Amen. I work for a fortune 500 company in Bellevue, WA, just down the road from Google (Kirkland) and MSFT. I make about $150k as an architect level, plus excellent benefits. I think I would make about $100-120k at either of these outfits. I have hard data from MSFT, having declined offers from them in the past, but I'm only going on guesstimates and reports from friends about Google. I doubt I could get hired at Google, given the widely reported ageism there.
You have, but not in the way you think. I'm mostly thinking about the difficulty of communicating one's serious experiences in life effectively and accurately. It's hard.
Oh, you can F it up with Agile, too. I don't think methodology fixes the organizational issues that Bruce identified. You need good, smart people, a clear mission, and management who has a clue. With that, I can build you something using waterfall, RUP, or agile. Without those assets, the methodology used is immaterial.
Well, we differ. I think it is part of a citizen's duty to resist thuggery, which is what I consider these actions to be. Aggressive drivers stay that way because their behavior is rewarded.
I don't think it is courtesy to yield to aggression. I'm happy to let people in, for example, and freely move over when possible to allow merging. I object to people jamming into the front of a merge lane, when others have waited patiently and safely. This behavior persists because we as a society allow it. I think that is objectionable.
I agree with Mr. Heinlein. I am the instantiation thereof.
PT-140. Good little gun, and surprisingly accurate for a concealable.
I don't think 3 incidents over a 10+ year period is likely to be statistically unusual. I suspect that I'm one standard deviation out, but not two. Seattle is known to have a problem with aggressive drivers, leading to recent special enforcement teams. I just react differently than some other folks.
Certainly I'm not acting like Gandhi, but I'm not looking for trouble, either. As I have said elsewhere, I don't think it's the responsibility of citizens to knuckle under to thugs, which is what I consider aggressive drivers to be.
Exactly. I don't carry a gun to make me feel better. I carry it because I think a circumstance might arise where it will keep me safe. And it has done so. I have the self control to avoid using it casually, which is a key thing.
Washington is more rational than DC as far as the laws are concerned, though I understand that that may soon change in DC.
It's kind of an interesting side note to the anti gunners. I'm living proof that having a gun in your possession in a confrontation doesn't automatically lead to violence. I prefer to leave the situation.
And do data centers really hire locally, or do trained data center engineers migrate from other existing data center hubs? In some cases, local officials try to stipulate local hires, which is a sticky wicket
When Google plants a data center in The Dalles, OR, and MSFT plants one in Moses Lake, WA, I guarantee you that most of the hires aren't local. Initially. They just plain don't exist there.
As far as the local economy goes, though, even if every hire comes in from out of the area, it's likely to be good for the local economy. People need to live somewhere, buy groceries from somewhere, etc. Their kids need to go to school, and educated parents are always a good force for the schools. The tax base goes up, etc.
Local officials can try to mandate local hires all they want, but before Google came to the Dalles, I'll bet there weren't a lot of Linux systems engineers there.
For the non-northwesterners, The Dalles is a town of about 15,000 people, about 100 miles east of Portland, where Google is constructing a new data center. It was mostly a farming and logging community before.
Um, 40 S&W is a cartridge. One that has better stopping power, and lower risk of over penetration than a.45 acp.
In my own experience, and that of most folks, you get most of the value of having a gun simply from being able to display it if needed. If you're pulling the trigger, you're in a bad place. I'm well aware of the responsibilities and risks involved, having had a concealed carry license for a long, long time.
Well, let me ask what you think reasonable behavior is:
1) You're driving along I-90, in rush hour traffic, and a semi truck is coming behind you. He is using his exhaust brake and air horn to intimidate drivers into moving out of the middle lane to let him pass. After all the intervening drivers move aside, he ends up behind you, is driving 4 feet (or less) behind your bumper, and again leaning on his exhaust brake and air horn.
2) You're in a exit line which is stop and go, and is about 10 minutes long, right at the exit point, and a pickup tries to force it's way into the front of the line. When you don't move, the driver flips you off and starts screaming at you.
3) you drive up to the gas station, and pull to the logical pump, which happens to be the desired location of a young man who has circled the lot, out of your view, aiming for the same pump. You arrive leisurely, but first. The young man starts swearing.
I'm pretty sure that my only failing is refusal to cower. I didn't see that requirement when I read the driver's manual, but it was a long time ago.
I'm sure you are correct in that I have angered others who assume that they are more important than the other drivers around them. But I go to a lot of effort to assure that it isn't because -I'm- being rude. The assholes can go fuck themselves. I wish others would quit being sheep, so that the assholes would learn that their behavior, not that of polite citizens, that is what is out of line.
I'll plead guilty to refusing to back down or otherwise cater to aggressive drivers. However, it may have something to do with where we respectively drive. Seattle is known for having issues with aggressive driving. There are regular incidents of gunfire coming from the aggressor.
I try to do my part. I stay out of the left lane when I'm slower, I let people in (if you're not trying to jam your way into a 1/2 mile line), and I know and honor the rules of the road. See my other post for some descriptions of the drivers.
I've been driving for over 40 years. The aggression incidents have all happened in the last 10, incidently as I have become visibly older. And as traffic has become substantially worse.
I don't think you know much about firearms. There are reasons cops and soldiers don't carry revolvers any more. Semi autos have been conclusively shown to be more reliable, and the additional firepower is nice. BTW, it's a Taurus.
I started carrying after a lunatic in a semi chased me through downtown Seattle. He was following people on the freeway 4 feet behind their rear bumper, leaning on the jake brake (illegal in Seattle) to get them to move. I didn't move, and he chased me for 5 miles, running streetlights through downtown. I was surprised to find that an Explorer can not outrun an unloaded semi. I ultimately had to jump a median to escape. The police were no help, nor was his employer, as I got the name of the company who owned the truck.
I had another fellow chase me after I elected to not let him join the exiting line of cars in front of me. He followed me for a couple of miles, trying to force me off the road to fight. He elected to cease when he saw my little friend. No shots fired, and the look on his face was priceless.
I don't expect to have to use it, but I prefer to have it. I am a polite and courteous driver, but I don't feel the need to yield to assholes. You can merge behind me, I was here first. The assholes would do well to think that little old psychos like me exist. If you ram me, I'll sue you, and if you assault me, you'll pay. I'm 60+ years old with grey hair, and the courts generally look kindly towards geezers that have had to defend themselves against thugs.
I've yet to see an escalade or a hummer with a wheelchair lift, but I've seen plenty with handicapped stickers. Usually the person that gets out seems ably bodied, which makes me suspect that the sticker is purchased. The wheelchair folks, of whom I know a few personally, prefer two wheel drive cars or vans, because they are lower to the ground.
I swear at cyclists a lot, because I'm sick of cyclists who think they own the fucking road. I ride bikes, too. "Share the road", means exactly that, it doesn't mean ride down the center of the lane because you choose to use tires that might explode if you hit a piece of gravel in the bike lane. Too many cyclists think "Share the road" means "Let me use the road and wait until I'm done."
There are great bike tires available that are plenty durable enough to be ridden on the shoulder, which is where bikes belong if the shoulder exists. If you insist on blocking traffic so that you can use different equipment, then the words 'self centered' might be the most charitable description to be mustered.
I think action is the defining characteristic of road rage. No action, no harm, no foul. FTA, the point is that you recognize that the inside of your car is your space, but that the road is shared space. Road Ragers don't acknowledge that second point.
I have no bumper stickers. After having been on the receiving end of three road rage attacks/incidents, involving people following me and physically threatening violence, I now carry a.40 S&W. For any of you that think it's OK to confront someone who doesn't drive in a manner convenient for you, consider that.
Any time you are counting on order of evaluation being obvious, you are making the code a little less readable, and possibly more prone to reader/coder error. Further, trying to take care of two things in a single line all the time is going to make people's eyes hurt when following you along.
In your defense, I will note that I believe this because I have written more than a little code that is guilty of this sin, and lived to regret it. In my dotage, I tend towards the habit of having a single line of code do a single thing, just to let my feeble brain keep up. Smarter people than me can probably get away with a more economical coding style.
If 80% of the coders in her organization are male, and she holds up a piece of shitty code and suggests that a man wrote it, she has an 80% chance of being right, nicht wahr?
Call me when she can look at a piece of good code and tell me the sex of the author.
Having supervised several gay people, I can tell you that there doesn't seem to be any useful patterns that I can discern. As near as I can tell, they seem to act and code like, well, people.
The biggest system disaster I have been close to was headed by two women who we all suspected, but do not know, were lovers. They were horrible developers. One of the best SDET's I know is a gay woman, one of the best web devs I know is a gay man. One of the most anal and anti-productive programmers I know is a gay man. One of the better large project managers I know is a gay woman.
I haven't known many excellent pure programmers that are female, but, truth be told, female programmers of any skill are pretty rare.
I use a fair amount of comments, actually, but I am religious about using meaningful variables, which does more for code readability than almost anything else, IMCLTHO.
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Amen. I work for a fortune 500 company in Bellevue, WA, just down the road from Google (Kirkland) and MSFT. I make about $150k as an architect level, plus excellent benefits. I think I would make about $100-120k at either of these outfits. I have hard data from MSFT, having declined offers from them in the past, but I'm only going on guesstimates and reports from friends about Google. I doubt I could get hired at Google, given the widely reported ageism there.
Sure they may be smart as fuck, but it doesn't mean they know how to finish or deliver.
Which explains why Google isn't dominating the search and online advertising space, is performing on a subpar basis financially and has zero growth.
Oh, wait a minute...
I thought that was Larry Ellison.
You have, but not in the way you think. I'm mostly thinking about the difficulty of communicating one's serious experiences in life effectively and accurately. It's hard.
Oh, you can F it up with Agile, too. I don't think methodology fixes the organizational issues that Bruce identified. You need good, smart people, a clear mission, and management who has a clue. With that, I can build you something using waterfall, RUP, or agile. Without those assets, the methodology used is immaterial.
Wow. Sorry for sharing.
Well, we differ. I think it is part of a citizen's duty to resist thuggery, which is what I consider these actions to be. Aggressive drivers stay that way because their behavior is rewarded.
I don't think it is courtesy to yield to aggression. I'm happy to let people in, for example, and freely move over when possible to allow merging. I object to people jamming into the front of a merge lane, when others have waited patiently and safely. This behavior persists because we as a society allow it. I think that is objectionable.
I agree with Mr. Heinlein. I am the instantiation thereof.
PT-140. Good little gun, and surprisingly accurate for a concealable.
I don't think 3 incidents over a 10+ year period is likely to be statistically unusual. I suspect that I'm one standard deviation out, but not two. Seattle is known to have a problem with aggressive drivers, leading to recent special enforcement teams. I just react differently than some other folks.
Certainly I'm not acting like Gandhi, but I'm not looking for trouble, either. As I have said elsewhere, I don't think it's the responsibility of citizens to knuckle under to thugs, which is what I consider aggressive drivers to be.
Exactly. I don't carry a gun to make me feel better. I carry it because I think a circumstance might arise where it will keep me safe. And it has done so. I have the self control to avoid using it casually, which is a key thing.
Washington is more rational than DC as far as the laws are concerned, though I understand that that may soon change in DC.
It's kind of an interesting side note to the anti gunners. I'm living proof that having a gun in your possession in a confrontation doesn't automatically lead to violence. I prefer to leave the situation.
Yup, it's certainly not a strategy to be used casually. Which is why I don't.
Well, we differ in our opinions. I wasn't aware that politeness requires that one submit to aggression. Miss Manners, in general, agrees with me.
And do data centers really hire locally, or do trained data center engineers migrate from other existing data center hubs? In some cases, local officials try to stipulate local hires, which is a sticky wicket
When Google plants a data center in The Dalles, OR, and MSFT plants one in Moses Lake, WA, I guarantee you that most of the hires aren't local. Initially. They just plain don't exist there.
As far as the local economy goes, though, even if every hire comes in from out of the area, it's likely to be good for the local economy. People need to live somewhere, buy groceries from somewhere, etc. Their kids need to go to school, and educated parents are always a good force for the schools. The tax base goes up, etc.
Local officials can try to mandate local hires all they want, but before Google came to the Dalles, I'll bet there weren't a lot of Linux systems engineers there.
For the non-northwesterners, The Dalles is a town of about 15,000 people, about 100 miles east of Portland, where Google is constructing a new data center. It was mostly a farming and logging community before.
Um, 40 S&W is a cartridge. One that has better stopping power, and lower risk of over penetration than a .45 acp.
In my own experience, and that of most folks, you get most of the value of having a gun simply from being able to display it if needed. If you're pulling the trigger, you're in a bad place. I'm well aware of the responsibilities and risks involved, having had a concealed carry license for a long, long time.
Well, let me ask what you think reasonable behavior is:
1) You're driving along I-90, in rush hour traffic, and a semi truck is coming behind you. He is using his exhaust brake and air horn to intimidate drivers into moving out of the middle lane to let him pass. After all the intervening drivers move aside, he ends up behind you, is driving 4 feet (or less) behind your bumper, and again leaning on his exhaust brake and air horn.
2) You're in a exit line which is stop and go, and is about 10 minutes long, right at the exit point, and a pickup tries to force it's way into the front of the line. When you don't move, the driver flips you off and starts screaming at you.
3) you drive up to the gas station, and pull to the logical pump, which happens to be the desired location of a young man who has circled the lot, out of your view, aiming for the same pump. You arrive leisurely, but first. The young man starts swearing.
I'm pretty sure that my only failing is refusal to cower. I didn't see that requirement when I read the driver's manual, but it was a long time ago.
I'm sure you are correct in that I have angered others who assume that they are more important than the other drivers around them. But I go to a lot of effort to assure that it isn't because -I'm- being rude. The assholes can go fuck themselves. I wish others would quit being sheep, so that the assholes would learn that their behavior, not that of polite citizens, that is what is out of line.
I'll plead guilty to refusing to back down or otherwise cater to aggressive drivers. However, it may have something to do with where we respectively drive. Seattle is known for having issues with aggressive driving. There are regular incidents of gunfire coming from the aggressor.
I try to do my part. I stay out of the left lane when I'm slower, I let people in (if you're not trying to jam your way into a 1/2 mile line), and I know and honor the rules of the road. See my other post for some descriptions of the drivers.
I've been driving for over 40 years. The aggression incidents have all happened in the last 10, incidently as I have become visibly older. And as traffic has become substantially worse.
I don't think you know much about firearms. There are reasons cops and soldiers don't carry revolvers any more. Semi autos have been conclusively shown to be more reliable, and the additional firepower is nice. BTW, it's a Taurus.
I started carrying after a lunatic in a semi chased me through downtown Seattle. He was following people on the freeway 4 feet behind their rear bumper, leaning on the jake brake (illegal in Seattle) to get them to move. I didn't move, and he chased me for 5 miles, running streetlights through downtown. I was surprised to find that an Explorer can not outrun an unloaded semi. I ultimately had to jump a median to escape. The police were no help, nor was his employer, as I got the name of the company who owned the truck.
I had another fellow chase me after I elected to not let him join the exiting line of cars in front of me. He followed me for a couple of miles, trying to force me off the road to fight. He elected to cease when he saw my little friend. No shots fired, and the look on his face was priceless.
I don't expect to have to use it, but I prefer to have it. I am a polite and courteous driver, but I don't feel the need to yield to assholes. You can merge behind me, I was here first. The assholes would do well to think that little old psychos like me exist. If you ram me, I'll sue you, and if you assault me, you'll pay. I'm 60+ years old with grey hair, and the courts generally look kindly towards geezers that have had to defend themselves against thugs.
I've yet to see an escalade or a hummer with a wheelchair lift, but I've seen plenty with handicapped stickers. Usually the person that gets out seems ably bodied, which makes me suspect that the sticker is purchased. The wheelchair folks, of whom I know a few personally, prefer two wheel drive cars or vans, because they are lower to the ground.
"The size of ones genitals is inversely proportional to the size of ones vehicle"
Is that because they swell up from being crushed by your bike seat?
I swear at cyclists a lot, because I'm sick of cyclists who think they own the fucking road. I ride bikes, too. "Share the road", means exactly that, it doesn't mean ride down the center of the lane because you choose to use tires that might explode if you hit a piece of gravel in the bike lane. Too many cyclists think "Share the road" means "Let me use the road and wait until I'm done."
There are great bike tires available that are plenty durable enough to be ridden on the shoulder, which is where bikes belong if the shoulder exists. If you insist on blocking traffic so that you can use different equipment, then the words 'self centered' might be the most charitable description to be mustered.
Enjoy the increase in your insurance rates. If you're the following driver, it is assumed to be your fault if you rear end someone.
I think action is the defining characteristic of road rage. No action, no harm, no foul. FTA, the point is that you recognize that the inside of your car is your space, but that the road is shared space. Road Ragers don't acknowledge that second point.
.40 S&W. For any of you that think it's OK to confront someone who doesn't drive in a manner convenient for you, consider that.
I have no bumper stickers. After having been on the receiving end of three road rage attacks/incidents, involving people following me and physically threatening violence, I now carry a
While I understand your point, I somewhat agree with your critics. A set of parens, for example, would greatly improve your first line. eg.,
is_overdue = (movie.last_checkout() > OVERDUE_TIME )
Any time you are counting on order of evaluation being obvious, you are making the code a little less readable, and possibly more prone to reader/coder error. Further, trying to take care of two things in a single line all the time is going to make people's eyes hurt when following you along.
In your defense, I will note that I believe this because I have written more than a little code that is guilty of this sin, and lived to regret it. In my dotage, I tend towards the habit of having a single line of code do a single thing, just to let my feeble brain keep up. Smarter people than me can probably get away with a more economical coding style.
If 80% of the coders in her organization are male, and she holds up a piece of shitty code and suggests that a man wrote it, she has an 80% chance of being right, nicht wahr?
Call me when she can look at a piece of good code and tell me the sex of the author.
Having supervised several gay people, I can tell you that there doesn't seem to be any useful patterns that I can discern. As near as I can tell, they seem to act and code like, well, people.
The biggest system disaster I have been close to was headed by two women who we all suspected, but do not know, were lovers. They were horrible developers. One of the best SDET's I know is a gay woman, one of the best web devs I know is a gay man. One of the most anal and anti-productive programmers I know is a gay man. One of the better large project managers I know is a gay woman.
I haven't known many excellent pure programmers that are female, but, truth be told, female programmers of any skill are pretty rare.
Screw comments. Give me decent variable names.
I use a fair amount of comments, actually, but I am religious about using meaningful variables, which does more for code readability than almost anything else, IMCLTHO.