Tesla's attitude with superchargers is a bit odd to me. They made their intellectual property non-royalty from a patent perspective, but you can't charge a non-Tesla electric vehicle at one of their chargers.
Is Elon Musk's vision for the future really one where there are proprietary fueling stations which only work on certain vehicles?
I'm not taking away from the huge progress he's made for humanity, but sometimes he really makes me wonder...
I'm getting terrible performance in Grand Theft Auto 5 and other games. I shelled out big money for a 6 core Intel CPU specifically so it would last a long time.
I can't even play the games that used to run perfectly on the system with acceptable performance.
Anything short of a full recall that replaces my CPU with one that performs at the level I paid for is completely unacceptable. Intel will never recover from this if they screw their best customers.
Uh, the Manafort indictment, and Trump / Russia collusion guilty plea is the biggest story since the great recession.
This seems to me like sour grapes from a republican who doesn't want to have to see articles about news he doesn't like.
I'm sorry that Donald Trump committed treason, colluding with Russia's attack on America. I'm sorry for your sake that he has been caught, but glad for America that we are finally starting the long process of bringing this heinous traitor and criminal to justice.
News is news. Donald Trump committed treason, and you can't suppress the news about his co-conspirators being arrested and testifying about his campaign's collusion just because you consider objective reality to be biased.
Is this code of conduct a meme or right wing cause or something? I don't get it....
Yes, any code of conduct if misapplied is tyrannical, but nothing in the quote I read, or in the extremely boring and boiler plate code of conduct supports your interpretation.
The code of conduct simply calls for respect, which seems pretty reasonable to me.
You do realize that the code of conduct prohibits harassment and discrimination, and that this is a fairly standard code of conduct which is not overly restrictive in any way.
Seems like you think you found a clever quote that proves your point.. but it does quite the opposite.
What's the deal? Are you trying to write "i h8 trans" or "know your gender role" in your github commits or something?
How hard is it to communicate in a professional and respectful way for an angry snowflake like yourself?
You simply have to find a way to discuss the corporate policy without making controversial statements about certain types of people.
That means that even though you feel very interested in infant castration, it is not relevant to any discussion about workplace policy. How castrated males behave simply isn't relevant to corporate policy in any way.
If you feel that the policy is wrong, then discuss its problems without any manifestos on gender roles. You will probably be fine. Even then, though... smart people understand office politics and only piss in the wind when it's absolutely necessary.
That's not the point.. I hope for your sake that your are still in school and simply haven't learn what's appropriate in the workplace.
That open dialogue about issues that seem important to the people that parade it are not important because castration?
I'm having alot of trouble taking you seriously... You really don't understand how inappropriate and unnecessary it is to discuss castration at work?
Poor CEO. If only we all understood his pain...
Again, you are missing the point. The problem isn't that a CEO had to cancel is vacation. The problem is when your CEO has to cancel a vacation to handle your large public screw up. That does not typically end well, particularly if it's for an unforced error like a manifesto on gender roles which veers into infant castration.
You are right to assume I don't work in Silicon Valley, and am if anything in a fairly conservative area.
As a liberal in a sea of right wing stupidity run amok I am able to navigate the waters of right wing coworkers despite knowing that Donald Trump is a racist clown who is only supported by racist idiots. I simply keep certain opinions to myself, which isn't difficult, because I'm at work after all.
Much how this guy could have easily avoided discussing castrated males, and other nonsense, I can easily avoid discussing the abject stupidity, racism, and hatred that permeates the hateful right wing.
By the way, what the hell is wrong with this?
"We will exclude you from interaction if you insult, demean or harass anyone.... In particular, we don't tolerate behavior that excludes people in socially marginalized groups."
Are you whining because a project doesn't cater to bigotry and harassment???
"Biological males that were castrated at birth and raised as females often still identify and act like males"
I've been able to survive this long as a software engineer without discussing castration in any email or company blog posts. It's really not very difficult.
Here is a simple rule of thumb, If your CEO has to cancel a vacation because of your actions, which inexplicably involve discussing castrated males, you should prepare your resume...
I don't know... some people seem to think that treasonously colluding with a hostile foreign adversary's attack on your country isn't a crime.
By that standard, selling malware isn't a crime either.
Interestingly, that's the same standard that protects gun sellers from being charged with a crime for selling guns to murderers. Gun sellers know for a fact that a certain percentage - say 5% of their guns will be used for murders and other crimes. It doesn't take much arithmetic to realize the exact number of deaths that their guns will cause.
So, each gun death earns the gun manufacturer $10,000.
That seems like a pretty low value for human life, but remember - gun sellers have immunity from prosecution for the crimes their guns are used in. Deaths are an externalized cost.
If you compare it to the river of blood left by gun sellers, selling malware shouldn't trigger much more than a speeding ticket, however only gun sellers have immunity for death and destruction caused by their products.
Blaming "The Deep State" for catching Donald Trump blatantly committing treason is just pathetic. He sold America out to Russia, and he got caught. That's Trump's fault.
Our security agencies are just doing their job protecting us from Russia's attacks on our country. It is not their fault that Donald Trump colludes with Russia's attacks on our country.
It is not the job of the US government to ignore Donald Trump's obvious crimes and treasonous actions.
Interesting that Wikileaks is publicizing CIA documents while leaving their master Vladimir Putin, and his puppet Donald Trump unscathed.
What - the FSB doesn't hack webcams?
And of course, Wikileaks and Donald Trump are the only ones pretending that their puppet master Vladimir Putin didn't meddle in the US election.
Ok - fine I'm shocked that the American spy agency has hacking capabilities... I mean, how else would we know that our "President" committed treason, aside from observing his complete subservience to Vladimir Putin and Russia's interests.
Banks perform real-time mission critical financial transactions over a global network that can essentially never go down. I'm sure there are some engineering challenges there if you look for them.
It sounds like you'd rather make devices and do low level code.
Perhaps you would like to work on a new processor designed to handle radar data in self driving cars.
Designing new processor isn't your thing? You want to be an engineer that builds bridges - great.. there are tons of engineering companies in Dallas. If bridges aren't difficult and flammable enough for you, design undersea rovers for an oil company, or help them engineer the cutting edge tools that they use in their day to day operation.
I'll have to tell my software engineer friends that work for banks in Dallas that there aren't any tech jobs in the banking sector here.
Probably should tell myself that software engineering position at a bank that I turned down a few years ago never really existed.
I don't think Texas is greatest place on earth or anything - I'll leave that to people far more pretentious than I am - but here is a news flash for you.
The corporate office is in Texas... That's what a diversified economy is all about.
I think there is a bit of a flaw in the way this indeed survey and others identify national tech hubs.
According to this survey, the top tech hubs have the highest percentage of their job listings advertising for tech jobs. This disregards the actual total number of tech jobs.
For example, Austin is considered a tech hub in this last while Dallas is not, but Dallas has way more tech jobs than Austin, which is a smaller city. The difference is that Dallas has a very diversified economy, so the percentage of job listings for tech is lower.
Personally, I'm more interested in the tech hubs that are part of a larger diversified market. Just like a diversified portfolio protects you from losing money from fluctuations in the market, a diverse economy protects your ability to find a local job when your industry takes a downturn.
Trump Jr claims nothing of value was exchanged, but Russia did attack our democracy, and did commit crimes like hacking in this attack. The Trump campaign immediately benefited from this hacking, publicly encouraged it, and worked to shield Russia from the sanctions that such an attack on the USA should lead to.
Also, Trump Jr has changed his story on this 3 times, and is almost certainly still lying. In court, when a defendant changes his story multiple times as Jr (and the Trump crime family) has, that is considered a sign of guilt and criminal intent. This is just the tip of the treason iceberg.
The Trump crime family has been pretending that there is no evidence Russia interfered in our election, when the Trump Jr emails show they treasonously colluded with Russia's attack on our democracy.
The USA may not be "at war" with Russia, but Russia is engaged in an ongoing cyberwarfare campaign against the US, which is an act of war.
It's treasonous to collude with a hostile foreign adversary's criminal attacks on your country. Every loyal American knows this.
The difference is that Donald Trump and the Trump crime family have actually committed treason, colluding with a hostile foreign government.
I don't have any problem with Russian people, but Russia's government is currently attacking my country's democracy, and I am too patriotic to let that slide.
I know Donald Trump colludes with Putin's crime spree, but not all Americans are traitors like the Trump crime family.
After all the denials or Russia's attack on our country Donald Trump Jr just released an email showing him colluding with Russia's attack on our country. That email is just the tip of a treasonous ice berg.
Aside from the traitors themselves, it's important recognize the turncoats who look the other way. They are traitors too, because as a democracy we are all responsible for informing ourselves and defeating traitors, even if we otherwise agree with their views.
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Tesla's attitude with superchargers is a bit odd to me. They made their intellectual property non-royalty from a patent perspective, but you can't charge a non-Tesla electric vehicle at one of their chargers.
Is Elon Musk's vision for the future really one where there are proprietary fueling stations which only work on certain vehicles?
I'm not taking away from the huge progress he's made for humanity, but sometimes he really makes me wonder...
LOL What?!
You think it's the left's fault that a gun worshipping Pro-Trump neo-Nazi shot up a school?
You fucking morons and Russian collaborators never stop sinking...
Get fucked, Nazi.
In most of the US there are no paid sick days for restaurant workers.
So when you are drinking your soda and eating your sandwich, ask yourself if the sandwich maker could afford to take a sick day.
Is America a truly modern country without universal healthcare or paid time off for illness?
You fucking traitors!
I'm getting terrible performance in Grand Theft Auto 5 and other games. I shelled out big money for a 6 core Intel CPU specifically so it would last a long time.
I can't even play the games that used to run perfectly on the system with acceptable performance.
Anything short of a full recall that replaces my CPU with one that performs at the level I paid for is completely unacceptable. Intel will never recover from this if they screw their best customers.
So much treason...
Trump Jr even admits colluding with Wikilieaks, a known Russian spy agency tool.
Uh, the Manafort indictment, and Trump / Russia collusion guilty plea is the biggest story since the great recession.
This seems to me like sour grapes from a republican who doesn't want to have to see articles about news he doesn't like.
I'm sorry that Donald Trump committed treason, colluding with Russia's attack on America. I'm sorry for your sake that he has been caught, but glad for America that we are finally starting the long process of bringing this heinous traitor and criminal to justice.
News is news. Donald Trump committed treason, and you can't suppress the news about his co-conspirators being arrested and testifying about his campaign's collusion just because you consider objective reality to be biased.
Really? These engineers didn't consider that processing power is constantly shrinking and becoming more efficient?
I feel like I'm reading an article from 30 years ago about how computers will never fit inside your home because the take up large rooms!
Figuring out which way the toilet flows.
Is this code of conduct a meme or right wing cause or something? I don't get it....
Yes, any code of conduct if misapplied is tyrannical, but nothing in the quote I read, or in the extremely boring and boiler plate code of conduct supports your interpretation.
The code of conduct simply calls for respect, which seems pretty reasonable to me.
You do realize that the code of conduct prohibits harassment and discrimination, and that this is a fairly standard code of conduct which is not overly restrictive in any way.
Seems like you think you found a clever quote that proves your point.. but it does quite the opposite.
What's the deal? Are you trying to write "i h8 trans" or "know your gender role" in your github commits or something?
How hard is it to communicate in a professional and respectful way for an angry snowflake like yourself?
You simply have to find a way to discuss the corporate policy without making controversial statements about certain types of people.
That means that even though you feel very interested in infant castration, it is not relevant to any discussion about workplace policy. How castrated males behave simply isn't relevant to corporate policy in any way.
If you feel that the policy is wrong, then discuss its problems without any manifestos on gender roles. You will probably be fine. Even then, though ... smart people understand office politics and only piss in the wind when it's absolutely necessary.
Is the statement factually wrong?
That's not the point.. I hope for your sake that your are still in school and simply haven't learn what's appropriate in the workplace.
That open dialogue about issues that seem important to the people that parade it are not important because castration?
I'm having alot of trouble taking you seriously... You really don't understand how inappropriate and unnecessary it is to discuss castration at work?
Poor CEO. If only we all understood his pain...
Again, you are missing the point. The problem isn't that a CEO had to cancel is vacation. The problem is when your CEO has to cancel a vacation to handle your large public screw up. That does not typically end well, particularly if it's for an unforced error like a manifesto on gender roles which veers into infant castration.
You are right to assume I don't work in Silicon Valley, and am if anything in a fairly conservative area.
As a liberal in a sea of right wing stupidity run amok I am able to navigate the waters of right wing coworkers despite knowing that Donald Trump is a racist clown who is only supported by racist idiots. I simply keep certain opinions to myself, which isn't difficult, because I'm at work after all.
Much how this guy could have easily avoided discussing castrated males, and other nonsense, I can easily avoid discussing the abject stupidity, racism, and hatred that permeates the hateful right wing.
By the way, what the hell is wrong with this?
"We will exclude you from interaction if you insult, demean or harass anyone. ... In particular, we don't tolerate behavior that excludes people in socially marginalized groups."
Are you whining because a project doesn't cater to bigotry and harassment???
My favorite quote from the manifesto:
"Biological males that were castrated at birth and raised as females often still identify and act like males"
I've been able to survive this long as a software engineer without discussing castration in any email or company blog posts. It's really not very difficult.
Here is a simple rule of thumb, If your CEO has to cancel a vacation because of your actions, which inexplicably involve discussing castrated males, you should prepare your resume...
I don't know... some people seem to think that treasonously colluding with a hostile foreign adversary's attack on your country isn't a crime.
By that standard, selling malware isn't a crime either.
Interestingly, that's the same standard that protects gun sellers from being charged with a crime for selling guns to murderers. Gun sellers know for a fact that a certain percentage - say 5% of their guns will be used for murders and other crimes. It doesn't take much arithmetic to realize the exact number of deaths that their guns will cause.
100,000 guns x .05 = 5000 deaths.
100,000 guns x $500 = $50,000,000
$50,000,000 / 5,000 = $10,000
So, each gun death earns the gun manufacturer $10,000.
That seems like a pretty low value for human life, but remember - gun sellers have immunity from prosecution for the crimes their guns are used in. Deaths are an externalized cost.
If you compare it to the river of blood left by gun sellers, selling malware shouldn't trigger much more than a speeding ticket, however only gun sellers have immunity for death and destruction caused by their products.
Blaming "The Deep State" for catching Donald Trump blatantly committing treason is just pathetic. He sold America out to Russia, and he got caught. That's Trump's fault.
Our security agencies are just doing their job protecting us from Russia's attacks on our country. It is not their fault that Donald Trump colludes with Russia's attacks on our country.
It is not the job of the US government to ignore Donald Trump's obvious crimes and treasonous actions.
Yeah, I mean like signing the Russia sanctions bill while opposing it, and making clear that he doesn't intend to enforce it.
Trump only criticized the congress in his signing statement, not Russia who attack our country.
Donald Trump is committing treason on a public and vast scale every day.
Interesting that Wikileaks is publicizing CIA documents while leaving their master Vladimir Putin, and his puppet Donald Trump unscathed.
What - the FSB doesn't hack webcams?
And of course, Wikileaks and Donald Trump are the only ones pretending that their puppet master Vladimir Putin didn't meddle in the US election.
Ok - fine I'm shocked that the American spy agency has hacking capabilities... I mean, how else would we know that our "President" committed treason, aside from observing his complete subservience to Vladimir Putin and Russia's interests.
Banks perform real-time mission critical financial transactions over a global network that can essentially never go down. I'm sure there are some engineering challenges there if you look for them.
It sounds like you'd rather make devices and do low level code.
Perhaps you would like to work on a new processor designed to handle radar data in self driving cars.
Texas Instruments may be a good fit.
Designing new processor isn't your thing? You want to be an engineer that builds bridges - great.. there are tons of engineering companies in Dallas. If bridges aren't difficult and flammable enough for you, design undersea rovers for an oil company, or help them engineer the cutting edge tools that they use in their day to day operation.
I'll have to tell my software engineer friends that work for banks in Dallas that there aren't any tech jobs in the banking sector here.
Probably should tell myself that software engineering position at a bank that I turned down a few years ago never really existed.
I don't think Texas is greatest place on earth or anything - I'll leave that to people far more pretentious than I am - but here is a news flash for you.
The corporate office is in Texas... That's what a diversified economy is all about.
What - banks don't hire programmers?
I think there is a bit of a flaw in the way this indeed survey and others identify national tech hubs.
According to this survey, the top tech hubs have the highest percentage of their job listings advertising for tech jobs. This disregards the actual total number of tech jobs.
For example, Austin is considered a tech hub in this last while Dallas is not, but Dallas has way more tech jobs than Austin, which is a smaller city. The difference is that Dallas has a very diversified economy, so the percentage of job listings for tech is lower.
Personally, I'm more interested in the tech hubs that are part of a larger diversified market. Just like a diversified portfolio protects you from losing money from fluctuations in the market, a diverse economy protects your ability to find a local job when your industry takes a downturn.
Trump Jr claims nothing of value was exchanged, but Russia did attack our democracy, and did commit crimes like hacking in this attack. The Trump campaign immediately benefited from this hacking, publicly encouraged it, and worked to shield Russia from the sanctions that such an attack on the USA should lead to.
Also, Trump Jr has changed his story on this 3 times, and is almost certainly still lying. In court, when a defendant changes his story multiple times as Jr (and the Trump crime family) has, that is considered a sign of guilt and criminal intent. This is just the tip of the treason iceberg.
The Trump crime family has been pretending that there is no evidence Russia interfered in our election, when the Trump Jr emails show they treasonously colluded with Russia's attack on our democracy.
The USA may not be "at war" with Russia, but Russia is engaged in an ongoing cyberwarfare campaign against the US, which is an act of war.
It's treasonous to collude with a hostile foreign adversary's criminal attacks on your country. Every loyal American knows this.
The difference is that Donald Trump and the Trump crime family have actually committed treason, colluding with a hostile foreign government.
I don't have any problem with Russian people, but Russia's government is currently attacking my country's democracy, and I am too patriotic to let that slide.
I know Donald Trump colludes with Putin's crime spree, but not all Americans are traitors like the Trump crime family.
After all the denials or Russia's attack on our country Donald Trump Jr just released an email showing him colluding with Russia's attack on our country. That email is just the tip of a treasonous ice berg.
Aside from the traitors themselves, it's important recognize the turncoats who look the other way. They are traitors too, because as a democracy we are all responsible for informing ourselves and defeating traitors, even if we otherwise agree with their views.