Facts are not discriminatory, but Damore is. He makes it clear that if he sees someone that he would consider a diversity hire, then he would think they aren't as good. Damore complains about:
Hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for “diversity” candidates by decreasing the false negative rate"
You get a lack of diversity when people who do not look like what the hiring manager envisions are not even considered for the job even when they may be better qualified. A real-life example being female musicians for the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.
This stuff is pervasive, it's toxic to a workplace, and a female engineer like me has seen it all a thousand times. So many guys refuse to believe that I even know the difference between a flathead and a Phillips screwdriver, or that I know my way around a computer, or that, shock horror, I might actually know a thing or two about my field of expertise.
... To too many women, sexism just means "anything I don't like".
I don't like being groped.
I don't like people assuming credit for my work.
I don't like having pornography shoved in my face.
I don't like the automatic assumption that I'm not an engineer.
It may not be obvious from the AC comment above, but Shakey was a SV robot, developed at the Artificial Intelligence Centre at SRI International (then Stanford Research Institute).
No, that was not "ad hominem" argumentation, which is attacking the speaker instead of the argument. The argument was clearly centred on the misuse of data. The cursing was extra to the argument, an expression of exasperation. Quite justified in my view. Do you really prefer rubbish dressed up in nice words?
Hognoxious is right, for Germany and Austria to be considered the same, you would need to go back to the Nazi annexation of Austria.
I don't understand your argument - it seems to me Americans mix up Austrlans and Germans, but it is ludicrous to think the two countries mix themselves up. It is true that Europeans do relocate for work or political/social reasons, but this is not limited to Austria and Germany
Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria (not Germany)
Beethoven was born in Germany, but lived most of his adult life in Austria (Vienna being the place to be for musicians at the time)
It's not just between Austria and Germany:
Maria Antonia was born in Austria, but is remembered as a French queen (Marie Antoinette)
Maria Skodowska was born in Poland, but is remembered as French, where she married Pierre Curie and spent most of her working life. We don't therefore conclude that the Polish, Austrians and French mix themselves up.
Why stop at people moving within Europe? Quite a few people went from Germany to the USA. For example, there is a rather famous rocket engineer, Wernher von Braun. And then there was that scientist, what was his name? Albert something? We don't therefore conclude that Americans and Germans mix themselves up....
I guess we all have different experiences. At 50+ myself, I'll use VBA when I have to, but most of the time you will see me code in Python, or R if that's the better fit. The people in my circles have been dabbling with Python since version 1.0. As for web-scraping data: I didn't even associate that with younger people.
They seem to feel "owed" by society a job, and to be treated nicely and fairly.
These are reasonable expectations of a functioning society. That these expectations are considered to be ridiculously entitled is a reflection on society rather than the people who hold them.
To look at it another way, if we don't aspire to a fair and just society where people who want to work can find work, then we've really lost the plot. Not to mention that work was easier to find back in the day, and perhaps we are the entitled ones, begrudging the younger ones wanting what we had on a plate.
I didn't always get congratulated JUST for trying
Noticing children's effort rather than results is better for producing successful adults, as it instils perseverance rather than a sense that your skills are innate and immutable.
Einstein was a "patent clerk" to support himself during his PhD in physics, because he had annoyed too many people at the Zurich polytechnic to find a mentor to sponsor him as a TA. Those brilliant 5 papers that were published in 1905 were basically for the PhD. Using the word "simple" to describe Einstein is not even wrong.
Old Coal plants are more often replaced with New Coal plants than they are with wind or solar.
In Australia, we seem to be doing a little better. We haven't had new coal for a while (and we have enormous brown coal deposits). And from today's news, a report of increased efficiency to put solar in line with coal
What are you talking about? factcheck
From factcheck:
"Rep. Gary Palmer falsely claimed on a radio show that temperature data used to measure global climate change have been “falsified” and manipulated."
and
"Even as these claims of data manipulation have resurfaced, there is now a general consensus that 2014 was the hottest single year since temperature record keeping began. This same conclusion has been reached by NOAA and NASA, the Japan Meteorological Agency, and the World Meteorological Organization. The United Kingdom’s Met Office said that 2014 was among the warmest along with 2010, but it is impossible to say for sure that 2014 was hotter. According to NASA, nine of the 10 warmest years have all occurred since 2000, with 1998 the lone exception."
I agree (and I have a similar number of years coding experience, but not with C and C++). Diving straight into writing code might feel productive, but is a recipe for disaster.
I would describe refactoring as increasing the level of abstraction involved in the code. This makes the code more robust and potentially reusable. However, a higher level of abstraction will take more time for a person new to the code to understand. I think this is why "more maintainable" and "easier to analyse and change" seem to be at odds with each other in the study, as students aren't going to have the ability to readily deal with the higher levels of abstractions as well as, say, more seasoned programmers.
I don't count optimisation (dealing with specific bottlenecks) as refactoring (abstracting and generalising the code). They are totally different approaches.
Your comment does not apply universally. In Australia, the left of the sidewalk is the correct side. See niftymitch's remarks in the comment above: you are an arsehole to assume that everyone is as familiar with the local conventions as you are.
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You get a lack of diversity when people who do not look like what the hiring manager envisions are not even considered for the job even when they may be better qualified. A real-life example being female musicians for the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.
This stuff is pervasive, it's toxic to a workplace, and a female engineer like me has seen it all a thousand times. So many guys refuse to believe that I even know the difference between a flathead and a Phillips screwdriver, or that I know my way around a computer, or that, shock horror, I might actually know a thing or two about my field of expertise.
Working with Damore would be the pits.
Reneging on an international agreement is bad for America - worse than supporting it would have been.
Cat-calling is a power play. Attractiveness is not a prerequisite.
Wish I had the mod points to mod you up.
... To too many women, sexism just means "anything I don't like".
I don't like being groped.
I don't like people assuming credit for my work.
I don't like having pornography shoved in my face.
I don't like the automatic assumption that I'm not an engineer.
You have a problem with that?
It may not be obvious from the AC comment above, but Shakey was a SV robot, developed at the Artificial Intelligence Centre at SRI International (then Stanford Research Institute).
No, that was not "ad hominem" argumentation, which is attacking the speaker instead of the argument. The argument was clearly centred on the misuse of data. The cursing was extra to the argument, an expression of exasperation. Quite justified in my view. Do you really prefer rubbish dressed up in nice words?
"It's all your fault for nagging so much" - classic abuser gaslighting. Did you really want to evoke that?
Hognoxious is right, for Germany and Austria to be considered the same, you would need to go back to the Nazi annexation of Austria.
I don't understand your argument - it seems to me Americans mix up Austrlans and Germans, but it is ludicrous to think the two countries mix themselves up. It is true that Europeans do relocate for work or political/social reasons, but this is not limited to Austria and Germany
Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria (not Germany)
Beethoven was born in Germany, but lived most of his adult life in Austria (Vienna being the place to be for musicians at the time)
It's not just between Austria and Germany:
Maria Antonia was born in Austria, but is remembered as a French queen (Marie Antoinette)
Maria Skodowska was born in Poland, but is remembered as French, where she married Pierre Curie and spent most of her working life.
We don't therefore conclude that the Polish, Austrians and French mix themselves up.
Why stop at people moving within Europe? Quite a few people went from Germany to the USA. For example, there is a rather famous rocket engineer, Wernher von Braun. And then there was that scientist, what was his name? Albert something? We don't therefore conclude that Americans and Germans mix themselves up....
... But a German judge will have to work that out.
I think you mean an Austrian judge ;)
I guess we all have different experiences. At 50+ myself, I'll use VBA when I have to, but most of the time you will see me code in Python, or R if that's the better fit. The people in my circles have been dabbling with Python since version 1.0. As for web-scraping data: I didn't even associate that with younger people.
More like doctors bragging how much they could charge for medicine during a humanitarian crisis...
There is no "one" ontological argument, which at it's heart is "If you can imagine the greatest possible power, it must be real". As if.
I'll second this. I'll even use VCS for a team of one.
... It's amazing how the young people can be lazy...
And older people can be so intolerant of inexperience.
They seem to feel "owed" by society a job, and to be treated nicely and fairly.
These are reasonable expectations of a functioning society. That these expectations are considered to be ridiculously entitled is a reflection on society rather than the people who hold them. To look at it another way, if we don't aspire to a fair and just society where people who want to work can find work, then we've really lost the plot. Not to mention that work was easier to find back in the day, and perhaps we are the entitled ones, begrudging the younger ones wanting what we had on a plate.
I didn't always get congratulated JUST for trying
Noticing children's effort rather than results is better for producing successful adults, as it instils perseverance rather than a sense that your skills are innate and immutable.
but dont blame Snowden.
Quite right, but I think you meant Assange.
Einstein was a "patent clerk" to support himself during his PhD in physics, because he had annoyed too many people at the Zurich polytechnic to find a mentor to sponsor him as a TA. Those brilliant 5 papers that were published in 1905 were basically for the PhD. Using the word "simple" to describe Einstein is not even wrong.
Even assuming everything you say is true, it takes far longer than ten years to turn the impoverishment of a class around.
In Australia, we seem to be doing a little better. We haven't had new coal for a while (and we have enormous brown coal deposits). And from today's news, a report of increased efficiency to put solar in line with coal
What are you talking about? factcheck From factcheck: "Rep. Gary Palmer falsely claimed on a radio show that temperature data used to measure global climate change have been “falsified” and manipulated." and "Even as these claims of data manipulation have resurfaced, there is now a general consensus that 2014 was the hottest single year since temperature record keeping began. This same conclusion has been reached by NOAA and NASA, the Japan Meteorological Agency, and the World Meteorological Organization. The United Kingdom’s Met Office said that 2014 was among the warmest along with 2010, but it is impossible to say for sure that 2014 was hotter. According to NASA, nine of the 10 warmest years have all occurred since 2000, with 1998 the lone exception."
Tolkien wrote it as a two-book set: LOTR and the Silmarillion. The publisher nixed the Silmarillion, and, as you say, split LOTR into 3 volumes.
I agree (and I have a similar number of years coding experience, but not with C and C++). Diving straight into writing code might feel productive, but is a recipe for disaster.
I would describe refactoring as increasing the level of abstraction involved in the code. This makes the code more robust and potentially reusable. However, a higher level of abstraction will take more time for a person new to the code to understand. I think this is why "more maintainable" and "easier to analyse and change" seem to be at odds with each other in the study, as students aren't going to have the ability to readily deal with the higher levels of abstractions as well as, say, more seasoned programmers. I don't count optimisation (dealing with specific bottlenecks) as refactoring (abstracting and generalising the code). They are totally different approaches.
Your comment does not apply universally. In Australia, the left of the sidewalk is the correct side. See niftymitch's remarks in the comment above: you are an arsehole to assume that everyone is as familiar with the local conventions as you are.