The groups of guys who filled the computer labs in college had greasy unclean hair, offensive mannerisms, and ruined every Monty Python movie with their quotes. Can you have a GROUP of anti-social people? Nerds are social, even if these sorts are emotionally troubled.
I can imagine women being chased away from STEM in college by mobs of men like these.
And the mask comes off; this stuff about women in tech is largely based on good old fashioned nerd-bashing. If this is indeed a reason women avoid tech or computer security, then the hatred and exclusion is on their part, not the men's.
So male computer engineers are the plumbers of the internet not artists?
Of course. The working conditions are better for engineers, though; while we both end up hip-deep in shit, in the engineer's case it's not literal shit.
Because the fucking SJWs keep writing and disseminating articles about how horrible it is for women in tech and how they should go to a field with fewer douchebags like finance or sales or medicine.
Well.. in the early days of computing, it was a field dominated by women. So it's not that they can't do the job; we know, intellectually, women are more than adequate for IT. The question becomes: why did women fall out of IT/Programming roles?
Seriously? Because World War II ended. Aside from that, it's pretty murky; the field was already male-dominated when the Department of Labor started keeping statistics.
Much as I hate Verizon, I'm aware enough of NYC's bureaucracy to figure they likely threw roadblock after roadblock in Verizon's way. And knowing NYCs unions, they probably had to pay the workers not to work while trying to clear up the bureaucracy.
Takes something of Archimedes, and makes it his own by giving it a name he gives a faux-Ancient-Greek patina. He stole the other most famous transcendental constant, Oughtred's (or possibly Napier's) 'e', and named it after himself too.
> Interview feedback comes from people who don't even see visa status so it's entirely unbiased.
Well, yes and no. If you see on their resume that they're coming off a degree at a foreign school, or a US master's degree after a bachelor's degree at a foreign school, you can certainly make a good guess.
I mean c'mon how many Romanians really want to visit the US to see 'our beautiful country'. Romanian girls are hot though. So I say we should let all the pretty girls in in as long as their boyfriends and husbands are denied entry.
Why? So Chad Thundercock can make a few more conquests and a few more girls can ignore Slashdotters? No, no, definitely let the boyfriends and husbands in. Then when Chad moves in, sell popcorn at the fight.
Naa, they love talking about the super-insulated houses which require nearly-perfect air sealing (they ventilate through counterflow heat exchangers, so the house can breathe, they HAVE thought of that one). The fact that this nearly-perfect air sealing will never survive ordinary settling and thermal cycling is kind of ignored. And heaven help you if you need to penetrate the envelope... you know, if you want power, telecomm, plumbing, another window, whatever.
The heat is returned to the state in which it arrives, infrared radiation, and returned to space. Neither the building materials, nor the air in close proximity to it, get the chance to absorb the radiation and the heat the absorption develops.
A plain mirror could do that. The idea here is that infrared emitted by warm objects is absorbed and re-emitted at frequencies the atmosphere is transparent to, thus the heat escapes to space rather than warming the air.
Is anyone buying that crap? 'cause if you don't then it is pretty obvious this can't work.
Unfortunately you're probably right that it's too good to be true, but using the temperature difference between space and earth is not impossible. It's why deserts get cold a night.
DONALD J. TRUMP has announced a solution to the problem of global warming, in partnership with the University of Colarado at Boulder. Millions of acres of this cooling film are to be spread across the desert near the US-Mexican border, counteracting the heating effects of carbon dioxide. Anyone attempting to cross this film will be shot as a traitor to Planet Earth.
Alphabet's just upset that they've been messing around with self-driving cars for the better part of a decade and it still doesn't look any closer to a product, and Uber has stolen a march on them by actually _using_ them. If you can't make your product succeed, tearing down the competition is almost as good.
In most cases, evidence held by a third party is not protected by the Fourth Amendment. (This is bullshit but it is precedent). I imagine Amazon is going for a novel First Amendment argument here because the Fourth Amendment argument is a loser. I doubt it will get anywhere. I could hope it would make people think twice about bugging their own houses, but they won't.
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Exactly. My complaint is it's going to take me forever to come up with 165 well-thought-out snarky responses to all of these things.
If there wasn't kale prepared at least four ways, you weren't really at a Google cafe.
Naturally you paid a lot less for it, it used to be owned by Mr. Pham.
Seems like everyone in NYC has one of these. IT'S NOT THAT COLD!
And the mask comes off; this stuff about women in tech is largely based on good old fashioned nerd-bashing. If this is indeed a reason women avoid tech or computer security, then the hatred and exclusion is on their part, not the men's.
Of course. The working conditions are better for engineers, though; while we both end up hip-deep in shit, in the engineer's case it's not literal shit.
If it's stupid, evil, and counterproductive, probably not.
Example of the kind of thing I'm talking about.
Because the fucking SJWs keep writing and disseminating articles about how horrible it is for women in tech and how they should go to a field with fewer douchebags like finance or sales or medicine.
You mean that's not actually Taylor Swift? I am disappointed.
Seriously? Because World War II ended. Aside from that, it's pretty murky; the field was already male-dominated when the Department of Labor started keeping statistics.
Much as I hate Verizon, I'm aware enough of NYC's bureaucracy to figure they likely threw roadblock after roadblock in Verizon's way. And knowing NYCs unions, they probably had to pay the workers not to work while trying to clear up the bureaucracy.
Takes something of Archimedes, and makes it his own by giving it a name he gives a faux-Ancient-Greek patina. He stole the other most famous transcendental constant, Oughtred's (or possibly Napier's) 'e', and named it after himself too.
They couldn't figure out how to make it catch fire?
Ahh, a wanabee guildmaster heard from. We don't need to ossify the profession.
Congratulations to Google's lobbyists in Sacremento, I guess.
But do you use FORTRAN?
> Interview feedback comes from people who don't even see visa status so it's entirely unbiased. Well, yes and no. If you see on their resume that they're coming off a degree at a foreign school, or a US master's degree after a bachelor's degree at a foreign school, you can certainly make a good guess.
Why? So Chad Thundercock can make a few more conquests and a few more girls can ignore Slashdotters? No, no, definitely let the boyfriends and husbands in. Then when Chad moves in, sell popcorn at the fight.
So if I took perfectly clean water and spilled an ounce of Coke Zero into it, how much urine wold that be measured as?
Naa, they love talking about the super-insulated houses which require nearly-perfect air sealing (they ventilate through counterflow heat exchangers, so the house can breathe, they HAVE thought of that one). The fact that this nearly-perfect air sealing will never survive ordinary settling and thermal cycling is kind of ignored. And heaven help you if you need to penetrate the envelope... you know, if you want power, telecomm, plumbing, another window, whatever.
A plain mirror could do that. The idea here is that infrared emitted by warm objects is absorbed and re-emitted at frequencies the atmosphere is transparent to, thus the heat escapes to space rather than warming the air.
Unfortunately you're probably right that it's too good to be true, but using the temperature difference between space and earth is not impossible. It's why deserts get cold a night.
What explains those people who call me a fucking cis white Christian male? I'm not Christian.
DONALD J. TRUMP has announced a solution to the problem of global warming, in partnership with the University of Colarado at Boulder. Millions of acres of this cooling film are to be spread across the desert near the US-Mexican border, counteracting the heating effects of carbon dioxide. Anyone attempting to cross this film will be shot as a traitor to Planet Earth.
Alphabet's just upset that they've been messing around with self-driving cars for the better part of a decade and it still doesn't look any closer to a product, and Uber has stolen a march on them by actually _using_ them. If you can't make your product succeed, tearing down the competition is almost as good.
In most cases, evidence held by a third party is not protected by the Fourth Amendment. (This is bullshit but it is precedent). I imagine Amazon is going for a novel First Amendment argument here because the Fourth Amendment argument is a loser. I doubt it will get anywhere. I could hope it would make people think twice about bugging their own houses, but they won't.