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Other art forms have been subject to feminist and other criticism for a long time.

Only recently has attention been turned to video games, as the genre is so new. The reaction from a minority in the video games community seems to view this criticism as an extraordinary attack, even some kind of corruption or conspiracy if you listen to some people on reddit.

These recent controversies (#GamerGate included) look pretty transparent from people with no stakes in the game. A lot of really violent backlash against an industry that is growing up.

If a book is published, it is allowed for journalists or other writers to say that this book is abhorrent for x, y, and z. It is also allowed for them to criticize and chastise the author for writing such an abhorrent book. This is not the same as censorship.

When a large part of society condemns something for whatever reason, or if a certain segment wishes to use their arguments to try convince enough people that something should be condemned, this is a natural, largely unpredictable, and unrelenting process that happens all the time to reflect shifting social values and morals. It's folly to fight that, and the trick is predicting where it will go. In my opinion, that is how companies and institutions survive.

A few years ago it might have been in (any random abstract) company's best interest to fire a gay employee. Regardless of the views of the decision maker at that company, for the sake of PR, this is the way it goes. These days, that decision goes the other way, particularly on the national scale.

The game studios are subject to these kinds of effects too, and that is what what will hurt the status quo of games in the long run (although there are arguments to be made that the desired status quo is already long gone, I dunno, it's been a while since I was attached to the games industry).
Both Facebook and Twitter seem very susceptible to "report" campaigns. Anybody who can drum up the numbers can silence somebody else.
I downvoted you because you misunderstood the point of that section of the article. It's not about 'offending' people, it's about consistently and invisibly leaving people out.

It's easy for us white dudes (as I assume you are, based on your post) to say "games should just be whatever!" because we implicitly have the privilege of identifying with the inevitable white dude main character. The few times the character isn't a white dude washes right off of us because we are absolutely used to a character that conforms to us.

Others don't have that. This isn't 'politics' it's about being inclusive and realizing that it's actually trivially easy to do so in most cases.

I've been making games professionally for over 15 years now. The progress we are making is fantastic because the main problem with games is that game designers are lazy. When we go with grimdark white dude, it is lazy. When game developers are forced to not be lazy, everybody wins. Because at the very least, you cannot argue with the fact that lazy design is always going to be inferior to non-lazy design.
Russia has provoked Swedish airspace again and again
It's still a need to know if you work in the reverse engineering, security, vulnerability analysis, etc. realms.
> The problem is that games like Red Dead Redemption, Hitman, and Grand Theft Auto systematically reward sexist and racist behavior (tying a woman to train tracks, brutalizing prostitutes, etc.).

A game is a work of fiction.FICTION.it doesnt mean developpers fantasize on rape or that it will turn player into sex offenders.When did COD turn players into mass murderers ? never. When did GTA turn players into car jackers ? or thugs ? I remember new york city being pretty violent in the early 80's.GTA didnt exist... Game X or Y didnt make the nazi kill jews... or made Ted Bundy be what he was ...

Reminds me Resident Evil 5 c"ontroversy" when "people" were outraged because players were killing blacks ... What the hell ? the game is set up in Africa, for christ sake...there will be some black people there ... RE5 didnt make the US south racist or lynch negros ...did it ?

> Many refute the idea that video games can affect a player's long-term behavior, and as far as I know both sides of that argument are difficult to study and prove.

Because people CAN tell the difference between reality and fiction.For those who cant , videogames are not to blame.They have issues at first place.

So yes,let's continue to have violence against women,objectified women in video games,just like men are objectified and raped and killed in videogames.

If only women were brutalized,you may have had a point,but that's not the case,at all.

that's why all this social justice warfare against videogames is silly.These are just game and do not turn people into monsters,trolls,racists,rapists,killers or whatever.

I want game artists to be able to express themself without fear of finger pointing by people totally unrelated to gaming.

If players dont like it,then they will not buy it.Let the market work...

So enough with all this already.A few people made a quick buck out of social justice warfare,good for them, but let us not fall for all that crap.
How is that disheartening? The whole point of the Chromebook is to only use the web.
I have friends whose ministry is focused on problems in religion A and making converts from religion A to religion B. There is apparently a group of religion A members who flag literally everything they post as hate speech. Photos of themselves? Hate speech. Photos they took of religiously significant locations? Hate speech. Telling us that her mom is in the hospital? Hate speech.

Eventually, after hours on the phone with FB support, it appears to be settled. I would love to know the technical means FB used -- whether they marked my friends' account as "always manually review flags", whether they've got better voting ring detection, or whether they simply found a group of abusing flaggers as a result of the first phone call and that group isn't slick enough to make new accounts.
It's not at all speculation, I just didn't feel the need to prove it. We're not obsessive about that here, not like Wikipedia or Stackoverflow.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17580251/what-exactly-is-...
http://www.macrumors.com/2013/10/15/launch-center-pro-develo...
http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/04/06/apples-use-of-private-...
I'm all in favor of this move...give them what they deserve
The 150 million is at today's bitcoin prices. The bitcoin prices were much lower back then.

>During the relevant period, Shavers obtained at least 700,467 BTC in principal investments from BTCST investors, or $4,592,806 when converted to U.S. dollars based on the daily average price of BTC when the BTCST investors purchased their BTCST investments.

I'm not sure whether he sold his bitcoins back when the prices were low or held them.
I don't see how this is relevant as I did not suggest game makers should make different games. Rather I was simply commenting on the observation that there are social issues regarding sex and gender in our world, and that many video games showcase them (usually unintentionally).
I'm all for this renaming!! Give them what they deserve
Imagine how the computer revolution would have looked if Babbage's analytical machine was built and worked in the late 1800s or early 1900s.
And you've gotten to the point with most art. It's not a human right to access art and entertainment. Therefore, art and entertainment really don't owe us anything in terms of considering our feelings or opinions. All they owe us is to be interesting and entertaining enough to make us want to spend money or time on them.

BUT, because we live in a very privileged society (any first world country at least), we have nothing better to worry about than whether or not the new Half Life has a strong woman character in it, or whether or not it portrays minorities in a positive light.

Somewhere along the way people got it in their heads that they can dictate what is art and what is entertainment to other people. This has been a struggle since the dawn of time, I believe. The only problem is that now we have a medium for communication that allows these shallow, backward censors to find each other and be much, much louder than they should be.

I love Leisure Suit Larry simply because it is hilariously sexist. I also treat the women in my life and women I meet as equals in all aspects of my personal and professional life. It's as if, in some cases, there can be a disconnect between what I do as entertainment and who I am as a person. It's also as if there exist certain items for certain audiences. I'll not let my 10 year old play leisure suit larry; then again, I'm not going to bother with candy crush nonsense, he can have it.

People need to learn that not everything can make them happy, and that the world isn't sunshine and puppies. Sorry for the lengthy (vaguely off-topic) response, but this really strikes a nerve. Fun fact - my graduate studies are in Critical Pedagogy in Educational Leadership, emphasis in Social Justice. The current incarnation of "Social Justice" is so far from what individuals like bell hooks, Paulo Freire, Maxine Greene and Henry Giroux had in mind that it's fucking ridiculous and absolutely infuriating.
Some very skillful work, though I have a hard time imagining a museum accepting such copies as originals, at least assuming they had a print of the original to compare with. The basic structure is there, and pretty perfectly from what I can see, but some details differ. What kind of review process goes on at museums in these situations?
I wrote a similar tool that creates impress.js presentations instead: https://github.com/egonschiele/mdpress
"Won't someone please think of the white dudes!"
And the first social networks (Friendster/MySpace) with Facebook
I don't know if anything changed within the past 2 years, but I had a high-end system 2.5 years ago where the emulator was just as slow as you describe it.
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Indeed. It would be ironic if some of those less successful results were the result of hiding earlier, less successful results.
Not an overnight fix. But with sustained effort, meditation changed my life. Eventually other things fell in place. Diet, exercise, relationships, mental health. Buddhist teachings really helped too.

I started here. http://headspace.com
Good news! No one is ever going to stop a game from being made.
I think it's just something people will end up with when thinking about S-Expressions.

I remember when I was considering using Vim's conceal[1] feature to replace the # in Clojure lambda reader macros, then I joked about replacing it with some nonsensical emoji instead. That evolved into "Why not write all of Lisp with Emoji?" and wrote some joke examples in a Hangout.

Glad to see I'm not the only one who thought this would be amusing to make.

[1]: Like this: http://demonastery.org/2012/07/lambda-conceal-in-vim/
I'd put my money on a bit of both, but I'd put more of that money on the causation side.

As a thought experiment, imagine going through situations where you had no choice with somebody who becomes the only person you can count on. Not only can you expect to be able to count on that person in the future, but you have an exclusively shared experience. Both of those happen regardless of whether either of you had a choice.
MRI, Magnetic Resonance Imaging. It used to be NMR or NMRI, but you know what people are like when they hear the word "nuclear".
I honestly, truly, just don't understand this.

Humans need social interaction. If someone's only form of social interaction has become online interaction, losing that will be akin to being put into solitary confinement (which we know is akin to real physical torture).

Most human beings are lazy. Most people don't change their UI's default setting and similarly most people aren't going to change their default mode of interaction. So even your good friends are not that likely to change from Facebook to some other mode of interaction just because you aren't there.

Now, it would be great to not be lazy in choosing your interaction mode and to have all your friends also not be lazy in this regard but the later part is going to be a lot harder.
This was Didier Verna with "Smilisp": http://www.didierverna.net/blog/index.php?post/2009/04/01/%3...
Article about one such study in the April 2011 UK Daily Mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1374632/Smart...
>When did GTA turn players into car jackers ?

I explicitly addressed and rejected this conversation in the post you responded to. No one other than Jack Thompson and a few crazed parents are suggesting your hyperbole.

>A few people made a quick buck out of social justice warfare

I am constantly upset by this notion. There are very real social problems in this world, regardless of who you think profits off of them. This is insanely dismissive.
Maybe I don't understand, but to me it sounds like he sold 86,202 BTC for $164,758. Which means he still has 64,476 BTC, currently worth $25,778,155.
By that logic, Windows up until 98 was also a command line application. Doesn't really add up.
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It's pretty poor form to cite a study and then say "google it and find it yourself" when somebody asks for clarification.
A friend of mine a month or two a go began posting "throw-up Thursday" pictures (a play on #tbt, i.e. throwback Thursday). He posted pictures of people who were drunk and had thrown up on themselves. They were pretty gross, as intended.

Someone reported him, and Facebook removed all of the posts and comments referencing those posts. He began posting pictures again in protest, and they threatened to ban him if he didn't stop, so he did.

I think it is unfortunate that Facebook feels the need to police content like this (especially when the content is relatively in-offensive, like some pictures of barf). There is also a block mechanism, so you can block stuff from people you don't want to see (or, you could, you know, un-friend them!). I can (potentially) see an argument being made for censoring some kinds of content, but I was completely amazed that Facebook cared about something like throw-up Thursday.
Well, it wasn't really non-news. It's an interesting form of denial of service.
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These games have a right to exist as free speech regardless of what they portray or how the player is rewarded. Banning media or forcing them to conform to your political beliefs because you don't agree with it is nothing short of fascism.

I don't see people out there arguing to rewrite Bukowski for being sexist.
I wonder if this applies to listening to audiobooks.

I know people generally hate long commutes but honestly if it wasn't for my commute, I would never spend 2 hours a day listening to audiobooks or reading. Now I easily finish 2 to 3 books a month due to it and I wouldn't have it any other way!
Well, there's always people that just think it's fun. Plus, you learn A LOT about the processor you are working with.

But the group of programmers who need to work in assembly is not very large, I think. Most of them are probably writing compiler backends or working in embedded systems.

But learning assembly teaches you a lot about how the processor works, so it might be time well spent even if you never actually write assembly.

(NB I don't really know assembly, I have written like 20 instructions of inline assembly (and 3 inline binary instructions - what a rush that was!), so I am not an expert on the matter, but I can see the appeal. ;-)
Is it worse that those games reward sexist and/or racist behavior or extremely violent behavior?
Anyone have more insight into the statement "Avoid closures"? Or rather, an alternative to having private functions?
I think everyone should watch Orson Welles' F for Fake. The main theme of the documentary/exposé is that art is too rarely appreciated for what it is, but more for who made it. And everything went downhill as soon as "experts" started claiming that they could tell a "real" painting from a "fake" and acting as if the fake weren't also valuable as a work of art. If we just got rid of the experts...

Wikipedia calls it "meandering" but Welles is far too charismatic to be boring. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_for_Fake <- spoiler in the last 2 paragraphs of the "Plot" section
The official emulator is so slow it's a joke. Genymotion or Intel HAXM are a bit better but the whole process is clunky. Once Google introduces Android runtime to Chrome, developing for Android should become much easier.
It's still dog slow on a high end MacBook Pro (2012 model).
Owning a car and being available to drive doesn't "produce" a fare, though. Only Uber's app can do that.
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Airborne: #1 Trending Ruby Framework on GitHub
That's just the definition of "open source" by some people who have an agenda and want to hijack the language for their own use; I will buy it when it appears in the same form in Merriam-Webster or Oxford. Until then, "open source" is purely a compositional compound noun in the English language that is understood by combining the meanings of "open" and "source". Open doesn't say anything about non-proprietary. If you're taking an "open book exam", that doesn't mean that the book comes with a license that allows unlimited photocopying for all your friends. If you "open up" to someone, you aren't publicizing your life to the whole world. If all the users of a program have the source code, or easy access to it, that source is open. If he program is proprietary, then perhaps some of those who have the source code are unlicensed users. They still have the source code, and it is still effectively "open source" to them too.

And in the context of some programming language that has no binary code, would you even continue to use the term "open source" and "closed source"? Could some uncompiled, unobfuscated script that is sold to users under a license that prohibits redistribution be called "closed source", when it is delivered in properly indented, well-commented code with meaningful identifiers?

Richard Stallman builds a good case for avoiding the term "open source" when referring to free software.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.h...

Hey look, like me, he recognizes the "obvious meaning" of the term:

RMS> "Since the obvious meaning for “open source” is not the meaning that its advocates intend, the result is that most people misunderstand the term."

I don't agree with Stallman on this point, though: those people are English speakers who understand the term. They just don't understand how those advocates are using it, which is their fault: they are not communicating effectively.

RMS> "Open source supporters try to deal with this by pointing to their official definition, but that corrective approach is less effective for them than it is for us [advocates of 'free software']."
It's a lot better now with HAXM, and host gpu support.

Just timed starting up a fresh instance, unlocking it and starting Maps.

This is starting from when I clicked launch in AVD manager on a mid-range laptop from 2011

1:25 emulator showed up

1:53 until lock screen

1:61 until maps loaded
That was my thought too. Perhaps this is more a case of successful social engineering of museum acquisitions people than of artistic prowess.
Good question; I don't know. There's definitely a calm conversation worth being had about violence in video games.

In general: I would predict that if every parent strictly followed ESRB guidelines there wouldn't need to be a conversation.
Feedback about my explanation about what airypi actually does would be appreciated. The goal was to abstract away communication between the Raspberry Pi and the server by monkey patching popular Raspberry Pi GPIO libraries so that GPIO calls were replaced with a message between the server and the Raspberry Pi. Unfortunately, some people seem to be confused about what part runs on the Raspberry Pi and what runs on the server.
The fact that Google is starting to roll out the ability for Android apps to run as Chrome apps suggests that they are aware of the limitations of being "web only". It also stands to reason that if they're going to soon allow Android apps to run under ChromeOS, you should be able to develop them too, no?

To boot, the Pixel's relatively decent hardware, high-res display, and touchscreen just seem like it would be ideal for testing Android apps if it could be done natively.

I doubt it will ever be as simple as I would like. But I can dream.
Last I checked the Android emulator was dog slow because it did CPU-level emulation of an ARM computer with qemu. You could get better performance (like iOS Simulator/OS X) by providing the runtime libraries with "native" implementations using the host's libraries.
This is not news. You can post comments that make some people angry (like a political argument), and after a couple reports on you, a ban hammer will come to your door within a day and you will not be able to even update your status. It happened to me twice a couple years ago. What I said were pretty clam and reasonable though (nothing inappropriate).
Airborne – An API testing framkework (using RSpec)
Robots cost money to build and maintain. Eventually if enough people are displaced from their jobs by their use, the cost of labor will drop. At some point it will make it cheaper to employ people, than use robots for a given task.

(That assumes that these people aren't used for something else considered to be useful for society: Consider the people who were displaced by using the computer to automate calculation or telephone operators. Basically, if robots cause mass unemployment in the long term people will become cheap).
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He was not a performer. He was a songwriter and composer mostly for Broadway and he was a great one. The draw would be something like "an evening with Cole Porter and his music" or "Cole Porter and his Broadway orchestra play his hits". You can imagine the marketing around hearing the music live, standing on its own. That kind of stuff makes money today, and lots of it.
Tough to talk about "truth" or "lies" when talking about history...

"What is history, but a fable agreed upon?"
- Napolean
Maybe it's hard to find Facebook essential (as opposed to convenient) if you lived during a time when you had to actually know your friends' phone numbers and enter them manually. As I did.

Anyone you're close to you have a way to contact without Facebook. Anyone else shouldn't make you feel like you're missing anything important. Right?
Using NgModelController with Custom Directives
Only suckers help the ungrateful.
A bit OT, but I think it's refreshing to have a character like her in the tech seen, vocal and taking the spotlight in a lot of places.

At first I was thrown off by the very douchy looking attitude, it felt too much like overcompensating. And I'd hate to work in her company for so many reasons, the burning startup mindset being the main one.

But this article, as her Debug interview or the Isometricshow podcast also show other facets that are pretty fair, balanced and well thought. The podcast particulary brings hilarious and soul crushing moments alternatively, I'd recommand to anyone wanting to hear something a bit different.
I'm running Eclipse and the emulator on a 4 year old Mac Pro. Initial startup time for the emulator is about 20 seconds, but after that first hit has been absorbed, it generally takes about 8-10 seconds whenever I run a new build of the app I'm developing. (This is with HAXM [0] enabled. Still far too slow, so pretty much everybody does their development on actual Android devices, but far from the times reported in this thread.)

[0] https://software.intel.com/en-us/android/articles/intel-hard...
Thanks Damien. Please share your ongoing experience with us
intel android on virtualbox runs good enough for testing on a fast machine.