Well, the employer is paying you to get a job done.
You are fulfilling doing that job, they didn't say you had to sweat over it or spend grueling hours doing it...they just want the results.
<snip>
But you are not cheating...you are giving them the return other money, and if you can do that and still have "YOU" time to do relaxing things, fun things, or even make more money on the side, there's nothing wrong with that.
Your automation has given you your time back to do with as you see fit....while still meeting your obligations.
Better than sweating your ass off outside in the summer digging a ditch....
I think your premise is wrong. If you take too long to perform a task (for most jobs) your employer doesn't demand you give money back. If your task takes you an hour you're paid for an hour. If that same task takes you two hours, you're paid for two hours. That's considered a cost of doing business.
There's an agreement, generally implicit, between you and your employer: you put in effort, whether it be physical, mental, or emotional, for a time and you get paid for it, and in return you get paid for your time even when you're not being as productive because you're still learning or have some other insufficiency.
By automating your job and not seeking other tasks, you're breaking that agreement. Sure, overall productivity hasn't changed but what you're doing isn't fair when you consider what your employer does for you (whether by choice or by law).
I think that a higher base-education level, especially a bunch of Msc's or better*, would be able to put their heads together and come up with something better than the dog-and-pony show that we have now. They might come up with less intrusive methods that don't violate civil liberties and yet actually work.
With better methods in place, the people employed by the TSA would generally have more interest in their jobs and better motivation to do them well, and have better attitudes as a result. Feeling like they actually matter, and not feeling despised by the general population, would help as well.
*It's true that education does not guarantee intelligence but it does correlate pretty well.
More to the point, people practice slavery today. It's not just historical, it's current events.
Never mind prison, where the slavery is legalized. Girls and women are bought and sold as sex slaves; migrants are imported to work, only to have their passports confiscated; just regular old sweat shop slavery by people who get caught up with trying to lead a better life than the farm and can't get out.
US, Europe, Dubai, China, India, Brazil, Nigeria: it doesn't matter if you're in a rich country or poor. If there are people to exploit, there are other people there ready willing and able to do the exploitation.
S3 is object storage, not a database. While AWS offers front-ends like Athena to query it, it's still a file system.
All file systems are a type of database. It may be simplistic, and you don't typically query it with a built-in language, but it's a database just as much as memcached or Berkeley DB/Sleepycat are databases.
Like others are saying, I hope it remains available through a plug in because it will be sorely missed. If not, it's departure won't be enough to make me switch to another browser as my daily driver, but it will impact my experience negatively.
The purchased company always pays for the acquisition nowadays, and the sooner the better.
A common strategy is to have the company you just purchased take out a bunch of debt in order to pay you back for the honor of being owned by you. They are then responsible for paying the debt back, while you walk off to the bank with your profit up front.
I don't think the complaint is about external power adapters per se, it's that those wall-wart adapters have a terrible form-factor. They only work well if you're plugging one (and only one) into a wall-mounted receptacle, and that wall outlet is oriented in a specific way. Two won't work, as they typically try to face the same way and the top one interferes with the bottom one.
They also don't work so well if the receptacle is sideways, or upside-down, even though technically there is no required orientation for installing the receptacle. Their orientation prevents more than a couple from being plugged in to a typical "vertical" power strip, and if you're using a side-by-side orientation some will interfere with the plugs to either side because they're so wide.
A better design would incorporate a short cord; that cord could include a third prong to increase safety. Now your wall-wart can sit on the floor and co-exist with other adapters no matter what they're all plugged into. Wall-mounted receptacle and power strip are all fine.
By the time she got back to the West, she hadn't had cow's milk in over two years, so her body had lost the ability to process lactose entirely, leaving her well and truly lactose intolerant at that point.
This doesn't sound right to me. You can't prevent lactose intolerance by drinking more milk -- if that worked then I wouldn't be lactose intolerant today. By the same token, you can't induce lactose intolerance by removing lactose.
Your body will produce lactase according to your genes. Humans are weird that so many of us continue to produce it through adulthood, but even so less than half of us do. Most mammals lose it shortly after weaning. It's normal for humans to lose it right around the beginning of adulthood, which is right about the time your girlfriend stopped being able to drink milk too.
I like the Moon because it's close, if things go sideways then a resupply or rescue mission is only a couple of days away. The atmosphere on Mars isn't particularly helpful, and for all practical reasons it may as well be a vacuum because you can't survive exposure very long. It would be better as a vacuum, in fact, because then you wouldn't get wind and dust storms that can really screw your day.
I have to agree that OP is nuts in suggesting that asteroid mining comes before Mars, though. Maybe s/he doesn't understand that the asteroid belt is both further away than Mars and very, very sparse.
Many people seem to think of Star Trek / Star Wars asteroid belts which may as well be solid, but our solar system's belt is made up a planet-sized mass spread out along a couple-of-hundred-million-mile loop, i.e. there are hundred and thousands of kilometers between pebbles, never mind boulders, and the mine-able size asteroids are few and far between in human scales.
Make it less git-specific. VCFS - Version Control File System.
Imagine a file-system-centric-way to talk to git, Subversion, Mercurial, pretty much any VCS without caring (much*) what the semantics of the underlying VCS are.
* there are system-specific limitations, e.g. you can easily mount deeply into svn but not so much into git without a complex emulation.
So, if a person of color, or an LGBTQ person, were to say that they were older AND those things, and faced discrimination, would you be so quick to dismiss them?
Because it kind of seems that your issue is with religion, and seem to be rather dismissive both of it and anyone who has religious beliefs, to the point of being somewhat biased against them.
Which is the GP's original point, I believe. That attitudes such as yours are biased to the point of becoming discriminatory.
Where did I dismiss anyone based on their class? Not the original AC and not any of the groups that you mentioned.
I don't deny that there is discrimination, in fact I think it's a huge problem. I don't really appreciate when someone tries to claim false discrimination, which I believe the original AC seems intent on doing, as it cheapens every legitimate claim. A presumably white, middle-aged, middle-class, Christian male in the USA is hardly in need of protection, and I strongly doubt that he actually suffers unfair discrimination based on his class as a religious follower. If he suffers discrimination it's probably based on his personal attributes, not his class.
All that is irrelevant, however, as TFA is about age discrimination and my intent has been, and continues to be, getting this conversation back on track.
A brief reading of the article showed no mention of religious bias in the current lawsuit.
Your own extract from the summary talks about past acts that Facebook was sued for. It does demonstrate that Facebook has a history of targeting ads using various discriminatory criteria, but the article is about how employers are buying ads that target the young. Not the young and atheist, not the young and muslim, but the young and technically minded.
GP's clumsy attempt to inject religion seems to be nothing more than someone trying to make the conversation about their favorite subject - themselves - because they apparently have nothing useful to add. What's interesting, though, is GP would seem to have plenty to add without bringing religion into this - IT, over 50, uses social media - so why not stick to the discussion and share their relevant experiences?
The point of my original post is that age + being a Christian is one heck of a combination when it comes to bias and discrimination in technology.
Though I would tend dispute your assertion that religion itself leads to discrimination in IT, I did not make any such assertions. My only assertion is that you're bringing irrelevant facts into the conversation.
That you consider your own discriminatory bias to be legitimate is also telling.
Where, exactly, did I show "discriminatory bias"? Where did I say that you are not discriminated against unfairly due to your religion? Please point out the statement(s) where I said that in my original message.
FWIW, I don't have any mod points ATM and I have not down-voted any of your comments. I sure wish I had some now, though.
Yet, Facebook is aware of both my age and my faith. And I get absolutely NO job ads on Facebook.
That could be due to your age plus religion, or it could be (gasp!) just due to your age, as the article asserts. Your age may or may not be the only reason, but it seems clear that it may be enough of a reason all by itself.
While the primary focus of this thread may be age discrimination in Facebook ads, I would say that my own experience is that it also extends to religious discrimination.
You have failed to prove your point that your religion is relevant to the discussion. Do you have any evidence that your religion -- by itself -- has led to greater discrimination by the companies mentioned in the article, or that you have received fewer job ads than you otherwise would? Remember, the point of the article is that being 50+ itself is reason enough to avoid showing you the ads, so really the onus is on you to demonstrate that you're receiving fewer than zero ads in order to prove your point.
Moreover, you have consistently injected your religion into this at every step, and you have bravely chosen to do so as an Anonymous Coward.
Anti-Christian discrimination is every bit as bad in tech as is age discrimination.
I don't think being a Christian is the reason your original post was marked as flamebait. No, not that at all.
It's not about discrimination, it's about keeping the discussion on-point. Your religion is irrelevant, despite your protests elsewhere on this thread.
We are talking about:
People working in an IT-related field? check
People who are over 50? check
People who use Facebook or other social media where directed advertising occurs? check
People who get fewer job ads than the rest of us? check
Per your own statements, you hit all of those points. There's nothing on that list regarding religion. You have plenty of other viable and valuable points of relevance to bring to the discussion. You should have checked your religion at the door where you came in because it's not on the agenda today.
It looks like you're only partially informed. OP responded to someone else with more background on the difference between east and west Papua and how you're talking about two different things.
because of the really impressive camera and the module system
If you like modules on your phone, take a look at the Motorola Z series. Current modules include an optical zoom camera, projector, speaker, batteries, etc.
And in this particular situation, the driver would have had to keep that pedal jammed for a long time and through lots of chaos. Look at the setup where the accident happened. The car had to first jump the curb, which takes a lot of force and gives the driver plenty of feedback that something is very wrong, and then still managed to run across the entire sidewalk area and hit the building with enough force to embed itself almost fully through the wall.
I think you seriously over-estimate people's abilities to correct themselves, and how long it takes these events to unfold
In most pedal errors, the first instinct is to press harder on the pedal. Remember, the person generally thinks they have their foot on the brake, now the car is moving -- better push on that "brake" pedal harder.
In addition to that confused impulse, the car (which is under heavy or full acceleration at this point) can traverse quite some distance before you can even physically react. At 10 mph you cover 14.6 feet per second -- so in the time it takes for you to recognize what's wrong, remove your foot from the accelerator, and begin pushing on the brake, reasonably about 2 seconds, you've already covered 30+ feet -- but by the end of that 2 seconds you're already moving at 20 mph or more (or have already crashed into a stationary object).
A few years back, as my wife finished parking our car, the parked car opposite suddenly lurched over the curb, across an embankment that is wider than the sidewalk you referenced, over another curb, and into the front end of our car. The driver, an older gentleman in his 80s, was understandably horrified. It was a clear case of mistaking the gas and brake while getting ready to leave, as well as mistaking forward and reverse. Nobody was hurt, but our car was totalled, and the gentleman never drove again. The point to the story is, these things happen faster than you imagine.
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Well, the employer is paying you to get a job done.
You are fulfilling doing that job, they didn't say you had to sweat over it or spend grueling hours doing it...they just want the results.
<snip>
But you are not cheating...you are giving them the return other money, and if you can do that and still have "YOU" time to do relaxing things, fun things, or even make more money on the side, there's nothing wrong with that.
Your automation has given you your time back to do with as you see fit....while still meeting your obligations.
Better than sweating your ass off outside in the summer digging a ditch....
I think your premise is wrong. If you take too long to perform a task (for most jobs) your employer doesn't demand you give money back. If your task takes you an hour you're paid for an hour. If that same task takes you two hours, you're paid for two hours. That's considered a cost of doing business.
There's an agreement, generally implicit, between you and your employer: you put in effort, whether it be physical, mental, or emotional, for a time and you get paid for it, and in return you get paid for your time even when you're not being as productive because you're still learning or have some other insufficiency.
By automating your job and not seeking other tasks, you're breaking that agreement. Sure, overall productivity hasn't changed but what you're doing isn't fair when you consider what your employer does for you (whether by choice or by law).
I think that a higher base-education level, especially a bunch of Msc's or better*, would be able to put their heads together and come up with something better than the dog-and-pony show that we have now. They might come up with less intrusive methods that don't violate civil liberties and yet actually work.
With better methods in place, the people employed by the TSA would generally have more interest in their jobs and better motivation to do them well, and have better attitudes as a result. Feeling like they actually matter, and not feeling despised by the general population, would help as well.
*It's true that education does not guarantee intelligence but it does correlate pretty well.
What about when you destroy the parent? You've effectively orphaned its children. Now thats some pretty nasty nomenclature.
If the child kills the parent then you're supposed to rename the child process to Oedipus.
More to the point, people practice slavery today. It's not just historical, it's current events.
Never mind prison, where the slavery is legalized. Girls and women are bought and sold as sex slaves; migrants are imported to work, only to have their passports confiscated; just regular old sweat shop slavery by people who get caught up with trying to lead a better life than the farm and can't get out.
US, Europe, Dubai, China, India, Brazil, Nigeria: it doesn't matter if you're in a rich country or poor. If there are people to exploit, there are other people there ready willing and able to do the exploitation.
> Can we now conclude that porn is science?
Why porn and not sex?
Porn is research. Sex is applied engineering.
S3 is object storage, not a database. While AWS offers front-ends like Athena to query it, it's still a file system.
All file systems are a type of database. It may be simplistic, and you don't typically query it with a built-in language, but it's a database just as much as memcached or Berkeley DB/Sleepycat are databases.
You're not alone. I use Live Bookmarks daily.
Like others are saying, I hope it remains available through a plug in because it will be sorely missed. If not, it's departure won't be enough to make me switch to another browser as my daily driver, but it will impact my experience negatively.
That's what YouTube is for.
The purchased company always pays for the acquisition nowadays, and the sooner the better.
A common strategy is to have the company you just purchased take out a bunch of debt in order to pay you back for the honor of being owned by you. They are then responsible for paying the debt back, while you walk off to the bank with your profit up front.
I don't think the complaint is about external power adapters per se, it's that those wall-wart adapters have a terrible form-factor. They only work well if you're plugging one (and only one) into a wall-mounted receptacle, and that wall outlet is oriented in a specific way. Two won't work, as they typically try to face the same way and the top one interferes with the bottom one.
They also don't work so well if the receptacle is sideways, or upside-down, even though technically there is no required orientation for installing the receptacle. Their orientation prevents more than a couple from being plugged in to a typical "vertical" power strip, and if you're using a side-by-side orientation some will interfere with the plugs to either side because they're so wide.
A better design would incorporate a short cord; that cord could include a third prong to increase safety. Now your wall-wart can sit on the floor and co-exist with other adapters no matter what they're all plugged into. Wall-mounted receptacle and power strip are all fine.
By the time she got back to the West, she hadn't had cow's milk in over two years, so her body had lost the ability to process lactose entirely, leaving her well and truly lactose intolerant at that point.
This doesn't sound right to me. You can't prevent lactose intolerance by drinking more milk -- if that worked then I wouldn't be lactose intolerant today. By the same token, you can't induce lactose intolerance by removing lactose.
Your body will produce lactase according to your genes. Humans are weird that so many of us continue to produce it through adulthood, but even so less than half of us do. Most mammals lose it shortly after weaning. It's normal for humans to lose it right around the beginning of adulthood, which is right about the time your girlfriend stopped being able to drink milk too.
You mean the Larken Rose the tax denialist?
Disclaimer: I'm not OP
I like the Moon because it's close, if things go sideways then a resupply or rescue mission is only a couple of days away. The atmosphere on Mars isn't particularly helpful, and for all practical reasons it may as well be a vacuum because you can't survive exposure very long. It would be better as a vacuum, in fact, because then you wouldn't get wind and dust storms that can really screw your day.
I have to agree that OP is nuts in suggesting that asteroid mining comes before Mars, though. Maybe s/he doesn't understand that the asteroid belt is both further away than Mars and very, very sparse.
Many people seem to think of Star Trek / Star Wars asteroid belts which may as well be solid, but our solar system's belt is made up a planet-sized mass spread out along a couple-of-hundred-million-mile loop, i.e. there are hundred and thousands of kilometers between pebbles, never mind boulders, and the mine-able size asteroids are few and far between in human scales.
WTF? It's not April 1. The Onion? Nope, the Wash Post.
Not even the WaPo, which is respectable. It's the Washington Times, owned by a church and operated as a conservative semi-mouthpiece and occasional purveyor of junk "news" like GP's article for audiences with little to no critical thinking skills.
Git Version Control File System
Make it less git-specific. VCFS - Version Control File System.
Imagine a file-system-centric-way to talk to git, Subversion, Mercurial, pretty much any VCS without caring (much*) what the semantics of the underlying VCS are.
* there are system-specific limitations, e.g. you can easily mount deeply into svn but not so much into git without a complex emulation.
So, if a person of color, or an LGBTQ person, were to say that they were older AND those things, and faced discrimination, would you be so quick to dismiss them?
Because it kind of seems that your issue is with religion, and seem to be rather dismissive both of it and anyone who has religious beliefs, to the point of being somewhat biased against them.
Which is the GP's original point, I believe. That attitudes such as yours are biased to the point of becoming discriminatory.
Where did I dismiss anyone based on their class? Not the original AC and not any of the groups that you mentioned.
I don't deny that there is discrimination, in fact I think it's a huge problem. I don't really appreciate when someone tries to claim false discrimination, which I believe the original AC seems intent on doing, as it cheapens every legitimate claim. A presumably white, middle-aged, middle-class, Christian male in the USA is hardly in need of protection, and I strongly doubt that he actually suffers unfair discrimination based on his class as a religious follower. If he suffers discrimination it's probably based on his personal attributes, not his class.
All that is irrelevant, however, as TFA is about age discrimination and my intent has been, and continues to be, getting this conversation back on track.
So, off topic? Not at all.
A brief reading of the article showed no mention of religious bias in the current lawsuit.
Your own extract from the summary talks about past acts that Facebook was sued for. It does demonstrate that Facebook has a history of targeting ads using various discriminatory criteria, but the article is about how employers are buying ads that target the young. Not the young and atheist, not the young and muslim, but the young and technically minded.
GP's clumsy attempt to inject religion seems to be nothing more than someone trying to make the conversation about their favorite subject - themselves - because they apparently have nothing useful to add. What's interesting, though, is GP would seem to have plenty to add without bringing religion into this - IT, over 50, uses social media - so why not stick to the discussion and share their relevant experiences?
Wow. Butthurt much?
The point of my original post is that age + being a Christian is one heck of a combination when it comes to bias and discrimination in technology.
Though I would tend dispute your assertion that religion itself leads to discrimination in IT, I did not make any such assertions. My only assertion is that you're bringing irrelevant facts into the conversation.
That you consider your own discriminatory bias to be legitimate is also telling.
Where, exactly, did I show "discriminatory bias"? Where did I say that you are not discriminated against unfairly due to your religion? Please point out the statement(s) where I said that in my original message.
FWIW, I don't have any mod points ATM and I have not down-voted any of your comments. I sure wish I had some now, though.
Yet, Facebook is aware of both my age and my faith. And I get absolutely NO job ads on Facebook.
That could be due to your age plus religion, or it could be (gasp!) just due to your age, as the article asserts. Your age may or may not be the only reason, but it seems clear that it may be enough of a reason all by itself.
While the primary focus of this thread may be age discrimination in Facebook ads, I would say that my own experience is that it also extends to religious discrimination.
You have failed to prove your point that your religion is relevant to the discussion. Do you have any evidence that your religion -- by itself -- has led to greater discrimination by the companies mentioned in the article, or that you have received fewer job ads than you otherwise would? Remember, the point of the article is that being 50+ itself is reason enough to avoid showing you the ads, so really the onus is on you to demonstrate that you're receiving fewer than zero ads in order to prove your point.
Moreover, you have consistently injected your religion into this at every step, and you have bravely chosen to do so as an Anonymous Coward.
Anti-Christian discrimination is every bit as bad in tech as is age discrimination.
I don't think being a Christian is the reason your original post was marked as flamebait. No, not that at all.
It's not about discrimination, it's about keeping the discussion on-point. Your religion is irrelevant, despite your protests elsewhere on this thread.
We are talking about:
Per your own statements, you hit all of those points. There's nothing on that list regarding religion. You have plenty of other viable and valuable points of relevance to bring to the discussion. You should have checked your religion at the door where you came in because it's not on the agenda today.
PNG was a former Dutch colony...
It looks like you're only partially informed. OP responded to someone else with more background on the difference between east and west Papua and how you're talking about two different things.
Keeping multiple paper copies in sync is a nightmare.
A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
because of the really impressive camera and the module system
If you like modules on your phone, take a look at the Motorola Z series. Current modules include an optical zoom camera, projector, speaker, batteries, etc.
And in this particular situation, the driver would have had to keep that pedal jammed for a long time and through lots of chaos. Look at the setup where the accident happened. The car had to first jump the curb, which takes a lot of force and gives the driver plenty of feedback that something is very wrong, and then still managed to run across the entire sidewalk area and hit the building with enough force to embed itself almost fully through the wall.
I think you seriously over-estimate people's abilities to correct themselves, and how long it takes these events to unfold
In most pedal errors, the first instinct is to press harder on the pedal. Remember, the person generally thinks they have their foot on the brake, now the car is moving -- better push on that "brake" pedal harder.
In addition to that confused impulse, the car (which is under heavy or full acceleration at this point) can traverse quite some distance before you can even physically react. At 10 mph you cover 14.6 feet per second -- so in the time it takes for you to recognize what's wrong, remove your foot from the accelerator, and begin pushing on the brake, reasonably about 2 seconds, you've already covered 30+ feet -- but by the end of that 2 seconds you're already moving at 20 mph or more (or have already crashed into a stationary object).
A few years back, as my wife finished parking our car, the parked car opposite suddenly lurched over the curb, across an embankment that is wider than the sidewalk you referenced, over another curb, and into the front end of our car. The driver, an older gentleman in his 80s, was understandably horrified. It was a clear case of mistaking the gas and brake while getting ready to leave, as well as mistaking forward and reverse. Nobody was hurt, but our car was totalled, and the gentleman never drove again. The point to the story is, these things happen faster than you imagine.
A long term contract exchanging sexual intimacy for financial support is known as a "marriage"
There are millions of so-called "dead bedrooms" that would like you to re-examine your assumptions, mate
The one really annoying piece for me is that the main window tooltips stay up too long (like the Refresh button).
I didn't notice that until I read your comment, and now it's making me nuts.