> Reddy said, though, that in some cases, students who transferred out from the University of Farmington after realizing they didn't have classes on-site, were still arrested.
Same here. I paid roughly $5k/year for undergrad and about $10k/year for grad. After graduation, only reason people ask me where I went to school was to see where it ranked in college sports. Since my school barely registered, it's easily dismissed. Even better for me since I don't follow sports.
What I did find more interesting is that it all depends on your work ethic and how you carry yourself at the workplace. My lack of interest in sports has hindered me at work slightly because I'm not part of certain groups at work. I've come to find out that they all participate in fantasy sports and meet on Saturdays to talk sports and a little bit of work gets involved. Usually I wouldn't care but some important work-related decisions have come out of that.
Oh my god this. It's cancer. I had to learn all thse obscure facts about things I care about just to have a baseline credibility with those types of people.
It's a hazing ritual similar to data structures and algorithms, but one is certainly more useful than the other.
Many of the problems that the median software developer is working on can be acceptably solved with o(n^2) ideas which are the types of implementations that the median developer can reasonably think of "on the spot" with little prior training. Or the job is HTML CSS and basic js.
However many interviews demand many rounds of demonstrating o(logn) ideas quickly, which I would argue takes x months of preparation, not x weeks or x days.
I think its still very important to learn these structures, but the way they are applied in brain teaser format is not effective at finding the best all around candidate in terms of salary, general skills, sociability, iterative ability, etc.
And that's just taking the process at face value. Some interviewers will take this exercise to its extreme as a reason to deny you and make themselves feel good by giving you genuinely obscure and difficult problems that even Linus Torvalds and Guido admit they can't solve today in a reasonable time frame.
My phone never leaves my sight. I don't do mobile banking of any kind. I can sign out/remotely wipe the device via the web. It would be nice to remotely turn ON the GPS to find my phone but Android has since removed the remote GPS ON feature.
If only I can find a smartphone for talk/text/web/GPS, I'd be switch in a heartbeat. I'm seriously getting sick of the all the security features that tend to bloat the device and slow it to a crawl.
That being said, if my phone was vulnerable to theft or I wasn't so careful, I would lock my screen.
The tax cut cost the government $1.5 trillion, but provided that same $1.5 trillion directly to the taxpayers. It was a pure transfer, not a cost in the sense that we're talking about here, which involves the consumption of natural resources and human labor, for which the dollars are merely a numerical representation. A better comparison would be the cost of some boondoggle defense program, or the prison system, or unemployment.
Energy companies see rooftop solar as competition. Their primary motivation is profit. I do not doubt that they will all eventually go 100% renewable, it's just a matter of ensuring that they lock in their profits. Another issue is the amount they can charge customers. The utilities are also charging for maintenance of the power lines. With rooftop solar, that fee is lost unless the home owner pays the monthly fee to tie their system to the grid.
Coincidentally, I got bit by this on a family computer over this weekend (had to reinstall). I went around enabling the backup via the registry on all of them.
Not really, but unless you are actually using the tuner for something you can get a monitor or commercial display, which is basically a dumb TV minus a TV tuner.
They typically cost more than smart TVs, but if you see them as more valuable because of avoiding unwanted functions, that's perfectly expected.
