Ha! Joke's on them. I type it out so it makes it look like I'm doing more work. (But in all seriousness, I normally do type it out, so it forces me to remember what I'm using better.)
This has always been the case. Book publishers can refuse to publish your manuscript, newspapers don't have to post your reply. Censorship in one form or another has always been there.
This is my fear. C# keeps adding things to appeal to a different user base. What I've seen (anecdotally) is that most C# devs don't know or don't use the new features. This pretty much means they are useless to me, because even though I can use them and understand the new features, other people can't. The new code isn't maintainable to most people beyond me. Yes, I can go and show them and train people, but really it comes down to coding the imperative/oo way is what the majority of people are used to.
I don't disagree. I am merely commenting on the idea of funds meant to keep people from starving and mapping where they would be if invested. The fast food worker down from my house is definitely not thinking about "stimulus investment strategies"
What I find interesting about this is that is shows the steep divide between financial classes. (Completely by accident mind you). If you didn't need the money and could invest it in a risky strategy which you might lose completely, you would have earned X. To those people who desperately needed the money to survive, they are afforded no such option.
C# is definitely not sexy, but it is well documented, and there is plenty of help. I don't see why more companies go this route (not just C#, but any language that fits this). Boring is good when you have a short timeframe and it has to work well with minimal fuss.
I think this is the most important comment. Most people don't realize until much later, that everything is a trade. This for that. You get an advanced degree at the cost of: higher income? free time? finding the right partner? That's what life is about. Everything has a price, and not knowing the cost is the biggest mistake.
Honestly, not really. It sucks, but from a risk management perspective, less information given out is always better. Was she fired for legit reasons? Who knows. There is no advantage to the employer to give reasons. You can't really blame anyone for trying not to be sued.
People/Politicians etc. have a long memory. If you think of it as a "treat others how you would like to be treated," eventually it will come down to a situation where Italy or some other EU nation will need assistance. In a "my people first" scenario, it's always easy to find a reason why you should not help someone else while justifying that your aid is needed by your people. By blocking the vaccine, they are setting themselves up to be retaliated against sometime in the future.
There are still a ton of legacy sites that use it. New development? Don't know, but the last 2 companies I worked for had massive systems written in JQuery.
I used to work as a programmer in this field. I'm torn, on one side the "science" behind it is based on statistics and is supposed to be validated. Your view depends largely on whether you trust the validity of psychometrics. On the other side, someone makes a test wraps some statistics around it and says it's valid and measures what it's supposed can seem a little far fetched.
I'm not an amazing presenter, but I think I'm ok. People ask me how do I approach giving a talk, etc. I tell them, "It's a performance. You are telling a story. There is emotion involved, both with you and them." People always look at me in bewilderment and never seem to get the fact that a great presentation is really not about the information. No one ever said, "You know what would take this presentation to the next level? Another product shot of Gmail."
1. You had to go through their order process, talking to someone, completing the ordering process, and then coming back to pick it up. If you live 45 minutes from the book store, that gets to be a pain.
2 You have to know the book existed. I don't think I ever really ordered a book, because for the most part, I didn't know what alternatives existed to what they offered. Amazon helped fix that. Instead of finding say one book on Python, there were a dozen on Amazon's site.
If you are in the U.S. this is absolutely the most important video you can watch. It very clearly details how the system really works, and why it is always bad to talk to the police without a lawyer present.
Note I didn't say, "Never talk to the police." You need someone with you that can understand the law and how work within the system. You never know when they might consider you part of the suspect pool. You can be helpful, just be helpful while protecting your own best interests.
Am I correct in saying that if someone can forecast approximately when that will happen, they can short the stock and make money off of the mass selloff? Essentially putting the short sellers back where they started (in a sense)?
I completely agree. Seasons 2,3,4 were great, but the first one was amazing on how it portrayed the feel of the time, the struggle, everything. They could have stopped at season 1 and I wouldn't have been disappointed.
Hopefully they can criticize the government all they want still. It's that storm the Capitol building looking to overthrow the government that is going to earn them a timeout.
It's a neat idea, but the colors seem off. For example, I search for tomato and I get #DC9385 which is a light rust color(?). Maybe this is just what I think as the color tomato should be is different. I would think a vibrant red. I know tomatoes come in different colors, but to me that is the color that immediately jumps to mind. Cool idea though.
I would agree although sometimes this is a little too much. I have seen instances where they solely focus on the skills and end up hiring jerk. Ultimately, that causes way more trouble than a weak skillset.
An interesting experience I had at a previous company was that they really put culture almost above all else. It sounds great, but in all honesty it was actually depressing and horrible after a while. It almost always came down to, "Well we don't want to hire X person, because it's not a good culture fit." The real issue was that they wanted to hire people they could hang out with / mold into their way of thinking. No new ideas, and everything pretty much stagnated. If that's what you were looking for, then it was great, but people who think like that aren't typically the ones that can hit the homerun when you need to.
When I was a manager, I had a rule that all my directs had to always be looking for new opportunities. If they find something better, I wanted them to leave. It made sure of 2 things for us: 1. We knew that anyone could leave at any moment, and we always planned accordingly. 2. We knew we had to keep people happy. If someone didn't like something, we had to change if possible or that person might leave. Conversations about having interviews and being contacted by recruiters became open, honest, and casual. There was no fear about someone might find out if you were looking, and people shared what they found out about talking to potential employers.
This is one reason I hate Scrum. Companies that (I've worked for) have really tried to implement it don't understand that sometimes you just won't be as productive. It's always, "Well you committed to it...." They can't (or don't want to) understand those miracles they want their employees to perform comes at a cost. It means those people are less productive at times while they are exploring an idea or they are just exhausted. If they just want someone to do the minimum set each sprint, that's fine, just don't expect anyone to walk on water when you need to be saved.
I used to work with a guy just like this. He slogged through crap code happily. He did his job and went home. Sadly, the first company I worked with him at fired him. "He wasn't competent, blah blah blah." He did a fine job, people just didn't like that his mentality was different than theirs. I tried to explain to them that the one person who would actually work on their horrendous software was the one they let go. Was he a superstar? No probably not, but he was good and liked his job and went home to his family at the end of the day. A lot of people don't realize a great employee comes in many forms.
I think this is the silver lining for this pandemic. Covid-19 is lethal, I'm not discounting that, but in terms of real lethality, this was a good test run to show that this approach works. (At least in my lay person's knowledge.) What really scares me are the highly lethal flu strains (I think H5N5?) The fact that we can produce a vaccine this quickly now gives me hope when we encounter a scenario like out of the movie Contagion.