Gay rights advocates have the right to criticise Mozilla, but are they right in boycotting Mozilla until Eich leaves the company? Are social conservatives right to demand the gay marriage advocate head of some other organisation be fired because they believe their tax payments shouldn't be used to provide the benefits to married gay couples? Go figure.
Mozilla's response is too timid, Mitchell Baker sounds far too apologetic on the turn of the events. Their accomplishments are not because of their palling up to the popular opinions but because they stood for our basic rights. This is the probably the first instance where I have been disappointed with them. I understand that maybe they didn't have the stomach to stand up for their CEO but they sound too concerned about looking good in eyes of the liberal crowd with their apologetic tone.
It doesn't seem sensible for a company of IBM's size to hold on to a market that is fast becoming a niece market.
I know some childless coupless reach out to the orphanages or the womb and the sperm markets, but I personally never knew anyone would want to adopt a neice, so this is news to me.
One of the things he did according to the article is "contact journalists who have been critical of gender disparities, partner with an appropriate group or organization to create a new program, dedicate a budget for the project." It sounds like wooing the politically correct people - who most probably have not real understanding of the real working of technology - by hiring candidates of one gender while discriminating against those of the other gender who are atleast equally qualified for the job.
That my webkit browsers have been very poorly behaved; maybe it's just me... but images flicker, forms appear and disappear, sometimes pages just stop loading at random... each patch for mountain lion seems to repair it BRIEFLY... but it always comes back.
Desktop Chrome used to be a breath of fresh air a year or two ago, but now, my experience with every new release has been worse than with the previous version. I feel probably they are ignoring it for the Mobile Android and Chrome browsers because they feel it's more important to keep their lead there.
I worked in SAP Labs India till 2 years ago, and I was there during Feroze's first two years as its MD. That place has a culture of mediocre coding standards and general lack of any programming methodology. This person has thrived on that culture, and moved up the ranks very fast and hasn't spent more than 5 years as a programmer himself. This is primarily why he has made this comment because he has no understanding or perspective on the importance of programming experience and why that or why it matters.
I think most of them who come from Indian outsourcing companies like Infosys and HCL earn much lesser than 80K and save up close to 100K. Since I live in India and work in the industry I know a handful of people who work for these outsourcing companies and are working in the US on H1-B Visa. Usually they would rent a one room apartment where four people would stay together. Some of them would go even cheaper, one of the persons who I know, stayed in a Gurudwara (Sikh Temple), where usually the people who can't afford a place to stay would usually go.
Mozilla is dealing with addon compatibility thing, they updated my addon to be compatible with Firefox 5.0 and then 6.0 and mailed me about it after the beta testers found it to work fine with those versions.
What do governments usually do when they decide that a substance corrupts the society and influences people to commit crime?
They ban that substance and device laws that give harsh punishments to the sellers of that substance. Like banning narcotics for recreational use and punishing their dealers with long multi-decade sentences.
The analogy I am drawing to piracy here is that it's the MP3 players made by mega-corporations such as Apple and Sony that drives people to download music illegally.
Say, an 80 GB ipod costs 200 dollars. So if each song takes an average 4 MB of space, then your ipod can hold 20,000 of them. Something which was unimaginable before you could store your music on a hard drive.
This would need you to shell out 13,800 dollars at 69 cents per song.
So if we just ban the sale of these MP3 player, our primary motivation to piracy will be gone.
It could also serve as a good precedence for the future if the makers of these MP3 players are told to pay billions of dollars in retrospective fines for the losses they have caused to the music industry.
With only three years in the programming field with the backoffice of one of the top software companies in the world, I have got the feeling that most of the jobs do not require much mathematical skill. Especially in my kind of setup in this part of the world, because if you have the most rudimentary logical skills, then this is all you ever need to get your job done.
Our team maintains a product which was developed five years ago by handful of people who have all moved on. Since this product has become so stable that the most of the requirements seldom requires us to cut into the muscle to fix anything.
So our team spends all its time doing work which pretty much can be done by a high school grad or an arts student with little or no knowledge of, or inclination towards, mathematics.
But does that give me a reason to think that Maths is not necessary at all for programming? No, because I know I can not go very far with where I want to go if I don't have strong logic and mathematical skills, and the desire to learn.
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Gay rights advocates have the right to criticise Mozilla, but are they right in boycotting Mozilla until Eich leaves the company? Are social conservatives right to demand the gay marriage advocate head of some other organisation be fired because they believe their tax payments shouldn't be used to provide the benefits to married gay couples?
Go figure.
Mozilla's response is too timid, Mitchell Baker sounds far too apologetic on the turn of the events. Their accomplishments are not because of their palling up to the popular opinions but because they stood for our basic rights.
This is the probably the first instance where I have been disappointed with them. I understand that maybe they didn't have the stomach to stand up for their CEO but they sound too concerned about looking good in eyes of the liberal crowd with their apologetic tone.
It doesn't seem sensible for a company of IBM's size to hold on to a market that is fast becoming a niece market.
I know some childless coupless reach out to the orphanages or the womb and the sperm markets, but I personally never knew anyone would want to adopt a neice, so this is news to me.
One of the things he did according to the article is
"contact journalists who have been critical of gender disparities, partner with an appropriate group or organization to create a new program, dedicate a budget for the project."
It sounds like wooing the politically correct people - who most probably have not real understanding of the real working of technology - by hiring candidates of one gender while discriminating against those of the other gender who are atleast equally qualified for the job.
That my webkit browsers have been very poorly behaved; maybe it's just me... but images flicker, forms appear and disappear, sometimes pages just stop loading at random... each patch for mountain lion seems to repair it BRIEFLY... but it always comes back.
Desktop Chrome used to be a breath of fresh air a year or two ago, but now, my experience with every new release has been worse than with the previous version. I feel probably they are ignoring it for the Mobile Android and Chrome browsers because they feel it's more important to keep their lead there.
I worked in SAP Labs India till 2 years ago, and I was there during Feroze's first two years as its MD. That place has a culture of mediocre coding standards and general lack of any programming methodology. This person has thrived on that culture, and moved up the ranks very fast and hasn't spent more than 5 years as a programmer himself. This is primarily why he has made this comment because he has no understanding or perspective on the importance of programming experience and why that or why it matters.
I think most of them who come from Indian outsourcing companies like Infosys and HCL earn much lesser than 80K and save up close to 100K. Since I live in India and work in the industry I know a handful of people who work for these outsourcing companies and are working in the US on H1-B Visa. Usually they would rent a one room apartment where four people would stay together. Some of them would go even cheaper, one of the persons who I know, stayed in a Gurudwara (Sikh Temple), where usually the people who can't afford a place to stay would usually go.
Intel does make Quad-Core Core i5 processors, check this link http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/277574-28-intel-dual-core-quad-core . And Apple has used them in its computers , my 2010 27 inch iMac has one - http://support.apple.com/kb/SP588 .
Another ephermal slashdot *feature*?
Mozilla is dealing with addon compatibility thing, they updated my addon to be compatible with Firefox 5.0 and then 6.0 and mailed me about it after the beta testers found it to work fine with those versions.
What do governments usually do when they decide that a substance corrupts the society and influences people to commit crime? They ban that substance and device laws that give harsh punishments to the sellers of that substance. Like banning narcotics for recreational use and punishing their dealers with long multi-decade sentences. The analogy I am drawing to piracy here is that it's the MP3 players made by mega-corporations such as Apple and Sony that drives people to download music illegally. Say, an 80 GB ipod costs 200 dollars. So if each song takes an average 4 MB of space, then your ipod can hold 20,000 of them. Something which was unimaginable before you could store your music on a hard drive. This would need you to shell out 13,800 dollars at 69 cents per song. So if we just ban the sale of these MP3 player, our primary motivation to piracy will be gone. It could also serve as a good precedence for the future if the makers of these MP3 players are told to pay billions of dollars in retrospective fines for the losses they have caused to the music industry.
With only three years in the programming field with the backoffice of one of the top software companies in the world, I have got the feeling that most of the jobs do not require much mathematical skill. Especially in my kind of setup in this part of the world, because if you have the most rudimentary logical skills, then this is all you ever need to get your job done. Our team maintains a product which was developed five years ago by handful of people who have all moved on. Since this product has become so stable that the most of the requirements seldom requires us to cut into the muscle to fix anything. So our team spends all its time doing work which pretty much can be done by a high school grad or an arts student with little or no knowledge of, or inclination towards, mathematics. But does that give me a reason to think that Maths is not necessary at all for programming? No, because I know I can not go very far with where I want to go if I don't have strong logic and mathematical skills, and the desire to learn.