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It that sad and unfathomable part of the human experience. This passing always leaves me at a loss for words - word that don't really exist.
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Thanks for your remarks!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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My condolences 
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Thanks!
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Your "youngest", and "only 70"? 
Go to your family at a later time. Hardly matters when you go, but you should go.
All the best to you, I will light a candle in his name tonight.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Thanks!
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Let me add my condolences. My older brother (88 years old) passed last year. Today, he was buried, with full military honors at Arlington Cemetery. Since many could not make the trip, my nephew hired a video team and they streamed the whole ceremony live. Not like being there, but well done.
It is never easy losing a relative or close friend. I try to remember the fun times.
Lou
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Here I am 
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It's happening.
We currently have 3 female software engineers on our team now. Two year's ago, it was zero.
Give it time. 
EDIT: it also has to do with company hiring procedures and practice. Our company now tries to hire as diverse as possible, while hiring quality talent. A lot of companies have been doing this for years now, but some were/are a little slow on the up take.
modified 8-Mar-21 9:00am.
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During my career, I never found it to be an issue. In 1981, when I joined the company where I worked for over 20 years, it looked like a meeting of the UN. There were a reasonable number of women, probably at least to the extent that there were women graduates in Computer Science or Engineering. Hiring talent was always a challenge, so it would have been stupid to discriminate for irrelevant reasons. There were probably managers who did discriminate, but I never heard anyone suggest that doing so was sensible.
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Slacker007 wrote: Our company now tries to hire as diverse as possible, while hiring quality talent
My company is hiring as diverse as possible - without hiring quality talent, but to get their figures straight. Positive discrimination = Disaster.
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Slacker007 wrote: Our company now tries to hire as diverse as possible,
I have never understood why people are so obsessed with skin color and diversity. Just hire the best candidate, period. I can't even begin to imagine having several people that are equally qualified and then deciding who to make the offer to simply based on their race or gender.
That's insanity. 
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This exactly. See my reply above.
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shanda watkins wrote: I have never understood why people are so obsessed with skin color and diversity.
Because people that don't work as hard to achieve a skill still feel like they're owed something by the rest of society. (And this viewpoint exists in all races and both genders). Furthermore, this viewpoint is taught and fostered by the modern American school system. Everybody wins a trophy, regardless of how well they actually do at something, so they go through life *expecting* to be treated equally (in terms of potential job suitability) when they're not actually equal. At some point, equality and skill set diverges into separate paths. Anyone can sweep standing water off a sidewalk, but not everyone can be a programmer, or even a grocery clerk.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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shanda watkins wrote: I have never understood why people are so obsessed with skin color and diversity.
Its all about Politics. I have no say in our company's hiring practices.
modified 8-Mar-21 12:40pm.
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shanda watkins wrote: Just hire the best candidate, period.
 If everybody did that, then there wouldn't be a problem.
The problems start when the people doing the hiring believe that the "best candidate" is always one particular gender / skin colour / etc. When that's commonplace, laws have to be introduced to force them to introduce more diversity into their hiring process.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Please don't refer to people as "that".
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Although some people object, it's both grammatically and stylistically correct. And it avoids the who/whom problem, although those are more common. 
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It is not correct; it is dehumanizing.
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