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Keepertje
Stop f*cking calling me minority or part of a underrepresented group. Yeah I noticed I am one of the only women on a conference. I DONT CARE, I AM A PROGRAMMER NOT A SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE. Hire me for my work, not because you want you company to be more diverse.
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aerfromenes
Social let's-help-female-programmers warriors piss me off.
The other day a massive email thread at work on how women are misrepresented in tech and how we need to help them and how using words such as "guys" is intimidating and generally patronising shit like "let's advertise jobs on websites like femaleprogrammers.com instead stackoverflow because there's too many white males on stackoverflow."
99% participants in this topic were guys.
One girl sent a message saying she doesn't want to be helped and she wants to know she has been picked for her skill and not filling in diversity numbers.
...would you believe she has been schooled on problems women in tech face by those lads too.
Like "woman, please... we speak diversity here"
So annoying....!!
Yeah Mozilla fuck merit and fuck you too!
This, this is what I was talking about when the fucking CoC came out and everyone (including it's author) started it using it as a political weapon.
You castrated fucking virgins! Mozilla, I want to support you I really don't like chrome but you always manage to disappoint everyone. I'm tired, tired of you morally superior socialists infecting my fucking workplace, entertainment and news.
This is just an excuse for lazy assholes to have their cake and eat it too and it's damn fucking INSULTING to us "minorities", I can work to get nice things just like anyone else bitch! having another skin color is not a disability!
Worst of all, you seem to have straight out millennial retards making these decisions seeing as it's based on an article from a washed up "gender research" professor that thinks Barbie Doctor is problematic, the most biased and dumb source you can possibly pull out of your ass.
Two classmates were murdered this morning, do you really think we care about what your diversity and inclusion Dept thinks it's problematic? You delusional halfwits, the only comforting thought is that your soft bigotry will perish alongside your product when it inevitably diminishes it's quality for sake of "equality".
Want to make better products? Ditch your useless diversity and inclusion department and start optimizing the memory consumption on firefox.
Want to help minorities? Start paying your outsourced developers decently.
I hope this helps people who thought including politics in software development wouldn't have dire consecuences to open their eyes; if not, oh well I guess people will get it when mozilla keeps going down the drain and they get fired because they just outsourced their work in the name of "diversity" just to save money.
https://blog.mozilla.org/inclusion/...
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nathanchere
All this "political correctness" cancer spreading through the Python community at the moment over "master/slave" terminology has me wondering where will it end. When the pendulum swings will be have a pro-life movement opposed to pre-emptively killing processes? Will a branch of PETA form to oppose the taxonomic appropriation of reptilian names for the language as a whole? Are we going to need to find gender-neutral names for motherboards to avoid offending those who are offended by the oppressive digital binary? Will removing "mother" from the name motherboard invite 6th wave feminists to decry the influence of toxic masculinity in electronics? Do snake lives matter? Seriously, some people need to take a month off to go fuck themselves somewhere far far away and stop confusing "diversity" with "rampant idiocy".
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mrmarbury
I was recuited to do devops work for a client. The project started in late '14. Until mid '15 I was forced to just sit there and do nothing. And I mean nothing. The ops team needed my help but the project lead didn't allow that (endless discussions). Somewhere around the end of '15 I could start to work and quickly learned that I had to report to two leads that couldn't disagree more on what to do and how to do it. I also learned that the companies mentality is "Clean me but don't get me wet". So the ops team demands a lot but is really uncooperative with everything. So I am currently sitting between three grindstones and everything I do is worthless. Because nobody agrees with anybody and I cannot fulfill my job for which I have been hired: Make ops more efficient because they are drowning in manual work. My job is further complicated by the following facts: This company uses no standard whatsoever but their own. Thru this they have created a Rube-Goldberg-Machine. But they think their system is the greatest in the world and the only one that makes sense. Which makes automation pointless because it is not maintainable. They call it diversity and they say that it is the clear reason why automation is not for them even though they schedule meeting after meeting in which they discuss about how to automate things. But in general they do just block everything useful and sabotage my work. And behind my back they make me the reason for the fail. Every real decision is blocked anyway. Also the ops guys think they are the leetest in the world. And everything they invent is above and beyond. If you ask them why they have over 400 VLANs for example (in a company of unter a thousand employees) they stutter and stumble because they cannot explain their complicated shit. They also change their decisions like underwear. Another really "kewl" thing they just did: They hired a devops engineer and everybody loves him. During the interview he said that he has no prior experience with devops whatsoever and it will take him around six month to get started on the basics of devops. I could go on for hours here about the insanity of this company that in my opinion will cease to exist within the next 5 years, if you ask me.
Long story short I am getting out of there by the end of march and will be on sabbatical shortly after because I am burned out. And I mean burned out. Not like "Oh I am burned out". I mean really burned out, with health problems and everything. Another external guy got out here last month because of the same health conditions.
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nellymin
Diversity Support Tickets EVERY-FUCKING-WHERE
Because if you happen to be born a woman or you like men (or women or both or none - its up to you) you'll get that €399 ticket for free. Seriously? From when white straight man can afford to pay for the conference but a different skin, gender or sexual orientation cannot?
No hate - you do you, but from my perspective as a woman, I feel this is kind of unfair to all my male fellas out there.
finiteAutomaton
Wanna attend the developer conference?
White and male? Pay half a grand.
Female? Black? LGBTQIA? You get a free ticket!
Seriously, how would they verify if you are gay?
It appears to me that it's easily exploitable.
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uyouthe
"You have to be a moron to write server-side code in JavaScript"
"Web does not need reactive programming"
"Everybody use PHP now, we don't need your fancy functional stuff here"
This and other hilarious things I've been told through my career, as well as the story of doctor who tried to teach other doctors to wash their hands but lost his sanity because they rejected him, are in my fresh article.
https://dev.to/uyouthe/...
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Been reading devRant for a while now and I have to say I'm sad about the way the future of the software engineering looks like. Everyone seems to have a lot of hatred towards certain techniques and/or platforms and sad to say, but you are missing a lot.
I have been in the biz for around 15 years and have worked on Win, Linux, Mac, Unix, Symbian, Embedded etc. using all sorts of tools and languages and I must say it has taught me a lot and given diversity on my career and I hope you could also open your mind and start educating yourselves. Theres a world behind your bubble!
Peace and love!
mordax
So I've been applying to jobs. I, purposely, have been putting down that I am female (since they all harp on diversity, I'd like to see if they even bother reaching out to me. Also anything to get my resume past the bots).
Spoiler alert - getting similar ratios to male counterparts, 100+ applications sent, maybe 4 phone interviews. No offers yet. Still made to do code challenges.
Well, I just found out where all that diversity hiring went to. Buddy of mine who works at a mid tier company said that they have a special program that onboards women into tech.
Specifically, women who have literally zero background in computers.
Teachers, social workers, etc. They get a week or so of some coding bootcamp and then get full time positions over more skilled applicants.
This infuriates me. I literally would be in a better situation to be hired had I not have had any technical background, taken this particular bootcamp and finally net the elusive entry level position I need.
And guess what? That move has antagonized the existing male employees who see that they have zero interest and zero competency instead of having an integrated workplace.
10/10 for incredible bullshit.
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I've recently received another invitation to Google's Foobar challenges.
A while ago someone here on devRant (which I believe works at Google, and whose support I deeply appreciate) sent me a couple of links to it too. Unfortunately back then I didn't take the time to learn the programming languages (Python or Java) that Google requires for these challenges. This time I'm putting everything on Python, as it's the easiest language to learn when coming from Bash.
But at the end of the day.. I am a sysadmin, not a developer. I don't know a single thing about either of these languages. Yet I can't take these challenges as the sysadmin I am. Instead, I have to learn a new language which chances are I'll never need again outside of some HR dickhead's interview with lateral thinking questions and whiteboard programming, probably prohibited from using Google search like every sane programmer and/or sysadmin would for practical challenges that actually occur in real life.
I don't want to do that. Google is a once in a lifetime opportunity, I get that. Many people would probably even steal that foobar link from me if they could. But I don't think that for me it's the right thing to do. Google has made a serious difference by actually challenging developers with practical scenarios, and that's vastly superior to whatever a HR person at any other company could cobble together for an interview. But there's one thing that they don't seem to realize. A company like Google consists of more than just developers. Not only that, it probably consists - even within their developer circles - of more than just Python and Java developers. If any company would know about languages that are more optimized such as C, it would be Google that has to leverage this performance in order to be able to deliver their services.
I'll be frank here. Foobar has its own issues that I don't like. But if Google were a nice company, I'd go for it all the way nonetheless - after all, they are arguably the single biggest tech company in the world, and the tech industry itself is one of the biggest ones in the world nowadays. It's safe to say that there's likely no opportunity like working at Google. But I don't think it's the right thing. Even if I did know Python or Java... Even if I did. I don't like Google's business decisions.
I've recently flashed my OnePlus 6T with LineageOS. It's now completely Google-free, except for a stock Yalp account (that I'm too afraid to replace with my actual Google account because oh dear, third-party app stores, oh dear that could damage our business and has to be made highly illegal!1!). My contacts on that phone are are all gone. They're all stored on a Google server somewhere (except for some like @linuxxx' that I consciously stored on device storage and thus lost a while back), waiting for me to log back in and sync them back. I've never asked for this. If Google explicitly told me that they'd sync all my contacts to my Google account and offer feasible alternatives, I'd probably given more priority to building a CalDAV and CardDAV server of my own. Because I do have the skills and desire to maintain that myself. I don't want Google to do this for me.
Move fast and break things. I've even got a special Termux script on my home screen, aptly named Unfuck-Google-Play. Every other day I have to use it. Google Search. When I open it on my Nexus 6P, which was Google's foray into hardware and in which they failed quite spectacularly - I've even almost bent and killed it tonight, after cursing at that piece of shit every goddamn day - the Google app opens, I type some text into it.. and then it just jumps back to the beginning of whatever I was typing. A preloader of sorts. The app is a fucking web page parser, or heck probably even just an API parser. How does that in any way justify such shitty preloaders? How does that in any way justify such crappy performance on anything but the most recent flagships? I could go on about this all day... I used to run modern Linux on a 15 year old laptop, smoothly. So don't you Google tell me that a - probably trillion dollar - company can't do that shit right. When there's (commercialized) community projects like DuckDuckGo that do things a million times better than you do - yet they can't compete with you due to your shit being preloaded on every phone and tablet and impossible to remove without rooting - that you Google can't do that and a lot more. You've got fucking Google Assistant for fucks sake! Yet you can't make a decent search app - the goddamn thing that your company started with in the first place!?
I'm sorry. I'd love to work at Google and taste the diversity that this company has to offer. But there's *a lot* wrong with it at the business end too. That is something that - in that state - I don't think I want to contribute to, despite it being pretty much a lottery ticket that I've been fortunate enough to draw twice.
Maybe I should just start my own company.
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Draedus
Making ciri from the witcher upcoming tv series a black asian minority ( although she has has elf blood . Elfs are white not black ).
Master/slave controversy.
Introducing random gay movie scenes just for the sake of diversity.
What's next ? Making a documentary about linus torvalds with him being a black asian gay feminist ?
aokayla
The NYC Lesbians Who Tech Summit starts today and I think I am in heaven. Hundreds of queer women and allies from software developers to executives in one space nerding out and empowering each other- ahhh!
Also, it has some of the best talk titles I've ever skimmed in a tech conference pamphlet. A sample:
"The Gift of Being a Lesbian Who Techs: Igniting Your Power to Lead"
"Space, Science & Religion: Why This Muslim Space Nerd Wants to Travel to Mars"
"How Tech is Revolutionizing the Billion Dollar Cannabis Industry, and Why Women are
Dominating"
"Ruthlessly Running in the Direction of Your Fears"
"No Gods, No Managers: How Anarchist Ideals Can Help Make Your Office & Open Source Project Better"
I love our community❤ So amazing that it has come far enough for something like this to exist.
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DylanG
Controversial tech rant begins here:
You know, I'm sure a lot of you guys know that it is pretty uncommon to encounter a woman who is who is into tech (and ranting about said tech). This has always made people question why. I personally feel like that is the case because those that do like tech, and those that don't just find a different interest. I thought that would suffice, but now Google and Microsoft are advertising their diversity programs. I was fine with all that until I was personally affected by it. I intended to apply for scholarships from Microsoft. They turned me away because according to them, they began giving them only to people who were "marginalized". That and their commercials trying to pressure young girls to join the STEM field. Again nothing wrong with women in the tech field, but now that this is turning into favoritism I have to fight harder battles to compete in the tech industry. Not only that, but now I read a study about their employment. Despite the number of people they turned away and the money they spent on these programs, thr companies STILL haven't become any more diverse, and from what it seems, their reaction lately has been to double-down and try harder. I just want an open, honest, and fair tech community. Has anyone else felt the affects of this situation?
beggarboy
Interested in the "If 42 is the answer? What is the question?" diversity. 🤔
*me going to wikipedia*
searching for 42
buncha math stuff whatever
matrix sum... interesting 🤨
(is 42 maybe related to dimensions?)
*sees a lot of programs relations where 42 is considered magical in themselves*
"The ASCII code 42 is for the asterisk symbol, being a wildcard for everything."
*literally speechless* 😮
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gudishvibes
Why is diversitytickets.org still up?
In my opinion, diversity != giving free tickets to people because of something they didn't choose, like being female, black, or LGBTQ+ And as @finiteAutomaton said, how would they know if you're, for example, gay?
If you *really* want to get other groups into technology, why not do it from the education level? Make sure everyone gets the same chances if they don't. Introduce role models to students, maybe.
Why not something else instead of just 'You're {black, female, LGBTQ+}, so you can apply for free conference tickets.'
tahnik
Absolutely hate these "moving up", "stairs of success", "we are so diverse!" stock photos all over the internet.
You feel like you are being subtle, fuck no. Unless your target audience is stupid as as fuck, this photos looks dumb and over the top. And what is up with this "diversity" all over the place? don't get me wrong, I am all for diversity. But learn how to apply it properly.
"Looks like we need a picture of a student. Oh no, we need to be diverse. Add 15 kids of 15 different ethincity in the same picture to make sure we looks diverse. Phew!"
And the animations. Holy fucking shite. Why is it that a cheap website immediatly means that your website needs to have 100 different animation in the front page.
Seriously, picture rolling from here and there. Text coming out of nowhere.Everything being squeezed and rotated. God damn it!
This is another reason I fucking hate these 1 click websites and shite like that. This fucking website was created with WiX and my God, it's a fucking nightmare.
Good news is client is recreating the website.
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CodeNoir
So my company hired this very old guy. The oldest developer I have worked with. I feel they took him just because of diversity.
Because he was absolutely incompetent.
Nothing he wrote ever worked, he got in conflict with everyone, made stupid jokes at meetings, asked the dumbest questions. His stories would hang for weeks, hopping sprint over sprint. Once he delivered something, his code had to be re-written from scratch. A code review couldn't even be applied as the code was worthless, so it just made sense to reassign his tasks to someone else and move on.
So after much drama he was let go. It was maybe two years ago and I recently connected with him on LinkedIn. He's changed four or more jobs since then. Prior to coming to our company he also job-hopped all the time (but most likely he was actually fired every time). His average job duration was like 6 months. Apart from that, he had a 20+ year stay with some government agency.
I fail to grasp how he ever gets hired anywhere with all the red flags. Over two decades with some govt agency (in my country they are all crap). Then change jobs every half an year or so. Then the asshole attitude. And finally, they probably never asked him any technical questions, because he knew nothing. Our interns who were just one month into the job were better by a WIDE margin.
Algo helps me to see the the whole thing. 😂
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cazr
Today, at the Minnesota Developers Conference, has proven to me how big of a gap there is in gender diversity with technology. This realization came to me when I visited the men's bathroom to be greeted by a ridiculous line, and witnessed the lack of a line to the woman's restroom.
Wisecrack
Firefox.
I ignored your update for ages.
Because half your dev base are retards circle jerking over a language made by a smug midwit marxist who believes in ceremony over productivity.
And then you go and autoupdate without my permisson. Didn't realize microsoft wasn't the only one that could push things on people like common rapists.
Went and pushed an update when I've EXPLICITLY turned down your update nagware hundreds of times.
And now ad block is disabled.
And I'm being flooded by bullshit.
And the 'patch' you released requires me to update.
Well jumping fucking christ on a pogo stick. Why didnt you just force update the whole god damn application you shit-for-brains firefox devs?
What, you thought I wouldn't fucking notice?
You thought, because microsoft did it, that this shit was cool, in 2019?
Like that bullshit you pulled as a 'tie in' for mr robot?
I would kick you in your fucking nuts if I met you.
Ps: Your fucking patch that you put out doesn't even fucking reenable extensions.
Incompetent dumbasses.
I'm moving to another browser with less 'diversity' in the dev team.
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Have any of you heard that Melinda gates does not want to invest in "White guys with hoodies?"
That mogul said that she won't invest in white startups, because "she wants to invest in venture firms that focus on women and minorities — while deriding the venture capital (VC) industry for its lack of diversity." Are you actually pissing me here? I thought that she was a businesswoman! I am pretty sure that, business doesn't work like that. Shouldn't you invest in startups that have good ideas? Ideas that will change a technology, or introduce some new amazing invention, or at least give some kind of profit?
I think that this is going too far. I am afraid that, by the time I enter and graduate college, that most companies will be thinking like that. This is honestly scary. So, what she's telling me, is that if there's a team of white men, who have a great idea, but there's also a team of colored women who have a worse idea, that she will invest in them?! Like what the actual hell? This is bloody racism!
If companies start hiring and promoting people, based on their gender or skin color, doesn't that make them sexist and/or racist? Why do they argue that you "cannot be sexist or racist against white people/men." I am afraid that, if America keeps going in this direction, white men will turn into what black men experienced in the 1960s.
the article: goo.gl/vhv36K
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AforAutism
"Our company encourages cryptocurrency big data agile machine learning, empowerment diversity, celebrate wellness and synergy, unpack creative cloud real-time front-end bleeding edge cross-platform modular success-driven development of digital signage, powered by an unparalleled REST API backend, driven by a neural network tail recursion AI on our cloud based big data linux servers which output real time data to our Wordpress template interactive dynamic website TypeScript applet, with deep learning tensor flow capabilities.
Don't get what the fuck I just said? Udemy offers countless courses on python based buzzwords. Be the first out of 13 people to sell your soul and private information, and you'll get the first three minutes of the course free!"
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NickyBones
The spokesman of an international corporate published a LinkedIn post about why people should work for this company.
Clause 1 was: "Here you get almost 3 monthly salaries as bonus. My wife loves it!"
Right, because he doesn't enjoy the money at all - the PR guy who sold his Ferrari, really. Just his greedy wife, spending his hard-earned money.
This sexist, 50's vibe approach to women is expressed publicly and formally by a spokesman of a corporate that claims to adopt values such as equality, diversity, etc. *facepalm*
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balancing school work between life and sport and programming is so hard. i mean, school is complete bs. what's the point?
ffs it's not *just* that im never gonna use the shit im taught, but that if it dont learn it, im punished. even in some classes (code.org), information that we're taught is blatantly incorrect. either way, being able to find the foci or an ellipse and the latus rectum (hehe) of a hyperbola isnt going to make it easier when i get my job and just adjust css to my bosses's specifications. i maintain a 4.0, and i fucking hate it. my friends are working hard, and getting into mit for racial diversity, while im doing just as much work, for what?
i want out. i really do. but this redundant thing called a degree is holding me back. i really want to have some way of proving my skills without a degree. i'm currently building a social media application i believe will take off, but frankly, i dont care.
take off or not, hopefully it will be enough to prove my skills. i've been working on this for two weeks now, and, well, that's my story.
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confusedDev
Just finished another conference call. Broken voices, confusing accents and awkward silences. How do you guys handle it?
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brettmoan
Damn Google.
"hey my company I like diversity, and agree with our goal but think we are punishing people for voicing an opinion that we could accomplish our values of nondiscrimination using better methods"
Googles Response "we encourage diversity including diversity of opinions. All employees should be safe to talk about these things. Oh and FUCK you man you're fired we don't agree with you standing up and voicing a differing opinion"
dewguzzler
I work in a very diverse team. I'm a white male, from the US and I have someone from Russia, one from China, and 2 from India. The best thing so far was a team building exercise, where we went to a AAA baseball game, and I got asked all kinds of questions, that of course seem strange to me.
How many pitches can the pitcher throw?
What happens if they hit it past the lines on the left and right?
Can they hit again if they strike out?
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CrankyOldDev
I don't profess to know the whole story, but what is it with the (what seems to me to be) overly-fragile, cry-bully mentality of the Node.js community and its various branches? The current mess is not the first time strongly opinioned, overly zealous loud-mouths have driven the ship.
Throughout the history of time, teams/groups of people have been made up of different characters. Some are nice, some aren't really and everyone has varied characteristics. There seems to be a drive to completely flatten the behaviour, beliefs and attitudes of any sort of gathering, and it makes me so mad. Some people are so obsessed with their ideas of equality, diversity, inclusivity and safe spaces that they can't see how negative and discriminating those attitudes actually are.
I fully accept that certain behaviours should not be tolerated and should be called out. And communities and societies will organically decide what those are.
But when you raise an issue, approach it like grown up and thrash it out to a resolution - don't throw your toys out of the pram and put on a real public show, targeting and scapegoating other individuals when you don't get your way! This is childish and narcissistic. If this is your only course of action, you should realise you haven't a strong argument.
I've ranted here before about how the mainly social media discussions on any subject drive us all to extreme ends. And this is just another example. It's wrong and narrow minded and not remotely progressive - the opposite of what those who should loudest claim to be.
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stackodev
Move over, James Damore. You have a new ally. And, she's a woman.
Microsoft engineer complains that company is biased against white men
Internal memo suggests that women don't think the right way to be engineers.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...
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orijin
Hello fellow developers!
I know this is devRant, but I don't know of a better community with such diversity of developers like you guys and I need your input.
I decided to go on a language journey. I come from a background of php/javascript and feel the need to expand my horizons.
I'm going to write the same app in each language to get the feel of it and become familiar with the syntax and language concepts.
Since I'm a web developer I'll focus mainly on languages used on the web like: Java, Python, Ruby, etc.. But I want to cover others as well, like Objective-C/Swift, C++/C#.
I'm having trouble figuring out what kind of an app would cover most of the ground. I know the basic guideline for this is a TODO app for web frameworks, but I
don't feel like writing a TODO in Swift or C# really cover what the languages are intended for.
I don't know enough about the environments yet to come up with a good idea.
I want something, that can be language independent but would utilize the power of each language in one part or another and is still simple enough not to require weeks of development.
Does anyone have a brilliant idea what that could be?
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NateTDenlinger
Creating something out of nothing and knowing there's people from all over the world using my creation. One last thing is the developer community is so rich in diversity, walks of life, experience...it's truly awesome to get to know so many people who all program.
PythonTryHard
Obligatory subjective view from inexperienced eyes of a highschooler
I think it's evolving to be more beginner-friendly and more easily accessible. I'm seeing ppl roughly my age can program pretty well (ignoring the mandatory programming classes in highschool that stuff is just no (I know, we had this convo before but do hear me out, although it teaches fundamental programming in Pascal, the execution sucks ball because "mandatory")). I'm not saying we are on par with the in-industry devs, it's just we can code well enough to at least make decent small program/script.
With newer scripting languages that are easy to pick up and syntactically similar to English which is obviously Python, both objectively and subjectively, and its ability to be OOP without scaring first-timers of the what-the-blyn-is-this blank program (looking at you C#) people can be introduced to programming and programming concepts fairly easily and they can switch from Py to other languages with little to some hiccups, from my personal exp at least.
But then there's the "too much kiddies in the field" arguments I saw on dR (I think) a while back then when SO decided to better support newbies. To that, I can only say "Please give us a chance". We're completely oblivious to how the dev world work nor how you guys do your work so before you scold us on this, at least tell us how to work like you before you go on a 2-A4-page rant on how the industry is not as good as before and how it has degraded.
That leads to the problems of politics invading programming. We have it, I hate it, goddammit I wanna murder them. Linux CoC controversy is just...no. And then there's forced diversity in hiring (also ranted on dR a while back) and corporations pissing devs off to satisfy a minor group. I'll just shut up on this. No no no no no no no NO I'm not gonna. Not gonna.
Do correct me if I'm wrong though. I'm a less than a junior dev.
In response to the fuss about the Linux kernel team contemplating a new Code of Conduct and revelations that Linus Torvald's daughter has sighed a cancerous "Post-Meritocracy Manifesto", I decided to help those who are pressured to provide a Code of Conduct for their service, project or conference but would like a sane one which doesn't involving bending over with a big red BULLSEYE around your arsehole.
https://github.com/nathanchere/...
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Cheeseypi
The code of conduct is a good thing. It doesn't persecute cis white men. All it does is tell you not to harass people on the basis of traits they cannot control. You say you only care about code quality and nothing else? There's a whole untapped market of talent from women and lgbtq+ people who stay the fuck away because of toxic communities. When you call people faggot it makes them not want to contribute to your codebase.
Linus stepped down of his own volition to try to become a more constructive voice. Heaven forbid the assholes have some introspection.
Hate it because it's vague. Hate it because it means anyone can be banned without evidence. Don't hate it because the assholes are finally being called on their bullshit.
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If you have enough of your own Spotify-playlists just try out their radio functionality.
It makes you actually appreciate playlists with less than 20 tracks for their diversity...
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dev-chandu
Setting a target for our executive team to be 30% AI by 2020 to increase our diversity stats.
rant ai artificial intelligence !rant #humor
madumlao
To those who think the kernel "lacks diversity": http://remword.com/kps_result/...
There are more COMPANIES contributing to the kernel than most github projects have stars. There are more COUNTRIES contributing to the kernel than most software projects have active developers.There are more COMMITS going through the kernel per day than most software projects have in their entire lifetime.
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vzqzac
Everyone that says it sucks because there is a new framework everyday, dude, you know that just because there is a new framework it's not a must for you to change your stack to it right? Also, you can find very valuable frameworks with this diversity
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I really thought writing code of conduct was easy. Oh, was I wrong.
So being a programmer I created The Code of Conduct Generator!
Even though it's really simple, it can be really helpful for launching a community or conference for the first time.
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With each project, I got new teammates who have different ways of working and thinking. So, it's quite amazing to learn how to work together with new colleagues, to share new ideas, new skills, and even to challenge some technical subjects I thought it was obvious/easy that turn out not quite as evident as they look like.
I do not only learn some new coding skills, patterns, principles, tools, but I also learn a lot on the soft skills side. I got some teammates who have deep empathy and are easy to talk to (for various subjects, from common subjects to some serious ones, e.g. how I shared my feelings on my position on the team, told him how I felt like an imposter and he could really listen and advise me). It's really from other peers that I can learn the best.
Sure, if you stick with your team for a very long time, you know how each teammates work and you can "optimize" the way you work. However, by having new teammates, you get the "diversity of knowledge", you get to learn new ways of coding, of working as a team, of communicating, ... to improve yourself to be a better coder and a better man/woman to your peers (cheesy line... I didn't know I could write one duh).
Fucking recruiters have been rejecting me off internship applications me based on my location. They never gave me a chance to pass the dev tests or the interviews. So much for the diversity and inclusion bullshit most of them are advertising in their job portals.
Also they never give back honest feedback, when they are courteous enough to reply, they tell me that I applied late while I applied few hours after the job posting, they tell me that I am not good enough without testing my fucking abilities.
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I have passed 3 interview levels including the coding test for a big telecoms company. After 2 weeks i get a 15 minute phone-interview in which I answered all the tech questions correctly and yesterday I received an email saying my application was unsuccessful. WTF...literally.
I even said I was Bi-sexual in case they wanted diversity :D
"This deal is an important step towards correcting a situation which has allowed a few companies to earn huge sums of money without properly remunerating the thousands of creatives and journalists whose work they depend on.
At the same time, this deal contains numerous provisions which will guarantee that the internet remains a space for free expression. These provisions were not in themselves necessary because the directive will not be creating any new rights for rights holders. Yet we listened to the concerns raised and chose to doubly guarantee the freedom of expression. The 'meme', the 'gif', the 'snippet' are now more protected than ever before.
I am also glad that the text agreed today pays particular attention to sheltering start-ups. Tomorrow's leading companies are the start-ups of today and diversity depends on a deep pool of innovative, dynamic, young companies.
This is a deal which protects people's living, safeguards democracy by defending a diverse media landscape, entrenches freedom of expression, and encourages start-ups and technological development. It helps make the internet ready for the future, a space which benefits everyone, not only a powerful few."
- Axel Voss, 2019
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There should be a ***rant for every aspect of life, such as socrant (rants on society and politics), famrant (rants on how much family life (or to all singles out there, the lack of a family) sucks (or rocks) sometimes) and conrant (rants on all sorts of consumer products/services). Not to forget, the most important of all, trarant (traffic rant, about the rich diversity of stupidity among both drivers and pedestrians).
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I'm currently applying for an engineer role. The role is reasonably agnostic regarding specific skills which suits me well because I have a wide base and I like diversity, however they have said they are after more Java developers. Whilst I have programmed in Java and worked on Java projects I wouldn't claim any proficiency beyond amateur.
What sort of things should I really know about if the tech interview brings up Java questions? I'm not expecting them to but it would be foolish not to prepare for that eventuality.
question java advice appreciated job interview engineer
tachoknight
I'm all for diversity in Linux, I like that there's multiple organizations, flavors, etc., but geez, troubleshooting a huge CMake project that breaks on Fedora and not on Ubuntu because of the way Python2.7 is installed is a real pain. :(
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Have you ever been affected by a "diversity purge" in your place of employment? Do you think it's becoming more common, less common, or is it not a thing at all?
https://mashable.com/2018/03/...
gashadokuro
One of the reasons I love being a developer is I'm taking something that I have a lot of interest (computers) and not only creating things with it, but things I like AND am learning along the way. I it's a career path where you don't necessarily have to work under anyone and can do well on your own. There's also the diversity, where you dont have to be stuck on one straight path, meaning one could develop for websites or business applications or in my case video games. Being a developer is something I'm grateful that I can be.
AllenII
Anybody knows of any openings (remote /South Florida) for a competent junior full stack web/js dev? Im black AND international, so if you're looking for some 'diversity in the workplace', I'm your man
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I was talking to someone recently who organizes a conference and told me that some people complained that the speaker list wasn't diverse enough because he had only 2 women and no racial minorities. Apparently the numerous Asian (Indian and Oriental don't count), nor the the organizer who is in a minority. Only African (specifically black) counts a d's minority nowadays. We now have a world with I finite gender identities and only 2 races. 😰
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oscylo
Don't stay to long in one project, change is good.
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Kanton Lyon-IV () je francouzský kanton v departementu Rhône v regionu Rhône-Alpes. Zahrnuje 9. městský obvod města Lyonu.

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Dad dies in Northamptonshire almost 30 years after horrific crash
Justin Webber suffered serious head injuries in the crash in 1992
Kingly Care Partnership in Essex Road, Rushden (Image: Google Maps)
A "friendly and easy-going" father has died from injuries sustained in a horrific motorbike crash in 1992, an inquest has heard.
Justin Webber, 63, suffered serious head injuries in the crash which left him with severe disabilities for the rest of his life.
An inquest into the death of the father-of-one, which took place today at Northamptonshire Coroner's Court on Wednesday, May 19, heard how the motorbike enthusiast was travelling at around 60mph along a dual carriageway when the incident took place.
A Volvo pulled out in front of Mr Webber and he was thrown up over the bonnet, landing 30 feet along the road.
Paramedics had to revive him at the scene before he could be rushed to hospital, where he had to be resuscitated again.
Asda delivery driver assaulted in Corby incident
Traveller family jailed for total of 52 years for brutal attack in Northamptonshire
The court heard that in 1992, medics told family members they did not think he would survive but Mr Webber, who was 34 at the time of the incident, pulled through.
However, he was left with severe disabilities.
A police investigation at the time of the crash concluded that he had not contributed to the crash in any way.
In the years afterwards, Mr Webber required 24/7 care, which was mostly carried out by his partner Angela Best.
He also suffered regularly from aspiration pneumonia.
In a statement read to the court, she said: "Justin was a friendly, easy-going man whose image as a biker was an important part of his person.
"He was outgoing and gregarious with many hobbies. He was devoted to putting his friends and family above all else."
In December 2020, Mr Webber fell ill while at Kingly Care Partnership in Rushden and was taken to Kettering General Hospital, where he died.
Concluding the inquest, senior coroner Anne Pember said that Mr Webber had died from aspiration pneumonia, which was brought on by a traumatic brain injury caused by a road traffic collision.
She concluded that Mr Webber died from an accidental death.

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As the new year begins, so too does a new era for Océ, with the company's Oceania operation going to market directly as of January 1, 2018.
It is a giant leap from historical times in ancient Egypt to the 21st century. Océ is bridging the two eras by recreating parts of the pyramid of Seti, a pharaoh in the nineteenth Dynasty, using Océ elevated printing technology.
How do fluids behave and interact with their environment? New research seeks to get to the bottom of the mathematics behind fluid dynamics – opening up new perspectives for inkjet technology.
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High-tech printing company Océ transfers R&D and Manufacturing of the so-called "flatbed" wide-format printing systems to Europe. The goal is to increase the scale and effectiveness of Océ manufacturing.
Several of our technology specialists share how some of our technologies were born, and how they are helping us be ready for the future.


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Vraux is een gemeente in het Franse departement Marne (regio Grand Est) en telt 481 inwoners (2005). De plaats maakt deel uit van het arrondissement Châlons-en-Champagne.

Geografie
De oppervlakte van Vraux bedraagt 12,7 km², de bevolkingsdichtheid is 37,9 inwoners per km².

Demografie
Onderstaande figuur toont het verloop van het inwonertal (bron: INSEE-tellingen).

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Gemeente in Marne


Two memories stand out from my time in Yemen back in 2011 and 2012: the welcoming nature of its people and the energy and compassion of its youth.
Even then, before the war broke out, Yemen was the most impoverished country in the Middle East.
What I witnessed and remember, however, was young women and men volunteering to fix schools and clean up the streets, as well as communities opening their arms to refugees escaping the humanitarian crisis in Somalia across the Gulf of Aden.
I was often invited into strangers' homes for tea and during Ramadan, my neighbours insisted on having me over for iftar (the break of fast).
Since the war started in Yemen in 2015, three million people have been displaced and an estimated 22.2 million people are in need of humanitarian or protection assistance.
Widespread damage to public infrastructure, and a severe shortage of essential supplies, means the majority of Yemenis are surviving without food, water or medicine, and aid and commercial goods are still not arriving at a level that can meet the scale of the current catastrophe.
As a result, UNICEF estimates that at least one child under the age of five dies every 10 minutes from preventable causes in Yemen.
Conflicts like the one in Yemen also amplify and increase gender inequality, and the impact disproportionally hits adolescent girls.
Girls in conflict settings are 2.5 times more likely to be out of school than boys, and our experience on the ground shows that the majority of those chronically hungry around the world are girls and women.
Our research also shows that, even when the international community is willing and able to respond, adolescents affected by emergencies are often left behind.
This knowledge informs our work in the Disaster Risk Management Unit, as we support communities around the world to prepare for and respond to disasters and crises.
From sharing our expertise on coping with climate change, to developing child protection services for unaccompanied minors and reviewing the curriculum for education in emergency programmes, we adapt to the needs of communities on the ground, reinforcing local systems and remaining engaged in all aspects of the disaster cycle, from the time of crisis through to long-term recovery.
And while Plan International doesn't currently work in Yemen, we are joining 13 other UK aid agencies in demanding action is taken to end the current humanitarian crisis, and to ensure the voices of all those affected, including girls and young women, aren't forgotten.
14 million people are at risk of starvation in #Yemen.
It has been six years since I was last in Yemen.
I often remember the young people I met there and was afraid to think what might have happened to them – but a couple of weeks ago, I reached out to one of the youths I had the privilege of working with back in Aden.
Plan International UK has come together with 13 UK aid agencies to demand action to address the humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen. Read our joint letter to the Telegraph and share your support using #YemenCantWait on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.


MLS # 98698619 Listed by Price Real Estate, Inc.
21755 W 10500 S is a $520,000 property on a 80.00 acre lot located in Malad City, ID.
80 acres of Timothy Grass and wheel lines. Add to your farm or grow your own hay for your horses. Great home site.
I am interested in 21755 W 10500 S, Malad City, ID 83252.


Lichuang welding ring is designed to be a high performance and environmental protection material used to weld aluminum to aluminum. It is broadly applied in electrical products, such as refrigerator, television, electrical fan, washing machine, air conditioner as well as transformer. Commonly, this aluminum to aluminum soldering ring employs ordinary welding torch and rubber tube as welding tool. With moderate fluidity and better welding strength and aging resistance, this product has become the ideal material for aluminum to aluminum soldering.
1. The welding ring has three kinds of gas sources: LPG plus oxygen, acetylene plus oxygen, and propane plus oxygen.
2. Made of corrosion resistant materials, this aluminum to aluminum soldering ring meets the requirements of EU ROHS, doing no harm to the nature.
3. Stable as it is, Lichuang product can be stored for quite a long time.


Season two of Top Chef Canada premieres this Monday, and to celebrate, Food Network Canada held a mock quickfire challenge at Victor (the home kitchen of competitor David Chrystian) for the Toronto-based contestants. Judges Mark McEwan and Shereen Arazm were on hand with Lisa Ray (in an ivory Pink Tartan sheath dress) playing host, as on the show. Chrystian had home field advantage, while Ryan Gallagher (sous chef at Ruby Watchco and erstwhile private chef for the Thompson family), Daniel Boulud–alum Carl Heinrich, Frank and caféAGO sous chef Elizabeth Rivasplata, Crush Wine Bar sous chef Trista Sheen and Sarah Tsai of the Toronto Lawns Tennis Club vied for the symbolic win (the real show, of course, was filmed months ago).
Top Chef Canada is never without surprises, so the chefs should have seen this one a mile away: they were asked to make hors d'oeuvres with secret ingredients supplied by the various media outlets there to cover the event. Special ingredients ranged from banal (like bacon and frozen vegetables) to inventive, like birch syrup and tamarind (both given to Tsai). Our picks were dried morels and gochujang, which were combined with the Grid's gift of stilton and bacon and given to chef Sheen. The chefs scrambled for their ingredients then made a mad dash into the kitchen (with Tsai losing the contents of her bag in the process) before attacking the challenge. There was a strange calm about the kitchen—part of which chef Sheen attributed to knowing this challenge was only for fun. The chefs rarely broke the silence, but when they did it was to scream "at your back!" or "behind!" as they scurried around the kitchen (along with constantly queries about how much time was left). There was a camaraderie that we didn't quite expect, given how contentious the show usually gets—chefs offered to share their tools and ingredients and commiserated over the sweltering heat of the kitchen.
When it was all over, the chefs presented six dishes, three of which were served on crostini, making it officially a trend. Sheen's appetizer was no exception: her crostini was tossed in gochujang and olive oil, topped with a bacon and stilton pâté (it tasted like an even richer foie gras) and garnished with white radicchio, deep-fried morel slivers and a truffle vinaigrette. The day's unofficial winner, as crowned by McEwan and Azram, was chef Gallagher, who served foie gras with maple syrup on a parsnip base, topped with bacon and a gooseberry gastrique. McEwan's explanation of the judging process: "I look at the size and does it explode in my mouth" (insert your own dirty joke here). For his troubles, Gallagher was offered the prize of taking home as much of the leftover produce as he'd like. He demurred, however—he was taking the subway home.
Top Chef Canada airs Monday, March 12 at 10 p.m. on Food Network Canada.
Head judge seems ok but Shereen Arazm seems to be too pushy. Mike Holmes is fun and Lisa Ray a breath of fresh air.


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Q: Synchronized Highchart Data Load issue I am trying to load 16991 data items and plot it on Synchronised Highcharts but its not loading the data at all.
I have attached json data file for the reference which can be downloaded using below link
https://ufile.io/8r8oe0d8

Source of Highchart:
https://jsfiddle.net/gh/get/library/pure/highcharts/highcharts/tree/master/samples/highcharts/demo/synchronized-charts/

A: Thanks ppotaczek,  it worked for me.
I have implemented this
plotOptions:{
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And it plots full data.

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Chinese students' major beneficiaries of student reforms
A couple of months ago, the federal government announced reforms to make Australia a more attractive destination to international students.
It seems as if the strategy has paid off with a new report from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) finding that there has been a substantial jump in the number of Chinese students attending university in Australian.
Over the past year, applications from China have risen by 34% in comparison to the same period in 2011-2012. On top of that, there had also been an increase of student visa applications made within Australia increased by 17%.
With such a dramatic rise in applications, it now means that Chinese student now represent 22% of the entire foreign student population within Australia with 36% of all student applications coming from China.
Alongside the visa reforms, the growth in the number of student visa applications is down to a growing need for degrees that are internationally recognised from leading universities.
The stats have been well received by industry experts who believe that the reforms have helped boost the popularity of Australia to foreign students. This was underlined by the Council of Private Higher Education Adrian McComb who told The Australian that "The whole process is better understood and working more effectively. Experience from the universities shows that it has improved compliance"
However, the reforms have not appealed to all those interested in pursuing higher education in Australia. The ABS report showed that approval from onshore applications from Indian students had dropped by half over the past year.
This is mainly been down to vocational colleges being excluded from the new streamlined reform making it much more difficult for visa applications to be accepted in the long run.
Naturally, this has placed growing pressure on vocational colleges who are struggling to fill places on many of their courses.
Despite Indian students struggling with on shore applications, many offshore applicants are experiencing success with students from developing countries such as Indonesia and Nigeria enjoying record numbers of applications being accepted.
With the student visa reforms making it a lot simpler for students to study in Australia, it means that the country can now be considered one of the most attractive places to study for student from al corners of the globe.
For more information on how to enrol to study in Australia, contact EMSA today. We provide FREE ADVICE AND VISA APPLICATIONS for students wanting to study in Australia!
Contact [email protected] or call 1300 362 377 today!


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Q: Inserting values in database using post method with Retrofit on Android I think this must be a GET request hostname/match?data="yffyf"

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    Call<ResponseBody> add_user(
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but an error appears

public void sendPost(String gk ) throws IOException {
        Call<ResponseBody> call = ApiUtils.getAPIService().add_user(scanResults.getText().toString());
        call.enqueue(new Callback<ResponseBody>() {
            @Override
            public void onResponse(Call<ResponseBody> call, Response<ResponseBody> response) {
                try {
                    String s = response.body().string();
                    Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, s, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

                } catch (IOException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }

            @Override
            public void onFailure(Call<ResponseBody> call, Throwable t) {

                Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, t.getMessage().toString(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
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ava.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'java.lang.String okhttp3.ResponseBody.string()' on a null object reference
    at com.uthoo.www.ocr.MainActivity$3.onResponse(MainActivity.java:95)
    at retrofit2.ExecutorCallAdapterFactory$ExecutorCallbackCall$1$1.run(ExecutorCallAdapterFactory.java:70)
    at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:873)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:201)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6831)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
    at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:547)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:927)

Can you tell me how can this be done by using POST and  GET? thank you...


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Kamil Franek
Business analytics professional
Who Owns Coca-Cola: The Largest Shareholders Overview
Coca-Cola Company (KO) is an iconic business that makes money by manufacturing and selling beverages worldwide, especially its famous soft drinks. But who owns Coca-Cola, and who controls the Company?
The largest shareholder of Coca-Cola is Berkshire Hathaway, a company led by legendary investor Warren Buffet, with a 9% ownership stake. Other major shareholders are large asset managers. Vanguard owns 8%, and BlackRock owns 6% of the company.
Coca-Cola's Largest Shareholders (Dec 2021)
Berkshire Hathaway 9.2% 9.2%
Vanguard 7.9% 7.9%
BlackRock 6.5% 6.5%
Other 76.4% 76.4%
Listed are shareholders holding >5% of any share class or notable in other ways
Source: Multiple SEC fillings
As you can see above, Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway is Coca-Cola's biggest shareholder.
Buffet first bought Coca-Cola stock in 1988, built a significant stake in the company, and held on to it ever since. Even today, he says he does not think about selling.
Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway purchased Coca-Cola cheaply when Coca-Cola shares were decimated after the 1987 Black Monday stock market crash
Initially, Coca-Cola was quite a significant part of Berkshire's portfolio. Today it is not so extreme anymore. Berkshire is currently heavily concentrated in Apple.
As the largest investor, it is no surprise that Warren Buffet likes Coke, and he became something of an unpaid company ambassador. You can often spot a can of Coca-Cola nearby whenever he is on camera. Sometimes he goes even a little bit further to promote his investment.😄
In this article, I will dive more into who Coca-Cola's largest shareholders are, how many shares and votes they have, and how much their stake is worth. I will also explore some other topics related to its ownership structure.
If you are interested, you can also explore who owns other companies like Apple, Meta(Facebook), Microsoft, or Tesla.
🕹 Who Owns Coca-Cola (KO) and Who Has Control?
The chart below depicts both who owns Coca-Cola and the voting power of different shareholders. Since Coca-Cola does not have any special classes of shares, and all shares have just one vote, you can see that ownership share equals voting power.
Coca-Cola Company IPO was in 1919, so over a hundred years ago.
Coca-Cola has one class of stock, and one stock represents one vote. You won't find any fancy super-voting shares in this company ownership structure.
No single shareholder has complete control over the company.
However, Berkshire Hataway and its CEO, Warren Buffet, have a considerable influence over the company and its management. Buffett previously served for a long time on Coke's board of directors.
Other large shareholders are mainly asset management companies that invest other people's money. And although they hold the voting power in their hands, they usually vote in line with the management of the companies they invest in, at least for non ESG-related items.
🗳 Breakdown of Coca-Cola's Outstanding Shares and Votes by Top Shareholders
The Coca-Cola Company had a total of 4,325 million outstanding shares as of December 2021. The following table shows how many shares each Coca-Cola's large shareholder holds.
Coca-Cola's Outstanding Shares by Shareholder
In millions of shares as of December 2021
Berkshire Hathaway 400 400 9.2%
Vanguard 342 342 7.9%
BlackRock 280 280 6.5%
Other 3,303 3,303 76.4%
Total (# millions) 4,325 4,325 100.0%
There were 4,325 million votes distributed among shareholders of The Coca-Cola Company. The table below shows the total number of votes for each large shareholder.
Coca-Cola's Vote Control by Shareholder
In millions of votes as of December 2021
You can see that there is no difference between shares and votes, since Coca-Cola had only a single class of shares at the time.
💵 Breakdown of Coca-Cola's Market Value by Shareholder
The following table summarizes how much is each shareholder's stake in The Coca-Cola Company worth.
However, keep in mind that a stake in Coca-Cola could be just one part of their portfolio, and their total worth could be bigger, thanks to other investments. It could also be lower if they have debts.
Coca-Cola's Market Value by Shareholder
Market value in billions $ as of December 2021
Berkshire Hathaway $24 $24 9.2%
Vanguard $20 $20 7.9%
BlackRock $17 $17 6.5%
Other $196 $196 76.4%
Total ($ billions) $256 $256 100.0%
Let's now look at each Coca-Cola shareholder individually.
📒 Who Are the Largest Shareholders of The Coca-Cola Company
Let's now go through the list of the largest shareholders of The Coca-Cola Company one by one and look at who they are, how many shares they own, what is their voting power, and how much is their stake in Coca-Cola worth.
#1 Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire Hathaway holds 9% of Coca-Cola's shares making it its largest shareholder.
Berkshire Hathaway owns 400 million Coca-Cola shares, representing 400 million shareholder votes. The market value of Berkshire Hathaway's stake in Coca-Cola was $24 billion as of December 2021.
Berkshire Hathaway is an iconic company represented by legendary investor Warren Buffet who is also its significant shareholder and CEO.
Berkshire Hathaway is not a traditional asset manager. It is a conglomerate of insurance businesses, utilities, and other companies. As a result of its large insurance operations, it has a large investment portfolio of other people's money (insurance float) that it can invest.
Unlike in traditional investment funds, if you buy stocks of Berkshire Hathaway, you don't just buy a portfolio of stocks. You buy a range of fully owned businesses. Insurance companies with large reserves (float) are one group of those businesses. These reserves are then invested in various investment opportunities.
Company's CEO Warren Buffet and his "sidekick" Charlie Munger are proponents of value-based, long-term investing. They stick to the business they understand and avoid new trendy things, whatever it means. I think that it is fair to call them "old-school." Their old-school approach is not limited only to their investment style, as anyone who visited their company webpage can confirm.
#2 Vanguard
Vanguard holds 8% of Coca-Cola's shares which makes it its second-largest shareholder.
Vanguard owns 342 million Coca-Cola shares, representing 342 million shareholder votes. The market value of Vanguard's stake in Coca-Cola was $20 billion as of December 2021.
Vanguard (The Vanguard Group) is one of the largest asset managers in the world. It manages other people's money through its mutual funds and exchange-traded funds and also offers other related investing and financial planning services.
Vanguard differs from other large asset managers by having no actual "owner ." Officially Vanguard says that its investors own it since its funds own it, and Vanguard fund investors own those funds.
However, the actual decision power is in the hands of Vanguard's insiders since the ownership is diluted over millions of investors worldwide.
Vanguard has significant influence over the largest public companies. Thanks to its size, Vanguard usually belongs to the largest shareholders in those companies and has considerable power at their shareholder meetings. This is especially true if ownership is diluted.
Vanguard representatives make the calls about which shareholder proposal to support or not, even though Vanguard is not the ultimate owner of those stocks and they belong to their clients.
It means that just a few people in charge of the largest asset managers have significant sway over many publicly traded companies. They are usually the median investors that can push or kill many proposals. As passive investing became more popular and the asset management market more concentrated, this became quite a concerning issue.
Several terms were coined to describe this issue. Some call it asset manager capitalism, and popular is also the power of twelve. Financial Times even put together who exactly those twelve people might be.
Vanguard and other large fund managers are trying to address those concerns by having public policies describing how they are exercising their voting power. But as you can imagine, this is still a situation full of conflicts of interest.
Evidence shows that big asset managers usually vote together with management.
#3 BlackRock
BlackRock holds 6% of Coca-Cola's shares which makes it its third-largest shareholder.
BlackRock owns 280 million Coca-Cola shares, representing 280 million shareholder votes. The market value of BlackRock's stake in Coca-Cola was $17 billion as of December 2021.
BlackRock, Inc. is the world's largest asset manager, with assets under management of $10 trillion. BlackRock is not only an asset manager, but it also provides other asset managers and corporations with its Aladdin portfolio management software.
BlackRock is a publicly traded company, and its largest shareholders are its competitors, including BlackRock itself. Not directly but through their passive and active funds. The largest shareholder is Vanguard.
A similar situation is also true in the opposite direction because BlackRock is a significant shareholder in many of its publicly traded competitors and other large institutions, making the whole thing even more eyebrow-raising.
This circular ownership between Vanguard, BlackRock, and other large asset managers, amplifies the issue often raised about the power of these large asset managers over public companies since they usually belong to the most significant shareholders.
BlackRock and other large asset managers do not invest their own money, but they have significant voting power that, in most cases, is not passed through to the underlying investors. Therefore, BlackRock itself and its representatives have significant sway over decisions in those companies.
In the case of Blackrock, this influence is personified in the form of its CEO Larry Fink, who is a powerful figure with close ties in the FED and US government.
Adding to these concerns is evidence that BlackRock and other asset managers usually vote in favor of management proposals.
Recently, large asset managers started to be more sympathetic to different climate and environmental-related proposals and even supported activists that went against the management's wishes. BlackRock was particularly aggressive in this change. Another proof of the power these companies have.
📚 Recommended Articles & Other Resources
Who Owns Apple: The Largest Shareholders Overview
Overview of who owns Apple and who controls it. With a list of the largest shareholders and how much is each of their stake worth.
Who Owns Microsoft: The Largest Shareholders Overview
Overview of who owns Microsoft and who controls it. With a list of the largest shareholders and how much is each of their stake worth.
Who Owns Amazon: The Largest Shareholders Overview
Overview of who owns Amazon.com, Inc. and who controls it. With a list of the largest shareholders and how much is each of their stake worth.
Coca-Cola's Annual Financials Statements (K-10)
Coca-Cola's Proxy Statement
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Plexiform Neurofibroma
Plexiform neurofibroma is a subcutaneous or dermal tumor of the peripheral nerve sheath surrounding one or more nerve fascicles. It can occur in isolation or in patients with neurofibromatosis type 1. This tumor is usually benign although a small minority can undergo a malignant transformation. Diagnosis relies on ultrasound, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and histopathological evaluation.
The name plexiform neurofibroma (PN) is derived from its appearance in the form of a network or a plexus surrounding branches of a peripheral nerve. It is typically a benign tumor and is composed of Schwann cells, perineurial components, fibroblasts, and hematopoietic cells surrounded by collagenous or myxoid stroma [1]. Although it can occur anywhere on the body, the head and neck region are the commonest sites [2].
Clinically, patients present with an irregular, tortuous subcutaneous or dermal mass resembling a "bag of worms" [3]. Other symptoms and signs depend on the mass effect of this swelling and it is essential to exclude extrinsic compression on neighboring structures or bone abnormalities. Tissue damage can lead to pain and sensorimotor deficits even in benign PN [4].
Although a plexiform neurofibroma is not pathognomonic of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF -1), it is suggestive of the condition as it is found in up to 30% patients with NF-1. So the physician should look for features of NF-1 in patients with a plexiform neurofibroma.
Approximately 5% of PN can undergo malignant transformation. These patients present with pain, neurological deficits, and a rapid tumor growth, especially during puberty and pregnancy [3].
Stridor
We encountered a 5-year-old child presenting with stridor and dyspnea, who had a diagnosis of laryngeal plexiform neurofibroma. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Patient 1 is a 7-year-old girl who first presented at age 2 months with biphasic stridor. [jamanetwork.com]
Progressive Dysphagia
The combination of large PNF and cervical spine dysplasia may cause compression of the upper gastrointestinal tract and chronic progressive dysphagia. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Jaw & Teeth
Macroglossia
It causes a massive macroglossia that is progressive with advance of years and disturbs the patient's speech, occlusion, and tongue movements. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Derekoy et al reported a case of plexiform neurofibroma of the submandibular gland in a 20-year-old man with signs of Von Recklinghausen disease. 3 The patient also had macroglossia (regional gigantism). [ajnr.org]
Unilateral Proptosis
We present the case of a 52-year-old male with progressive, marked unilateral proptosis due to a multilobulated orbital mass, secondary to biopsy-proven plexiform neurofibroma (PN). [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
We report the case of a patient who had severe foot pain, which progressively hampered her walking ability, erroneously attributed to recurrent Morton's neuroma. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Subcutaneous Mass
In conclusion, considering neurofibroma (NF) as differential diagnosis for subcutaneous masses in head and neck area is critical for early diagnosis and treatment procedure. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Clinically, it presents as a subcutaneous mass which feels like a "bag of worms". Most of the time, it is a superficial cutaneous/subcutaneous lesion, but it can occur almost anywhere in the body. Symptoms may be related to local mass effect. [radiopaedia.org]
Multiple subcutaneous masses are seen in the right pelvic region. No abnormal bones or internal organs are observed. [journal.ac]
It is characterized by the overgrowth of nervous tissue and skin discoloration. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Hyperkeratosis
Hematoxylin- and eosin-stained sections showed unremarkable epidermis with slight hyperkeratosis. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Neck Mass
Biopsy of the left neck mass confirmed for plexiform neurofibroma. A careful search of the literature revealed no previous report of such an extensive neurofibroma in a premature neonate. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Patient 3 is a 7-year-old girl who presented to our otolaryngology clinic at age 7 months with a large left-sided neck mass and café au lait spots on her right neck ( Figure 3 A). She later developed an optic glioma. [jamanetwork.com]
Adverse reactions included transient somnolence in four, evanescent rash in two, and reversible mild peripheral neuropathy in two patients. Four patients showed less than 25% reduction in the tumor size. [n.neurology.org]
Peripheral neuropathy. 3 rd ed. Philadelphia: WB Saunders; 1993. p. 1623-39. [ Links ] 3. Nambi GI, Gupta AK, Kumaran S. Plexiform neurofibroma of the finger. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2008;61(11):1402-3. [ Links ] 4. Seddon HJ. [scielo.br]
Motor Disturbances
Herein, a case is reported in a 56-year-old man who also had muscle atrophy, severe motor disturbance, and mild sensory disturbance of the left leg due to childhood poliomyelitis. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Beside history and physical examination, the workup of PN depends on radiological studies and histopathological evaluation. Ultrasonography, computed tomography (CT), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are helpful in the diagnosis.
Ultrasonographic appearance is a target shaped mass with a hyperechoic center and resembling a cyst. However, the mass demonstrates a continuous peripheral nerve and this finding is confirmatory of a nerve sheath tumor [5]. Ultrasound cannot differentiate between a benign and malignant lesion.
MRI is the gold standard study as it is able to delineate the extent of the tumor as well as its origin from the nerve sheath [6]. Plexiform neurofibroma appears as a lesion in the form of a target with hyperintense T2 and a hypointense central signal [7]. MRI also helps to exclude sarcoma, schwannoma, lymphatic and venous malformations. In the case of a malignant transformation, the MRI will reveal an edematous zone around the lesion with cysts within the tumor while a tumor diameter exceeds five centimeters [8].
Positron emission tomography (PET) scan and CT scan can be performed if a biopsy is planned [9] [10].
Periostal Elevation
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) illustrated a single central fluid-fluid level and periosteal elevation with saucerisation of the anterior tibial cortex and mild surrounding oedema. Histopathology revealed a large plexiform neurofibroma. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
A correct diagnosis is an essential starting point in the treatment of neurofibromas and a misdiagnosis may lead to an inappropriate treatment. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
[…] health have better prognosis compared with those with poor health Age of the individual: Older individuals generally have poorer prognosis than younger individuals Individuals with bulky disease have a poorer prognosis Involvement of the lymph node can [dovemed.com]
MPNST are soft tissue sarcomas that arise from peripheral nerves, being one of the most aggressive malignancies in humans with extremely poor prognosis. MPNST frequently arise from a previously undetected plexiform neurofibroma (PNF). [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
MRI Reported signal characteristics include: T1: hypointense T2: hyperintense /- hypointense central focus ( target sign ) T1 C : mild enhancement Treatment and prognosis Although generally benign tumors, there is a significant potential for malignant [radiopaedia.org]
In addition, we review the literature with respect to etiology, current treatment strategies, and the issue of surveillance for this complex lesion occurring in the pediatric population. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
(Etiology) The cause of Plexiform Neurofibroma is due to genetic mutations. [dovemed.com]
The etiology of sporadic neurofibromas is unknown. Systemic Implications and Complications Solitary neurofibromas are benign and not associated with any systemic complications. [clinicaladvisor.com]
Neurofibromas can also be distinguished on histopathological examination by multiple different characteristics, including the presence of nerve fibers within the tumor. [10] Etiology Neurofibromas are peripheral nerve sheath neoplasms derived from a combination [eyewiki.aao.org]
Author information Affiliations Department of Pediatrics University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Rosa Nguyen Department of Neurology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany Rosa Nguyen & Victor-Felix Mautner Department of Epidemiology [nature.com]
Clinical and epidemiologic features in NF1 Neurofibromatosis: phenotype, natural history, and pathogenesis Friedman JM, Riccardi VM. Clinical and epidemiologic features in NF1. In: Riccardi VM, editor. [researchgate.net]
Epidemiology Both sex can be affected. Neurofibromas are rare in children, but start develop in puberty. Up to thousands of neurofibromas can develop in one adult NF1 patient. [atlasgeneticsoncology.org]
However, surgical resection has a risk of nerve injury, pain may persist after removal of the tumour(s) and tumours may regrow at the same site. [ 1 ] Epidemiology [ 6 ] Both type 1 and type 2 NF are inherited as autosomal dominant conditions but, for [patient.info]
(A detailed review of what is known about the pathophysiology of various clinical features in NF1, including neurofibromas.) Packer, RJ, Gutmann, DH, Rubenstein, A, Viskochil, D, Zimmerman, RA. [clinicaladvisor.com]
We outline the pathophysiology of button battery-induced trauma and present key radiological features of button batteries that are important in preventing delayed diagnosis after pediatric ingestion. [researchgate.net]
Recognition of this disease process and differentiating it from malignant transformation can prevent unnecessary surgery. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
"Once we know the critical steps in the process, then we can design inhibitors to block each step in an effort to prevent or slow tumor formation." [news-medical.net]
Marocchio LS, Oliveira DT, Pereira MC, et al. Sporadic and multiple neurofibromas in the head and neck region: a retrospective study of 33 years. Clin Oral Investig 2007;2013:165–169
Ji Y, Xu B, Wang X, et al. Surgical treatment of giant plexiform neurofibroma associated with pectus excavatum. J Cardiothoracic Surg 2011;2013:119
Murphey MD, Smith WS, Smith SE, Kransdorf MJ, Temple HT. From the archives of the AFIP: imaging of musculoskeletal neurogenic tumors: radiologic-pathologic correlation. Radiographics. 1999;19:5:1253–1280.
Korf BR. Malignancy in neurofibromatosis type 1. Oncologist. 2000;5:6:477–485.
Reynolds DL, Jacobson JA, Inampudi P, et al. Sonographic characteristics of peripheral nerve sheath tumors. American Journal of Roentgenology. 2004;182:3:741–744
Fuchs B, Spinner RJ, Rock MG. Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors: an update. Journal of Surgical Orthopaedic Advances. 2005;14:4:168–174.
Lin J, Martel W. Cross-sectional imaging of peripheral nerve sheath tumors: characteristic signs on CT, MR imaging, and sonography. American Journal of Roentgenology. 2001;176:1:75–82
Wasa J, Nishida Y, Tsukushi S, et al. MRI features in the differentiation of malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors and neurofibromas. American Journal of Roentgenology. 2010;194:6:1568–1574.
Ferner RE, Golding JF, Smith M, et al. [18F]2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography (FDG PET) as a diagnostic tool for neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) associated malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumours (MPNSTs): a long-term clinical study. Annals of Oncology. 2008;19:2:390–394.
Bredella MA, Torriani M, Hornicek F, et al. Value of PET in the assessment of patients with neurofibromatosis type I. American Journal of Roentgenology. 2007;189:4:928–935.


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Q: How to reuse asp.net core dll in Xamarin Project? Hi i'm try to build cross-platform project use Xamarin-Forms. I have build asp.net MVC project and i want re-use dll from my existing asp.net project in my Xamarin-Forms Project. Is there way how to do that?
I have try adding new reference into my Xamarin Project but always give me error when i try to build solution, example like this :

Error Exception while loading assemblies:
  System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load assembly
  'Microsoft.Build.Framework, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
  PublicKeyToken=xxxxxxxx'. Perhaps it doesn't exist in the Mono for
  Android profile?

Can i just copy-paste dll from asp.net project to my xamarin project?
Thanks.


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Q: Flexible array error with gcc 6 but not with gcc 4 I'm trying to compile a piece of code written by a colleague. On my machine with gcc 6.1.1 I get this error:
In file included from src/TYAGlobalLibs.cc:1:0:
./include/TYAGlobalLibs.hh:112:17: error: flexible array member 'TYA::TMultiHist::fh' not at end of 'class TYA::TMultiHist'
 TH1F    *fh[];
             ^
./include/TYAGlobalLibs.hh:102:9: note: in the definition of 'class TYA::TMultiHist'
class TMultiHist{
      ^~~~~~~~~~

It seems that this is a forbidden code path and as such it triggers a compiler error; however, using gcc 4.5.2 the same file compiles without error. I use these compiler options for g++:
-O2 -Wall -fPIC -pthread -m32 -std=c++98

for both 6.1.1 and for 4.5.2. In case it matters, gcc 6 runs on a 64 bit machine while gcc 4 on a 32 bit one. Here's a minimal code snippet to reproduce the issue:
struct test{
        int a;
        float b[];
        double c;
};

int main(){
}

Does anybody know why this happens and eventually if there are compiler options to make gcc 6 compile without errors (I have no chance of changing the code, it's not under my control)?

A: In C (C99 and later), a flexible array member can be defined with [], and must be the last member of a structure.  C++ doesn't support flexible array members, but g++ permits them as a language extension.
Older versions of g++ do not require a flexible array member to be the last member of a class or struct.  This is a bug, which has been corrected in newer versions of g++.
Here's a small test program, based on yours that illustrates the problem:
#include <iostream>
#include <cstddef>

static int mem[100];

struct test{
        int a;
        int b[];
        int c;
};

int main(){
    test *ptr = (test*)&mem;
    ptr->a = 10;
    ptr->b[0] = 20;
    ptr->b[1] = 30;
    ptr->c = 40;

    std::cout << "ptr->a    = " << ptr->a << "\n";
    std::cout << "ptr->b[0] = " << ptr->b[0] << "\n";
    std::cout << "ptr->b[1] = " << ptr->b[1] << "\n";
    std::cout << "ptr->c    = " << ptr->c << "\n";
}

And here's the output when I compile it with g++ 4.1.2:
ptr->a    = 10
ptr->b[0] = 40
ptr->b[1] = 30
ptr->c    = 40

As you can see, the member c is allocated at the same offset as b[0].
(Strictly speaking, using an int[] array to hold a test object isn't 100% safe due to possible alignment problems, but that's unlikely to be an issue in practice.)
It's very likely that your code has undiscovered bugs because of this.
Your problem is not that the newer g++ rejects your code; it's that the older one doesn't.
Reordering the member declarations so the flexible array member appears last is the simplest fix -- though you (or someone else) will need to carefully examine how the type is used.  A far better solution is probably to replace the flexible array member with some C++ container class, perhaps a std::vector.

(I have no chance of changing the code, it's not under my control)

Somebody is able to change the code, and presumably you're able to submit a bug report.


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By Young Americans for Liberty (Reporter)
Mike Schatz joins the Hazlitt Coalition!
Friday, November 4, 2022 18:01
This week, Young Americans for Liberty (YAL)—the nation's most active youth liberty organization—has welcomed North Dakota State Representative Mike Schatz (R-District 36) to its Hazlitt Coalition, now composed of more than 300 pro-liberty lawmakers in nearly 40 states.
As the organization that mobilizes young people to make tens of millions of Americans more free, YAL is proud to assist its hundreds of Hazlitt members in advancing pro-liberty legislation across the country. In 2021, the Hazlitt Coalition made 88 million Americans more free—from school choice and medical freedom to Constitutional Carry. This year, the Hazlitt Coalition and its allies have already helped make over 90 million Americans more free.
A champion of gun rights and other YAL priorities, Rep. Schatz is especially eager to "deal with the RINOs"—Republicans who help many Democrats undermine liberty.
The post Mike Schatz joins the Hazlitt Coalition! appeared first on Young Americans for Liberty.
Source: https://yaliberty.org/mike-schatz-joins-the-hazlitt-coalition/
God's Word - Colossians Chapter 3


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Kathryn Tucker
Kathryn Francis Tucker is a proud Little Rock native and 6th generation Arkansan. After graduating from Little Rock Central High in 1996, she went to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and graduated in 2000 magna cum laude in her major of fine arts with a concentration in photography. After college, she went to work in Manhattan as a photo assistant for celebrity photographer, Timothy White.
From there, she began her career in filmmaking as a Photo Editor for Miramax Films. While working at Miramax from 2002 - 2004, she produced photo shoots and worked on the marketing campaigns for such films as Kill Bill, Cold Mountain, Chicago, Gangs of New York, Amelie, City of God, and Frida. In 2004, she left Miramax to produce the critically acclaimed independent feature film Loggerheads, shot in North Carolina and later accepted into Sundance Dramatic Competition in 2005.
In 2006, Kathryn was accepted into the Directors Guild Training Program in Los Angeles. During her two-year training as a DGA Trainee, she worked on television series and feature films such as Private Practice, Bones, Made of Honor and She's Out of My League. After completing the training program in 2008 and becoming a member of the Directors Guild of America, she worked as a 2nd Assistant Director on the pilot episode and first season of Glee, earning three award nominations from the Directors Guild of America for her work on Glee's directing team.
Kathryn left Glee in 2010 to re-immerse herself in feature films and spent the next 4 years working as a 2nd Assistant Director on such films as Drag Me to Hell, Just Go With It, Jack & Jill, This Is 40, Oblivion, Gangster Squad, and Sex Tape. In 2011, Kathryn co-produced 2nd Serve, an independent feature film shot in Kentucky.
In 2013, Kathryn partnered with the Miller Brothers in Arkansas to produce All the Birds Have Flown South, which was shot in the winter of 2014. In 2016, she produced the feature film Antiquities alongside Graham Gordy, Daniel Campbell, Gary Newton and Jayme Lemons. Antiquities was shot entirely on location in Little Rock and North Little Rock in the fall of 2016 and premiered June 16th, 2018 at the Chinese Theater in Los Angeles and was distributed nationally and digitally by The Orchard. Kathryn also just completed a documentary about former Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe that she directed for AETN that will premiere on August 21st in Little Rock, and air on AETN, August 29th.
In 2017, Kathryn founded the Arkansas Cinema Society with founding board members former Governor Mike Beebe, Mary Steenburgen, Jeff Nichols, and Graham Gordy - to name a few. Kathryn serves as the executive director of the non-profit organization that works to nurture the new and existing film talent within Arkansas through educational programs, year-round screenings and the ACS's annual film festival, FILMLAND.
Kathryn lives in Little Rock with her husband, award winning cinematographer Gabe Mayhan, their 3 year old son, Tucker, and welcomed their daughter, Kathryn Clarke, to the family February 1st, 2018.


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Prayership for Repentance
Project to rent a vessel of prayer for repentance and forgiveness to break the curse due to the triangular trade. This will make the circuit of this slave trade.
Prayer Request for November and December
My trip in the Caribbean made me more accountable to the reality of the project in which the Lord led me. Before this project, I did not consider the impact of the slave trade on the planet demography and its consequences on relationship between black and white people, with the specificity of those between black populations from this ugly trade and white populations on the one hand, and black population of the forced Diaspora and black populations from the continent on the other hand. Until that vision, it is a subject that never interested, nor questioned me.
In my youth, I knew there were some were oversee, brothers called "sugarcane" with whom cohabitation was difficult or even sometimes impossible. Some families advised their children not to bind into the marriage with them because this was always doomed to failure, and for me it was a simple exogenous data which all African travelling to Overseas should take into account and I never questioned why that? When I arrived in France for my studies and faced them for the first time, I realized it was the same for them: we were likewise as concerns that state of mind, but we shared at least one thing, our apprehension of white people.
So it is only from this view that something has changed my view of this situation. It is as if suddenly the Lord has opened my eyes to a world I could only see through a veil. I became interested in this very story, and like miraculously I was put in contact with people, videos, books and events relevant to the slave trade and its consequences in geopolitics, economic and commercial relations, cultural and social relations in the world.
When I started the implementation of this project and I realized that the Lord had entrusted similar vision to other, Western like African, I asked myself why to me too, since a considerable amount of work had already been done in this direction. What could I make more by the vision that I received? The response I received during my trip in October in the Caribbean.
When I arrived at the Hotel where we stayed, the first observation I made is that the ladies at the reception were behaving exactly as our sisters in Africa. They had always attached their faces as if they had something against the whole world. The second is after my speec at the Congress of Evangelicals sin the Caribbean Georgetown 2011 (CONECAR 2011). I realized the bad feeling of black people. It would certainly be relevant to the colonial and slavery situation that this population had experimented: it is when a pastor of Barbados approached me and said this: "brother, until now, I had resentment towards the African who sold us as slaves to whites, but now, after your presentation, and following the call you have just addressed us, I realize that we should and can be Joseph to Africa and give her a helping hand to finish the task and do any other things together."
I knew the Life Line Expedition had visited the Barbados and made a welk with yokes and chains there, but that a pastor of this country comes to me and tell me what I have heard, this made me realize that there was still much to do and the adventure was worth it!
Thank you to pray for:
- New contacts that were made at the CONECAR to coordinate actions to the reconciliation of peoples involved in the triangular trade and its consequences. Pray that they are successful and that the will of God be done.
- The authorities of Nantes, that they accept our proposal to participate in the inauguration ceremony of the Memorial for the abolition of slavery.
- The Churches of Nantes that they are convinced of the need in the interest of their involvement in the movement for reconciliation. God has given us in Christ, the Ministry of Reconciliation.
- For us. That the discouragement recedes from us and that the Lord renews us in our zeal to serve Him, to obey Him and to put into practice what He commands us.
- That the Lord opens doors that lead us to do His will at all times and closes those intended to divert us.
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Daniel Mpondo is a teacher, a missionary and also is the founder of an International Missionary organization called Maeva Sev, www.maevasev.org.
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