HR protects against issues they are more likely to be blamed for
Curious perspective - I have heard HR blamed for a lot of things, but never whether or not a new hire can actually do the job.
In my experience, HR just handles the job posting and the front-line resume filtering. Once they've narrowed the field down to a manageable number of resumes, they pass the pile along to the hiring manager and from that point on, s/he takes all the responsibility for finding the right person.
only bringing up a potential moral dilemma that you'll have to work out in your own way via your own belief system.
Lying to HR doesn't pose any moral dilemma whatsoever. The bigger problem comes from not getting to send one resume to HR and one resume to the hiring manager; so lying to the doorman means also lying to the hottie at the bar.
I think that an important question here is how does one defend oneself against this?
Ordinary mirrors just don't work against that sort of power - they still absorb a small fraction of the energy of the light hitting them, which at 30KW would vaporize anything wearable in milliseconds.
Realistically, you'd need some sort of ablative armor, but anything you could actually carry would only buy you a few seconds at best - And keep in mind that whole "equal and opposite reaction" thing - Blocking a 30KW laser through ablation would hit you with the same force as a.45 caliber bullet 60 times a second.
30KW getting scattered doesn't really compare well to accidentally pointing your green laser pointer at something shiny and seeing speckles for a minute - More like "everything even remotely flammable within 50ft ignites".
As I've said before, if he's really this stand up guy, why did he run? IF he really had good and legal reasons to do what he did, take it to court and face the music.
I know, right? Like how the Sons of Liberty didn't disguise themselves as Indians before dumping a load of tea into Boston Harbor, and then when done, turned themselves in to the nearest British garrison? We need more heroes like those fine, upstanding, nametag-wearing gentlemen.
if you break the law to make your point that the law is unjust you should stand ready to be arrested, imprisoned and tried in court for what you choose to do.
"Ready to be" doesn't mean adopting a Gump level of naivete and making it easy for the government to remove you from the public view. By him fleeing the country (and seeking asylum in a country we traditionally mock for their lack of an open and fair government, no less), we continue to discuss Snowden's actions years later. If he had stuck around, we would all have forgotten about him as soon as the next weekly scandal distracted the media.
I admittedly don't usually look at the submitter. If the FP gets my attention, I'll click through to read the rest of the submission, and, maybe, even TFAs where appropriate.
In Bennett's case, I have to admit he has become a truly master-level troll, in that he has learned to write an opening paragraph that gets my attention but doesn't give away his essential Bennett-ness. By the third paragraph, though, I usually catch on, stop reading there, and just write the obligatory "fuck Bennett" post.
It's still a stupid argument, because any problem you can solve with a free and common library is not a real problem.
Well, I have to agree with the "stupid" part, insofar as if you can't figure out how to parse a simple delimited string without pulling in multi-MB frameworks, you have no place writing code. Beyond that, though, the whole conversation amounts to a holy war. Do you prefer Emacs or Vi? Top or bottom? Allah or Jesus? Pointy end or round end?
But to get back on topic - Do you prefer extensions or icons? Correct answer: "Why not both?"
it might be time to admit that users need to understand, embrace and responsibly use the only plain-text, obvious indicator of what a file actually is.
Oh man, good one! You had me going until that line. Beautiful!
I just responded in another thread where actual programmers argued about whether or not it counts as "confusing" to split a delimited string without actually using the name "split" for the method that does the work.
And you want to try to get the average end user to understand the difference between ".XLS", ".XLSX", and ".XLSX.EXE"?
Three includes! Two methods! A loop! Six lines! And he didn't call it "George" like you would have!
...vs pulling in a massive amount of overhead with something like Boost or QT, complete with their own huge list of dependencies... For a program that may well do nothing more than parse a CSV file.
"What if" if needs to work on UTF-16? No, wrong question by a wide margin - What if it doesn't? Do you always use a CNC to cut a 2x4 in half, just because you have access to one? What if you have 5/4 lumber? What if you have cellular PVC? What if you have rebar? All valid questions - And all completely irrelevant if you just need to cut a 2x4 in half.
We can all agree that building some not-strictly-required flexibility into our code generally counts as a good thing, that will frequently save us time and effort down the road. We don't need to build a tilt-a-whirl for someone that wants a tire-swing, though.
They reported a hosted site where you sign on to exchange child porn. If accurate, that's a good thing for them to go after.
"Hosted" still doesn't mean "knew it existed". It just means that it happened to live on their servers.
For a rare non-car analogy, my GMail account "hosts" thousands of attachments I've received over the years, many encrypted (I don't send personal info through any third party in cleartext). Anyone who "knows the password" can get in and view them. Some of them, I've even shared from my GDrive, so someone doesn't even need to know my password, just have a valid GMail account.
How does that materially differ from the situation in TFA, other than in the nature of the content (which Google has no way to check)?
because after all, it's not like they can be taken utilized without a legal key
Who you trying to convince, there?
Win7 had such a flawed, easily circumvented activation system that many suspected MS did it deliberately just to get market share on a new OS post-Vista.
You can literally keep using Win7, fully functional, forever without a crack (note that the tool mentioned in my subject line doesn't "crack" or install anything, it just automates a few steps you can run, from the command line purely by hand, on a stock Win7 box).
Minimize the amount of work necessary to complete your work. (emphasis mine).
Some of us aspire to a bit more than shuffling tasks from our in-box to our out-box. Some of us want to produce functional, resilient, maintainable code. Some of us want to actually understand how it works, not just trust that it works. Some of us want to write code, not the compiled equivalent of shell scripts that do nothing themselves but pass inputs and outputs between different external blobs.
I'm paid to build. I don't get paid to pat myself on the back.
I get paid to meet an SLA, not just to say "well it compiled, didn't it?" and throw my hands in the air with vague complaints about bugs in library X. If I build some fragile piece of shit out of a dozen other fragile pieces of shit all held together by spit and string, I haven't done my job, no matter how quickly I did it.
Yes, "not invented here" counts as its own problem; it surprises me to hear that its opposite can count as a problem, though, because why does any organization with that culture employ programmers in the first place?
It's a machine before the TCP/IP and Internet times.
And?
I remember the joy of using machines back then, and that convinced me of the awesomeness of Linux... Flat memory? Every device (with suitable physical capabilities) can act as storage, or network or an input method? Awesome!
The "right" answer here, pull the drive. The second choice, install Linux to a FAT partition and tell it to use either SLIP or PLIP to talk to the outside world, then just transfer the files via RSync. Simple as that.
Funny, all three of your examples are consensual activities. Posting nudes without permission of the model? Isn't.
Biiig difference between banning links to "revenge porn" and banning all links to porn without the explicit permission of the model.
Sure, it sounds nice and progressive and kum-ba-ya-bullshitty to say that even "real" porn models have a right to control the distribution of their images. In practice, you need a bigger stick than Reddit has to force that genie back in the lamp. Hell, you need a bigger stick than world governments have - See how long it takes you to find all the dirt on Max Mosley despite France ordering the internet to forget about him.
As a result, we end up with "fake havens", echo-chambers where everyone can pat themselves on the back about how much of a difference they've made, essentially by doing nothing more than ignoring the rest of the world. "Good job, guys! We sure showed them! Hey, where'd everybody go?"
If you think that I as a host should not have the right to throw abusive visitors out of a gathering at my place, you're a fucking idiot.
When you've advertised your party as a "come one, come all, visit the tea room for the lace doilies, or the BDSM dungeon, or jump into the political mosh pit!", then yeah, it takes a lot of damned gall to draw lines around one particular niche puritanical issue after everyone shows up to the party. "Whoah now! Sure, we said we'd have beer for everyone, but we didn't mean beer beer, we meant O'Doul's!"
That said, you technically have it right - The owners of Reddit have every right to decide what content to allow on their site. Decisions like this have consequences, however, and we've seen it on site after site after site - Get too popular, start banning "offensive" content to appease the advertisers, and watch your userbase move on to the next "Wild West" site.
If they really want to ban something to promote harmony among the users, they could just get rid of TwoX - But of course, that would look bad, so instead, they will slowly ban everything incompatible with that sub (ie, everything else).
A better approach is to simply ask - and listen - to the employees about things they consider wasted time. They know more about it than any tracking system.
1) People don't typically give honest responses when the CEO asks if they consider his meetings a waste of time.
2) You assume the people wasting others' time actually want to know the truth, rather than using the data they can collect as an excuse to implement whatever new policies they want.
"The data shows that you all become drastically less productive for two hours after our weekly meeting. Clearly, the amount of content I present at those meetings simply overwhelms you all; so to break it up a bit, we will start having slightly shorter daily meetings."
FWIW, TFA talks about the therapeutic index (LD50 vs effective dose) of these drugs, not their long-term effects.
So no, this doesn't add more information to the "alcohol is good for you this week / alcohol is bad for you next week" debate. Just saying that we typically drink a significant fraction of the amount it would take to kill us.
I have some ukrainian hryvnia to sell you, and some russian rubles too! I will give you a great price.
You realize, of course, that Rubles count as a pretty damned good deal right now? First, the Ruble usually varies pretty much directly with oil, which has pushed it waaay down on the short term; then Pooty's pissing around has given it another good hard kick down. Eventually, both of those factors will go away, and the Ruble will return to its former level.
"Buy low, sell high" doesn't mean "sell in a panic at the bottom of a dip".
Are they just going to let someone fry their GPU and turn it in for warranty repairs now?
Perhaps just more aggressive thermal throttling in newer driver versions? "Sure, overclock all you like, but at 80C core or 40C ambient, you may a well have an IGP".
Though as I understood their original announcement, they hadn't so much seem a wave of outright DOA returns, as much as expressing concerns that prolonged pushing of the envelope would lead to reduced lifetimes. In that case, as long as the parts can outlast their warranty, NVidia may simply have come to the conclusion that earlier death means earlier replacement.
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HR protects against issues they are more likely to be blamed for
Curious perspective - I have heard HR blamed for a lot of things, but never whether or not a new hire can actually do the job.
In my experience, HR just handles the job posting and the front-line resume filtering. Once they've narrowed the field down to a manageable number of resumes, they pass the pile along to the hiring manager and from that point on, s/he takes all the responsibility for finding the right person.
only bringing up a potential moral dilemma that you'll have to work out in your own way via your own belief system.
Lying to HR doesn't pose any moral dilemma whatsoever. The bigger problem comes from not getting to send one resume to HR and one resume to the hiring manager; so lying to the doorman means also lying to the hottie at the bar.
Ah, good response! Thank you for the correction!
I think that an important question here is how does one defend oneself against this?
.45 caliber bullet 60 times a second.
Ordinary mirrors just don't work against that sort of power - they still absorb a small fraction of the energy of the light hitting them, which at 30KW would vaporize anything wearable in milliseconds.
Realistically, you'd need some sort of ablative armor, but anything you could actually carry would only buy you a few seconds at best - And keep in mind that whole "equal and opposite reaction" thing - Blocking a 30KW laser through ablation would hit you with the same force as a
Not going to damage the surroundings.
30KW getting scattered doesn't really compare well to accidentally pointing your green laser pointer at something shiny and seeing speckles for a minute - More like "everything even remotely flammable within 50ft ignites".
As I've said before, if he's really this stand up guy, why did he run? IF he really had good and legal reasons to do what he did, take it to court and face the music.
I know, right? Like how the Sons of Liberty didn't disguise themselves as Indians before dumping a load of tea into Boston Harbor, and then when done, turned themselves in to the nearest British garrison? We need more heroes like those fine, upstanding, nametag-wearing gentlemen.
if you break the law to make your point that the law is unjust you should stand ready to be arrested, imprisoned and tried in court for what you choose to do.
"Ready to be" doesn't mean adopting a Gump level of naivete and making it easy for the government to remove you from the public view. By him fleeing the country (and seeking asylum in a country we traditionally mock for their lack of an open and fair government, no less), we continue to discuss Snowden's actions years later. If he had stuck around, we would all have forgotten about him as soon as the next weekly scandal distracted the media.
I admittedly don't usually look at the submitter. If the FP gets my attention, I'll click through to read the rest of the submission, and, maybe, even TFAs where appropriate.
In Bennett's case, I have to admit he has become a truly master-level troll, in that he has learned to write an opening paragraph that gets my attention but doesn't give away his essential Bennett-ness. By the third paragraph, though, I usually catch on, stop reading there, and just write the obligatory "fuck Bennett" post.
You make it sound like having a non-stupid, modern string class is a monstrosity that needs 16 cores to run.
You can split a string in any language. If you want to write in C++, write in C++. If you want to write in VB.Net, write in VB.Net.
C++ doesn't need to look like VB.Net just because you don't like the syntax.
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Did you?
Why, I did! Thanks for asking!
"The "mystery" is that nowhere in your code does it mention the word "split".
It's still a stupid argument, because any problem you can solve with a free and common library is not a real problem.
Well, I have to agree with the "stupid" part, insofar as if you can't figure out how to parse a simple delimited string without pulling in multi-MB frameworks, you have no place writing code. Beyond that, though, the whole conversation amounts to a holy war. Do you prefer Emacs or Vi? Top or bottom? Allah or Jesus? Pointy end or round end?
But to get back on topic - Do you prefer extensions or icons? Correct answer: "Why not both?"
it might be time to admit that users need to understand, embrace and responsibly use the only plain-text, obvious indicator of what a file actually is.
Oh man, good one! You had me going until that line. Beautiful!
I just responded in another thread where actual programmers argued about whether or not it counts as "confusing" to split a delimited string without actually using the name "split" for the method that does the work.
And you want to try to get the average end user to understand the difference between ".XLS", ".XLSX", and ".XLSX.EXE"?
May as well swing for the fences, I suppose.
Three includes! Two methods! A loop! Six lines! And he didn't call it "George" like you would have!
...vs pulling in a massive amount of overhead with something like Boost or QT, complete with their own huge list of dependencies... For a program that may well do nothing more than parse a CSV file.
"What if" if needs to work on UTF-16? No, wrong question by a wide margin - What if it doesn't? Do you always use a CNC to cut a 2x4 in half, just because you have access to one? What if you have 5/4 lumber? What if you have cellular PVC? What if you have rebar? All valid questions - And all completely irrelevant if you just need to cut a 2x4 in half.
We can all agree that building some not-strictly-required flexibility into our code generally counts as a good thing, that will frequently save us time and effort down the road. We don't need to build a tilt-a-whirl for someone that wants a tire-swing, though.
They reported a hosted site where you sign on to exchange child porn. If accurate, that's a good thing for them to go after.
"Hosted" still doesn't mean "knew it existed". It just means that it happened to live on their servers.
For a rare non-car analogy, my GMail account "hosts" thousands of attachments I've received over the years, many encrypted (I don't send personal info through any third party in cleartext). Anyone who "knows the password" can get in and view them. Some of them, I've even shared from my GDrive, so someone doesn't even need to know my password, just have a valid GMail account.
How does that materially differ from the situation in TFA, other than in the nature of the content (which Google has no way to check)?
because after all, it's not like they can be taken utilized without a legal key
Who you trying to convince, there?
Win7 had such a flawed, easily circumvented activation system that many suspected MS did it deliberately just to get market share on a new OS post-Vista.
You can literally keep using Win7, fully functional, forever without a crack (note that the tool mentioned in my subject line doesn't "crack" or install anything, it just automates a few steps you can run, from the command line purely by hand, on a stock Win7 box).
Minimize the amount of work necessary to complete your work. (emphasis mine).
Some of us aspire to a bit more than shuffling tasks from our in-box to our out-box. Some of us want to produce functional, resilient, maintainable code. Some of us want to actually understand how it works, not just trust that it works. Some of us want to write code, not the compiled equivalent of shell scripts that do nothing themselves but pass inputs and outputs between different external blobs.
I'm paid to build. I don't get paid to pat myself on the back.
I get paid to meet an SLA, not just to say "well it compiled, didn't it?" and throw my hands in the air with vague complaints about bugs in library X. If I build some fragile piece of shit out of a dozen other fragile pieces of shit all held together by spit and string, I haven't done my job, no matter how quickly I did it.
Yes, "not invented here" counts as its own problem; it surprises me to hear that its opposite can count as a problem, though, because why does any organization with that culture employ programmers in the first place?
It's a machine before the TCP/IP and Internet times.
And?
I remember the joy of using machines back then, and that convinced me of the awesomeness of Linux... Flat memory? Every device (with suitable physical capabilities) can act as storage, or network or an input method? Awesome!
The "right" answer here, pull the drive. The second choice, install Linux to a FAT partition and tell it to use either SLIP or PLIP to talk to the outside world, then just transfer the files via RSync. Simple as that.
Truly rich, tossing out personal attacks about "moral bankruptcy" in a discussion about privacy rights as they relate to celebrity scandals and porn.
You win. I just can't compete at that level of rhetorical rigor.
Funny, all three of your examples are consensual activities. Posting nudes without permission of the model? Isn't.
Biiig difference between banning links to "revenge porn" and banning all links to porn without the explicit permission of the model.
Sure, it sounds nice and progressive and kum-ba-ya-bullshitty to say that even "real" porn models have a right to control the distribution of their images. In practice, you need a bigger stick than Reddit has to force that genie back in the lamp. Hell, you need a bigger stick than world governments have - See how long it takes you to find all the dirt on Max Mosley despite France ordering the internet to forget about him.
As a result, we end up with "fake havens", echo-chambers where everyone can pat themselves on the back about how much of a difference they've made, essentially by doing nothing more than ignoring the rest of the world. "Good job, guys! We sure showed them! Hey, where'd everybody go?"
Reddit doesn't host images. People post links offsite (usually Imgur).
This has nothing to do with copyright.
If you think that I as a host should not have the right to throw abusive visitors out of a gathering at my place, you're a fucking idiot.
When you've advertised your party as a "come one, come all, visit the tea room for the lace doilies, or the BDSM dungeon, or jump into the political mosh pit!", then yeah, it takes a lot of damned gall to draw lines around one particular niche puritanical issue after everyone shows up to the party. "Whoah now! Sure, we said we'd have beer for everyone, but we didn't mean beer beer, we meant O'Doul's!"
That said, you technically have it right - The owners of Reddit have every right to decide what content to allow on their site. Decisions like this have consequences, however, and we've seen it on site after site after site - Get too popular, start banning "offensive" content to appease the advertisers, and watch your userbase move on to the next "Wild West" site.
If they really want to ban something to promote harmony among the users, they could just get rid of TwoX - But of course, that would look bad, so instead, they will slowly ban everything incompatible with that sub (ie, everything else).
A better approach is to simply ask - and listen - to the employees about things they consider wasted time. They know more about it than any tracking system.
1) People don't typically give honest responses when the CEO asks if they consider his meetings a waste of time.
2) You assume the people wasting others' time actually want to know the truth, rather than using the data they can collect as an excuse to implement whatever new policies they want.
"The data shows that you all become drastically less productive for two hours after our weekly meeting. Clearly, the amount of content I present at those meetings simply overwhelms you all; so to break it up a bit, we will start having slightly shorter daily meetings."
...While no one has ever said "hold my beer and watch this!"
FWIW, TFA talks about the therapeutic index (LD50 vs effective dose) of these drugs, not their long-term effects.
So no, this doesn't add more information to the "alcohol is good for you this week / alcohol is bad for you next week" debate. Just saying that we typically drink a significant fraction of the amount it would take to kill us.
I have some ukrainian hryvnia to sell you, and some russian rubles too! I will give you a great price.
You realize, of course, that Rubles count as a pretty damned good deal right now? First, the Ruble usually varies pretty much directly with oil, which has pushed it waaay down on the short term; then Pooty's pissing around has given it another good hard kick down. Eventually, both of those factors will go away, and the Ruble will return to its former level.
"Buy low, sell high" doesn't mean "sell in a panic at the bottom of a dip".
The 144k is symbolic.
Jesus is symbolic.
Where do you draw the line?
Are they just going to let someone fry their GPU and turn it in for warranty repairs now?
Perhaps just more aggressive thermal throttling in newer driver versions? "Sure, overclock all you like, but at 80C core or 40C ambient, you may a well have an IGP".
Though as I understood their original announcement, they hadn't so much seem a wave of outright DOA returns, as much as expressing concerns that prolonged pushing of the envelope would lead to reduced lifetimes. In that case, as long as the parts can outlast their warranty, NVidia may simply have come to the conclusion that earlier death means earlier replacement.