I don't understand how these people have money to spend on Amazon purchases in the first place.
It's usually cheaper than at the brick and mortar stores, at the mall, best buy, etc etc. Buying online is usually the thrifty option and exactly what someone without a lot of money would logically choose to do.
They're always whining about how they can't get jobs and have huge student loans to pay off their useless, private liberal arts college degrees.
Bias much? What about the ones with engineering degrees who can't get jobs, or physics degrees who can't get jobs, or chemistry degrees who can't get a job more senior than more than barrista at starbucks.
And so-called useless arts degrees are still completed degrees, and that should still make them suitable hires in lots of fields; and put them ahead of 'dropouts' and people who didn't even try post secondary school. Who are you more angry at... people without an art history degrees or people who failed even to get an art history degree?
And lets be honest here, the people designing logos, processing passport applications, working as executive assistants, writing product brochures, or managing accounts payable, etc don't really need more than post sec. But having a degree, any degree, is a huge leg up over the people that don't, towards getting hired.
This is not actually a bad thing. One of the problems with windows is that every software has its own updater etc.
Itunes through the windows store, hopefully means itunes update goes away, as it will now be handled via the store updater. And frankly I hope adobe reader, and java are available through store soon too. I wouldn't mind getting filezilla and qbittorrent and notepad++ and firefox and telegram and... through a storefront too because it seems every day at least one of them needs an update.
My issue with the microsoft store is the lock-in. I want multiple competing storefronts. I want steam. I want gog galaxy. I want someone to put together a decent windows productivity app store that isn't microsoft, and for the OSS tools i use to come from a windows store/repo.
Like most people here I hate walled gardens.
However I do LIKE these 'stores'. I like Steam and GogGalaxy. I like the humble store and frdroid on my android being there alongside googleplay and the samsung one.
On OSX i have the microsoft RDP client from the apple app store (free); and that it gets updated automatically as a result.
So I like app stores. I don't like being restricted to a single app store -- which is a big reason why i don't own an iphone. So I want Microsoft to get an app store together; but i don't want them to go full retard and lock me out of other stores. I seriously hope Valve and GoG and origin etc can put antitrust / anticompetitive measures against Microsoft to force them to allow multiple competing storefronts.
I seriously hope google, opera, firefox etc can fight the full retard that forcing us to use edge entails.
On the upside, if Microsoft goes full retard, my steam and gog accounts will at least transfer to linux and OSX. (although i do lose a chunk of each library.) But, for what its worth, I don't think Windows 10 S is going to get a lot of traction -- anyone who buys it will be pissed off at the restrictions. A few schools and budget buyers might get stuck with it, but they'll all hate it.
I wouldn't know, because I have been wise enough to avoid Windows 10.
Meh. To each their own. I'd say win10 is a straight up upgrade to windows 7 in pretty much every way.
Yes the spyware/telemetry situation is...unacceptable. And yes, you can avoid it by jumping through a bunch of hoops on windows 7 vetting every update and so forth. But since most of the crap has been backported to 7 anyway, both systems are equally a hassle to deal with in terms of telemetry in my view... so for me, I prefer to run windows 10. Its newer and better in a lot of ways, and i have to screw around to defeat the telemetry whether i run 10 or 7 so that's a wash.
Is Hyper-V worth half a fuck compared to vmware?
Yes. Both hyperV and vmware have their strengths, whereas virtualPC is a joke compared to well... pretty much anything current.
I wouldn't know, but Virtual PC is garbage... XP Mode on Windows 7
Windows 10 client hyper-v is Microsoft's virtualization tech today; and it is massively advanced over virtual PC in windows 7.
Virtual PC hasn't really been maintained or updated for over 6 years now. Complaining about virtual PC is as relevant as complaining about issues with internet explorer 8.
I'm sure lots of People like pocket. Nobody objected to it as an addon.
People hated that it was added directly to firefox, because it made absolutely no sense to do that; even people that like pocket could really justify that.
I'm sorry but I'm not going to listen to a guy who is fat, unemployed, doesn't shower...
Textbook argumentum ad hominem.
You didn't make an argument, you demonstrated you don't have one. If you want people to listen to YOU, it helps not to fail at basic logic.
And seriously, think about what you just said: you'd advocate listening to a fit and sharply dressed flat-earther christian megachurch evangelist over an overweight unkempt genius like Einstein! Not only is your argument logically fallacious, its downright catastrophic.
That's the thing, I know I'm not average joe when it comes to tech, but I think im pretty much as 'average joe' when it comes to groceries. I have mental meal plan, and a sense of the budget, and then i start shopping... i stock up on things that are on sale, i alter the meal plan based on what's there. Some meals more planned others are more spontaneous... i was planning burgers for friday, but ribs are on a great sale, so I switch.
I usually buy blackforest deli ham for ham sandwhiches but this week rosemary chicken was on sale so we're doing that instead. Next week the kids are probably tired of sandwiches so we'll do wraps instead, or buy some extra vegetables and send a little bundle of carrots, green beans, mushrooms, brocolli, and some dip to mix it up, or maybe soup in a thermos... for 'snacks' its whatever... maybe a fruit cup, or applesauce, or maybe peaches are in sason, or maybe wagonwheels are on sale and i impulse buy those as a treat...
That's pretty much how everybody i know shops... and when i was younger and money was tighter, if anything i was MORE flexible in my planning to take advantage of deals. Now that I'm better off, if I decide i want steak then i just buy a nice cut without worrying about the cost, but I'm still cognizant of deals... when my favorite coffee goes on sale, I stock up and save $30 bucks...on the other hand if my favorite coffee is low, and another brand i haven't tried is on sale and looks interesting... I might try a pound of that.
So my menu spontaneously changes week by week based on what I'm in the mood for combined with what's in season and/or on sale. I think that's pretty much as average joe as it gets. No?
I mean, if im out of something, maybe i don't want more of it. And when I want more of something I'm somewhat brand and price sensitive -- i'll buy whichever of 2 preferred brands of yogurt is cheaper a given week, i might try a new brand if it is on sale, and 4th brand i wouldn't take if they were paying me.
And while I have favorite flavors sometimes i mix it up; or i'll buy 2 flavors of the smaller containers if they're on sale or 1 bigger container if that's the better deal...
And if I'm going on vacation in a couple weeks, i want to start winding my fridge down -- so I won't buy replacement yogurt until i get back.
And that's just yogurt. I do that for everything... don't most people? who just wants the same shit in their fridge all the time, rain or shine, whether they are home or not...
I always though that the -few- "natural" words used in any programing language can easily be translated in any natural language
Perhaps, but aside from the keywords all the standard library function names are in english, all the standard library intellitext documentation is in english; all the comments, constant names, #defines and macro names, are in English.
If you have the source for the standard libraries, all the internal class and member names, variable names, function names, and even the comments, etc... are all in English.
Then all the compiler warnings, and compilation errors, runtime exceptions, etc... in many cases aren't localized, or are localized poorly (which is possibly worse), or even if they are localized its still often better to get them in english because it's generally much easier to find online support and help if you search for the english message then the localized one.
I think anyone programming **seriously** benefits from knowing english. The language keywords are just the tip of the iceberg.
Or I might have a recording of my grandfather on it, where he admits to killing Jimmy Hoffa. The right to not incriminate oneself should not be given up for short sighted goals. Even criminals must be given the same protection, or it's a sham.
Sorry, unless you are your own grandfather implicating him in the murder of Jimmy Hoffa is not 'self incrimination'.
If I have old pictures of 15 year old me, naked, stored on the phone, I become an accessory to distributing child porn if I give up my login credentials. It doesn't matter whether it's the police I distribute it to; zero tolerance laws allow no exceptions.
Possession: maybe. Distribution? no. A savvy lawyer could simply request immunity from prosecution for crimes unrelated to the search warrant in exchange for your cooperation.
If the court has enough evidence for that, they don't need what's on the phone.
The threshold for a warrant is "probable cause". The threshold for a criminal conviction is "beyond reasonable doubt". They are not remotely the same thing, nor should they be. Only a fool would suggest otherwise.
The only real problem with compelling pin numbers and passwords is the reality that they can be forgotten. The police cannot prove you know it, and punishing you for not providing something you don't have is fundamentally unjust.
The GGP said "I hope they don't lower the coding standards for women, lowering overall coding quality, just so their feelings aren't hurt by the unequal rejection rate".
Apparently he fell this is bad because: net lower quality code.
The GP (me) said "They could raise the standards for just men, increasing the coding quality, and equalizing the gender rejection rate that way."
The gender rejection inequality is solved, and code quality over all is better too.
Don't misunderstand me though I don't support that idea, I was just making the point that we can re-frame the solution where we have different standards for genders AND result in a net positive to code quality. Its still obviously an idiotic idea though.
The gp was not referring to lowering standards only for females, but for everyone.
How sure are you about that? Because they talked aobut lowering the standards to avoid feelings getting hurt... but lowering the standards for everyone wouldn't help, the mens rejection rate would fall and the women would never equalize.
The only reasonable interpretation to equalize them would be to lower the standards just for women, in the same way it has happened in occupations like firefighting where lower standards for women do exist in some places and are highly controversial.
If you raise standards for everyone, what makes you think that females will eventually surpass males?
I don't think that. I never said I thought that. Your making stuff up now.
Anyway, at some point, code is correct, easy to read, and efficient. Standards can't be raised higher forever. This is not the pole vault.
Sure but proving code is correct is impossible in the general case, "easy to read" is a fairly subjective assessment, and "efficient" is sometimes at odds with "easy to read" and choosing the exact right balance is subjective and arbitrary.
So the standards, no matter what they are, leave lots of room for subjectivity.
"And, finally, looking at the quality of Facebook's product, I would say that their code review standards are already far far too low."
True, but I'm for more concerned about their ethics than their code quality.
1) Code quality is an 'objective measure' independent of gender...CODE has no 'gender' so why even attempt to frame this as something that should be applied differently to men vs women?
I didn't frame it that way. That's the way it was already framed by the post I was responding to. I just re-framed to make it a net positive for code quality instead of a net negative to make a point. Thanks for missing it. Completely.
Though given the rest of your comment it's clear you didn't even bother to read the summary.
Actually, if you look at my follow up posts, I am WAY ahead of you, by now I've read not only the summary, but also TFA, and some of the related reporting.
FB did a second review & found the rejection rate was related purely to 'rank'...and that makes a WHOLE lot of sense.
Yes. 'seniority' is important. "rank" is mostly a reflection of seniority given that you 'rise in the ranks' over time.
If you're good at what you do you will rise in the ranks, if you're not you won't, and of course there's the 'newness' factor at lower ranks where you could argue this reflects the need for better training across the board.
You got through the summary, but stopped reading to soon. You jumped to the conclusion that "if you are good at what you do you will rise" and that's perhaps how it should be but that's not supported by the evidence at facebook. In fact, turnover for females is higher, and they aren't rising through the ranks as fast; and there is no evidence to support its *not* because they aren't good at what they do. It sounds like relative to males at the same 'rank' / 'seniority' the women are pretty much on par in terms of code quality... So that suggests there may be some other issue that is leading to them being left behind in terms of advancement and quitting in higher numbers.
What is that issue? It could be lots of things, and is anything but a solved question.
This is especially galling coming from the side in this argument that holds themselves up as the 'believer in truth, reality, science & objectivity'.
Now the rest your bloviating just sounds ridiculous.
Heh, ok, if you are in southern England, some of the issues i have with Aston Martin aren't quite as pronounced. That's probably one of the densest Aston Martin markets, and you aren't waiting for transatlantic shipping for every little part either.:)
"The obvious answer here is to anonymize the code review such that you don't know whose code you're reviewing."
Interestingly it sounds like that wouldn't have solved anything. Women would still have been rejected at higher rates, but wouldn't have explained why, and concluding that its because they were incompetent would have missed the mark.
TFA indicates that a followup study FB did suggests that its actually mostly a rank / seniority issue. The women as a group are collectively more junior than the men; and you would expect junior people to have higher rejects as they haven't assimilated and acclimatized to the corportate "style" and "coding standards" yet; the way a veteran would have.
Unfortunately, TFA also suggests that turnover is higher in women and they aren't promoting as fast, which is effectively keeping them more "junior"; so the issue isn't likely going to solve itself as women become more established with the company.... because women aren't becoming more established at the company.
For example, it could be a bro-culture driving them out, or not. It could be something else entirely...
"ah, so I understand. the answer is still giving women opportunities that men wouldn't get."
This is how they fix the problem they have now.
I agree with you that they never should have gotten themselves into this situation in the first place.
"find me any other world where you hire people who are grossly unqualified and figure it out later."
Tthe rejection rate for women is 35% higher, not 35%.
So, for example, if 50 in 1000 commits by a male is rejected, the reject rate for women is 67 in 1000. That's a 35% higher reject rate, but it hardly suggests the women are 'grossly unqualified".
If you RTFA (I know I know...who does that) they talked about a number of issues...and one of the big ones they looked at specifically in a follow up study, was related to turnover and seniority. And that's a really insightful observation -- because if the turnover for female employees is higher, then you'd expect the reject rate to be higher, simply because there would be more 'newer' women; and fewer 'senior' women. And you would expect code submitted by new employees to be rejected more often; as they acclimatize to the coding conventions and standards and fit in better over time.
That in itself raises questions -- why is turnover higher? why aren't women promoting as fast as males? It might pan out that since the push to bring more women in was relatively recent, its going to take time for them to filter up in seniority. But if they aren't filtering up as fast as new male recruits it could be a culture issue in the office that is holding them back or leading them to seek employment elsewhere.
I wouldn't call it the best, but it certainly is a very good sports car that can be used as a daily. However the 911 has issues, mostly with a rear mounted engine and as such out of Porsche's range I'd take the Coxter (Cayman).
The Cayman is an interesting car, and with the mid engine it is nicely balanced. The issue with the Cayman is its the 911's little sibling, so Porsche is, I think, holding it back a bit on purpose to keep the 911 out front.
As for the 911 itself, it is the flagship so it doesn't have that issue. It used to be a bit of a beast due to the rear engine, but that has been completely tamed for a long time now; *especially* in the AWD models.
If money were no object, I'd have to say Aston Martin or Maserati would be a better daily sports car.
Yeah, they're certainly very driveable and quite a bit more exclusive, but I think ultimately that plays into the Porsche's favor. I have at least 6+ Porsche shops within an hour of here that are either Porsche exclusive or at least Porsche specialists. There are dealers and aftermarket specialty places if you want Ruf or Techart etc. The technicians have lots of experience from working on the cars day in and day out and know about all the odd ball problems; and there is a large community of owner/enthusiasts with DIY knowledge and support. That's part of what makes the car a viable daily driver.
Maserati and Aston Martin are both just a little too 'Ferrari' by comparison... the parts aren't ever in stock, everything costs a fortune (even relative to Porsche), and the techs are fewer and further apart and you just can't get the same level of real actual experience unless perhaps you live in a very few places. For example Autotrader lists 13 Aston's of ANY make / model / year for sale in the local metro area of 2.5 million. Maserati... 29.... there are actually more Ferrari listed at 31. There are over 200 Porsches listed, and almost half of them are some 911.
PS -- I really agree with you about Apple. About the marketing, about them really being beige Camry's once you see through the marketing lustre. Great analogy there.
Are there any defaults that I cannot change on my Windows 10 S PC?
Yes, Microsoft Edge is the default web browser on Microsoft 10 S. You are able to download another browser that might be available from the Windows Store, but Microsoft Edge will remain the default if, for example, you open an.htm file. Additionally, the default search provider in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer cannot be changed.
Um... what the shit Microsoft. This is what going FULL RETARD looks like.
I just hope code review standards are not lowered in order to avoid emotional trauma
On the other hand, I'm sure you'd agree that raising the standards for men until the reject rate is equal for both genders will result in even better code quality overall right? See... we can frame it either way.
The more important issue is whether the review standards are currently being applied equally or not. They should be.
It -might- be that the pool of women isn't as good at coding as the pool of men... especially if they have been 'stuffing' the ranks with diversity hires. In which case the best solution is additional training for the people who need it of either gender; and culling those that can't be trained.. of either gender.
Or it might be that the people doing code reviews are being harder on code submitted by women for any number of reasons.
Or it might be both. It doesn't have to be just one or something else... maybe there's a woman doing code reviews who feels threatened by the other women so she's extra tough on them and rejects everything they commit... who knows?
Porsche is spelled with an s in it. "porche" is just french for "porch".
The 911 is pretty much the best sports car on the planet that can still be used as a daily driver. Calling it a 'crap car' is just being petty, and probably jealous.
The Corvette is more hit and miss as a car, and it's no 911, but in terms of raw fun per dollar it's pretty hard to beat.
Ironically though you are probably right about the Apple. The *mystique* (here you actually do want the 'french' word. mystic is just wrong.) and bragging rights is a big part of the appeal. Apple is a cooler brand than Android or Samsung or LG etc... but Apple's brand strength is fading, IMO.
"What would upper management do if nobody can afford to commute to work at the current wage? Clean the toilets themselves?"
I'd expect them to Lobby government to lower the tolls, give them an exception to the tolls, demand local taxpayer subsidized housing for imported mexican indentured servants, or threaten to move their "job creating" "tax revenue" business somewhere else.
-- yeah, most jobs in the real world do actually require going to work. you know to meet customers and/or build/install/repair/sell/ship/ a thing.
Telecommuting is only applicable for a small number of people, and even of those people that could do it, most of them are not given the choice. You think upper management cares what your tolls are to get to work?
(2) during rush hour
Most people work business hours because they need to do business. They need to interact with customers and vendors etc. Most people do not choose the hours they work. See (1) above.
Besides, the people who CAN easily choose avoid rush hour traffic times or work from probably ALREADY have chosen to. Nobody chooses being stuck in gridlock for 2 hours a day.
(3) in a car, (4) solo,
Yeah, this fair. Car pooling and so forth for the win right? Or public transit.
But why do people choose cars? Usually because the alternatives aren't any better. Transit usually takes even longer is crowsed, smells, and the schedules can be punishing and in-flexible. Car pooling isn't much better... you can spend an hour in the car going to and from work straight... or you load up the car, take the HOV lane, but end up spending the same amount of time due to the milk run picking the other people up.
Cranking a toll up on cars IS going to make car pooling and public transit suck slightly less by comparison, but its still going to suck unless there is real investment improving it.
, (5) on that congested freeway
Nobody takes a congested route when better routes exist. Your 'hint' proposes no alternatives. If there is more than one route, and you are spending an hour on THAT congested freeway... its probably because the other one is just as bad or worse.
(6) work at one end of that traffic jam, and (7) live at the other end of it.
This is another single argument despite numbering it twice. Again, think about it, the shitty long congested commute to work is ARLEADY a deterrent; nobody wants to sit in gridlock for 2 hours a day, every day... so if people are putting up with it there must be a reason.
a) The cost of housing on the 'side of work' is probably far too high. b) Or the size of housing on the 'side of work' is much to small. c) Or it is a family and one spouse found work close to home, while the other has to commute. d) Or there are other compelling reasons to live where they live. They are close to freinds, family, the kids are attending a good school, they enjoy the parks. It's absurd to think that everyone who works in the factory district next to the train tracks just because the corporate lease on that space was cheap wants to live in the shithole ghetto next to it.
Adding punishing tolls on the commuters will make housing close to work that much more valuable, driving prices UP.
So, yes you can raise the tolls to rebalance the equation, but that's not going to get them to move their family of four into a studio apartment that they still can't afford. Nor is the husband or wife going to separate from his family to each live closer to work in a separate home they can't afford. Nor should everyone uproot their entire family every time the company can save 2% on their lease and moves 20 miles in a random direction.
Tolls can realistically nudge things a bit, but they are not a solution. There is no solution. Nothing quick anyway. But long term city planning can make improvements over time measured in generations. Creating communities people can afford to live in and want to live in near employers works. But that's not something you can just decide to do; especially in a relatively free market. It takes time, and planning.
If the price is set correctly, this would permanently eliminate traffic congestion on the 405 without overcharging anyone
Because everyone going home after work would... what... exactly? Not go home after work?
Rush hour here is already 3+ hours long... so your plan is for me to finish at 5pm and then sit around at the office until 8:30pm or so to save how much in tolls exactly?? And do I come in at 5:30am to avoid rush hour starting at 6? So Now the middle class spends 15 hours a day 'at the office'? But getting paid for 8? While the executives pay $250 each way in tolls and get to and from work in 20 minutes during rush hour?
When the echo first came out, I thought the last thing I wanted in my house was an always-on microphone. I stand corrected.
Took me a few reads to realize you stand corrected because this is the new last thing you want. I originally read that as you changed your mind and like the amazon mic now.
Frankly these are all abominations, but the bedroom fashion camera still comes in second to the trivially hacked camera equipped vibrator...
Even minimum wage jobs will tend to be more worthwhile.
Maybe...run the numbers!
If its full time. And you don't have to pay for transportation to get there. And you don't have to pay for daycare services.
Meanwhile lots of employers go out of their way not to let you be full time so that you aren't eligible for stat holiday pay, etc. Walmart, etc... while lots of other jobs like mcjobs and retail etc really often just need people for 4-6 hour shifts...
A mall that's open from 10am to 9pm for example, might, on the off season or slow day, only have 2 'shifts'... one from 10 to 4 and one from 4-9. with that half hour overlap for a bank deposit etc. Even working 6 days a week your still only at 36 hours, and odds are you are lucky to 4-5 shifts, and you are getting 24-30 hours. 24 hrs minimum wage plus transit fare... and welfare starts looking
In ontario a single person on welfare gets 656/mo. Contrast that with working an average of 30hrs a week, at 11/hr -> 1320. less $220 for transit. call it 1100. So worth working... kind of... you are ahead $100 per week... big deal. 30 hours a week work for $100 more than welfare. When it's put it like that its not that much incentive.
Same person has a child? Your employer doesn't give a shit. You get the same shifts and wages as if you were single. So they now get $941/mo from welfare vs $1100 working after transit; so that's even LESS worth it. That's a whopping $38 bucks a week in extra income... but they haven't paid for daycare yet. Good luck finding daycare for under $38 bucks a week.You'd be hard pressed to find daycare that cheap per DAY. Nope, if you have a child, you are actually better off, much better off on welfare unless you can not only land a proper full time job... but one considerably above minimum wage. Good luck landing a full time job with decent pay applying from welfare.
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I don't understand how these people have money to spend on Amazon purchases in the first place.
It's usually cheaper than at the brick and mortar stores, at the mall, best buy, etc etc. Buying online is usually the thrifty option and exactly what someone without a lot of money would logically choose to do.
They're always whining about how they can't get jobs and have huge student loans to pay off their useless, private liberal arts college degrees.
Bias much? What about the ones with engineering degrees who can't get jobs, or physics degrees who can't get jobs, or chemistry degrees who can't get a job more senior than more than barrista at starbucks.
And so-called useless arts degrees are still completed degrees, and that should still make them suitable hires in lots of fields; and put them ahead of 'dropouts' and people who didn't even try post secondary school. Who are you more angry at... people without an art history degrees or people who failed even to get an art history degree?
And lets be honest here, the people designing logos, processing passport applications, working as executive assistants, writing product brochures, or managing accounts payable, etc don't really need more than post sec. But having a degree, any degree, is a huge leg up over the people that don't, towards getting hired.
I just don't get it.
I don't get you.
This is not actually a bad thing. One of the problems with windows is that every software has its own updater etc.
Itunes through the windows store, hopefully means itunes update goes away, as it will now be handled via the store updater. And frankly I hope adobe reader, and java are available through store soon too. I wouldn't mind getting filezilla and qbittorrent and notepad++ and firefox and telegram and ... through a storefront too because it seems every day at least one of them needs an update.
My issue with the microsoft store is the lock-in. I want multiple competing storefronts. I want steam. I want gog galaxy. I want someone to put together a decent windows productivity app store that isn't microsoft, and for the OSS tools i use to come from a windows store/repo.
Like most people here I hate walled gardens.
However I do LIKE these 'stores'. I like Steam and GogGalaxy.
I like the humble store and frdroid on my android being there alongside googleplay and the samsung one.
On OSX i have the microsoft RDP client from the apple app store (free); and that it gets updated automatically as a result.
So I like app stores. I don't like being restricted to a single app store -- which is a big reason why i don't own an iphone.
So I want Microsoft to get an app store together; but i don't want them to go full retard and lock me out of other stores. I seriously hope Valve and GoG and origin etc can put antitrust / anticompetitive measures against Microsoft to force them to allow multiple competing storefronts.
I seriously hope google, opera, firefox etc can fight the full retard that forcing us to use edge entails.
On the upside, if Microsoft goes full retard, my steam and gog accounts will at least transfer to linux and OSX. (although i do lose a chunk of each library.) But, for what its worth, I don't think Windows 10 S is going to get a lot of traction -- anyone who buys it will be pissed off at the restrictions. A few schools and budget buyers might get stuck with it, but they'll all hate it.
I wouldn't know, because I have been wise enough to avoid Windows 10.
Meh. To each their own. I'd say win10 is a straight up upgrade to windows 7 in pretty much every way.
Yes the spyware/telemetry situation is ...unacceptable. And yes, you can avoid it by jumping through a bunch of hoops on windows 7 vetting every update and so forth. But since most of the crap has been backported to 7 anyway, both systems are equally a hassle to deal with in terms of telemetry in my view ... so for me, I prefer to run windows 10. Its newer and better in a lot of ways, and i have to screw around to defeat the telemetry whether i run 10 or 7 so that's a wash.
Is Hyper-V worth half a fuck compared to vmware?
Yes. Both hyperV and vmware have their strengths, whereas virtualPC is a joke compared to well... pretty much anything current.
I wouldn't know, but Virtual PC is garbage... XP Mode on Windows 7
Windows 10 client hyper-v is Microsoft's virtualization tech today; and it is massively advanced over virtual PC in windows 7.
Virtual PC hasn't really been maintained or updated for over 6 years now. Complaining about virtual PC is as relevant as complaining about issues with internet explorer 8.
I'm sure lots of People like pocket. Nobody objected to it as an addon.
People hated that it was added directly to firefox, because it made absolutely no sense to do that; even people that like pocket could really justify that.
I'm sorry but I'm not going to listen to a guy who is fat, unemployed, doesn't shower...
Textbook argumentum ad hominem.
You didn't make an argument, you demonstrated you don't have one. If you want people to listen to YOU, it helps not to fail at basic logic.
And seriously, think about what you just said: you'd advocate listening to a fit and sharply dressed flat-earther christian megachurch evangelist over an overweight unkempt genius like Einstein! Not only is your argument logically fallacious, its downright catastrophic.
That's the thing, I know I'm not average joe when it comes to tech, but I think im pretty much as 'average joe' when it comes to groceries. I have mental meal plan, and a sense of the budget, and then i start shopping... i stock up on things that are on sale, i alter the meal plan based on what's there. Some meals more planned others are more spontaneous... i was planning burgers for friday, but ribs are on a great sale, so I switch.
I usually buy blackforest deli ham for ham sandwhiches but this week rosemary chicken was on sale so we're doing that instead. Next week the kids are probably tired of sandwiches so we'll do wraps instead, or buy some extra vegetables and send a little bundle of carrots, green beans, mushrooms, brocolli, and some dip to mix it up, or maybe soup in a thermos... for 'snacks' its whatever... maybe a fruit cup, or applesauce, or maybe peaches are in sason, or maybe wagonwheels are on sale and i impulse buy those as a treat...
That's pretty much how everybody i know shops... and when i was younger and money was tighter, if anything i was MORE flexible in my planning to take advantage of deals. Now that I'm better off, if I decide i want steak then i just buy a nice cut without worrying about the cost, but I'm still cognizant of deals... when my favorite coffee goes on sale, I stock up and save $30 bucks...on the other hand if my favorite coffee is low, and another brand i haven't tried is on sale and looks interesting... I might try a pound of that.
So my menu spontaneously changes week by week based on what I'm in the mood for combined with what's in season and/or on sale. I think that's pretty much as average joe as it gets. No?
I mean, if im out of something, maybe i don't want more of it. And when I want more of something I'm somewhat brand and price sensitive -- i'll buy whichever of 2 preferred brands of yogurt is cheaper a given week, i might try a new brand if it is on sale, and 4th brand i wouldn't take if they were paying me.
And while I have favorite flavors sometimes i mix it up; or i'll buy 2 flavors of the smaller containers if they're on sale or 1 bigger container if that's the better deal...
And if I'm going on vacation in a couple weeks, i want to start winding my fridge down -- so I won't buy replacement yogurt until i get back.
And that's just yogurt. I do that for everything... don't most people? who just wants the same shit in their fridge all the time, rain or shine, whether they are home or not...
I always though that the -few- "natural" words used in any programing language can easily be translated in any natural language
Perhaps, but aside from the keywords all the standard library function names are in english, all the standard library intellitext documentation is in english; all the comments, constant names, #defines and macro names, are in English.
If you have the source for the standard libraries, all the internal class and member names, variable names, function names, and even the comments, etc ... are all in English.
Then all the compiler warnings, and compilation errors, runtime exceptions, etc... in many cases aren't localized, or are localized poorly (which is possibly worse), or even if they are localized its still often better to get them in english because it's generally much easier to find online support and help if you search for the english message then the localized one.
I think anyone programming **seriously** benefits from knowing english. The language keywords are just the tip of the iceberg.
Or I might have a recording of my grandfather on it, where he admits to killing Jimmy Hoffa.
The right to not incriminate oneself should not be given up for short sighted goals. Even criminals must be given the same protection, or it's a sham.
Sorry, unless you are your own grandfather implicating him in the murder of Jimmy Hoffa is not 'self incrimination'.
If I have old pictures of 15 year old me, naked, stored on the phone, I become an accessory to distributing child porn if I give up my login credentials. It doesn't matter whether it's the police I distribute it to; zero tolerance laws allow no exceptions.
Possession: maybe. Distribution? no. A savvy lawyer could simply request immunity from prosecution for crimes unrelated to the search warrant in exchange for your cooperation.
If the court has enough evidence for that, they don't need what's on the phone.
The threshold for a warrant is "probable cause". The threshold for a criminal conviction is "beyond reasonable doubt". They are not remotely the same thing, nor should they be. Only a fool would suggest otherwise.
The only real problem with compelling pin numbers and passwords is the reality that they can be forgotten. The police cannot prove you know it, and punishing you for not providing something you don't have is fundamentally unjust.
um... no. that's a false equivalency.
um... no. you failed at reading comprehension.
The GGP said "I hope they don't lower the coding standards for women, lowering overall coding quality, just so their feelings aren't hurt by the unequal rejection rate".
Apparently he fell this is bad because: net lower quality code.
The GP (me) said "They could raise the standards for just men, increasing the coding quality, and equalizing the gender rejection rate that way."
The gender rejection inequality is solved, and code quality over all is better too.
Don't misunderstand me though I don't support that idea, I was just making the point that we can re-frame the solution where we have different standards for genders AND result in a net positive to code quality. Its still obviously an idiotic idea though.
The gp was not referring to lowering standards only for females, but for everyone.
How sure are you about that? Because they talked aobut lowering the standards to avoid feelings getting hurt... but lowering the standards for everyone wouldn't help, the mens rejection rate would fall and the women would never equalize.
The only reasonable interpretation to equalize them would be to lower the standards just for women, in the same way it has happened in occupations like firefighting where lower standards for women do exist in some places and are highly controversial.
If you raise standards for everyone, what makes you think that females will eventually surpass males?
I don't think that. I never said I thought that. Your making stuff up now.
Anyway, at some point, code is correct, easy to read, and efficient. Standards can't be raised higher forever. This is not the pole vault.
Sure but proving code is correct is impossible in the general case, "easy to read" is a fairly subjective assessment, and "efficient" is sometimes at odds with "easy to read" and choosing the exact right balance is subjective and arbitrary.
So the standards, no matter what they are, leave lots of room for subjectivity.
"And, finally, looking at the quality of Facebook's product, I would say that their code review standards are already far far too low."
True, but I'm for more concerned about their ethics than their code quality.
1) Code quality is an 'objective measure' independent of gender...CODE has no 'gender' so why even attempt to frame this as something that should be applied differently to men vs women?
I didn't frame it that way. That's the way it was already framed by the post I was responding to. I just re-framed to make it a net positive for code quality instead of a net negative to make a point. Thanks for missing it. Completely.
Though given the rest of your comment it's clear you didn't even bother to read the summary.
Actually, if you look at my follow up posts, I am WAY ahead of you, by now I've read not only the summary, but also TFA, and some of the related reporting.
FB did a second review & found the rejection rate was related purely to 'rank'...and that makes a WHOLE lot of sense.
Yes. 'seniority' is important. "rank" is mostly a reflection of seniority given that you 'rise in the ranks' over time.
If you're good at what you do you will rise in the ranks, if you're not you won't, and of course there's the 'newness' factor at lower ranks where you could argue this reflects the need for better training across the board.
You got through the summary, but stopped reading to soon. You jumped to the conclusion that "if you are good at what you do you will rise" and that's perhaps how it should be but that's not supported by the evidence at facebook. In fact, turnover for females is higher, and they aren't rising through the ranks as fast; and there is no evidence to support its *not* because they aren't good at what they do. It sounds like relative to males at the same 'rank' / 'seniority' the women are pretty much on par in terms of code quality... So that suggests there may be some other issue that is leading to them being left behind in terms of advancement and quitting in higher numbers.
What is that issue? It could be lots of things, and is anything but a solved question.
This is especially galling coming from the side in this argument that holds themselves up as the 'believer in truth, reality, science & objectivity'.
Now the rest your bloviating just sounds ridiculous.
Heh, ok, if you are in southern England, some of the issues i have with Aston Martin aren't quite as pronounced. That's probably one of the densest Aston Martin markets, and you aren't waiting for transatlantic shipping for every little part either. :)
"The obvious answer here is to anonymize the code review such that you don't know whose code you're reviewing."
Interestingly it sounds like that wouldn't have solved anything. Women would still have been rejected at higher rates, but wouldn't have explained why, and concluding that its because they were incompetent would have missed the mark.
TFA indicates that a followup study FB did suggests that its actually mostly a rank / seniority issue. The women as a group are collectively more junior than the men; and you would expect junior people to have higher rejects as they haven't assimilated and acclimatized to the corportate "style" and "coding standards" yet; the way a veteran would have.
Unfortunately, TFA also suggests that turnover is higher in women and they aren't promoting as fast, which is effectively keeping them more "junior"; so the issue isn't likely going to solve itself as women become more established with the company.... because women aren't becoming more established at the company.
For example, it could be a bro-culture driving them out, or not. It could be something else entirely...
"ah, so I understand. the answer is still giving women opportunities that men wouldn't get."
This is how they fix the problem they have now.
I agree with you that they never should have gotten themselves into this situation in the first place.
"find me any other world where you hire people who are grossly unqualified and figure it out later."
Tthe rejection rate for women is 35% higher, not 35%.
So, for example, if 50 in 1000 commits by a male is rejected, the reject rate for women is 67 in 1000. That's a 35% higher reject rate, but it hardly suggests the women are 'grossly unqualified".
If you RTFA (I know I know...who does that) they talked about a number of issues...and one of the big ones they looked at specifically in a follow up study, was related to turnover and seniority. And that's a really insightful observation -- because if the turnover for female employees is higher, then you'd expect the reject rate to be higher, simply because there would be more 'newer' women; and fewer 'senior' women. And you would expect code submitted by new employees to be rejected more often; as they acclimatize to the coding conventions and standards and fit in better over time.
That in itself raises questions -- why is turnover higher? why aren't women promoting as fast as males? It might pan out that since the push to bring more women in was relatively recent, its going to take time for them to filter up in seniority. But if they aren't filtering up as fast as new male recruits it could be a culture issue in the office that is holding them back or leading them to seek employment elsewhere.
I wouldn't call it the best, but it certainly is a very good sports car that can be used as a daily. However the 911 has issues, mostly with a rear mounted engine and as such out of Porsche's range I'd take the Coxter (Cayman).
The Cayman is an interesting car, and with the mid engine it is nicely balanced. The issue with the Cayman is its the 911's little sibling, so Porsche is, I think, holding it back a bit on purpose to keep the 911 out front.
As for the 911 itself, it is the flagship so it doesn't have that issue. It used to be a bit of a beast due to the rear engine, but that has been completely tamed for a long time now; *especially* in the AWD models.
If money were no object, I'd have to say Aston Martin or Maserati would be a better daily sports car.
Yeah, they're certainly very driveable and quite a bit more exclusive, but I think ultimately that plays into the Porsche's favor. I have at least 6+ Porsche shops within an hour of here that are either Porsche exclusive or at least Porsche specialists. There are dealers and aftermarket specialty places if you want Ruf or Techart etc. The technicians have lots of experience from working on the cars day in and day out and know about all the odd ball problems; and there is a large community of owner/enthusiasts with DIY knowledge and support. That's part of what makes the car a viable daily driver.
Maserati and Aston Martin are both just a little too 'Ferrari' by comparison... the parts aren't ever in stock, everything costs a fortune (even relative to Porsche), and the techs are fewer and further apart and you just can't get the same level of real actual experience unless perhaps you live in a very few places. For example Autotrader lists 13 Aston's of ANY make / model / year for sale in the local metro area of 2.5 million. Maserati... 29.... there are actually more Ferrari listed at 31. There are over 200 Porsches listed, and almost half of them are some 911.
PS -- I really agree with you about Apple. About the marketing, about them really being beige Camry's once you see through the marketing lustre. Great analogy there.
Are there any defaults that I cannot change on my Windows 10 S PC?
Yes, Microsoft Edge is the default web browser on Microsoft 10 S. You are able to download another browser that might be available from the Windows Store, but Microsoft Edge will remain the default if, for example, you open an .htm file. Additionally, the default search provider in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer cannot be changed.
Um... what the shit Microsoft. This is what going FULL RETARD looks like.
I just hope code review standards are not lowered in order to avoid emotional trauma
On the other hand, I'm sure you'd agree that raising the standards for men until the reject rate is equal for both genders will result in even better code quality overall right? See... we can frame it either way.
The more important issue is whether the review standards are currently being applied equally or not. They should be.
It -might- be that the pool of women isn't as good at coding as the pool of men... especially if they have been 'stuffing' the ranks with diversity hires. In which case the best solution is additional training for the people who need it of either gender; and culling those that can't be trained.. of either gender.
Or it might be that the people doing code reviews are being harder on code submitted by women for any number of reasons.
Or it might be both. It doesn't have to be just one or something else... maybe there's a woman doing code reviews who feels threatened by the other women so she's extra tough on them and rejects everything they commit... who knows?
A bit like owning a porche 911 or a corvette
Yeah, yeah... Feeding the troll...
Porsche is spelled with an s in it.
"porche" is just french for "porch".
The 911 is pretty much the best sports car on the planet that can still be used as a daily driver. Calling it a 'crap car' is just being petty, and probably jealous.
The Corvette is more hit and miss as a car, and it's no 911, but in terms of raw fun per dollar it's pretty hard to beat.
Ironically though you are probably right about the Apple. The *mystique* (here you actually do want the 'french' word. mystic is just wrong.) and bragging rights is a big part of the appeal. Apple is a cooler brand than Android or Samsung or LG etc... but Apple's brand strength is fading, IMO.
"What would upper management do if nobody can afford to commute to work at the current wage? Clean the toilets themselves?"
I'd expect them to Lobby government to lower the tolls, give them an exception to the tolls, demand local taxpayer subsidized housing for imported mexican indentured servants, or threaten to move their "job creating" "tax revenue" business somewhere else.
(1) commuting (versus telecommuting)
-- yeah, most jobs in the real world do actually require going to work. you know to meet customers and/or build/install/repair/sell/ship/ a thing.
Telecommuting is only applicable for a small number of people, and even of those people that could do it, most of them are not given the choice. You think upper management cares what your tolls are to get to work?
(2) during rush hour
Most people work business hours because they need to do business. They need to interact with customers and vendors etc. Most people do not choose the hours they work. See (1) above.
Besides, the people who CAN easily choose avoid rush hour traffic times or work from probably ALREADY have chosen to. Nobody chooses being stuck in gridlock for 2 hours a day.
(3) in a car, (4) solo,
Yeah, this fair. Car pooling and so forth for the win right? Or public transit.
But why do people choose cars? Usually because the alternatives aren't any better. Transit usually takes even longer is crowsed, smells, and the schedules can be punishing and in-flexible. Car pooling isn't much better... you can spend an hour in the car going to and from work straight... or you load up the car, take the HOV lane, but end up spending the same amount of time due to the milk run picking the other people up.
Cranking a toll up on cars IS going to make car pooling and public transit suck slightly less by comparison, but its still going to suck unless there is real investment improving it.
, (5) on that congested freeway
Nobody takes a congested route when better routes exist. Your 'hint' proposes no alternatives. If there is more than one route, and you are spending an hour on THAT congested freeway... its probably because the other one is just as bad or worse.
(6) work at one end of that traffic jam, and (7) live at the other end of it.
This is another single argument despite numbering it twice. Again, think about it, the shitty long congested commute to work is ARLEADY a deterrent; nobody wants to sit in gridlock for 2 hours a day, every day ... so if people are putting up with it there must be a reason.
a) The cost of housing on the 'side of work' is probably far too high.
b) Or the size of housing on the 'side of work' is much to small.
c) Or it is a family and one spouse found work close to home, while the other has to commute.
d) Or there are other compelling reasons to live where they live. They are close to freinds, family, the kids are attending a good school, they enjoy the parks. It's absurd to think that everyone who works in the factory district next to the train tracks just because the corporate lease on that space was cheap wants to live in the shithole ghetto next to it.
Adding punishing tolls on the commuters will make housing close to work that much more valuable, driving prices UP.
So, yes you can raise the tolls to rebalance the equation, but that's not going to get them to move their family of four into a studio apartment that they still can't afford. Nor is the husband or wife going to separate from his family to each live closer to work in a separate home they can't afford. Nor should everyone uproot their entire family every time the company can save 2% on their lease and moves 20 miles in a random direction.
Tolls can realistically nudge things a bit, but they are not a solution. There is no solution. Nothing quick anyway. But long term city planning can make improvements over time measured in generations. Creating communities people can afford to live in and want to live in near employers works. But that's not something you can just decide to do; especially in a relatively free market. It takes time, and planning.
If the price is set correctly, this would permanently eliminate traffic congestion on the 405 without overcharging anyone
Because everyone going home after work would... what... exactly? Not go home after work?
Rush hour here is already 3+ hours long... so your plan is for me to finish at 5pm and then sit around at the office until 8:30pm or so to save how much in tolls exactly?? And do I come in at 5:30am to avoid rush hour starting at 6? So Now the middle class spends 15 hours a day 'at the office'? But getting paid for 8? While the executives pay $250 each way in tolls and get to and from work in 20 minutes during rush hour?
When the echo first came out, I thought the last thing I wanted in my house was an always-on microphone. I stand corrected.
Took me a few reads to realize you stand corrected because this is the new last thing you want. I originally read that as you changed your mind and like the amazon mic now.
Frankly these are all abominations, but the bedroom fashion camera still comes in second to the trivially hacked camera equipped vibrator...
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Even minimum wage jobs will tend to be more worthwhile.
Maybe...run the numbers!
If its full time.
And you don't have to pay for transportation to get there.
And you don't have to pay for daycare services.
Meanwhile lots of employers go out of their way not to let you be full time so that you aren't eligible for stat holiday pay, etc. Walmart, etc... while lots of other jobs like mcjobs and retail etc really often just need people for 4-6 hour shifts...
A mall that's open from 10am to 9pm for example, might, on the off season or slow day, only have 2 'shifts'... one from 10 to 4 and one from 4-9. with that half hour overlap for a bank deposit etc. Even working 6 days a week your still only at 36 hours, and odds are you are lucky to 4-5 shifts, and you are getting 24-30 hours. 24 hrs minimum wage plus transit fare... and welfare starts looking
In ontario a single person on welfare gets 656/mo. Contrast that with working an average of 30hrs a week, at 11/hr -> 1320. less $220 for transit. call it 1100. So worth working... kind of... you are ahead $100 per week... big deal. 30 hours a week work for $100 more than welfare. When it's put it like that its not that much incentive.
Same person has a child? Your employer doesn't give a shit. You get the same shifts and wages as if you were single. So they now get $941/mo from welfare vs $1100 working after transit; so that's even LESS worth it. That's a whopping $38 bucks a week in extra income... but they haven't paid for daycare yet. Good luck finding daycare for under $38 bucks a week.You'd be hard pressed to find daycare that cheap per DAY. Nope, if you have a child, you are actually better off, much better off on welfare unless you can not only land a proper full time job... but one considerably above minimum wage. Good luck landing a full time job with decent pay applying from welfare.