Don't underestimate the F-35 with a US pilot. The airframe may or may not be competitive against the opposition but I suspect the training will be.
It's the combination that counts. It's why I'm not terribly concerned by the UK selling our top arms to other countries: we'll just be so much better at actually using them.
Good universities teach you how to learn. It's a skill that isn't necessarily obvious, and isn't inherent to people that can become utterly awesome at other things if they know how to learn how to improve.
Anyway, your overall premise is clearly and demonstrably flawed. Great sports coaches are seldom as good as the people they coach, but they still help them get better.
I don't need to be able to intuitively apply knowledge and experience to know that piece of knowledge and experience in applying it are important, and I can share that wisdom with someone capable of intuitively grasping the concepts and applying them.
I like to think I'm pretty good at what I do. I do continually train myself and learn new things - and one key way of doing that is to listen to people that I can learn from. They already have the answers, and one thing I have learned is not to waste my time on solved problems.
Oddly, I probably largely can. Very few (if any) countries on the planet would refuse me residency.
Many of them would require me to have a job in an in-demand field first, but that's not a massive problem.
Many wouldn't. I could just sell everything and go live there. Buy a mansion, with what my current house is worth - not because it's worth a lot, but because it's only not worth a lot locally.
(and when you try to work to produce something excellent, management interferes anyway because quality isn't as important as making a shipping date)
I consider the ability to deliver excellence without compromising deadlines a key differentiator between good and great programmers.
But as mentioned elsewhere in the discussion, it's all subjective. And I try to assure my developers have time to learn how to do things better, as well as just getting them done.
Which is clearly total fucking shit. I have a single income household and I'm paying all my bills on time. I'm also living in a small house because I can't afford a nicer one, because the cost of housing has been heavily pushed up by all the dual-income families that receive tax breaks and cash from the government to encourage them to continue a dual-income lifestyle that I just can't fucking afford.
The cost of living doesn't force them out to work, the greed for a lifestyle that I have to subsidise but can't attain encourages them out to work.
Just fucking stay at home with the children you shouldn't have fucking had and do everyone a favour.
Perhaps at a speed appropriate to the road, the weather, the time of day, the other traffic, the proximity of junctions for which you may need to stop.
You know, the same as most people that get safely through a day driving.
If you absolutely definitively want a single fixed speed at which we're safe while you're driving I can only suggest 0mph
Never assume someone hitting you is going to have insurance.
I don't actually care. I have my own insurance. It'd be nicer to claim off theirs but I don't have to.
Of course, it'd be even nicer to not need a claim. When coming to an emergency halt (accident in front, or genuinely boneheaded driver nearly causing one, or just me failing to realise the traffic had started going 40mph slower than me) I generally look in my rear view mirror and very much adjust the extent of my braking to give the car behind as much space as possible while giving myself enough space to stop.
But I drive cars that can stop very quickly - good brakes, good grip, good reactions. So I usually have the luxury of not slamming the brakes on full, but instead adjusting the rate of braking to suit the situation.
So 15% of the US are shit selfish drivers. Nonetheless, if red light cameras make you slam on your brakes then you're driving badly.
It's a fucking junction. You don't have to go through it at the sped limit. You can slow down as you approach it, to give you more time to react if the lights change.
That's what normal people do. Sensible, safe drivers, that get to pick up their kids from the whatever-the-fuck proxy for their shit parenting place they've put them in because they didn't have an accident because they know how to fucking drive.
How about you just plan your life better - start with not having fucking children, you're clearly not equipped for it.
"Why are you IT guys so expensive?" Because otherwise, Sony. "Why is IT so slow?" Because Sony "But I can and it's cheap" Yep. Sony.
In house IT isn't expensive because people are stupid, it's because doing it properly, securely, with data integrity, resilience, etc isn't easy, isn't cheap and needs checks and balances that sadly slow the processes.
So you never outsource your artwork or modelling or packaging or any other part of your development process?
Because other independent developers that I know do. And they outsource to Eastern Europe because the people there speak English and are very very cheap. Which means less work available locally, which means more competition for jobs, which means lower ages. Yet I still have to pay 8 times the fucking price of people in the country that helped write the software?
Sorry but pick option B. It's a global fucking world and I'm fed up with my quality of life being compromised so that people in other countries can get the same benefits for less.
When developers in Russia stop accepting work for companies in the UK then I'll consider giving a fuck about them getting to buy the same fucking products at half the price that they're available to me.
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Don't underestimate the F-35 with a US pilot. The airframe may or may not be competitive against the opposition but I suspect the training will be.
It's the combination that counts. It's why I'm not terribly concerned by the UK selling our top arms to other countries: we'll just be so much better at actually using them.
Good universities teach you how to learn. It's a skill that isn't necessarily obvious, and isn't inherent to people that can become utterly awesome at other things if they know how to learn how to improve.
Anyway, your overall premise is clearly and demonstrably flawed. Great sports coaches are seldom as good as the people they coach, but they still help them get better.
I don't need to be able to intuitively apply knowledge and experience to know that piece of knowledge and experience in applying it are important, and I can share that wisdom with someone capable of intuitively grasping the concepts and applying them.
I like to think I'm pretty good at what I do. I do continually train myself and learn new things - and one key way of doing that is to listen to people that I can learn from. They already have the answers, and one thing I have learned is not to waste my time on solved problems.
Oddly, I probably largely can. Very few (if any) countries on the planet would refuse me residency.
Many of them would require me to have a job in an in-demand field first, but that's not a massive problem.
Many wouldn't. I could just sell everything and go live there. Buy a mansion, with what my current house is worth - not because it's worth a lot, but because it's only not worth a lot locally.
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(and when you try to work to produce something excellent, management interferes anyway because quality isn't as important as making a shipping date)
I consider the ability to deliver excellence without compromising deadlines a key differentiator between good and great programmers.
But as mentioned elsewhere in the discussion, it's all subjective. And I try to assure my developers have time to learn how to do things better, as well as just getting them done.
It's one thing walking into a memorial service in Glasgow and telling a joke on this, but I'm happy to tell jokes on this topic to my friends.
Jokes should never be censored.
Which is clearly total fucking shit. I have a single income household and I'm paying all my bills on time. I'm also living in a small house because I can't afford a nicer one, because the cost of housing has been heavily pushed up by all the dual-income families that receive tax breaks and cash from the government to encourage them to continue a dual-income lifestyle that I just can't fucking afford.
The cost of living doesn't force them out to work, the greed for a lifestyle that I have to subsidise but can't attain encourages them out to work.
Just fucking stay at home with the children you shouldn't have fucking had and do everyone a favour.
Perhaps at a speed appropriate to the road, the weather, the time of day, the other traffic, the proximity of junctions for which you may need to stop.
You know, the same as most people that get safely through a day driving.
If you absolutely definitively want a single fixed speed at which we're safe while you're driving I can only suggest 0mph
Or, you know, just fucking drive slower so that you can safely stop in time.
Or, you know, just drive fucking slower so that you can safely stop in time.
Never assume someone hitting you is going to have insurance.
I don't actually care. I have my own insurance. It'd be nicer to claim off theirs but I don't have to.
Of course, it'd be even nicer to not need a claim. When coming to an emergency halt (accident in front, or genuinely boneheaded driver nearly causing one, or just me failing to realise the traffic had started going 40mph slower than me) I generally look in my rear view mirror and very much adjust the extent of my braking to give the car behind as much space as possible while giving myself enough space to stop.
But I drive cars that can stop very quickly - good brakes, good grip, good reactions. So I usually have the luxury of not slamming the brakes on full, but instead adjusting the rate of braking to suit the situation.
So 15% of the US are shit selfish drivers. Nonetheless, if red light cameras make you slam on your brakes then you're driving badly.
It's a fucking junction. You don't have to go through it at the sped limit. You can slow down as you approach it, to give you more time to react if the lights change.
That's what normal people do. Sensible, safe drivers, that get to pick up their kids from the whatever-the-fuck proxy for their shit parenting place they've put them in because they didn't have an accident because they know how to fucking drive.
How about you just plan your life better - start with not having fucking children, you're clearly not equipped for it.
I'd fire your ass in a heartbeat.
You work for Sony by any chance?
What he's described is pretty standard IT security. What you want is complete fucking data loss.
Fire him? With cunts like you running the business he'll leave and get a job at a competent firm anyway.
I'm pro-life. I support the right for women to dispose of parasites that put their lives in jeopardy.
That's what you meant, yeah?
They're being arrested for possession in a state in which it is illegal to possess marijuana.
How is the legality of the purchase of that marijuana in one jurisdiction relevant to its illegal possession in another?
Tax receipts are pretty irrelevant on that front.
erm. Gambling is a noun.
Sorry :(
Carpet munching is protected by the constitution?
It may not be 'a comedy' but it very intentionally includes a lot of comedy elements to it.
Maybe that's my problem. Maybe I like funny films rather than comedies.
You had the change the battery in your watch? How archaic.
Even when I'm not wearing an automatic mechanical watch with no battery, I wear a solar powered watch that charges itself.
I guess the battery in it will wear out, but not for another decade or two.
This is why I now love Sony.
"Why are you IT guys so expensive?" Because otherwise, Sony.
"Why is IT so slow?" Because Sony
"But I can and it's cheap" Yep. Sony.
In house IT isn't expensive because people are stupid, it's because doing it properly, securely, with data integrity, resilience, etc isn't easy, isn't cheap and needs checks and balances that sadly slow the processes.
Or Sony. But hey, it's your business.
You may not care whether 10 million people die in Seoul but generally speaking it would be considered somewhat bad.
So you never outsource your artwork or modelling or packaging or any other part of your development process?
Because other independent developers that I know do. And they outsource to Eastern Europe because the people there speak English and are very very cheap. Which means less work available locally, which means more competition for jobs, which means lower ages. Yet I still have to pay 8 times the fucking price of people in the country that helped write the software?
Sorry but pick option B. It's a global fucking world and I'm fed up with my quality of life being compromised so that people in other countries can get the same benefits for less.
When developers in Russia stop accepting work for companies in the UK then I'll consider giving a fuck about them getting to buy the same fucking products at half the price that they're available to me.
Globalisation has to work both ways.
Yes. San Franscisco, USA.
What, California's now a country? The size of fucking China?
This is the bit that fucks me off.
IT industry wages are depressed because of competition in regions of the world with lower costs of living.
So I get paid less, but I still have to subsidise their fucking computer games? Sorry but that's just fucking inequitable.