I don't know where these guys get their disks but my last one cost me 4 cents per gigabyte (converted from euros) and prices down to 3 cents per gigabyte can easily be found. My disk was a 6tb one for 240 euros. Equivalent SSD storage capacity would cost me about 2000 to 4000 euros depending on how many SSD drives I am prepared to fit in my computer case. We're nowhere near price parity.
Scrum calls itself agile but when we started using it our average response time to scope changes went from 5 minutes to half a sprint. There's nothing agile about Scrum unless you're a planet trying to change course. However, it does introduce some concepts that are very valuable, most notably the concepts of velocity, story points and poker planning. After years of doing scrum we've now left it behind and starting doing plain Kanban but left these concepts in place. Couldn't be happier; unlike scrum, which imposes artificial deadlines, kanban - which basically comes down to "do stuff in a certain order" is as natural as it gets.
This whole females-in-tech stuff leaves me with a rather bad taste in my mouth. We're discussing this as if we're discussing an increase in population of an endangered specifes. It's not. I think we'd all be better off if girls in tech would be treated as normal human beings. Celebrating each girl entering the field as if she's something special is really very sexist. In that regard I'm glad this was not the result of some strange get-more-girls-in-tech bootcamp but just a regular normal unisex bootcamp. I find it rather unfortunate, though, that girls are once again singled out as being something special.
Cannot we just quit discussing this situation in order to create a neutral playing field in which girls don't have to feel like they're something special, simply because they are not and should not be. It's not professional. It's sexist. It really shouldn't matter if programmers have tits or dicks nor should it matter if the number of males is somewhat equal to the number of females. The only thing that should matter is that neither sex should feel reserved about working in a certain sector. And I'm not so sure all this extra exposure for girls joining the sector is helping...
Asperger Syndrome is about 4 times more prevalent in males. Males are about 4 times more prevalent in coding jobs. I believe the vast majority of software developers to have (undiagnosed) Asperger Syndrome and I believe that that fully explains the "lack" of female software developers.
Now let's go invent the Overly Considerate Disorder that affects mostly females in order to explain the lack of male nurses so we can finally put an end this "equality" bullshit.
Funny how this is modded troll... Here's a great documentary for educating the moderator(s). Or anybody else; it really is a great documentary on the subject.
I have totally had it with this nu-sexism. As of this month it's apparently totally hip since reports of such incidents now end up on my timeline on a daily basis. Is the world is trying to become some sort of reverse Saudi Arabia or something?!
This question is illustrating for the problem the US has. The solution is not technological, it's psychological. Law enforcement agencies in many other countries rarely need to use their guns or tasers so why do US police officers kill so many people?!
Not having trigger happy cops, not creating trigger happy criminals that have nothing to lose because of your ridiculously long jail terms could be a start. Legalizing all kinds of mundane things like drug use would also help greatly. And, obviously, the number of guns in the US is a major factor in this; if the chances of a criminal having a gun would be much lower, the police could approach everybody much less agressive than they do now.
Example: so far in 2015, in Germany only one man was killed by police. In the US, which has FOUR times as many people, over THREE HUNDRED times as many people have been killed by police.
I'm somewhat surprised to see so many "let's get girls into technical job xyz" while we never see "get more men to be a nurse!" campaigns. Why is that? And what does this say about the perception of women to which this applies?
The problem here is not that women are under-represented in these kind of jobs; there are very likely good reasons for that that do not involve sexism. The real problem is that they're somehow still given a special treatment. I think this is really sexist; there's nothing that says "girls are special", "girls need help" more than these kind of initiatives. While I'd love to see more female colleagues (or more specifically: more colleagues:p) I don't think this is the right way.
In case women don't get equal chances, yes, let's campaign, but I strongly doubt such barriers still exist in any normal western country.
The issue is that the police and school don't know whether to believe him.
No. The issue is the police and school apparently think everything they don't understand - which seems to be more each day - must be a bomb, even if there are no explosives in it whatsoever. Probably they're even too stupid to understand that a bomb needs explosives. Bottomline: there is absolutely no rational reason to even assume this thing was a bomb. Just look at it. How can everybody involved in this possibly be such a moron?! How can people so utterly stupid possibly be police officers and teachers?! And what's with the fucking handcuffs?! Poor murica is getting about as stupid as Europe during the middle ages when everything they didn't understand was witchcraft...
A day on the moon takes a month. A day on Antarctica, which is mentioned as a good alternative to the moon has winter nights that last months. A day on Mars, OTOH, is a bit more than 24 hours. Also note that water on the moon can probably be found near the poles while on Mars there's a slight chance some digging will get you water in areas with a less hostile climate. Once you get there, life on Mars is likely to be easier than it is on Antarctica during the winter.
Large scale biosphere-recreating experiments where not very succesful (nor very scientific in nature...). Only recently, ESA and the International Center for Closed Ecosystems have restarted such experiments. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (which has more information on the subject than other articles on wikipedia).
Those like "like" buttons on every page are spying on you
That's nonsense; they're not spying at all. In fact, they do nothing. It's you that explicitly requested that button from Facebook, which merely keeps track of what you (or your browser) explicitly sent them.
It's a total miracle that we're all hating Facebook while we should be hating our browser manufacturers for failing to properly protect us from sending shit all over the place. Even MS Outlook does a better job when it asks me whether I really want to load images from some server. Browsers should do the same; that'll end this bullshit in no-time.
I'm also sure there will be more focus on such robots. However, it's not the minimum wage McDonals employees that will be the first to go. It will be the managers.
Actually, people in horeca/entertainment etc. will probably get to keep their jobs for quite some time. In your typical restaurant, the people serving you are a very important factor. Without a waiter and a real cook you'd probably not even visit a restaurant.
There are countless scenario's in which warning people of imminent followup-danger or giving instructions in a rescue or evacuation will safe lives. In case Internet or mobile are offline, FM radio may well be the only means of mass-communication.
Actually, cutting them down and storing the wood (call it a house or paper) while letting a new tree grow in its place would be much more effective at taking CO2 out of the loop than not cutting them down.
I'm not sure what country you are in, but where I live making an email backup for the reasons you made it for would almost certainly be illegal under privacy law.
More in general, your systems and procedures should be designed to be able to deal with hardware failures and other unforeseen problems. You probably have backups, audit trails and access rights etc. where it matters. Therefore I don't think there's anything you should do at all as long as the paperwork that allows him access is still valid, which it is. He's still just a normal employee. There's no reason whatsoever to all of a sudden start treating him like an asshole.
The Bechdel test is about content, not about authors.
Furthermore, there are reasons to assume the average women is less interested in programming than the average male. Science seems to indicate this difference in interests is already present in newborns. I can strongly recommend this documentary on that subject:
Also, I strongly suspect nearly all good programmers to have some kind of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), often undiagnosed, simply because that "disorder" makes them exceptionally good at tasks typically performed by programmers. ASD is prevalent in males 4.3 times more than in females.
All in all there are more than enough valid reasons to assume the gender gap in software engineering is absolutely normal and is here to stay. I don't see why this subject is even worth discussing; it's about as interesting as the gender-gap amongst nurses: not interesting at all.
Unlike an atomic bomb, creating autonomous drones with a machine gun (or simply a suicide payload) can probably already be done today, using mostly of the shelf components and software. A terrorist attack using a swarm of these things or even a simple murder by suicide bombing drones is probably very feasible today. I'm surprised (and relieved...) this has not happened yet.
While I'd very much like to see a world without autonomous weapons, that's just not going to happen; they're just too simple to make. Prohibiting them makes no sense. Instead, we need to work on our defense. I expect to see cities guarded by swarms of armed drones in the very near future. It's the only defense against hostile swarms of drones.
LOL That's "funny". So as of 2015 it is easier to sell software from Cuba to the US than it is to sell software from the EU to the EU. Praise the lord....
"I am quite interested in good rendering of favourite music, so are a few friends. We do indeed try out hifi gear, but that doesn't mean we all fall for this snake oil product."
"So far I find speakers having the largest influence on the end reproduction quality."
Unless you have really bad speakers, the distortion introduced by the acoustics of your room will be significantly worse than the distortion introduced by the speakers, amplifier, cables and D/A-convertors combined, even when using a nearfield monitoring setup. So in general, spending more money on better-than-average hifi gear without first spending lots of money on room acoustics does actually sound quite foolish to me.
"(...) my hand categorically rejects two button mice â" the dangling ring finger causes me genuine physical discomfort (...)"
I recently noticed that a colleague that suffers from RSI and was in the process of trying different mouses holds his mouse different from what I do; I hold keep my ring finger and little finger both on the right side of the mouse, either stacked on top of each other or with both fingertips touching the desk surface. Mouse movement is controlled only using the thumb and the ring finger; the rest of my hand is normally not touching the mouse except for my finger tips. Forefinger controls the left mouse button, middle finger controls the right mouse button and the middle button/scroll wheel can be controlled by both fingers. I've always held my house that way and being a long time X-user, I have always used 3-button mice.
Having noticed that difference, I tried holding my mouse the way my colleague did: one finger for each button. This causes major strain in my hand (exactly the place where my colleague had troubles), probably because my fingers have different lengths. So I went around the office, asking people how the held their mouse and whether they had complaints. Turns out, most people held their mice in a way similar to how I do it. Those that didn't had more trouble with their hands.
I'm not saying you should switch hand-on-mouse position; everybody's different. However, you might want give it a try.
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I don't know where these guys get their disks but my last one cost me 4 cents per gigabyte (converted from euros) and prices down to 3 cents per gigabyte can easily be found. My disk was a 6tb one for 240 euros. Equivalent SSD storage capacity would cost me about 2000 to 4000 euros depending on how many SSD drives I am prepared to fit in my computer case. We're nowhere near price parity.
Scrum calls itself agile but when we started using it our average response time to scope changes went from 5 minutes to half a sprint. There's nothing agile about Scrum unless you're a planet trying to change course. However, it does introduce some concepts that are very valuable, most notably the concepts of velocity, story points and poker planning. After years of doing scrum we've now left it behind and starting doing plain Kanban but left these concepts in place. Couldn't be happier; unlike scrum, which imposes artificial deadlines, kanban - which basically comes down to "do stuff in a certain order" is as natural as it gets.
This whole females-in-tech stuff leaves me with a rather bad taste in my mouth. We're discussing this as if we're discussing an increase in population of an endangered specifes. It's not. I think we'd all be better off if girls in tech would be treated as normal human beings. Celebrating each girl entering the field as if she's something special is really very sexist. In that regard I'm glad this was not the result of some strange get-more-girls-in-tech bootcamp but just a regular normal unisex bootcamp. I find it rather unfortunate, though, that girls are once again singled out as being something special.
Cannot we just quit discussing this situation in order to create a neutral playing field in which girls don't have to feel like they're something special, simply because they are not and should not be. It's not professional. It's sexist. It really shouldn't matter if programmers have tits or dicks nor should it matter if the number of males is somewhat equal to the number of females. The only thing that should matter is that neither sex should feel reserved about working in a certain sector. And I'm not so sure all this extra exposure for girls joining the sector is helping...
Asperger Syndrome is about 4 times more prevalent in males. Males are about 4 times more prevalent in coding jobs. I believe the vast majority of software developers to have (undiagnosed) Asperger Syndrome and I believe that that fully explains the "lack" of female software developers.
Now let's go invent the Overly Considerate Disorder that affects mostly females in order to explain the lack of male nurses so we can finally put an end this "equality" bullshit.
Funny how this is modded troll... Here's a great documentary for educating the moderator(s). Or anybody else; it really is a great documentary on the subject.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I have totally had it with this nu-sexism. As of this month it's apparently totally hip since reports of such incidents now end up on my timeline on a daily basis. Is the world is trying to become some sort of reverse Saudi Arabia or something?!
This question is illustrating for the problem the US has. The solution is not technological, it's psychological. Law enforcement agencies in many other countries rarely need to use their guns or tasers so why do US police officers kill so many people?!
Not having trigger happy cops, not creating trigger happy criminals that have nothing to lose because of your ridiculously long jail terms could be a start. Legalizing all kinds of mundane things like drug use would also help greatly. And, obviously, the number of guns in the US is a major factor in this; if the chances of a criminal having a gun would be much lower, the police could approach everybody much less agressive than they do now.
Example: so far in 2015, in Germany only one man was killed by police. In the US, which has FOUR times as many people, over THREE HUNDRED times as many people have been killed by police.
Many, if not all, dutch municipalities have had this for years. I still remember when slashdot was news for nerd but the memory is fading quickly:p
I'm somewhat surprised to see so many "let's get girls into technical job xyz" while we never see "get more men to be a nurse!" campaigns. Why is that? And what does this say about the perception of women to which this applies?
The problem here is not that women are under-represented in these kind of jobs; there are very likely good reasons for that that do not involve sexism. The real problem is that they're somehow still given a special treatment. I think this is really sexist; there's nothing that says "girls are special", "girls need help" more than these kind of initiatives. While I'd love to see more female colleagues (or more specifically: more colleagues:p) I don't think this is the right way.
In case women don't get equal chances, yes, let's campaign, but I strongly doubt such barriers still exist in any normal western country.
The issue is that the police and school don't know whether to believe him.
No. The issue is the police and school apparently think everything they don't understand - which seems to be more each day - must be a bomb, even if there are no explosives in it whatsoever. Probably they're even too stupid to understand that a bomb needs explosives. Bottomline: there is absolutely no rational reason to even assume this thing was a bomb. Just look at it. How can everybody involved in this possibly be such a moron?! How can people so utterly stupid possibly be police officers and teachers?! And what's with the fucking handcuffs?! Poor murica is getting about as stupid as Europe during the middle ages when everything they didn't understand was witchcraft...
A day on the moon takes a month. A day on Antarctica, which is mentioned as a good alternative to the moon has winter nights that last months. A day on Mars, OTOH, is a bit more than 24 hours. Also note that water on the moon can probably be found near the poles while on Mars there's a slight chance some digging will get you water in areas with a less hostile climate. Once you get there, life on Mars is likely to be easier than it is on Antarctica during the winter.
Large scale biosphere-recreating experiments where not very succesful (nor very scientific in nature...). Only recently, ESA and the International Center for Closed Ecosystems have restarted such experiments. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (which has more information on the subject than other articles on wikipedia).
The most logical answer to this question is another question:
Do humans need passports?
I'm confused. The title mentions a 1998 movie while the summary talks about a mini computer. What are we talking about?
Well it was not a USB battery but does running through a dark forest with a UPS-powered stroboscope count?
Those like "like" buttons on every page are spying on you
That's nonsense; they're not spying at all. In fact, they do nothing. It's you that explicitly requested that button from Facebook, which merely keeps track of what you (or your browser) explicitly sent them.
It's a total miracle that we're all hating Facebook while we should be hating our browser manufacturers for failing to properly protect us from sending shit all over the place. Even MS Outlook does a better job when it asks me whether I really want to load images from some server. Browsers should do the same; that'll end this bullshit in no-time.
I'm also sure there will be more focus on such robots. However, it's not the minimum wage McDonals employees that will be the first to go. It will be the managers.
http://marshallbrain.com/manna...
Actually, people in horeca/entertainment etc. will probably get to keep their jobs for quite some time. In your typical restaurant, the people serving you are a very important factor. Without a waiter and a real cook you'd probably not even visit a restaurant.
"The poison cloud will reach [town] at [time]."
"Tornado alert at [location]."
"Evacuate [area] now due to imminent flooding."
"Report to [locations] for evacuation."
"Stay indoors - help is on the way."
There are countless scenario's in which warning people of imminent followup-danger or giving instructions in a rescue or evacuation will safe lives. In case Internet or mobile are offline, FM radio may well be the only means of mass-communication.
Actually, cutting them down and storing the wood (call it a house or paper) while letting a new tree grow in its place would be much more effective at taking CO2 out of the loop than not cutting them down.
I'm not sure what country you are in, but where I live making an email backup for the reasons you made it for would almost certainly be illegal under privacy law.
More in general, your systems and procedures should be designed to be able to deal with hardware failures and other unforeseen problems. You probably have backups, audit trails and access rights etc. where it matters. Therefore I don't think there's anything you should do at all as long as the paperwork that allows him access is still valid, which it is. He's still just a normal employee. There's no reason whatsoever to all of a sudden start treating him like an asshole.
The Bechdel test is about content, not about authors.
Furthermore, there are reasons to assume the average women is less interested in programming than the average male. Science seems to indicate this difference in interests is already present in newborns. I can strongly recommend this documentary on that subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Also, I strongly suspect nearly all good programmers to have some kind of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), often undiagnosed, simply because that "disorder" makes them exceptionally good at tasks typically performed by programmers. ASD is prevalent in males 4.3 times more than in females.
All in all there are more than enough valid reasons to assume the gender gap in software engineering is absolutely normal and is here to stay. I don't see why this subject is even worth discussing; it's about as interesting as the gender-gap amongst nurses: not interesting at all.
Unlike an atomic bomb, creating autonomous drones with a machine gun (or simply a suicide payload) can probably already be done today, using mostly of the shelf components and software. A terrorist attack using a swarm of these things or even a simple murder by suicide bombing drones is probably very feasible today. I'm surprised (and relieved...) this has not happened yet.
While I'd very much like to see a world without autonomous weapons, that's just not going to happen; they're just too simple to make. Prohibiting them makes no sense. Instead, we need to work on our defense. I expect to see cities guarded by swarms of armed drones in the very near future. It's the only defense against hostile swarms of drones.
LOL That's "funny". So as of 2015 it is easier to sell software from Cuba to the US than it is to sell software from the EU to the EU. Praise the lord....
http://www.belastingdienst.nl/...
"I am quite interested in good rendering of favourite music, so are a few friends. We do indeed try out hifi gear, but that doesn't mean we all fall for this snake oil product."
"So far I find speakers having the largest influence on the end reproduction quality."
Unless you have really bad speakers, the distortion introduced by the acoustics of your room will be significantly worse than the distortion introduced by the speakers, amplifier, cables and D/A-convertors combined, even when using a nearfield monitoring setup. So in general, spending more money on better-than-average hifi gear without first spending lots of money on room acoustics does actually sound quite foolish to me.
"(...) my hand categorically rejects two button mice â" the dangling ring finger causes me genuine physical discomfort (...)"
I recently noticed that a colleague that suffers from RSI and was in the process of trying different mouses holds his mouse different from what I do; I hold keep my ring finger and little finger both on the right side of the mouse, either stacked on top of each other or with both fingertips touching the desk surface. Mouse movement is controlled only using the thumb and the ring finger; the rest of my hand is normally not touching the mouse except for my finger tips. Forefinger controls the left mouse button, middle finger controls the right mouse button and the middle button/scroll wheel can be controlled by both fingers. I've always held my house that way and being a long time X-user, I have always used 3-button mice.
Having noticed that difference, I tried holding my mouse the way my colleague did: one finger for each button. This causes major strain in my hand (exactly the place where my colleague had troubles), probably because my fingers have different lengths. So I went around the office, asking people how the held their mouse and whether they had complaints. Turns out, most people held their mice in a way similar to how I do it. Those that didn't had more trouble with their hands.
I'm not saying you should switch hand-on-mouse position; everybody's different. However, you might want give it a try.
I have that too. The radio in my 1995 Subaru sounds like a jet engine in tune with the engine revs. It's awesome.