On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Mark Regan <[email protected]> wrote: > I saw this URL posted to one of our internal blogs: > https://kateheddleston.com/blog/how-our-engineering-environments-are-killing-diversity-introduction > Thanks, > > > Mark Regan > USNR-Ret. [1969-1991, CTO1] > K8MTR > > <><
some good points. I do have a few points that I would discuss with the author. Such as lumping "meritocracy" in with "aggressiveness" and "long work hours". Or the implied, if not directly stated, objection to "shooting down" a "stupid idea" in a meeting. Perhaps she meant that the person should be talked to privately. But if something is "stupid" (not that I use "stupid" in a meeting), then it needs to be "shot down". E.g. TSO is a resource hog, so let's write all our programs on Windows, then submit the jobs to z/OS using ftp, then get the output back via ftp and look at it on Windows. No, I've never heard of anybody doing this. But I do know of a shop, long ago, which ran MVS, kept all the source in Panvalet, and the programmers submitted jobs _on cards_ via a RJE card reader. Getting output back on the RJE printer. Why? Just for the reason I gave: TSO was considered too resource intensive. I don't know why not Roscoe or Wylbur. -- If you sent twitter messages while exploring, are you on a textpedition? He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
