It's not much more mild, and the death rate was as high as the delta peak. We still have a 9/11 worth of people dying every 2 days
It's just that 95% of the people dying now deserve it and we shouldn't hold up the rest of the country for them
70% of San Francisco is single family housing. The city increased in population far more than new housing that was constructed over the last 10-20 years. This drove up costs for a 1BR apt to $3000, so no one other thank techies and similar jobs can live comfortably.
Taxing and giving handouts is all an effort to avoid building more housing. They won't build up. They won't even allow housing to be built on empty lots or to replace derelict, unoccupied buildings.
In reality, existing homeowners who are retired or post-career don't want housing prices to go down. But they are quite happy to tax non-homeowners to pay for cockamamy schemes like this artist program.
It should also be noted that artists on average come from even more affluent backgrounds than techies.
That's why you can make a LOT of money by selling computers that are very simply and easy to use. That market is much bigger than the one that wants complicated computers with a ton of features. Most people just don't like computers, and they don't care to make computers a central part of their daily existence.
Long-time NC State women's basketball coach, Kay Yow, who battled cancer for a long time, recorded the eulogy for her own funeral:
thinks that they can be successful in the market place by appealing to nerds. Hint: nerds are few, they are cheap, and they are high maintenance. You don't make a profit by appealing to this demographic.
Instead of trumpeting flash, usb ports, and processors, you talk about something that adds value to the consumer experience?
- Don't be a know it all!
Biggest one socially dysfunctional nerds have a problem with. Just because you have perfect memory of an API doesn't mean you should start correcting people. Memorizing some shit correctly is not the same as being able to architect a system or delivery a project. The little bit of knowledge you have has very little value. An older guy may not know python but he certainly knows how to get something done.
- Don't complain
- Take initiative but learn when to ask for help. You gotta figure out the balance between giving something a good faith try and aborting wasteful activity in order to find out the proper way to do something.
- Have a sense of humor. Know one will work with you, talk well about you, give you good reviews, push your for promotion if they don't like you and can't stand to work with you.
Being pleasant to work with is more important than technical skill. Being pleasant to work with is more important than technical skill. Being pleasant to work with is more important than technical skill.
That has to be repeated.
- Hygiene. Just don't smell bad. Shave and dress up if meeting with a customer or higher up
AFAIK, there are no mature products for making sophisticated use of HTML5's new features. So, this is a natural market for Adobe to go after.
to demonstrate how the UI is laggy and the touch unresponsive?
Are there people out of college who want to be sys admins? We are tying to hire a sys admin, but we either get people who are overqualified -- they would not want to do the job for a long time -- or we get people who are under-qualified -- front desk support types you cannot design and manage a whole network.
On top of that, new grads don't usually have a lot of real world knowledge for sys admin work, though we would definitely relax this requirement for someone who is a problem solver and eager to do the job. (We haven't found this person yet, though)
Or just make them get a mac. It's cheaper than the above if your time is valuable to you.
Ok, you have half of the story. Now, how does this compare to industry? In the defense field when comparing private contractors to public employees, the cost structures and jobs are very similar. IOW, private industry isn't doing appreciably better.
Furthermore, the waste rate isn't the measure you should be using. Think about the common venture capital statistic that people use: VCs expect 9/10 companies they fund to fail, but the one that succeeds makes funding the other 9 worth it. The same concept applies to research. It would be interesting to compare private vs. public success rates, if such data existed.
HOST SYSTEM NOT RESPONDING, PROBABLY DOWN. DO YOU WANT TO WAIT? (Y/N)
