Adults should not be bothered by stupid insults. There's a lot of good technical talent out there that's socially rough, or at least resists ideological conformity, and it's foolish to forgo it over something like that. It's adult-children who insist on idiotic CCs, and they step well beyond addressing the occasional insult. They are rife with implied assumptions and delusional thinking not unlike conspiracy theories: a fertile ground for powergrabbing witchhunts. The ones pushing for this are the dead weight who should get the boot.
This is a software development project. Nerds rule the day here. It's neither desirable nor reasonable to conform them. It causes all sorts of psychological problems which will not result in happier developers nor better software. It also won't bring in non-nerds (which is one of the typical arguments for these CCs) because they simply don't have the skills or interest to develop system software anyway.
No, but it will be soon enough. Cancerous politics consume organizations from the inside out, distracting them from their original goals. Eventually, the organization will be consumed with identity politics, and software development will take a back seat to 'inclusivity' along with the other ideological shibboleths that typically accompany it.
Choosing developers out of some misguided attempt at 'equality' along irrelevant attributes will eventually cause those with talent to leave. If the conduct code forces humorless and stifled interactions between developers, those with talent will leave. If the conduct code encourages witchhunting and extreme 'conformation', those with talent will leave.
It'll boil down to the zealotry levels of those in charge, of course, but there's reason to be concerned when such draconian conduct codes are adopted. The fact it's based on the geek feminism wiki should be concerning to anyone who cares about freebsd.
big government decides how you will help it, not how it will help you. It's not simply whether it has control. It's the attitude of the people running it.
.. of communist society. In communism, you wait for some bureaucrat to decide your worth for you, from cradle to grave. Those who dare to take individual initiative are sent to reeducation gulags lest their fascist questioning of state mandates spread to the working class.
That people should need to hide their identity in your meritocracy should make it clear that it's not a meritocracy at all.
They don't need to, but people love taking things out of context. Go ahead, put everything online, but don't cry "oppression!" when people judge you for it, many coming to conclusions you never dreamed of. Communities with members who understand this get closer to meritocracy because they don't allow themselves to be distracted. The trouble starts when someone gets butthurt over valid criticism of output and then uses the social justice bandwagon as a weapon against the community (eg Linus vs Sarah Sharp).
Perhaps it's time that you stop pretending that such a ridiculous fiction exists?
Perhaps it's time you stop pretending that the world could (or should) be a Judgement-free-zone for every little sensitivity. One way to keep a community focused on approaching meritocracy is not to distract them with "my output doesn't suck because I'm also a [whatever] too! Make me feel special or you're a bigot!"
No, the criticism is coming from competent tech workers who are tired of being told "you just hate me because I'm.." when they critique work. Bad code is bad code and the people who can't accept that aren't psychologically ready to do it for a living (or to be an adult imo).
Why do you care if it's normally "hard" to figure out the gender, ethnicity or any other variable? How does that change anything?
It doesn't. So why is every major institution making such a big deal out of it in the first place, especially in places where it's irrelevant (like writing code)? They babble about diversity being important, yet fixate on irrelevant differences while failing to realize that diversity will not produce the equal outcome they argue as moral. Finally, they jump to conclusions with the assumption this failure is due to massive institutional bigotry.
Fallacy, and you know it. Today, it's even more important not to link your real life with the net. Services like IM and IRC were fine because there were at least pseudonymous. The problems really began with the forced use of real names by fakebook and friends.
The irony is that anonymous activity prevents the very kind of irrelevant judgments SJW types claim they want to avoid. The only thing to be judged is the code given as answers to questions.
The APA, MLA, and Chicago style all try to avoid gendered pronouns when the subject is unknown.
Only very very recently because of political blowback by SJWs.
This is what's known as building false consensus: A common tactic of marxists. In this case, it is being used to push newspeak changes to the language.
No. It has been biased towards the west coast and northeast for many years and now it's shifted slightly away.
New law is weighted both ways before it is passed, population density (house) and state equal footing (senate). If you had paid attention in civics classes you'd've known that. usually, the electoral college aligns with the popular vote, but when it doesn't, it's because people who'd otherwise be disadvantaged in a popular vote all voted in unison. So be it. This only works when the vote is close anyway.
You're butthurt because your chosen dear leader didn't win this time. Other peoples' did. Oh well. No reason to upend the whole thing, though. Somehow I doubt you'd be complaining if the electoral had voted for hillary had she had the minority popular vote. All this hoopla over the electoral college is coming from butthurt hillary supporters. I'm sure if it hasn't already, it will end up serving your viewpoints in the future.
Yeah because your country likely doesn't aid and abet anything like that, right? Even if you don't live in a NATO country, you likely have the US/NATO to thank for energy availability. Same difference if you live under russian or chinese influence.
If someone is allergic enough to have a reaction from breathing the air in spaces cockroaches have occupied, then he will definitely have a reaction from eating them.
I have a better solution for the real problem this propaganda hopes to fix: Maybe we should stop breeding so much. I'd rather have fewer people with a better quality of life than 10billion+ subsisting on insects.
Sean Parker, Facebook's first president, has blasted social media as a dangerous form of psychological manipulation
Well, it is. It feeds off social anxiety and insecurity on the part of its users. It keeps them coming back to reaffirm their positions relative to their peers and to feel like they're more socially differentiated and therefore more important than they really are.
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, thinks the solution is new legislation.
Now this is funny as hell since they profit by pushing marketing, SaaS, social media, and other rubbish onto the network.
That would only mean that California decides who's president and the balance of power focuses there, leaving the rest of the country with little representation in the federal government. California's issues, needs, and politics would dominate the country. No thanks. There's a reason why we have multiple ways of measuring representation (house and senate) for passing laws and electing leaders.
I agree that pseudocode is also a better method for paper but TFS didn't say pseudocode. He implied use of languages that are better off typed. This is a common experience in school.
There's no point in doing this. These are highschool/college students. Let them hand write or type as they prefer. If it's illegible, reject the submission and tell the student to rewrite or type it. By the time tests roll around, the professor already knows which students should probably type their work. Hell, since compsci's all about the algorithm anyway, let them choose the language, too.
Lets take it from the top. TFS was asking about writing CODE on PAPER. Supposedly, the point of the exercise is to abstract the logic from the method. Code-on-paper is also a method, just like the same code typed in notepad.exe or expressed in flowcharts on a whiteboard. Hell, flowcharts are better suited for paper than code. Code-on-paper is fucking stupid.
Yeah, but who the hell wants to write out all those brackets, parentheses and other characters by hand? It takes ages compared to typing it out.
This is no different than those fossils who'd harp about penmanship in the 1990s. if the goal is the separate the logic from the expression method anyway, there's no reason not to give students a text editor to type out their code for exams.
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Adults should not be bothered by stupid insults. There's a lot of good technical talent out there that's socially rough, or at least resists ideological conformity, and it's foolish to forgo it over something like that. It's adult-children who insist on idiotic CCs, and they step well beyond addressing the occasional insult. They are rife with implied assumptions and delusional thinking not unlike conspiracy theories: a fertile ground for powergrabbing witchhunts. The ones pushing for this are the dead weight who should get the boot.
This is a software development project. Nerds rule the day here. It's neither desirable nor reasonable to conform them. It causes all sorts of psychological problems which will not result in happier developers nor better software. It also won't bring in non-nerds (which is one of the typical arguments for these CCs) because they simply don't have the skills or interest to develop system software anyway.
No, but it will be soon enough. Cancerous politics consume organizations from the inside out, distracting them from their original goals. Eventually, the organization will be consumed with identity politics, and software development will take a back seat to 'inclusivity' along with the other ideological shibboleths that typically accompany it.
Choosing developers out of some misguided attempt at 'equality' along irrelevant attributes will eventually cause those with talent to leave. If the conduct code forces humorless and stifled interactions between developers, those with talent will leave. If the conduct code encourages witchhunting and extreme 'conformation', those with talent will leave.
It'll boil down to the zealotry levels of those in charge, of course, but there's reason to be concerned when such draconian conduct codes are adopted. The fact it's based on the geek feminism wiki should be concerning to anyone who cares about freebsd.
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I'm not saying the devs don't deserve criticism. In fact, I'm criticizing them for crying over butterflies.
If you agree they're not credible, there's no reason to do anything. You think threats over butterflies are legit?
big government decides how you will help it, not how it will help you. It's not simply whether it has control. It's the attitude of the people running it.
I don't know. Why does she hate men enough to fire him? I mean, if we're going to make irrational gross assumptions, lets apply it both ways..
Just as taxing the hell out of people and throwing them in prison for 'hate speech' when they criticize it is a hallmark of left-wing dictatorships.
.. of communist society. In communism, you wait for some bureaucrat to decide your worth for you, from cradle to grave. Those who dare to take individual initiative are sent to reeducation gulags lest their fascist questioning of state mandates spread to the working class.
That people should need to hide their identity in your meritocracy should make it clear that it's not a meritocracy at all.
They don't need to, but people love taking things out of context. Go ahead, put everything online, but don't cry "oppression!" when people judge you for it, many coming to conclusions you never dreamed of. Communities with members who understand this get closer to meritocracy because they don't allow themselves to be distracted. The trouble starts when someone gets butthurt over valid criticism of output and then uses the social justice bandwagon as a weapon against the community (eg Linus vs Sarah Sharp).
Perhaps it's time that you stop pretending that such a ridiculous fiction exists?
Perhaps it's time you stop pretending that the world could (or should) be a Judgement-free-zone for every little sensitivity. One way to keep a community focused on approaching meritocracy is not to distract them with "my output doesn't suck because I'm also a [whatever] too! Make me feel special or you're a bigot!"
No, the criticism is coming from competent tech workers who are tired of being told "you just hate me because I'm.." when they critique work. Bad code is bad code and the people who can't accept that aren't psychologically ready to do it for a living (or to be an adult imo).
Why do you care if it's normally "hard" to figure out the gender, ethnicity or any other variable? How does that change anything?
It doesn't. So why is every major institution making such a big deal out of it in the first place, especially in places where it's irrelevant (like writing code)? They babble about diversity being important, yet fixate on irrelevant differences while failing to realize that diversity will not produce the equal outcome they argue as moral. Finally, they jump to conclusions with the assumption this failure is due to massive institutional bigotry.
Insane.
Because it's not 1997?
Fallacy, and you know it. Today, it's even more important not to link your real life with the net. Services like IM and IRC were fine because there were at least pseudonymous. The problems really began with the forced use of real names by fakebook and friends.
The irony is that anonymous activity prevents the very kind of irrelevant judgments SJW types claim they want to avoid. The only thing to be judged is the code given as answers to questions.
The APA, MLA, and Chicago style all try to avoid gendered pronouns when the subject is unknown.
Only very very recently because of political blowback by SJWs.
This is what's known as building false consensus: A common tactic of marxists. In this case, it is being used to push newspeak changes to the language.
Agreed.
Now go fuck off, guy.
I suppose, if you could, you'd have the state step in and make me?
I have a right to criticize the government there, as well as the miltary.
I never said you didn't have that right. I criticize the government all the time.
There are plenty posting here from other countries who think they know what they're talking about when it comes to the US. They don't.
No. It has been biased towards the west coast and northeast for many years and now it's shifted slightly away.
New law is weighted both ways before it is passed, population density (house) and state equal footing (senate). If you had paid attention in civics classes you'd've known that. usually, the electoral college aligns with the popular vote, but when it doesn't, it's because people who'd otherwise be disadvantaged in a popular vote all voted in unison. So be it. This only works when the vote is close anyway.
You're butthurt because your chosen dear leader didn't win this time. Other peoples' did. Oh well. No reason to upend the whole thing, though. Somehow I doubt you'd be complaining if the electoral had voted for hillary had she had the minority popular vote. All this hoopla over the electoral college is coming from butthurt hillary supporters. I'm sure if it hasn't already, it will end up serving your viewpoints in the future.
Yeah because your country likely doesn't aid and abet anything like that, right? Even if you don't live in a NATO country, you likely have the US/NATO to thank for energy availability. Same difference if you live under russian or chinese influence.
hypocrite. take your propaganda somewhere else.
The problem is that governments can't seem to balance a budget.
If someone is allergic enough to have a reaction from breathing the air in spaces cockroaches have occupied, then he will definitely have a reaction from eating them.
I have a better solution for the real problem this propaganda hopes to fix: Maybe we should stop breeding so much. I'd rather have fewer people with a better quality of life than 10billion+ subsisting on insects.
Sean Parker, Facebook's first president, has blasted social media as a dangerous form of psychological manipulation
Well, it is. It feeds off social anxiety and insecurity on the part of its users. It keeps them coming back to reaffirm their positions relative to their peers and to feel like they're more socially differentiated and therefore more important than they really are.
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, thinks the solution is new legislation.
Now this is funny as hell since they profit by pushing marketing, SaaS, social media, and other rubbish onto the network.
That would only mean that California decides who's president and the balance of power focuses there, leaving the rest of the country with little representation in the federal government. California's issues, needs, and politics would dominate the country. No thanks. There's a reason why we have multiple ways of measuring representation (house and senate) for passing laws and electing leaders.
Yeah, well gamers figured out real quick that cards run in overdrive for 18months don't last long..
Not just corporations. Your friendly local 'globalhood' government wants it too.
I agree that pseudocode is also a better method for paper but TFS didn't say pseudocode. He implied use of languages that are better off typed. This is a common experience in school.
There's no point in doing this. These are highschool/college students. Let them hand write or type as they prefer. If it's illegible, reject the submission and tell the student to rewrite or type it. By the time tests roll around, the professor already knows which students should probably type their work. Hell, since compsci's all about the algorithm anyway, let them choose the language, too.
Lets take it from the top. TFS was asking about writing CODE on PAPER. Supposedly, the point of the exercise is to abstract the logic from the method. Code-on-paper is also a method, just like the same code typed in notepad.exe or expressed in flowcharts on a whiteboard. Hell, flowcharts are better suited for paper than code. Code-on-paper is fucking stupid.
Yeah, but who the hell wants to write out all those brackets, parentheses and other characters by hand? It takes ages compared to typing it out.
This is no different than those fossils who'd harp about penmanship in the 1990s. if the goal is the separate the logic from the expression method anyway, there's no reason not to give students a text editor to type out their code for exams.