All the algorithms in the world aren't going to help when the intersection of "people you'd care to date" and "people who'd care to date you" is empty. What we need is an algorithm to convince people to lower their expectations when they're unattractive, boring, unmannerly, old, poor and/or cheap, have baggage, etc.
I'm pretty sure CMMI, ISO 9000, TQM, and all the rest ultimately derive from Deming, so despite having "ISO" in the name it's not a European plot; it's an American own-goal.
I would fucking kill for software developers to be licensed like an engineering displine, do you realize how much more those of us with a clue would be worth if we could dump all the morons who managed to install a compiler or IDE on their Linux box and suddenly think they are 31337 h4x0rz programmer gods after they managed to run a shell script on their own.
Too bad you'd also dump nearly all the "morons" who wrote the fucking compiler and the Linux kernel and the drivers for it and the IDE and the shell.
Of course, the problem with that is that any sort of proper certification would weed out 9 out of 10 employed 'developers' instantly.
To anticipate the No True Scotsmen answer: No such proper certification has ever been described. Every system proposed which would weed out 9 of 10 employed developers would leave at least 99/100 good developers in the weeded-out bunch. And that certainly includes CMMI.
CMMI was always SEIs way of trying to reduce programming to bricklaying (only with a lot more paperwork), leaving academics like them as the only real thinking people in the process. It can't work and will never work.
The NSA IS among the "really scary people". If the FSB is tapping my phone calls and internet activities, I don't have to worry about them turning anything over to various law enforcement agencies to have me thrown in jail (doesn't matter what for, there's enough laws to be sure I'm breaking some), I don't have to worry about being put on the "no-fly" list for discussing explosives, I don't have to worry about being blacklisted for jobs for whatever reason. If the NSA is doing the tapping, I do have to worry about all that.
First note that the EU directive that mandates private carriers retain IP and telephony metadata , the EU Data Retention Directive, stipulates a much shorter time frame- just two years- than the "forever and a day" time frame the NSA allows itself.
Sure, that just means European intelligence agencies have a two-year window in which to archive the data themselves.
The reason it doesn't support it is because, under the DRD, a *court order* is needed by the intelligence agencies before they can access the metadata held by the telcos.
The NSA had a court order too. The Honorable Judge R. Stamp never rests.
Overall the entire tone of the article seems to be: the war's already lost, why fight it?
The war is lost; most people don't want freedom and sure as hell don't want anyone else to have it. There are no champions for freedom and precious little constituency. This has been the state of the world for most of the existence of the human race; the period beginning with the so-called Enlightenment is aberrant.
You do not have to fall very far to be able to predict with reasonable accuracy what your destination will be and when you'll get there, even though it's a blink in time.
Simple extrapolation based on a small amount of data doesn't always work so well. Ask any bungee jumper.
The thought that all of the thousands of climate researchers are in on a multi-decade conspiracy to hide the truth is ludicrous. It puts you firmly in the camp of conspiracy theorists.
Conspiracy theorists? Those guys who thought the NSA was intercepting all our email?
Anyway, a bunch of climate researchers got caught in a conspiracy to do a number of things, in particular including manipulating the peer review system to keep contrary research out of peer reviewed journals. Since the warmists are in charge, nothing happened to them, with some publications which ordinarily cover such things refusing to cover the scandal.
Some bugs arise from such a complicated set of conditions that they appear to be random. These are the most interesting bugs, and the most infuriating.
Other bugs can even be truly random; a race condition that depends on whether one thread gets scheduled on a processor that's running just slightly faster (or slower) than another, for instance.
We should all stop being coy about what we used to make, so that employers lose their knowledge advantage in salary negotiations.
It's mostly to avoid ugly scenes like this
Jim (to his manager): "Hey, I need to talk to you. There's no way Bob should be making $10,000 more than me."
Manager: "Calm down, Jim, what are you so upset about?"
Jim: "Look, I have a full breakdown here. <waves papers in manager's face> I write more code than Bob, fix more bugs, I cause fewer regressions, and I even take fewer sick days. I should be making WAY more than Bob.
Manager: "Jim, there's really no way to put this delicately, but you have to understand, Bob makes what he makes because he's regularly fellating the CEO."
Jim (still agitated, and riffling through papers): "I FACTORED THAT IN. Look here, line 12, 'special services'!"
The Supreme Court ruled, in Smith v. Maryland, 442 U.S. 735 (1979), that you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in records you don't control. It's not Judge Pauley's conclusion, it's binding precedent that the court that rucked against the NSA handwaved away with not good explanation.
The question is whether Smith v. Maryland -- which was about one order to put a pen register on one phone based on suspicion (but no warrant nor probable cause) -- is distinguishable from this case where every phone record from every phone in the country with no particularized suspicion at all. Pauley explicitly ruled "no", the other court ruled that it was distinguishable.
If the NSA metadata collection is not distinguishable from Smith v. Maryland, then the slippery slope argument is not a fallacy.
Most of the women in tech that I know share at least some of these cultural preferences, but that is self-selection. The ones who share it are the ones who are comfortable staying.
Which doesn't contradict my point. If most women are not comfortable with the culture and stay away as a result, that's quite different from men driving them away because they are not part of the culture.
I've also been in tech for 20+ years (making me older than the rest of the team I'm on) and don't particularly enjoy video games (at least, not anything past the arcade era) and have not experienced any "hounding". I do know one person (older than me) who got crap about his age, but the person he got crap from was kind of a jerk who gave crap to everyone.
My mission is to make sure that he enjoys his entire life. His gaming "addiction" is not a lasting happiness, like making friends and sharing experiences with them would be.
Friends grow up and grow apart. They go to different schools, have different experiences, then get married and have kids and it's all over. Making friends as an adult is very different than making friends as a kid, so there's not even that as an advantage. Learning to enjoy things without relying on anyone else to share in the enjoyment, that's a lasting happiness.
The things I invented were really almost impossible to do at the time, but 7 years later with newer technology they were easy to do.
Then your invention was worthless; it was unpracticable until it would have been obvious anyway. It's relatively easy to blue-sky a bunch of things you could do if some enabling technology were available, but in fact cannot do.
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They're at home with their 1001 cats. Stay far away.
All the algorithms in the world aren't going to help when the intersection of "people you'd care to date" and "people who'd care to date you" is empty. What we need is an algorithm to convince people to lower their expectations when they're unattractive, boring, unmannerly, old, poor and/or cheap, have baggage, etc.
Let's just call the place Airstrip One and be done with it.
I'm pretty sure CMMI, ISO 9000, TQM, and all the rest ultimately derive from Deming, so despite having "ISO" in the name it's not a European plot; it's an American own-goal.
Too bad you'd also dump nearly all the "morons" who wrote the fucking compiler and the Linux kernel and the drivers for it and the IDE and the shell.
To anticipate the No True Scotsmen answer: No such proper certification has ever been described. Every system proposed which would weed out 9 of 10 employed developers would leave at least 99/100 good developers in the weeded-out bunch. And that certainly includes CMMI.
CMMI was always SEIs way of trying to reduce programming to bricklaying (only with a lot more paperwork), leaving academics like them as the only real thinking people in the process. It can't work and will never work.
The NSA IS among the "really scary people". If the FSB is tapping my phone calls and internet activities, I don't have to worry about them turning anything over to various law enforcement agencies to have me thrown in jail (doesn't matter what for, there's enough laws to be sure I'm breaking some), I don't have to worry about being put on the "no-fly" list for discussing explosives, I don't have to worry about being blacklisted for jobs for whatever reason. If the NSA is doing the tapping, I do have to worry about all that.
Turns out being able to hear doesn't actually help here.
Failing to submit meekly to injustice is not cowardice, and fuck Gandhi for convincing so many people that it is.
GOOD!
Sure, that just means European intelligence agencies have a two-year window in which to archive the data themselves.
The NSA had a court order too. The Honorable Judge R. Stamp never rests.
The war is lost; most people don't want freedom and sure as hell don't want anyone else to have it. There are no champions for freedom and precious little constituency. This has been the state of the world for most of the existence of the human race; the period beginning with the so-called Enlightenment is aberrant.
Simple extrapolation based on a small amount of data doesn't always work so well. Ask any bungee jumper.
We could have an iceball earth scenario next year, and the surviving "climate scientists" would STILL claim it was CO2 emissions causing it.
Conspiracy theorists? Those guys who thought the NSA was intercepting all our email?
Anyway, a bunch of climate researchers got caught in a conspiracy to do a number of things, in particular including manipulating the peer review system to keep contrary research out of peer reviewed journals. Since the warmists are in charge, nothing happened to them, with some publications which ordinarily cover such things refusing to cover the scandal.
Some bugs arise from such a complicated set of conditions that they appear to be random. These are the most interesting bugs, and the most infuriating.
Other bugs can even be truly random; a race condition that depends on whether one thread gets scheduled on a processor that's running just slightly faster (or slower) than another, for instance.
It's mostly to avoid ugly scenes like this
Jim (to his manager): "Hey, I need to talk to you. There's no way Bob should be making $10,000 more than me."
Manager: "Calm down, Jim, what are you so upset about?"
Jim: "Look, I have a full breakdown here. <waves papers in manager's face> I write more code than Bob, fix more bugs, I cause fewer regressions, and I even take fewer sick days. I should be making WAY more than Bob.
Manager: "Jim, there's really no way to put this delicately, but you have to understand, Bob makes what he makes because he's regularly fellating the CEO."
Jim (still agitated, and riffling through papers): "I FACTORED THAT IN. Look here, line 12, 'special services'!"
The question is whether Smith v. Maryland -- which was about one order to put a pen register on one phone based on suspicion (but no warrant nor probable cause) -- is distinguishable from this case where every phone record from every phone in the country with no particularized suspicion at all. Pauley explicitly ruled "no", the other court ruled that it was distinguishable.
If the NSA metadata collection is not distinguishable from Smith v. Maryland, then the slippery slope argument is not a fallacy.
Which doesn't contradict my point. If most women are not comfortable with the culture and stay away as a result, that's quite different from men driving them away because they are not part of the culture.
I've also been in tech for 20+ years (making me older than the rest of the team I'm on) and don't particularly enjoy video games (at least, not anything past the arcade era) and have not experienced any "hounding". I do know one person (older than me) who got crap about his age, but the person he got crap from was kind of a jerk who gave crap to everyone.
Friends grow up and grow apart. They go to different schools, have different experiences, then get married and have kids and it's all over. Making friends as an adult is very different than making friends as a kid, so there's not even that as an advantage. Learning to enjoy things without relying on anyone else to share in the enjoyment, that's a lasting happiness.
As opposed to being significantly worse, like the other alternatives.
This reads like "Apple's price-fixing is interfering with carrier price-fixing". Cry me a frigging river.
Wrong, they're killing the halogens by 2020.
Yeah, just wait for the next document release.
Then your invention was worthless; it was unpracticable until it would have been obvious anyway. It's relatively easy to blue-sky a bunch of things you could do if some enabling technology were available, but in fact cannot do.
Ooh, sunburn.