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by rosser 9y ago
It's, again, anecdotal, and no small amount of confirmation bias, but I've been a technologist for over 20 years now. In all that time, most of my favorite technical colleagues, including their "hard" skills, were film
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by rosser 9y ago
I'm not absolving anyone of anything, and I'm curious what I might have said to suggest I am. I've met far more, as you say, "social assholes", and been thrown under buses by them far more often than by technical fo
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by rosser 9y ago
You're misconstruing my position. Yes, the rockstar asshole is rare, but I've worked with enough of them to know how destructive they are to the morale of the team. I was also once tasked with rewriting years of a rockstar asshole
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by rosser 9y ago
When "the problem" is over-valuing hard skills, and under-valuing soft skills, which is TFA's thesis (and mine, for purposes of this discussion), then it's rather less a "witch hunt" — which is speciously hyper
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by rosser 9y ago
That "soft skills are more valuable than hard" is not what I read in that article. It sounds more to me like degrees in STEM correlate less well with success at Google than people expected. Not "negatively" — "les
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by rosser 9y ago
Please cite examples of calls for "replacing" hard skills with soft. That's far more a straw man than the one you "dispense with" — conveniently distracting from your own, I might add. I'm hearing a call for r
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by rosser 9y ago
...because it's so voluntary to participate in western capitalism? EDIT: Point being, the economic milieu one finds one's self in, is that in which one tends to be obligated to participate — especially at the lower levels of power
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by rosser 9y ago
Several jobs ago, we were in the data center and doing this came up. We had an idle disk shelf with which to test, so we started up a bulk IO operation (`dd` or something; I don't remember what, specifically), and watched the dip in th
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by rosser 9y ago
"Communism" — the leading capital due to its being the first word in the sentence — is an economic model . "Communism", the Soviet-style phenomenon is not "communism", either in principle, or in practice. Yet
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by rosser 9y ago
Are you trolling?
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by rosser 9y ago
" In 2018", not "1/1/18".
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by rosser 9y ago
The top post in this thread said "many". Not "most". Not even "all". I have no idea where you're getting the notion that it was an indictment of technologists, writ large. It observed that many of us — mys
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by rosser 9y ago
Citation s , plural, needed. I'm not conflating the claims; I want to see evidence for both of them.
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by rosser 9y ago
I was too, and I've done decades of work on it — using more and stranger modalities than you'd believe. I understand the subtleties. That's a very large part of why I'm so ardent about the issue — because most people hav
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by rosser 9y ago
There's a fine line between cautioning someone on how best to protect themselves, and victim-blaming. I don't think you're doing the latter, but people who (demonstrably) have less nuanced opinions on this kind of thing proba
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by rosser 9y ago
"Too drunk to meaningfully consent". It is ludicrous on its face to claim you didn't know someone was that drunk. And, anyway, in the jurisdictions I'm talking about, it doesn't matter if you knew or not ; if s
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by rosser 9y ago
I don't know about WA or King County, specifically, but in many jurisdictions it is statutorily rape to have intercourse with someone who's too intoxicated to meaningfully consent. Even in those places, her drunkenness is used as
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by rosser 9y ago
> What does that mean specifically? I'm talking about a climate where when a woman claims she's being harassed, the response is to credit the ( stated ) intent of the person allegedly harassing her ("I was just flirting&
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by rosser 9y ago
> What do you propose? For starters, a justice system and ideological climate that isn't predisposed to discount women's lived experience of harassment and assault.
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by rosser 9y ago
> 10 times more likely > in the overall majority of cases [Citations needed] Because the actual formal-accusation:conviction statistics completely disagree with you. Only something like 25% of reported rapes in the US result i
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by rosser 9y ago
False rape accusations are a crime. Specious examples of false accusations are a cheap debating tactic. Literally, that is a textbook straw-man.
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by rosser 9y ago
As often as not — more often than not — her state of intoxication is somehow construed as a mitigating factor. "How do we know she didn't consent, but couldn't remember, because she was so drunk?" And that happens in
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by rosser 9y ago
This ignores the myriad ways that rape victims are further traumatized by the very due process you're demanding they subject themselves to (note: "subject themselves to", not "avail themselves of"): police, prosecut
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by rosser 9y ago
If I had a very finite number of wishes, I'd probably be strongly inclined to burn one of them on making people somehow meaningfully understand the distinction between "not guilty" and "innocent".
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by rosser 9y ago
I really don't find a lobbyist organization's web site to be any more compelling than Pai's comments, sorry. They're going to offer just as much cherry-picked, agenda-serving propaganda as he is, and won't discuss t
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by rosser 9y ago
> You seem to be in a state of blind rage and unable to read anything. This is not how you do discourse on the internet — asserting the emotional state (or ability to read) of people on the other side of the screen. I'm quite ca
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by rosser 9y ago
Pai's comments are not "an example ".
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by rosser 9y ago
Right, because what Pai has to say on the subject is going to be neutral, factual, balanced, well-informed, and honestly informative...
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by rosser 9y ago
Routing happens dynamically, but it very probably doesn't touch an ISP's pipes until very close to the "last mile" — especially when you're talking about the smaller ISPs who don't even have an inter-state pr

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