Maybe there is something to the SV culture that's either rotten or just too self-absorbed to acknowledge there may be a problem. I'm down in SoCal (LA) and having worked for several small tech shops, I've never seen the issues that a lot of folks complain about up in SV. My workgroup is 50% female, and other than my manager, everyone is a minority (black, asian, indian-asian (and not H1Bs). Upper management tends to be of the white-male variety (I dunno, do we count gingers in that?) although our CEO is white female. I've been on the interview panels and it's not like we were hiring for diversity. We were just looking for people who had the technical know-how and personalities that would not be detrimental to our work group. And, I must add, our women engineers are engineers, not just "tech evangelists" or "tech spokeswomen" and the like that seem to get a lot of controversial press up there. Our black developers? The same. Maybe there really is a tech-bro-fraternity mentality in the SV, I've not moved up there to find out for myself (and as an asian, I don't imagine I'd actually see much of it directed against me, but who knows? More likely, I'd face issues because I'm over the age of 40).
Formatting ate my brackets. Chances are, if you're interested in a language, there's a/r for it. In that/r there's usually talk of projects built with that language, or articles comparing that to other frameworks. It's kinda like a wikipedia style hole you fall into. For example, on a whim I was looking at/r/smalltalk and found pharo. Once I was digging around pharo, found newspeak. Or in/r/lisp, found dr. racket while reading through. I haven't read through/r/linux though, mainly because I'm rather content with my Mint installation, although I have been eyeing trying a slack release again on another box.
Hell, I'd be happy if we could open up code shops on Indian Reservations here and help get a lot of those kids out of their cycle of poverty and alcoholism.
/* so is there no shame for a guy to report being sodomized against his will by a man? */
Speaking as a man, I would much prefer admit I'd been sodomized against my will by a man than raped by a woman. Either scenario sucks, but most men can understand some gigantic physical specimen of a psycho raping another man, or being gang raped in prison. Almost no man wants to admit that some "girl" fucked him against his will, or used her position of power to gain "sexual favors" as a metric of job performance. Sorry.
Well, exactly. Who the fuck wants to actually, you know, work for IBM? A gigantic, monolithic mega-corp with a potentially stable (not anymore!) cube job answering to middle management assholes, stuck in meetings, and occasionally getting to code for. Look, that might be your idea of a good job, but for many of us Open Source supporters, we're not wearing a tie or cutting off our beards just so we can get 'paid' to do open source. So when someone says "no one's getting paid to work on open source," what they mean is, there aren't many one man or 5 man shops developing Open Source for a living. There are exceptions, but there's a million projects out there that prove the rule.
Whether or not this is a good thing, I don't know, but I sure as hell didn't decide when I was 8 years old "Mommy! Daddy! I wanna be a numbered cube worker!"/snark
Used to play Doom II for hours on end. And then one day, it was like a switch turned on my brain. Now, any FPS makes me motion sick. Quake, Duke, etc etc, I try to play, and up comes whatever is in the stomach. Oh well. Back to RTSs for me.:)
"You are inferior and all the improvements in your condition which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you." -Ludwig von Mises to Ayn Rand with regards to the common folk
Why does suit == decent clothes? I invest quite a bit in my Made-To-Measure shirts, I wear handmade shoes, and wear quality denim. A suit? No thanks. I get laid plenty, thanks, and my body odor is tempered by daily showers.
Just as an aside, I've yet to wear a tie and I've had plenty of "real jobs." If wearing a tie is the requirement, I'll pass. Fuck, I don't even think I *own* a tie, much less a suit.
Tattooed QR code to a bitcoin wallet to transfer tips to. Making it rain will be pretty lame unless you can implant led lighting under the skin that light up with the amount of "tips" the wallet receives...
That's an outdated definition. Species is flexible in that regards.
Species A can breed with Species B and Species B can breed with Species C but species A can't breed with Species C. (and by breed, I mean produce fertile offspring). Rut Roh.
Remember that species is also a convenient moniker for what something is/was at a particular moment in time. Given enough time and isolation, perhaps our different human races could diverge enough to have similar issues with breeding. For Denisovans, they remained isolated enough to condense their gene pool (and add their own mutations) to be considered a distinct species, but still capable of interbreeding back into the main branch, so to speak. Hrm, there's gotta be a git analogy here that is too early for me to formulate.
:: shrug:: I've flown over 150k miles over the past decade and I can count the number of times I've been awake during take-off on one hand. Then again, I take the 6AM flights which means I've been up since 2-3AM.
Frontier Elite 2, for instance. Ken Musgrave literally wrote the book on procedural generation and is the brains behind MojoWorld, a procedural world generator that's great fun. If you liked Bryce back in the day, MojoWorld is Bryce on steroids.
Not knocking these guys at all, btw, it looks great. Just giving some background.
Not really. Even in the drug trade you find preferential treatment and local monopolies. I mean, what do you think crips vs bloods was all about? It was about distribution monopolies, forged not by agreement or fair competition, but by force. I know a girl who sold a lot of X back in the 90s. She was really good friends with several promoters and when they threw events, she would be the "official" dealer at the party. If you got caught dealing, they'd kick you out. In return, the promoters got a piece of the action and everyone made a lot of money. It did help that she had a good line to quality product.
The next super secret spy agency will be a private contractor group that has ginormous interests in building profiles of internet users, their interests, their browsing habits, and will be able to convince everyone to use them without blinking an eye. They will then monitor, filter, and sell that data back to the US Government because some clause in the EULA will allow them to do so.
Back when the hot girl only sits behind the nerd when she needs to cheat off my exam, and me, being all too eager to comply because girls just never gave me the time of day.
Seriously, the IT field is getting flooded with the "bullying" types, from both the bros and the hos that claim to hate them. Traditionally, engineering and the bookish, eager to work with one another and do cool shit, we're now infiltrated by assholes and douchebags of both sexes taking advantage of those who are less socially integrated. You can't go a day without reading about some Silicon Valley "magnate" who wouldn't rate a 3 on a 10 point geekscale making some bone-headed, wrong-sided statement, and then the 15 articles about how Silicon Valley is some sort of boys club written by people who couldn't spell Javascript, much less write any.
And we've let them. Geeks, long the whipping boy of the popular, buying into this whole alpha male bullshit. Jesus fucking christ, guys, your Silicon Valley heroes? They're *salesmen*, not geeks. Wolves in sheep's clothing. They talk the talk, because that's what they're good at. Give them an editor and what do they produce?
They're preying upon you (us). They want you to doubt yourself because that's what you do best. Your insecurity is their lock on you, whether that be "come on bro, are you cool enough to hang with the jocks?" or the "come on, geek, I'm pretty, I bat my eyelids and you go fetch." Think for yourselves.
I've been considering one of these bad boys for awhile now. Cheap and for what I intend to use it for (software dev and video editing where the 30Hz refresh isn't a big deal), good enough. It's not something I'd use for gaming, at least at 4K, but hey... $500.
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Maybe there is something to the SV culture that's either rotten or just too self-absorbed to acknowledge there may be a problem. I'm down in SoCal (LA) and having worked for several small tech shops, I've never seen the issues that a lot of folks complain about up in SV. My workgroup is 50% female, and other than my manager, everyone is a minority (black, asian, indian-asian (and not H1Bs). Upper management tends to be of the white-male variety (I dunno, do we count gingers in that?) although our CEO is white female. I've been on the interview panels and it's not like we were hiring for diversity. We were just looking for people who had the technical know-how and personalities that would not be detrimental to our work group. And, I must add, our women engineers are engineers, not just "tech evangelists" or "tech spokeswomen" and the like that seem to get a lot of controversial press up there. Our black developers? The same. Maybe there really is a tech-bro-fraternity mentality in the SV, I've not moved up there to find out for myself (and as an asian, I don't imagine I'd actually see much of it directed against me, but who knows? More likely, I'd face issues because I'm over the age of 40).
Formatting ate my brackets. Chances are, if you're interested in a language, there's a /r for it. In that /r there's usually talk of projects built with that language, or articles comparing that to other frameworks. It's kinda like a wikipedia style hole you fall into. For example, on a whim I was looking at /r/smalltalk and found pharo. Once I was digging around pharo, found newspeak. Or in /r/lisp, found dr. racket while reading through. I haven't read through /r/linux though, mainly because I'm rather content with my Mint installation, although I have been eyeing trying a slack release again on another box.
Honestly, /. still gives me some leads on occasion. hacker news, reddit.com/r/, and then just googling for shit.
Hell, I'd be happy if we could open up code shops on Indian Reservations here and help get a lot of those kids out of their cycle of poverty and alcoholism.
/* so is there no shame for a guy to report being sodomized against his will by a man? */
Speaking as a man, I would much prefer admit I'd been sodomized against my will by a man than raped by a woman. Either scenario sucks, but most men can understand some gigantic physical specimen of a psycho raping another man, or being gang raped in prison. Almost no man wants to admit that some "girl" fucked him against his will, or used her position of power to gain "sexual favors" as a metric of job performance. Sorry.
Very few and far between.
Well, exactly. Who the fuck wants to actually, you know, work for IBM? A gigantic, monolithic mega-corp with a potentially stable (not anymore!) cube job answering to middle management assholes, stuck in meetings, and occasionally getting to code for. Look, that might be your idea of a good job, but for many of us Open Source supporters, we're not wearing a tie or cutting off our beards just so we can get 'paid' to do open source. So when someone says "no one's getting paid to work on open source," what they mean is, there aren't many one man or 5 man shops developing Open Source for a living. There are exceptions, but there's a million projects out there that prove the rule.
Whether or not this is a good thing, I don't know, but I sure as hell didn't decide when I was 8 years old "Mommy! Daddy! I wanna be a numbered cube worker!" /snark
Used to play Doom II for hours on end. And then one day, it was like a switch turned on my brain. Now, any FPS makes me motion sick. Quake, Duke, etc etc, I try to play, and up comes whatever is in the stomach. Oh well. Back to RTSs for me. :)
Because they don't need any of the former, but low and behold, a half million of the latter.
Impact dart, have rovers examine the ejecta and the crater? No need to launch anything back...
"Hey, honey, when I did file that right to be forgotten form?"
"I have no recollection of such event, dear."
"You are inferior and all the improvements in your condition which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you."
-Ludwig von Mises to Ayn Rand with regards to the common folk
Why does suit == decent clothes? I invest quite a bit in my Made-To-Measure shirts, I wear handmade shoes, and wear quality denim. A suit? No thanks. I get laid plenty, thanks, and my body odor is tempered by daily showers.
Just as an aside, I've yet to wear a tie and I've had plenty of "real jobs." If wearing a tie is the requirement, I'll pass. Fuck, I don't even think I *own* a tie, much less a suit.
Tattooed QR code to a bitcoin wallet to transfer tips to. Making it rain will be pretty lame unless you can implant led lighting under the skin that light up with the amount of "tips" the wallet receives...
I might've done the same. You only get to be young, dumb, and full of cum once (and mean it). Life is more than "earnings potential," you know.
That's an outdated definition. Species is flexible in that regards.
Species A can breed with Species B and Species B can breed with Species C but species A can't breed with Species C. (and by breed, I mean produce fertile offspring). Rut Roh.
Remember that species is also a convenient moniker for what something is/was at a particular moment in time. Given enough time and isolation, perhaps our different human races could diverge enough to have similar issues with breeding. For Denisovans, they remained isolated enough to condense their gene pool (and add their own mutations) to be considered a distinct species, but still capable of interbreeding back into the main branch, so to speak. Hrm, there's gotta be a git analogy here that is too early for me to formulate.
:: shrug :: I've flown over 150k miles over the past decade and I can count the number of times I've been awake during take-off on one hand. Then again, I take the 6AM flights which means I've been up since 2-3AM.
Frontier Elite 2, for instance. Ken Musgrave literally wrote the book on procedural generation and is the brains behind MojoWorld, a procedural world generator that's great fun. If you liked Bryce back in the day, MojoWorld is Bryce on steroids.
Not knocking these guys at all, btw, it looks great. Just giving some background.
It's all fun and games until some homeless dude uses it as a private toilet.
There's a Perl 6? When the fuck did this happen?
Not really. Even in the drug trade you find preferential treatment and local monopolies. I mean, what do you think crips vs bloods was all about? It was about distribution monopolies, forged not by agreement or fair competition, but by force. I know a girl who sold a lot of X back in the 90s. She was really good friends with several promoters and when they threw events, she would be the "official" dealer at the party. If you got caught dealing, they'd kick you out. In return, the promoters got a piece of the action and everyone made a lot of money. It did help that she had a good line to quality product.
The next super secret spy agency will be a private contractor group that has ginormous interests in building profiles of internet users, their interests, their browsing habits, and will be able to convince everyone to use them without blinking an eye. They will then monitor, filter, and sell that data back to the US Government because some clause in the EULA will allow them to do so.
Back when the hot girl only sits behind the nerd when she needs to cheat off my exam, and me, being all too eager to comply because girls just never gave me the time of day.
Seriously, the IT field is getting flooded with the "bullying" types, from both the bros and the hos that claim to hate them. Traditionally, engineering and the bookish, eager to work with one another and do cool shit, we're now infiltrated by assholes and douchebags of both sexes taking advantage of those who are less socially integrated. You can't go a day without reading about some Silicon Valley "magnate" who wouldn't rate a 3 on a 10 point geekscale making some bone-headed, wrong-sided statement, and then the 15 articles about how Silicon Valley is some sort of boys club written by people who couldn't spell Javascript, much less write any.
And we've let them. Geeks, long the whipping boy of the popular, buying into this whole alpha male bullshit. Jesus fucking christ, guys, your Silicon Valley heroes? They're *salesmen*, not geeks. Wolves in sheep's clothing. They talk the talk, because that's what they're good at. Give them an editor and what do they produce?
They're preying upon you (us). They want you to doubt yourself because that's what you do best. Your insecurity is their lock on you, whether that be "come on bro, are you cool enough to hang with the jocks?" or the "come on, geek, I'm pretty, I bat my eyelids and you go fetch." Think for yourselves.
I've been considering one of these bad boys for awhile now. Cheap and for what I intend to use it for (software dev and video editing where the 30Hz refresh isn't a big deal), good enough. It's not something I'd use for gaming, at least at 4K, but hey... $500.