The risks of giving a woman of child bearing age range an important role in a software project are huge. It's not like you can just hire a temp. A 25% pay cut to compensate for that risk seems generous.
It's not like women give their employers two weeks' notice as soon as they find out that they're pregnant. If the employer knows six months in advance, and they still can't figure out how to handle the situation, then they're a disorganized mess that most people would probably hate to work for anyway.
Even in the summary they state the real number: ~ 5%. This is one of those massive myths that keeps going and going. For the same positions, men and women get paid the same amount.
The summary also states that the gap is 28% for programmers, after adjusting for all of the same factors that give the 5% gap overall. So the point of this article is, why is the gap so much worse for programmers than it is for other fields?
The sysadmin of the future is a few automated scripts managed by developers and a few call center guys clicking buttons in a browser that trigger scripts worked out by those developers.
While I agree that knowing at least some programming is important for systems administrators these days, I highly doubt that it will be simply all be done by developers. I've worked with programmers that have degrees in Computer Science that don't even know how to put a hard drive in a computer and install an operating system.
In many ways, it is. Remember that Judaism is a tribal religion. While there is a process for people to convert to Judaism, it's typically inherited from your parents - if your parents are members of the tribe, then so are you. Particularly relevant to this thread, the Nazis considered someone Jewish if they had even a single recent ancestor that was Jewish, regardless of what religion that person practiced.
Frequently changing bus routes, numbers and timetables is a good way to kill off your ridership because who wants to learn a new timetable every few months and have to refigure the best way to get home or get to work?
What kind of fucked up public transit system do you have? Around here, the bus routes pretty much never change, other than in the middle of a blizzard when they might not be able to get up a hill. Some of the schedules change a bit every few months, but that's only for the routes with less frequent service (every 30-60 minutes going out to the farther suburbs) that can be slower in the winter, since snowbanks make the roads a bit narrower, and there's usually less demand in the summer.
One hour between buses? Around commuting hours? Sorry to break it to you, but it isn't a case for buses inherently sucking, it's a case for the bus system you tried sucking super-hard.
Or possibly a case of living in an area where extensive public transit isn't as worthwhile. A 45-minute walk is only about 2 to 2.5 miles. If it's only 2 miles from an urban area to a suburban/residential area, then you probably aren't in a big enough city to have a major public transit system.
Corporations simple pass any added taxes and costs on to the customer. Thus if you add taxes to a corporation they simple raise the price and pass that added expense on to the customer.
If the corporation could raise the price without losing sales, wouldn't they do so regardless of any increase in costs? Isn't that one of the fundamental rules of a free, supply-and-demand market?
While Obama's proposal sounds good, it is actually a step in the wrong direction. Under current policy, much government source code is automatically in the public domain. So if this proposal uses any other OSS license, it will mean more restrictions, not fewer.
The difference with releasing government source code under a GPL-like license, instead of public domain or a BSD-like license, is that it would prevent private entities from taking that source code and using it in a closed-source product. Whether that's an advantage or a disadvantage is a matter of personal opinion; I think there are reasonable arguments either way.
It's almost as if whether an organization is "good" or "evil" depends on their actions instead of merely on whether they're part of the government or a private entity.
Nobody asks him for details and he doesn't give any because his campaign isn't about deep political discussions.
Apparently he did get asked for details during the debate last night. From the short clip I heard, his detailed plan to force Mexico to pay for Trump Wall is "I will, and now it will be 10 feet taller."
So it works in certain cases with a lot of assumptions. Exactly what I was saying.
Where "certain cases with a lot of assumptions" equals "a computer running a recent version of Windows". I'm guessing that there might be a few of those out there.
damn, you windows weenies don't know much about alternative operating systems. yes there are plenty of proprietary OS now and 20 years ago that run on the PC besides windows. 20 years ago would be OS/2 Warp, various SCO unix, several realtime OS..
Why would those count more than Linux and OSX (which the original post already discounted)? And what has there been since then?
You can certainly argue about whether it's true that "there are no other commercial operating systems other than Windows anymore". My argument was about the word "anymore", since the original post seemed to be implying that the situation has changed recently, which I do disagree with.
Side note: I'm hardly a "windows weenie". I've been using Linux on my home desktop for nearly 8 years now, so I've already found the alternative that works for me. I try as much as I possibly can to avoid using Windows.
However Consoles are uniformed in their Graphics, allowing game makers to make their games directly for the graphics hardware, taking advantage of all the new features.
I'm not sure what this means. Even the current generation of consoles which use AMD GPU chipsets are not uniform. The PS4 clearly has an advantage. On top of this, the development systems are clearly different so a game on one console is not really the same as another.
I'm pretty sure the point was that all PS4 consoles have the same graphics hardware, which would allow the developers to eliminate one layer of abstraction that you would need for PCs that have a wide range of graphics hardware (particularly nVidia vs. AMD). In theory, having that abstraction layer comes at the cost of some amount of processing power, and removing that cost gives you better overall performance.
I'm not a game developer, so I don't know offhand what that cost might be. It's quite possible (my guess would be that it's very likely) that the cost is zero, or close enough to zero as to make no noticeable difference.
Hasn't it occurred to any of you, that there are no other commercial operating systems other than Windows anymore? Honestly, does that seem right to you? Other than whatever flavor of Linux, or OSX (which technically you're not supposed to have without Apple hardware), what is there?
And when was the last time that this wasn't true? At least 20 years ago, probably even longer?
BTW, wouldn't it be nice if all of us could ignore any laws we regard as unfair...
You just gave me a great idea. After the Supreme Court's decision for Hobby Lobby, Snowden just has to say that it was his deeply held religious belief to do what he did, and he can ignore any law.
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The risks of giving a woman of child bearing age range an important role in a software project are huge. It's not like you can just hire a temp. A 25% pay cut to compensate for that risk seems generous.
It's not like women give their employers two weeks' notice as soon as they find out that they're pregnant. If the employer knows six months in advance, and they still can't figure out how to handle the situation, then they're a disorganized mess that most people would probably hate to work for anyway.
Even in the summary they state the real number: ~ 5%. This is one of those massive myths that keeps going and going. For the same positions, men and women get paid the same amount.
The summary also states that the gap is 28% for programmers, after adjusting for all of the same factors that give the 5% gap overall. So the point of this article is, why is the gap so much worse for programmers than it is for other fields?
The sysadmin of the future is a few automated scripts managed by developers and a few call center guys clicking buttons in a browser that trigger scripts worked out by those developers.
While I agree that knowing at least some programming is important for systems administrators these days, I highly doubt that it will be simply all be done by developers. I've worked with programmers that have degrees in Computer Science that don't even know how to put a hard drive in a computer and install an operating system.
Judaism is not a race.
In many ways, it is. Remember that Judaism is a tribal religion. While there is a process for people to convert to Judaism, it's typically inherited from your parents - if your parents are members of the tribe, then so are you. Particularly relevant to this thread, the Nazis considered someone Jewish if they had even a single recent ancestor that was Jewish, regardless of what religion that person practiced.
Frequently changing bus routes, numbers and timetables is a good way to kill off your ridership because who wants to learn a new timetable every few months and have to refigure the best way to get home or get to work?
What kind of fucked up public transit system do you have? Around here, the bus routes pretty much never change, other than in the middle of a blizzard when they might not be able to get up a hill. Some of the schedules change a bit every few months, but that's only for the routes with less frequent service (every 30-60 minutes going out to the farther suburbs) that can be slower in the winter, since snowbanks make the roads a bit narrower, and there's usually less demand in the summer.
"Those 1,000 car deaths were probably all distracted idiots or maniacs or drunks--I'm a better driver than that."
1. The driver right behind you might be distracted, crazy, or drunk, at which point it doesn't matter how good of a driver you are.
2. Wasn't it something like 80% of drivers think that they're better than average?
One hour between buses? Around commuting hours? Sorry to break it to you, but it isn't a case for buses inherently sucking, it's a case for the bus system you tried sucking super-hard.
Or possibly a case of living in an area where extensive public transit isn't as worthwhile. A 45-minute walk is only about 2 to 2.5 miles. If it's only 2 miles from an urban area to a suburban/residential area, then you probably aren't in a big enough city to have a major public transit system.
Corporations simple pass any added taxes and costs on to the customer. Thus if you add taxes to a corporation they simple raise the price and pass that added expense on to the customer.
If the corporation could raise the price without losing sales, wouldn't they do so regardless of any increase in costs? Isn't that one of the fundamental rules of a free, supply-and-demand market?
You're ignoring the one word that overrides any other sort of reasoning about what to do: liability.
"Siri. There's a manic with an axe breaking down my door. Call the police."
Did you miss the news story just within the last couple days about how terrible voice assistants are at stuff like that?
Besides, how many people are going to say, "Well, I wanted to support Trump, but his web site wasn't working, so I guess I'll vote for Cruz instead."
While Obama's proposal sounds good, it is actually a step in the wrong direction. Under current policy, much government source code is automatically in the public domain. So if this proposal uses any other OSS license, it will mean more restrictions, not fewer.
The difference with releasing government source code under a GPL-like license, instead of public domain or a BSD-like license, is that it would prevent private entities from taking that source code and using it in a closed-source product. Whether that's an advantage or a disadvantage is a matter of personal opinion; I think there are reasonable arguments either way.
It's almost as if whether an organization is "good" or "evil" depends on their actions instead of merely on whether they're part of the government or a private entity.
'Your Fired'
Maybe getting the English teacher fired wasn't such a great idea...
Or it was a demonstration that the class understood irony.
It is not that he was somehow hindering the sales of their cars.
Which would certainly be an argument for little or no damages, but he can still be forced to cease infringing the copyright.
I guess you haven't seen one of the televised debates lately.
There was political discussion during the debates?
...but I'm sure many people will take say 5GB internet + free Netflix over unlimited internet but you have to buy your own Netflix subscription.
That's because many people can't do math.
Nobody asks him for details and he doesn't give any because his campaign isn't about deep political discussions.
Apparently he did get asked for details during the debate last night. From the short clip I heard, his detailed plan to force Mexico to pay for Trump Wall is "I will, and now it will be 10 feet taller."
A government agency wants to use, factually, LESS secure phones in its office to make a political statement.
Did you notice what county it is? They've become famous for political grandstanding lately.
So it works in certain cases with a lot of assumptions. Exactly what I was saying.
Where "certain cases with a lot of assumptions" equals "a computer running a recent version of Windows". I'm guessing that there might be a few of those out there.
damn, you windows weenies don't know much about alternative operating systems. yes there are plenty of proprietary OS now and 20 years ago that run on the PC besides windows. 20 years ago would be OS/2 Warp, various SCO unix, several realtime OS..
Why would those count more than Linux and OSX (which the original post already discounted)? And what has there been since then?
You can certainly argue about whether it's true that "there are no other commercial operating systems other than Windows anymore". My argument was about the word "anymore", since the original post seemed to be implying that the situation has changed recently, which I do disagree with.
Side note: I'm hardly a "windows weenie". I've been using Linux on my home desktop for nearly 8 years now, so I've already found the alternative that works for me. I try as much as I possibly can to avoid using Windows.
However Consoles are uniformed in their Graphics, allowing game makers to make their games directly for the graphics hardware, taking advantage of all the new features.
I'm not sure what this means. Even the current generation of consoles which use AMD GPU chipsets are not uniform. The PS4 clearly has an advantage. On top of this, the development systems are clearly different so a game on one console is not really the same as another.
I'm pretty sure the point was that all PS4 consoles have the same graphics hardware, which would allow the developers to eliminate one layer of abstraction that you would need for PCs that have a wide range of graphics hardware (particularly nVidia vs. AMD). In theory, having that abstraction layer comes at the cost of some amount of processing power, and removing that cost gives you better overall performance.
I'm not a game developer, so I don't know offhand what that cost might be. It's quite possible (my guess would be that it's very likely) that the cost is zero, or close enough to zero as to make no noticeable difference.
Hasn't it occurred to any of you, that there are no other commercial operating systems other than Windows anymore? Honestly, does that seem right to you? Other than whatever flavor of Linux, or OSX (which technically you're not supposed to have without Apple hardware), what is there?
And when was the last time that this wasn't true? At least 20 years ago, probably even longer?
Nah, there's already a couple other articles for religion trol- I mean, discussion. And, like you said, it's really rare around here.
BTW, wouldn't it be nice if all of us could ignore any laws we regard as unfair...
You just gave me a great idea. After the Supreme Court's decision for Hobby Lobby, Snowden just has to say that it was his deeply held religious belief to do what he did, and he can ignore any law.