trying to find a good desk jockey who didnt crash tools and wreck parts every hour.
Semi-side story: In college I had to take a CNC course as part of my minor. We were given a drawing of a part to be produced on a CNC lathe as our final class project.
It was generally assumed we were to generate the coordinate list by hand. It was a lot of grunt work so I wrote a Pascal program on the side to compute the delta's, do some basic range checking, and draw a rough plot via "ASCII art". I only had to enter the raw coordinates. Using this program I got the delta list done and and it all checked out in theory and I thought I was a real hot-shot.
Then came time to actually machine it. A teacher's assistant inserted a raw aluminum block, loaded my punched tape, closed the transparent lid, and pressed "Go".
The CNC lathe started shaping the part according to plan. I started smiling as it got near the finish, for the part forming before my eyes looked just like the assignment drawing.
Then suddenly aluminum started spraying out like crazy from the cutting tool, making a sharp jarring "neeeaaarrr" sound. Internally I thought "Oh shit!" Mentally, that was my grade being shredded before us.
Soon the horrible noise ceased, and the machine completed the action. There was a little rough patch near the end, but otherwise the part visually looked good.
Not knowing what to think, I glanced at the teacher's assistant. In a monotone voice, he said, "You had some excessive delta's, but otherwise the shape is correct. You get a B- on it. You almost broke the blade. If the blade had broke, you'd get a C-. You got lucky". (They were used to broken blades for students.)
Turns out my Pascal delta distance checker only checked the "x" distance due to a bug, not the Pythagorean distance.
Had I done it all by hand, I'd probably avoid or catch that mistake because I'd be "experiencing" the direct data details. Automation is not always a free lunch.
(Arguably I could have also spent more time checking the software, but that could take approximately as long as hand computations.)
you need the right amount of OCD, ADD and autism to be a good programmer...
Except then you'll be fired for lacking "people skills".
Logic skills and people skills are almost mutually exclusive in my observation. Soothing (typical) humans is the art of hiding or bending the ugly sides of their reality. You have to essentially half lie to get along.
It's almost like mastering Newtonian physics, and then having to switch to quantum physics: you have unlearn or put aside most of what you mastered, and switch back and forth between them as needed.
It's doable, but not easy. But humans are even worse because at least quantum physics has documented formulas and rules. Humans don't, or at least it's inconsistent between humans, and YOU have to figure out how each varies. Thus, you must master the physics of hundreds of different undocumented universes.
Well, okay, it's kind of the same thing. If there is a slump* and you have to beg for a job or gig, then you cannot realistically ask for "flexible hours": the employer is in the driver seat because they can choose full-timers if they want over you.
During the slump I mentioned, I had to work away from home and lived in "long stay" motels.
You can enforce your own style sheet and scale the website up if you need to. What's the problem?
Often it breaks stuff. Ad panels overlap and cover things up, text doesn't wrap properly or at all, etc.
Sites don't want to make it easy to extract just the text, because that makes ad-blocking easier. They thus force you to read it their way under their conditions.
You are contradicting yourself. You claim she supports it, yet claim she has a "study the impact first" stance (paraphrased).
Can't be both.
Studying the impact first is a fair and even-handed way to approach it. I agree telecom needs more competition, not less; but it's reasonable to give the co's involved a chance to make their case.
There are rumors that...
There's no shortage of political rumors on the "WebTubes". The problem is that roughly 95% of them turn out to be bunk or spin.
Women value stability in careers often because they are the ones left holding the domestic bag when the dude flakes on the family.
IT and stability are often at odds. I happened to be in California during the dot-com bust, and had to take scrappy contracts, some out-of-state, to survive.
One's skills are always growing outdated and you have to guess the correct "new thing" to get documented experience in or get left behind again. It's like being the news weather person before satellites: guess right often enough or get booted.
A mass leak from one party's records but not another's could very well mean hackers and/or foreign governments are manipulating our politics in a way favorable to them, creating some nasty feedback loops.
AT&T sucks on the customer service and billing side. TWC sucks on the signal reliability side. When they merge, they'll cover the full spectrum of suckage. Perhaps that's why TWC is changing its name to "Spectrum".
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Semi-side story: In college I had to take a CNC course as part of my minor. We were given a drawing of a part to be produced on a CNC lathe as our final class project.
It was generally assumed we were to generate the coordinate list by hand. It was a lot of grunt work so I wrote a Pascal program on the side to compute the delta's, do some basic range checking, and draw a rough plot via "ASCII art". I only had to enter the raw coordinates. Using this program I got the delta list done and and it all checked out in theory and I thought I was a real hot-shot.
Then came time to actually machine it. A teacher's assistant inserted a raw aluminum block, loaded my punched tape, closed the transparent lid, and pressed "Go".
The CNC lathe started shaping the part according to plan. I started smiling as it got near the finish, for the part forming before my eyes looked just like the assignment drawing.
Then suddenly aluminum started spraying out like crazy from the cutting tool, making a sharp jarring "neeeaaarrr" sound. Internally I thought "Oh shit!" Mentally, that was my grade being shredded before us.
Soon the horrible noise ceased, and the machine completed the action. There was a little rough patch near the end, but otherwise the part visually looked good.
Not knowing what to think, I glanced at the teacher's assistant. In a monotone voice, he said, "You had some excessive delta's, but otherwise the shape is correct. You get a B- on it. You almost broke the blade. If the blade had broke, you'd get a C-. You got lucky". (They were used to broken blades for students.)
Turns out my Pascal delta distance checker only checked the "x" distance due to a bug, not the Pythagorean distance.
Had I done it all by hand, I'd probably avoid or catch that mistake because I'd be "experiencing" the direct data details. Automation is not always a free lunch.
(Arguably I could have also spent more time checking the software, but that could take approximately as long as hand computations.)
Except then you'll be fired for lacking "people skills".
Logic skills and people skills are almost mutually exclusive in my observation. Soothing (typical) humans is the art of hiding or bending the ugly sides of their reality. You have to essentially half lie to get along.
It's almost like mastering Newtonian physics, and then having to switch to quantum physics: you have unlearn or put aside most of what you mastered, and switch back and forth between them as needed.
It's doable, but not easy. But humans are even worse because at least quantum physics has documented formulas and rules. Humans don't, or at least it's inconsistent between humans, and YOU have to figure out how each varies. Thus, you must master the physics of hundreds of different undocumented universes.
Well, okay, it's kind of the same thing. If there is a slump* and you have to beg for a job or gig, then you cannot realistically ask for "flexible hours": the employer is in the driver seat because they can choose full-timers if they want over you.
During the slump I mentioned, I had to work away from home and lived in "long stay" motels.
* Field-wide or your specialty
Often it breaks stuff. Ad panels overlap and cover things up, text doesn't wrap properly or at all, etc.
Sites don't want to make it easy to extract just the text, because that makes ad-blocking easier. They thus force you to read it their way under their conditions.
You are contradicting yourself. You claim she supports it, yet claim she has a "study the impact first" stance (paraphrased).
Can't be both.
Studying the impact first is a fair and even-handed way to approach it. I agree telecom needs more competition, not less; but it's reasonable to give the co's involved a chance to make their case.
There's no shortage of political rumors on the "WebTubes". The problem is that roughly 95% of them turn out to be bunk or spin.
Women value stability in careers often because they are the ones left holding the domestic bag when the dude flakes on the family.
IT and stability are often at odds. I happened to be in California during the dot-com bust, and had to take scrappy contracts, some out-of-state, to survive.
One's skills are always growing outdated and you have to guess the correct "new thing" to get documented experience in or get left behind again. It's like being the news weather person before satellites: guess right often enough or get booted.
We don't really know that. It may have had a semi-hard landing that gave it partial damage.
Hold on, some things are not always as they initially seem:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
The Gish Gallop method of crime?
That's why I invented Lie++
and invented in a flying car.
and Note 7 II's will explode 10x brighter.
In order to show up in the images, the pattern probably resembles that of the crash-landed Genesis probe. (Earth desert)
It's also possible its landing fuel, which appeared to be under-utilized based on telemetry, sprayed about upon impact.
I meant ordered to do that specific act.
I thought that was clear. How did I word it such that it threw you off?
The irony is that if Hillary actually did plot and commit a really sinister conspiracy, it would probably got lost among all the fake ones.
Re scene in ET where the alien hides among stuffed animals.
Sounds like an indirect form of guilty-until-proven innocent.
BS. No evidence the top was aware of their underhanded plans.
Underlings on both sides have been caught doing nasty things. If you don't want to sound like a biased douche, present both.
A mass leak from one party's records but not another's could very well mean hackers and/or foreign governments are manipulating our politics in a way favorable to them, creating some nasty feedback loops.
Stop! You are killing cats!
Trump will hire him to build The Wall.
Let's see robots do a better job at that part.
AT&T sucks on the customer service and billing side. TWC sucks on the signal reliability side. When they merge, they'll cover the full spectrum of suckage. Perhaps that's why TWC is changing its name to "Spectrum".
$3T blown on Ireq didn't work
US will have more bad AI-predicting pundits than sane people by 2025.