Beta doesn't bother me, though. I'm more interested than the stories than I am the format. As long as they let us comment, I wouldn't even care if they installed that Disqus bullshit.
I see nothing unethical about it, is the problem. Here's the point: when I could pay, I did; when I couldn't, I didn't let that stop me from getting where I was going. I assure you the system would take in a lot more money if it made room for situations like mine at that time. If they'd have accepted $1.00 when that was all I had, they'd have gotten my dollar instead of nothing. Ironically, on the Oakland side of the bay, many bus drivers would accept less, depending on the time of day. Now and then they'd tell you to wait until the next time they came through for this or that reason, but they'd still get you where you were going. In SF, most buses are crowded most of the time, so asking would have been a waste of time for all parties involved.
I remember one time I jumped the Fruitvale BART turnstyle right in front of a cop, made eye contact, and kept walking. He didn't feel I was unethical enough to write a ticket.
More ironically, this conversation reminds me that I do, in fact, have an outstanding ticket from the metro train in SF. And even more ironic is the fact that that particular morning I had legitimately lost my ticket. I was living in a VA halfway house, taking it fully for granted, and the weekly pass they gave me turned out to be in my backpack later on when I had a free minute to look at it. The problem with that halfway house program was that it filled my days with so many appointments and bullshit that I couldn't make the time to do what I really needed to do, which was find a job.
Here's another thing I want to say: I see no reason to follow Ghandi's advice at this point in history. Being the change I want to see in the world would require me to, once again, give up everything I own and occupy a public space and spend 24 hours a day protesting things I don't want to see anymore of in this country, such as unwarranted/ineffective NSA surveillance, artificially depressed wages as a product of political footballing, or half-assed socialist programmes with no scientifically veritable benefit, such as the food stamp program, which actually benefits corporations like Wal*Mart far more than it does the people who are entitled to it.
I can't afford to give up everything I own again. I don't believe that you or anyone else reading this thread has ever done that, not for this country and not for your stated ideals.
Why can't I afford it? Because five days ago my first son was born, and in the last 10 months I've made a radical transition from a travelling crackpot radical to a working-class citizen. His life is far more important than my ideals. I don't want him to ever struggle as I have struggled, and I don't want him to have as cynical a view of the world as I do. This transition isn't something I would've done otherwise. Otherwise I'd still be out there somewhere, in the woods most likely, waiting for the inevitable collapse-via-inertia of a society which did not adhere to its principles.
I don't particularly give a fuck how unethical it is.
Listen, go down to... I think it's Montgomery, near the 7-11 that's near the Ritz, and watch that bus stop. Watch just how many people actually pay the fare. Then fuck yourself.
If you're in SF and just trying to go somewhere else in SF, just do what everyone else does and either hop a bus and don't pay the fare or hop the turnstyles and don't pay the fare. If you're trying to go across the bay to Oakland, be more careful, but still, if you don't want to pay, just don't. When I was living there in 2012, this worked 100% of the time that I couldn't afford a trip or didn't feel like paying. The buses are the easiest because you can board on the back. And another thing that's supposed to be happening is a tiered pricing system. But anyway, you don't have to go to much trouble to get around free/cheap in SF, but it seems like it would have been a fun study to conduct.
Problem with my formula: it does not account for sick days or weekends. It is the worst case scenario, with every worker working 56 hours a week instead of 40. I should just keep quiet.
Personally, I tire quickly of business telling me that labor is their highest cost. They are taught in school to minimize the cost of labor, but in the end, you're talking about, for a good job, about $120 a day per work (that's $15 an hour, about twice the bullshit minimum wage and about what you need, in my experience, to comfortably raise a family). If you have 100 workers, you're now talking about $12,000 per day, times 365 is around 4.4M per year. If you have 100 workers and you cannot find a way to make them produce at least five times that figure in a year, you are the problem, not their wages. Your marketing is failing, not them. And when they are failing, you can fire them, because if you are paying them correctly, they will have no motive to unionize, and they will have no protection against being fired. But few American companies even employ that many people. Most American companies would rather have one guy working 90 hours a week and hire no other new guys for months on end. It's greed, plain and simple, and Wall Street/shareholders etc are to blame. Before they came along, profit margins were not as important as quality products nor content workers (the strikes and labor movements of the early 20th century scared the fuck out of bosses nationwide). Sure, they capitalized and funded possibly countless innovations. But I personally believe those innovations would have come along without their steroidal injections.
Underpaid? In my experience, they make as much as 5 times the minimum wage, and I this is perhaps why they feel the fines they hand out are reasonable.
You never hear about the good cops, except on slow news days.
Unfortunately, my life has led me to a point where I can never trust a cop or have love for law enforcement. I've met good cops, guys who truly believe they can do good with their badge and who often choose not to enforce laws they see as unnecessary (which, unfortunately, is a problem in and of itself). Bless them for trying to do good in society while so many are either apathetic or downright evil.
But, in the end, FTP because ACAB and 911 is a Joke. And I feel like more members of each new generation feel this way than the last, and I hope the powers that be understand they are on a collision course with historical truths, IE, what is outlined in the preamble to the Declaration of Independence or the opening words of Fighting For Our Lives.
I don't think I want to be in the western world when it collapses. I think we are such a violent bunch that even I might not survive, and I've spent years homeless, did time in Iraq, and so forth. I still don't have faith I'd be able to guide my family through the chaos of a societal meltdown in a culture which is so coddled and takes so much for granted. I think we need to GTFO here and definitely within the next ten years.
Here's an idea: someone develop a PHP RSS feed reader that looks exactly like the Slashdot you admire so much, then just pipe in the RSS, and voila. You could potentially even run your own advertisements.
They already have equivalents to them, these will just improve the quality of the data. What I want is for all citizens to have access to the live feed.
That says it all. For every woman that can't endure the bullshit, there are three or four who can. The question is, does that justify the bullshit? It's even more interesting how the first response of my gender when this kind of thing comes up is to say, Oh, you're being dramatic, or, Oh, this isn't as bad as you make it sound or, What about reverse sexism/racism?
But what if 90% of that 25-33% are the ones who'd be most productive in a development atmosphere? The point is that the disrespect they receive, solely on the basis of being women, is more likely than not to be slowing down our progress. I'm not advocating equal opportunity, or the silly idea that there is some acceptable ratio of women to men in development. I'm saying that a culture of respect, especially due respect, would give us a better chance than what we have now.
It would seem that a comparable percentage of women would be interested in coding as men. The same is true for other trades, like automotive technicians and truck driving, so why is there such a low rate of women in open source programming?
Women who get tired of unsolicited bullshit and the locker room antics in a professional environment are not "humorless cunts" and the things they perceive as offensive are not "jokes." As geeks, we should have no trouble understanding how they feel. Often, I think that his sort of idiotic and certainly unrealistic machoism is actually a result of having never been able to say these sorts of things in a real situation before.
Those are the two most likely explanations for his behavior, that's how I came to that conclusion.
Learn how to be a professional and ask yourself why you loathe women. Is it because your mom was mean to you or is it because you can't be what women want?
Linux Format's February 2014 issue has an article about gender disparity and gender discrimination in open source development. It states that only about 1.5% of OSS developers are women, whereas as much as 28% of developers in proprietary software are women. They say that women are often intimidated by alpha geeks and put-off by misogynistic BS etc. The article is on page 50 if you are in B&N or Hastings sometime soon and want to read it.
Depending if I'm hourly or, as a contractor getting a single payment for the job, I'd either start from scratch (hourly) or quit (single payment). If I started from scratch, I'd make sure to document the several hundred lines which of erroneous code which led me to do so, explaining that, in my hands, the only way to do it was the way I did it.
The iPhone arrived late? What else was available in 2007 with a touch screen, browser, etc? I mean I don't like them any better than the next guy, but I'm interested to know what prior art you speak of.
Apple is marketing to Apple users, many of whom will buy anything the company makes, at any price. It's a cult-like brand loyalty they rest on, not always laurels of innovation.
Long ago, I got into an argument with a superior. I was insisting that the next big leap in electronics would be wireless charging. He firmly believed, in late 2008, that this would be impossible, dangerous, and never come close to being worth the investment for any company. I believed there would be a way to do it, especially with low-power devices, and likely even unto light bulbs. I feel vindicated today.
I remember having trouble with the MacPorts framework, or perhaps it hadn't released for Snow Leopard when I had upgraded to Snow Leopard, something along those lines. The two biggest software purchases I made were Final Cut Pro and WireTap Studio. Since fully migrating to Linux, I've found the capabilities of Audacity to be far greater than I ever remember, but at the time I needed something quick and easy. Which is what most Mac users are looking for.
Slashdot Mirror
lol.
Beta doesn't bother me, though. I'm more interested than the stories than I am the format. As long as they let us comment, I wouldn't even care if they installed that Disqus bullshit.
I see nothing unethical about it, is the problem. Here's the point: when I could pay, I did; when I couldn't, I didn't let that stop me from getting where I was going. I assure you the system would take in a lot more money if it made room for situations like mine at that time. If they'd have accepted $1.00 when that was all I had, they'd have gotten my dollar instead of nothing. Ironically, on the Oakland side of the bay, many bus drivers would accept less, depending on the time of day. Now and then they'd tell you to wait until the next time they came through for this or that reason, but they'd still get you where you were going. In SF, most buses are crowded most of the time, so asking would have been a waste of time for all parties involved.
I remember one time I jumped the Fruitvale BART turnstyle right in front of a cop, made eye contact, and kept walking. He didn't feel I was unethical enough to write a ticket.
More ironically, this conversation reminds me that I do, in fact, have an outstanding ticket from the metro train in SF. And even more ironic is the fact that that particular morning I had legitimately lost my ticket. I was living in a VA halfway house, taking it fully for granted, and the weekly pass they gave me turned out to be in my backpack later on when I had a free minute to look at it. The problem with that halfway house program was that it filled my days with so many appointments and bullshit that I couldn't make the time to do what I really needed to do, which was find a job.
Here's another thing I want to say: I see no reason to follow Ghandi's advice at this point in history. Being the change I want to see in the world would require me to, once again, give up everything I own and occupy a public space and spend 24 hours a day protesting things I don't want to see anymore of in this country, such as unwarranted/ineffective NSA surveillance, artificially depressed wages as a product of political footballing, or half-assed socialist programmes with no scientifically veritable benefit, such as the food stamp program, which actually benefits corporations like Wal*Mart far more than it does the people who are entitled to it.
I can't afford to give up everything I own again. I don't believe that you or anyone else reading this thread has ever done that, not for this country and not for your stated ideals.
Why can't I afford it? Because five days ago my first son was born, and in the last 10 months I've made a radical transition from a travelling crackpot radical to a working-class citizen. His life is far more important than my ideals. I don't want him to ever struggle as I have struggled, and I don't want him to have as cynical a view of the world as I do. This transition isn't something I would've done otherwise. Otherwise I'd still be out there somewhere, in the woods most likely, waiting for the inevitable collapse-via-inertia of a society which did not adhere to its principles.
Judge not lest ye be judged, sir.
Exactly.
I don't particularly give a fuck how unethical it is.
... I think it's Montgomery, near the 7-11 that's near the Ritz, and watch that bus stop. Watch just how many people actually pay the fare. Then fuck yourself.
Listen, go down to
If you're in SF and just trying to go somewhere else in SF, just do what everyone else does and either hop a bus and don't pay the fare or hop the turnstyles and don't pay the fare. If you're trying to go across the bay to Oakland, be more careful, but still, if you don't want to pay, just don't. When I was living there in 2012, this worked 100% of the time that I couldn't afford a trip or didn't feel like paying. The buses are the easiest because you can board on the back. And another thing that's supposed to be happening is a tiered pricing system. But anyway, you don't have to go to much trouble to get around free/cheap in SF, but it seems like it would have been a fun study to conduct.
Problem with my formula: it does not account for sick days or weekends. It is the worst case scenario, with every worker working 56 hours a week instead of 40. I should just keep quiet.
Personally, I tire quickly of business telling me that labor is their highest cost. They are taught in school to minimize the cost of labor, but in the end, you're talking about, for a good job, about $120 a day per work (that's $15 an hour, about twice the bullshit minimum wage and about what you need, in my experience, to comfortably raise a family). If you have 100 workers, you're now talking about $12,000 per day, times 365 is around 4.4M per year. If you have 100 workers and you cannot find a way to make them produce at least five times that figure in a year, you are the problem, not their wages. Your marketing is failing, not them. And when they are failing, you can fire them, because if you are paying them correctly, they will have no motive to unionize, and they will have no protection against being fired. But few American companies even employ that many people. Most American companies would rather have one guy working 90 hours a week and hire no other new guys for months on end. It's greed, plain and simple, and Wall Street/shareholders etc are to blame. Before they came along, profit margins were not as important as quality products nor content workers (the strikes and labor movements of the early 20th century scared the fuck out of bosses nationwide). Sure, they capitalized and funded possibly countless innovations. But I personally believe those innovations would have come along without their steroidal injections.
About the 50th commenter to miss the fact that cops already wear huge utility belts and they could just add auxiliary batteries to it.
Underpaid? In my experience, they make as much as 5 times the minimum wage, and I this is perhaps why they feel the fines they hand out are reasonable.
Why would you want that policy? How about develop software that automatically blurs out faces once the feed hits the public. FOIA, bro.
You never hear about the good cops, except on slow news days.
Unfortunately, my life has led me to a point where I can never trust a cop or have love for law enforcement. I've met good cops, guys who truly believe they can do good with their badge and who often choose not to enforce laws they see as unnecessary (which, unfortunately, is a problem in and of itself). Bless them for trying to do good in society while so many are either apathetic or downright evil.
But, in the end, FTP because ACAB and 911 is a Joke. And I feel like more members of each new generation feel this way than the last, and I hope the powers that be understand they are on a collision course with historical truths, IE, what is outlined in the preamble to the Declaration of Independence or the opening words of Fighting For Our Lives.
I don't think I want to be in the western world when it collapses. I think we are such a violent bunch that even I might not survive, and I've spent years homeless, did time in Iraq, and so forth. I still don't have faith I'd be able to guide my family through the chaos of a societal meltdown in a culture which is so coddled and takes so much for granted. I think we need to GTFO here and definitely within the next ten years.
Here's an idea: someone develop a PHP RSS feed reader that looks exactly like the Slashdot you admire so much, then just pipe in the RSS, and voila. You could potentially even run your own advertisements.
They already have equivalents to them, these will just improve the quality of the data. What I want is for all citizens to have access to the live feed.
"Women's sensitivity."
That says it all. For every woman that can't endure the bullshit, there are three or four who can. The question is, does that justify the bullshit? It's even more interesting how the first response of my gender when this kind of thing comes up is to say, Oh, you're being dramatic, or, Oh, this isn't as bad as you make it sound or, What about reverse sexism/racism?
But what if 90% of that 25-33% are the ones who'd be most productive in a development atmosphere? The point is that the disrespect they receive, solely on the basis of being women, is more likely than not to be slowing down our progress. I'm not advocating equal opportunity, or the silly idea that there is some acceptable ratio of women to men in development. I'm saying that a culture of respect, especially due respect, would give us a better chance than what we have now.
It would seem that a comparable percentage of women would be interested in coding as men. The same is true for other trades, like automotive technicians and truck driving, so why is there such a low rate of women in open source programming?
Women who get tired of unsolicited bullshit and the locker room antics in a professional environment are not "humorless cunts" and the things they perceive as offensive are not "jokes." As geeks, we should have no trouble understanding how they feel. Often, I think that his sort of idiotic and certainly unrealistic machoism is actually a result of having never been able to say these sorts of things in a real situation before.
Those are the two most likely explanations for his behavior, that's how I came to that conclusion.
Learn how to be a professional and ask yourself why you loathe women. Is it because your mom was mean to you or is it because you can't be what women want?
Linux Format's February 2014 issue has an article about gender disparity and gender discrimination in open source development. It states that only about 1.5% of OSS developers are women, whereas as much as 28% of developers in proprietary software are women. They say that women are often intimidated by alpha geeks and put-off by misogynistic BS etc. The article is on page 50 if you are in B&N or Hastings sometime soon and want to read it.
Why you mods harsh on this guy? Can't see how this got -1.
Depending if I'm hourly or, as a contractor getting a single payment for the job, I'd either start from scratch (hourly) or quit (single payment). If I started from scratch, I'd make sure to document the several hundred lines which of erroneous code which led me to do so, explaining that, in my hands, the only way to do it was the way I did it.
The iPhone arrived late? What else was available in 2007 with a touch screen, browser, etc? I mean I don't like them any better than the next guy, but I'm interested to know what prior art you speak of.
Apple is marketing to Apple users, many of whom will buy anything the company makes, at any price. It's a cult-like brand loyalty they rest on, not always laurels of innovation.
Long ago, I got into an argument with a superior. I was insisting that the next big leap in electronics would be wireless charging. He firmly believed, in late 2008, that this would be impossible, dangerous, and never come close to being worth the investment for any company. I believed there would be a way to do it, especially with low-power devices, and likely even unto light bulbs. I feel vindicated today.
So the Mandriva crew fucked it off? What was your primary annoyance? Just curious.
I remember having trouble with the MacPorts framework, or perhaps it hadn't released for Snow Leopard when I had upgraded to Snow Leopard, something along those lines. The two biggest software purchases I made were Final Cut Pro and WireTap Studio. Since fully migrating to Linux, I've found the capabilities of Audacity to be far greater than I ever remember, but at the time I needed something quick and easy. Which is what most Mac users are looking for.