I disagree on a few points. What it sounds like GitHub is doing is allowing their employees to work on their outside pet projects, as long as it doesn't directly compete with anything GitHub does. I don't see anything wrong with that, as long as the employees are doing it on their personal time. (From the summary, it sounds like they allow employees a certain amount of free time during the day to do with what they please) It's not like the extra equipment usage cost GitHub anything, the equipment is a sunk cost. The heat/lights/internet/coffee cost isn't going to change to any measurable degree.
I was paid by the hour for tech work. I went into the MDF to apply for jobs and do some interviews when time was free.
While I'm interpreting the "when time was free" as "when I wasn't busy" I'm assuming you were still being compensated for your time. This is a completely different concept, you were essentially competing with the current company while being paid by that company. And I agree, that is not ethical.
...anything on the company dime. After all they paid for it so their interests come first otherwise it would not be called compensation.
That seems to be the fine line here. What's "the company dime"? The time they are compensating you for, or the equipment they purchased? From the summary, the stipulation is that this isn't to be done on the companies time, but the personal time. Again, the equipment cost is fixed, so that really doesn't seem to be "on the company dime".
I hope they find lots of subscribers at $120/yr, I just won't be one of them
I listen to, on average, 2-3 hours of streaming music/day. I have a sneaking suspicion that I'm not the only one. 11-15 c/hour seems like a pretty good deal, if you ask me. I currently pay Google 10$/month because they have a lot of music I like on it and they do OK at building radio stations I like. Pandora is WAY better at dialing in stations, them offering up that functionality with the ability to just pick a song I want to listen to is enough to get me to consider ditching google and spending more time on Pandora.
I'm saying I saw the pictures of it, I've travelled all over to compare, so I KNOW it's not that important.
"Until [event] I'd never heard of [thing] before, but I've personally seen plenty of related [things]. After [event] I looked at a couple pictures of [thing] and have decided that because it doesn't appear interesting to me, nothing of value was lost." That comment works out fine if you are an exert in things like cars, or books, or some other commodity items. Making comments like that about cultural items, things that most likely hold significant personal value to a large group of people, just makes you sound like a dick.
I have the context to know how important this really is.
Good to know. Maybe put that in your comment next time.
To the contrary; because my worldview is vastly more expanded than yours,
Yup, there you go sounding like a dickhead again. You don't know shit about me. Maybe I'm and expert in this field, maybe I'm not. What we have already established is that you and I are on the same playing field when it comes to this particular landmark. Neither of us knew a thing about it until we read this article, and both of us have looked at a few pictures of it.
You apparently Have not spent much time photographing sea shores around the world or you would know better.
Again, you don't know that. I haven't, but it's not relevant to the conversation. Looking at a picture of something, waving your hand and saying "The world is no poorer for its passing", while explicitly stating you know nothing else about it doesn't give you any more credibility than I have on the subject.
Summation: "I haven't seen or heard of it, therefore it can't be important."
I'm sorry your worldview is so narrow that you can't have compassion for a people that lost something that was important to them.
I've never heard of it or seen it, but that doesn't mean "the world is no poorer" now that it's gone. The only comparison I can think of are the cultural and religious sculptures, monuments, etc. that were/are getting destroyed by ISIS. Just because it doesn't affect me personally and, based on my opinion, there are nicer sculptures, monuments, etc where I have visited doesn't mean nothing of value was lost.
Under Obama I lost unlimited data and my cell phone bill tripled in 8 years.
Do you know what else happened in the last 8 years? iOS and Android were released (Ok, iOS technically was released in 2007, but close enough). About 1.3 billion smartphones were added to the market globally. And speeds increased from about 1Mbps to close to 100Mbps. Do you think maybe it's supply and demand that drove your price up, or do you think it's Net Neutrality and Obama that did it? I'm not a fan of everything Obama did, but Net Neutrality was the right answer for the consumer.
What are some really good uses to put the raspberry pi to?
Mine, a Rev B I believe, makes a really good paperweight. I bought it to control a pile of WS2812 pixels, but it's not particularly useful for that task, as you need an RTOS to do that properly. I tried using it as a Plex (Maybe it was Kodi, I don't remember) player, but it was under-powered. I imagine it would work really well to drive digital signage. A lot of people use them for retro-gaming. But to be perfectly honest, most of the tinkering I do is driven off Arduino.
They put an odometer on those spacecraft? I bet the 1/10ths wheel was really moving! (About 4000 RPM if my guestimate is right: 10.905KM/s escape velocity, multiply by 60 to get to minutes, by 10 to get the 10ths speed, by.6214 to get to from KPH to MPH.)
can't say I'm thrilled to have to learn more specs for something so mundane as lightbulbs.
I'm 100% in agreement with you. The fact that I killed a significant portion of time buying and trying different color temps irks me, but now that I know what I like it's pretty easy to find. I love the LED Recessed Conversion kits, I've put up a bunch of them in my house. Less heat, good light, and I haven't had to replace one yet, unlike the CFLs and incandescents that I seem to be always replacing. And I like the way they look a lot better than traditional bulbs.
Craftsmen receive a shitload of training, even if it's not a "diploma" at the end
That's pretty much what I was implying. Years of apprenticeship, on the job training and classroom instruction, none of which ends with a degree. But it ends with a 100k/year job. I've worked with a ton of craftspeople, just like every other profession they have brilliant people and people I wouldn't trust to tie their shoes correctly. College education has nothing to do with it.
Most of them make well into six figures despite the fact many of them don't even have high school diplomas
Most craftsmen don't need post-secondary education. Craftsmen learn by doing, not by studying. Look in any of the skilled trades, carpenters, boilermakers, electricians, pipefitters, very very few of them have anything past high school, and there are a large number that don't have high school diplomas. You just don't need that type of education to do that type of work.
This is the fault of unions.
I'm not sure I follow your logic though. You are saying they are going bankrupt because of the unions? While saying they are making well into 6 figures? That sounds like a money management issue rather than a union issue.
Boeing simply can't afford to work them more than forty hours,
Why the hell would you want them working more than 40 hours? Since when is that a sign laziness? I don't want a guy working 6-10's assembling my air planes. People get burned out working that many hours.
At first, for a brief moment in time, comments on Yahoo's news articles were reasonably civil. But they devolved from "intelligent" conversations in a big hurry because you could say whatever you wanted to with no social consequences because things were anonymous. Then Facebook came along, and at briefly brought a little of that civility back because your friends and family were going to see what you would post. But lately it seems as though even that barrier is being broken because people are realizing that their family and peers tend to share similar beliefs, and are not putting people in check when norms are violated. Filters are being removed, people are becoming nasty, minds are being closed to outside opinion. I fear that this mindset will be expanding further and further into meatspace. And given our recent selection of Commander in Chief, I feel that this mindset is making it into the real world fast.
Natural gas can be used for cars, airplanes, etc., which coal can't. (emphasis mine)
That's not entirely true. You can turn coal into natural gas, and a bunch of other things. It's expensive, smells horrible, and requires a significant amount of energy, but it can be done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Let me guess....this is something to do with the up-coming relaunch of the Nokia 3310?
Guess again. It's the second sentence in the summary: "Nokia's products including its Flexi Multiradio base stations".
In the article it says the suit is against Nokia Oyj, and they aren't in the phone business any more. 10 seconds on Google will tell you that HMD Global owns the rights to Nokia mobile handsets, and is re-releasing the 3310.
Probably happened around the same time the unwashed masses started demanding free wifi. I never thought of it that way, but I can only assume that's why hotels resisted offering wifi for the longest time.
There will be no outrage. There will be no hearings. There will be no condemnation. There will be no repercussions. Do you know why? Because having the name "Sidd Bikkannavar" sounds like he's brown. And the general public is scared of brown people because of Terrorism(TM). And we need to have more "National Security" to save us from the brown people.
Doing a quick search of his name, the 1st page of Google comes up with The Verge, Gizmodo, Mic, IBI Times, Mashable, and The Wrap carrying the story, and a link to his Facebook where he says he was detained. Notably missing from this list, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, NPR, etc. etc. It looks like the first one to print the article was The Verge, over 20 hours ago. If the "big guys" were going to make a stink about this they would have already.
Why do people think that having a recognizable user name makes them right?
Having a recognizable user name doesn't automatically make someone right. But having the ability to go back and view their comments in prior conversations sure makes it easier to gauge if their opinion is worth a shit or not. Unlike AC where all we can do is assume their opinion wasn't worthwhile enough for the owner put their name to it.
There are only 2 uses I've seen for AC: Trolls, and people who claim they can't comment under their name because their employer would recognize them (or some flavor of that).
Well fuck, you figured it out. You should send them an e-mail: https://www4.tepco.co.jp/en/ot... Just make sure you tell them you thought of it first, so you get all the credit.
Watch a few episodes of "How its made" about anything related to automobiles. There is nothing particularly difficult about anything the majority of these workers are doing. (I realize this is a TV show, and not a substitute for experience. But I did spend a few years as a test technician in an electronics contract manufacturer, so I have some first hand manufacturing/assembly experience that I assume translates.)
Assembly steps are made idiot proof, documented to a T, and each person has exactly 1 job they need to get good at. Everything has a jig: Put the jig in place, add the part, use the automated tool to fasten, send to the next station. All of the tests are automated: Plug the car in, follow the on-screen prompts. If any of these steps don't go as planned an assembly/test technician is called in to troubleshoot.
I'm not saying people that assemble things for a living are dumb. I'm saying that there are people who assemble things for a living that are dumb (just like every other occupation on earth). As a manufacturer you have to assume these people are on your line, so you build your process to accommodate the lowest common denominator. Make everything as idiot proof as possible, and have a few higher paid good people around to keep things moving.
Is GM only shipping 25k-50k units because of supply constraints or to not outpace demand? (honest question, I have no idea) But their overall capacity for light vehicles is WAY higher than that, 17.6 million units, according to their website. I understand that they can't just flip the switch and start churning out more vehicles, but it certainly seems like they could ramp up their supply if demand dictated.
I guess the point i'm trying to make is that, assuming Chevy is producing at the rate they are because of demand not supply, it wouldn't be that unreasonable for the Model 3 production to outpace the Bolt in a very short time period. That being said, your point definitely still stands. If I wanted a car sooner than later, I'd be betting on the Bolt, only because I could go buy one and drive it off the lot today.
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I was paid by the hour for tech work. I went into the MDF to apply for jobs and do some interviews when time was free.
While I'm interpreting the "when time was free" as "when I wasn't busy" I'm assuming you were still being compensated for your time. This is a completely different concept, you were essentially competing with the current company while being paid by that company. And I agree, that is not ethical.
...anything on the company dime. After all they paid for it so their interests come first otherwise it would not be called compensation.
That seems to be the fine line here. What's "the company dime"? The time they are compensating you for, or the equipment they purchased? From the summary, the stipulation is that this isn't to be done on the companies time, but the personal time. Again, the equipment cost is fixed, so that really doesn't seem to be "on the company dime".
I hope they find lots of subscribers at $120/yr, I just won't be one of them
I listen to, on average, 2-3 hours of streaming music/day. I have a sneaking suspicion that I'm not the only one. 11-15 c/hour seems like a pretty good deal, if you ask me. I currently pay Google 10$/month because they have a lot of music I like on it and they do OK at building radio stations I like. Pandora is WAY better at dialing in stations, them offering up that functionality with the ability to just pick a song I want to listen to is enough to get me to consider ditching google and spending more time on Pandora.
to get a new paragraph.
I'm saying I saw the pictures of it, I've travelled all over to compare, so I KNOW it's not that important.
"Until [event] I'd never heard of [thing] before, but I've personally seen plenty of related [things]. After [event] I looked at a couple pictures of [thing] and have decided that because it doesn't appear interesting to me, nothing of value was lost." That comment works out fine if you are an exert in things like cars, or books, or some other commodity items. Making comments like that about cultural items, things that most likely hold significant personal value to a large group of people, just makes you sound like a dick.
I have the context to know how important this really is.
Good to know. Maybe put that in your comment next time.
To the contrary; because my worldview is vastly more expanded than yours,
Yup, there you go sounding like a dickhead again. You don't know shit about me. Maybe I'm and expert in this field, maybe I'm not. What we have already established is that you and I are on the same playing field when it comes to this particular landmark. Neither of us knew a thing about it until we read this article, and both of us have looked at a few pictures of it.
You apparently Have not spent much time photographing sea shores around the world or you would know better.
Again, you don't know that. I haven't, but it's not relevant to the conversation. Looking at a picture of something, waving your hand and saying "The world is no poorer for its passing", while explicitly stating you know nothing else about it doesn't give you any more credibility than I have on the subject.
Summation: "I haven't seen or heard of it, therefore it can't be important."
I'm sorry your worldview is so narrow that you can't have compassion for a people that lost something that was important to them.
I've never heard of it or seen it, but that doesn't mean "the world is no poorer" now that it's gone. The only comparison I can think of are the cultural and religious sculptures, monuments, etc. that were/are getting destroyed by ISIS. Just because it doesn't affect me personally and, based on my opinion, there are nicer sculptures, monuments, etc where I have visited doesn't mean nothing of value was lost.
Geologic feature disappears, Slashdot readers are indifferent. Headphone jack disappears, Slashdot readers lose their mind.
All the customers of one would eventually be stuck buying phones running the protocol of the other.
You make the mistake of assuming this would be done for the benefit of the consumer.
Under Obama I lost unlimited data and my cell phone bill tripled in 8 years.
Do you know what else happened in the last 8 years? iOS and Android were released (Ok, iOS technically was released in 2007, but close enough). About 1.3 billion smartphones were added to the market globally. And speeds increased from about 1Mbps to close to 100Mbps. Do you think maybe it's supply and demand that drove your price up, or do you think it's Net Neutrality and Obama that did it? I'm not a fan of everything Obama did, but Net Neutrality was the right answer for the consumer.
What are some really good uses to put the raspberry pi to?
Mine, a Rev B I believe, makes a really good paperweight. I bought it to control a pile of WS2812 pixels, but it's not particularly useful for that task, as you need an RTOS to do that properly. I tried using it as a Plex (Maybe it was Kodi, I don't remember) player, but it was under-powered. I imagine it would work really well to drive digital signage. A lot of people use them for retro-gaming. But to be perfectly honest, most of the tinkering I do is driven off Arduino.
They put an odometer on those spacecraft? I bet the 1/10ths wheel was really moving! (About 4000 RPM if my guestimate is right: 10.905KM/s escape velocity, multiply by 60 to get to minutes, by 10 to get the 10ths speed, by .6214 to get to from KPH to MPH.)
can't say I'm thrilled to have to learn more specs for something so mundane as lightbulbs.
I'm 100% in agreement with you. The fact that I killed a significant portion of time buying and trying different color temps irks me, but now that I know what I like it's pretty easy to find. I love the LED Recessed Conversion kits, I've put up a bunch of them in my house. Less heat, good light, and I haven't had to replace one yet, unlike the CFLs and incandescents that I seem to be always replacing. And I like the way they look a lot better than traditional bulbs.
Craftsmen receive a shitload of training, even if it's not a "diploma" at the end
That's pretty much what I was implying. Years of apprenticeship, on the job training and classroom instruction, none of which ends with a degree. But it ends with a 100k/year job. I've worked with a ton of craftspeople, just like every other profession they have brilliant people and people I wouldn't trust to tie their shoes correctly. College education has nothing to do with it.
Most of them make well into six figures despite the fact many of them don't even have high school diplomas
Most craftsmen don't need post-secondary education. Craftsmen learn by doing, not by studying. Look in any of the skilled trades, carpenters, boilermakers, electricians, pipefitters, very very few of them have anything past high school, and there are a large number that don't have high school diplomas. You just don't need that type of education to do that type of work.
This is the fault of unions.
I'm not sure I follow your logic though. You are saying they are going bankrupt because of the unions? While saying they are making well into 6 figures? That sounds like a money management issue rather than a union issue.
Boeing simply can't afford to work them more than forty hours,
Why the hell would you want them working more than 40 hours? Since when is that a sign laziness? I don't want a guy working 6-10's assembling my air planes. People get burned out working that many hours.
At first, for a brief moment in time, comments on Yahoo's news articles were reasonably civil. But they devolved from "intelligent" conversations in a big hurry because you could say whatever you wanted to with no social consequences because things were anonymous. Then Facebook came along, and at briefly brought a little of that civility back because your friends and family were going to see what you would post. But lately it seems as though even that barrier is being broken because people are realizing that their family and peers tend to share similar beliefs, and are not putting people in check when norms are violated. Filters are being removed, people are becoming nasty, minds are being closed to outside opinion. I fear that this mindset will be expanding further and further into meatspace. And given our recent selection of Commander in Chief, I feel that this mindset is making it into the real world fast.
Yes, because every web page should be a static HTML document with zero interactivity. And web applications are a fad that will go away soon.
Natural gas can be used for cars, airplanes, etc., which coal can't. (emphasis mine)
That's not entirely true. You can turn coal into natural gas, and a bunch of other things. It's expensive, smells horrible, and requires a significant amount of energy, but it can be done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Let me guess....this is something to do with the up-coming relaunch of the Nokia 3310?
Guess again. It's the second sentence in the summary: "Nokia's products including its Flexi Multiradio base stations". In the article it says the suit is against Nokia Oyj, and they aren't in the phone business any more. 10 seconds on Google will tell you that HMD Global owns the rights to Nokia mobile handsets, and is re-releasing the 3310.
but the real reason was purely financial.
Probably happened around the same time the unwashed masses started demanding free wifi. I never thought of it that way, but I can only assume that's why hotels resisted offering wifi for the longest time.
there's one more reason a person might comment as AC: they have already moderated the thread and don't want to remove their moderations.
Good call. I forgot about that one.
allowing for public outrage to ensue
There will be no outrage. There will be no hearings. There will be no condemnation. There will be no repercussions. Do you know why? Because having the name "Sidd Bikkannavar" sounds like he's brown. And the general public is scared of brown people because of Terrorism(TM). And we need to have more "National Security" to save us from the brown people.
Doing a quick search of his name, the 1st page of Google comes up with The Verge, Gizmodo, Mic, IBI Times, Mashable, and The Wrap carrying the story, and a link to his Facebook where he says he was detained. Notably missing from this list, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, NPR, etc. etc. It looks like the first one to print the article was The Verge, over 20 hours ago. If the "big guys" were going to make a stink about this they would have already.
Why do people think that having a recognizable user name makes them right?
Having a recognizable user name doesn't automatically make someone right. But having the ability to go back and view their comments in prior conversations sure makes it easier to gauge if their opinion is worth a shit or not. Unlike AC where all we can do is assume their opinion wasn't worthwhile enough for the owner put their name to it.
There are only 2 uses I've seen for AC: Trolls, and people who claim they can't comment under their name because their employer would recognize them (or some flavor of that).
Well fuck, you figured it out. You should send them an e-mail: https://www4.tepco.co.jp/en/ot... Just make sure you tell them you thought of it first, so you get all the credit.
Watch a few episodes of "How its made" about anything related to automobiles. There is nothing particularly difficult about anything the majority of these workers are doing. (I realize this is a TV show, and not a substitute for experience. But I did spend a few years as a test technician in an electronics contract manufacturer, so I have some first hand manufacturing/assembly experience that I assume translates.)
Assembly steps are made idiot proof, documented to a T, and each person has exactly 1 job they need to get good at. Everything has a jig: Put the jig in place, add the part, use the automated tool to fasten, send to the next station. All of the tests are automated: Plug the car in, follow the on-screen prompts. If any of these steps don't go as planned an assembly/test technician is called in to troubleshoot.
I'm not saying people that assemble things for a living are dumb. I'm saying that there are people who assemble things for a living that are dumb (just like every other occupation on earth). As a manufacturer you have to assume these people are on your line, so you build your process to accommodate the lowest common denominator. Make everything as idiot proof as possible, and have a few higher paid good people around to keep things moving.
Is GM only shipping 25k-50k units because of supply constraints or to not outpace demand? (honest question, I have no idea) But their overall capacity for light vehicles is WAY higher than that, 17.6 million units, according to their website. I understand that they can't just flip the switch and start churning out more vehicles, but it certainly seems like they could ramp up their supply if demand dictated.
I guess the point i'm trying to make is that, assuming Chevy is producing at the rate they are because of demand not supply, it wouldn't be that unreasonable for the Model 3 production to outpace the Bolt in a very short time period. That being said, your point definitely still stands. If I wanted a car sooner than later, I'd be betting on the Bolt, only because I could go buy one and drive it off the lot today.
America should take a stand here.
Sounds like we should send over some Freedom(tm)