Stack Overflow reputation indicates that you're a 1337 documentation writer, not necessarily that you know how to program.
You can infer the later from the quality and technical depth of the former. You can't routinely create highly technical programming responses without having the programming skills and experience to go with them.
Funny you mention that. I was just looking over some gigs on Craigslist. I clicked an ad for a "Magento/Joomla Developer" and the first thing they list in the requirements is, "Strong Project Management Abilities".
I sort of feel like emailing them so I can ask why they want their developer to also be the project manager... it's a rhetorical question since the ad is for a "boutique ad agency".
If you are a team lead developer, you better have some project management skills. Once you start working with code masses beyond a certain size and complexity, you enter the realm of engineering, with coding being an important but not the only skill required. Management and organizational skills are paramount in such circumstances.
Crapware is created not just because of a lack of good coding skills, but also because of lack of organizational skills.
obviously its a first world problem, big fucking deal. if we had to worry about getting parasites from standing in other people's shit to do our business then we would complain about that instead. people complain about things that bother them, so what's your point?
The point is that you should get some fucking perspective, and complain the most about abuse of authority and the efficiency (or lack thereof) of our security apparatus (important) and a lot less about issues of comfort (non-important, bullshit.) Former == have a conscience and a functioning brain. Later == Irrelevant Kim Kardashian bullcrap.
Well:
* The documents are being revealed to the public now and document events from 30-40 years ago.
* These are documents that he personally worked with, rather than a cache of documents acquired for the purpose of copying and releasing them.
* There's no question, I think, that this guy was a spy and defector. He was moved from Russia to the UK with the help of UK intelligence agencies in exchange for Russian secrets. Nobody's trying to claim that he's a "whistleblower". No comment on his actions or motivations vs. Snowden's, but they are potentially substantially different.
* This guy is dead.
Up to you to decide if any of these are substantive differences and why, but there are distinct differences.
Your answer makes too much sense, and it was not marinated in bullshit sauce at all. That is not how we post replies in slashdot!(10+1)
In their defense, if they don't work to protect their trademark, then everyone will be getting their children murdered to put DC's logos on their headstones...
Yeah, and that is going to be soooo terrible for their businesses </seriously?>
There. FTFY. I am not a fan of the TSA, but the amount of wining when it comes to personal inconvenience when there are a lot more fundamental issues against the way the TSA operates gets tired very quickly.
but GitHub has complied with Qualcomm's DMCA request.
Comply first. Litigate later. This is the smart thing to do most of the time. For GitHub, it is not like they are being forced to give the keys to the kingdom or to hand over sensitive data customers entrusted to it. No no data is lost or compromised. It is simply inaccessible while GitHub tries to litigate hopefully with sponsorship by those GitHub users that are being affected.
> As opposed to all of those other companies that love spending money and hate making it?
Low UID completely missing the point. You must be in your 40s at least by now. Too bad your mental development is still stuck at the level of a dumbass teenager.
If they notice. Have you talked to a HR drone lately? They aren't exactly strong on perception and smarts.
You are talking bullshit here and waving your hands at a hypothetical based on a biased perception towards HR workers. Granted a lot aren't bright, but that is true in all professions, even among STEM workers.
People actually go through the pages in the contracts to see everything has been filled. In 18 years, I have not seen a one HR worker that has not done so meticulously. Scrawling "me no like it" like that will not fly either during review or in court should the near impossible (they not catching it) were to happen.
Toyoda for example has done this repeatedly and been able to produce cars more cheaply in the US then many of their American competitors using the same labor.
Toyota has been building new factories in depressed areas, low wage areas, and union free areas. Their American competitors aren't quite so free to do so.
Many large companies should go through a serious reorganization top to bottom including the renegotiation of all contracts to take into consideration new opportunities and concerns.
That is... not nearly so simple as you imagine. Especially if unions are involved.
Yes, they are. They are free to open factories in at-will states just like Toyota, BMW and several others have done so.
I'm all for eliminating waste, but if the net effect is that we're removing plastic from landfills and emitting it as CO2, that's not terribly different from digging up crude oil and emitting it as CO2.
Now, I'm sure there's some sort of multiplier here that makes it a bit better - perhaps the plastics are a cleaner source and less energy will be used to process it - but currently this carbon is sequestered in an inert if unattractive form whose dangers are mostly localized.
It is terribly different in that unusable non-biodegradable material is removed, and as we develop new combustion systems and CO2 sequestration techniques, we know (should know) what to do with the CO2 exhaust.
There are no perfect solutions. Just alternatives, and it is up to us in being sufficiently smart (or at least in not being callously stupid) to string multiple alternatives into acceptable solutions.
Here's another theory that I will probably be flamed for -- maybe girls don't get into programming as often for the same reason that female deer don't bash heads against each other as often as the males do. Maybe it boils down to testosterone. Males of many species have an impulsive drive to accomplish certain things, and in humans' case this is largely independent of intellectual aptitude. Yes, girls are smart. Many could be good programmers. But do they want to? Are they driven to? Am I (at least partially) driven to my peculiar lifestyle of being glued to a screen and eschewing much social interaction because of testosterone? ("Yeah, you'd like to _think_ so" I can hear my naysayer naysaying.) But these are questions I honestly ask.
Yes, you should get flamed for it. Your theory does not hold water when we compare the proportion of women going into engineering in general, and software in particular, in India and China. Those proportions are greater than ours, so this is obviously a cultural issue, and not an innate female avoid-locking-horns issue.
I also find it laughable to compare software programmer's competitiveness with male horn-locking. Out of all the activities to compare, software development is the Peewee Herman of activities. If you want to discuss activities that evoke horn-locking and competitiveness then look into being a professional athlete or a member of the military.
But software development/IT? YOU. GOT. TO. BE. KIDDING.
There is a lot of misogyny in software development, specially in the US, and in particular in Silicon Valley circuits that cater to the young and brass unwashed man-boy masses. But misogyny =/= male competitiveness.
Nor does software engineering has a strange-hold on competitive behavior. There is competitiveness in law, business, sports and politics where women participate in great numbers. So the competitive drive as a factor is also a bad, flawed theory.
For all the cultural advances that our society has made, the reality is that our society pigeonholes men and women into these roles from infancy which leads to the participation % of genders in specific industries, %s that you do not see in other cultures.
Furthermore, sexism is rampant in software development, and STEM in general. So of course women do not come on board. And that so many juvenile beta-male responses are made on this forum to deny the existence of sexism, or to decry some fabled "female agenda", that simply proves that sexism is indeed rampant and entrenched.
Who knows if there's something genetic but there's obviously something cultural. Most women don't strive to immerse themselves in a culture that is predominated by socially awkward beta males. I don't understand why nobody accepts this obvious explanation for the lack of women.
Gawd, I'm going to steal that one and make it a sig.
If he'd lost Yakuza money presumably he'd already be dead. On the other hand if he is Yakuza...
Yakuza or no Yakuza, you DO NOT want to lose Yakuza money. Jokes aside, some people think the Yakuza are just some film-generated form of fiction. Been in Japan a few times, I've seen them. They are real, and you can just tell you don't want to mess with them, their property or their money.
"Depends. Can you guarantee that the emissions are limited only to your home and will in no way inconvenience others around you?"
Perhaps someone should have asked the broadcasters that question before allowing them to transmit through my person and property?
Common good right to broadcast >> faux right to insulate your organs from faux transgressions. Damn, I should have a right to block someone's anus before he/she releases a silent fart that might contaminate the atmosphere near my own personal space:/
I read that as enchanted skin, which would have been entirely appropriate for Achilles, as well. And that's what we don't have when we use a bunch of funky cleaners on our skin, removing its natural acidity. Even our washing habits impinge on our body's ability to protect itself.
I rather deal with bacteria than with rancid-smelly people. YMMV:)
US House of Representatives Votes To Cut Funding To NSA
Not sure if this a solution to... what? One can cut to one's heart content, but without structural reforms, the problems that plague NSA will remain there. So, we cut funding, and all we get is to cripple a vital organization that needs to function well, without fixing the things that makes it not function well. Funding is not the root cause. It is not a monetary problem, but a political one.
Seems to me that IT workers aren't worth that have been paid.
Some of them aren't. Some of them are worth more than what they are paid. Same in all careers and walks of life. Welcome to this thing that we call life.
Maybe the "whatever" is that we are importing a steady stream of H-1B workers to reduce salaries, and that you're about as likely to find a job in IT after 45 as you are to find one in the NBA.
Maybe the "right environment" is where we only allow H-1B visas when unemployment is below 4%, and make it a felony to fake job postings to give jobs to foreigners instead of Americans.
45-year old guy here says you are full of it. Unless we are confining the job search a very narrow area with a history of ageism (Silicon Valley), I call bs on that kind of statements (statements I've been seeing for the last 20 years). Some of my colleagues/ex-colleagues are approaching their late 50's and are still getting well-paid, 6-figure gigs (both perm and contract).
If you are worth your shit, you will get a job in IT regardless of your age.
Yahoo's Diversity Record Is Almost As Bad As Google's
You know, as a minority (foreign-born Hispanic, naturalized citizen), I'm tired of hearing and reading these kind of headlines. Companies are not supposed to actively try to correct failures in the social fabric or failures in government policy when it comes to access to education across racial and income barriers.
It is nice when companies donate to charity, or hire interns or have outreach programs to increase their diversity pools. But those are nice-to-have, those are not imperatives.
If companies have few African-American or Hispanic engineers, or female engineers, shit, that is not the fault of the Yahoos, Googles, Facebooks and many other (comparatively) progressive companies in this country. It is not a fault that need to be corrected by them.
It is a social issue. African American and Hispanic communities should ask themselves why they do not produce more engineers. And yes, they they have suffered from discrimination and lack of equal access to resources (even now). But that doesn't completely explain their reduce representation in the STEM workforce. It is about culture.
I mean, as a Hispanic, I see it all the time. At least in my community, we have zero role models, zero focus on education when it comes to the media that is targeted to our community, etc, etc. Same with the African-American communities.
We have Chinese-American, Japanese-American, Indian-American, Hmong-American, -American communities with old and recent arrivals that produce engineers. Why not us?
There is a cultural component that we need to be responsible for, as well as a government policy that needs to ensure education is affordable, geographically accessible and, more important, diversified beyond the mere 4-year college goal (.ie. vocational training.)
Asking a company why it has so few X-ethnicity engineers is barking at the wrong tree. We should be asking those communities why you don't produce as many engineers as this other minority group.
It is barking at the wrong tree, it is putting the blame away from where it belong.
Source: Minority engineer fucking tired of seeing fellow community members dumbing down their own potential.
Ethics? Ethics in the corporate world is what gets you the most cash. The corporate assholes live in a scruple-free culture.
Corporate ethics are different from country to country (compare how corps act in the US with corps in Japan or Germany.) Hell, even within this country, corporate ethics used to mean something not long ago.
Bullshit. The government has done more in my lifetime in the way of killing my dreams than any other single entity.
First world problem. I came to this country from the second poorest country in the world, and my wife is from Japan which has the 3rd largest nominal GDP. The opportunities we have had here to pursue our dreams are great. For me specifically.
It is true that the gap between the haves and have-nots has widen in the last 30 years, but c'mon. It is not doom and gloom. With all the difficulties that exist in this country, people can still get a better chance at pursuing their dreams than in most other countries. I scratch my head when people spout first world problems like you are doing right now.
I can see a lot of peace when the future generations find themselves supporting pension systems that will not be able to support themselves when retirement time comes. Seriously, your claim is one hell of a slogan. And empty slogan, but a good slogan, nonetheless.
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Stack Overflow reputation indicates that you're a 1337 documentation writer, not necessarily that you know how to program.
You can infer the later from the quality and technical depth of the former. You can't routinely create highly technical programming responses without having the programming skills and experience to go with them.
Funny you mention that. I was just looking over some gigs on Craigslist. I clicked an ad for a "Magento/Joomla Developer" and the first thing they list in the requirements is, "Strong Project Management Abilities".
I sort of feel like emailing them so I can ask why they want their developer to also be the project manager ... it's a rhetorical question since the ad is for a "boutique ad agency".
If you are a team lead developer, you better have some project management skills. Once you start working with code masses beyond a certain size and complexity, you enter the realm of engineering, with coding being an important but not the only skill required. Management and organizational skills are paramount in such circumstances.
Crapware is created not just because of a lack of good coding skills, but also because of lack of organizational skills.
obviously its a first world problem, big fucking deal. if we had to worry about getting parasites from standing in other people's shit to do our business then we would complain about that instead. people complain about things that bother them, so what's your point?
The point is that you should get some fucking perspective, and complain the most about abuse of authority and the efficiency (or lack thereof) of our security apparatus (important) and a lot less about issues of comfort (non-important, bullshit.) Former == have a conscience and a functioning brain. Later == Irrelevant Kim Kardashian bullcrap.
Well: * The documents are being revealed to the public now and document events from 30-40 years ago. * These are documents that he personally worked with, rather than a cache of documents acquired for the purpose of copying and releasing them. * There's no question, I think, that this guy was a spy and defector. He was moved from Russia to the UK with the help of UK intelligence agencies in exchange for Russian secrets. Nobody's trying to claim that he's a "whistleblower". No comment on his actions or motivations vs. Snowden's, but they are potentially substantially different. * This guy is dead.
Up to you to decide if any of these are substantive differences and why, but there are distinct differences.
Your answer makes too much sense, and it was not marinated in bullshit sauce at all. That is not how we post replies in slashdot!(10+1)
In their defense, if they don't work to protect their trademark, then everyone will be getting their children murdered to put DC's logos on their headstones...
Yeah, and that is going to be soooo terrible for their businesses </seriously?>
... first world problems ...
There. FTFY. I am not a fan of the TSA, but the amount of wining when it comes to personal inconvenience when there are a lot more fundamental issues against the way the TSA operates gets tired very quickly.
but GitHub has complied with Qualcomm's DMCA request.
Comply first. Litigate later. This is the smart thing to do most of the time. For GitHub, it is not like they are being forced to give the keys to the kingdom or to hand over sensitive data customers entrusted to it. No no data is lost or compromised. It is simply inaccessible while GitHub tries to litigate hopefully with sponsorship by those GitHub users that are being affected.
> As opposed to all of those other companies that love spending money and hate making it?
Low UID completely missing the point. You must be in your 40s at least by now. Too bad your mental development is still stuck at the level of a dumbass teenager.
That's an invective, not a counter argument.
If they notice. Have you talked to a HR drone lately? They aren't exactly strong on perception and smarts.
You are talking bullshit here and waving your hands at a hypothetical based on a biased perception towards HR workers. Granted a lot aren't bright, but that is true in all professions, even among STEM workers.
People actually go through the pages in the contracts to see everything has been filled. In 18 years, I have not seen a one HR worker that has not done so meticulously. Scrawling "me no like it" like that will not fly either during review or in court should the near impossible (they not catching it) were to happen.
Toyota has been building new factories in depressed areas, low wage areas, and union free areas. Their American competitors aren't quite so free to do so.
That is... not nearly so simple as you imagine. Especially if unions are involved.
Yes, they are. They are free to open factories in at-will states just like Toyota, BMW and several others have done so.
Obviously you've never seen an A10 really working it, when they pop up above treetop level and your a badguy, your in for a world of whoop-ass.
http://youryoure.com/
I'm all for eliminating waste, but if the net effect is that we're removing plastic from landfills and emitting it as CO2, that's not terribly different from digging up crude oil and emitting it as CO2.
Now, I'm sure there's some sort of multiplier here that makes it a bit better - perhaps the plastics are a cleaner source and less energy will be used to process it - but currently this carbon is sequestered in an inert if unattractive form whose dangers are mostly localized.
It is terribly different in that unusable non-biodegradable material is removed, and as we develop new combustion systems and CO2 sequestration techniques, we know (should know) what to do with the CO2 exhaust.
There are no perfect solutions. Just alternatives, and it is up to us in being sufficiently smart (or at least in not being callously stupid) to string multiple alternatives into acceptable solutions.
Here's another theory that I will probably be flamed for -- maybe girls don't get into programming as often for the same reason that female deer don't bash heads against each other as often as the males do. Maybe it boils down to testosterone. Males of many species have an impulsive drive to accomplish certain things, and in humans' case this is largely independent of intellectual aptitude. Yes, girls are smart. Many could be good programmers. But do they want to? Are they driven to? Am I (at least partially) driven to my peculiar lifestyle of being glued to a screen and eschewing much social interaction because of testosterone? ("Yeah, you'd like to _think_ so" I can hear my naysayer naysaying.) But these are questions I honestly ask.
Yes, you should get flamed for it. Your theory does not hold water when we compare the proportion of women going into engineering in general, and software in particular, in India and China. Those proportions are greater than ours, so this is obviously a cultural issue, and not an innate female avoid-locking-horns issue.
I also find it laughable to compare software programmer's competitiveness with male horn-locking. Out of all the activities to compare, software development is the Peewee Herman of activities. If you want to discuss activities that evoke horn-locking and competitiveness then look into being a professional athlete or a member of the military.
But software development/IT? YOU. GOT. TO. BE. KIDDING.
There is a lot of misogyny in software development, specially in the US, and in particular in Silicon Valley circuits that cater to the young and brass unwashed man-boy masses. But misogyny =/= male competitiveness.
Nor does software engineering has a strange-hold on competitive behavior. There is competitiveness in law, business, sports and politics where women participate in great numbers. So the competitive drive as a factor is also a bad, flawed theory.
For all the cultural advances that our society has made, the reality is that our society pigeonholes men and women into these roles from infancy which leads to the participation % of genders in specific industries, %s that you do not see in other cultures.
Furthermore, sexism is rampant in software development, and STEM in general. So of course women do not come on board. And that so many juvenile beta-male responses are made on this forum to deny the existence of sexism, or to decry some fabled "female agenda", that simply proves that sexism is indeed rampant and entrenched.
Who knows if there's something genetic but there's obviously something cultural. Most women don't strive to immerse themselves in a culture that is predominated by socially awkward beta males. I don't understand why nobody accepts this obvious explanation for the lack of women.
Gawd, I'm going to steal that one and make it a sig.
If he'd lost Yakuza money presumably he'd already be dead. On the other hand if he is Yakuza...
Yakuza or no Yakuza, you DO NOT want to lose Yakuza money. Jokes aside, some people think the Yakuza are just some film-generated form of fiction. Been in Japan a few times, I've seen them. They are real, and you can just tell you don't want to mess with them, their property or their money.
"Depends. Can you guarantee that the emissions are limited only to your home and will in no way inconvenience others around you?" Perhaps someone should have asked the broadcasters that question before allowing them to transmit through my person and property?
Common good right to broadcast >> faux right to insulate your organs from faux transgressions. Damn, I should have a right to block someone's anus before he/she releases a silent fart that might contaminate the atmosphere near my own personal space :/
I read that as enchanted skin, which would have been entirely appropriate for Achilles, as well. And that's what we don't have when we use a bunch of funky cleaners on our skin, removing its natural acidity. Even our washing habits impinge on our body's ability to protect itself.
I rather deal with bacteria than with rancid-smelly people. YMMV :)
US House of Representatives Votes To Cut Funding To NSA
Not sure if this a solution to... what? One can cut to one's heart content, but without structural reforms, the problems that plague NSA will remain there. So, we cut funding, and all we get is to cripple a vital organization that needs to function well, without fixing the things that makes it not function well. Funding is not the root cause. It is not a monetary problem, but a political one.
If you're in the world, since the beginning of time, a lot of you are not worth what you're paid.
FTFY
Seems to me that IT workers aren't worth that have been paid.
Some of them aren't. Some of them are worth more than what they are paid. Same in all careers and walks of life. Welcome to this thing that we call life.
Maybe the "whatever" is that we are importing a steady stream of H-1B workers to reduce salaries, and that you're about as likely to find a job in IT after 45 as you are to find one in the NBA.
Maybe the "right environment" is where we only allow H-1B visas when unemployment is below 4%, and make it a felony to fake job postings to give jobs to foreigners instead of Americans.
45-year old guy here says you are full of it. Unless we are confining the job search a very narrow area with a history of ageism (Silicon Valley), I call bs on that kind of statements (statements I've been seeing for the last 20 years). Some of my colleagues/ex-colleagues are approaching their late 50's and are still getting well-paid, 6-figure gigs (both perm and contract).
If you are worth your shit, you will get a job in IT regardless of your age.
Yahoo's Diversity Record Is Almost As Bad As Google's
You know, as a minority (foreign-born Hispanic, naturalized citizen), I'm tired of hearing and reading these kind of headlines. Companies are not supposed to actively try to correct failures in the social fabric or failures in government policy when it comes to access to education across racial and income barriers.
It is nice when companies donate to charity, or hire interns or have outreach programs to increase their diversity pools. But those are nice-to-have, those are not imperatives.
If companies have few African-American or Hispanic engineers, or female engineers, shit, that is not the fault of the Yahoos, Googles, Facebooks and many other (comparatively) progressive companies in this country. It is not a fault that need to be corrected by them.
It is a social issue. African American and Hispanic communities should ask themselves why they do not produce more engineers. And yes, they they have suffered from discrimination and lack of equal access to resources (even now). But that doesn't completely explain their reduce representation in the STEM workforce. It is about culture.
I mean, as a Hispanic, I see it all the time. At least in my community, we have zero role models, zero focus on education when it comes to the media that is targeted to our community, etc, etc. Same with the African-American communities.
We have Chinese-American, Japanese-American, Indian-American, Hmong-American, -American communities with old and recent arrivals that produce engineers. Why not us?
There is a cultural component that we need to be responsible for, as well as a government policy that needs to ensure education is affordable, geographically accessible and, more important, diversified beyond the mere 4-year college goal (.ie. vocational training.)
Asking a company why it has so few X-ethnicity engineers is barking at the wrong tree. We should be asking those communities why you don't produce as many engineers as this other minority group.
It is barking at the wrong tree, it is putting the blame away from where it belong.
Source: Minority engineer fucking tired of seeing fellow community members dumbing down their own potential.
Ethics? Ethics in the corporate world is what gets you the most cash. The corporate assholes live in a scruple-free culture.
Corporate ethics are different from country to country (compare how corps act in the US with corps in Japan or Germany.) Hell, even within this country, corporate ethics used to mean something not long ago.
Bullshit. The government has done more in my lifetime in the way of killing my dreams than any other single entity.
First world problem. I came to this country from the second poorest country in the world, and my wife is from Japan which has the 3rd largest nominal GDP. The opportunities we have had here to pursue our dreams are great. For me specifically.
It is true that the gap between the haves and have-nots has widen in the last 30 years, but c'mon. It is not doom and gloom. With all the difficulties that exist in this country, people can still get a better chance at pursuing their dreams than in most other countries. I scratch my head when people spout first world problems like you are doing right now.
Pension buys social peace and appeasement...
I can see a lot of peace when the future generations find themselves supporting pension systems that will not be able to support themselves when retirement time comes. Seriously, your claim is one hell of a slogan. And empty slogan, but a good slogan, nonetheless.