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  1. Even if they both lose, the lawyers win. So there is nobody to cheer for in this fight. Maybe if the lawyers agree to get paid with options there's a lose, lose, lose proposition (good outcome). But I don't see it happening.

  2. Re:Well, not always sexism.. on In Response To Anti-diversity Memo, YouTube CEO Says Sexism in Tech is 'Pervasive' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not that more skilled people don't exist. It's that ego driven twits _can't_ recognize it. See for example, your sib poster.

  3. Re:"From each according to his ability on Maybe Americans Don't Need Fast Home Internet Service, FCC Suggests (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Karl Marx you halfwit.

  4. Re:General management common sense on Google's Other Ugly Secret: Some Managers Keep Blacklists (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    I once made the mistake of privately pointing out to a Chinese PhD that his database would get a _failing_ grade in an undergraduate data structures course. Tables should have at least one index. Joining on 50 character unindexed text fields is suboptimal.

    I got to publicly apologize for my private comment, or he'd hold his breath. Quit that job shortly after.

  5. Re:Welcome to an At Will Employment state on Google's Other Ugly Secret: Some Managers Keep Blacklists (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    Smart companies don't have 'employee handbooks'. They become quasi-legal contract addendums and aren't usually written by lawyers.

  6. Re:You'll need a special keyboard on Google's Other Ugly Secret: Some Managers Keep Blacklists (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    You put the spacebar on the bottom of the keyboard tray.

  7. Re:So.... kind of like most offices? on Google's Other Ugly Secret: Some Managers Keep Blacklists (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    Start your own business and take the clients. The writing's on the wall. The boss made his choice.

  8. Re:You seriously cannot use Google?????????? on In Response To Anti-diversity Memo, YouTube CEO Says Sexism in Tech is 'Pervasive' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You seem to think this is somebody else's problem...

  9. Re:I tried raising my daughter to be an engineer on In Response To Anti-diversity Memo, YouTube CEO Says Sexism in Tech is 'Pervasive' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's just a childish dream. It will most likely die on it's own. Make sure she knows she's welcome back if the music industry doesn't workout.

  10. Re:I tried raising my daughter to be an engineer on In Response To Anti-diversity Memo, YouTube CEO Says Sexism in Tech is 'Pervasive' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Med schools love 4.0 engineering students. They have to get radiologists somewhere.

    On the further upside, if she's one of the about 50% of doctors that drop out of that field, she has a backup plan.

  11. Re:Well, not always sexism.. on In Response To Anti-diversity Memo, YouTube CEO Says Sexism in Tech is 'Pervasive' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The flip side of interruptions is the soliloquy.

    How long should you let someone lecture? What if the lecture is based on an _obviously_ false premise?

    Running meetings isn't easy. But implementing a strict 'talking stick' policy isn't the solution. Especially when dealing with a long winded incompetent, at the end of the day, work needs to get done.

    I don't like meetings for technical arguments, until there has been a day+ long email discussion and the meeting is just to make the decision. Let the technical points be 'on the record' going in.

  12. Re:Well, not always sexism.. on In Response To Anti-diversity Memo, YouTube CEO Says Sexism in Tech is 'Pervasive' (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Never mind that it's not a great feeling if your peers are more skillful than you are because you were hired for characteristics beyond your control and not for your ability.

    Ego comes first. What you describe never happens. It's not 'more skillful', it's knowitallmansplainingasshole...

    Strangely, you have to be pretty good at something, just to accept someone is better at anything. The people that can't do shit, are shit at recognizing skill. They project their incompetence far and wide.

  13. Re:How is this news? on An Image Site Is Victimizing Countless Women and Little Can Be Done (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is why I'm working on my labia shape hash algorithm. Facial recognition isn't good enough.

    Ladies, it's only going to work as well as the database, be sure and submit images of yours. It's the only way to get the notice if someone puts an image of your goodies on the net.

  14. Re:Liberal != Leftists != Democrat on Google May Be In Trouble For Firing James Damore (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    So you're willfully ignorant?

  15. It will certainly improve my chances of being allowed to telecommute every day.

  16. Re:Liberal != Leftists != Democrat on Google May Be In Trouble For Firing James Damore (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    What part is in dispute?

  17. Re: They wont get in trouble on Google May Be In Trouble For Firing James Damore (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    In my entire working life, I've worked _one_ place where 25%+ of the workforce was not a bunch of air thieves. That changed as it grew, once they put in 'professional HR' it was at least a quarter useless hires.

    IMHO if you aren't kicking about 25% during probation, you're doing it wrong. No matter how hard you try, bad ones get through the interview process, you've got to be willing to admit it was a mistake.

    At Google's size and growth history, I'd expect 50% useless staff, minimum.

  18. Re:Liberal != Leftists != Democrat on Google May Be In Trouble For Firing James Damore (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    Bernie 'rose' because it was Hillary's turn and all the viable candidates stepped aside. He opportunistically changed his registration to D and ran.

    Interpreting that as him being the second most viable D is insane. Most of his primary votes were 'anybody but Hillary', not committed reds, those remain 1%.

  19. The only way any prosecutor gets near 100% convictions is by only prosecuting the slam dunks. You'll note they don't generally prosecute pot charges anymore. They can't find juries and know it.

    But yeah, you'd have to be a fool to make a gun 'rock and roll' in the USA. Bumpfireing, on the other hand, is legal.

    Same rule applies to making a weapon out of a RC plane or quad, that's a guided missile, 10 years. Potentially for putting one fire cracker on the aircraft.

  20. 10 years federal for unlicensed possession of one 'automatic' weapon. Intentionally bend the firing pin, so it slam fires, 10 years federal. It's no joke.

    Besides it's just not sporting shooting signs with a machine gun. Might as well stop the truck and do it while sober. Where's the challenge in that?

    Gotta be a trick shot, drunk as shit, lying in the bed of a truck doing 100 down a gravel road, over your shoulder, aiming with a mirror.

  21. Re:dumb machines on You Can Trick Self-Driving Cars By Defacing Street Signs (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not what their data shows, that is their press release. Their data shows that autodrive is safer per car mile than humans in all driving situations, apples to oranges. It's twice as dangerous as human drivers on divided highways, there isn't direct data on 'autodrive' comparable human driving.

  22. Re:dumb machines on You Can Trick Self-Driving Cars By Defacing Street Signs (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Dad: What idiot changed a 35 mph sign to 85?

    Me thinking...not going to grin, not going to grin...

  23. Re:He is missing an important tool on The No-GPS Road Trip (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Self service pumps, one or two employees inside, selling coffee and ringing up customers. Too busy to help, also usually clueless. They'll usually be able to point you to the nearest highway, but beyond that?

  24. Re:Sounds like an urban legend on Mazda Announces Breakthrough In Long-Coveted Engine Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Pure compressed oxygen, in every vehicle's carburetor. You first...

    They aren't even crazy enough to run oxygen injection in the NHRA. Somebody tries every 20 or 30 years, once the memory of the last explosion has faded away. Pretty sure they don't do it at NHRA or IHRA events though. Steal catches fire as it explodes, fun for the crowd.

  25. Re:Worst trend in webdesign on Mazda Announces Breakthrough In Long-Coveted Engine Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Still better than /. beta was, but 'shootin''s too good for them...'

    Confession...i once showed a dev how to 'automate' and 'reuse' his Access application from VB classic. 'new Access.Application'....I'll go to hell for it, I deserve it. My cats will eat my liver, every day.