But you can have inefficient small things and efficient big things. A wood fired small auto spewing out a huge amount of carbon compared to a hybrid large truck that has regenerative breaking and computer controlled ignition timing.
I'm in Silicon Valley so I don't know what's up in other parts of the world. Even here it's spotty as it's become a hotbed of social startups rather than real engineering, but every company selling a device needs some embedded development.
The distaste is rational. They are inefficient to use and inefficient to render an idea. Having an official list is amazingly irrational. If your ideas are correct then having an official list (like the unicode emojis) is highly counterproductive compared to just drawing your own pictograph.
Sure, *some* pictographs are fine. The exclamation point and question mark are essentially symbols to represent something not easily rendered in words. A smiley face is a very simple clue to the writer's emotions (as in, don't take the meaning literally). However an emoji of a cat, a pile of poop, an animated winking face instead of;-), and thousands upon thousands of others to choose from is ridiculous. The meaning is lost beyond that of "I spent 5 minutes trying to find a cute emoji".
I used to ask the harder stuff, but I am finding extremely few people who can do simple coding. They all look good on paper though. But today's programming is all about knowing how to do function calls to pre-built libraries. Especially CS graduates, they're just awful at programming at a low level. The EE people won't know what big-Oh notation means but they know how to read and write code that implements data structures. So ya, reverse a list, it's stupidly simple but I'm amazed at how many people list C/C++ on their resume who can't figure that out. Or they say "there are libraries to do that" (ya, but what if you're core dumping in that library and it's your job to fix it quickly). We've got enough idea people who sit around doing nothing, it's good to have people who can do stuff.
I mean even if someone does not know the answer, how come they can't even imagine an answer? How come they're having trouble just setting up a loop, or they miss all the obvious corner cases? These are questions that everyone who codes in C for an embedded system should know the answers to. I don't want to hire someone with 10 years of C experience only to have me end up tutoring them in C.
There's a lot of resume inflation out there. They'll like 5 years of working with ARM, and yet know nothing about ARM. 5 years of writing device drivers and yet not know how to clear a bit in a register. But they'll list all 27 source code control systems they've ever used, every CPU they've ever seen, and point out that they they won the six sigma award at their previous company.
In my experience, stock options are a pain. Work 3 to 5 years, earn an extra ten thousand dollars overall from the options. It is rare to make a ton of money from options. Always get the salary up front. And don't let the options tie you down if you don't like the job, because I've seen people stick around depressed hoping that their big bonus will come in next year.
Huh? I still don't know what MDM is without following that link. We're a bunch of engineers and high tech people, here, unused to the low tech social media smart phone culture.
Because the US economy sucks. Unless you're a crony capitalist. The media doesn't see this because they see economic reports that look good, and when they see that wages in the US have not increased even though the economy "grew" they shrug it off as an interesting side note.
The US economy is about increasing the wealth of the owners and not at all about increasing wealth of the workers or their spending capacity. Grow, grow, and keep growing, even if that means being a traitor. Sure, sell goods and products to third world countries, but don't sell off the jobs.
OS/2 Warp was great. Windows at the time was junk. OS/2 would have been Windows if Microsoft hadn't abandoned the partnership and gone their own way. True, IBM wasn't the greatest of companies at times but they did have a better grasp of the big picture beyond a simplistic "make it run applications".
To be honest, I liked Enterprise. At least the first season. I was not too fond of Voyager or even Deep Space 9. The concept of being less high tech and more of a bumbling about the universe experiment wasn't a bad one. The problem came from the mixing up or ignoring the "lore" of the whole Star Trek universe, however that screw up began at the very beginning of the orignal series, it was not an invention by Enterprise.
Maybe, but HP really should never have gotten into a commodity PC business. It's not really a high tech sort of thing except for some small parts here and there. No need for a design team, no need for innovation, with clones all you have to do is copy and put on some makeup.
Who is accusing anyone of being sexist for being a gamer? And who is damaging an "art" form? Certainly Depression Quest did not damage the art form or prevent anyone from playing any game they want, yet that's when this whole thing started to blow up.
However, there ARE sexist games. What's wrong with pointing this out? Why dump a boatload of hate one someone who points out the standard tropes in video games that are sexist? No one is censoring you from playing those games, they're just pointing out the problems in those games. If some game devs decide to change their game in the next release to not be as sexist, then what's wrong with that? Maybe they want to appeal to a larger market than adolescent teens.
Except that it isn't true. The journalist in question never gave a review, favorable or otherwise, for any of Zoe Quinns games. Whether she slept with a journalist or not is utterly irrelevant. The man who went public was a jilted boyfriend, and in my experience you just can't trust either party to tell the truth after a breakup. All this photographic evidence or whatnot is just so similar to all sorts of conspiracy theories, from JFK to the moon landing.
There have been ethics problems with all online journals, gaming or not, for years, so why have it all blow up now? Because Zoe Quinn was already a deeply hated person by a segment of gamers.
And you *know* if it was a guy who slept with a female journalist that it would not have been a scandal, and many of these people would be cheering him on instead. In most of today's cultures, men are allowed to be unfaithful but women are not.
You may think that gamergate is about ethics, and it was only about ethics for a couple of days. After that it became about something else. Shouting about getting back to the original topic is pointless. It's like complaining that Watergate should have been only about a break in at one hotel, or that Whitewatergate should have had nothing to do with Monica. The story grew and changed and that's just how it is. In the public's mind, gamergate is about misogyny in gaming. Unfortunately we don't have any convenient hashtags to slap on the ongoing problem of misogyny in gaming and tech (whether or not you believe it exists).
The gamergate folks are the ones who are doxxing women they hate, stalking, sending death threats. That may not be what the original "it's about the ethics!" people thought it was in the first few hours of gamergate, but that's what it turned into.
The whole point of gamergate is that it was based on a lie; the lie from Zoe Quinn's ex that she was sleeping with a journalist. Which has no evidence of being true. However if it was a guy who slept with a female journalist I can guarantee you that these gamers would have said "way to go dude!" But a lot of gamers already hated Zoe because she had a non traditional game, so they were inclined to believe the lies. The journalist in question never reviewed her game anyway, so it couldn't have been about the ethics. The whole thing really boils down to a few people who hate Zoe Quinn and others from the deep recesses of their souls. I don't know why this hate is there, but it is clear. Every time any story about women shows up on Slashdot they come out of the woodwork repeating the hatred, and Slashdot is the most mild of all the forums.
There's nothing left or right wing here. Is about a group of people who hate certain women. When there's a youtube video where some moron says "here she is flapping her lips again instead of using them to suck a dick", is that *really* the sort of gamergate people that you want to be associated with? That's an attitude that should have died out before we crawled out of caves. I say let the market decide, if you don't like her games then just don't play them rather than start an online jihad.
Media corruption has been around for decades. It only turned into gamergate because someone's jilted posted a bunch of lies and it exploded when all those basement dwellers felt offended that a woman should dump a guy that seemed so thoughtful and well spoken in his drunken rant. And besides, even though this journalist didn't even do any reviews of her games, he *could* have and that's what matters. But 10 people still believe that gamergate is still about ethics in journalism when the rest of the world moved beyond and focused on the harrassment and misogyny behind it all. And every single time anything related to gamergate shows up you see the same thing - a tiny number of people who up and say "it's not about misogyny" even though the misogyny shows up in force with stalking, death threats, hate posts, etc.
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But you can have inefficient small things and efficient big things. A wood fired small auto spewing out a huge amount of carbon compared to a hybrid large truck that has regenerative breaking and computer controlled ignition timing.
Threat to the Koch brothers? I hope so.
I'm in Silicon Valley so I don't know what's up in other parts of the world. Even here it's spotty as it's become a hotbed of social startups rather than real engineering, but every company selling a device needs some embedded development.
The distaste is rational. They are inefficient to use and inefficient to render an idea. Having an official list is amazingly irrational. If your ideas are correct then having an official list (like the unicode emojis) is highly counterproductive compared to just drawing your own pictograph.
Sure, *some* pictographs are fine. The exclamation point and question mark are essentially symbols to represent something not easily rendered in words. A smiley face is a very simple clue to the writer's emotions (as in, don't take the meaning literally). However an emoji of a cat, a pile of poop, an animated winking face instead of ;-), and thousands upon thousands of others to choose from is ridiculous. The meaning is lost beyond that of "I spent 5 minutes trying to find a cute emoji".
I used to ask the harder stuff, but I am finding extremely few people who can do simple coding. They all look good on paper though. But today's programming is all about knowing how to do function calls to pre-built libraries. Especially CS graduates, they're just awful at programming at a low level. The EE people won't know what big-Oh notation means but they know how to read and write code that implements data structures. So ya, reverse a list, it's stupidly simple but I'm amazed at how many people list C/C++ on their resume who can't figure that out. Or they say "there are libraries to do that" (ya, but what if you're core dumping in that library and it's your job to fix it quickly). We've got enough idea people who sit around doing nothing, it's good to have people who can do stuff.
I mean even if someone does not know the answer, how come they can't even imagine an answer? How come they're having trouble just setting up a loop, or they miss all the obvious corner cases? These are questions that everyone who codes in C for an embedded system should know the answers to. I don't want to hire someone with 10 years of C experience only to have me end up tutoring them in C.
There's a lot of resume inflation out there. They'll like 5 years of working with ARM, and yet know nothing about ARM. 5 years of writing device drivers and yet not know how to clear a bit in a register. But they'll list all 27 source code control systems they've ever used, every CPU they've ever seen, and point out that they they won the six sigma award at their previous company.
In my experience, stock options are a pain. Work 3 to 5 years, earn an extra ten thousand dollars overall from the options. It is rare to make a ton of money from options. Always get the salary up front. And don't let the options tie you down if you don't like the job, because I've seen people stick around depressed hoping that their big bonus will come in next year.
No way! I'm in the phone book. And I refuse to serve if picked randomly.
Ie, you can hire dumber programmers in order to make dumber programs.
A can see why you're anonymous.
If it's Sprint's phone, then Sprint should be the one paying for it.
Huh? I still don't know what MDM is without following that link. We're a bunch of engineers and high tech people, here, unused to the low tech social media smart phone culture.
Well, you could make it run applications in a smart way, or a better way. Or you could just be DOS and forget about it.
Because the US economy sucks. Unless you're a crony capitalist. The media doesn't see this because they see economic reports that look good, and when they see that wages in the US have not increased even though the economy "grew" they shrug it off as an interesting side note.
The US economy is about increasing the wealth of the owners and not at all about increasing wealth of the workers or their spending capacity. Grow, grow, and keep growing, even if that means being a traitor. Sure, sell goods and products to third world countries, but don't sell off the jobs.
Because... Internet! Social Media! CandyCrush! Don't be so 2014.
We had a discussion of this topic at the latest tautology club meeting.
OS/2 Warp was great. Windows at the time was junk. OS/2 would have been Windows if Microsoft hadn't abandoned the partnership and gone their own way. True, IBM wasn't the greatest of companies at times but they did have a better grasp of the big picture beyond a simplistic "make it run applications".
To be honest, I liked Enterprise. At least the first season. I was not too fond of Voyager or even Deep Space 9. The concept of being less high tech and more of a bumbling about the universe experiment wasn't a bad one. The problem came from the mixing up or ignoring the "lore" of the whole Star Trek universe, however that screw up began at the very beginning of the orignal series, it was not an invention by Enterprise.
However the racists moved out of the KKK and into other groups that didn't act like clowns.
Maybe, but HP really should never have gotten into a commodity PC business. It's not really a high tech sort of thing except for some small parts here and there. No need for a design team, no need for innovation, with clones all you have to do is copy and put on some makeup.
Who is accusing anyone of being sexist for being a gamer? And who is damaging an "art" form? Certainly Depression Quest did not damage the art form or prevent anyone from playing any game they want, yet that's when this whole thing started to blow up.
However, there ARE sexist games. What's wrong with pointing this out? Why dump a boatload of hate one someone who points out the standard tropes in video games that are sexist? No one is censoring you from playing those games, they're just pointing out the problems in those games. If some game devs decide to change their game in the next release to not be as sexist, then what's wrong with that? Maybe they want to appeal to a larger market than adolescent teens.
Except that it isn't true. The journalist in question never gave a review, favorable or otherwise, for any of Zoe Quinns games. Whether she slept with a journalist or not is utterly irrelevant. The man who went public was a jilted boyfriend, and in my experience you just can't trust either party to tell the truth after a breakup. All this photographic evidence or whatnot is just so similar to all sorts of conspiracy theories, from JFK to the moon landing.
There have been ethics problems with all online journals, gaming or not, for years, so why have it all blow up now? Because Zoe Quinn was already a deeply hated person by a segment of gamers.
And you *know* if it was a guy who slept with a female journalist that it would not have been a scandal, and many of these people would be cheering him on instead. In most of today's cultures, men are allowed to be unfaithful but women are not.
You may think that gamergate is about ethics, and it was only about ethics for a couple of days. After that it became about something else. Shouting about getting back to the original topic is pointless. It's like complaining that Watergate should have been only about a break in at one hotel, or that Whitewatergate should have had nothing to do with Monica. The story grew and changed and that's just how it is. In the public's mind, gamergate is about misogyny in gaming. Unfortunately we don't have any convenient hashtags to slap on the ongoing problem of misogyny in gaming and tech (whether or not you believe it exists).
The gamergate folks are the ones who are doxxing women they hate, stalking, sending death threats. That may not be what the original "it's about the ethics!" people thought it was in the first few hours of gamergate, but that's what it turned into.
The whole point of gamergate is that it was based on a lie; the lie from Zoe Quinn's ex that she was sleeping with a journalist. Which has no evidence of being true. However if it was a guy who slept with a female journalist I can guarantee you that these gamers would have said "way to go dude!" But a lot of gamers already hated Zoe because she had a non traditional game, so they were inclined to believe the lies. The journalist in question never reviewed her game anyway, so it couldn't have been about the ethics. The whole thing really boils down to a few people who hate Zoe Quinn and others from the deep recesses of their souls. I don't know why this hate is there, but it is clear. Every time any story about women shows up on Slashdot they come out of the woodwork repeating the hatred, and Slashdot is the most mild of all the forums.
There's nothing left or right wing here. Is about a group of people who hate certain women. When there's a youtube video where some moron says "here she is flapping her lips again instead of using them to suck a dick", is that *really* the sort of gamergate people that you want to be associated with? That's an attitude that should have died out before we crawled out of caves. I say let the market decide, if you don't like her games then just don't play them rather than start an online jihad.
There's no man hating here. There is gamergate hating though. And I am a gamer and a man, so...
Media corruption has been around for decades. It only turned into gamergate because someone's jilted posted a bunch of lies and it exploded when all those basement dwellers felt offended that a woman should dump a guy that seemed so thoughtful and well spoken in his drunken rant. And besides, even though this journalist didn't even do any reviews of her games, he *could* have and that's what matters. But 10 people still believe that gamergate is still about ethics in journalism when the rest of the world moved beyond and focused on the harrassment and misogyny behind it all. And every single time anything related to gamergate shows up you see the same thing - a tiny number of people who up and say "it's not about misogyny" even though the misogyny shows up in force with stalking, death threats, hate posts, etc.
Anti social justice warriors need to get perspective too. The SJWs were not the ones phoning in threats.