mankypro

What’s destroying higher education is educators that do nothing but read publisher provided PowerPoint presentations.

Probably selling rights to someone to train models...

A fool and his money are quickly separated.

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I just said "AI stop apologize" and it did.

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 this has been going on forever.

The problem is the Ops teams get ZERO credit for enabling the shoddy work done by devs, the devs meanwhile get patted on the back, and frankly continue to be romanticized.

"move fast and break shit (and let Ops fix it silently)"

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 participate in the reindeer games the author describes.

Clearly I carry a burning torch for the issue of age discrimination in tech as a 50-something - but seriously what 35 year old veep wants a 50 year old with more tenure than them working for them in their group? Family? We care about work-life balance? yeah sure bubba.

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 documentation for everything- at least then if you lose this person you’ll have a decent shot at picking up the pieces.

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.

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 you'll get hired. Remember your words/thoughts after you reach the final "culture/fit" check after jumping through every flaming hoop put in front of you during the interview process, and then suddenly, after all the glowing feedback the 30-something VP of Engineering or Paper Clips makes your candidacy flatline.

.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.

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 Director or Senior Director.

Ho-hum.

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.

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 "I don't like her/him". Truth be told most Millenials don't want to go have beers with someone that reminds them of their parent's whose basement that might still be living in, and we know that life in tech is immersive, your friends are your co-workers in many of these tech gulches.

The there is the idea that your new boss may be threatened by your skillet, which opens yet a whole other can o' worms. Age discrimination in the SF Bay Area is rampant, no one will ever admit it, but it's here. It's like gravity, one denies its existence at one's own peril. So get your botox, your skinny red jeans and your converse or whatever they're wearing these days - don't forget to ink up - even if they're temporaries :)

Oh and impossibly colored hair might help too.

p.s. laugh while you can monkey people.

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?

Probably being used for age bias as well...

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.

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.

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 interesting times” is no longer just a fortune in a cookie...

Seems like the site got /.'d

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeboat_ethics

Fuckedcompany.com

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 other big names are getting hit too...

"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 stated money, does in fact, beget money), one should not work hard for one's progeny to have an inheritance? Should estate law just be modified and have all assets of a dead person go to the state?

As a senior DevOps leader I do not discriminate based on age. I hire truly diverse teams, vertical, horizontal and diagonal.

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 around in the end. Sometimes the SDN boys need a salty old dog to ask if anyone has actually looked at the back of GigE interface to see if theres a cable actually plugged into it :)

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 employees, those with emotional investments related their self-worth and such. The truth always lie somewhere in between. The best thing to do is to talk to employees and use your gut in the interview process or during your decision to support the company as a customer as you interact with people there.

Game.

Nuff' said.

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 that. ROFLCOPTER.

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