While this is true, the republicans have, in recent history, stepped over the line by attacking not just the politicians, but their families. Remember the "jokes" about Chelsea Clinton? Or more recently the stories about Michelle Obama looking like a monkey, or being a transsexual?
Attacking a politician is one thing - they kind of expect it. But their families?
Oh, BTW, I obviously don't support either party, because I'm in Canada, and our right-wing Conservative party would be considered by most to be (way) to the left of the democrats, never mind the republicans. Up here, personal attacks on the family are something that, for the most part, "just isn't done."
I'm surprised you haven't been up-modded yet. This tension between copyright and license is going to be a source of continual friction. I liked Borland's no-nonsense policy. Treat it like a book - if you give it to someone else, you have to erase it from your system, so that there's only the one copy that was bought still in use. The enforcement was very simple - if you wanted the upgrade, send in the title page from your current manual.
You worthless fucking partisan freak asshole. Do you not remember people comparing Bush to a chimpanzee?
Nothing partisan about it. Kim Jong Un didn't make any references to Bush this year, did he? And people didn't attack Laura Bush the way they've attacked Michelle Obama, including monkey slurs, claims she's a transsexual, and other crap.
It's one thing to attack a politician, and quite another to attack his or her family.
They don't like my.sig because it makes reference to what I am. As I've explained to others, this is one way I'm "paying it forward" for those who went before me and made it possible. I woudn't have even thought of it except one particularly repetitive troll kept posting about it earlier this year, so I figured this is the way to show that we should not be ashamed of what they are, just as we're not ashamed of who we are.
It's also one way of "normalizing" us to others. Rather than being freaks, we're also human beings with our own opinions, and have pretty much 99% in common with what people think as "normal." Considering that one estimate that I saw on TV this fall put the number of trans individuals in tech at 2%, there are going to be plenty of people who are "in the closet" out of fear, both pre- and post-transition, or have been driven away, so it's also a way for those who are still in "stealth mode" to see that the general reaction is much better than a few stupid trolls.
When I was outed on slashdot 9 years ago, I got a lot of support from the user base. So, in that sense, it's also another way to "pay it forward."
But if nobody brings it up, it's only a.sig. The stories I've had on the front page deal with all sorts of stuff - it's hard to pigeonhole me. Like everyone, I am more than the sum of my genes. Just saying.:-)
You're absolutely right, and I think we're going to see more pressure to do this; if the IETF won't the individual countries will. And that will create a real hodge-podge of rules.
The same could be said about the LBG as well - why not just one term for all of them? But that's just argument for argument's sake, and slashdot already has way to much of that.
One question is, how can I constructively "pay it forward" specifically for other transsexuals if I don't make the distinction. I can't give the transgender point of view from personal experience, and I shouldn't presume to. Same as I can't give the lesbian, gay, or bi point of view from personal experience. So, out of mutual respect (because one thing we have in common is people accepting us as who we are, but our stories have both similarities and differences), I'm not going to tread on someone else's toes, though I'll certainly back them up against the homophobes, because I "get it."
The thing is, homophobia and transphobia are two different things, and much of the prejudice against transgenders is actually rooted in homophobia.
The other thing is that out of all the alphabet soup, transsexuals are the only ones who actually have a recognized need for medical intervention (hormone replacement therapy, surgery, etc). Until we get our birth certificates and other documents altered, life presents many challenges that just aren't there for others, such as when applying for a job and the name and gender you're using doesn't match your paperwork. Everyone else can keep details of their private life away from employers if they so choose.
Also, if you browse at -1, you've probably seen some of the attacks on me that are specific to transsexuals. I think it's important that other transsexuals who have not been outed (and slashdot has more than a few, both pre- and post-transition) see that in the end, they're just words, and being outed isn't the end of the world. If it happens, it happens, the only thing it changes is now that's one thing less to worry about:-) Though some people still go nuts over which toilet we're supposed to use, and will still insist that, no matter what the law says, we're still our previous gender.
Originally LGBT stood for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual. The last has been changed to transgender, and includes a much broader spectrum. So, the small t is there to differentiate the two (because there are so many people who don't really understand the difference, so they ask questions, which is a good thing).
Obviously they disagreed, and they're the ones with the money, so their money, their call. Think along the lines of "if you can't even get a simple question right..."
I call those things trivia tests. They're "fun" because there are usually two, mutually exclusive, valid answers depending on the marker's interpretation.
BTW: There are no "two" interpretations to the questions you gave as examples.
Too true, but the politician has one advantage in winter - he's portable, so you can use his hot air to heat the car instead of sucking off the battery. However, you have to balance that against the extra load, which can be quite significant.
say you interview as a graduating college senior at Facebook Inc. You may find, to your initial delight, that the place looks just like a fun-loving dorm -- and the adults seem to be missing. But that is a sign of how the profession has devolved in recent years to one lacking in longevity. Many programmers find that their employability starts to decline at about age 35.
Gone by 40
Employers dismiss them as either lacking in up-to-date technical skills -- such as the latest programming-language fad -- or "not suitable for entry level." In other words, either underqualified or overqualified. That doesn’t leave much, does it? Statistics show that most software developers are out of the field by age 40.
Employers have admitted this in unguarded moments. Craig Barrett, a former chief executive officer of Intel Corp., famously remarked that "the half-life of an engineer, software or hardware, is only a few years," while Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook has blurted out that young programmers are superior.
Vivek Wadhwa, a former technology executive and now a business writer and Duke University researcher, wrote that in 2008 David Vaskevitch, then the chief technology officer at Microsoft Corp., acknowledged that "the vast majority of new Microsoft employees are young, but said that this is so because older workers tend to go into more senior jobs and there are fewer of those positions to begin with."
Doesn't matter if you're the best programmer in the world once you hit 40 - it's up or out, and there aren't that many "up" jobs.
And of course, when 95% of the coders jobs don't require excellence (and when you try to work to produce something excellent, management interferes anyway because quality isn't as important as making a shipping date), the local 5% are more than enough. The reason you can't find them is because you've driven them into other fields.
Well, maybe it would be easier if we retained more programmers in the first place. By 40, most programmers have left the industry. - Norman Matloff, professor of computer science, University of California, Davis.
When it comes to programming, it's not the answers that count so much as how one arrives at an answer.
I used to believe that. Never thought to question it, because it's taken as an article of faith in the industry. But it's dead wrong. If you don't get the right answer, you fail, same as any other job. Code it right first, then adjust / optimize as necessary (which is just another way of saying premature optimization is evil). Or, "There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare.
Ur/Web has an entire SQL type, rather than representing SQL as strings, so that the compiler can prove that no SQL injection attacks are possible. (It's not possible to accidentally coerce a string to SQL---you'd have to really try.)
That's a problem with sql, no matter what language you use. There are other ways to design a dbms that don't use sql...
Your original premise is still wrong, and has been roundly condemned, both on moral and technical grounds. Just because you reversed it based on a possibly fictitious tweet doesn't change the facts - you tried to troll, you got caught because unlike a well-done troll, you showed ignorance of the basic technology in a tech forum (about as dumb as trying to rob a donut shop next door to a police station).
Also, it's the inability for one single day, and people react like crazy kids, not taking a deep breath of fresh air or being able to relax.
You obviously still don't get it if you really believe that. But then again, you're such a lousy troll, who knows? Maybe you really do.
Slashdot Mirror
While this is true, the republicans have, in recent history, stepped over the line by attacking not just the politicians, but their families. Remember the "jokes" about Chelsea Clinton? Or more recently the stories about Michelle Obama looking like a monkey, or being a transsexual?
Attacking a politician is one thing - they kind of expect it. But their families?
Oh, BTW, I obviously don't support either party, because I'm in Canada, and our right-wing Conservative party would be considered by most to be (way) to the left of the democrats, never mind the republicans. Up here, personal attacks on the family are something that, for the most part, "just isn't done."
I'm surprised you haven't been up-modded yet. This tension between copyright and license is going to be a source of continual friction. I liked Borland's no-nonsense policy. Treat it like a book - if you give it to someone else, you have to erase it from your system, so that there's only the one copy that was bought still in use. The enforcement was very simple - if you wanted the upgrade, send in the title page from your current manual.
You worthless fucking partisan freak asshole. Do you not remember people comparing Bush to a chimpanzee?
Nothing partisan about it. Kim Jong Un didn't make any references to Bush this year, did he? And people didn't attack Laura Bush the way they've attacked Michelle Obama, including monkey slurs, claims she's a transsexual, and other crap.
It's one thing to attack a politician, and quite another to attack his or her family.
They don't like my .sig because it makes reference to what I am. As I've explained to others, this is one way I'm "paying it forward" for those who went before me and made it possible. I woudn't have even thought of it except one particularly repetitive troll kept posting about it earlier this year, so I figured this is the way to show that we should not be ashamed of what they are, just as we're not ashamed of who we are.
It's also one way of "normalizing" us to others. Rather than being freaks, we're also human beings with our own opinions, and have pretty much 99% in common with what people think as "normal." Considering that one estimate that I saw on TV this fall put the number of trans individuals in tech at 2%, there are going to be plenty of people who are "in the closet" out of fear, both pre- and post-transition, or have been driven away, so it's also a way for those who are still in "stealth mode" to see that the general reaction is much better than a few stupid trolls.
When I was outed on slashdot 9 years ago, I got a lot of support from the user base. So, in that sense, it's also another way to "pay it forward."
But if nobody brings it up, it's only a .sig. The stories I've had on the front page deal with all sorts of stuff - it's hard to pigeonhole me. Like everyone, I am more than the sum of my genes. Just saying. :-)
"Do not do anything that you don't want to see on the front page of the New York Times", has included "or Google searches" for quite some time.
Assume there are no secrets on the Internet; any other expectation is unrealistically optimistic.
You're absolutely right, and I think we're going to see more pressure to do this; if the IETF won't the individual countries will. And that will create a real hodge-podge of rules.
The same could be said about the LBG as well - why not just one term for all of them? But that's just argument for argument's sake, and slashdot already has way to much of that.
One question is, how can I constructively "pay it forward" specifically for other transsexuals if I don't make the distinction. I can't give the transgender point of view from personal experience, and I shouldn't presume to. Same as I can't give the lesbian, gay, or bi point of view from personal experience. So, out of mutual respect (because one thing we have in common is people accepting us as who we are, but our stories have both similarities and differences), I'm not going to tread on someone else's toes, though I'll certainly back them up against the homophobes, because I "get it."
The thing is, homophobia and transphobia are two different things, and much of the prejudice against transgenders is actually rooted in homophobia.
The other thing is that out of all the alphabet soup, transsexuals are the only ones who actually have a recognized need for medical intervention (hormone replacement therapy, surgery, etc). Until we get our birth certificates and other documents altered, life presents many challenges that just aren't there for others, such as when applying for a job and the name and gender you're using doesn't match your paperwork. Everyone else can keep details of their private life away from employers if they so choose.
Also, if you browse at -1, you've probably seen some of the attacks on me that are specific to transsexuals. I think it's important that other transsexuals who have not been outed (and slashdot has more than a few, both pre- and post-transition) see that in the end, they're just words, and being outed isn't the end of the world. If it happens, it happens, the only thing it changes is now that's one thing less to worry about :-) Though some people still go nuts over which toilet we're supposed to use, and will still insist that, no matter what the law says, we're still our previous gender.
Hope this helps.
Looks like North Korea is the paper tiger. And Kim Jong Un needs a new speech-writer - the republican base claims prior art.
Originally LGBT stood for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual. The last has been changed to transgender, and includes a much broader spectrum. So, the small t is there to differentiate the two (because there are so many people who don't really understand the difference, so they ask questions, which is a good thing).
Long pork - the other "other white meat".
I call those things trivia tests. They're "fun" because there are usually two, mutually exclusive, valid answers depending on the marker's interpretation.
BTW: There are no "two" interpretations to the questions you gave as examples.
Wait a decade.
On second thought, it pumps hard currency into the economy, so I guess not.
What those question was even doing on a senior "cloud" architect position was another matter entirely
It's not irrelevant if the "cloud" is hosted on *nix VMs, or a combination of *nix and windows VMs.
It's not like ICANN or IETF is going to do anything ...
Too true, but the politician has one advantage in winter - he's portable, so you can use his hot air to heat the car instead of sucking off the battery. However, you have to balance that against the extra load, which can be quite significant.
Immigration (legal and illegal).
say you interview as a graduating college senior at Facebook Inc. You may find, to your initial delight, that the place looks just like a fun-loving dorm -- and the adults seem to be missing. But that is a sign of how the profession has devolved in recent years to one lacking in longevity. Many programmers find that their employability starts to decline at about age 35.
Gone by 40
Employers dismiss them as either lacking in up-to-date technical skills -- such as the latest programming-language fad -- or "not suitable for entry level." In other words, either underqualified or overqualified. That doesn’t leave much, does it? Statistics show that most software developers are out of the field by age 40.
Employers have admitted this in unguarded moments. Craig Barrett, a former chief executive officer of Intel Corp., famously remarked that "the half-life of an engineer, software or hardware, is only a few years," while Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook has blurted out that young programmers are superior.
Vivek Wadhwa, a former technology executive and now a business writer and Duke University researcher, wrote that in 2008 David Vaskevitch, then the chief technology officer at Microsoft Corp., acknowledged that "the vast majority of new Microsoft employees are young, but said that this is so because older workers tend to go into more senior jobs and there are fewer of those positions to begin with."
Doesn't matter if you're the best programmer in the world once you hit 40 - it's up or out, and there aren't that many "up" jobs.
And of course, when 95% of the coders jobs don't require excellence (and when you try to work to produce something excellent, management interferes anyway because quality isn't as important as making a shipping date), the local 5% are more than enough. The reason you can't find them is because you've driven them into other fields.
Well, maybe it would be easier if we retained more programmers in the first place. By 40, most programmers have left the industry. - Norman Matloff, professor of computer science, University of California, Davis.
When it comes to programming, it's not the answers that count so much as how one arrives at an answer.
I used to believe that. Never thought to question it, because it's taken as an article of faith in the industry. But it's dead wrong. If you don't get the right answer, you fail, same as any other job. Code it right first, then adjust / optimize as necessary (which is just another way of saying premature optimization is evil). Or, "There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare.
as electricity could be easier to make and store than methane,
Just plug your methane car into a cow, or a politician.
Ur/Web has an entire SQL type, rather than representing SQL as strings, so that the compiler can prove that no SQL injection attacks are possible. (It's not possible to accidentally coerce a string to SQL---you'd have to really try.)
That's a problem with sql, no matter what language you use. There are other ways to design a dbms that don't use sql ...
Even then, you'd never want SQL and logic in the same file
I'd hate to see what your SQL looks like.
I think the answer to that is something along the lines of "You can't because it gets generated at run-time, causing all sorts of problems." Scary.
Your original premise is still wrong, and has been roundly condemned, both on moral and technical grounds. Just because you reversed it based on a possibly fictitious tweet doesn't change the facts - you tried to troll, you got caught because unlike a well-done troll, you showed ignorance of the basic technology in a tech forum (about as dumb as trying to rob a donut shop next door to a police station).
Also, it's the inability for one single day, and people react like crazy kids, not taking a deep breath of fresh air or being able to relax.
You obviously still don't get it if you really believe that. But then again, you're such a lousy troll, who knows? Maybe you really do.