The standard rule is that work experience counts 1:1 the same as education. So a 4 year degree is worth 4 years of experience.
So you're right. In your example, one person has 5 years, the others have 9.
OTOH, many jobs are lying about how much experience they want, and they'll hire anybody with over 4 years who looks like a match for the job. The very best candidates will have less experience than the mediocre-but-minimally-competant ones, by definition, because they will have climbed higher in the same time.
You totally leave out from your calculations that full time work experience is 1:1 equal to time spent in school in the computer field. So instead of calculating what you think you would have made from that one job and then saying you made more by waiting, you're leaving out the increase in value that you would have had in that job. Once you're up to 4 years of experience nobody even cares about the degree unless it is a graduate degree. All the degree got you was in the door; but the other path led through the door, too.
One the most brilliant people I know dropped out of HS at 14 to go to college, dropped out of 3 colleges, got a job as a lead sysadmin at a mid-sized regional ISP at 16, was working for a major software security company by 20, worked for [a major international aid organization], and then NASA, and then between NASA gigs worked as a sysadmin at one of the universities she dropped out of.
Perhaps it sounds "stupid" because you're used to hearing mediocre things from mediocre people who think that people in the computer industry actually learn anything in college. FACT: the class has to go the speed of the slowest person they want to pass. What percent of the class does the school want to graduate? Unless you are exactly the person on that line of barely being able to make it, then those classes are either slower than the speed you'd learn with just the books, or a waste of time.
And after you graduate, you have to be able to pick up new tech just from the documentation. A company doesn't send you in for a year of re-training when they adopt new stuff. You'll be expected to learn rapidly, using solo resources. So any hand-holding that is useful to you in college is a waste of your time.
Probably better to just use a larger quad-copter, set up an area near the disaster to build your foam huts, and then fly them to the exact location.
No matter how good these things get, it will still be less efficient than a fixed printer, and you still have to move the same weight of materials to the final location. You also still need a nearby staging area to refill the printer, so there is no gain there, either.
It might be a lot more useful at a science fair, or a geek bar.
Good idea, though I'd hedge a bit. The doctor has a real chance of finding a measurable problem. From there, there is a smaller, but real, chance that there is an effective treatment.
But the doctor ending up having no clue is the most likely outcome with this sort of thing.
My advice, don't try to see "a" doctor for this sort of problem. Plan to see 10 or 12 until you find one that has critical thinking, and bothers to try to figure your problem out.
Yes, there are certainly no signals is who funds are received from or paid to. Not at all.
Nor are there banking secrets, nor privacy, so you're still a long ways from a point that has to do with the NSA.
You want to keep your money privately, that is called "under the mattress" and that hasn't changed at all. The NSA does not care and is not involved. But various other agencies already know about banking details.
You do understand that the NSA handles signals intelligence, not banking or money... right? That's like worrying about the CIA busting you for drugs, or the Fire Martial auditing your taxes.
I knew one big-name, large, successful security software company that had Friday drinking, starting after lunch, with a couple kegs of different micros every week. I think the theory is, not a lot gets done after lunch on Friday anyways, and it improves team morale and bonding.
Of course, nobody was working weekends except for on-call support staff.
That narrative is very consistent with the accounts closed being "personal" accounts that are actually signed up as the account connected to a merchant account that is used for porn, which is the main reason many banks don't want these customers. (the merchant accounts have much higher-than-average chargebacks)
Porn stars are risky because porn sales are risky, and porn companies have trouble maintaining merchant accounts for credit card processing. This leads to a high rate of "personal" accounts being used as business accounts, and then used to open merchant accounts; often with misleading or erroneous service types listed.
It is simply a fact that all sorts of "adult" companies have a high rate of charge-backs. This puts the companies involved under pressure and difficulty, so all sorts of related fraud and non-compliance with terms happens. Being associated with this sort of "high risk" industry makes it more likely that a bank will have some sort of related problem with your account.
Personally, I would like to see a government-run bank that only offered deposit accounts and checking services; nothing else. With account numbers that can't be used to sign up to merchant services or anything like that. That way everybody would have access to a basic banking services provider of last resort.
On mobile, google maps used to have killer features like being able to save arbitrary rectangles for offline use.
These days if you want advanced features like that, you have to use open source mapping apps, because nobody else has any features other than navigation... and localized ads.
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when i haz php and home in geocity
If you're studying CS and it is hard, change majors now before you've wasted 3 years of tuition on the wrong classes.
i haz php, i has elites now?
The standard rule is that work experience counts 1:1 the same as education. So a 4 year degree is worth 4 years of experience.
So you're right. In your example, one person has 5 years, the others have 9.
OTOH, many jobs are lying about how much experience they want, and they'll hire anybody with over 4 years who looks like a match for the job. The very best candidates will have less experience than the mediocre-but-minimally-competant ones, by definition, because they will have climbed higher in the same time.
Luckily the majority of total jobs are in small business, and there are no "HR" people involved.
You totally leave out from your calculations that full time work experience is 1:1 equal to time spent in school in the computer field. So instead of calculating what you think you would have made from that one job and then saying you made more by waiting, you're leaving out the increase in value that you would have had in that job. Once you're up to 4 years of experience nobody even cares about the degree unless it is a graduate degree. All the degree got you was in the door; but the other path led through the door, too.
One the most brilliant people I know dropped out of HS at 14 to go to college, dropped out of 3 colleges, got a job as a lead sysadmin at a mid-sized regional ISP at 16, was working for a major software security company by 20, worked for [a major international aid organization], and then NASA, and then between NASA gigs worked as a sysadmin at one of the universities she dropped out of.
Perhaps it sounds "stupid" because you're used to hearing mediocre things from mediocre people who think that people in the computer industry actually learn anything in college. FACT: the class has to go the speed of the slowest person they want to pass. What percent of the class does the school want to graduate? Unless you are exactly the person on that line of barely being able to make it, then those classes are either slower than the speed you'd learn with just the books, or a waste of time.
And after you graduate, you have to be able to pick up new tech just from the documentation. A company doesn't send you in for a year of re-training when they adopt new stuff. You'll be expected to learn rapidly, using solo resources. So any hand-holding that is useful to you in college is a waste of your time.
i haz php, i haz home in geocities, I can haz developer jobs?
Probably better to just use a larger quad-copter, set up an area near the disaster to build your foam huts, and then fly them to the exact location.
No matter how good these things get, it will still be less efficient than a fixed printer, and you still have to move the same weight of materials to the final location. You also still need a nearby staging area to refill the printer, so there is no gain there, either.
It might be a lot more useful at a science fair, or a geek bar.
Good idea, though I'd hedge a bit. The doctor has a real chance of finding a measurable problem. From there, there is a smaller, but real, chance that there is an effective treatment.
But the doctor ending up having no clue is the most likely outcome with this sort of thing.
My advice, don't try to see "a" doctor for this sort of problem. Plan to see 10 or 12 until you find one that has critical thinking, and bothers to try to figure your problem out.
Yes, there are certainly no signals is who funds are received from or paid to. Not at all.
Nor are there banking secrets, nor privacy, so you're still a long ways from a point that has to do with the NSA.
You want to keep your money privately, that is called "under the mattress" and that hasn't changed at all. The NSA does not care and is not involved. But various other agencies already know about banking details.
Didn't Siemens assist with STUXNET? They're innovating AND losing money, they're most of the way there. Maybe it is their second youth.
You do understand that the NSA handles signals intelligence, not banking or money... right?
That's like worrying about the CIA busting you for drugs, or the Fire Martial auditing your taxes.
Since when can a company with 300 people be called a 'startup'?
That's a mid-sized to approaching large company...
When they're funded and just wasting the money while it lasts.
I knew one big-name, large, successful security software company that had Friday drinking, starting after lunch, with a couple kegs of different micros every week. I think the theory is, not a lot gets done after lunch on Friday anyways, and it improves team morale and bonding.
Of course, nobody was working weekends except for on-call support staff.
I pity people who associate knowing about something with supporting it.
Facts are neutral.
That narrative is very consistent with the accounts closed being "personal" accounts that are actually signed up as the account connected to a merchant account that is used for porn, which is the main reason many banks don't want these customers. (the merchant accounts have much higher-than-average chargebacks)
Wait, wait, who got executed?!?!
The website does not assert that it is happening. It speculates that it might be.
I speculate that the Martians will invade tomorrow.
Well... prove they won't!
Sure, I guess you're trying to convince people be repeating the lie enough times.
Porn stars are risky because porn sales are risky, and porn companies have trouble maintaining merchant accounts for credit card processing. This leads to a high rate of "personal" accounts being used as business accounts, and then used to open merchant accounts; often with misleading or erroneous service types listed.
It is simply a fact that all sorts of "adult" companies have a high rate of charge-backs. This puts the companies involved under pressure and difficulty, so all sorts of related fraud and non-compliance with terms happens. Being associated with this sort of "high risk" industry makes it more likely that a bank will have some sort of related problem with your account.
Personally, I would like to see a government-run bank that only offered deposit accounts and checking services; nothing else. With account numbers that can't be used to sign up to merchant services or anything like that. That way everybody would have access to a basic banking services provider of last resort.
Stupidest thing since beta
Nope.
it's sortof there, but they threw out most of the functionality
On mobile, google maps used to have killer features like being able to save arbitrary rectangles for offline use.
These days if you want advanced features like that, you have to use open source mapping apps, because nobody else has any features other than navigation... and localized ads.