Comment Apple, meet Orange (Score 2) 298
Comparing a residential account and a business account? I don't see a story here.
Comparing a residential account and a business account? I don't see a story here.
If he makes it work, the original "respected" designer will jump in and claim all the credit.
If he doesn't, he, as the scapegoat contractor, will get all the blame.
No-win situation. Leave now.
No win? You mean OP isn't getting paid?
Assuming X10 is getting paid, that's win. If something is accomplished that can go on a resume, that's a win. If useful experience is gained or new skills learned, that's a win. Not every job can be win-win-win. But at very least, get paid. Then there is no 'no-win' situation.
My advice: act like a grown-up. They're paying you to code new features? Code new features. Paying you to fix bugs? Fix bugs. If you have the time and resources, refactor and fix existing code as you are able.
Other than that, I don't understand the question. If it were easy and everything worked as expected, they wouldn't need you. They very fact that they felt the need to bring in a developer means the code wasn't doing what they wanted it to.
Yes, I know you wanted a job where you got paid to surf the web all day. Welcome to the real world. If you consider this a no-win situation, either start your own company and code your own apps from scratch, or get in to another line of work. The situation described in the question applies to 99% of all programming positions. Again, if it worked, they wouldn't need you.
So don't freaking patronize us. There's stuff that could have been done better in terms of planning by the city and in terms of more people keeping an eye on the weather (the midday snow took everyone at our office by surprise), but it wasn't a matter of just driving better. There was literally *nothing* many of us could have done from that angle. 99% of the people I saw drove sensibly. (Well, more like self-entitled jackasses who wouldn't spit on a man if he was on fire because it might make them thirsty, the way they refused let people over or tried to skip ahead using the middle lanes, but generally safely.)
The issues with how the forecast was handled and what preparation was done before the snow have been addressed by others. What I'll add is, what could have been done once the snow started is, 1) don't send everybody out on the road at the same time! Other cities in other storms have made this same mistake. And it always causes the same issues. Once the decision is made to keep schools and offices open, not sending everyone out on to the road before the plows and salt spreaders have a chance to clear the roads is something that should have been obvious.
You close early to avoid people driving in bad weather/on bad roads. Once it's start snowing, closing everything early sends people out to drive in bad weather/on bad roads.
2) My mind literally cannot comprehend some of the reports coming out of Atlanta. 13 1/2 hours to only go 8.5 miles? We're talking about automobiles, right? Not trains on tracks?
People down south know cars have steering wheels, right? I don't want to freaking patronize anyone, but what about sitting in the car for hour, realizing traffic isn't moving, and heading back to wherever you came from? Even if traffic is twice as bad going the other direction, that's 3 hours to get off the road.
I know many people listen to podcasts and other non-live forms of entertainment, but cars in the south still have radios, don't they? At some point, doesn't the thought occur to check a traffic report? And didn't those traffic reports give an accurate assessment of the situation? And upon hearing that assessment, did the thought arise to just head back to your point of origin or just pull off where you are?
This may be a case where the experts are too close to the problem to see the simple solution.
Put the antihydrogen in a container made of antimatter, then annihilation will not be an issue.
Perhaps some sort of rigid anti-dirigible
I've only used skype a few times. What is skype fraud?
My understanding of skype is it's basically a video phone using your general purpose computer.
I read some of TFA looking for what types of fraud they are talking about, but didn't see any detail. They mention credit card fraud, but that's not a feature of skype. I mean, if some stranger knocks on your door, and when you answer, asks for your credit card number, and you give your credit card number, that's not a weakness in your door or lock, that's a weakness in you.
What I do with my landline is never answer if I don't recognize the number or name in the caller ID. Couldn't I do the same with skype, never answer if I don't know who is calling? There you go, 100% fraud prevention.
What makes a genius?
Roller skates and Acme Corp on speed dial.
Agreed. My first thought was, "If he is doing this for a new job why aren't they supplying him with a laptop so he can use it at home AND at work?" You know, like a sane company would, or at least one with a clue. If they are expecting you to do this extra work, or if you volunteered, the least they could do is supply you with a portable dev machine. Run. Run away from that company.
Because he told them he could do all this stuff. He's already committed to be an expert with
I know it's cliche to complain about Ask
The answers here are mind-numbingly trivial. You don't want your kids to access your pr0n...I mean "work stuff," that what user profiles and permissions are for. Don't want your background services (IIS, SQL, etc) to affect performance when you're not working?
1) They won't. How old is the hardware you have? Are we talking turn-of-century type old? If you need anything, it'll be RAM. And if you livelihood depends on it, you can't afford to NOT buy more RAM, no matter how poor you are.
2) Set the services to start manually and create 2 batch files--start_work and stop_work--to start and stop those services with a single command.
Of course another option is VM. But I'll assume since the OP couldn't figure out 1 and 2 above that configuring and using a VM is way above the skill level we have here.
This is not a recent addition to the AP schedule. AP CS has existed at least as far back as the mid 1980s.
As for acceptance, according the College Board, "AP is accepted by more than 3,600 colleges and universities worldwide for college credit, advanced placement, or both on the basis of successful AP Exam grades. This includes over 90 percent of four-year institutions in the United States."
Even if a school doesn't offer credit, having the course on your schedule (or having an AP test score if taken Junior year or earlier) will like help your chances for admission. (Unless there's a low score on the exam.)
Something I expected to see in this thread is a discussion of the material covered by AP CS. I suspect that is at least part of the problem.
AP CS uses Java to teach algorithms, data structures, OOP concepts, and documentation. Is the use of Java part of the issue? I realize a course like this can never be cutting edge or using the latest and greatest, but with all the other resources available, how many high school kids are excited about learning Java?
My take is this: as a high school student if you want to learn calculus, your best bet is probably the AP Calc course (unless there is a near-by university with a decent math department). If you want to learn chemistry or physics, there isn't competition for what an AP course can do for you.
But if you want to learn programming and basic CS concepts, there are a myriad of options--variety not just of course but also of language. I've seen these discussions here, on where to start with teaching or learning programming. If memory serves, Java doesn't come out of such discussions as a clear choice for young students.
How does being the owner of something entitle you to someone else being required to provide the means to destroy it?
That's what "ownership" means. You get to control it.
If you want that capability you should have thought about that before you created it.
Without question.
But the policy at Nextdoor.com is that you own your content. If in fact you can't control aspects of access or the current state (destroy or keep), than you *don't* own it.
What does that mean for your posts here? "Comments owned by the poster." Yet you can't edit or delete posts.
Seems Subby is the type who doesn't learn from mistakes. In trying to remove "owned" content from one site, you just get more content created with the same issues on a different site.
The question is tautological.
How much of my media do I store locally? If it's not local, it's not mine.
So 100%.
When I first started working in IT, back in my early software days (as a tech writer),
Apparently "early software days" means "before invention of the paragraph."
It's time to start a boycott of Slashdot. These summaries are getting too bad to ignore. Weeklong hours? Peace prize in physiology or medicine?
I might have to resosrt to doing work to pass the day.
weeklong Hour of Code
How about 'learn to tell time' before 'learn to code'? If they don't know the difference between a week and an hour, I doubt they have much to contribute in the areaof education.
But the main point is that States simply don't have any legal basis for taxing transactions that happen in another State. Period. That is a violation of our separation of powers.
1) This is not an issue separation of powers. SoP is between branches of government, not between states.
2) This case is not about taxing transaction that happen in another state. This is about who has to collect taxes and what constitutes a business presence in a state.
If I'm in state A and Amazon doesn't have a business presence in state A, then Amazon doesn't collect taxes for state A. But if Amazon has an affiliate or other partners in state A, is that enough to qualify as a business presence?
Why is it bad? Anything that even *leans* towards someone in state A having to pay taxes to, and which were legislated in, state B, is destructive to the very fabric of the states.
Yeah, but there isn't any of that in this case. The people paying taxes to state B are in state B. The question isn't even does someone/business in state A have to collect taxes for state B. The question is for a business like Amazon, what does it mean to "be" in a state.
This may be a bad decision, but your comment doesn't address why.
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