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Comment: Re:Dangerous move (Score 1) 182

by Lockejaw (#31729106) Attached to: Regulators Investigating Unpaid Internships

Seems to me that for an internship to be educational to the intern, she needs to be doing something useful.

IIRC, a SCOTUS case dealt with a trainee program run by a railroad company where prospective rail workers would essentially do simulated work, supervised by actual rail workers. SCOTUS ruled that their arrangement did not require pay, and listed the fact that it was simulated, not real, work as a necessary condition.

Comment: Re:If your working, then yea, that should be paid. (Score 1) 182

by Lockejaw (#31728828) Attached to: Regulators Investigating Unpaid Internships

The question is whether they really want to be unpaid or if unpaid work is just something they have to bend over and take in order to have a career. If the system effectively requires those new to the field to work without pay for a time, it is certainly not for the new workers' benefit, yet those defending the unpaid work keep on claiming that it is.

Comment: Re:NASA isn't good at listening (Score 1) 319

by Lockejaw (#30953646) Attached to: Panel Warns NASA On Commercial Astronaut Transport

The fact is the current Soyuz launch record without fatalities is quite definitely and literally significantly better.

Except the "current streak" metric is close to meaningless. It depends too much on when the sample is taken. Even with two agencies of equal success rates, it is very unlikely for them to have equally long success streaks at an arbitrary point in time. This is the same reason why "current uptime" is not a good metric for system stability. Run the numbers for MTTF, and then we have something to talk about.

Comment: Re:proofreading for the college graduate? (Score 1) 836

by Lockejaw (#30121008) Attached to: Are You a Blue-Collar Or White-Collar Developer?

Is learning another language really so hard for you? With a good background in CS, it shouldn't take you more than a week to be able to start producing code in a new language. If you can't keep up with the arrival of new tools, you probably missed something while you were in school.
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