You can put in any demographic information you like, but does FB follow it.

For example, your IP address is from a 'poor' neighborhood.

Or, you don't have friends with any other high class FB users.

> All CURRENT copies have been edited.

Welcome to 1984 and the memory hole.

11 from 21 showed up? Boohoo, I'd need some really long time ro feel sorry for these guys.

It's still better percentage than the percentage of _any_ kind of response I got from job applications (SoCal): 2 out of 18, one of which led to an interview process, the other was a no off the bat.The rest, nothing. Good thing I'm not in a rush.

While I agree that not notifying an interviewer about a cancellation is rude, I can also understand by the time some people land an interview, or a job, they can get frustrated.

However, there's absolutely no excuse for not going to an interview when they already payed for the travel.

" most businesses don't really need programmers to be deep thinkers"

This whole writing is a large pile of stinking bullshite. You don't need people with knowledge? There are plenty of those. You only need shallow coders for a short un-important job who'll move along after the job? Even more of those. Good luck building a company for the long term using such people.

Plenty of "programmers" and "coders" are out there with some level of lanuage knowledge, but what people like the writer above don't always realize is that they usually need people who solve problems, and the ones not being deep thinkers are seldom capable of that. The iidiotic examples about NP completeness shows how the writer is a bigger idiot that those people (s)he praises.

And the bashing of maths, arrogance, etc? It seems the writer is a disgruntled lunatic, toxic and unproductive. Someone I'd really never want to work with, ever.

"it will be automatically provisioned and patched for you by Microsoft. Maybe you'll be OK with that."

No, I won't. Lots of people won't. Thankfully I'm not required to use Windows for my development work for a long while now, so I only use Windows in VBox (mainly for Office, and for the very occasional Windows development tasks) and have switched to Linux for many years now. I have one Windows laptop at home though, but mostly because of laziness and since it can run putty quite OK :)

But back to the point, for average users who can afford the monthly/yearly fees this probably will be OK - until some automatic update bricks their "rented" OS, which will inevitably happen. Why wouldn't it, it was just yesterday that I had to help someone (a typical average user) with a bootlooping Win10 - which by the way has become completely borked after restoring a previous "working" state and I had to reinstall the whole thing. As a developer you can't afford such issues, and we would need more control, not less. While this "rented" Windows might still have a version with more control, centralizing updates and charging monthly fees will most definitely not make me want to use Windows as a main dev platform, that's for sure.

The only way I'd like to see regarding Windows is for them to make its updating process much more reliable and with the possibility of much more control (not necessarily set as default, but being available and usable), and to make it - at least the versions that would follow the current Home and Pro - completely free, with MS trying to figure out other ways to make profit (which they kind of already do, just take a look at their Azure numbers).

Yea, but in a whole lot of places these cables are at risk anyway.

Let's take sea level rise out of the equation for a minute. That saves you right? Wrong. Places like the southern US coast are dependent on re-sedimentation to maintain (and grow) above sea level. Modern water management and bathymetry practices mean that is not going to occur. Even if humans were good little stewards of CO2, the coast is still sinking, and will keep sinking as sediment compaction occurs over the next few hundred million years.

The ocean is not static. The land is not static. If we want to avoid replacing cables around the ocean due to land level/sea level changes, starting an ice age is about the only solution. An extremely stupid solution at that.

So, in the future CPU makers don't need to invent new names. We'll just identify CPUs with the name of the newest vulnerabilities they have :) it'll be much easier :)

>Like, to kill, you need a weapon.

Until I choke you with my bare hands.

Weapons just make it easier for anyone to kill anyone else. Otherwise its the strongest that get to choose who to kill.

I'm aware what sh*tstorm this may bring, but I have to say, this is your/our fault. The US has basically no data and user privacy protection laws whatsoever, companies allowed to essentially do as they see fit with the data they gather. Why some get suddenly surprised that the companies actually do what they are allowed to do? Yes, you can get enraged, but unless you actually do something, it's really your fault this has been allowed to get this far. It's been already time - and time, and time - that people learn.

>There are already people who can 'grade' old jeans, who look at thread, rivets, the label and the cut to determine a pair of jeans is authentically vintage.

Yea, but i've already replaced them with an AI vision system that does that for less.

I can't seem to understand how the US can be so behind the curve on some really important issues. One of them regarding financial/banking issues is the matter of the freaking chip&pin cards (or more the lack of proper use of them). Never ever have I seen any US store require chip&pin authentication, they always just read the chip and make you sign, which is crazy a**stupid. I thought they saw finally the light when chip cards were getting introduced - very, very, really late vs. everyone else -, but introducing such a half a**ed solution is idiotic, and nothing seems to change.

>meant that "unemployment" numbers were being fudged and misreported.

I'm pretty sure you're correct, as today a report was released showing "over-employment" by the jobs numbers, along with very low increases in wages. If real over-employment were occurring wages would inflate rather rapidly. Now we are seeing the lie behind the number of unemployment.

What, increasing the obesity rate of the population by 33% has side effects?

This is where you turned off your brain...

It doesn't matter if AI cost 1 billion dollars, because, much like processor development it is spread over how ever many millions of units you sell.

>It needs to be cheaper than Human labor to be useful because we live in a scarcity-driven world.

Yes, the materials to make robots/computers are soooooo scarce. Uh, no not really. See the thing about AI/computers is you can turn them off. Humans keep eating, shitting, and taking up climate controlled space. Over the entire cost of ownership, the retarded robot will be far cheaper than the retarted person. That's why factories are full of machines now, and the humans are disappearing from the assembly line.

>you heard me. he may be a great programmer, but he doesn't know DICK about how hard it is to make a CPU

Did you forget that Linus worked at Transmeta?