Gender doesn't enter into the discussion, once it starts. But how did it start? Would it have started if the person who tweeted wasn't a woman?
Yes. All players tell the game devs (on twitter and everywhere else) what they fell is wrong with the game. The only difference here is that the game player in question is a well-respected content developer for the game. He's apparently poured so many thousands of hours into developing content for that game that ArenaNet considers him a partner.
I don't want to quote mine Totalbiscuit for questionable things he said, but considering the harassment she received and the fact that he encouraged it her reaction to his untimely death doesn't surprise me.
What harassment she received? When she attacked people they attacked her back and then she claimed harassment? Is that the one you're talking about?
You know, maybe if you don't go around attacking people, they wouldn't have to defend themselves against you.
Are you talking about the developer or her boss? Seems like he was the one who overreacted to criticism.
She was the one who previously expressed joy on twitter when someone died from cancer (leaving behind a widow and child) simply because he refused to join the anti-gamergaters.
The person she attacked is a content contributor to the game in question, and has such is considered a business partner by the company.
She launched an unprovoked attacked on a business partner, and got fired as a result.
(PS. You're doing a poor job of hiding your self-loathing these days.)
Yes. Even Bjarne said (something like): "Inside C++ is a smaller, cleaner language trying to get out".
The trick is to learn what to use and what not to use.
Unless you're working solo on a tiny codebase, or one that is only a few years old, you can't use that "trick". The number of business that satisfy those criteria is vanishingly small.
I use lots of C++. I also ignore major portions of it. I do not need all of it. There is nothing saying you have to use every bit of it.
Sounds like you work solo. Most projects are teams. The problem with C++ is that includes all the pitfalls of C, and then adds a few dozen more of its own.
Some of the stuff in C++ that is fairly horrible has been there forever (i.e. not recently added). For example our code review recently missed a bug in snippet that basically had a "errorcode = function (value);" because value was passed by reference. At the point of the call there is no indication that function can change the value. Had this been written in C the call "errorcode = function (&value);" would have been a clear giveaway.
All these tiny fuckups mean that most C++ experts are great at reading code that they wrote, but not so great at reading code someone else wrote. Not to mention that almost no one knows the entire language anyway.
Sure - but how much do you think they care about you? There are a number of people that like the iPhone because of it's usability.
My wife has one, its usability is crap.
um - huh. My wife and I have iPhones, and not had a failure yet. Testimonials aren't worth shit. Yours or mine.
Why'd you snip out my observation that the iPhone's usability is measurably poor? If you think it's good - great, but that is subjective. It performs poorly in metrics, and this can be seen when you watch an iPhone user use their phone. An UI that makes the user think that bluetooth is off, for example, when it actually isn't fails an important metric. A UI Element (like the single button)that does triple duty for unrelated functions fails another important metric.
These aren't testimonials you moron, these are measurable.
Sure - but how much do you think they care about you? There are a number of people that like the iPhone because of it's usability.
My wife has one, its usability is crap. Usability is not subjective, its objective and can be measured empirically. iPhones fail on many of the usability metrics, and its no secret that they do so I keep wondering why so many iPhone users believe that the usability of an iPhone is so good?
You think the usability of an iPhone is good? Watch how many iPhone users fail to discover the different things that the single button it has does. Yup - the iPhone fails multiple usability metrics before you even get to the software.
It's a prototype, and not the only one. Siemens is developing one (which suffered an unfortunately fatal accident a week or two ago).
Obviously there will need to be improvements in battery technology, just like there were for cars.
My back of the envelop calculations say that you need somewhere around two 100x increase in battery energy density to replace dead-dino engines. Further back of envelope says that we need around another 300 years or so of continuous battery improvements at the current rate of improvements to reach that 100x increase in density.
I don't think these engineers thought this through - it doesn't even work as proof of concept because we already know that batteries can provide enough energy to float a plane in the sky. They just do it for a 100th of the time,is all.
His plan to make everyone who uses the Internet "show papers" aside, his commentary about the hypocrisy of Silicon Valley billionaires is to the point.
But the solution to this isn't LESS privacy, it's MORE privacy, if anything.
Firstly , it's "her", not "him". Secondly, I was one of those who repeatedly warned that claiming misogyny and racism where there was none is the thin end of the wedge.
Unfortunately people who challenge unwarranted claims of sexism, racism, etc get called sexists, racists, etc. Pointing out, for example, that the gender pay gap doesn't exist gets you lynched.
The problem the moderate left has is that the moderate left allow the hard left to use shaming language rather than arguments and then fail to distance themselves from that shit. It is far easier to call people who are against affirmative action racists than to find an argument to support it (I haven't seen a good argument yet).
The end result, of course, is this - monitoring everyone for their own good. Because most people are basically good people, calling them misogynists if they don't allow the state to read their private correspondence is probably going to work.
That's also the reason that the hard left uses insults int the first place - calling an actual racist a racist is pointless - why would they care if someone identified them correctly? Same with calling an actual sexist a sexist.
Insults only work on people who aren't correctly identified. Calling a non-racist a racist or calling a non-sexist a sexist "works" because it either aggravates them (shutting down the conversation) or causes them to remain silent about your excesses. Either result is preferable to having facts introduced into a conversation.
The next time someone says trump is racist because he hates immigrants, see what happens you you introduce a fact such as "legal immigrants are different from illegal immigrants". The next time someone says something about a gender pay gap try introducing a fact or two and see what happens. Or even better, when in company of a hard left (or even moderate left these days) point out that Islam is extremely hard right, more to the right than even the KKK - IOW relative to Islam, the KKK is slightly left (how insane is that?)
Everyone must be tracked to prevent misogyny? Sure, why not? We've already given everything else to the alternative-truth brigade and anyway if you object you must be a misogynist!
Autonomous cars were one year ago,
I'm not sure what point you are making - your article says theirs a driver in the seat. From your link:
The taxi service is not totally "self-driving." Waymo notes that "as part of this early trial, there will be a test driver in each vehicle monitoring the rides at all times."
There isn't yet an autonomous car (as in, self-driving in conditions humans normally drive in). It will be big news when they are available.
(Sorry, Japan. You can be second.)
If Japan can figure this out, they'll be first. Although I'm guessing that they can't do it either,
STILL waiting for an upgrade for my old-ass MacPro, however . . . Anyone? Bueller?
I'm on El Capitan. Was unpleasantly surprised to find out that it doesn't implement the POSIX sem_init() function call.
Oh, it compiles alright, with a warning that the function is deprecated, but the headers are hardwired to simply return an error for each sem_init(). Honestly it would have been much more useful to simply leave it out and let the compilation fail, instead of putting in a runtime failure.
(Yeah, I know they offer grand central dispatch, but that doesn't help much when you are porting software that already has sem_init() being used).
I'm not sure what you mean. We know, factually, that there was a massive effort by Russian Intelligence to get Trump elected.
We know no such thing. There's a lot of conjecture but no evidence. The fact is that any evidence would have gotten trump kicked out by now. Politicians on both sides want him gone so if there was any actual evidence he'd be gone by now.
This is why it's called "conspiracy theory" - there's no evidence, only allegations.
Oh, yeah, I'm sure you're a black atheist transexual lesbian Muslim. How dare I disagree with you, right? I don't care who you claim to be, and I'm not saying you're necessarily a Nazi yourself. You might be a Russian spy, or just some troll that escaped from 4chan.
I've been here for decades and my posting history is available. I've always identified as black and as atheist.
Whatever it is, your purpose here is clearly to spread misinformation in order to defend Nazis.
You know just because someone corrects your misconceptions it doesn't mean that you're the target of some conspiracy theory. Nazis just aren't a threat anymore.
TBH, all conspiracy theorists sing the same song. Yours is no different. It's foolish to assert something for which there is absolutely not a single shred of supporting evidence. "The Russians Dit It" is a good example.
Ok, so what's your argument? That NeoNazis and the KKK are so rare as to be virtually non-existant?
No, that they are such a fringe group with so little support that they aren't a threat. The last count of active members in these groups were a few thousand in the US.
You know what? It doesn't matter, because you're just trying to change the subject, because you can't win a straight argument
I never made the argument that you are railing against so there's nothing to win. I also see that you are unwilling to consciously examine your reason for reading "$FOO is not a threat" as "$FOO is not bad". If you aren't able to overcome your own self-delusions about what other people are saying, why should anyone examine what you say?
But it's noteworthy that not only are you picking sides, but you're taking the side of the wannabe Nazis.
You should refrain from calling black atheists "Nazis". It just weakens your argument that there are Nazis everywhere and makes yuou look foolish.
Right, because what bad things have Nazis ever done?
If you have to put words into someone's mouth then your argument is truly stupid. FWIW, I never said that they aren't bad, I said that they aren't a threat.
For example, getting struck by lightning is bad but it isn't a threat.
Examine your motives for reading "$FOO isn't a threat" as "$FOO isn't bad".
I've been seeing a lot of this message of "Switch to Firefox" lately. I'm guessing a bunch of fanboys are trying to make rust relevant (It lives or dies with firefox).
What I've found with rust evangelists is that there's often bitterness that no one is really that interested in their language.
People can be against fascism and still be assholes.
It's disturbing how, when there are protests between wannabe Nazis and basically anyone else, some people leap to condemn the "anyone else". Whatever ever happened to not being huge fans of the Nazis?
The "Nazis" aren't a threat. Your "anyone else actually is.
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The GamerGate harassment from a few years back.
She attacked people who then responded in kind. Are you seriously arguing that people shouldn't be allowed to defend themselves?
Gender doesn't enter into the discussion, once it starts. But how did it start? Would it have started if the person who tweeted wasn't a woman?
Yes. All players tell the game devs (on twitter and everywhere else) what they fell is wrong with the game. The only difference here is that the game player in question is a well-respected content developer for the game. He's apparently poured so many thousands of hours into developing content for that game that ArenaNet considers him a partner.
Ah okay, my bad. She said "manfeels". On her personal Twitter account. After being bothered by numerous people.
I guess that's a fireable offense at that company. Glad I don't work there, wouldn't want to be walking on eggshells all the time.
She claimed misogyny where there was none. To be honest I don't want to work in any place where false claims of harassment are honoured.
I don't want to quote mine Totalbiscuit for questionable things he said, but considering the harassment she received and the fact that he encouraged it her reaction to his untimely death doesn't surprise me.
What harassment she received? When she attacked people they attacked her back and then she claimed harassment? Is that the one you're talking about?
You know, maybe if you don't go around attacking people, they wouldn't have to defend themselves against you.
Are you talking about the developer or her boss? Seems like he was the one who overreacted to criticism.
She was the one who previously expressed joy on twitter when someone died from cancer (leaving behind a widow and child) simply because he refused to join the anti-gamergaters.
The person she attacked is a content contributor to the game in question, and has such is considered a business partner by the company.
She launched an unprovoked attacked on a business partner, and got fired as a result.
(PS. You're doing a poor job of hiding your self-loathing these days.)
Yes. Even Bjarne said (something like): "Inside C++ is a smaller, cleaner language trying to get out".
The trick is to learn what to use and what not to use.
Unless you're working solo on a tiny codebase, or one that is only a few years old, you can't use that "trick". The number of business that satisfy those criteria is vanishingly small.
I use lots of C++. I also ignore major portions of it. I do not need all of it. There is nothing saying you have to use every bit of it.
Sounds like you work solo. Most projects are teams. The problem with C++ is that includes all the pitfalls of C, and then adds a few dozen more of its own.
Some of the stuff in C++ that is fairly horrible has been there forever (i.e. not recently added). For example our code review recently missed a bug in snippet that basically had a "errorcode = function (value);" because value was passed by reference. At the point of the call there is no indication that function can change the value. Had this been written in C the call "errorcode = function (&value);" would have been a clear giveaway.
All these tiny fuckups mean that most C++ experts are great at reading code that they wrote, but not so great at reading code someone else wrote. Not to mention that almost no one knows the entire language anyway.
And every time I hear "hashtag" it makes me want to vomit.
OctothorpeWhatHeSaid
You mean you're going to pay to have other people track you? If they want to track you so bad why not just make them pay?
Because silly dogma that gullible people fall for is just misunderstood? Got it.
It's not misunderstood, it's you in particular who doesn't understand it. The problem is you. You can't refute something you don't understand.
You're doing a great job of displaying the article's point. Well Done!
Sure - but how much do you think they care about you? There are a number of people that like the iPhone because of it's usability.
My wife has one, its usability is crap.
um - huh. My wife and I have iPhones, and not had a failure yet. Testimonials aren't worth shit. Yours or mine.
Why'd you snip out my observation that the iPhone's usability is measurably poor? If you think it's good - great, but that is subjective. It performs poorly in metrics, and this can be seen when you watch an iPhone user use their phone. An UI that makes the user think that bluetooth is off, for example, when it actually isn't fails an important metric. A UI Element (like the single button)that does triple duty for unrelated functions fails another important metric.
These aren't testimonials you moron, these are measurable.
Sure - but how much do you think they care about you? There are a number of people that like the iPhone because of it's usability.
My wife has one, its usability is crap. Usability is not subjective, its objective and can be measured empirically. iPhones fail on many of the usability metrics, and its no secret that they do so I keep wondering why so many iPhone users believe that the usability of an iPhone is so good?
You think the usability of an iPhone is good? Watch how many iPhone users fail to discover the different things that the single button it has does. Yup - the iPhone fails multiple usability metrics before you even get to the software.
It's a prototype, and not the only one. Siemens is developing one (which suffered an unfortunately fatal accident a week or two ago).
Obviously there will need to be improvements in battery technology, just like there were for cars.
My back of the envelop calculations say that you need somewhere around two 100x increase in battery energy density to replace dead-dino engines. Further back of envelope says that we need around another 300 years or so of continuous battery improvements at the current rate of improvements to reach that 100x increase in density.
I don't think these engineers thought this through - it doesn't even work as proof of concept because we already know that batteries can provide enough energy to float a plane in the sky. They just do it for a 100th of the time,is all.
His plan to make everyone who uses the Internet "show papers" aside, his commentary about the hypocrisy of Silicon Valley billionaires is to the point.
But the solution to this isn't LESS privacy, it's MORE privacy, if anything.
Firstly , it's "her", not "him". Secondly, I was one of those who repeatedly warned that claiming misogyny and racism where there was none is the thin end of the wedge.
Unfortunately people who challenge unwarranted claims of sexism, racism, etc get called sexists, racists, etc. Pointing out, for example, that the gender pay gap doesn't exist gets you lynched.
The problem the moderate left has is that the moderate left allow the hard left to use shaming language rather than arguments and then fail to distance themselves from that shit. It is far easier to call people who are against affirmative action racists than to find an argument to support it (I haven't seen a good argument yet).
The end result, of course, is this - monitoring everyone for their own good. Because most people are basically good people, calling them misogynists if they don't allow the state to read their private correspondence is probably going to work.
That's also the reason that the hard left uses insults int the first place - calling an actual racist a racist is pointless - why would they care if someone identified them correctly? Same with calling an actual sexist a sexist.
Insults only work on people who aren't correctly identified. Calling a non-racist a racist or calling a non-sexist a sexist "works" because it either aggravates them (shutting down the conversation) or causes them to remain silent about your excesses. Either result is preferable to having facts introduced into a conversation.
The next time someone says trump is racist because he hates immigrants, see what happens you you introduce a fact such as "legal immigrants are different from illegal immigrants". The next time someone says something about a gender pay gap try introducing a fact or two and see what happens. Or even better, when in company of a hard left (or even moderate left these days) point out that Islam is extremely hard right, more to the right than even the KKK - IOW relative to Islam, the KKK is slightly left (how insane is that?)
Everyone must be tracked to prevent misogyny? Sure, why not? We've already given everything else to the alternative-truth brigade and anyway if you object you must be a misogynist!
Yep. All this "the most shorted company on wall street" is paid for by traditional car makers.
It's the only weapon they have to fight Tesla with and it's not working.
The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
Autonomous cars were one year ago, I'm not sure what point you are making - your article says theirs a driver in the seat. From your link:
The taxi service is not totally "self-driving." Waymo notes that "as part of this early trial, there will be a test driver in each vehicle monitoring the rides at all times."
There isn't yet an autonomous car (as in, self-driving in conditions humans normally drive in). It will be big news when they are available.
(Sorry, Japan. You can be second.)
If Japan can figure this out, they'll be first. Although I'm guessing that they can't do it either,
Aren't we in year 7 of the "autonomous cars are five years away" predictions made back in 2012?
It seems that people are still unaware of where the limits in software are.
It would be wonderful if Apple started working on closing the gap to the other browsers, so we could finally have cross browser for SVG 1.1.
See my other post above - if Apple isn't interested in implementing POSIX they aren't going to even get out of bed for browser standards. Good luck.
+1 I'll stick with El Capitan for now.
STILL waiting for an upgrade for my old-ass MacPro, however . . . Anyone? Bueller?
I'm on El Capitan. Was unpleasantly surprised to find out that it doesn't implement the POSIX sem_init() function call.
Oh, it compiles alright, with a warning that the function is deprecated, but the headers are hardwired to simply return an error for each sem_init(). Honestly it would have been much more useful to simply leave it out and let the compilation fail, instead of putting in a runtime failure.
(Yeah, I know they offer grand central dispatch, but that doesn't help much when you are porting software that already has sem_init() being used).
"The Russians Dit It" is a good example.
I'm not sure what you mean. We know, factually, that there was a massive effort by Russian Intelligence to get Trump elected.
We know no such thing. There's a lot of conjecture but no evidence. The fact is that any evidence would have gotten trump kicked out by now. Politicians on both sides want him gone so if there was any actual evidence he'd be gone by now.
This is why it's called "conspiracy theory" - there's no evidence, only allegations.
Oh, yeah, I'm sure you're a black atheist transexual lesbian Muslim. How dare I disagree with you, right? I don't care who you claim to be, and I'm not saying you're necessarily a Nazi yourself. You might be a Russian spy, or just some troll that escaped from 4chan.
I've been here for decades and my posting history is available. I've always identified as black and as atheist.
Whatever it is, your purpose here is clearly to spread misinformation in order to defend Nazis.
You know just because someone corrects your misconceptions it doesn't mean that you're the target of some conspiracy theory. Nazis just aren't a threat anymore.
TBH, all conspiracy theorists sing the same song. Yours is no different. It's foolish to assert something for which there is absolutely not a single shred of supporting evidence. "The Russians Dit It" is a good example.
Ok, so what's your argument? That NeoNazis and the KKK are so rare as to be virtually non-existant?
No, that they are such a fringe group with so little support that they aren't a threat. The last count of active members in these groups were a few thousand in the US.
You know what? It doesn't matter, because you're just trying to change the subject, because you can't win a straight argument
I never made the argument that you are railing against so there's nothing to win. I also see that you are unwilling to consciously examine your reason for reading "$FOO is not a threat" as "$FOO is not bad". If you aren't able to overcome your own self-delusions about what other people are saying, why should anyone examine what you say?
But it's noteworthy that not only are you picking sides, but you're taking the side of the wannabe Nazis.
You should refrain from calling black atheists "Nazis". It just weakens your argument that there are Nazis everywhere and makes yuou look foolish.
Right, because what bad things have Nazis ever done?
If you have to put words into someone's mouth then your argument is truly stupid. FWIW, I never said that they aren't bad, I said that they aren't a threat.
For example, getting struck by lightning is bad but it isn't a threat.
Examine your motives for reading "$FOO isn't a threat" as "$FOO isn't bad".
I've been seeing a lot of this message of "Switch to Firefox" lately. I'm guessing a bunch of fanboys are trying to make rust relevant (It lives or dies with firefox).
What I've found with rust evangelists is that there's often bitterness that no one is really that interested in their language.
People can be against fascism and still be assholes.
It's disturbing how, when there are protests between wannabe Nazis and basically anyone else, some people leap to condemn the "anyone else". Whatever ever happened to not being huge fans of the Nazis?
The "Nazis" aren't a threat. Your "anyone else actually is.