Comment Only if you want a job (Score 1) 630
Almost every programming job I see posted requests a CS degree. So you only need a CS degree if you want a programming job. Or, if you are a super-elite hacker god, you can probably get by without one.
Almost every programming job I see posted requests a CS degree. So you only need a CS degree if you want a programming job. Or, if you are a super-elite hacker god, you can probably get by without one.
It is sort of a joke, sort of not. I know he isn't CEO anymore but I always assumed he still had a large, probably majority stake in Bain. Is that not the case?
Oh okay. Well nobody says that so I guess we can agree there are no fanatics.
I can explain what happened.
I work for Weather Central in Madison, Wisconsin. In December we were purchased by the famously rich Rothschilds of Europe and they brought in a charismatic new superstar CEO. Seven months later, they cashed out to the tune of +$15 million, selling to our historical nemesis and competitor, Weather Services International.
WSI is owned by The Weather Channel Companies, which is an umbrella company for The Weather Channel (duh) as well as Weather Underground, which they recently bought. (TWCC is owned by NBC Universal, which is owned by Bain Capital and Blackstone Group. That means I now work for Mitt Romney.)
This consolidation is complete. Over 90% of the worldwide weather services business is now owned by TWCC, which used that considerable power to negotiate a contract with Google. The contract stipulates that TWCC (and their sub-companies) will provide data to Google, and in turn Google would eliminate its weather API, because TWCC has its own weather APIs (more than one of them now, in fact). The API at my company is cleverly named DataCloud: http://datacloud.wxc.com/?vs=0.9.
This consolidation is definitely good for TWCC, which will never again have to worry about competing in the marketplace. The monopoly will last until a disruptive technology displaces it in a couple decades, if it's anything like other stale monopolies. Unfortunately, it is definitely bad for the other 7.01 billion people on the planet, who now only have one source for weather data.
"Morman" would be an awesome superhero secret identity for Mitt Romney.
maybe you meant 'farce'?
I think Bush definitely could have gone to war without Congress. He would have suffered a bit of criticism, but he could have done it. Remember, technically he never went to war, he just deployed troops; we haven't declared war on anybody since WWII. Both of the two Bushes each tried to go to war without Congress, then Congress complained, so they took a side-trip to Congress on the way to war. That was perfunctory of them, but nobody would have stopped them if they hadn't done so. Don't you think?
I think Obama could have fought harder to close Gitmo, but it was a boondoggle. He was suddenly faced with the difficult reality of what the fuck to do with a handfull of really pissed off terrorists. You can't kill them, you can't release them, you can't try them, and nobody is willing to take them. The one option is that he could have opened a new facility, also outside of the US, and put them there. That would have been a purely symbolic move, a total waste of time and money -- but I think he should have done exactly that.
"As a matter of fact, to beat Apple, it has to work really well on Apple devices."
Seriously. Microsoft should concentrate on the "work really well" part, and then after that work on the "Apple devices" part.
Yeah. This totally counts as tyranny. That's very insightful.
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Apple sells fewer products than in the mid 90s, but it sells more product than in the mid 90s. In general, I'm like you, I like choices, which is why I'm not an Apple customer, but what you said is not at all a universal market truth.
My understanding is that the Star Wars franchise, so far, is "not profitable".
I'll let you know after they grope my private parts.
Good job focusing on two interface elements and ignoring all the others. Since the introduction of the steering wheel and foot pedals, we have
* electric start instead of cranking the engine
* the introduction of the ignition key
* shifters moving from steering column to floorboard
* turn signals instead of hand signals
* cruise control instead of pressing down the accelerator
* a bunch of buttons on the wheel for cruise control
* a bunch of buttons on the wheel for radio
* the loss of the clutch pedal in most vehicles
* the introduction of windshield wipers and mirrors and headlights
None of these are "trends for trend sake". All you've got on your list is
* steering wheels are still round
* the gas pedal is still to the right of the brake pedal
And by the way, steering wheels don't work exactly the way they used to, and neither do gas pedals
* steering wheels are smaller now, and when you turn them a machine turns the wheels instead of you turning them directly
* floor pedals sometimes move themselves, as with cruise control or emergency braking
All that said, I still don't like Gnome 3. Some change is good, some is bad. You're allowed to have an opinion on Gnome, even if your car analogy is a bad analogy.
Um, no. We don't keep investigating the claims of nincompoops and fraudsters. If the boy has cried wolf too many times in the past, then sorry, the village can't be bothered to go look for the wolf this time. If Watts wanted scientific credibility, then he should have demonstrated scientific integrity in the past. We don't have time to repeatedly debunk nonsense from the same guy over and over.
There might be a difference. The ID folks and the vaccine-autism folks almost certainly believe what they say, but it's not clear whether Watts and his ilk believe what they say. They might be pure shills. It's very hard to be sure.
No amount of careful planning will ever replace dumb luck.