I was thinking a "no shit" tag would also be appropriate here as well. This is exactly what the workers have been saying. We're rare, but we're not that rare. Just rare enough to be worth a premium, and to have the audacity to demand things like good benefits and a work-life balance.
The difference is, most of the coders kind of know how to approach virus removal - it's just a lot easier to ask Help Desk to do it since they've probably got a machine dedicated to it (we called ours "Benchy the Nurse Box" - it had multiple malware removal programs on it and the only other thing it did besides nuke viruses was play the radio.)
Although the message about not sharing USBs between sick machines is a good one in this book. MANY professionals haven't figured that one out yet.
See, this is what I'm talking about. Brianna who? I have no idea who this person is. You're unintentionally giving her the attention you claim that these folks are trying to get for themselves. I deliberately omit the names of the indie game developer that started this all, and the feminist critic, because WHO they are doesn't matter if GG is really about journalistic integrity in regards to video games. I don't give a flying fig about their personal lives or their supposed sin - I am interested in their bodies of work as it pertains to "ethics in journalism."
Start bashing IGN and Kotaku, they're the real culprits here.
And I 100% agree. This kind of game review culture is toxic.
But any time someone in GG begins naming the names of the indie game developer and the feminist critic, this argument falls down. Either it's about ethics in journalism, or it's about two women who did stuff you don't like. Neither of the women are journalists.
It's also difficult to work under a boss who is not only smarter than you, but also smarter than those above them too. Brilliant people have no trouble understanding the technical aspects in addition to the managerial aspects. What they do have issues with is setting the right expectations for their subordinates, and letting go of their perfectionism in light of realistic expectations of average human capabilities. My current boss will go far in his career, but my secret hope is that he might get promoted out from under his current boss and I'll be shifted to someone else who is perhaps less brilliant.... but also easier to work with as a result.
This is a good point. Microsoft also offers a lot of its nicer software for free to students. Back when I was finishing my master's degree, I had access to everything except the core Office 2013 products (Word, Excel, etc.) I got Project, Access, Visio, Visual Studio, and a free copy of Windows 8.
There was also that huge cheating scandal in Atlanta a few years ago where the teachers would go through and correct students tests so they'd get a passing grade.
I think it's still useful to be able to read cursive, but I agree that writing it seems kind of pointless today. Want something fancy? Use a cursive font, it'll actually be legible that way too.
A teacher in NC said that she found the iPads were good equalizers for kids with dyslexia as well. They could zoom in and out until they found a print size that didn't make their eyes swim, and also change fonts in their text books to one they found easier to read. (I heard the special dyslexic "weighted" font has officially been released now; hopefully some of those kids can get it loaded on their systems.)
That was the only praise she had for the iPads, though. Her biggest complaint was that the teacher's tools were not as robust as they could be; that she still had to do a lot of manual work for grading things that could have just as easily been automated (e.g. no way to store a score for an assignment within the system, just whether it was completed or not.)
My Java programming prof said that copying code in your actual jobs is fine - and pretty much expected. But for the purposes of his class, it was not allowed. We were supposed to mess with it and try to build it on our own. Non-compiling code that we did ourselves and messed up would net you a passing grade, whereas perfect code that was obviously copied would get you a big fail.
Happens to my husband and I that way regarding any kind of tech stuff. I'm the one that has a degree in and works in IT and can build a working computer from a box of spare parts. Yet if someone doesn't know us too well, they'll start asking him for tech advice. The majority of the time he has to redirect that question to me.
99% of the time, as a straight white female, I'm not. But that 1% of the time I experience it really tends to stick in my craw. Like getting passed over for acceptance into a trumpet music program when I was 19 just because I have one too many X chromosomes and my adjudicator for the audition was well known as a misogynist. It's only in the last decade that young women trumpeters are finally becoming accepted - and while it's probably only a coincidence that that dude died a decade ago, it still makes me raise an eyebrow.
Prior to that experience, I'd believed the myth that sexism was over. I could be anything I wanted to be. But it turns out, it was only illegal under the law. That doesn't change someone's attitudes or personal bigotry.
But if you're going after people who had been using windows laptops before and didn't need a lot of horsepower, they're fantastic. My husband is a professor. His school offered all the profs iPads; he asked for a Surface instead. He's used the heck out of that thing. It handles his email, runs Office, plays videos, and even lets him run some video game emulators. It's the opposite of my bulky fat gaming laptop, although my system can run circles around his Surface in terms of sheer horsepower.
That actually makes me wonder if they controlled for "type of work" as a variable. It's not called out in the methodology in TFA. Someone who is 3rd shift is already less likely to be in an intellectually stimulating job (did 2nd-3rd shift at a 24 hour call center here for a while. I quit when they stopped letting me study for classes.)
White collar workers may work 12 hour days, but they're at least working 7AM to 7PM.
When I did tech support for a very small IT shop, the manager there said he deliberately hired based on personality. He'd hired some guys with certs out their ears and a decade of experience who would then argue with the end users, resulting in the users getting angry with IT. After that, he switched tactics and hired tech savvy part time students from the local university who had all the necessary people skills, and taught them the tech skills they needed. This resulted in 1. happier customers 2. cheaper labor 3. great experience for the employees, who were paid pretty well for part time and who graduated with 1-3 years of goodies under the belts and usually at least A+ by the time they were done with their college degrees. Most of us alumni out of that tech shop have moved on to good, well-paying jobs we would not have been qualified for otherwise.
It's Athens. The strippers, bartenders, waiters, and waitresses are pretty likely to be more educated than any given patron.
That said, trapeze is a huge thing here for some reason. There are at least 2-3 such studios. It's great exercise, I've been told by its practitioners.
Actually, most of the GOTV images I've shared have been fairly neutral. None of my friends would ever vote Republican, though, since we're all strongly pro-GLBTQ, pro-gay marriage, and pro-choice. Even if I did agree economically with Republicans, they burned their bridges by focusing far too much on social issues. It's not just the economy when you're trying to deny some of my long time friends their basic human rights.
My circle of FB friends have been circulating dozens of GOTV images for the last month. My favorite has been a picture of a silly looking Tea Party guy in full regalia holding up an anti-government sign, with the caption: "This guy is voting. Are you?" (There are other more mean spirited ones that are kind of classist, showing rednecks, which I declined to share.)
Wood biomass is at least a renewable energy. The US South is one of the few places on the planet that is growing more trees than are being cut down - that is, reforestation is exceeding deforestation. The biomass wood tends to come from scraps left over from timber production, in the form of wood pellets.
Girls were interested when/if they had access. I wasted a LOT of time on my best friend's family computer in the late '80s, often shooing her brother away because we were too engrossed in whatever game. Her father was a programmer for the Army, and we both ended up in computer boot camp where we got introduced to BASIC and Logo.
Neither of us were encouraged or dissuaded away from the computer due to our genders.
Folks like Sarkeesian have been publishing feminist critique of pop culture for years, in their little bubble of academia. She's mostly being punished because nobody outside of the bubble ever knew that PCA is a thing, and she was the first visible target.
Kiddie phone from Verizon. He is clinging to his 2004 state of the art clamshell phone that is at best a feature phone with no features actually supported any more besides phone calls, calendar, and text messages. In the meantime, I have not one but two Samsung galaxies.
On the one hand, even if I wanted to spy on him, I couldn't. On the other hand, his texts cost him 10 cents each on a grandfathered pre-paid plan, and he certainly can't install or run any kind of app on it. So the few texts he make can be counted in dimes (and he gets grouchy when someone texts him too much as a result) and there's no way to hide them or delete them. I'm not terribly worried either way.
We already have a lot of people terrified of nuclear reactors. Finding a site that will accept a new type of reactor will take a lot of time. Plus, creating a permit process for this... lots of red tape.
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I was thinking a "no shit" tag would also be appropriate here as well. This is exactly what the workers have been saying. We're rare, but we're not that rare. Just rare enough to be worth a premium, and to have the audacity to demand things like good benefits and a work-life balance.
Then it should have been called "I can be a software designer!" and not "I can be a computer engineer!"
The difference is, most of the coders kind of know how to approach virus removal - it's just a lot easier to ask Help Desk to do it since they've probably got a machine dedicated to it (we called ours "Benchy the Nurse Box" - it had multiple malware removal programs on it and the only other thing it did besides nuke viruses was play the radio.)
Although the message about not sharing USBs between sick machines is a good one in this book. MANY professionals haven't figured that one out yet.
See, this is what I'm talking about. Brianna who? I have no idea who this person is. You're unintentionally giving her the attention you claim that these folks are trying to get for themselves. I deliberately omit the names of the indie game developer that started this all, and the feminist critic, because WHO they are doesn't matter if GG is really about journalistic integrity in regards to video games. I don't give a flying fig about their personal lives or their supposed sin - I am interested in their bodies of work as it pertains to "ethics in journalism."
Start bashing IGN and Kotaku, they're the real culprits here.
And I 100% agree. This kind of game review culture is toxic.
But any time someone in GG begins naming the names of the indie game developer and the feminist critic, this argument falls down. Either it's about ethics in journalism, or it's about two women who did stuff you don't like. Neither of the women are journalists.
It's also difficult to work under a boss who is not only smarter than you, but also smarter than those above them too. Brilliant people have no trouble understanding the technical aspects in addition to the managerial aspects. What they do have issues with is setting the right expectations for their subordinates, and letting go of their perfectionism in light of realistic expectations of average human capabilities. My current boss will go far in his career, but my secret hope is that he might get promoted out from under his current boss and I'll be shifted to someone else who is perhaps less brilliant.... but also easier to work with as a result.
This is a good point. Microsoft also offers a lot of its nicer software for free to students. Back when I was finishing my master's degree, I had access to everything except the core Office 2013 products (Word, Excel, etc.) I got Project, Access, Visio, Visual Studio, and a free copy of Windows 8.
There was also that huge cheating scandal in Atlanta a few years ago where the teachers would go through and correct students tests so they'd get a passing grade.
I think it's still useful to be able to read cursive, but I agree that writing it seems kind of pointless today. Want something fancy? Use a cursive font, it'll actually be legible that way too.
A teacher in NC said that she found the iPads were good equalizers for kids with dyslexia as well. They could zoom in and out until they found a print size that didn't make their eyes swim, and also change fonts in their text books to one they found easier to read. (I heard the special dyslexic "weighted" font has officially been released now; hopefully some of those kids can get it loaded on their systems.)
That was the only praise she had for the iPads, though. Her biggest complaint was that the teacher's tools were not as robust as they could be; that she still had to do a lot of manual work for grading things that could have just as easily been automated (e.g. no way to store a score for an assignment within the system, just whether it was completed or not.)
My Java programming prof said that copying code in your actual jobs is fine - and pretty much expected. But for the purposes of his class, it was not allowed. We were supposed to mess with it and try to build it on our own. Non-compiling code that we did ourselves and messed up would net you a passing grade, whereas perfect code that was obviously copied would get you a big fail.
Happens to my husband and I that way regarding any kind of tech stuff. I'm the one that has a degree in and works in IT and can build a working computer from a box of spare parts. Yet if someone doesn't know us too well, they'll start asking him for tech advice. The majority of the time he has to redirect that question to me.
99% of the time, as a straight white female, I'm not. But that 1% of the time I experience it really tends to stick in my craw. Like getting passed over for acceptance into a trumpet music program when I was 19 just because I have one too many X chromosomes and my adjudicator for the audition was well known as a misogynist. It's only in the last decade that young women trumpeters are finally becoming accepted - and while it's probably only a coincidence that that dude died a decade ago, it still makes me raise an eyebrow.
Prior to that experience, I'd believed the myth that sexism was over. I could be anything I wanted to be. But it turns out, it was only illegal under the law. That doesn't change someone's attitudes or personal bigotry.
But if you're going after people who had been using windows laptops before and didn't need a lot of horsepower, they're fantastic. My husband is a professor. His school offered all the profs iPads; he asked for a Surface instead. He's used the heck out of that thing. It handles his email, runs Office, plays videos, and even lets him run some video game emulators. It's the opposite of my bulky fat gaming laptop, although my system can run circles around his Surface in terms of sheer horsepower.
As anyone who has one knows. The CCV code is 4 digits to bring it into alignment with the other cards.
I'd sign up for this. I hope they offer it to people sooner rather than later.
That actually makes me wonder if they controlled for "type of work" as a variable. It's not called out in the methodology in TFA. Someone who is 3rd shift is already less likely to be in an intellectually stimulating job (did 2nd-3rd shift at a 24 hour call center here for a while. I quit when they stopped letting me study for classes.)
White collar workers may work 12 hour days, but they're at least working 7AM to 7PM.
When I did tech support for a very small IT shop, the manager there said he deliberately hired based on personality. He'd hired some guys with certs out their ears and a decade of experience who would then argue with the end users, resulting in the users getting angry with IT. After that, he switched tactics and hired tech savvy part time students from the local university who had all the necessary people skills, and taught them the tech skills they needed. This resulted in 1. happier customers 2. cheaper labor 3. great experience for the employees, who were paid pretty well for part time and who graduated with 1-3 years of goodies under the belts and usually at least A+ by the time they were done with their college degrees. Most of us alumni out of that tech shop have moved on to good, well-paying jobs we would not have been qualified for otherwise.
It's Athens. The strippers, bartenders, waiters, and waitresses are pretty likely to be more educated than any given patron.
That said, trapeze is a huge thing here for some reason. There are at least 2-3 such studios. It's great exercise, I've been told by its practitioners.
Actually, most of the GOTV images I've shared have been fairly neutral. None of my friends would ever vote Republican, though, since we're all strongly pro-GLBTQ, pro-gay marriage, and pro-choice. Even if I did agree economically with Republicans, they burned their bridges by focusing far too much on social issues. It's not just the economy when you're trying to deny some of my long time friends their basic human rights.
My circle of FB friends have been circulating dozens of GOTV images for the last month. My favorite has been a picture of a silly looking Tea Party guy in full regalia holding up an anti-government sign, with the caption: "This guy is voting. Are you?" (There are other more mean spirited ones that are kind of classist, showing rednecks, which I declined to share.)
Wood biomass is at least a renewable energy. The US South is one of the few places on the planet that is growing more trees than are being cut down - that is, reforestation is exceeding deforestation. The biomass wood tends to come from scraps left over from timber production, in the form of wood pellets.
Girls were interested when/if they had access. I wasted a LOT of time on my best friend's family computer in the late '80s, often shooing her brother away because we were too engrossed in whatever game. Her father was a programmer for the Army, and we both ended up in computer boot camp where we got introduced to BASIC and Logo.
Neither of us were encouraged or dissuaded away from the computer due to our genders.
Folks like Sarkeesian have been publishing feminist critique of pop culture for years, in their little bubble of academia. She's mostly being punished because nobody outside of the bubble ever knew that PCA is a thing, and she was the first visible target.
Kiddie phone from Verizon. He is clinging to his 2004 state of the art clamshell phone that is at best a feature phone with no features actually supported any more besides phone calls, calendar, and text messages. In the meantime, I have not one but two Samsung galaxies.
On the one hand, even if I wanted to spy on him, I couldn't. On the other hand, his texts cost him 10 cents each on a grandfathered pre-paid plan, and he certainly can't install or run any kind of app on it. So the few texts he make can be counted in dimes (and he gets grouchy when someone texts him too much as a result) and there's no way to hide them or delete them. I'm not terribly worried either way.
We already have a lot of people terrified of nuclear reactors. Finding a site that will accept a new type of reactor will take a lot of time. Plus, creating a permit process for this... lots of red tape.