Other things I haven't mentioned: The jewish-led South African Communist Party working together with the ANC to promote violent uprising, Mandela approved Church Street bombing, killing civilians, Winnie Mandels pastime of burning non-ANC voters alive (necklacing). Etc.
However bad it was during Apartheid, it's even worse now.
Maybe I'm just slightly retarded, but I can't see what peacocks have to do with anything in the article. The word itself occurs only once, in the title.
About the article itself: this "Jamie" person seems to enjoy lecturing others about how to be politically correct. Yeah, because being told what to do and how to act isn't exactly the same thing the women in his lecture were forced to endure, eh?
Hypocrite, just like all others that reckon they've figured out a better way of being human and must now convert the rest of mankind to the New Wave of Behavin'.
I've been looking at a higher resolution monitor than my 30" Dell and found that there are these things called "TVs" that apparently have 4K resolution but in 55" format.
I'm after screen real estate and want to see a lot of code at the same time. Does anyone have any thoughts about replacing my 30" work monitor with a 55" TV with a lot more resolution?
No labels at all just on the demo form. This isn't 1996 where one can make shitty HTML forms for shits and giggles. People expect high quality forms with labels nowadays.
As others have said: dealbreaker. Not going to use it.
They made a Model M like that. It's referred to as the Model M 84-key keyboard or the Model M space-saving keyboard. They are hard to find, and will probably cost you $200 or more. Here are some pictures: http://www.clickykeyboards.com/index.cfm/fa/categories.main/...
My only experience with indian coders is their listings on freelancing sites that bid very low. Far lower than would sustain a person in the west. 200$ to make a copy of Gmail. Stuff like that.
My question to y'all is: why is it that I have not yet heard a "we hired indians to code x, and the code was really well done and documented"-comment from anyone yet?
Is it because good indian / paki / nearby coders do not exist, or because they're hired, do the job well and nobody has a reason to mention their work to anyone else?
Well, I'm pretty sure selling books is not their biggest slice of revenue. In situations like this I prefer to think of the post as coming from the author of a book which might give him some additional knowledge points on the issue at hand. David surely is one of the main advocates of remote work. In my opinion, this one it not linkbaity but insightful.
> The demographic make-up of open source contributors is even more skewed toward white men than the software industry is
What the fuck am I reading? Is this asshole author trying to inject racism into something that is inherently race-, age-, gender-, wealth- and location-agnostic? Github doesn't care who you are, what you code or in what language you code it. And yet here we are with a dumbfuck author who, for the sake of clicks, just absolutely needs to shit on white men, that have been the bane of all tech-interested non-white men since the dawn of time.
When I hire I ask for code samples first and the person's name last. Shit, I'd hire the person based purely on code, put up anywhere on the net, and an anonymous chat, conducted fucking anywhere, and only require their name and social security number when signing the contract.
Shit I'm pissed off now. Some people just can't accept that technology is the ultimate equalizer and instead have to project their white guilt into everything.
If you think the issue is about what Github "cares" about, you missed the point entirely.
The point is that those who have the free time and opportunity to contribute to OSS projects are more likely to be of some means. Given the economic realities of this country, those with some means are statistically speaking far more likely to be white males than anything else (which is confirmed by the data).
The conversation that has been occurring recently is about how having a Github profile is now becoming a de-facto must-have because hiring managers are increasingly seeing it as a shortcut filter.
It's great that you would hire someone based on code put up anywhere on the net, but that's not what people are commenting about. People are saying that Github should not become mandatory, for many reasons, among them because you're limiting your pool of candidates to those with some means.
> People are saying that Github should not become mandatory, for many reasons, among them because you're limiting your pool of candidates to those with some means.
Is that a concern when hiring? Isn't the biggest concern false-positives? Hiring bad people is the worse hiring mistake. The argument around github seems to be that while the true positive rate is very high, there is also a high false negative rate (rejecting qualified people because they aren't on github). From a hiring perspective (purely arguing economics), that is an acceptable trade-off. Your upside is limited by a smaller pool of applicants (that are still qualified), but your downside is greatly smaller.
This is a common misconception about the FOSS economy.
It is not about donation, it is about cooperation and net efficiency, and a good share of open source maintainers and contributors are very well paid to do what they do - they are not hobbyists donating weekends to the cause.
You missed the point. Nobody is projecting white guilt into anything. The author linked to another article that presents some evidence as to why women might be less inclined to contribute to OSS, and have less code that was written outside of the workplace to display to potential employers.
Something I, and other people I have spoken to in various circles, have observed:
If one woman in a group of women has a nicer job, handbag, husband, x than the other women in the group, their stance will to the lines of "that fucking bitch! She doesn't deserve such a nice car".
If one man in a group of men has a nicer job, watch, wife, whatever than the other men in the group, their general stance will be "damn! I also want to be _as good as him_".
Women pull down, men work up.
Same shit at places of work: women will fuck shit up for other women with talk behind their backs and what not, no matter how competent or efficient the target his. I haven't yet heard anyone air the observation that men do this also. At most it might sound like "god what an asshole, but he sure gets shit done fast".
Or they're just a bunch of people trying to make a buck which, unfortunately, makes the world go round.
If they manage to establish themselves as LE's provider of Bitcoin info, then they're got a monopoly and a guaranteed income for the rest of their lives.
- SA has vast mineral resources...
- ...that the banksters wanted
- ...which SA didn't want to share (give away for almost nothing)
- CIA starts orchestrating a fall of apartheid. Their tool are the liberals: "Apartheid is terrible for the poor blacks"
- De Klerk gets told by Those In Charge to release Mandela, or else
- Mandela released, ANC take over with a majority of the vote
- ANC are corrupt like a motherfucker, privatize the government mines
- Mines are bought for cheap by foreign multinationals
- Mine workers still treated like shit, shot by police if they protest
- The situation has gotten so bad that the police mix statistics to make it look better than it is[1]
- How about the Free State spending 140 million rand on a site that costs a few thousands in reality? How's that for corruption. [2]
- Black people are showing up in interviews here and there saying that it was better during apartheid [3]
- CIA have gotten what they wanted, liberals have forgotten about SA
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsFOkUY_vkE
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKfemruhnC0
[3] Here is some "better during apartheid": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ_7JbTZXng http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NydY9WLbCwc
Other things I haven't mentioned: The jewish-led South African Communist Party working together with the ANC to promote violent uprising, Mandela approved Church Street bombing, killing civilians, Winnie Mandels pastime of burning non-ANC voters alive (necklacing). Etc.
However bad it was during Apartheid, it's even worse now.