Journal Just Jennifer's Journal: About Me...Part Three 31
Well, I guess it is time to put to rest the crap that tomhudson has been raising about why I am not working in I.T. It is both simple, and complex at the same time...
The truth is, there are several reasons...
The first, and the most simple is, I wanted to maintain my privacy. Somewhat before my beginning transition, I had worked for a couple of years for a research and development firm. As a programmer for this company, I worked on several projects, including an experiment package that went up on the space shuttle. Other projects included a consumer electronic device that allowed people to access football statistics, support software for a seismograph, and a number of other projects. Most of my work was software, though I did assist on some hardware projects as well.
Immediately prior to my transition I became a contract programmer for a company that specializes in printing various items for banks, credit card companies, and apparently health care providers.
I began my transition on a Monday by legally changing my name. I spent the next day getting my paperwork in order (driver's license and Social Security were the primary ones). Then on Wednesday I began my search for a job. Since I wanted to get a fresh start, I went to a local mall, and began there. My first stop was a national department store chain. I was hired on the spot. When I applied I simply implied I was a middle-aged homemaker returning to work because my child was old enough. That was not all that far from the truth. I was assigned to sell lingerie and sleepwear. I did quite well at it, but the money was not great.
I applied for a few programming positions and I discovered something that should not be that surprising to some. It is hard to find work when you are a middle-aged woman. By this time I had requested that my former employers maintain my privacy, but I got no guarantees. I came very close to getting a job at the headquarters of a hardware chain, but I suspect they learned about my past during a major background check. The company that did the background check did not reveal if that was the case, but I have my suspcions.
I did, finally, go to work for a period doing tech support phone center work for an Internet company. I was actually employed by a company that specializes in providing such services. To be honest, I hated the job. It was not a pleasant place to work, and I left because I needed to help my former father-in-law visit his wife who was confined to a nursing home. He was legally blind. After she died, I did look for work in programming, but again had no luck. It was about this time that my ex and I separated.
I decided to return to my work in retail, and I did even better. This time I worked in shoes, where I made much better money (salary plus commission) and then received a promotion that paid an increased salary plus a performance bonus. Now, during all of this time I had become involved with someone. He was a bit younger than me, and was confined to a wheelchair. When he moved to an apartment, I moved in with him. Unfortunately, I was not listed on the lease. After a year together, his father decided that the apartment was too expensive and that he should move to a smaller, subsidized (i.e. Section 8) unit where he would have to live alone.
I was quite devastated. I was deeply depressed, and my doctor talked me into seeking help. I spent about two weeks in the hospital. When I was discharged, I decided to move to San Francisco. While I still had a job, I had no place to live, and no savings to cover the cost of deposits and first month's rent.
I spent a few months in a shelter before getting my first place. It was nothing great, but it gave me a chance to get back on my feet. I went back to school for a while. I decided to abandon computers and programming because I came to believe that they were part of the faux male personality I had created over the years to hide the real me. This is very common among true transsexuals.
Along the way, between terms of school, I did some volunteer work at my current employer. I was then offered a part time job, and decided that employment beat being a starving student. After a couple of year, I received a transfer to a full time job, and then a promotion.
So, that is why I left computers. First, to maintain my privacy until I could attempt to cover my past. Then because apparent age discrimination. And finally, because I thought it wsa not right for me, though I have come to accept my inner geek and have stopped running from that part of my life.
Until next time...
The truth is, there are several reasons...
The first, and the most simple is, I wanted to maintain my privacy. Somewhat before my beginning transition, I had worked for a couple of years for a research and development firm. As a programmer for this company, I worked on several projects, including an experiment package that went up on the space shuttle. Other projects included a consumer electronic device that allowed people to access football statistics, support software for a seismograph, and a number of other projects. Most of my work was software, though I did assist on some hardware projects as well.
Immediately prior to my transition I became a contract programmer for a company that specializes in printing various items for banks, credit card companies, and apparently health care providers.
I began my transition on a Monday by legally changing my name. I spent the next day getting my paperwork in order (driver's license and Social Security were the primary ones). Then on Wednesday I began my search for a job. Since I wanted to get a fresh start, I went to a local mall, and began there. My first stop was a national department store chain. I was hired on the spot. When I applied I simply implied I was a middle-aged homemaker returning to work because my child was old enough. That was not all that far from the truth. I was assigned to sell lingerie and sleepwear. I did quite well at it, but the money was not great.
I applied for a few programming positions and I discovered something that should not be that surprising to some. It is hard to find work when you are a middle-aged woman. By this time I had requested that my former employers maintain my privacy, but I got no guarantees. I came very close to getting a job at the headquarters of a hardware chain, but I suspect they learned about my past during a major background check. The company that did the background check did not reveal if that was the case, but I have my suspcions.
I did, finally, go to work for a period doing tech support phone center work for an Internet company. I was actually employed by a company that specializes in providing such services. To be honest, I hated the job. It was not a pleasant place to work, and I left because I needed to help my former father-in-law visit his wife who was confined to a nursing home. He was legally blind. After she died, I did look for work in programming, but again had no luck. It was about this time that my ex and I separated.
I decided to return to my work in retail, and I did even better. This time I worked in shoes, where I made much better money (salary plus commission) and then received a promotion that paid an increased salary plus a performance bonus. Now, during all of this time I had become involved with someone. He was a bit younger than me, and was confined to a wheelchair. When he moved to an apartment, I moved in with him. Unfortunately, I was not listed on the lease. After a year together, his father decided that the apartment was too expensive and that he should move to a smaller, subsidized (i.e. Section 8) unit where he would have to live alone.
I was quite devastated. I was deeply depressed, and my doctor talked me into seeking help. I spent about two weeks in the hospital. When I was discharged, I decided to move to San Francisco. While I still had a job, I had no place to live, and no savings to cover the cost of deposits and first month's rent.
I spent a few months in a shelter before getting my first place. It was nothing great, but it gave me a chance to get back on my feet. I went back to school for a while. I decided to abandon computers and programming because I came to believe that they were part of the faux male personality I had created over the years to hide the real me. This is very common among true transsexuals.
Along the way, between terms of school, I did some volunteer work at my current employer. I was then offered a part time job, and decided that employment beat being a starving student. After a couple of year, I received a transfer to a full time job, and then a promotion.
So, that is why I left computers. First, to maintain my privacy until I could attempt to cover my past. Then because apparent age discrimination. And finally, because I thought it wsa not right for me, though I have come to accept my inner geek and have stopped running from that part of my life.
Until next time...
And now for some reality ... (Score:2)
The truth about Usher? Usher is a kook.
I'm just a single white female li [google.com]
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Thought you said you knew c? Objective c was around 25 years ago. It was crap then and it's crap now.
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While Objective C is built on C, it has additional things that must be learned. It has been over ten years since I wrote an significant C code, or C++. I am a bit rusty.
And most importantly, and unfortunately, Apple requires that all iPhone code be written in Objective C. Even though other languages will work, they require it be used.
And a wise programmer does not blame his tools for his own failings.
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Anyone who knows c++ can bang out objective c code with a few days work. It's a crap language compared to c or c++
The iPhone market is a dead end. So is the iPad market. It was a fad, and the fad is fading. Already, the apps have been commoditized - the free apps are better than the paid ones, and the iPad is under-powered junk. Shiny junk, but junk. The next generation of smart phones, with large displays, more internal memory, faster processors, more storage, and an open app market like the Evo 4g are al
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As to the rest...well, opinions are like posteriors, everyone has one. tomhudson seems to have an astonishing disdain for Apple.
The iPad has proven to be highly successful as the rest of the industry tries, once again, to play catch-up. And today we see the iPhone 4G which will be on the market before the end of the month, and again, everyone else will be playing catch-up.
Oh,
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1. Objective c is seen by most programmers as crap for a reason. It's obsolete.
2. The new iPhone is overpriced and underpowered next to the Evo 4g.
3. Many of the people buying an iPad find a month later that they're not doing all that much with it - it's too heavy. An Evo 4g will do more, cost less, and is way more open.
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tomhudson is entitled to his opinion. The market seems to disagree.
"many of the people?" I wonder, can he cite sources, or is this just his opinion.
Ah, the old open source argument. As to Flash, it really is crap. Jobs is right on that one. And for someone who is so smitten with open source, one has to won
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In case you haven't noticed, thee are open-source implementations of flash available. Oh. that's right - you wouldn't know - you're not a programmer. Adobe has released the format specification http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf/ [adobe.com]
You're tow to 3 decades behind the times, and will never catch up.
Most iPhone apps are copies of other iPhone apps. Nobody needs 20 post-it note apps.
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Some iPhone apps offer similar functionality. Many are improvement on previous ideas. Not really copies.
Yes, one can purchase an earlier model for less. When the new iPhone comes out, the current model will drop by half, and the previous model will disappear. No, they are not dirt cheap. Like most phones, the price is partially subsidized by the carrier. Without the subs
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I've been able to get a 3g for the last 2 years for $99. I don't want it. It doesn't have any must-have features, the screen resolution was crap, etc.
It's an interface slapped on top of XNU - X is Not Unix [wikipedia.org]. It contains parts of bsd, etc., and it
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You should have looked up the article on OS X, where you would have learned that it is based on Mach, not XNU. Mach was developed as the kernel for BSD UNIX.
You seem to keep assuming you I am less knowledgeable than I really am...and that you are smarter than you clearly are.
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And since you've never written any code that interfaces with the kernel directly (I have, on both bsd and linux - it was my job for 3 years), go fuck yourself.
Bragging about getting 4.5 on hotornot.com when that's below 99.8% of the population - that's a good one.
Usher trivializes rape. (Score:2)
Usher lies about a lot of things. Usher thinks that it's okay to attack someone else on-line for 7 years and trivializing their being raped because Usher says it wasn't rape:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1669728&cid=32473562 [slashdot.org]
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Jennifer Usher - internet lawyer fail (Score:2)
Jennifer Usher claims rape isn't rape!
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1669728&cid=32473562
by Just Jennifer (1823464) writes: on 2010-06-06 2:49 (#32473562)
As I pointed out, this person was NOT raped. This was a man wno was sodomized in jail, probably for something related to the Thai sex trade.
I set the record straight:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1669728&cid=32476412
You are disgusting.
Quoting Ush
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The various definitions of rape range from the broad (coercing an individual to engage in any sexual act) to the specific (forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse).
Forced sodomy is far rarer than women being raped. And the experience is different. Worse, the man we are discussing tried to claim his experience was like that of a woman, and suggested he was raped because the attacker saw
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You're such a liar. You were referring to the legal term of rape.
You said this: [slashdot.org]
And you were 100% wrong.
And like always, you try to spin, spin, spin ... but you've been lying for a decade now, and we're on to your stupidi
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And, for the record, I am not a legal scholar. But then, tomhudson thinks he knows everything, and presumes to speak for everyone.
What a total jerk.
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You made a specific claim. You're full of shit, and you got caught on it.
As for your claim not to be a legal scholar, it's about time!
One of your previous bull-shit legal threats
http://transboutique.com/article.php?story=20100228110547332 [transboutique.com]
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Jennifer Usher Attacking transsexuals/transgenders (Score:2)
Some background on Jennifer Usher, who often trolls transsexual and transgender support sites and forums using the name JustJennifer.
Topics in this post include
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The only real question is, who is our anonymous cowards?
tomhudson? Perhaps.
"Diane" Lask? It is more his style. He has shown a penchant for that sort of thing before.
Someone else? Again, perhaps.
FWIW... (Score:2)