It's a shame really, but I suspect it won't be the last "bring back old slashdot" effort. Eventually someone will get it right / get enough momentum to keep going. It might happen if slashdot ever actually switches everyone to beta.
It's actually a sad trend, but yeah, you'll find people with massive egos who don't mince words behind many successful projects. Sometimes you need someone with no hesitations about ripping someone a new one for doing something stupid, even if it means that person may quit/stop contributing.
Linux, Apple, and Microsoft all found their success with this type of personality at the helm.
The argument made in article is ridiculous, but even if we grant it and companies suddenly lose interest in their data, the skills used to analyze it can easily be rebadged and applied in other fields. Not like all the large scale infrastructure, data management, and algorithm skills are only specifically applicable in the "big data" realm, that's just the most profitable place to apply them at the moment.
IT isn't a job where you learn a skill then make money from it forever. You adapt to what people are willing to pay for and bring as much experience from the last thing as you can.
For rational basis, I tend to buy into the whole breastfeeding / lactation / production of oxytocin theory.
Children are programmed with your myth by self-serving mothers all the time.
I'd buy that this might be a component of it, however considering that the strong mother-offspring bond is seen in almost every species on this planet, and in many cases if the male is involved at all after birth it's as a snack for the mother, I doubt that it's the sole or primary cause.
People don't like thinking that how we behave is largely due to chemical reactions and genetic traits laid down millenniums ago, but we are basically animals, and scientists have shown (using actual science and stuff) that this behaviour can be altered in mice by mucking with these chemicals.
There will always be exceptional cases, but despite all the social progress in the world I doubt you'll see the mother-child bond supplanted any time soon in the large scheme of things.
I like that we can't point out actual observable differences between groups without somehow being labeled as a something-ist.
Scientists (using actual science and stuff) think lactation is what makes mother-child bonding so much stronger than father-child bonding via the production of oxytocin. Seems pretty damn nature-esq to me. As socially progressive as you want to be, most of what drives us is chemical reactions and genetics established back when one had to kill dinner with a rock.
But I'd love to hear an argument about how the "mother deals with the kids" behaviour seen in the vast majority of species on this planet has nothing to do with nature but is instead a social issue.
We're talking general case here. There's plenty of terrible mothers and great fathers and lots of examples of extreme behaviour from both sides. Doesn't mean we can't generalize when talking about large scale social issues.
I also think a lot of people are uncomfortable with the idea that portions of who they are and how they behave are driven by genetic traits established back when you had to beat your dinner to death with a big rock and are mostly irrelevant in modern society.
Honestly I kinda am too, but at the same time I'm kinda fascinated by it. Sometimes we read too much into this kind of stuff, but a lot of how people behave today can be explained by some survival trait that would have been beneficial to our ancestors. A lot of the behaviour that causes our modern day problems probably kept us alive back then.
The "off with their head" method doesn't work because there is always some annoying thing that a company is trying to eliminate and no one wants to work in environment with a huge list of trivial shit that gets them immediately fired.
As to how I'd fix the problem. Have time on the equipment scheduled in advance. Periodic surveillance video spot checks on unbooked spots to make sure no one is sneaking in. Internal billing or whatever you are doing based on the schedule. It's kinda like a log book, but different!
If you go this route, it's important to determine what the penalty is for violators. This is important, because you probably can't just off with their head, and a stern talking to probably won't cut it for repeat offenders. Billing teams caught using the equipment outside of schedule at a higher rate or doing this indirectly by assuming they were there for the entire contiguous unbooked block might work.
Obviously there's warning time, but that doesn't mean having someone disappear for a huge chunk of time isn't disruptive regardless of how much notice you have.
Also as the time approaches, there's a growing list of restrictions and accommodations that have to be made, and frequent doctors appointments. Beyond that, there are major personality changes (call me a sexist pig if you want, but denying that women get really weird emotionally when they are pregnant is absurd). Stressful job and person who gets emotional at the drop of a hat isn't fun.
It's definitely something that the misogynist in this scenario is going to consider if they think they are getting a deal by hiring a women for less pay than an equivalent male.
Obviously these same kind of problems come up when someone arbitrarily quits or as you said, gets hit by a truck or throws their back out. Maternity leave just seems to stand out for some reason (probably because unlike those other things, it is specifically tied to an identifiable group).
All the social progress in the world can't defeat the fact that there in most cases there is a much stronger maternal bond between a mother and her child than between the father and his child. This is not just a human thing, but is seen pretty consistently in nature as well.
The guy donated some genetic material. The woman had the thing grow inside them for 9 months. Who's gonna be more connected? Not saying the guy shouldn't be legally obligated to have the same level of responsibility for the kid as the woman, but on an emotional level, the women is usually gonna care more.
No idea, but while I'll buy that interest in programming as a career may be influenced by some kind of negative force, the thing that really sells it for me is the lack of women hobbyist programmers.
I, and really most programmers I know, got into computers way before gender discrimination would have even been a serious thought. I think socially we are at a point where in most cases if a kid, regardless of gender, has an interest in computers... they can explore it. The computer is literally right there in the living room. I find it hard to swallow that somehow society is conspiring to prevent even young girls from having any interest in computers. If they had it, they could easily explore it at a young age.
I'll buy that a small number of such women hobbyists may not identify themselves in the community as women due to the male dominated culture, but I'd still expect to see a reasonably sized group of women who don't give a shit. This exists in most other areas that were traditionally male dominated.
Take down the barriers that unfairly prevent women from entering the job, I'm totally cool with that.
But why do we feel the need to lure people who clearly arn't interested for the sake of balancing the numbers.
Programming is a weird gig, maybe it just doesn't appeal to women for whatever reason. Contrary to what the social progress movement would have us believe, women and men are actually different physically and mentally. We shouldn't discriminate based on that, but we need to accept that on a large scale you will seen trends towards one sex or the other no matter how all-inclusive you make the world.
The low intensity _invisible to the human eye_ light from a LIDAR gun would never make it anywhere near an airplane, and even if it did, being invisible and all, it wouldn't matter.
Additionally, they are usually of low enough intensity and/or in a non-eye-focusing wavelength to be completely safe to the human eye. YOu could literally stare right into one with no adverse effects.
Dunno about where you live, but around here, police use LIDAR which is much more difficult to deal with for the would be detector/jammer.
LIDAR is pretty much impossible to detect until it's pointing right at you, at which point the best you can do is try to jam it long enough to slow down (which is pretty damn obvious when the cops LIDAR gun goes nuts as soon as he points it at your car).
I find the sudo config file format confusing and indeed completely ass-backwards, but 30 minutes of googling will give you what like 90% of people using it need to know.
A book on the subject doesn’t seem like a bad idea though. Sudo probably isn’t going to change much, and sometimes it’s nice to have everything together and consistently presented vice relying on random snippets around the web.
For an extra layer of security, come up with some really basic cypher that you can do in your head. It doesn't have to withstand rigorous cryptanalysis, just has to hold up long enough for you to notice your wallet is missing and change all your passwords.
Even something silly like taking the third character and sticking it on the end is probably enough.
Yeah, but it's not like Netflix is using a free service. They are paying for that bandwidth. I assume they are paying quite a bit. More importantly, someone is selling it to them.
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Amen.
Touchscreens lack tactile feedback, which make them terrible for using without looking. Having a physical button on the other hand that's always in the same place and gives you feedback when you toggle it works really damn well for this.
IMO, touchscreens should be for when stopped. Everything else should be physical buttons on either the steering wheel (for frequently used stuff) or console somewhere.
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Seriously, any time a "UI designer" sits down to re-invent something, the result is inevitably terrible. They focus on whatever new-age idea they have is, and often completely miss the core problem while coming up with some genius solution to a minor one.
My uneducated and rather simple view of how to do it: - Physical buttons for the stuff you might/can safely touch while driving (basic stereo controls, temperature controls, wiper settings, etc) - Knobs with fixed ranges for things like temperature (so you can set them without looking). Stuff like volume can be infinite as adjustments are immediately noticeable while adjusting. - Displays that you can quickly glance at, preferably without having to look down too much (I’m a huge fan of the multi-level dash Honda put in their civic). - Stuff you will be adjusting while stopped or maybe at a red light can be whatever you want.. fancy touchscreen, display in a weird spot, who cares.
Much as I don’t normally lean in the nancy-state direction, I actually wish these complex touchscreen interfaces were disabled while driving. It just seems like a ridiculous safety concern (and yes I know the passenger could adjust it while you safely drive). Honestly I don’t care if someone is playing with one and smashes themselves into a highway divider, but I don’t want someone smashing into _me_ because they are trying to figure out why their cloud streaming music feed dealie isn’t working.
The appealing thing about carrier grade NAT is most consumers won't even notice.
Some people might claim that ipv6 could be done transparent to the end user, but personally I think that's a load of BS, and I suspect so do ISPs.
How to transition from ipv4 to ipv6 would to me seem the most important consideration when designing ipv6, but form appearances it seems like it was an afterthought, which is probably why we'll have ipv4 for quite some time.
Try going to a bakery (even those dinky ones they have inside some grocery stores). Lot of them now carry pre-made crusts that are approximately a billion times better than the usual frozen/stale fare you find on the shelves.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, soylentnews seems to be fizzling.
It's a shame really, but I suspect it won't be the last "bring back old slashdot" effort. Eventually someone will get it right / get enough momentum to keep going. It might happen if slashdot ever actually switches everyone to beta.
It's actually a sad trend, but yeah, you'll find people with massive egos who don't mince words behind many successful projects. Sometimes you need someone with no hesitations about ripping someone a new one for doing something stupid, even if it means that person may quit/stop contributing.
Linux, Apple, and Microsoft all found their success with this type of personality at the helm.
100% agree (with your post).
The argument made in article is ridiculous, but even if we grant it and companies suddenly lose interest in their data, the skills used to analyze it can easily be rebadged and applied in other fields. Not like all the large scale infrastructure, data management, and algorithm skills are only specifically applicable in the "big data" realm, that's just the most profitable place to apply them at the moment.
IT isn't a job where you learn a skill then make money from it forever. You adapt to what people are willing to pay for and bring as much experience from the last thing as you can.
For rational basis, I tend to buy into the whole breastfeeding / lactation / production of oxytocin theory.
Children are programmed with your myth by self-serving mothers all the time.
I'd buy that this might be a component of it, however considering that the strong mother-offspring bond is seen in almost every species on this planet, and in many cases if the male is involved at all after birth it's as a snack for the mother, I doubt that it's the sole or primary cause.
People don't like thinking that how we behave is largely due to chemical reactions and genetic traits laid down millenniums ago, but we are basically animals, and scientists have shown (using actual science and stuff) that this behaviour can be altered in mice by mucking with these chemicals.
There will always be exceptional cases, but despite all the social progress in the world I doubt you'll see the mother-child bond supplanted any time soon in the large scheme of things.
Good rebuttal.
I like that we can't point out actual observable differences between groups without somehow being labeled as a something-ist.
Scientists (using actual science and stuff) think lactation is what makes mother-child bonding so much stronger than father-child bonding via the production of oxytocin. Seems pretty damn nature-esq to me. As socially progressive as you want to be, most of what drives us is chemical reactions and genetics established back when one had to kill dinner with a rock.
But I'd love to hear an argument about how the "mother deals with the kids" behaviour seen in the vast majority of species on this planet has nothing to do with nature but is instead a social issue.
We're talking general case here. There's plenty of terrible mothers and great fathers and lots of examples of extreme behaviour from both sides. Doesn't mean we can't generalize when talking about large scale social issues.
I also think a lot of people are uncomfortable with the idea that portions of who they are and how they behave are driven by genetic traits established back when you had to beat your dinner to death with a big rock and are mostly irrelevant in modern society.
Honestly I kinda am too, but at the same time I'm kinda fascinated by it. Sometimes we read too much into this kind of stuff, but a lot of how people behave today can be explained by some survival trait that would have been beneficial to our ancestors. A lot of the behaviour that causes our modern day problems probably kept us alive back then.
Key words: usually
Plenty of terrible mothers and awesome dads.. we are talking general case here.
The "off with their head" method doesn't work because there is always some annoying thing that a company is trying to eliminate and no one wants to work in environment with a huge list of trivial shit that gets them immediately fired.
As to how I'd fix the problem. Have time on the equipment scheduled in advance. Periodic surveillance video spot checks on unbooked spots to make sure no one is sneaking in. Internal billing or whatever you are doing based on the schedule. It's kinda like a log book, but different!
If you go this route, it's important to determine what the penalty is for violators. This is important, because you probably can't just off with their head, and a stern talking to probably won't cut it for repeat offenders. Billing teams caught using the equipment outside of schedule at a higher rate or doing this indirectly by assuming they were there for the entire contiguous unbooked block might work.
Obviously there's warning time, but that doesn't mean having someone disappear for a huge chunk of time isn't disruptive regardless of how much notice you have.
Also as the time approaches, there's a growing list of restrictions and accommodations that have to be made, and frequent doctors appointments. Beyond that, there are major personality changes (call me a sexist pig if you want, but denying that women get really weird emotionally when they are pregnant is absurd). Stressful job and person who gets emotional at the drop of a hat isn't fun.
It's definitely something that the misogynist in this scenario is going to consider if they think they are getting a deal by hiring a women for less pay than an equivalent male.
Obviously these same kind of problems come up when someone arbitrarily quits or as you said, gets hit by a truck or throws their back out. Maternity leave just seems to stand out for some reason (probably because unlike those other things, it is specifically tied to an identifiable group).
Yup.
All the social progress in the world can't defeat the fact that there in most cases there is a much stronger maternal bond between a mother and her child than between the father and his child. This is not just a human thing, but is seen pretty consistently in nature as well.
The guy donated some genetic material. The woman had the thing grow inside them for 9 months. Who's gonna be more connected? Not saying the guy shouldn't be legally obligated to have the same level of responsibility for the kid as the woman, but on an emotional level, the women is usually gonna care more.
I know I'm getting modded down for that, but assuming this misogynistic scenario, the big demotivator is maternity leave.
Nothing like surprise "I'm going away for a year and you legally can't fire me during, before, or for a while after or I'll sue your ass".
No idea, but while I'll buy that interest in programming as a career may be influenced by some kind of negative force, the thing that really sells it for me is the lack of women hobbyist programmers.
I, and really most programmers I know, got into computers way before gender discrimination would have even been a serious thought. I think socially we are at a point where in most cases if a kid, regardless of gender, has an interest in computers... they can explore it. The computer is literally right there in the living room. I find it hard to swallow that somehow society is conspiring to prevent even young girls from having any interest in computers. If they had it, they could easily explore it at a young age.
I'll buy that a small number of such women hobbyists may not identify themselves in the community as women due to the male dominated culture, but I'd still expect to see a reasonably sized group of women who don't give a shit. This exists in most other areas that were traditionally male dominated.
Agree.
Take down the barriers that unfairly prevent women from entering the job, I'm totally cool with that.
But why do we feel the need to lure people who clearly arn't interested for the sake of balancing the numbers.
Programming is a weird gig, maybe it just doesn't appeal to women for whatever reason. Contrary to what the social progress movement would have us believe, women and men are actually different physically and mentally. We shouldn't discriminate based on that, but we need to accept that on a large scale you will seen trends towards one sex or the other no matter how all-inclusive you make the world.
Kinda apples and grenades there..
The low intensity _invisible to the human eye_ light from a LIDAR gun would never make it anywhere near an airplane, and even if it did, being invisible and all, it wouldn't matter.
Additionally, they are usually of low enough intensity and/or in a non-eye-focusing wavelength to be completely safe to the human eye. YOu could literally stare right into one with no adverse effects.
Dunno about where you live, but around here, police use LIDAR which is much more difficult to deal with for the would be detector/jammer.
LIDAR is pretty much impossible to detect until it's pointing right at you, at which point the best you can do is try to jam it long enough to slow down (which is pretty damn obvious when the cops LIDAR gun goes nuts as soon as he points it at your car).
I'd prefer to call it awkward and unwieldy, but yeah, a little time on google and you can probably figure out what you need to do.
I find the sudo config file format confusing and indeed completely ass-backwards, but 30 minutes of googling will give you what like 90% of people using it need to know.
A book on the subject doesn’t seem like a bad idea though. Sudo probably isn’t going to change much, and sometimes it’s nice to have everything together and consistently presented vice relying on random snippets around the web.
The problem already exists (reset mechanisms are a huge hole in most systems), using it shouldn't make it any more vulnerable to attack.
For an extra layer of security, come up with some really basic cypher that you can do in your head. It doesn't have to withstand rigorous cryptanalysis, just has to hold up long enough for you to notice your wallet is missing and change all your passwords.
Even something silly like taking the third character and sticking it on the end is probably enough.
Yeah, but it's not like Netflix is using a free service. They are paying for that bandwidth. I assume they are paying quite a bit. More importantly, someone is selling it to them.
Amen.
Touchscreens lack tactile feedback, which make them terrible for using without looking. Having a physical button on the other hand that's always in the same place and gives you feedback when you toggle it works really damn well for this.
IMO, touchscreens should be for when stopped. Everything else should be physical buttons on either the steering wheel (for frequently used stuff) or console somewhere.
Seriously, any time a "UI designer" sits down to re-invent something, the result is inevitably terrible. They focus on whatever new-age idea they have is, and often completely miss the core problem while coming up with some genius solution to a minor one.
My uneducated and rather simple view of how to do it:
- Physical buttons for the stuff you might/can safely touch while driving (basic stereo controls, temperature controls, wiper settings, etc)
- Knobs with fixed ranges for things like temperature (so you can set them without looking). Stuff like volume can be infinite as adjustments are immediately noticeable while adjusting.
- Displays that you can quickly glance at, preferably without having to look down too much (I’m a huge fan of the multi-level dash Honda put in their civic).
- Stuff you will be adjusting while stopped or maybe at a red light can be whatever you want.. fancy touchscreen, display in a weird spot, who cares.
Much as I don’t normally lean in the nancy-state direction, I actually wish these complex touchscreen interfaces were disabled while driving. It just seems like a ridiculous safety concern (and yes I know the passenger could adjust it while you safely drive). Honestly I don’t care if someone is playing with one and smashes themselves into a highway divider, but I don’t want someone smashing into _me_ because they are trying to figure out why their cloud streaming music feed dealie isn’t working.
I think the key word is customer transition.
The appealing thing about carrier grade NAT is most consumers won't even notice.
Some people might claim that ipv6 could be done transparent to the end user, but personally I think that's a load of BS, and I suspect so do ISPs.
How to transition from ipv4 to ipv6 would to me seem the most important consideration when designing ipv6, but form appearances it seems like it was an afterthought, which is probably why we'll have ipv4 for quite some time.
Try going to a bakery (even those dinky ones they have inside some grocery stores). Lot of them now carry pre-made crusts that are approximately a billion times better than the usual frozen/stale fare you find on the shelves.