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Cook saved Job's Apple? Hardly. Every aspect of today's iPhone violates what Job's stood for. Craig Federighi began his tenure by advertising 200 new features for the new version of iOS. Shortly later he did the same for the Mac. Feature bloat has been Federighi's prime focus. My iPhone is so packed with irrelevancies that is hard to use.

Maybe this new title is what is needed.

It's not clear to me if what I wrote is wrong. How should I re-write it?

Just look at the faces of these two men. Make your own judgement about their mental state.

I recently received a battered package similar in appearance to the one shown. According to the USPO clerk packages such as mine once battered accidentally are opened by USPO personal to inspect for damage to the contents and then taped back together. I can imagine shipping labels getting exchanged accidentally in such a situation.

As one grows older, one is responsible for building one's own motivation. This is relatively easy to do.

To build motivation I spend time actually day-dreaming about success. I am trying to get an emotional involvement with an exact vision of what success would be like. I want to emotionally experience success and develop a yearning for it.

That is what I need to get started on a project. Once I'm started, I find that it is often easy to get so involved in what I'm doing that it becomes hard to stop. Remember those all-nighters when you just couldn't bare to stop. You were in the grove. You were hot!

That's it. Get emotionally involved with success and get in the grove to get it done.

I politely suggest that the point of politics is to get elected or re-elected. Politicians don't try to convince others. They use talking points known to be already favored by voters.

It's leaders you are thinking of. JFK, Bernie Sanders, and AOL are some of the very few that come to mind.

In 1968 all we had was McCracken's short book on FORTRAN and a large number of utterly inpenetrable IBM manuals. When IBM finally came out with "FORTRAN Programmers Guide", it was revolutionary. Asking other programmers was very useful.

None of this is useful for you other than discussing things with fellow programmers.

Apple started with UNIX and built on that.

The information on this site is so dense it is nearly impossible to get a clear picture of what is being said. Human beings do not write like this. Human beings do not read things like this. I'd like to give you advice on revising this, but you folks yourselves don't know what you want to say.

You want to create a high tech service company for organizations with practical projects. You need to find a CEO with practical grounding in one or more of these fields. He should be a superb communicator and a demanding leader. Only such a person can develop a vision and a practical plan for you. You are so remote from the practical world that you can't do this yourselves.

By the way sounds like you folks have got one hot technology!

P.S. Don't let a computer write your marketing literature again. It's fatal.

It has long been the policy than no one at the USGS is allowed to publish anything until it has been vetted. It don't know of it ever being a problem there, but under Trump, it is deeply worrying.

Someone with access ought to tell these researchers of the massive improvement lightly cooked steel-cut oats have on bowel movements compared to any other form of oats. In my experience any form of processed oats (either steel-cut or rolled) has only a minor effect compared to lightly cooked steel-cut oats. Commercial cooking is doing something to the effectiveness of oat fiber.

Then don't sound like one.

I gave up this year when I learned that I have a fatal disorder. There isn't enough time left to get rich. I don't recommend slacking off because you have plenty of time yet. Once your number comes up, it's too late.

My writing technique looks somewhat like vibe programming (that is if I understand what vibe programming is). Basically, I force myself to put down on paper the idea that is motivating me to write. It does not matter if there are major problems with the idea. I force myself to get it down on paper. Then I make it right by review and edit again and again, and again. I have probably re-read and edited this paragraph a dozen times already.

Works for me.

When I was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease, they started giving me dopamine supplements (carbidopa-levodopa). Now, all of a sudden, I'm getting things done after spending most of my life vegetating lacking the motivation to do more than get by. I insist that it is not the disease that has motivated me. Remarkable improvements in lifestyles are known when folks are given carbidopa-levodopa. Were there relic Puritanical values that led society to keep this away from me or just lack of understanding? I don't know, but it does seem a pity as I can't do anything about it now. Others might consider this as a strategy to improve their lifestyle. For those with ADHD like myself who never got much from Ritalin, this might be especially worth considering.

It is not completely clear whether US Citizens who "preach hate for America" are to be deported. One assumes that would not be the case, but once this is established for anyone, progressively enlarging scope is much easier.

The idea of a government agency denying services based on social media comments is strikingly evocative of China's use of social reputation scores in denying government services. In China the intent is to force conformity to government standards of behavior. I do not doubt that things will move that way in the U.S.

If you are going to use gray fonts, I won't even try to read it. Using gray fonts is thoughtless leaving me no reason to read your work.

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It is important to realize that the greatest effect and harm of a major disaster is often the result, not of the shaking, but rather in the social unrest that results from a government's inability to cope with the disaster. Given Myanmar's problematic government, that may be the case here. If you want examples, consider the Managua earthquake that led to the overthrow of Somoza or the 1976 Tangshan earthquake which contributed to the cultural turmoil accompanying the death of Mao that led to the end of the Cultural Revolution.

Your comment is a personal attack. It adds nothing else to the discussion. We don't do that sort of thing here.

If it had been two Asian girls, it would not have invoked the image of non-Asian people lacking respect for Asians. This image encourages hostility and even bigotry among Asians.

Schadenfreude does not require both parties to be different in some meaningful way. The poster confuses schadenfreude with cultural bigotry in which schadenfreude may play a non-essential roll.

“The ride is over. When mediocrity, excuses, and bullshit take root, they take over.”

That's actually move profound than may seem. I recorded in my notes of important ideas.

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Self respect Strength of will Self reliance Integrity Decency Respect for competence and hard work

And... so it starts. Trouble ahead.

I'm sympathetic to what you are saying, but you should include the increase in the number of things a programmer needs to know and to consider today. I've been programming for 57 years. There is a huge amount to know and the tasks are huge compared to what I knew and did back in 1968.

Over that time I grew as a programmer as the work became more difficult. I couldn't keep up with the technology. In spite of my attempts to keep up, it seemed that every few years I had to further limit the scope of my work in order to cope. Judging by my experience, today competent programmers will fall further and further behind with what they know becoming more obsolete while they restrict their scope so they can learn the new work on the job. Young programmers won't need to know much of what today's competent programmers know. At the same time the increasing complexity of their assignments will require them to go deeper into new matters, and they in turn will become overwhelmed. And so on it will go.

On the other hand, perhaps I don't know what I'm talking about. : )

Depends: If you make unexplained objective observations about a topic, and then set out to develop a rational explanation for them, then I would say yes.

I may be way off base as I have been out of the job market for 20 years, and you may already be way ahead of me. But, you could try this:

Use your employed college friends as a way to get around the recruiters and HR. Locate them (particularly those who graduated a year early) and discuss how you might offer something to their employer or who else might hire you.

Good luck!