Geez. Nuke'em from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
In a more serious note, any biologist here knows if varying the type of hand sanitizer (e.g. alcohol this week, benzalconium chloride next, then something else, repeat...) would alleviate the problem?
Having a diverse skin micro-biome and healthy immune system that maintains it might alleviate the problem. Only a tiny percentage of bacteria are pathogenic, >95 percent of the bacteria are neutral or symbiotic (and they do compete with pathogenic bacteria).
Source:
* recent skin micro-biome review in the Nature magazine;
Strangely enough, it might be applicable to hospitals. What you want in a hospital is an environment without pathogenic bacteria.
There are different ways to achieve it. It seems that the research like (1) points toward that bacteria establishes themselves very fast in a hospital, the environment is dynamically changing and is affected by hospital staff and patients. There is definitely competition present between MRSA and non-pathogenic bacteria.
Use of hands sanitizers creates environmental pressures on the bacteria. Both pathogenic and non-pathogenic (2). Hopefully this pressure is still beneficial. That is, it does diminish the rate of infections.
But one can easily imagine a situation where a MRSA bacteria resistant to a non-alcoholic hand sanitizer could benefit from absence of non-resistant (and non-pathogenic) bacteria. And in that case, use of such hand sanitizers would be shaping the environment in a bad way. MRSA will be catching a ride in the absence of non-pathogenic competition. In that particular case, relying on the immune systems of hospital staff to shape the bacterial micro-biome on their hands (and as a result in the hospital - see (1)) might be better, compared to the use of such hand sanitizer.
And when I see a comment like yours, which just states one person's opinion -- no facts, nothing new -- I wonder, "why did this person waste his time commenting?" Did you think people would read your comment and decide, if marcowhatever likes Windows 10, then I guess my opinion is wrong?
Search anything related to Metro vs Aero or Win 7 UI vs Win 10 and it's almost all complaints about the dull, monotone, flat look of Win 10 (a failed unification with the no-longer-existing Windows Phone), or journalists who need to toe the MSFT party line in order to continue to get access to future stories.
He could say the given the limitations on the hardware, that writing the software was something that required a level of technical prowess hardly found in your smartwatch. If we define brilliance as the ability to make every cycle count, every memory location count.
Then, I'd agree, that indeed it was an art form.
But given the same engineers, with the amount of processing power of a budget scientific calculator today, they would achieve the same results, with faster processing speed, more redundancy, an infinitely better user interface, more safety and in less time with less people.
3, 2, 1 for celebrities accessing this treatments through Hollywood doctors, and then the spawning of a thriving cottage industry of shady tree doctors to satisfy the demand from their social media followers.
I am over 40 right now, and, frankly, I don't see too much of this problem right now.
As you get older, you need to understand that you need to adapt. It's easier to get in the trap of thinking that the old ways are better (and sometimes, indeed they are), but it doesn't matter. You have to go with the flow.
Another important thing is that you shouldn't get too attached to technologies. Move with the times, be aggressive with learning.
Appreciate new languages, new paradigms. Yes, it sucks when you spent hours honing your skills with Hadoop and then one day you find out that all the cool kids are doing spark. But, the thing is, the people that are doing spark now are the people that were doing Hadoop yesterday, some of them even older than you. It was you that got in the comfort zone and didn't see that the field was evolving.
While you were satisfied doing Hadoop, some people were thinking of how the job could be done in a different way.
And I am not telling here that you should be doing open source, but you should have kept yourself on the loop.
It is not unfair, and it's not unique to our profession. there was a time where lobotomy was the hot thing on psychiatry, people probably spent hours honing their skills on it, and then, someday, science evolved and we figured out that those skills were not only useless but also dangerous. Maybe this happens way faster in our profession, but also it is a lot easier for us to keep ourselves current on the state of the art than for a surgeon.
I’m 45 and I share your experience - no age discrimination.
But, I did hear my manager (50+), who is very technical and often gets so sick of the process to get things done, he will pull up an IDE and do a POC himself, bemoan the fact that older developers are good for backend development and architecture but not as good at modern front end development.
I’m not taking any chances. I’m moving more into cloud architecture but hopefully I can stay more in the professional services/development/consulting than the Visio creating/Project Management/Solutions Architect role.
But, I’m definitely not spending the energy keeping up with the latest $cool_kids front end stack.
Funnily enough, I love React. Maybe because I am old enough to have worked with Borland's Delphi in the past.
The feeling I have is that React and UI frameworks put programmers with no design background back in the User Interface game. Because, for the love of God, I hate CSS with a passion.
I enjoy doing side projects not only for the money, but also because of the good feeling of owning the whole stack of the product.
I know everyone has different priorities and lives, but I have a strict rule against side projects. Between spending time with my family and friends, exercise, keeping up with technology, etc. I don’t have time. If I can’t keep abreast of technology at work, it’s time to change jobs. I will stay late and work on side low priority work related projects to learn new to me technologies.
Also, I purposefully work for small companies that are in alignment with the technologies I want to learn or be in. Another benefit to working for small companies after you have the reputation, you can really make a lot of choices when it comes to the how and you get to do as much of the stack as you want.
It doesn't involve the mouse at all.
press windows key.
start menu opens, search field is focused automatically.
start typing, windows start doing an incremental search, heavily biased towards your most used programs in the list ordering, press enter if your choice is first on the list, or navigate with directional keys on the program.
Your method only works if the program you want is on the PATH, and if you type the full name of the executable.
As a remote worker, I fear the hype. I am glad that remote work is becoming more and more acceptable and normal, but I think that we run the risk of it becoming a new fad, start being adopted in a rush, in a cargo cult fashion, and that the inevitable failures would lead to a backlash against it.
I would hate to see remote work become another agile.
Exactly. That's what happened in the WWII. This nice tesla factory? Well, we need some nice silent patrol vehicles mr Musk, but we need you to come out with some kind of composite armor for it in 60 days. If you can't do it, don't worry, we will take care of your factory for the duration, and when this is over you can have it again.
