Funny, that's not my experience up here in the north east. What I basically find is there's 3 or 4 jobs that every recruiter tries to drop on me. (Which makes for very short conversations.) I think I've been asked about 1 company from at least 5 interviewers.(I interviewed there and didn't like it btw.)

It seems like agile would be good if you need something quick. So management hears "Oh it's quicker than what you're doing" and dive on that like a pigeon on a French fry. Honestly the agile I do currently should just be called "go fast, be stupid" because that's how it works out.

Hey I've got a blocker can you help me?

Umm, sure since you interrupted me in the zone I might as well help you, what is it?

I can't install this USB device?

(thinking to self)You're supposedly a tech savvy IT professional with a decade of experience and the first thing you think of when you can't get a 3rd party USB device working is talk to software engineering since hey you know, co-location human interaction. Oh and you plug it in and it shows up as a serial port

I said "Damn, do I look good?" in front of it. The thing laughed for 20 minutes.

speed and tailgate even when their lights aren't on. Because they're trained professionals. (Yes, I'm being sarcastic.)

I mean they say they want to tie CEO salaries to some multiple of the lowest paid employee. However I thought they made their big money through stock options and bonuses.(Hence once of the bigger complaints that CEOs do something that will boost stock price short turn and then take their stock bonuses and run, not caring that they fucked over the company long term.)

I mean these days it seems when the local press or politician needs an expert in some field they go talk to somebody there more than when I was there. (I guess they've build up their reputation since I was there. It would have been nice if they put some effort in education though.)

you could differentiate which ones are primarily research institutes and those that are actually focused on education. (I say that because the institute that I got my BA from pretty much has research as their primary goal. Finding the next generation of researchers is their secondary goal, politics and PR is their tertiary goal, but quaternary goal, oh yeah that's totally undergrad education.)

it might remove insurgency as a successful military strategy. I'm guessing that's what the US military is hoping for because it's given them so much trouble over the years. (Since the whole point of insurgency is that insurgents are troops so cheap that an expensive military can't fight them successfully. That would change if US robots are cost the government about the same as a given insurgent.) I guess that would make it more likely the US would get involved in foreign wars. (Since the populous wouldn't care.)

Because what I remember was that anything you ordered took weeks to show up.(This was back in the 80s) It took so long most of the time I had already bought it locally at another store. After doing that a few times I didn't bother ordering anything from Sears since it was a waste of effort.

as hard to break and useful as captcha/gotcha.

Step 1 Display something and let the user/ai enter a response

Step 2 Always reject every response

See, works as well as those 2 schemes and is much easier to implement.(I'm only being somewhat sarcastic btw.)

From my understanding they used 100% O2 because that's what the used when the thing actually went into space. They used 100% O2 in space because that meant they could use less pressure which means they could make the capsule lighter. (Since the heavier it is the more fuel you need which makes the whole thing more difficult.)

Or beef tallow like they used to fry McDonald's French fries when I was a kid. No artificial trans-fat there. (Yes, I know one of the reasons they don't use that any more is that if they used either of those then they couldn't sell their stuff to Muslims or Hindus.)

I actually did well in orgo. Anyway from my point of view the book we used tended to ramble on and on before getting to the point. At one point there was page after page and they never got around to simply writing out a sodar equation. (Which the prof just told us, it was only a few terms.) I swear the guy writing our book hated algebra. I found myself writing in the margins "I bet he's rambling when it's just concept X" and so many times I'd be right. Of course since the book was so disorganized even the order things were introduced were really screwed up. (They introduced resonance structures right at the beginning of the book. Unfortunately the first time they actually applied those concepts were right in the middle of the book. So effectively they wanted you to learn this week one of semester one and then ignore it until the first couple of weeks of semester 2.) Oh and before anybody reads any stupid orgo books, yes orgo 1 and 2 requires memorization of chemical equation. Anybody that tells you differently is just wrong and you will pay if you listen to them.

Because I may be a bit paranoid but I still don't trust that they've "seen the light".