Hiding what? Do you go to job interviews and they ask you if your wife has cancer? Is it relevant to your competency to work the hours you're contracted?
What?! He would work his full work day but if he was needed during night or weekend he would work from home and they fired him? For taking care of his dying wife?!
You are jumping to conclusions that are not supported by evidence. We was fired on his first day of work. The reasons for that are not clear, but there is almost always more to these stories than what is on the surface. You are only hearing one very biased side of it.
It sounds like a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing, which is very common in large corporations. It sounds as if the person recruiting Don was eager to work with him and get him onboard. However, some narcissistic sweat shop mentality person probably thinking only in terms of their needs to a fault threw Don and his dying wife under a bus. That's a shame. This is not uncommon at all in the corporate world. The mantra is essentially "Get away with whatever you can for as long as you can if it means more shareholder value." The only thing to deter this is to have it challenged and I'm really glad to see that it is being challenged in court.
I predict that we'll be working as long as ever, providing goods and services to one another that our predecessors couldn't even imagine. Mainly because this is what has happened every single time thus far.
"Happened every single time thus far" since the Industrial Revolution started. That's the part you omitted. This rhetoric is based on that mindset and Keynesian economics. Evidence suggests just like all ages that came to pass that we are going into a new age. Widen your view of history.
Introverts tend to get bullied and taken advantage of by certain extroverted types because they see it as weakness to be exploited. They have a lot of success at doing it. If you want to be resilient, you have to learn to defend yourself. This is akin to learning fighting styles to be resilient on the metaphorical street...
You should get a psychology degree and come back when you're more educated. First of all, I don't think anyone ever claimed that personality profiling like DISC and MBTI are 100% perfect. It's not a panacea. However, I challenge you to provide an alternative that is better. Just because it's not perfect doesn't mean it's useless. Even Freudian psychology involving the Ego, ID and Super ID is flawed, more flawed than MBTI and DISC. There is much more research to be done and better models to create. We are breaking new ground every day in psychology and cognitive science.
Having said that, MBTI described my default tendencies and thoughts to a level of accuracy around 99%. I was absolutely astonished at how accurate it was. Many friends and colleagues have also expressed this to me. Many corporations use these psychometric tests to evaluate employees with a high degree of accuracy.
In summary, these models have an incredible amount of utility. One thing you need to understand is that these models will describe your "auto pilot" behavior that is if you're not 100% consciously engaged in decision making, you will most likely behave the way they describe. If you develop the capacity for meta thinking or more conscious rational decision making, you can of course override these and choose something entirely different. That is an entirely different mental discipline than solving math problems and computer programming. Trust me I know from personal experience.
Carmack's behavior in this situation seems to be a classic introvert default decision making process. To avoid doing this, you must think outside of yourself if that makes any sense. You have to attempt to view the world from someone else's point of view that is processing the world in an entirely different way. Trust me, these tools have helped me be WAY more successful in dealing with people. Leaps and bounds improvements in outcomes of negotiation and social situations.
If you think automation is going to make people permanently unemployable then perhaps it's finally time to admit that we need some sort of universal income so that people can afford basic things like food and shelter.
Yes exactly but you didn't even state the problem clearly. That's what drives me nuts about this issue. Imagine a world where human labor is replaced by robots. The labor becomes upkeep for the robots by replacing parts, upgrading firmware, etc. What that does is it decreases the overall need for labor. In order to understand the problem effectively, you have to be able to see the need for labor decreasing and the population increasing. Then you have to juxtapose that with the current economic system and the problem should become incredibly clear. An economic system whereby every person must perform labor in exchange for money in order to pay for their expenses (largely mandatory) does not work anymore. The only way, as you sarcastically put it, to make that existing system work is to essentially invoke the story of Procrustes Bed and chop the population down to a size that fits that economic model. That of course is absolutely ludicrous and defeats the entire purpose of innovation which is... to EVOLVE.
I believe what's coming is what was predicted in the 50's. Shorter work weeks, more leisure time and that's because through our hard work and efforts we have arrived at the future and will now reap the benefits of all that effort. The type of people who are naysayers and want to keep the status quo are likely to be people who are reaping massive rewards from the current system or possibly puritanical work ethic folks (like the ones that founded America) because the idea of more leisure time than work time is incomprehensible to people like the Mennonites. None of these are good reasons to keep the system.
If we don't evolve, we are effectively have another time of Dark Ages.
Smart people do dumb things, especially when they think they know better than things like the law. I do think that John Carmack has done some really dumb things even though so many people are putting him on a pedestal and calling him a genius. Sure he knows code and he founded a successful business, but that doesn't automatically translate into him being smart at everything.
Correct. Solving complex mathematics and software engineering problems is a completely different skill set than dealing with irrational people in business systems. For those that are familiar with MBTI, Carmack is probably either INTJ or INTP whereas the people that negotiate business deals and tend to rise into top leadership are ENTJ's. These two types of people operate completely differently and use tactics that are foreign concepts to each other. In order to deal with this dynamic, it requires one to learn the other's thought process and be able to function like them effectively which is a very rare thing. Carmack is kind of like Nikola Tesla. No doubt about it, both absolutely brilliant. But I'm sure a clever ENTJ could potentially send them home crying. This whole ZeniMax buying Id Software was probably the brain child of some ENTJ's. Short term financial gain at the expense of destroying a legendary game studio that brought you the FPS genre.
The problem with ENTJ's is they tend to insist they need to be in the driver's seat on everything even if they are completely incompetent. They tend to be narcissists, obsessed with being adored and revered. They will never admit they are wrong ever about anything. They tend to value their reputation even if it is based on nothing of substance and they will manipulate systems to favor these types of rules. A word to the wise INTJ/INTP, plenty of you here on Slashdot, use your exceptional skills for decomposition to reverse the ENTJ's mind and then use that against them. For INTJ, use your master strategic thinking in this context and you will send ENTJ home packing, pissed off sideways and frustrated. I do it all the time when I deal with these clowns. It's a lot of fun too.
If you decline to participate, they can boost your insurance premiums by 30%-50%.
With all the money spent playing political and legal games over legislation regarding insurance premium regulations, we probably could have funded a socialized healthcare system by now for many years.
How is this news? It's very clear from that data what's going on. And it's just one Google search away from your finger tips. Game over, thanks for playing. Chrome FTW.
People are working more hours than they used to 20 years ago. When stress and anxiety increases, fight or flight response kicks in releasing all kinds of chemicals like cortisol. What this does is it shuts down parts of the body that it deems unnecessary in preparation to fight. These are things like digestion and reproductive functions among other things. I can't wait to see the news stories of the 90's come around again over the concern that Americans aren't having enough children. America has family values? Ha!
Without getting into the nitty gritty I have had challenges with general anxiety disorder / agoraphobia for a while and the combination of telecommuting / computer-based hobbies I don't leave my house very often.
Dude I had these kinds of problems then I did two things:
1) Accepted that I could die at any moment and that there's nothing I can do about it. Worrying about it just makes you more miserable. Study Buddhism. Attachment = suffering. Dukkha.
2) As it relates to social anxiety, everyone is faking. No one has any clue what the fuck they're doing and if they project superiority 99.9% of the time it's all because they are completely insecure but they think if they lay it on thick, no one will figure it out.
It's letting the lonely people tell you about it. Every day, filling up my feed with bleak stock art and Comic Sans overlay text.
I always thought being in marketing would be great fun. But I'd be one of those guys like the ones that used to work at Disney sneaking all kinds of things into the artwork like the original Little Mermaid poster.:) That's the fun part...
You basically have two options in the "advanced" society:
1) Accept your media programming to become irrational ravenous consumers that are only drawn to fake boobies, blinky lights, reality television and anything that projects if you just buy X you will live fantasy Y
2) Screw #1 and deal with reality with all its ups and downs, good, bad and indifferent things and just be thankful for having the opportunity to experience existence and admit you don't know a lot of shit
If you pick #2 you will be lonely because you will separate yourself from all the delusional morons in the #1 camp. If you pick #1 and you are actually somewhat intelligent, you will want to shoot yourself. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
The grandparent brought up Java, not me. There are a lot of attempts at cross-platform UIs, including ones that only provide source compatibility and require that you recompile for each target. They all suck for the reasons that I highlighted. The only good cross-platform software has a shared core of code and then customises the UI for each target platform. In a lot of desktop software, the UI is a sufficiently large part of the total codebase that this amounts to an almost total rewrite.
I don't think the topic is what hasn't worked up to this point, it's just to imagine what it would be like if someone did come up with a solution. That's the part I think most people are glossing over. It's as if they're already in the mindset of shooting down the thought experiment because of all the failed attempts to do something like it. Perhaps the moderators should have never even posted the question because slashdot has essentially declared the question to be absurd.
And Java is also a good example of why it's a terrible idea. If your software runs on all platforms then it's limited to supporting the intersection of all of the features that those platforms support.
The question is more abstract than that. Why is it that when you contemplate the idea of ALL software running on ALL platforms you immediately think something like "Well, in order to do that, we have to have this platform where everything compiles down into CPU architecture agnostic byte code where at run-time it would JIT compile into the appropriate machine language code that can be run on the CPU by having different versions of that run-time for each CPU architecture." It's also interesting that you think of Java instead of.NET or some other scripting language that uses a virtual machine construct. You might claim that's the only reasonable type of solution to this type of problem but the question is more abstract than that. It's a thought experiment. Whether it can be done pragmatically is not the question. We're supposed to imagine the situation and think about what that would mean for the ecosystem.
Java only represents a fraction of software. Microsoft.NET is essentially the Microsoft flavor of java and it only represents a fraction of software. Let's review the question again: what if ALL software ran on ALL platforms. I think the answer to that is Microsoft would go out of business or at the very least they would lose a large chunk of their stock value and revenue.
Nothing but more meaningless noise. It's no wonder lazy overpaid Americans are getting replaced when they make bad assumptions and spout prejudice.
India, the predominant H-1B Visa source for American companies is an authoritarian culture will arrange marriages and all that sort of stuff. That's not prejudice, it's an observation of fact. Can you dispute that with facts and evidence? Or you just want your fantasy version of reality in your head to be right even if it's complete fantasy. You know that's the definition of delusion right?
Slashdot Mirror
You're so fucking edgy.
Sometimes the truth hurts but it's still the truth.
Hiding what? Do you go to job interviews and they ask you if your wife has cancer? Is it relevant to your competency to work the hours you're contracted?
Your employment system is fucked.
It's called: Corporate Fascism
And like an onion, they will likely make you cry when peeled.
Because it's rotten under the surface?
What?! He would work his full work day but if he was needed during night or weekend he would work from home and they fired him? For taking care of his dying wife?!
You are jumping to conclusions that are not supported by evidence. We was fired on his first day of work. The reasons for that are not clear, but there is almost always more to these stories than what is on the surface. You are only hearing one very biased side of it.
It sounds like a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing, which is very common in large corporations. It sounds as if the person recruiting Don was eager to work with him and get him onboard. However, some narcissistic sweat shop mentality person probably thinking only in terms of their needs to a fault threw Don and his dying wife under a bus. That's a shame. This is not uncommon at all in the corporate world. The mantra is essentially "Get away with whatever you can for as long as you can if it means more shareholder value." The only thing to deter this is to have it challenged and I'm really glad to see that it is being challenged in court.
I predict that we'll be working as long as ever, providing goods and services to one another that our predecessors couldn't even imagine. Mainly because this is what has happened every single time thus far.
"Happened every single time thus far" since the Industrial Revolution started. That's the part you omitted. This rhetoric is based on that mindset and Keynesian economics. Evidence suggests just like all ages that came to pass that we are going into a new age. Widen your view of history.
Introverts tend to get bullied and taken advantage of by certain extroverted types because they see it as weakness to be exploited. They have a lot of success at doing it. If you want to be resilient, you have to learn to defend yourself. This is akin to learning fighting styles to be resilient on the metaphorical street...
MBTI is not empirical and has some extremely significant flaws. It's not even good pseudoscience.
You should get a psychology degree and come back when you're more educated. First of all, I don't think anyone ever claimed that personality profiling like DISC and MBTI are 100% perfect. It's not a panacea. However, I challenge you to provide an alternative that is better. Just because it's not perfect doesn't mean it's useless. Even Freudian psychology involving the Ego, ID and Super ID is flawed, more flawed than MBTI and DISC. There is much more research to be done and better models to create. We are breaking new ground every day in psychology and cognitive science.
Having said that, MBTI described my default tendencies and thoughts to a level of accuracy around 99%. I was absolutely astonished at how accurate it was. Many friends and colleagues have also expressed this to me. Many corporations use these psychometric tests to evaluate employees with a high degree of accuracy.
In summary, these models have an incredible amount of utility. One thing you need to understand is that these models will describe your "auto pilot" behavior that is if you're not 100% consciously engaged in decision making, you will most likely behave the way they describe. If you develop the capacity for meta thinking or more conscious rational decision making, you can of course override these and choose something entirely different. That is an entirely different mental discipline than solving math problems and computer programming. Trust me I know from personal experience.
Carmack's behavior in this situation seems to be a classic introvert default decision making process. To avoid doing this, you must think outside of yourself if that makes any sense. You have to attempt to view the world from someone else's point of view that is processing the world in an entirely different way. Trust me, these tools have helped me be WAY more successful in dealing with people. Leaps and bounds improvements in outcomes of negotiation and social situations.
If you think automation is going to make people permanently unemployable then perhaps it's finally time to admit that we need some sort of universal income so that people can afford basic things like food and shelter.
Yes exactly but you didn't even state the problem clearly. That's what drives me nuts about this issue. Imagine a world where human labor is replaced by robots. The labor becomes upkeep for the robots by replacing parts, upgrading firmware, etc. What that does is it decreases the overall need for labor. In order to understand the problem effectively, you have to be able to see the need for labor decreasing and the population increasing. Then you have to juxtapose that with the current economic system and the problem should become incredibly clear. An economic system whereby every person must perform labor in exchange for money in order to pay for their expenses (largely mandatory) does not work anymore. The only way, as you sarcastically put it, to make that existing system work is to essentially invoke the story of Procrustes Bed and chop the population down to a size that fits that economic model. That of course is absolutely ludicrous and defeats the entire purpose of innovation which is... to EVOLVE.
I believe what's coming is what was predicted in the 50's. Shorter work weeks, more leisure time and that's because through our hard work and efforts we have arrived at the future and will now reap the benefits of all that effort. The type of people who are naysayers and want to keep the status quo are likely to be people who are reaping massive rewards from the current system or possibly puritanical work ethic folks (like the ones that founded America) because the idea of more leisure time than work time is incomprehensible to people like the Mennonites. None of these are good reasons to keep the system.
If we don't evolve, we are effectively have another time of Dark Ages.
Smart people do dumb things, especially when they think they know better than things like the law. I do think that John Carmack has done some really dumb things even though so many people are putting him on a pedestal and calling him a genius. Sure he knows code and he founded a successful business, but that doesn't automatically translate into him being smart at everything.
Correct. Solving complex mathematics and software engineering problems is a completely different skill set than dealing with irrational people in business systems. For those that are familiar with MBTI, Carmack is probably either INTJ or INTP whereas the people that negotiate business deals and tend to rise into top leadership are ENTJ's. These two types of people operate completely differently and use tactics that are foreign concepts to each other. In order to deal with this dynamic, it requires one to learn the other's thought process and be able to function like them effectively which is a very rare thing. Carmack is kind of like Nikola Tesla. No doubt about it, both absolutely brilliant. But I'm sure a clever ENTJ could potentially send them home crying. This whole ZeniMax buying Id Software was probably the brain child of some ENTJ's. Short term financial gain at the expense of destroying a legendary game studio that brought you the FPS genre.
The problem with ENTJ's is they tend to insist they need to be in the driver's seat on everything even if they are completely incompetent. They tend to be narcissists, obsessed with being adored and revered. They will never admit they are wrong ever about anything. They tend to value their reputation even if it is based on nothing of substance and they will manipulate systems to favor these types of rules. A word to the wise INTJ/INTP, plenty of you here on Slashdot, use your exceptional skills for decomposition to reverse the ENTJ's mind and then use that against them. For INTJ, use your master strategic thinking in this context and you will send ENTJ home packing, pissed off sideways and frustrated. I do it all the time when I deal with these clowns. It's a lot of fun too.
If you decline to participate, they can boost your insurance premiums by 30%-50%.
With all the money spent playing political and legal games over legislation regarding insurance premium regulations, we probably could have funded a socialized healthcare system by now for many years.
we can make... TOTS! Gosh!
How is this news? It's very clear from that data what's going on. And it's just one Google search away from your finger tips. Game over, thanks for playing. Chrome FTW.
People are working more hours than they used to 20 years ago. When stress and anxiety increases, fight or flight response kicks in releasing all kinds of chemicals like cortisol. What this does is it shuts down parts of the body that it deems unnecessary in preparation to fight. These are things like digestion and reproductive functions among other things. I can't wait to see the news stories of the 90's come around again over the concern that Americans aren't having enough children. America has family values? Ha!
Wow.
So much truth here, it hurts.
Buckle up your seat belt Dorothy. We're not in Kansas anymore.
Without getting into the nitty gritty I have had challenges with general anxiety disorder / agoraphobia for a while and the combination of telecommuting / computer-based hobbies I don't leave my house very often.
Dude I had these kinds of problems then I did two things:
1) Accepted that I could die at any moment and that there's nothing I can do about it. Worrying about it just makes you more miserable. Study Buddhism. Attachment = suffering. Dukkha.
2) As it relates to social anxiety, everyone is faking. No one has any clue what the fuck they're doing and if they project superiority 99.9% of the time it's all because they are completely insecure but they think if they lay it on thick, no one will figure it out.
Get busy livin'!
It's letting the lonely people tell you about it. Every day, filling up my feed with bleak stock art and Comic Sans overlay text.
I always thought being in marketing would be great fun. But I'd be one of those guys like the ones that used to work at Disney sneaking all kinds of things into the artwork like the original Little Mermaid poster. :) That's the fun part...
You basically have two options in the "advanced" society:
1) Accept your media programming to become irrational ravenous consumers that are only drawn to fake boobies, blinky lights, reality television and anything that projects if you just buy X you will live fantasy Y
2) Screw #1 and deal with reality with all its ups and downs, good, bad and indifferent things and just be thankful for having the opportunity to experience existence and admit you don't know a lot of shit
If you pick #2 you will be lonely because you will separate yourself from all the delusional morons in the #1 camp. If you pick #1 and you are actually somewhat intelligent, you will want to shoot yourself. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
The entire question is without merit.
Fair enough, what shall we think of the person who originated the article that made it to the front page? How does crap content get onto slashdot?
The grandparent brought up Java, not me. There are a lot of attempts at cross-platform UIs, including ones that only provide source compatibility and require that you recompile for each target. They all suck for the reasons that I highlighted. The only good cross-platform software has a shared core of code and then customises the UI for each target platform. In a lot of desktop software, the UI is a sufficiently large part of the total codebase that this amounts to an almost total rewrite.
I don't think the topic is what hasn't worked up to this point, it's just to imagine what it would be like if someone did come up with a solution. That's the part I think most people are glossing over. It's as if they're already in the mindset of shooting down the thought experiment because of all the failed attempts to do something like it. Perhaps the moderators should have never even posted the question because slashdot has essentially declared the question to be absurd.
B double E double R U N, BEER RUN! I shouldn't have given that away now I won't be able to capitalize on it, dammit.
Of course it's technically feasible. It's called universally agreed upon standards and conventions.
You can pry my Big Endian, EBCIDC out of my cold dead hands. :P
And Java is also a good example of why it's a terrible idea. If your software runs on all platforms then it's limited to supporting the intersection of all of the features that those platforms support.
The question is more abstract than that. Why is it that when you contemplate the idea of ALL software running on ALL platforms you immediately think something like "Well, in order to do that, we have to have this platform where everything compiles down into CPU architecture agnostic byte code where at run-time it would JIT compile into the appropriate machine language code that can be run on the CPU by having different versions of that run-time for each CPU architecture." It's also interesting that you think of Java instead of .NET or some other scripting language that uses a virtual machine construct. You might claim that's the only reasonable type of solution to this type of problem but the question is more abstract than that. It's a thought experiment. Whether it can be done pragmatically is not the question. We're supposed to imagine the situation and think about what that would mean for the ecosystem.
We've already got that. It's called Java.
Java only represents a fraction of software. Microsoft .NET is essentially the Microsoft flavor of java and it only represents a fraction of software. Let's review the question again: what if ALL software ran on ALL platforms. I think the answer to that is Microsoft would go out of business or at the very least they would lose a large chunk of their stock value and revenue.
Nothing but more meaningless noise. It's no wonder lazy overpaid Americans are getting replaced when they make bad assumptions and spout prejudice.
India, the predominant H-1B Visa source for American companies is an authoritarian culture will arrange marriages and all that sort of stuff. That's not prejudice, it's an observation of fact. Can you dispute that with facts and evidence? Or you just want your fantasy version of reality in your head to be right even if it's complete fantasy. You know that's the definition of delusion right?
Dear Jeff Bezos,
Still think H-1B Visas are the best way to go for competency and genius?
Love,
America