Google was innovative when it was growing. Now, it's a huge conglomerate (or rather, Alphabet, it's parent, is). They don't innovate anymore. They wait for someone to innovate and then either buy them or, if that fails, throw a shitload of money into a competing product to muscle them out of the business.
Yes, that doesn't by accident sound like Microsoft. That's how big tech corporations work. Sergey, sorry to tell you, but Google has become too big to innovate. Innovation takes flexibility and the ability to risk something, both features large corporations lack.
Treat your users, customers and workers like people, not like assets or products, treat them like partners instead of cash cows, and you'll notice that they'll actually WANT to do business with you again.
I don't even know exactly what GamerGate is. Only thing I learned over the years is that if something has to end in "gate" to make it interesting, it probably wasn't in the first place. I remember reading about it and I remember that I felt like my underlying theory was verified, aside of that I didn't bother to remember much about it.
But maybe you could inform me why it is important.
I know a few sports cars that are exactly NO pleasure to use. Need a shoehorn to get in, need a pulley to get out, shock absorbers that make your spine the actual shock absorber... no thanks.
This. Over here in Europe you can watch younger (read: 20-25 year old) second generation immigrants that drive the stereotypical BMW Model 3, carry around iPhones and other trinkets and when you wonder how they afford it, the magic answer is usually leasing. And when you dig deeper, you eventually find out that they don't even technically own the Calvin Klein Boxers they're wearing.
No, when I drop a brick on someone's foot I apologize. Pretty much in the same way he did. Sorry, wasn't meant that way.
And yes, if you're in a professional environment, you respond for the 10,000,000th time politely to the same idiotic "input". Either that or GTFO. Which, essentially, is what she did, if not voluntarily.
Yeah, THAT is the reason that there is union talk. It ain't the insane working hours or the general "squeeze them dry and dump them, replace them with younger material" mentality in the industry. It's one silly incident that everyone will have forgotten about in a month, not working conditions that make you wish you could work in a Chinese sweatshop instead.
Odd. Considering the amount of really great female security researchers, one has to wonder how they managed to survive and even thrive in this toxic environment. Could it be that they are just, ya know, good at what they do instead of trying to rely on "but muh vagina!"?
Don't worry, it works the same way over here in Europe. If your blog pretty much revolves around your work and you have your company name fairly well entangled with your blog, rest assured that you will get fired for insulting a business partner. Or influential customer for that matter.
His reply was most likely not meant to be condescending, but it was obviously understood as such. More likely than not he genuinely thought he is offering input while what he suggested apparently is one of the "too obvious to mention" things. She could have responded in a polite way, something along the lines of "yeah, that's basically what happens behind the scenes", but instead opted for something like "gee, thanks for telling me how to do my job".
Sorry, but that's just unprofessional. If you say something and your employer's name is next to it or at the very least what you say will be put in context of your employer, you represent your employer with your speech. Act accordingly.
A) Her saying it's hard to make MMO characters interesting for players, explaining what the key problem is and offering a few solutions. B) Him offering what he perceived as another solution C) Her getting pissed at him saying something she (apparently, I take this from context) already did know, i.e. "too obvious to state, so why say it". D) Him feeling slighted by the harsh reply E) Her apparently considering it being talked down to for being female.
Personally, I consider her reaction at the very least as unprofessional.
Then her reply was at the very least incredibly unprofessional.
I'm in IT security. You can't imagine what kind of outright stupid, if not insane, replies you can get to suggestions. They don't border on being insulting, they are. Imagine you suggest an elaborate lock mechanism and the reply is "well, have you considered just, you know, closing the door?" Fully ignoring that this won't even keep anyone from simply opening it again. This of course being an example but yes, it actually IS that stupid more often than not.
You STILL have to stay polite to customers and business partners. You can't reply with "Gee, no, we did not think of the most blatantly obvious and most blatantly stupid idea first of all, thank you for pointing it out, it's refreshing to see a customer that hires us to then tell us how to do our job, know what, why do we even charge you?"
This is simple professionalism. This is what you have to have if you want to, well, be professional. Cardinal rule number one: YOU DO NOT PISS OFF AND BELITTLE YOUR CUSTOMERS. At least not deliberately. Or at the very least not to their face and in a way those idiots actually understand.
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I see it more as an apology for fucked up apostrophes and other shit that mangles word into character salad.
Google was innovative when it was growing. Now, it's a huge conglomerate (or rather, Alphabet, it's parent, is). They don't innovate anymore. They wait for someone to innovate and then either buy them or, if that fails, throw a shitload of money into a competing product to muscle them out of the business.
Yes, that doesn't by accident sound like Microsoft. That's how big tech corporations work. Sergey, sorry to tell you, but Google has become too big to innovate. Innovation takes flexibility and the ability to risk something, both features large corporations lack.
Treat your users, customers and workers like people, not like assets or products, treat them like partners instead of cash cows, and you'll notice that they'll actually WANT to do business with you again.
What goes around comes around.
I don't even know exactly what GamerGate is. Only thing I learned over the years is that if something has to end in "gate" to make it interesting, it probably wasn't in the first place. I remember reading about it and I remember that I felt like my underlying theory was verified, aside of that I didn't bother to remember much about it.
But maybe you could inform me why it is important.
You poor, poor devil. :)
I know a few sports cars that are exactly NO pleasure to use. Need a shoehorn to get in, need a pulley to get out, shock absorbers that make your spine the actual shock absorber... no thanks.
This. Over here in Europe you can watch younger (read: 20-25 year old) second generation immigrants that drive the stereotypical BMW Model 3, carry around iPhones and other trinkets and when you wonder how they afford it, the magic answer is usually leasing. And when you dig deeper, you eventually find out that they don't even technically own the Calvin Klein Boxers they're wearing.
Over here they're called basement dwellers.
Rich people create jobs? How? By buying lots of junk?
In Europe, it's mainly a sign that you're an obnoxious douche that wants others to think that you earn a lot of money.
Support of GamerGate still isn't killing millions of people. Try again when he committed genocide.
Unless GamerGate IS actually some sort of genocide and I didn't notice, sorry, I don't follow every silly internet meme that floats about.
No, when I drop a brick on someone's foot I apologize. Pretty much in the same way he did. Sorry, wasn't meant that way.
And yes, if you're in a professional environment, you respond for the 10,000,000th time politely to the same idiotic "input". Either that or GTFO. Which, essentially, is what she did, if not voluntarily.
Yeah, THAT is the reason that there is union talk. It ain't the insane working hours or the general "squeeze them dry and dump them, replace them with younger material" mentality in the industry. It's one silly incident that everyone will have forgotten about in a month, not working conditions that make you wish you could work in a Chinese sweatshop instead.
Yeah. Right.
Odd. Considering the amount of really great female security researchers, one has to wonder how they managed to survive and even thrive in this toxic environment. Could it be that they are just, ya know, good at what they do instead of trying to rely on "but muh vagina!"?
No, it's more a clear message to assholes in the company.
And deprive us of our daily dose of entertainment?
Don't worry, it works the same way over here in Europe. If your blog pretty much revolves around your work and you have your company name fairly well entangled with your blog, rest assured that you will get fired for insulting a business partner. Or influential customer for that matter.
His reply was most likely not meant to be condescending, but it was obviously understood as such. More likely than not he genuinely thought he is offering input while what he suggested apparently is one of the "too obvious to mention" things. She could have responded in a polite way, something along the lines of "yeah, that's basically what happens behind the scenes", but instead opted for something like "gee, thanks for telling me how to do my job".
Sorry, but that's just unprofessional. If you say something and your employer's name is next to it or at the very least what you say will be put in context of your employer, you represent your employer with your speech. Act accordingly.
To me this reads as
A) Her saying it's hard to make MMO characters interesting for players, explaining what the key problem is and offering a few solutions.
B) Him offering what he perceived as another solution
C) Her getting pissed at him saying something she (apparently, I take this from context) already did know, i.e. "too obvious to state, so why say it".
D) Him feeling slighted by the harsh reply
E) Her apparently considering it being talked down to for being female.
Personally, I consider her reaction at the very least as unprofessional.
Then her reply was at the very least incredibly unprofessional.
I'm in IT security. You can't imagine what kind of outright stupid, if not insane, replies you can get to suggestions. They don't border on being insulting, they are. Imagine you suggest an elaborate lock mechanism and the reply is "well, have you considered just, you know, closing the door?" Fully ignoring that this won't even keep anyone from simply opening it again. This of course being an example but yes, it actually IS that stupid more often than not.
You STILL have to stay polite to customers and business partners. You can't reply with "Gee, no, we did not think of the most blatantly obvious and most blatantly stupid idea first of all, thank you for pointing it out, it's refreshing to see a customer that hires us to then tell us how to do our job, know what, why do we even charge you?"
This is simple professionalism. This is what you have to have if you want to, well, be professional. Cardinal rule number one: YOU DO NOT PISS OFF AND BELITTLE YOUR CUSTOMERS. At least not deliberately. Or at the very least not to their face and in a way those idiots actually understand.
Sounds like some fundamentalist religions.
IIRC she avoided using that particular word in this series of tweets.
Hell yes I do. And I steamroll over any armchair self-proclaimed IT security expert whenever they make some really stupid remark.
But then again, I don't have "I'm the CISO of $big_IT_security_research_company" in my Slashdot profile. For EXACTLY this reason.
So ... if Trump tweets some bullshit on his private time, we shouldn't impeach him for it?
Because Weekly World News doesn't update often enough.