I agree. So what? No one hires a director, artist, or writer based on their GPA (I challenge you to find one director's undergrad GPA on IMDB or wikipedia). The quality of their portfolio of work determines their success or failure - not their GPA.
Really? I hate the silver spoon assholes myself. Then again, I'm a Gen-Y who had to work my way up and had a job at age 14.
they need constant hand-holding,
Try not hiring stupid silver spoon assholes.
Hate to break it to you, but silver spoon assholes make up a larger-than-normal proportion of your generation (esp. college-educated). They've grown up during the most prosperous period in the history of our nation, and many of them were raised by baby boomers who want to be their kid's friends more than they want to their kid's parents. I work with many Gen Y's that work hard and generally have a clue about real life, but I also get a lot of resumes from your peers who clearly have no idea how to function in the real world.
This is what we are facing in our organization. About 66% of our openings are technical, but our HR director is clueless -- not only in writing effective job descriptions and requirements, but also when it comes to setting compensation packages that attract good candidates. Our business analysts (which are a dime dozen) make as much or more than our application engineers.
It's almost a conspiracy: inability to hire good application engineers, limits our ability to automate business analytic processes, and increases the demand for spread sheet jockeys. Good times.
"annoyed that he could not get to his PC data when he was traveling"...
What about a laptop... the Internet data cloud will not be my primary storage area for many years, if ever... it will be a secondary backup location at best. My primary working data will reside on a fully backed up, as secure as necessary, laptop. First level backup is a self managed RAID NAS (which itself is backed up). This isn't for you. It's for people who: 1) Don't want to lug a laptop around; 2) People who do not want to spend money on their own back-up hardware, 3) People who do not want to manage their backup hardware -- the "it just works" crowd, and 4) Social creatures who work with other people on projects, or share their files with other people, and don't want to spend energy on keeping track of the latest versions, who made changes, etc.
This population is probably very small on/., but I'm sure you know lot's people in these categories.
Getting a designer to consult on your site is important, but you will also need to effectively communicate with each other. If you want to start learning about design, I'd add some of the sites from the deck to your rss reader. I find A List Apart provides a good mix of posts about both front-end and back-end design. Typography is also important, so I'd subscribe to some of the foundryblogs, or typography blogs. After reading these for a while you'll gain an understanding of how designers approach problems.
Breaking a bone wasn't the best example. There's very little you can do to prevent diabetes (Type I), cancer, or autoimmune diseases. There are many illnesses that you can get no matter how careful you are. They just happen.
scrap the insurance companies (middle men extracting their pound of flesh)...Look, insurance companies are not in business to help you stay healthy, or get well... They are publicly traded companies who's bottom line is profit and that profit comes at your expense. A classic parasitic business model that has been promulgated on the American public. However, this will have to change as it is dragging down US business, small and large, big time.
Spoken like a true healthcare administrator who would love nothing more than to negotiate^H^H^H^H^H^Hgouge the costs for medical care one sick patient at a time.
Health insurers provide a critical role in keeping costs down: collective bargaining on behalf of the members and employers that pay their premiums. Just take a look at your EOB and compare the billed amount (what you would pay if you were uninsured and in a weak position to negotiate the price of your surgery/er visit/life-saving procedure) with the negotiated discount that the insurer pays. Insurers pay about a tenth of the price for services because they are in a much better position to negotiate prices. This difference in prices for one ER visit more than makes up for the cost of premiums.
Yes, there are some crummy insurers out there, but there are also a ton of non profits out there that, believe it or not, are pretty passionate about getting the best care possible for their members (BCBS of Louisiana, BCBS or MN, or Harvard Pilgrim to name a few).
Want domestic job security? Get security clearance. I bet a lot of the "real engineers" are working on things that cannot be outsourced for national security reasons...
However, one thing that continues to surprise me is how willing most people are to having a third party store all of their data. All AJAX apps essentially require that you do not hold your own data -- it's held by the application provider. I've always wondered why some of these guys don't sell appliances to companies that insist on keeping everything behind their firewall.
Ever hear of women seeking out deadbeat Dads? There are selection pressures to find a mate that provides some value to the relationship. If you are too stupid to pull your own weight in the household, you will have a harder time finding a mate. My point is that our environment rewards intellectual adaptation more than in the past, while medical advances have resulted in diminishing importance of physical traits. Case in point: Stephen Hawking.
Rapid evolution in the past 10000 years - maybe.
In the past 50 years - no way.
Nowdays everybody can have an offspring no matter what diseases, diets or social changes he is subjected to. But if he is dumb as rocks he is much less likely to attract a spouse (not just a hook up, but someone with whom to actually raise offspring)...
More likely they were afraid of him winning a delegate to the convention where he could further lampoon the "democratic" process. I was really looking forward to this new twist for Indecision '08 coverage. Oh well. Hopefully, SC dems with a sense of humor will write him in.
These probably qualify as sold but are still technically in a third party's inventory. My point is that there is not an iPhone hacker out there for every unactivated "sold" phone.
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I agree. So what? No one hires a director, artist, or writer based on their GPA (I challenge you to find one director's undergrad GPA on IMDB or wikipedia). The quality of their portfolio of work determines their success or failure - not their GPA.
Really? I hate the silver spoon assholes myself. Then again, I'm a Gen-Y who had to work my way up and had a job at age 14.
they need constant hand-holding,
Try not hiring stupid silver spoon assholes.
Hate to break it to you, but silver spoon assholes make up a larger-than-normal proportion of your generation (esp. college-educated). They've grown up during the most prosperous period in the history of our nation, and many of them were raised by baby boomers who want to be their kid's friends more than they want to their kid's parents. I work with many Gen Y's that work hard and generally have a clue about real life, but I also get a lot of resumes from your peers who clearly have no idea how to function in the real world.
This is what we are facing in our organization. About 66% of our openings are technical, but our HR director is clueless -- not only in writing effective job descriptions and requirements, but also when it comes to setting compensation packages that attract good candidates. Our business analysts (which are a dime dozen) make as much or more than our application engineers.
It's almost a conspiracy: inability to hire good application engineers, limits our ability to automate business analytic processes, and increases the demand for spread sheet jockeys. Good times.
In Soviet Russia... software frees you.
This population is probably very small on /., but I'm sure you know lot's people in these categories.
I for one welcome back our Indecision 2008 overlords.
Getting a designer to consult on your site is important, but you will also need to effectively communicate with each other. If you want to start learning about design, I'd add some of the sites from the deck to your rss reader. I find A List Apart provides a good mix of posts about both front-end and back-end design. Typography is also important, so I'd subscribe to some of the foundry blogs, or typography blogs. After reading these for a while you'll gain an understanding of how designers approach problems.
Okay... who let in the PHB?
You could also say: "Men without girlfriends are over represented in terrorist groups."
Breaking a bone wasn't the best example. There's very little you can do to prevent diabetes (Type I), cancer, or autoimmune diseases. There are many illnesses that you can get no matter how careful you are. They just happen.
MOD PARENT UP. There is no other profession (other than priests maybe) that protect their own from real accountability when they screw up.
Spoken like a true healthcare administrator who would love nothing more than to negotiate^H^H^H^H^H^Hgouge the costs for medical care one sick patient at a time.
Health insurers provide a critical role in keeping costs down: collective bargaining on behalf of the members and employers that pay their premiums. Just take a look at your EOB and compare the billed amount (what you would pay if you were uninsured and in a weak position to negotiate the price of your surgery/er visit/life-saving procedure) with the negotiated discount that the insurer pays. Insurers pay about a tenth of the price for services because they are in a much better position to negotiate prices. This difference in prices for one ER visit more than makes up for the cost of premiums.
Yes, there are some crummy insurers out there, but there are also a ton of non profits out there that, believe it or not, are pretty passionate about getting the best care possible for their members (BCBS of Louisiana, BCBS or MN, or Harvard Pilgrim to name a few).
$1 Billion
Want domestic job security? Get security clearance. I bet a lot of the "real engineers" are working on things that cannot be outsourced for national security reasons...
Ever hear of women seeking out deadbeat Dads? There are selection pressures to find a mate that provides some value to the relationship. If you are too stupid to pull your own weight in the household, you will have a harder time finding a mate. My point is that our environment rewards intellectual adaptation more than in the past, while medical advances have resulted in diminishing importance of physical traits. Case in point: Stephen Hawking.
But if he is dumb as rocks he is much less likely to attract a spouse (not just a hook up, but someone with whom to actually raise offspring)...
It would be hard for them to convince anyone that they lost money holding AAPL over the last 5 years.
A few million are willing to give up their right to vote for representatives in exchange for living in Washington, DC.
More likely they were afraid of him winning a delegate to the convention where he could further lampoon the "democratic" process. I was really looking forward to this new twist for Indecision '08 coverage. Oh well. Hopefully, SC dems with a sense of humor will write him in.
These probably qualify as sold but are still technically in a third party's inventory. My point is that there is not an iPhone hacker out there for every unactivated "sold" phone.
Or they could still be sitting unopened in various retailers' inventories.
Yeah, pushing off the release of Leopard to get the iPhone out the door was a HUGE missed opportunity. What were they thinking?
there, fixed it for you