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2. Because she posted on G+ asking for the support of others outside of the community to support her? [..] I'm not sure how you read it another way? It deliberately tries to invoke people who do not participate in LKML

As I said, after she tried to reason with them, on that list. You know, opposed to copying and pasting lots of flamewars she just came across and blogging about it.

No, actually, she isn't. I've been on various versions of LKML since 1998, and she is definitely not the first mentally grown up person to complain.

That just makes it worse, you know. So they're a lost cause then.

Maybe you'd care to explain why you believe Linus is wrong, rather than saying it's a response for a 5 year old?

"That's just how I am" is shallow unreflected bullshit no matter the context. In context, he's deluded if he thinks he couldn't be just as blunt and firm without making such an ass of himself. He talks about "playing the victim card" right after playing the "that's just how I am card", I'm sorry, but this is so fucking stupid that I'd rather just laugh at it, and anyone defending it. You can make up your narrative for that and think it proves whatever; I just can't be arsed.

BTW, your tone does not come across as very civil or professional.

Because I implied brainlessness? Aww. Well, that last line comes across as passive-aggressive and vague, and I suggest if you want to say something or think you have a point there, just make it. Did I claim I am better? To the contrary, that's why I don't buy the antics of Linus. Even if I did claim I was very civil and professional while not actually being that, it would detract zero from what I said.
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I don't get the fuss about Wayland and Mir. Like inventing a new mostly-incompatible subsystem is something new in GNU/Linux world. I mean, there were no "Linux way" ever - just take a look at zoos of sound subsystems, network management subsystems, init/rc subsystems and so on. GNU/Linux world is well-known for having magnitudes of software doing same things but in completely different ways, sometimes with some compatibility layers (like ALSA-OSS), but frequently completely mutually incompatible. This is not good, nor bad thing, it's just that there's no any established rules beyond fundamentals POSIX and FHS (and even those are poked from time to time), just more or less popular approaches.

GTK ran on DirectFB just fine, without X11 stack, so getting rid of X11 is nothing new. There were XDirectFB that worked as a X11 server, too. Not sure if the code's maintained and works now, though - haven't visited that land for, IIRC, about 5 years. Anyway, and I don't remember any worries about that.
Well there was that famous CIA statue that nobody could figure out for a while. Turns out the NSA solved it pretty fast, but they just didn't tell anybody.

And being the codemasters for the most powerful western country, I should hope that they employ people who are able to beat what people do on their free time.
A more simple version would be Garage Band. Would that suffice for your needs?
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> this encourages duplicity, causes people to become disengaged from the work and obsessed with their political relationship to their coworkers, and it breeds long lasting unacknowledged and unforgiven grudges.

Does anyone familiar with it think the Linux kernel development community has successfully avoided all that? Not Linus himself, but the community he leads and whose norms he helps set?
Do you have a Mac or an iPad? If so I'd recommend Garageband as an easy place to start, and there are plenty of tutorials available for it.
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i think articles like this are the actual problem. Stop playing the woman card, get a job and shut your mouth. If you don't think you will be treated well because you're a woman, don't work there. I honestly am shocked that women care. This job is saying that there are already women here, which means you have a high chance of getting hired. The more women there, the less sexual harassment in the work place. I'm a white male, so I don't have any cards to play which is good because the game is stupid and i would have folded a long time ago anyway.
The last place I worked, 18 months ago, that required after-hours logs still used pen and paper. Plus, they left the log books out all the time, so it was easy when you signed in to see who else was coming in after hours, going back weeks sometimes.
Or said another way: 'We're TOAST'.
You're excluding the comments which would be actual code to handle the very different events which all result in failure. Also, arguable only the first case would be something you'd want to throw an exception in a language which has them anyways. (Not getting a json response from a general http library is far from exceptional)
"developers in Europe have less autonomy and are less integrated into business decision making, partly as a result of an introverted and passive developer culture, whereas in the US, greater interaction between developers and management drives an increased perception of the value of technical skills, and a greater role in business decision making."

To an extent, this has been my experience as well since I work with many globally distributed teams across US, Europe and Asia as well. It is probably not fair to generalize this but I have always noticed that developers in the UK/Europe tend to focus only on the actual code "what" is required and when it comes to any decision making, they usually do not have much say (whether voluntary or because of management structure). In the US however, developers are a lot more involved in management discussions and decision making. Again, I would be careful not to generalize this.
I know that's true about people detained at a police station in the UK[0], but new borns? What database does their dna go in to?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_National_DNA_Da...

EDIT: correct me if I'm wrong, but it isn't mandatory either, which your comment implies.
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Based on the non-apology (where this could have been clarified) and the comments on news articles and elsewhere, I really don't think this is the case, or it could have been clarified and apologized for.

Also, people that put women programmers in lists of "tempting perks" and then when called out on misogyny say, "but dudes, I have a wife and daughter!" doesn't exactly give me much room to really believe that you are committed enough to addressing the problem of sexism in tech enough that you would write "we have a gender-diverse and multinational workplace!" in the same place where you are talking about beer-at-your-desk
What if you're a straight lady dev looking for a job?

Are you suggesting that women don't like with other women?

Most tech shops have much less men then women, which is boring. This ad wanted to highlight that this place has more diversity.

As with all language, the wording is a little ambiguous. The article (and many commenters) choose to interpret the line in the worst possible way and think the company is a misogynist hellhole and probably think that the four women working there are kept on leashes.
Perhaps. He could probably have avoided this by linking to a list of the persons employed, or added a picture of the team.

I actually believe that more companies should do that, I like to look at the Github profile of future colleagues, and see the team I am going to be a part of.

My current employer have this page: http://billetto.co.uk/pages/about which gave a good first impression (sorry for the danish page).
I published 4 books. First I used chapbooks.com, which no longer exists. After that I tried lulu.com and the problem was the distribution. They don't have a good deal to distribution worldwide and part of my audience was in other countries other than US. I then switched to using createspace from Amazon. The process was a lot easier and smoother with Amazon and the distribution is better there too. I started with the print on demand version and it was very easy to make the ebook version. The books are available on Amazon site and can be sold worldwide.
My coding comments often include the words "Fuck", "Shit" and "Cunt" when things are not going my way.
Well...to be fair there really isn't. Perhaps in some new high tech Japanese supercars but the average car rolling off the assembly line in Detroit is about as innovative as a ham sandwich. Many cars still have incandescent light bulbs in them and the latest in-car tech is less innovative than 90% of the tech you find at a Toys-r-us store.
I find it very odd that this article, along with most, repeatedly claims that Snowden needs to have a travel document in order to claim asylum. Many asylum seekers have no travel document at all when they enter the country where they seek asylum. In the UK most asylum seekers have no legal way to enter the country, as you technically can't switch from most other types of visa - they simply have to arrive and claim asylum on arrival.
> "We are committed to a diverse workplace sharing in the strengths of many points of view."

Ugh... do we really have to talk like politicians to avoid offending people?

Maybe something more like "We don't discriminate against women - 4 of our developers are female"

I don't see why it should necessarily be taken out of "perks". I imagine a lot of female developers in particular would be tempted to move jobs to somewhere with more women.
Perhaps, though as someone who bought Logic 9 less than a month ago (there being no hint at all that a new version was anywhere on the horizon), it still burns.
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This is the classic "education" vs "training" argument. For a variety of weird political/cultural/doublespeak reasons we're not allowed to discuss the difference, they're supposed to be synonyms. However, an education lasts a lifetime and gives meaning to life and a lifetime of interesting things to think about, and ways to think. Job training is just a meal ticket.

You can guess which philosophies applied in pre-industrial vs modern K-12 .edu and which applied in pre-tuition bubble and post-tuition bubble university .edu in the USA.

There is quite an impedance bump going from HS senior to Univ Freshman because of this conversion from pure training automaton setting to at least still partially an educational setting.
The phrase "we have a fun and diverse team" contains so much recruiting hyperbole as to not have an actual meaning.
Maybe a Linux distribution running SELinux, nicely provided by the NSA. :)
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We traded our cars for Bakfiets. Portland Oregon is full of people who, like the Dutch royalty pictured in another comment, use bikes to move kids around.

There are a lot of cycling groups for parents and small kids. Here's one: http://kidicalmasspdx.org/
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This is what US wanted. To corner him into taking asylum in a country like Russia. This turns Snowden into a spy in minds of many Americans than a whistleblower (or I like to call public informant).

The stories on media will focus more on, "Spy or whistleblower" instead of domestic spying by NSA. Future whistleblowers are discouraged and the nature of spying is off the front page. Mission accomplished!
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> I think one of my biggest challenges is learning how to progressively disclose the level of complexity about the task and not bombard them. But also providing them with clear measurable goals for them to work on.

I agree with this. It's not an easy problem to tackle. You could manage other people for years and still not have a good handle on it, but hopefully it gets easier to feel over time, as to what's too much for them. How well you know the other person is also a factor in this.
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This was overturned in court.[1][2]

[1]http://bcaction.org/2013/06/13/breast-cancer-action-wins-sco...

[2]http://www.aclu.org/womens-rights/supreme-court-invalidates-...
I really, really hate those 'tile' layouts. And I don't think they are appropriate for this kind of site.

You are given absolutely no idea what order stuff is presented in. Even if they are in some kind of order the 'double sized' ones will throw you off. There's no way to browse or sort by things like date.

Tiles are okish for ethereal content (although personally I hate ethereal content too), but something like a database of datasets should have more structure to it. I'm not trying to 'discover' what data exists, I will likely have something specific I wish to look up.

Cant they just stick to a standard list?

Or why not take a page from file managers and let you choose the layout.
Its better to use service from someone who follows Zero-Knowledge policy ... one such service is SpiderOak - may be there are few more ... on this platform we need to encourage to use those services so that other can notice the demand and change their policy too (though difficult but not impossible) ....
I'm in the group that agree w/ Linus and disagree w/ user Columbo. Columbo may be a manager, but Linus is a leader.
Leader of thousands of software developers, a leader that inspires.
A manager is someone you can fire and you software company works better.
One of the drummer demos is very reminiscent of "A Sorta Fairytale" by Tori Amos:

http://cl.ly/163g410m402w

Just a tad faster and the kick is more busy, but very much the same feel.
Why? A medium business running in Romania has much more to worry from Romanian government/tax authorities than US security agency overreach.

And even if they do - where to go? A lot of non it companies don't have even real ops ... hosting your own email and servers is expensive in that case. And potentially dangerous a modest string of bad luck could wipe you.
If I may suggest, you should contact the author - he wrote he takes pride in having real-world users, and adapting the tool to their needs.
A saying from an aquaintance who works as a public prosecutor in capital cases:

"Generally it's preferable to discuss the limitations of self-defense with the prosecutor, than having the family discuss with the undertaker."
And sounds a lot like Steve Jobs.
Perhaps it hasn't been confirmed because people don't want to go to prison?

Also, the UK Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) which is the main law governing spies doing mass collection of content and meta-data has many more abuses - (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2696031/Anti-terroris...)

> An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph found that three quarters of local authorities have used the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) 2000 over the past year.
The Act gives councils the right to place residents and businesses under surveillance, trace telephone and email accounts and even send staff on undercover missions.

These are all active, ongoing, abuses against real people using real data. It is a problem that GCHQ collects data, and it's a problem even if they don't grep it because eg McCarthyism could happen.

The UKCrypto mailling list possibly has some discussion about the UK laws and the requirement to not let anyone know if you're being investigated. But I have no idea what to search for. (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/ukcrypto/)
A lot like Steve Jobs.
It's probably agist. At least adding "dedicated" is better than just saying "young." But what was the context? Was that just a description of the work environment, or was it in a list of perks?
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One video shows it having PIC16F873:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UijyM-2S2f4

Another video has some sort of details in the description, although they are bit mysterious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyEua6kL00M

"AD conversion is not performed." meaning that the main feedback is analogue? That'd be interesting indeed.
I think he might have a point. Every now and again I receive an email from a customer (of ApiAxle) who is asking questions obviously not having read documentation or replies or something else which riles me. I respond to them in a calm, polite manner which might not be how I'm feeling, so, it's a lie, of sorts.
Really, at this point the developer of those plugins is to blame.

Ableton recently decided not to work on bridging 32 Bit plugins too and I really prefer them and Apple to spend their resources on other issues.
And neither people nor coffee machine are vacation; neither people nor vacation are coffee machine.

Some people value relationship (people), some people value convenience (coffee machine), some people value time (vacation).

Why is it only okay to list non-people benefit? Because you don't want people who value people?
> Obviously we worry about more things in this society than body counts, like civil liberties and the liberty to live our lives out of the shadow of bombers.

Yes, all it really takes to stop the terror of terrorism is to not play along by being scared of attacks.

It would take a 9/11 every month to cause as many deaths as gun violence... which we don't use the NSA approach to, because we realize that would massively destroy civil liberties.

If drastic measures aren't requires - if we can just shrug off as "freedom isn't free", "you need to let some bad things happen to ensure freedom", etc a 10x number of deaths - we're probably taking drastically the wrong approach by using the NSA style surveillance to battle terrorism.

This is literally us gutting out country on behalf of the terrorists - something they could never have hoped to achieve by force - because we're afraid and can't handle something dramatic happening now and then without loosing our heads.

That's childish and cowardly, as a society.
"As I said, after she tried to reason with them, on that list. You know, opposed to copying and pasting lots of flamewars she just came across and blogging about it.
"

This doesn't really change my point that it's honestly, nobody else's business what a given community decides to set for it's rules, unless that community is somehow impinging on other people's rights.

Here, it isn't. They keep to themselves. So yes, in some sense, if she can't get people in the community to agree, she should take her ball and go home. Appealing to mass authority in an attempt to generate pressure is not cool.

If i want to form a group of assholes that write software, that's on me. If you want to participate in my group of assholes, that's on you.

Asking random people on G+ to whine at me for being an asshole in that group is just childish.
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Whether if "profanity" is involved in the speech or not, if someone is prone to blowing up in a rage of anger, I do not enjoy being around such a person. Depending on the details, it might be worth understanding what makes them upset and trying to avoid it, but it seems to me that a lot of the time some people are just overly angry.

I recently witnessed some programmer going to town, blasting out a supply cabinet. Hurling rage and profane insults at a supply cabinet just seems... uncalled for, to me. My personal evaluation is that the guy needs to learn to not let little things bother him so much. Though I doubt the supply cabinet was offended.
I've just used vanilla extract before.. it doesn't take much, treat it like cologne. It smells much better than bug sprays and you don't have any weird residue.
I mean, you know, other than Google itself.

We do pretty well with a more or less entirely Google Apps workflow.
Hi, thoughtful post. As you state in your post, the issue is not what's happening now, it's what could happen in N years from now with your genetic information that is being passively collected, stored, and selectively shared by the NSA and (probably) the GHCQ. So while I share your concerns, I don't think going with a UK company is going to afford you much more data protection.
> since it's a field that's a relative meritocracy

I couldn't know this, I could just sincerely hope it's true, for all the years I played with programming, neglecting my duties as part of an educational system. I believed that I can become good at this thing called programming and I believed that it will be enough.

Almost twenty years later I'm still astonished that my childish, naive belief was indeed true. That in this field it is much more important what we can do than who we are.

Or maybe it was just luck and I'm deluding myself...
You can write MIDI processing plugins using Javascript, that's pretty big. And most everything is now pushed to the iPad for touch editing.
> needs to have a travel document in order to claim asylum

> they simply have to arrive and claim asylum

In order to arrive, he needs the travel document.
Simple solution (from the software engineer's perspective): demand overtime pay. If you are officially expected to work 40h/week for certain amount of money, but in practise you're "expected" to work 50h/week, then your real wage is actually 20% lower than what your contract says. And that is pretty similar to theft.

It's time to start comparing wages instead of absolute income.
Thanks for the feedback! The UI was something very important to us. There are still a few things that can be "tweaked" to make things more efficient, but figured it was good enough to start getting user feedback. Thanks again.
Not necessarily, but maybe the employer is subtly implying: "Old people don't need apply."

But if the employer wrote the job description with the intention of causing potential sexual arousal (e.g. if that perk is amongst free beers, chocolate and "frothy milk"), you are definitely objectified.
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Yes. I was thinking in terms of the three as consumer platform companies.
Read further, there aren't actually any females french or otherwise, in question. This whole thing is insanity piled on insanity.
For anyone who's intrigued by Derek's post, and wants to take it a bit further ... the Knight-Mozilla Fellowships this year (linked in the post) are one great way to get started: http://www.mozillaopennews.org/fellowships/
The quote in question is, again "the sort of person that can excel at anything they put their mind to, just because they want to". That's very clearly YOU putting your mind to something, not someone else putting your mind to it.

And you kind of ignored my entire point. It's not that you can 'do literally anything', obviously you can't become the incredible hulk through force of will. It's about being able to excel at any chosen field by being highly devoted to it. And on top of that, the 'godliness', is being able to chose a topic to be exceptionally devoted to. It's the choice of what to be passionate about that I would be depressed that nobody can do.

But apparently you were just interpreting 'excel at anything' as 'do literally anything' and never meant any of what I was responding to.
I use all of them daily.

First things first. What I quickly discovered was that Logic _sounds_ better. Just dragging in a sample from you desktop seemed to reveal that logic was processing it in a higher quality. A weird thing, and maybe it's placebo, but everytime I go back to ableton I notice this. Furthermore, the bottom line is, my productions just sounds better in Logic. Maybe it's the workflow it encourages, I'm not sure. All I know is that no serious audio engineer would use anything else than Pro Tools or Logic for a serious recording, and I agree. At least that's my experience.

Regarding Reason: In my opinion, it has some of the best synths in the business. Which is why i rewire into Logic. A couple of youtube tutorials on Thor and you'll be going strong.

Ableton, well, I don't care much for it. The only thing i really miss is how easy it is to manipulate audio in it. A lot of people talk about how fast it is, but the design always seemed to get in my way. Personal preference i guess...