Cooks don't write cookbooks so that people can make the foods. They write cookbooks so that they can be writers. That's the objective. Most people who buy cookbooks just read them and gaze lovingly at the photos (which of course have been specially staged by professional photographers). Successfully enabling novices (I hate the word "newbie" outside its computer context) to successfully make delicious food isn't even on the menu.
"Mad Men" is a work of fiction, not a historical documentary. The only thing you learn is the biases of the writers. Stop thinking it is anything but that.
Really? I don't believe that. What about when your political opponents are wrong? Is it not the time for coercive paternalism? "In many cases it would advance our goals more effectively if government were to prevent us from acting in accordance with our decisions."
Hmm, I was told that criticizing our President was racist. You're saying (R) and (D) are the same? By that standard you must be a racist too. How does it feel?
I think the woman in this article was slightly overcompensating due to suffering "Impostor Syndrome". It's totally understandable, given the position of women in tech. So she triggered and went a bit too far, and that's grounds for her to be FUCKING FIRED by her male boss? What is Impostor Syndrome, you ask? I'm glad you asked, it's a chance for you to become educated with what the rest of the world thinks.
Impostor Syndrome describes a situation where someone feels like an impostor or fraud because they think that their accomplishments are nowhere near as good as those of the people around them. Usually, their accomplishments are just as good, and the person is being needlessly insecure. It's especially common in fields where people's work is constantly under review by talented peers, such as academia or Open Source Software.
Women experiencing impostor syndrome may be less willing to put themselves forward, feeling that they are not qualified, by eg:
not applying for jobs, promotions, and other employment opportunities
not submitting papers to conferences or journals
disclaiming or understating their experience/skill when speaking or writing
nervousness about talking to others in their field, especially if those others are perceived as highly skilled/experienced
feeling like a fraud
worrying that someone will find out their lack of qualifications and fire them
having higher stress
overpreparing for tasks
attributing successes to chance or luck
For hiring managers, conference chairs, etc.
Reach out individually to women in addition to making a general advertisement for a job/CFP/etc. Telling each woman that you would value her application.
Avoid asking "please rate your experience/skill" questions during early recruitment phases.
You may want to do background research about potential Women speakers/job applicants/etc and gain an understanding of their experience/skills separate from how they advertise/present themselves.
The questions asked in job interviews may help you see past people's impostor syndrome. For instance, if someone says they worked on a project, ask them what they actually did on the project; it may be that they led it, or otherwise had a key role that they won't mention unless nudged in the right direction.
Good for her. She stood up for herself when she was threatened (triggered). What was the trigger? She saw a photo on main stage of a little girl who had been in the Young Coders workshop. She realized immediately that she had to do something or that little girl would never have the chance to learn and love programming because the ass clowns behind her would make it impossible for the little girl to do so. What did these ass clowns do? They began making sexual forking jokes. What happened after the forking joke? A dongle joke. Incredible. Just like Popeye, she "couldn't stands it no more" and took action.
What did she do? She did what any hero would have done in her situation. She took a photo of the offending hipster males and posted it for the whole world to see. This was an outstanding, very brave effort for a woman who had just been triggered.
She was applauded by the feminist blogosphere, and in the end was fired by a man in a position of power. The fucking patriarchy. Fuck them. Don't believe me, read the entire blog entry she wrote. It is all totally supported by the ideology that rules our campuses today.
To quote her:
"Yesterday the future of programming was on the line and I made myself heard."
Classic. Who can read that without a tear? Can anyone provide a place that I can donate to her legal defense fund?
The "red Chinese" were Second World scum, hello? Or did we not get the memo?
Who can take anyone who, in 2013, uses a word like "red Chinese". As if the nationalists are threatening to come across the Strait of Taiwan in an amphibious invasion of Fujian province or something. Jeez, join us in the modern age old-timer, or to make you more comfortable..."Nixon's the One '68!"
When your political beliefs include the violent overthrow of the U.S. government, that's where the line is drawn. The 50s Communists believed exactly that. They weren't being persecuted for their political beliefs, they were being persecuted for the fact that they wanted to do the federal government what the Tea Party wants to do today. Do you agree with the Tea Party?
There's the party affiliation right in the story! It's an (R) again. Whenever a (D) does something reprehensible, the party affiliation is omitted. Is this a rule or something?
It's always "both parties are equally bad, there is no difference between them" until the offender is identified as an (R), when the narrative about-faces in pure "we have always been at war with Eurasia" fashion to "those (R)s are uniquely horrid".
What are the bosses trying to do with these tactics? Divide and conquer? Perhaps we should all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Well, what did anyone expect? The US government needs money, badly. They will reach out to any and all ways of acquiring more money. They will then immediately spend all the money to obtain more votes for themselves, then borrow against the future income and spend that too. A Republic fails when the uneducated masses learn that they can vote themselves money from the public treasury and that politicians will gladly follow along, even when such a path will certainly lead to their own deaths.
USA didn't join the Geneva Convention until 1862. And yes, the British would execute any rebels they caught, just like today ununiformed combatants are subject to summary battlefield execution. Also conveniently ignoring the Continental Army, which was a regular military force.
Ah, in favor of tyranny - what a surprise. You'll be glad to know you're not alone - intellectuals have been speaking the same words as you, but calling it Coercive Paternalism instead so it sounds good.
"In this book, Sarah Conly rejects the idea of autonomy as inviolable. Thus in many cases it would advance our goals more effectively if government were to prevent us from acting in accordance with our decisions. Her argument challenges widely held views of moral agency, democratic values and the public/private distinction, and will interest readers in ethics, political philosophy, political theory and philosophy of law."
No more freedom because we might make choices that Sarah Conly disagrees with. What was that bit in George Orwell's seminal tract on tyranny, Animal Farm?
"No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?"
No they don't. I know tons of foreign companies here in China and nobody bribes anybody. This is a fallacy held by people who have just read about China from horridly biased Western news reports. Hey, don't believe me, read this from an attorney specializing in China law for foreign companies:
"One of the things I have always found troubling about Westerners doing business in emerging market countries is that they sometimes take an almost perverse pride in discussing payoffs to government officials. It is as though their having paid a bribe is a symbol of their international sophistication and insider knowledge. Yet, countless times when I am told of the bribe, I know the very same thing could almost certainly have been accomplished without a bribe."
--Dan Harris, chinalawblog.com
You should go read his blog. It's highly informative and is chock full of real-life situations. If you are stupid enough to bribe a government official and it becomes critical to your business, you're totally screwed whenever he retires or goes to jail for corruption (the only two possible outcomes to your relationship).
You can't keep rats out. They get in. They are smart and tough and are capable of amazing feats of ingenuity. They are one of humanity's oldest enemies for a reason.
Blaming the parents is no good. They are the way they are due to systemic, endemic racism in America. Blame the racists, the parents are victims as much as the children.
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling, which thinks that nothing is worth war, is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
-- John Stuart Mill
"We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun."
-- Mao Tse-Tung
"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."
-- Leon Trotsky
Morality bypass? Where did that nonsense come from? Please provide a citation. Drones (at least US drones) are provided with quite strict ROE (rules of engagement) and Youtube is stuffed with videos in which drone operators curse but are unable to engage targets due to ROE restrictions.
Are you sure you aren't just regurgitating groupthink that you got of some website? Why don't you try thinking for yourself for a change?
Fatness was a sign that you had enough to eat, and thus a sign of fitness. It has not functioned in this way for a long time now. Even back then, "fat" did not mean the lumbering whales we see today. Look at famous fat men like W.C. Fields or Curly from the Three Stooges. They're quite modest by today's standards.
It's very very sad that there must be an active "Keep Austin Weird" movement. Yaknow, when I lived there (left not by my own will in '98) it was just plain weird by itself and didn't need any sort of artificial campaign. In fact I would argue that some campaign actually decreases the amount of genuine weirdness, as it encourages people to create a contrived weirdness where none existed before. Sad. What happened to my beloved city in the last 15 years?
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Whenever feminists talk about tolerance, they are never talking about themselves.
Cooks don't write cookbooks so that people can make the foods. They write cookbooks so that they can be writers. That's the objective. Most people who buy cookbooks just read them and gaze lovingly at the photos (which of course have been specially staged by professional photographers). Successfully enabling novices (I hate the word "newbie" outside its computer context) to successfully make delicious food isn't even on the menu.
"Mad Men" is a work of fiction, not a historical documentary. The only thing you learn is the biases of the writers. Stop thinking it is anything but that.
Really? I don't believe that. What about when your political opponents are wrong? Is it not the time for coercive paternalism? "In many cases it would advance our goals more effectively if government were to prevent us from acting in accordance with our decisions."
So, agree or disagree?
Hmm, I was told that criticizing our President was racist. You're saying (R) and (D) are the same? By that standard you must be a racist too. How does it feel?
When did anyone get the idea that this was a joke? It is deadly real.
Mmmmm no, I think it's media bias. Quick question: is the New York Times a liberal newspaper?
I think the woman in this article was slightly overcompensating due to suffering "Impostor Syndrome". It's totally understandable, given the position of women in tech. So she triggered and went a bit too far, and that's grounds for her to be FUCKING FIRED by her male boss? What is Impostor Syndrome, you ask? I'm glad you asked, it's a chance for you to become educated with what the rest of the world thinks.
Impostor Syndrome describes a situation where someone feels like an impostor or fraud because they think that their accomplishments are nowhere near as good as those of the people around them. Usually, their accomplishments are just as good, and the person is being needlessly insecure. It's especially common in fields where people's work is constantly under review by talented peers, such as academia or Open Source Software.
Women experiencing impostor syndrome may be less willing to put themselves forward, feeling that they are not qualified, by eg:
For hiring managers, conference chairs, etc.
One woman's story about Imposter Syndrome and how it affected her geek career. This is serious stuff, people. If we can't overcome this, then women will never be accepted as equals in tech. :(
Good for her. She stood up for herself when she was threatened (triggered). What was the trigger? She saw a photo on main stage of a little girl who had been in the Young Coders workshop. She realized immediately that she had to do something or that little girl would never have the chance to learn and love programming because the ass clowns behind her would make it impossible for the little girl to do so. What did these ass clowns do? They began making sexual forking jokes. What happened after the forking joke? A dongle joke. Incredible. Just like Popeye, she "couldn't stands it no more" and took action.
What did she do? She did what any hero would have done in her situation. She took a photo of the offending hipster males and posted it for the whole world to see. This was an outstanding, very brave effort for a woman who had just been triggered. She was applauded by the feminist blogosphere, and in the end was fired by a man in a position of power. The fucking patriarchy. Fuck them. Don't believe me, read the entire blog entry she wrote. It is all totally supported by the ideology that rules our campuses today. To quote her:
Classic. Who can read that without a tear? Can anyone provide a place that I can donate to her legal defense fund?
The "red Chinese" were Second World scum, hello? Or did we not get the memo?
Who can take anyone who, in 2013, uses a word like "red Chinese". As if the nationalists are threatening to come across the Strait of Taiwan in an amphibious invasion of Fujian province or something. Jeez, join us in the modern age old-timer, or to make you more comfortable..."Nixon's the One '68!"
When your political beliefs include the violent overthrow of the U.S. government, that's where the line is drawn. The 50s Communists believed exactly that. They weren't being persecuted for their political beliefs, they were being persecuted for the fact that they wanted to do the federal government what the Tea Party wants to do today. Do you agree with the Tea Party?
There's the party affiliation right in the story! It's an (R) again. Whenever a (D) does something reprehensible, the party affiliation is omitted. Is this a rule or something?
It's always "both parties are equally bad, there is no difference between them" until the offender is identified as an (R), when the narrative about-faces in pure "we have always been at war with Eurasia" fashion to "those (R)s are uniquely horrid".
What are the bosses trying to do with these tactics? Divide and conquer? Perhaps we should all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
To be fair, McCarthy was right. There really were Communists in the State Department.
Well, what did anyone expect? The US government needs money, badly. They will reach out to any and all ways of acquiring more money. They will then immediately spend all the money to obtain more votes for themselves, then borrow against the future income and spend that too. A Republic fails when the uneducated masses learn that they can vote themselves money from the public treasury and that politicians will gladly follow along, even when such a path will certainly lead to their own deaths.
USA didn't join the Geneva Convention until 1862. And yes, the British would execute any rebels they caught, just like today ununiformed combatants are subject to summary battlefield execution. Also conveniently ignoring the Continental Army, which was a regular military force.
Ah, in favor of tyranny - what a surprise. You'll be glad to know you're not alone - intellectuals have been speaking the same words as you, but calling it Coercive Paternalism instead so it sounds good.
"In this book, Sarah Conly rejects the idea of autonomy as inviolable. Thus in many cases it would advance our goals more effectively if government were to prevent us from acting in accordance with our decisions. Her argument challenges widely held views of moral agency, democratic values and the public/private distinction, and will interest readers in ethics, political philosophy, political theory and philosophy of law."
No more freedom because we might make choices that Sarah Conly disagrees with. What was that bit in George Orwell's seminal tract on tyranny, Animal Farm?
"No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?"
I have flash installed on my Android phone and I don't think I've ever used it once. No big loss.
No they don't. I know tons of foreign companies here in China and nobody bribes anybody. This is a fallacy held by people who have just read about China from horridly biased Western news reports. Hey, don't believe me, read this from an attorney specializing in China law for foreign companies:
"One of the things I have always found troubling about Westerners doing business in emerging market countries is that they sometimes take an almost perverse pride in discussing payoffs to government officials. It is as though their having paid a bribe is a symbol of their international sophistication and insider knowledge. Yet, countless times when I am told of the bribe, I know the very same thing could almost certainly have been accomplished without a bribe."
--Dan Harris, chinalawblog.com
You should go read his blog. It's highly informative and is chock full of real-life situations. If you are stupid enough to bribe a government official and it becomes critical to your business, you're totally screwed whenever he retires or goes to jail for corruption (the only two possible outcomes to your relationship).
You can't keep rats out. They get in. They are smart and tough and are capable of amazing feats of ingenuity. They are one of humanity's oldest enemies for a reason.
Blaming the parents is no good. They are the way they are due to systemic, endemic racism in America. Blame the racists, the parents are victims as much as the children.
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling, which thinks that nothing is worth war, is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
-- John Stuart Mill
"We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun." -- Mao Tse-Tung
"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."
-- Leon Trotsky
Are you sure you aren't just regurgitating groupthink that you got of some website? Why don't you try thinking for yourself for a change?
Fatness was a sign that you had enough to eat, and thus a sign of fitness. It has not functioned in this way for a long time now. Even back then, "fat" did not mean the lumbering whales we see today. Look at famous fat men like W.C. Fields or Curly from the Three Stooges. They're quite modest by today's standards.
Whenever liberals are talking about tolerance, they are never talking about themselves.
Oh yeah, hipsters. Good job, assholes.