My greatest weapon against racism is to forget it. What's race got to do with programming something in linux? I always look for people who have a certain perspective and experience to help with things. Even perhaps different styles. From my point of view, we need everyone. The following isn't the best list, but something that I've started. I always try to look beyond the problems and focus on the solutions. The movie patch adams taught me this, and I took a lot of philosophy from Star Trek.
From the old people: experience in how to get things moving along. What not to do and so forth
From the young people: knowledge of bleeding edge technologies, and new methods of attacking problems.
From the men: Serial thinking and concentration to drive a certain part of work
From the women: Multitasking ability to conceptualize many parts in a dynamic framework
From all the different nationalities: Different points of view and styles.
I really don't care about race or age or any other label that can disect us more. I'm only concerned with if you're able to bring something to the table. I have respect for anyone who has a sound idea that's been well thought out to help move things along.
When it comes to racism, I'm reminded of Chris Rocks's HBO comedy show. He was saying how he didn't support the advancement by race just because of quotas or otherwise. But it there's a tie...
A way to Martin Luther's vision exists. It existed for years, and I call it the internet chats rooms. "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today." Chat rooms in their earliest forms had physical anonymity that forced everyone to judge them on what the other typed. Now we have webcams etc. It was nice while it lasted.
Carlos Mencia, also a comic, had a bit about jobs. "If you're a small man, the tall man took your job. If you're a woman, the men took your job. If you're a fat man, the skinny people took it. It you're black man, the white man took it. If you're an asian man, the white man took it. If you're a white male, affirmative action hgave your job to the asian, black, the women, etc etc etc" He started that bit by saying, "America had a dream. If you work hard enough, you can accomplish", still holds true for me. I focus on the solution, not the problem.
I'll go one more to say this. I draw upon my background and philosophy to make decisions and come up with new ideas. For the majority, I see the Indians, Asians, White, and all mostly men. I wait impatiently for blacks, spaniards, russians, women, who are competent to bring sound ideas to the table. Why? because they have a different take on the same problem. I'm just waiting for the day when the outcomes of open source and open hardware gets hired. I wait for the day when some poor black kid straight from harlem says, "Yeah I fought off the bullies at school, and saved enough money to buy a xilinx virtex board and loaded the free sparc architecture on it, and was able to put free linux on it too. I modified a voice recognition thing to detect gun shots, and it targets the sound source and shoots a tazer gun." Or someone down south (of the equator) to come and say, "Yeah, my mom always made way too much salsa, so I was able to use that as an energy source to power the mp3 player I made out of junk parts, because you can make energy from fruit, why not salsa" etc etc etc. Only reason why this doesn't really happen is because they don't know that it can be done. Solution: AMD's 50x15 project. I love that idea. And I'm sure that there are many other ideas that needs to be thought of and done to make this work.
Like I said. The best weapon I have against racism is to forget about it. Since I'm not going to tell you what my nationality/age/sex is, you're just going to have to read this and determine if I'm intelligent or an idiot. How many more labels can you put on me with only what I've written? Of course in real life, we have things called eyes, and I try to use what I've learned from the Jedi, "Your eyes can deceive you, don't trust them" "How can I fight if the blast shield is down?" "Trust your instincts"...
Slashdot Mirror
My greatest weapon against racism is to forget it. What's race got to do with programming something in linux? I always look for people who have a certain perspective and experience to help with things. Even perhaps different styles. From my point of view, we need everyone. The following isn't the best list, but something that I've started. I always try to look beyond the problems and focus on the solutions. The movie patch adams taught me this, and I took a lot of philosophy from Star Trek.
...
From the old people: experience in how to get things moving along. What not to do and so forth
From the young people: knowledge of bleeding edge technologies, and new methods of attacking problems.
From the men: Serial thinking and concentration to drive a certain part of work
From the women: Multitasking ability to conceptualize many parts in a dynamic framework
From all the different nationalities: Different points of view and styles.
I really don't care about race or age or any other label that can disect us more. I'm only concerned with if you're able to bring something to the table. I have respect for anyone who has a sound idea that's been well thought out to help move things along.
When it comes to racism, I'm reminded of Chris Rocks's HBO comedy show. He was saying how he didn't support the advancement by race just because of quotas or otherwise. But it there's a tie
A way to Martin Luther's vision exists. It existed for years, and I call it the internet chats rooms. "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today." Chat rooms in their earliest forms had physical anonymity that forced everyone to judge them on what the other typed. Now we have webcams etc. It was nice while it lasted.
Carlos Mencia, also a comic, had a bit about jobs. "If you're a small man, the tall man took your job. If you're a woman, the men took your job. If you're a fat man, the skinny people took it. It you're black man, the white man took it. If you're an asian man, the white man took it. If you're a white male, affirmative action hgave your job to the asian, black, the women, etc etc etc" He started that bit by saying, "America had a dream. If you work hard enough, you can accomplish", still holds true for me. I focus on the solution, not the problem.
I'll go one more to say this. I draw upon my background and philosophy to make decisions and come up with new ideas. For the majority, I see the Indians, Asians, White, and all mostly men. I wait impatiently for blacks, spaniards, russians, women, who are competent to bring sound ideas to the table. Why? because they have a different take on the same problem. I'm just waiting for the day when the outcomes of open source and open hardware gets hired. I wait for the day when some poor black kid straight from harlem says, "Yeah I fought off the bullies at school, and saved enough money to buy a xilinx virtex board and loaded the free sparc architecture on it, and was able to put free linux on it too. I modified a voice recognition thing to detect gun shots, and it targets the sound source and shoots a tazer gun." Or someone down south (of the equator) to come and say, "Yeah, my mom always made way too much salsa, so I was able to use that as an energy source to power the mp3 player I made out of junk parts, because you can make energy from fruit, why not salsa" etc etc etc. Only reason why this doesn't really happen is because they don't know that it can be done. Solution: AMD's 50x15 project. I love that idea. And I'm sure that there are many other ideas that needs to be thought of and done to make this work.
Like I said. The best weapon I have against racism is to forget about it. Since I'm not going to tell you what my nationality/age/sex is, you're just going to have to read this and determine if I'm intelligent or an idiot. How many more labels can you put on me with only what I've written? Of course in real life, we have things called eyes, and I try to use what I've learned from the Jedi, "Your eyes can deceive you, don't trust them" "How can I fight if the blast shield is down?" "Trust your instincts"...