Putting aside the notion of google and privacy issues, current google drive doesn't do file versioning. That, alone, tanks the notion of using it for "backups", although it's a pretty convenient file sharing tool.
I appreciate an open mind, and you're absolutely right; a wage gap remains when controlled for age, hours worked, education level and job title. Throughout their 20s, women out earn men. It's only when 30s hit that the situation flips. So what changes?
What do you think are some factors in the equation?
Except that such terms as "trigger" and "micro-aggression" and "safe spaces" exist for a reason. While I don't discount your notion that a superiority complex is partially to blame, that exists on both sides of the issue. You have children who have been told from birth that everything they do is amazing, so naturally when they hit the real world it must be the world at fault and not their own perceptions. It follows then, that they would attempt to change their environment to match their perceptions. This is normal behavior. What's relatively "new" is that colleges are so addicted to the funds these kids bring with them that they enable their behavior.
There are no "good guys" here. Only horrible people who have logic and facts to backup their horrible behavior.
I'm not sure why you introduced sexual assault into the equation, but it's certainly an issue worth discussing. Title IX's reinterpretation by the Obama administration opened the flood gates for destroying men's lives via false sexual assault claims. Note: I am not saying sexual assault doesn't exist. Nor am I saying it's acceptable. It's absolutely not. Incidents of sexual assault should be addressed harshly. However, in their zeal to punish the accused they forgot to verify that they were guilty first. Men, and it absolutely is a gender issue, are railroaded by colleges more worried about their image than the facts.
If a sexual assault happens, it should be handled by the local authorities and not a college.
Normally I'd suspect that as well, however the world of CEOs runs by a different set of rules.
So probably nothing would change. How many countless companies have we watched driven into the ground by incompetent CEOs only to watch them land safely at another company only to repeat the process. Gender doesn't seem to have anything to do with it.
That tactic only works if you let it. Competent adults are able to ignore being triggered and focus on the matter at hand instead of running around like a kid off his Ritalin addressing every aspect of the post which offends their delicate sensibilities.
I can't see that changing much, and if students decide to raise a stink, it would be fair for a teacher to offer to let the student test out of the class immediately, giving them the remaining homework/tests in one lump, and saving everyone a bit of time, since the student is unwilling to learn directly from the teacher.
Have you even *been* on college campuses today? The term "inmates are in charge of the asylum" is frighteningly accurate. Students only need claim professors and/or curriculum "triggered" them via a series of "micro aggressions" and BAM! Headache for one and all. Well, not the students, who may retire to a "safe space", complete with crayons and comfy chairs.
If the topic is controversial enough ( say; someone refuting feminist dogma like the wage gap ), the professor can look forward to a full on witch hunt.
Schools are addicted to money, and the students are...not the source, but the catalyst for it. Thus, schools are becoming more and more like a fast food joint, complete with the questionable stains and general idiots on either side of the counter.
I say we let them do it. Politicians have been banging this drum pretty consistently for a while now, independent of any common sense or...you know...intelligence. I say we give them what they presume they want. Give them precisely what they want, then rub their noses in it and smack them with a newspaper when it's shown to be impossible.
The job of CEO is to maximize shareholder profit. Everything else is in service to this goal.
It can certainly be argued that this douche nozzle is going to end up costing the board dearly, and you'd probably be right. That, however, is not my point. My point is it's nice to see someone in authority act like he has a set of balls and own their actions. Too many company leaders, when caught with their hands in the cookie jar, act like it's a mystery. They don't know how they got both hands and foot in the cookie jar. They were just walking along, all innocent like, and bam! This cookie jar came out of nowhere and he had to fight it off!
Not this guy. When "caught", he proceeded to stuff the other foot in the jar AND flipped off the cameras at the same time. I dig that.
Twenty-five companies, including Adobe, Apple, Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Salesforce, Morgan Stanley, Intel signed on to a letter which was published on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal today arguing in favor of climate pact.
Never has there been a better reason to do it, in my opinion.:D
In all honesty, however, if these companies so badly want something I'm immediately suspicious of their intentions.
Putting aside national pride for a moment, this is the same government that denied "domestic surveillance" and seems determined to live up to the "shoot the messenger" tactic against the heroes who exposed the lies.
How can anything they say be considered trustworthy?
...and now I'm back to wondering how you might hope to catch cheaters when you have a program which starts by abstracting away the minutia when you're dealing with simple college level coding problems.
There are only so many ways to solve the same problem.
Given MS's direction from the past...decade...their problem will be the interface. If they stay true to form, they'll introduce a phone with an interface optimized for a mouse and keyboard then act bewildered when no one wants it ( hello windows 8 ).
I was a horrible student, but CS courses were where I excelled ( except, notably, in the MS courses. Go figure ). I never pulled the auto-cheater thing outlined above, but I did other things throughout my college life which rivaled it.
I got the distinct impression that my professors were glad to see the end of me in their classes. One actually flat out told me so ( he later hooked me up with a great job ).
Heh, I'd have been the dick who wrote an automated obfuscator. Flip the indentation from spaces to tabs ( or tabs to spaces ), randomly change ctime/mtime ( within acceptable range ), camelcase to underscore ( or reverse ), use a dictionary to change variables to their synonyms, add generic comments ( ala "palm reading" ), randomly placed returns ( where language appropriate ).
Figure that wouldn't take more than an afternoon to code up.
Could get even crazier by adding the ability to swap out loops ( foreach to while/for ), but those can impact overall grade and is language specific so it'd have to wait for v2.
The key is that there's nearly unlimited ways to solve a problem incorrectly,
Point of fact, there are a very small number of ways to solve simple, college level problems. Obfuscation is not a coding methodology we want to be encouraging, afterall.
You have a valid point about incorrect assignments, however.
How many different ways can you solve a college level problem in a course assigned language? If you have 700 students, I guarantee successful assignments are going to look like they copied each other to varying degrees.
"Cloud" service providers have no place in mission critical roles by virtue that the "Cloud" is a faster way of saying "abdicating responsibility". If you make millions of dollars a day on the back of your IT infrastructure, then the last thing you do is outsource the responsibility of said infrastructure to a 3rd party company which has different priorities than you do.
Any IT manager making such a recommendation is a) lazy, b) useless and c) should be fired.
This concept is drilled into us day in, day out. It's accepted as a universal truth with absolutely no vetting, which has always made me suspicious of the claim. Why is diversity important in science? By it's very nature, WHO is doing the science should be irrelevant. A test result won't change depending on my gender or melanin levels, or at least it won't if the science is done right.
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Putting aside the notion of google and privacy issues, current google drive doesn't do file versioning. That, alone, tanks the notion of using it for "backups", although it's a pretty convenient file sharing tool.
I think I'm beginning to get what happened to yahoo.
I appreciate an open mind, and you're absolutely right; a wage gap remains when controlled for age, hours worked, education level and job title. Throughout their 20s, women out earn men. It's only when 30s hit that the situation flips. So what changes?
What do you think are some factors in the equation?
Except that such terms as "trigger" and "micro-aggression" and "safe spaces" exist for a reason. While I don't discount your notion that a superiority complex is partially to blame, that exists on both sides of the issue. You have children who have been told from birth that everything they do is amazing, so naturally when they hit the real world it must be the world at fault and not their own perceptions. It follows then, that they would attempt to change their environment to match their perceptions. This is normal behavior. What's relatively "new" is that colleges are so addicted to the funds these kids bring with them that they enable their behavior.
There are no "good guys" here. Only horrible people who have logic and facts to backup their horrible behavior.
I'm not sure why you introduced sexual assault into the equation, but it's certainly an issue worth discussing. Title IX's reinterpretation by the Obama administration opened the flood gates for destroying men's lives via false sexual assault claims. Note: I am not saying sexual assault doesn't exist. Nor am I saying it's acceptable. It's absolutely not. Incidents of sexual assault should be addressed harshly. However, in their zeal to punish the accused they forgot to verify that they were guilty first. Men, and it absolutely is a gender issue, are railroaded by colleges more worried about their image than the facts.
If a sexual assault happens, it should be handled by the local authorities and not a college.
Normally I'd suspect that as well, however the world of CEOs runs by a different set of rules.
So probably nothing would change. How many countless companies have we watched driven into the ground by incompetent CEOs only to watch them land safely at another company only to repeat the process. Gender doesn't seem to have anything to do with it.
That tactic only works if you let it. Competent adults are able to ignore being triggered and focus on the matter at hand instead of running around like a kid off his Ritalin addressing every aspect of the post which offends their delicate sensibilities.
But, as I haven't taken my Ritalin quite yet: https://www.prageru.com/course...
I can't see that changing much, and if students decide to raise a stink, it would be fair for a teacher to offer to let the student test out of the class immediately, giving them the remaining homework/tests in one lump, and saving everyone a bit of time, since the student is unwilling to learn directly from the teacher.
Have you even *been* on college campuses today? The term "inmates are in charge of the asylum" is frighteningly accurate. Students only need claim professors and/or curriculum "triggered" them via a series of "micro aggressions" and BAM! Headache for one and all. Well, not the students, who may retire to a "safe space", complete with crayons and comfy chairs.
If the topic is controversial enough ( say; someone refuting feminist dogma like the wage gap ), the professor can look forward to a full on witch hunt.
Schools are addicted to money, and the students are...not the source, but the catalyst for it. Thus, schools are becoming more and more like a fast food joint, complete with the questionable stains and general idiots on either side of the counter.
I say we let them do it. Politicians have been banging this drum pretty consistently for a while now, independent of any common sense or...you know...intelligence. I say we give them what they presume they want. Give them precisely what they want, then rub their noses in it and smack them with a newspaper when it's shown to be impossible.
It's infeasible not because it's technically challenging or anything. No, it's because they don't want to deal with the PR fall out.
Not that anyone would care.
You do realize, of course, that by implying this company is the only supplier of a life saving drug you are actually giving them more power, not less.
I know kids who carry around syringes and epinephrine, and they get along just fine without this company's product.
The job of CEO is to maximize shareholder profit. Everything else is in service to this goal.
It can certainly be argued that this douche nozzle is going to end up costing the board dearly, and you'd probably be right. That, however, is not my point. My point is it's nice to see someone in authority act like he has a set of balls and own their actions. Too many company leaders, when caught with their hands in the cookie jar, act like it's a mystery. They don't know how they got both hands and foot in the cookie jar. They were just walking along, all innocent like, and bam! This cookie jar came out of nowhere and he had to fight it off!
Not this guy. When "caught", he proceeded to stuff the other foot in the jar AND flipped off the cameras at the same time. I dig that.
I'll be in the minority here, but that's bad ass. A company leader that doesn't do PR is a breath of fresh air, even if he is a raging asshole.
Twenty-five companies, including Adobe, Apple, Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Salesforce, Morgan Stanley, Intel signed on to a letter which was published on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal today arguing in favor of climate pact.
Never has there been a better reason to do it, in my opinion. :D
In all honesty, however, if these companies so badly want something I'm immediately suspicious of their intentions.
Putting aside national pride for a moment, this is the same government that denied "domestic surveillance" and seems determined to live up to the "shoot the messenger" tactic against the heroes who exposed the lies.
How can anything they say be considered trustworthy?
...and now I'm back to wondering how you might hope to catch cheaters when you have a program which starts by abstracting away the minutia when you're dealing with simple college level coding problems.
There are only so many ways to solve the same problem.
Given MS's direction from the past...decade...their problem will be the interface. If they stay true to form, they'll introduce a phone with an interface optimized for a mouse and keyboard then act bewildered when no one wants it ( hello windows 8 ).
This time, THIS TIME, it'll work.
Optimism is often a stand in for insanity.
I was a horrible student, but CS courses were where I excelled ( except, notably, in the MS courses. Go figure ). I never pulled the auto-cheater thing outlined above, but I did other things throughout my college life which rivaled it.
I got the distinct impression that my professors were glad to see the end of me in their classes. One actually flat out told me so ( he later hooked me up with a great job ).
Heh, I'd have been the dick who wrote an automated obfuscator. Flip the indentation from spaces to tabs ( or tabs to spaces ), randomly change ctime/mtime ( within acceptable range ), camelcase to underscore ( or reverse ), use a dictionary to change variables to their synonyms, add generic comments ( ala "palm reading" ), randomly placed returns ( where language appropriate ).
Figure that wouldn't take more than an afternoon to code up.
Could get even crazier by adding the ability to swap out loops ( foreach to while/for ), but those can impact overall grade and is language specific so it'd have to wait for v2.
The key is that there's nearly unlimited ways to solve a problem incorrectly,
Point of fact, there are a very small number of ways to solve simple, college level problems. Obfuscation is not a coding methodology we want to be encouraging, afterall.
You have a valid point about incorrect assignments, however.
How many different ways can you solve a college level problem in a course assigned language? If you have 700 students, I guarantee successful assignments are going to look like they copied each other to varying degrees.
move the services onto a cloud provider
"Cloud" service providers have no place in mission critical roles by virtue that the "Cloud" is a faster way of saying "abdicating responsibility". If you make millions of dollars a day on the back of your IT infrastructure, then the last thing you do is outsource the responsibility of said infrastructure to a 3rd party company which has different priorities than you do.
Any IT manager making such a recommendation is a) lazy, b) useless and c) should be fired.
It's telling that these SJW companies looking to offer a "safe space" on the internet can't find traction.
A company who seems to actively seek out litigation, who's demonstrably not a team player, is not following through on their verbal commitments?
I'm shocked, SHOCKED.
Why is diversity important?
This concept is drilled into us day in, day out. It's accepted as a universal truth with absolutely no vetting, which has always made me suspicious of the claim. Why is diversity important in science? By it's very nature, WHO is doing the science should be irrelevant. A test result won't change depending on my gender or melanin levels, or at least it won't if the science is done right.