Seriously, why can't we have cables that fit into each other as well as be symmetrical. Oh wait, that's thanks to the patent system. At least this is progress and maybe we will have one standard for most types of application (not holding my breath).
I'm not at all sure I understand the purpose of tech visas, but if the problem they're supposed to solve is that there aren't enough tech workers to fill the available jobs, then surely the upshot is the same either way? The visas issued to Infosys may be used to displace existing US tech workers, but those displaced workers are then available for Facebook to hire.
Where are the opportunities for recent graduates then?
Wow. I was scrolling down to find a positive comment for the new GNOME release. Well done and hats off to you sir.
For me I'll be keep using GNOME 2 until something usable replaces it, checking GNOME release thread for signs that the devs might go back to producing a high quality and functional DE.
I bet you had to travel both ways uphill in the snow barefoot as well.
Today it is much harder for someone "indigenous" and fresh to get a start and to hold it steady to make it into a good stable career.
So? Females are the norm, and males the exception.
This is not so. By default each human cell is a male cell. Female cells have to be constantly refreshed into being female through hormone release.
The way it works is that when you are born male you have something called SRY and it increases SOX9 and decreases FOXL2 which is the "opposite" part of a cell that determines which gender it is. For females it is the otherway around. However, if a female does not suppress SOX9 they will develop male characteristics (this is why you can get an XX male). The cells default option is to move back toward "maleness" and this is why after menopause women and men aren't really that different (because at a cellular level they are tending towards the same gender expressions).
Where are all the no experience needed programming jobs then? Everywhere I look 3 years of X 5 years of Y extensive knowledge of Z.
I think they mean unpayed jobs, of which there are some for inexperienced graduates. Some years ago when I graduated, I would have done jobs in either physics or engineering or computer science for free for months to get experience. After dealing with "employers" back and forth for long periods of time and them stipulating the terms, I couldn't get anything because of competition! Now I am fine, because once you have experience you can simply waltz from job to job, but getting the initial job with an advanced degree is hard (I think the degree puts many people off and I don't mention it much in my successful job interviews now).
According to you problems could be solved in the 70s and 80s but not now as "there is a pervasive pessimism among younger IT, a terrible can't do attitude". Then you say that coding is for the young man and older people should go into management where "experience and wisdom play a greater role". Can't have it both ways. If the coders are there for coding and management that sets directions is comprised of people from this older generation, then something is amiss. I think you look through rose-tinted glasses at the past. If you attack a whole generation, you should first acknowledge the problems with your own one (which is sometimes very greedy and currently numerous).
What does that have to do with pessimism? And what couldn't the older generation solve that got foisted on you?
Not me specifically. I am actually in the management ranks. However, I was doing a rant in reverse on you, since you generalized to saying all young people are pessimistic and useless.
Of course in reality you need an experienced person that has seen things before to point out when things might be headed the wrong way. But to blame GNOME3/KDE4/Windows 8 and all the ills of poor interface design on younger generations of programmers is flat out wrong and you only get those extra points because there are a large number of older generation people like yourself that think that way.
Contribute to open source if you have any talent and help fix the mess! Open source cares not about age.
... and there is a pervasive pessimism among younger IT, a terrible can't do attitude... What's terrible is that the new generation wants stagnation.
That is silly. Some old codgers are terrible at programming and only got there because they got in early, then decry that the world is going to hell in a hand basket because of "new generations". From what I've seen, young people are often the most sane (except those from overseas that come because they are cheaper) and have been robbed blind by older generations that pass the buck onto them. Young coders have to deal with all the problems that old people foisted on them because they couldn't solve, as well as management now making all the decisions and lower pay. </end rant>
You realize that at a company like Microsoft, where salaries are managed from the top down... H1Bs not only tend to make the same as natural born American employees.. but can actually cost more as it is usually the sponsoring company who pays for the lawyers & paperwork & fees to get an H1B visa for the eventual employee, right?
You are thinking small scale. It's not about the cost to a small company or department. H1Bs threaten to lower wages across the board due to plentiful competition, less ability to move to another company, and allowing company HR to threaten someone else taking your job. Some of the savings then go to board members of large corporations, to political lobbying, and to shareholder profits.
...the 1%, well they are using their super-expensive cars to commute...
I'm pretty sure they use helicopters and private jets to get around. You ain't going to see them on congested roads if they don't have to be on them.
"The firewall went down, the massive server exploded, and now your information is lost in a black hole. Sorry about that. We might however be able to get a small portion of it back, as it still appears to be transmitting information in high frequency streams on either side. The receiver we placed to get that information fluctuates a bit and might catch on fire, however, so no guarantees."
I followed it up with one of the senior engineers who's worked on this server for years and they told me there was no black hole, just someone forgot to plug in the backup system.
I was being sarcastic, of course, but this sort of news will certainly discourage guys from assisting lesbian couples.
The couples will have to go pay full price at a fertility clinic for sperm.
Is that not a logical consequence of this case?
The guys who donate sperm are not all law students or graduates. I would say chances are they will still find plenty of people willing to donate sperm for a "good cause" and to make a couple of hundred quick dollars.
Seriously? A "war on women!"? I know this is
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