After spending an hour in traffic doing nothing useful besides listening to the radio and polluting the environment, I'm currently sitting at my desk in my "collaborative" open office at 8:45 AM on a Monday morning listening to two coworkers shout a conversation at each other, fumbling for my headphones so I can drown them out with loud enough music that I can focus on what I'm actually paid to do.
But thankfully, I'm not being lazy or unproductive.
It's all the fat people cranking the AC down to "fast-food restaurant freezer". As long as we're the fattest nation on Earth, we'll be the AC-pollutingest nation on Earth, too.
encourage people to use their brains rather than googling
Heck, I'd settle for just not actively discouraging people from using their brains and doing some actual research before just "asking the guy who knows this stuff".
borrowing computer code from their friends or cribbing it from the internet
Shit, as long as I've been working, I get yelled at for trying to write my own code instead of "just googl(ing) it!" or "just get Ramesh to explain it to you!" These guys are going to be more prepared for the actual workforce than dorks like me who did 6 years of computer science working through everything the way you're supposed to.
Too bad my day job is fixing Infosys developed software
Even that wouldn't necessarily bother me if anybody had anything close to reasonable expectations about that sort of work. I spent a few years (a few years ago) trying to fix an unmaintainable mess put together by an even worse Indian offshorer than Infosys. The constant expectation was that, since there was code that was already written, and the code sort of worked, that fixing the "bugs" should take maybe an hour or two hour each to fix.
Haha, that's such a silly sentiment. Clearly everybody is as good as anybody else at anything, regardless of how long one person has been doing it or how interested one person is in it. Unless one of the people is an "underrepresented minority", in which case that person is automatically a thousand times better than a despicable white man, but has been kept down by oppressive thumb of the patriarchy.
Well, they've been telling us for decades to keep our heads down and our mouths shut because if we get out of line, they'll offshore the lot of us, and we're lucky we even have a job, so smile and enjoy your Saturdays in the office. Now they're saying that they need to import more people from overseas to work onshore because... offshore doesn't work? Yeah, something fishy is going on here.
I finally gave up on reddit when I submitted a post that had a few thousand up votes before the mods decided to delete it with no explanation. At least on Slashdot they just never accept your contributions.
More like a city without citizens. One man's troll is another man's freedom fighter - if you're going to get banned for saying anything that offends anyone, which is what "safe spaces" always devolve into, you learn not to say anything. Doesn't lead to a very engaging user experience.
Well, I'll give you mosquito, because I'm not aware of any other way to say that in English, but if you start saying "c'est la vie" or "que sera sera" or "je ne sais quoi", I'm going to start answering you in French, because you're either switching languages or acting like a pretentious try-hard.
when you come across talking about "women in science or technology", the speaker is a woman.
Well, no, definitely not that - it seems as though one of the qualifications to be a (white, male) CEO of any company is to be able to go on and on with a straight face how disappointed you are that there are so many white male people at your company. (See: Zuckerberg, Gates, Jobs...)
difficult to impossible to enforce, actually. Since Facebook's employees can't go trolling through random user's Facebook feeds looking for things that violate imagery rules, there's effectively no way to enforce them.
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After spending an hour in traffic doing nothing useful besides listening to the radio and polluting the environment, I'm currently sitting at my desk in my "collaborative" open office at 8:45 AM on a Monday morning listening to two coworkers shout a conversation at each other, fumbling for my headphones so I can drown them out with loud enough music that I can focus on what I'm actually paid to do. But thankfully, I'm not being lazy or unproductive.
It's all the fat people cranking the AC down to "fast-food restaurant freezer". As long as we're the fattest nation on Earth, we'll be the AC-pollutingest nation on Earth, too.
encourage people to use their brains rather than googling
Heck, I'd settle for just not actively discouraging people from using their brains and doing some actual research before just "asking the guy who knows this stuff".
buy my coursework
Wait, for how much? I may have found a new avenue for employment...
an unlimited number of variable names
What? There are only 26 letters. a = b; b = c; and now I've already used up 3 variable names.
borrowing computer code from their friends or cribbing it from the internet
Shit, as long as I've been working, I get yelled at for trying to write my own code instead of "just googl(ing) it!" or "just get Ramesh to explain it to you!" These guys are going to be more prepared for the actual workforce than dorks like me who did 6 years of computer science working through everything the way you're supposed to.
Too bad my day job is fixing Infosys developed software
Even that wouldn't necessarily bother me if anybody had anything close to reasonable expectations about that sort of work. I spent a few years (a few years ago) trying to fix an unmaintainable mess put together by an even worse Indian offshorer than Infosys. The constant expectation was that, since there was code that was already written, and the code sort of worked, that fixing the "bugs" should take maybe an hour or two hour each to fix.
Yep - "unlimited time off" means you'll know if you used too much when they fire you for using too much of it. So don't use any if you can avoid it.
A flop house and a saloon
My favorite Uber drivers are the drunken ones who tossed and turned on an uncomfortable mattress the night before, too.
Oh, none? Wow, I'm shocked.
Haha, that's such a silly sentiment. Clearly everybody is as good as anybody else at anything, regardless of how long one person has been doing it or how interested one person is in it. Unless one of the people is an "underrepresented minority", in which case that person is automatically a thousand times better than a despicable white man, but has been kept down by oppressive thumb of the patriarchy.
political correctness took over academia
Not in the college of mathematics and sciences, at least not yet.
Well, they've been telling us for decades to keep our heads down and our mouths shut because if we get out of line, they'll offshore the lot of us, and we're lucky we even have a job, so smile and enjoy your Saturdays in the office. Now they're saying that they need to import more people from overseas to work onshore because... offshore doesn't work? Yeah, something fishy is going on here.
I finally gave up on reddit when I submitted a post that had a few thousand up votes before the mods decided to delete it with no explanation. At least on Slashdot they just never accept your contributions.
your supposed to be able
you're
I can rile the community up about the clear double standard
That's why Reddit has been so successful - their communities don't care about double standards (embrace them, actually).
I like how he didn't say anything remotely racist, but you actually did, and you fail to see the irony.
"Like Reddit, only wimpier"
Well, you're just proving him - oh.
Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, hear the lamentation of their women...
More like a city without citizens. One man's troll is another man's freedom fighter - if you're going to get banned for saying anything that offends anyone, which is what "safe spaces" always devolve into, you learn not to say anything. Doesn't lead to a very engaging user experience.
Well, I'll give you mosquito, because I'm not aware of any other way to say that in English, but if you start saying "c'est la vie" or "que sera sera" or "je ne sais quoi", I'm going to start answering you in French, because you're either switching languages or acting like a pretentious try-hard.
Why do you say "verboten"? Do you think that makes you seem smart? Just say "disallowed" or "forbidden". You're speaking English, you hipster douche.
when you come across talking about "women in science or technology", the speaker is a woman.
Well, no, definitely not that - it seems as though one of the qualifications to be a (white, male) CEO of any company is to be able to go on and on with a straight face how disappointed you are that there are so many white male people at your company. (See: Zuckerberg, Gates, Jobs...)
difficult to impossible to enforce, actually. Since Facebook's employees can't go trolling through random user's Facebook feeds looking for things that violate imagery rules, there's effectively no way to enforce them.