All to frequently it starts when some upper manager who was once trapped in a room for 3 hours because he was baffled by the door knob is unable to access a perfectly standard resource. So, in order to avoid further confusing him, all security has to be removed...
In other words, you want to blame him so you will claim happily that he "should have known" that something that has never happened before would happen this time based on what was actually a fairly mild mannered and dry essay.
Based on the way everyone is tip-toeing around on the subject, I'm guessing there's at least one naked emperor at Google. This guy's actually crime was commenting that the new clothes seemed a bit light for the weather.
It probably wouldn't have helped. I had my wife read it to make sure I wasn't somehow missing something. She didn't see how it could possibly lead to such a shitstorm.
But he never actually said either thing. He said many women were not as drawn to the current work environment that tends to exist around software engineering. He even suggested changing that environment to better suit women so more would be more interested in working there.
THAT is biting the hand?!? REALLY! How very touchy!
How else could it have ended? In a shrug. in a very public comment from management: "TL;DR". In a dialog. In a tongue in cheek comment like "Well, he's a man so a certain lack of empathy is to be expected...". Firing is really not within the reasonable choices.
Even there though, he didn't speak in absolutes and did acknowledge that the traits in question are on a continuum.
If he is wrong, it seems like a more constructive approach is to accept his invitation for dialog so it may be explained to him and others who silently or openly agreed with him.
Imagine if all of our internet security was as screwed up as the broken CA system for https is!
The result is we would need end to end encryption running over the resource eating but not actually trustworthy default security (with the deliberate hole for governments and organized crime)
I think back in the day it was FAR more common than you think (or we may be splitting hairs over words). There was a lot more payoff for it back then. Even compilers of the day did a bad enough job that hand coded assembly would be faster. With an 8 bit processor running at under 2 MHz, that made a difference.
It's a matter of terminology. Technically it was a personal computer since it wasn't a timeshare or batch system. It was certainly NOT a home computer, which is what most people think of when they hear personal computer.
That may have been the target market, but programming in ML happened frequently enough on the TRS80 as well as C64 and other various home computers. It's what an advanced elementary school kid did when ready for the next step but parents weren't loaded.
It's fair enough to say that MOST stuck to BASIC but well more than "almost nobody' programmed the things in ML.
You don't get much closer together than an apartment building.
In my neighborhood right here in the U.S.A., if you order cable installed, they connect one end to the nearest pole and the other end gets connected to the side of your house nearest the pole. They will either just drill a hole through the outside wall nearest the TV or if you pay extra it can be done right and get run through the attic and terminated in a wall outlet.
So, New York City should definitely have service comparable to S. Korea based on population density and being in a single regulatory domain. So where is it?
Same for the city of Los Angeles and many other places in the U.S.
And that 10 feet reserved for utilities, and the road for that matter comes from government too. If government gets out of the game, both go away.
Next thing, you find yourself sitting in the dark and the power company says you're going to stay that way because the crazy redneck down the street cut down the power pole on his property and now he's shooting linemen with rock salt.
None of that matters, he wasn't hailing the virtues of Visa's transaction handling, he was pointing out their transaction rate as a guide to what is required to meet the needs of commerce today. BTC is nowhere near where it needs to be if it is to take over.
If you want them off the phone, you'll have to let them hang out somewhere away from their parents so they feel like they can be themselves. That used to be the mall, but these days malls kick the teens out if not accompanied by parents. Parks and other recreational areas like to close at the first hint of sunset.
Yes, to be fair we can't make absolute statements about safety, though we can be reasonably sure it's safer than smoking. The fact that the liquid is made up of VG, PG, and flavorings approved for use in food helps us to be reasonably sure it's not much more dangerous than breathing the air in a bakery.
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All to frequently it starts when some upper manager who was once trapped in a room for 3 hours because he was baffled by the door knob is unable to access a perfectly standard resource. So, in order to avoid further confusing him, all security has to be removed...
Actions have consequences therefor, sneezing in public = public execution. Got IT!
It makes me sad to say this, but AC is correct here.
In other words, you want to blame him so you will claim happily that he "should have known" that something that has never happened before would happen this time based on what was actually a fairly mild mannered and dry essay.
Based on the way everyone is tip-toeing around on the subject, I'm guessing there's at least one naked emperor at Google. This guy's actually crime was commenting that the new clothes seemed a bit light for the weather.
Funny, it's the first I've even heard of this "high profile" internal-only message board. As in it doesn't seem to have leaked like this before.
It probably wouldn't have helped. I had my wife read it to make sure I wasn't somehow missing something. She didn't see how it could possibly lead to such a shitstorm.
But he never actually said either thing. He said many women were not as drawn to the current work environment that tends to exist around software engineering. He even suggested changing that environment to better suit women so more would be more interested in working there.
Why? What is it about this somewhat dry bit of commentary that makes it's being read by more than a handful of co-workers a certainty?
THAT is biting the hand?!? REALLY! How very touchy!
How else could it have ended? In a shrug. in a very public comment from management: "TL;DR". In a dialog. In a tongue in cheek comment like "Well, he's a man so a certain lack of empathy is to be expected...". Firing is really not within the reasonable choices.
Even there though, he didn't speak in absolutes and did acknowledge that the traits in question are on a continuum.
If he is wrong, it seems like a more constructive approach is to accept his invitation for dialog so it may be explained to him and others who silently or openly agreed with him.
You should try stuffing machine code into REM statements on a T/S 1000 some time!
Imagine if all of our internet security was as screwed up as the broken CA system for https is!
The result is we would need end to end encryption running over the resource eating but not actually trustworthy default security (with the deliberate hole for governments and organized crime)
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Machine Language.
I think back in the day it was FAR more common than you think (or we may be splitting hairs over words). There was a lot more payoff for it back then. Even compilers of the day did a bad enough job that hand coded assembly would be faster. With an 8 bit processor running at under 2 MHz, that made a difference.
He's not thinking of djnz, he's talking about LDIR.
It's a matter of terminology. Technically it was a personal computer since it wasn't a timeshare or batch system. It was certainly NOT a home computer, which is what most people think of when they hear personal computer.
That may have been the target market, but programming in ML happened frequently enough on the TRS80 as well as C64 and other various home computers. It's what an advanced elementary school kid did when ready for the next step but parents weren't loaded.
It's fair enough to say that MOST stuck to BASIC but well more than "almost nobody' programmed the things in ML.
You can find that in the U.S. too. here, here, and here. Sometimes it's swept under the rug.
But for the most part, everyone in NY is already wired up, it just needs the wires and the equipment upgraded to 21st century tech.
You don't get much closer together than an apartment building.
In my neighborhood right here in the U.S.A., if you order cable installed, they connect one end to the nearest pole and the other end gets connected to the side of your house nearest the pole. They will either just drill a hole through the outside wall nearest the TV or if you pay extra it can be done right and get run through the attic and terminated in a wall outlet.
So, New York City should definitely have service comparable to S. Korea based on population density and being in a single regulatory domain. So where is it?
Same for the city of Los Angeles and many other places in the U.S.
Thus proving that if necessary, it is practical to re-build the entire network to get decent functionality. We should try that in the U.S.
And that 10 feet reserved for utilities, and the road for that matter comes from government too. If government gets out of the game, both go away.
Next thing, you find yourself sitting in the dark and the power company says you're going to stay that way because the crazy redneck down the street cut down the power pole on his property and now he's shooting linemen with rock salt.
None of that matters, he wasn't hailing the virtues of Visa's transaction handling, he was pointing out their transaction rate as a guide to what is required to meet the needs of commerce today. BTC is nowhere near where it needs to be if it is to take over.
If you want them off the phone, you'll have to let them hang out somewhere away from their parents so they feel like they can be themselves. That used to be the mall, but these days malls kick the teens out if not accompanied by parents. Parks and other recreational areas like to close at the first hint of sunset.
Yes, to be fair we can't make absolute statements about safety, though we can be reasonably sure it's safer than smoking. The fact that the liquid is made up of VG, PG, and flavorings approved for use in food helps us to be reasonably sure it's not much more dangerous than breathing the air in a bakery.