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The FPGA Designer Who Didn't Get the Job

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Re: The FPGA Designer Who Didn't Get the Job

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Post by vmception »

redis_mlc wrote: post #31
vmception wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For those having trouble with this, the consensus within inclusionary groups in the US is that sex and gender are separate concepts. Meaning that males can be recognized as males and females as females, no matter what their pronouns are, as that is sex. Gender is not intrinsically tied to those, so gendered words like “man, woman” and “he, she” can be dynamic and up to the individual to identify as. The consensus on…

> the consensus in the US is that sex and gender are separate concepts. Stop lying. That is not the consensus in the US, aside from woke SJWs like yourself.

Within inclusionary communities it is a prevailing consensus. It makes it make sense and is very benign for everyone else to accomodate.

Re: The FPGA Designer Who Didn't Get the Job

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Post by wyldfire »

jasonhansel wrote: post #39
typon wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does the Bible really talk about "free people being armed"?

No.

It depends on what you see as canon.

From Arm 2:9-21,

> And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, 'O Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.' And the Lord did grin. And the people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats, and large chulapas. And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.'

Re: The FPGA Designer Who Didn't Get the Job

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Post by canadaduane »

W-Stool wrote: post #36

I guess I'll be the first to say it - does the author of the article strike anyone as a bit of a pretentious asshole? Downvote away if you have to, but I just thought someone needed to say that.

An engineer mindset is often blind to the complexity and skill that goes into good management of people. It occurs to me that working alone is a good way to optimize one's engineering skills and not have to bother with thinking about how to create and sustain good teams.

Re: The FPGA Designer Who Didn't Get the Job

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Post by wyldfire »

thebooktocome wrote: post #40
jimbob45 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everything starts with a “simple ask”. If it’s so small and simple, then why are we being fought tooth-and-nail over it? There is no consensus either, outside of a small minority. Prior to 2012, custom pronouns would have had you laughed out of the room. You don’t get to redefine language and force your linguistic preferences on others. That’s not how language works.

> You don’t get to redefine language and force your linguistic preferences on others. That’s not how language works. I don't particularly care about rehashing the ethics of preferred pronouns right now, but what you've described is exactly how language works. You might look into why standard practice moved away from capitalizing nouns in the 19th century.

Deutsch is keeping the faith in the twenty first century!

Re: The FPGA Designer Who Didn't Get the Job

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Post by [deleted] »

wyldfire wrote: post #33
jasonhansel wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From another post: https://zipcpu.com/blog/2018/10/04/welcome.html > My Christian beliefs are centered around a literal interpretation of the Bible. This includes a belief in a 6-day creation that took place roughly six-thousand years ago, a belief that God will cause the end of this world rather than any man-induced climate change, a firm belief that a free people should be an armed people, and more. Ouch.

I would worry that a young Earth creationist might make a poor designer. Someone who might ignore the evidence of a design error in favor of some other interpretation not supported by evidence. Why did the deity put the fossils there? In order to confuse us? In order to challenge the faithful? It defies reason. You can only put it as a mystery of faith. But it needn't be.

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Re: The FPGA Designer Who Didn't Get the Job

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Post by 01100011 »

typon wrote: post #38
jasonhansel wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From another post: https://zipcpu.com/blog/2018/10/04/welcome.html > My Christian beliefs are centered around a literal interpretation of the Bible. This includes a belief in a 6-day creation that took place roughly six-thousand years ago, a belief that God will cause the end of this world rather than any man-induced climate change, a firm belief that a free people should be an armed people, and more. Ouch.

Does the Bible really talk about "free people being armed"?

No. It says Christians should obey the authorities, pay taxes, turn the other cheek, not equate gain with godliness, and it plainly states "Pure and undefiled religion" is to take care of the unfortunate(Widows in this case) and keep oneself unspotted from the World. It doesn't say to build a Christian nation. It doesn't say to fight abortion. It doesn't say to kill your neighbor if he wants to take your stuff.

I am all for anyone who wants to live a Christian life in accordance with the Bible. Good luck to them. 99% of modern American protestant Christians are frankly full of shit. I sadly was one for many years until I started reading the book I was espousing.

Re: The FPGA Designer Who Didn't Get the Job

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Post by Ostrogodsky »

W-Stool wrote: post #36

I guess I'll be the first to say it - does the author of the article strike anyone as a bit of a pretentious asshole? Downvote away if you have to, but I just thought someone needed to say that.

He has a lot of red-flags:

- Bringing over and over again that "he was an official of the US army"

- the "you didnt reject me, I reject you" spiel, although this part was hilarious to be fair,for being so childish.

- The part when "he bit his tongue" before answering to the kid. What does he think he had to answer?

- The "one person Christian company" thing

And I got bored, he sounds like a "Prima-Donna" too. The post is an exquisite example of projecting in action.

Re: The FPGA Designer Who Didn't Get the Job

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Post by Buttons840 »

> The response from this individual rather shocked me. He said, sorry, but I’m looking for a design job, not a verification job.

> I bit my tongue on my first response.

> My next response would’ve been a simple, “Thanks, but no thanks.”

I must be missing something. After the candidate rejected the job he was going to tell him "Thanks, but no thanks." Is this like "you can't fire me because I quit", except for the hiring party?

Re: The FPGA Designer Who Didn't Get the Job

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Post by denkmoon »

emilfihlman wrote: post #4

What? If I'm looking for a job doing x, I'm not going to accept y, and I'm most certainly not going to be playing some game with the employer where I'm tempted by what I want but never given that. It's the same with testing: it's in huge need but few want to do it, and similar traps are laid there: "come work for us, you can do what you want, but first let's do not what you want".

I agree. I am currently in a job where I was brought in under the pretense that while being a developer I would be involved with design work. All my previous jobs, I was involved in design work. That pretense was a lie, I haven't done any architectural design work in over a year now. I simply implement the designs of people that haven't been near a development environment in over 10 years.

"This server will talk to that server" is great, until your designer specifies you're going to use passive FTPS and forgets that the particular FTPS server you're talking to has no mechanism to restrict its ephemeral port range, and your customer isn't down for opening ports 1024-65535. "It's just FTP, we'll just open the FTP port".

I am miserable because of it. I want a say in what I build, I was promised a say in what I build, and I have no say in what I build.

Re: The FPGA Designer Who Didn't Get the Job

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Post by FormhellFrom »

jimbob45 wrote: post #32
vmception wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For those having trouble with this, the consensus within inclusionary groups in the US is that sex and gender are separate concepts. Meaning that males can be recognized as males and females as females, no matter what their pronouns are, as that is sex. Gender is not intrinsically tied to those, so gendered words like “man, woman” and “he, she” can be dynamic and up to the individual to identify as. The consensus on…

Everything starts with a “simple ask”. If it’s so small and simple, then why are we being fought tooth-and-nail over it? There is no consensus either, outside of a small minority. Prior to 2012, custom pronouns would have had you laughed out of the room. You don’t get to redefine language and force your linguistic preferences on others. That’s not how language works.

> You don’t get to redefine language and force your linguistic preferences on others. That’s not how language works.

you literally do and that’s literally how language works. You are free to disagree with these new definitions, and in turn people are free to show you the door, just like what occurred in the post above.

(What’s the alternative? Words are given a fixed definition at their conception? Who gives these definitions?)

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