And another Soviet era joke (why do they fit so perfectly to Google's situation now, I wonder?):
Question to Radio Yerevan: Is it true that you get arrested in Moscow for voicing your political opinion and in Washington you do not? Answer from Radio Yerevan: No. You can in Moscow and in Washington proclaim that the US President is an idiot and not be arrested.
Yes, but it's also a truth that white guys are still the majority of engineers. Now, engineers, in all times, come on a bell curve. There's ones that are good, there's some that are bad, some are stellar, some are godawful and most are more or less mediocre. This is, and I hope we can agree on this, independent of gender, race and sexual preference (though anecdote evidence for me seems to favor gay guys when it comes to being really awesome in IT... No idea why. Maybe because I hang out with good IT guys due to work and with gay guys due to leisure activities, so my view might be skewed, but I have to say there IS a pattern and a surprising amount of overlap... it's kinda awkward when you get introduced to someone by your boss and you can see in his eyes what you're thinking yourself "Oh please, PLEASE don't say anything wrong now!", and it happens far, far more often than one would think is statistically likely... anyway).
Back to engineers. You got good ones, you got bad ones, and they're usually evenly distributed. The point now is that you have more white guys in engineering than any other group. Or even all other ethnic, gender or other group you could split people up by, white males outnumber them all.
That means if you want to keep a "diverse" group of people with evenly spread numbers, you WILL end up hiring sub-par non-white, non-male personnel. Because that's what you have to do. Allow me an example.
Imagine a pool of 100 white male engineers. And a pool of 20 "others" (women, people who're not white or a combination thereof). Which is already more than my experience would show. Now, of those 100 white male engineers you have 10 great ones, 20 that are good, 40 that are ok, 20 bad ones and 10 that should get their fingers broken and stuffed into marketing. Same applies to the other group. There you have 2 great ones, 4 that are good, 8 ok, 4 bad and 2 that should simply go to management or do something else where they can't do no damage to the product.
Same distribution.
Now you need, say, 30 engineers. And your hiring policy dictates that you have to give equal opportunity, which is to be interpreted that way that you have to hire at least as many non-white non-males as you hire white males. And this is where the insanity is.
Because that means you hire 15 from pool A and 15 from pool B. You get 10 great and 5 good engineers from Pool A. From pool B you get 2 great, 4 good, 4 mediocre and one bad programmer.
And now imagine you're not Google, a place that people would probably prefer to work for, but some other company. And ponder for a second just WHAT people you'd get from pool B.
If we're talking about a government program (and if needed, money) to ensure that infrastructure is created to bring a minimum of bandwidth to areas that have none, count me in.
If we're talking about what an ISP has to provide at least to see some government money, don't count on me supporting it.
I think 120 bucks is a ridiculous amount for a concert ticket either way.
Go see local bands. For 20 bucks you can have a killer evening with new talent and the great chance that you will be the one to say "Oh, I've known them long before they got famous, I was there when they played for 50 people".
Yes, you'll see a lot of shit, too. But 9 out of 10 of the really bad bands are at least unintentionally entertaining by being SO bad that they're funny.
[quote][...]could also be used to recognize the faces of human beings. Essentially, it works by learning from what it sees, allowing it to differentiate between cars (or humans) by spotting small differences between them.[/quote]
Is that the Chinese government's way of saying that all those Chinks look the same to them?
Well... no. MS actually made pretty good mice. For a while the joke was even that MS must've bought their hardware division because it worked way too well to be an internal product.
It does not adequately reflect owners' experience and is by no means what the owners of the devices would say. But CR refused to include expletives and obscenities in its report.
It may surprise you, but people actually managed to build rather well working thermometers for well over a century now. Not in the milli-degree area but certainly good enough to see a change that surpasses a whole degree Celsius.
And another surprise: Places on this planet were inhabited by civilized people well over 200 years ago. And they still are. And maybe yours will be, too, one day.
These messages are to news what Michael Bay is to cinema: A popcorn flick. You don't really invest any kind of brain power or try to find it engaging, all you really do is kick back, relax and enjoy the explosions and the cheesy dialogues that you've heard so many times before.
The first test of a good random number generator is obviously whether it can generate a true random number under normal operation conditions. This they claim to have accomplished.
The second test is just as critical and I'd be very interested in the result: Can any kind of manipulation be easily detected? Or is it possible to tamper with the device in such a way that it does generate a number predetermined by the manipulator without anyone else being able to determine that such manipulation took place?
I don't know if I want to work in an environment where walking on eggshells is the norm because anything you do, say, don't do or don't say may offend someone and get you fired.
If I cannot even talk about something that bothers me in a work environment without fearing to get fired for it, it's more stress than I'm willing to put up with.
Yes, but who would consider this "acceptable"? ISPs would gladly consider 300 baud modem dialup "broadband access", no doubt about that, but would you?
What we're dealing with here is the classic "we can't reach the standard, so we lower the standard" bullshit. Actually, worse, we could, but it would certainly endanger the bottom line.
Capitalism doesn't really allow this to happen for a prolonged time. A company that wastes money on hiring and keeping people who are a waste of money ceases to be competitive and gets taken over by one that is.
If you raise a generation in the belief that they are right, no matter what, and that they deserve getting what they want for showing up, don't be surprised that they will eventually go to extremes simply because it's possible.
Complaining about it is pretty much part of suffering, bearing and enduring something. Well, unless you're in the Soviet Union or a similar place where doing so might result in even worse conditions.
One thing is a paramount truth in corporations: The work you do has to earn the corporation more money than you cost. Else the corporation is better off without you. You have to be worth more than your keep. That's easily accomplished by a Walmart greeter. They cost pennies. The first theft they thwarted by their mere presence that made a single thief reconsider probably already make them earn it.
This is most likely not the case here. I doubt that a VP of Diversity makes pennies. It's more likely that such a person would earn in the 6 digit range. And those 6 digits have to be earned somehow. What could this person do for a company that makes him or her worth this amount of money?
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In other words, criticism and self-criticism is encouraged, as long as it is in line with the Party doctrine?
Great, we arrived at Mao China now...
And another Soviet era joke (why do they fit so perfectly to Google's situation now, I wonder?):
Question to Radio Yerevan: Is it true that you get arrested in Moscow for voicing your political opinion and in Washington you do not?
Answer from Radio Yerevan: No. You can in Moscow and in Washington proclaim that the US President is an idiot and not be arrested.
Old Soviet jokes:
Question to Radio Yerewan: Can you say your opinion in Russia?
Answer from Radio Yerewan: Yes. At least once, you can.
Question to Radio Yerewan: Do I have Freedom of Speech in Russia?
Answer from Radio Yerewan: Yes. You may not have much freedom after speech, though.
They canceled it when they noticed that the average worker at Google isn't as stupid as Clovis' relatives.
Wow, that even already works now that the UK is still in the EU?
Yes, but it's also a truth that white guys are still the majority of engineers. Now, engineers, in all times, come on a bell curve. There's ones that are good, there's some that are bad, some are stellar, some are godawful and most are more or less mediocre. This is, and I hope we can agree on this, independent of gender, race and sexual preference (though anecdote evidence for me seems to favor gay guys when it comes to being really awesome in IT... No idea why. Maybe because I hang out with good IT guys due to work and with gay guys due to leisure activities, so my view might be skewed, but I have to say there IS a pattern and a surprising amount of overlap... it's kinda awkward when you get introduced to someone by your boss and you can see in his eyes what you're thinking yourself "Oh please, PLEASE don't say anything wrong now!", and it happens far, far more often than one would think is statistically likely... anyway).
Back to engineers. You got good ones, you got bad ones, and they're usually evenly distributed. The point now is that you have more white guys in engineering than any other group. Or even all other ethnic, gender or other group you could split people up by, white males outnumber them all.
That means if you want to keep a "diverse" group of people with evenly spread numbers, you WILL end up hiring sub-par non-white, non-male personnel. Because that's what you have to do. Allow me an example.
Imagine a pool of 100 white male engineers. And a pool of 20 "others" (women, people who're not white or a combination thereof). Which is already more than my experience would show. Now, of those 100 white male engineers you have 10 great ones, 20 that are good, 40 that are ok, 20 bad ones and 10 that should get their fingers broken and stuffed into marketing. Same applies to the other group. There you have 2 great ones, 4 that are good, 8 ok, 4 bad and 2 that should simply go to management or do something else where they can't do no damage to the product.
Same distribution.
Now you need, say, 30 engineers. And your hiring policy dictates that you have to give equal opportunity, which is to be interpreted that way that you have to hire at least as many non-white non-males as you hire white males. And this is where the insanity is.
Because that means you hire 15 from pool A and 15 from pool B. You get 10 great and 5 good engineers from Pool A. From pool B you get 2 great, 4 good, 4 mediocre and one bad programmer.
And now imagine you're not Google, a place that people would probably prefer to work for, but some other company. And ponder for a second just WHAT people you'd get from pool B.
If we're talking about a government program (and if needed, money) to ensure that infrastructure is created to bring a minimum of bandwidth to areas that have none, count me in.
If we're talking about what an ISP has to provide at least to see some government money, don't count on me supporting it.
I think 120 bucks is a ridiculous amount for a concert ticket either way.
Go see local bands. For 20 bucks you can have a killer evening with new talent and the great chance that you will be the one to say "Oh, I've known them long before they got famous, I was there when they played for 50 people".
Yes, you'll see a lot of shit, too. But 9 out of 10 of the really bad bands are at least unintentionally entertaining by being SO bad that they're funny.
[quote][...]could also be used to recognize the faces of human beings. Essentially, it works by learning from what it sees, allowing it to differentiate between cars (or humans) by spotting small differences between them.[/quote]
Is that the Chinese government's way of saying that all those Chinks look the same to them?
Well... no. MS actually made pretty good mice. For a while the joke was even that MS must've bought their hardware division because it worked way too well to be an internal product.
It does not adequately reflect owners' experience and is by no means what the owners of the devices would say. But CR refused to include expletives and obscenities in its report.
It may surprise you, but people actually managed to build rather well working thermometers for well over a century now. Not in the milli-degree area but certainly good enough to see a change that surpasses a whole degree Celsius.
And another surprise: Places on this planet were inhabited by civilized people well over 200 years ago. And they still are. And maybe yours will be, too, one day.
Glad to be of service.
Pass the soda.
These messages are to news what Michael Bay is to cinema: A popcorn flick. You don't really invest any kind of brain power or try to find it engaging, all you really do is kick back, relax and enjoy the explosions and the cheesy dialogues that you've heard so many times before.
*munchmunchmunch*
The first test of a good random number generator is obviously whether it can generate a true random number under normal operation conditions. This they claim to have accomplished.
The second test is just as critical and I'd be very interested in the result: Can any kind of manipulation be easily detected? Or is it possible to tamper with the device in such a way that it does generate a number predetermined by the manipulator without anyone else being able to determine that such manipulation took place?
I don't know if I want to work in an environment where walking on eggshells is the norm because anything you do, say, don't do or don't say may offend someone and get you fired.
If I cannot even talk about something that bothers me in a work environment without fearing to get fired for it, it's more stress than I'm willing to put up with.
Yes, but who would consider this "acceptable"? ISPs would gladly consider 300 baud modem dialup "broadband access", no doubt about that, but would you?
What we're dealing with here is the classic "we can't reach the standard, so we lower the standard" bullshit. Actually, worse, we could, but it would certainly endanger the bottom line.
Acceptable to whom? The ISPs? You betcha. Their customers? Want to discuss it with them or do you enjoy retaining your body parts?
The other half.
DUH!
Capitalism doesn't really allow this to happen for a prolonged time. A company that wastes money on hiring and keeping people who are a waste of money ceases to be competitive and gets taken over by one that is.
If you raise a generation in the belief that they are right, no matter what, and that they deserve getting what they want for showing up, don't be surprised that they will eventually go to extremes simply because it's possible.
Complaining about it is pretty much part of suffering, bearing and enduring something. Well, unless you're in the Soviet Union or a similar place where doing so might result in even worse conditions.
One thing is a paramount truth in corporations: The work you do has to earn the corporation more money than you cost. Else the corporation is better off without you. You have to be worth more than your keep. That's easily accomplished by a Walmart greeter. They cost pennies. The first theft they thwarted by their mere presence that made a single thief reconsider probably already make them earn it.
This is most likely not the case here. I doubt that a VP of Diversity makes pennies. It's more likely that such a person would earn in the 6 digit range. And those 6 digits have to be earned somehow. What could this person do for a company that makes him or her worth this amount of money?
Well, it did sure improve since medieval times, firing back then had something of an ultimate termination.
You cannot discuss with religious fanatics. They want to preach their ideology, not discuss it.