Caveman_Coder

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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
What about hunters? Should they have the right to have a gun?
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
> Was this an experiment you ran out of desperation? Well, I wasn't getting any call-backs for a while, so kinda...I'd go check out the career pages and every single one of them had these various sections "women," &qu
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
It isn't just the "soft" roles anymore...when I first started applying for positions I got absolutely nothing when I was applying as a male...I literally only changed my name/sex from Joe/male to Joanna/female,
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
I did this with job applications when I was getting rejected using my real name and sex. I changed it from Joe to Joanna and re-applied. Every single company that turned me down originally called me back when they thought I was a female dev
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Where now for energy storage?(utilityweek.co.uk)
1 points by Caveman_Coder 9y ago|0 comments
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
So doxing kids is your idea of doing "some good"...seems a bit weird to me tbh.
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
What exactly does the company do and how do they do it? It is kind of unclear and the "Our Mission" section of the website is one of those generic PR sentences that doesn't actually explain anything about the business...
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
That is exactly what happened with my wife when she was a developer. She only likes coding and solving technical problems, the problem was her entire team was women and promoted this "yay sisterhood" groupthink, even to the point
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
Yes there are "diversity" hires, that is, people who are hired not based on their technical skill, but based on the desire of management to have more women/POC on the team. There are often financial incentives (bonuses) ties
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
Exactly...my wife struggles with the judgement of her former co-workers/classmates who deride her decision to forgo a career coding for some megacorp...I don't really get why there is such hoopla over going to work and trading you
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
I think it depends on how one defines "bullies"...
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
> "Ayn Rand basically turned enjoyment of other's suffering into a philosophy" I'm no Randian by any means, but I'd still treat her ideas honestly. By your statement, you either haven't read her works, don&#
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
+1 Conservatives at Google know this all too well. They've seen eng-misc and memegen and know that there is a very limited spectrum of "acceptable" opinion. The problem wasn't that political content was posted, as that h
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
I'd say he gained followers by publicly saying that which "can't be said publicly"...people value honest and raw communication over the scripting corporate PR non-sense most of hear day-in and day-out. Even if it is some
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
> "I would surely like there to be more women in CS. There are literally no women at my office, and the only women I met for the last six months are from HR. I am single, and so is about 50% of my coworkers - this is not a particula
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
I'm familiar with the SCADA part (I work as an EMS/SCADA devloper), but before my current role I was actually an operator and we used "red-line" drawings in conjunction with the SCADA system to troubleshoot down lines&#x
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
> "Having to spend their free time studying just to keep up with the latest fashion, doing overtime, going through the interview gauntlet every damn time, getting shafted by incompetent business leaders and managers." This is w
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
Check out Nietzsche's concept of slave morality...the way I see it now is that the various slave moralities are battling it out to see which one will be the dominant one...from that perspective it becomes kind of interesting and entert
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
It reminds me of the master-slave morality that Nietzsche wrote about. Unable to compete by the current rules of the game (master morality), minorities/women have adopted a new set of rules by which they judge people (slave morality),
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
> "When I pursue a career in this field, how will my coworkers perceive me?" In all honesty, recently I've seen underperforming women get promoted to positions they shouldn't have been promoted to because of political
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
I always thought it was more of an aversion towards credit/debit rather than an addiction to cash...
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NYPA transforms utility maintenance with data-driven approach(utilitydive.com)
2 points by Caveman_Coder 9y ago|0 comments
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
Do your system operators us GIS to sectionalize lines and troubleshoot transmission/distribution issues, or are you talking about the engineers/planners?
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
> "Another problem that must be considered is that utility workers, while highly competent at their profession, are not always great with working on computers." You're absolutely correct on this point. When I was working a
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
It acts as a coolant as well as winding insulator.
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
I completely agree. I don't use FB for anything other than keeping up with my family that live in different states. I don't have any casual friends on FB, and especially not co-workers. For seeing pictures of my nieces and nephews
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
We've probably hit peak FB...or perhaps FB has jumped-the-shark using your TV series comparison...either way, any news about the decline of FB is good in my book.
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
So I guess the owner doesn't really "own" the building if enough people come and draw pictures on the side of it then...
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
I was asked about that kind of "programmer universe" stuff during my interview process with my current employer. I said I didn't have a GitHub, never been to a programming conference, didn't participate in the local dev
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by Caveman_Coder 9y ago
Is there any data comparing those with a 4 year degree vs those with a 2 year degree? I'd be interested in seeing that comparison.

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