I suspect the complexity is not in being able to parse and alter XML files, but what level of human knowledge is necessary for determining what values to put in them.
I am not so sure about the 'fact that so many good programmers are self-taught' element. Over the years I have been very unimpressed with such people.. often they can produce stuff that from the outside works ok, but their lack of trained background really ends up showing through when you have to maintain their code. They are 'good' for certain types of projects.. code that is going to be baked and never touched again.. but I would not call them 'good' programmers in general. They don't know the patterns, they don't know the lessons people figured out decades ago...
Granted there are plenty of awful traditionally trained programmers... but in hiring I tend to be wary of 'self taught' programmers, even really bright ones.. and have been consistently disappointed with them.
I think a lot of it comes down to culture and values. Keep in mind that a surprising number of tech people are anti-education and anti-intellectual.. so things like research and learning from skilled people are not just of little value to them but are actively scoffed at. The pattern of the 'self taught programmer who makes millions and shows all those ivory tower intellectuals how it is done!' is a powerful myth that people latch on to.
Meh, if one approaches a brick and mortar university as 'no knowledge, just prestige' then one is wasting their time and money...... and they have only themselves to blame. A good school has incredible resources for learning...
That is the theory, or at least rationalization, but it is rarely if ever the practice. Libertarinaism, when put into practice or debated usually boils down to 'do not bring harm to others who can stop the harm'. Harming people without the resources to counter on the other hand is usually 'ok'.
Actually, if you look at actual cases, it isn't a 'classical assumption' when it comes to sexual harassment suits. They tend to be a significant uphill battle with a lot of 'she is just sensitive, she is just selective, she is just taking advantage of the law' stuff thrown in.. it has disturbing similiarities to the arguments brought up to discredit rape victims.. including the BS 'but she uses that language' argument (which they seem to be fishing for here) since that is just a recasting of one of the common defenses against rape allegations.. 'well, she was a loose woman who slept around', as if somehow because she does something privately it means someone doing it to her non-consentually is ok.
I RTFA too, and while I can see the argument for it, much of it reads like they are hoping to show she is an immoral person.. essentially trying to slut shame her into the harassment being fine.
While I feel that the US domination of the Internet is a problem.. and its current unilateral control over so many part of it is not just bad for foreigners but not that good for US citizens either... I am not convinced that the UN would do a better job and would likely make the situation even worse. Just look at the domain name dispute process.....
They have such a mechanism, but it requires some kind of LEO action or court order. In this case it sounds like defense discovery for a civil case, which Facebook is probably under no obligation to honor.
Looking at the actual order, sounds like the judge is sanctioning a trolling for 'personally' stuff... so a basic 'look, we can find all this embarrassing stuff to show the jury that she isn't a moral upright person and deserved the harassment!'
True, but this seems unusually invasive, esp since she is the plaintiff.
I can maybe see the argument for 'discovery', but despite the myth that sexual harassment suits are slam dunks, they usually go pretty badly with judges traditionally being hostile to them... so there is a real possibility here that the judge (or the opposing council) is trying to punish the plantif through invading her personal life.. it makes a nice example to others...
Ok, this is from a link in the original article.. but this bit REALLY jumped out at me.
ICANN has seen over $350 million come in as a result of the process, but said that covered the cost of dealing with the whole process.
I am really curious, what kind of 'process' they are using that eats nearly a quarter of a billion dollars just to decide on some new gTLDs. It isn't technological in nature.....
I was wondering how much the cost of using plant matter to do the work (so nutrients + sunlight) compare against directly converting sunlight via some kind of solar panel compare against each other.
Hrm. I wonder if there is some other chemical reaction that could be utilized to release the energy without oxygen... or how expensive it might be to convert the C02 into oxygen for burning... or more importantly would some kind of solar Co2=>Oxygen setup (read: big tank biomass) then combining coal and 02 be more efficient then current solar panels?
I am not even sure we could break up a transnational like Visa or Mastercard. Who has authority over them? The best a country can do is say 'if you want to do business in our borders, you must follow XYZ rules'.
Slashdot Mirror
I suspect the complexity is not in being able to parse and alter XML files, but what level of human knowledge is necessary for determining what values to put in them.
What installer can set up databases on other machines?
I am not so sure about the 'fact that so many good programmers are self-taught' element. Over the years I have been very unimpressed with such people.. often they can produce stuff that from the outside works ok, but their lack of trained background really ends up showing through when you have to maintain their code. They are 'good' for certain types of projects.. code that is going to be baked and never touched again.. but I would not call them 'good' programmers in general. They don't know the patterns, they don't know the lessons people figured out decades ago...
Granted there are plenty of awful traditionally trained programmers... but in hiring I tend to be wary of 'self taught' programmers, even really bright ones.. and have been consistently disappointed with them.
I think a lot of it comes down to culture and values. Keep in mind that a surprising number of tech people are anti-education and anti-intellectual.. so things like research and learning from skilled people are not just of little value to them but are actively scoffed at. The pattern of the 'self taught programmer who makes millions and shows all those ivory tower intellectuals how it is done!' is a powerful myth that people latch on to.
Meh, if one approaches a brick and mortar university as 'no knowledge, just prestige' then one is wasting their time and money...... and they have only themselves to blame. A good school has incredible resources for learning...
That is the theory, or at least rationalization, but it is rarely if ever the practice. Libertarinaism, when put into practice or debated usually boils down to 'do not bring harm to others who can stop the harm'. Harming people without the resources to counter on the other hand is usually 'ok'.
This needs to be modded way up.
In this case, religious objection.
Actually, if you look at actual cases, it isn't a 'classical assumption' when it comes to sexual harassment suits. They tend to be a significant uphill battle with a lot of 'she is just sensitive, she is just selective, she is just taking advantage of the law' stuff thrown in.. it has disturbing similiarities to the arguments brought up to discredit rape victims.. including the BS 'but she uses that language' argument (which they seem to be fishing for here) since that is just a recasting of one of the common defenses against rape allegations.. 'well, she was a loose woman who slept around', as if somehow because she does something privately it means someone doing it to her non-consentually is ok.
I RTFA too, and while I can see the argument for it, much of it reads like they are hoping to show she is an immoral person.. essentially trying to slut shame her into the harassment being fine.
While I feel that the US domination of the Internet is a problem.. and its current unilateral control over so many part of it is not just bad for foreigners but not that good for US citizens either... I am not convinced that the UN would do a better job and would likely make the situation even worse. Just look at the domain name dispute process.....
They have such a mechanism, but it requires some kind of LEO action or court order. In this case it sounds like defense discovery for a civil case, which Facebook is probably under no obligation to honor.
Looking at the actual order, sounds like the judge is sanctioning a trolling for 'personally' stuff... so a basic 'look, we can find all this embarrassing stuff to show the jury that she isn't a moral upright person and deserved the harassment!'
True, but this seems unusually invasive, esp since she is the plaintiff.
I can maybe see the argument for 'discovery', but despite the myth that sexual harassment suits are slam dunks, they usually go pretty badly with judges traditionally being hostile to them... so there is a real possibility here that the judge (or the opposing council) is trying to punish the plantif through invading her personal life.. it makes a nice example to others...
Ah yes, important for any high level process discussion in order to smooth negotiations...
Ah, consultants. That would do it. I was going to guess hookers and blow...
Ok, this is from a link in the original article.. but this bit REALLY jumped out at me.
ICANN has seen over $350 million come in as a result of the process, but said that covered the cost of dealing with the whole process.
I am really curious, what kind of 'process' they are using that eats nearly a quarter of a billion dollars just to decide on some new gTLDs. It isn't technological in nature.....
To be fair, if such a TLD existed and access of it was loosely given out, it would serve as a worrying vector for phishing and other scams.
I agree I would be rather curious to hear the sequence of events that lead to this dispute.
I was wondering how much the cost of using plant matter to do the work (so nutrients + sunlight) compare against directly converting sunlight via some kind of solar panel compare against each other.
Hrm. I wonder if there is some other chemical reaction that could be utilized to release the energy without oxygen... or how expensive it might be to convert the C02 into oxygen for burning... or more importantly would some kind of solar Co2=>Oxygen setup (read: big tank biomass) then combining coal and 02 be more efficient then current solar panels?
Shell companies. This is already common practice for getting around conflicting (or simply inconvenient) laws for transnationals.
I am not even sure we could break up a transnational like Visa or Mastercard. Who has authority over them? The best a country can do is say 'if you want to do business in our borders, you must follow XYZ rules'.
Not sure why this got modded 'troll'....
Twue journalists are ones that only say what matches your community's narrative. Anyone else is biased.
That seems likely. A public fed on movies tends to not think real world discoveries are exciting enough.