People encourage using it on servers because bad developers outweigh good ones by a wide margin, and all concentrated on js while good ones are spread on many languages.
Js is an easy language. Js with html and css is the simplest graphic api, and it's cross platform and require no installation to share your application.
Therefore it attracted most of the bad developers and those with no formal computer science education. I d bet that the proportion of web devs who don't know how to write a sort of an algorithm for a mildly complex problem is far higher than in any other language.
And npmjs made everything worse by making it even easier for non devs and bad devs to get into programming by encouraging them to rely on insane amounts of near trivial libraries and share their own crap code.
And those devs think it's a good idea to run js on servers, and they are numerous enough to successfully push that idea.
I've had a couple where the cords have failed. It usually fails at the point where it goes into the mouse. One of them (an MX518), I took apart, cut a couple inches of cord off, and rewired it in to the mouse. Delicate work, and a pain in the ass. I wish they'd make the thing properly removable, with some kind of connector, and then they could make money selling us new cords.
Except the cable is removable with a connector. You can just open the mouse, unplug the cable and plug a new one in, simple as that.
And while I can't seem to find cables on logitech's spare parts, you can buy one for a few dollars on amazon or others.
About the microswitches though, you can also replace them, they cost nearly nothing too, but they require a bit of soldering.
i booted 18.04 off a usb to back up some files off a dead windows pc yesterday.. there's no context menu to create a compressed archive anymore. wtf?
I thought you were joking, I didn't want to believe you, but in the back of my mind, I feared that gnome devs could be able to do that.
So I installed nautilus to see... Well, gnome devs probably don't create archives from their file manager, so noone does, so we should remove it.
I was aware that nautilus had been murdered with in its 3.6 release, but it's even worse now. I don't understand that obsession of dumbing down everything and removing features. Thanks Mate devs for Caja.
The playing field is exactly as even as a Luxembourg/Germany world cup qualifying match.
No. The playing field is as even as if Luxembourg decided to play a new game of football-curling, and the fifa, referees, broadcasters, etc. decided to support and cover only that new football-curling.
Germany is still good at playing football, but it doesn't matter if noone with power organizes football tournaments and broadcast football matches, but only show football-curling, where there is only one team.
The state of init is the same. Systemd decided to do things radically differently (which isn't an issue by itself), and distributions decided to only support that kind of init now. It doesn't matter if upstart, openRC or runit are good init systems, as long as they don't do it the systemd way, they won't get any support.
Comparing it to Internet Explorer? Why don't you just start an open source project to give it some competition, like Firefox did to IE?
You are dishonest and you know it, but in the off chance you actually think you are honest, let me break it down for you:
SysV, Runit, OpenRC, Upstart, etc. There is competition, but the playing field is not even.
Since those have already been dropped by most distributions (and since the ease of supporting systemd was a primary factor for its adoption by most distributions), there is absolutely no way that a traditional init system will be supported by a distribution currently supporting systemd.
I could make the best init system ever, it doesn't matter if distributions don't support it.
The problem with systemd is not systemd itself, it's how most of us have no choice but to use it. Comparing to IE is actually wrong, because at least with IE, you can install Firefox without half of your OS breaking. Try that with systemd.
women do better in acceptance of open source code submissions when gender is not known.
And you know what? Men too! And actually, if I was as intellectually dishonest as the media who reported that study, I could focus on one graph, ignore the rest and say that it's even worse for men.
It really depends on where you are in the space and how your colleagues behave.
Sure, if your colleagues are quiet, if your desk is near a window with noone behind you, if there aren't too many people, it may be great. In most cases though, I highly doubt it.
The place I work at has real offices with 6 desks in each. 3 facing opposite sides, with windows on the third side and a door (or a big opening) on the fourth. It'd be better imho if we faced each other instead of the wall but it's way better than an open space while retaining many of the advantages you mentioned.
Too bad the company itself isn't as good as its facilities.
exactly. as to her complaining about being talked over and people not listening to her questions until "a guy" said them.... well gues swhat? I AM a guy and ive had the exact same thing happen to me by both men AND women!!! Her sexism is showing
No, they do all that because you're "ganjadude" and no one can ever understand WTF you're going on about.:-)
That's probably likely the case. But for her, it was obviously sexism, it can't be that she didn't express herself poorly sometimes, right?
I'm still waiting for somebody from either side of this nonsense to clearly explain what exactly penises and vaginas have to do with programming computers.
The computer hardware doesn't care if you have a penis or a vagina.
The programming language(s) being used don't care if you have a penis or a vagina.
The libraries and frameworks being used don't care if you have a penis or a vagina.
In most corporate environments, it's likely that one's penis or one's vagina is hidden under several layers of clothing while engaging in computer programming. (I know some Rubyists like to type with their penises, but we don't find them in corporate environments.)
So what exactly do penises and vaginas have to do with computer programming?
The computer hardware cares about your code.
Your code comes from your mind.
Your mind is produced by your brain.
Your brain is made from your DNA and bathes in hormones.
That same DNA and hormones that defined your gender.
Gender have biological differences. Claiming there aren't is ignoring reality.
Claiming those differences make a gender better at programming is an unsubstantiated hypothesis.
But if you go back to the original memo, never did he claim that women are worse at programming. He said they are more neurotic, more agreeable, more open toward feelings and aesthetics. Which is supported by science. He said those differences _may_ explain why less women in average have an interest in STEM. Again, I have seen noone, here or elsewhere, or in the original memo, claiming women can't program as well as men. He then proposed that to make google friendlier to women, to make software engineering more people-oriented, to make tech and leadership positions less stressful, etc. and to not deceive students by embellish what tech actually is.
On the other hand, I've seen plenty of people who obviously didn't read it strawman it like crazy, a bit like what you're doing, and claiming there is no difference between genders, including youtube's and google's ceos, which is blatant denial of reality on the scale of climate change denial. This is sad.
This man now has become the hero of Trumpists and self-styled enemies of the politically incorrect because he proposed a series of sexist (and I use this word with great parsimony in my daily life) stereotypes which belong in the 19th century. However, it would have been interesting the reaction of the same people if he had been a muslim and proposed to install sharia in Google—which is pretty much what he was suggesting.
Oh look, another person who didn't read the memo and is strawmanning it.
If dumbasses like you didn't shit on him en masse, ignoring facts and science the same way alt right morons ignore them when it comes to climate, he wouldn't be the hero of trumpists. YOU made him their hero.
He didn't proposed a series of sexist stereotypes, he cited research highlighting the differences between genders. But I guess reality and science are sexist now?
And you equating his recommendation as installing sharia at google is just the pinnacle of bad faith, so much that you either must be a troll or as stupid as the alt right you like to criticize. But I guess proposing to judge people as individuals, not as a part of their group, or that proposing that google should work on making leadership positions less stressfull (because women have less resistance to stress, which is a fact, whether you like it or not) is like the sharia.
If you believe that one gender is inferior as engineers due to biological factors, what do you do about it? The logical conclusion is to use a discriminatory hiring policy so that you don't waste time interviewing people who are much more likely to be bad at the job due to those biological differences. Sure, there may be outliers, but it's going to take a lot more money and effort to find them.
So either he's an idiot, or he's advocating for a discriminatory hiring policy.
And here we have the newest winner of the "I didn't read it so I'll assume he said X and criticize X". We call that strawmanning, and that's a fallacy.
Gather the last bit of intellectual honesty you have, if you have any left, go read his paper, and see how he wrote black on white that we should judge people individually, not based on their group.
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People encourage using it on servers because bad developers outweigh good ones by a wide margin, and all concentrated on js while good ones are spread on many languages.
Js is an easy language. Js with html and css is the simplest graphic api, and it's cross platform and require no installation to share your application.
Therefore it attracted most of the bad developers and those with no formal computer science education. I d bet that the proportion of web devs who don't know how to write a sort of an algorithm for a mildly complex problem is far higher than in any other language.
And npmjs made everything worse by making it even easier for non devs and bad devs to get into programming by encouraging them to rely on insane amounts of near trivial libraries and share their own crap code.
And those devs think it's a good idea to run js on servers, and they are numerous enough to successfully push that idea.
I've had a couple where the cords have failed. It usually fails at the point where it goes into the mouse. One of them (an MX518), I took apart, cut a couple inches of cord off, and rewired it in to the mouse. Delicate work, and a pain in the ass. I wish they'd make the thing properly removable, with some kind of connector, and then they could make money selling us new cords.
Except the cable is removable with a connector. You can just open the mouse, unplug the cable and plug a new one in, simple as that.
And while I can't seem to find cables on logitech's spare parts, you can buy one for a few dollars on amazon or others.
About the microswitches though, you can also replace them, they cost nearly nothing too, but they require a bit of soldering.
i booted 18.04 off a usb to back up some files off a dead windows pc yesterday.. there's no context menu to create a compressed archive anymore. wtf?
I thought you were joking, I didn't want to believe you, but in the back of my mind, I feared that gnome devs could be able to do that.
So I installed nautilus to see... Well, gnome devs probably don't create archives from their file manager, so noone does, so we should remove it.
I was aware that nautilus had been murdered with in its 3.6 release, but it's even worse now. I don't understand that obsession of dumbing down everything and removing features. Thanks Mate devs for Caja.
but the playing field is not even.
The playing field is exactly as even as a Luxembourg/Germany world cup qualifying match.
No. The playing field is as even as if Luxembourg decided to play a new game of football-curling, and the fifa, referees, broadcasters, etc. decided to support and cover only that new football-curling.
Germany is still good at playing football, but it doesn't matter if noone with power organizes football tournaments and broadcast football matches, but only show football-curling, where there is only one team.
The state of init is the same. Systemd decided to do things radically differently (which isn't an issue by itself), and distributions decided to only support that kind of init now. It doesn't matter if upstart, openRC or runit are good init systems, as long as they don't do it the systemd way, they won't get any support.
The playing field is not even.
Comparing it to Internet Explorer? Why don't you just start an open source project to give it some competition, like Firefox did to IE?
You are dishonest and you know it, but in the off chance you actually think you are honest, let me break it down for you:
SysV, Runit, OpenRC, Upstart, etc. There is competition, but the playing field is not even.
Since those have already been dropped by most distributions (and since the ease of supporting systemd was a primary factor for its adoption by most distributions), there is absolutely no way that a traditional init system will be supported by a distribution currently supporting systemd.
I could make the best init system ever, it doesn't matter if distributions don't support it.
The problem with systemd is not systemd itself, it's how most of us have no choice but to use it. Comparing to IE is actually wrong, because at least with IE, you can install Firefox without half of your OS breaking. Try that with systemd.
Every major Linux distro adopted systemd. You are probably smarter than all of them, but maybe there is another option.
Yep they did. Why? Because RH has a long arm, because more and more stuff depends on it, and because it's easier to maintain by distrib maintainers.
The distrib maintainers made a smart choice, from their point of view, for their interest. That doesn't mean systemd is better for their users.
At the end of the day, we are left with less choice than we had before.
women do better in acceptance of open source code submissions when gender is not known.
And you know what? Men too! And actually, if I was as intellectually dishonest as the media who reported that study, I could focus on one graph, ignore the rest and say that it's even worse for men.
Look at the left graph of the first figure: http://slatestarcodex.com/2016...
Science proves that github is sexist against men!
It really depends on where you are in the space and how your colleagues behave.
Sure, if your colleagues are quiet, if your desk is near a window with noone behind you, if there aren't too many people, it may be great. In most cases though, I highly doubt it.
The place I work at has real offices with 6 desks in each. 3 facing opposite sides, with windows on the third side and a door (or a big opening) on the fourth. It'd be better imho if we faced each other instead of the wall but it's way better than an open space while retaining many of the advantages you mentioned.
Too bad the company itself isn't as good as its facilities.
exactly. as to her complaining about being talked over and people not listening to her questions until "a guy" said them.... well gues swhat? I AM a guy and ive had the exact same thing happen to me by both men AND women!!! Her sexism is showing
No, they do all that because you're "ganjadude" and no one can ever understand WTF you're going on about. :-)
That's probably likely the case. But for her, it was obviously sexism, it can't be that she didn't express herself poorly sometimes, right?
I'm still waiting for somebody from either side of this nonsense to clearly explain what exactly penises and vaginas have to do with programming computers.
The computer hardware doesn't care if you have a penis or a vagina.
The programming language(s) being used don't care if you have a penis or a vagina.
The libraries and frameworks being used don't care if you have a penis or a vagina.
In most corporate environments, it's likely that one's penis or one's vagina is hidden under several layers of clothing while engaging in computer programming. (I know some Rubyists like to type with their penises, but we don't find them in corporate environments.)
So what exactly do penises and vaginas have to do with computer programming?
The computer hardware cares about your code.
Your code comes from your mind.
Your mind is produced by your brain.
Your brain is made from your DNA and bathes in hormones.
That same DNA and hormones that defined your gender.
Gender have biological differences. Claiming there aren't is ignoring reality.
Claiming those differences make a gender better at programming is an unsubstantiated hypothesis.
But if you go back to the original memo, never did he claim that women are worse at programming. He said they are more neurotic, more agreeable, more open toward feelings and aesthetics. Which is supported by science.
He said those differences _may_ explain why less women in average have an interest in STEM. Again, I have seen noone, here or elsewhere, or in the original memo, claiming women can't program as well as men.
He then proposed that to make google friendlier to women, to make software engineering more people-oriented, to make tech and leadership positions less stressful, etc. and to not deceive students by embellish what tech actually is.
On the other hand, I've seen plenty of people who obviously didn't read it strawman it like crazy, a bit like what you're doing, and claiming there is no difference between genders, including youtube's and google's ceos, which is blatant denial of reality on the scale of climate change denial. This is sad.
This man now has become the hero of Trumpists and self-styled enemies of the politically incorrect because he proposed a series of sexist (and I use this word with great parsimony in my daily life) stereotypes which belong in the 19th century. However, it would have been interesting the reaction of the same people if he had been a muslim and proposed to install sharia in Google—which is pretty much what he was suggesting.
Oh look, another person who didn't read the memo and is strawmanning it.
If dumbasses like you didn't shit on him en masse, ignoring facts and science the same way alt right morons ignore them when it comes to climate, he wouldn't be the hero of trumpists. YOU made him their hero.
He didn't proposed a series of sexist stereotypes, he cited research highlighting the differences between genders.
But I guess reality and science are sexist now?
And you equating his recommendation as installing sharia at google is just the pinnacle of bad faith, so much that you either must be a troll or as stupid as the alt right you like to criticize.
But I guess proposing to judge people as individuals, not as a part of their group, or that proposing that google should work on making leadership positions less stressfull (because women have less resistance to stress, which is a fact, whether you like it or not) is like the sharia.
So....he's an idiot?
If you believe that one gender is inferior as engineers due to biological factors, what do you do about it? The logical conclusion is to use a discriminatory hiring policy so that you don't waste time interviewing people who are much more likely to be bad at the job due to those biological differences. Sure, there may be outliers, but it's going to take a lot more money and effort to find them.
So either he's an idiot, or he's advocating for a discriminatory hiring policy.
And here we have the newest winner of the "I didn't read it so I'll assume he said X and criticize X". We call that strawmanning, and that's a fallacy.
Gather the last bit of intellectual honesty you have, if you have any left, go read his paper, and see how he wrote black on white that we should judge people individually, not based on their group.