You are a 1%-er. Not in money, but 1% of the populace who works really really hard against tough odds. That's not me, I've got a great job and education, but I didn't bust my but for it. I don't have to work three jobs just to feed the family. I'm glad you got ahead, but if you expect every human to do the same thing you did then you've lost perspective on how extraordinary your achievements are. Or if you think blacks/hispanics can't do the same thing you did, then you're just racist.
They do not under perform because of race. They under perform because the schools are crap, they don't get funding, can't get new school books, can't get good teachers (well they get some, but not a uniformly higher level).
I do agree there's probably a lot more to do with class than race here. Poor people live in poor neighborhoods and neighborhoods with higher crime rates, etc. However we've had a history of segregating neighborhoods as well, legally in some cases, or with a wink and nod in others, or with white flight, etc
It's true. We're still dealing with consequences of stuff that happened a couple hundred years ago. But that doesn't mean we ignore it. Pushing problems down the road doesn't get rid of problems.
No. Though some people feel that way. Affirmative action is what t says it is; instead of passively assuming that civil rights makes people equal overnight, there needed to be an active response to try and make things equal. Ie, most colleges refused historically to enroll black students, and black schools were historically underfunded and so did not prepare students well for college, then it's completely naive to say "you're all equal now, good luck with that!" and assume things will sort themselves out.
Of course those who do not believe that institutional racism exists don't believe it though.
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But will it still work with my TETANUS debugger? (Test Environment To Analyze Negative Usage Symptoms)
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Of course you can. It's economical too since all jeans are skinny jeans to a fat hipster. The point of skinny jeans is not to be comfortable but to make the onlooker uncomfortable, and only a fat hipster can pull that off so perfectly.
Well, in the US anyway. France and Turkey are making a strong effort to ban any outward appearance of religion. I'm expecting one day there will be an administrator declaring that a dress is too long and send the girl home to change.
Coming back later requires an overseas flight though. We couldn't come back two weeks later. And it's true that we were at fault for not realizing that their local project leads weren't paying attention to that group. All the weekly video meetings made it sound like things were going great. I agree that this was a very extreme case that's not typical, but it is an example of what happens when there's no management keeping people on track.
(Basically they spent the time making sure that all their code was highly portable and hardware independent so that they could reuse it in the future for later projects. That's good and all, as a second tier of priority. But one guy seriously made a hardware independent driver for a hardware specific component. I'm still baffled by it.)
The demos were for a customer though, has to be good enough to get them to choose us instead of someone else, and we leave them alone with it for a couple of weeks. It was a device, not a gui, so it had to actually do stuff.
Because after 30 years of programming I still can't estimate worth a damn. And I give estimates based upon not being interrupted with other stuff, which never happens. Sometimes I greatly overestimate stuff as well. It's like when someone asks how long to fix a bug causing a core dump, how is it possible to know when I don't even know what the problem is...
In practice I work in spurts. Some weeks I'm slow and think about things a lot, other weeks things come together and I get lots of tasks done. But Agile seems to want regular and predictable output.
That team was in a different continent. A couple of us went over periodically to do integration and hash out any issues. Problem was that there was no local project lead for them for software/firmware, the main lead was hardware oriented, and the managers weren't project leads but dealt more with resourcing issues.
The place I've been where project ran the most smoothly with the least hiccups did a very strict waterfall style of model. It wasn't necessarily the most fun sort of project management, it had lots of paperwork and such as it was a medical device, but it definitely worked well.
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. Everyone needs to see that at least once, while drunk. Lasterblast, ok when watching MST3K version. Before it came out I remember some of scifi and special effects magazines were promoting it heavily. The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? Another one to watch while drinking with friends.
Showgirls had the best epilepsy scene. Or was it a sex scene? I'm not really sure. However Showgirls is just so bad that it's actually amusing again and fun to watch just for the comedy value. The trouble is so many movies on the "worst of all time" list fall into that category. A truly awful movie is one that's so bad it's painful to watch, but not so bad that you laugh at it when drunk.
I hate The Wall. It's because my college roommate would play it in the early hours of the morning non-stop while I was trying to sleep. It may be good music, but I never liked traditional rock, and combined with the negative associations I just don't want anything to do with that album.
The religious exemptions used to be there, but they used to be rare and not at all part of mainline religions. Ie, some people object to any drugs of any kind on religious grounds, and traditionally these were exempt and it worked because of herd immunity. However the new argument that one should be allowed to reject drugs or vaccines developed with the use of stem cells is NOT a religious argument in my view; their religion which I am very familiar with has no tenets or scriptures forbidding this. Of course they have every right to protest this politically, but to claim that their religion forbids receiving such vaccines is a lie (thus a sin).
Oh, it's not a law yet. Only the CA senate passed this, it still has to go before the house.
What heavy thing? If they have a legitimate reason not to vaccinate then they can get an exception. However not vaccinating children does cause a public harm. Even the most staunchly adherent Libertarian allows for government activity in cases of protecting the public.
California is a mix of odd politics. Partially heavily left leaning, partially heavy right leaning, and a whole lot of libertarian leaning to combine a bit of both. We want the government to keep their hands off of our pot and our taxes.
Can MS Word handle books now? Back in the 90s we had a major revolt of the doc writers at our company when the dictate came down that Word must be used instead of Framemaker, because Word was incapable of working with documents that large (ie, multiple full binders, with a table of contents and index that covers all of them).
In the same way that you can't treat "1" as a lowest common denominator, you shoud not treat MS Office as the lowest common denominator either.
And yet we used to have tons of secretaries and administrative assistants in universities who did just fine with LaTeX, or even TeX. There was a time when everyone had to learn new things and it was considered a normal part of the day to day job. It was not considered a human rights issue back then to not use MS Office.
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Oh great, you ask this just after I finish watching a couple episodes of Dexter...
You are a 1%-er. Not in money, but 1% of the populace who works really really hard against tough odds. That's not me, I've got a great job and education, but I didn't bust my but for it. I don't have to work three jobs just to feed the family. I'm glad you got ahead, but if you expect every human to do the same thing you did then you've lost perspective on how extraordinary your achievements are. Or if you think blacks/hispanics can't do the same thing you did, then you're just racist.
They do not under perform because of race. They under perform because the schools are crap, they don't get funding, can't get new school books, can't get good teachers (well they get some, but not a uniformly higher level).
I do agree there's probably a lot more to do with class than race here. Poor people live in poor neighborhoods and neighborhoods with higher crime rates, etc. However we've had a history of segregating neighborhoods as well, legally in some cases, or with a wink and nod in others, or with white flight, etc
It's true. We're still dealing with consequences of stuff that happened a couple hundred years ago. But that doesn't mean we ignore it. Pushing problems down the road doesn't get rid of problems.
No. Though some people feel that way. Affirmative action is what t says it is; instead of passively assuming that civil rights makes people equal overnight, there needed to be an active response to try and make things equal. Ie, most colleges refused historically to enroll black students, and black schools were historically underfunded and so did not prepare students well for college, then it's completely naive to say "you're all equal now, good luck with that!" and assume things will sort themselves out.
Of course those who do not believe that institutional racism exists don't believe it though.
But will it still work with my TETANUS debugger? (Test Environment To Analyze Negative Usage Symptoms)
Of course you can. It's economical too since all jeans are skinny jeans to a fat hipster. The point of skinny jeans is not to be comfortable but to make the onlooker uncomfortable, and only a fat hipster can pull that off so perfectly.
Woah, I was doing this code review and I think I saw a 2.
It's easy to make a gun that won't shoot your own foot off. Of course, it won't be able to shoot anything else either.
Yah, but would they really want a low paying entry level Rust job that requires 5 years Rust experience and a Rust Certificate?
I'm still waiting for them to port it.
Well, in the US anyway. France and Turkey are making a strong effort to ban any outward appearance of religion. I'm expecting one day there will be an administrator declaring that a dress is too long and send the girl home to change.
Coming back later requires an overseas flight though. We couldn't come back two weeks later. And it's true that we were at fault for not realizing that their local project leads weren't paying attention to that group. All the weekly video meetings made it sound like things were going great. I agree that this was a very extreme case that's not typical, but it is an example of what happens when there's no management keeping people on track.
(Basically they spent the time making sure that all their code was highly portable and hardware independent so that they could reuse it in the future for later projects. That's good and all, as a second tier of priority. But one guy seriously made a hardware independent driver for a hardware specific component. I'm still baffled by it.)
The demos were for a customer though, has to be good enough to get them to choose us instead of someone else, and we leave them alone with it for a couple of weeks. It was a device, not a gui, so it had to actually do stuff.
Because after 30 years of programming I still can't estimate worth a damn. And I give estimates based upon not being interrupted with other stuff, which never happens. Sometimes I greatly overestimate stuff as well. It's like when someone asks how long to fix a bug causing a core dump, how is it possible to know when I don't even know what the problem is...
In practice I work in spurts. Some weeks I'm slow and think about things a lot, other weeks things come together and I get lots of tasks done. But Agile seems to want regular and predictable output.
That team was in a different continent. A couple of us went over periodically to do integration and hash out any issues. Problem was that there was no local project lead for them for software/firmware, the main lead was hardware oriented, and the managers weren't project leads but dealt more with resourcing issues.
The place I've been where project ran the most smoothly with the least hiccups did a very strict waterfall style of model. It wasn't necessarily the most fun sort of project management, it had lots of paperwork and such as it was a medical device, but it definitely worked well.
Oh man, it has some "great" movies on that list:
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. Everyone needs to see that at least once, while drunk.
Lasterblast, ok when watching MST3K version. Before it came out I remember some of scifi and special effects magazines were promoting it heavily.
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? Another one to watch while drinking with friends.
Showgirls had the best epilepsy scene. Or was it a sex scene? I'm not really sure. However Showgirls is just so bad that it's actually amusing again and fun to watch just for the comedy value. The trouble is so many movies on the "worst of all time" list fall into that category. A truly awful movie is one that's so bad it's painful to watch, but not so bad that you laugh at it when drunk.
I hate The Wall. It's because my college roommate would play it in the early hours of the morning non-stop while I was trying to sleep. It may be good music, but I never liked traditional rock, and combined with the negative associations I just don't want anything to do with that album.
The religious exemptions used to be there, but they used to be rare and not at all part of mainline religions. Ie, some people object to any drugs of any kind on religious grounds, and traditionally these were exempt and it worked because of herd immunity. However the new argument that one should be allowed to reject drugs or vaccines developed with the use of stem cells is NOT a religious argument in my view; their religion which I am very familiar with has no tenets or scriptures forbidding this. Of course they have every right to protest this politically, but to claim that their religion forbids receiving such vaccines is a lie (thus a sin).
Oh, it's not a law yet. Only the CA senate passed this, it still has to go before the house.
What heavy thing? If they have a legitimate reason not to vaccinate then they can get an exception. However not vaccinating children does cause a public harm. Even the most staunchly adherent Libertarian allows for government activity in cases of protecting the public.
California is a mix of odd politics. Partially heavily left leaning, partially heavy right leaning, and a whole lot of libertarian leaning to combine a bit of both. We want the government to keep their hands off of our pot and our taxes.
I knew that IBM was never fond of VAX, but I didn't think it reached the level of outrage.
Can MS Word handle books now? Back in the 90s we had a major revolt of the doc writers at our company when the dictate came down that Word must be used instead of Framemaker, because Word was incapable of working with documents that large (ie, multiple full binders, with a table of contents and index that covers all of them).
In the same way that you can't treat "1" as a lowest common denominator, you shoud not treat MS Office as the lowest common denominator either.
And yet we used to have tons of secretaries and administrative assistants in universities who did just fine with LaTeX, or even TeX. There was a time when everyone had to learn new things and it was considered a normal part of the day to day job. It was not considered a human rights issue back then to not use MS Office.