Comment Re:Hmmm ... (Score 1) 452
/Oblg.George Shaw quote
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world:
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
/Oblg.George Shaw quote
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world:
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
Most flunk on basic questions like "describe any sorting mechanism" (someone hands you 1000 sheets of paper, each with a page number out of order, walk me through the process you will use to sort them).
If you're writing your own sort algorithms, and you aren't hacking on the standard library of your language, you're probably doing it wrong.
Many of the VC-backed "startups" in the Bay Area are openly proud of their death-march style 60hr work weeks.
The kind where you choose who gets a degree by the brains of the student, not the wallet of their parents.
How unamerican.
Yup. I've been writing software for a decade, and I am ready to get the hell out. I've never even met anyone who earned enough money by writing code to afford decent property in California. Worse, salaryman programmers are treated like beasts of burden, while the VCs are trying to kill off independent consultants as a form of life.
Amusing anecdote: In college I worked as a home computer salescreature at $LOCAL_BIGBOX_CHAIN. We sales staff quickly learned on the job - there was no training in this, or in anything else - to love it when couples came in to buy a computer. Invariably, one partner knew more about the actual tech, and one was more emotional about the purchase.
Our habit as salescreatures was always initially to target the female member of a couple for the "sales talk". This worked >90% of the time, because usually the women were the emotional buyers. But now and then we would run into a couple where the female partner had the tech knowledge. Being good capitalist running dog lackeys, we would immediately turn our sales attentions to the male. For better or worse, the pursuit of filthy lucre follows stereotypes in as much as they are useful predictors of behavior, but little farther.
I think the issue is that it is socially acceptable for men to be assholes but society finds it abhorrent when women are assholes.
WTF planet are you living on?
Iirc, taxi drivers and overnight convenience store clerks have more dangerous jobs than cops. In fairness, cabbies are pretty aggressive. But the overnight clerks are generally super chill, despite being in an objectively dangerous job. So while the danger of police work may play some role in their confrontational behavior, clearly there are other factors at work too.
Its so shockingly one sided it calls into doubt the legitimacy of the court system.
FTFY
Petty harassment is still harassment.
Police don't seem to notice the bizarre circularity of the "arrested for resisting arrest" logic
Cops are mostly dumb, I don't expect them to have any grasp of logic. Problem is, the kangaroo kourts are packed full o' smart-but-evil lawyers and officials who know this kind of logic is irrational, but still think it's an a-okay pretext to destroy the lives of commoners.
...it can't even give efficient driving directions for light traffic in the suburbs. In the city with real traffic it almost always gives "bad" (worse than you'd get from knowing the streets) directions.
Similar also when Google was mostly blocked, allowing Baidu to fill up the void.
Even at its best, before it closed google.cn and started redirecting people to google.com.hk, Google only had half the number of users as Baidu in China. It never had the dominance we're used to in the USA and most of Europe, and it's not certain that it would have come to dominate in China anyway, considering the stable dominance of other search engines in other large countries. Your statement made it sound like Baidu only caught on once google was out of the picture.
Stellar rays prove fibbing never pays. Embezzlement is another matter.
