If you are a good engineer, you have something that no business person will ever have (except at the very top maybe): You are really hard to replace. Use that!
And this is the reason that Cisco and IBM can lay off thousands of engineers, so they can replace them with either contract workers or cheap oversees engineering?
Being a "good" engineer is hardly a defense anymore, which in part is what this article alludes to.
but it really rubbed me the wrong way to see him refer to layoffs as an act of courage.
Real courage would have been to retrain those fired workers for what they needed. But he much rather pull in H1B workers who really do not have the skills either, but are a whole lot cheaper.
This really does set off the BS flag.
where was the incentive for the drug company to create this drug?
Their unique (if not stellar) accomplishment will quickly bring more capital into their company which will enable them to develop other more profitable medications - perhaps using the same or similar technology behind this serum.
And it should not be forgotten that this is the kind of thing Nobel prizes are made out of.
I heard the phrase "We are making a supply chain for EPMs" near the end of the video (5:33)
What he meant was Electro-Permanent Magnets described here. Which could have been the reason why the phone had problems booting in the video.
My cornea has what the doctor says is a 'fog', an unknown disorder which makes me a very poor candidate. Sister has it as well.
...when you are using linux.
Take a name off that list, and add Dan Bricklin/ Bob Frankston, programmers of the first spreadsheet (Visicalc).
I've been trying to hire developers for multiple high-compensation positions in NYC
At an average wage of $70K for a STEM candidate (or are you offering less?), it will be impossible to find someone for your position - even an H1B candidate. Because apartments are starting at $2500/month for barely a closet space (if you can find one) in NYC. And most people want better than that. Even the people you want to drag in from overseas will need to find a place to live
You don't have a STEM problem, you have a housing problem.
I don't want a nanny state. Stop forcing it on me
We need to have the "nanny state" for those adult programmers who can't tell right from wrong and engineer there games in a deceptive and unfair way.
Sorry that it might interrupt your revenue stream, but the the games really should have a twenty for hour "refund" window, where there is an unconditional refund given to in-app purchases.
What benefit is there to allowing it?
Because he is a developer on Slashdot who likes the way things are presently done.
They know about it. It isn't a bug, it is a feature that enables profits.
The games are purposefully engineered to be faulty so that you are *required* to make an in app purchase. And with the 'one click' nature of the in app purchases, it is easy for the game to make a purchase for you - either by mistake or by design!
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
