I'm OK with him saying too many people from a specific region.
Anyway, I would totally clamp down on immigration from all places where terrorists come from. I don't care if anyone thinks I'm a racist for that.
Let's start from the South then, where Dylann Roof is from.
I'm being facetious obviously. As for whether we have too many people from a specific region, it depends. We have a lot of people from India and China not only inventing things, but investing enormous wealth into this country.
How could that be too much of something? Specially when people born in this country aren't stepping up to the plate? There is a reason why these people are here doing a killing and creating wealth. They have agency, they have discipline, they have diligence and work ethics.
If that kind of people is too much for you, then go ahead, replace them, do what they do, and show us how it's done.
I don't propose banning any speech. But neither do I think freedom of speech means freedom from consequence, which is what I think at least some here want. They want to be able to make direct or thinly veiled bigoted statements, and have everyone around them act like that's completely normal. You can tell what delicate little snowflakes the Alt-right are because every time they get called on some nasty slur, they start moaning about SJWs. What they really mean is "I don't want to be held accountable, and anyone that holds me accountable is bad."
I'm genuinely curious, provide links to actual racist quotes made by him.
The summary of this article doesn't count, saying country is also it's citizens besides economy isn't racist
His actions speak for himself. You cannot *not* be a racist and at the same time embrace, enable and otherwise look the other way at the rampant bigoted crap that occurs at breibart.
Bro, this country produces HS graduates who cannot add fractions reliably, where 1 out of 4 people cannot readily answer whether the Earth goes around the Sun, and that the Bible is a reliable resource for natural studies. I can bet money in better a shitload of people do not even know what an Atlas is.
Dunno, but looking around Silicon Valley, I don't think 2/3rds of CEOs are south or east Asian. Silicon Valley has immigrants of all type. Certainly some locations have a big representation from south Asia (Cisco Way), but move a few miles and it looks different.
The vast majority of these Asian CEOs are citizens. I would hope that a presidential chief of staff does not categorize citizens up into first class versus second class. A very large number of these CEOs aren't even immigrants but were born here.
There is no special right or ethos that grants European immigrants or their descendants a greater role in America than any other immigrant group. If whites end up being a minority, then so what?
Hehehe, that's funny. That right exists, by force. The entire Trump campaign has been based on asserting that right. This confirms, once and for fucking all that all this shit has never been about illegals taking low-skills/entry level jobs (the ones that incidentally are always in high demand because no one wants to take them).
I mean, just look at how Trump supporters have acted with the almost certainty that Melania broke immigration law by working without a working visa. I quote, literally, that "well, she is European, I have no problem with that. She is better than a Mexican.".
Or how about the now forgotten cries about Asian anchor babies? Despite the fact that such incidents are statistically insignificant, think of the parents' profiles. We are talking about well-to-do families, typically from China and Taiwan, business owners with enough moolah to pull a maternity tourist tour, to give their children legal entry into the US. Once as adults, they move here with their wealth and shit.
And Trumpanzees cry about that. Purely rhetorical question: what's there in common between a poor Mexican illegal and a wealthy Asian mom from a business-owning family? Think about that question real hard.
I'm actually glad all this shit is happening now, in the time of the internet when a million copies can be made, so that deniability is no longer possible.
For a long time people like me on the receiving end of this shit have been crying foul for years, but more often than not people look away or pretend that there is nothing wrong. No one is a racist, and no one they know is a racist. They never get affected by it, and look at all those Asian CEOs and engineers! See? No racism here.
No one can deny ignorance anymore. Anyone who ignores it or downplay it are doing so with intention and premeditation.
Until they open their mouth, that is. This is also how the Israelis determine which place an Arab is from. Just by looks, they could be from anywhere, but once they start talking, one can say whether they are from Egypt, Jordan, PA, Syria and so on. Similarly, someone who speaks Urdu or Bangladeshi is more likely to be from Pakistan or Bangladesh, even if a few of them can be found in India
Yeah, because the average bore in the US could tell the difference between Urdu or Bangladeshi (or even know that Urdu and Hindi are mutually intelligible.)
Go ahead and call an Indian an Asian, see how friendly they are to you afterwards.
Oh STFU. I've befriended and worked with South Asian people (Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan) for years. The reaction is quite the opposite. They get puzzled, if not offended by ignorant people who think Asian means "Chinese-looking" (and rightly so, because only very stupid ignorant people would think that way.)
Isn't S. Korea also first-world? The only reason I can think of for not including Japan is that it's an island. Off the coast of Asia.:p
As far as I'm concerned, the whole bunch of them are in Asia, including India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Whateveristan else is in there.
And Taiwan is a first-world nation. I've never seen Asia being defined as something that excludes first-world development. That shit is new to me (and truly people can be such low-brow uneducated troglodytes.)
America will take at least 30 years to build a high speed train from SF to LA, at a cost of $100-300B.
China built the high speed train from Shanghai to Beijing (twice the distance from SF to LA) in 3 years, at a cost of $32B.
To be fair, America built the trans-continental railway in a few years for $50 mil, back when they had cheap Chinese labour, and no health and safety or other red tape.
And the Chinese build the Chinese wall, something something. It is not fair to bring that comparison when the financial contexts, times and places then and now are basically incomparable.
I'm more hoping they intend to give the finger to Oracle by making C# a first class citizen on Android, and deprecating Java.
C# is a better language anyway, and Google's adoption of Java has kept a language on life support that... well, it's not a terrible language, but it has a Donald Trump of an owner if you know what I mean. Better to move on to something both technically superior and politically undamaged.
To say that Google's adoption has kept Java in life support is a bit of a stretch. Do people realize the sheer volume of software written in Java? Java in the Enterprise exists on its own. Android could stop existing today, and it would have no impact on Java's viability.
With that said, I agree with you. C# is superior as a language than Java. Having worked in both, that's the opinion I've formed regarding both. Either is fine for the job, though I'd prefer C# to become more widely available outside Microsoft platforms.
Maybe you should have made that argument before electing Trump on the basis that he could successfully make America Great again by turning the clock back 40 years on industrialisation?
No idea why you think my facts are wrong - it was HIM who said it.
Who says I voted for him? My reply to you about getting your facts straights are from this post you made (bold for emphasis):
How do you think the coal miners and people working in industries displaced by globalisation
Globalization didn't. Automation, recycling and changes in the commodity markets have done a lot more to hit the Rust Belt than globalization ever did.
Coal is down because Europe (our primary coal customer) doesn't buy so much of that shit anymore. Sales have gone down by 16% since the last peak in 2008. And internal consumption of coal is also down. China now mines its own coal so instead of purchasing 8.3 million tons annually, it now gets by with 0.2 million tons.
Add automation in mining, and guess what happens? Automation has been decimating coal jobs since the 1930s.
Don't even get me started with steel where recycling in addition to automation has caused a decimation of employment.
Globalization is a good boogeyman until you start hitting it at it with facts and numbers.
But in a world where people can go to adulthood without knowing how to add fractions, I guess it is too much to ask to get a grasp at reality instead of grasping at unreasonable hopes based on empty promises.
Most Republicans don't care that Hillary won the popular vote. Everyone already knew that California and illegal immigrants were going to vote for her in huge numbers.
Sure, and dead Syrians were risen back from the death, given Mexican sombreros and taken to the voting polls in taco trucks financed by George Soros. C'mon Johnny, connect the dots.
The Political Left has only themselves to blame. They were the ones Trumpeting Trump as much as anyone in the beginning... "Yes, PLEASE RUN!" thinking all along that he couldn't actually win anything. Then he won the Republican Nomination and they all thought "Great, this is great! We'll get Hillary!" And they echo chambered their rage and hatred of the "other half" of America. I mean, how stupid can you be to vote for Trump? Right?
But the Left ran the one candidate with probably more baggage than Trump, and no amount of Echos in the Chamber could drown out the sounds of that hatred and contempt for America, and Americans that was coming from the likes of the FBI investigation, and conclusion that she was "reckless" with National Security and the torrent of emails from WikiLeaks exposing her.
Lets see, you had the full MSM on her side. Sitting President on her side, Every Democrat and a large part of the Establishment Republican Party on her side. She had a Billion Dollars of campaign funds helping her. You had all the Bushes on her side. I can't actually think of anything other than a few Talk Radio shows and Hannity on Fox that was actually supporting Trump.
And here it is, she lost. She lost to Trump. She has nobody else to blame but herself. She was the only candidate that was worse than Trump
How do you think the coal miners and people working in industries displaced by globalisation will feel when it comes to light he is just going to follow the establishment path on globalisation?
Get your facts straight. Those people weren't displaced by globalization. For every 1 job displaced by globalization, 6 have been done away by automation. I'm fucking tired of giving links and citations for these claims I'm making. Find them yourself if you are interested. But here is the thing as the perfect example: the US is producing more or less the same amount of steel now than 30 years ago. That's between 90 and 110 million tons.
But this is the thing. 30 years ago, the ration of integrated mills (which include mining pig iron) over mini-mills (specialized in scrap metal) was 8/2. In 2015, that ration was 3/6. We produce the same amount of steel, but with less people.
And automation and robotics is going to nuke the shit out of those jobs.
Harking back at globalization makes for a shiny boogeyman. It won't do shit for these people. This is not to say globalization hasn't had a negative impact on many (nor nullify that it has had a positive impact on "other" many in this country.)
The Rust Belt is bust and not a single political party has done squat to prevent it, nor propose anything to fix it. Not even Trump.
What you see in the Rust Belt is more or less a mirror image of what happens to a third world country that banks its luck on commodities alone.
Shit won't get fixed by barking at the wrong tree.
He is already reversing course on all the rhetoric used to rile up the populist vote.
Trump's supporters don't expect him to follow through on the literal statements he made during the campaign. Only his detractors took him literally. When he promised to build a wall, his supporters were not expecting a physical wall, just that they would finally see a politician take illegal immigration seriously.
Disclaimer: I didn't vote for Trump, but I know plenty of people that did, mostly relatives.
What a load of bullcrap. I know people who truly and literally believed (and still believe) he will build a wall, literally that every single illegal is from Mexico, literally that every one of them is a rapist and murderer, and literally that Trump will single handedly wave his magic wand (or dick or whatever) and they will all go poof, all of that without ever straining our finances.
I have people telling me in real life that Obama was a Kenyan and that the FEMA death camps were going to be real. People that packed ammo and shit for the ends of days, who pretty much stopped talking to me (and even started to hate me, literally) when I poked holes in their logic. People that at some point they seemed normal to me, co-workers, neighbors, activity partners. It was like holy shit, was there some type of mass lead poisoning that affected them all at infancy or something.
People who think themselves decent, churchgoing people who all of the sudden chose to look the other way at Trump's dog whistles and chose to (re)normalize racism just because Trump's campaign was throwing them a bone by making some stupid promise to make their lives better.
I get that people are frustrated, but to just look the other way at racism and claim "I'm not a racist, I'm voting for policies" when the bulk of those policies make not a goddamned fucking sense.
I mean, for fucks' sake, we are talking about a country that has people that literally believe the world was created in 7 days, that believes in Jade Helm, Agenda 21, that George Soros is some type of Jewish Nazi illuminati (and on the other side of the political fence, we have people who think vaccines are not needed and who will hear from what David whats-his-face-Avocado Wolfe telling them gravity is an allergy.)
If you really believe that his supporters didn't believe some or most of that bullshit, I have a bridge to sell to you.
Do not underestimate the immense amount of ignorance and stupidity displayed by our electorate (be them right or left leaning, there are stupid people in both sides of the aisle.)
California gave all 55 votes to Clinton while 31% of the population voted for Trump. I'd say the large states have far more effect on elections than say New Hampshire with 4 whole votes. CA also called it for Clinton before a single vote was counted. Does the EC only prove to be a problem when it's not to your advantage?
And while we are at it, there is a massive voter depression in CA because people see their votes do no good. If it was popular vote, CA could have added a few million more to Trump as easily as not.
We can play in reverse and look at Florida. For all practical purposes, both candidates got comparable shares with Trump winning at 49% and Hillary getting 48%. The losing 48% has no say when the 29 EC votes from Florida went to Trump. If they were to complain, their complains would be as legitimate as those from Cali Trump supporters.
The EC is not perfect, but it equalizes between large and small states. It works. That Clinton (for whom I vote) won the popular vote... yay... no, not really. Out of 119 million voters, she got 200K extra over trump. That's 0.16% advantage over Trump at a time when 49% (I think) of voters stayed home?
In that context, and with such a ridiculous small margin, I see no justification for dumping the EC in favor of direct representation, even when such a hypothetical would favor my candidate./p.
Wow, if this is how you think the majority of the American people live, then the USA really sucks and Trump is right, we need to MAGA. If this is what you really think of the people of the country, you're a real bigot.
It is called a joke, even one in poor taste. It is stupid to presume the average Trump supporter somehow constitutes the majority of America. Let's do some math, nothing hard, shall we?
231,556,622 eligible voters
46.9% didn't vote
25.6% voted Clinton
25.5% voted Trump
25.5% ain't a majority of America. They are a majority in our current EC model, and they are not in the popular vote.
Should I need to point out that a foreign-born investor calling for secession is the stupidest thing you could do in the current political climate after a nationalist-inspired win? Wow. Fuck. I just don't know how to describe this amount of stupid.
Silicon Valley Investors Call For California To Secede From the US After Trump Win
You know, that is the stupidest shit I've heard since Trump opened his maw and made his followers howl when he said the majority of illegals were murderers and rapists. Now, let that sink in for a moment.
What these investors are suggesting is even stupider than anything Trump has said. Again, let that sink in for a moment.
I didn't vote for Trump. And I'm upset that he won (for this means the majority of voters who bothered to show up had no problem tagging along his racist platform.)
But this, the suggestion to seceded? What the fuck is this? I can get an individual wanting to leave somewhere else (I sometimes feel that).
But a call to total secession? The amount of privilege behind such an absurd notion, it boggles the mind. And I thought people who wanted Texas to secede were idiots. Noooo, these investors truly take the cake!
This goes to show you can be very smart at investing and still be very stupid at life.
Given this recent election season, I think an unabashed film about a society where the vote is restricted to veterans only makes a heck of a lot of sense. Certainly better than the idiots who have voted for Republicans or Democrats.
Yeah, because literally there are no veterans who have (or at this moment are) voting for Republicans or Democrats. Please take your "No True Scotsman" fallacy and shove it.
If you never served your country in any capacity - neither military nor civil service - I don't trust you with voting and nobody should.
That would make you a very un-American asshole, not an educated patriot. Fortunately, the bulk of our Armed Forces understand the true nature of democracy and thus do not share your twisted, wretched view.
When I first read the headlines, my blood started to boil, thinking "how the shit is this even legal". But then, I read story. From the article:
The jobs that would be moved to an outsourcer include monitoring and incident resolution, helpdesk support, and problem and patch management. Other areas would be partially outsourced, such as infrastructure product development, cloud and automation. HCSC will retain governance and planning. The outsourcing vendor has not been named, the employees said.
Who the hell does these kind of jobs in the US today? Those things have been automated or outsourced for the last 8-10 years. Who the hell banks on having a career on any of these fields? Monitoring? Helpdesk support? Patch management?
That was fine 15 years ago. And with the rise of DevOps and sophisticated virtualization/cloud infrastructure and automation, you truly do not need people in the US to do all the other things mentioned in the article.
That's like being surprised that Xmas decorations are manufactured in China and not in some town in the Rust Belt.
I'm not trying to be mean. People are going to be affected by this... but this aren't surprising news. It has been done for the last 8-10 years, and the transition has been mostly complete.
Keep your pulse on shit so that you do not get blindsided by paradigm shifts.
App Developers Spend Too Much Time Debugging Errors in Production Systems
One thing I don't see anyone talking about here is the need to reduce the amount of change (SLOCs, FPs, whatever), done between QA cycles. Any serious system is going to have some sort of QA cycles before becoming available to the consumer.
Take SLOCs for instance. Say, from last release to production to the first QA cycle, you have 1000 SLOCs (or FPs) of change. And experience tells you that, in your organization, it takes 2 weeks of QA to test that much code change. And your first QA cycle is 2 weeks.
So, you get feedback from the QA cycle. You know, bugs and shit. So you and your team go back and fix the errors. Now onto QA cycle 2 (2 weeks.) But wait, from the QA release you submitted to QA the first time and the new one you are about to test, you have 1500 SLOCs of change. But your 2nd QA cycle is still only two weeks instead of three.
See the problem? Logically, one should extend the amount of QA on the 2nd cycle to cover the potential bugs in the new, larger delta (or negotiate *not* to fix all bugs and just ship as-is, patch later.) But in not doing so, the new release now has a higher probability of carrying undetected/serious bugs that could not be caught for lack of QA time.
It goes without saying that TDD/BDD won't help. There is a limit to how much you can automate testing of integration logic, usability, performance, etc.
This pretty much falls into the category of changes that are 1) done at the last minute, and that 2) aren't tested enough.
THAT IS THE KIND OF SHIT THAT MAKES UP WAKE UP AT 2AM TO TROUBLESHOOT A CUSTOMER ISSUE.
A similar scenario is when you deliver N features. They all go to QA which test the features according to plan. You get QA feedback and fix some shit. But in addition, now you decided (or someone forces you) to add a new feature. The previous features go through one QA cycle, and they and their fixes go again through a second QA cycle. The new feature however, it only goes through one QA cycle (the 2nd one).
Assuming the 2nd QA cycle is the last one (because you are like "shit we have a fucking deadline and the cost of development is $1K a day if we missed it"), you will get some feedback, but any bugs will go unfixed, or you have to stop the train to have another QA cycle (thus missing the deadline and raising the cost of development.)
So most likely, it will go as-is, with untested/unknown bugs due to the nice new feature stupidly added at the 11th hour.
In short, don't add unnecessary shit at the last minute. Keep your development efforts to debug shit you get from QA.
And no, continuous delivery does not necessarily absolves you or helps you to get away with it. It only helps you to push fixes and new releases faster (and if you are doing shit correctly, it will be more about features than bug fixes.) If you do not throttle non-critical changes as you get closer to shipping, your quality will suffer no matter what.
Ok, so what's the point? If they have nothing to do with code what's the point?
Just because they have nothing to do with the coding part of the process, that does not mean they have no part in the development process. Because (tada) the development process is more than just coding. If you haven't seen a difference in 30 years, man, you are working with some shitty employers.
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I'm OK with him saying too many people from a specific region. Anyway, I would totally clamp down on immigration from all places where terrorists come from. I don't care if anyone thinks I'm a racist for that.
Let's start from the South then, where Dylann Roof is from.
I'm being facetious obviously. As for whether we have too many people from a specific region, it depends. We have a lot of people from India and China not only inventing things, but investing enormous wealth into this country.
How could that be too much of something? Specially when people born in this country aren't stepping up to the plate? There is a reason why these people are here doing a killing and creating wealth. They have agency, they have discipline, they have diligence and work ethics.
If that kind of people is too much for you, then go ahead, replace them, do what they do, and show us how it's done.
You cannot build reliable, safe to ship, combat effective missiles in a single scrum.
They need to switch to kanban :P
I don't propose banning any speech. But neither do I think freedom of speech means freedom from consequence, which is what I think at least some here want. They want to be able to make direct or thinly veiled bigoted statements, and have everyone around them act like that's completely normal. You can tell what delicate little snowflakes the Alt-right are because every time they get called on some nasty slur, they start moaning about SJWs. What they really mean is "I don't want to be held accountable, and anyone that holds me accountable is bad."
^^^^ So much truth in this post.
I'm genuinely curious, provide links to actual racist quotes made by him.
The summary of this article doesn't count, saying country is also it's citizens besides economy isn't racist
His actions speak for himself. You cannot *not* be a racist and at the same time embrace, enable and otherwise look the other way at the rampant bigoted crap that occurs at breibart.
Indian implies Asian. Ever seen an atlas?
Bro, this country produces HS graduates who cannot add fractions reliably, where 1 out of 4 people cannot readily answer whether the Earth goes around the Sun, and that the Bible is a reliable resource for natural studies. I can bet money in better a shitload of people do not even know what an Atlas is.
Dunno, but looking around Silicon Valley, I don't think 2/3rds of CEOs are south or east Asian. Silicon Valley has immigrants of all type. Certainly some locations have a big representation from south Asia (Cisco Way), but move a few miles and it looks different.
The vast majority of these Asian CEOs are citizens. I would hope that a presidential chief of staff does not categorize citizens up into first class versus second class. A very large number of these CEOs aren't even immigrants but were born here.
There is no special right or ethos that grants European immigrants or their descendants a greater role in America than any other immigrant group. If whites end up being a minority, then so what?
Hehehe, that's funny. That right exists, by force. The entire Trump campaign has been based on asserting that right. This confirms, once and for fucking all that all this shit has never been about illegals taking low-skills/entry level jobs (the ones that incidentally are always in high demand because no one wants to take them).
I mean, just look at how Trump supporters have acted with the almost certainty that Melania broke immigration law by working without a working visa. I quote, literally, that "well, she is European, I have no problem with that. She is better than a Mexican.".
Or how about the now forgotten cries about Asian anchor babies? Despite the fact that such incidents are statistically insignificant, think of the parents' profiles. We are talking about well-to-do families, typically from China and Taiwan, business owners with enough moolah to pull a maternity tourist tour, to give their children legal entry into the US. Once as adults, they move here with their wealth and shit.
And Trumpanzees cry about that. Purely rhetorical question: what's there in common between a poor Mexican illegal and a wealthy Asian mom from a business-owning family? Think about that question real hard.
I'm actually glad all this shit is happening now, in the time of the internet when a million copies can be made, so that deniability is no longer possible.
For a long time people like me on the receiving end of this shit have been crying foul for years, but more often than not people look away or pretend that there is nothing wrong. No one is a racist, and no one they know is a racist. They never get affected by it, and look at all those Asian CEOs and engineers! See? No racism here.
No one can deny ignorance anymore. Anyone who ignores it or downplay it are doing so with intention and premeditation.
Until they open their mouth, that is. This is also how the Israelis determine which place an Arab is from. Just by looks, they could be from anywhere, but once they start talking, one can say whether they are from Egypt, Jordan, PA, Syria and so on. Similarly, someone who speaks Urdu or Bangladeshi is more likely to be from Pakistan or Bangladesh, even if a few of them can be found in India
Yeah, because the average bore in the US could tell the difference between Urdu or Bangladeshi (or even know that Urdu and Hindi are mutually intelligible.)
India is in Asia.
Go ahead and call an Indian an Asian, see how friendly they are to you afterwards.
Oh STFU. I've befriended and worked with South Asian people (Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan) for years. The reaction is quite the opposite. They get puzzled, if not offended by ignorant people who think Asian means "Chinese-looking" (and rightly so, because only very stupid ignorant people would think that way.)
Isn't S. Korea also first-world? The only reason I can think of for not including Japan is that it's an island. Off the coast of Asia. :p
As far as I'm concerned, the whole bunch of them are in Asia, including India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Whateveristan else is in there.
And Taiwan is a first-world nation. I've never seen Asia being defined as something that excludes first-world development. That shit is new to me (and truly people can be such low-brow uneducated troglodytes.)
America will take at least 30 years to build a high speed train from SF to LA, at a cost of $100-300B. China built the high speed train from Shanghai to Beijing (twice the distance from SF to LA) in 3 years, at a cost of $32B.
To be fair, America built the trans-continental railway in a few years for $50 mil, back when they had cheap Chinese labour, and no health and safety or other red tape.
And the Chinese build the Chinese wall, something something. It is not fair to bring that comparison when the financial contexts, times and places then and now are basically incomparable.
I'm more hoping they intend to give the finger to Oracle by making C# a first class citizen on Android, and deprecating Java.
C# is a better language anyway, and Google's adoption of Java has kept a language on life support that... well, it's not a terrible language, but it has a Donald Trump of an owner if you know what I mean. Better to move on to something both technically superior and politically undamaged.
To say that Google's adoption has kept Java in life support is a bit of a stretch. Do people realize the sheer volume of software written in Java? Java in the Enterprise exists on its own. Android could stop existing today, and it would have no impact on Java's viability.
With that said, I agree with you. C# is superior as a language than Java. Having worked in both, that's the opinion I've formed regarding both. Either is fine for the job, though I'd prefer C# to become more widely available outside Microsoft platforms.
Here's a thought.
Maybe you should have made that argument before electing Trump on the basis that he could successfully make America Great again by turning the clock back 40 years on industrialisation?
No idea why you think my facts are wrong - it was HIM who said it.
Who says I voted for him? My reply to you about getting your facts straights are from this post you made (bold for emphasis):
How do you think the coal miners and people working in industries displaced by globalisation
Globalization didn't. Automation, recycling and changes in the commodity markets have done a lot more to hit the Rust Belt than globalization ever did.
Coal is down because Europe (our primary coal customer) doesn't buy so much of that shit anymore. Sales have gone down by 16% since the last peak in 2008. And internal consumption of coal is also down. China now mines its own coal so instead of purchasing 8.3 million tons annually, it now gets by with 0.2 million tons.
Add automation in mining, and guess what happens? Automation has been decimating coal jobs since the 1930s.
Don't even get me started with steel where recycling in addition to automation has caused a decimation of employment.
Globalization is a good boogeyman until you start hitting it at it with facts and numbers.
But in a world where people can go to adulthood without knowing how to add fractions, I guess it is too much to ask to get a grasp at reality instead of grasping at unreasonable hopes based on empty promises.
Most Republicans don't care that Hillary won the popular vote. Everyone already knew that California and illegal immigrants were going to vote for her in huge numbers.
Sure, and dead Syrians were risen back from the death, given Mexican sombreros and taken to the voting polls in taco trucks financed by George Soros. C'mon Johnny, connect the dots.
The Political Left has only themselves to blame. They were the ones Trumpeting Trump as much as anyone in the beginning ... "Yes, PLEASE RUN!" thinking all along that he couldn't actually win anything. Then he won the Republican Nomination and they all thought "Great, this is great! We'll get Hillary!" And they echo chambered their rage and hatred of the "other half" of America. I mean, how stupid can you be to vote for Trump? Right?
But the Left ran the one candidate with probably more baggage than Trump, and no amount of Echos in the Chamber could drown out the sounds of that hatred and contempt for America, and Americans that was coming from the likes of the FBI investigation, and conclusion that she was "reckless" with National Security and the torrent of emails from WikiLeaks exposing her.
Lets see, you had the full MSM on her side. Sitting President on her side, Every Democrat and a large part of the Establishment Republican Party on her side. She had a Billion Dollars of campaign funds helping her. You had all the Bushes on her side. I can't actually think of anything other than a few Talk Radio shows and Hannity on Fox that was actually supporting Trump .
And here it is, she lost. She lost to Trump. She has nobody else to blame but herself. She was the only candidate that was worse than Trump
^^^ There is so much win in this.
So he lied?
Were anything of the things he said true?
How do you think the coal miners and people working in industries displaced by globalisation will feel when it comes to light he is just going to follow the establishment path on globalisation?
Get your facts straight. Those people weren't displaced by globalization. For every 1 job displaced by globalization, 6 have been done away by automation. I'm fucking tired of giving links and citations for these claims I'm making. Find them yourself if you are interested. But here is the thing as the perfect example: the US is producing more or less the same amount of steel now than 30 years ago. That's between 90 and 110 million tons.
But this is the thing. 30 years ago, the ration of integrated mills (which include mining pig iron) over mini-mills (specialized in scrap metal) was 8/2. In 2015, that ration was 3/6. We produce the same amount of steel, but with less people.
And automation and robotics is going to nuke the shit out of those jobs.
Harking back at globalization makes for a shiny boogeyman. It won't do shit for these people. This is not to say globalization hasn't had a negative impact on many (nor nullify that it has had a positive impact on "other" many in this country.)
The Rust Belt is bust and not a single political party has done squat to prevent it, nor propose anything to fix it. Not even Trump.
What you see in the Rust Belt is more or less a mirror image of what happens to a third world country that banks its luck on commodities alone.
Shit won't get fixed by barking at the wrong tree.
He is already reversing course on all the rhetoric used to rile up the populist vote.
Trump's supporters don't expect him to follow through on the literal statements he made during the campaign. Only his detractors took him literally. When he promised to build a wall, his supporters were not expecting a physical wall, just that they would finally see a politician take illegal immigration seriously.
Disclaimer: I didn't vote for Trump, but I know plenty of people that did, mostly relatives.
What a load of bullcrap. I know people who truly and literally believed (and still believe) he will build a wall, literally that every single illegal is from Mexico, literally that every one of them is a rapist and murderer, and literally that Trump will single handedly wave his magic wand (or dick or whatever) and they will all go poof, all of that without ever straining our finances.
I have people telling me in real life that Obama was a Kenyan and that the FEMA death camps were going to be real. People that packed ammo and shit for the ends of days, who pretty much stopped talking to me (and even started to hate me, literally) when I poked holes in their logic. People that at some point they seemed normal to me, co-workers, neighbors, activity partners. It was like holy shit, was there some type of mass lead poisoning that affected them all at infancy or something.
People who think themselves decent, churchgoing people who all of the sudden chose to look the other way at Trump's dog whistles and chose to (re)normalize racism just because Trump's campaign was throwing them a bone by making some stupid promise to make their lives better.
I get that people are frustrated, but to just look the other way at racism and claim "I'm not a racist, I'm voting for policies" when the bulk of those policies make not a goddamned fucking sense.
I mean, for fucks' sake, we are talking about a country that has people that literally believe the world was created in 7 days, that believes in Jade Helm, Agenda 21, that George Soros is some type of Jewish Nazi illuminati (and on the other side of the political fence, we have people who think vaccines are not needed and who will hear from what David whats-his-face-Avocado Wolfe telling them gravity is an allergy.)
If you really believe that his supporters didn't believe some or most of that bullshit, I have a bridge to sell to you.
Do not underestimate the immense amount of ignorance and stupidity displayed by our electorate (be them right or left leaning, there are stupid people in both sides of the aisle.)
California gave all 55 votes to Clinton while 31% of the population voted for Trump. I'd say the large states have far more effect on elections than say New Hampshire with 4 whole votes. CA also called it for Clinton before a single vote was counted. Does the EC only prove to be a problem when it's not to your advantage?
And while we are at it, there is a massive voter depression in CA because people see their votes do no good. If it was popular vote, CA could have added a few million more to Trump as easily as not.
We can play in reverse and look at Florida. For all practical purposes, both candidates got comparable shares with Trump winning at 49% and Hillary getting 48%. The losing 48% has no say when the 29 EC votes from Florida went to Trump. If they were to complain, their complains would be as legitimate as those from Cali Trump supporters.
The EC is not perfect, but it equalizes between large and small states. It works. That Clinton (for whom I vote) won the popular vote... yay... no, not really. Out of 119 million voters, she got 200K extra over trump. That's 0.16% advantage over Trump at a time when 49% (I think) of voters stayed home?
In that context, and with such a ridiculous small margin, I see no justification for dumping the EC in favor of direct representation, even when such a hypothetical would favor my candidate./p.
Wow, if this is how you think the majority of the American people live, then the USA really sucks and Trump is right, we need to MAGA. If this is what you really think of the people of the country, you're a real bigot.
It is called a joke, even one in poor taste. It is stupid to presume the average Trump supporter somehow constitutes the majority of America. Let's do some math, nothing hard, shall we?
231,556,622 eligible voters
46.9% didn't vote
25.6% voted Clinton
25.5% voted Trump
25.5% ain't a majority of America. They are a majority in our current EC model, and they are not in the popular vote.
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Should I need to point out that a foreign-born investor calling for secession is the stupidest thing you could do in the current political climate after a nationalist-inspired win? Wow. Fuck. I just don't know how to describe this amount of stupid.
Silicon Valley Investors Call For California To Secede From the US After Trump Win
You know, that is the stupidest shit I've heard since Trump opened his maw and made his followers howl when he said the majority of illegals were murderers and rapists. Now, let that sink in for a moment.
What these investors are suggesting is even stupider than anything Trump has said. Again, let that sink in for a moment.
I didn't vote for Trump. And I'm upset that he won (for this means the majority of voters who bothered to show up had no problem tagging along his racist platform.)
But this, the suggestion to seceded? What the fuck is this? I can get an individual wanting to leave somewhere else (I sometimes feel that).
But a call to total secession? The amount of privilege behind such an absurd notion, it boggles the mind. And I thought people who wanted Texas to secede were idiots. Noooo, these investors truly take the cake!
This goes to show you can be very smart at investing and still be very stupid at life.
Given this recent election season, I think an unabashed film about a society where the vote is restricted to veterans only makes a heck of a lot of sense. Certainly better than the idiots who have voted for Republicans or Democrats.
Yeah, because literally there are no veterans who have (or at this moment are) voting for Republicans or Democrats. Please take your "No True Scotsman" fallacy and shove it.
If you never served your country in any capacity - neither military nor civil service - I don't trust you with voting and nobody should.
That would make you a very un-American asshole, not an educated patriot. Fortunately, the bulk of our Armed Forces understand the true nature of democracy and thus do not share your twisted, wretched view.
The jobs that would be moved to an outsourcer include monitoring and incident resolution, helpdesk support, and problem and patch management. Other areas would be partially outsourced, such as infrastructure product development, cloud and automation. HCSC will retain governance and planning. The outsourcing vendor has not been named, the employees said.
Who the hell does these kind of jobs in the US today? Those things have been automated or outsourced for the last 8-10 years. Who the hell banks on having a career on any of these fields? Monitoring? Helpdesk support? Patch management?
That was fine 15 years ago. And with the rise of DevOps and sophisticated virtualization/cloud infrastructure and automation, you truly do not need people in the US to do all the other things mentioned in the article.
That's like being surprised that Xmas decorations are manufactured in China and not in some town in the Rust Belt.
I'm not trying to be mean. People are going to be affected by this... but this aren't surprising news. It has been done for the last 8-10 years, and the transition has been mostly complete.
Keep your pulse on shit so that you do not get blindsided by paradigm shifts.
App Developers Spend Too Much Time Debugging Errors in Production Systems
One thing I don't see anyone talking about here is the need to reduce the amount of change (SLOCs, FPs, whatever), done between QA cycles. Any serious system is going to have some sort of QA cycles before becoming available to the consumer.
Take SLOCs for instance. Say, from last release to production to the first QA cycle, you have 1000 SLOCs (or FPs) of change. And experience tells you that, in your organization, it takes 2 weeks of QA to test that much code change. And your first QA cycle is 2 weeks.
So, you get feedback from the QA cycle. You know, bugs and shit. So you and your team go back and fix the errors. Now onto QA cycle 2 (2 weeks.) But wait, from the QA release you submitted to QA the first time and the new one you are about to test, you have 1500 SLOCs of change. But your 2nd QA cycle is still only two weeks instead of three.
See the problem? Logically, one should extend the amount of QA on the 2nd cycle to cover the potential bugs in the new, larger delta (or negotiate *not* to fix all bugs and just ship as-is, patch later.) But in not doing so, the new release now has a higher probability of carrying undetected/serious bugs that could not be caught for lack of QA time.
It goes without saying that TDD/BDD won't help. There is a limit to how much you can automate testing of integration logic, usability, performance, etc.
This pretty much falls into the category of changes that are 1) done at the last minute, and that 2) aren't tested enough.
THAT IS THE KIND OF SHIT THAT MAKES UP WAKE UP AT 2AM TO TROUBLESHOOT A CUSTOMER ISSUE.
A similar scenario is when you deliver N features. They all go to QA which test the features according to plan. You get QA feedback and fix some shit. But in addition, now you decided (or someone forces you) to add a new feature. The previous features go through one QA cycle, and they and their fixes go again through a second QA cycle. The new feature however, it only goes through one QA cycle (the 2nd one).
Assuming the 2nd QA cycle is the last one (because you are like "shit we have a fucking deadline and the cost of development is $1K a day if we missed it"), you will get some feedback, but any bugs will go unfixed, or you have to stop the train to have another QA cycle (thus missing the deadline and raising the cost of development.)
So most likely, it will go as-is, with untested/unknown bugs due to the nice new feature stupidly added at the 11th hour.
In short, don't add unnecessary shit at the last minute. Keep your development efforts to debug shit you get from QA.
And no, continuous delivery does not necessarily absolves you or helps you to get away with it. It only helps you to push fixes and new releases faster (and if you are doing shit correctly, it will be more about features than bug fixes.) If you do not throttle non-critical changes as you get closer to shipping, your quality will suffer no matter what.
Ok, so what's the point? If they have nothing to do with code what's the point?
Just because they have nothing to do with the coding part of the process, that does not mean they have no part in the development process. Because (tada) the development process is more than just coding. If you haven't seen a difference in 30 years, man, you are working with some shitty employers.