It really did. I purchased one of the Assasin's Creed games for my PC, the Pirate one, and it's essentially unplayable using a normal mouse and keyboard. Even using the mouse and keyboard to configure the mouse and keyboard was virtually impossible.
And in fact, Gate's quote that he thinks he made a mistake and that it should always have been a single button is actually odd. That would have been a disaster. There's no way to make a single button more secure than three buttons if you are trying to prevent an accidental restart.
Using a single button to show a screen where you'd have the option to restart is bad too, because back in the early days you needed to restart *quickly* sometimes.
I thought it was supposed to be a *good* thing to prevent people from accidentally restarting their machines by pressing the wrong button. From that perspective, it's a success.
The fact that windows now adds a whole bunch of other options to that command, like change password, log off, lock the computer, etc, is entirely their fault; there's nothing stopping them from adding *those* commands to another button, say an F10 or something, that allows you those options. So what is wrong with Ctl-alt-del again?
yeah, but this fabled "switch to a new socio-political-economic system" will be just like the others, in that human beings will adapt. There will be immense disruption along the way, but we are pretty good at adapting to these things, and the idea that we will be in a place where our inability or difficulty in adapting will have apocalyptic consequences seems unlikely.
There's a number of reasons for this, but the main one is that in most cases, by the time you go through a certification process or get a degree, the technology you learned may very likely be out of date. In addition, the folks teaching would be the folks actually doing that job professionally if they could. Whereas, with doctors, those teaching are actually often practicing doctors, and laws and the skills needed to become a lawyer change slowly.
No it doesn't. Her past could indicate that she'd worked or been at previous institutions in close proximity to other higher-ups at Equifax, and with the proper searching, someone might find out there was some sort of inappropriate relationship. In fact, that's much more likely than any sort of diversity hire.
Well, I'm sure that's an example; the poster probably knows that. But if you are multiplying a recipe by 3.5 and something calls for 1/3 table spoon of cinnamon, it helps to have something handy to do that math other than your brain.
Yes, actually, it is. Nazis deserved to be silenced, and more.
Toleration is not a moral precept. It's a peace treaty. it's an agreement to live and let live...but when you are part of a group that explicitly calls for the destruction of other human beings because of their race, you are breaking that peace treaty, and should be dealt with force, if necessary. Fuck this guy.
Just like the other idiots here defending him, you ignored his writing.
" I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership."
I'm not misrepresenting anything. I'm quoting him DIFUCKINRECTLY.
That means, to anyone who can read, that he believes that women's biology contributes to them being less likely to be found in positions of leadership. This is why those of us on the left get so fucking frustrated with people like you. You knee-jerk defend him when his sexism is right there in his post. Fuck.
"I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership. "
That LITERALLY means that because of women's biology, they are less likely to make it to positions of leadership.
Except that the vast majority of recent comic book properties, especially those by Marvel, have fared very well with both critics and viewers when taking into account ratings. It turns out that on average, "tentpole" movies that have good ratings do very well. Movies like Transformers do initially well, and then plummet, for one simple reason...they suck.
1) This guy writes a manifesto that says that women, due to biology, are less likely to succeed in tech in general and Google in particular.
2) Enginneers at Google and other places are required to interview other people as part of the interview process.
3) A woman comes in for an interview, and is interviewed by Damore, who has said that by default she is less likely to succeed.
This is BY DEFINITION a hostile work environment. It's hostile for incoming women, as well as women who work there.
This is what the neanderthals here who think he was wronged don't fucking understand. It does NOT MATTER if what he said was true, well, sourced, worthy of discussion, etc...by having and promoting those beliefs in that environment he is creating a hostile work environment, and keeping him on opens up Google to a class action lawsuit, which they would lose if any woman could show that after his screed, she was interviewed by him and did not get the job.
Except the natural conclusion of that was not his homlessness nor death; he has job offers and he won't die because he has no job. There's also this thing called unemployment...
Exactly. I'm well aware that most modern flight is highly automated. But knowing there's a human in the pilot's seat to take care of anything unforeseen is incredibly important.
"Differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we don’t have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership." That's from his screed. He is LITERALLY saying that because of innate differences in women, they are INHERENTLY less likely to advance themselves or to get positions of leadership in tech.
He also says
"Google’s political bias has equated the freedom from offense with psychological safety, but shaming into silence is the antithesis of psychological safety. This silencing has created an ideological echo chamber where some ideas are too sacred to be honestly discussed."
YES! exactly! The point is not ALL ideas are worthy of discussion! Did you not read my post? It is not worth discussing whether or not we should deport blacks to Liberia; continue Hitler's genocide, or in this case, whether innate differences in between the brains of women and men make them unable to be good engineers.
To wit: "i you feel isolated by this, that your views are basically unwelcome in tech and can’t be spoken about well, that’s a fair point. These views are fundamentally corrosive to any organization they show up in, drive people out, and I can’t think of any organization not specifically dedicated to those views that they would be welcome in. "
They are corrosive, because what woman wants to work with an asshole like that and the assholes who support him?
The simple and devastating response to this of crap is from Yonutan's blog:
"You talked about a need for discussion about ideas; you need to learn the difference between “I think we should adopt Go as our primary language” and “I think one-third of my colleagues are either biologically unsuited to do their jobs, or if not are exceptions and should be suspected of such until they can prove otherwise to each and every person’s satisfaction.” Not all ideas are the same, and not all conversations about ideas even have basic legitimacy."
That is to say, discussing and promoting diversity of opinion does NOT mean all opinions are equally valid or should be discussed.
This simple fact is something the seems to blow the minds of conservatives and people who think folks on the left are generally intolerant. It's not the fact that conservatives have a different opinion that explains why those of us on the left try to shut down certain opinions; it's WHAT THOSE OPINIONS ARE that matters.
Are these legitimate points of discussions in a modern American inclusive private business organization?
"We need a diversity of opinion. I know some folks say the earth is round; I'd like to talk about the possibility the earth is flat." "We should promote a safe space for ALL views to be held; black folks should be deported to Liberia" and "Let's have a more inclusive and diverse set of viewpoints; Hitler was onto something with his treatment of the Jews."
Now I know there's a fair amount of neanderthals here for whom those would be legitimate points of discussion; for civilized folks they are not, and there's nothing wrong with shutting them down.
Doing that in a corporate environment does not mean that corporate environment does not value diversity of thought IN GENERAL; it DOES mean that SOME ideas are off limits, and rightly so, because they create a fucking hostile workplace.
And stating that approximately half of the population is by default unsuited to do tech work in general is creating a hostile workplace.
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in HTML. There. I said it.
You realize that one of the iPhones first mega successful apps was a fart app, which was funded.
It really did. I purchased one of the Assasin's Creed games for my PC, the Pirate one, and it's essentially unplayable using a normal mouse and keyboard. Even using the mouse and keyboard to configure the mouse and keyboard was virtually impossible.
And in fact, Gate's quote that he thinks he made a mistake and that it should always have been a single button is actually odd. That would have been a disaster. There's no way to make a single button more secure than three buttons if you are trying to prevent an accidental restart.
Using a single button to show a screen where you'd have the option to restart is bad too, because back in the early days you needed to restart *quickly* sometimes.
I thought it was supposed to be a *good* thing to prevent people from accidentally restarting their machines by pressing the wrong button. From that perspective, it's a success.
The fact that windows now adds a whole bunch of other options to that command, like change password, log off, lock the computer, etc, is entirely their fault; there's nothing stopping them from adding *those* commands to another button, say an F10 or something, that allows you those options. So what is wrong with Ctl-alt-del again?
yeah, but this fabled "switch to a new socio-political-economic system" will be just like the others, in that human beings will adapt. There will be immense disruption along the way, but we are pretty good at adapting to these things, and the idea that we will be in a place where our inability or difficulty in adapting will have apocalyptic consequences seems unlikely.
There's a number of reasons for this, but the main one is that in most cases, by the time you go through a certification process or get a degree, the technology you learned may very likely be out of date. In addition, the folks teaching would be the folks actually doing that job professionally if they could. Whereas, with doctors, those teaching are actually often practicing doctors, and laws and the skills needed to become a lawyer change slowly.
bassed on what, exactly?
I was thinking this too...
No it doesn't. Her past could indicate that she'd worked or been at previous institutions in close proximity to other higher-ups at Equifax, and with the proper searching, someone might find out there was some sort of inappropriate relationship. In fact, that's much more likely than any sort of diversity hire.
I don't like how your post advances stereotypes about accounts themselves and fully support...never mind.
Well, I'm sure that's an example; the poster probably knows that. But if you are multiplying a recipe by 3.5 and something calls for 1/3 table spoon of cinnamon, it helps to have something handy to do that math other than your brain.
I wonder what the percentage is of people who are German Neo-Nazis who prefer Trump and love David Hasselhoff?
You have a right to not be censored by the government. You have no right to not be censored by other citizens.
Yes, actually, it is. Nazis deserved to be silenced, and more.
Toleration is not a moral precept. It's a peace treaty. it's an agreement to live and let live...but when you are part of a group that explicitly calls for the destruction of other human beings because of their race, you are breaking that peace treaty, and should be dealt with force, if necessary. Fuck this guy.
https://extranewsfeed.com/tole...
Just like the other idiots here defending him, you ignored his writing.
" I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership."
I'm not misrepresenting anything. I'm quoting him DIFUCKINRECTLY.
That means, to anyone who can read, that he believes that women's biology contributes to them being less likely to be found in positions of leadership. This is why those of us on the left get so fucking frustrated with people like you. You knee-jerk defend him when his sexism is right there in his post. Fuck.
"I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership. "
That LITERALLY means that because of women's biology, they are less likely to make it to positions of leadership.
Except that the vast majority of recent comic book properties, especially those by Marvel, have fared very well with both critics and viewers when taking into account ratings. It turns out that on average, "tentpole" movies that have good ratings do very well. Movies like Transformers do initially well, and then plummet, for one simple reason...they suck.
1) This guy writes a manifesto that says that women, due to biology, are less likely to succeed in tech in general and Google in particular.
2) Enginneers at Google and other places are required to interview other people as part of the interview process.
3) A woman comes in for an interview, and is interviewed by Damore, who has said that by default she is less likely to succeed.
This is BY DEFINITION a hostile work environment. It's hostile for incoming women, as well as women who work there.
This is what the neanderthals here who think he was wronged don't fucking understand. It does NOT MATTER if what he said was true, well, sourced, worthy of discussion, etc...by having and promoting those beliefs in that environment he is creating a hostile work environment, and keeping him on opens up Google to a class action lawsuit, which they would lose if any woman could show that after his screed, she was interviewed by him and did not get the job.
That's all there is to it.
I'd rather boycott YOU until you are fired.
Except the natural conclusion of that was not his homlessness nor death; he has job offers and he won't die because he has no job. There's also this thing called unemployment...
Exactly. I'm well aware that most modern flight is highly automated. But knowing there's a human in the pilot's seat to take care of anything unforeseen is incredibly important.
"Differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we don’t have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership."
That's from his screed. He is LITERALLY saying that because of innate differences in women, they are INHERENTLY less likely to advance themselves or to get positions of leadership in tech.
He also says
"Google’s political bias has equated the freedom from offense with psychological safety, but shaming into silence is the antithesis of psychological safety.
This silencing has created an ideological echo chamber where some ideas are too sacred to be honestly discussed."
YES! exactly! The point is not ALL ideas are worthy of discussion! Did you not read my post? It is not worth discussing whether or not we should deport blacks to Liberia; continue Hitler's genocide, or in this case, whether innate differences in between the brains of women and men make them unable to be good engineers.
To wit:
"i you feel isolated by this, that your views are basically unwelcome in tech and can’t be spoken about well, that’s a fair point. These views are fundamentally corrosive to any organization they show up in, drive people out, and I can’t think of any organization not specifically dedicated to those views that they would be welcome in. "
They are corrosive, because what woman wants to work with an asshole like that and the assholes who support him?
The simple and devastating response to this of crap is from Yonutan's blog:
"You talked about a need for discussion about ideas; you need to learn the difference between “I think we should adopt Go as our primary language” and “I think one-third of my colleagues are either biologically unsuited to do their jobs, or if not are exceptions and should be suspected of such until they can prove otherwise to each and every person’s satisfaction.” Not all ideas are the same, and not all conversations about ideas even have basic legitimacy."
https://medium.com/@yonatanzun...
That is to say, discussing and promoting diversity of opinion does NOT mean all opinions are equally valid or should be discussed.
This simple fact is something the seems to blow the minds of conservatives and people who think folks on the left are generally intolerant. It's not the fact that conservatives have a different opinion that explains why those of us on the left try to shut down certain opinions; it's WHAT THOSE OPINIONS ARE that matters.
Are these legitimate points of discussions in a modern American inclusive private business organization?
"We need a diversity of opinion. I know some folks say the earth is round; I'd like to talk about the possibility the earth is flat."
"We should promote a safe space for ALL views to be held; black folks should be deported to Liberia"
and
"Let's have a more inclusive and diverse set of viewpoints; Hitler was onto something with his treatment of the Jews."
Now I know there's a fair amount of neanderthals here for whom those would be legitimate points of discussion; for civilized folks they are not, and there's nothing wrong with shutting them down.
Doing that in a corporate environment does not mean that corporate environment does not value diversity of thought IN GENERAL; it DOES mean that SOME ideas are off limits, and rightly so, because they create a fucking hostile workplace.
And stating that approximately half of the population is by default unsuited to do tech work in general is creating a hostile workplace.
The TRS-80 is how I got into computers. My mom bought me one, and I used it to learn to program. Now I really feel old.