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[ bas-kit-bawl, bah-skit- ]
/ ˈbæs kɪtˌbɔl, ˈbɑ skɪt- /
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noun
a game played by two teams of usually five players each on a rectangular court having a raised basket or goal at each end, points being scored by tossing the ball through the opponent's basket.
the round, inflated ball approximately 30 inches (76 centimeters) in circumference, used in this game.
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Origin of basketball
An Americanism dating back to 1890–95; basket + ball1
The Associated Press issued men’s college basketball rankings this past Monday, and the list boiled with blasphemy.
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He was very even-keeled, goofy and liked to play basketball.
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British Dictionary definitions for basketball
basketball
/ (ˈbɑːskɪtˌbɔːl) /
noun
a game played by two opposing teams of five men (or six women) each, usually on an indoor court. Points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal metal hoop
: a usually indoor court game between two teams of usually five players each who score by tossing an inflated ball through a raised goal
also : the ball used in this game
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: a court game in which each of two teams tries to toss an inflated ball through a raised goal
also : the ball used in this game
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Go on !@# with your "toxicity" / Sudo Null IT News
IT is not a kindergarten. This is a place for adults who are guided by logic and common sense. They do not need to patronize, do not follow the words, do not worry that they will form complexes. If a person is incompetent, it is necessary to make him clearly understand this, and not to protect his tender feelings to the detriment of everyone else.
So why the hell is my wonderful IT turning into a kindergarten "Merry Program-Bear"?
I fundamentally disagree with neither the actively promoted notion of a work ethic nor the notion of its implications. I don't like those caramel rails smeared with pink snot that various dreamers and populists are trying to direct the industry towards. They do not lead at all to milky rivers with jelly banks, but to the jungle of intrigues and the desert of personnel shortages through the tunnel of negative selection.
What, in fact, is now postulated as a work ethic? Here's a quote from a CoC conference that explains this
We want the environment to be safe and friendly...
Well, that's okay, right? What's wrong?
Everything is all right. This is right. Problems understanding this.
For some reason, the opinion is being actively promoted that it is impossible to criticize people, it is impossible to give them a negative assessment at all. The rationale, however, is not the results of research or at least some kind of working hypothesis, but a stream of demagogic garbage. Argumentation on the same level as yellow newspaper journalism - juggling facts, false conclusions, and often outright lies.
Why is safety to be understood as the absence of any negative emotions? Why does the same security of the environment extend only in one direction? Seems kind of sadomasochistic to me. Can a person send you code for review with the same errors over and over again and you have to respond with politeness and a smile? I would definitely not call it security. It’s more like “being in a state of constant stress” here.
Even though programming is not a construction site, you are still not sculpting cakes in a sandbox. You work with real people, often with real money, some even with airplanes or tower cranes. It's up to YOU to make the environment safe, you know? Do not lose someone's account, do not deprive someone of a purchased license, do not drop the plane.
What kind of nonsense is it to trust a young bearded man who cries from jokes about orientation to run a bank server? It should be a seasoned system administrator with balls of steel, decades of experience and virtualization of professional skills in a separate left hemisphere container, where there is no access to emotions. It is unlikely that he will grow out of a gentle hipster, who was carefully protected from sarcasm and criticism.
The greater the responsibility in the profession, the greater should be stress resistance. The saleswoman in the store, swearing inadequately, can cry and call the manager. A trucker on the road must, in response, swear at him even harder and deliver the goods on time with a satisfied smile.
The friendliness of the environment is also for some reason considered only in one direction. Respect and good attitude are fairly easy to gain and hard to lose. You can earn it only by your attitude towards colleagues and your work. Why does it suddenly appear respect for a person who ignores criticism and advice? To a person who does not perform his duties well?
A new person in the team will always receive a minimally positive attitude. No one will insult or shun him. Hiring usually guarantees two things - that the person is smart enough to be a programmer, and that they are polite enough to get through interviews. Usually these two factors are enough for respect and friendliness.
What, in general, do you have to do at work so that you have to FORCE colleagues to be polite? I can't imagine it.
Respect is probably the first (after money, of course) reason to improve one's professional level. It will not be possible to control it, and even more so to demand it. It doesn't work like that. The possible maximum is the appearance of respect and ridicule behind your back. But this, perhaps, is even worse than open contempt.
One cannot improve without criticism. Only a glance from the outside will allow you to evaluate your skill. Many things are hard to learn without mentoring. Is it possible to convince a person to learn new things and correct mistakes without negative reinforcement? Of course. But its presence greatly speeds up the learning process. Of course, insulting a colleague because of a lack of knowledge is unacceptable, but the obvious format “Your code is bad, I will now detail the reasons and give advice” is already considered toxic behavior.
If a programmer's job is a rush, if not the norm, then it is a frequent phenomenon and one must be prepared for it. It is impossible to catch all the bugs on the maiden, there are always situations that require an urgent solution. We must be prepared for the fact that at least a day of the year will be spent in extreme mode, perhaps it will be an extreme night, if everything is bad, then an extreme week. But where does stress resistance come from in a friendly and safe environment? What will our programmer-kindergartener do when the director writes to him every half an hour and asks “Well, how? Ready?".
And here's another thing - people have likes and dislikes. They can be logical or emotional - or even just a hair trend - but they will always be. And by closing the opportunity for people to express their opinion, you can’t get rid of them, it will all just turn into an undercover fight. How do you like this alignment - to receive negative feedback from colleagues for no apparent reason? And no, you won't find out the details, you just won't get promoted over and over again without knowing why. There will be no opportunity to change behavior or improve relationships in the team, because no one will tell the terribly toxic truth - you bullied everyone with your fishing stories!
Let's look around, the first sprouts of this evil are already bearing fruit. Here is a bit of reality given to us in sensations.
There is an active devaluation of statuses. Now it is very easy to find vacancies for seniors, team leads, architects with more than a year of experience. FROM YEAR. It can't be that HR is completely crazy, someone really believes that with a year of experience it is possible to be a top-level specialist in the profession. Hmm... Why then all these institutes for several years, not to mention the school?..
An unexpected fact - programmers do not want to work without cookies. Are you serious? What the hell is in every vacancy that these fucking cookies point to a senior? Your 200k salary won't let you buy them? Yes, you can hire a personal baker! It's just kind of surreal. Describe interesting tasks in a vacancy, a stack of technologies - yes, your working hardware, after all, many somehow forget, but cookies indicate everything. Without this, the lord will not descend. It is clear that they write this to show that the candidate will work in a comfortable environment, but all the cookies in the world will not replace a normal car. Note to everyone who is looking for a job - the characteristics of the workplace, just in case, should be clarified.
There are also many stories about undercover intrigues, here is one from a person I personally know. The developer comes to the company, works for three months, everyone is polite and courteous with him. Three months later, a conversation with HR, as a result of which it turns out that the team hates him. After that, drinking, switching to another team and paranoia. Although I don’t know if you can call paranoia the state when you are actually surrounded by two-faced bastards.
I would like to consider programmers as a subculture. Definitely, there are all the prerequisites for this - a fairly closed community of interests with its own mythology and informal leaders, with its own criteria for evaluating a person. No need to try to eliminate all this under the far-fetched pretext of "toxicity". What is offered in return does not look even close to equivalent. A branch of infantile two-faced dilettantes? Thank you, everything is just as I wanted!
Fuck your "toxicity"! I say this because only friends can afford to say such things to each other. And what they are trying to push through as a "friendly and safe environment" looks like a sect.
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Lonnie G. Bunch Iii, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2022 Tuesday night was college basketball at its finest. Ryan Black, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2022 Hodge earlier defeated Phoenix basketball executive Adam Metzendorf in the Aug. 2 Democratic primary. Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 16 Nov. 2022 To his credit, as shown by his emotions in discussing this latest return to Ontario, Lowry acknowledged that Toronto will be where his basketball heart endures, perhaps fitting considering how South Florida is synonymous with transplants. Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 16 Nov. 2022 The nation’s No. 1 basketball recruit is once again headed to USC.
Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2022 The University of Arkansas men's basketball program has landed the signature of ESPN 5-star big man Baye Fall. Richard Davenport, Arkansas Online, 16 Nov. 2022 Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate The Pac-12 witnessed as much intraconference movement as any other in women’s basketball this past offseason. Marisa Ingemi, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Nov. 2022 Across Atkinson Avenue from Mr. Perkins Family Restaurant is the Milwaukee Public Library Atkinson Branch, and less than a mile north of the library is William Gore Park, which features a playground and basketball courts. Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 16 Nov.
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It’s more like “being in a state of constant stress” here. 
A trucker on the road must, in response, swear at him even harder and deliver the goods on time with a satisfied smile. 
It will not be possible to control it, and even more so to demand it. It doesn't work like that. The possible maximum is the appearance of respect and ridicule behind your back. But this, perhaps, is even worse than open contempt. 
We must be prepared for the fact that at least a day of the year will be spent in extreme mode, perhaps it will be an extreme night, if everything is bad, then an extreme week. But where does stress resistance come from in a friendly and safe environment? What will our programmer-kindergartener do when the director writes to him every half an hour and asks “Well, how? Ready?". 
Here is a bit of reality given to us in sensations. 
Note to everyone who is looking for a job - the characteristics of the workplace, just in case, should be clarified. 
A branch of infantile two-faced dilettantes? Thank you, everything is just as I wanted! 
