Significant to have scientifically sound data, yes.

Significant to understand the problem, no. I just have to take a look outside to realize that even adjusted for muscle mass/body fat percentage would be an insignificant ripple in the data.

There's a lot of companies that shouldn't exist, or some that are artificially inflated. The demand for engineers is absurd, so companies, even the big ones, are hiring countless pseudo-engineers with little experience, no degrees (not that you can't be good without one, but it sure as hell doesn't hurt... I myself am doing fine without), or just bad.

They don't get fired because companies want every hands they can get.

When things get back to reasonable levels, those people will be without jobs. Just be better than them and you'll be fine.

Of course, in places that DONT want it, restaurants, apartment buildings, condo associations....people will STILL do it. People smoke leaning on no-smoking signs all the time.

This is why these things never work. It would be so beautiful, if it was as simple as "I own this establishment, people can do whatever within my set of rules, as long as it doesn't affect people outside". But people never, ever follow those rules (in either direction), and its very hard to do things that stay within your place (MJ smoke reaches fucking far and leaks through everything).

Thus why its so damn much more complicated. People for it will often do it ANYWHERE, accepted or not, private or public... people against it will be affected no matter where they go. Everyone's losing no matter what.

ie: I live in a condo community (a couple of buildings) on a private street (as in, a fairly long stretch of road that we have to pay to maintain, the city doesn't touch it). Hundreds of people a day go through it even though its a private area, no amount of signs or barriers stop anyone, the city/cops won't do shit about it. And because I'm in an extremely liberal area, a huge percentage of the trespasser are smoking weed as they do. And since the smell has such an insane range, the whole area constantly smell like pot.

NOT FUN.

Just get a certificate and sign the script. If you're gonna be distributing it to users who: A) aren't on a network you control (else you'd be able to change the policy via the network), and B) aren't technical enough to run the command (thus, definately not good enough to make sure your script isn't malicious), you really owe it to them to sign it.

No, its not expensive. Don't pretend it is.

Hmm? I feel there's a permanent, continual pull toward management as you gain experience, mainly because all the newbies need some guidance, and with the half-life of the industry being about 7 years (that is, by 7 years half of people in software just drop out for something else), there's very few people who can do it.

That also has the issue that GOOD senior engineers are impossibly rare: of all the ones who didn't drop, a big chunk become managers, team lead, etc. A few do both at the same time. Those are the best, but they're rarer than rare.

At every company I worked at (about 15, from tiny startups to some of the largest companies in the world), it always took a "I stay a dev/architect, and you're going to compensate me for my experience, or I quit" deal to not be given so many direct reports or products to own that I don't have time to code anymore.

The design and usability field in general is going to hell. Once upon a time, people actually sat down, did usability studies, thought about how humans deal with computers, how our eyes, ears, and hands work.

There was strong science behind some of these user interfaces, how the icons were shaped, how things were worded... It wasn't perfect mind you, but people tried.

Today, so called "usability specialists" are generally only interested in how shiny and pretty things look. It sucks.

To be fair, all of those VPN softwares are pieces of shit and barely work in a perfect setup.

The vast majority of Vista's issues came from 3 fronts:

1) Shitty hardware that never should have been sold with Vista

2) the videocard drivers (there's stats about how nearly a majority of crashes and instability issues came from early Nvidia drivers)

3) OEMs trying to quickly patch up/upgrade XP machines to Vista, but not doing it properly. For example, Dell would sell boxes with a ton of incompatible software and Vista slapped on top. That was a nightmare. ie: machines sold with versions of Nero that hosed Vista. You just had to upgrade it and things went fine, as the compatible version had been released months before. Why did the OEM bundle the old version? Who knows!

If you built your own machine, installed the OS yourself, and used video and sound drivers that actually worked (which was hard in the first few weeks/months), it worked perfectly fine. Since thats not how most people got Vista though...it just crapped out in everyone's face.

There's no such thing as air tight walls, even if you seal the joists, shoot insulting foam and sheets of loaded vinyl in between.

Some are just better built than others. And every country in the world, even Sweden, has shady inspectors. If it wasn't this, like you said, it would be sipping through the windows from downstairs. You're breathing it wether you like it or not.

The one thing you may not have as much of, is asshole neighbors.

And you think Canada's climate is nicer than Sweden? :)

I don't know about this case, but on this side of the world, it wasn't that simple.

These Uber and Lyfts didn't go and bully themselves in the taxi industry. They originally operated differently: You never needed a medallion to run a car service. -You needed a medallion to pick up people hailing you in the street.-

That is very different. What these new startups did, was use technology to remove the need to hail a cab. I could always just go and call a non-taxi car service with a phone. No one needed a medallion to pick me up after i called them.

Since hailing a cab is now obsolete, medallions are obsolete.

If your engineer needed to pay 100k to do work that isn't pre-arranged.....blah, the analogy falls apart so hard I can't even fix it.

There's filters in between. If you're in a modern and well maintained building, that's okay (you'll get the smell though, but you won't get smoke or contact highs, lol)

Unfortunately, modern and well maintained buildings aren't the norm in a large part of the world. I lived in a "super luxury" 3 years old building right on the steps of MIT for a few years and they had to make the building smoke-free because of the way the heat loop had been built (there was filters for the A/C and air in-take, but for the heat, things were connected).

The actual air that was being pushed around was filtered and purified, but weed smoke would go through the system backward when they were off.

And even if you're not talking about that, only the most well built places are completely sealed from each other. Walls often don't have sealed joists, and in warmer areas won't have insulation in between (aside for noise insulation), so air and smell will slowly go through, if strong enough.

Its also a pretty big problem in older wood properties in cities where bribing the inspector is common.

How did you think forced air central system worked in multi-hundred unit buildings? The kind that doesn't have 1 duct-less per unit (like hotels often have).

They're not the most common thing in the world, don't get me wrong, but I've seen them in Canada, in the US, France, UK, Japan and Hong Kong.

Which leads me to think you can find linked loop systems everywhere.

Its pretty common for people in those countries to complain about price differences. "With the exchange rate, this thing should be 20 pounds! but they charge 25! We're getting ripped off!", not considering the price of doing business in the area.

After you hired people to deal with local laws, local marketing practices and culture, additional taxes and all the red tape...often you don't have a choice but to charge more. Even for digital goods!

Its not too surprising though. Its all fun and games to say people can do whatever the fuck they want when you don't see any effect.

I mean, why would I care what people do with their own body in the comfort of their own home?

Oh right, their own home is linked to another via the vents and heat loop, and your kids are getting contact highs in the city park.

I don't want the laws reversed, but do expect some knee jerk reactions as users become more and more visible and the downsides actually start affecting people.

Even if they're not, it could still help in other ways.

Right now a lot of multimedia content, like music, is complete garbage. But its still "popular", because its "free".

If people end up only consuming good stuff, and ignore all the bad stuff (because now they have to pay for 100% of the content they consume), it would force the industry to actually pump out content people want to pay for.

This is true of almost everything where people can just sidestep rules. It puts a lot of noise on the signal, for those responsible to actually do what people want. ie: as long as people cheat the food stamp systems, you don't really know how much you're helping those who really need it.

Same deal here. As long as people can just pirate music, you don't know how much stuff you pump out people actually want.