Secondly, it's a matter of attitude. When they give you the offer, be enthusiastic, "Wow, this is great! This job offer is the best, I would love to accept it and want to work with you! The only problem is (reasons: my dog has expensive grooming, my commute is long and I need extra to pay for that, I want to work late every day and extra hard for you and I want to be compensated appropriately)." The reason doesn't matter. Just talk about how great it is to be at the job, but you'd like it if they didn't pay you more.
The reason does matter! It's a lot more effective if it's some variation of "you should pay me more because I'm so good at my job that it's worth it."
My guess is that women don't tend to self-identify as programmers or aim for careers as programmers. The ones who do end up in the field do so with relatively low seniority compared to their experience because they start out in QA or tech support instead of as an "associate software engineer" or whatever.
The female QA specialist I work with could easily be a software engineer -- she's become our de-facto Python guru -- but nevertheless, her job title is still "QA specialist" and (I assume) she gets paid accordingly. Now, if she did make the transition to be a developer officially, do you think they'd start her off as a mid-level one, or call her entry-level? The latter, probably. And if that happened, would she fight for the more senior title/pay? Probably not.
If you were to get your Linux computer pre-loaded from a vendor (like most people do with Windows and all people do with Mac), the vendor would have handled it for you.
Conversely, if you built your Windows computer yourself, you'd equally have to fuck around with installing drivers manually.
The world needs high quality STT that works when the net is down and isn't vulnerable to arbitrary changes in API, availability, and legal impediments.
Not to mention, security issues (e.g. of the "sending all your private speech to the NSA" variety).
Developing is not the same as developed. Angola (and the rest of Africa) certainly has the potential to become prosperous, but trying to claim that it is already so is just silly.
Using other people's libraries is fine; you just need to keep your own copy of them instead of dynamically-linking (or hotlinking, in the case of Javascript web shit).
...And then I keep reading the thread, see someone mention something called "Pencil," and find out that the iPod Pro does have exactly what I just ranted about. I'm a dumbass.
Still, it really needs to come with the thing by default, not be an optional (and extremely overpriced) accessory.
A "more powerful" iPad doesn't really get you much. It's still strictly for content consumption and niche functions.
A goddam STYLUS (with Wacom-style pressure-sensitivity, tilt and replaceable tips) so that it could actually be used for content creation instead of just consumption!
I'm sorry, but fucking around with water systems isn't really part of saving the world, is it?
You never know; some hacker might have been able to help in Flint (where part of the problem was using water from a polluted source, but the other part of the problem was not using enough of some of the chemical treatment).
So why not use GPL? ReDox never really answers that obvious question. If the ReDox folks have a great idea, just implement it in the GPL and then everyone can enjoy that great idea. But what they really want is for many people to donate their code so they can then make a profit off it. And that's why the GPL wins over time.
Not to mention, the GPL doesn't stop project leaders from requiring copyright assignment for contributions to the project, so that they could re-license it later if they wanted. Even GNU requires that, if I'm not mistaken.
Considering that the thing has to be able to turn through at least 180 degrees (but more likely 360) to face the wind, hanging anything from it at an angle -- like zip lines or ski slopes -- seems like a bad idea unless you intend for the blades to hit it.
Another neat option for the paranoid would be a '70s or '80s Mercedes diesel. Those things had completely mechanical fuel injection and (obviously) no ignition system, so if you were willing to bump-start the car it could be used with no electrical system at all. Totally EMP-proof.
I have three cars: a '90 Miata, a '96 Ranger (with an aftermarket radio that does not support metadata), and a '98 Beetle TDI. Only the Beetle has any chance of having a CAN bus, and I don't think it does because the early '98s actually used some leftovers from the VW MK3 platform instead of being proper MK4s. For example, my Beetle is one of the few that came without anti-lock brakes, and when I got a chip tune the tuner had to de-solder the memory to re-flash it instead of uploading the tune via the OBDII port. The Beetle's radio also does not support metadata.
My Mazda was made in 2015, and it has a bunch of receivers: AM, FM, XM (yuck), GPS, and precisely one transceiver: Bluetooth.
How sure are you of that?
Even if you weren't neglecting the other obvious communications devices -- the ones to communicate with the tire-pressure monitoring system, the keyless entry / push-button start, etc -- I would have no confidence whatsoever that there wasn't a cellular modem hidden away somewhere, just waiting to be activated by a Stingray or something. Hell, even if they didn't design one in on purpose, at this point probably every SoC they might have picked to run the infotainment system probably has it so they wouldn't even have a choice!
All of my cars were made in the '90s. They all have electronic fuel injection, but none of them has a transceiver (other than the AM/FM radio). No need to go back to carburetors, unless you really want to for other reasons.
(And yes, I drive cars that old on purpose, because of this issue.)
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The reason does matter! It's a lot more effective if it's some variation of "you should pay me more because I'm so good at my job that it's worth it."
My guess is that women don't tend to self-identify as programmers or aim for careers as programmers. The ones who do end up in the field do so with relatively low seniority compared to their experience because they start out in QA or tech support instead of as an "associate software engineer" or whatever.
The female QA specialist I work with could easily be a software engineer -- she's become our de-facto Python guru -- but nevertheless, her job title is still "QA specialist" and (I assume) she gets paid accordingly. Now, if she did make the transition to be a developer officially, do you think they'd start her off as a mid-level one, or call her entry-level? The latter, probably. And if that happened, would she fight for the more senior title/pay? Probably not.
If you were to get your Linux computer pre-loaded from a vendor (like most people do with Windows and all people do with Mac), the vendor would have handled it for you.
Conversely, if you built your Windows computer yourself, you'd equally have to fuck around with installing drivers manually.
Wiping the firmware and replacing it with coreboot would help too (assuming coreboot ever gets useful, widespread hardware support).
Not to mention, security issues (e.g. of the "sending all your private speech to the NSA" variety).
Developing is not the same as developed. Angola (and the rest of Africa) certainly has the potential to become prosperous, but trying to claim that it is already so is just silly.
Conveniently for Angolans, all of those things (I assume) have Wikipedia articles about them.
Okay, but that's not saying much!
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Using other people's libraries is fine; you just need to keep your own copy of them instead of dynamically-linking (or hotlinking, in the case of Javascript web shit).
...And then I keep reading the thread, see someone mention something called "Pencil," and find out that the iPod Pro does have exactly what I just ranted about. I'm a dumbass.
Still, it really needs to come with the thing by default, not be an optional (and extremely overpriced) accessory.
A goddam STYLUS (with Wacom-style pressure-sensitivity, tilt and replaceable tips) so that it could actually be used for content creation instead of just consumption!
You never know; some hacker might have been able to help in Flint (where part of the problem was using water from a polluted source, but the other part of the problem was not using enough of some of the chemical treatment).
You sure that's the point you meant to make?
Let's see... "iterating," "emergent," "ecosystems," and I already had "synergy" and "paradigm" -- bingo! I got a 'bingo' over here!
What do I win?
Not to mention, the GPL doesn't stop project leaders from requiring copyright assignment for contributions to the project, so that they could re-license it later if they wanted. Even GNU requires that, if I'm not mistaken.
Considering that the thing has to be able to turn through at least 180 degrees (but more likely 360) to face the wind, hanging anything from it at an angle -- like zip lines or ski slopes -- seems like a bad idea unless you intend for the blades to hit it.
How do you expect people to learn the lesson of that adage when they re-buy their seed corn from Monsanto every year?
Another neat option for the paranoid would be a '70s or '80s Mercedes diesel. Those things had completely mechanical fuel injection and (obviously) no ignition system, so if you were willing to bump-start the car it could be used with no electrical system at all. Totally EMP-proof.
I have three cars: a '90 Miata, a '96 Ranger (with an aftermarket radio that does not support metadata), and a '98 Beetle TDI. Only the Beetle has any chance of having a CAN bus, and I don't think it does because the early '98s actually used some leftovers from the VW MK3 platform instead of being proper MK4s. For example, my Beetle is one of the few that came without anti-lock brakes, and when I got a chip tune the tuner had to de-solder the memory to re-flash it instead of uploading the tune via the OBDII port. The Beetle's radio also does not support metadata.
How sure are you of that?
Even if you weren't neglecting the other obvious communications devices -- the ones to communicate with the tire-pressure monitoring system, the keyless entry / push-button start, etc -- I would have no confidence whatsoever that there wasn't a cellular modem hidden away somewhere, just waiting to be activated by a Stingray or something. Hell, even if they didn't design one in on purpose, at this point probably every SoC they might have picked to run the infotainment system probably has it so they wouldn't even have a choice!
You say that like you're trying to make an Onion-style joke headline, but -- like the Onion often is -- it turns out to be more valid than you think.
However, I'd say the bigger threat in that case is copyright law and DRM, rather than the FBI.
All of my cars were made in the '90s. They all have electronic fuel injection, but none of them has a transceiver (other than the AM/FM radio). No need to go back to carburetors, unless you really want to for other reasons.
(And yes, I drive cars that old on purpose, because of this issue.)
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