The responses to this article show the exact reason why it's so hard to maximize organizational talent: the inherent racism and sexism of little white male snowflakes who try to pretend their inherent advantages don't exist, while they do their best to sabotage others. There are, however, a few people who actually seem to get it, as this letter to the editor of a college paper shows.
To the women in my engineering classes:
While it is my intention in every other interaction I share with you to treat you as my peer, let me deviate from that to say that you and I are in fact unequal.
Sure, we are in the same school program, and you are quite possibly getting the same GPA as I, but does that make us equal?
I did not, for example, grow up in a world that discouraged me from focusing on hard science.
Nor did I live in a society that told me not to get dirty, or said I was bossy for exhibiting leadership skills.
In grade school I never had to fear being rejected by my peers because of my interests.
I was not bombarded by images and slogans telling me that my true worth was in how I look, and that I should abstain from certain activities because I might be thought too masculine.
I was not overlooked by teachers who assumed that the reason I did not understand a tough math or science concept was, after all, because of my gender.
I have had no difficulty whatsoever with a boys club mentality, and I will not face added scrutiny or remarks of my being the “diversity hire.”
When I experience success the assumption of others will be that I earned it.
So, you and I cannot be equal. You have already conquered far more to be in this field than I will ever face.
Real brands stay the hell away from WalMart. You never see NIKEs in them, for instance. They never want to be pressured to lower their quality to make some price target.
I'm sure that in one hundred years this sort of reaction - blaming the software for an inattentive driver failing to yield - will be seen in exactly the same way.
Treason is the actual charge with which the FBI intended to charge Hillary Clinton.
The FBI never intended to charge Hillary Clinton with treason. If they had, they would have recommended exactly that. They didn't even intend to charge her with mishandling classified information. If they had, they would have done so as well. The only thing that happened was that in deciding that she had done nothing worth an indictment over, Director Comey decided to violate protocol and offer critiques about her email practices. Presumably because he was Ken Starr's right hand man all during the 1990s, trying to pin something - anything - on the Clintons. And failed. Because they hadn't done anything illegal then, either. (With the exception of Bill lying under oath about an affair in a nuisance lawsuit.)
But last month a U.S. district judge ruled that Ivey and his partner had a "mutual obligation" to the casino, in which their "primary obligation" was to not...
I wonder if this judge also believes that casinos have a "mutual obligation" to problem gamblers to make sure that they're not gambling money intended for other purposes? Because the way I always notice the headlines, it's usually "Man embezzles funds, gambles it all away at the casino." No one ever seems to ask the casino for that money back.
This is just another way of the innate bias in the legal system - where corporations, no matter how sleazy their business practices, get different rules.
A programmer who knows nothing beyond the likes of those is not well rounded and better get adjusted to the idea of being a galley slave for their entire career.
If you aspire to the boardroom, I strongly suggest you learn a bit of PowerPoint, excel, and basic business understanding, The language used at that level is all P/L calculations, by which I don't mean PL/I, but "Profit and Loss".
Insofar as fad languages are concerned, their main problem besides their terrible tool support, microscopic communities, non-existent code/library base to solve common problems, and lack of a clear niche that really only they fill best - is that the vast majority of actual programming work lies in understanding requirements and coming up with a reasonable set of approaches, designs, and patterns to fill them. For that, you don't need intellectual masturbation. You need to be smart and experienced enough to actually understand how to create a fully realized architecture actually capable of working, and not immediately falling over under load (with inscrutable error messages).
Really, the only use that so many different hobby languages provide is a form of job lock-in, and a gateway keeping out people who aren't smart enough to solve the company's real problems.
Taking note of racists and racist attitudes isn't itself racist, guy. And trying to pretend that it is, is obvious projection on your part. So I'll let others decide who is in fact the racist pile of shit in this conversation.
The problem for Americans is that we can't exactly ask the Chinese to go back to having 45 million people starve to death in a new "Great Leap Forward", no matter how much taking their labor skills off the capitalist market might improve the labor demand for unskilled white Trump voting high-school dropouts. Globalism is a bitch if you were used to getting a free ride.
Actually, it's not. Its a commodity designed to make untraceable (and mostly illegal) economic transactions easier, everything from evading oppressive government rules, to drug deals, to ransomware payoffs. The only reason why it's not used for tax evasion is that due to it being a commodity, it quite literally can't handle the scale that that criminality; it'd be like a minnow swallowing a whale.
No down-modding from me. The gamer-gate "community" has become exactly what they originally were supposedly protesting against: a bunch of childish outrage addicts who make up utterly biased BS to complain about people liking what they don't like.
I'm not exactly a big fan of tablet games, but there are lots of non-hardcore gamers out there who want an exceedingly mild challenge while communting on the bus or something. And considering its competition - compare "Revolution 60" against some standard "Match 3" dreck for example - and I suppose it could almost be worth the mild accolades. Here's some of its gameplay in action. Something of a JRPG vibe to it.
Just in case you're interested, the reason why people won't engage with you is because of your pathological need to lie to "win". You would have done much better to have simply spoken to the "relative evils" between Clinton and Trump in your argument, but that just wasn't possible. Instead, you have to pretend that Trump doesn't have a reputation for stiffing everyone he can get away with, and make up the complete self-invented bullshit that this was only "contractors who fail to deliver on time, violate contracts, etc".
So while some may be put out by your hero worship of Trump, for the rest of us, it's your obvious need to deny reality, spewing out self-invented bullshit when trying to defend an untenable position, that makes you unworthy for anyone (other than your flock of similar sociopathic goons) to talk to.
Accusing a federal judge of being unable to discharge his duties because he's Hispanic, and a member of the Hispanic Bar Association (one of hundreds of such affinity lawyers groups), manifestly is racist, as even Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan was forced to admit.
Insofar as Islam, it is a sprawling religion consisting of 2.2 billion adherents, with many sub-ideologies. If you yourself have not apologized for the "Klan" (who call themselves Christian and "light" crosses as emblems of their WASP faith), then any broad brush attack on Muslims over the actions of al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda of Iraq (a.k.a. ISIS) is pure bigotry.
Bashing illegal immigration, while conspicuously being entirely unconcerned that Trump's own wife Melaina was clearly an illegal immigrant, is again not only a sign of hypocrisy, but one of racism. Because there is no legal difference between the two situations. Merely a skin color one.
I worked on a contract in which an auto manufacturer was trying to use that abomination, and we could never even get the source to compile. Literally a year later, it came out that Samsung was trying to use both git/gerrit and Perforce as version control for it, mixed between different teams:
Time went by and Bad Things started to appear. Git/gerrit was official in some teams, but Perforce was official in other teams (even working on the same component). Some patches went there, some there. The management finally decided Perforce code should be used as THE source for building OS images. Again, they only forgot to tell everyone else to stop using git
Both repositories diverged to the point of being almost incompatible. Issues in Perforce code were given to git teams, which resulted in a litany of WTFs. After all, there’s not many things more fun than being tasked with fixing a bug in code that you physically don’t have. ASAP. Meetings took place, arrangements were made to rectify the situation. Months later, the situation is still the same.
One implication was code review process. With gerrit in place, that was a non-issue. But the Korean teams didn’t (and still don’t) understand the notion of code review and pushed everything directly to the repo. The quality of some patches was so bad that enforcing code review became top priority for non-Korean teams. Finally, a solution was developed – MS Word based code review. Each changeset needs to be attached to a bug in the tracker. Each bug can have a Word document attached with a request for code review. That document is a three pages long form with information so useless, nobody even wants to read it. At the end there’s a place for copy-pasting a diff for each file changed, with the explanation why. Reviewers are supposed to fill a Word form with details about which line they comment on and what their issue with it is.
Submitting a patch, clicking through the awful issue tracker and filling the form takes literal hours. All this because using git with gerrit was too tough. Fortunately, the review form has fields listing times taken by various steps in fixing a bug. Maybe someday someone will read how long pushing the code actually takes.
No, they won’t.
Luckily, that contract was short term. But because I put it on my resume, I got a few head-hunters inquiring about it. Quickly though, interest waned. Not hard to see why...
This theory that Hillary lost because she "was a right-wing freakshow" doesn't explain why down ticket Bernie-esque candidates who hate trade, like Paul Wellstone, were shot down even harder than she was. Or why Hillary won people who were concerned by the economy by a 55% to 45% margin. Or why Trump won among people complaining about (brown-people) immigration and (brown-people) terrorism. You will note they didn't care about Trump's illegal immigrant (white) wives, much less than that there are 1 million fewer illegal immigrants today than in 2005, and don't count the KKK or Timothy McVeigh as terrorists (because they're white).
In short, the evidence suggests that this was an election based on surging racism on the right and lost by disinterest in the plight of minorities on the left, and just an overall dislike of women asking for power (judging by the double standards over Trump's real scandals vs Hillary's completely fake ones).There is absolutely no evidence that suggests that it was lost out of any great dislike of the capitalism.
The problem with "free hydrogen" is that it floats. You start to see it about 70km up, and even then it is extremely rare because it is so light that it can get knocked out of Earth's gravitational well pretty easily by our solar wind.
So no, just burning "free" hydrogen just floating around in the atmosphere isn't possible. Good thing too, or else the atmosphere on our planet would be pretty much Hindenburg-like, which would make for a very crispy planet every time there was lightning storm.
Although I agree with everything you say here, let me point out that Hillary Clinton would have won without superdelegates at all. She got 3 million more votes than Senator Sanders did, so this is pretty natural.
These days, the style doesn't appear to be "well, we got outvoted - sure hope I'm wrong about how bad this is going to turn out", and instead has become a bunch of "It's RIGGED, CHEATING, see we have EMAILS that say people are ANNOYED with us, and Benghazi, and stuff!!1!!1!". Pretty childish, if you ask me.
Why would anyone thing whaargarbl from certifiable kooks, and/or people selling bullshit to them, change minds? The only people who believe this stuff is their target audience?
p.s. I'm sure if you look hard enough, you can find someone accusing her of chemtrails, faking the moon landing, and having shipped Obama as a baby in from Kenya too.
Actually, there is almost no written proof that Yehoshua bin Yosef existed, except as a literary device invented by Paul to spread reform Judaism. Most notably, the Romans, who kept meticulous records, had absolutely none about any trial, crucifixion, or other acts supposedly undertaken by Pontius Pilate. It's like he was never there at all.
Now Muhammad? We know he existed independent of his scripture. Same thing for Joseph Smith
Did you run shred on a server after the FBI said it wanted the data on it?
HILLARY CLINTON AND HER TEAM DID NOT DO THIS.
My god, this is like the fifth person to falsely claim that she did in this discussion. Don't you people read jack shit before you post? Or it is all "Beitbart" and the "Weekly World News", Hillary Clinton with space alien? You seriously imagine that the GOP in Congress wouldn't be trying to find her in Contempt if she'd done anything like this? That the FBI wouldn't have done a thing?!?
"In fact, Trey Gowdy did not issue a subpoena until March, months after she she'd done that review. Further, the subpoena was specifically asking for documents pertaining to Libya and the attacks on our facility in Benghazi, documents which, along with tens of thousands of others, she had already given to the Department of State," Merrill said.
Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the Benghazi panel, called Gowdy's hit Wednesday a "stunt."
"It appears clear that Secretary Clinton was answering a question about whether she deleted emails 'while facing a subpoena,'" Cummings said in a statement Wednesday.
God DAMN do I want silly season to be over, where people will go back to merely lying about their high scores on games, rather than crap like this
You are correct to a point. Cleaning up is a good thing to do before decommissioning a server, but doing that after a subpoena for those emails is called destruction of evidence.
And Hillary Clinton didn't do this, although it's now becoming very apparent that people who dislike her incorrectly imagine that she did,
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The responses to this article show the exact reason why it's so hard to maximize organizational talent: the inherent racism and sexism of little white male snowflakes who try to pretend their inherent advantages don't exist, while they do their best to sabotage others. There are, however, a few people who actually seem to get it, as this letter to the editor of a college paper shows.
Real brands stay the hell away from WalMart. You never see NIKEs in them, for instance. They never want to be pressured to lower their quality to make some price target.
What this hits is the off-brands
stupid bosses dont want this because they think they can get more work out in a room with 15 people and NO VENTILATION.
TRUE STORY.
also the boss thinks that ac pumps air from outside. it doesnt.
If you're that angry, don't stew. Polish up the resume and look for work elsewhere. Engineers are still very employable.
Almost never do you hear anyone say "Man, I wish I'd stayed at that dump longer".
I am reminded that when cars were first invented, there were laws put in place mandating that someone walk ahead of any self-propelled vehicle waving a red flag, for fear of scaring horses and making people uncomfortable.
I'm sure that in one hundred years this sort of reaction - blaming the software for an inattentive driver failing to yield - will be seen in exactly the same way.
Treason is the actual charge with which the FBI intended to charge Hillary Clinton.
The FBI never intended to charge Hillary Clinton with treason. If they had, they would have recommended exactly that. They didn't even intend to charge her with mishandling classified information. If they had, they would have done so as well. The only thing that happened was that in deciding that she had done nothing worth an indictment over, Director Comey decided to violate protocol and offer critiques about her email practices. Presumably because he was Ken Starr's right hand man all during the 1990s, trying to pin something - anything - on the Clintons. And failed. Because they hadn't done anything illegal then, either. (With the exception of Bill lying under oath about an affair in a nuisance lawsuit.)
If it spontaneously resolves to a higher entropy state with no pushing, that means it isn't stable, meta or otherwise.
Your suggestion presumes that the "US Government" is a monolithic entity, which it's not. Even the judiciary isn't completely in sync with itself.
But the ones that do more than pay for the ones that don't
News at 11
I wonder if this judge also believes that casinos have a "mutual obligation" to problem gamblers to make sure that they're not gambling money intended for other purposes? Because the way I always notice the headlines, it's usually "Man embezzles funds, gambles it all away at the casino." No one ever seems to ask the casino for that money back.
This is just another way of the innate bias in the legal system - where corporations, no matter how sleazy their business practices, get different rules.
A programmer who knows nothing beyond the likes of those is not well rounded and better get adjusted to the idea of being a galley slave for their entire career.
If you aspire to the boardroom, I strongly suggest you learn a bit of PowerPoint, excel, and basic business understanding, The language used at that level is all P/L calculations, by which I don't mean PL/I, but "Profit and Loss".
Insofar as fad languages are concerned, their main problem besides their terrible tool support, microscopic communities, non-existent code/library base to solve common problems, and lack of a clear niche that really only they fill best - is that the vast majority of actual programming work lies in understanding requirements and coming up with a reasonable set of approaches, designs, and patterns to fill them. For that, you don't need intellectual masturbation. You need to be smart and experienced enough to actually understand how to create a fully realized architecture actually capable of working, and not immediately falling over under load (with inscrutable error messages).
Really, the only use that so many different hobby languages provide is a form of job lock-in, and a gateway keeping out people who aren't smart enough to solve the company's real problems.
// Senior/Enterprise Architect
Sorry, but I've seen far too much of the AC type of things said in earnest, to believe that. At the very least Poe's Law applies in spades.
I'm not bitching about white people. I am one. But when 20% of Trump voters openly believe that getting rid of black slavery was a bad idea, these people putting Trump over the top, I'm not going to pretend that it's not a fact.
Taking note of racists and racist attitudes isn't itself racist, guy. And trying to pretend that it is, is obvious projection on your part. So I'll let others decide who is in fact the racist pile of shit in this conversation.
Worldwide, millennials are doing great. The World Bank Forecasts Global Poverty to Fall Below 10% for First Time.
The problem for Americans is that we can't exactly ask the Chinese to go back to having 45 million people starve to death in a new "Great Leap Forward", no matter how much taking their labor skills off the capitalist market might improve the labor demand for unskilled white Trump voting high-school dropouts. Globalism is a bitch if you were used to getting a free ride.
Actually, it's not. Its a commodity designed to make untraceable (and mostly illegal) economic transactions easier, everything from evading oppressive government rules, to drug deals, to ransomware payoffs. The only reason why it's not used for tax evasion is that due to it being a commodity, it quite literally can't handle the scale that that criminality; it'd be like a minnow swallowing a whale.
No down-modding from me. The gamer-gate "community" has become exactly what they originally were supposedly protesting against: a bunch of childish outrage addicts who make up utterly biased BS to complain about people liking what they don't like.
I'm not exactly a big fan of tablet games, but there are lots of non-hardcore gamers out there who want an exceedingly mild challenge while communting on the bus or something. And considering its competition - compare "Revolution 60" against some standard "Match 3" dreck for example - and I suppose it could almost be worth the mild accolades. Here's some of its gameplay in action. Something of a JRPG vibe to it.
Just in case you're interested, the reason why people won't engage with you is because of your pathological need to lie to "win". You would have done much better to have simply spoken to the "relative evils" between Clinton and Trump in your argument, but that just wasn't possible. Instead, you have to pretend that Trump doesn't have a reputation for stiffing everyone he can get away with, and make up the complete self-invented bullshit that this was only "contractors who fail to deliver on time, violate contracts, etc".
So while some may be put out by your hero worship of Trump, for the rest of us, it's your obvious need to deny reality, spewing out self-invented bullshit when trying to defend an untenable position, that makes you unworthy for anyone (other than your flock of similar sociopathic goons) to talk to.
Accusing a federal judge of being unable to discharge his duties because he's Hispanic, and a member of the Hispanic Bar Association (one of hundreds of such affinity lawyers groups), manifestly is racist, as even Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan was forced to admit.
Insofar as Islam, it is a sprawling religion consisting of 2.2 billion adherents, with many sub-ideologies. If you yourself have not apologized for the "Klan" (who call themselves Christian and "light" crosses as emblems of their WASP faith), then any broad brush attack on Muslims over the actions of al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda of Iraq (a.k.a. ISIS) is pure bigotry.
Bashing illegal immigration, while conspicuously being entirely unconcerned that Trump's own wife Melaina was clearly an illegal immigrant, is again not only a sign of hypocrisy, but one of racism. Because there is no legal difference between the two situations. Merely a skin color one.
The reason why people continue to call Trump racist is because he is. The reason why people call his supporters racist, is because there is hard evidence of racist attitudes taken from surveys of them.
The idea that a racist is going to suddenly vote for the party who opposes racism, instead of the Republican party that it has been proven benefits from it, if only people wouldn't point out their racism, is absurd.
Is that enough research for you?
I worked on a contract in which an auto manufacturer was trying to use that abomination, and we could never even get the source to compile. Literally a year later, it came out that Samsung was trying to use both git/gerrit and Perforce as version control for it, mixed between different teams:
Luckily, that contract was short term. But because I put it on my resume, I got a few head-hunters inquiring about it. Quickly though, interest waned. Not hard to see why...
This theory that Hillary lost because she "was a right-wing freakshow" doesn't explain why down ticket Bernie-esque candidates who hate trade, like Paul Wellstone, were shot down even harder than she was. Or why Hillary won people who were concerned by the economy by a 55% to 45% margin. Or why Trump won among people complaining about (brown-people) immigration and (brown-people) terrorism. You will note they didn't care about Trump's illegal immigrant (white) wives, much less than that there are 1 million fewer illegal immigrants today than in 2005, and don't count the KKK or Timothy McVeigh as terrorists (because they're white).
In short, the evidence suggests that this was an election based on surging racism on the right and lost by disinterest in the plight of minorities on the left, and just an overall dislike of women asking for power (judging by the double standards over Trump's real scandals vs Hillary's completely fake ones).There is absolutely no evidence that suggests that it was lost out of any great dislike of the capitalism.
The problem with "free hydrogen" is that it floats. You start to see it about 70km up, and even then it is extremely rare because it is so light that it can get knocked out of Earth's gravitational well pretty easily by our solar wind.
So no, just burning "free" hydrogen just floating around in the atmosphere isn't possible. Good thing too, or else the atmosphere on our planet would be pretty much Hindenburg-like, which would make for a very crispy planet every time there was lightning storm.
Although I agree with everything you say here, let me point out that Hillary Clinton would have won without superdelegates at all. She got 3 million more votes than Senator Sanders did, so this is pretty natural.
These days, the style doesn't appear to be "well, we got outvoted - sure hope I'm wrong about how bad this is going to turn out", and instead has become a bunch of "It's RIGGED, CHEATING, see we have EMAILS that say people are ANNOYED with us, and Benghazi, and stuff!!1!!1!". Pretty childish, if you ask me.
Why would anyone thing whaargarbl from certifiable kooks, and/or people selling bullshit to them, change minds? The only people who believe this stuff is their target audience?
p.s. I'm sure if you look hard enough, you can find someone accusing her of chemtrails, faking the moon landing, and having shipped Obama as a baby in from Kenya too.
Actually, there is almost no written proof that Yehoshua bin Yosef existed, except as a literary device invented by Paul to spread reform Judaism. Most notably, the Romans, who kept meticulous records, had absolutely none about any trial, crucifixion, or other acts supposedly undertaken by Pontius Pilate. It's like he was never there at all.
Now Muhammad? We know he existed independent of his scripture. Same thing for Joseph Smith
Did you run shred on a server after the FBI said it wanted the data on it?
HILLARY CLINTON AND HER TEAM DID NOT DO THIS.
My god, this is like the fifth person to falsely claim that she did in this discussion. Don't you people read jack shit before you post? Or it is all "Beitbart" and the "Weekly World News", Hillary Clinton with space alien? You seriously imagine that the GOP in Congress wouldn't be trying to find her in Contempt if she'd done anything like this? That the FBI wouldn't have done a thing?!?
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/08/politics/hillary-clinton-benghazi-subpoena-gowdy/
"In fact, Trey Gowdy did not issue a subpoena until March, months after she she'd done that review. Further, the subpoena was specifically asking for documents pertaining to Libya and the attacks on our facility in Benghazi, documents which, along with tens of thousands of others, she had already given to the Department of State," Merrill said.
Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the Benghazi panel, called Gowdy's hit Wednesday a "stunt."
"It appears clear that Secretary Clinton was answering a question about whether she deleted emails 'while facing a subpoena,'" Cummings said in a statement Wednesday.
God DAMN do I want silly season to be over, where people will go back to merely lying about their high scores on games, rather than crap like this
You are correct to a point. Cleaning up is a good thing to do before decommissioning a server, but doing that after a subpoena for those emails is called destruction of evidence.
And Hillary Clinton didn't do this, although it's now becoming very apparent that people who dislike her incorrectly imagine that she did,