According to that 2008 source (which appears to be pro-railroad) freight rail is up to four times more fuel-efficient per ton of freight delivered than freight trucking.
Adblock does not allow you to dodge the paywall, from personal experience.
There is an easy way to escape the paywall: After a new page opens, wait for the text to load, then after the text is loaded but the rest of the site's infrastructure is still loading, hit Escape to stop loading. Whatever code is responsible for summoning the paywall GUI never finishes loading.
This solution does not work well when trying to open multiple NYT tabs, however.
What a great article! I have similar ideas to those thinkers (Brain and Ford), but I've been inspired mostly by reading way too much science fiction! Feels great to learn I'm not just simply crazy.
Where do you find the 'personalized information' about hiring managers etc? You mention it's important to customize your approach, but don't give any hints about where we're supposed to get that kind of information. Or do employees at the companies you deal with put the entirety of their company's structure into Linkedin or something?
This is done by paying very careful attention to the person who is interviewing you.
Are they very formal? Friendly? Upbeat? Precise?
For example, if they're wearing a suit and tie in an extremely hot summer, and they're very well groomed and are they asking direct questions about your background with narrow eyes and folded arms, this gives me a tremendous amount of information about the kind of person they are, where their concerns may lie, and how to provide the kind of answers in a format they'll prefer and appreciate.
By training yourself to be aware of the person on the other side of the table, it's remarkable the detail and level of personalised information you can pick up. Of course, this is a skill and takes time to develop.
Ha! But that depends on getting an interview! The article says that the shotgun method doesn't work and that the solution is to personalize your messages. You can't personalize based on the interview that you don't have because you didn't personalize!
Article: "If the job seeker doesn’t take time to understand the company, and personalise their written and spoken message to the hiring manager at that company, it’s easy to see why the business might pass them over for candidates that offer more personalized communication."
Under "How do I personalise my message?", theres an example of customising your message on the fly in the interview.
In regards to actually applying for the job, there are 5 examples of customising your message to apply for the job.
The way I define the shotgun method, and why it's a flawed method, is that it's a simple process of copying and pasting your resume and cover letter with only the briefest of changes in the company name and the hiring manager's name (and sometimes people even forget to change these) - without any understanding or interest in the business itself, and the problems that it's trying to solve, both in general and with hiring you.
Netscape's death throes began in 1998. The 90s tech bubble finally collapsed in early 2000.
Assuming this year marks the beginning of Facebook's death throes and extrapolating from recent history: Until 2013, let the (tech startup) good times roll!
From my defense software experience with Ada 83 and Ada 95, Ada's concurrency features made it much easier to work with than C. Tasks/processes were a top-level feature of the language, like classes in Java, and the "protected" keyword functioned somewhat like "synchronized" in Java (an implementation of the monitor pattern).
Our compiler package also came with an extensive concurrency API that offered a variety of threadsafe containers comparable (again) to java.concurrent - and this was software from the late 80s/early 90s!
What was bad about Ada was Ada 95. It strove to make Ada into an object-oriented language, but did a poor job of it with some very tortured syntax. edit what Masklinn said - "bolted on" is a perfect way to put it.
Graded homeworks might be used as checkpoints verifying that students are learning key concepts, prior to the exams that are a larger component of the grade. Without these graded checkpoints, lazy students given only voluntary homeworks might reach the exam with little preparation
(lazy student speaking from personal experience. being graded on the homework 'encouraged' learning the concepts!)
lazy students given only voluntary homeworks might reach the exam with little preparation
And that is bad, why exactly? You're unprepared, you fail, you learn a lesson, you retake. Repeat until done. I too was a lazy student and found that failing a few classes and having to resit the exam was a fine way to motivate you to study.
According to that 2008 source (which appears to be pro-railroad) freight rail is up to four times more fuel-efficient per ton of freight delivered than freight trucking.