That's pretty much the ad-hoc approach everyone takes, but we can't give it a fancy buzz word so there's no love shown for it in terms of "this is our process." It sounds way too simple, too hard to get any real metrics, and reduces the role of managers to what they should be doing - getting the resources needed and keeping outsiders from meddling.
Both of the people were mentally ill. Bibeau, the homeless Ottawa killer, had a history of violence, drug addiction, and mental instability, including 12 convictions in Quebec between 2001 and 2011 for crimes including drug possession, impaired driving, weapons offences, assault causing bodily harm, theft, and possession of break-in tools, which started long before he converted to islam.
Rouleau, the Quebec killer, had been taken to a psychiatric hospital by his father, but they couldn't keep him when he said he wanted to leave. He had drug problems, had to be in a special school for kids with discipline problems when he was younger, his personal life had fallen apart, his business had failed and last year at 24 he turned to islam, looking for something to cling to where he wouldn't feel like an inadequate failure, and was attracted to the extremists on the net and in the media.
Most people are able to make the distinction between a nutbar using a religion as a smokescreen to their using violence to escape their own failures or shortcomings, and the majority who peacefully practice that same religion. This applies equally to muslims, christians, atheists, or whatever your personal preference or poison.
Islam is a peaceful religion, that's why followers just went out of their way to do this. And in Canada we had two terrorist attacks(one in Quebec), and another on Parliament Hill in two days.
By mentally ill Canadians who converted for all the wrong reasons.
Thanks to government regulation here, no taxi may be older than 10 years, an operator buying a vehicle to replace a "retired" taxi vehicle must not be older than 5 years, and taxis are subject to inspections (both mechanical and cleanliness). And they have to be of a certain minimum size, so you have decent leg and headroom. And the drivers need both a drivers license with the proper endorsement as well as a separate taxi driver permit. And mandatory training.
Even uber can't survive in an unregulated market if other internet taxi companies enter the market flood it with even more taxis.
So you are saying that if anyone can enter a market, the number of vendors will skyrocket until it reaches zero?
Actually that's what often happens. Someone's making money, many others flock to the market, nobody ends up profitable, market retrenchment. Remember all the x86-compatible cpu manufacturers... most bit the dust. Or the mom-and-pop computer stores? Or all the different donut franchises? Or now, all the new mobile developers who aren't even breaking even and are running on a wing and a prayer?
It wasn't that I didn't want to help my group mates the previous semester. Our classes also had usenet newsgroups internal to the university network, and I was one of several students who pseudonymously spent a lot of time explaining lecture topics and helping other classmates interpret the problem statements late at night during project crunch times.
It seemed my groupmates much pride and/or insecurity to reveal that they were in over their heads. It was only when I was later assigned as their tutor that they opened up about their struggles. I suppose this was a learning experience for me as well, preparing me to be more cynical and pessimistic about any promises made by coworkers during my career...
Unfortunate but true. People will back away from previous promises even as they still admit that it's in their best interest not to. It's the "somebody, everybody, anybody, nobody" syndrome.
Or my shortened variant:
There was an important job to be done and Everybody was asked to do it.
Everybody was sure Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
My name is Nobody*.
*Yes, that's a reference to the spaghetti western of the same name.
It's more likely that the news sites would have to pay to be listed.
That is an option. Wouldn't it be lovely if Google offered to bring back the news aggregator only if subsidized by the papers?
Better yet, getting permission to put more than just snippets online. Host the whole damn paper, rather than the individual publishers having to have their own platforms. The publishers still get ad revenue, and an improved online presence, without as much overhead in their online department.
Of course their print edition will tank, but it already is, so what DO they have to lose?
Coming from Canada, I'll give you an example of the problem with Google News. PS I'm not french.
1) Clicking the news tab will always default to the US news. Even if Google is forcing the google.ca domain
Strange. I live in Kanuckistan and I don't have that problem. If you allow cookies, or have a gmail account, it will default to whatever you looked at last. Select English Canada from the dropdown, problem solved.
2) There are hundreds of news sources world wide, and sometimes there is overlap between Canadian news and American news, or Canadian news and Australian or UK news. For example looking up news for "Translink" which is the transportation authority in Vancouver,Canada will also bring up news from the UK Translink as well. And sometimes it will mix up the sources within the same context. eg "Translink considering fare increase" will mix in "Translink mayors considering tax increase" The former being the UK issue while the latter being the Canada issue.
Maybe you should have typed "translink vancouver"? And it would help if you were on the English Canada version (see note above).
3) Since Google News can't use language as a partition, you have to be at least somewhat familiar with at least two local news sources. In BC this would be Global News (Owned by Shaw Media) and the Vancouver Sun/The Province (Post Media News) both sources were formerly Canwest media. Also the CBC is an easily identified Canadian source. Items that show up on the CBC are likely of Canadian relevance.
??? "language as a partition"??? Are you seeing stories from the Journal de Montreal, Le Devoir, and TVA?
4) However there is regional overlap. Take the Weather. The recent Pineapple Express that caused torrential rain along BC, Washington, Oregon and California. This is a case where Google News can't figure out local news at all, so the top of the list will be sources like CNN, even in Canada.
Just because someone lives in any particular area doesn't mean that stories about other areas aren't of interest. The bigger the news event, the broader the distribution. The crash of an airliner is news for the world. The crash of your car is not, unless you're Princess Di or someone equally high-visibility. And if you had entered "pineapple express british columbia", the first story is about bc.
Yes, I'm glad to see someone is finally growing a pair and standing up to this nonsense.
Funny how, just like in Germany, the newspaper publishers scream that Google is killing them, but when Google leaves they complain that Google's leaving is killing them.
They're looking to blame anyone except themselves. Google is the target du jour.
I've answered this before, in part to combat the rumors that pass for knowledge about anything and everything associated with people like me, but just as importantly to encourage others that they are not alone and needn't seek help because of fears of how others would react, under the "pay it forward" theory. And since you've been very polite about it, I won't dodge the question just with an "It's complicated" - even though it is.
Before I transitioned I was certain that I would end up a lesbian. The thought of being attracted to males was preposterous on the face of it. So you can imagine my shock when I was at supper with a bunch of friends and realized that my mind had wandered off into so-called forbidden territory. My first thought was "OMG it must be written all over my face!" My second thought was "Well, there's no way in hell that I'm going back, that's a death sentence. I'm going to see this through to the end, no matter what surprises are in store for me." And my third was "Gee, I guess I'm more of a conventional woman than I gave myself credit for. I can live with that."
The big "problem", if you will, is that some people will use that to re-interpret your history. "You must have always been secretly attracted to men blah blah blah." In cases like mine, where it's not true, it can lead to problems, such as one former friend who really over-reacted, possibly because he re-interpreted our friendship upon supposing I had always been attracted to men (he's not exactly gay-friendly). Such assumptions also cloud the facts, that in transsexuals, "sometimes it changes, sometimes it don't, it's okay either way, there's no way to know ahead of time so don't freak out if it happens."
I know m2f women who continued to be attracted to women, others who were gay who stayed attracted to men, and others who, like me, had their "WFT" moment. It's complicated, but that doesn't mean it's not worth it:-) Hope this answers at least some of the questions floating around.
Perhaps you've never worked in a startup. Or worse, Microsoft (read the comments). Even in 1990, Microsoft had a really bad reputation. An engineer friend warned me off when they called.
First I consider pair programming to be an excuse, not a solution. The excuse is to justify hiring two inferior programmers for less money combined than one superior programmer who may command a salary higher than their supervisor.
If the average male programmer had a chance to be paired with Penny or Bernadette, he'd be asking himself "What would Leonard or Howard do?" But only after the blood returns to his brain.
Your proposal is, of course, better than what Google et al are pushing, but it doesn't have the same PR value. And that's what this is really all about.
In my experience, someone who really knows their material loves sharing it with others, rather than "feeding potential competition."
Or, as Albert Einstein was asked when he was helping an 8-year-old with her math homework, "We have a system. I help her with her math and she shares her jelly beans." The satisfaction is from the act of sharing, not what was shared, because he could have bought a LOT of jellybeans.
I am not there to teach or learn communication, I am just there to learn the technical material.
Then stay at home, read 120 books on the subject (the "read a book a month for 10 years" theory), and save all that tuition.
Oh, right, you're not really there just to "learn the technical material." The paperwork attesting to it is more important... so you're really there so you can eventually get a job by meeting HR's checklist.
I went to college to learn, not to teach other people or get a piece of paper that said I knew something. If I'm not learning, I want my money back.
The most important part of college wasn't what you learned - it was probably nearly obsolete when they were teaching it to you - but learning how to learn. That includes such things as learning how to interact in a social environment without your parents being called if you got a bit out of line, went to class with a hangover (or brought beer to class - did that once for the last class, and me and my psych teacher sat drinking it while everyone else who said they'd bring but chickened out learned an important lesson), etc.
This is the most naive statement I've ever seen on Slashdot. And I've seen some real doozies.
You think some nerdy 18 year old who spent his high school years hacking the Linux kernel is going to magically understand how to interact with other people and "break down the gender divide"? They'll send every woman who joins the class screaming off into the arms of the nearest humanities professor within a week.
Riiiight, like how many 18-year-olds are kernel hackers? Just downloading and compiling it doesn't count as "hacking the kernel".
No wonder kids today fail to escape the stereotype box - nobody else is willing to challenge the "truthiness" of the stereotypes. Herd Mentality Uber Ales.
If you assign each of these to pair up with someone who isn't as far along, then the "isn't as far along" people will flee en masse from the courses. 18 year old male Asperger's cases are NOT the ones you want assigned primary responsibility for teaching at the university level. Unless you want to assure that you're industry is comprised of nothing but 22 year old Asperger's cases.
Playing to stereotypes isn't the way to advance your argument. Most programmers don't have Asperger's (and that's even including the "self-diagnosed", which isn't a valid criteria). Also, where did I say "primary responsibility?" Oops, I didn't. This is no excuse for the instructors to duck out of their teaching and supervision responsibilities.
But if you want to play with stereotypes, here's one "Most of those horny male nerds are just like The Big Bang Theory, and would take ANY excuse to be paired up a woman, and would do everything to suck up and not screw it up, just like Leonard with Penny and Howard with Bernadette."
Part of learning is learning how to communicate knowledge to others as well, not just passively receiving knowledge. I'm not saying the other student should be the exclusive instructor - just that pairing them up, under the guidance of the teacher, is not only a good lesson in learning teamwork and communications skills, but also breaks down the gender divide - kill two birds with one stone.
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That's pretty much the ad-hoc approach everyone takes, but we can't give it a fancy buzz word so there's no love shown for it in terms of "this is our process." It sounds way too simple, too hard to get any real metrics, and reduces the role of managers to what they should be doing - getting the resources needed and keeping outsiders from meddling.
Both of the people were mentally ill. Bibeau, the homeless Ottawa killer, had a history of violence, drug addiction, and mental instability, including 12 convictions in Quebec between 2001 and 2011 for crimes including drug possession, impaired driving, weapons offences, assault causing bodily harm, theft, and possession of break-in tools, which started long before he converted to islam.
Rouleau, the Quebec killer, had been taken to a psychiatric hospital by his father, but they couldn't keep him when he said he wanted to leave. He had drug problems, had to be in a special school for kids with discipline problems when he was younger, his personal life had fallen apart, his business had failed and last year at 24 he turned to islam, looking for something to cling to where he wouldn't feel like an inadequate failure, and was attracted to the extremists on the net and in the media.
Most people are able to make the distinction between a nutbar using a religion as a smokescreen to their using violence to escape their own failures or shortcomings, and the majority who peacefully practice that same religion. This applies equally to muslims, christians, atheists, or whatever your personal preference or poison.
Islam is a peaceful religion, that's why followers just went out of their way to do this. And in Canada we had two terrorist attacks(one in Quebec), and another on Parliament Hill in two days.
By mentally ill Canadians who converted for all the wrong reasons.
i did not know that, thank you.
You're very welcome :-)
Thanks to government regulation here, no taxi may be older than 10 years, an operator buying a vehicle to replace a "retired" taxi vehicle must not be older than 5 years, and taxis are subject to inspections (both mechanical and cleanliness). And they have to be of a certain minimum size, so you have decent leg and headroom. And the drivers need both a drivers license with the proper endorsement as well as a separate taxi driver permit. And mandatory training.
Uber? Not so much.
English is the worldwide official language for commercial airline pilots, not cab drivers.
Nope. Both English and French are official languages for commercial airline pilots and air traffic control in Quebec. And ICAO allows the use of both English and the native language of the ground controllers.
Even uber can't survive in an unregulated market if other internet taxi companies enter the market flood it with even more taxis.
So you are saying that if anyone can enter a market, the number of vendors will skyrocket until it reaches zero?
Actually that's what often happens. Someone's making money, many others flock to the market, nobody ends up profitable, market retrenchment. Remember all the x86-compatible cpu manufacturers ... most bit the dust. Or the mom-and-pop computer stores? Or all the different donut franchises? Or now, all the new mobile developers who aren't even breaking even and are running on a wing and a prayer?
#define career life
It wasn't that I didn't want to help my group mates the previous semester. Our classes also had usenet newsgroups internal to the university network, and I was one of several students who pseudonymously spent a lot of time explaining lecture topics and helping other classmates interpret the problem statements late at night during project crunch times.
It seemed my groupmates much pride and/or insecurity to reveal that they were in over their heads. It was only when I was later assigned as their tutor that they opened up about their struggles. I suppose this was a learning experience for me as well, preparing me to be more cynical and pessimistic about any promises made by coworkers during my career...
Unfortunate but true. People will back away from previous promises even as they still admit that it's in their best interest not to. It's the "somebody, everybody, anybody, nobody" syndrome.
Or my shortened variant:
There was an important job to be done and Everybody was asked to do it.
Everybody was sure Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
My name is Nobody*.
*Yes, that's a reference to the spaghetti western of the same name.
Yeah, they should have asked bennet what he thinks... not some actor.
Bennett won;t have anything to do with a story about blade runners - he's a replicant.
On the bright side ... someone should be able to calculate how much longer we need to wait before he times out ...
Because the last 'd' is almost silent? You're not the only one who heard it as "Decker."
Google is very much aware of the "camel's nose" problem.
It's more likely that the news sites would have to pay to be listed.
That is an option. Wouldn't it be lovely if Google offered to bring back the news aggregator only if subsidized by the papers?
Better yet, getting permission to put more than just snippets online. Host the whole damn paper, rather than the individual publishers having to have their own platforms. The publishers still get ad revenue, and an improved online presence, without as much overhead in their online department.
Of course their print edition will tank, but it already is, so what DO they have to lose?
Coming from Canada, I'll give you an example of the problem with Google News. PS I'm not french.
1) Clicking the news tab will always default to the US news. Even if Google is forcing the google.ca domain
Strange. I live in Kanuckistan and I don't have that problem. If you allow cookies, or have a gmail account, it will default to whatever you looked at last. Select English Canada from the dropdown, problem solved.
2) There are hundreds of news sources world wide, and sometimes there is overlap between Canadian news and American news, or Canadian news and Australian or UK news. For example looking up news for "Translink" which is the transportation authority in Vancouver,Canada will also bring up news from the UK Translink as well. And sometimes it will mix up the sources within the same context. eg "Translink considering fare increase" will mix in "Translink mayors considering tax increase" The former being the UK issue while the latter being the Canada issue.
Maybe you should have typed "translink vancouver"? And it would help if you were on the English Canada version (see note above).
3) Since Google News can't use language as a partition, you have to be at least somewhat familiar with at least two local news sources. In BC this would be Global News (Owned by Shaw Media) and the Vancouver Sun/The Province (Post Media News) both sources were formerly Canwest media. Also the CBC is an easily identified Canadian source. Items that show up on the CBC are likely of Canadian relevance.
??? "language as a partition"??? Are you seeing stories from the Journal de Montreal, Le Devoir, and TVA?
4) However there is regional overlap. Take the Weather. The recent Pineapple Express that caused torrential rain along BC, Washington, Oregon and California. This is a case where Google News can't figure out local news at all, so the top of the list will be sources like CNN, even in Canada.
Just because someone lives in any particular area doesn't mean that stories about other areas aren't of interest. The bigger the news event, the broader the distribution. The crash of an airliner is news for the world. The crash of your car is not, unless you're Princess Di or someone equally high-visibility. And if you had entered "pineapple express british columbia", the first story is about bc.
Google needs to play this card more often.
Yes, I'm glad to see someone is finally growing a pair and standing up to this nonsense.
Funny how, just like in Germany, the newspaper publishers scream that Google is killing them, but when Google leaves they complain that Google's leaving is killing them.
They're looking to blame anyone except themselves. Google is the target du jour.
Proof that even replicants can make mistakes :-)
Ghost Writer, or Zombie Writer? :)
Replicant writer, of course!
"I'm a replicant, you insensitive clod!" :-)
I've answered this before, in part to combat the rumors that pass for knowledge about anything and everything associated with people like me, but just as importantly to encourage others that they are not alone and needn't seek help because of fears of how others would react, under the "pay it forward" theory. And since you've been very polite about it, I won't dodge the question just with an "It's complicated" - even though it is.
Before I transitioned I was certain that I would end up a lesbian. The thought of being attracted to males was preposterous on the face of it. So you can imagine my shock when I was at supper with a bunch of friends and realized that my mind had wandered off into so-called forbidden territory. My first thought was "OMG it must be written all over my face!" My second thought was "Well, there's no way in hell that I'm going back, that's a death sentence. I'm going to see this through to the end, no matter what surprises are in store for me." And my third was "Gee, I guess I'm more of a conventional woman than I gave myself credit for. I can live with that."
The big "problem", if you will, is that some people will use that to re-interpret your history. "You must have always been secretly attracted to men blah blah blah." In cases like mine, where it's not true, it can lead to problems, such as one former friend who really over-reacted, possibly because he re-interpreted our friendship upon supposing I had always been attracted to men (he's not exactly gay-friendly). Such assumptions also cloud the facts, that in transsexuals, "sometimes it changes, sometimes it don't, it's okay either way, there's no way to know ahead of time so don't freak out if it happens."
I know m2f women who continued to be attracted to women, others who were gay who stayed attracted to men, and others who, like me, had their "WFT" moment. It's complicated, but that doesn't mean it's not worth it :-) Hope this answers at least some of the questions floating around.
Perhaps you've never worked in a startup. Or worse, Microsoft (read the comments). Even in 1990, Microsoft had a really bad reputation. An engineer friend warned me off when they called.
First I consider pair programming to be an excuse, not a solution. The excuse is to justify hiring two inferior programmers for less money combined than one superior programmer who may command a salary higher than their supervisor.
If the average male programmer had a chance to be paired with Penny or Bernadette, he'd be asking himself "What would Leonard or Howard do?" But only after the blood returns to his brain.
Your proposal is, of course, better than what Google et al are pushing, but it doesn't have the same PR value. And that's what this is really all about.
In my experience, someone who really knows their material loves sharing it with others, rather than "feeding potential competition."
Or, as Albert Einstein was asked when he was helping an 8-year-old with her math homework, "We have a system. I help her with her math and she shares her jelly beans." The satisfaction is from the act of sharing, not what was shared, because he could have bought a LOT of jellybeans.
I am not there to teach or learn communication, I am just there to learn the technical material.
Then stay at home, read 120 books on the subject (the "read a book a month for 10 years" theory), and save all that tuition.
Oh, right, you're not really there just to "learn the technical material." The paperwork attesting to it is more important ... so you're really there so you can eventually get a job by meeting HR's checklist.
I went to college to learn, not to teach other people or get a piece of paper that said I knew something. If I'm not learning, I want my money back.
The most important part of college wasn't what you learned - it was probably nearly obsolete when they were teaching it to you - but learning how to learn. That includes such things as learning how to interact in a social environment without your parents being called if you got a bit out of line, went to class with a hangover (or brought beer to class - did that once for the last class, and me and my psych teacher sat drinking it while everyone else who said they'd bring but chickened out learned an important lesson), etc.
You know, real life?
Oh, and I aced the class.
This is the most naive statement I've ever seen on Slashdot. And I've seen some real doozies.
You think some nerdy 18 year old who spent his high school years hacking the Linux kernel is going to magically understand how to interact with other people and "break down the gender divide"? They'll send every woman who joins the class screaming off into the arms of the nearest humanities professor within a week.
Riiiight, like how many 18-year-olds are kernel hackers? Just downloading and compiling it doesn't count as "hacking the kernel".
No wonder kids today fail to escape the stereotype box - nobody else is willing to challenge the "truthiness" of the stereotypes. Herd Mentality Uber Ales.
No, they are a problem, not a resource.
If you assign each of these to pair up with someone who isn't as far along, then the "isn't as far along" people will flee en masse from the courses. 18 year old male Asperger's cases are NOT the ones you want assigned primary responsibility for teaching at the university level. Unless you want to assure that you're industry is comprised of nothing but 22 year old Asperger's cases.
Playing to stereotypes isn't the way to advance your argument. Most programmers don't have Asperger's (and that's even including the "self-diagnosed", which isn't a valid criteria). Also, where did I say "primary responsibility?" Oops, I didn't. This is no excuse for the instructors to duck out of their teaching and supervision responsibilities.
But if you want to play with stereotypes, here's one "Most of those horny male nerds are just like The Big Bang Theory, and would take ANY excuse to be paired up a woman, and would do everything to suck up and not screw it up, just like Leonard with Penny and Howard with Bernadette."
Part of learning is learning how to communicate knowledge to others as well, not just passively receiving knowledge. I'm not saying the other student should be the exclusive instructor - just that pairing them up, under the guidance of the teacher, is not only a good lesson in learning teamwork and communications skills, but also breaks down the gender divide - kill two birds with one stone.