If that is your argument its not a very strong one. I have owned many decks that are 90% touch screen over the years and I have never been in an accident that has been my fault (I was t-boned a few weeks ago when I clearly had the right of way from a green light). I know its crazy!!! the thing is you take your eyes off the road all the time. You glance at a knob before reaching for it to adjust a number of settings, the same works once you know where all the buttons will appear. You glance you see it you tap it. done. If you are cycling though more options than that while driving, you are already doing it wrong.
It takes time to learn any new device. If you had lived in said area, you would have known what stations were where, and this wouldn't have been an issue at all. Being in a new area creates plenty of confusion that is "an accident waiting to happen". Now I have seen some stupidly complex touch screen in dash systems, and I have never used Teslas, so I cannot comment on how well designed it is, but I have used plenty of them that work great. I know roughly where I am trying to go and how to get there. I sit the same distance from the dash every time I drive, so I know the area I need to hit based on all of those things, just like how you remember where the knobs are. If I miss, or its not doing what I want, I glance over and see whats up. I mean, people take their eyes off the road all the time for GPS or talking to the passenger, etc. I remember Top Gear did a challenge where they wanted to see if they could preform tasks like sewing while driving, and found that its actually pretty easy to drive while preoccupied. Obviously that isn't science, but driving is like second nature to most people, and a half second glance at the radio shouldn't cause an accident. If conditions are that bad, you shouldn't be fucking with the radio no matter how its built, and you should be focusing on the road.
While everyone else seems to be bitching they can't watch the games, I am pissed that it's all over my TV. I don't care about someone sweeping ice in front of a puck, or jumping while on skis, I want my usual line up back. Damn Sochi!
I agree, we cannot force women into any work force. What I want to understand from this article is why are we looking at such a specific road of tech? We all know that tech is lacking women, so duh Open Source is no better. Lets focus on figuring out why women arent in tech, then if they don't end up in Open Source with some ratio, then we can look at it. I see no way that Open Source specifically will help this situation. I mean I know we all like to think Open Source is the end all, but this is just ridiculous.
While I agree with the sentiment, most companies have little to hide from the likes of Google, their cloud providers, or even the NSA. If anything they are hiding from the IRS. There are often time sensitive information passed out on a G+ business page, but its likely useless to anyone that's not a direct competitor.
I am on your side when it comes to relying on a cloud company for IT, but at the same time I can tell you that in a lot of cases its the best bad decision some companies can make. I cannot tell you how many previous companies I have worked for have told me about the way they planned to deploy their IT infrastructure before simply moving to the cloud and letting them handle it. Until they could afford to bring someone like me in to tell them how to do it, the cloud was the best option. I have seen people want to bring in servers to run a business of 5 people, and not a server, MANY servers. While that was some very forward thinking, it was not at all what they needed and would have bankrupted their company before they got off the ground. Sometimes you just cannot afford to make that investment early on, but taking a cheaper route that will likely succeed in the short term is a very good bad decision. Now,all that being said, I think you need to really think about your IT before you expand too far, and invest into it properly.
Google+, despite what a lot of people think, is very popular for companies to utilize for work projects. Hangouts is a great way to create conference calls, and since its tied into your other Google services like Drive, you can pretty much use it as a company intranet. I have been a contractor for companies that had employees across the states, and most of them have used G+ in the way I described. I would simply be added to a hangout for meetings with the team, they would place the files I needed access to on Drive and then there was little risk of me getting access to more critical business stuff. I was also part of a contracting team that just had a G+ page, and we would meet with clients in the exact same way. I personally didn't like this method, as I prefer to have more face time with clients, but it seemed to work well as a free platform to do business.
If we assume that the Linux team does something similar, its probably easy for Linus to get his ideas across on a social media platform where a decent portion of his development community lives. I have seen many ex-Google friends follow this same trend when they leave Google and create their start-ups. Chris Messina do it with NeonMob, as well as a few others that I met at Plus20. I cannot say this is necessarily the single best method, but it might be that they don't like FB, Twitter's limitations make it harder to utilize in this manner, so G+ is the next best place to put your ideas down for a large user base to view.
I am in a situation similar to this, but with an organization that is willing to listen. The experience, while equally frustrating on the code end, is much better.
I maintain a few different code bases for our org. Donor management software, internal apps for job specific duties, and our largest a social-like network built on Drupal. All of these have been touched by at least 3 other developers before arriving in my lap, all of which were contractors. We have so many issues with the Drupal site, its amazing that people visit it everyday without realizing it doesn't work properly. I spend a good amount of time each day chasing tail to ensure that the users don't see there errors. You might say, "well Drupal has plenty of testing options, start there", but most of the modules in play are custom, or community alpha, and have 0 testing built into them. We have far too much AJAX at work that is all poorly written, and they all rely on other AJAX to work properly. I learned this the hard way trying to refactor the code that makes the cookies. The original code created a cookie for your name, another for your the cost of an item in your cart, another for the name, and so on. So I tried to simplify the logic by placing it all in a single cookie, but that somehow impacted our notification system to the point that it completely disappeared from our site, and the emails stopped working. No clue why even to this day.
So the question became, do I attempt to rebuild this on Drupal but using modules that will work as well as making new ones using the good parts of the previous modules, do I just maintain this code and hope I eventually sort it all out, or do I rebuild the entire site on a more purpose built platform like a more flexible framework? The answer from above was "Yes". meaning I should do all of that at the same time. We are a non-profit so budget is tight, therefore I am the developer and the project manager. They want me to maintain our live code, while building a replacement for it. My time is split, so both projects suffer as a result.
Where my story differs is that the management are willing to listen that what we are doing is counter productive, and they work hard to reduce my work load. There are still plenty of times where I get tasked with stupid shit like changing a users photo, and it needs to be done right now, but then there are the times when I said a project would take until tuesday, but when its not completed because of all the other things breaking, they listen and we plan a meeting for the next projected completion date.
So while I would have loved to just drop this entire project (my job would be dropped with it), their willingness to correct their previous mistake of hiring the previous developers and getting stuck on the current system helps me stay motivated to work on both fixing the code, as well as creating something that the entire company will run on. But in the end it could be the fruitless journey that it initially appeared to be, I won't know until I reach the end.
I have worked a few jobs programming. I have also interned at many tech related companies. While I agree the big company that has a couple hundred employees, with management everywhere act very much like how you described. However I have been part of smaller teams from 4-100 people and I find that those companies are a lot more willing to listen to the tech team about how to do something. Don't get me wrong they still want feature X by date Y and look like how these guys did it, but when my teams have voiced their opinions at these smaller companies they were actually talked about. So I think some companies actually want those passionate people who want to do things right, and in my experience they are willing to pay for them. This isn't always the case, but I think its becoming far more common.
I agree with a lot of what you are saying. The internet isnt a very good representation of who people are IRL, so on a place like/. you can't expect real ideas and emotion to shine through.
You make a very valid point about the cynicism in IT. we are just cynical, we like to bitch and moan about stuff (although usually with some validity) about pretty much everything. So I agree entirely that some jobs just require a bit of thick skin. This is the area that makes the entire issue gray; should other just suck it up, or should we make changes in the culture so that it isn't full of grumpy people, and if so how do we even do it? The entire debate on this subject has so many moving parts that its no wonder its still an issue while no one can really figure out why its even an issue to begin with. I don't think any of us here are intentionally discriminate towards women in the workplace (or I sincerely hope), and I also don't think that a lot of what happens is inherently an issue, nor do I believe that we desire to cultivate a culture that is so split, but for many reasons that is the case. So we just need to spend a bit more time figuring out what we can reasonably change to help everyone involved and what comes with the territory.
I remember watching Wolfram on a TED talk, talking about how to teach math. He pointed out that we used to be forced to calculate math by hand because we didn't have computers to do it for us, thus calculating and math became one and the same. In reality though, calculating is just one part of math that isn't required to do math, and computers are far better at that portion of math than we are, so we should leave it to computers to handle. I think its similar here. Some parts of the industry are legitimately part of how IT or other STEM fields work, but there are aspects are not required to be in IT to be effective. So I think we need to evaluate what we can work on because it doesn't require a place in the field, and what parts are just inherent.
I agree with you, men face these same exact issues every day in IT. And I won't lie, I am not some morally superior person; I laugh at the jokes, I use the language, and I absolutely perpetuate the issues I discussed. The difference I see is that its us men who created this culture. No maliciously, or intentionally because we don't want women in our work places, but because when we were creating these cultures it was just us. So the shit we deal with is stuff we have determined is worth it. Part of it is social upbringing, we as men are told we will encounter certain things, and we just need to suck it up, while women are taught the opposite. So can you really expect women to enter into a culture easily, when they had no say in how the culture was formed? There are many underlining reasons that the things that bother us men don't bother women, and the same goes in the other direction.
So yeah, we don't get the appreciation that women want, but we have learned over our lifetime we as men don't require it. We have learned to laugh at shit instead of taking it to heart, and we are all around childish sometimes. Woman are simply different beings, so we cannot expect that to work for them equally. Also, women who do exhibit more aggressive attitudes aren't seen as fitting in. We see them as bitchy or bossy, not just a strong woman. Maybe its because they are bitchy or bossy, but we still need to realize that real gender equality isn't ever going to be real because we simply aren't the same, so we need to find the common middle ground that allows both parties to be successful in the same industry. That is my only point.
I don't think anyone is saying that the poor schmuck that cannot afford the education is a good thing, but that isn't the topic of discussion, that it its own issue. The problem we see at play here is cultural. IT is just not very woman friendly. This doesn't start with the IT industry itself, it start well before that. When you are growing up, trying to decide what you want to be when you get older, you look for what others like you are doing and evaluate it. Many years ago STEM was no place for a woman, so when young girls though about what they wanted to be, generally they looked to see what other women were doing and saw teachers, nurses, etc; not Physicists, or Computer Programmers (once that became a career path). On top of that its been largely seen that men are simply "better" at these types of subjects, so while being educated women were not expected (and in some cases not even allowed to try) to do as well as their male counter parts.
Luckily a lot of things in education have changed! but the outlook from society has not fully caught up. So women are now realizing they can, in fact, go into STEM fields without looking like a freak, and excel in these fields. Thats when the culture of the industry hits. Men have simply been dominate for so long in these industries, and the culture reflects that. Look at the first few posts on this summary, they are all asking for tit pics. How is that in any way welcoming to a woman in IT? this is prevalent across the industry. We make crude jokes at the expense of the minority working in that field. I cannot tell you how many jokes about Indian programmers I heard at my last job. Albeit there are some seriously bad contractors overseas, but if we had an actual Indian on our team, you bet your ass he wouldn't feel welcome. That drives people way from wanting to do something they are passionate about. So when a women joins a male dev team, do you honestly expect her to feel welcome? Hell, I don't think a woman would feel welcome posting on this thread, let alone subject herself to daily ridicule at a job. This is the type of stuff keeping woman out of the workplace.
I am not suggesting we pass initiatives to force more women into this space, but we should evaluate our culture and understand why women don't feel welcome. And the amount of backlash toward even considering a cultural change shows how bad it really is. Just bringing up the concept that its US that might be flawed in the way we do business gets you attacked, and I am a man. If any woman tries to simply TALK about the issues shes face she is met with even worse backlash. The woman in the article above never once asked for special treatment, or some law to get more women in IT. She just wants to make people aware of issues SHE faced (which sounds similar to many hurdles I have heard from female developers) and encouraging more women to overcome their fears and do what they love. How people on here are able to so blatantly attack this is baffling, and honestly quite disturbing.
*Not saying you are attacking anyone as you have made valid points in a fairly reasonable tone, however many people throughout this discussion have not.
I would have to disagree. Sure a flying ship would today be seen as technology, so lets up the ante a bit. What if a person was able to move the Sun with nothing more than his will. You aren't going to look at that guy and be like "Pshhh shut up science bitch", you would be in awe. The technology required to preform such a task is so advanced to us, that even if we could look right at it while its happening, we would still have no clue how it worked so it might as well be magic. Sure we can figure it out in time, but when you have something significantly advanced the distance between your knowledge and the required knowledge to understand is just too great. You take a laptop back 150 years and its damn near magic.
My company has been having similar errors, I believe its less a Gmail error and more of a Chrome error. When I try to google anything from the nav bar directly I get an insane load time that usually ends in a failure page with the t-rex on it. However if I visit google.com directly in chrome it works just fine. Yet in Firefox I can search anything I want at the top and get speedy results. I find it odd that Googles products don't interact well with one another, yet 3rd parties are able to interface with their services just fine. Somewhere down the line of development people aren't testing and simply aren't worried about consistency of their products. Google could let stuff like that happen a few years back, but they are pushing harder and harder to become an enterprise level service provider and with outages like today, and really inconsistent services they aren't selling themselves well. I personally love Google, I have been to the HQ many times, and interviewed there once before, but I cannot defend the poorly tested and developed stuff they keep pumping out.
It's not that any one crime yielded him 124 year sentence. He had a lot of stolen credit card data, so that's multiple counts of ID theft, add that to the multitude of private computer systems LulzSec compromised equals that long of a sentence. I still think that is a bit drastic. However, in some states you get an attempted murder charge for x pills of Ecstasy you have if you have enough to be considered "intent to distribute". Enough pills of E and you have a hefty max sentence in front of you. Many times you work this down to a much more manageable jail time. Sabu will likely face much less to no time served due to his involvement with LEA's.
Not that I am happy with the way everything ended with Swartz, this is very true. He did something that was clearly against the law. It shouldn't have been, but factually it was. He would have been greeted with open arms once released, his pick of careers purely for the publicity.
I know you are modded 'Funny', but I have honestly been wondering the same thing myself. Between Windows 8/8.1 and the Xbox One, it seems like they are intentionally driving away users. Maybe this restructure will help. It seems like Microsoft doesn't really know what it's trying to do, and maybe that is because there is no unified goal for each department. The cause is pure speculation on my part obviously.
What are you talking about? I upgrade my computer all the time! Further you are creating an entirely different argument that is still not very convincing. I dont want to have to buy an entirely new machine, and even if I did I cannot sell my previous MacBook for nearly the cost of a new one. I just recently sold my 15" MacBook Pro lightly used on eBay and I still had to come out of pocket $150 bucks to get the newest 13" MacBook. Thats a downgrade even with Time Machine keeping all my shit. Secondly I used to have a MacBook that ran Tiger, what is the option then? Plus if I am going to spend money on an external drive I can do all the same backups with a Windows or Linux machine. The reason why used PCs are so cheap to buy is because I could go out and get those parts and put them together myself. You cannot do that with Macs, thats part of their entire strategy. So yeah if you take care of a PC it can last just as long as a Mac can, and if something fails its far easier and cheaper to replace what has failed in a PC than a Mac.
Its a crazy concept of doing right by your customers. I know this is insane to even consider, but shockingly some companies do this. If you RTFA you would see that Musk talks about home wiring not always being done properly, so in order to avoid leaving that variable up to chance, Tesla has sent out chargers that shut themselves off at a certain temperature. Its almost like he cares if his customers are happy and hes willing to do what it takes to alleviate as many issues as possible while using his product, even when not caused by his own product.
I guess I shouldn't expect anyone on/. to RTFA, especially an AC, but Apple already is doing this with all the same auto makers and some others called iOSitC. Outside of the difficult to remember name of Apples group, I personally don't want Apple Maps guiding me around any town. Also, how will Android fragment the IVI? this isn't like a phone OS, IVI's don't leap to the latest hardware every few months. All you require is something like Spotify/Pandora for music, general peripheral connectors like AUX, USB, and SD cards, Bluetooth for calling, and navigation with an easy to use interface. All of that is achievable on older versions of Android, and I expect they will fork a specific version for IVI. Many players have been in the IVI game for a while with a lot of success, so I dont think Apple can corner a market on this even if they wanted to, what I think is happening is simply an OS standard. I have had a few IVI's over the course of my life and they all differ greatly in interface and functionality even with the same manufacturer. So iOS or Android doesn't matter really, we just need it to work and be the same.
Not to be a dick, but isn't type 2 diabetes due to lack of self control as it is? So you say that it's not hard to remember to control your diet etc, but if you had the ability to keep yourself to a tight schedule and stay mindful of what you're doing its likely you wouldn't have type 2 to begin with (not you specifically). Yes some people make the proper changes, but many of my dietician friends say it's much more common that their patients ignore a majority of what the say. So an app will be helpful moving forward in this day and age of distractions.
I feel like this is another Ask Slashdot that has been reworded and recycled a few times.
I stand by my previous response to the question: Think and Grow Rich. It's a helpful guide to becoming a positive, productive, and relatively happy person. Many books listed above are also great so mine is just an addition to the suggestions above.
I have had a much worse experience with them recently. I was tasked with moving my businesses services to our new office space. I called Comcast, let them know we would be moving 8 blocks away to a building that was already wired for Comcast. They said sure, we will build your order and then email you an install date. I said okay, and waited. I started this process on a Monday, and by Friday I was still waiting on an install date. We had no choice but to move out of our current office by the end of the month and into our new space. I call them Friday and they say that the order has yet to be built and only our sales rep can do that, and hes out for a few days and wont be back until Monday. I spent all day Friday on the phone with retention, the west coast supervisor, and plenty of other Comcast peeons. They assured me they would expedite it that very day. Another week passed with me on and off the phone with them, no progress. So I tried to get AT&T or any other provider on the phone to get a new service in the building instead. Turns out only Comcast can offer services in the area. Long story kinda short, took an entire month to transfer existing services, and we finally got it done on a Saturday before we had to be in the new space. Comcast is horrible. Its insane how bad their internal services are. I have been able to trick them into free UFC fights before, but on the flip side I have been charged for 3 months of services in a single month. Its crazy.
This is my issue as well. Its hard to even think at that level. I have been developing real code (not just learning to code) for about 6 years now. I spent about 2 years doing exclusively python and C programming together. Even with an intermediate grasp on C I couldn't effectively understand the Linux kernel and how to start developing for it. I remember I wrote a file system using a guided tutorial, but the amount of knowledge that took was minimal. The ideal of tracking a bug through 20 years of development in C that has been in the hands of a lot of developers is daunting. Especially now that I work with PHP and Ruby on Rails at work everyday, and have no need to write anything in C. Also no one really teaches C anymore. In college I took C courses but they only counted as elective credits not CS credits because Intro to OOP is all Java. So the problem is a few fold: no one is learning the language the kernel is written in. Learning at the kernel level is more difficult than it needs to be, and the rewards for doing so are far too little. I personally would love to help maintain the kernel, but its hard to get into. I see some links above that I expect are full of relevant information that I plan on checking out, but the situation still stands; there is far more help for learning things like Drupal than there are for people wanting to get into kernel development.
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If that is your argument its not a very strong one. I have owned many decks that are 90% touch screen over the years and I have never been in an accident that has been my fault (I was t-boned a few weeks ago when I clearly had the right of way from a green light). I know its crazy!!! the thing is you take your eyes off the road all the time. You glance at a knob before reaching for it to adjust a number of settings, the same works once you know where all the buttons will appear. You glance you see it you tap it. done. If you are cycling though more options than that while driving, you are already doing it wrong.
It takes time to learn any new device. If you had lived in said area, you would have known what stations were where, and this wouldn't have been an issue at all. Being in a new area creates plenty of confusion that is "an accident waiting to happen". Now I have seen some stupidly complex touch screen in dash systems, and I have never used Teslas, so I cannot comment on how well designed it is, but I have used plenty of them that work great. I know roughly where I am trying to go and how to get there. I sit the same distance from the dash every time I drive, so I know the area I need to hit based on all of those things, just like how you remember where the knobs are. If I miss, or its not doing what I want, I glance over and see whats up. I mean, people take their eyes off the road all the time for GPS or talking to the passenger, etc. I remember Top Gear did a challenge where they wanted to see if they could preform tasks like sewing while driving, and found that its actually pretty easy to drive while preoccupied. Obviously that isn't science, but driving is like second nature to most people, and a half second glance at the radio shouldn't cause an accident. If conditions are that bad, you shouldn't be fucking with the radio no matter how its built, and you should be focusing on the road.
While everyone else seems to be bitching they can't watch the games, I am pissed that it's all over my TV. I don't care about someone sweeping ice in front of a puck, or jumping while on skis, I want my usual line up back. Damn Sochi!
I agree, we cannot force women into any work force. What I want to understand from this article is why are we looking at such a specific road of tech? We all know that tech is lacking women, so duh Open Source is no better. Lets focus on figuring out why women arent in tech, then if they don't end up in Open Source with some ratio, then we can look at it. I see no way that Open Source specifically will help this situation. I mean I know we all like to think Open Source is the end all, but this is just ridiculous.
While I agree with the sentiment, most companies have little to hide from the likes of Google, their cloud providers, or even the NSA. If anything they are hiding from the IRS. There are often time sensitive information passed out on a G+ business page, but its likely useless to anyone that's not a direct competitor.
I am on your side when it comes to relying on a cloud company for IT, but at the same time I can tell you that in a lot of cases its the best bad decision some companies can make. I cannot tell you how many previous companies I have worked for have told me about the way they planned to deploy their IT infrastructure before simply moving to the cloud and letting them handle it. Until they could afford to bring someone like me in to tell them how to do it, the cloud was the best option. I have seen people want to bring in servers to run a business of 5 people, and not a server, MANY servers. While that was some very forward thinking, it was not at all what they needed and would have bankrupted their company before they got off the ground. Sometimes you just cannot afford to make that investment early on, but taking a cheaper route that will likely succeed in the short term is a very good bad decision. Now,all that being said, I think you need to really think about your IT before you expand too far, and invest into it properly.
Google+, despite what a lot of people think, is very popular for companies to utilize for work projects. Hangouts is a great way to create conference calls, and since its tied into your other Google services like Drive, you can pretty much use it as a company intranet. I have been a contractor for companies that had employees across the states, and most of them have used G+ in the way I described. I would simply be added to a hangout for meetings with the team, they would place the files I needed access to on Drive and then there was little risk of me getting access to more critical business stuff. I was also part of a contracting team that just had a G+ page, and we would meet with clients in the exact same way. I personally didn't like this method, as I prefer to have more face time with clients, but it seemed to work well as a free platform to do business.
If we assume that the Linux team does something similar, its probably easy for Linus to get his ideas across on a social media platform where a decent portion of his development community lives. I have seen many ex-Google friends follow this same trend when they leave Google and create their start-ups. Chris Messina do it with NeonMob, as well as a few others that I met at Plus20. I cannot say this is necessarily the single best method, but it might be that they don't like FB, Twitter's limitations make it harder to utilize in this manner, so G+ is the next best place to put your ideas down for a large user base to view.
I am in a situation similar to this, but with an organization that is willing to listen. The experience, while equally frustrating on the code end, is much better.
I maintain a few different code bases for our org. Donor management software, internal apps for job specific duties, and our largest a social-like network built on Drupal. All of these have been touched by at least 3 other developers before arriving in my lap, all of which were contractors. We have so many issues with the Drupal site, its amazing that people visit it everyday without realizing it doesn't work properly. I spend a good amount of time each day chasing tail to ensure that the users don't see there errors. You might say, "well Drupal has plenty of testing options, start there", but most of the modules in play are custom, or community alpha, and have 0 testing built into them. We have far too much AJAX at work that is all poorly written, and they all rely on other AJAX to work properly. I learned this the hard way trying to refactor the code that makes the cookies. The original code created a cookie for your name, another for your the cost of an item in your cart, another for the name, and so on. So I tried to simplify the logic by placing it all in a single cookie, but that somehow impacted our notification system to the point that it completely disappeared from our site, and the emails stopped working. No clue why even to this day.
So the question became, do I attempt to rebuild this on Drupal but using modules that will work as well as making new ones using the good parts of the previous modules, do I just maintain this code and hope I eventually sort it all out, or do I rebuild the entire site on a more purpose built platform like a more flexible framework? The answer from above was "Yes". meaning I should do all of that at the same time. We are a non-profit so budget is tight, therefore I am the developer and the project manager. They want me to maintain our live code, while building a replacement for it. My time is split, so both projects suffer as a result.
Where my story differs is that the management are willing to listen that what we are doing is counter productive, and they work hard to reduce my work load. There are still plenty of times where I get tasked with stupid shit like changing a users photo, and it needs to be done right now, but then there are the times when I said a project would take until tuesday, but when its not completed because of all the other things breaking, they listen and we plan a meeting for the next projected completion date.
So while I would have loved to just drop this entire project (my job would be dropped with it), their willingness to correct their previous mistake of hiring the previous developers and getting stuck on the current system helps me stay motivated to work on both fixing the code, as well as creating something that the entire company will run on. But in the end it could be the fruitless journey that it initially appeared to be, I won't know until I reach the end.
I have worked a few jobs programming. I have also interned at many tech related companies. While I agree the big company that has a couple hundred employees, with management everywhere act very much like how you described. However I have been part of smaller teams from 4-100 people and I find that those companies are a lot more willing to listen to the tech team about how to do something. Don't get me wrong they still want feature X by date Y and look like how these guys did it, but when my teams have voiced their opinions at these smaller companies they were actually talked about. So I think some companies actually want those passionate people who want to do things right, and in my experience they are willing to pay for them. This isn't always the case, but I think its becoming far more common.
I agree with a lot of what you are saying. The internet isnt a very good representation of who people are IRL, so on a place like /. you can't expect real ideas and emotion to shine through.
You make a very valid point about the cynicism in IT. we are just cynical, we like to bitch and moan about stuff (although usually with some validity) about pretty much everything. So I agree entirely that some jobs just require a bit of thick skin. This is the area that makes the entire issue gray; should other just suck it up, or should we make changes in the culture so that it isn't full of grumpy people, and if so how do we even do it? The entire debate on this subject has so many moving parts that its no wonder its still an issue while no one can really figure out why its even an issue to begin with. I don't think any of us here are intentionally discriminate towards women in the workplace (or I sincerely hope), and I also don't think that a lot of what happens is inherently an issue, nor do I believe that we desire to cultivate a culture that is so split, but for many reasons that is the case. So we just need to spend a bit more time figuring out what we can reasonably change to help everyone involved and what comes with the territory.
I remember watching Wolfram on a TED talk, talking about how to teach math. He pointed out that we used to be forced to calculate math by hand because we didn't have computers to do it for us, thus calculating and math became one and the same. In reality though, calculating is just one part of math that isn't required to do math, and computers are far better at that portion of math than we are, so we should leave it to computers to handle. I think its similar here. Some parts of the industry are legitimately part of how IT or other STEM fields work, but there are aspects are not required to be in IT to be effective. So I think we need to evaluate what we can work on because it doesn't require a place in the field, and what parts are just inherent.
I agree with you, men face these same exact issues every day in IT. And I won't lie, I am not some morally superior person; I laugh at the jokes, I use the language, and I absolutely perpetuate the issues I discussed. The difference I see is that its us men who created this culture. No maliciously, or intentionally because we don't want women in our work places, but because when we were creating these cultures it was just us. So the shit we deal with is stuff we have determined is worth it. Part of it is social upbringing, we as men are told we will encounter certain things, and we just need to suck it up, while women are taught the opposite. So can you really expect women to enter into a culture easily, when they had no say in how the culture was formed? There are many underlining reasons that the things that bother us men don't bother women, and the same goes in the other direction.
So yeah, we don't get the appreciation that women want, but we have learned over our lifetime we as men don't require it. We have learned to laugh at shit instead of taking it to heart, and we are all around childish sometimes. Woman are simply different beings, so we cannot expect that to work for them equally. Also, women who do exhibit more aggressive attitudes aren't seen as fitting in. We see them as bitchy or bossy, not just a strong woman. Maybe its because they are bitchy or bossy, but we still need to realize that real gender equality isn't ever going to be real because we simply aren't the same, so we need to find the common middle ground that allows both parties to be successful in the same industry. That is my only point.
I don't think anyone is saying that the poor schmuck that cannot afford the education is a good thing, but that isn't the topic of discussion, that it its own issue. The problem we see at play here is cultural. IT is just not very woman friendly. This doesn't start with the IT industry itself, it start well before that. When you are growing up, trying to decide what you want to be when you get older, you look for what others like you are doing and evaluate it. Many years ago STEM was no place for a woman, so when young girls though about what they wanted to be, generally they looked to see what other women were doing and saw teachers, nurses, etc; not Physicists, or Computer Programmers (once that became a career path). On top of that its been largely seen that men are simply "better" at these types of subjects, so while being educated women were not expected (and in some cases not even allowed to try) to do as well as their male counter parts.
Luckily a lot of things in education have changed! but the outlook from society has not fully caught up. So women are now realizing they can, in fact, go into STEM fields without looking like a freak, and excel in these fields. Thats when the culture of the industry hits. Men have simply been dominate for so long in these industries, and the culture reflects that. Look at the first few posts on this summary, they are all asking for tit pics. How is that in any way welcoming to a woman in IT? this is prevalent across the industry. We make crude jokes at the expense of the minority working in that field. I cannot tell you how many jokes about Indian programmers I heard at my last job. Albeit there are some seriously bad contractors overseas, but if we had an actual Indian on our team, you bet your ass he wouldn't feel welcome. That drives people way from wanting to do something they are passionate about. So when a women joins a male dev team, do you honestly expect her to feel welcome? Hell, I don't think a woman would feel welcome posting on this thread, let alone subject herself to daily ridicule at a job. This is the type of stuff keeping woman out of the workplace.
I am not suggesting we pass initiatives to force more women into this space, but we should evaluate our culture and understand why women don't feel welcome. And the amount of backlash toward even considering a cultural change shows how bad it really is. Just bringing up the concept that its US that might be flawed in the way we do business gets you attacked, and I am a man. If any woman tries to simply TALK about the issues shes face she is met with even worse backlash. The woman in the article above never once asked for special treatment, or some law to get more women in IT. She just wants to make people aware of issues SHE faced (which sounds similar to many hurdles I have heard from female developers) and encouraging more women to overcome their fears and do what they love. How people on here are able to so blatantly attack this is baffling, and honestly quite disturbing.
*Not saying you are attacking anyone as you have made valid points in a fairly reasonable tone, however many people throughout this discussion have not.
I would have to disagree. Sure a flying ship would today be seen as technology, so lets up the ante a bit. What if a person was able to move the Sun with nothing more than his will. You aren't going to look at that guy and be like "Pshhh shut up science bitch", you would be in awe. The technology required to preform such a task is so advanced to us, that even if we could look right at it while its happening, we would still have no clue how it worked so it might as well be magic. Sure we can figure it out in time, but when you have something significantly advanced the distance between your knowledge and the required knowledge to understand is just too great. You take a laptop back 150 years and its damn near magic.
My company has been having similar errors, I believe its less a Gmail error and more of a Chrome error. When I try to google anything from the nav bar directly I get an insane load time that usually ends in a failure page with the t-rex on it. However if I visit google.com directly in chrome it works just fine. Yet in Firefox I can search anything I want at the top and get speedy results. I find it odd that Googles products don't interact well with one another, yet 3rd parties are able to interface with their services just fine. Somewhere down the line of development people aren't testing and simply aren't worried about consistency of their products. Google could let stuff like that happen a few years back, but they are pushing harder and harder to become an enterprise level service provider and with outages like today, and really inconsistent services they aren't selling themselves well. I personally love Google, I have been to the HQ many times, and interviewed there once before, but I cannot defend the poorly tested and developed stuff they keep pumping out.
It's not that any one crime yielded him 124 year sentence. He had a lot of stolen credit card data, so that's multiple counts of ID theft, add that to the multitude of private computer systems LulzSec compromised equals that long of a sentence. I still think that is a bit drastic. However, in some states you get an attempted murder charge for x pills of Ecstasy you have if you have enough to be considered "intent to distribute". Enough pills of E and you have a hefty max sentence in front of you. Many times you work this down to a much more manageable jail time. Sabu will likely face much less to no time served due to his involvement with LEA's.
Not that I am happy with the way everything ended with Swartz, this is very true. He did something that was clearly against the law. It shouldn't have been, but factually it was. He would have been greeted with open arms once released, his pick of careers purely for the publicity.
I know you are modded 'Funny', but I have honestly been wondering the same thing myself. Between Windows 8/8.1 and the Xbox One, it seems like they are intentionally driving away users. Maybe this restructure will help. It seems like Microsoft doesn't really know what it's trying to do, and maybe that is because there is no unified goal for each department. The cause is pure speculation on my part obviously.
What are you talking about? I upgrade my computer all the time! Further you are creating an entirely different argument that is still not very convincing. I dont want to have to buy an entirely new machine, and even if I did I cannot sell my previous MacBook for nearly the cost of a new one. I just recently sold my 15" MacBook Pro lightly used on eBay and I still had to come out of pocket $150 bucks to get the newest 13" MacBook. Thats a downgrade even with Time Machine keeping all my shit. Secondly I used to have a MacBook that ran Tiger, what is the option then? Plus if I am going to spend money on an external drive I can do all the same backups with a Windows or Linux machine. The reason why used PCs are so cheap to buy is because I could go out and get those parts and put them together myself. You cannot do that with Macs, thats part of their entire strategy. So yeah if you take care of a PC it can last just as long as a Mac can, and if something fails its far easier and cheaper to replace what has failed in a PC than a Mac.
Its a crazy concept of doing right by your customers. I know this is insane to even consider, but shockingly some companies do this. If you RTFA you would see that Musk talks about home wiring not always being done properly, so in order to avoid leaving that variable up to chance, Tesla has sent out chargers that shut themselves off at a certain temperature. Its almost like he cares if his customers are happy and hes willing to do what it takes to alleviate as many issues as possible while using his product, even when not caused by his own product.
I guess I shouldn't expect anyone on /. to RTFA, especially an AC, but Apple already is doing this with all the same auto makers and some others called iOSitC. Outside of the difficult to remember name of Apples group, I personally don't want Apple Maps guiding me around any town. Also, how will Android fragment the IVI? this isn't like a phone OS, IVI's don't leap to the latest hardware every few months. All you require is something like Spotify/Pandora for music, general peripheral connectors like AUX, USB, and SD cards, Bluetooth for calling, and navigation with an easy to use interface. All of that is achievable on older versions of Android, and I expect they will fork a specific version for IVI. Many players have been in the IVI game for a while with a lot of success, so I dont think Apple can corner a market on this even if they wanted to, what I think is happening is simply an OS standard. I have had a few IVI's over the course of my life and they all differ greatly in interface and functionality even with the same manufacturer. So iOS or Android doesn't matter really, we just need it to work and be the same.
Not to be a dick, but isn't type 2 diabetes due to lack of self control as it is? So you say that it's not hard to remember to control your diet etc, but if you had the ability to keep yourself to a tight schedule and stay mindful of what you're doing its likely you wouldn't have type 2 to begin with (not you specifically). Yes some people make the proper changes, but many of my dietician friends say it's much more common that their patients ignore a majority of what the say. So an app will be helpful moving forward in this day and age of distractions.
I feel like this is another Ask Slashdot that has been reworded and recycled a few times. I stand by my previous response to the question: Think and Grow Rich. It's a helpful guide to becoming a positive, productive, and relatively happy person. Many books listed above are also great so mine is just an addition to the suggestions above.
My first thought was RetroShare. This is obviously different than RetroShare, but RS works already and offers a secure method of communication.
I have had a much worse experience with them recently. I was tasked with moving my businesses services to our new office space. I called Comcast, let them know we would be moving 8 blocks away to a building that was already wired for Comcast. They said sure, we will build your order and then email you an install date. I said okay, and waited. I started this process on a Monday, and by Friday I was still waiting on an install date. We had no choice but to move out of our current office by the end of the month and into our new space. I call them Friday and they say that the order has yet to be built and only our sales rep can do that, and hes out for a few days and wont be back until Monday. I spent all day Friday on the phone with retention, the west coast supervisor, and plenty of other Comcast peeons. They assured me they would expedite it that very day. Another week passed with me on and off the phone with them, no progress. So I tried to get AT&T or any other provider on the phone to get a new service in the building instead. Turns out only Comcast can offer services in the area. Long story kinda short, took an entire month to transfer existing services, and we finally got it done on a Saturday before we had to be in the new space. Comcast is horrible. Its insane how bad their internal services are. I have been able to trick them into free UFC fights before, but on the flip side I have been charged for 3 months of services in a single month. Its crazy.
The dude still brings home like 5 billion a year. He's always relevant.
This is my issue as well. Its hard to even think at that level. I have been developing real code (not just learning to code) for about 6 years now. I spent about 2 years doing exclusively python and C programming together. Even with an intermediate grasp on C I couldn't effectively understand the Linux kernel and how to start developing for it. I remember I wrote a file system using a guided tutorial, but the amount of knowledge that took was minimal. The ideal of tracking a bug through 20 years of development in C that has been in the hands of a lot of developers is daunting. Especially now that I work with PHP and Ruby on Rails at work everyday, and have no need to write anything in C. Also no one really teaches C anymore. In college I took C courses but they only counted as elective credits not CS credits because Intro to OOP is all Java. So the problem is a few fold: no one is learning the language the kernel is written in. Learning at the kernel level is more difficult than it needs to be, and the rewards for doing so are far too little. I personally would love to help maintain the kernel, but its hard to get into. I see some links above that I expect are full of relevant information that I plan on checking out, but the situation still stands; there is far more help for learning things like Drupal than there are for people wanting to get into kernel development.
SSL didn't seem to help LinkedIn. They use ssl and they successfully spoofed that.