"We already require kids to be vaccinated before they can attend school."
No, not everywhere does anymore.
"I'm not sure why insuring them would increase or decrease their rates."
Because some people are very poor. My friend didn't get her flu shot because she couldn't afford the extra $50 this month. And that's a cheap vaccine that doesn't also require a doctor visit to go with. Some people have to worry more about today than tomorrow or they don't have food and rent money this month.
This seems silly. My company doesn't pay for food (chicago), we're right next to tons of options, but food is expensive. Most of us bring lunch from home. We live in the burbs and commute in. I don't see why workers would pay to eat out every day instead of bringing lunch. Maybe it's a SF thing that folks would be willing to waste that much money every day?
Does the author even know how reddit works? The vote numbers you see aren't real (sidebars and faq on the site itself explain this see https://www.reddit.com/wiki/faq ) and many subs don't let you downvote unless you join them. Reddit is no panacea or utopia and has plenty of issues of its own, as pointed out by many already.
They skipped paying because they didn't want a small text link that advertises for the service they just used for free? I don't buy any of their excuses. It's not like they couldn't use the service at ALL.
Since they changed the timeline to the point where it's impossible for me to see things in reverse chronological order (even if I try to tell it to), I've unfollowed EVERYTHING, set up notifications for the few family members whose posts I don't want to miss, and mostly quit using it for anything but family. I'm so tired of all the ads and marketing crap. I was missing posts I cared about and just seeing crap every day. No thanks.
It may be victim blaming, but having 3 months of work and it only exists on one hard drive on one computer isn't very bright. He learned the hard way. I mean honestly, disk drives fail. PCs break. The code should never be in only one place regardless.
Also, coming from VSS to Git has been, and still is, one of the hardest things I do as a windows dev. I hate git. It is non-intuitive and I have accidentally deleted my work before also, the difference being that I have it stored else where to get it too.
I never had any desire to use G+. No one I knew was on it, so it certainly wasn't a FB competitor, and they then tried to FORCE me on it for some google services, which is guaranteed to just piss me off about it. Nothing there I can't get better elsewhere, as far as I know, and I never cared enough to find out.
Oh, cry me a river. I put myself through school on retail. I am a programmer. If I lost this job, I'd be back to retail in a heartbeat while I worked to find a new IT job. I have a very hard time having sympathy for someone who goes on and on about how bad he has it while he's not willing to work a job that is "beneath" him. What classes are you taking? What are you doing to get more relevant? Github is free. Resources are free. Many classes are free. Get your StackOverflow on. Shit, I get offers from there frequently and all I have done is answer some questions.
Your kids are hungry because you're too good to get a job at a freaking grocery store??
Well, as a liberal, educated white chick who lives in an urban area, if I said someone was more into Duck Dynasty than SNL, it would absolutely be an insult. It would imply they are hick rednecks, and in a bad way.
I used Okta for a few days. Not a fan, especially after I had to reset my password on one of the sites I had in it, and there was no nice way to just set the new password in it.
I'll take a normal password manager with browser plugins for as long as I'm stuck using passwords.
Eh, FB becomes less relevant to me the more it shows me ads and sponsored content and crap, instead of the content from my friends and family that I actually signed up for the service to see in the first place. Eating up my mobile data with video and ads just makes me not bother to visit the site as much.
Thanks for posting that. I didn't read the article, because as soon as I clicked through, I got a notification about notifications and a banner ad. Closed the tab.
"it effectively has weeded out some people who clearly would not be able to function in their daily job"
Did it, or did it weed out people who got so nervous at being asked to perform for an audience on demand that they froze up? I have social anxiety, and while I've been super lucky to get jobs through referrals of other colleagues (who introduced me ahead of time to folks I would be interviewing with), if I had to do this in front of a bunch of strangers judging me, I'd probably appear to be very bad at my job. How I act normally with people whom I know is very different than how I act around people whom I feel are just there to judge me and decide how worthy I am.
He has a footnote that the blog post was discussed. I'm sure nothing important was revealed. Frankly, there wasn't a whole lot to the article that I haven't read elsewhere anyway. No trade secrets there. Amazon wants people who, unlike me, don't find data structures and algorithms to be boring and sleep-inducing. That's about it.
Erm, as a queer woman, I have never seen that term used that way. In my experience, it's always used to target millenials, who actually expect the world to be more fair and less idiotic, and are going to be amazingly disappointed that life sucks a lot more than they thought once they graduate.
Someone missed the point.
If we're in a simulation, there is no spoon, man. Nor a worm that needs that apple. The water isn't simulated because there is no water.
I'm a girl, and let me just say that if someone wanted to watch Friends, I'd laugh at them too. Have we considered that the show is just stupid and everyone there knew it except OP? Look, there's no accounting for taste, but if I watch something that no one else on my team watches, but they all watch something else, I would not consider that to be alienating. I also wouldn't make them change the channel. I would, however, make fun of baseball the entire time I was sitting there watching it, because I hate it, and all my co-workers will tell you how much I enjoy making fun of sports. They are never offended by this. They find it amusing. And we all get along just fine.
In my experience (which is limited because I don't job hop), the non-software company that I worked for sounded very much like you describe. I did myself a disservice by not leaving sooner. I now work for a software company and it's very different. I am much happier here, working with no offshore bullshit and having co-workers who care about learning, sharing, and our products.
I can't tell you which is "normal", but I will advise you to try to leave. Socialize and network your little heart out, because if a friend recommends a place to work, you can be more sure that it won't suck, and it will be easier to get in the door.
The fact that this sort of thing is a thing is very sad. I'm so glad I have a network and have gotten my jobs through word of mouth and in-person introductions.