Hey slashdotters - go upstairs and ask your mother why she's not going to vote for Trump to get an idea of why people are saying he can't win.
You don't want to ask? The short story is the conservative types that make up a lot of the Republican party and do all the fetching and carrying at election times think he is a sleazy slimeball and not a "real" Republican. The longer story is that he's said a lot of stuff that people are taking personally. Completely angering the conventional Christian voters, the Hispanic voters and woman of all ideologies (especially the conservative ones) pokes a bit of a hole in his chances and adds up to a lot of people that would rather not turn up than vote for either Trump or Clinton. Since Trump cannot rely on the rusted on Republican vote I doubt he's going to win unless not many people turn up to vote for Clinton.
So? Reagan sold a lot of stuff to Iran and even Hezbolla. "Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason."
With respect she's not really very different to her husband and the sky didn't completely fall in when he was running the place. Trump on the other hand doesn't seem to understand what a Republic actually is and seems to want to be King, so he's unlikely to get much of the party behind him especially the very conservative types. If he does get in expect a lot of shouting and not much getting done. Remember that Obama couldn't close GITMO and that the health plan had to be watered down a lot to pass. The President does not wield absolute power and there is plenty to stop a Hillary Presidency being the end of the republic - once again probably a lot of shouting and nothing extreme getting done.
You may want to plug some shiny thing that doesn't exist yet into it but have no driver - so then it would be time to give up on Ubuntu or SUSE to go with Debian, Slackware, centos, etc, etc or FreeBSD to use it.
Repeat those words back to yourself - I was only describing a molehill but you are the one who tried to pretend it was a mountain by dragging in insane amounts of very insulting baggage.
then what you're failing to realize is that from about 1970 onwards that's exactly how it was in the Soviet Union
What makes you think I fail to realise that? The underlying culture of that nations is very different, as show with the tensions between the USSR and China.
You missed the defining word "small" - I'm describing the sort of place where if you are not a relative you will end up having an idiot teenager as a manager someday. Do you get the example now? Fish for talent in a very tiny pond and you can't find a lot of talent, and such places are a perfect example and DO have a very high failure rate. The ones that do not fail bring in talent from elsewhere.
Do you not understand the difference between hiring a JavaScript coder and a cabinet level position?
So after even bringing up Kimonos you want to get from general to very specific? You know what I'm writing about so just take it as written instead of mindless goalpost shifting for who knows what reason.
Yes, for the top people in an organization, you ought to go out of your way to find the best people. Those best people are going to come from top schools, which are not diverse. And for the rest of the organization it doesn't matter
Seriously?
What's ridiculous is your utterly ignorant defense of diversity for its own sake
Not what I am doing at all. I'm merely arguing against the opposite extreme and pointing out why inexperienced HR types have a bias towards friendship instead of someone actually useful to the org. I've had far too many 24 hour party people with almost zero technical skills dumped on me in the past and see it at a pretty fucking stupid way to run things.
I only wrote two sentences yet you posted without reading the second one. Good job Rusty! Texas Instruments were huge without a lot of military work as an example.
China is a perfect example of China. Drawing parallels with Albania or wherever is a mugs game. Communism is a patina on top and doesn't tell much of the story at all.
selecting from a small pool is good enough, and that's also true for hiring
"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job" Didn't seem to work there did it?
A LOT of things have been fucked up by hiring via nepotism. It should be obvious, if you hire the top people in an international bank from a single college tennis club you end up with something run no better than a college tennis club.
I have no idea why you are suggesting that you cannot grasp these concepts. I have no idea why you are defending such a ridiculous thing - is some high school debating club in your very recent past and you haven't been in the workforce long enough to consider that some day you may be in a position to hire other people?
OK, I'll try again - WTF does that baggage have to do with me? I'm not for mandating anything along these lines merely pointing out something that should be "common sense" but is not.
selecting from a small pool is good enough, and that's also true for hiring
Rubbish. Try working for a small family owned company for an extreme example of how much bullshit that is, and why so many of those crash and burn when they take on more than they can handle. Actually don't - just run or bail out as quickly as you can without caring that they will not pay any money owed. With such small groups the normal rules of morality are not seen to apply to outsiders.
If it was that simple then what we would see today is the military sitting on shiny new 1970s electronic tech while the rest of us would be stuck with 1960s designs. NASA, resource exploration and a pile of other things provided a market for new semiconductors instead of the DoD ordering the same secret chips every year for 40 years.
Indeed a lot of stuff around gold mining in various gold (and silver) rushes were scams. Claim salting and a lot of more subtle things. A lot has been written but I'd say bits of Mark Twain's mostly autobiographical "roughing it" sums it up better than most. Hence the words "gold rush mentality" applied to shiny new things where you know a lot of the players are going to crash and burn before it's over (dotcom crash, shale mining, etc).
I find it really funny that bitcoin enthusiasts go on both about the blockchain providing a record of transactions and how it's an anonymous currency. Hey kids, I've got dollar bills with RFID chips on them to sell you along with that bridge you are stupid enough to buy.
Keeping up with best practices would be impossible for someone just trained to mechanically follow the steps.
Exactly.
When "quality assurance" became a big thing it was exceedingly painful watching the recent graduates tasked with defining procedures (they couldn't say no so they got the thankless task). They defaulted to very narrow requirements and removed flexibility for arbitrary reasons. If we used brand X product for something one day they would specify the exact product instead of the type of product. I had to get one guy to replace his five pages of micromanagement with "Do according to the current ASTM standard XXXX" otherwise his five pages on that little thing would need revisions a few times a year. If you don't understand why stuff is done you can't make improvements or substitutions.
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The top one is correct because "people are saying he can't win". Please READ the items you cut and paste.
Not really. Look up "carpetbagger" from years back or look at other places around the world today.
Compiling kernel modules on the other hand happens with things like running the Nvidia installer.
Especially with the amount of effort required to carry that off at a naked Olympic games!
Hey slashdotters - go upstairs and ask your mother why she's not going to vote for Trump to get an idea of why people are saying he can't win.
You don't want to ask? The short story is the conservative types that make up a lot of the Republican party and do all the fetching and carrying at election times think he is a sleazy slimeball and not a "real" Republican. The longer story is that he's said a lot of stuff that people are taking personally. Completely angering the conventional Christian voters, the Hispanic voters and woman of all ideologies (especially the conservative ones) pokes a bit of a hole in his chances and adds up to a lot of people that would rather not turn up than vote for either Trump or Clinton.
Since Trump cannot rely on the rusted on Republican vote I doubt he's going to win unless not many people turn up to vote for Clinton.
So? Reagan sold a lot of stuff to Iran and even Hezbolla.
"Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason."
With respect she's not really very different to her husband and the sky didn't completely fall in when he was running the place. Trump on the other hand doesn't seem to understand what a Republic actually is and seems to want to be King, so he's unlikely to get much of the party behind him especially the very conservative types. If he does get in expect a lot of shouting and not much getting done.
Remember that Obama couldn't close GITMO and that the health plan had to be watered down a lot to pass. The President does not wield absolute power and there is plenty to stop a Hillary Presidency being the end of the republic - once again probably a lot of shouting and nothing extreme getting done.
You may want to plug some shiny thing that doesn't exist yet into it but have no driver - so then it would be time to give up on Ubuntu or SUSE to go with Debian, Slackware, centos, etc, etc or FreeBSD to use it.
Yes but there are plenty of things based on 32 bit ARM CPUs being sold in 2016.
Repeat those words back to yourself - I was only describing a molehill but you are the one who tried to pretend it was a mountain by dragging in insane amounts of very insulting baggage.
Examples are examples and are not supposed to be a general theory of everything.
Naming industry sectors such as resource exploration is not information?
Ah - no keyword for Rusty to parse - bad dog Rusty!
What makes you think I fail to realise that? The underlying culture of that nations is very different, as show with the tensions between the USSR and China.
You missed the defining word "small" - I'm describing the sort of place where if you are not a relative you will end up having an idiot teenager as a manager someday. Do you get the example now? Fish for talent in a very tiny pond and you can't find a lot of talent, and such places are a perfect example and DO have a very high failure rate. The ones that do not fail bring in talent from elsewhere.
I've done that.
So after even bringing up Kimonos you want to get from general to very specific? You know what I'm writing about so just take it as written instead of mindless goalpost shifting for who knows what reason.
Seriously?
Not what I am doing at all. I'm merely arguing against the opposite extreme and pointing out why inexperienced HR types have a bias towards friendship instead of someone actually useful to the org. I've had far too many 24 hour party people with almost zero technical skills dumped on me in the past and see it at a pretty fucking stupid way to run things.
I only wrote two sentences yet you posted without reading the second one. Good job Rusty!
Texas Instruments were huge without a lot of military work as an example.
China is a perfect example of China. Drawing parallels with Albania or wherever is a mugs game. Communism is a patina on top and doesn't tell much of the story at all.
"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job"
Didn't seem to work there did it?
A LOT of things have been fucked up by hiring via nepotism. It should be obvious, if you hire the top people in an international bank from a single college tennis club you end up with something run no better than a college tennis club.
I have no idea why you are suggesting that you cannot grasp these concepts.
I have no idea why you are defending such a ridiculous thing - is some high school debating club in your very recent past and you haven't been in the workforce long enough to consider that some day you may be in a position to hire other people?
I'm not for mandating anything along these lines merely pointing out something that should be "common sense" but is not.
Rubbish. Try working for a small family owned company for an extreme example of how much bullshit that is, and why so many of those crash and burn when they take on more than they can handle.
Actually don't - just run or bail out as quickly as you can without caring that they will not pay any money owed. With such small groups the normal rules of morality are not seen to apply to outsiders.
That's part of the plot of more than one SF story.
If it was that simple then what we would see today is the military sitting on shiny new 1970s electronic tech while the rest of us would be stuck with 1960s designs. NASA, resource exploration and a pile of other things provided a market for new semiconductors instead of the DoD ordering the same secret chips every year for 40 years.
Maybe funny in 1975 but you should have worked out a bit more about China since then :)
Indeed a lot of stuff around gold mining in various gold (and silver) rushes were scams. Claim salting and a lot of more subtle things. A lot has been written but I'd say bits of Mark Twain's mostly autobiographical "roughing it" sums it up better than most.
Hence the words "gold rush mentality" applied to shiny new things where you know a lot of the players are going to crash and burn before it's over (dotcom crash, shale mining, etc).
I find it really funny that bitcoin enthusiasts go on both about the blockchain providing a record of transactions and how it's an anonymous currency.
Hey kids, I've got dollar bills with RFID chips on them to sell you along with that bridge you are stupid enough to buy.
Exactly.
When "quality assurance" became a big thing it was exceedingly painful watching the recent graduates tasked with defining procedures (they couldn't say no so they got the thankless task). They defaulted to very narrow requirements and removed flexibility for arbitrary reasons. If we used brand X product for something one day they would specify the exact product instead of the type of product. I had to get one guy to replace his five pages of micromanagement with "Do according to the current ASTM standard XXXX" otherwise his five pages on that little thing would need revisions a few times a year.
If you don't understand why stuff is done you can't make improvements or substitutions.