Seems like we're talking about two different pools. Perrero was an IT guy. The CEO is talking about Sr. Devs. Its possible there's a huge shortage of Sr. Devs and not much of a shortage of "IT guys".
Perrero's complaints ring hollow to me. Basically "I'm out of a job because I expect to be paid significantly more than someone else who is grateful to do the same work as me for less money!" Solution: take a pay cut or gain the skills needed to acquire a job that isn't going to be filled by a H1B guy.
My company operates in a regulated industry (finance). We're forced to have AV software installed (including on Macs) in order to comply with the regs.
I haven't had much experience with the Python community, but I find the culture around Ruby (and Rails) to be more than a little annoying. Stuff like Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby. The level of hipster, anti-establishment animus seems higher than among devs who prefer other languages.
Re: #5, sometimes a failure is so egregious it's worth firing someone over. This should be measured not by the severity of what happened, though, but the dumbness or carelessness of the mistake that allowed it to happen.
Re: #6, sometimes it's right to assign blame. That doesn't mean you rake that person over the coals, but at the very least that person (and whoever has the authority to fire or promote him or her) should understand who is to blame.
You're likely not the type of contributor they're looking to attract. An independent guy in search of an OSS project. Rather, they want contributions from corporate entities. From the article, Intel and AMD. Maybe ARM & nVidia, since browsers are increasingly being used as benchmark platforms.
I'll go ahead and answer. Since I can remember Slashdot has featured "Ask Slashdot" articles where a user asks the community a question that's relevant to "nerds" or some subset thereof. Given many in the community have probably had to provide tech support to their parents or other less tech-savvy friends and relatives this question is "relevant".
Less than most PCs. Based on my experiences with my own parents, most support issues are malware related and Macs tend to have fewer issues with Malware.
1. The test they use. If it truly does show a cultural bias relative to some other objective test then use that other test instead. That doesn't imply making the test "easier" or adding more students to the program; the qualifying score can be tweaked such that the number of students remains the same.
2. Teacher recommendations. Its possible the teachers at poor and/or majority-minority schools are shafting their students by not being as gung ho about recommending them. If so, then that's hardly fair to the kids at those schools.
3. The ability of families to "game" the qualifying test. To some extent this will always be a problem, but there are probably ways to mitigate it. Maybe use a test for which no practice materials exist. Or, potentially, one that is more resistant to improvement-through-practice.
If your goal is not to exclude women, per se, but to serve men who are uniquely disadvantaged in an important endeavor (i.e. education; probably not golf) by the presence of women, then sure.
I force my kids to do things they hate every day. Go to bed, brush their teeth, take a bath, not stick their arms out the car window, buckle their seat belt, etc. No, I don't think "learning to program" is as important as those, just to head off that obvious response. My point is only that, generally speaking, "making your kids do things they hate" is an integral part of being a parent.
Yes, it does. Supply and demand. There is, apparently, a demand for an all-girls computer camp. The market has provided one. Is it especially foolish to send one's daughter to one, relative to the foolishness of "computer camp" in general? I don't see it.
I might start up my own non-profit. Or I might start my own for-profit business. Normally that would be financially risky but...hey...billionaire. Then again if I'd already started my own business and had it be wildly successful, which is why I'm a billionaire in the first place, I admit I wouldn't be as motivated to try it again.
Might just stash 50 million somewhere and give the rest away. 1% interest (after inflation) would be $500k/year.
I thought the bandwidth was fine for basic web browsing. Not for streaming or watching videos. The latency was bad. I'd rather hold bandwidth constant and drive down latency, and, more importantly, make latency more consistent.
He's not a true Scotsman either.
At some point you have to come to terms with the fact that "True Republican" may not mean what you like for it to mean.
People who actually had to deal with the Stasi would probably be pretty offended by your exaggeration. That aside, Bush his hardly politically irrelevant. He's the odds on favorite to be the Republican nominee if you believe betting markets.
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Seems like we're talking about two different pools. Perrero was an IT guy. The CEO is talking about Sr. Devs. Its possible there's a huge shortage of Sr. Devs and not much of a shortage of "IT guys".
Perrero's complaints ring hollow to me. Basically "I'm out of a job because I expect to be paid significantly more than someone else who is grateful to do the same work as me for less money!" Solution: take a pay cut or gain the skills needed to acquire a job that isn't going to be filled by a H1B guy.
Please do linux, glibc, openssl, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, httpd, nginx, Chrome, Firefox, python, ruby and gcc next. Thanks.
My company operates in a regulated industry (finance). We're forced to have AV software installed (including on Macs) in order to comply with the regs.
I haven't had much experience with the Python community, but I find the culture around Ruby (and Rails) to be more than a little annoying. Stuff like Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby. The level of hipster, anti-establishment animus seems higher than among devs who prefer other languages.
I actually like Java. But I wouldn't describe myself as "rabid" about it.
Most Java "fans" I know are considerably less "rabid" than devotees of more trendy languages (I'm looking at you, Ruby). Just my experience.
Re: #5, sometimes a failure is so egregious it's worth firing someone over. This should be measured not by the severity of what happened, though, but the dumbness or carelessness of the mistake that allowed it to happen.
Re: #6, sometimes it's right to assign blame. That doesn't mean you rake that person over the coals, but at the very least that person (and whoever has the authority to fire or promote him or her) should understand who is to blame.
You're likely not the type of contributor they're looking to attract. An independent guy in search of an OSS project. Rather, they want contributions from corporate entities. From the article, Intel and AMD. Maybe ARM & nVidia, since browsers are increasingly being used as benchmark platforms.
If anything this makes me MORE likely to use Go. Access to IRC, etc. is a privilege not a right. If you abuse it you get it taken away. Deal.
I'll go ahead and answer. Since I can remember Slashdot has featured "Ask Slashdot" articles where a user asks the community a question that's relevant to "nerds" or some subset thereof. Given many in the community have probably had to provide tech support to their parents or other less tech-savvy friends and relatives this question is "relevant".
Less than most PCs. Based on my experiences with my own parents, most support issues are malware related and Macs tend to have fewer issues with Malware.
I dislike it because it's not funny. Like, at all.
Potential things I see as being problematic:
1. The test they use. If it truly does show a cultural bias relative to some other objective test then use that other test instead. That doesn't imply making the test "easier" or adding more students to the program; the qualifying score can be tweaked such that the number of students remains the same.
2. Teacher recommendations. Its possible the teachers at poor and/or majority-minority schools are shafting their students by not being as gung ho about recommending them. If so, then that's hardly fair to the kids at those schools.
3. The ability of families to "game" the qualifying test. To some extent this will always be a problem, but there are probably ways to mitigate it. Maybe use a test for which no practice materials exist. Or, potentially, one that is more resistant to improvement-through-practice.
If your goal is not to exclude women, per se, but to serve men who are uniquely disadvantaged in an important endeavor (i.e. education; probably not golf) by the presence of women, then sure.
False equivalence.
Is $949/week more than comparable non-gender-segregated camps in this area charge?
I force my kids to do things they hate every day. Go to bed, brush their teeth, take a bath, not stick their arms out the car window, buckle their seat belt, etc. No, I don't think "learning to program" is as important as those, just to head off that obvious response. My point is only that, generally speaking, "making your kids do things they hate" is an integral part of being a parent.
Yes, it does. Supply and demand. There is, apparently, a demand for an all-girls computer camp. The market has provided one. Is it especially foolish to send one's daughter to one, relative to the foolishness of "computer camp" in general? I don't see it.
That is quite possibly the ugliest watch I've ever seen.
I might start up my own non-profit. Or I might start my own for-profit business. Normally that would be financially risky but...hey...billionaire. Then again if I'd already started my own business and had it be wildly successful, which is why I'm a billionaire in the first place, I admit I wouldn't be as motivated to try it again. Might just stash 50 million somewhere and give the rest away. 1% interest (after inflation) would be $500k/year.
I thought the bandwidth was fine for basic web browsing. Not for streaming or watching videos. The latency was bad. I'd rather hold bandwidth constant and drive down latency, and, more importantly, make latency more consistent.
He's not a true Scotsman either. At some point you have to come to terms with the fact that "True Republican" may not mean what you like for it to mean.
People who actually had to deal with the Stasi would probably be pretty offended by your exaggeration. That aside, Bush his hardly politically irrelevant. He's the odds on favorite to be the Republican nominee if you believe betting markets.
I have a MacBook Air w/ 8GB. I can run a browser with ~8 tabs, Eclipse, Postgres, Rails, and Mail, and not have it really feel sluggish.