Also, in practice, claiming that a tech company discriminates against men really isn't going to go down well in front of a judge.
I work for a tech company. A very senior female manager explicitly supports and helps promote female staff members because of their gender.
It happens that she's supportive of men too, and has actually been very good to me individually, but it is discrimination when certain individuals get extra coaching and management support purely on gender grounds.
I'm sure a judge will take a more balanced view on this than you appear to.
Oppressed? Maybe not. Educational outcomes, family court outcomes, criminal justice system outcomes, health outcomes, employment discrimination.. I see a lot of reasons for men to be concerned.
Poor white boys have the lowest educational outcomes, so don't go playing the race card.
As for how white men are treated by universities and colleges.. clear discrimination, abuse and frankly yes, oppression.
As a child, lego is awesome because you can build stuff. Then take it apart. Then build new stuff.
As an adult, lego is awesome because you can build stuff. Then take it apart. Then build new stuff. And it's an engineering marvel in its own right. It's just awesome.
Binding properly 40 years later is merely evidence of the awesomeness. I pity you that this is something you don't appreciate.
And the training of the neural networks and construction of their training sets certainly did need quite a bit of 'brute force' as well as 'efficiently wielded force in large quantity'.
To be fair, it'd take a fair bit of brute force training for a human to beat Fan Hui too - you aren't exactly going to rock up, read a pamphlet explaining the rules and win 5-0 on your first ever attempt at the game.
That would be excellent, although you'd need some automated recognition of the target so that the interesting videos aren't lost in the noise from shooting ranges.
Even if it's not Facebook, automated upload of footage would help tremendously in understanding the circumstances of a shooting and its legality.
I really think that pro-pair programming fan boys like the work model because they can point fingers at their pairing partner when things go wrong and deflect responsibility for poor code choices and bugs.
Sadly I think that's more of a comment on your own attitude.
A good pair programming experience means there _are_ no poor code choices. There may be choices that turn out to be incorrect but they're made for rational sensible good reasons and can be acknowledged, accepted and treated as such.
Focus on resolving them, not assigning blame. Fix bugs, and learn how to avoid creating the sames ones in future. Take some personal fucking accountability whether you're in a pair or not, and treat your partners with integrity.
"sitting around"? You mean, thinking about the problem being solved, the ways to solve it, the design of the system, the ways to test the code, the edge cases, the potential issues, the possible code approaches and also keeping an eye on the code being written to prevent bugs, bad implementation, laziness or poor practice?
Yeah, I read all these comments belittling pair programming and claiming to be good enough not to need it. It's a magnificent confirmation that someone isn't as good as they think.
I've known too many top-end software engineers that don't even think or talk about pair programming, they just do it as a natural thing.
Collaboration between two skilled individuals can lead to tremendous outcomes. Too few people understand this:(
Except it may be an imposter. They'd actually registered an account, and posted a single line response. It was weird, it almost felt like there may be a human behind this.
If you want them to learn software engineering, try this: - find a fun exciting simple project on Github. Or write one. - challenge the class to:
-- download the source code (requires installing git and learning how to use it)
-- build it (requires build tools and learning how to run them)
-- run it (make it do something fun)
-- find a bug in it (make sure it's got bugs - e.g. a calculator that adds 2+2=5)
-- raise a bug report (requires finding the bug repository and writing it up)
Next week, get them to fix the bug.
The week after, you can start the whole requirements/stories/changes journey.
The West Indians came to the UK. They were mistreated, but they engaged and they assimilated.
The Indians came to the UK. They weren't treated well, they often retained their own culture but over time the barriers have dropped and they largely embraced British culture.
The muslims came to the UK. They demand British culture change. They demand Sharia law. They mutilate their children. They use violence to pursue their archaic superstitious beliefs and try to impose them on others.
Sorry but this is a different scenario. Some muslims are engaging, assimilating, embracing British values, finding a balance between their religion and the culture of their country.
Too many aren't, and are showing no signs of wanting to.
Also keep running and if some cunt assaults you demand justice.
Shit, if you're stopped by people with sticks ring the emergency services indicating you're feeling threatened and ask if it's ok to use lethal force to protect yourself. Trust me, that'll get the police to care.
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There is no gender bias or inequality. Well, apart from specific individuals getting increased manager attention and support due to their gender.
Her sexism doesn't necessarily disadvantage men, and almost certainly not to a legally material level, but it does exist.
Also, in practice, claiming that a tech company discriminates against men really isn't going to go down well in front of a judge.
I work for a tech company. A very senior female manager explicitly supports and helps promote female staff members because of their gender.
It happens that she's supportive of men too, and has actually been very good to me individually, but it is discrimination when certain individuals get extra coaching and management support purely on gender grounds.
I'm sure a judge will take a more balanced view on this than you appear to.
As to the women given preference, considering they're paid less, on average, than men
The problem is that they're not. Women get paid on average the same as men, once you factor in experience, hours worked and contribution.
Women under 30 get paid more than men.
Women in part times roles get paid more per hour than men in part time roles.
Women spend most of the household income, even where it's earned by men.
Please, do some fucking research before spouting spurious divisive bullshit about gender pay differentials.
Oppressed? Maybe not.
Educational outcomes, family court outcomes, criminal justice system outcomes, health outcomes, employment discrimination.. I see a lot of reasons for men to be concerned.
Poor white boys have the lowest educational outcomes, so don't go playing the race card.
As for how white men are treated by universities and colleges.. clear discrimination, abuse and frankly yes, oppression.
News for people interested in digital services, the markets they operate in, the trends in those markets and the people impacted by them.
Or news for people that don't fit your narrow facile binary segregation of the population.
It's still not a fucking weapons system.
Good luck btw getting the SPO to respond quickly enough to keep the damn thing patched and properly configured.
As a child, lego is awesome because you can build stuff. Then take it apart. Then build new stuff.
As an adult, lego is awesome because you can build stuff. Then take it apart. Then build new stuff. And it's an engineering marvel in its own right. It's just awesome.
Binding properly 40 years later is merely evidence of the awesomeness. I pity you that this is something you don't appreciate.
And the training of the neural networks and construction of their training sets certainly did need quite a bit of 'brute force' as well as 'efficiently wielded force in large quantity'.
To be fair, it'd take a fair bit of brute force training for a human to beat Fan Hui too - you aren't exactly going to rock up, read a pamphlet explaining the rules and win 5-0 on your first ever attempt at the game.
What happens when your gun fires in your pocket because of some other number of failings?
Everybody laughs at the idiot that carried a loaded firearm in their pocket.
That would be excellent, although you'd need some automated recognition of the target so that the interesting videos aren't lost in the noise from shooting ranges.
Even if it's not Facebook, automated upload of footage would help tremendously in understanding the circumstances of a shooting and its legality.
To be fair the intent isn't to prevent access to the weapon. It's to prevent trivial access, particularly by a child.
You could argue it's trivial to break into a $100 safe, but it's likely to be noisy and will take more than a few seconds. That's good enough.
Watching someone else type is kind of a waste of my time.
Sure, but what's that got to do with pair programming?
I really think that pro-pair programming fan boys like the work model because they can point fingers at their pairing partner when things go wrong and deflect responsibility for poor code choices and bugs.
Sadly I think that's more of a comment on your own attitude.
A good pair programming experience means there _are_ no poor code choices. There may be choices that turn out to be incorrect but they're made for rational sensible good reasons and can be acknowledged, accepted and treated as such.
Focus on resolving them, not assigning blame. Fix bugs, and learn how to avoid creating the sames ones in future. Take some personal fucking accountability whether you're in a pair or not, and treat your partners with integrity.
Is this so hard?
"sitting around"? You mean, thinking about the problem being solved, the ways to solve it, the design of the system, the ways to test the code, the edge cases, the potential issues, the possible code approaches and also keeping an eye on the code being written to prevent bugs, bad implementation, laziness or poor practice?
Yeah, sitting around.
Yeah, I read all these comments belittling pair programming and claiming to be good enough not to need it. It's a magnificent confirmation that someone isn't as good as they think.
I've known too many top-end software engineers that don't even think or talk about pair programming, they just do it as a natural thing.
Collaboration between two skilled individuals can lead to tremendous outcomes. Too few people understand this :(
This week I encountered APK spam on The Register.
Except it may be an imposter. They'd actually registered an account, and posted a single line response. It was weird, it almost felt like there may be a human behind this.
an IP address uniquely identifies you
You must work for the RIAA, I thought they were the only fuckwits stupid enough to believe that.
If you want them to learn software engineering, try this:
- find a fun exciting simple project on Github. Or write one.
- challenge the class to:
-- download the source code (requires installing git and learning how to use it)
-- build it (requires build tools and learning how to run them)
-- run it (make it do something fun)
-- find a bug in it (make sure it's got bugs - e.g. a calculator that adds 2+2=5)
-- raise a bug report (requires finding the bug repository and writing it up)
Next week, get them to fix the bug.
The week after, you can start the whole requirements/stories/changes journey.
It wasn't a joke. I can tell because they also used MiB, which tells you immediately they don't know what they're talking about.
Any that are designed for it.
There is also the scenario where three different clients would all like some bandwidth.
Is this really so complicated?
My wifi card has three aerials, so that it can talk to my router via three concurrent channels.
I do only get sustained 700MB/s transfer rates though, so I accept it could be faster.
You mean, apart from being British and living here?
At a guess, it's because they've provided the data set for academic research purposes.
It's their data, it's a reasonable restriction and if there isn't already a torrent available with it anyway then I'll be surprised.
The West Indians came to the UK. They were mistreated, but they engaged and they assimilated.
The Indians came to the UK. They weren't treated well, they often retained their own culture but over time the barriers have dropped and they largely embraced British culture.
The muslims came to the UK. They demand British culture change. They demand Sharia law. They mutilate their children. They use violence to pursue their archaic superstitious beliefs and try to impose them on others.
Sorry but this is a different scenario. Some muslims are engaging, assimilating, embracing British values, finding a balance between their religion and the culture of their country.
Too many aren't, and are showing no signs of wanting to.
Could I ask where you live (approximately)?
Also keep running and if some cunt assaults you demand justice.
Shit, if you're stopped by people with sticks ring the emergency services indicating you're feeling threatened and ask if it's ok to use lethal force to protect yourself. Trust me, that'll get the police to care.