I don't think he had to fight for it. There was never any plan to abandon the office space that Apple already has at the Infinite Loop campus, or any of the dozens of other buildings in the neighborhood.
Nothing wrong with letting interns write code if they go through the same q/a process as anyone else. There were interns writing code in the last group I was in at Apple, and their code was fine. They get valuable experience, and Apple gets to try them out and see whether they should be hired when they graduate. Plenty of Apple's best software engineers started a summer interns.
If the Baby God Dictator of the Norks really is crazy enough to attack an American city, he can do so by delivering it in a cargo container. I only hope that there are minions around him who understand that any use of a nuclear weapon will literally be the last thing that the Pyongyang regime ever does.
Operate robotic cargo flights for a few years and a couple million takeoffs and landings, and there will be a quantifiable record of their performance in all sorts of conditions.
Pretty hard to argue with going robotic once the record shows computers consistently outperforming human pilots.
I really can't tell if you're a deranged nut job, or a very skilled satirist. If the former, get some competent professional help. If the latter, bravo!
While I'm sure that in your social milieu, simply saying "oh, it's Vox Day" is taken as a complete rebuttal to any points he might have made, to those of us who actually expect people to argue their positions with cogent points, you just look like a knee-jerking twat.
I'm expecting that the author will be hounded out of his job by the end of next week, and Google will have a major witch hunt against anyone who fails to denounce him angrily enough.
Then, he'll sue for wrongful termination, google will settle for a mid six-figure sum and get a gag order.
When you hire people to do a job, your fiduciary duty is to select the candidates who are best able to deliver the work. Race, sex, etc. are distractions, and hiring someone on these irrelevant criteria is a breach of that duty.
Honestly, how in the world does someone with so little understanding of data security ever get into any position of authority over innocent people's privacy?
The BSD appropriation was, and is, morally outrageous.
Go fuck yourself. Apple has contributed as much as any organization to the maintenance and improvement of the BSD codebase. Just ask Jordan Hubbard. Not to mention giving away LLVM and LLDB, you ungrateful prick.
They're keeping Infinite Loop and all the rest of the space they've already got in Cupertino. They have a lot of individual offices, and coders aren't even the majority of their staff.
I can't write code in an open-plan office, because headphones are not an adequate substitute for office walls. If I ever went back to Apple, I'd just make it clear that I'd need a private office, or I'd be writing all of my code at home.
It's also a lot easier to show an intern the door if they can't cut it. If they're employees, and you get one who's an incompetent, disruptive and self-absorbed asshole (like Ellen Pao), it can be all kinds trouble to get rid of them.
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I don't think he had to fight for it. There was never any plan to abandon the office space that Apple already has at the Infinite Loop campus, or any of the dozens of other buildings in the neighborhood.
-jcr
Nothing wrong with letting interns write code if they go through the same q/a process as anyone else. There were interns writing code in the last group I was in at Apple, and their code was fine. They get valuable experience, and Apple gets to try them out and see whether they should be hired when they graduate. Plenty of Apple's best software engineers started a summer interns.
-jcr
we are adding CO2 to the atmosphere at a faster pace than the volcanism did back then,
Got figures on that? That's a pretty bold claim, there.
-jcr
If the Baby God Dictator of the Norks really is crazy enough to attack an American city, he can do so by delivering it in a cargo container. I only hope that there are minions around him who understand that any use of a nuclear weapon will literally be the last thing that the Pyongyang regime ever does.
-jcr
So, let us know when there are African customers who can pay for the power at a rate high enough to make back the capital outlays to build the plant.
-jcr
people who are completely divorced from reality?
So, when I point out the uselessness of the ad hominem, you double down on it. Good luck with that.
-jcr
Operate robotic cargo flights for a few years and a couple million takeoffs and landings, and there will be a quantifiable record of their performance in all sorts of conditions.
Pretty hard to argue with going robotic once the record shows computers consistently outperforming human pilots.
-jcr
dehumanizing, sexist, misogynist, homophobic, transphobic, racist, cis-gendered, hetero-normative, privileged viewpoint.
I really can't tell if you're a deranged nut job, or a very skilled satirist. If the former, get some competent professional help. If the latter, bravo!
-jcr
I do it in hopes that someday it will make someone like you burst an aneurism and drop dead.
-jcr
why doesn't he put his "gender-based superiority" to the test
You didn't read it either, did you?
How do you walk with your knees jerking like that?
-jcr
his bullshit MRA manifestos
Didn't read it, did you?
-jcr
linking to anything by Vox Day
Who, after all is a witch, right?
While I'm sure that in your social milieu, simply saying "oh, it's Vox Day" is taken as a complete rebuttal to any points he might have made, to those of us who actually expect people to argue their positions with cogent points, you just look like a knee-jerking twat.
-jcr
I'm expecting that the author will be hounded out of his job by the end of next week, and Google will have a major witch hunt against anyone who fails to denounce him angrily enough.
Then, he'll sue for wrongful termination, google will settle for a mid six-figure sum and get a gag order.
-jcr
What matters is what you can do
Bingo.
When you hire people to do a job, your fiduciary duty is to select the candidates who are best able to deliver the work. Race, sex, etc. are distractions, and hiring someone on these irrelevant criteria is a breach of that duty.
-jcr
Gambling on an unsecurable platform? What could go wrong?
-jcr
That might be satisfying for a moment, but it doesn't really help to get my code written.
-jcr
Honestly, how in the world does someone with so little understanding of data security ever get into any position of authority over innocent people's privacy?
-jcr
The BSD appropriation was, and is, morally outrageous.
Go fuck yourself. Apple has contributed as much as any organization to the maintenance and improvement of the BSD codebase. Just ask Jordan Hubbard. Not to mention giving away LLVM and LLDB, you ungrateful prick.
-jcr
The number of times that another employee has distracted me in that entire time is zero.
Lucky you, but I've been in places where people were tossing beanbags and nerf balls around, and it gets old, really fast.
-jcr
They're keeping Infinite Loop and all the rest of the space they've already got in Cupertino. They have a lot of individual offices, and coders aren't even the majority of their staff.
I can't write code in an open-plan office, because headphones are not an adequate substitute for office walls. If I ever went back to Apple, I'd just make it clear that I'd need a private office, or I'd be writing all of my code at home.
-jcr
It's also a lot easier to show an intern the door if they can't cut it. If they're employees, and you get one who's an incompetent, disruptive and self-absorbed asshole (like Ellen Pao), it can be all kinds trouble to get rid of them.
-jcr
Well, that was weird. I was reading the article about taxes, hit the post button, and it landed here. WTF, Slashdot?
-jcr
Quit pretending that they do. The amount we're taxed is the fault of the congress.
-jcr
Once again, it's demonstrated that government is the realm of people who are too fucking stupid to get a real job.
-jcr
Show me a video of someone demonstrating this alleged exploit, or STFU.
-jcr