That may be your reality. In mine girls are outperforming boys in school and at university, women under 30 earn more than men under 30, single childless women over 30 match the pay of single childless men over 30, women live longer, women get more healthcare, women are less likely to go to jail for the same offence as a man, women are more likely to get sole custody of children in a divorce, women get to retire younger, women get preferential treatment when applying for jobs, women get infinitely better support in domestic violence cases, women have their own fucking government minister.
Don't fucking pretend that misandry is irrelevant, don't fucking pretend that misogyny is ubiquitous and don't keep bleating on with your insane biases.
Without commenting on your Government usage assumptions, if there's a single API that works with all UK banks then it becomes far easier to develop banking software designed for consumer use, and for consumers to switch bank accounts without having to change everything.
Heh, we have a new grad on our team and it's proving excellent fun teaching him how the world works.
"But.. that's got nothing to do with the technology!" Nope, it's all social relationships, conflicting priorities, budgets, controlling vendors, compromise and managing expectations.
They don't teach nearly enough CAD which is a huge part of doing actual engineering for many engineering disciplines
To be fair, they'd teach it badly anyway. However, the bigger gap: They don't teach you how to draw diagrams on a whiteboard.
I'm not a "proper" engineer but damn, you can go so much achieved with the right four people stood around one whiteboard. Everything else is just due diligence and filling in the detail..
Most of the good, easy occupations are done by women. Nursing. Teaching. Government Work.
erm. Nursing comes in many forms, a lot of which are not what I'd call "easy".
You may have the skills, patience and desire to change an adult nappy, feed its wearer and listen in detail to their medical conditions to understand whether a doctor is required, but I sure as hell don't.
Oh, I don't know. Some "lets play" gaming is just raw solid entertainment, where the narrative derived from or commenting on the game is greater than the game alone.
Even where elements of an API are used, the bulk of the mod may well be original work, or adapted from a previous creation used with a different game.
E.g. I modded one game by adding a picture for use as a decal on a car. That picture was produced by a friend using pencils and paper. It's a derivative work of absolutely fuck all. You're saying that if I added that graphic to Skyrim it's a derivative of Skyrim?
Because you centralise the difficult dangerous hot bit into a manufacturing facility and distribute the relatively easy to transport, control and use output.
Hydrogen isn't as easy to transport, control or use.
Really, we're going to compare a brand new luxury sports sedan with a used family car? That's the comparison we're going for? Have you tried comparing your car with a Bugatti Veyron?
Sorry, exactly what about being brand new, luxury or a sports sedan prevents the Tesla being the appropriate comparison for comparing weight, size or range against a car already owned?
His point is exactly that if you buy the longest range option available today in electric cars you get something that's big, heavy and still has shit range. The fact that it's a fucking expensive sports car merely makes it even more laughable how badly it compares on that one specific metric.
Since that metric is the one being discussed, and in the context of diesel vs electricity as the source of power, it feels like a very fair comparison to me.
My friends tell me they're amazed and jealous of my career, and consider me a beacon of success in a corporate environment.
I'm in a corporate environment so I know many people more successful than me, and work for some of them. They're going higher, faster, and earning more money. Some of them are arseholes, some are not.
I'm always trying to be nice to people, make constructive relationships and not be an arsehole. Hopefully sometimes I get that right.
But my personal achievements and those of the people I see in management positions above me do show that you can achieve success without being an arsehole.
Maybe not Steve Jobs level of success, but frankly I don't want to be a Steve Jobs level of arsehole either. There's a happy compromise, and it's making me happy enough and successful enough and people don't accuse me of being an arsehole. Often.
What the fuck does this have to do with "women in tech"?
This is Pakistan. Challenge the authority of the religious, tribal and/or self-appointed leaders and violence occurs. Being a woman has fuck all to do with it. Being in tech has fuck all to do with it.
More men too, or don't they count? Oh, it's a domestic violence statistic. Of course they don't.
Meanwhile it's a rare day that more Muslims are violently killed than total deaths at the World Trade Center on September 11th 2001, but it has happened. It's an rarer month when there aren't.
As the post to which you replied suggested, if only we could identify the common cause here.
Even for something as straightforward as getting new tyres fitted, I just pay the professionals.
Sure, it's more expensive than doing it myself. But it gets done better, and it's not sufficiently more expensive to justify the grief and hassle of doing it myself.
Of course, they don't always get it right: Last week the two new tyres I had fitted were put onto the front wheels of my car, not the rear.
I didn't even look at the wheels, just noticed there was vibration at high speed. So I took the car back to the garage today, they spotted the issue, realised they'd thrown away my otherwise good front tyres, and as a result I now have the new tyres on the rear wheels as required, and a new pair of tyres on the front wheels too at no charge.
Good customer service, and worked out far cheaper than doing my own tyres, even though I'd have replaced the right ones to start with.
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That may be your reality. In mine girls are outperforming boys in school and at university, women under 30 earn more than men under 30, single childless women over 30 match the pay of single childless men over 30, women live longer, women get more healthcare, women are less likely to go to jail for the same offence as a man, women are more likely to get sole custody of children in a divorce, women get to retire younger, women get preferential treatment when applying for jobs, women get infinitely better support in domestic violence cases, women have their own fucking government minister.
Don't fucking pretend that misandry is irrelevant, don't fucking pretend that misogyny is ubiquitous and don't keep bleating on with your insane biases.
Without commenting on your Government usage assumptions, if there's a single API that works with all UK banks then it becomes far easier to develop banking software designed for consumer use, and for consumers to switch bank accounts without having to change everything.
Barclays in the UK offer a range of options.
He's alive and it's material that he and his body invested both time and energy to produce.
So it's their property, not hers.
Note that this wouldn't stop the courts demanding that he pay support to her for the child:
http://www.divorcesource.com/r...
So the fact that she once consented to sex with him means he can fuck her any time he chooses, even now they've split?
Just that by your logic, they made an agreement and they must never change it.
Or can they?
erm. Yes - arrows spin for the same reason a bullet does: greater stability in flight, allowing greater accuracy.
The source of the spinning is different.
I'm an arsehole on Slashdot. I don't pretend to be successful on Slashdot.
Shit, only 25? In well over a decade? I need to be nastier.
Heh, we have a new grad on our team and it's proving excellent fun teaching him how the world works.
"But.. that's got nothing to do with the technology!" Nope, it's all social relationships, conflicting priorities, budgets, controlling vendors, compromise and managing expectations.
They don't teach nearly enough CAD which is a huge part of doing actual engineering for many engineering disciplines
To be fair, they'd teach it badly anyway. However, the bigger gap: They don't teach you how to draw diagrams on a whiteboard.
I'm not a "proper" engineer but damn, you can go so much achieved with the right four people stood around one whiteboard. Everything else is just due diligence and filling in the detail..
Most of the good, easy occupations are done by women. Nursing. Teaching. Government Work.
erm. Nursing comes in many forms, a lot of which are not what I'd call "easy".
You may have the skills, patience and desire to change an adult nappy, feed its wearer and listen in detail to their medical conditions to understand whether a doctor is required, but I sure as hell don't.
Oh, I don't know. Some "lets play" gaming is just raw solid entertainment, where the narrative derived from or commenting on the game is greater than the game alone.
e.g. emergent narrative:
http://lparchive.org/Dwarf-For...
Or the discussion about the game being infinitely more entertaining than the game can ever promise to be:
http://www.quartertothree.com/...
Ok, they're not the video "lets plays" that you mock, but I just ignore video ones anyway.
a Skyrim mod necessarily directly uses Skyrim
You're making a big assumption there.
Even where elements of an API are used, the bulk of the mod may well be original work, or adapted from a previous creation used with a different game.
E.g. I modded one game by adding a picture for use as a decal on a car. That picture was produced by a friend using pencils and paper. It's a derivative work of absolutely fuck all. You're saying that if I added that graphic to Skyrim it's a derivative of Skyrim?
No.
Or indeed was the 'box' the child's self-built toy fort, and the whole case complex nonsense that should never have reached court.
Can't tell without research, and I'm too lazy.
They did hack the dead girl's phone. Whether they deleted messages is totally fucking irrelevant to that actual crime.
Are you really trying to defend the News of the World? Seriously?
Because you centralise the difficult dangerous hot bit into a manufacturing facility and distribute the relatively easy to transport, control and use output.
Hydrogen isn't as easy to transport, control or use.
Really, we're going to compare a brand new luxury sports sedan with a used family car? That's the comparison we're going for? Have you tried comparing your car with a Bugatti Veyron?
Sorry, exactly what about being brand new, luxury or a sports sedan prevents the Tesla being the appropriate comparison for comparing weight, size or range against a car already owned?
His point is exactly that if you buy the longest range option available today in electric cars you get something that's big, heavy and still has shit range. The fact that it's a fucking expensive sports car merely makes it even more laughable how badly it compares on that one specific metric.
Since that metric is the one being discussed, and in the context of diesel vs electricity as the source of power, it feels like a very fair comparison to me.
Yeah, but the environmentalists should be loving nuclear power for that reason.
The wildlife is thriving in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
Depends on your criteria for success.
My friends tell me they're amazed and jealous of my career, and consider me a beacon of success in a corporate environment.
I'm in a corporate environment so I know many people more successful than me, and work for some of them. They're going higher, faster, and earning more money. Some of them are arseholes, some are not.
I'm always trying to be nice to people, make constructive relationships and not be an arsehole. Hopefully sometimes I get that right.
But my personal achievements and those of the people I see in management positions above me do show that you can achieve success without being an arsehole.
Maybe not Steve Jobs level of success, but frankly I don't want to be a Steve Jobs level of arsehole either. There's a happy compromise, and it's making me happy enough and successful enough and people don't accuse me of being an arsehole. Often.
What the fuck does this have to do with "women in tech"?
This is Pakistan. Challenge the authority of the religious, tribal and/or self-appointed leaders and violence occurs. Being a woman has fuck all to do with it. Being in tech has fuck all to do with it.
http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/...
http://costsofwar.org/article/...
http://pakistanbodycount.org/
It's a stupid violent place.
More men too, or don't they count? Oh, it's a domestic violence statistic. Of course they don't.
Meanwhile it's a rare day that more Muslims are violently killed than total deaths at the World Trade Center on September 11th 2001, but it has happened. It's an rarer month when there aren't.
As the post to which you replied suggested, if only we could identify the common cause here.
To be fair, the report suggests they took the bug notification seriously and were discussing a patch.
So they're trying to protect the site's reputation AND their users' security.
Well, given the actions of traders are intended to exploit investors, fuck you.
I think a minimum hold period is perfectly acceptable, and that doesn't stop you trading, it just forces you to think before you trade.
Depends on the court. Judges tend to be more understanding towards a (well prepared) individual that can't afford legal help.
Even for something as straightforward as getting new tyres fitted, I just pay the professionals.
Sure, it's more expensive than doing it myself. But it gets done better, and it's not sufficiently more expensive to justify the grief and hassle of doing it myself.
Of course, they don't always get it right: Last week the two new tyres I had fitted were put onto the front wheels of my car, not the rear.
I didn't even look at the wheels, just noticed there was vibration at high speed. So I took the car back to the garage today, they spotted the issue, realised they'd thrown away my otherwise good front tyres, and as a result I now have the new tyres on the rear wheels as required, and a new pair of tyres on the front wheels too at no charge.
Good customer service, and worked out far cheaper than doing my own tyres, even though I'd have replaced the right ones to start with.
Doesn't San Diego also already have a few floating nuclear reactors?