Did YOU read his bullshit? Here's just one seriously fucked-up quote:
Alienating conservatives is both non-inclusive and generally bad business because conservatives tend to be higher in conscientiousness, which is require for much of the drudgery and maintenance work characteristic of a mature company.
"Conservatives are higher in conscientiousness" my arse. Just look at the biggest counter-example to that today - the Republicans, after bitching and moaning about how evil Obamacare is and how they're going to convene a special session of congress on day 1 to repeal and replace it, still haven't even got a serious detalied proposal ready. Conscientious conservatives? You're making the world laugh at you.
Metformin is only used to treat insulin resistance. Type 1 diabetes is not caused by insulin resistance, but by the body's inability to produce sufficient (or any) insulin. That doesn't mean that Type 1 diabetics can't also develop insulin resistance as they age - particularly if they're obese fat slobs who don't exercise much and stuff their mouths with carbs and have to take increasingly high doses of insulin - but insulin resistance is caused by the body's tissues being insensitive to insulin due to the constant exposure to high insulin and sugar levels, and Type 1 diabetics who watch what they eat and make sure they stay active rarely develop it.
Also, the longest-acting insulins (ultra lenté) are now avoided like the plague by anyone with a brain. They caused way too many hypoglycemic events, and as a consequence, way to much weight gain as people had to eat excess carbs to get their blood sugar back up to normal. Even the relatively shorter acting insulins such as NPH are still a problem because you can't always predict how active you're going to be 8-12 hours later, but between rapid-acting insulin and the slightly slower acting ones, it's the best we have for now, short of getting up in the middle of the night and taking another shot of rapid-acting insulin.
I dumped ultra lenté 35 years ago. Took a while for doctors to discover what every other user I knew already knew - to quote my current endocrinologist, "it's garbage". Even NPH has its problems. Ideally we'd just use rapid-acting insulin based on calories in and out over the next few hours. Or use an insulin pump and adjust it based on activity.
Bullshit. Part of STEM skills is being able to organize. If you can't organize and manage even something as simple as your own time and tasks, doesn't matter how much knowledge and innate skill you have - you're still crappy.
Look around at the working conditions at tech companies. Death marches, constant fear of being outsourced, pathological leadership, the knowledge that at one point you're going to be seen as "too old"... who the hell needs it?
...why doesn't he put his "gender-based superiority" to the test and just go start his own tech biz...
This is just like asking someone who has criticized their country/governenment (sic), "Why don't you just go live somewhere else then?" It dismisses the criticism and ignores reality.
What is so wrong about saying that moving is an option. Extending your logic, people shouldn't change jobs if they aren't happy, or dump a cheating spouse. The reality is that pretty much the entire population of the planet are descended from immigrants.
Lately we're having to deal with 150-300 people a day illegally crossing the border from the US seeking asylum. The number 1 reason cited? They don't feel safe with Donald Trump in the white house. People move all the time.
He claimed that male conservatives are best suited. Not only are males, according to him, biologically superior when it comes to tech, but conservatives are best suited because they are more conscientious. Obviously logic isn't his (or your) best trait. I give you Donald Trump and the Republican party as just one example (and democrats aren't all that much better).
Tech is toxic - doesn't matter which sex you are. Just that men's egos require them to prove how tough they are by engaging in the eternal pissing contests and death marches and unpaid overtime instead of doing the logical thing and either forming a union or leaving for something with both a better work/life balance and in many cases better lifetime earnings.
Tech is now a shit-hole run by pathological assholes. The days when it was fresh and new and exciting and fun are gone. It's rare now to see a dog in the office. Flex time has been bastardized with "core hours". Quality of output has been replaced by counting how many hours your bum warms a seat, because the people who are doing the counting are penny-wise and pound-foolish, and haven't got a clue when it comes to measuring quality.
Everything is derivative, everything is a chase for the next unicorn, everything is about cashing out, about modifying your resumé after a certain age by dropping your early years so they toss it immediately because you're too old, about running full speed learning the latest and greatest just to stay in place, even though you know that it's really just a fad and you'll have to do it again next year when someone becomes enamoured with the silver bullet du jour that they read about somewhere and wants to demonstrate how innovative and on top of the latest developments they are.
You just made my point for me - instead of whining, he should put his money where his mouth is and start a biz run on his belief that male conservatives are innately superior. I hear Donald Trump might be available before 2020.
Except that this memo doesn't say "give this job to the best person" - it argues that male conservatives are the best person. Donald Trump is a pretty good counter-case.
The vast majority of jobs are now mechanized to the point where muscle power is irrelevant. Ever drive a big truck with no power steering? THAT took muscle. Not any more. Electric palette jiggers take care of loading and unloading. No muscle required there either. Heavy construction equipment is often air conditioned and sound proofed. Cement is no longer mixed by hand, or even in a small mixer by shoveling in the right quantities of cement, gravel, and sand - it's just pumped where you need it. As time goes on there are fewer jobs that require just BFMI (brute force and massive ignorance). The trend will continue.
Why should anyone be expected to work 60-80 hours a week with no vacation time? Why should this be the norm? Is it only the dysfunctional males who routinely engage in pissing contests because they think it shows how tough they are (even though they're not tough enough to either unionize or go on strike)?
So what you're saying is that men are stupid enough to work extra hours for less money per hour. The question is, if you had worked the same number of hours, what would the pay disparity have been?
Tech is no different from any other field. Why so many tech people can't seem to grasp that would be a real head-scratcher, except that everyone believes that their own field is "special" when it isn't.
Trying to whitewash away the problems by saying tech is different is like saying "this time it's different" at the peak of every bubble. It's irrational "magical thinking."
Well, it certainly works if we say "Oh, it's only Trump". Even Kim Jong Un is taken more seriously, if only because he isn't flip-flopping every few minutes.
If they guy really believes what he wrote, why doesn't he put his "gender-based superiority" to the test and just go start his own tech biz filled with guys who think like him and make bazillions consulting to all those mature companies he says want guys like him, instead of working for Google?
And yet, given that the half-life of a software engineer is 3 years, and that most won't even be looked at after 40, perhaps women going into careers that last longer and provide higher lifetime earnings are smarter than men.
It's telling that a conservative was the author of the essay, claiming that men get their positions because they push harder for them instead of competing solely on merits.
The manifesto claims that men have a higher drive for status, that women might not like coding because they have more interest than men in “people and aesthetics”, and that the low number of women in “high stress jobs” is down to them having more “neuroticism”. “We need to stop assuming that gender gaps imply sexism,”
So tech isn't a meritocracy. No wonder women are under-represented.
"Conservatives tend to be higher in conscientiousness, which is required for much of the drudgery and maintenance work characteristic of a mature company."
Higher in conscientiousness? Which is why the republicans used the 7 years that they were saying they wanted to replace Obamacare to come up with a detailed, fully-costed, cheaper alternative that will cover more people. Oh wait - they didn't. They were the polar opposite of conscientious, spending 7 years throwing rocks without proposing an alternative, and when they get the chance - they've got nothing.
Mind you, if conservatives believe that men are genetically better than women to do tech work, and transgender women are really men, they should be in favour of actively recruiting transgender women into tech instead of telling us which bathroom to pee in. Ditto with military service.
So, what about it, all you right-wing guys? Are you going to admit that transsexual women are to be valued in a mature company? Or are you just going to keep being lying cry-babies when your inconsistencies are pointed out?
"theory" means it isn't proven. Simple as that. And your argument is full of logical errors. The virus does not,. in ANY case, transmit diabetes. That ANYTHING that may trigger an ill-targeted auto-immune response in some individuals is far from the same thing - it's still caused by the auto-immune response, not the virus.
Time was when people believed that malaria was caused by sleeping near certain trees. Turns out that was wrong too.
Why would you need a web browser or plugin to do the conversion? A stand-alone program should be able to do it better, then just upload the resulting file. Fucking web browsers - - the #1 reason the internet is so shitty and insecure today.
Maybe some of us who actually know our shit got it through personal experience. Type 1 diabetes cannot be controlled by diet alone - ever. Makes a hell of a difference in treatment strategies right out of the gate, being able to eat a normal "non-diabetic" diet, for example. That's why it's so important to be able to determine the type - so you don't waste time putting someone with Type 1 on Metformin (a pill that is only used for Type 2 diabetes) who cannot benefit from it, or alternately, putting someone with Type 2 on insulin injections without first trynng just taking a Metformin pill every day and adjusting their diet.
From your latest comment you still don't know shit. Go talk to a few endocrinologists first.
You seem to be unaware that you could poke assembler code into ram and then run it. BASIC was just a step in what turned out to be a long long journey.
Sounds like the attorneys. And the court system, more generally. Parties to the suit? They all end up in the hole.
Of course the game is rigged, especially in this case. You're paying the legal fees up front, and there's no guarantee that what you'll recover will be enough to even get your money back.
If software were to be developed that way, the deal would be "You pay me to develop the software and bill you at $300 an hour and up, plus all expenses, and also give me 30% of all revenue, if any."
They were a big thing for a while, and then devices became energy misers. An LED flashlight lasts a lot longer on a conventional carbon-zinc cell than it used to, hence the need to replace batteries far less often. Same thing with smoke detectors - the original ones required a 12v dc wired power supply, but now the batteries can last for years before it starts to beep that it's time to change the battery. Other devices, such as walkie-talkies, which used to eat 8 batteries at a shot, have become obsolete. Same with ghetto blasters, where half the weight was batteries, replaced by a headphone on your smartphone. TV remotes can last 5 years on the original batteries now, so who cares if they're rechargeable if the remote is more likely to get lost/broken/chewed by the dog before the batteries die?
Smartphones with replaceable batteries and/or higher capacity batteries would be a big thing except that manufacturers keep playing pissing contests to see whose phone is the most anorexic, even after Apple made a phone so thin that it bent in normal use. But no, we can't have a phone twice as thick that we can use all week without a recharge because fashion.
After all, those phones would last a decade of charge/discharge cycles before the battery wouldn't hold sufficient charge. Can't have that, can we? Smartphones must not go the way of desktops and laptops, where a "good enough" and "cheap enough" device can now do the job for a decade or more.
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Did YOU read his bullshit? Here's just one seriously fucked-up quote:
Alienating conservatives is both non-inclusive and generally bad business because conservatives tend to be higher in conscientiousness, which is require for much of the drudgery and maintenance work characteristic of a mature company.
"Conservatives are higher in conscientiousness" my arse. Just look at the biggest counter-example to that today - the Republicans, after bitching and moaning about how evil Obamacare is and how they're going to convene a special session of congress on day 1 to repeal and replace it, still haven't even got a serious detalied proposal ready. Conscientious conservatives? You're making the world laugh at you.
Metformin is only used to treat insulin resistance. Type 1 diabetes is not caused by insulin resistance, but by the body's inability to produce sufficient (or any) insulin. That doesn't mean that Type 1 diabetics can't also develop insulin resistance as they age - particularly if they're obese fat slobs who don't exercise much and stuff their mouths with carbs and have to take increasingly high doses of insulin - but insulin resistance is caused by the body's tissues being insensitive to insulin due to the constant exposure to high insulin and sugar levels, and Type 1 diabetics who watch what they eat and make sure they stay active rarely develop it.
Also, the longest-acting insulins (ultra lenté) are now avoided like the plague by anyone with a brain. They caused way too many hypoglycemic events, and as a consequence, way to much weight gain as people had to eat excess carbs to get their blood sugar back up to normal. Even the relatively shorter acting insulins such as NPH are still a problem because you can't always predict how active you're going to be 8-12 hours later, but between rapid-acting insulin and the slightly slower acting ones, it's the best we have for now, short of getting up in the middle of the night and taking another shot of rapid-acting insulin.
I dumped ultra lenté 35 years ago. Took a while for doctors to discover what every other user I knew already knew - to quote my current endocrinologist, "it's garbage". Even NPH has its problems. Ideally we'd just use rapid-acting insulin based on calories in and out over the next few hours. Or use an insulin pump and adjust it based on activity.
Bullshit. Part of STEM skills is being able to organize. If you can't organize and manage even something as simple as your own time and tasks, doesn't matter how much knowledge and innate skill you have - you're still crappy.
Look around at the working conditions at tech companies. Death marches, constant fear of being outsourced, pathological leadership, the knowledge that at one point you're going to be seen as "too old" ... who the hell needs it?
...why doesn't he put his "gender-based superiority" to the test and just go start his own tech biz...
This is just like asking someone who has criticized their country/governenment (sic), "Why don't you just go live somewhere else then?" It dismisses the criticism and ignores reality.
What is so wrong about saying that moving is an option. Extending your logic, people shouldn't change jobs if they aren't happy, or dump a cheating spouse. The reality is that pretty much the entire population of the planet are descended from immigrants.
Lately we're having to deal with 150-300 people a day illegally crossing the border from the US seeking asylum. The number 1 reason cited? They don't feel safe with Donald Trump in the white house. People move all the time.
He claimed that male conservatives are best suited. Not only are males, according to him, biologically superior when it comes to tech, but conservatives are best suited because they are more conscientious. Obviously logic isn't his (or your) best trait. I give you Donald Trump and the Republican party as just one example (and democrats aren't all that much better).
Tech is toxic - doesn't matter which sex you are. Just that men's egos require them to prove how tough they are by engaging in the eternal pissing contests and death marches and unpaid overtime instead of doing the logical thing and either forming a union or leaving for something with both a better work/life balance and in many cases better lifetime earnings.
Tech is now a shit-hole run by pathological assholes. The days when it was fresh and new and exciting and fun are gone. It's rare now to see a dog in the office. Flex time has been bastardized with "core hours". Quality of output has been replaced by counting how many hours your bum warms a seat, because the people who are doing the counting are penny-wise and pound-foolish, and haven't got a clue when it comes to measuring quality.
Everything is derivative, everything is a chase for the next unicorn, everything is about cashing out, about modifying your resumé after a certain age by dropping your early years so they toss it immediately because you're too old, about running full speed learning the latest and greatest just to stay in place, even though you know that it's really just a fad and you'll have to do it again next year when someone becomes enamoured with the silver bullet du jour that they read about somewhere and wants to demonstrate how innovative and on top of the latest developments they are.
You just made my point for me - instead of whining, he should put his money where his mouth is and start a biz run on his belief that male conservatives are innately superior. I hear Donald Trump might be available before 2020.
Except that this memo doesn't say "give this job to the best person" - it argues that male conservatives are the best person. Donald Trump is a pretty good counter-case.
The vast majority of jobs are now mechanized to the point where muscle power is irrelevant. Ever drive a big truck with no power steering? THAT took muscle. Not any more. Electric palette jiggers take care of loading and unloading. No muscle required there either. Heavy construction equipment is often air conditioned and sound proofed. Cement is no longer mixed by hand, or even in a small mixer by shoveling in the right quantities of cement, gravel, and sand - it's just pumped where you need it. As time goes on there are fewer jobs that require just BFMI (brute force and massive ignorance). The trend will continue.
Why should anyone be expected to work 60-80 hours a week with no vacation time? Why should this be the norm? Is it only the dysfunctional males who routinely engage in pissing contests because they think it shows how tough they are (even though they're not tough enough to either unionize or go on strike)?
Would this help explain the high suicide rate for programmers (23 per 100,000 per annum) as compared to the population as a whole (~13 per 100,000)?
So what you're saying is that men are stupid enough to work extra hours for less money per hour. The question is, if you had worked the same number of hours, what would the pay disparity have been?
He's just pulling an Arthur Carson, station manager at WKRP in Cincinnati who thought turkeys could fly.
Trying to whitewash away the problems by saying tech is different is like saying "this time it's different" at the peak of every bubble. It's irrational "magical thinking."
Well, it certainly works if we say "Oh, it's only Trump". Even Kim Jong Un is taken more seriously, if only because he isn't flip-flopping every few minutes.
If they guy really believes what he wrote, why doesn't he put his "gender-based superiority" to the test and just go start his own tech biz filled with guys who think like him and make bazillions consulting to all those mature companies he says want guys like him, instead of working for Google?
And yet, given that the half-life of a software engineer is 3 years, and that most won't even be looked at after 40, perhaps women going into careers that last longer and provide higher lifetime earnings are smarter than men.
Software engineering is a dead-end career.
And now the idea that coding is not going to secure you a bright future is not just in the business mags - it's gone mainstream.
It's telling that a conservative was the author of the essay, claiming that men get their positions because they push harder for them instead of competing solely on merits.
The manifesto claims that men have a higher drive for status, that women might not like coding because they have more interest than men in “people and aesthetics”, and that the low number of women in “high stress jobs” is down to them having more “neuroticism”. “We need to stop assuming that gender gaps imply sexism,”
So tech isn't a meritocracy. No wonder women are under-represented.
"Conservatives tend to be higher in conscientiousness, which is required for much of the drudgery and maintenance work characteristic of a mature company."
Higher in conscientiousness? Which is why the republicans used the 7 years that they were saying they wanted to replace Obamacare to come up with a detailed, fully-costed, cheaper alternative that will cover more people. Oh wait - they didn't. They were the polar opposite of conscientious, spending 7 years throwing rocks without proposing an alternative, and when they get the chance - they've got nothing.
Mind you, if conservatives believe that men are genetically better than women to do tech work, and transgender women are really men, they should be in favour of actively recruiting transgender women into tech instead of telling us which bathroom to pee in. Ditto with military service.
So, what about it, all you right-wing guys? Are you going to admit that transsexual women are to be valued in a mature company? Or are you just going to keep being lying cry-babies when your inconsistencies are pointed out?
"theory" means it isn't proven. Simple as that. And your argument is full of logical errors. The virus does not,. in ANY case, transmit diabetes. That ANYTHING that may trigger an ill-targeted auto-immune response in some individuals is far from the same thing - it's still caused by the auto-immune response, not the virus.
Time was when people believed that malaria was caused by sleeping near certain trees. Turns out that was wrong too.
So tell me why the same program running on local hardware suddenly can't do adaptive streaming? Trolling much? Or just not thinking it through?
Why would you need a web browser or plugin to do the conversion? A stand-alone program should be able to do it better, then just upload the resulting file. Fucking web browsers - - the #1 reason the internet is so shitty and insecure today.
Maybe some of us who actually know our shit got it through personal experience. Type 1 diabetes cannot be controlled by diet alone - ever. Makes a hell of a difference in treatment strategies right out of the gate, being able to eat a normal "non-diabetic" diet, for example. That's why it's so important to be able to determine the type - so you don't waste time putting someone with Type 1 on Metformin (a pill that is only used for Type 2 diabetes) who cannot benefit from it, or alternately, putting someone with Type 2 on insulin injections without first trynng just taking a Metformin pill every day and adjusting their diet.
From your latest comment you still don't know shit. Go talk to a few endocrinologists first.
You seem to be unaware that you could poke assembler code into ram and then run it. BASIC was just a step in what turned out to be a long long journey.
Sounds like the attorneys. And the court system, more generally. Parties to the suit? They all end up in the hole.
Of course the game is rigged, especially in this case. You're paying the legal fees up front, and there's no guarantee that what you'll recover will be enough to even get your money back.
If software were to be developed that way, the deal would be "You pay me to develop the software and bill you at $300 an hour and up, plus all expenses, and also give me 30% of all revenue, if any."
They were a big thing for a while, and then devices became energy misers. An LED flashlight lasts a lot longer on a conventional carbon-zinc cell than it used to, hence the need to replace batteries far less often. Same thing with smoke detectors - the original ones required a 12v dc wired power supply, but now the batteries can last for years before it starts to beep that it's time to change the battery. Other devices, such as walkie-talkies, which used to eat 8 batteries at a shot, have become obsolete. Same with ghetto blasters, where half the weight was batteries, replaced by a headphone on your smartphone. TV remotes can last 5 years on the original batteries now, so who cares if they're rechargeable if the remote is more likely to get lost/broken/chewed by the dog before the batteries die?
Smartphones with replaceable batteries and/or higher capacity batteries would be a big thing except that manufacturers keep playing pissing contests to see whose phone is the most anorexic, even after Apple made a phone so thin that it bent in normal use. But no, we can't have a phone twice as thick that we can use all week without a recharge because fashion.
After all, those phones would last a decade of charge/discharge cycles before the battery wouldn't hold sufficient charge. Can't have that, can we? Smartphones must not go the way of desktops and laptops, where a "good enough" and "cheap enough" device can now do the job for a decade or more.
Rechargeable alkaline batteries have been around for years. Problem is, they don't have anywhere near the energy density needed.