If people in San Francisco are asking $140k/year for entry-level software engineering, perhaps it's because you can't pay rent on a decent place to live in San Francisco with a lower salary than that. I suggest you simply move your business out of San Francisco, to the rest of the country where median pay for software engineers overall is $90k/year, median pay for entry-level if $65k/year, and people can actually live on those salaries.
That's just San Francisco pricing for you. Where I lived in Cambridge, MA, it was cheaper to grab a falafel or an Indian buffet for lunch than a hamburger. Well, actually, they cost about the same (the falafel a bit less, the Indian a bit more), but the falafel and Indian buffet were accurately priced for what you received, whereas $7.50 for a hamburger was just yuppie-hipster pricing.
We used to have an on-campus computer lab for Computer Science students to do homework on here. There were student computer monitors hired to administrate it every year.
I have often been contacted via email by correspondents under the misguided impression that I am an Italian author and/or an Israeli public intellectual. I am not sure if these two are the same man, but I know from childhood that someone with my name once won some kind of prestigious prize for his fiction writing (was it a Pulitzer? I don't remember).
For the record, I'm the computer programmer by this name from Northeastern America.
"There's too much making your own entertainment now. When I was a lass we didn't make our own entertainment. We didn't have the time." -- Granny Weatherwax
Guilty as charged, except for the fact that I'd rather have a nice, difficult interview rather than some retarded piece of "gamification". Keep adulthood in its damned place! "Gamification" doesn't just mean childish stupidity pollutes adult endeavors, it means adult exploitation pollutes childish fun.
You're missing my point. The incentive structure is lacking for Chinese scientists to adopt the values and methods of Western science. They simply aren't paid for high-quality studies with replicable results and high impact. They're paid to pump out papers and get cited, as much as possible. Instead of Chinese scientists adopting the Western way, both Chinese and Western scientists have been adapting the ultra-capitalist way: quantity over quality in a competition to the death.
You'll have to resocialize science, on both sides of the ocean, to fix that.
Normally I would agree with you (I certainly do on manufacturing). However, scientific honesty is a matter of culture and values. The impact factor on Chinese publications won't go up until they start to deemphasize quantity of publications in favor of fewer, better publications.
American science has actually been suffering the same problem and, presto change-o, has suddenly acquired a reputation for being fraudulent or unreliable on "certain subjects".
Engineering can go to China, but science won't (not for a while). Nobody trusts Chinese or Indian publications and institutions not to be rampantly fraudulent.
Just because our per-pupil spending is high doesn't mean we spend a lot directly on each pupil. It just means we spend a lot, and then divide by the number of students. Much of the money appears to go to textbook publishers and administrators.
Because they didn't coexist in harmony. The Palestinians were the Arab equivalent of poor white farmers in the American South. Religious hatred was stoked among them so that the minorities of Jews, Christians and other non-Arab-Muslims (of whom the Palestinian Arab-Muslims are direct cousins, to the point of some of their older houses having empty spaces in the doorways for a Judaic doorpost-marker, the mezuzah) could be kept oppressed.
Did any of them ever notice just how damn badly-off Malcolm Reynolds actually was? Broken-down ship, real food to eat was a rare treat, rarely even getting paid while still having to exist outside the law just to work, someone was always trying to kill them... The viewer was supposed to take heed of just how much Captain Reynolds gave up in life to live outside the reach of government.
It's true, though. It is a form of slavery, and hand-waving "compassion" over it doesn't change that fact. It would be better if you'd just call a spade a spade and say "You know what? Fuck you. You will pay for medical care whether you want to or not. You will pay for emergency services. You will pay for these roads. You will pay for the education of your fellow citizens. You don't have to like it, you can cry about it and even vote to change the amounts, but these are things we, as civilized people, accept as necessary to keep society civil, reasonable, and advancing. If you want to cry about being treated as a child, then stop acting like a child."
That's exactly what I go around actually saying. It doesn't help, because most Americans prize "FREEDOM(TM)" over actual civilization and its attendant price (taxes, being made to act for others rather than yourself).
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I think you've got it sideways. There remain many, many technological problems to attack, but due to our increasing social problems, no resources are getting allocated to bettering science and technology. So our tech progress has fallen into an incremental stagnation, and will remain there until we remember that technology comes from research and research comes from not wasting the national purse on bank bailouts.
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I don't know any programmers who use those. Try LinkedIn, Indeed, and Dice.
If people in San Francisco are asking $140k/year for entry-level software engineering, perhaps it's because you can't pay rent on a decent place to live in San Francisco with a lower salary than that. I suggest you simply move your business out of San Francisco, to the rest of the country where median pay for software engineers overall is $90k/year, median pay for entry-level if $65k/year, and people can actually live on those salaries.
Welcome to capitalism. Why are we still stuck here?
Getting to see the Q cast as a troll-villain is why grown men watch "My Little Pony".
That's just San Francisco pricing for you. Where I lived in Cambridge, MA, it was cheaper to grab a falafel or an Indian buffet for lunch than a hamburger. Well, actually, they cost about the same (the falafel a bit less, the Indian a bit more), but the falafel and Indian buffet were accurately priced for what you received, whereas $7.50 for a hamburger was just yuppie-hipster pricing.
We used to have an on-campus computer lab for Computer Science students to do homework on here. There were student computer monitors hired to administrate it every year.
Then the budget got cut.
I have often been contacted via email by correspondents under the misguided impression that I am an Italian author and/or an Israeli public intellectual. I am not sure if these two are the same man, but I know from childhood that someone with my name once won some kind of prestigious prize for his fiction writing (was it a Pulitzer? I don't remember).
For the record, I'm the computer programmer by this name from Northeastern America.
They'll annihilate each other, leaving you with nothing but a piece of bread.
Kids these days... I blame parents! Damn feminism, dad isn't being manly enough. D:{ /sarcasm
"There's too much making your own entertainment now. When I was a lass we didn't make our own entertainment. We didn't have the time." -- Granny Weatherwax
Disney pushed the lemmings off a cliff. They don't do that naturally.
Guilty as charged, except for the fact that I'd rather have a nice, difficult interview rather than some retarded piece of "gamification". Keep adulthood in its damned place! "Gamification" doesn't just mean childish stupidity pollutes adult endeavors, it means adult exploitation pollutes childish fun.
You're missing my point. The incentive structure is lacking for Chinese scientists to adopt the values and methods of Western science. They simply aren't paid for high-quality studies with replicable results and high impact. They're paid to pump out papers and get cited, as much as possible. Instead of Chinese scientists adopting the Western way, both Chinese and Western scientists have been adapting the ultra-capitalist way: quantity over quality in a competition to the death.
You'll have to resocialize science, on both sides of the ocean, to fix that.
Well then, congratulations, you've just found something interesting to investigate!
Normally I would agree with you (I certainly do on manufacturing). However, scientific honesty is a matter of culture and values. The impact factor on Chinese publications won't go up until they start to deemphasize quantity of publications in favor of fewer, better publications.
American science has actually been suffering the same problem and, presto change-o, has suddenly acquired a reputation for being fraudulent or unreliable on "certain subjects".
I agree entirely, but organizing schools correctly is socialism. America can't have that!
Engineering can go to China, but science won't (not for a while). Nobody trusts Chinese or Indian publications and institutions not to be rampantly fraudulent.
Just because our per-pupil spending is high doesn't mean we spend a lot directly on each pupil. It just means we spend a lot, and then divide by the number of students. Much of the money appears to go to textbook publishers and administrators.
Rightists don't like capitalism if it means they have to pay workers.
Because they didn't coexist in harmony. The Palestinians were the Arab equivalent of poor white farmers in the American South. Religious hatred was stoked among them so that the minorities of Jews, Christians and other non-Arab-Muslims (of whom the Palestinian Arab-Muslims are direct cousins, to the point of some of their older houses having empty spaces in the doorways for a Judaic doorpost-marker, the mezuzah) could be kept oppressed.
Oh, the "tech center of the world"? You mean where Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and GroupOn are getting made?
No, no, that comes after this tech bubble pops and their valuations go pear-shaped. Then let them pay for being rescued by the state from pirates.
"But this time is different! This time we really are Randian ubermenschen!" Suck it up, you sons of bitches.
Did any of them ever notice just how damn badly-off Malcolm Reynolds actually was? Broken-down ship, real food to eat was a rare treat, rarely even getting paid while still having to exist outside the law just to work, someone was always trying to kill them... The viewer was supposed to take heed of just how much Captain Reynolds gave up in life to live outside the reach of government.
It's true, though. It is a form of slavery, and hand-waving "compassion" over it doesn't change that fact. It would be better if you'd just call a spade a spade and say "You know what? Fuck you. You will pay for medical care whether you want to or not. You will pay for emergency services. You will pay for these roads. You will pay for the education of your fellow citizens. You don't have to like it, you can cry about it and even vote to change the amounts, but these are things we, as civilized people, accept as necessary to keep society civil, reasonable, and advancing. If you want to cry about being treated as a child, then stop acting like a child."
That's exactly what I go around actually saying. It doesn't help, because most Americans prize "FREEDOM(TM)" over actual civilization and its attendant price (taxes, being made to act for others rather than yourself).
I think you've got it sideways. There remain many, many technological problems to attack, but due to our increasing social problems, no resources are getting allocated to bettering science and technology. So our tech progress has fallen into an incremental stagnation, and will remain there until we remember that technology comes from research and research comes from not wasting the national purse on bank bailouts.