Jakubowski recommends... try engaging with the song, as many people report that actually listening to an earworm song all the way through can help eliminate having it stuck on a loop
Glove box, don't forget the glove box and the central console, under all the usb cables, candy wrappers, Taco Bell sauce sachets and the long forgotten CD of Barney Rhymes. "I love you. You love me..."
Tip: If that tune is stuck in your head now, Harvard researchers have found a cure. Painful as it, if you sing/play in your mind till it reaches the end, then it will be gone.
Founding spirit of America etc come into play only when Democrats are in power. When Republicans are in power, some vague explanation of why it could be legal is enough.
“I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.” —Tony Hoare, winner of the 1980 Turing Award, in 1982.
It is now 2017, is it called FORTRAN?
We still compile FORTRAN source and make static libraries out of them. We still link with them. But there is no development in FORTRAN.
If Go is able to deliver a kernel that is "not leaky" whatever he means by "leaky", we will get compiler directives that will deprecate and eventually disallow C compatibility. C++ compiler will build intermediate binaries compatible with Go based linker and loader. The sources that could not be migrated to disallow C will become unmaintained static libraries that are buried deep in the code base along with Fortran libraries, and IMSL and BLAS and other such esoteric code that have become living fossils without any upgrades and revisions.
Go programmers will occupy the niche presently occupied by pure "C" programmers. The vast majority of developers will be working on higher level languages, C++ mostly.
After dissing the prediction by "expert" why do *I* venture to predict?
Hubris. Somehow I convince myself that because I am on the front line of development and see the incoming resume stream and skill sets, and know the magnitude of installed code (25,000 CPU hours for Level 2 testing, 2 to 4 million CPU hours for a complete release testing) I would be able to predict better than theoretical experts. But I could be wrong.
You should side with the underdog all the time. Root for the individuals and people in Govt vs people.
In Govt vs corporations, you should root for the underdog the government.
Now a days corporations are claiming all the rights meant for individuals. Freedom of speeh, money = speech, lobbying the government is exercise of free speech. If you are not able to see the how corrupt it has become you are part of the problem.
. Unlike Congress (specifically the Senate, with two Senators per state), the Electoral College is the only thing that allows smaller states to get a voice in the Executive branch of government.
True. But if the small states abuse this power and create policies specifically targeting big states, like double taxation of state taxes, we need to curb the excess. So national popular vote compact would get more support. It is in the best interest of the small states not to overplay their hand.
Further states that get only one House Rep still get more that what they deserve. Thus small states have too much power in all the three bodies.
Graduates of the top 25 or so MBA schools still command the elite Wall Street and corporate jobs they always did, but the hundreds of others are scrambling, and some schools are shutting down their programs.
Come on. It is not dead till all the business schools go out of business.
Let us say we enact a law making some act illegal. Let us also stipulate the SCOTUS agrees the law is constitutional. Now that act has a criminal and a victim.
Enforcement is successful if the victim sides with the government. (theft, burglary, kidnapping,...)
If the victim sides with the criminal, it is extremely difficult to enforce the law. (contraband black market, vice laws,...)
If people randomly cook things up and inject themselves with it, it is difficult to stop it. Even if it is very dangerous to rest of the society (like becoming a carrier of super drug resistant pathogens....
It was the signal that activated the sleeper cells in Russia that triggered Glasnost and Perestroika and eventually installed Mikhail Gorbachev in power. The interruption was live tested in two places in USA and then it was released all across USSR.
POTUS classified it for 50 years. It is scheduled for declassification in 2037 Nov 22.
Citation: Vol 3, file 47, Page 232, para 3 of the papers revealed by Edward Snowden.
Their multi billion dollar asset tracking system and SEC reporting system involves exchanging excel files. They made a great leap forward by using a common shared drive instead of emailing each other excel files.
They don't even have a version control system, to create an audit trail of changes. The process always starts with "Copy last month spreadsheet into a new name for this month". It is insane. But, on the other hand, had she been sane she might not have married me.
Eat only bread and fish. Drink only water and wine. I call it the Jesus diet. Have you ever seen a Jesus statue that wasn't lean with 6 pack abs? Of course, longevity only ensured for 30-35 years, YMMV.
Longevity not verified for more than 33 years. The actual cause of death was unrelated to diet.
It could be time travel related. It is near certain he was born 4 or 6 years before he was born. (Based on the executions ordered by King Herod that fell on a particular well recorded Jewish feast day).
PhD is too high. Already I don't see any applicants from IIT s in applying for the jobs I offer. I see a lot of interest in China and I get good resumes from there, but IITs are gone, most of NIITs from India are gone. It takes too long.
If this goes through, our applicant pool is going to get even smaller.
The question is, is the management is going to come to you and say,
"We can't afford to lose any more hands. Your pay is up 50%, your hiring budget is up 50%".
or
"Congratulations, now you are the VP of Largish Company, India Division, please relocate to Chennai, India, And you will be a 1%ter in India, (after a 40% pay cut)".
or
"We regret to inform you that Largish Company, India Division, is going to do your team's job. We have eliminated the team.
Have other chipmakers clearly and unambiguously said their chips do not have a back door mechanism?
More importantly has there been any independent verification of chips from others? Intel has been doing it for years. Employees, senior developers and managers routinely leave one chip company and join other chip companies. This idea must have metastasized by now and the dispersed cells must have established new locations to grow.
Are you really going to trust any statement from the management of Samsung, of all companies? Heck, I can't even trust German companies after Volkswagen.
Technically a H1B employee can persuade another employer to sponsor for H1B and leave the current employer.
In practice, given the delay and the uncertainity no one does.
Easy to change the dynamic. Make it portable. Any employer who gets approval for temporary worker for a specific job can hire a preexisting H1B without going through the lottery. An employer must demonstrate the job that is open has no eligible American applying for it. Once the government agrees either they can sponsor a new person and go through the system, or poach any existing employee with a H1B. The previous employer can sponsor a new candidate and go through the system. This will change the power to the employee, and it will cut down the abuse.
I am nursing two H1B applicants through the system. So this is from my personal knowledge. It might not be 100% correct as of today, but it was correct, at some point in the recent past.
There are two optional practical trainings possible for students admitted to accredited US universities. Curricular Practical Training that happens before graduation. and Optional Practical Training, that happens after graduation. Both are limited to 12 months. In addition for STEM graduates, there is an additional 15 month extension to the OPT, allowing them 27 months of work permit, and if you include CPT, an F1 student can work for 39 months in USA.
This news item seems to suggest the 15 month additional time give to STEM graduates is going to be taken away.
I have seen the abuse of CPT and OPT. Mostly in non science fields. People enroll in a 12 month "executive MBA" programs in cheap less popular state schools, (heard of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, or University of California at Washington PA? these legit PA state schools with low fee), and game the system to work get 24 months and sometimes wangle another 15 month by showing their STEM undergrad degree from some diploma mill in India.
On the other hand, people coming to USA, be eligible to enroll in legitimate accredited US univ, with a genuine STEM program and get the degree and get to work in USA are the good kind of immigrants/workers we Americans should seek to encourage.
What we need to really fight is the way the body shopping Indian companies like TCS or Wipro or Infosys or their American counter parts Accenture, Syntel, iGate who game the system by claiming degrees from Indian Diploma mills to be equivalent to American Accredited university degrees. This is the abuse we should fight. Any Indian, Chinese, or any one, who struggles through GRE the way my kids do, and do a genuine Masters should be welcomed.
But the body shopping companies have the money to spend of lawyers to game the system, and the unorganized students from foreign countries can't match them.
Think about what we are doing here, we recruit smart people from all over the world, give them an American standard education, insight into American way of doing things, and then send them back. At the same time, we allow low quality graduates from Indian diploma mills to flood our system depressing the wages of Americans.
Can we be more insane than this? The incredible stupidity of our system astounds me.
I am from India, now I am an American and as American I want the next generation of me from India. Not the TCS dummies.
We know where this argument would lead to. Company towns. Paid in company scrips that are good only at the company store.
Technically, there is nothing illegal about it, and there were no one holding a head to the serfs and indentured labor either. The indenture was actually a valid contract between consenting bona fide parties.
Care read history about why they agreed to those manifestly unjust terms?
Care to read history to understand what usually unfolds when the population is pushed to breaking points?
Hint: One of the first heads to roll will be yours and mine.
No. Genes are the survivors. Bodies are disposable.
Richard Dawkins was too clever and too subtle in naming his book The Selfish Gene. He was trying to answer the question, Are genes our way of making more copies of ourselves? Or, our bodies are the gene's way for making more genes. Accepting of anthropomorphizing bits of DNA and attributing intelligence and purpose as shorthand, his point was, the genes selfishly replicate themselves using animal bodies, species or even genus. But the general press mistook it to mean "there is a gene that makes people selfish" and most people who did not read the book, and those who did not have the brainpower to understand the book criticized him so much and annointed him as the apostle of atheism.
But, his point is valid. Helping my brother have two kids is as good as me having one child.
I had more than 50,000 snaps of family members and friends and relatives because when the digital cameras came along I became a obsessed shutter bug. When Picassa debuted face recognition I saw it as a boon to organize my photo collection.
Very quickly I discovered it confused mothers with daughters. When our turn to host the pot-luck comes around, our guests used to gather around, let Picassa lose on the collection and laugh and marvel at the same time about its confusion.
We need to buy time. Trees have life spans in hundreds of years. Bugs a few weeks. When new invasive pest bugs and weeds come in, it would take a few generations for the trees to adapt. A tree generation is a century. It would take 1000 years for the trees to adapt to new invasive species. Species that used to be killed by frost, now they winter over in small niches.
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Jakubowski recommends ... try engaging with the song, as many people report that actually listening to an earworm song all the way through can help eliminate having it stuck on a loop
Citation provided.
Tip: If that tune is stuck in your head now, Harvard researchers have found a cure. Painful as it, if you sing/play in your mind till it reaches the end, then it will be gone.
Founding spirit of America etc come into play only when Democrats are in power. When Republicans are in power, some vague explanation of why it could be legal is enough.
“I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.” —Tony Hoare, winner of the 1980 Turing Award, in 1982.
It is now 2017, is it called FORTRAN?
We still compile FORTRAN source and make static libraries out of them. We still link with them. But there is no development in FORTRAN.
If Go is able to deliver a kernel that is "not leaky" whatever he means by "leaky", we will get compiler directives that will deprecate and eventually disallow C compatibility. C++ compiler will build intermediate binaries compatible with Go based linker and loader. The sources that could not be migrated to disallow C will become unmaintained static libraries that are buried deep in the code base along with Fortran libraries, and IMSL and BLAS and other such esoteric code that have become living fossils without any upgrades and revisions.
Go programmers will occupy the niche presently occupied by pure "C" programmers. The vast majority of developers will be working on higher level languages, C++ mostly.
After dissing the prediction by "expert" why do *I* venture to predict?
Hubris. Somehow I convince myself that because I am on the front line of development and see the incoming resume stream and skill sets, and know the magnitude of installed code (25,000 CPU hours for Level 2 testing, 2 to 4 million CPU hours for a complete release testing) I would be able to predict better than theoretical experts. But I could be wrong.
In Govt vs corporations, you should root for the underdog the government.
Now a days corporations are claiming all the rights meant for individuals. Freedom of speeh, money = speech, lobbying the government is exercise of free speech. If you are not able to see the how corrupt it has become you are part of the problem.
and the fact that "Elon has said publicly he doesn't own any bitcoin, which is consistent with a 'Good Satoshi' who deleted his private keys.
Being consistent with some theory is a pretty low standard, something even creationists and fake moon landing theorists achieve.
. Unlike Congress (specifically the Senate, with two Senators per state), the Electoral College is the only thing that allows smaller states to get a voice in the Executive branch of government.
True. But if the small states abuse this power and create policies specifically targeting big states, like double taxation of state taxes, we need to curb the excess. So national popular vote compact would get more support. It is in the best interest of the small states not to overplay their hand.
Further states that get only one House Rep still get more that what they deserve. Thus small states have too much power in all the three bodies.
Graduates of the top 25 or so MBA schools still command the elite Wall Street and corporate jobs they always did, but the hundreds of others are scrambling, and some schools are shutting down their programs.
Come on. It is not dead till all the business schools go out of business.
Enforcement is successful if the victim sides with the government. (theft, burglary, kidnapping, ...)
If the victim sides with the criminal, it is extremely difficult to enforce the law. (contraband black market, vice laws, ...)
If people randomly cook things up and inject themselves with it, it is difficult to stop it. Even if it is very dangerous to rest of the society (like becoming a carrier of super drug resistant pathogens. ...
Completely tasteless. Canned ones are ok though.
POTUS classified it for 50 years. It is scheduled for declassification in 2037 Nov 22.
Citation: Vol 3, file 47, Page 232, para 3 of the papers revealed by Edward Snowden.
Did he tell them to stop using pdf files first, before stopping the use of Excel?
Their multi billion dollar asset tracking system and SEC reporting system involves exchanging excel files. They made a great leap forward by using a common shared drive instead of emailing each other excel files.
They don't even have a version control system, to create an audit trail of changes. The process always starts with "Copy last month spreadsheet into a new name for this month". It is insane. But, on the other hand, had she been sane she might not have married me.
All WiFi devices are vulnerable. OK I am going to turn off wi-fi and use only mobile data
Next?
Rouge Cell towers, stingrays, ...
ALL OUR BASES ARE BELONG TO THEM
Eat only bread and fish. Drink only water and wine. I call it the Jesus diet. Have you ever seen a Jesus statue that wasn't lean with 6 pack abs? Of course, longevity only ensured for 30-35 years, YMMV.
Longevity not verified for more than 33 years. The actual cause of death was unrelated to diet.
It could be time travel related. It is near certain he was born 4 or 6 years before he was born. (Based on the executions ordered by King Herod that fell on a particular well recorded Jewish feast day).
You should not have to update. That should be the goal.
Restricting H1B to US MS/BS alone is enough.
If this goes through, our applicant pool is going to get even smaller.
The question is, is the management is going to come to you and say,
"We can't afford to lose any more hands. Your pay is up 50%, your hiring budget is up 50%".
or
"Congratulations, now you are the VP of Largish Company, India Division, please relocate to Chennai, India, And you will be a 1%ter in India, (after a 40% pay cut)".
or
"We regret to inform you that Largish Company, India Division, is going to do your team's job. We have eliminated the team.
More importantly has there been any independent verification of chips from others? Intel has been doing it for years. Employees, senior developers and managers routinely leave one chip company and join other chip companies. This idea must have metastasized by now and the dispersed cells must have established new locations to grow.
Are you really going to trust any statement from the management of Samsung, of all companies? Heck, I can't even trust German companies after Volkswagen.
In practice, given the delay and the uncertainity no one does.
Easy to change the dynamic. Make it portable. Any employer who gets approval for temporary worker for a specific job can hire a preexisting H1B without going through the lottery. An employer must demonstrate the job that is open has no eligible American applying for it. Once the government agrees either they can sponsor a new person and go through the system, or poach any existing employee with a H1B. The previous employer can sponsor a new candidate and go through the system. This will change the power to the employee, and it will cut down the abuse.
There are two optional practical trainings possible for students admitted to accredited US universities. Curricular Practical Training that happens before graduation. and Optional Practical Training, that happens after graduation. Both are limited to 12 months. In addition for STEM graduates, there is an additional 15 month extension to the OPT, allowing them 27 months of work permit, and if you include CPT, an F1 student can work for 39 months in USA.
This news item seems to suggest the 15 month additional time give to STEM graduates is going to be taken away.
I have seen the abuse of CPT and OPT. Mostly in non science fields. People enroll in a 12 month "executive MBA" programs in cheap less popular state schools, (heard of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, or University of California at Washington PA? these legit PA state schools with low fee), and game the system to work get 24 months and sometimes wangle another 15 month by showing their STEM undergrad degree from some diploma mill in India.
On the other hand, people coming to USA, be eligible to enroll in legitimate accredited US univ, with a genuine STEM program and get the degree and get to work in USA are the good kind of immigrants/workers we Americans should seek to encourage.
What we need to really fight is the way the body shopping Indian companies like TCS or Wipro or Infosys or their American counter parts Accenture, Syntel, iGate who game the system by claiming degrees from Indian Diploma mills to be equivalent to American Accredited university degrees. This is the abuse we should fight. Any Indian, Chinese, or any one, who struggles through GRE the way my kids do, and do a genuine Masters should be welcomed.
But the body shopping companies have the money to spend of lawyers to game the system, and the unorganized students from foreign countries can't match them.
Think about what we are doing here, we recruit smart people from all over the world, give them an American standard education, insight into American way of doing things, and then send them back. At the same time, we allow low quality graduates from Indian diploma mills to flood our system depressing the wages of Americans.
Can we be more insane than this? The incredible stupidity of our system astounds me.
I am from India, now I am an American and as American I want the next generation of me from India. Not the TCS dummies.
Technically, there is nothing illegal about it, and there were no one holding a head to the serfs and indentured labor either. The indenture was actually a valid contract between consenting bona fide parties.
Care read history about why they agreed to those manifestly unjust terms?
Care to read history to understand what usually unfolds when the population is pushed to breaking points?
Hint: One of the first heads to roll will be yours and mine.
Richard Dawkins was too clever and too subtle in naming his book The Selfish Gene. He was trying to answer the question, Are genes our way of making more copies of ourselves? Or, our bodies are the gene's way for making more genes. Accepting of anthropomorphizing bits of DNA and attributing intelligence and purpose as shorthand, his point was, the genes selfishly replicate themselves using animal bodies, species or even genus. But the general press mistook it to mean "there is a gene that makes people selfish" and most people who did not read the book, and those who did not have the brainpower to understand the book criticized him so much and annointed him as the apostle of atheism.
But, his point is valid. Helping my brother have two kids is as good as me having one child.
Very quickly I discovered it confused mothers with daughters. When our turn to host the pot-luck comes around, our guests used to gather around, let Picassa lose on the collection and laugh and marvel at the same time about its confusion.
We need to buy time. Trees have life spans in hundreds of years. Bugs a few weeks. When new invasive pest bugs and weeds come in, it would take a few generations for the trees to adapt. A tree generation is a century. It would take 1000 years for the trees to adapt to new invasive species. Species that used to be killed by frost, now they winter over in small niches.