If the British hadn't destroyed the Luftwaffe.. If the British hadn't pulled multiple divisions to Africa.. If the threat of an invasion from Britain hadn't forced the Germans to keep several divisions in France and Holland.. If the Allies hadn't taken Italy out of the war.. If Germany hadn't ended fighting on two fronts.. If the US hadn't supplied Russia with continual convoys full of material..
Seems you don't know the facts.
As for communism, I'm not sure what the fuck that has to do with executing your officer cadre, shooting your own men, or indeed the other 50 million people that died due to unnatural causes. Don't go pretending all of that was famine.
Bollocks. You think there's just one HR person at your company with access to your HR information?
There's an entire fucking team full, plus your manager, plus probably their manager too.
In Zappos I suspect there are multiple employees with HR related jobs that are authorised to view employee information and held accountable for assuring compliance with employment law.
Unless you've been living under a rock for the last 25+ years, corporations and the bosses that control them haven't exactly been falling over themselves to give raises to the rank-and-file.
And yet, I've been working for the past 21 years and haven't failed to get a pay rise in any of them. Sometimes it's been as low as 2%, but the average is around 9-10% per year (compound).
Sure, I change company every few years. Five changes in 21 years doesn't feel excessive to me though.
When you hunker down and say "Do what I say and don't question it," you're sending the signal that the employee's expertise is unnecessary. You're also cutting off your ability to use their expertise, which is going to lead to a corporate collapse.
You've never had to manage the fuckwits that think they have expertise but lack the information, experience, understanding, humility or sheer common sense to actually know what's needed.
While I'd agree that "JDFI and stop challenging me" is shit leadership, "You're the expert, do your thing" is probably more damaging.
Interesting. I'm scarily senior these days and the pay reflects that. I'm not there because it pays more though (but it's a lovely bonus), I'm there because it's the way to get the challenges that use and extend my skills, keep me interested and help me enjoy the job.
Offer me the same pay to go back to a previous role and I'd decline. I've always enjoyed the jobs I've had, but I change as I get older, I get new skills and I take on new challenges.
I also have to work hard to assure that other people get the recognition for doing the actual work these days, as it's worryingly easy for me to pick up all the credit merely because I saw the opportunity and asked them to do it. My big fear is that my company will realise how little I actually do.
a leader can be a computer programmer; a computer programmer can be a leader; but leadership and computer programming are not either thing.
Agreed, but I'd also suggest that leadership is not management either.
A good manager is inherently a leader so you want all managers to be leaders, but you want and need leaders whether they're managers or not.
Give me people with strong leadership skills first, strong management skills second. You'd be amazed how effectively people will self-organise under a great leader, and how utterly fucked they are with no leadership no matter how proficient their manager is at the other management tasks.
I'll admit though, I'm fucked if I can see the link between computer programming and leadership.
On 2 you can use the runway to reduce the 3d challenge to a 2d one. You know the aircraft will pass through a vertical plane perpendicular to the takeoff direction.
You can cheat further by predicting line and altitude as the aircraft intersects the plane, giving you a good approximate start point.
I agree that arbitrary aircraft interception is trickier but for intentional idiocy you can stack the input parameters in your favour.
1 - bloody good piloting. Not one I'd recommend 2 - autonomous drone, using image recognition to head for the only round black object that's increasing in size towards it 3 - mentioned elsewhere on this discussion: swarm of drones, arrayed in a pattern that maximises chance of contact
Or combine 2 and 3, with a swarm that includes seekers
4 - add fishing wire between the swarm members, with feathers or something on them. Not sure if that one would work, the wing may drag them clear of the engine before it sucked them in
The most amazing thing is that it hasn't already happened.
Shit, I was programming for seven years before I even heard of the internet, and within three months of getting online for the first time I was contributing to an open source code base. Which had female contributors. Which is still around.
What's stopping women from just coding. Starting their own project. Writing software that meets needs that they have.
Nothing. Big fat fuck all.
So please, stop bleating about this supposed sexism, unless you'd like to comment on the massive resources, programmes, scholarships and other support being given to just one fucking gender to get them programming.
What, where feminist attention seekers sent themselves abusive messages over twitter and viciously abused people trying to objectively discuss journalistic ethics?
Yeah, I witnessed gamergate. Didn't see any misogyny though, unless you want to count the feminists attacking other women for not complying with their edicts.
1 - it's become apparent that software development is not a good career option. Long hours, bloody hard work (compared to most office jobs), poor recognition and very limited career prospects
2 - women are now doing much better academically. This means that careers in other professions are now much more available than they used to be, as evidenced by female dominance in hiring numbers for lawyers, accountants, doctors, vetinarians, etc
Dick to women? Sacked. Hasn't washed? Told to address basic hygiene or sacked. One-up everything? Told to sit the fuck down and behave. Hit on her? Sacked for sexual harassment, unless they're toned and well paid in which case she might be interested.
Basically any well run workplace I've worked in - all but one, basically - has all of those issues already addressed. The one exception went (oddly enough) out of business because the sole individual that was a problem was also the owner. The good staff left.
Anyway, what the fuck do you think this has to do with gender? Men don't want to work with people that act like dicks, or smelly people, or people that make unwanted sexual approaches to them either.
Meanwhile six of the forty-eight staff at my local health center are male. I'm guessing that's also men's fault?
In blackjack it lets you shift the odds away from the house and towards yourself. Casinos don't like the odds favouring the punters.
I believe most casinos tolerate card counting though, as most people cock it up, negating the benefits and thus generating additional income for the house.
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I must be in the 1% then. I don't give a shit what someone sticks in their body as long as it's consensual on all sides.
Why, break it of course.
deb is short for debutante
Since you need power structures in order for harassment to carry any weight/threat
I don't need power structures to feel uncomfortable, insulted, distressed, stressed or angry.
yes, a disproportionate amount of harassment is men against women.
No. You're lying. You have no evidence for this. In fact..
by spouting a pathetically-informed opinion.
I think this describes superbly your post.
I've never once heard of a man getting in trouble for holding a door open.
I've been accused of harassment before for holding a door open. But this is the same woman that assaulted me in the workplace on another occasion..
Sure, I stop. I also see other men that don't stop, and end up with her on top riding him screaming in ecstasy.
Any fucking wonder it's confusing for some men?
If the British hadn't destroyed the Luftwaffe..
If the British hadn't pulled multiple divisions to Africa..
If the threat of an invasion from Britain hadn't forced the Germans to keep several divisions in France and Holland..
If the Allies hadn't taken Italy out of the war..
If Germany hadn't ended fighting on two fronts..
If the US hadn't supplied Russia with continual convoys full of material..
Seems you don't know the facts.
As for communism, I'm not sure what the fuck that has to do with executing your officer cadre, shooting your own men, or indeed the other 50 million people that died due to unnatural causes. Don't go pretending all of that was famine.
Bollocks. You think there's just one HR person at your company with access to your HR information?
There's an entire fucking team full, plus your manager, plus probably their manager too.
In Zappos I suspect there are multiple employees with HR related jobs that are authorised to view employee information and held accountable for assuring compliance with employment law.
Just like every other fucking company.
Unless you've been living under a rock for the last 25+ years, corporations and the bosses that control them haven't exactly been falling over themselves to give raises to the rank-and-file.
And yet, I've been working for the past 21 years and haven't failed to get a pay rise in any of them. Sometimes it's been as low as 2%, but the average is around 9-10% per year (compound).
Sure, I change company every few years. Five changes in 21 years doesn't feel excessive to me though.
Anything they'll let me ;)
It doesn't last though. I eat too much bacon.
When you hunker down and say "Do what I say and don't question it," you're sending the signal that the employee's expertise is unnecessary. You're also cutting off your ability to use their expertise, which is going to lead to a corporate collapse.
You've never had to manage the fuckwits that think they have expertise but lack the information, experience, understanding, humility or sheer common sense to actually know what's needed.
While I'd agree that "JDFI and stop challenging me" is shit leadership, "You're the expert, do your thing" is probably more damaging.
There are better approaches on both fronts.
Interesting. I'm scarily senior these days and the pay reflects that. I'm not there because it pays more though (but it's a lovely bonus), I'm there because it's the way to get the challenges that use and extend my skills, keep me interested and help me enjoy the job.
Offer me the same pay to go back to a previous role and I'd decline. I've always enjoyed the jobs I've had, but I change as I get older, I get new skills and I take on new challenges.
I also have to work hard to assure that other people get the recognition for doing the actual work these days, as it's worryingly easy for me to pick up all the credit merely because I saw the opportunity and asked them to do it. My big fear is that my company will realise how little I actually do.
a leader can be a computer programmer; a computer programmer can be a leader; but leadership and computer programming are not either thing.
Agreed, but I'd also suggest that leadership is not management either.
A good manager is inherently a leader so you want all managers to be leaders, but you want and need leaders whether they're managers or not.
Give me people with strong leadership skills first, strong management skills second. You'd be amazed how effectively people will self-organise under a great leader, and how utterly fucked they are with no leadership no matter how proficient their manager is at the other management tasks.
I'll admit though, I'm fucked if I can see the link between computer programming and leadership.
Hmm. In the UK it's pretty trivial to get within a few hundred yards of the end of a runway at several international airports.
That's probably close enough...
On 2 you can use the runway to reduce the 3d challenge to a 2d one. You know the aircraft will pass through a vertical plane perpendicular to the takeoff direction.
You can cheat further by predicting line and altitude as the aircraft intersects the plane, giving you a good approximate start point.
I agree that arbitrary aircraft interception is trickier but for intentional idiocy you can stack the input parameters in your favour.
1 - bloody good piloting. Not one I'd recommend
2 - autonomous drone, using image recognition to head for the only round black object that's increasing in size towards it
3 - mentioned elsewhere on this discussion: swarm of drones, arrayed in a pattern that maximises chance of contact
Or combine 2 and 3, with a swarm that includes seekers
4 - add fishing wire between the swarm members, with feathers or something on them. Not sure if that one would work, the wing may drag them clear of the engine before it sucked them in
The most amazing thing is that it hasn't already happened.
At least so far, drones have not been flocking (that would be scary.
erm. http://www.popsci.com/watch-fl...
Sorry for scaring you. Search Google for a real horror show.
On purpose? Nah, piece of piss.
I can think of three ways in the first 30 seconds, only one of which is actually getting good at piloting the damn thing.
I went out with one of those.
Well, she was merely bi until we split..
Then they should just fucking get on with coding.
Shit, I was programming for seven years before I even heard of the internet, and within three months of getting online for the first time I was contributing to an open source code base. Which had female contributors. Which is still around.
What's stopping women from just coding. Starting their own project. Writing software that meets needs that they have.
Nothing. Big fat fuck all.
So please, stop bleating about this supposed sexism, unless you'd like to comment on the massive resources, programmes, scholarships and other support being given to just one fucking gender to get them programming.
Just witness gamergate
What, where feminist attention seekers sent themselves abusive messages over twitter and viciously abused people trying to objectively discuss journalistic ethics?
Yeah, I witnessed gamergate. Didn't see any misogyny though, unless you want to count the feminists attacking other women for not complying with their edicts.
Something has changed.
Well, two clear differences come to mind:
1 - it's become apparent that software development is not a good career option. Long hours, bloody hard work (compared to most office jobs), poor recognition and very limited career prospects
2 - women are now doing much better academically. This means that careers in other professions are now much more available than they used to be, as evidenced by female dominance in hiring numbers for lawyers, accountants, doctors, vetinarians, etc
What fucking country do you live in?
Dick to women? Sacked.
Hasn't washed? Told to address basic hygiene or sacked.
One-up everything? Told to sit the fuck down and behave.
Hit on her? Sacked for sexual harassment, unless they're toned and well paid in which case she might be interested.
Basically any well run workplace I've worked in - all but one, basically - has all of those issues already addressed. The one exception went (oddly enough) out of business because the sole individual that was a problem was also the owner. The good staff left.
Anyway, what the fuck do you think this has to do with gender? Men don't want to work with people that act like dicks, or smelly people, or people that make unwanted sexual approaches to them either.
Meanwhile six of the forty-eight staff at my local health center are male. I'm guessing that's also men's fault?
You must be Russian. Only they and the Americans have such a lopsided perspective of World War 2.
It ended 70 years ago, so I'll move on. Quick query though.. Did the Germans kill more Russians than Stalin and Lenin?
In blackjack it lets you shift the odds away from the house and towards yourself. Casinos don't like the odds favouring the punters.
I believe most casinos tolerate card counting though, as most people cock it up, negating the benefits and thus generating additional income for the house.