None of those stories are poorly produced or littered with cheap gimmicks.
But shrug, you seem to have a very narrow expectation from a science fiction film. Writing off something like Aliens because 'too shoot 'em up action fluff' is the most pretentious bollocks I've read for weeks.
A fucking ipad on wheels. Top roboting there Softbank.
Translate swahili? In America? Must be fucking overwhelmed with requests.
Direct people to Rosa Parks VR? There's a Rosa Parks VR? Surely getting people to sit on an actual fucking bus would be a better exhibit.
As for dancing and posing for selfies, does it include a remote destruct feature? Lets get the people posing with it at the same time, boost human IQ in one easy press of a button.
It's destructively lazy. It inhibits readability when you have nested loops. (i and j? really?) It slows refactoring and risks introducing new bugs. It suggests the programmer doesn't understand sufficiently the variable and its role, its purpose.
Meaningful variable names are for variables that have a meaning outside the context of the program
Bollocks to that. Meaningful variable names are for the benefit of programmers, and the source code is the context. Be descriptive in your naming and the code is far far easier to read, understand, maintain and also just write correctly in the first place.
Shit, the sponsorship money alone would set you up for life. Then just give the kid up for adoption or smother it - you know, the privileges mothers already enjoy.
I mean, shit, if infertile lesbians can have babies then why not men. Do you want equality or not?
95% of newly qualified teachers (NQTs) are employed in a teaching role within six months of completing their training. As an NQT, you'll begin on a salary of at least £22,917, or £28,660 in inner London. As you rise up the pay ranges, you could earn as much as £116,738 as a headteacher, in inner London.
Compare to
Refuse Collector Salary. The average salary for a Refuse Collector is £16,212 per year. Most people move on to other jobs if they have more than 20 years' experience in this career. Pay for this job does not change much by experience, with the most experienced earning only a bit more than the least.
Yeah, teachers are seriously well fucking paid compared to a male dominated industry.
Rotten Tomatoes has zero fucking credibility at all, and at the time it was released I recall the very strong consensus being, "Visually stunning, do go and see it, but story is terrible, acting doesn't stand out, dialogue is poor."
That was on release. These days nobody even talks about it, except in disparaging terms.
Sure, there were the total fuckwits wanting to be blue and go live on that planet, but since we couldn't ship them out they had to get a fucking life.
The irony is that Gravity, Passengers and Avatar were at best passable films. Much better sci-fi films have done much worse at the Oscars.
Being fair, the effects in Gravity were ok and Avatar was visually enchanting at times. None of those films were remotely 'best picture' territory though.
Moon. Alien and Aliens. Terminator and Terminator 2. Children of Men. Brazil. Gattaca. Donnie Darko. The Fountain. The Fifth Element. Twelve Monkeys. Dark City. Never Let Me Go. Equilibrium. The Butterfly Effect. Ex Machina.
A female director would do no such thing because the audience for sci-fi movies remains primarily straight men.
Ah, come on. You're telling me Arnie got Total Recall because of his acting skills?
No, that was pure 'hunk for the ladies'.
Not to mention that women aren't as hung up on that as men are.
Men will happily watch something like Moon, which barely has a woman in it, because it's bloody good sci-fi.
I don't recall lots of tits in Alien or Aliens, Terminator or its sequels, and although there was a mostly naked woman in Blade Runner there was far more footage of mostly naked Rutger Hauer.
Your point really doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
Women are much more hung up on status than men are, so more likely you'd get additional attention paid to higher status characters.
I don't see that this is either true or relevant.
it's easier to market to something to men, if there's a male director
Now that's just total utter fucking bullshit. I'll watch a Lynne Ramsay film because it's directed by Lynne Ramsay. I wont watch a Michael Bay film because it's been 'directed' by Michael Bay.
Good directors develop a reputation and that can be used to sell their films. First time directors' films are marketed using the actors (male or female), the plot, the subject matter, the visuals, the soundtrack, any fucking thing they can.
What I've never seen is a film marketed as "Directed by A MAN". Total fucking nonsense.
There's already a certain amount of understanding about what the product should be and what it should focus on.
The product should be a good film, and it should focus on the things a good film delivers. That may be societal commentary, it may be entertainment, it may be education, it may be visual splendour, it may be a mix of all of these things.
Oh wait, I managed to articulate all of those attributes without giving a flying fuck about the gender of the director.
If 'all IT development' is outsourced, everybody goes - young, old, experienced and total muppets.
Old programmers are hard to lure away because they have a level of security - perceived or actual - and are far more averse to taking on a risky job move. Their focus is family, hobbies, non-vocational activities.
The current job market? It's pretty healthy. Probably close to a 7-8 year high.
Plenty of opportunities for people that know what they're doing, can articulate it in interviews, don't put up with utter bollocks from complete cunts.
Don't worry, I don't _want_ a job with you. I want to work with intelligent capable people, not total fuckwits.
I got shit for decrying XML back when it was the trendy thing.
I've had people apologise to me months later because they've realised I was right, even though at the time they did their best to fuck over my career because XML was the new big thing and I wasn't fully on board.
XML has its strengths and its place, but fuck me it taught me how little some people really fucking understand shit.
What, innovative motivated people? That's a class now?
prefers to hire only from their group
What, educated, diligent people? You think that's a bad thing?
Most don't even need qualifications
A great programmer is self-motivated and will often be programming long before they attain educational recognition. They may well reject programming related qualifications as being a waste of their time, as they're already far beyond the content of that course.
All they need was provided at birth.
It's hard to overcome genetic disadvantages in intelligence. It's also difficult when you're born into a family that doesn't support your intellectual and personal development. I'm not sure this is relevant to the topic at hand.
Oh, wait? Were you implying there's a gender or racial bias in action? Fuck that, people are fucking begging for more 'diverse' hires that can still do the job.
Old progammers exist. Old COBOL programmers make a lot of money.
However, programming is (and has for decades been) a young persons' game.
Programming salaries don't scale (at an industry level) the same way that management ones do. Old programmers find it harder to get work. Experienced programmers are considered expensive, and the younger ones cheaper and deemed sufficiently capable.
Biggest factor of all, young programmers join teams looking to expand. Old programmers are on teams that get outsourced.
Individual experiences will differ, but at an industry level, you're the anomaly. Sorry.
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None of those stories are poorly produced or littered with cheap gimmicks.
But shrug, you seem to have a very narrow expectation from a science fiction film. Writing off something like Aliens because 'too shoot 'em up action fluff' is the most pretentious bollocks I've read for weeks.
A fucking ipad on wheels. Top roboting there Softbank.
Translate swahili? In America? Must be fucking overwhelmed with requests.
Direct people to Rosa Parks VR? There's a Rosa Parks VR? Surely getting people to sit on an actual fucking bus would be a better exhibit.
As for dancing and posing for selfies, does it include a remote destruct feature? Lets get the people posing with it at the same time, boost human IQ in one easy press of a button.
It's destructively lazy. It inhibits readability when you have nested loops. (i and j? really?) It slows refactoring and risks introducing new bugs. It suggests the programmer doesn't understand sufficiently the variable and its role, its purpose.
Meaningful variable names are for variables that have a meaning outside the context of the program
Bollocks to that. Meaningful variable names are for the benefit of programmers, and the source code is the context. Be descriptive in your naming and the code is far far easier to read, understand, maintain and also just write correctly in the first place.
Yeah, ok. I've been one-upped there.
I was only asked to implement an IP based XML message client inside a database.
I want descriptive self documenting code that's readable and maintainable.
Not code written by a cunt that thinks cnt is a funny variable name. Yeah, worked with him once.
From the very article you linked:
The researchers did not look at convictions vs. acquittals.
Thanks for referencing something that doesn't even fucking address the point I made.
I'd volunteer for that.
Shit, the sponsorship money alone would set you up for life. Then just give the kid up for adoption or smother it - you know, the privileges mothers already enjoy.
I mean, shit, if infertile lesbians can have babies then why not men. Do you want equality or not?
95% of newly qualified teachers (NQTs) are employed in a teaching role within six months of completing their training. As an NQT, you'll begin on a salary of at least £22,917, or £28,660 in inner London. As you rise up the pay ranges, you could earn as much as £116,738 as a headteacher, in inner London.
Compare to
Refuse Collector Salary. The average salary for a Refuse Collector is £16,212 per year. Most people move on to other jobs if they have more than 20 years' experience in this career. Pay for this job does not change much by experience, with the most experienced earning only a bit more than the least.
Yeah, teachers are seriously well fucking paid compared to a male dominated industry.
Rotten Tomatoes has zero fucking credibility at all, and at the time it was released I recall the very strong consensus being, "Visually stunning, do go and see it, but story is terrible, acting doesn't stand out, dialogue is poor."
That was on release. These days nobody even talks about it, except in disparaging terms.
Sure, there were the total fuckwits wanting to be blue and go live on that planet, but since we couldn't ship them out they had to get a fucking life.
The Matrix sequels notwithstanding, you've got to acknowledge the Wachowski's commitment to diversity.
The irony is that Gravity, Passengers and Avatar were at best passable films. Much better sci-fi films have done much worse at the Oscars.
Being fair, the effects in Gravity were ok and Avatar was visually enchanting at times. None of those films were remotely 'best picture' territory though.
To be fair to James Cameron, it was a travesty that Aliens didn't even get a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars.
I rate it higher than Platoon, and Platoon has one of the signature scenes in cinema history.
Your assumptions on the relative quality of gender specific bathrooms do not match reports from those experienced in having to clean them.
Moon.
Alien and Aliens.
Terminator and Terminator 2.
Children of Men.
Brazil.
Gattaca.
Donnie Darko.
The Fountain.
The Fifth Element.
Twelve Monkeys.
Dark City.
Never Let Me Go.
Equilibrium.
The Butterfly Effect.
Ex Machina.
Maybe I've just seen more films.
A female director would do no such thing because the audience for sci-fi movies remains primarily straight men.
Ah, come on. You're telling me Arnie got Total Recall because of his acting skills?
No, that was pure 'hunk for the ladies'.
Not to mention that women aren't as hung up on that as men are.
Men will happily watch something like Moon, which barely has a woman in it, because it's bloody good sci-fi.
I don't recall lots of tits in Alien or Aliens, Terminator or its sequels, and although there was a mostly naked woman in Blade Runner there was far more footage of mostly naked Rutger Hauer.
Your point really doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
Women are much more hung up on status than men are, so more likely you'd get additional attention paid to higher status characters.
I don't see that this is either true or relevant.
it's easier to market to something to men, if there's a male director
Now that's just total utter fucking bullshit. I'll watch a Lynne Ramsay film because it's directed by Lynne Ramsay. I wont watch a Michael Bay film because it's been 'directed' by Michael Bay.
Good directors develop a reputation and that can be used to sell their films. First time directors' films are marketed using the actors (male or female), the plot, the subject matter, the visuals, the soundtrack, any fucking thing they can.
What I've never seen is a film marketed as "Directed by A MAN". Total fucking nonsense.
There's already a certain amount of understanding about what the product should be and what it should focus on.
The product should be a good film, and it should focus on the things a good film delivers. That may be societal commentary, it may be entertainment, it may be education, it may be visual splendour, it may be a mix of all of these things.
Oh wait, I managed to articulate all of those attributes without giving a flying fuck about the gender of the director.
Speaking from personal experience of how to upset them, may I recommend FrenchCunts.com
If 'all IT development' is outsourced, everybody goes - young, old, experienced and total muppets.
Old programmers are hard to lure away because they have a level of security - perceived or actual - and are far more averse to taking on a risky job move. Their focus is family, hobbies, non-vocational activities.
You might find NSAcebook is easier to pronounce and also more easily identifiable as two disparate privacy invading organisations.
The current job market? It's pretty healthy. Probably close to a 7-8 year high.
Plenty of opportunities for people that know what they're doing, can articulate it in interviews, don't put up with utter bollocks from complete cunts.
Don't worry, I don't _want_ a job with you. I want to work with intelligent capable people, not total fuckwits.
I got shit for decrying XML back when it was the trendy thing.
I've had people apologise to me months later because they've realised I was right, even though at the time they did their best to fuck over my career because XML was the new big thing and I wasn't fully on board.
XML has its strengths and its place, but fuck me it taught me how little some people really fucking understand shit.
don't you have candidates code a solution to a problem on a whiteboard?
Hopefully not, because he's not a total cunt that hasn't got a clue about what makes a good software engineer.
Ask me to program on a whiteboard and watch me walk out of your interview and putting in an expense claim for wasting my fucking time.
I can program. I can do design on a whiteboard. I don't do fucking programming on a fucking whiteboard, for you or any other cunt.
Their special class
What, innovative motivated people? That's a class now?
prefers to hire only from their group
What, educated, diligent people? You think that's a bad thing?
Most don't even need qualifications
A great programmer is self-motivated and will often be programming long before they attain educational recognition. They may well reject programming related qualifications as being a waste of their time, as they're already far beyond the content of that course.
All they need was provided at birth.
It's hard to overcome genetic disadvantages in intelligence. It's also difficult when you're born into a family that doesn't support your intellectual and personal development. I'm not sure this is relevant to the topic at hand.
Oh, wait? Were you implying there's a gender or racial bias in action? Fuck that, people are fucking begging for more 'diverse' hires that can still do the job.
I think you're the outlier though.
Old progammers exist. Old COBOL programmers make a lot of money.
However, programming is (and has for decades been) a young persons' game.
Programming salaries don't scale (at an industry level) the same way that management ones do. Old programmers find it harder to get work. Experienced programmers are considered expensive, and the younger ones cheaper and deemed sufficiently capable.
Biggest factor of all, young programmers join teams looking to expand. Old programmers are on teams that get outsourced.
Individual experiences will differ, but at an industry level, you're the anomaly. Sorry.
To be fair, the quote implies that is the rare combination that is ideal.
I've always advocated laziness as a strong attribute in any good programmer.
It's an interesting thought. Only hire programmers that can tell you why the code they wrote three years ago sucks.