I agree. You quickly get used to which tab will likely have what you want based on context then you have most options visible to you all at once versus going Tools-Options and paging through tabs of options looking for the one you want.
Exactly. Freedom of speech (which isn't true everywhere anyways) doesn't require third parties to make your speech available. If Amazon is so dominant that authors/publishers can't function without them then start giving talks instead, start a youtube channel etc etc. The written word for sale for $9.99 on Amazon is not the only way of communicating.
Indeed. The B-1 has about a 12k km range and about 5,000lb greater ordinance. Yeah it's combat radius is maybe half that but no one is launching their planes during sustained hostilities from 6k km away. So say they have to fly 500km to get to the CAS area, they can float around for another 11k km
Exactly. You take out the enemies with your modern stuff. Then you use your glorified 747's to bomb them back into the stone age. No point risking $750M on a fight to drop 50,000lbs of bombs when a $50M plane will drop 70,000lb once you own the skies.
To be fair there is no majority in the city I work (white is the largest minority). But even then white is a larger minority I think than outside the door (less black people too, more Chinese (lots of asians in the local population but a lot of them are Korean/Vietnamese/Indian but they are hardly represented at my work)). That said diversity is cool. I think gender diversity is worse in our field though where does it start? I went to university with 40 guys and 3 girls. So yeah they'll be roughly a 13/1 guy girl ratio when you get in the workplace
Of course if the country (I use country generically I'm not in the US but have similar demographics issues) enforced immigration policy And mandated minimum English skills as a requisite to immigrating perhaps we wouldn't be in the situation where industries are dominated by migrant labor that can't communicate with the majority of the population. Having a preferred language outside the norm is one thing, being incapable of communicating unless government services are supplied in every language under the sun is a different thing.
That might be more of their claim of "trade secret". They don't want the native population to realize how disproportionate their number of indians are vs locals compared with the local population. Tax breaks to create jobs
Math mistakes aside there are cultural/historical and other factors that do lead professions to be skewed one way or another. If you are living in a city where immigration is the main source of population growth and immigrates are primarily coming from asia, as is the case where I'm living, guess what? A disproportionate number of applications will tend to be brown/yellow. Will the employee fit with our "corporate culture" will be answered differently if this is the first orthodox Jew applying or you already have a orthodox Jewish club. In the one cause you'll need more information, in the second case rightly or wrongly you will likely assume: he'll find someone here to pal around with.
Ads didn't separate customers from the product they made customers the product. Now rather than pay a fixed known price for things you pay in terms of privacy and an unknown number of annoyances.
Ad based software won't work long time IMO because there is only so much non-software stuff to sell and so only a fixed amount of ad dollars to go around. As tech becomes more and more of the economy those dollars will get spread out more. Eventually iOS developers in Estonia will stop being available for $10 a month in ad revenue. There will always be a need for stuff that people can't tie to ads and at some point I think people will get annoyed enough that they might pay say $10 a month on their tablet data plan to avoid ads on everything they install on it. Device makers/store operators get their cut, developers no longer have to plan around the real estate needed for ads, spending time analyzing click through rates rather than solving the customers business problem etc. Users no longer have to avoid a mine field of "don't clear here or you'll be sorry" etc. Poor people can still get the ad supported model if they want. Freeium at the device level. Everyone wins.
Not sure which IDE "automatically commits". You probably can configure most of them to do it but does it do it smartly? I don't want to have to sort through a commit for every keystroke or one made at every arbitrary point (like every 5min). What is the chances it will compile? What are the chances any commit will have a complete step? I suppose you could trigger it from build events or better from when your unit tests run and pass but that wouldn't be automatic any more. Similar for word processors.
Nothing. There will always be broken people where no deterrence matters they just get their rocks off doing whatever crime it is they like. Hopefully the combination of probation/monitoring when they are out and long sentences limits the damage they can do. There is something to be said for old forms of punishment here: if we took a hand for each time you got caught doing armed robbery say you probably wouldn't have much in the way of 3rd time offenders. Could call it cruel and unusual but is it any more cruel than repeatedly letting someone into society that you know you'll have to put back in 6mths (that is cruel both to the psychologically damaged criminal and society that has to fear him)? If we aren't going to institutionalize repeat offenders we should remove their ability to offend.
I don't see how punishment is immoral: if as the first paragraph states it is in proportion to the damage of the crime. Not everything is monitary but say someone steals your wallet with $200 in it. If months later cops catch the criminal would it be unreasonable for them to take $200 from the criminals wallet and give it to you even if it isn't the same $200 they took? With emotional/physical damages it is harder to balance things out of course but neither of the alternative reasons are acceptable to me for a simple reason: changing moral norms/noisy governments/religions.
Deterrence: what if you do a crime with low impact but that the government decides is a politically great thing to be seen as cracking down on? Say gay sex a hundred years ago, or smoking pot. Getting the required level of deterrence might require a hugely disproportionate punishment on the few that you catch.
curative: social norms change and governments generally follow the lead of the masses/majority religion. So things that are otherwise not clearly harmful might be illegal for no other reason than because the government decides to run a christian/muslim/flying spaghetti monster society. What if your "crime" is a matter of personal choice and victimless? What if you don't want to be cured? When people are clearly mentally ill we might force them to be cured under the assumption that they aren't mentally able to understand the consequences of their refusing treatment (or the benefits of having treatment). But psychology is too easily controlled by societies definition of socially acceptable that you'll end up in the same situation: governments/religions will dictate what is "sane" behaviour. Example: people don't masturbate in public because it is seen as rude (and decades of religious indoctrination tells them sex is embarassing/immoral/private). But say someone wanted to have a wank on a bus, who was hurt? At worse it would be a health hazard if they don't clean up after themselves as people are quite capable of looking the other way when they don't want to see something if they chose to stare and get offended inside I'd argue that would be their problem not his.
I'm not sure how correctional correctional facilities are. I think some people will stop doing crime when they get out because they've had a theoretical punishment turn into an actual one they've experienced. A 20 yr old might think: "oh I won't get caught I'm too smart" and even if I do jails have become so easy now that big deal I'll be bored for a few years. But after having actually experienced it, and having things they didn't even think about happening (like loosing family members while in, or having their kids grow up without them etc) they don't want to go through it again. It isn't necessarily that they've been "corrected" from their bad behaviour just their relative weighting of the alternatives have been adjusted: it is no longer worth the time to do the crime.
Exactly. Also don't forget tooling. Sometimes you need to use new methodologies to get the latest code gen or other IDE goodness from your tooling. WPF for your use case might not be any better than WinForms but if you have to live with the same tools as you had in 2005 to keep using WinForms you might just have to use the new technology.
Depending on your business segment/developer churn it might also be a matter of using languages and libraries where other people know how to use it. You might be able to do it in scheme and COBOL but if you get zero interest from customers/third party extenders who cares?
Reasonably large office (80 people a floor), one side gets the morning sun and is usually too hot, the other side seems to be where the thermostat is so they are at room temperature all year round, my side too hot in the summer and in the winter too hot in the morning followed by a bit cool in the afternoon. They do supply desk fans though so it is a fun balance of pushing air at each other depending on who is hot/cold at the moment.
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