Because you don't want your neighbor storing uranium in the same way mine stores coal ?
Because you don't want people who still put old batteries in the trash to dispose of nuclear waste ?
Nuclear has some advantages, solar has others. First of them, having your own generator at home.
Gender balance and sexism are indeed separate issues. The analysis I have found that had the most interesting explanation for the low percentage of women in OSS compared to other IT areas is that usually people who are involved in OSS have been in IT for 10 years. Therefore, these is a ten years lag in gender balance between regular IT and OSS.
And I have yet to see any developer uncooperative to someone because of gender. That says a lot about their patience. I have, on the other hand, seen women say "why are you talking computers to me ? I'm a GIRL I can't possibly get into these men's things". Which is, in my humble opinion, a far deeper problem than the alleged sexism of male OSS developers.
French media are quite opaque about this. The only thing we know is that the guy participated in Jihadist forums (on this big scary thing called internet). Oh and his brother was arrested too, we are not sure why. Our anti-terrorist department has lately turned into a vast joke.
It doesn't make cross-platform easier, I agree. It doesn't mean it has zero technical merit. As someone who had to program with Visual C++ 5 and the infamous MFCs, I can tell that.Net provides a packaging more charged with sanity and that is good for the Windows world. Now Mono adds another interesting aspect : cross-compatibility. Where is the problem ? Some developer will never code in anything else than Visual Studio, others will stick to Linux. If there are compatibility layers to go in both directions, who will complain ?
The aim of.Net is (unfortunately) not to be specially POSIX friendly. Mono has the same aim as wine : making a bridge between Windows and Linux world. I am not saying that linux developers should use.Net, but I don't see the problem with having this possibility to write more linux-friendly windows applications.
I hate Microsoft politics. I think.Net is a platform with technical merit (it took me a while to admit it). What does that make me ?
My boss forces me to work with.Net but thanks to Mono, I was able to share my work with a Linux-only lab and to suggest that maybe we should have a focus on developing Mono-compatible applications.
Saying that Stallman has a tendency for inflammatory declarations is an understatement. I think this is how it works in (american ?) politics : one needs a figurehead that is an extreme zealot in order to make some room for more moderate points of view to develop.
Like Miguel I think that Microsoft is a really big company that bought many good small companies and that these small guys are still there and wanting to do great projects. Their management dooms most of them unfortunately. Though Mono is one of these things that has not been switched off yet. I think this is a great opportunity as well and we should enjoy it while it lasts. MS lacks subtlety : when they will stop support it, it will be quite clear.
This may sound a bit funny invention, but in some places like Seoul where a gas attack can be feared at any moment (they have racks of gas mask for emergency use in every subway station for instance) it could be very useful for a part of the population to constantly carry a pair. We would consider more gently if it was a convertible scarf or gloves, or hat. The fact that it covers a boob is a funny fact that everyone will forget once the gas bomb explodes.
If it can make more people involved in political choices, into realizing where the taxpayers money goes, and what can be bought with the budget of a war, I consider this money well spent.
You have someone you trust above your manager's head. That's fine. I'm at odds with my CEO and his assistant. I have no choices but leaving, after 6 months of balls growing
I'm French and if my personal or professional email were to be made public, that would be one hell of unsatisfactory service. Privacy is why I accept paying a provider for things that could be free (as in beer). If this expectation goes out, I will ask for damage. You know, the expectation for privacy is written in our constitution.
I have seen people being fired because they would not recognize their mistakes and constantly brag about their work and put the blame on someone else. This is why I chose technical stuff instead of sales or management : the results are here to see for all. Good work is visible. I have seen people trying to make up for a lack of technical skill by societal skill. I have seen people lying about their technical skills. They didn't last.
I would also argue that almost no one knows how to cut a feather and write with an inker. Writing has always evolved. Only the volume and quality of written works is important.
I have lost already. I will either be forbidden to do cool stuff or I will spend more time fighting for my rights to do so. They have won. I have lost anyway.
It is far too late...
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Noticed how 2/3 of slashdot news today is about the legality aspect of one thing or the other ? Noticed how we spend more time on the issues of free speech, copyright violation, net neutrality than on actual coding ? The cool stuff is out, the dull is in. Granted, a coder, a hacker, a security expert, has to know some legal things, but it should not waste half of our time. Life is too short for this. Increasingly it feels like knowing the law bears little correlation to not being charged and that rational thinking and common sense bears far less importance in the judicial system. I wish we were spending less time being concerned on these issues and we could keep focus on nifty reverse engineering projects or amateurish robotics. I guess what I am trying to say is...
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Because you don't want your neighbor storing uranium in the same way mine stores coal ?
Because you don't want people who still put old batteries in the trash to dispose of nuclear waste ?
Nuclear has some advantages, solar has others. First of them, having your own generator at home.
To answer this you have to put a value on individual independence toward energy generation.
Shhhh, let them start their One Supercomputer Per Child program. It can only be good.
Gender balance and sexism are indeed separate issues. The analysis I have found that had the most interesting explanation for the low percentage of women in OSS compared to other IT areas is that usually people who are involved in OSS have been in IT for 10 years. Therefore, these is a ten years lag in gender balance between regular IT and OSS.
And I have yet to see any developer uncooperative to someone because of gender. That says a lot about their patience. I have, on the other hand, seen women say "why are you talking computers to me ? I'm a GIRL I can't possibly get into these men's things". Which is, in my humble opinion, a far deeper problem than the alleged sexism of male OSS developers.
All I need for a web of trust to work, it that CowboyNeal begins signing SSL certificates.
French media are quite opaque about this. The only thing we know is that the guy participated in Jihadist forums (on this big scary thing called internet). Oh and his brother was arrested too, we are not sure why. Our anti-terrorist department has lately turned into a vast joke.
Just don't install an old Debian...
What did you want, an eloquent, handsome, personable defender of free software principles? :)
I'll take a sip of Lessig instead of a barrel of RMS any day, thanks.
It doesn't make cross-platform easier, I agree. It doesn't mean it has zero technical merit. As someone who had to program with Visual C++ 5 and the infamous MFCs, I can tell that .Net provides a packaging more charged with sanity and that is good for the Windows world. Now Mono adds another interesting aspect : cross-compatibility. Where is the problem ? Some developer will never code in anything else than Visual Studio, others will stick to Linux. If there are compatibility layers to go in both directions, who will complain ?
The aim of .Net is (unfortunately) not to be specially POSIX friendly. Mono has the same aim as wine : making a bridge between Windows and Linux world. I am not saying that linux developers should use .Net, but I don't see the problem with having this possibility to write more linux-friendly windows applications.
I hate Microsoft politics. I think .Net is a platform with technical merit (it took me a while to admit it). What does that make me ?
.Net but thanks to Mono, I was able to share my work with a Linux-only lab and to suggest that maybe we should have a focus on developing Mono-compatible applications.
My boss forces me to work with
Saying that Stallman has a tendency for inflammatory declarations is an understatement. I think this is how it works in (american ?) politics : one needs a figurehead that is an extreme zealot in order to make some room for more moderate points of view to develop.
Like Miguel I think that Microsoft is a really big company that bought many good small companies and that these small guys are still there and wanting to do great projects. Their management dooms most of them unfortunately. Though Mono is one of these things that has not been switched off yet. I think this is a great opportunity as well and we should enjoy it while it lasts. MS lacks subtlety : when they will stop support it, it will be quite clear.
This may sound a bit funny invention, but in some places like Seoul where a gas attack can be feared at any moment (they have racks of gas mask for emergency use in every subway station for instance) it could be very useful for a part of the population to constantly carry a pair. We would consider more gently if it was a convertible scarf or gloves, or hat. The fact that it covers a boob is a funny fact that everyone will forget once the gas bomb explodes.
If it can make more people involved in political choices, into realizing where the taxpayers money goes, and what can be bought with the budget of a war, I consider this money well spent.
A Protoss vehicle ?
Don't make your forms .doc documents
Tinfoil hats ?
Seriously, for once...
But it is about "our friends and families"! How could you be so desinvolt in a matter involving our FRIENDS and FAMILIES !
Right ?
You have someone you trust above your manager's head. That's fine. I'm at odds with my CEO and his assistant. I have no choices but leaving, after 6 months of balls growing
I'm French and if my personal or professional email were to be made public, that would be one hell of unsatisfactory service. Privacy is why I accept paying a provider for things that could be free (as in beer). If this expectation goes out, I will ask for damage. You know, the expectation for privacy is written in our constitution.
Sue.
I have seen people being fired because they would not recognize their mistakes and constantly brag about their work and put the blame on someone else. This is why I chose technical stuff instead of sales or management : the results are here to see for all. Good work is visible. I have seen people trying to make up for a lack of technical skill by societal skill. I have seen people lying about their technical skills. They didn't last.
I would also argue that almost no one knows how to cut a feather and write with an inker. Writing has always evolved. Only the volume and quality of written works is important.
I have lost already. I will either be forbidden to do cool stuff or I will spend more time fighting for my rights to do so. They have won. I have lost anyway.
It is far too late... ...
[rant] Noticed how 2/3 of slashdot news today is about the legality aspect of one thing or the other ? Noticed how we spend more time on the issues of free speech, copyright violation, net neutrality than on actual coding ? The cool stuff is out, the dull is in. Granted, a coder, a hacker, a security expert, has to know some legal things, but it should not waste half of our time. Life is too short for this. Increasingly it feels like knowing the law bears little correlation to not being charged and that rational thinking and common sense bears far less importance in the judicial system. I wish we were spending less time being concerned on these issues and we could keep focus on nifty reverse engineering projects or amateurish robotics. I guess what I am trying to say is
FUCK. THIS. SHIT.
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What is funny is that the rest of the world spend their army money on developing things to counter American devices !