You're right, I haven't been paying much attention; watched some videos he was in, had some fun, moved on. But I think society needs disrupting factors such as him. Those factors get you thinking, at the very least. They're more useful for my brain by an order of magnitude than this month's fail compilations or lolcats, to name a few.
A person can say many, many things. Some will be horrible, some will be worth taking into consideration. I don't judge a person based on ONE statement, even if I wholly disagree with that statement.
I usually don't reply to ACs but you raise a good point. How do you define a gippo?
First, it would be skin color. Then clothing. Then behavior. Me, I exhibit none of those signs, and except for some undefined accent, you couldn't tell which country I'm from unless you check my ID.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do - is what I follow in good faith, and this is exactly where some cultures are severely lacking, thus generating racism. It's a simple as that.
"based on the belief that one's own race is superior."
There is no belief of anything being superior to anything else, mate. it's antagonism based on the fact that that particular family is noisy, cooks bad smelling food with their apartment door open and their kids pee on the stairwell. By extension, locals with limited exposure to another race will judge that race based on the limited sample they are exposed to. Feel free to fight that behavior as much as you want, it won't change shit. That's simply how people are. They generalize.
When any members of a minority (be it Americans moving to China or the other way around) bang their chest and yell "I have the right to behave according to my culture!" while the majority is expected to support that behavior, well that's a cause for racism to explode. Calling it racism and saying it's bad is THE cause for all the shit that's happening in Western Europe, with terrorism and everything. Local cultures gave way to minorities to behave how they felt like and now they're reaping what they sowed.
- People aren't sleeping well. Why else would they buy a tracking device to help them improve their sleeping habits.
You can't be seriously saying that people aren't sleeping well because they so far had no app to tell them that. Come on! They aren't sleeping well because they have a shit lifestyle. I have a shit lifestyle as well, and I know I am not sleeping well, but I already know no amount of apps and devices will fix that.
- People aren't drinking right (poetically one of my colleagues was sent to hospital just now after passing out due to what we expect to be dehydration).
People who aren't drinking right should investigate why that happens and reduce or eliminate the causes, instead of using some app as a crutch.
These apps have nothing to do with boredom, quite the opposite. The gamification of daily activities actually makes the mundane more exciting for some.
Actually they do lead to a boring life, one which you measure rather than live.
An easy example would be Milo Yiannopoulos. (Not defending everything he says or does, but the associations with being a homophobe and racist were used as part of the smear campaign.)
I quite like the guy, simply because he's politically incorrect. And this ties very well into the subject at hand. First I'd like to say that not "America" but the whole world is full of racist and selfish people. It's the nature of human beings, nature which is pushed down and frowned upon by contemporary political correctness. Speaking of which, the term originates from USSR, where it had a very different meaning: you were politically correct if your discourse was in line with the communist propaganda. Anyways... bigotry exists because contemporary society imposes it. I recently was talking to some international colleagues (we were a group of people) and one of my Romanian colleagues said he dislikes Asian people because "their food stinks". He was referring to the strong odor of some meals that his Asian neighbors were making. a German colleague strongly reacted to this, saying that the statement was "offensive" - it contradicted his uprising which forced him to "respect" other cultures, even to the point where the byproducts of those cultures was directly affecting him in a negative way. Later, in a more informal setting (beer, later in the evening), the German guy confessed that indeed the Romanian colleague was right and that he agreed with him, but still it was not something that should have been said out loud. The problem is such statements ("I dislike Asians because their food smells") are not racist. They're only made racist because society says "thou shalt love everyone regardless of how they affect your life" which is bullshit. Because of that limitation, people no longer feel comfortable expressing their opinions, which leads to "surprise Trump" elections, for example: the silent majority exists because they're only comfortable with being silent - otherwise they're categorized as "politically incorrect" by everyone, including friends and family.
This amazes me. Apps that tell us when to drink water, devices that track our sleep, measure our heart rate, tell us when to pee, poop and have orgasms*, what the fuck is going on? use all those apps and devices and instead of dying at 50 because you smoked, drank and partied too much, you'll die at 50 of boredom.
Live a little, for fuck's sake.
(*) some of those are not yet available, but just wait a few years
It's called wicking, and it's an issue if you don't design your machine to overcome that. Just route your wires that come out of the mineral oil pool up for around 1 foot before routing them to whichever direction they should go.
Currently, watercooling is the way to go. But it'll cost you.
I'm afraid of those germs infecting my kids, yes. I might be biased because my older son had severe health issues for the first 3 years of his life, before that happened I was a lot more relaxed.
The fact that the behavior you're presenting seems normal to you scares me, because it shows how widely accepted this has become. While I agree that the admin should start writing the draft, their job would end there. Technical people rarely can produce proper documentation, and whether the documentation is internal or customer-facing is irrelevant. Standards should be the same. the mindset you're presenting is similar to that of people writing in bad English online because "fuck it, it's not important, I can write good when I have to".
Writing note for tasks != procedures. Also procedures != processes. Also induction manuals != processes or procedures (albeit they often overlap, still they are not identical).
At the very least, you need a dedicated person (or team, depending on how big the organization is) to verify, review and vet all documentation (except for private notes, comments and such) and store it in a controlled, unique repository. This could be as simple as a collection of printed brochures for small companies, or a wiki, or a more complex Knowledge Management System. The person or team assigned to that bears the ultimate responsibility. The CTO (of a larger organization, of course) has better things to do than review all documentation. Responsibility is then compartmentalized.
I've seen my fair share of horrible documentation over the years. often I have to go and learn what the processes inside a certain group or team are built, in order to understand the data generators (I develop analyses and reports) as well as why that data is generated, how is it generated and what does it mean from a business perspective. It greatly helps me provide correct, helpful and thorough analyses and reports. The problem is that the documentation is most times a mess, usually a collection of disparate word and excel files of various versions circulating through e-mail back and forth like feces in a sewer. Open one and you'll be hit by a jumble of acronyms I'm sure the tech people understand, but I have no idea what they mean.
Yes, from your point of view, that little information bubble you're in, it all makes perfect sense and you're used to it. Introduce a stranger to it and they'll stare at you blankly while you're thinking "how stupid is this guy?"
TL;DR version: Isolated communities develop their own unintelligible language, while isolated dev teams develop their own unintelligible documentation.
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Sorry but I give up. Can't argue with someone who continues to make the same wrong assumptions every time.
You're right, I haven't been paying much attention; watched some videos he was in, had some fun, moved on.
But I think society needs disrupting factors such as him. Those factors get you thinking, at the very least. They're more useful for my brain by an order of magnitude than this month's fail compilations or lolcats, to name a few.
Dude, you apply labels too broadly.
A person can say many, many things. Some will be horrible, some will be worth taking into consideration. I don't judge a person based on ONE statement, even if I wholly disagree with that statement.
Who said they're inferior?
You're assuming too much.
"Different in a way I don't like" is not at all equal to "inferior".
You're entitled to your opinion, and I am not against it. Too bad the feeling isn't mutual.
I don't know... what do you think?
I wonder how did people manage to live before tracking apps. Must have been a shitty life, thank god we have apps now.
The statement was based on a limited sample, so to speak.
Results from a limited sample are true until proven otherwise.
I usually don't reply to ACs but you raise a good point.
How do you define a gippo?
First, it would be skin color. Then clothing. Then behavior.
Me, I exhibit none of those signs, and except for some undefined accent, you couldn't tell which country I'm from unless you check my ID.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do - is what I follow in good faith, and this is exactly where some cultures are severely lacking, thus generating racism. It's a simple as that.
"based on the belief that one's own race is superior."
There is no belief of anything being superior to anything else, mate. it's antagonism based on the fact that that particular family is noisy, cooks bad smelling food with their apartment door open and their kids pee on the stairwell.
By extension, locals with limited exposure to another race will judge that race based on the limited sample they are exposed to. Feel free to fight that behavior as much as you want, it won't change shit. That's simply how people are. They generalize.
When any members of a minority (be it Americans moving to China or the other way around) bang their chest and yell "I have the right to behave according to my culture!" while the majority is expected to support that behavior, well that's a cause for racism to explode. Calling it racism and saying it's bad is THE cause for all the shit that's happening in Western Europe, with terrorism and everything. Local cultures gave way to minorities to behave how they felt like and now they're reaping what they sowed.
I have two kids. I don't know what you're referring to, but on the same note I don't blindly follow what any random dude is saying.
So... what did you do before all this tracking?
I don't know why I don't get thirsty, but I just don't.
There are these people called "doctors" who might have some idea. Try them out, they're mostly not for free but still better than an app on a phone.
Solved by fucking a lot. :)
My wife used a thermometer but we already were having sex daily, so initializing a couple children was easy
- People aren't sleeping well. Why else would they buy a tracking device to help them improve their sleeping habits.
You can't be seriously saying that people aren't sleeping well because they so far had no app to tell them that. Come on!
They aren't sleeping well because they have a shit lifestyle. I have a shit lifestyle as well, and I know I am not sleeping well, but I already know no amount of apps and devices will fix that.
- People aren't drinking right (poetically one of my colleagues was sent to hospital just now after passing out due to what we expect to be dehydration).
People who aren't drinking right should investigate why that happens and reduce or eliminate the causes, instead of using some app as a crutch.
These apps have nothing to do with boredom, quite the opposite. The gamification of daily activities actually makes the mundane more exciting for some.
Actually they do lead to a boring life, one which you measure rather than live.
An easy example would be Milo Yiannopoulos. (Not defending everything he says or does, but the associations with being a homophobe and racist were used as part of the smear campaign.)
I quite like the guy, simply because he's politically incorrect.
And this ties very well into the subject at hand. First I'd like to say that not "America" but the whole world is full of racist and selfish people. It's the nature of human beings, nature which is pushed down and frowned upon by contemporary political correctness. Speaking of which, the term originates from USSR, where it had a very different meaning: you were politically correct if your discourse was in line with the communist propaganda.
Anyways... bigotry exists because contemporary society imposes it. I recently was talking to some international colleagues (we were a group of people) and one of my Romanian colleagues said he dislikes Asian people because "their food stinks". He was referring to the strong odor of some meals that his Asian neighbors were making. a German colleague strongly reacted to this, saying that the statement was "offensive" - it contradicted his uprising which forced him to "respect" other cultures, even to the point where the byproducts of those cultures was directly affecting him in a negative way. Later, in a more informal setting (beer, later in the evening), the German guy confessed that indeed the Romanian colleague was right and that he agreed with him, but still it was not something that should have been said out loud.
The problem is such statements ("I dislike Asians because their food smells") are not racist. They're only made racist because society says "thou shalt love everyone regardless of how they affect your life" which is bullshit. Because of that limitation, people no longer feel comfortable expressing their opinions, which leads to "surprise Trump" elections, for example: the silent majority exists because they're only comfortable with being silent - otherwise they're categorized as "politically incorrect" by everyone, including friends and family.
There were multiple stories, novels, even movies made about this.
This amazes me.
Apps that tell us when to drink water, devices that track our sleep, measure our heart rate, tell us when to pee, poop and have orgasms*, what the fuck is going on?
use all those apps and devices and instead of dying at 50 because you smoked, drank and partied too much, you'll die at 50 of boredom.
Live a little, for fuck's sake.
(*) some of those are not yet available, but just wait a few years
Here, I'll match a third of that: I don't have a TV.
It's called wicking, and it's an issue if you don't design your machine to overcome that. Just route your wires that come out of the mineral oil pool up for around 1 foot before routing them to whichever direction they should go.
Currently, watercooling is the way to go. But it'll cost you.
I'm afraid of those germs infecting my kids, yes. I might be biased because my older son had severe health issues for the first 3 years of his life, before that happened I was a lot more relaxed.
No.
The fact that they don't get properly cleaned. I've seen grime hanging on the inside of them after washing them using the method you just mentioned.
Yes, they're full of bacteria and stuff and washing them is a bitch.
The fact that the behavior you're presenting seems normal to you scares me, because it shows how widely accepted this has become.
While I agree that the admin should start writing the draft, their job would end there. Technical people rarely can produce proper documentation, and whether the documentation is internal or customer-facing is irrelevant. Standards should be the same. the mindset you're presenting is similar to that of people writing in bad English online because "fuck it, it's not important, I can write good when I have to".
Writing note for tasks != procedures. Also procedures != processes. Also induction manuals != processes or procedures (albeit they often overlap, still they are not identical).
At the very least, you need a dedicated person (or team, depending on how big the organization is) to verify, review and vet all documentation (except for private notes, comments and such) and store it in a controlled, unique repository. This could be as simple as a collection of printed brochures for small companies, or a wiki, or a more complex Knowledge Management System. The person or team assigned to that bears the ultimate responsibility. The CTO (of a larger organization, of course) has better things to do than review all documentation. Responsibility is then compartmentalized.
I've seen my fair share of horrible documentation over the years. often I have to go and learn what the processes inside a certain group or team are built, in order to understand the data generators (I develop analyses and reports) as well as why that data is generated, how is it generated and what does it mean from a business perspective. It greatly helps me provide correct, helpful and thorough analyses and reports. The problem is that the documentation is most times a mess, usually a collection of disparate word and excel files of various versions circulating through e-mail back and forth like feces in a sewer. Open one and you'll be hit by a jumble of acronyms I'm sure the tech people understand, but I have no idea what they mean.
Yes, from your point of view, that little information bubble you're in, it all makes perfect sense and you're used to it. Introduce a stranger to it and they'll stare at you blankly while you're thinking "how stupid is this guy?"
TL;DR version: Isolated communities develop their own unintelligible language, while isolated dev teams develop their own unintelligible documentation.