The "brogrammer" is just a bogus media narrative. It's just an extension of the "Revenge of the Nerds" mythos. Guess where journalism and communications majors fit into that story.
This is an intentional distortion caused by trying to conflate a small number of West Coast startups with the industry in general. Must of the industry is actually much more stuffy than that.
So it's really the SJWs causing trouble here by trying to scare women away from a career path that they might otherwise consider.
Nope. It's all the mothers with the Disney princess nonsense and the cheerleading (instead of sports). Then you graduate to teen magazines and then after that Cosmo.
Even the "Damsel in Destress" nonsense from the SJW bloggers contributes to the problem.
Never mind the parents and Madison avenue and Hollywood. It's all the evil computer geeks fault.
Nerds just make an easy target for people that always valued socializing more than academic or career preparation.
If you really are a woman and a leader, then you can probably deal with men and a man's world on it's own terms. You don't whine and bitch that it's unfair. You just take care of business and men respect that because that's how they work.
If anything you suffer from caustic female social politics more than "misogyny" from the guys.
However, you may be a statistical outlier.
Such a fact is neither good or evil. It simply is.
> If they've done nothing wrong, they have nothing to worry about.
Are you kidding? The whole point of this is that you can have ALL of your stuff taken without the slightest hint you've done anything wrong. That's the whole point of this "due process" thing. It ensures that there is actually a reason to mess with you.
They can take your stuff and never give it back and they don't even have to try to prosecute you or anything.
You just lose your stuff and have to deal with all of the nice fallout of that.
Chances are, it will be a COMPUTER that spits out an audit request to trigger all nonsense.
Think automated DMCA takedown.
BTW, your attitude is how the really heinous stuff can happen. All of this bogus "it can't happen to me" or "it can only happen to the bad people" enables things like the purges of Stalin and Hitler's various atrocities. (our own japanese internment camps too btw)
The maximum hit from a credit card fraud is $50. However, most people have more than one card. So you have to consider that your total potential liability from a credit card theft is n($50) where n is the number of cards you have.
That can easily go into the hundreds perhaps even the thousands.
So the risk associated with a single breach of all of your credit cards is really no better than you getting mugged while having a fat wallet full of cash.
One hack can compromise the credit cards for MILLIONS of people.
"Hacking your wallet" requires a particular person to target you specifically and physically.
In order to do as much damage as a single credit card breach can, everyone in New York City would have to be the victim of a pickpocket at the same time. The great thing about computing is automation. You can fuck up on a grand scale really quickly and really easily.
> The Microsoft success (1980s) came prior to the anti-trust stuff (mid 90s). > > You may need to revisit your history of microsoft.
So do you.
Microsoft's first run in with the DOJ over anti-trust was the forced bundling of DOS. Now the fact that someone doesn't do something snarky like use the term "WinDOS" doesn't mean they aren't acknowledging the DOS era shenanigans of Microsoft.
Windows is ultimately the successor to DOS and Microsoft got slapped on the wrist for how they handled bulk licensing to clone vendors like Dell and Compaq.
The mania that caused people to fixate on msoffice in the mid-90s helped cement Microsoft's position as intractable.
Companies die in capitalism. No one gets a right to profit in perpetuity regardless of how conditions change. It's expected that newer and more limber competitors will come along and kill off old dinosaurs.
What you are clinging onto is corruption and pretending it's a virtue.
> My 2011 mac mini will last well into 2020. Do you have a point?
That's funny because all of my pre-ION era Minis are DEAD.
So is my ION style Mini. It DIED FIRST.
Now that's DEAD and not just obsolete. They become obsolete long before they gave up the ghost.
I nearly forgot. My pre-ION Minis were ORPHANED by Apple. So even if they weren't obsolete and not DEAD, there would be no current Apple OS to run on them.
So? There are plenty of AV components that are much larger than a current Mac Mini. The requirement for the Mac Mini to be as small as it is is entirely artificial.
This is evidenced by the legion of actual "living room" devices as opposed to the Mini which is just a wannabe.
> Because we never had people trying to wipe us out before Muslims came along...
Were you trying to be funny? The Muslims have been trying to conquer Europe for a very long time. If anything, the last couple of centuries is just a temporary lull. They have been at this pretty much since their religion was founded.
"before Muslims came long" gets back to about 700AD.
ONE person dies and they go full retard? WTF? This was one guy with a gun. It's no reason to engage in national hysterics. They have managed to outdo us in US by a country mile.
> I don't use Windows because I'm "forced to", I use it because it works well, everything runs on it, it supports just about everything in the PC business, and its cost is so low, it might as well be free.
I have known plenty of people that use Windows because they think they are forced into it. This idea goes all the way back to the 80s.
They would still think that way if not for tablets. Tablets look just different enough to the untrained eye to get people off of their "must be DOS compatible" fixation.
That wedge helps undermine the longstanding FUD that average people need to run WinDOS so they can run unecessarily bloated applications that are really meant for professional secretaries.
Windows is still a malware magnet. This is enough of a motivation for "average people" to seek out alternatives.
> If lowering the price to $0 doesn't work, you can only point fingers at yourself.
Yeah. It's not like there are no other factors involved like a 30 year entrenched monopoly or zero companies that are doing any real marketing for the product or the fact that the company that "does everything right" can't manage to get past 10% market share.
Although none of that really matters. I just care about the AAA titles that play as well (or better) on Linux as they do on Windows. I don't have to put up with an inferior monopoly product just to play a cool game.
If Gabe feeling threatened by Microsoft can cause the 20+ year association between WinDOS and games to shatter then that's a win for all of us.
I know gamers that would dump Windows tomorrow if they could.
...and this is all fine so long as you apply the approved checklist.
> They do the same thing over again and expect something completely different to happen.
That's the perfect megacorp employee. They just need to follow the checklist and all is good. A critical thinker might question the checklist and that would be considered very bad.
If this were from some rag in Silicon Valley, it would be less absurd. The companies in that area actually do need real employees rather than trained monkeys.
The idea that the Wall Street Journal and the corporations they represent are worried about "critical thinking skills" is just laughable. Those kinds of corporations actively discourage independent thinking. They want everyone to be a trained monkey so that they can devalue your labor and replace you easily.
The LAST thing they want are people with hard to replace cognitive skills or tribal knowledge.
Indie games were already being made for Linux before Steam came along. Legacy games were also available. They're a non-moving target, so they are relatively easy address with wine or dosbox.
This is something else for the mothership to sell to the individual franchisees. As others have stated, the structure of McDonalds is such that the master corporation really has no reason to be concerned what the minimum wage is. This is only a consideration for the individual restaurants.
Those can just as easily be put out of business by the mothership at any time for any reason.
Ad homs are not an argument. They are just a sure sign that you have nothing meaningful to say.
I used to have Macs. For one brief moment, they were price competitive HTPCs. Then tech changed and I had Macs lying around. I could see for myself what they hubub was about.
It didn't inspire anyone to defect from anything else.
The reliability of the Minis wasn't anything to write home about either.
High quality parts? Quit swimming in the Kool-Aid.
They use generic PC parts the same as the rest of the industry. Sometimes the same exact quirks exist between Apple's and Dells. They are impacted by the same bad engineering choices.
Except there are more options with PCs. You can avoid an inherently problematic form factor with Dell. There's something else to choose.
Been there. Done that. Not impressed at all.
You're just repeating the same nonsense as the original article which was marketing masquerading as journalism to begin with.
No. MacOS is still very much a second rate platform for "buying things". All of the hype didn't change the fact that MacOS is still a marginalized minority platform.
All of the relevant end user interactions are with the proprietary non-FreeBSD part. MacOS is much like Windows in that it's a proprietary subsystem riding on top of some other core OS. Apple benefits from the generous free work of the FreeBSD developers while presenting what is pretty much a completely proprietary system.
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The "brogrammer" is just a bogus media narrative. It's just an extension of the "Revenge of the Nerds" mythos. Guess where journalism and communications majors fit into that story.
This is an intentional distortion caused by trying to conflate a small number of West Coast startups with the industry in general. Must of the industry is actually much more stuffy than that.
So it's really the SJWs causing trouble here by trying to scare women away from a career path that they might otherwise consider.
Nope. It's all the mothers with the Disney princess nonsense and the cheerleading (instead of sports). Then you graduate to teen magazines and then after that Cosmo.
Even the "Damsel in Destress" nonsense from the SJW bloggers contributes to the problem.
Never mind the parents and Madison avenue and Hollywood. It's all the evil computer geeks fault.
Nerds just make an easy target for people that always valued socializing more than academic or career preparation.
If you really are a woman and a leader, then you can probably deal with men and a man's world on it's own terms. You don't whine and bitch that it's unfair. You just take care of business and men respect that because that's how they work.
If anything you suffer from caustic female social politics more than "misogyny" from the guys.
However, you may be a statistical outlier.
Such a fact is neither good or evil. It simply is.
> If they've done nothing wrong, they have nothing to worry about.
Are you kidding? The whole point of this is that you can have ALL of your stuff taken without the slightest hint you've done anything wrong. That's the whole point of this "due process" thing. It ensures that there is actually a reason to mess with you.
They can take your stuff and never give it back and they don't even have to try to prosecute you or anything.
You just lose your stuff and have to deal with all of the nice fallout of that.
Chances are, it will be a COMPUTER that spits out an audit request to trigger all nonsense.
Think automated DMCA takedown.
BTW, your attitude is how the really heinous stuff can happen. All of this bogus "it can't happen to me" or "it can only happen to the bad people" enables things like the purges of Stalin and Hitler's various atrocities. (our own japanese internment camps too btw)
The maximum hit from a credit card fraud is $50. However, most people have more than one card. So you have to consider that your total potential liability from a credit card theft is n($50) where n is the number of cards you have.
That can easily go into the hundreds perhaps even the thousands.
So the risk associated with a single breach of all of your credit cards is really no better than you getting mugged while having a fat wallet full of cash.
One hack can compromise the credit cards for MILLIONS of people.
"Hacking your wallet" requires a particular person to target you specifically and physically.
In order to do as much damage as a single credit card breach can, everyone in New York City would have to be the victim of a pickpocket at the same time. The great thing about computing is automation. You can fuck up on a grand scale really quickly and really easily.
NFC is usually ON by default. You have to have something resembling a clue in order to turn it off.
If NFC is off on a phone it's not because "someone couldn't figure it out".
> Yup, multiple credit cards have been able to survive over the long term.
Yes. And multiple credit cards have also died out and been pushed out of the market.
Although the situation now seems pretty stagnant and has been for awhile. Your lack of awareness for the dead alternatives seems to confirm this.
> The Microsoft success (1980s) came prior to the anti-trust stuff (mid 90s).
>
> You may need to revisit your history of microsoft.
So do you.
Microsoft's first run in with the DOJ over anti-trust was the forced bundling of DOS. Now the fact that someone doesn't do something snarky like use the term "WinDOS" doesn't mean they aren't acknowledging the DOS era shenanigans of Microsoft.
Windows is ultimately the successor to DOS and Microsoft got slapped on the wrist for how they handled bulk licensing to clone vendors like Dell and Compaq.
The mania that caused people to fixate on msoffice in the mid-90s helped cement Microsoft's position as intractable.
Companies die in capitalism. No one gets a right to profit in perpetuity regardless of how conditions change. It's expected that newer and more limber competitors will come along and kill off old dinosaurs.
What you are clinging onto is corruption and pretending it's a virtue.
> My 2011 mac mini will last well into 2020. Do you have a point?
That's funny because all of my pre-ION era Minis are DEAD.
So is my ION style Mini. It DIED FIRST.
Now that's DEAD and not just obsolete. They become obsolete long before they gave up the ghost.
I nearly forgot. My pre-ION Minis were ORPHANED by Apple. So even if they weren't obsolete and not DEAD, there would be no current Apple OS to run on them.
Don't believe the hype.
So? There are plenty of AV components that are much larger than a current Mac Mini. The requirement for the Mac Mini to be as small as it is is entirely artificial.
This is evidenced by the legion of actual "living room" devices as opposed to the Mini which is just a wannabe.
> Because we never had people trying to wipe us out before Muslims came along...
Were you trying to be funny? The Muslims have been trying to conquer Europe for a very long time. If anything, the last couple of centuries is just a temporary lull. They have been at this pretty much since their religion was founded.
"before Muslims came long" gets back to about 700AD.
ONE person dies and they go full retard? WTF? This was one guy with a gun. It's no reason to engage in national hysterics. They have managed to outdo us in US by a country mile.
> I don't use Windows because I'm "forced to", I use it because it works well, everything runs on it, it supports just about everything in the PC business, and its cost is so low, it might as well be free.
I have known plenty of people that use Windows because they think they are forced into it. This idea goes all the way back to the 80s.
They would still think that way if not for tablets. Tablets look just different enough to the untrained eye to get people off of their "must be DOS compatible" fixation.
That wedge helps undermine the longstanding FUD that average people need to run WinDOS so they can run unecessarily bloated applications that are really meant for professional secretaries.
Windows is still a malware magnet. This is enough of a motivation for "average people" to seek out alternatives.
> If lowering the price to $0 doesn't work, you can only point fingers at yourself.
Yeah. It's not like there are no other factors involved like a 30 year entrenched monopoly or zero companies that are doing any real marketing for the product or the fact that the company that "does everything right" can't manage to get past 10% market share.
Although none of that really matters. I just care about the AAA titles that play as well (or better) on Linux as they do on Windows. I don't have to put up with an inferior monopoly product just to play a cool game.
If Gabe feeling threatened by Microsoft can cause the 20+ year association between WinDOS and games to shatter then that's a win for all of us.
I know gamers that would dump Windows tomorrow if they could.
...and this is all fine so long as you apply the approved checklist.
> They do the same thing over again and expect something completely different to happen.
That's the perfect megacorp employee. They just need to follow the checklist and all is good. A critical thinker might question the checklist and that would be considered very bad.
If this were from some rag in Silicon Valley, it would be less absurd. The companies in that area actually do need real employees rather than trained monkeys.
The idea that the Wall Street Journal and the corporations they represent are worried about "critical thinking skills" is just laughable. Those kinds of corporations actively discourage independent thinking. They want everyone to be a trained monkey so that they can devalue your labor and replace you easily.
The LAST thing they want are people with hard to replace cognitive skills or tribal knowledge.
They want COGS.
Indie games were already being made for Linux before Steam came along. Legacy games were also available. They're a non-moving target, so they are relatively easy address with wine or dosbox.
It's the AAA titles where the real gap was.
This is something else for the mothership to sell to the individual franchisees. As others have stated, the structure of McDonalds is such that the master corporation really has no reason to be concerned what the minimum wage is. This is only a consideration for the individual restaurants.
Those can just as easily be put out of business by the mothership at any time for any reason.
Just jack up the price of buns.
...and you aren't helping the situation.
Ad homs are not an argument. They are just a sure sign that you have nothing meaningful to say.
I used to have Macs. For one brief moment, they were price competitive HTPCs. Then tech changed and I had Macs lying around. I could see for myself what they hubub was about.
It didn't inspire anyone to defect from anything else.
The reliability of the Minis wasn't anything to write home about either.
The poverty arguement. You're so funny. (not)
You need to take the blinders off and get out more.
Plenty of people who seem to have money to burn won't have any thing to do with Macs. There are entire affluent suburbs filled with people like that.
Unfortunately, Apple decided to discontinue it's only product line that wasn't a total joke designed for clueless rubes.
Even if I had 30 Benjamins I was ready to set on fire, there's nothing Apple has to sell me.
High quality parts? Quit swimming in the Kool-Aid.
They use generic PC parts the same as the rest of the industry. Sometimes the same exact quirks exist between Apple's and Dells. They are impacted by the same bad engineering choices.
Except there are more options with PCs. You can avoid an inherently problematic form factor with Dell. There's something else to choose.
Been there. Done that. Not impressed at all.
You're just repeating the same nonsense as the original article which was marketing masquerading as journalism to begin with.
No. MacOS is still very much a second rate platform for "buying things". All of the hype didn't change the fact that MacOS is still a marginalized minority platform.
MacOS remains more like Linux in this regard.
...except no one really uses the FreeBSD part.
All of the relevant end user interactions are with the proprietary non-FreeBSD part. MacOS is much like Windows in that it's a proprietary subsystem riding on top of some other core OS. Apple benefits from the generous free work of the FreeBSD developers while presenting what is pretty much a completely proprietary system.