They’re basically fashion victims.
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My favorite is “Java is slow” said by someone advocating for a language that’s at least 10 times slower.
pulaskiwasright@lemmy.mlto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•As someone not in tech, I have no idea how to refer to my tech friends' jobsEnglish5·1 year agoEveryone who works on making software is a developer, even people who don’t program at all. people who make art for software work in software development. A “coder” only writes code. It’s more of a task than a job. A software engineer does technical design and probably also codes.
pulaskiwasright@lemmy.mlto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•unRaid is NOT switching to a subscription modelEnglish3·1 year agoSoftware development is never profitable?
pulaskiwasright@lemmy.mlto Gaming@beehaw.org•Former Bungie HR Manager Is Suing for Wrongful Termination After She Reported Potential Racial BiasEnglish3·2 years agoI would hope that the person hired to address discrimination would assume the report of coninued discrimination is correct.
They should assume it’s true for the purpose of more investigation. Then decide if the facts support or disprove the claim. That’s much different than hearing it from one person, and then concluding that it’s true.
pulaskiwasright@lemmy.mlto Gaming@beehaw.org•Former Bungie HR Manager Is Suing for Wrongful Termination After She Reported Potential Racial BiasEnglish11·2 years agoDid you read the rest of the article? It talks about how she talked with others in the company about this, someone above her took it very personally as suggesting he was racist, and her prompt firing. It also highlights how bungie was exposed for both racial and gender bias by reporting just a few months before she was hired, indicating that these exposed problems likely still existed.
Yes. Her superiors disagreed that the supervisor needed diversity training just because that one person who received a bad review said he was being racially targeted. The article doesn’t say that she made any attempt to talk to that Black employee’s immediately coworkers. She just talked to him and decided the supervisor needed diversity training. So it’s not surprising that her supervisors reacted critically.
I don’t mean any harm when I say this, but why would you jump to the defense of a company in the first place, dismissing claims of racism or other forms of bigotry? The world is incredibly biased, and regular large-scale studies on company culture (and social culture) reveal widespread bigotry in our world. Simply assuming the status quo absent enough evidence on either side to clearly paint a picture is more often than not correct. What purpose does trying to discredit her accomplish here? How do you think it makes black people feel to see the only reply in a thread is an attempt at discrediting her?
I’m not siding with the company. I’m siding with the employee who was treated like a racist because one person who may have been underperforming said he was without any further investigation. That’s ridiculous.
pulaskiwasright@lemmy.mlto Gaming@beehaw.org•Former Bungie HR Manager Is Suing for Wrongful Termination After She Reported Potential Racial BiasEnglish17·2 years agoJust a few months into her employment, she says she was instructed to investigate the performance of a particular employee, referred to as “James Smith.” But when she sat down to speak with Smith, he allegedly pointed out that he was the only Black employee on a team of 50 individuals, and expressed that he felt he was being singled out and racially targeted by his supervisor.
Alm goes on to say that she shared this information with her supervisor and recommended that Smith’s supervisor receive diversity training, but alleges that her recommendation was met with “hostility and denial.”
So she just took the allegedly under performing employees word and recommended diversity training without any further investigation? I hope the article is leaving something out.
pulaskiwasright@lemmy.mlto Gaming@beehaw.org•Star Wars: Jedi 3 is on the way, according to Cal Kestis actor Cameron MonaghanEnglish4·2 years agoDid he follow that up by saying “oops”?
pulaskiwasright@lemmy.mlto Gaming@beehaw.org•Not counting games that were unfun because of bugs, what’s the most unfun video game that you’ve played and what made it unfun?English7·2 years agoI can understand thinking Riven (Myst 2) was made to force people to buy a guide or call a hotline. It had some extremely challenging puzzles. It was bearable without a guide, but you had to really pay attention to everything. but Myst 1 didn’t have anything insane.
pulaskiwasright@lemmy.mlto Gaming@beehaw.org•G/O Media reportedly fires Kotaku editor-in-chief Patricia HernandezEnglish4·2 years agoGaming and tech “journalism” would benefit so much from reducing the snark over their currently obnoxious levels.
pulaskiwasright@lemmy.mlto Nintendo@lemmy.world•Pikmin 4 - DF Tech Review - An Unreal Graphics Boost For Nintendo?English44·2 years agoMaybe it’s just that it’s the first Switch game I’ve played in a year then. I found the performance to be very off-putting.
pulaskiwasright@lemmy.mlto Nintendo@lemmy.world•Pikmin 4 - DF Tech Review - An Unreal Graphics Boost For Nintendo?English112·2 years agoIt feels very low frame rate and resolution. I wish they had prioritized performance over graphics. The performance is distracting.
pulaskiwasright@lemmy.mlto Solarpunk@slrpnk.net•'Limitless' energy: how floating solar panels near the equator could power future population hotspotsEnglish5·2 years agoI wonder how much of it would be sapped up by the air conditioning required to survive near the equator after temperatures rise a few more degrees.
I thought it was randomly adding Send and Sync traits to function signatures until rustc is happy.
And god help you if you forget those 3 lines somewhere and you silently have database failures or something else.