Keep in mind, many of the regions in the first colonies were not founded due to a distrust of government, but of feeling government was not strict enough. Many of what would become states were chartered by people tired of not being able to oppress people in their own country and having to live with other religions so they created theocratic colonies. England had too much tolerance for their tastes.
It would not be unheard of though. This is a small town going into an election year, and here you have a scary angry black man associated with scary fiction who might murder your children so the big responsible sheriff and school board sweep in to protect their loving citizens.
In the threads on the local site I see a lot of parents chiming in that they are glad this happened, that it is better to be safe then sorry, or even going as far as to say that anyone who would own (much less write) such books is not someone they want near their kids in the first place.
On the other hand, in my high school we had a teacher with whom a freshman became obsessed including showing up drunk at his house. Even though he never did anything with her and rebuffed her advances he was fired because parents were concerned about one of their daughters and a teacher.
Meanwhile one of our other teachers, a woman, was known to sleep with students and married one after he graduated, nothing was ever done to her. The difficulty of firing a teacher pretty much comes down to how much PR is involved and if the union feels it will be better served getting rid of the person vs keeping them, either due to internal or external political concerns.
According to people who claim to 'know more', he was using aliases for real life things like when he applied for the job, not just pseudonyms for writing. People claiming to be parents have also chimed in saying there was 'real fear' around this person, but I would not be surprised if this fear came after the board discovered his books as opposed to before.
There are also claims he sent a 'disturbing letter' to the school board, but 'it was not their place to update with facts', so I am skeptical of the poster.
So in the original piece there is one commenter ranting about how the paper is not publishing 'the rest of the story' (which will vindicate the board of education and police) because they are enjoying the traffic they are getting.. yet I am not seeing this poster actually present any new information.
Has anyone heard anything that might even slightly justify this.. ahm... I am not sure it is even an 'arrest'... hrm... event?
Looking at the teacher's age, they would not have tenure yet, so they will probably get no help from the union. Pre-tenure teachers are sacrificial, they can be fired at any time for any reason without recourse most of the time.
This is exactly the type of situation unions were originally created to deal with, but they are still politically expedient entities and even if the teacher has tenure it might might not defend the person. After all, they do not want to be painted as being soft on potential school shooters.
The person's chances are not all that good. Unless the union backs them up (and even then it can be a stretch) schools are pretty hard to go up against. "Think of the children", while often mocked, is a pretty powerful rallying cry for local officials who might be worried about parental outrage or practicing 'cover your ass' security where it is better to come down hard and be seeing to be doing something then risk something happening and be blamed for not acting. The life of some middle school teacher does not even begin to factor in.
I am actually rather impressed that the software managed a stable orbit even with user error. Yet this has turned into who knows how many posts of people complaining about how bad 'programmers' are.
In a way this reflects how the blame game in development often seems to work. Programmers are faced with shifting requirements, tight deadlines, undersized testing teams, pressure to work hours that result in fatigue and higher error rates, decisions being made by marketers and MBAs who do not understand the consequences of various changes, but blame tends to fall on the programmers for writing buggy software.
That is something I am not clear on from the piece either. However, the fact it got to a reasonable orbit even with an error (regardless of if it was an initial input or corrupted by an upstream process) is pretty significant. It ended up in the wrong orbit instead of something catastrophic.
That sounds like a self fulfilling prophecy if I ever heard one. Plenty of universities put out actual software engineers. They go through the same coursework as electrical engineers and are taught formal methods of validation and such. However if your company culture sees software people as 'just developers' and not 'engineers', I would wager that the people who do have the formal training are going to pass your place by. Nobody likes working with people who are not going to consider them 'real', esp when they are sufficiently in demand that they can get good pay elsewhere.
It is even more difficult to get a medical device approved by the FDA. Therac-25 happened almost 30 years ago, a lot of lessons were learned, and it hasn't happened again.
This alone will keep the 'unwashed masses' out of such fields. Working with medical systems (or to a lesser degree, any embedded system that does not pretend to be a mini-desktop for consumers) does not have the lax attitude and instant gratification that most programmers coming out of school have grown to expect out of projects. The work is not as sexy, the tools are less likely to be bleeding edge, and for people hoping to go into something 'cool' such work is a bit of a resume stain. Which I suspect suits the people in the field just fine ^_^
Part of the problem is that, in a way, there is no such thing as a 'software engineer'. There are degrees that call themselves that, and often they are in the right direction, but I would still not put them in the same category as engineering degrees that lead to professional certification.
Or I guess more accurately, because there is no certification process, because the field is so informal, it is hard to tell from one's title how close they are to CS vs engineering in how they were trained and continue to think. There are plenty of software engineers who fit in quite well with other engineering types including knowing the limits of their domains and collaborating well with others, but they have the same degree name and title as the ones you describe, who really should be called programmers with CS degrees.
Yeah, but the effect of disliking powerful idealogical groups is pretty different from disliking weak inherent groups. One, while having a persecution complex, is generally safe from actual effects of that dislike, while the other has legitimate fear of how that dislike will impact their life.
That is one of the downsides of having a 'DIY justice' civil suit oriented legal system. At no point in this process is criminal law brought in, at no point is guilt even on the radar. It is purely agreements between companies and the crippling cost of engaging with the legal system. One can not even get a public defender if one can not afford to defend themselves.
It has an effect on people's speech when they really might be in danger of being outed or some other minority concern, but yeah, simply being exposed as having an unpopular but still wildly backed opinion does not stop people and facebook is a good example.
I have seen plenty of cases of people using 'real name' information on facebook to harass people in weak social positions and those people no longer being willing to say much publicly, so their speech was quite chilled. The trolly jerks however simply seemed to act vindicated and had lots of support from others like them.
This is one of the common problems in moderated forums, esp when there is only one mod or a close knit group of mods. Someone being considered a troll or not ends up being deeply wrapped up with the mod's personal feelings. Thus I am skeptical that a 'no troll' pay site would actually be any better.
It is not unusual for game developers to start at around 30k. There is such a supply glut, and so much of it is kids coming out of 2 year schools and still essentially being high schoolers in their ability to think things through, it is a situation ripe for abuse.
Depends on how tight your budget is and how many people that has to cover. I am not familiar with Unity's setup, but that price might include having to cover artists, level designers, etc, which can add up quickly if you have a moderate sized team.
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Keep in mind, many of the regions in the first colonies were not founded due to a distrust of government, but of feeling government was not strict enough. Many of what would become states were chartered by people tired of not being able to oppress people in their own country and having to live with other religions so they created theocratic colonies. England had too much tolerance for their tastes.
It would not be unheard of though. This is a small town going into an election year, and here you have a scary angry black man associated with scary fiction who might murder your children so the big responsible sheriff and school board sweep in to protect their loving citizens.
In the threads on the local site I see a lot of parents chiming in that they are glad this happened, that it is better to be safe then sorry, or even going as far as to say that anyone who would own (much less write) such books is not someone they want near their kids in the first place.
On the other hand, in my high school we had a teacher with whom a freshman became obsessed including showing up drunk at his house. Even though he never did anything with her and rebuffed her advances he was fired because parents were concerned about one of their daughters and a teacher.
Meanwhile one of our other teachers, a woman, was known to sleep with students and married one after he graduated, nothing was ever done to her. The difficulty of firing a teacher pretty much comes down to how much PR is involved and if the union feels it will be better served getting rid of the person vs keeping them, either due to internal or external political concerns.
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According to people who claim to 'know more', he was using aliases for real life things like when he applied for the job, not just pseudonyms for writing. People claiming to be parents have also chimed in saying there was 'real fear' around this person, but I would not be surprised if this fear came after the board discovered his books as opposed to before.
There are also claims he sent a 'disturbing letter' to the school board, but 'it was not their place to update with facts', so I am skeptical of the poster.
So in the original piece there is one commenter ranting about how the paper is not publishing 'the rest of the story' (which will vindicate the board of education and police) because they are enjoying the traffic they are getting.. yet I am not seeing this poster actually present any new information.
Has anyone heard anything that might even slightly justify this.. ahm... I am not sure it is even an 'arrest'... hrm... event?
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Looking at the teacher's age, they would not have tenure yet, so they will probably get no help from the union. Pre-tenure teachers are sacrificial, they can be fired at any time for any reason without recourse most of the time.
This is exactly the type of situation unions were originally created to deal with, but they are still politically expedient entities and even if the teacher has tenure it might might not defend the person. After all, they do not want to be painted as being soft on potential school shooters.
The person's chances are not all that good. Unless the union backs them up (and even then it can be a stretch) schools are pretty hard to go up against. "Think of the children", while often mocked, is a pretty powerful rallying cry for local officials who might be worried about parental outrage or practicing 'cover your ass' security where it is better to come down hard and be seeing to be doing something then risk something happening and be blamed for not acting. The life of some middle school teacher does not even begin to factor in.
I am trying to picture the hissy fit the US government would throw if someone released the NSA/CIA equivalent of this to the media.
I am actually rather impressed that the software managed a stable orbit even with user error. Yet this has turned into who knows how many posts of people complaining about how bad 'programmers' are.
In a way this reflects how the blame game in development often seems to work. Programmers are faced with shifting requirements, tight deadlines, undersized testing teams, pressure to work hours that result in fatigue and higher error rates, decisions being made by marketers and MBAs who do not understand the consequences of various changes, but blame tends to fall on the programmers for writing buggy software.
That is something I am not clear on from the piece either. However, the fact it got to a reasonable orbit even with an error (regardless of if it was an initial input or corrupted by an upstream process) is pretty significant. It ended up in the wrong orbit instead of something catastrophic.
I am always surprised when I go to interview at a company and their test team is actually smaller then their development one.
That sounds like a self fulfilling prophecy if I ever heard one. Plenty of universities put out actual software engineers. They go through the same coursework as electrical engineers and are taught formal methods of validation and such. However if your company culture sees software people as 'just developers' and not 'engineers', I would wager that the people who do have the formal training are going to pass your place by. Nobody likes working with people who are not going to consider them 'real', esp when they are sufficiently in demand that they can get good pay elsewhere.
It is even more difficult to get a medical device approved by the FDA. Therac-25 happened almost 30 years ago, a lot of lessons were learned, and it hasn't happened again.
This alone will keep the 'unwashed masses' out of such fields. Working with medical systems (or to a lesser degree, any embedded system that does not pretend to be a mini-desktop for consumers) does not have the lax attitude and instant gratification that most programmers coming out of school have grown to expect out of projects. The work is not as sexy, the tools are less likely to be bleeding edge, and for people hoping to go into something 'cool' such work is a bit of a resume stain. Which I suspect suits the people in the field just fine ^_^
Part of the problem is that, in a way, there is no such thing as a 'software engineer'. There are degrees that call themselves that, and often they are in the right direction, but I would still not put them in the same category as engineering degrees that lead to professional certification.
Or I guess more accurately, because there is no certification process, because the field is so informal, it is hard to tell from one's title how close they are to CS vs engineering in how they were trained and continue to think. There are plenty of software engineers who fit in quite well with other engineering types including knowing the limits of their domains and collaborating well with others, but they have the same degree name and title as the ones you describe, who really should be called programmers with CS degrees.
Is it actually confirmed they got fired? I would not be surprised if M7 went on to other projects.
Yeah, but the effect of disliking powerful idealogical groups is pretty different from disliking weak inherent groups. One, while having a persecution complex, is generally safe from actual effects of that dislike, while the other has legitimate fear of how that dislike will impact their life.
Nah, that is conservatives.
That is one of the downsides of having a 'DIY justice' civil suit oriented legal system. At no point in this process is criminal law brought in, at no point is guilt even on the radar. It is purely agreements between companies and the crippling cost of engaging with the legal system. One can not even get a public defender if one can not afford to defend themselves.
well, as the saying goes, "democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others".
Swarm moderation is the best of the worst.
Choosing to not be anonymous among others who are also open is not giving up a basic freedom, it is exercising it.
It has an effect on people's speech when they really might be in danger of being outed or some other minority concern, but yeah, simply being exposed as having an unpopular but still wildly backed opinion does not stop people and facebook is a good example.
I have seen plenty of cases of people using 'real name' information on facebook to harass people in weak social positions and those people no longer being willing to say much publicly, so their speech was quite chilled. The trolly jerks however simply seemed to act vindicated and had lots of support from others like them.
This is one of the common problems in moderated forums, esp when there is only one mod or a close knit group of mods. Someone being considered a troll or not ends up being deeply wrapped up with the mod's personal feelings. Thus I am skeptical that a 'no troll' pay site would actually be any better.
It is not unusual for game developers to start at around 30k. There is such a supply glut, and so much of it is kids coming out of 2 year schools and still essentially being high schoolers in their ability to think things through, it is a situation ripe for abuse.
Depends on how tight your budget is and how many people that has to cover. I am not familiar with Unity's setup, but that price might include having to cover artists, level designers, etc, which can add up quickly if you have a moderate sized team.