One large computer desk to seat four students in the library....$35,000 What. The. Fuck. That's when I knew something was really really wrong. You learn way more working for a college than you do as a student. I was able to do both at the same time and had my exit planned years in advance.
Yeah...but we had no storage or compute and even if you did get access setting up everything would have been a nightmare. Today you can spin up compute and storage in the cloud in a few minutes and start banging away at data. There is a bubble though. Unless you are creating new algorithms AI is just data mining and training of existing algorithms on those data sets. The thing is, eveyone thinks you need a data scientist to do that right now. Most people do not understand what AI is or how it is implemented. When they finally figure out that Suzy in accounting has been doing it for fun in her spare time it is going to be really funny.
The democrats and their news organizations keep lipping Trump alongside election meddling and Russia. What they do not get is that no one cares. America is way past the Russian bogeyman shit. We want to get along with Russia, trade with Russia, and work with Russia. Fuck all this flag-waving bullshit and fear mongering that is being used to stoke fear so that we run to our government and the military-industrial complex for safety. It is sooooo old. My son and kids his age (15) see right through it, I yawn and long for the days when its over, and most people just straight don't give a rat's ass. Keep right along assholes--right along to irrelevancy.
"the competent women are usually a bit quieter about their achievements than the similarly skilled men"
That isn't going to work no matter what gender you are. You have to toot your own horn. People in IT are usually horrible at this, especially the more technically competent ones. They get mad when they see someone less competent getting promoted because they can spread the bullshit and promote themselves better. Yet they are stubborn in not upping their game to promote themselves. Management wants you to promote yourself, it makes them look good! They respond to it with more money and promotions. I think it comes from some romantic meritocracy moral code that they silently and and unquestionably pose onto themselves where they judge themselves as higher than the people who market themselves effectively.
There are people who do not hire women because of this. Whole departments turn into locker rooms and they fear getting sued because someone slips up in front of a female that "isn't cool" or they just don't want to put all the guys under the pressure of having to watch their tongue. I have been on teams where some women were "just one of the guys" though.
It certainly is not limited to white males. I have benefited from cronyism in a circle of Asian and other ethnicity. If you are one of the guys you are one of the guys. If they like the way you look, talk, and think you are in. Others have no hope of inclusion whatsoever. Slight lisp or weird pause or tick between thoughts? Never in. Meek and proper? Never in. Pose a slight risk of exposing group think to diversity? Never in. You can be against the grain within the group but you still have to fit in.
I have run against the grain by trying to include more diverse people within teams. I just get ignored on the point but I am still allowed to function within the group because I fit in and have been given a pass.
There is no way to deal with tribal group mentality. It is too ingrained and trying to force it away just makes it stronger.
"outrageously lucrative, if you got lucky. The career became insanely competitive"
Outrageously lucrative? Seriously? It's just a paycheck unless you roll your own product--albeit a really good paycheck.
Insanely competitive? The dev cube farm certainly functions like a boys locker room but I would not say it is "insanely competitive."
People bitch about sexism but a lot of males don't want to hang out in the boy's locker room either. Women, unfortunately for everyone, are usually treated equally which is not ideal treatment in any case--male or female. Guys just learn to deal with it and are more integrated into the fold--though not explicitly--because they have a penis and smell bad.
"Women who are in coding, usually need to double down on their attitude, to show that they are one of the guys."
So you are saying that they are being treated equally? None of the guys get any slack but the women should? I have to double down on my attitude and still keep it together in order to compete.
They made so much money from people cracking the screen that they could not resist cladding the back in glass as well. I went without a case on my S8+ for a week and smashed the glass back. Previous Samsung models hit the concrete many many times without even a scratch--no case.
All review blogs and videos are paid for by manufacturers in one way or other. By providing early access they let the YouTuber make serious money off views/ads. People have to play nice to get early access the next time. Totally rigged. Guess it works.
I'm concerned about social media data gathering on a much larger level and have been considering shutting them all down. FaceBook has really gone off the deep end and the media is preventing a rational discourse on the matter since they depend on them for traffic. BBC wouldn't even let people say "FaceBook" today when discussing the talks on capitol hill and stuck closely to the narrative labeling the problem as Russian meddling in US elections when the real issue is the over-the-top data collection and AI being applied to track and target people and alter their sentiment for anything and everything. The end game? The press and politicians and advertisers are already addicted to the power that FaceBook sells them.
Also, if one of your solid people leave they can suck away a few others or the others just don't like working there anymore because that person was holding shit together on a social and operational level.
On the other side of the rainbow you have corporations that wouldn't be able to find escaping employees if they even tried. Once, a company I worked for tried to recruit a guy they just fired.
We just leave job site tabs open in our browser as a standard practice. CIO walks by, does a double-take and screams: "What the FUCK!" "Dude, you are not happy?"
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I have mathematical proof of fairies and leprechauns.
One large computer desk to seat four students in the library....$35,000 What. The. Fuck. That's when I knew something was really really wrong. You learn way more working for a college than you do as a student. I was able to do both at the same time and had my exit planned years in advance.
Yeah...but we had no storage or compute and even if you did get access setting up everything would have been a nightmare. Today you can spin up compute and storage in the cloud in a few minutes and start banging away at data. There is a bubble though. Unless you are creating new algorithms AI is just data mining and training of existing algorithms on those data sets. The thing is, eveyone thinks you need a data scientist to do that right now. Most people do not understand what AI is or how it is implemented. When they finally figure out that Suzy in accounting has been doing it for fun in her spare time it is going to be really funny.
The democrats and their news organizations keep lipping Trump alongside election meddling and Russia. What they do not get is that no one cares. America is way past the Russian bogeyman shit. We want to get along with Russia, trade with Russia, and work with Russia. Fuck all this flag-waving bullshit and fear mongering that is being used to stoke fear so that we run to our government and the military-industrial complex for safety. It is sooooo old. My son and kids his age (15) see right through it, I yawn and long for the days when its over, and most people just straight don't give a rat's ass. Keep right along assholes--right along to irrelevancy.
"the competent women are usually a bit quieter about their achievements than the similarly skilled men"
That isn't going to work no matter what gender you are. You have to toot your own horn. People in IT are usually horrible at this, especially the more technically competent ones. They get mad when they see someone less competent getting promoted because they can spread the bullshit and promote themselves better. Yet they are stubborn in not upping their game to promote themselves. Management wants you to promote yourself, it makes them look good! They respond to it with more money and promotions. I think it comes from some romantic meritocracy moral code that they silently and and unquestionably pose onto themselves where they judge themselves as higher than the people who market themselves effectively.
Survivor bias.
There are people who do not hire women because of this. Whole departments turn into locker rooms and they fear getting sued because someone slips up in front of a female that "isn't cool" or they just don't want to put all the guys under the pressure of having to watch their tongue. I have been on teams where some women were "just one of the guys" though.
I worked at a college and knew women who left departments because they were 90% women and they could not stand working in that environment.
It certainly is not limited to white males. I have benefited from cronyism in a circle of Asian and other ethnicity. If you are one of the guys you are one of the guys. If they like the way you look, talk, and think you are in. Others have no hope of inclusion whatsoever. Slight lisp or weird pause or tick between thoughts? Never in. Meek and proper? Never in. Pose a slight risk of exposing group think to diversity? Never in. You can be against the grain within the group but you still have to fit in.
I have run against the grain by trying to include more diverse people within teams. I just get ignored on the point but I am still allowed to function within the group because I fit in and have been given a pass.
There is no way to deal with tribal group mentality. It is too ingrained and trying to force it away just makes it stronger.
"outrageously lucrative, if you got lucky. The career became insanely competitive"
Outrageously lucrative? Seriously? It's just a paycheck unless you roll your own product--albeit a really good paycheck.
Insanely competitive? The dev cube farm certainly functions like a boys locker room but I would not say it is "insanely competitive."
People bitch about sexism but a lot of males don't want to hang out in the boy's locker room either. Women, unfortunately for everyone, are usually treated equally which is not ideal treatment in any case--male or female. Guys just learn to deal with it and are more integrated into the fold--though not explicitly--because they have a penis and smell bad.
That is awesome.
BOOOM SHOCALOCKA!! All of our wives shunned corporate life to work as home makers. Can't blame em really.
Is it a crime to take all of your vacation days or something?
"Women who are in coding, usually need to double down on their attitude, to show that they are one of the guys."
So you are saying that they are being treated equally? None of the guys get any slack but the women should? I have to double down on my attitude and still keep it together in order to compete.
They made so much money from people cracking the screen that they could not resist cladding the back in glass as well. I went without a case on my S8+ for a week and smashed the glass back. Previous Samsung models hit the concrete many many times without even a scratch--no case.
Ugh....I thought she was going to get naked but she just ended up crying.
Yeah. No hiccups allowed for a god damned $1000 FaceBook machine.
The JEWlery is somewhat of an asset that can be resold in ten years. (Sorry, being slashdot I couldn't resist.)
What friend cares which phone you have these days? What a fucking bore.
BestBuy was snagging $1100 and got busted on it.
All review blogs and videos are paid for by manufacturers in one way or other. By providing early access they let the YouTuber make serious money off views/ads. People have to play nice to get early access the next time. Totally rigged. Guess it works.
I'm concerned about social media data gathering on a much larger level and have been considering shutting them all down. FaceBook has really gone off the deep end and the media is preventing a rational discourse on the matter since they depend on them for traffic. BBC wouldn't even let people say "FaceBook" today when discussing the talks on capitol hill and stuck closely to the narrative labeling the problem as Russian meddling in US elections when the real issue is the over-the-top data collection and AI being applied to track and target people and alter their sentiment for anything and everything. The end game? The press and politicians and advertisers are already addicted to the power that FaceBook sells them.
Also, if one of your solid people leave they can suck away a few others or the others just don't like working there anymore because that person was holding shit together on a social and operational level.
On the other side of the rainbow you have corporations that wouldn't be able to find escaping employees if they even tried. Once, a company I worked for tried to recruit a guy they just fired.
We just leave job site tabs open in our browser as a standard practice. CIO walks by, does a double-take and screams: "What the FUCK!" "Dude, you are not happy?"