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enki42 posted:I don't mean to pick on you for this, but I don't think the reasons for assigning someone to an in-group or out-group based on clothing are so explicit and surface level that it's completely fair to call people children for doing it. The clothes someone wears is going to add a ton of subconscious bias for or against the person, and thinking that the baseline behaviour for people is to be not biased unless you explicitly think "I won't hire people in suits" is the wrong way to go about it - you really do need to make a conscious effort to work against your preconceived notions and biases. Edit: Also tech hiring is really terrible, toxic and full of people hiring people who look and act just like them. making GBS threads on applicants for daring to follow what's the cultural norm in interviews outside of this bubble just sits with me wrong. Less Fat Luke fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Feb 22, 2021 |
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Less Fat Luke posted:I think in context of what I responded to it's pretty fair response. I don't slight everyone for having unconscious biases; the person I responded to seems to have very conscious biases or at least their peer group does. That's exactly what the person you were responding to was saying.
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Feb 22, 2021 21:45
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Volmarias posted:Ok? I'm on the east coast so it's not the same, but people interviewing in conservative business outfits for engineering jobs at my tech company absolutely happens. While I can't speak for other interviewers I'm not going to raise an eyebrow at someone deciding that it's better to come over dressed than under, just in case. It's been the same for everywhere I've worked. Very much so. I grew up on the East Coast and I work for a tech company with it's Americas headquarters in Portland. During the interview, I showed up at a suit. Having a fair amount of grey hair, apparently I set off a major rumor storm. Everything from new VP for the region, to someone was suing us, or that I was a VC looking to buy us from the Japanese megacorp that owns us.
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Feb 22, 2021 22:29
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Random Integer posted:That's exactly what the person you were responding to was saying.
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Feb 22, 2021 23:06
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Yeah here's tech nightmare material: https://kjzz.org/content/1660988/whistleblowers-software-bug-keeping-hundreds-inmates-arizona-prisons-beyond-release Arizona state prisons replaced their tracking software, and it's bugged to hell, with direct consequences for inmates.
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Feb 23, 2021 11:00
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Yeah here's tech nightmare material: Arizona:  "Oooooops!"
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Feb 23, 2021 15:24
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Alphabet ditches smart city plan in Portland one month after cancelling their internet balloons. And after cancelling vertical farming project and zeppelin cargo ship and buying and then promptly selling Boston Dynamics. Almost as if "Tech" is mostly about finding use cases for the internet and the SV brain trust struggle whenever they stray from away that.
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Owling Howl posted:Alphabet ditches smart city plan in Portland one month after cancelling their internet balloons. And after cancelling vertical farming project and zeppelin cargo ship and buying and then promptly selling Boston Dynamics. It's mainly been throwing a whole lot of spaghetti at the wall in the hopes that the strand that sticks will be worth Billions. These aren't completely meritless ideas; Loon was started 10 years before Starlink, when costs for satellite launch and usage would be prohibitive and DirectTV was already cratering to prove a concrete example. But, Starlink is going to be here soon, and likely at a price and position that would beat Loon, so no sense throwing good money after bad. There are certainly bad ideas but these weren't objectively bad ones at the time.
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PopZeus posted:feeling a little crazy - was there a video that was very close-up of Elizabeth Holmes where she is creepily talking right into camera? google is failing me, or maybe i'm thinking of another tech person making a similar video? this is very clearly mark Zuckerberg in a wig and a much much deeper voice.
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Feb 25, 2021 02:59
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Yeah here's tech nightmare material: I have an idea: put the developers who made this software and the people who rushed its use in the prison. I'm sure solutions will appear almost instantly.
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Feb 25, 2021 03:09
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Put the warden in the pen for false imprisonment. They shouldn’t be allowed to hide behind “software error”. If the computer cannot let people out on time, do the books by hand.
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Feb 25, 2021 03:48
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Platystemon posted:Put the warden in the pen for false imprisonment. Yeah, a "software error" is just a failure to properly know the data. If you lock the data in the virtual equivalent of the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard' you are still responsible for a failure to know that data, in the same way as you would be if you burned the books.
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Feb 25, 2021 04:34
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Platystemon posted:Put the warden in the pen for false imprisonment. It sounds like that's what they're doing, but they're not happy because there's a good chance they could gently caress up the hand calculations. Also it doesn't sound like it was the devs' fault: quote:According to the sources, the entire inmate management software program, known as ACIS, has experienced more than 14,000 bugs since it was implemented in November of 2019. And yeah, there are other parts of the software that are totally non functional, including tracking of inmate property and required medication. They're tracking all that on paper, but the quote in the article was "it's only a matter of time before someone dies."
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Feb 25, 2021 06:17
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Generally speaking, you're not gonna find many developers who are well aware of how buggy their software is, going, "oh yeah just ship it, that's fine". It's almost always someone higher up in leadership who's like "gently caress it, I want that on-time delivery bonus".
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Cicero posted:Generally speaking, you're not gonna find many developers who are well aware of how buggy their software is, going, "oh yeah just ship it, that's fine". It's almost always someone higher up in leadership who's like "gently caress it, I want that on-time delivery bonus". This 100% matches my professional experience. It's also very funny to see the comments on the inevitable article covering cases like this that take the line "how did they not find these bugs?" or better yet: "this project was clearly lacking project managers". The bugs were known about, there were probably too many project managers directly responsible for too many decisions, and almost always, the issue comes down to commercial factors like delivery bonuses.
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Nevada partners with big tech to bring back company towns: https://thedebrief.org/bill-allowing-big-tech-to-form-techno-governments-to-be-announced-today/quote:While the legislation wouldn’t provide subsidiaries or public funding, according to a draft of the Bill obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, major technology firms would be granted authority to form their independent techno-governments within Nevada. “[They] would carry the same authority as a county, including the ability to impose taxes, form school districts and justice courts and provide government services, to name a few duties,” Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. Having my employer in charge of my kid's school, the courts and by-law enforcement sounds like a bang-up idea, what could go wrong?
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enki42 posted:Nevada partners with big tech to bring back company towns: https://thedebrief.org/bill-allowing-big-tech-to-form-techno-governments-to-be-announced-today/ Lmao this is more cyberpunk than cyberpunk 2077
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 quote:Illustration shows Blockchains, LLC’s proposed “smart city” in rural northern Nevada. (Image Source: EYRC Architects/Blockchains LLC via AP) Apparently that county is the coldest (on average) in Nevada, which could explain why all of the buildings look like giant greenhouses designed to bake their inhabitants. Luckily, there may not be enough curved glass to also focus sunlight enough to fry unlucky passersby.
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Feb 26, 2021 20:42
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eXXon posted:
All that desert, and not a single solar panel on any of the roofs in that concept image... 
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Feb 26, 2021 21:10
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This is so techbros can live closer to Burning Man, isn't it?
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eXXon posted:
Everyone who saw the second season of Futureman knows where this is headed
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Lead out in cuffs posted:This is so techbros can live closer to Burning Man, isn't it? They're going to corporatize it; "Burning Man Theme Park, the Adult's entertainment sphere!" "Because Las Vegas just isn't Libertarian enough!"
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Would certainly be enticing to companies like Apple that have to settle for armed security guards with no powers of arrest. Now their security could be sworn peace officers since I'm assuming "same power as a county" means they get their own sheriff and sheriff's department.
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Tuxedo Gin posted:Would certainly be enticing to companies like Apple that have to settle for armed security guards with no powers of arrest. Now their security could be sworn peace officers since I'm assuming "same power as a county" means they get their own sheriff and sheriff's department. "Corporate extraterritoriality" 
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OctaMurk posted:Lmao this is more cyberpunk than cyberpunk 2077 As I've said to people on Twitter talking about this, I respect their dedication to turning the world into Shadowrun but wish they'd have started with creating elves. It's such a top to bottom terrible idea it's hard to imagine how anyone supporting it could have any goal besides corporate sovereignty completely beyond the reach of nation states.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:It's such a top to bottom terrible idea it's hard to imagine how anyone supporting it could have any goal besides corporate sovereignty completely beyond the reach of nation states. They don't.
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The various East India Companies turned out fantastic for all parties involved. Why not do it again (but this time disrupted, or on the blockchain, or in the gig economy, etc)
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Read "Why Did I Leave Google?" and was very, very glad not to have worked for this guy (Waze founder).quote:After the acquisition, I was invited to speak on many different Google panels and events and very quickly, I began racking up my HR complaints. I used a four letter word, my analogy was not PC, my language was not PG… I actually stopped speaking at events where the majority appreciated what I was saying but the minority that was offended by something (words and not content) made it a pain. I began watching what I said, what I discussed and began wearing a corporate persona (I was still probably one of the less PC characters at Google but this was my cleaned up act…). I value transparency and feel that people should bring themselves to work but that also means a certain tolerance of people not saying something exactly as you would like them to or believing something you don't. That tolerance is gone at Google and “words” > “content” is the new Silicon Valley mantra of political correctness. You can say terrible things as long as your pronouns are correct or can say super important things but use one wrong word and it's off to HR for you…
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Read "Why Did I Leave Google?" and was very, very glad not to have worked for this guy (Waze founder). His whole "I want to just throw people out like garbage and Google wasn't like that" bit buried the needle on my Manager Brainworms Detector.
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TheScott2K posted:His whole "I want to just throw people out like garbage and Google wasn't like that" bit buried the needle on my Manager Brainworms Detector. Oh, yeah. To say nothing of "How dare these people not drop everything because I want to have a meeting!"
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Rule #1 of detecting rear end in a top hat leadership is people who view strategy offsites as some incredible amazing perk. Sure, parts of them can be fun, but that's more about the bribe necessary to pull you away from your life for multiple days of meetings without any compensation for it. I've literally worked for a CEO who wanted to fire someone because he wanted to visit his out-of-state dying grandmother over going to our offsite. Also I love the dichotomy between "I should be able to fire people whenever and treat employees 100% as fungible resources" with "my employees should be passionate about the mission and work weekends / give up their life" enki42 fucked around with this message at 20:35 on Mar 3, 2021 |
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When I was 22 and coding on a crumpled sheet in the corner of my bedroom office, fueled by McDonald's, cheetos and mountain down, it was fun. Now we have employees with perks and they whine about working 35/8 on a beautiful campus with Tesla chargers, a cereal bar, VR gym and showers!
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quote:work life balance has become sacrificing Work for Life [/quote gently caress you so hard for this poo poo. Edit: looking at the thread here https://twitter.com/noam/status/1362019763464118272?s=21 I really shouldn’t be surprised how many tech bros are just lining up to lick his rear end in a top hat clean. For all the “we’re superior, independent thinkers” out there, a whole lot of folks just eager and ready to sign up for whatever the richest person in the room says. Solkanar512 fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Mar 3, 2021 |
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Solkanar512 posted:gently caress you so hard for this poo poo. I think Twitter followers are just aspecual kind of brainwashed. Even most of the responses on HN we're about how this guy sounds like a huge rear end in a top hat to work for.
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Jose Valasquez posted:I think Twitter followers are just aspecual kind of brainwashed. Even most of the responses on HN we're about how this guy sounds like a huge rear end in a top hat to work for. Sorry, what did you mean by "HN"?
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Solkanar512 posted:Sorry, what did you mean by "HN"? Hacker News - https://news.ycombinator.com/ Paul Graham's sycophant club
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Less Fat Luke posted:Hacker News - https://news.ycombinator.com/ Why hasn’t that guy just hosed off yet? Ugh. Someone needs to bring back ValleyWag and hosed Company.
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Because YCombinator has become some sort of SV self-fulfilling prophecy, where it doesn't matter how lovely your company is, if it was in YCombinator it's just guaranteed to get millions in an A round. I don't even think there's been all that many successes from YC since the early days, but boy oh boy Paul Graham will say AirBnB a lot if you ever question him on YCombinators performance.
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I really wish there was a good Hacker News alternative out there. As a news/blog aggregator, it's the only one that I know of that hits just the right level of technical depth and news coverage for me, but the comment sections are some of the worst out there. To make matters worse, there's regularly some insightful information by actual knowledgeable people to complement/counteract whatever is posted. I keep glancing at that drat techbro cesspit because there's a 50/50 chance of it being either worthwhile or infuriating.
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enki42 posted:Also I love the dichotomy between "I should be able to fire people whenever and treat employees 100% as fungible resources" with "my employees should be passionate about the mission and work weekends / give up their life"
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