Bring back Brendan Eich ?
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Perhaps they shouldn't be spending $40 million in branding and marketing expenses!
This is the first (and only?) interview ever given to a Western journalist.
https://www.facebook.com/JuergenTodenhoefer/videos/101527236...
Let's end the myth that Western foreign policy is (solely) to blame.
What about Islamic terrorists killing people in Southern Thailand? Is there something wrong with their foreign policy?
What about Islamic terrorists killing Filipinos for the past 20-30 years? Have Christians been oppressing Muslims over there?
What about the recent clashes between Muslims and Buddhist monks in Burma? What did the monks do wrong?
Radical Islam is a GLOBAL jihad movement.
Makes you wonder if online cloud backup services are going to have a tough time in the future...
What does age diversity look like at Google for engineering staff?
Sooner or later this issue is going to come to a head when all the 20-30-something year old Javascript hackers grow older...
Also:
"#Kartapolov: to provide security for civil population, the flight corridor for cruise missiles was planned over uninhabited areas"
https://twitter.com/mod_russia/status/651798319392497664
"#SYRIA #Kartapolov: 26 launches of #KaliberNK cruise missiles were performed against #ISIS ground targets in #RAQQAH, #IDLIB, #ALEPPO"
One thing Go does well is provide the gofmt tool. There is only one way to format code properly.
Does Perl 6 have something like this?
New England Journal of Medicine, Aug 2015
GMOs, Herbicides, and Public Health
"...unlike regulatory bodies in 64 other countries, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not require labeling of GM foods.
... determination by the IARC in 2015 that glyphosate is a “probable human carcinogen”1 and 2,4-D a “possible human carcinogen.”
...These developments suggest that GM foods and the herbicides applied to them may pose hazards to human health that were not examined in previous assessments. We believe that the time has therefore come to thoroughly reconsider all aspects of the safety of plant biotechnology. The National Academy of Sciences has convened a new committee to reassess the social, economic, environmental, and human health effects of GM crops.
...we believe the time has come to revisit the United States' reluctance to label GM foods."
What a coincidence that CloudFlare decide to look at months old data and publish a story making China look bad, at the exact same time the Chinese President is visiting.
Remarkable timing.
Also shame on the BBC for a headline which implies there is an attack happening right now.
You cannot squeeze out some kind of imprimatur of good citizenship by holding a product launch in a “civic” center.
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We all knew that Jobs’ refusal to dress ‘appropriately’ was the flipside of a loner genius with a unique vision who wasn’t going to conform. He was half-crazy but headed to unexplored territory. The first guy who does that is authentic; the second guy is not. CEO Tim Cook is the second guy.
Cook’s persona is creepy, almost mortician-esque. He has an unconvincing forced jubilance, wedded to a lurking, hunchbacked rigidity. His body seems superfluous, a nuisance. The white hair and nerdy glasses round out a kind of depthless, mealy look that betrays a measure of cruelty. His arms hang useless, as if he has to exert every ounce of willpower to raise them when the script calls for mock exultation.
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As an illustration of how the Apple Watch changed people’s lives, he tells us how the watch helped a man keep to an exercise schedule. Does he think we’re so dumb we believe this was never possible until the invention of this watch? Also he showed how a doctor could tilt the watch forward and check his daily schedule of rounds; ironically, this task was something that my own father could handle with a small notebook and a pencil in the 1960s, as a doctor at San Francisco General Hospital no less.
The Apple Launch soon became a drone-fest, with Cook introducing another man who was dressed virtually identically to Cook, who introduced another guy dressed the same, and then a woman dressed similarly, then again another guy, like Russian matryorska dolls popping out of each other. They were all in the same uniform, or rather anti-uniform, in some kind of California-forced-conformity/anti-conformity. The last time I saw so many people looking like that, it was the mass suicide at Heaven’s Gate.
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Mercifully, it ended with Cook giving a shout out to the Apple workers in the audience, who responded like cult members fed sugar and gumballs all week. And then, in a fawning introduction, he introduced the band One Republic, who gave a kind of generic performance that would offend nobody, in a hall that hosted revolutionary bands like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and the Grateful Dead.
Lest I be called a killjoy, let it be noted that I am typing this on a MacBook Air. I have an iPhone 6, and an iPad Mini. I am an Apple person, as it were. But just because I buy the products doesn’t mean that I buy the mythology surrounding them.
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The Apple Launch is a closed circle of fawning sycophants, thrilled with gimmicks, adapted to computers, programmed, a throng of identical authentic individuals chained to their machines and congratulating themselves on being ‘connected,’ led by a human that resembles a robot.
Two hours of watching the Apple Launch actually made the Manson Family seem homey.
The ethnic Chinese population in the US have a real problem - they appear to have no political voice. There are few ethnic Chinese political leaders and there are no mass organized protests. The result is that the concerns and needs of the ethnic Chinese population are not met.
Perhaps we can see some kind of political awakening in the second and third-generation Chinese i.e. those who are suing Harvard over racial bias on admissions.
It's a surprise that the ethnic Chinese do not vote majority Republican given that the community are broadly speaking, hard-working and pro-business.
> In the first weeks of classes, instead of calling roll, ask everyone to provide their name and pronouns. This ensures you are not singling out transgender or non-binary students.
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You can start meetings with requesting introductions that include names and pronouns, introduce yourself with your name and chosen pronouns, or when providing nametags, ask attendees to write in their name and pronouns.
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A few of the most common singular gender-neutral pronouns are they, them, their (used as singular), ze, hir, hirs, and xe, xem, xyr.
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“Oh, nice to meet you, [insert name]. What pronouns should I use?” is a perfectly fine question to ask.
The more we make sharing of pronouns a universal practice, the more inclusive we will be as a campus.
http://www.hrc.org/blog/entry/four-ways-to-make-a-classroom-...
- "For example, when lining students up for lunch, rather than saying, “Girls line up first,” try saying, “Anyone wearing a green shirt can line up,” or “If your name has an ‘E’ please line up.”
- instead of addressing your class using “boys” and “girls,” try something new. Words like “friends,” “students” or “scholars” allow all students to feel included
- On paperwork, avoid asking students to identify as male or female unless it is absolutely necessary. If it is necessary for students and their families to do so, consider adding a third write-in option for those who have non-binary gender identities or to allow students to elaborate if neither “male” nor “female” fit.
- Similarly, make sure that forms do not have specific spaces for “mother” and “father.” If a form requires the name(s) of legal caregivers(s), the form can just say “parent,” “guardian,” or “caregiver.”
We hear a lot about diversity, but nothing about AGE. Why is that?
Which is why everybody loves getting a letter asking them to turn up for jury duty, right?!
Remember Sam described Ellen Pao as doing a good job when in fact she did a terrible job and had to resign from Reddit.
Now he wants developers to go on a "tour of duty"? Makes a mockery of combat veterans who come back with horrific injuries and mental scars.
STOP. WAIT. THINK. As an entrepreneur, you don't want to lose opportunities down the road, or have doors close on you. Look how Huawei gets blasted because the founder served in the Chinese army. Or they may be some open-source projects you want to help out on and people don't want to trust you.
> "InvestHK quietly erased online evidence that it once gushed about the car-hailing app... In May, InvestHK, a government department that aims to “attract and retain foreign direct investment”, published a piece proudly talking about the company’s decision to launch in Hong Kong."
http://hongkong.coconuts.co/2015/08/12/after-arrests-hong-ko...