Yeah, but the 20-year-old who wants a cool software suite in his car today will be a family man who just wants plenty of room tomorrow. Eighteen year olds have a nasty, but consistent, tendency to become 30-somethings.
When I was 18 I drove a Camaro with a kick-ass sound system and it was good. When I was 35, I drove a mini-van with many screens to distract the kids and it was good When I was 45, I drove a Camaro again, because I wasn't good. When I was 55, I drove a Mercedes and it was very good.
And I, for one, welcome our new Google overlords. I'd like to remind them that, as a programmer, I would be very useful in managing the slaves in their data mines.
IBM wasn't undone by the platform, they were undone by the CLONES running the platform. And at the end of the day, a car is still 99% hardware. It takes a lot to build one, and I can't envision a world where cars can be easily home built from standard parts.
We care about this not because of the horrific loss of life or because of the ramifications of revealing the US to be a sinking ship of credit downgrades and crumbling infrastructure.
Every time I hear a U.S. official talking about anything these days, I'm reminded of that scene in "Animal House" at the end where Kevin Bacon is desperately trying to calm the panicking crowd by saying "All is well" over and over again.
Hey, isn't Iraq on fire?
All is well.
Hey, aren't we $18 trillion in debt?
All is well.
Hey, isn't there a growing disparity between the rich and poor?
Typical Silicon Valley liberal bullshit. From Code.org's website (bold added for emphasis)
The College Board and Code.org will encourage schools to offer the new PSAT 8/9 assessment as a way of identifying more students, particularly those from traditionally under-represented groups, for enrollment in these new courses.
So did you think this was going to mean some CS classes for you, poor little Appalachian white boy? Well TOUGH LUCK! That oppressed girl from Grosse Pointe beats you out again.
I love how the headline and summary just unquestioningly accepts the premise that there is sexism in science and that something MUST be done about it--all based on the single data point that there are more men in STEM than women.
If an unbalanced gender ratio is all you need to prove sexism, then doesn't it follow that the Nursing and Elementary Education fields are even MORE sexist than STEM (and even more in need of attention)?
But I'm pretty sure it's actually been a ghost ship for about 15 years now. No one's at the wheel, the crew is long gone, the hull paint is only visible in splotches, the nameplate has faded to the point where you can't even make out its name--yet on it sails, forever, and ever, and ever. With no port and no end until the day if finally, mercifully sinks.
As an example, there are many - maybe even the majority - of FOSS websites where the entry page has no explanation at all of what the program / app actually does.
This! A thousand times this! Sourceforge should ban any project where the contributor can't even bother to write a paragraph on what the software *IS* and *DOES*. So often, you have to play Sherlock Holmes with a list of bugfixes to try to figure out who/what this software is even for.
10% of people want to write documentation without getting paid to
FTFY. Everyone on an OSS project wants the front-line job of coding (and are even willing to do it for free). No one wants to be the guy doing the hard, less cool but no less essential, job of writing the docs.
You forgot big oil, global warming, the War on Terror, the Koch Brothers, and all the other lefty bogeymen. May as well get them too while you're talking out of your ass.
Not to mention the fact that the pesticides we use today are generally way more environmentally friendly than they used to be. Of course, the reflexive assumption of the lefties is that mankind is obviously to blame for anything like this (they'll probably also find a way to blame it on global warming, big oil, nuclear power, police brutality, and all their other usual bogeymen)
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Yeah, but the 20-year-old who wants a cool software suite in his car today will be a family man who just wants plenty of room tomorrow. Eighteen year olds have a nasty, but consistent, tendency to become 30-somethings.
When I was 18 I drove a Camaro with a kick-ass sound system and it was good.
When I was 35, I drove a mini-van with many screens to distract the kids and it was good
When I was 45, I drove a Camaro again, because I wasn't good.
When I was 55, I drove a Mercedes and it was very good.
And I, for one, welcome our new Google overlords. I'd like to remind them that, as a programmer, I would be very useful in managing the slaves in their data mines.
IBM wasn't undone by the platform, they were undone by the CLONES running the platform. And at the end of the day, a car is still 99% hardware. It takes a lot to build one, and I can't envision a world where cars can be easily home built from standard parts.
We care about this not because of the horrific loss of life or because of the ramifications of revealing the US to be a sinking ship of credit downgrades and crumbling infrastructure.
Every time I hear a U.S. official talking about anything these days, I'm reminded of that scene in "Animal House" at the end where Kevin Bacon is desperately trying to calm the panicking crowd by saying "All is well" over and over again.
Hey, isn't Iraq on fire?
All is well.
Hey, aren't we $18 trillion in debt?
All is well.
Hey, isn't there a growing disparity between the rich and poor?
All is well.
Going slower means we can't push as many trains through, which means we don't make as much money!
Typical Silicon Valley liberal bullshit. From Code.org's website (bold added for emphasis)
The College Board and Code.org will encourage schools to offer the new PSAT 8/9 assessment as a way of identifying more students, particularly those from traditionally under-represented groups, for enrollment in these new courses.
So did you think this was going to mean some CS classes for you, poor little Appalachian white boy? Well TOUGH LUCK! That oppressed girl from Grosse Pointe beats you out again.
Seriously, what is this trash and why is it on slashdot?
If the DICE staff don't post their daily "All white heterosexual males are evil" article, they risk losing their Silicon Valley Liberal cards.
When I read that story as a kid, it seemed absolutely absurd to me. How could such a society ever even come to be?
Now I understand. God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut
I love how the headline and summary just unquestioningly accepts the premise that there is sexism in science and that something MUST be done about it--all based on the single data point that there are more men in STEM than women.
If an unbalanced gender ratio is all you need to prove sexism, then doesn't it follow that the Nursing and Elementary Education fields are even MORE sexist than STEM (and even more in need of attention)?
But I'm pretty sure it's actually been a ghost ship for about 15 years now. No one's at the wheel, the crew is long gone, the hull paint is only visible in splotches, the nameplate has faded to the point where you can't even make out its name--yet on it sails, forever, and ever, and ever. With no port and no end until the day if finally, mercifully sinks.
As an example, there are many - maybe even the majority - of FOSS websites where the entry page has no explanation at all of what the program / app actually does.
This! A thousand times this! Sourceforge should ban any project where the contributor can't even bother to write a paragraph on what the software *IS* and *DOES*. So often, you have to play Sherlock Holmes with a list of bugfixes to try to figure out who/what this software is even for.
But don't worry, we've got "Lawrence's Mom is a Slut" waiting in the wings as our new VP.
The only technology that never needs a manual is the technology that no one ever uses.
10% of people want to write documentation without getting paid to
FTFY. Everyone on an OSS project wants the front-line job of coding (and are even willing to do it for free). No one wants to be the guy doing the hard, less cool but no less essential, job of writing the docs.
RTFA!
Oh yeah, and a message board or empty wiki doesn't count as "documentation."
Coders they got. Projects whose "documentation" consists of anything more than a technical list of bugfixes they don't.
OSS needs to realize that well-written documentation is just as important as well-written code.
Yeah, that still doesn't tell us anything. A certain percentage of them would still die off every year.
Hello, 9-11? This is Demetri again. The aliens are back, and this time they brought Brett Favre with them!
You forgot big oil, global warming, the War on Terror, the Koch Brothers, and all the other lefty bogeymen. May as well get them too while you're talking out of your ass.
Unless honey bee colonies are immortal, I'm pretty sure there is still a normal range that would be relevant.
Not to mention the fact that the pesticides we use today are generally way more environmentally friendly than they used to be. Of course, the reflexive assumption of the lefties is that mankind is obviously to blame for anything like this (they'll probably also find a way to blame it on global warming, big oil, nuclear power, police brutality, and all their other usual bogeymen)
Simply saying "40% of the colonies died" doesn't mean anything if it's *normal* for 30%-50% of these colonies to die in the spring.
"Everything fun is bad for you"
There, now you don't need that grant.
It has a warm, true sound that you just can't get from today's CD's and digital music.