I'm also male and can't shut off my brain. I don't think it's a gender thing directly but may be skewed to one side.
That said I like the idea that couples must end up at 100% somehow. Sometimes you had a hard day and can only contribute 10% and your partner has to make up the other 90. Sometimes they have a rough day and max out at 20 % and you gotta cover the other 80%. Issues arise when it's 20+20 so you only get 40% coverage. Happiness can occur when your combined equals over 100 and you can use excess energy to see them smile .
Keep in mind, the lowercase and uppercase letters are in continuous blocks on the ASCII table so you can can use that to verify if a char is a letter without doing an incredible long chain of if else statements.
Couple big things are 1. Only accept reasonable characters, on a white list instead of rejecting bad characters based on a black list. This will mean you are less likely to forget to block /0 for example. 2. Understand how strings work and ensure both reading and writing to that string doesn't extend beyond the end of memory allocated for the string. For example do you understand what the /0 would do to a string your program accepts?
On your second point I agree. My initial point was that should encourage them to change/get help and not blame immigrants. If you have those issues and don't fix them you will still be unemployed regardless of immigrants. You can fix them and improve your situation but even if we had 0 immigrants, no one will voluntarily hire a meth addict who shows up 10% of the time.
I'm pro-immigrant. My point was against people against them. If you are native to your country and can't compete vs an illegal immigrant that's a you problem. A native has so many advantages and the immigrant has so many struggles, it's like the lowest bar.
"they are taking are jobs" people are basically complaining about the mice taking droppings from their feast.
Ok, they may know people local, I'll grant that. They need to speak local language to understand written instructions, to interact with co-workers, to understand what is needed for them to do.
I think your last point is the same as mine. You should offer something that is advantageous compared to an immigrant. You have a massive advantage. If you can't do that it doesn't matter since you definitely won't be able to compete with natives with whom you don't have a massive advantage.
The employee not speaking the local language is a positive? Then why are the homeless not employed? If not having a stable home or clean clothes a positive... Where the fuck do you work so I can i avoid it? The smell alone.
Yes they are all signs of desperation. Maybe you could argue they are indicators the person will accept lower wage and as such less expense to the employer. That said it's hardly a positive... If I owned a laundry mat and hiring an attendant(easy job, no real requirements) I would want a person who can interact with customers, who didn't have an odor, who had a stable way to pay. It may cost more, but I'd likely get more customers.
I'm not saying immigrants are less then local people(how ever you interpret that) but native citizens have a huge advantage. If I move to India and don't speak Indian, don't know anyone there, have no training, don't have a place to live,l, barely can cloth myself... I don't expect many job opportunities. Nothing against India, same with Germany or Gambia or any country you pick.
If you fail to cross even that minimal bar then... If you can cross that bar great, be welcome. It like a game of say super smash bros and the immigrant has a mandatory handicap of -100(should probably be higher) ...its much more likely for you to pick the non-handicap person then the handicap one. If the non-handicap still fails to win with that advantage they are not a good player.
My response to this is always: if a homeless person with no money or credentials wearing their only set of clothes with no friends or connections unable to speak the local language and requiring the boss to risk legal fines asks for a job and the boss chooses them over you.. What does that say about you?
If your company was anything like mine find a group of people who you work well with in your normal departments and try to use them whenever possible. For example basically every document released needed a signature from manufacturing, R&D, regulatory, quality. Technically I would contact the manager of each department with quick overview and ask them to assign someone, but I would also include a quick note like "I would appreciate if John could be assigned to this if he has availability". Typically I would also typically of already contacted John and checked if he had availability and if it was within his ability, typically they were willing but sometimes was told stuff like "I would love to but I'm on vacation for 2 weeks starting Monday" or "I could but I haven't work on fault tolerance stack up analysis since college, I recommend Tim as he can give a more thorough review of your analysis". All good things to know before starting out on a project.
Also if you need something done quickly prepare ahead and alert everyone and typically people will comply but don't use this too often. For example one time we had an improvement project, we were told we could use a Friday but report had to be completed and released before Friday morning or people's surgeries would need to be delayed(long story how we got in that situation). I wrote the whole report the week before assuming everything went smoothly, only thing missing was the specific numbers from the test. I sent it out the week before and asked for a pre-review so everyone agreed on the verbiage. I wrote a macro script to do all the analysis and verified it work with previous data sets compared to manual analysis. Test took 6 hours to run, finishing of report took 10 minutes, sent out for review to all signatories and cc'd my boss, the director and the dvp emphasizing urgency. Dvp replied all throwing his weight behind it. Everything was approved and released with an hour to spare before eod. I only did that sort of thing 5 times over 8 years in that role so people respected my request. I know people who said everything was urgent and no matter what the real priority was it got put into the normal queue for most people. Typically I budgeted a week just for reviews in my timeline, we got that one done in about 35 minutes.
I used to be in medical device, be aware everything takes forever. Minor changes were atleast 6 months. I added in a step to have an operator look at some component under a microscope for damage to increase yield. Basically if the component was damaged it wasn't detectable till much later and cost went from about 5 dollars to about 800. It took 9 months to implement and we didn't even have to buy anything or hire anyone.
Yeah, I'll use them to prop up this table... Oh some of them can be used to make shadow puppets... Maybe some can be used to ensure proper efficiency of the garbage trucks...
As a child my family had a cat, american short hair, and a dog, half great Dane half boxer. One day the cat tried this with the dog bed. Dog came back into the room, saw this, ignored it and laid down in the bed anyways... On top of the cat.
Don't worry cat was OK and quickly got from under the dog but boy did she have a mood for the rest of the day.
All good, wasn't an issue just commenting on my disgust of that