So and so company has decided that for ethical reasons, it should preferentially hire one race. This is ok by law because those races aren't white. It should also hire favoring a sex. This is okay because that sex isn't male.
The sweet truth here is that it doesn't matter what you call racism and sexism.
I have always operated on Facebook as a pseudonym, and recently they blocked my account for not having any way to uniquely legally identify me. I have to admit that I am happy with that outcome, and the fact that they won't permit me onto their service without being able to identify me certainly cements my resolve to remain that way.
Not that I happen to love Ubuntu particularly, or windows particularly but this is a decent bridge for a guy like me who is heavy in Linux, needs windows for some ms-related stuff. I'll definitely make use of it.
This should come as no surprise. The concept of grasping, overreaching and completely unnecessary IP assumption and invasion and elimination of privacy to the point of attack on the person is beyond absurd.
At least this narrows the field to either the steam VR, or nothing for me.
You can remove half the parts of my diesel engine. It'll work.. until the set of conditions that the specific part is intended to address occur at which time it will fail. Sometimes dramatically.
The human system is significantly more complex than my diesel engine, and the set of conditions that it encounters are significantly more complex as well.
The thought that ignorance of fact is evidence of fact is appalling. That we don't know what a part does, in no way indicates anything other than our own lack of understanding.
She said something unflattering about him, he said something unflattering about her but when he says it, it sticks so she's crying about that.
I once saw a kid taunting a lion in the zoo. When the lion finally got annoyed and roared, he pissed his pants. The difference is, that kid didn't complain about the lion. He was stupid, just not that stupid.
Is in not realizing that this is what happens to anything when the general public consumes it. The vox populi isn't interested in being stirred from comfort. It is by and large petty and self-interested, and everything is an extension of that small existence.
These folks he knew were pioneers who are still interested in outside opinions, and they exist still. Just not in the droves that are on social media sites.
If you want quality, you must seek it out or invent it.
Same thing here. I'm over 50. I was told by one recruiter that the team thought I wouldn't 'fit in', after it was obvious that age was an issue for them.
News flash - I probably wouldn't have fit in for reasons more material than age, if you care about age.
I've worked with at least two employers where an indian (sorry, not intended to be racist but they were both indian), person from an agency who was converted to perm was put in place in a hiring position and then every single hire afterwards was indian, and exclusively from the contract agency that placed the individual.
I am aware that there are also incentives for these individuals, and that their relationships with the contracting firms are ongoing.
It's so obvious that I can't imagine it's not a known quantity.
It's not really racial discrimination, it's just a moderately biased business practice.
You were cool when you were cool. Now, I don't recognize you anymore. I don't like your new friends, either.
Remember what we used to love about one another? You were innovative - a few years ago. You raised hopes. Now, you're not new anymore and other people are taking up where you left off with less baggage.
You didn't really lose your way, I get that. You were misled. In the end, it all goes to the same place.
These breaches are a good thing, because they are forcing evolution.
Something we in IT have always known, is that security cannot be solely applied through obscurity. There will always be opportunity, tools and motivation that expose it.
This has never translated into other information sensitive disciplines, and right at this moment we have a tremendous amount of fragility in our financial and personal identification infrastructures because there is no concept of authentication.
That has to change. More of these breaches, which are not in and of themselves exceptions but rather the rule, will raise awareness to the reality of the situation - that attempting to protect oneself by hoping that ever more widely distributed sensitive information isn't disclosed, is not feasible.
Perhaps my experiences are unique, but in the 10 or so years I've been working with and around java development what I've seen is that java permits mediocre developers to produce complex software that's inefficient and badly abstracted, that does complex things slowly.
Furthermore, the little third world walled garden that java puts these developers in isolates and insulates them from the systems they are impacting.
That's my honest experience. Java developers of all the languages I've had to support on average have been the least skilled and least - I don't even know. It's hard to even qualify. Other developers take an interest in systems issues and work to improve it. Working with java developers is often like working with ducks. You can explain things over and over, and in the end unless you fix it from a systems perspective, nothing is going to get done because they don't understand or don't care.
To me, java was designed for one thing which makes a moderate amount of sense. A platform that is global. It isn't that, because java on each platform is fundamentally different due to the libraries involved, but furthermore it's a terrible fit for most of things I've seen people do with it.
The current direction of mainstream Linux is so horrible that an open source windows could overtake it.
Config files that cannot be easily maintained, degraded modes that don't work properly, serviceability issues, binary log files that can only be consumed when the system has lib mounted (can't be read with/sbin) - it all points to a system being developed by non-sysadmins, which is exactly the reason that _we_ invented linux and the associated libraries in the first place.
Congratulations next-gen linux devs. You're basically rewriting solaris 3, which we abandoned in favor of lighter, better, simpler and more reliable. I can see the future, you'll be abandoned too.
...was in not publishing those policies to the hackers that got in earlier. If only they had known that there was a company policy against it, it could have saved everyone a lot of extra work.
All things considered though, this arrogance seems in line with a place who doesn't know their own vulnerabilities. I'd wager this isn't the first time they have been compromised and this is just defensive turtling to try to hide facts.
I guess the waves of less technically apt engineers is driving the project now. Congrats, you've turned linux into something I wouldn't move to from Solaris because it actually sucks the same or worse.
Slashdot Mirror
occurs due to a sticking A button.
So and so company has decided that for ethical reasons, it should preferentially hire one race. This is ok by law because those races aren't white. It should also hire favoring a sex. This is okay because that sex isn't male.
The sweet truth here is that it doesn't matter what you call racism and sexism.
Talk PC, act sociopathic.
I have always operated on Facebook as a pseudonym, and recently they blocked my account for not having any way to uniquely legally identify me. I have to admit that I am happy with that outcome, and the fact that they won't permit me onto their service without being able to identify me certainly cements my resolve to remain that way.
Not that I happen to love Ubuntu particularly, or windows particularly but this is a decent bridge for a guy like me who is heavy in Linux, needs windows for some ms-related stuff. I'll definitely make use of it.
Said no one ever.
This should come as no surprise. The concept of grasping, overreaching and completely unnecessary IP assumption and invasion and elimination of privacy to the point of attack on the person is beyond absurd.
At least this narrows the field to either the steam VR, or nothing for me.
Kids these days.
If I could go back in time to my younger self, I would have told him -
"Don't change a thing, you're awesome. Word of warning though, all those bones you're breaking are going to hurt later. Also, buy Ericsson-LG in 2001"
Everything Nixon dreamed he could be - demagogue, paranoid, secretive and invested in impinging on civil rights for the greater good.
> stand-your-ground law that allows individuals to use deadly force in self-defense, actually increase gun-related deaths significantly.
Is a gun related death worse than a rape, robbery or death by beating, knife or strangling from the inability to prevent invasive violence?
http://www.infowars.com/woman-...
That is a gun related death. I support gun related deaths in those circumstances.
You can remove half the parts of my diesel engine. It'll work .. until the set of conditions that the specific part is intended to address occur at which time it will fail. Sometimes dramatically.
The human system is significantly more complex than my diesel engine, and the set of conditions that it encounters are significantly more complex as well.
The thought that ignorance of fact is evidence of fact is appalling. That we don't know what a part does, in no way indicates anything other than our own lack of understanding.
She said something unflattering about him, he said something unflattering about her but when he says it, it sticks so she's crying about that.
I once saw a kid taunting a lion in the zoo. When the lion finally got annoyed and roared, he pissed his pants. The difference is, that kid didn't complain about the lion. He was stupid, just not that stupid.
Interestingly, the influx of slaves into Rome produced a similar problem. Free labor made trade and low skill labor valueless.
https://prezi.com/0dczdwtwb3dn...
Not quite, but almost.
Is in not realizing that this is what happens to anything when the general public consumes it. The vox populi isn't interested in being stirred from comfort. It is by and large petty and self-interested, and everything is an extension of that small existence.
These folks he knew were pioneers who are still interested in outside opinions, and they exist still. Just not in the droves that are on social media sites.
If you want quality, you must seek it out or invent it.
Same thing here. I'm over 50. I was told by one recruiter that the team thought I wouldn't 'fit in', after it was obvious that age was an issue for them.
News flash - I probably wouldn't have fit in for reasons more material than age, if you care about age.
I've worked with at least two employers where an indian (sorry, not intended to be racist but they were both indian), person from an agency who was converted to perm was put in place in a hiring position and then every single hire afterwards was indian, and exclusively from the contract agency that placed the individual.
I am aware that there are also incentives for these individuals, and that their relationships with the contracting firms are ongoing.
It's so obvious that I can't imagine it's not a known quantity.
It's not really racial discrimination, it's just a moderately biased business practice.
I've been at it about that long. My very first UNIX support role for pay was with UNIX System III in 1985, so yeah 30 years this year. Creepy.
I worked on other things before that though, just not in a perm role.
I am unix grognard.
You were cool when you were cool. Now, I don't recognize you anymore. I don't like your new friends, either.
Remember what we used to love about one another? You were innovative - a few years ago. You raised hopes. Now, you're not new anymore and other people are taking up where you left off with less baggage.
You didn't really lose your way, I get that. You were misled. In the end, it all goes to the same place.
These breaches are a good thing, because they are forcing evolution.
Something we in IT have always known, is that security cannot be solely applied through obscurity. There will always be opportunity, tools and motivation that expose it.
This has never translated into other information sensitive disciplines, and right at this moment we have a tremendous amount of fragility in our financial and personal identification infrastructures because there is no concept of authentication.
That has to change. More of these breaches, which are not in and of themselves exceptions but rather the rule, will raise awareness to the reality of the situation - that attempting to protect oneself by hoping that ever more widely distributed sensitive information isn't disclosed, is not feasible.
Perhaps my experiences are unique, but in the 10 or so years I've been working with and around java development what I've seen is that java permits mediocre developers to produce complex software that's inefficient and badly abstracted, that does complex things slowly.
Furthermore, the little third world walled garden that java puts these developers in isolates and insulates them from the systems they are impacting.
That's my honest experience. Java developers of all the languages I've had to support on average have been the least skilled and least - I don't even know. It's hard to even qualify. Other developers take an interest in systems issues and work to improve it. Working with java developers is often like working with ducks. You can explain things over and over, and in the end unless you fix it from a systems perspective, nothing is going to get done because they don't understand or don't care.
To me, java was designed for one thing which makes a moderate amount of sense. A platform that is global. It isn't that, because java on each platform is fundamentally different due to the libraries involved, but furthermore it's a terrible fit for most of things I've seen people do with it.
The government mandated back doors that are put in for cyberwarfare operations will be exposed.
I don't know if that seems too conspiratorial for people, but I think it's naive to think that this isn't already done.
The current direction of mainstream Linux is so horrible that an open source windows could overtake it.
Config files that cannot be easily maintained, degraded modes that don't work properly, serviceability issues, binary log files that can only be consumed when the system has lib mounted (can't be read with /sbin) - it all points to a system being developed by non-sysadmins, which is exactly the reason that _we_ invented linux and the associated libraries in the first place.
Congratulations next-gen linux devs. You're basically rewriting solaris 3, which we abandoned in favor of lighter, better, simpler and more reliable. I can see the future, you'll be abandoned too.
...was in not publishing those policies to the hackers that got in earlier. If only they had known that there was a company policy against it, it could have saved everyone a lot of extra work.
All things considered though, this arrogance seems in line with a place who doesn't know their own vulnerabilities. I'd wager this isn't the first time they have been compromised and this is just defensive turtling to try to hide facts.
I guess the waves of less technically apt engineers is driving the project now. Congrats, you've turned linux into something I wouldn't move to from Solaris because it actually sucks the same or worse.
You're correct. They are in fact innoculating against it. Vaccination is the introduction of virus with the hopeful consequence of innoculation.
Basically they are creating an allergy to nicotine. Why they aren't saying it that way is what is curious to me.