And unfortunately this will change no one's opinion. GitHub got tried in the court of public opinion and was sacrificed.
Short of having audio or video or evidence those who backed GitHub feel vindicated, those who backed Julie Ann Horvath will see this as the "Mad Men" culture of Silicon Valley exercising their muscle to supress the story. The small but sane few in-between who were waiting for the full story will never get it because the other two sides are just going to throw hyperbole until the cows come home.
I wonder if we will ever be able to have a sane conversation about the "sexism in the Valley" or the fact that it concerns itself with something that is so technologically intrenched the mob mentality of the Internet will always draw centre stage.
Excuse you; it changes my opinion and I'm a pretty staunch feminist, social justice warrior or whatever else you may call me.
The previous public statement was a disgrace and is exactly what you get when you let lawyers recommend you what to do; which includes soulless recommendation to fire anyone who raises harassment complaints after three months; even if they are valid.
This statement is OK and I'll give them a pass on it.
Then Github should have held off on that legalese post that incited anger. You can't put something like that out re: an issue that involves so much human emotion.
This doesn't contribute anything to the discussion but instead writes off anyone who might be angry about the handling of this and the public reaction as "mob."
Part of having this discussion requires not writing off the entire discussion as impossible to have because of YOUR stereotyped view of the participants.
You don't have to apologize. It is difficult to project the correct tone with text and I'd much rather feel a a bit sad and be corrected then to remain ignorant.
I didn't really have an opinion on this before, but now I do. I generally wait until I feel like most of the facts are known before I form opinions, and now I have formed one.
> I wonder if we will ever be able to have a sane conversation about the "sexism in the Valley" or the fact that it concerns itself with something that is so technologically intrenched the mob mentality of the Internet will always draw centre stage.
Perhaps, but if so it will never happen in public. There are too many people craving the moment to toss their incendiary in for that to happen.
Julie herself says she's "pretty satisfied" with this post. I still consider myself one of her supporters, and I felt satisfied enough by this post that I recreated my GitHub account. Next time give it an hour before calling everyone insane.
It has been over an hour and based on the reaction threads I've read I still think the vast majority of people are "insane".
I am glad that you are satisfied with this response and it brought you back to GitHub. You are one of the open-minded ones. I probably could stand to be a bit more open-minded myself.
I have a fear about moving to the US not because I would "lose" my Canadian health care or that the company I went to work for wouldn't have a generous health plan but the fact that I have to care about it AT ALL.
The idea that at any point in time something could happen and I could lose my health plan and I am now at incredible risk scares me.
They have potential access to the password manager on his Mac as well.
If you use a good password manager you should have the time to reset all your password so that if they somehow manager to crack the manager all the passwords in there are worthless.
Also if you immediately ask iCloud to lock your iPhone they can't use the any of the two-factor authenticators without connecting to the Internet which would brick the phone.
Sure they want to know more about it because it looks completely alien to them but when they've tried it on and understand it's capabilities do a lot of those people express interest in purchasing one?
My anecdotal evidence is that I've seen lots of people try on Google Glass and while they think it is interesting none of them actually want it.
They said they are going to release a consumer version in 2014. Perhaps something is going to drastically change but the vibe that I get is they are beta testing it so they are hammering out bugs and other rough edges not looking to drastically overhaul the hardware or software.
> Perhaps something is going to drastically change but the vibe that I get is they are beta testing it so they are hammering out bugs and other rough edges not looking to drastically overhaul the hardware or software.
I remember listening to people discuss Glass on a couple of podcasts after it was released and this is the one thing that sticks in my mind from the reviews. While Google called it a beta, the reviewers said it felt more like an alpha or an engineering sample than a beta product.
They've said that they are going to release the consumer version in 2014. Sure it could drastically change from what a developer could be receiving in December 2013 but odds are it is going to be stuff like the price that changes the most, not the actual hardware.
That's not really relevant. The point was that Gruber stated that Google is presenting Glass as a finished product, which is something they have never done.
Glass uses a TI SoC, and TI doesn't make SoCs anymore, so the odds are actually quite high that the hardware will be making a change before going into mass production. It was actually a surprise when they did a feature bump in October and it was still on an OMAP.
A hardware change makes a lot of sense, besides. It's running slightly older phone hardware, but its still phone hardware. It would be silly to say that "odds are" a new phone coming out a year (or even 6 months) after the last version would be keeping the same hardware; I see no reason to assume that here. As long as you can keep power usage down (or lower) and heat down (or lower), there's no reason why you wouldn't upgrade from what's essentially a phone from 2011.
The phone manufacturers have been doing this for so long that they have the process down to an art. While I think Google could gain this ability in the future nothing they have done with hardware so far makes me believe they have the ability to drastically overhaul hardware in a short period of time. If they do radically change the Google Glass hardware so that it doesn't have the "glasshole" look or drastically improve the software I will be shocked.
It is entirely possible that I am wrong. But the look of Google Glass has barely changed since it was unveiled in the beginning of 2012. If they are truly going to try to push a consumer version of a brand new line of products you better be damn sure that when someone puts on Google Glass they instantly become attached to it. They want to know where they can get one. To do that you gotta test the hell out of it and make sure there are no sharp edges. That hardware would need to start getting into people's hands now and if they've just released a new model how much runway are they going to give between releasing the "golden master" version to their tester and getting it to market?
I've used Google Glass personally and seen dozens of people try it on around me as well. Most of the reactions are "Oh that is cool" but none want to actually buy the product. Compare that to the Occulus Rift where the people I've seen use it want to know when they will be able to buy it.
I think you're underestimating the Apple marketing machine. Members of my family who hate to open up their computer were asking me questions about iOS 7 before it came out. Apple does a really good job at marketing the latest version. Android basically never mentions it because of 1) the fragmentation but 2) Google doesn't have any control of the hardware so they focus on pushing out app updates rather than OS updates.
