There are no quotas. No jobs are being lost. This is not about getting unqualified people into coding, but qualified people of all types. It's the same old story, people see someone of a different race in college and their first thought was "must be affirmative action, since my C+ cousin was denied his first choice of schools". Now it's just about women. People bitch and whine "it shouldn't matter what their gender is as long as they're competent", but that is *exactly* what is being asked. No one is asking for unqualified women to get into coding, but that is the myth being put forward by the anti-SJW people. We know women are as good as men in this field, so what is wrong with encouraging them to go back into it. No one is keeping a quota except for the misogynists, and no one is being kicked out of their jobs or hobbies. But apparently to you people an encouragement to voluntarily take up open source coding is supposed to be some over-the-top feminism run amuck.
Seriously, what scares you people that you would lie like this? You make the 60s era segregationist jerks look mature in comparison.
But every time someone says "I've had it with Linus", the fans come out and accuse them of being in the wrong instead of Linus. Plus the stupid notion that you have to grow a thick skin in order to be a programmer with open source..
If you want people in open source, especially newer people, then you have to have a welcoming environment. Telling everyone that they have to grow thicker skin first is basically an advertisement against open source.
Is it ok if RMS eats his own toenails? It's ok, because he's really smart any any GNU hackers know to what they're getting into and should be able to tolerate such behavior and learn to grow a thicker stomach.
But that's bullshit. Normal people would say "dude, that's just gross, stop it". So normal people on the kernel would either say "dude, lighten up" or else leave the project. When they don't things become dysfunctional, witness any corporation with an asshole CEO and the pandering followers who defend his actions.
So is Linus the genius who never does wrong and is never unfair in his constructive criticisms, or is he human and sometimes makes mistakes and chews people out when he hasn't taken the time to understand what he's ranting about? Cultist vs realist.
Or maybe it's not flawed but Linus doesn't want to waste time asking about it and trying to understand the design. He is not a god, he is indeed fallible, no matter what the cultists claim.
What the hell is wrong with you anti-SJW people? Every time there's even a hint of a female near source code you guys show up like earthworms after a rain. No on in this story ever hinted that men should be oppressed, that women should have a quota system, no feminazis showed up, there was no "corruption in game journalism", or any of the other bugaboos you people are afraid of.
Many of those bullies as kids have grown up to be well adjusted adults. That's because their personality flaws were corrected over time, or they realized life was no fun without friends, they spent a lot of time talking to counselors and therapists, etc. This doesn't happen when the nerd becomes an asshole as an adult.
I think a lot of nerds essentially turn into the bullies that they hated growing up. Or in video games they turn into the jocks that used to beat them up. The difference is that those bullies and jocks sometimes actually learned stuff while growing up, the bullies may have learned that they spent a lot of time in detention and had few friends, and the jocks learn that good sportsmanship is integral to the game. So now you have nerds emulating the worst behavior they saw growing up but without the teachers and coaches trying to correct the behavior problems.
So it's political correctness gone awry merely because you can't say "this is garbage" or "the fuck is this"? Holy crap you are one messed up AC. This isn't political correctness, this is basic interpersonal interaction developed over thousands of years. If you need to get along with someone and work as a team, you can not bully them or insult them or it will end badly. When you are at work it is no longer about YOU, it is about your coworkers, your company, getting the work done, etc.
Just practice this. Say "this looks like a bug" instead of saying "this looks like shit". It gets to the point of it being about solving the problem instead of it being a power play. The only reason you want people to know where they stand is because you're treating the workplace as a competition to see who can come out on top as the alpha dog. Stop treating it like a competition and start cooperating. If you can't, then there are anger management classes you can sign up for before you are the one who gets fired.
And both men and women can and do get called into the HR office so that they can be told to grow up and be professional. Just because women can be mean is no excuse for preemptive meanness.
You don't have to throw the first punch though. Ignore the bully and then if you get in a fight, you can fight back. If the bully doesn't fight then you successfully stood up to him or her.
Sometimes you think that it doesn't matter who's right or wrong, but that you just need to get out and into fresh air as soon as you can even if the other person "wins". Life is too short to insist on winning all the arguments.
No. When one is a professional, one acts professionally. Unless one's profession is in the entertainment industry this means acting maturely. This means setting aside all your hormones while being a professional, remembering to do laundry even if this isn't who you are, being polite even to people you loathe, and so forth. So yes, professionals can and do treat others with respect no matter the gender. Except for some reason in the IT basement.
We are not all the same. But at work we act like we're the same. If making a comfortable work environment for everyone is too uncomfortable for you then maybe the problem isn't other people.
I never watched the show in the beginning, thinking it was just another Beauty and the Geek concept. But then I watched one and it was funny. It's especially funny when you notice how awful all the other "comedy" programs are on broadcast TV.
I don't see that. Black face is intensely offensive. Big Bang Theory only insults people without a sense of humor who can't laugh at themselves. Geeks should never become a protected class, that's ridiculous. Speaking as a nerd myself, nerds are indeed funny. To try and equate these two things is offensive in itself.
I like it, and I know a lot of people more geeky than I am who like it. It does help if you know people in real life with similar personality quirks as are on the show.
I'd rather watch all the episodes all over again than to watch even one episode of the hipster faux Silicon Valley tv show.
No, we've had generations and generations who've been taught to believe that profit is the only virtue and it's your land so you can do whatever you want. Maybe it's time to realize that there may be things other than economic growth to consider when deciding what to do with land. Sure, you maximize profits by strip mining an entire mountain but it's also probably that it is more beneficial for everyone as a whole, now and in the future, to leave the mountain standing.
The EPA didn't just start as a hippie liberal idea. Many conservatives were pissed off at other people polluting their land, air, and water, and harming their families, crops, and livestock. Conservatives also enjoy seeing wildlife and visiting parks and monuments. It was later that the environment was rebranded as a liberal concept, and in two-party America where every issue must be phrased as a battle between us and them.
Time for Putin to pull the wool over her eyes if by some fluke she becomes president. "We're allowed to put our American flag logo on the back of all Russian missiles fired in Syria."
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There are no quotas. No jobs are being lost. This is not about getting unqualified people into coding, but qualified people of all types. It's the same old story, people see someone of a different race in college and their first thought was "must be affirmative action, since my C+ cousin was denied his first choice of schools". Now it's just about women. People bitch and whine "it shouldn't matter what their gender is as long as they're competent", but that is *exactly* what is being asked. No one is asking for unqualified women to get into coding, but that is the myth being put forward by the anti-SJW people. We know women are as good as men in this field, so what is wrong with encouraging them to go back into it. No one is keeping a quota except for the misogynists, and no one is being kicked out of their jobs or hobbies. But apparently to you people an encouragement to voluntarily take up open source coding is supposed to be some over-the-top feminism run amuck.
Seriously, what scares you people that you would lie like this? You make the 60s era segregationist jerks look mature in comparison.
But every time someone says "I've had it with Linus", the fans come out and accuse them of being in the wrong instead of Linus. Plus the stupid notion that you have to grow a thick skin in order to be a programmer with open source..
How about you stop thinking of SJW as a dirty word? No one is advocating that you lose your job or privilege status.
If you want people in open source, especially newer people, then you have to have a welcoming environment. Telling everyone that they have to grow thicker skin first is basically an advertisement against open source.
Is it ok if RMS eats his own toenails? It's ok, because he's really smart any any GNU hackers know to what they're getting into and should be able to tolerate such behavior and learn to grow a thicker stomach.
But that's bullshit. Normal people would say "dude, that's just gross, stop it". So normal people on the kernel would either say "dude, lighten up" or else leave the project. When they don't things become dysfunctional, witness any corporation with an asshole CEO and the pandering followers who defend his actions.
So is Linus the genius who never does wrong and is never unfair in his constructive criticisms, or is he human and sometimes makes mistakes and chews people out when he hasn't taken the time to understand what he's ranting about? Cultist vs realist.
Or maybe it's not flawed but Linus doesn't want to waste time asking about it and trying to understand the design. He is not a god, he is indeed fallible, no matter what the cultists claim.
What the hell is wrong with you anti-SJW people? Every time there's even a hint of a female near source code you guys show up like earthworms after a rain. No on in this story ever hinted that men should be oppressed, that women should have a quota system, no feminazis showed up, there was no "corruption in game journalism", or any of the other bugaboos you people are afraid of.
Many of those bullies as kids have grown up to be well adjusted adults. That's because their personality flaws were corrected over time, or they realized life was no fun without friends, they spent a lot of time talking to counselors and therapists, etc. This doesn't happen when the nerd becomes an asshole as an adult.
I think a lot of nerds essentially turn into the bullies that they hated growing up. Or in video games they turn into the jocks that used to beat them up. The difference is that those bullies and jocks sometimes actually learned stuff while growing up, the bullies may have learned that they spent a lot of time in detention and had few friends, and the jocks learn that good sportsmanship is integral to the game. So now you have nerds emulating the worst behavior they saw growing up but without the teachers and coaches trying to correct the behavior problems.
So it's political correctness gone awry merely because you can't say "this is garbage" or "the fuck is this"? Holy crap you are one messed up AC. This isn't political correctness, this is basic interpersonal interaction developed over thousands of years. If you need to get along with someone and work as a team, you can not bully them or insult them or it will end badly. When you are at work it is no longer about YOU, it is about your coworkers, your company, getting the work done, etc.
Just practice this. Say "this looks like a bug" instead of saying "this looks like shit". It gets to the point of it being about solving the problem instead of it being a power play. The only reason you want people to know where they stand is because you're treating the workplace as a competition to see who can come out on top as the alpha dog. Stop treating it like a competition and start cooperating. If you can't, then there are anger management classes you can sign up for before you are the one who gets fired.
And both men and women can and do get called into the HR office so that they can be told to grow up and be professional. Just because women can be mean is no excuse for preemptive meanness.
You don't have to throw the first punch though. Ignore the bully and then if you get in a fight, you can fight back. If the bully doesn't fight then you successfully stood up to him or her.
Sometimes you think that it doesn't matter who's right or wrong, but that you just need to get out and into fresh air as soon as you can even if the other person "wins". Life is too short to insist on winning all the arguments.
No. When one is a professional, one acts professionally. Unless one's profession is in the entertainment industry this means acting maturely. This means setting aside all your hormones while being a professional, remembering to do laundry even if this isn't who you are, being polite even to people you loathe, and so forth. So yes, professionals can and do treat others with respect no matter the gender. Except for some reason in the IT basement.
We are not all the same. But at work we act like we're the same. If making a comfortable work environment for everyone is too uncomfortable for you then maybe the problem isn't other people.
Yup, the live audience laughing is the particular genre this show is in. Complaining about it is like complaining about Opera having too much singing.
Never watched Friends. Not even a single episode. But I have watched all of TBBT.
I never watched the show in the beginning, thinking it was just another Beauty and the Geek concept. But then I watched one and it was funny. It's especially funny when you notice how awful all the other "comedy" programs are on broadcast TV.
I don't see that. Black face is intensely offensive. Big Bang Theory only insults people without a sense of humor who can't laugh at themselves. Geeks should never become a protected class, that's ridiculous. Speaking as a nerd myself, nerds are indeed funny. To try and equate these two things is offensive in itself.
I like it, and I know a lot of people more geeky than I am who like it. It does help if you know people in real life with similar personality quirks as are on the show.
I'd rather watch all the episodes all over again than to watch even one episode of the hipster faux Silicon Valley tv show.
As in "I don't think it's funny, so any laughter must be coming from a badly programmed AI audience stand in".
People who suggest forced stelization should be sterilized. Oh wait...
Small features, yes. But you *expand* digital images to get a better look. No one's eyes can reliably see details that fine.
Remember to use gold plated connectors to get the best visual fidelity.
No, we've had generations and generations who've been taught to believe that profit is the only virtue and it's your land so you can do whatever you want. Maybe it's time to realize that there may be things other than economic growth to consider when deciding what to do with land. Sure, you maximize profits by strip mining an entire mountain but it's also probably that it is more beneficial for everyone as a whole, now and in the future, to leave the mountain standing.
The EPA didn't just start as a hippie liberal idea. Many conservatives were pissed off at other people polluting their land, air, and water, and harming their families, crops, and livestock. Conservatives also enjoy seeing wildlife and visiting parks and monuments. It was later that the environment was rebranded as a liberal concept, and in two-party America where every issue must be phrased as a battle between us and them.
Time for Putin to pull the wool over her eyes if by some fluke she becomes president.
"We're allowed to put our American flag logo on the back of all Russian missiles fired in Syria."