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Thank you, I'm glad to see another comment like this. I've also started avoiding WP for similar reasons; it feels as though they've been trying to become Fox News for the left, which is not what I'm looking for in journalism. More and more it feels like discussion is being dominated by irrational actors, and news orgs pander to this for eyeballs.

Agreed, it's bullshit like this that makes it VERY clear that the law only applies to the poor and non-influential.

Do you have any sourced information that suggests what is on Wikipedia is wrong? I'd love to hear it if so.

Maybe it was just me, but I read GP as slightly tongue in cheek - I hope most testers don't actually have such an antagonistic relationship with their devs!

I agree with you completely that they're underappreciated and minimized - I've seen corporations cut their testing staff in favor of automated tests, only to find that overall number of bugs between releases rises. (note: this is not a knock on automated tests)

I've also noticed an elitist mentality, usually among junior developers (but sometimes in senior devs or management as well), that a developer can do any job or role better than anyone else with a bit of training and coding. IMO, both of these are very immature views, and extremely dismissive of the value that domain expertise and a critical, analytical set of eyes can bring.

From the Dev end of the spectrum to the QA end: thanks for everything you folks do. Shitty software destroys people's confidence in our work and solutions, and rework is expensive and bug-prone: you save us from a lot of that.

Can't upvote this enough. I've been in a very similar scenario multiple times (including being screwed by the people I work for) - remember most of these companies will not hesitate to step all over you to get the things they want. Tailor your response appropriately and keep looking for employers that see you as more than a means to an end.

Honest question - do you truly think that could happen? I've no doubt certain individuals would like it to, but would the people in power allow it?

I personally suspect at this stage, his death would turn him into a martyr and the last thing the individuals operating these illegal surveillance programs want is more attention back on what they are doing.

It also didn't help that Congress is more and more doing absolutely nothing of substance. The last 8 years have been nonstop obstructionism, and the next 4 appear to be headed the same way. (note: this is not to say I agree with overuse of executive powers, I do not.)

Absolutely, the only way to truly deal with racism, sexism, and a whole host of other -isms is education, whether through experience that teaches otherwise, or a facts-based approach that leaves little room for argument.

My problem is so much of what goes on in these public message boards is not fact-based. Alt right groups pander to people's irritations and insecurities in a million small ways. They blatantly lie about individuals or scenarios. They set up straw men, then demonize and demolish them with words like 'cuck' and 'illegal' to inflame their readers, even when the people they're discussing are not those things at all. And when they're confronted with a dissenting viewpoint, they ignore it and move to the next. It is literally impossible for rational individuals to have discussions with them.

I think part of the problem is people don't tend to internalize lessons taught by others without respect for that person, and on the internet, everyone is a stranger. I don't want this kind of speech banned because it's offensive - I want it banned because its nonsensical, it enrages people only looking for a reason to be angry, it gives a platform to people that can't even defend their views without resorting to constant insults, it's a waste of time. That's probably my lack of caffeine talking, though.

Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences, and Twitter is free to do as they like with their platform.

Juniors in particular are guilty of this, I've found - spending the last few years solving problems, they often come into the real world looking at most problems as 'simple' or 'a waste of time', and tend to be dismissive of non-programmers or domain experts. Some young people can also be surprisingly arrogant. College tends to be a very different experience from the working world.

Good on you for being patient and not letting them drag you into a place that would have humiliated them, though.

Potentially, sure - as the article mentions at present, AI isn't able to be involved in moving the arm at all. How long until it isn't? What if you could have an arm and sensors installed in your kitchen that would cook dinner for you, or wash dishes? Sounds complicated...but more than a self driving car? There's a lot of people that would (and do) pay a lot of money to have someone else prepare and clean up their meals.

From the article:

'Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno said he supports the commissioner’s decision to suspend Bigda because of the likelihood firing him would not survive a civil service appeal and the city would be ordered to rehire the cop with back pay.

" I am not happy about it. This is what was recommended," Sarno said. " It is a most severe suspension of 60 working days without pay and retraining."

Barbieri told The Republican newspaper that Bigda will be reassigned to uniform duty on a day shift when his suspension ends.'

The people in charge here do not sound happy, so I suspect his career prospects will be fairly limited going forward, but who knows for sure.

That said, I agree the focus should be on what can be changed. The primary difficulty appears to be the Civil Service Commissions - why are these organizations defending civil servants who are clearly in the wrong?

Because attacks in software are always getting better, not worse. If it's a smaller company it's a shame - many of them simply don't have the resources to dedicate to properly hardening themselves against attack, and it can destroy their company.

Places like Yahoo have no such excuse.

Don't usually do this, but seconding this response because I'd really like to emphasize it and I'd love to hear some of these answers. Why not just return the extra as lower rates in the subsequent month or refunds instead of donating?

It's a good idea, and as a random browser it'd make me happy, but people wouldn't be too thrilled if the price went up from the initial quote. Also if the initial is too high, it may scare some people off.

Tax increase = higher prices = how consumption is cut down. Unfortunately most people won't listen to appeals from the scientific community.

This is an insightful (and a little sad) comment. I was bullied growing up as well, and I used to find myself being more cruel than necessary with certain people. Luckily I recognized it and learned to stop it, but it's a fact of life that we are the sum of our experiences - even (especially?) the negative ones.

Except the government has basically made it their priority to prop up the existing housing prices as much as possible, and keep it that way. For every young person desperate for an affordable house, there is an older person that is counting on their house's current value to be able to retire.

It's a mess.

This seems far less dramatic than the thread is making it out to be.

Yeah, the rest was fairly coherent, but that one threw me as well. Life insurance tends to fall into the same category as most optional 'insurances' for me - you end up paying out considerably more then you get back.

That said, for those with children, I can understand the purchase. Overall it's very circumstantial.

The truly frustrating part to the average taxpayer is the one-sidedness of how the law develops. I have politicians telling me that TTP is vital and needs to pass, so we get strong protections for IP, more revenue for these american companies, blah blah. But when it comes to making laws to tax those same companies, well there's lots of issues, it's very complex, we need to study it for a long while.

It's very clear who lawmakers are looking out for.

Looking to get out as well, Broward/Miami area is overcrowded and pricey, not to mention poorly educated. Lucky enough to work for a company that will allow me to go remote - can anyone recommend a place on the east coast? (preferably warm climate)

Why not ask them? It's an interesting question, and I've noticed similar things with business analysts I've worked with in the past.

As someone more in the development end of things, this was an excellent summary, thank you.

Out of curiosity, what is the procedure for obtaining the stem cells? Can it be done locally, would there need to be travel to one of your locations?

Those uneducated people are also the same ones increasingly out of work in this country today. And we 'encourage' the brightest of those children from other countries to move here (yes, not exactly what happens with H1-B, but still). I tend to agree with above poster that it'd be nice if there was substantive analysis done on the current situation.

I didn't either, and don't believe I knew anyone that did (grad and undergrad CS, knew 2-3 other students who likely did not). Anecdotal data point, but there it is.

"The scandal hurt LendingClub’s ability to hold onto some of its key personnel. To retain managers and attract new ones, the company said it will need to boost pay packages.

Details of some of those arrangements were disclosed Monday: Acting CEO Scott Sanborn received a grant of restricted stock valued at $5 million and his salary was increased to $500,000. Chief Financial Officer Carrie Dolan received $3.5 million of restricted stock units and her salary was increased to $400,000. Both executives also received $500,000 cash awards that will pay out in a year."

Out of curiosity, how common is this? To me this sounds like grabbing everything you can and heading for the exits before the building burns down, but I'm not familiar with the pay range for CEOs/CFOs in their location. You don't hear anything about others in the company receiving similar packages.

This is ghoulish. I'm sorry you had to go through that, and it honestly makes me terrified of having to deal with it when my parents pass someday - my father has already had a stroke, and told me he does not want to go through it again, that he would rather be taken off life support and be allowed to pass peacefully. I can't even imagine having to watch someone I cared for starve to death in front of me.

Assuming they can't get him to settle for even less. This is another unfortunate side effect of the situation; those with jobs on offer can drive wages even lower because there's so much competition for positions.

'Well, you're correct, normally we pay 18$ an hour, but the economy...'