I received my CS degree in 1984. I started my first consulting business 12 years later at 35, and founded a startup last year with a co-founder.
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That's an awfully big assumption. Was the fact that the police beat this guy and cracked his spine reported in the Baltimore Sun yesterday?
There has been no conclusion that that is the case. Those that are rioting are guilty of exactly what they accuse the police of. I believe the mayor called them "thugs".
He was able to run away from the police BEFORE they arrested him. After he was transported to the police station, he was found to be severely injured and the folks at the police station sent him immediately to the hospital.
I'm going to use logic here for a minute. There are only two possibilities for how this happened. Either it happened at the hands of the police, or another force.
Who is this other force, and how were they able to overpower the police? Did they overpower them in public? You know, like in the video we can see? Or did they forcibly stop a police vehicle, beat the man half to death and then let the police vehicle continue on. And how did this arguably criminal act go unreported and un-pursued by the police? The police typically take crimes against their own pretty seriously.
If you find the line of reasoning that some other mysterious force caused these injuries suspect, I would tend to agree with you.
It is possible to break a bone and have the injury remain somewhat stable for some time.
I do not offer that as an explanation of what happened, but simply as a third possibility, that he was already injured when taken into custody, but that the severity of the injury was not apparent.
I'm not a doctor but I doubt that your vertebra can be crushed and you can move around as normal. You'd think that a guy who had a broken neck would be trying to get to a hospital, not just hanging out.
If we're really going to stretch, it's possible that God reached into the van and snapped his neck despite the police officers doing an incredibly professional job and it's literally nobody's fault; an act of God.
Sorry, his trachea was crushed and his spinal cord was 80% severed according to his family, which presumably heard it from his doctor. I mis-typed that one.
So let me get this straight. He breaks his neck, but things are mostly OK since he's still walking around. Then he gets arrested and that's when the bones slip and paralyzes him from the neck down? Oh and somewhere in there his trachea gets crushed? Or was that crushed before hand too?
What you're suggesting is very, very implausible and so I wouldn't say that comparing it to something supernatural is all that mocking. The point is that rational people don't know everything about the world and to 100% discount the supernatural is pretty arrogant. But I think the odds that there was a two-factor injury to this guy are about the same as the odds that God snapped his neck. Can't rule it out completely (again nobody knows everything unless you're God), but probably not a good idea to argue it in court.
He was asking for his inhaler during the initial arrest (aka complaining that he was having difficulty breathing).
I don't pretend to be informed enough to say how likely it was he sustained significant injuries prior to the arrest. I guess I think it is more likely that the significant injuries came after the arrest, but given further evidence that more clearly established the nature of the injuries and indicated it happening prior, I wouldn't simply deny the possibility out of hand.
It looks like even if it did happen prior, they still hugely screwed up by not more carefully assessing his injuries (the typical thing to do if a neck injury is even suspected is to immobilize it as soon as is possible).
The manufacturers of speed cameras take a percentage, and it is a windfall for the municipality.
I live in an area where stationary speed cameras are around every corner (Montgomery Co, Maryland). I've lived here long enough to know that there's no way the county would spend money on the equipment and man power to maintain and operate that network, just to break even for the sake of safety.
Why not Detroit? The labor force is there, the costs (real estate, labor, taxes) must be considerably in favor of something of this scale, and it's in line with the automotive industry. In that Michigan is hurting from the down slide of traditional auto manufacturers, I would think it would endear Tesla to the industry, or at least the workers.
Tesla doesn't need to endear themselves to the workers; they use robots wherever possible. Detroit is home to powerful organisations (the unions) which are famous for their resistance to automation; that, if nothing else, is probably sufficient reason to steer clear of it.
As others have mentioned, Just In Time production capability. If you're in Reno, you're ~3 hours away via roads. If you're in California, you're even less time from the vehicle integration facility.
How is protesting in a residential neighborhood allowed? Did this group have a permit? Is the SF Bay area different in this regard - no permit allowed?
If you tell someone and their family that you are going to stop them from leaving their home, and there is a not unreasonable expectation of assault and or battery in that, you are going beyond the right of peaceable assembly and into the realm of false imprisonment, or kidnap.
"peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for redress of grievances". Is Levandowski in any meaningful sense the government, and if so what grievances is he in a position to redress?
Exactly. You could extrapolate this into any "The [whatever] is dead" statement that we see so often. And it's not getting any easier - e.g. are we capturing and processing less data these days? Is the data we store less valuable?
> You can't get a DBA from a college, from a technical school, or from any other form of formal education. Most DBAs these days are grown internally from developers or system administrators who decide to (or are forced to) specialize while on the job.
I can't say how much truth is in this statement. This stuff if learned organically by doing it on real world projects. It's scary at times to think that you just can't teach this stuff.
> This stuff if learned organically by doing it on real world projects. It's scary at times to think that you just can't teach this stuff.
Yup. And with the supply being so low, it's hard to get a DBA (you'll probably have to steal one from another business), so people are flocking more and more to DBaaS, and DBaaS providers are more than happy to propagate the fiction that "you don't need a DBA, you have us!".
It honestly doesn't bother me much that they make these statements; it's marketing.
On the other hand, believing those statements harm our customers; they spend time and money to migrate to these providers and find out the hard way that they still need someone who can handle their DBs for them. That does bother me.
This is great work. Anyone have any references to animating an entire SVG object by location and size at the same time? For example, slide the SVG diagonally while increasing it's size. I'm particularly interested in doing this with D3 objects.
How will they lay blame to a damaged vehicle? Car rental companies have become viciously aggressive at forcing customers to take responsibility for damage, and it falls on the last guy to drive it. I'm embroiled in a false claim with Enterprise now.
Better buy the supplemental insurance if you don't want this monkey on your back.
I think the aggressiveness depends on the particular location. In the last year I've rented cars in Richmond, BC and Honolulu, and in both locations they were super laid-back about little dings and scrapes, even one scrape that I knew damn well that I put in it while wedging myself into a tiny spot in a parking garage.
I came right out and told them about it when I returned the car, they looked at it and said "No biggie. We'll let you know if it's going to cost anything to repair." Then I spent the next four days worrying they were going to charge my credit card $300 to fix a tiny scrape, but they called me on the fourth day and said that they weren't going to charge me a cent.
If you have travel insurance and most people do be sure to check if it covers rental cars as this is often a far cheaper option and already included so no point paying for insurance twice.
Some medications or treatments are indicative of life's events. NSA may be interested in why this person of interest (because, it would definitely be a person of interest and not some random individual - snark) is suddenly taking anti-anxiety meds or having some plastic surgery.
For those that haven't read "The Overachievers", if you liked this story, give this book a read. In particular, the trials and tribulations of "AP Frank" will be of interest.
You will experience ageism, so plan on cutting your own path in either consulting, freelance development, or founding your own company. Build your network - that is where you will expand your opportunities.
Don't let anyone ever tell you that you can't have a productive software development career at any age.