Plus, the incident most likely never even happened, there is only one account from it and it's from someone with an axe to grind. But ya, all those GG people who refuse to believe that an jilted boyfriend would ever lie.
The bogeyman is real though which is why the topic remains alive and keep feeding itself. Anyone who denies seeing chauvinism in gaming either hasn't been gaming very long or is attempting to defend it.
So what? Men are allowed to be one sided but heaven forbid if a woman does the same thing? Video games ARE sexist for the most part. You can't deny that. The article just pointed out more of it. The reverse sexism against men is trivial and minor, to the point that it's not even worth talking about. Sexism against women IS a bigger issue.
And again, so what? If there is sexism against men then fight against that AT THE SAME TIME as fighting against sexism against women. Instead it seems like you prefer to deny any such thing as sexism against women unless and until some woman acknowleges sexism against men, which ultimately only serves the purpose of denying the sexism altogether.
So why isn't the fight about a few extremist feminists, why is it instead "gamer" gate? Why is every woman who speaks up on this being harrassed? This is nothing more than an anti-feminist backlash. Why would anyone send rape and death threats about Depression Quest? There are some sick sick guys out there and they've being apologized for and criticism being deflected away from them.
Even if all the accusations were true, which they are not, this should still be the smallest of all the small scandals.
It's not suspicious, even if there were a relationship. And there actually was not a relationship it was just sour grapes from an ex boyfriend trying to get revenge.
So what's wrong with that? Even though the story is FALSE, it's still nothing to worry about because that journalist did not review any games by the author.
So why didnt GamerGate start the last time this happened? Instead GamerGate only started after a false story about a game dev sleeping with a journalist who did not actually review her game. People were perfectly fine to put up with crappy game journlists for decades and it only recently blew up.
Hmm, hard question. I mostly got lucky, with friends recommending me for jobs. When I got my first job at device driver level I had never done it before but did well in the interview, and I knew the concepts. A lot probably due to me edging towards away from applications and towards the lower level guts, saying "I can do that".
Search for jobs that have keywords like 'ARM', 'PowerPC', 'AVR', 'C', 'Assembler', 'RTOS', 'kernel', 'device driver', 'systems'. Industries it is big in would be medical devices, networking, wireless, automotive, and so forth. It covers a huge range though, from full blown Linux systems with hard drives down to 8 bit devices with a few hundred bytes or RAM.
I'm only asking how to insert and delete from the list. It's something done on the job. We don't use C++, but we do have a list implementation. But a programmer who can't do the simple stuff makes me certain they'll have trouble with the hard stuff, and likely be bothering me constantly asking beginner questions. This is on an embedded system, you have to do the low level stuff.
Except that Sun had plans for a decent idea, with cross platform capability and safety as a primary design goal from the start, even if it didn't meet all those goals..NET on the other had as its primary design goal to kill Java. That's not a foundation you really want to be building on top of.
It may be how IT works these days, but It has been getting dumber and dumber of the decades. I hesitate to even call IT people engineers anymore, they're just code monkeys who know how to recommend Microsoft solutions. We don't need more idiots out there who only know how to copy, because that's not real programming and it only leads to more messes that need to be cleaned up by the smart people.
The kids ARE cheating, because they are NOT learning. This is a university where they are paying money to be educated. They are not at a stupid tech school advertised on daytime TV designed to get them an entry level job and nothing more. If I see "Duke" on someone's resume then I expect to see someone who's actually educated. If I just wanted a code monkey for intern-level work then I could head down to the local community college for that.
To expand on this, the purpose of an education is not to learn how to do a "job", but in becoming educated. If someone just wants a job then they can go to a trade school. There are plenty of cheaper colleges that can teach someone to be a grunt programmer.
That's why I still ask about doubly linked lists when interviewing someone. I get to see how they approach the concept if they're unfamiliar with it, but I'm dismayed by just how many programmers who claim to have experience with embedded systems either have never done this before or can not actually figure it out. Sheesh, if they can't rearrange four pointers then what happens when they have a real challenge?
Too many programmers just blindly copy. Std::map or std::vector for *everything* even when they're bad ideas. The mantra of never reinventing the wheel means they're stuck using the penny farthing bicycle for eternity. I hesitate to call of some of these programmers and they're just sticking together prefabricated Lego blocks.
Meanwhile in embedded systems we have to reinvent stuff constantly. Code space too small to just bring in a full blown C library, too many hassles with legal department to cut and paste from other libraries, so just write your own. Space versus time tradeoffs, on some systems we had space but needed to make things fast, other systems we can afford to be slow but have no bytes to spare with size. Most libraries are in the middle with a sort of bland general purpose implementation suitable for PCs.
I refer to code on the internet, but I never copy it verbatim, and make an attempt to actually structure the code differently (not hard because it almost always needs adapting).
In school one of my profs had the Gilligan's Island rule. You could work together with friends, but before you rushed off an typed in the code on the computer you had to watch one episode of Gilligan's Island first, thus erasing all the details from your brain.
It gets too hard to tell. I used to think I could detect sarcasm but it's getting harder as too many people say something with complete sincerity that is ridiculous.
There is a group of people who see few women in high tech and think that there is a problem with that and that more women should be encouraged to join, the causes for few women should be discovered and possibly remedied, etc. Ie, the group sees this as a problem. However there is another group that sees few women in high tech and thinks "so what?" This other group is either apathetic, laissez-faire, denies that there is a problem, or just prefers the status quo.
You seriously think that someone disparaging gamers is more evil than sending death threats, which is illegal? For the entire history of computer gaming, gamers have been ridiculed. Even with newer faux-nerds getting into gaming it is still not at all mainstream. So why change now? Why is it only now that there is the ultimate rage about journalists and games, and only in response to issues of women and gaming?
The anonymous death threats are vastly worse than some nerds being called nerds (yes, I'm a nerd). The whole defining point of being a nerd is about not caring what other people think about you. The reason we play games or play with computers or tech, even though society laughs at us when we do it, is because we're nerds.
And from my experience with gaming, the journalist's quote you have is not that far off from truth for a segment of gamers.
I think the bigger point of the article is that too many people just look the other way. A new report of doxxing or threats comes out and quickly there are many many posts saying "it's not about women, it's about ethics in journalism!", which is a totally idiotic attempt to redirect the issue. Instead we need MORE people coming out and calling such infantile behavior unacceptable. The bullies need to be confronted instead of accepted or trying to hide them.
Actually, it is not about ethics in journalism and hasn't been since the first day after GG showed up. It's just some people fail to notice that the topic has changed, or else they are desparately trying to change the topic.
Gaming journalism has been utter crap since the start. Yet only now does anyone care about it. If these new accusations about unethical behavior had involved men I seriously doubt anyone would have cared enough to post even one tweet.
Complaining now about ethics in journalism is like starting to complain about ethics in politics only after the person you hate wins office.
I think the issue is that it is socially acceptable for men to be assholes but society finds it abhorrent when women are assholes. Society wants women to be quiet and submissive, and there's an attitude that reacts strongly against women who are loud and rude.
And of course the attitude that guys must never be dumped, only the guy is allowed to do the dumping. I definitely have seen that attitude over the decades. The massive tantrum after being dumped is most definitely a guy thing. Guys get together and the peer pressure increases the rage. Women get together after that and the peer pressure is to move on.
If Zoe Quinn had been a guy and allegedly slept with a female journalist, there would be no GamerGate, we'd instead see stories about "New High Score!"
Do you have references for any of this? What jobs can you not get if you are male? Name one (other than first lady). If you as a white male feel oppressed, then just stop for a second and attempt to imagine how people who are not white and male feel when being oppressed.
How often does this occur? What is the percentage of death threats and doxxing happen after a white male posts a message about games or tech compared to the percentage of death threats and doxxing occuring when a woman of any race posts a message about games or tech? How often is it that men versus women are falsely accused of sleeping with journalists, how often that men versus women are told that they must stay home and have babies, how often that men versus women are threatened with rape or violence for expressing opinions?
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Plus, the incident most likely never even happened, there is only one account from it and it's from someone with an axe to grind. But ya, all those GG people who refuse to believe that an jilted boyfriend would ever lie.
The bogeyman is real though which is why the topic remains alive and keep feeding itself. Anyone who denies seeing chauvinism in gaming either hasn't been gaming very long or is attempting to defend it.
So what? Men are allowed to be one sided but heaven forbid if a woman does the same thing? Video games ARE sexist for the most part. You can't deny that. The article just pointed out more of it. The reverse sexism against men is trivial and minor, to the point that it's not even worth talking about. Sexism against women IS a bigger issue.
And again, so what? If there is sexism against men then fight against that AT THE SAME TIME as fighting against sexism against women. Instead it seems like you prefer to deny any such thing as sexism against women unless and until some woman acknowleges sexism against men, which ultimately only serves the purpose of denying the sexism altogether.
So why isn't the fight about a few extremist feminists, why is it instead "gamer" gate? Why is every woman who speaks up on this being harrassed? This is nothing more than an anti-feminist backlash. Why would anyone send rape and death threats about Depression Quest? There are some sick sick guys out there and they've being apologized for and criticism being deflected away from them.
Even if all the accusations were true, which they are not, this should still be the smallest of all the small scandals.
It's not suspicious, even if there were a relationship. And there actually was not a relationship it was just sour grapes from an ex boyfriend trying to get revenge.
Of course, if it was a male game dev who slept with a female journalist, all the guys would be saying "Score!"
So what's wrong with that? Even though the story is FALSE, it's still nothing to worry about because that journalist did not review any games by the author.
So why didnt GamerGate start the last time this happened? Instead GamerGate only started after a false story about a game dev sleeping with a journalist who did not actually review her game. People were perfectly fine to put up with crappy game journlists for decades and it only recently blew up.
Hmm, hard question. I mostly got lucky, with friends recommending me for jobs. When I got my first job at device driver level I had never done it before but did well in the interview, and I knew the concepts. A lot probably due to me edging towards away from applications and towards the lower level guts, saying "I can do that".
Search for jobs that have keywords like 'ARM', 'PowerPC', 'AVR', 'C', 'Assembler', 'RTOS', 'kernel', 'device driver', 'systems'. Industries it is big in would be medical devices, networking, wireless, automotive, and so forth. It covers a huge range though, from full blown Linux systems with hard drives down to 8 bit devices with a few hundred bytes or RAM.
I'm only asking how to insert and delete from the list. It's something done on the job. We don't use C++, but we do have a list implementation. But a programmer who can't do the simple stuff makes me certain they'll have trouble with the hard stuff, and likely be bothering me constantly asking beginner questions. This is on an embedded system, you have to do the low level stuff.
Except that Sun had plans for a decent idea, with cross platform capability and safety as a primary design goal from the start, even if it didn't meet all those goals. .NET on the other had as its primary design goal to kill Java. That's not a foundation you really want to be building on top of.
It may be how IT works these days, but It has been getting dumber and dumber of the decades. I hesitate to even call IT people engineers anymore, they're just code monkeys who know how to recommend Microsoft solutions. We don't need more idiots out there who only know how to copy, because that's not real programming and it only leads to more messes that need to be cleaned up by the smart people.
The kids ARE cheating, because they are NOT learning. This is a university where they are paying money to be educated. They are not at a stupid tech school advertised on daytime TV designed to get them an entry level job and nothing more. If I see "Duke" on someone's resume then I expect to see someone who's actually educated. If I just wanted a code monkey for intern-level work then I could head down to the local community college for that.
To expand on this, the purpose of an education is not to learn how to do a "job", but in becoming educated. If someone just wants a job then they can go to a trade school. There are plenty of cheaper colleges that can teach someone to be a grunt programmer.
That's why I still ask about doubly linked lists when interviewing someone. I get to see how they approach the concept if they're unfamiliar with it, but I'm dismayed by just how many programmers who claim to have experience with embedded systems either have never done this before or can not actually figure it out. Sheesh, if they can't rearrange four pointers then what happens when they have a real challenge?
Too many programmers just blindly copy. Std::map or std::vector for *everything* even when they're bad ideas. The mantra of never reinventing the wheel means they're stuck using the penny farthing bicycle for eternity. I hesitate to call of some of these programmers and they're just sticking together prefabricated Lego blocks.
Meanwhile in embedded systems we have to reinvent stuff constantly. Code space too small to just bring in a full blown C library, too many hassles with legal department to cut and paste from other libraries, so just write your own. Space versus time tradeoffs, on some systems we had space but needed to make things fast, other systems we can afford to be slow but have no bytes to spare with size. Most libraries are in the middle with a sort of bland general purpose implementation suitable for PCs.
I refer to code on the internet, but I never copy it verbatim, and make an attempt to actually structure the code differently (not hard because it almost always needs adapting).
In school one of my profs had the Gilligan's Island rule. You could work together with friends, but before you rushed off an typed in the code on the computer you had to watch one episode of Gilligan's Island first, thus erasing all the details from your brain.
A+ for calling it 'memoization'.
It gets too hard to tell. I used to think I could detect sarcasm but it's getting harder as too many people say something with complete sincerity that is ridiculous.
There is a group of people who see few women in high tech and think that there is a problem with that and that more women should be encouraged to join, the causes for few women should be discovered and possibly remedied, etc. Ie, the group sees this as a problem. However there is another group that sees few women in high tech and thinks "so what?" This other group is either apathetic, laissez-faire, denies that there is a problem, or just prefers the status quo.
You seriously think that someone disparaging gamers is more evil than sending death threats, which is illegal? For the entire history of computer gaming, gamers have been ridiculed. Even with newer faux-nerds getting into gaming it is still not at all mainstream. So why change now? Why is it only now that there is the ultimate rage about journalists and games, and only in response to issues of women and gaming?
The anonymous death threats are vastly worse than some nerds being called nerds (yes, I'm a nerd). The whole defining point of being a nerd is about not caring what other people think about you. The reason we play games or play with computers or tech, even though society laughs at us when we do it, is because we're nerds.
And from my experience with gaming, the journalist's quote you have is not that far off from truth for a segment of gamers.
I think the bigger point of the article is that too many people just look the other way. A new report of doxxing or threats comes out and quickly there are many many posts saying "it's not about women, it's about ethics in journalism!", which is a totally idiotic attempt to redirect the issue. Instead we need MORE people coming out and calling such infantile behavior unacceptable. The bullies need to be confronted instead of accepted or trying to hide them.
Actually, it is not about ethics in journalism and hasn't been since the first day after GG showed up. It's just some people fail to notice that the topic has changed, or else they are desparately trying to change the topic.
Gaming journalism has been utter crap since the start. Yet only now does anyone care about it. If these new accusations about unethical behavior had involved men I seriously doubt anyone would have cared enough to post even one tweet.
Complaining now about ethics in journalism is like starting to complain about ethics in politics only after the person you hate wins office.
I think the issue is that it is socially acceptable for men to be assholes but society finds it abhorrent when women are assholes. Society wants women to be quiet and submissive, and there's an attitude that reacts strongly against women who are loud and rude.
And of course the attitude that guys must never be dumped, only the guy is allowed to do the dumping. I definitely have seen that attitude over the decades. The massive tantrum after being dumped is most definitely a guy thing. Guys get together and the peer pressure increases the rage. Women get together after that and the peer pressure is to move on.
If Zoe Quinn had been a guy and allegedly slept with a female journalist, there would be no GamerGate, we'd instead see stories about "New High Score!"
Do you have references for any of this? What jobs can you not get if you are male? Name one (other than first lady). If you as a white male feel oppressed, then just stop for a second and attempt to imagine how people who are not white and male feel when being oppressed.
How often does this occur? What is the percentage of death threats and doxxing happen after a white male posts a message about games or tech compared to the percentage of death threats and doxxing occuring when a woman of any race posts a message about games or tech? How often is it that men versus women are falsely accused of sleeping with journalists, how often that men versus women are told that they must stay home and have babies, how often that men versus women are threatened with rape or violence for expressing opinions?