Comment Re:Well, there goes *that* heroin shipment (Score 1) 941
No one expects the Aqua Buddha!
Nor the Spanish Inquisition, or some I'm told...how appropriate.
No one expects the Aqua Buddha!
Nor the Spanish Inquisition, or some I'm told...how appropriate.
FeO is Ferrous Oxide not Iron Monoxide.
More support for my push to rename Hydrogen to Stupidium or Ignoranium. It is the most abundant element after all.
Apparently the group has become self aware!
Nuke from orbit. It's the only way to be sure!
This. I'd mod informative if I could.
Slashdot moderation simply hasn't evolved to the point where you can.
No, this is the standard treatment for women in STEM. It's why most of us leave by the time we're 25.
Yeah men treat each other much better. If you are gender bashing, you are part of the problem!!!
a data monkey is suppose to land him an architecture role.
The only way to enterprise architecture that I know of is to have Ivy league diploma, then you need about 5yr of experience as an analyst while you conspire to get the current architect promoted away while making you and people in your team (but not as good as you evidently) looking good.
Where I am competition is about as cutthroat as for most other management roles. But yes, 1 architect per 30-50 devs is sufficient, so it's quite specialized. I think job security would be the biggest issue for that kind of job...it's hard to fall back to developer because you go stale, and it's hard to find another architect role if you lose your current job.
So... you're saying you've already made the switch from OLTP to OLAP and you'd like to take this opportunity to gloat about it, but you'd still like to hear from other developers what they think the prerequisites are for making such a move and what has held them back from doing all the cool stuff you're doing? Or am I missing the question?
You forgot to mention that he thinks that moving from being a code monkey to a data monkey is suppose to land him an architecture role. I would have thought his original job would see him better qualified. At best this is a step sideways but in reality it is probably a step backwards....and if he doesn't realise this it's probably just as well for all involved.
But then even slashdot's heyday ask slashdot was about clueless time wasters asking how to do their job or apply for one they weren't qualified for and had no idea about. Now that slashdot is a shadow of it's former self why would we expect the quality of these submissions to improve?
The economy is global.
If your your job function does not absolutely require your physical presence in a specific location, then your job is worth exactly what the cheapest person *in the entire world* will do it for.
Yeah do you realise how few jobs do not require a physical presence?
All that needs to happen is to keep existing regulations without continually eroding minimum standards.
Marinate on that, as the hip young kids say.
I'm pretty sure they'd be kicked out of the "hip young club" if they said that.
What we need now is three $40k jobs, not two $60k jobs. Wages aren't a problem. Employment is.
Why not ten $6k jobs. Or twenty $3k jobs?
Dragging the standard of living into the gutter is a false economy. People don't get richer. EVERYONE gets poorer.
No other solutions? Guaranteed working conditions are NOT necessary. We can have decent working conditions with much softer approaches than naked and clumsy dictation to employers. Make the environment worker friendly, so that businesses have to compete for workers. How? Well, for one, health care that is not tied to employment.
Well look there. Government regulation DOES come into it. Didn't you just dictate what an employer should or should not be responsible for providing.
Try again.
So choose from those. Personally I don't run any antivirus as I don't download random executables from the internet nor surf to random porn sites or download from torrent sites. Windows is also secure now a days, and I haven't had a single malware in like 10 years.
Speaking as someone who once almost got pwnd drive by style on a well known photography blog and another on a major news site, I can honestly say you've got rocks in your head. Either you don't use your computer much at all for anything interesting (and I'm not talking about porn or warez crap!) or you have been very lucky and are living proof that often being lucky beats being smart.
The software that prevented both attacks was free in each case. Free version of Zonealarm and Microsoft Security Essentials. It was still very disconcerting that a process had been initiated on the computer and then frozen by the respective software.
If you don't like the patent system, reform it by lobbying your government.
Thanks. I needed a laugh.
That there aren't that many women interested in science? He'd have to qualify that.
Certainly my experience. From my observation women just don't tend to get passionate about science. Sorry if that's politically incorrect but everything from science classes, science clubs to the workforce - even when there is a significant (often misguided reverse sexism) attempt to address the imbalance - I see few women who "get it" when it comes to being passionate about science. When they do get interested, I don't think they are at a particular advantage or disadvantage.
Only on price though. Android runs terribly on low end smartphones and don't even have the full feature set of a top of the line android phone. Further, they're likely to be abandonded, perpetually running an outdated version of android until you ditch it. With the iPhone, even buying last gen you're getting most of the features of the top of the line. The WP7 Samsung Flash costs
I have an Acer Liquid Metal, bought outright for $128 (including a sim card and $10 pre-paid credit). It was network locked but updating version of Android unlocked it. It is not the best phone in the world - sound quality is so so compared to "real" phone and I have had issues with the touch screen when the humidity is high. Also no front camera, rear camera quality not brilliant. Memory is also somewhat limited. BUT it has a large screen, storage is enough to run about 120 apps (after moving most to SD). It has accelerometer and magnetometer etc. So I do in fact get a lot of the features of a more expensive phone.
I could spend roughly 10x that on a latest gen iPhone but I would get very little extra for that money, and I'd be locked in to running what Apple says I can. No thanks.
Hell no! If I were making 50k a year I would feel fucking rich and be greatful to work 12 hours a day. In that environment where these poor saps would do anything to take your job to feed your kids you have to suck it up. This isn't 1999 anymore.
Congratulations, you're well on the way to becoming a citizen of the 3rd world. Someone else will be greatful to take 40k a year to work 14 hours a day. Someone else will beat them to the job as 30k to live on site and do 16hr shifts 7 days a week would be a huge step up for them. And someone else will be fine taking 20k to do that work.
This is why guaranteed working conditions are necessary. Without minimums competition doesn't drive wealth, it drives a race to the bottom. Booms are the exception, not the rule.
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion
