Job interviews with pen and paper are hardly a selling point for me, I had one 10years ago and still dreaded it. My 2 cents are, if a company hires you to work on a computer in X environment then that's what they should test you on - or as close to it as they can.
I think their point was that, sheepherding is a more fulling activity for the dog than whatever human based exercise. i.e. the stimulation a dog gets from sheepherding outweighs the stimulation it gets from playing fetch and catch with a human.
Well, you could argue that cats keep mice away. Specially wild or semi-wild cats. Not so much relevant now a days, but rats were plague spreaders in the dark ages, this is why cats were used to keep them at bay, by having the pet in your domicile and letting it recognise that as its territory, it would protect it, end result being less mice in the house.
"The research actually demonstrated that many teens we heard from feel that using Instagram helps them when they are struggling with the kinds of hard moments and issues teenagers have always faced. In fact, in 11 of 12 areas on the slide referenced by the Journal -- including serious areas like loneliness, anxiety, sadness and eating issues -- more teenage girls who said they struggled with that issue also said Instagram made those difficult times better rather than worse."
Does this translate as "Instagram is good for kids" though?
I mean, as a kid/teenager/young-adult I'd tell you chocolate and burgers are great sustenance and that there's nothing wrong with playing video games 16hours a day sitting down, etc...
I'm genuinely curious if that research is based entirely on feedback from the target audience, if so on instinct, I disbelieve it.
To be honest you just seem to be coming up with impractical/unrealistic and idealistic counter arguments.
Does anyone really go to that much effort just so they can be offline?
Don't get me wrong, if I was going to a remote place without internet and needed to do some coding there, your suggestions make sense, even though I think there are pitfalls to that approach as then you're working off "static data/comments,etc" which might require further context or more recent context, which you'll need the Internet for.
> If you need the internet to program you're similarly useless.
This seriously depends on the complexity of the task, the software you're using, how good your memory is and how confident you're in what you write.
Let's say you're using an API of a third party solution... you need Internet.
Let's say you're using a new framework/plugin you need to read documentation for it (and yes, you can download it, but then you incur the risk of it being outdated or missing something...).
There's so many other instances where you need the Internet if you want to end up writing good code. There's also instances you don't... but yeah in the long run you do need the Internet / live documentation / ability to search for bugs, problems and troubleshoot with "latest" information available as oppose to the 10month dusty documentation PDF you got sitting on your machine.
I'm not advocating that there is not police brutality nor abusive usage of force when dealing with situations. There definitely is and is unlikely to change in the perceivable future.
It seems to me that the best course of action when being approached by law enforcement is to immediately go into SUPER compliant state and SUPER static state. Meaning, don't do any action unless told so by the law officer. Don't move around like you normally would, anything you assume to be benign might not be as far as they are concerned, be patient, let it unfold as fast and as slow as they so choose.
If their actions were wrong then courts are the route, but LATER, once you are out of the predicament.