Person sees outreach campaign. Thinks, "there's a controversy?" Goes to look it up online. Sees that 99 out of the first 100 links are about vaccines being evil. Thinks, "I did my research, so my position against vaccination is sound!"
Bring a lawsuit to the courts, and the courts get to decide based on the law. When the laws are vague or contradict each other, then the courts decide. Nothing wrong with that. The legislature has the ability to change the laws however if they don't like the courts ruling. Nothing wrong with that either. Nobody ever has the final word.
Everyone says they want a business guy in office. But Trump isn't really what they meant, he's a real estate wheeler and dealer and has a privately owned business staffed by friends and family. The voters probably had in mind someone like a CEO of a large fortune 500 company.
But even then, being a successful CEO at a major successful company does not mean that person knows how to run a country. The skill sets do no overlap very much, other than how to manage a large organization (hire a chief of stuff and that job's done). The goals of a company are vastly different from the goals of a country. A business wants to make a profit, it's budget is about minimizing expenses, maximizing profits, and so forth. A country wants ot provide security and quality of life to its residents; there should be no profit making there.
Capitalism requires a government to keep it working. Left to its own devices it breaks down and forms monopolies and trusts and stifles competition. The goal of "make money by any means necessary" needs to be tempered by rules, such as "don't steal from your competitors", "don't cheat your customers", "don't dump your plutonium in the river", and "don't lubricate your machines with the blood of your workers".
Resumes are useless in my experience. They're full of exagerations or outright lies most of the time. To evaluate a candidate you must talk to the person.
I used to be asked regularly about all the obscure error messages that G++ would spit out. I wasn't even the best C++ expert out there. The messages were obscure enough that it took some understanding of what happens behind the scenes to figure them out. There's a level of the language that you need to understand before you can really make use of the language.
Now I'm all on C, and a lot of the people I've worked with in the area are self taught, or EE, etc. And man, there is a lot of deja-vu at seeing a rehash of code that looks like it's from 1977. I've had someone who was very competent in the job normally, saw a function declaration I wrote for a new project and said "we don't have to use any of that 'const' crap we?" And then suddenly there's an argument with two people claiming const was useless and that it "never uncovered any bugs" (real quote). Wow. Seriously, you need to know the language you work with - you don't have to memorize the standard but at least make an attempt to read it once.
The reason I ask about minutiae is because they're not minutiae. I ask what should be easy to understand for anyone who claims to have worked with embedded systems for 20 years, and to make sure I will not be hand holding the person and giving tutorials on how to program. I ask people with glowing resumes how they can clear a bit in a word and they get it wrong 9 times out of 10. I ask about day to day skills instead of advanced topics because my standards have dropped lower and lower over the years.
Coding is not a meritocracy. If it were, then I would not see morons everywhere I look coding up pieces of crap. You can indeed fake it, there are people passing for competent every day in every company. If you look around and you only see brilliant people, you may be the exception.
No one ever said that was how the hiring was going to go. When people say they want a balance it does not mean there will be quotas. Women are equally capable at programming. Get a broad perspective of resumes and start interviewing.
Merit based hiring is a myth. Everywhere I have ever worked there are morons at all elvels. They did not get the jobs through a practice of only hiring the most qualified. Instead you get friends of employees getting recommended; you get a huge boost in employability merely by being recommended, even if the person is a moron. So why not hire the qualified female instead of choosing Bob's college buddy with the C+ average?
Rule one, you don't force diversity. Rule two, you don't stand in the way of diversity. Unfortunately most companies do one or the other.
There's nothing wrong with going to QA and saying "please, the last 10,000 resumes you sent my way were all male, can you maybe mix it up a bit?" Getting applicants involves marketing, no one just sits around and waits for resumes to show up in the mail. There's always outreach, attendance at job fairs, and so on.
These aren't necessary programmers - they don't produce, design, or market the games. If you want to make more games to appeal to the rising female gaming community then you don't really fix that at the programmer level.
Well I don't think they put their most capable QA on it. The most capable QA team has been there a long time, and it would be foolish to pull them off their project that they're experts on and put them on a brand new hardware platform ("uh, boss, you know we're software QA and not hardware, right?").
And QA doesn't matter if the management doesn't follow through and fix the bugs and put a premium on quality. Quality at Microsoft has always been an afterthought. Improving quality gets in the way of constantly adding new and useless features. When in history has any customer said "wow, this Microsoft product is high quality!" That's not saying the products are outright bad, they may be useful but customers have learned to live with the hiccups and lack of polish.
They had a BBC quiz about which recent crazy quotes were from Trump and which were from Kim Jong Un. It was way too easy: short simplistic sentences were from Trump.
It's from a sonic device, beyond his range of hearing, sending him subliminal messages that Obama was a lizard bent on world destruction and Trump was sent back in time to stop him, but Trump got distracted by reality TV and forgot his mission for 8 years.
I miss the Radio Shack 100-in-1 electronics kit. I was way to young to understand a lot of things in it, even after reading the manual, so it was mostly following existing instructions and whenever I made my own design it never worked. Now though I know the math and things would make much more sense. The only similar kits I see in stores tend to be very dumbed down and for one project only.
For chemistry set, I got a hand me down from the high school chemistry teacher who gave it to my dad. So the cooler chemicals were partially used up and others had gotten some moisture. But it was very much a 60s era set with glass containers instead of plastic.
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Person sees outreach campaign. Thinks, "there's a controversy?" Goes to look it up online. Sees that 99 out of the first 100 links are about vaccines being evil. Thinks, "I did my research, so my position against vaccination is sound!"
Need to actually recruit better, that's the problem. If you only use internal referrals then you get biased.
Bring a lawsuit to the courts, and the courts get to decide based on the law. When the laws are vague or contradict each other, then the courts decide. Nothing wrong with that. The legislature has the ability to change the laws however if they don't like the courts ruling. Nothing wrong with that either. Nobody ever has the final word.
Everyone says they want a business guy in office. But Trump isn't really what they meant, he's a real estate wheeler and dealer and has a privately owned business staffed by friends and family. The voters probably had in mind someone like a CEO of a large fortune 500 company.
But even then, being a successful CEO at a major successful company does not mean that person knows how to run a country. The skill sets do no overlap very much, other than how to manage a large organization (hire a chief of stuff and that job's done). The goals of a company are vastly different from the goals of a country. A business wants to make a profit, it's budget is about minimizing expenses, maximizing profits, and so forth. A country wants ot provide security and quality of life to its residents; there should be no profit making there.
Capitalism requires a government to keep it working. Left to its own devices it breaks down and forms monopolies and trusts and stifles competition. The goal of "make money by any means necessary" needs to be tempered by rules, such as "don't steal from your competitors", "don't cheat your customers", "don't dump your plutonium in the river", and "don't lubricate your machines with the blood of your workers".
Maybe her male coworkers did too.
Resumes are useless in my experience. They're full of exagerations or outright lies most of the time. To evaluate a candidate you must talk to the person.
I used to be asked regularly about all the obscure error messages that G++ would spit out. I wasn't even the best C++ expert out there. The messages were obscure enough that it took some understanding of what happens behind the scenes to figure them out. There's a level of the language that you need to understand before you can really make use of the language.
Now I'm all on C, and a lot of the people I've worked with in the area are self taught, or EE, etc. And man, there is a lot of deja-vu at seeing a rehash of code that looks like it's from 1977. I've had someone who was very competent in the job normally, saw a function declaration I wrote for a new project and said "we don't have to use any of that 'const' crap we?" And then suddenly there's an argument with two people claiming const was useless and that it "never uncovered any bugs" (real quote). Wow. Seriously, you need to know the language you work with - you don't have to memorize the standard but at least make an attempt to read it once.
The reason I ask about minutiae is because they're not minutiae. I ask what should be easy to understand for anyone who claims to have worked with embedded systems for 20 years, and to make sure I will not be hand holding the person and giving tutorials on how to program. I ask people with glowing resumes how they can clear a bit in a word and they get it wrong 9 times out of 10. I ask about day to day skills instead of advanced topics because my standards have dropped lower and lower over the years.
Coding is not a meritocracy. If it were, then I would not see morons everywhere I look coding up pieces of crap. You can indeed fake it, there are people passing for competent every day in every company. If you look around and you only see brilliant people, you may be the exception.
No one ever said that was how the hiring was going to go. When people say they want a balance it does not mean there will be quotas. Women are equally capable at programming. Get a broad perspective of resumes and start interviewing.
Merit based hiring is a myth. Everywhere I have ever worked there are morons at all elvels. They did not get the jobs through a practice of only hiring the most qualified. Instead you get friends of employees getting recommended; you get a huge boost in employability merely by being recommended, even if the person is a moron. So why not hire the qualified female instead of choosing Bob's college buddy with the C+ average?
Rule one, you don't force diversity. Rule two, you don't stand in the way of diversity. Unfortunately most companies do one or the other.
There's nothing wrong with going to QA and saying "please, the last 10,000 resumes you sent my way were all male, can you maybe mix it up a bit?" Getting applicants involves marketing, no one just sits around and waits for resumes to show up in the mail. There's always outreach, attendance at job fairs, and so on.
These aren't necessary programmers - they don't produce, design, or market the games. If you want to make more games to appeal to the rising female gaming community then you don't really fix that at the programmer level.
Isn't it good enough reason to say "because they're equivalent programmers"?
Well I don't think they put their most capable QA on it. The most capable QA team has been there a long time, and it would be foolish to pull them off their project that they're experts on and put them on a brand new hardware platform ("uh, boss, you know we're software QA and not hardware, right?").
And QA doesn't matter if the management doesn't follow through and fix the bugs and put a premium on quality. Quality at Microsoft has always been an afterthought. Improving quality gets in the way of constantly adding new and useless features. When in history has any customer said "wow, this Microsoft product is high quality!" That's not saying the products are outright bad, they may be useful but customers have learned to live with the hiccups and lack of polish.
I gave Surface Pro to all my Mac and Linux developers. Profits plummeted!
I got hearing loss listening to cable news shows.
Or the electronic whine from the 60s era transformers/tubes in the listening devices caused the problem.
They had a BBC quiz about which recent crazy quotes were from Trump and which were from Kim Jong Un. It was way too easy: short simplistic sentences were from Trump.
I laugh every time someone here on slashdot posts a Youtube video link and says "here watch this, it will change your mind and prove I'm right!"
It's from a sonic device, beyond his range of hearing, sending him subliminal messages that Obama was a lizard bent on world destruction and Trump was sent back in time to stop him, but Trump got distracted by reality TV and forgot his mission for 8 years.
"Honey, do you remember where I put my car keys?"
Sounds like my pet bee, Eric.
Damn kids, get off my lawn!
I miss the Radio Shack 100-in-1 electronics kit. I was way to young to understand a lot of things in it, even after reading the manual, so it was mostly following existing instructions and whenever I made my own design it never worked. Now though I know the math and things would make much more sense. The only similar kits I see in stores tend to be very dumbed down and for one project only.
For chemistry set, I got a hand me down from the high school chemistry teacher who gave it to my dad. So the cooler chemicals were partially used up and others had gotten some moisture. But it was very much a 60s era set with glass containers instead of plastic.
It's Just a high tech pet rock, but not as useful.
I think Apple just assumes every customer turns on GPS because all Apple customers think alike.