As somebody who uses Dvorak, don't learn an alternative keyboard layout. It makes pair programming, and more generally using other people's computers, an unnecessary pain. More importantly, there are better uses of your time, such as actually programming.
Yea, the 2 decade generational period seems a bit long considering the increased speed of development of the technological infrastructure cycle which results in vastly different experiences. A 35 year-old grew up with dial-up internet emerging, while a 16 year-old grew up and everyone had cellphones.
oh please, she's fine. she used it as an excuse to shamelessly plug her company, if anything it served as jet-fuel for her. I stand by my point - the company did not directly harass her but a member of the company did. If she was as hurt as she claimed to be she wouldn't ever reference google as a place where she used to work. And none of you have offered any replies of any substance, merely snide, malicious comments in an attempt to lower me to your level.
As racist as it would be if there were a US show based on how the French are scary, and no one involved with the show spoke French. It means that they are likely exclusively trading in stereotypes and Western orientialist imagery and tropes. I've never seen the show.
France is not a race. That would be xenophobia, which is a different brand of bigotry.
Not speaking Arabic is a grey area -- not all Muslims are Arabic, despite the fact that the Quran is written in Arabic and only canonical in that language. There are millions and millions of Muslims who do not speak Arabic, and rely on their clergy to teach them the Quran.
While it's apparently not the case here, the absence of an arabic-speaking component on the production team does not necessarily preclude a Muslim component on a production team.
No, but it does show that the writers who are making storylines around Arabic speaking nations and cultures don't have anyone who lives in that culture.
What do you think a race is? The French are a race under any defensible definition. They're more closely related to each other than they are to Georgians.
No, racism is discriminating based on (perceived) race, not merely the belief that race exists. (Which it manifestly does, as a cultural construct.)
Nationality and ethnicity likewise exist as related, but usually distinct, cultural constructs to race, and we have different names for bigotry based on them. Though, obviously, the distinction between these forms of bigotry is somewhat nitpicky, and often not meaningful, and a lot of time "racism" is used broadly to refer to bigotry based on race, ethnicity, or nationality.
> [...] the belief that race exists. (Which it manifestly does, as a cultural construct.)
That's like saying that aliens exist as a cultural construct. Let's not mix reality and widely shared fantasies.
How would you call the unscientific belief that races exist in the human species, if not "racism"?
> a lot of time "racism" is used broadly to refer to bigotry based on race, ethnicity, or nationality
True, just like "vagina" is used to refer to the vulva. Errors need to be pointed out, not accepted in silence, even if the hoi polloi will make you pay for it.
> That's like saying that aliens exist as a cultural construct.
No, its not. Its more like saying color exists as a product of perception. Races are a categorization, categorizations do not inherently exist at all, they exist as products of mind only.
> How would you call the unscientific belief that races exist in the human species, if not "racism"?
If by that you mean the unscientific belief that the cultural perception of race has a direct correspondence to inherent biological feature of humans, I'd call it something like "the erroneous belief in biological race".
Its pretty much logically orthogonal to racism; racists are probably more likely to believe that biological race is a thing than non-racists, but its quite possible to be a racist without believing in biological race (if it weren't, bigotry against, e.g., nationality -- which doesn't have the problem of people mistaking for an inherent biological trait -- wouldn't be a thing. Heck, bigotry based on sexual orientation seems to be inversely correlated with the belief that it is an inherent biological feature.)
> Errors need to be pointed out, not accepted in silence, even if the hoi polloi will make you pay for it.
Well, yes, that's why I am pointing out the error of your mistaken confusion of the erroneous perception that race is an inherent biological feature with "racism", a term which has always referred to belief in the superiority or inferiority of particular races, not belief in the biological inherency of race.
I'm not sure that categories don't exist outside of the mind of a person.
I think sets (for example) probably have a real existence, in a sense.
some of the categories we choose might not have anything special about them to mark them as any more real than other categories that we would see as arbitrary, but that wouldn't mean that they aren't real, just that they aren't more real.
But maybe the ontology of abstract objects isn't very relevant here.
Also, I don't mean to say that the categories we use are all arbitrary, just that even the ones which are arbitrary (if any) I think still exist.
Also, I don't right now present any argument for why I believe what I do about abstract objects. I'm just stating beliefs that I have, and which your post seemed(?) to assume something that contradicts.
They do, after you define objective criteria for clustering the objects in a set. For biological race, the main criterium would reveal a genotype-level clustering that matches the phenotype differences - and we see this in dogs, but not in humans.
"exclusively trading in stereotypes and Western orientialist imagery and tropes"
To be fair, they could also be simply trading on whatever happens to be in the news. If you open a newspaper / watch the news, most of what you will see about the region can be summed up by 'crazy islamists killing people, threaten America with annihilation'.
I'm guessing you don't really know how TV shows are filmed. There could be dozens of people in the production who speak Arabic, but the odds that they would actually go on set and analyze the props is next to nil unless you are a person who works on the set. Is your argument that a sound man or camera operator speaking arabic would lend credibility to a show involving the middle east?
I've got a feeling that the Reddit community won't be too keen on this, mostly seeing it as another news organization "stealing" their content. IMO a good way to get users behind this would be to compensate the original posters for their content being posted on Upvoted.
9.5-year-old Reddit account here, so perhaps my view is atypical, but I see this as Reddit's answer to the new Digg, and to the broader trend of editorial curation as a counterpart (not necessarily a competitor) to aggregation.
Reddit has web aggregation and communities pretty much sewn up as a market. How can they grow? By leveraging their insight into that traffic to create their own publication. I think they see their audience for Upvoted as people who know what Reddit is, and perhaps use it, but aren't power users and just like to have interesting and entertaining stuff presented to them.
Best of luck to them, I certainly don't think Upvoted's success is written in stone (especially given Reddit's history of half-delivering on their initiatives).
I wish companies would stop trying to grow, and just continue doing their best at what they do best. Everything that tries to keep growing always goes to shit after a while.
> The BFED realises that while not all experiences will be identical, all browsers can be used to consume a website, even gasp, IE6 and below.
Where would we be if we supported all legacy software? Does there not come a point where cutting support for a class of platforms is a good thing? This article makes some good points, and I think a lot of frontenders (myself included) would benefit from being a bit more "boring", but this article is going a little too far the other way.
It’s not so much about supporting legacy software as having something that’s likely to show something in any browser, from Firefox to IE6 to Dillo to Lynx.
The point of my comment was to say you don’t have to support old or obscure browsers specifically; just have proper content in your HTML and everyone will be satisfied without additional effort on your part.
> Does there not come a point where cutting support for a class of platforms is a good thing?
For example: An article was linked on the HN frontpage a couple days ago about how CP/M reserved names (COM1, etc) still live on in ASP.NET MVC these days. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9871014
Is there any reason that this wouldn't be able to work with another language? If the interface is an HTTP port, it seems like this isn't necessarily tied to Common Lisp.
Yes, you could rebuild the project in any language if you wanted.
Ceramic opens an HTTP server (in lisp), starts electron (using a shell command), communicates to the electron process via streaming, then electron sends back HTTP requests to the lisp process.
However this is tied to Common Lisp because the containing project itself is built in Common Lisp and can't be switched out without completely rebuilding in another language.
[1] https://www.seekingarrangement.com/