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Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 355

> If our legislation allows a company to claim copyright on an API, then it is the law that is wrong and not that company. Isn't it?

Nice diversion there. It's specifically Oracle that's trying to push this atrocity. The fact that they can find civil servants stupid enough to go along with them glosses over the fact that they are the prime mover here.

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 355

The proof is in the pudding. If Mono were such a great thing for Linux users and Linux developers then it would already have some nice EXAMPLES to point to as to why you would want to use it. There would be apps out there saying "install Mono so you can run me".

It would be much like WINE.

A lot of droning on about rhetoric and marketing bullet points is really quite irrelevant.

For what Mono is being overhyped over, it should sell itself easily.

Comment Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid (Score 4, Insightful) 323

Don't try to kid us. In all likelihood you are a worthless nobody that has no ability to touch the kernel code anyways. You are most certainly an "acceptable loss". You simply don't matter here.

That's the key thing here. What's an acceptable loss? What's a good tradeoff?

In this regard, project management is very much governed by the same concerns that the engineering is.

Comment Re:Height increase justifies nothing (Score 1) 409

The BMI is only valid even for a subset of Northern Europeans. For people that are taller it's invalid. It's also invalid for other ethnic groups.

Peformance is a far more useful metric. It also separates out the anorexics from those that are genuinely fit.

Those BMI numbers also originally arose from a time of global economic catastrophe. Their value should be doubted simply for that.

Comment Re:We could just raise wages (Score 4, Insightful) 409

No. It's about having better impulse control.

Poor people are also much more likely to have 5 children each with a different person. Maintaining a healthy weight requires some degree of effort and discipline. People that never adequately prepared for their future are simply demonstrating the same faults in their eating habits as they have done in other things.

Being poor doesn't eliminate the possibility of doing better. People like that are just less likely to stay poor (been there, done that).

Comment Re:We're screwed (Score 1) 306

Yes. Quite. One of the neighbors is the equivalent of the "Two Bobs" from a well known megacorp. His job is to flush employees when things are slow and then try and hire people back on when the business cycle moves the other way.

I've always wondered how you manage to not burn all of your bridges doing crap like that.

Comment Re:We're screwed (Score 1) 306

In my own organization, the most important aspect of a new hire is "teachability". This is why we like new graduates over "senior" people. Tech is a rapidly moving area. Even if your degree from n+1 years ago was a finely tuned vocational program, chances are that it quickly became irrelevant because the industry simply moved on.

So depending on an IT degree to be a vocational training program is remarkably stupid.

Although some of the "academic nonsense" from a CS degree can be quite useful and applied to whatever the flavor of the month happens to be. Being able to do that is what separates the real talent from the pretenders.

Comment Re:Other reasons (Score 1) 306

...lies, damned lies, and...

You're assuming that the numbers account for percentage of graduates employed in the field. While it may be true that those that "make it" are well enough off, many may not "make it". BA is a pretty lightweight degree. There simply may not be enough jobs to go around for all the guys getting degrees.

It's not unusual for someone to end up in BA after washing out of something harder like engineering. The employment rate may reflect that.

Actually, I know a recently minted MBA who's first job out of school was total and utter crap. He managed to "move up" eventually but that was after getting a subsequent job where he had a good mentor and the opportunity for advancement.

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