Whatever. Who in their right mind would want to work for employers who have such shitty 'suckerberg' attitudes? I'm not sure what an 'A-player' even is, but if it's meant to be the hyper-extraverted-political-yet-useless type, I would not want to work for or with them. You could not pay me enough..
I think your comment was born out of lack of a sense of humor. It is highly unlikely she thinks white people cannot get aids. Whether she's an idiot or not is irrelevant, because taking offense over stupid shit all the time is even more idiotic...doing it to the point where governments are decree such expression illegal, or where employers feel compelled to fire, is fucking brain dead.
Funny how quickly the defenders of racism come out of the woodwork. A bit more subtle than the pointy white hoods it it's still with us, as your post demonstrates.
Funny how quickly legions of irrational idiots bust out the ad hominem attacks and other logical fallacies every time someone questions their political correctness-driven groupthink 'outrage.' People questioning these political agitators are not bigots. They know this 'outrage' is purposely designed to get as big a yield as possible regardless of what qualifies as a reasonable response to specific circumstances.
People like you are like that smarmy, overconfident yet easily-needled kid in class who gets picked on all the time because he gets unreasonably upset over nothing. To hide his insecurity, he's always looking for a reason to be 'outraged' at others' behavior so that he has justification to 'smite' them (or get authority to do so). The fact that making offhand comments on the internet results in career suicide suggests a culture wide ailment. The fact that most of this irrationality can be traced right back to the 'social justice' PC crowd's enough-is-never-enough position is not a surprise.
There used to be a lot more male teachers in primary school. They were only recently pushed out by second wave feminism in the 70s and 80s.. The anti male bias in public education is recent. I really don't believe feminism is about equality of any sort. It is about pushing a gynocentric society.
..of course it is, but you'll rarely if ever see a feminist complain about that, the only exception being if the woman is more attractive than the feminist is.. It's also ok to have all-female employed companies and schools. Try doing that with men these days.
The whole 'diversity' program is patronizing. It was designed to be so that it inflames different groups over the differences that are supposedly irrelevant. After a few generations, society suddenly has a lot of people with strong, 'righteous' feelings over these supposedly irrelevant attributes which, unfortunately, is the best way to drive people to the polls..or to the streets in 'revolution.' Masturbatory pseudo-intellectualism like the links in this story are just a way to make this crapola appeal to the 'intelligentsia'. These code.org people are just pushing the narrative because they want to drive down wages as far as they can.
Computer science is about as gender agnostic as it gets. The old hacker ethos from the 80s and 90s was based solely on merit. I remember the days when the net was considered the great equalizer because of its anonymity. The only thing that mattered was how good your code was. Race, gender, age, and culture did not matter as there was no way to know.
Hmm maybe for some, but burnout is all too common in intellectual work. The problem is that it's treated like factory assembly line work by employers. There is also a culture wide narrative that says we're all 'supposed' to like walking (running?) on the treadmill of ever-improvement. I suppose some people actually think this way, but I suspect when many say this, they really mean "I like climbing the social/economic ladder" which is not the same thing.
I will say that I derive satisfaction from accomplishing mundane, non intellectual tasks too, and if they're labor intensive, I get exercise which helps that mood considerably. It's a nice counter weight to sedentary intellectual work. I find I do better in both areas if I do some of each, regularly.
Yeah, well I try not to get myself twisted up over all the grammatical and definitional games feminists play with words like gender. Terms like 'trans gender, pans gender, gender neutral, 'sex positive' (whatever that is) are bullshit terms used to throw up smoke and mirrors that give their gender-is-culture position apparent merit.. It follows a similar pattern that creationists do when they try to reconcile literal biblical interpretations with current science (silly dinosaur parks and the like).
Each of these has varying amounts of placative language to satisfy the PC crowd, so, as always, skepticism is the rule of the day when investigating research that's been contaminated with political correctness. I think it is obvious that masculine/feminine traits, both physical and behavioral, boil down to levels of different hormones as one matures.. They manipulate aspects of temperament and behavior that drive people towards some directions and away from others. The reason this is so politically charged is that it conflicts with the liberal dogma that says gender typical behavior is based on social conditioning.
Welcome to cultural marxist political correctness. You can get your dose at your nearest ivy league university (where all the politicians come from)..or junior high during 'women's/black history' month. If the path (computer science in this case) is shown to offer wealth, it is deemed oppressive and must be 'equalized', which of course destroys its value to society.
No. Their cultures compel them to select against it, and liberals can't abide the possibility that 'oppressed' cultures have negative attributes that aren't caused by white people.
Yes.. these men are more interested in getting shit done than obsessing over frivolous, highschool age cliquish, passive aggressive behavior, as well as crap like making sure to wear the right kind of expensive clothing and 'accessories'. That's as it should be.
no.. Girls innately prioritize socialization, which, for whatever reason, is given more respect these days than abilities (like computer programming) that actually accomplish something. Give girls toy trucks, and they treat them like dolls, anthropomorphizing them.. Give dolls to boys and they'll treat them like space ships, or have them fight or whatever..
Gender is not a social construct. Society is a gender construct.
Men avoid working for public school systems because their policy is now dictated by feminist trained soccer moms who think all men are potential rapists/pedophiles.
It's not dead as long as there are users using it who are satisfied with its current capabilities. If there's sufficient demand, it will at least be maintained at its current functionality by the linux distributions. The support libraries it depends on aren't going anywhere. If there's a lot of demand for new functionality, it will attract developers again.
It's proprietary solutions like your 'microsoft video' link that are purposely hobbled and/or disappear once a better (for the vendor) business model comes along. Microsoft's solutions become more dumbed down and useless with each iteration, and you're basically stuck with 'dead' versions if you want to retain older functionality missing in the new one. How is this any less 'dead'?
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Whatever. Who in their right mind would want to work for employers who have such shitty 'suckerberg' attitudes? I'm not sure what an 'A-player' even is, but if it's meant to be the hyper-extraverted-political-yet-useless type, I would not want to work for or with them. You could not pay me enough..
I think your comment was born out of lack of a sense of humor. It is highly unlikely she thinks white people cannot get aids. Whether she's an idiot or not is irrelevant, because taking offense over stupid shit all the time is even more idiotic...doing it to the point where governments are decree such expression illegal, or where employers feel compelled to fire, is fucking brain dead.
Funny how quickly the defenders of racism come out of the woodwork. A bit more subtle than the pointy white hoods it it's still with us, as your post demonstrates.
Funny how quickly legions of irrational idiots bust out the ad hominem attacks and other logical fallacies every time someone questions their political correctness-driven groupthink 'outrage.' People questioning these political agitators are not bigots. They know this 'outrage' is purposely designed to get as big a yield as possible regardless of what qualifies as a reasonable response to specific circumstances.
People like you are like that smarmy, overconfident yet easily-needled kid in class who gets picked on all the time because he gets unreasonably upset over nothing. To hide his insecurity, he's always looking for a reason to be 'outraged' at others' behavior so that he has justification to 'smite' them (or get authority to do so). The fact that making offhand comments on the internet results in career suicide suggests a culture wide ailment. The fact that most of this irrationality can be traced right back to the 'social justice' PC crowd's enough-is-never-enough position is not a surprise.
It must feel good to hop on these bandwagons of 'righteousness'!
because netflix looks like shit on a huge screen? hell it looks like shit fullscreen on a 23" monitor.
There used to be a lot more male teachers in primary school. They were only recently pushed out by second wave feminism in the 70s and 80s.. The anti male bias in public education is recent. I really don't believe feminism is about equality of any sort. It is about pushing a gynocentric society.
..of course it is, but you'll rarely if ever see a feminist complain about that, the only exception being if the woman is more attractive than the feminist is.. It's also ok to have all-female employed companies and schools. Try doing that with men these days.
The whole 'diversity' program is patronizing. It was designed to be so that it inflames different groups over the differences that are supposedly irrelevant. After a few generations, society suddenly has a lot of people with strong, 'righteous' feelings over these supposedly irrelevant attributes which, unfortunately, is the best way to drive people to the polls..or to the streets in 'revolution.' Masturbatory pseudo-intellectualism like the links in this story are just a way to make this crapola appeal to the 'intelligentsia'. These code.org people are just pushing the narrative because they want to drive down wages as far as they can.
Computer science is about as gender agnostic as it gets. The old hacker ethos from the 80s and 90s was based solely on merit. I remember the days when the net was considered the great equalizer because of its anonymity. The only thing that mattered was how good your code was. Race, gender, age, and culture did not matter as there was no way to know.
Hmm maybe for some, but burnout is all too common in intellectual work. The problem is that it's treated like factory assembly line work by employers. There is also a culture wide narrative that says we're all 'supposed' to like walking (running?) on the treadmill of ever-improvement. I suppose some people actually think this way, but I suspect when many say this, they really mean "I like climbing the social/economic ladder" which is not the same thing.
I will say that I derive satisfaction from accomplishing mundane, non intellectual tasks too, and if they're labor intensive, I get exercise which helps that mood considerably. It's a nice counter weight to sedentary intellectual work. I find I do better in both areas if I do some of each, regularly.
Agreed. Programming, like most IT work is thankless drudgery. It is too bad.
Yeah, well I try not to get myself twisted up over all the grammatical and definitional games feminists play with words like gender. Terms like 'trans gender, pans gender, gender neutral, 'sex positive' (whatever that is) are bullshit terms used to throw up smoke and mirrors that give their gender-is-culture position apparent merit.. It follows a similar pattern that creationists do when they try to reconcile literal biblical interpretations with current science (silly dinosaur parks and the like).
A quick search got me:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13596-male-monkeys-prefer-boys-toys.html
same study (I think) with a pro-feminist women-are-smarter-than-men spin near the end
http://www.livescience.com/22677-girls-dolls-boys-toy-trucks.html
Not sure about its pedigree because it's pushing a political narrative, but here's more corroborating evidence suggesting biological basis for gender role/behavior
http://www.parentingscience.com/girl-toys-and-parenting.html
Each of these has varying amounts of placative language to satisfy the PC crowd, so, as always, skepticism is the rule of the day when investigating research that's been contaminated with political correctness. I think it is obvious that masculine/feminine traits, both physical and behavioral, boil down to levels of different hormones as one matures.. They manipulate aspects of temperament and behavior that drive people towards some directions and away from others. The reason this is so politically charged is that it conflicts with the liberal dogma that says gender typical behavior is based on social conditioning.
Welcome to cultural marxist political correctness. You can get your dose at your nearest ivy league university (where all the politicians come from)..or junior high during 'women's/black history' month. If the path (computer science in this case) is shown to offer wealth, it is deemed oppressive and must be 'equalized', which of course destroys its value to society.
politicians who want reliable voter blocks, and who are willing to divide us all by granting them special privilege under the guise of 'equality'?
No. Their cultures compel them to select against it, and liberals can't abide the possibility that 'oppressed' cultures have negative attributes that aren't caused by white people.
I can almost guarantee that if they are that good, they did like it at one point when they were younger..
apparently this only applies when one of the state-chosen 'winner' groups shows proclivities for certain skillsets.. welcome to newspeak 'equality'.
Yes.. these men are more interested in getting shit done than obsessing over frivolous, highschool age cliquish, passive aggressive behavior, as well as crap like making sure to wear the right kind of expensive clothing and 'accessories'. That's as it should be.
no.. Girls innately prioritize socialization, which, for whatever reason, is given more respect these days than abilities (like computer programming) that actually accomplish something. Give girls toy trucks, and they treat them like dolls, anthropomorphizing them.. Give dolls to boys and they'll treat them like space ships, or have them fight or whatever..
Gender is not a social construct. Society is a gender construct.
Men avoid working for public school systems because their policy is now dictated by feminist trained soccer moms who think all men are potential rapists/pedophiles.
Interesting how biasing hiring towards women is not considered sexist yet biasing towards men, is? All in the name of 'equality' of course.
I don't agree. Someone can up and leave a personal project any time they choose. They should not be obligated to prop up anyone's feelings.
Using an older version of windows just as 'dead' as using an unmaintained open source application..
It's not dead as long as there are users using it who are satisfied with its current capabilities. If there's sufficient demand, it will at least be maintained at its current functionality by the linux distributions. The support libraries it depends on aren't going anywhere. If there's a lot of demand for new functionality, it will attract developers again.
It's proprietary solutions like your 'microsoft video' link that are purposely hobbled and/or disappear once a better (for the vendor) business model comes along. Microsoft's solutions become more dumbed down and useless with each iteration, and you're basically stuck with 'dead' versions if you want to retain older functionality missing in the new one. How is this any less 'dead'?
He isn't obligated to tell anyone anything, nor is he responsible for other peoples' 'worry'.