Fifer82

Thank you for this!

They have almost no staff, what is more, even if they have 10000 male staff only, that is up to them. If you don't like it, start your own company and concentrate on your own business filling your own sense of political correctness.

Thanks for the advice lads.

I also have 10 years experience but I am in the same job because I can't defeat recruitment agencies. If today a new Framework, let's call it "Framework9" is announced, all jobs will instantly want 3 years experience, and 4-5 years experience of all other known frameworks, preferably in all languages, and preferably a designer who is a master of photoshop and CSS, with a long history of blah blah blah blah

I am really starting to wonder what other careers are possible as this kind of sucks. I am especially bad at bullshitting so I don't really get anywhere.

I seen an article on the ring pulls on top of coke cans. They are hollow because it has a huge impact on raw materials usage (over the course of 10 million cans). I think every gram counts to the bottom line of the share holders no matter how mundane. Similar to the UK Construction Industry. Hit the minimum possible legal requirement and charge the maximum amount of money.

A much more succinct way of making the point. Thank you.

That is only you, I can't use that information. Like you might be taking into consideration "Special effects were 3 on their own". Whereas my Mum would never even consider that as a thing which influences the rating.

Yes, the whole thing is meaningless but atleast views offer some glimpse. I would have given Barb Wire 6/5 as I was a teenager with a crush on Pamela. How can that relate to a rating of a film that you could use?

> The stars are not about "enjoyment" factor, they are about perceived quality

I ignore ratings because of that. They don't mean anything and I am guilty.

On Good Reads, I have given what is deemed as a trashy piece of writing 5 stars. At the same time, I have given Dune 1 star because the story was garbage.

So what is this 5 star rating? Some people say it is the experience, some say it is the writing style, others say it is the story telling, or the plot.

Lets also face it, when it comes to films, the news papers have their own agendas and personal commitments to other agencies. My film could be absolutely garbage, but since I dined with the Editor a few times, It gets 4/5 stars and then, it gets 4/5 stars because the rest of the population is told how to feel.

I would even say that this whole system of rating based on Stars or Likes can simply be removed. If a film is good, you will know about it. If a film has been watched 1000000 times more this weekend than another, base it on that if anything.

We really have put some drunken thought into it over the years! A collection of random electronics spanned over generations would cause some wrinkled brows for sure.

Hey by the way, you know Andrew Carnegie? Your Hall, and Universities, and public libraries? He was a very rich man back in the day, Rockerfeller would send him cardboard vests as an insult to his meagre past as a gift, and Andrew would send back bottles of whiskey to equal the insult (he was T-Total). He purchased "The Glen", an area of Land to be used by the public and gifted to his home town.

As a child, my friend and I used to hang around there all the time, we followed "The Burn" which is just a small stream really which is many hundreds of miles long. However we followed it for a long long time, and in the way of the stream, there is a cave, you need to go underground to get to it, and when you get there you need to enter a small collapsed column of stone, and then go back up.

In there is a cave and if you crawl through, you end up going back down again to end up in a cave which is very much like this image. At the front of the cave is a stone Altar and what appears to be a V shape carving that would hold a small book. There are carvings in the walls to hold what I guess are candles.

Anyway, it is our secret, and to this day, based on our observations over time, our intended collapse of the entrance remains in place, and even the outer rocks have caved in beside it.

I know that what my friend I found is of huge historic significance to the local area, almost certainly related to the St Margaret era and yet, knowing something is there like that, and knowing no one else knows is amazing.

I personally keep a 4x doze of Heroin accessible should life ever be grim, or should I ever be a burden, and that is where I plan to go to take the last train west. By the time someone else finds this, the skeleton will baffle them. (I might collapse hugging the altar just to fuck with them a while, o appear on a "Creepy" subreddit well into the future)

You might be surprised at what this says about yourself.

This attitude is why Game Development is such a terrible career. You get pennies for doing a difficult job under the guise of "yay fun" as though it is not a multi billion dollar business. You will be hard pressed to find a bigger mug than a mid level game developer. I remember working on the physics of Resistance at Sony for the PS3, and I was picking up 34 bags a year. Pretty much every other programming role I have had since is not only magnitudes easier, but pays way way more. It makes no sense to me at all.

I am too poor to access a rift or htc, the PSVR seems like it would soil my experience. Like those 720 HD ready TVs.

How do HN people feel about VR?

My colleague put it less cordially.

".... at least if they use flow, they are bagging up their shite which is better than a open field of the stuff".

I love you Microsoft!

Yet public it is.

I don't have a problem with it. The only reason you are getting negative comments is that there will be a few HN members biting their nails.

This is great! Moving back from England to Scotland after uni 10 years ago was literally the worst choice of my life for a programming career. Plenty of Senior jobs for a Graduate wage.

This question has been around since I connected to the internet. The response has always been to use a reasonably decent OS.

You have to care to be ashamed.

At the end of the day. American citizens will be the judge. With a booming demographic, you are watching the train pass, soon, you will be on, and then drive that train. Don't fight age, or fear. One day, someone reading this on HackerNews will take control. Our parents sent us to University, but, good lucking fooling them.

Is there a word for when a mass movement rejects a service because of hype, and then comes crawling back looking like a fool later? That is what is happening here. Kind of cringe.

I wonder if there is a name for this rage. I did what you did but I did it twice in a row and one of them was an ad that crashed safari. If someone had teleported me into the dev's office during that 10 second period, it would have been an absolute slaughter house.

Is it really just an array of 18650s? Seems primitive??

If I want to help my Country, I need to go out, get blasted on ale, and then take out a credit card on the way home, preferably a loan. This would be the only thing that I could do to improve my countries economy and apparently, our Economy is in good shape (just ignore health, social care, pensions, energy, transport, education, ai and the aging demographic and viola).

What you just said, and what I just said, should be switched around and I think the primary reason why that isn't the case is because Credit Agencies now come with a "Public Bailout" parameter.

The entire system is just made up to suit those with the golden pens. Reality is long gone.

In 1999 with a BTCellnet brick and WAP, I agree, but at no point in the almost 20 years since then, has it been as slow as dial up in any country I have visited. Maybe I am just lucky but it seems far fetched.

So I will ask my boss on Monday if he minds that we revisit all our projects, and refactor for the 0.01% of hipsters?

I don't see the problem. It isn't 1996 and I don't care about people who turn JS off. This tiny percentage of people, are dwarfed by IE9 users, which, I don't support either.

What is the moral of the story?

I agree with what you say. I also KNOW that coding bootcamp works for the people running the bootcamp and no one else. If you go, you literally piss your money into the pocket of someone else, and leave with nothing of value. Amazing, depending on what side of the fence you reside.