Decision to go into bitcoin was smart and also decision to back off was smart. Musk is the only person who can do or say two contradictory things and both are smart. He really is a genius
You're giving him a bit too much credit. He should have never made Tesla invest money in BTC, that's just a bad PR move. Now they have to do damage control.
Many years ago a big tech company opened a new office in my city and started recruiting developers at my university. They wanted to be fair and treat both sexes equally so they decided on male/female parity (at least 30% women). But on my year (computer science) there were just 3 gals vs 30 guys, but there were groups with even worse ratio. So the company hired all female students they could and then started looking outside. Even hired some girls from biology (qualifications weren't that important) because they had to fill in female positions, so then they could give offers to male programmers. Felt pretty bad, this was certainly one of such programs you mentioned
Yes. We're allowed to judge people for the things they do and so, and decide we don't want to work with them. He's allowed his, and we're allowed ours. Many people are not interested with working with people that hold these world views, not when they have influence over the career progression of others.
Well I'm not interested in working with people who feel entitled to targeting someone and mobbing to destroy them based on opinions and personal beliefs. This is illegal activity imho
To who? Eastern European woman. How is this sexist?
> known misogynist
Men find women physically attractive.
I would be interested to know what films, books, comedians you actually find permissible for yourself to enjoy.
If you take offense to what is written here, I really don’t see how most of the media available today can be suitable. Do you ever ask yourself if you are being consistent in your standards?
I don't have to work for those directors, authors, or comedians. And if Joss Whedon is any indication, a lot of other people don't want to either but have toxic people like this forced upon them by powers-that-be.
Nobody forces them to work, and 'known mysogynist' is just a personal attack without merit. What actions did he take against women in general or any woman in particular to be called a misogynist?
Remember, if it's only your personal belief, if you dislike the book and the author of it you're free to look for another workplace. But not free to take actions against someone just because you don't like them.
> women should be forced to work under a known misogynist
How do you know he's a misogynist? You read a small, absolutely marginal excerpt from a book that is clearly written in a literary style. In it, he draws a comparison between a particular woman, who is praised for her talent and resourcefulness, and "most Bay Area women", who are definitely not all women, in the Bay Area and much less in general. "Most Americans" is not a judgement on human beings, "most American men" is not a judgement on all men, so why should "most Bay Area women" be a judgement on all women? And this is even assuming that that remark corresponds to some deep conviction, which is a silly assumption given the style and the context.
"Pretentious, pseudo-intellectual misogynist pontificates about his theories on tech business, society, and capitalism while sneering at every other human with Olympian contempt and making unacceptable sexist comments about women for about 500 pages."
You can be humble only when you're competent and you know it. Then you can make a choice. If you barely have the skill to somehow put stuff together so it kinda works then there's no place for such subtleties. So I'd rather have a skilled but showing off programmer than a humble untalented one
I wouldn't. A humble, untalented (I'd rather say "unskilled" here) programmer is one who knows they're unskilled and wants to learn. I'll take someone who knows they have a lot to learn over someone who thinks they already know it all, any day.
But a skilled programmer knows how to assimilate a new code base. Clearly they aren’t going to claim to know the new code base before looking at it (so they aren’t going to claim to “know it all”)
Skilled programmer has the proficiency and courage to attack the problem and win. There's some boldness coming from knowledge and experience, and i like people showing that.
On the other hand an unskilled person will not be able to understand the design, will be afraid to make changes, will get confused and ignore the parts they cant understand, and will not take the responsibility and initiative - they need to be guided all the time. Then i dont care if they're humble or not, there's nothing to be gained.
Yeah incompetence is worse than bragging and humble bragging.
The issue mostly arises because Thinkers are prone to expressing confidence while accepting of criticism. But more people (feelers) are humble yet violently opposed to criticism.
But yeah, it’s good to not unnecessarily crush incompetent egos when it can be avoided... unfortunately some people are just too sensitive and even not encouraging them is seen as an attack on them.
Most of unskilled programmers i met did not become much better after years. They kinda reached their max and stayed there or got into management. So I wouldn't count on willingness to learn, the capability is the key
The situation gets worse every year with multitude new commanline utilities and scripts being created as part of new frameworks, languages and tools. And then everything gets mixed together to form some unstable, ever changing, inconsistent programming language.
It is the OS from the past and still most people use it on their computers. Because they are still doing things from the desktop. And I suppose they're happy not having to adapt to technology du jour again and again.
I kinda like Windows server, mostly for the stability - both of the runtime and of functionality. Compared to Linux it requires less attention, i can concentrate more on software and less on the system: after two years of not touching i can still find configuration options in more or less same places. With Linux i have to re-learn quite a lot after not paying attention for a while. Missing good ssh/command line but not badly, I don't really need advanced shell scripting.
I've been re-implementing Remedy functionality for a telecom operator around year 2000. They decided to go with custom software because Remedy was horrible. I wonder what kind of horribility it is now, 20 years later.
And we still have to use ITSM systems that look and feel almost exactly the same like 20 years ago. How it's possible, the ideas behind these tools are not exactly rocket science, simple ticket tracking with some standardized data structure and relationships - nothing that you couldn't put together in a month. I wonder why companies even buy these tools, probably you could have much better system developed for you and your specific needs for 10% of what it costs to buy certified ITSM system.
Yes, if someone can enlighten me - what is so great about this software, by looking at their product's growth and popularity i was expecting something extraordinary. Then i had to use it and it was pretty boring, unintuitive, unsophisticated CRUD framework for tracking stuff and it wasn't clear at all where is the value it provides over thousands of other applications of such kind.
To me the best thing is that it is decently quick compared to other systems that I have used. Querying a table directly in SQL? Instant. Querying that same table in Remedy? 30 seconds. I'm sure the people behind Remedy have a great reason for it, but I do not care.
Servicenow occasionally does a spinnywheel but 99% of the time I have loaded the table I need in less than 5 seconds.
Plus:
- I can open it in multiple tabs. Not the shitty in-app tabs with unclear labels that take forever to switch, actual browser tabs. Other solutions give you a session collision if you open two tabs. In SNOW you can middle click anything.
- The search is decent.
- I dont have to click a goddamn 'form fill' button on every single field. If your form designer isn't braindead you can tab you way through the form without needing a mouse.
- I can make my own templates for common tasks and use them right away without invoking a manager. I can put my favorite templates on a toolbar instead of having to click into a sub-page.
None of these things are big asks but they are things that, as a user, the competition is chronically bad at.
Maybe it depends on the deployment, but my SNOW experience was the polar opposite.
It was dogshit slow, search was useless and painful to use. Most things required a mouse. Tickets got lost. The UI looks like 2006 and the UX is out of a Microsoft text book.
The fact it can be used across tabs isn't really an achievement, but if your bar is so low...
The big plus of ServiceNow is that it’s slightly less terrible than the competition.
There simply is no good product in this space, at least not for enterprise clients with 1000’s of users and even more regulatory and internal requirements.
