No, no, all Trump supporters are literal Nazis. All 63 million of them. That's why America has adopted the swastika as its national flag since Trump's election and brownshirts roam the streets virtually unopposed.
Yep, that's my only experience with it - my graduate thesis advisor INSISTING that I write all my code in it for my thesis research. Slowed me down and delayed my graduation by probably 6 months.
Well, hang on. I've had a similar experience; I'm in my mid-40's, been working since I was about 20, never been fired from a job, still appear to have decent prospects, but... these stories make me very nervous; how do they not make you nervous? Do you really think you're THAT much better than half the people posting here (on Slashdot, which doesn't exactly attract incompetents?) Or do you think maybe you've just been very lucky? Although we can (and, based on past experience, will) argue forever about whether or not I'm _really_ any good or if I'm just another stuffed suit with the "same year of experience 20 times", it's indisputable that, on paper at least, I look very good. Whatever objective criteria you can bring to evaluating a person based on a resume, I have it. Yet I've still been rejected from far more jobs than I've been accepted to.
Well, if executives are going to these (or any other) lengths to attract "top-tier" talent, then I must be the lowest of the bottom-tier, because they wouldn't even walk across the room to talk to me.
I personally know a half-dozen people who are very qualified (but, unfortunately over 40) who've been out of work for months, in a market where I keep hearing that demand for "top talent" is so competitive that we need to double the visa cap to "meet the demand".
I've been warning my son since elementary school not to take it too easy with his education, because there would come a time when just being "naturally smart" won't be enough, and you'll _have_ to know how to study. A lesson I wish I had absorbed earlier myself.
There are no doctors without medical degrees. There are no lawyers without law degrees. Yet somehow, tech seems to be the one place where a degree is considered near irrelevant (in fact, according to Slashdot, having a degree in computer science may very well disqualify you from professional programming). The reason most often suggested for this difference is that technology isn't as important as medicine or law. Yet this line of thinking has apparently led to the collapse of the US consumer credit system.
So she didn't even review the vulnerability scans? Or didn't make sure that they were even done? This is simple standard stuff that any vulnerability scanner would find - Nessus or even nikto would uncover this stuff.
Fair enough, and yes, that does bother me and I wish people would stop making that assumption - but at the very least, there's no actual policy written down and adhered to that states that you must hire a certain percentage of white males. If you're assuming that any of the white males got hired for looking like the people at the top, that's all conjecture on your part (even if you're correct). Conversely, if there's an affirmative action policy in place, then by definition, at least some of the people who fit the criteria were hired under it, or the policy wouldn't be there.
do very important technical work--quite competently--without the educational credentials
Well, it's not much of a stretch to extrapolate from that that you feel that educational credentials are, in effect, meaningless for technical work. Do you feel that way about all fields or just technology?
Nothing sets Slashdot off like suggesting that programmers should be subject to certain qualifications (just look through the rest of the comments here). As far as Slashdot is concerned, everybody is a competent programmer except the ones who've ever actually studied it academically.
Well, that's some grade-A lack of reading comprehension you have going there. What OP said was that, if you have affirmative action hiring policies in place - hiring less qualified people to artificially inflate diversity on any metric - then EVERYBODY who fits that diversity metric carries the suspicion of being a "diversity" (i.e. otherwise unqualified) hire. Even if they actually weren't.
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No, you absolutely can not. It takes decades to become a competent programmer.
Yeah, that sentiment, modded up to a +5, scares the hell out of me. That's how you end up with Equifax. Coding is all there is.
AND they have nobody to compose a new corporate jingle!
No, no, all Trump supporters are literal Nazis. All 63 million of them. That's why America has adopted the swastika as its national flag since Trump's election and brownshirts roam the streets virtually unopposed.
Yep, that's my only experience with it - my graduate thesis advisor INSISTING that I write all my code in it for my thesis research. Slowed me down and delayed my graduation by probably 6 months.
You have to search the music major salary calculator to see that.
I'm waiting for a compile. I'm ALWAYS waiting for a compile.
Simulink isn't offered as a 'language'.
Dear God, please let that be a sign that it's not being used any more.
And that's the other thing that irritates me about this calculator - "Slashdot Article Reader" is not listed in the Role drop-down.
Not as useful as I was hoping, since you can only select from about 7 (high-salary) specific regions. Still, looks like I'm underpaid (yet again...)
Well, hang on. I've had a similar experience; I'm in my mid-40's, been working since I was about 20, never been fired from a job, still appear to have decent prospects, but... these stories make me very nervous; how do they not make you nervous? Do you really think you're THAT much better than half the people posting here (on Slashdot, which doesn't exactly attract incompetents?) Or do you think maybe you've just been very lucky? Although we can (and, based on past experience, will) argue forever about whether or not I'm _really_ any good or if I'm just another stuffed suit with the "same year of experience 20 times", it's indisputable that, on paper at least, I look very good. Whatever objective criteria you can bring to evaluating a person based on a resume, I have it. Yet I've still been rejected from far more jobs than I've been accepted to.
The key word here is "top."
Well, if executives are going to these (or any other) lengths to attract "top-tier" talent, then I must be the lowest of the bottom-tier, because they wouldn't even walk across the room to talk to me.
I personally know a half-dozen people who are very qualified (but, unfortunately over 40) who've been out of work for months, in a market where I keep hearing that demand for "top talent" is so competitive that we need to double the visa cap to "meet the demand".
I've been warning my son since elementary school not to take it too easy with his education, because there would come a time when just being "naturally smart" won't be enough, and you'll _have_ to know how to study. A lesson I wish I had absorbed earlier myself.
Sure, that's why you're such a failure. It was all your teachers, not you.
Nobody ever told me I was smart
I was told the opposite - "And I better not hear any smart answers out of you!"
There are no doctors without medical degrees. There are no lawyers without law degrees. Yet somehow, tech seems to be the one place where a degree is considered near irrelevant (in fact, according to Slashdot, having a degree in computer science may very well disqualify you from professional programming). The reason most often suggested for this difference is that technology isn't as important as medicine or law. Yet this line of thinking has apparently led to the collapse of the US consumer credit system.
seasing on this (and idiots
Ah, the irony...
So she didn't even review the vulnerability scans? Or didn't make sure that they were even done? This is simple standard stuff that any vulnerability scanner would find - Nessus or even nikto would uncover this stuff.
Fair enough, and yes, that does bother me and I wish people would stop making that assumption - but at the very least, there's no actual policy written down and adhered to that states that you must hire a certain percentage of white males. If you're assuming that any of the white males got hired for looking like the people at the top, that's all conjecture on your part (even if you're correct). Conversely, if there's an affirmative action policy in place, then by definition, at least some of the people who fit the criteria were hired under it, or the policy wouldn't be there.
The Canadians will settle on reason after they've exhausted all other options. They're just working through the options now.
do very important technical work--quite competently--without the educational credentials
Well, it's not much of a stretch to extrapolate from that that you feel that educational credentials are, in effect, meaningless for technical work. Do you feel that way about all fields or just technology?
Nothing sets Slashdot off like suggesting that programmers should be subject to certain qualifications (just look through the rest of the comments here). As far as Slashdot is concerned, everybody is a competent programmer except the ones who've ever actually studied it academically.
is well-appraised of many deep and complex topics in information security
Well, considering they were running an unpatched version of Apache struts and using "admin" as their passwords, we can pretty much rule that out.
doesn't know what any of those big words she's using actually mean
So you must be saying option B.
I love the smell of moralizing high-and-mighty white knights painting themselves into a corner in the morning.
Well, that's some grade-A lack of reading comprehension you have going there. What OP said was that, if you have affirmative action hiring policies in place - hiring less qualified people to artificially inflate diversity on any metric - then EVERYBODY who fits that diversity metric carries the suspicion of being a "diversity" (i.e. otherwise unqualified) hire. Even if they actually weren't.
See what happens. It wont be fucking pretty.
And, a bit ironically, I'm sure that the people who will end up bearing the brunt of what happens will be the people that the SJW's adore.