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I've never understood the whole "Bitcoin transactions are anonymous" theory. If anything, the Bitcoin model promotes a sort of hyper-transparency. The anonymity today lies in the fact that no one knows what wallet is linked to what person/business. If it becomes a widely-accepted currency among retailers, it would eventually become trivial to look at any given wallet and see that $x was spent at Amazon on this day, $x was spent on groceries, so-and-so filled up their gas tank at this particular station, etc. You can shuffle coins between wallets to obscure your tracks somewhat, but you're still broadcasting every transaction you make to the world.

I think this is horrible for the average person, but would be a great thing to implement for transactions where you would want some form of accountability, like political donations, charities, investments, taxes, etc. If I give my money to some organization, I can use the block chain to see that they're using the money they receive for exactly the purposes I expect them to be using it for.
The compiler can't necessarily optimise i++ away in C++, because the ++operator or the destructor of the temporary iterator object returned may have side effects. It's still not quite equivalent to ballards postincrement() though, because the C++ standard allows for that temporary copy operation to be optimised away
I'm aware of the neg 48 vdc stuff out there, I work in the telecom industry, and plan on building a 48v power plant whenever I buy a house :-P.

That's not quite what I was talking about - Rather than need to distribute 48v you could do 240v or 384v (5 or 8 48v strings) and then do DC-DC in each frame to generate 12v/5v/3.3v power supplies, which supply the voltages directly to the hardware, if you needed 48v in frames, its easy to put a DC-DC converter in to get that too. I shudder to think at copper costs to distribute 48v.
This was my favorite part of playing around with old Pokemon games. It's actually unfortunate you can't do them in the newer games
Good points, and you're right that Upworthy is an engine for viral political content, which I find very interesting.

You call it "manipulative slime," but I'm still undecided on the morality of it. On the one hand, the manipulative aspect is incredibly annoying, and I avoid clicking on Upworthy links basically out of spite. On the other hand, is this worse or better than using viral marketing tactics to sell a product? What if Upworthy manages to get hundreds of thousands of people to share an informative video on a civil rights issue that you find to be of pressing importance?

Viewed through this lens, Upworthy is essentially analogous to viral vector gene therapy for the hivemind. Is this inherently evil? Do the ends justify the means? I don't know, but it would be an interesting discussion to have.
So does this mean we just sit back & watch for 10 months? Or can something go wrong after this as well?
No, not for all nouns. But if the noun refers to a person, there are usually two different nouns for each gender and the male form is often used to include females. There are modern attempts to fix this by introducing a new noun (ending) that includes both male and female (or more) genders.
Thank you for altering my viewpoint on this topic. I just remembered why I read this site.
Apple is behaving just like any really large firm protecting a stream of profits. In my second year of law one day the professor brought several bottles of rum to the class. Why ? Well he had won a case against the incumbent telco. This was great news and very special because he started the case in his 2nd year of law studies.

He was 62 years old at the time, having argued the case on and off for 41 years.

For this particular firm, this case was not an exception. They paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars (resulting in great rum), but he claims that there were other factors that made this a good deal for them. He wasn't willing to settle, so they couldn't do that, and a court loss might have lead to regulatory action if it had happened sooner, or it might have led to effective rule changes due to precedent. So they put everything they had behind delaying the case, so it would be nothing more than some cute curiosa in the newspapers. And meanwhile their profits from treating people like this keep accumulating (it had to do with what a company is allowed to do to extract payment, but that's only part of it).

Apple is probably likewise using a delaying tactic here. Not that I even find it even remotely plausible that this lawyer was selected based on merit, but apple doesn't care about that. They may use it as an argument to get another judge, but that would just be to get another judge, not because they care.

Apple has used it's famous negotiation tactics while controlling a significant portion of the market. This is probably illegal, but pays them handsome profits. They're probably trying to make those profits last.
Saying "your average uncle joe" does not ring sexist to me? You're drawing a comparison, to whomever you want to, and not making any radical assumption about a specified group of people.

As for your rape anecdote... I hope you'll give the mechanics of that a bit more thought? And also consider the type of physical injury. (Many rape victims suffer damage to their internal organs and/or lose the ability to conceive.)
Until corporate networks stop demanding 8 character long pin every time I need to unlock, I will refuse to have corp mail on my phone.
It's certainly not the market rate if they are forced to pay it.
They could have then, but mercury vapor rectifiers are/were expensive, mogen sets are noisy and need service - its far easier to put a big one in, than lots of little ones.
Possibly, maybe will no longer best the best thing for your teeth.

Seems very interesting, but very early stage.
> Shouldn't that be "Everybody has their fight"?

Of course not. Only men have legitimate fights. When a fight is only being conducted by women, it must be something trivial.
Great, if they only provided decent support for older versions. I'm using the LTS release on my desktop, but pretty much all software besides Firefox and Thunderbird are at least three months behind.

The LTS should be good till 2017, but it's already far behind in 2013.
FYI, he's participating in this thread.
Cast your net wide enough, and you will find that at a certain point some people will perceive an injustice and will begin turning themselves 'into' sexists, just to spite you.

I am spartacus. Or if you prefer, Giles Corey's refusal to plead.

Begin firing people for using "him" instead of "they", and you will "radicalize" many formally apathetic people.
I think you have a fair point. HR issue. For an employee this is a big red flag - now Ben's employer will probably receive some angry emails this weekend and Ben will probably face some angry comments this weekend too. Nasty situation.

If we do let Ben be a good man as he claims to be, then maybe it was a stupidity to rule out the ticket so quickly. How would a clever "sexist" person do? This "sexist" person would probably say "well, I don't like they. Not the way my teacher taught me grammar. Rephrase the whole sentence."

Or just don't bother deal with any pull request related to sexist.

But I agree with the parent. The CEO is afraid of any negativity. This is a typical way people handle crisis - find someone responsible and fire that person. A true heroic responsible CEO should first accept / address issue with the PR, then if the community thinks "YES DO IT" then accept the pull request and requires at least 2 contributors with sign off privilege to accept a pull request from that point onward. Firing someone quickly is the worst way to be a boss.
I guess it depends whether calling figurative-you hostile is itself hostile. Is it offering advice on how to communicate better, or implying that figurative-you is an asshole? You could interpret it either way.
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Yep. But the gender undefined pronoun would be the male pronoun. So while semantically it would be gender neutral, from an overall perspective it's still male-centric. And we might want to have a way to refer to humans in a completely gender neutral way without ever having to explicitly specify it.
But still, I guess using 'he' as a universal pronoun would be the most elegant solution. Although you can imagine some not liking it's historical baggage.
Look at countries like India or even China. Countries can survive hundreds of years with high level of poverty.

The key thing is if the situation in the US will get worse faster or slower than the slow mentality shift that is required to considered poor people as disposable.
That's a fair point, and "they" certainly does work well in some places. But if you took every use of "he" or "she" from Shakespeare and replaced it with "they", then we'd have a problem. And that's what this post is hinting at doing.
A lot can go wrong in the meantime: electrical or communication systems could fail, orbital insertion burns could fail (either due to messed up timing, communication, propulsion, or any number of other things), etc etc.

But that said, barring any huge design flaws, if you make it out of atmo you're probably going to be just fine. (Usually. Probably.) So it's mainly just a waiting game now.
The ppa repositories are an Ubuntu thing I've heard, there seem to be slightly more packages for Ubuntu-based distributions, and lots of things are just pre-packaged. Instead of having to apt-get a filemanager and everything, things are compiled by people that probably know more about it than me. Like with laptops, I'm pretty sure I could assemble one if manufacturers let us, but the real experts can probably do it better (with heat management and whatnot).

That said, Debian works perfectly fine for me on my phone. It runs lxde chrooted in userspace (Android is the booted OS), and I have no trouble using and operating Debian as far as things are available for ARM. Even compiling new things for ARM is usually no issue, though things like compiling Firefox are probably beyond what I would want to try on my phone :P
But where is the sexism in this? And since when did companies earned the right to fire people over matters of personal opinion? Or stating they would do it when the person isn't even an employee?

This is a witch hunt, plain and simple. I'm amazed that people don't understand that this doesn't help the fight against sexism, at all...
I think his point is that it was not too long ago that saying "him" did not ring as sexist to most people.

If the standards of language are changing, then we have to decide what punishment, if any, we deal out to those who don't keep up quickly enough.
Errrm, sexism certainly doesn't need defending. Unfortunately, as we've seen here anything that gets in the way of feminist activism gets portrayed as defending sexism. For instance, reverting feminist commits for not having the proper sign-off? Totally sexist.
I want a pokemon-type game with robots, where this isn't a cool trick, but a critical part of the game.
If I was a company that was represented on github by someone who managed to antagonize the community I was hoping to be working with on my open source product, I'd probably fire them too and hire someone with better qualifications re: getting along with people.
Sorry - I wasn't saying that I'm sure I did something I would have gotten fired over, the point was more that I don't think just any instance of sexism should be treated as a fireable offense, because sexist behavior can be unintentional and due to lack of experience. "Don't be sexist and you won't have problems" as the OP put is what I thought I was doing, but wasn't.

My post is vague because it's about subtle behavioral stuff. Basically, when I interacted with male developers, my behavior toward them was based on projecting myself into them automatically. Like, say, the level of expectations I leveled against them, how competitive I would be with them, how aggressive I might be toward them was based on how I myself respond to being challenged and my own career path/experiences and things like that. I unintentionally behaved differently toward female developers (not necessarily worse actually, but differently) just because that automatic projecting would not happen, and it would end up singling them out.

Learning about that has improved my interaction not just with women but also men, actually. I make a much bigger effort to learn about the individual now.

I'm sure all this came a lot easier to others, or maybe they just had the right sort of experiences much earlier (I wonder if it would have helped if I had any siblings, say). But for me is something I can identify as "needed to learn that".
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I'm not talking about the pronoun issue, I'm focusing on the hypothetical firing.

It's completely unreasonable to fire someone over what in essence is reversing a commit. It might warrant a discussion with a manager, it might warrant an official warning, and perhaps some other measure but summary dismissal? No way.

In my opinion, this is Bryan backing Isaacs, perhaps in a clash of egos with Ben, and grand-standing over an issue which he believes will earn Joyent brownie points.

I don't want any developer to work in an environment where the CEO openly boasts about firing people, so in summary, I guess, fuck Joyent.
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> not because they're sexist but because the singular 'they' sounds clumsy to modern ears, its long history notwithstanding

That's the thing though: it doesn't "sound clumsy to modern ears" for many people.

I use "singular-they" completely without thinking; as far as I can recall, I've never explicitly decided to use it, it just comes naturally when it is appropriate. The same seems to be true for many others as well.

However for some people (such as yourself, I presume), this obviously isn't the case.

From there, it's simply a numbers game.

I have no idea where those numbers stand today, but I don't recall anybody ever even noticing my usage, so it can't be too disturbing for those I interact with. It's hard for me to judge how many other people use this construction simply because it's so natural that I don't tend to notice it when they do.

Still, given that it perfectly addresses an otherwise awkward deficiency in English, in a way that fits in naturally with other English usage (e.g., singular/plural "you") and has both historical precedent and widespread modern adoption, the future of "singular-they" looks pretty bright...
Any task in this case means any hourly pay. Employees and executives don't get paid hourly. Executives don't have a task to complete.
You might be missing the bigger picture of witch hunts and the feminist movement if you're trying to draw parallels like that.
Mh, no. That's not it, since in the beginning the code didn't use those statements. I was taking ownership of the code and then had weird warnings popping up all over the place.
The fix for them was always one of those things from the stackoverflow list.

So, no, i'm not convinced perl has good unicode support in terms of actually supporting the programmer. Mind you, that was 2 or 3 years ago, so maybe the situation is different now.
To me, it was just a stupid task of creating new tests, finding a warning and then trying to figure out what the fix is. Sometimes the fix broke other parts or libraries and then you go to fix #2 (because of course there are a gazillion ways in Perl to do a single task). To me it was really not a very good experience. And really, just look at that stackoverflow article. That's a consistent and good unicode support? No.
Maybe the current perl is different, though (i think the project ran 5.12 or 5.14).
Consultant cover-your-ass speak for we set everything up really poorly and had to do it all over again.
I'd say we're a pretty developer driven company, engineering or not, we certainly think dev forward in everything we do.

Most everyone heavily involved in DO has been around the www for a long long time, lots and lots of very full stack folks who come from the days of having to know your linux kernel in and out but also understand what is going on at 7.. I think that is something we really hold to our core.

One thing we noted about a year or so ago was the disparity that was emerging in the developer world, with one click installs and applications like wordpress becoming more the norm, we wanted to make sure this new generation of front end heavy devs are well supported, this was the easiest way we could find to do so at scale.. so we've invested heavily in it, we have Etel who leads our community programs, as well as two full time technical writers who are fantastic. :)

Always looking for feedback.
I had read all about the incident before, but had never seen the FBI report. So there is some stuff that you may not have seen.
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In this particular case I notice he not only rejected the pull request, but then (after having the issue explained to him) [re-submitted](https://github.com/joyent/libuv/commit/804d40ee14dc0f82c482d...) the change to revert.

That's where he (potentially) stepped over the line. If he were in the office it would at the very least precipitate a serious discussion. It's the refusal to acknowledge the feedback or policy which really screams out "asshole".

Again, I would need to have a relationship with him to be sure of it, but the OP did have that relationship. Assuming this wasn't the first issue, it would be even more inappropriate for him to go blabbing about that history on a random pull request, don't you think? That would just be character assassination.
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Main risk factor of this whole program was the injection into earth orbit with correct orientation. The journey to Mars should be relatively risk-free. There still will be minor corrections en-route to Mars by firing engines. Mainly, now we sit back and wait for it to be captured by Mars gravity, the next major step where failure can occur.
Also, collective systems can only last so long before they become rapacious. :)
This is insanely cool. Someone on the thread linked to this Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3EvpRHL_vk .
He uses the glitch to program an entire game into ram and then runs his own breakout clone style game through this code execution glitch.
Hey, no one's getting angry because someone wrote 'him' instead of 'they' in the docs. The issue is that someone inisted that this must not be changed, for no good reason, pointlessly antagonizing lots of people.

If you're running an open source project and someone you pay is driving off its community, you'd probably feel justified in not giving them money anymore.
MAP_SHARED and MAP_PRIVATE are indeed permissions (not particularly fine-grained) to the mapping. Perhaps they don't come into play here, but saying "there is no such thing as 'permission to the mapping'" is false.

I really doubt that if two processes are mapping the same file, and one calls madvise(MADV_DONTNEED), it'll drop the pages from memory entirely. That seems like a great way to let one process DoS another. If the other process has marked it MADV_WILLNEED, that would be especially bad.

If they've both mapped it MAP_PRIVATE, then the mappings should be entirely separate anyway (though copy-on-write semantics are presumably used), and a madvise() on one shouldn't affect the other.
Minor detail: It was misleading in the Joyent blog post, the fact that it also reads as misleading in the parent post isn't the poster's fault.

When I read the Joyent post, it doesn't seem like they acknowledge any other possible motivation for revert. When I later saw the revert message regarding sign-offs I was quite surprised that the blog neither mentioned it, nor was written in a way that indicated they had read it.
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The pull request was titled "Removed use of gendered pronoun". I think that's a key fact missing from your summary.

I mean, there isn't really a whole lot of information from Ben here except two actions, the rejection and then the reversion.

Did he look at the title and think "I should reject a PR titled 'Removed use of gendered pronoun' because the act of removing a gendered pronoun is trivial"? Did he just look at the diff and think "This is a couple of characters, not important." Did he see the change and think "I can't wait to marginalize the shit out of these women reading my documentation!"

There's just not a lot of info from Ben. And now because of all this bluster, there is likely not to be.

Seems like a bunch of drama, rather than a fruitful discussion.
That seems like a really silly notion...
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And I'm focusing on what you wrote:

>> What we have learnt is that the CEO of Joyent is prone to over-reacting and will fire people over nothing.

If you think what took place in that github thread was nothing, you represent exactly the dismissive attitude of sexism the tech-industry needs to get rid of.
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A clever psychopath can put on the mask of an empathetic person when it suits them. Think Ted Bundy as an extreme case (of course most psychopaths/sociopaths/whatever are not serial killers).
Honestly, I don't think Apple so much as broke the law as they lost out on some lobbying/regulating play where Amazon got the DoJ to investigate for agency models, as opposed to Apple getting the DoJ to investigate Amazon for predatory pricing.

In this case, I think anything is fair play.
> for no good reason, pointlessly antagonizing lots of people.

Read the actual source, don't rely on editorials.
Sorry,I meant CSS lint:
http://csslint.net/

It's a little strict, though
Is there a scientific basis for insisting on gendered pronouns if there's no shortage of people telling you that they're offputting and exclusionary?
WWII propaganda was about Americans coming together to kick Japan and Germany's ass. Unless you were Japanese or German, most of the propaganda and the general sentiment around the war effort was about all Americans joining forces to win the war. There's even a part in one of Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" propaganda films calling on Americans of all ethnicities to set aside their differences and work together to win the war.
Why is it snowing?
Nice that they are spending Indian taxpayer money on science! (I am biased towards robotic missions vs. getting ppl into orbit at all costs)
In other words, never talk with people who self identify as ideologue extremists.
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Nobody should be surprised. Our financial system is currently more vulnerable than in 2008.
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As others have said, this might still have been the result of confusion. bnoordhuis clearly didn't realise that bert had signed off on the change already. There are apparently other issues, such as people making minor changes and sneaking into the contributor list, which maintainers have to deal with day to day. I don't know much of this, but it's detailed in other posts.

I think this isn't clear cut. Certainly not clear enough cut for all this uproar.
Good thing nothing like that is happening or likely to happen, then, just good old social repercurssions for bad behavior.
The first step would be to define "drone." Hobbyists have flown RC planes for decades, with little regulation, and haven't been bothering anyone. That hasn't changed. What did change is the use of drones by governments.

Regulation will probably be sold as protecting people from government drones, but I have a feeling those regulations will apply to everyone except the government.
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