I hope that discovery wasn't shocking enough to give him a palpitation. If he scanned the rest of the world, his heart might shoot out the back of his underwear.
That's a hilariously false dichotomy. There's a huge difference between asking for civil discourse in a mailing list and declaring a fatwa over a word you don't like.
One more point: things comedians say are not relevant to this discussion. Andrew Dice Clay says insanely misogynistic things in his shows. That doesn't mean they should be acceptable in the workplace.
In the context of contributing to a software project, you probably shouldn't call someone a dick either. I'm not saying dick is more acceptable than bitch or cunt. I'm saying that they're all unacceptable, and bitch/cunt have the additional overtone of attacking a group that's been historically disenfranchised.
I don't recall anyone calling it politically incorrect. The objections were not with the message itself, but the notion that it was condescending to give unsolicited advice to a woman in her area of expertise. She responded brusquely and got fired for it. If you're looking for examples of political correctness running amok, this is a bad one.
I interpreted the pejorative as politically incorrect because it denigrates women. Perhaps this is a better example: "This idea won't work, and only a woman would be stupid enough to suggest it."
You can oppose an idea for apolitical reasons. "This idea won't work because the algorithm needs to be O(n) to meet our performance requirements." The algorithm is either O(n) or it's not. There's nothing political about it.
I don't think that all forms of criticism should be conflated with political incorrectness. In the context of a contribution to a software project, "This idea won't work" is politically neutral. "This idea won't work, and you're a bimbo for suggesting it" is politically incorrect.
There's also the fact that PCs as a mainstream product have lost traction to tablets and phones. Consumers who used PCs strictly for web and email don't need them anymore.
Nonetheless, "few signs of life" seems like an exaggeration. It's more like PCs are getting relegated to a smaller market consisting of businesses, hobbyists, developers, and creators.
I guess you're using a very narrow definition of "acquisition." They've been acquiring IP, including the rights to produce new content based on existing IP, for like a decade by now.
Not yet. I found some posts from people having similar issues. A fairly recent one is https://support.mozilla.org/en.... An older one that suggests an about:config tweak is https://support.mozilla.org/en.... I've always fixed it by restarting Firefox, which sometimes also requires killing the process.
To be fair, I don't know for a fact that my issue is directly related to RAM usage. It was just something I noticed the last couple times I tried to troubleshoot the problem. Right now I'm using ~845MB with no apparent issues. It hasn't happened in about a week. If it starts happening again, I'll file a report.
I wish they'd do something about the fact that Firefox on PC starts timing out on me when it reaches about 1GB of RAM. Besides the fact that I do 90% of my browsing on a desktop, performance problems on a high-end machine don't inspire confidence that it'll fare well on a Raspberry Pi.
I'm guessing you're not a programmer by trade? I've read plenty of code that was easy to understand. Don't ignore the likely possibility that a program's unreadability is the fault of the writer, not the language. The same programmer writing in plain English could easily fail to express the logic correctly to other people, let alone a compiler.
Well said. The computer industry has suffered decades of marketing speak about applications that are supposed to make it possible to program without being a programmer. Best case scenario, they become tools that are primarily used by programmers (example: SQL). Worst case, they become widely despised albatrosses (example: Cold Fusion).
Back in the 90s I still had a Commodore 64 with a MIDI controller that plugged into the joystick port. I made a homebrew cartridge with an analog sampler chip that plugged into the Commodore's expansion slot. All the parts came from Radio Shack, including the chip. I wrote a program that allowed me to record samples and control playback from a keyboard plugged into the MIDI controller. Eventually I intended to add options to save and load MIDI sequences.
Unfortunately, I was a little too cavalier while tinkering with the cartridge. After making a few tweaks to the circuitry in an attempt to reduce noise, I powered on the Commodore and immediately fried the motherboard.
Additionally if you *LOOK* at your employment contract you will find that *ALL* the work you do while *EMPLOYED* by your employer is *OWNED* by your employer *INCLUDING* the work you do at while *NOT AT WORK* if the work you are doing is *RELATED IN ANY WAY* to the business your employer is in or *MAY BE CONSIDERING TO ENGAGE IN*.
Are contracts like that really common? I've only encountered one NCA that was anywhere near that level of repulsiveness, and I just refused to sign it.
As other posters have commented, there's a wide range between "small town" and "major city." Many cities with populations around or below 1 million have vibrant communities and relatively low costs of living. In one of Ohio's larger cities, I'm able to own a cape cod in a nice neighborhood on an income below $100k.
Not gonna knock New York and LA here. Just saying, midsized cities can have their benefits, too.
I suspect that Facebook's reputation for being a brogrammer culture is an exaggeration perpetuated by the movie. If there was even a time when their work environment resembled anything in The Social Network, the company has matured since then. This article about their release process paints a different picture.
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I hope that discovery wasn't shocking enough to give him a palpitation. If he scanned the rest of the world, his heart might shoot out the back of his underwear.
Instead of a false dichotomy, call it a bad analogy. Either way it was garbage.
That's a hilariously false dichotomy. There's a huge difference between asking for civil discourse in a mailing list and declaring a fatwa over a word you don't like.
One more point: things comedians say are not relevant to this discussion. Andrew Dice Clay says insanely misogynistic things in his shows. That doesn't mean they should be acceptable in the workplace.
In the context of contributing to a software project, you probably shouldn't call someone a dick either. I'm not saying dick is more acceptable than bitch or cunt. I'm saying that they're all unacceptable, and bitch/cunt have the additional overtone of attacking a group that's been historically disenfranchised.
I don't recall anyone calling it politically incorrect. The objections were not with the message itself, but the notion that it was condescending to give unsolicited advice to a woman in her area of expertise. She responded brusquely and got fired for it. If you're looking for examples of political correctness running amok, this is a bad one.
I admit, "bimbo" isn't a great example. I was trying to avoid words that I'd have to censor like c**t or b***h.
I interpreted the pejorative as politically incorrect because it denigrates women. Perhaps this is a better example: "This idea won't work, and only a woman would be stupid enough to suggest it."
You can oppose an idea for apolitical reasons. "This idea won't work because the algorithm needs to be O(n) to meet our performance requirements." The algorithm is either O(n) or it's not. There's nothing political about it.
I don't think that all forms of criticism should be conflated with political incorrectness. In the context of a contribution to a software project, "This idea won't work" is politically neutral. "This idea won't work, and you're a bimbo for suggesting it" is politically incorrect.
There's also the fact that PCs as a mainstream product have lost traction to tablets and phones. Consumers who used PCs strictly for web and email don't need them anymore.
Nonetheless, "few signs of life" seems like an exaggeration. It's more like PCs are getting relegated to a smaller market consisting of businesses, hobbyists, developers, and creators.
I guess you're using a very narrow definition of "acquisition." They've been acquiring IP, including the rights to produce new content based on existing IP, for like a decade by now.
Helldump's been gone for years.
Not yet. I found some posts from people having similar issues. A fairly recent one is https://support.mozilla.org/en.... An older one that suggests an about:config tweak is https://support.mozilla.org/en.... I've always fixed it by restarting Firefox, which sometimes also requires killing the process.
To be fair, I don't know for a fact that my issue is directly related to RAM usage. It was just something I noticed the last couple times I tried to troubleshoot the problem. Right now I'm using ~845MB with no apparent issues. It hasn't happened in about a week. If it starts happening again, I'll file a report.
I wish they'd do something about the fact that Firefox on PC starts timing out on me when it reaches about 1GB of RAM. Besides the fact that I do 90% of my browsing on a desktop, performance problems on a high-end machine don't inspire confidence that it'll fare well on a Raspberry Pi.
Didn't Slashdot just run a post about how WordPress (written in PHP!) powers 25% of the web?
Why, yes. Yes, they did.
Please stop the hyperbolic clickbait.
I'm guessing you're not a programmer by trade? I've read plenty of code that was easy to understand. Don't ignore the likely possibility that a program's unreadability is the fault of the writer, not the language. The same programmer writing in plain English could easily fail to express the logic correctly to other people, let alone a compiler.
Well said. The computer industry has suffered decades of marketing speak about applications that are supposed to make it possible to program without being a programmer. Best case scenario, they become tools that are primarily used by programmers (example: SQL). Worst case, they become widely despised albatrosses (example: Cold Fusion).
Back in the 90s I still had a Commodore 64 with a MIDI controller that plugged into the joystick port. I made a homebrew cartridge with an analog sampler chip that plugged into the Commodore's expansion slot. All the parts came from Radio Shack, including the chip. I wrote a program that allowed me to record samples and control playback from a keyboard plugged into the MIDI controller. Eventually I intended to add options to save and load MIDI sequences.
Unfortunately, I was a little too cavalier while tinkering with the cartridge. After making a few tweaks to the circuitry in an attempt to reduce noise, I powered on the Commodore and immediately fried the motherboard.
Are contracts like that really common? I've only encountered one NCA that was anywhere near that level of repulsiveness, and I just refused to sign it.
I'm not sure why the review mentioned Flash at all. The book has nothing to do with it. Not even in passing.
Ah, through the femoral artery. My imagination went to a much more horrifying place when I read "catheter."
I have a bad feeling tech journalism forgot all the lessons they should have learned from the Nanniebot hoax.
As other posters have commented, there's a wide range between "small town" and "major city." Many cities with populations around or below 1 million have vibrant communities and relatively low costs of living. In one of Ohio's larger cities, I'm able to own a cape cod in a nice neighborhood on an income below $100k.
Not gonna knock New York and LA here. Just saying, midsized cities can have their benefits, too.
I suspect that Facebook's reputation for being a brogrammer culture is an exaggeration perpetuated by the movie. If there was even a time when their work environment resembled anything in The Social Network, the company has matured since then. This article about their release process paints a different picture.
That's because the U.S. Constitution does not declare any rights unalienable. It only limits the power of Congress to legislate them.
The concept of unalienable rights comes from the Declaration of Independence.