its a fact. The best thing would be to switch as much energy production as possible to nuclear and renewables and make up the rest from Western sources,
In a crash the fact that is an airbus has to be mentioned. When an airbus behaves under dramatic conditions it becomes a "US Airways plane"!
Until Dreamworks sue them for infringing their copyright on Hispanic cats.
I'm sure that there are Casino owners who would disagree
SETI is a lottery already!
They must be worried that they'll be caught having a tea party
:Go Canada
I don't think it can. I looked at a map and its sort of suck between the USA and the arctic as far as North South moves go and between Greenland and Siberia East and West.
Obvious troll is obvious.
Quite. Show me a Christian minister supporting child marriage and I will show you:
After all, that's what America would do if the situation were reversed ....
Absolutely. You can't blame the Russians for trying .... and you can't blame the Americans for saying "no".
Chancellorsville has one of the most advanced air defense systems in the Navy[...]
But it could not defend itself against a runaway drone. Very impressive.
There are multiple reasons that could have happened. It could have been too close to defend against - e.g. coming in to land, or the IFF could have been tagged as friendly.