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Some Microsoft employees are criticizing the company's efforts to increase hiring from under-represented demographics to make its staff more diverse, according to messages leaked to Quartz. It takes a special sort of person to think, "you know what would be really good for my career? penning a complaint about how our company is too diverse, and then putting my name on it."
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too much diversity?
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Quote: Threads started by an as-yet unnamed female program manager and posted on the internal Yammer message board in January and April assert that white and Asian men are being penalized or overlooked because of hiring practices that reward managers for hiring people outside of those groups.
Penalizing certain groups of people based on their colour and / or ethnicity (as the article suggests) is surely racist. Hire the best, irrespective of their race, religion or ethnicity.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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The whole point of positive discrimination, for those incapable of grasping it, is that existing hiring practices are already discriminatory - to redress this requires breaking that pattern.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Positive discrimination is still discrimination. Just hire the most qualified irrespective of race, gender, religion or ethnicity.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Wireless customers are hanging on to their old phones longer than ever. Well now that I've stopped using iPhone they tend to last longer.
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I'm currently using a Samsung Galaxy S5 that I've had since just after the S6 came out.
My wife thinks it's time for new phones, so I'm looking at the S9+.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It may be the last phone in Sammy land without a hole or notch! Went from an S5 to a Note 8 via the Note 7, and love the 8. You will probably love the 9+. So much faster without the 16gb limitation. And the cameras are in a whole different league! Enjoy!
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A popular hotspot finder app for Android exposed the Wi-Fi network passwords for more than two million networks. I guess I shouldn't be telling people my passwords in these headings, either, huh?
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So long as cryptocurrency exists, so too will the extraordinary lengths to which thieves will go to try to steal it. Unfortunately, that also includes preying on weak private keys, a method that has evidently made one crypto bandit filthy rich with millions in swiped Ethereum. *cracks knuckles* I told ya, they call me the blockchain bandit.
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All your base are belong to us!
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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in bed with the whale$: what a shock ! [^] Quote: Europe's new standard for protecting online information, the GDPR, was supposed to strengthen data privacy. But nearly a year later, the world's chief enforcer — Ireland — has yet to take a single action against major technology firms like Facebook and Google.
Our 10-month investigation found that Ireland spent years wooing America's biggest tech companies. Ireland's regulatory agency showed a pattern of accommodating corporate interests, avoiding disruptive enforcement action and prioritizing "engagement" — consulting — with companies whenever possible. And now that's threatening data privacy for billions of people around the world. A POLITICO investigation:
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Let's see, which country houses the European headquarter of the biggest perps?...
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The last few months have been all about Microsoft getting rid of its legacy products...
However, nothing received more user attention than the Windows maker’s July 2018 decision to deprecate Microsoft Paint. Paint lovers will be happy to know that the company has decided against removing Paint as a standard feature of Windows 10, as confirmed by Brandon LeBlanc, Senior Program Manager of the Windows Insider Program at Microsoft.
This is the most promising news I've seen about W10 since the last icon pack update. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Why is the song "Painted black" now playing in my head 
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Obviously, you've been playing too much of TDWTFs Release! the Game. (One of the 3 suits of cards in the game is Doors; the others are Fruits and Birds.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Sharply observed, that must be my favourite game 
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At least at the initial Kickstarter prices, the game was worth it just for the lulz. They skewered everything that was buzzword compliant in tech, and did a really good job of it. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Release! the Game
That's actually extremely useful for training and when taking on new people.
Shame it's only on amazon, where I will not hand over money.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's also freely downloadable for print and play if you hate Bezos more than whoever sells your grotesquely marked up printer ink.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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You make really good points, there. Well phrased.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Good, not that my auto updates are on, but golly gee, where would I ctrl-V a screen grab to save it as a jpg. That's said, remember when MS Paint only knew about BMP files. - you're old if you do.
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I think with XP it learned about .png, .jpg, .gif, and .tif. I still use that version because I can't stand its successors.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Dan Neely wrote: This is the most promising news I've seen about W10 since the last icon pack update. 
It would have been nice if W10 had been axed from MSPaint. One can hope 
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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