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If one does a cursory glance of the history of money, one will see many different currencies having a debasement period similar to this. While others will take the bait and parrot someone else's opinion that bitcoin is not a safe place to put money, I'll be investing even more in the currency. Always buy to the sound of cannons/scandal.
If Apple are really planning a move like this we have to consider their other actions. FaceTime, Messages. I don't think we need to worry about roaming or numbers. All we'd have is data ...
Of course, most of us have no way of knowing whether OP is a good programmer or not.

If a programmer is consistently making mistakes that cost other programmers time and energy, and either incapable or (worse yet) unwilling when it comes to improvement, then he's a bad programmer and should be fired. No company can tolerate dividers.

It doesn't sound like this is what happened to the OP. It sounds like this was an occasional mistake. They happen.

If a run-of-the-mill junior programmer mistake is an existential threat to the company, that's management's fault. Either (a) it was too early to hire someone that junior, or (b) the infrastructure was poorly designed.
>I'm sorry you've received crap. Due to your gender or anything else. But understand that jumping into a discussion of sexism with "but that happens to me too!" is such a common problem that it's listed in the "Derailing for Dummies" guide: http://www.derailingfordummies.com/menu.html

This guide makes zero rational arguments for why those examples are derailment... It's completely rhetorical.

Intellectually, it's appropriate to discuss female/male oppression in the context of one another since the idea of patriarchy has been replaced with the idea of kyriarchy; A system where everyone oppresses/stratifies everyone else. It's a matrix of relationships that cannot be examined in isolation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyriarchy

>Women in the US haven't had the vote for even 100 years. Men and women didn't have equal college enrollment rates until circa 1990. I just don't buy the thesis that sexism is now suddenly extinct, especially in a male-dominated field.

Only ~10% of early Americans were eligible to vote. All white men weren't given the right to vote until the mid 19th century. A generation before women were granted the right.

Very few men benefited from a "patriarchal" social configuration. The fact that a small minority of white men had privilege doesn't negate the social costs externalized on the average man. The only realistic opportunities available to these men were war, working on a farm, working in a coal mine, or working in an industrial era factory. Having the "freedom" to be part of the workforce did not offer you the opportunities it does today...
I wonder to what extent this is actually true, and to what extent it's a meme that's grown around (the social network called) Diaspora. I've spent a fair amount of time with people who are part of the Jewish and Zimbabwean diasporas, and I've never picked up on a "dark" vibe to the word. And, as decode points out, the Jewish diaspora refers primarily to the ancient Jewish exile and dispersal from Palestine, not to 20th century history. I see the word more as a part of Jewish culture and tradition that's if anything celebrated, but Jewish readers are welcome to tell me I'm being crass and culturally insensitive.
I had my wallet stolen several years ago -- I set it on the bar at a cafe momentarily while paying, and somehow left without it (maybe someone subtly laid a paper over it? maybe I was just distracted?) and it was gone when I realized about 30 seconds later and came back in.

I can't say I admired the chutzpah, though.

The thief took a minor risk, earned less than 20 euros, and cost me days worth of my time and more than 100x that amount of money, to replace documents I hadn't realized would be so difficult to replace (the big one: my US driver's license, and I didn't live in the US anymore; replacing the US credit cards was also non-trivial, but less expensive).

The small amount of cash they got was about commensurate with the risk they took (fairly small); but the waste entailed was huge. I would much rather have been mugged and had my cash taken, and my watch as well -- i.e., items valuable to the mugger, not simply my wallet (which contained things mostly only valuable to me). Or they could have tossed the cashless wallet in a trashcan nearby. They didn't (I searched them all).

The real cost to society of this kind of theft and waste is not so much monetary; it's more psychological. That experience burned into my head fairly well that there are plenty of people around who care so little about me, they'll happily take whatever they can from me, regardless of the suffering it causes.

I have a suspicion that it's the series of experiences like this that turn people from political liberals to conservatives as they age -- they feed easily into racism and classism, they turn us from thinking "how can I help people who need it" to "fuck 'em -- they'll do the same to me if they could". Etc..
Oh come on, free software does not imply an open source development model and vice versa. You could very well have the software developed by a professional team and release it as free software.
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Female fertility starts declining from about 24 and starts dropping like a rock from about 35. Men have less to worry about but there are still declines.
> If this was written by a man

Rob Conery is a male dude. He's also replying in these comments.
You use your intelligence. The Cisco person says you can do what you want with $500. Then do you continue to spend $30k instead? Do you think your small town library is going to grow into a college campus (as the other pro-mega-router people are expecting)
> We're not equal, and never will be.

There are many people who believe, or effectively believe even if they acknowledge some innate differences, that people are essentially the same, and all differences between them can be explained by cultural, social and personal experiences. A paradigm which is sometimes, mostly by critics, called "standard social science model" (basically a polar opposite of believing that we are all born stratified into casts, classes, races, sexes... and that this stratification determines each person's fate).

If you adopt this paradigm, all inequalities must be a result of sexism, racism, or some other discrimination or failure on the part of society. It's seen as unfair and unjustified and in turn results in actions against that perceived injustice (legislation, shaming, protests, demonstrations, blog posts...).

And it goes deeper than that. Some people will say that beauty is a cultural/social construct, that obesity is a result of unhealthy food being priced lower than healthy choices and affects poorer people more (it doesn't btw[1]). This pattern of conflict between being affected by circumstances vs having some innate qualities is very pervasive.

[1] http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/08/the-poor-are-not-fat.h...
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Not exactly - in this case, a person on Twitter found a two-year-old article showing that this particular judge was corrupt in copyright monopoly cases. There is nothing denoting how "official" the conclusion is, not inherently in the expression.
> men are much more vulnerable than women. ... For men, it's almost impossible to protect ourselves

What?
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Macros definitely do not make code generation trivial. Rather, macros make code generation that should be trivial trivial, but generating (say) serializer/deserializer does not become trivial.
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If and when the Dutch media pick up on this, would that suddenly make it worth reading? The internet leads the traditional media nowadays, so we decide if they pick up on it.

Sensational headline aside, there are some pertinent facts in it.
!!FUD ALERT, FUD ALERT!!

This entire article is just your viewpoint on this dressed up as being the facts. Most of it is just completely daft what-ifs. e.g.
> If or when Apple go bust – you may be left with a brick. There will be no way to update it.
really....?
Attractive men DON'T have to deal with the same kind of shit, in general, because they are not a minority. They are not in a minority with social precedents to keep them down, which is what this article is all about. Institutionalized sexualization of women through teasing and joking is pretty common. This piece is trying to get you to where you try to understand what it's like.

Most of us have wondered if our bulge was big enough - imagine if it was judged daily, by every oncoming woman, in every meeting. Imagine if you were constantly teased about getting a boner, and people acted as if it were normal.

I imagine some people around here aren't very good at imagining, are too literal, and hence react badly to this sort of thing.
Ok but why should we care? I mean it's not like men are raging about the lack of male orientated pregnancy articles.

I don't get it.

Tech is male orientated because there are much more males in it. It make sense to then align the reporting towards the base.
At the end of the day the iPhone is a consumer electronic. You vote with your dollar (or euro). Apple has a product and a set of constraints they will dictate. If you don't want it, you don't buy it. It isn't like you would die without a smartphone.
I see this as progress. Yes, Apple could use the SIM-less phone to control everything and that would be bad.

But this also means we could have "unlocked" SIM-less phones where I could swap networks freely.

I never understood SIM cards: what I want is to use Orange like I use Skype. That is, input an user and password and presto! If I want to switch over to Vodafone, input my Vodafone credentials and that's it.
I think the writer actually made a pretty good job of "reversing the gender dynamics". I especially like the retrospect into young adulthood. Sure made it easier for me to understand the seriousness of what you call social awkwardness. Stuff that puts us off in adulthood is often grounded far back, and the exact same concrete circumstances may not affect somebody who doesn't have that background.

If the last paragraph of your comment is your attempt at "reversing the gender dynamics" I think you have it all backwards, reversing the wrong thing. You could write another essay in the OP's style about what it's like being a female in the "macho man" dominated nursing profession. Makes sense to me.
This is the probable outcome, unless we do something differently and better. This is why open source matters. This is why I understand someone using the latest GPL. Getting your product out to as many users as possible may be important, but preventing something like this, to me, will always take priority.
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What we need is GitHub CDN, or something like that. An open CDN for JS.
After multiple clarifications, you are still misreading me. I specified that I did not say Stallman was the actor in the story that stated -foo-, but that he is retelling a story in which he recounts the words of others, who did state -foo-.

I don't know how to make it clearer to you - even the snippet you quote is my words talking about him possibly not recalling the story quite right. I'm not saying he stated it was 3k words, but that it's possible that his recounting of another person's words might not be remembered correctly.

I have no axe to grind against Stallman, and if you look through my posting history, you'll see that there's been a few times that I've defended him against people who attack him as a figurehead rather than on the merits of what he actually said. This is partly why it's so frustrating for me to be taken out of context here and condemned for it.

I've also been misspelling bureaucracy... I thought it looked odd that way.
Headlines, unfortunately, need to catch people's attention. That's their job.
Everyone following the anti-piracy org BREIN and it's lawsuits in NL knows that this judge is corrupt, but it cannot really be proven. BREIN always uses the same judge, they always make it impossible for the defendant to be present at the hearings (as I understand it, but I don't know much about it, they use some loophole to make it impossible for the defendant to defend itself at the moment of the verdict). And he always finds the defendant guilty in these cases, no matter how insane (like the 'links case' Falkvinge discussed, were even showing the name of a movie in the forum was considered 'illegal linking').

This should get more press, but not enough people care in NL I think as this is only dredged up as 'wow how can this be' in tech forums while it's usually only a footnote in other press. And I don't believe that's a conspiracy, but rather that, no-one cares...
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> My main point is: always look at agendas. Try to understand the real reasons behind someone’s “good reasons”.

I would think anyone's who worked in corporate IT for enough years has changed from starry-eyed programmer to being suspicious of anything done and said.

Could be one reason why ageism is so rampant: the older ones who made it up the ladder want young F.O.B. workers they can lead up the garden path and eventually screw.

"Agility Consultants" seem to be the current IT version of Warren Buffett and co.
How can they always use the same judge?
Isn't that just syntactic sugar[1]? I cannot see any kind of metaprogramming going on here - unless you can define attr_accessor and similar parts yourself.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar
Play2 is released for production use and works with both Java and Scala. You've linked to an article which says essentially nothing.

You're suggesting that Vert.x is more production ready when it was only released 3 days ago?
http://vertxproject.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/vert-x-1-0-fina...
Check for better jobs in your area/remote. There are tons of places who want people who want to test.
You may want to send the link to the article to some newspapers in NL, maybe a few will pick it up and investigate. If nobody tells the mainstream press, they may just overlook it.
Apple has already made a SIM-less iPhone before, for Verizon. But whatever, I'm sure that doesn't fit in with this goofball's doomsaying. What a shitty piece of FUD.
I have no clue. Maybe it's only the cases he presides which make the press as BREIN wins there, but I'm fairly positive I read somewhere they always 'use' this judge. Maybe someone else knows more about it here?
Did the commenter named julianpenrod get confused about causality (the article said "the weak version would follow if the strong were true"; he replied that it is "not correct in stating that, if the weak conjecture is proved, then the strong conjecture is prove[d]") or did the article get edited after he commented?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/Document.querySelectorA...

Looks pretty "crossbrowser" to me. Seems to be supported on many mobile browsers too based on that link.

The only possible issue I see here is IE < 8 but then again, I'm not sure I'd want to bother with IE6/7 support.
In a juridical context, "found corrupt" means something like "a judge ruled that X is corrupt". It's easy to think that that is what the headline says.
Don't get it. How can you celebrate someone as the "youngest ever International Math Olympiad gold medalist" while simultaneously denying the importance of genius in math?

Terence Tao is a humble, self-effacing guy. Or at least he knows that society expects him to act like that rather than mimic the chest-thumping, endzone-dancing wide receiver. So obviously he's not going to say that "yeah, to really move math forward you kind of need to be a genius". Though of course other geniuses like Feynman were more up front about that truth.

Very few people have the innate ability to do what Tao or Feynman did. Recognizing that early is a mercy that allows people to move into other areas where they have a comparative advantage, rather than beating their head against the wall for 10,000 hours only not to get anywhere.
This sounds ideal to me! Let's think of some other possible pros, since the author hasn't seemed to bother:

Stolen phones can't be used.
No changing SIMs when you travel
No roaming fees!
One bill for cell usage and purchases
Apple's excellent customer support, full-stack

- to name a few. The main point is, the user doesn't have to mess around with installing a SIM card. In my opinion, the SIM is a holdover from a previous status quo, - we accept it because we've never known an alternative.
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Really bad hardware engineers make very expensive, hard to test, shitty designs that fail intermittently. I think HOW horrible productivity comes out in HW is different than software.
Even though I'm dutch and live in NL I have no idea how our judicial system works. However, I was under the impression that a random judge is appointed to a case.

If my impression is correct and this judge actually does the majority of Brein's cases wouldn't that alone be worth an investigation?
Unless you can store identities on the phone, and switch carriers by pressing a button or some other completely painless process that takes less than 5 minutes, it won't be as nice as SIM cards, where you can have one for each country you travel to and pop them in & out as you go along.
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As a very attractive man ;) in the tech industry I can tell you you're completely wrong. No, just kidding, no down votes, please. :)

But seriously, in my experience good looks do help in getting you hired in tech. I've thought about it a lot and I think it's because men (perhaps less attractive men) like being the superior of an attractive man. It somehow increases their own feeling of "primal status" to be telling somebody attractive what to do. Ridiculous, I know, but I think it's true. :) You should really have processes in place to prevent frivolous hiring of attractive men. ;)

After you're hired I don't know though...
Vodafone SIM is your Vodafone login and password, and it is the same with any other operator. And with the problems we are facing with PKI right now, it might as well be the most practical way to do it, since MITM on mobile network would have been a night mare.

Then again, it probably isn't the most practical way, the technology is old and the encryption broken.
You'll find, for example, the Australian National Privacy Principles forbid hosting Personal data offshore unless you get the permission of that person first. That's a bit unwieldy for most companies.

There are other conditions, but letting people's data be subject to the US Patriot act is one of the underlying concerns.
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If monopoly and charging high tariffs for usage are what Apple wants, they can simply work with a single carrier in a market to achieve them. Apple already had that control before.

Perhaps the more sound reason to go SIM-less is to reduce the barrier to switch, promote competition among mobile carriers and improve the whole user experience.

Don't forget that iPhone only works well with good mobile services. To Apple, the prices are easy to control but the quality of service is not. If virtual SIM is really coming, we could even expect a configuration that allows you to use different operators in different locations or for different purposes (data, voice call or SMS). I believe that this is what Apple is truly interested in.
That is a feature. You don't want your mobile device frivolously syncing every single file that gets changed. Most don't even have the capacity to hold all your Dropbox quota.
I'm extremely happy to see that there are still generous people around. You see, I'm African, and when I see the current mess in my continent, I think that we should do something about it.

Since you disagree with Muzza, I would suggest that we create a partnership in which we bring every african beggar to your country (Sweden?). That's a lot, and it'll probably severely mess up your country, but hey, here's your opportunity to act on your words!

/sarcasm

On a more serious note, would you want all the beggars in the world to go to Sweden? Why not? Oh, because it's too much and it wouldn't be good for Sweden right? Well every person has a different tolerance threshold for "what is good for Sweden". Maybe someone would argue with you that making Sweden an asylum for all the world's beggars is the ultimate way of repairing for your sins, and then call you a fascist for not wanting to do it.

Well you're doing exactly the same with Muzza. What you consider something very reasonable (hosting Roumanian beggars and providing them with apartments or whatever) is seen as unacceptable by someone else.

I guess I disliked your patronizing tone: people have different opinions and tolerance, and yours is no better or worse than any other.
Yes, I do think it definitely warrants investigation as definitely all high profile BREIN cases I heard of (and that's more than these 2) were with this judge. If it would be random then someone has a bad generator :) And i'm sure, somewhere, someone is getting Rolexes and seats in councils for this.

Edit: Ah, Hensen already has a seat in the Benelux council for intellectual properties.
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That's the thing about science or really any discipline where results is more important than anything else.

It's not really. If any other maintainer of a project finds they're cool with pull requests from github, then it's a fine tool for those projects. This guy runs a project which is an outlier in it's size, and which is also a far older project than most of what github hosts.

Now if his criticism has useful facts, that MIGHT be useful, and it does: The github format has fewer bits of info. Could some of those bits of info be important? Maybe. I didn't sense a genuine, measured analysis, but instead a rant from a maintainer about something that's not working for his project. Nor did I see a counterpoint from github why their tool does it the way it does. There may be real design decisions there, ones that might be better answers than what Torvalds has, especially for projects far smaller than Torvalds.

Don't let Torvald's status as the maintainer of the Linux kernel (and creator of git, to do that task) make you forget he's also paid attention to because he's famous as well as a useful contributor. Fame doesn't make you more right, just more adored. His ideas still require critical analysis from the rest of us.
Violence against women and violence against men are different. Men are more likely to be the victims of violent crimes, and especially more likely to be attacked by strangers. Violence against women is more likely to be rape or domestic violence. Men are more likely to wind up in something you could describe as a "fight." Depending on context, you could say that men are in more danger than women (because most violence is man vs. man) or that women are in more danger than men (because a lot of violence against women comes from familiar figures like family members or boyfriends, and because self-defense is often harder for women.)
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