I believe the point here is that someone carefully chose a home a sensible distance from the major highway, only to find a bunch of commuters driving down their leafy secluded lane trying to dodge a jam that's on the highway.
Or are you proposing that nobody lives within six miles of a highway? I think that'll result in new highways; we'll run out of countryside quite quickly.
Write to your ISP making a formal complaint. Highlight that this is unsolicited spam advertising a film in which you have no interest, a libellous false accusation, a breach of your privacy and harassment.
Demand that they cease with immediate effect, request an apology and suggest politely that they improve their processes to prevent re-occurrence.
Ask them to confirm in writing that they have done so.
The ISP need to both recognise that this is damaging their business and exposing them to legal countermeasures, but also build the case log that they can use to demonstrate this to the government. Your letter will fulfil both aims.
Three month notice periods are common for experienced staff in the UK, and senior managers frequently get six or twelve month notice periods - although the latter is often in the form of a twelve month rolling contract.
That means anybody hiring knows they will have to wait 1-3 months from offer to start date, and I've never seen it be an issue. If you need someone faster than that just get a contractor in to cover.
I have too, but I'm still going to tell someone at interview that I'm going to re-use the existing proven code and not build them a whole new system from the firmware up.
I once interviewed with a top-end engineering company that sent a graph based programming problem ahead of time and asked me to send in working code.
I couldn't be arsed researching graph traversal algorithms so wrote a working solution and included documentation highlighting the recursive memory demands that put an upper boundary on graph size, and here's the function to fix if you need to process more data.
The rest of the code didn't need touching, and worked perfectly well with the sample data provided. I got through that stage of the interview with a "I read your code. That was good!"
If I joined Google, at interview I'd be pointing out that I have insane skills in some areas and if I need detailed algorithm knowledge I can probably find someone in the building that can help.
Are you shitting me? On modern computers? Fuck no, a shitty bubble sort will happily churn through a few million randomised entries faster than a binary sort could handle 3000 back when I start programming professionally.
The time gets lost on database lookups, on network calls, on marshalling/unmarshalling, on making unnecessary hits to storage because someone doesn't know how to cache.
Algorithms? Sure, if you're dealing with terabytes of data. But seriously, just fucking write the code, put whatever the fuck you want inside the sort() function and come back and optimise it if you think it'll help later.
yes, knowing np complete is important. It's not required! But it is a data point. If they know the answer it gives me confidence that they either have a broad background, remembered stuff from school
Really? What if their "school" didn't teach about NP-complete. I did a degree in Accounting and Financial Analysis, it was a tad short on NP fucking complete. In my first job I wrote software, covered for support and managed the company's accounts, and that's given me a nice broad base of experience your NP-complete gurus lack.
bubble sort on a white board isn't that hard. Seriously.
I wrote my first bubble sort when I was 12. I still wouldn't fucking write one on a whiteboard. Don't be such a twat.
I rarely get this far as they're still drawing diagrams of a what a linked list looks like.
Well, there you are. Stop asking them to do things that are a complete waste of their time and yours, and ask the questions that make a fucking difference.
How knowledgeable are they about computer science?
You want developers or computer scientists?
The best programmers I've met were physicists. Amongst the worse are computer scientists. Testing for irrelevant shit that gets taught on CS courses eliminates some of the best candidates.
I don't do riddles. I've never done riddles. Take your fucked up word games and go kill yourself.
I'll work with people that can articulate clearly and simply what they want, and answer sensible questions about it.
Programming is about problem solving, not fucking riddles.
Incidentally, ask me to write code on a whiteboard and I walk out of the interview. Don't be such a fuckwit. Ask me a sensible question, ask me how I'd approach problem solving, ask me something that actually makes me want to work with you.
So you can chat with a friend in one while playing the other? So you can "multi-box" an MMO? So you can test shit? Because you're _that_ good? So you can avoid downtime while waiting for a game to do its thing? Because they're turnbased online and you're waiting for the other player?
Hmm. I can tell the difference from 1080p to 1440p, and I like it.
I'm driving 1440p with a 1070 at the moment, waiting for this new card. If it can properly drive 4k (at 60fps will do, I don't need 120) then I'll buy it, and a new monitor.
This is eye-watering $20K just to take delivery. How a cab driver could possibly afford such expense?!
Without wishing to comment on the specific individual involved, cab drivers generally can be understood to be in a low paid job with shitty hours. I interpret this as meaning that well paid jobs with more sensible hours are beyond their capabilities, and from that infer that they may not be amongst the intellectual elites of the world.
Why the fuck do you think it's reasonable to lie to such people and mislead them into a debt they're going to struggle terribly to pay off?
A cab driver can't easily afford that expense at all. That makes it even less acceptable to encourage them to take it on.
Oh ffs. The Transport and General Workers Union had over 800k members before it merged with Amicus to create the Unite union with 1.4m members. Aslef and the RMT have 100k between them.
That's a lot of union funding: Unions provide 40-60% (depending on year) of the Labour Party's funding. The Labour party fund political campaigns, e.g. the mayoral election in London, which they'll have spent probably just over £400k on.
This doesn't even include the various strike actions intended to damage the current government, something that benefits the official opposition: The Labour Party.
For the benefit of people outside the UK, Sadiq Khan is a member of (and represents) the Labour Party.
Reducing the number of taxis increases dependency and demand on public transport, which increases the number of public transport jobs, most of which are unionised. The unions fund Sadiq Khan's election campaigns.
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a certain percentage of dead and stuck pixels is allowable without a panel being declared defective
By who, exactly? Sure as shit not me, for percentages higher than zero.
I believe the point here is that someone carefully chose a home a sensible distance from the major highway, only to find a bunch of commuters driving down their leafy secluded lane trying to dodge a jam that's on the highway.
Or are you proposing that nobody lives within six miles of a highway? I think that'll result in new highways; we'll run out of countryside quite quickly.
Write to your ISP making a formal complaint. Highlight that this is unsolicited spam advertising a film in which you have no interest, a libellous false accusation, a breach of your privacy and harassment.
Demand that they cease with immediate effect, request an apology and suggest politely that they improve their processes to prevent re-occurrence.
Ask them to confirm in writing that they have done so.
The ISP need to both recognise that this is damaging their business and exposing them to legal countermeasures, but also build the case log that they can use to demonstrate this to the government. Your letter will fulfil both aims.
Three month notice periods are common for experienced staff in the UK, and senior managers frequently get six or twelve month notice periods - although the latter is often in the form of a twelve month rolling contract.
That means anybody hiring knows they will have to wait 1-3 months from offer to start date, and I've never seen it be an issue. If you need someone faster than that just get a contractor in to cover.
Yeah, I gave one company five months. Another had four months.
The last one my contract said three months and I negotiated with them and left in six weeks, but that's because the hiring company was impatient.
Well, you'd be in breach of contract so there are remedies available.
At a minimum they can demand that you don't work anywhere else during that period.
I have too, but I'm still going to tell someone at interview that I'm going to re-use the existing proven code and not build them a whole new system from the firmware up.
Unless the job is writing the firmware.
I once interviewed with a top-end engineering company that sent a graph based programming problem ahead of time and asked me to send in working code.
I couldn't be arsed researching graph traversal algorithms so wrote a working solution and included documentation highlighting the recursive memory demands that put an upper boundary on graph size, and here's the function to fix if you need to process more data.
The rest of the code didn't need touching, and worked perfectly well with the sample data provided. I got through that stage of the interview with a "I read your code. That was good!"
If I joined Google, at interview I'd be pointing out that I have insane skills in some areas and if I need detailed algorithm knowledge I can probably find someone in the building that can help.
I once asked someone to capitalize the first letter of a string
That can get quite nasty in unicode (depending on language and libraries), especially if you need to support i18n.
Are you shitting me? On modern computers? Fuck no, a shitty bubble sort will happily churn through a few million randomised entries faster than a binary sort could handle 3000 back when I start programming professionally.
The time gets lost on database lookups, on network calls, on marshalling/unmarshalling, on making unnecessary hits to storage because someone doesn't know how to cache.
Algorithms? Sure, if you're dealing with terabytes of data. But seriously, just fucking write the code, put whatever the fuck you want inside the sort() function and come back and optimise it if you think it'll help later.
yes, knowing np complete is important. It's not required! But it is a data point. If they know the answer it gives me confidence that they either have a broad background, remembered stuff from school
Really? What if their "school" didn't teach about NP-complete. I did a degree in Accounting and Financial Analysis, it was a tad short on NP fucking complete. In my first job I wrote software, covered for support and managed the company's accounts, and that's given me a nice broad base of experience your NP-complete gurus lack.
bubble sort on a white board isn't that hard. Seriously.
I wrote my first bubble sort when I was 12. I still wouldn't fucking write one on a whiteboard. Don't be such a twat.
I rarely get this far as they're still drawing diagrams of a what a linked list looks like.
Well, there you are. Stop asking them to do things that are a complete waste of their time and yours, and ask the questions that make a fucking difference.
How knowledgeable are they about computer science?
You want developers or computer scientists?
The best programmers I've met were physicists. Amongst the worse are computer scientists. Testing for irrelevant shit that gets taught on CS courses eliminates some of the best candidates.
library.fuckingSortThisFast(shit);
Next question please.
What, you want me to rebuild the algorithms that have had hundreds of hours of analysis, design, implementation and testing? No.
I don't do riddles. I've never done riddles. Take your fucked up word games and go kill yourself.
I'll work with people that can articulate clearly and simply what they want, and answer sensible questions about it.
Programming is about problem solving, not fucking riddles.
Incidentally, ask me to write code on a whiteboard and I walk out of the interview. Don't be such a fuckwit. Ask me a sensible question, ask me how I'd approach problem solving, ask me something that actually makes me want to work with you.
Euro Truck Simulator 2. With mods installed.
Console owners wish they could play games like that, let alone in 4k.
So you can chat with a friend in one while playing the other?
So you can "multi-box" an MMO?
So you can test shit?
Because you're _that_ good?
So you can avoid downtime while waiting for a game to do its thing?
Because they're turnbased online and you're waiting for the other player?
I've been there and done that for all of them.
Hmm. I can tell the difference from 1080p to 1440p, and I like it.
I'm driving 1440p with a 1070 at the moment, waiting for this new card. If it can properly drive 4k (at 60fps will do, I don't need 120) then I'll buy it, and a new monitor.
This is eye-watering $20K just to take delivery. How a cab driver could possibly afford such expense?!
Without wishing to comment on the specific individual involved, cab drivers generally can be understood to be in a low paid job with shitty hours. I interpret this as meaning that well paid jobs with more sensible hours are beyond their capabilities, and from that infer that they may not be amongst the intellectual elites of the world.
Why the fuck do you think it's reasonable to lie to such people and mislead them into a debt they're going to struggle terribly to pay off?
A cab driver can't easily afford that expense at all. That makes it even less acceptable to encourage them to take it on.
You're fired."
That would've been a tacit acknowledgement that Uber employees are indeed such, with resultant legal and financial commitments unavoidable for Uber.
Probably best for him that he didn't say that.
Fucking Monroe.
I hate the cult of celebrity, but she was genuinely quite something.
You'd best write to New Scientist then.
https://www.newscientist.com/a...
Oh ffs. The Transport and General Workers Union had over 800k members before it merged with Amicus to create the Unite union with 1.4m members. Aslef and the RMT have 100k between them.
That's a lot of union funding: Unions provide 40-60% (depending on year) of the Labour Party's funding. The Labour party fund political campaigns, e.g. the mayoral election in London, which they'll have spent probably just over £400k on.
This doesn't even include the various strike actions intended to damage the current government, something that benefits the official opposition: The Labour Party.
For the benefit of people outside the UK, Sadiq Khan is a member of (and represents) the Labour Party.
In London? Fuck yes, human knowledge has a serious edge over a real time traffic updated navigation app.
The app wont know the traffic patterns ten minutes and two miles away. The driver will.
Ok, I'll give it a go.
Reducing the number of taxis increases dependency and demand on public transport, which increases the number of public transport jobs, most of which are unionised. The unions fund Sadiq Khan's election campaigns.
Profit.
MLK wasn't saying its fine to assault people purely because they share ethnicity with someone else that you hold a grudge against.
Unlike the person to whom I replied.
Any BLM cunt wants to attack me because of my skin colour had better call an ambulance first, and a lawyer immediately after.