(I'm a Comcast subscriber and I'm pretty sure that their developers and testers and developers at their STB suppliers have open plan work spaces. That's the only rational explanation I have for how a fairly simple product could be updated with new software regularly and the new software has as many bugs as the prior version - just 50% of the bugs are new and 50% of the old bugs are gone. It's maddening).
I once applied for a job at one of them. They were offering considerably less than market rate. It was cubicles, not open plan, but pay peanuts, get monkeys.
Pied Piper's Sexual Harassment Policy was probably based on Google
Pied Piper will, of course, have zero tolerance for harassment based on gender, race, sexuality, religion or lack thereof, class, trans status or ableness. Pied Piper will also of course not merely prohibit harassment that is direct and public but also less direct harassment that creates a hostile workplace. But furthermore, Pied Piper will join the cutting edge of the harassment-detection industry in forbidding microaggressions, nanoaggresions, picoaggressions, yoctoaggressions and all such oppression "particles," if you will, down to the quantum level.
Pied Piper additionally forbids man-splaining, white-splaining, straight-splaining, cis-splaining, able-splaining, splain-splaining, splain-plaining, splain-shaming and, in general, saying things people doesn't like. Discussion or possession of the Kurt Vonnegut short story âoeHarrison Bergeronâ will be grounds for immediate termination.
Next Tuesday, I will lead a harassment workshop, "Understanding Why What You're Saying Is Terrible." There will be cupcakes.
Sure. That's just rational behavior. If a guy cries in the office, he's seen as weak and everyone piles on him, so he keeps it inside. If a woman cries in the office, she's seen as put-upon and everyone piles on the guy she claims is responsible.
One great thing about my current company is no one was talking about it on the company forums. Not on the dedicated project forums, not on the general lists.
You're forgetting the program in which applicants who were declined by hiring committee could be sent back through for another chance. And this was mainly used for applicants from underrepresented minorities. Created a huge stir when someone suggested it was lowering the bar (even though it obviously is, even if only slightly).
That is a lot more than suspicion. That is the US attorney convincing a grand-jury that there was enough evidence to warrant a full trial to evaluate the merits of six different charges.
That's pretty much nothing, given the maxim that a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if the prosecution wants them to.
Didn't read it, did you? It does say that a cease&desist can trigger the CFAA. It does not say "The CFAA applies immediately or when the defendant (or defendant to be) exceeds the permitted access". In fact, it specifically says violation of terms of use cannot trigger liability under the CFAA.
They believe that open plan offices promote creative interaction while closed offices promote focused productivity, and they choose to favor the former over the latter.
The only people who believe that have spent the last few years of their working lives in a private office which could hold 40 employees under open-plan standards, with a private executive washroom too. That's what you need to be so out of touch as to believe that.
It has not been tested in court that the CFAA covers violating terms of use.
Yes, it has, but only in the Central District of California as far as I know. The interpretation that the CFAA covers violating TOS was found to be overbroad in U.S. v. Drew, 259 F.R.D. 449 (C. D. Cal. 2009).
If you've got dirt on a company and you start disparaging them, the only thing them suing you to silence you is going to do is to get all the dirt out and convince everyone involved it's true. The problem is that if you disparage a former employer, you risk making yourself unemployable. If you make a big enough splash to affect them, chances are everyone in the industry will hear about it, and you'll be known as trouble. If you don't make a big enough splash to affect them, why bother?
I'm a mid-forties software engineers, got a job recently, had two offers within two months. But I'm not in the Valley, which may make a difference.
And then there's the widespread discrimination based on sex and ethnicity.
Yeah, there's that. If they manage to get enough competent people getting a CS major that they can discard some to even out the gender balance, it could get tough for competent white males, even competent ones. Mostly theoretical, though; last time a lot of people went into the major because they thought that was where the money is, they mostly weren't very good and dropped out at the first sign of adversity. When the dot com bust hit, the remainder vanished.
Learn how to replace the sash weights of a double-hung window.
Why the hell would you ever replace the weights? The cords, yes, but the weights last a lifetime. Of course if your window is reasonably new it probably has springs instead.
...by drawing a straightish line on a graph. Doesn't mean it'll actually happen. Also, I doubt that "nighttime solar" (and no, we won't have world-spanning transmission lines either) and "calm wind" power is going to become available any time soon, and storage is still a problem.
Alright, Mr. armchair CEO, what would *you* have done to fix Yahoo?
I have no particular issues with Mayer's performance at Yahoo; as far as I'm concerned, that company probably could not be saved. However, I have heard that she was a difficult person to work for.
Short memories. Mayer's position is basically that of someone appointed to captain the Titanic after it hit the iceberg. She probably took the job because she wanted "CEO" among her accomplishments, but bringing that ship safely to shore just wasn't going to happen. That she managed to delay the sinking this long is reasonably impressive.
You're looking for the easy scapegoat, and ignoring the very real issue of under-treated pain and its consequences.
Drug warriors DO NOT CARE. They would rather you suffer in pain than use opoids regularly. The more hardcore of them would prefer you suffer in pain rather than use opoids _at all_. To them, taking drugs is a moral failing, whatever the reason.
The Sharp Aquos series was top quality some years ago. Then Sharp split the brand so the low-end was the outsourced crap and the high-end was still good. I guess at some point they started outsourcing the high end; big mistake.
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I once applied for a job at one of them. They were offering considerably less than market rate. It was cubicles, not open plan, but pay peanuts, get monkeys.
Pied Piper's Sexual Harassment Policy was probably based on Google
(the cupcakes were a lie)
The Google employee handbook is, let us say, notoriously incoherent.
Sure. That's just rational behavior. If a guy cries in the office, he's seen as weak and everyone piles on him, so he keeps it inside. If a woman cries in the office, she's seen as put-upon and everyone piles on the guy she claims is responsible.
Indeed, the first six, recruited during WWII. This situation might just be a bit of a special case.
Which of Alonzo Church and Alan Turing is the woman?
One great thing about my current company is no one was talking about it on the company forums. Not on the dedicated project forums, not on the general lists.
You're forgetting the program in which applicants who were declined by hiring committee could be sent back through for another chance. And this was mainly used for applicants from underrepresented minorities. Created a huge stir when someone suggested it was lowering the bar (even though it obviously is, even if only slightly).
There aren't, which is probably why Forbes took the article saying so down.
That's pretty much nothing, given the maxim that a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if the prosecution wants them to.
I believe the training set is curated by a group headed by Coraline Ada, Christopher Poole, Deray McKesson, and Linda Sarsour.
Didn't read it, did you? It does say that a cease&desist can trigger the CFAA. It does not say "The CFAA applies immediately or when the defendant (or defendant to be) exceeds the permitted access". In fact, it specifically says violation of terms of use cannot trigger liability under the CFAA.
The only people who believe that have spent the last few years of their working lives in a private office which could hold 40 employees under open-plan standards, with a private executive washroom too. That's what you need to be so out of touch as to believe that.
Yes, it has, but only in the Central District of California as far as I know. The interpretation that the CFAA covers violating TOS was found to be overbroad in U.S. v. Drew, 259 F.R.D. 449 (C. D. Cal. 2009).
If you've got dirt on a company and you start disparaging them, the only thing them suing you to silence you is going to do is to get all the dirt out and convince everyone involved it's true. The problem is that if you disparage a former employer, you risk making yourself unemployable. If you make a big enough splash to affect them, chances are everyone in the industry will hear about it, and you'll be known as trouble. If you don't make a big enough splash to affect them, why bother?
I'm a mid-forties software engineers, got a job recently, had two offers within two months. But I'm not in the Valley, which may make a difference.
Yeah, there's that. If they manage to get enough competent people getting a CS major that they can discard some to even out the gender balance, it could get tough for competent white males, even competent ones. Mostly theoretical, though; last time a lot of people went into the major because they thought that was where the money is, they mostly weren't very good and dropped out at the first sign of adversity. When the dot com bust hit, the remainder vanished.
Why the hell would you ever replace the weights? The cords, yes, but the weights last a lifetime. Of course if your window is reasonably new it probably has springs instead.
...by drawing a straightish line on a graph. Doesn't mean it'll actually happen. Also, I doubt that "nighttime solar" (and no, we won't have world-spanning transmission lines either) and "calm wind" power is going to become available any time soon, and storage is still a problem.
Quill v North Dakota is still good law. So all Washington is doing is setting itself up for losing lawsuits.
So you're saying he had this flag on his wall.
If it was good enough forJudge William Stoughton, it should be good enough for you.
I have no particular issues with Mayer's performance at Yahoo; as far as I'm concerned, that company probably could not be saved. However, I have heard that she was a difficult person to work for.
Agreed, that would be perfect. At least for those of us who don't work at Uber and are in it for the lulz.
Short memories. Mayer's position is basically that of someone appointed to captain the Titanic after it hit the iceberg. She probably took the job because she wanted "CEO" among her accomplishments, but bringing that ship safely to shore just wasn't going to happen. That she managed to delay the sinking this long is reasonably impressive.
Drug warriors DO NOT CARE. They would rather you suffer in pain than use opoids regularly. The more hardcore of them would prefer you suffer in pain rather than use opoids _at all_. To them, taking drugs is a moral failing, whatever the reason.
The Sharp Aquos series was top quality some years ago. Then Sharp split the brand so the low-end was the outsourced crap and the high-end was still good. I guess at some point they started outsourcing the high end; big mistake.