The answer is simple: the editors aren't as smart as the nerds that previously frequented this site.
I've never met them, but my guess would be thst the current owners just found people who "like computers" and hired them, rather than searching for the more intellectual types who sometimes were involved in the past (not always, though: remember Jon Katz?).
... in the first few weeks that it was used. Who knows - that may have been the same failure number every month of operation, in which case, the picture looks a lot worse.
Voting only for your own interests may be rational, but it isn't moral, nor does it make sense in the long run; society as a whole suffers when people act only in their own interests.
Kirk was in a manufactured no-win situation and the test was therefore faulty: it doesn't matter if you don't know how to lose if you can find a way to still win. Winning is fine.
But this was a paper to test how well he learned his subject. He doesn't want to find out how dumb he is, therefore he cheats. And really that's all this is. It's no more original thinking than working out how to steal the papers or someone else's answers. Someone who finds a different way to steal the papers before issuance isn't thinking originally in any worthwhile and meaningful form. Original crimes are not laudable. They're just original.
Well, that's a complete failure to understand the purpose of the Kobayashi Maru scenario.
It's not a hard concept - there are multiple legal issues in place, e.g. Privacy and Copyright. I know IT types like to think of the world as a binary place, but it's not and never will be.
but even so it demonstrates how in the west we treat children as far less capable than they actually are. It's not just respnsibilities and safety either, they consider children's emotions to be genuine and to be respected, rather than trivialized and ignored or even punished like the west does.
Don't mistake the US for the entire West. Here in Switzerland, very young schoolchildren get on the train by themselves, ride to the appropriate stop, and walk in small groups between destinations on both ends of the route. No adult supervision.
On a side note, kids here are usually bilingual and often trilingual, too.
A collection of obscenely wealthy guys are upset that life won't let them get their way. Maybe if they at least admit they're scared shitless about it they can get their way.
Or a collection of obscenely wealthy guys make a low-cost (to them) investment with a potential return of increased longevity. You have no insight into their motivations, and your post sounds petty.
Not really. He clearly fails to understand some key points, as evidenced by his comment on the franc. The Swiss are uncomfortable with losing their already restricted ability to export goods due to an incredibly over-valued franc. Being a "reserve currency" is hardly worth destroying their ability to export!
As a normal person I never had use of large bills like that. Even 100 is an annoyance as you have to get it accepted for change somewhere. So in essence nothing of value would be lost. Then the claim that it would be effective at curbing illegal business is not very strong either.
As a normal person in Switzerland, I regularly use 1000 CHF notes (about 800 Euro, give or take). Grocers accept them and ATMs give them out; not considered a big deal here.
Absolutely, but DO NOT TELL ANYONE. honestly automation will not get you a raise or a promotion, it will just get you extra work. for the same pay. Automate all of it and keep your frigging mouth shut. Hell I used to automate emails to be sent at 2am so that management though I was working 24/7.
If you've automated your job, *shouldn't* you get new tasks to do? You're being paid to do the job to the best of your ability. You've done that by automating - but that leaves you on-the-clock time to do other productive tasks.
They may be curious, but because they're not mindless killing machines
Actually, that's more or less what they are. They don't sit back and plan to eat people - but if they happen to be hungry, and there's a person nearby that looks edible, they may react and take a bite.
I fail to see how giving people more information, enabling them to make informed choices about getting in the water or not, is a waste of money.
I have swam with sharks on numerous occasions, and always look forward to doing it again
Completely irrelevant. An anecdote is not data, and I don't see anyone suggesting that every encounter with sharks - or even most - is going to result in human casualties.
Usually the damage estimates are way overstated, so I don't buy it on that assumption,
Often (I hesitate to say "usually"), helpdesk monkeys don't understand value calculations and the impact an action can have across the value chain.
and usually people don't engage in that behavior unless they were treated reprehensibly by their employer beforehand. Perhaps the real solution here is for management to act like human beings instead of jackals.
If they do outsource, they'll just learn their lesson the hard way.
So group B only acts reprehensibly if group A does so first? What, then, motivates group A to act reprehensibly? Whether management or line worker, people can all be assholes. It's just as probable that this sysadmin was the kind of guy that blows things way out of proportion and took an imagined slight as reason to wreak havoc.
Tata employees don't give a shit about you or your goals, and their code is buggy and broken, requiring a local side programmer to clean up their mess anyway.
H-1Bs are often treated as slave labor by aforementioned jackal management. I can guarantee they will throw their sabo into the works at some point the moment they have any power, which will happen when there are no more localside programmers left thanks to attitudes like yours.
Potentially true. I've not had positive experience with off-shoring, but I would assume the "people are people" statement holds true here as well, and there are good H1-Bs as well (I myself am an immigrant worker in another country).
The veracity with which this "upgrade" is being pushed displays a stubbornness that can only be attributed to MBAs with no idea of what Slashdot is about.
Right, because nerds have never been known to compulsively obsess over doing things their way regardless of what the user wants. I suggest that your stereotyping doesn't help; focus on the problem, not your hypothetical reasons.
Also, I'm not sure that "veracity" means what you think it means. But then, I'm a nerd with an MBA, so what do I know?
I would say the majority of people break the law every time they get in the car, because the speed limits are constantly changing and our focus is elsewhere.
If your focus is elsewhere, you have no business behind the wheel of a multi-ton death machine. Best thing I ever did was learn to ride a motorcycle; if done right, that teaches you to be hyper-aware of your surroundings, a skill which you then apply to driving 4-wheeled vehicles as well.
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What, is that part of the ritual for summoning the Satan of Stupidity or something?
Whoosh.
The answer is simple: the editors aren't as smart as the nerds that previously frequented this site.
I've never met them, but my guess would be thst the current owners just found people who "like computers" and hired them, rather than searching for the more intellectual types who sometimes were involved in the past (not always, though: remember Jon Katz?).
I'm not sure you understood the post you responded too...
... in the first few weeks that it was used. Who knows - that may have been the same failure number every month of operation, in which case, the picture looks a lot worse.
http://www.apple.com/opensourc...
That wasn't hard to Google - it's a list of projects they use and contribute back to.
Voting only for your own interests may be rational, but it isn't moral, nor does it make sense in the long run; society as a whole suffers when people act only in their own interests.
Not really.
Kirk was in a manufactured no-win situation and the test was therefore faulty: it doesn't matter if you don't know how to lose if you can find a way to still win. Winning is fine.
But this was a paper to test how well he learned his subject. He doesn't want to find out how dumb he is, therefore he cheats. And really that's all this is. It's no more original thinking than working out how to steal the papers or someone else's answers. Someone who finds a different way to steal the papers before issuance isn't thinking originally in any worthwhile and meaningful form. Original crimes are not laudable. They're just original.
Well, that's a complete failure to understand the purpose of the Kobayashi Maru scenario.
It's not a hard concept - there are multiple legal issues in place, e.g. Privacy and Copyright. I know IT types like to think of the world as a binary place, but it's not and never will be.
Where's a genesis torpedo when you really need one?
but even so it demonstrates how in the west we treat children as far less capable than they actually are. It's not just respnsibilities and safety either, they consider children's emotions to be genuine and to be respected, rather than trivialized and ignored or even punished like the west does.
Don't mistake the US for the entire West. Here in Switzerland, very young schoolchildren get on the train by themselves, ride to the appropriate stop, and walk in small groups between destinations on both ends of the route. No adult supervision.
On a side note, kids here are usually bilingual and often trilingual, too.
A collection of obscenely wealthy guys are upset that life won't let them get their way. Maybe if they at least admit they're scared shitless about it they can get their way.
Or a collection of obscenely wealthy guys make a low-cost (to them) investment with a potential return of increased longevity. You have no insight into their motivations, and your post sounds petty.
Not really. He clearly fails to understand some key points, as evidenced by his comment on the franc. The Swiss are uncomfortable with losing their already restricted ability to export goods due to an incredibly over-valued franc. Being a "reserve currency" is hardly worth destroying their ability to export!
As a normal person I never had use of large bills like that. Even 100 is an annoyance as you have to get it accepted for change somewhere. So in essence nothing of value would be lost. Then the claim that it would be effective at curbing illegal business is not very strong either.
As a normal person in Switzerland, I regularly use 1000 CHF notes (about 800 Euro, give or take). Grocers accept them and ATMs give them out; not considered a big deal here.
Absolutely, but DO NOT TELL ANYONE. honestly automation will not get you a raise or a promotion, it will just get you extra work. for the same pay.
Automate all of it and keep your frigging mouth shut.
Hell I used to automate emails to be sent at 2am so that management though I was working 24/7.
If you've automated your job, *shouldn't* you get new tasks to do? You're being paid to do the job to the best of your ability. You've done that by automating - but that leaves you on-the-clock time to do other productive tasks.
They may be curious, but because they're not mindless killing machines
Actually, that's more or less what they are. They don't sit back and plan to eat people - but if they happen to be hungry, and there's a person nearby that looks edible, they may react and take a bite.
I fail to see how giving people more information, enabling them to make informed choices about getting in the water or not, is a waste of money.
I have swam with sharks on numerous occasions, and always look forward to doing it again
Completely irrelevant. An anecdote is not data, and I don't see anyone suggesting that every encounter with sharks - or even most - is going to result in human casualties.
Gene?
It's been 20 years or so since I've known him, but does he no longer go by Spaff?
Usually the damage estimates are way overstated, so I don't buy it on that assumption,
Often (I hesitate to say "usually"), helpdesk monkeys don't understand value calculations and the impact an action can have across the value chain.
and usually people don't engage in that behavior unless they were treated reprehensibly by their employer beforehand. Perhaps the real solution here is for management to act like human beings instead of jackals.
If they do outsource, they'll just learn their lesson the hard way.
So group B only acts reprehensibly if group A does so first? What, then, motivates group A to act reprehensibly? Whether management or line worker, people can all be assholes. It's just as probable that this sysadmin was the kind of guy that blows things way out of proportion and took an imagined slight as reason to wreak havoc.
Tata employees don't give a shit about you or your goals, and their code is buggy and broken, requiring a local side programmer to clean up their mess anyway.
H-1Bs are often treated as slave labor by aforementioned jackal management. I can guarantee they will throw their sabo into the works at some point the moment they have any power, which will happen when there are no more localside programmers left thanks to attitudes like yours.
Potentially true. I've not had positive experience with off-shoring, but I would assume the "people are people" statement holds true here as well, and there are good H1-Bs as well (I myself am an immigrant worker in another country).
Indeed, it is ridiculous, although despite your focus on that theme, you don't seem to understand the real "why" of it....
Now THAT is news for nerds!
Ignorance is not freedom, however much it may feel like it.
The veracity with which this "upgrade" is being pushed displays a stubbornness that can only be attributed to MBAs with no idea of what Slashdot is about.
Right, because nerds have never been known to compulsively obsess over doing things their way regardless of what the user wants. I suggest that your stereotyping doesn't help; focus on the problem, not your hypothetical reasons.
Also, I'm not sure that "veracity" means what you think it means. But then, I'm a nerd with an MBA, so what do I know?
If you want to hear from us on the beta, why does mail to the given email address bounce? Maybe fix your stuff.
Mine went through this morning. I expect it's directly related to mailbox capacity and the sheer amount of hate they've received today.
FUCK BETA.
I would say the majority of people break the law every time they get in the car, because the speed limits are constantly changing and our focus is elsewhere.
If your focus is elsewhere, you have no business behind the wheel of a multi-ton death machine. Best thing I ever did was learn to ride a motorcycle; if done right, that teaches you to be hyper-aware of your surroundings, a skill which you then apply to driving 4-wheeled vehicles as well.
Clearly the post-Taco Slashdot falls in the second category.