mankypro

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by mankypro 2y ago
What’s destroying higher education is educators that do nothing but read publisher provided PowerPoint presentations.
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by mankypro 2y ago
Probably selling rights to someone to train models...
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by mankypro 2y ago
A fool and his money are quickly separated.
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by mankypro 3y ago
Www.DrudgeReport.com
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by mankypro 3y ago
I just said "AI stop apologize" and it did.
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by mankypro 5y ago
Cannot even count the number of times that my Ops teams had to write wrappers and o scripts to ameliorate issues suffered by apps rushed to production by shoddy dev teams. glad someone has written about it. Anyone in the business knows th
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by mankypro 5y ago
And of course the mysterious "fit" decision in the hiring process shows this. Chances are more independent thinkers that don't want to beer bash with the crowd or that has actual social boundaries won't want to participa
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by mankypro 5y ago
Simple, manage by objective. Full stop. P.S. allowing yourself to get into this position was a mistake to begin with. One is none and two is one. Always have a backup/spare. To that end, if you cannot institute the burden of document
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by mankypro 5y ago
Never mind that bosses like the pieces of the puzzle to be interchangeable, no single point of failure. Sometimes bosses are threatened by a senior subordinates mindshare and will let them go in the next riff.
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by mankypro 5y ago
Great advice all around and solid article, works well at any age. However, ageism, aka Age Discrimination(tm) is real in technology as I'm sure it is in other disciplines. I'm sure many will say, "don't suck" and y
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by mankypro 5y ago
.0002% mortality is good - also of note: the data does not normalize for advanced age, or underlying conditions like obesity, diabetes, COPD, hypertensive disorders, respiratory disorders, etc, etc. etc.
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by mankypro 5y ago
Turning down a promotion to VP early in my career, now I’m in my mid 50’s and no one truly understands why I didn’t. Personally I didn’t want to ascend into mediocrity like most VP’s and above. Now I’m having trouble with age bias as a D
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by mankypro 5y ago
There are plenty of folks willing to work. The figures will be used to justify more Visas for lower paid, indentured immigration status tethered slave labor.
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by mankypro 8y ago
There are few teams that recognize you purely for what you bring to the table, you could be the baddest ass dev on the planet, but as a gray hair you may not be accepted, or a "culture fit" as is the universal excuse nowadays for
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by mankypro 8y ago
Wouldn't an easy way to eliminate bias be to remove any algorithms that use name recognition and gender? If the Ai doesn't have this data to "reason" from wouldn't it level the playing field?
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by mankypro 8y ago
Probably being used for age bias as well...
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by mankypro 8y ago
Yeah I’d like to see how many Antifa folks would show up if they weren’t able to be anonymous, both online and in the RL.
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by mankypro 8y ago
It’s funny, the downvote wars going on, I’ve lost karma for a comment that’s innocuous. Just comes to show the world we live in where solipsism is pandemic.
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by mankypro 8y ago
We are witnessing very dangerous times. Groupthink is real now. If you disagree with a new story you can simply claim it’s “fake news”. Getting doxxed is a real possibility. The 4th estate is no longer to be trusted. “May you live in i
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by mankypro 8y ago
Seems like the site got /.'d
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by mankypro 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeboat_ethics
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by mankypro 9y ago
Fuckedcompany.com
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by mankypro 9y ago
There are multiple class-action suits going on in Silicon Valley for age discrimination as we speak - I know first hand the Oracle has more than one in place, and given that the O is full of gray hairs already, I can only imagine that the o
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by mankypro 9y ago
"often un-earned economic advantage implies some sort of inherent moral or economic superiority is an almost laughably privilege-blind perspective." Using your logic (only related to this portion of your post, because as you state
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by mankypro 9y ago
As a senior DevOps leader I do not discriminate based on age. I hire truly diverse teams, vertical, horizontal and diagonal.
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by mankypro 9y ago
Laugh while you can monkey boys. That generation built the infrastructure you rely on daily. Way to pay it forward. Suddenly, they too will turn around and realize that they're above 40 and not in the preferred demo. It all comes a
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by mankypro 9y ago
A with most systems like CSATs and NPS Glassdoor ratings reflect the extremes, those who have an axe to grind and those with an investment to protect the brand of the company reviewed. Could be competing company shills, disgruntled employee
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The Largest Series-B Investment Round in Open-Source Software History(thewhir.com)
3 points by mankypro 12y ago|0 comments
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by mankypro 12y ago
Game. Nuff' said.
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by mankypro 12y ago
The cars these guys make are truly magnificent engineering pieces. Fairly sure the tooling is exceptional, so much so that the log files for the front hood told them all they needed to know :) bet that ambulance chaser didn't expect t

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