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Orange County parent groups to monitor Orange County Public Schools Monitoring Students On Social Media.
Do As I Say, Not, As I Do....
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Orange County parent groups to monitor Orange County Public Schools Monitoring Students On Social Media.
Do As I Say, Not, As I Do....
Anonymous is watching...
I certainly get the appeal of everyone having a nice office, but in a lot of cities that's simply not going to happen - the space is just far too expensive. So you end up with the choice between a more compact layout, firing a bunch of people, or moving to the burbs.
I work at a tech company in Manhattan, we have open plan offices because there's really no other option here. But there are things we do which I think help alleviate some of the common complaints I hear:
I think there are advantages to the open layout over an all office setup - I do like being able to hear what people are talking about because many, many times I've been able to get involved in something I can help with, or learn about something useful. Overall I'm pretty sure if offered the alternative (moving out of the city) pretty much everyone there would vote to stick with what we have.
When you put it like that, it sounds like the person might have outside pressures impacting his professional affairs.
Hookers and DICE?
The best are 'software engineers' (heh) that write in a language that does garbage collection who think they know something about operating systems.
OMFG do NOT get me started on GC or this conversation will never end. Explicit memory management for people who know what the hell they are doing for $100, Alex!
First and foremost, how can you possibly have let yourself get into a situation where $210k/year has you three paychecks away from being out on the street? You need to make some adjustments to your living situation ASAP -- get your budget under control, eliminate outstanding debts, etc. You are near the very top of the industry for software engineering compensation -- it's not a matter of the market not being stable (there's very high demand), it's that you're quickly pricing yourself out of the market.
Actually, no. I routinely get 2X that offers.
And yes, he freaking needs to budget.
The problem is that "delayed gratification" is no longer a concept these days.
Just got asked about helping with the Fukushima cleanup. I'm in, in case anyone cares.
You need investing advice more than career advice. After 10 years of work you should have much more than a three month cushion -
It sound like you have fallen into the trap of allowing your expenses to grow to consume all current income. That is going to be hard to reverse, and THAT is what you need some professional help with,
I totally agree.
I am more or less "retired", unless someone comes to me with exceedingly interesting work to do, I read, I paint, I draw, I write, I tinker, I vacation, I angel invest, I patent even more stuff, I spend time with smart people, I participate in interesting forums, and I learn more stuff, taking college courses if I have to, etc..
$4M in savings is more than enough to throw off the $200K+ a year (that's at only 5%) you are currently earning, and as long as you are conscious of cash flow, this just grows over time.
People who spend all they make are people who never had to eat Cream-O-Wheat with weevils in it, and live on Top Ramen, and Mac and Cheese, and Little Caesar's Pizza, when they were younger. Learn some freaking financial discipline. Come back and "Ask Slashdot" in another 10 years.
OK, I've taken the cake.
What can I do with it, apart from either having it or eating it?
If we need to focus, we are told to put on headphones and the rest of the devs are to respect the headphones.
This would be a great idea. If you could play "silence" through the headphones, and actually *get* silence. And no, high decibel gauge pressure from noise cancellation that's never 100% effective anyway does *NOT* count as silence.
Obviously they should have seen Einstein's desk.
Here's a pretty good picture of what it typically looked like:
If a dongle joke permanently harms the female mind, then imagine what seeing an actual dongle will do! They will need years of therapy and counseling (paid for by Obama care) to get over it.
People offended by naked people would naturally fail the job interview as "not a culture fit".
It's the same way we picked people for Hellstrom's Hive...
The internet ones all created facilities that could have conceivably been used to build a "Silk Road". And by "conceivably", I mean "conceivably at the time", as in "Silk Road is not sufficiently non-obvious that it should be granted a patent".
The two pharmaceutical companies were involved in the development of drugs which were capable of being abused (one of which was heroin), and it's not like drug abuse was unknown at the time.
If not "before the fact", then at least accessories.
In the same way that gun manufacturers have been hauled into court for facilitating murders.
An adult (yes, he _was_ over 18) who molested his pre-pubscent sisters
paid a "judge" to expunge the on-going criminal records citing those facts...
Oh, wait, those aren't the facts? Well we'll just look at the records and sort
these thigns out - oh, wait - the records are gone!
Too bad he didn't live in Europe; sending a "Right to be forgotten" email to Google is a heck of a lot cheaper.
Except that he was the creator of the organization that facilitated all these illegal activities, not just a corner drug dealer.
Well, technically, on that note, DARPA, LLBL, the IETF, his ISP, A.G. Farbin, Bayer, Sandoz, Vint Cerf, and Tim Berners Lee are all accessories before the fact...
I don't know too many drug dealers who pocket $142 million. I feel that might have something to do with the decision.
This makes me wonder. Does anyone know how much the State of California collected in sales tax on pharmacy sales last year?
Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should.
