spacekitcat

shrugs, I mean fair play to anyone taking a principled stand on the matter, I'm just not that person.

Linux doesn't run the software I need it to run, so it's not fit for my purposes and Windows is someone's idea of a sick joke. I also value aesthetics and UX in a computer, Linux and Windows are actually offensive to me in those two areas.

I don't feel there's an alternative for users like me and Apple know it.

Edit: This news story has annoyed me, I think Apple have crossed the line, but I need to buy a new personal computer in March and a MacBook seems to be my only option.

They clearly weren’t sacked for their opinions, but for creating a hostile work environment.

The free speech argument is a cop out frankly, and a lazy one at that.

The Maya Forstater case isn't as you presented it. Why did you misrepresent it? Was it an innocent mistake or was it deliberate? She got sacked for a sustained campaign of harassment.

If you don't believe me (and it would therefore be an innocent mistake), you can read the court ruling here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12P9zf82TicPs2cCxlTnm0TrNFDD...

If you've misrepresented this one, why would I trust any of your other examples?

I’m trans and you are twisting quite a few of those, but you don’t exist from this point on as far as I’m concerned. I won’t debate my my right to be with anyone, least of all you.

In my country, "Political Correctness" is a dog whistle used by Daily Mail readers. It doesn't mean anything. I don't shape my thinking by what some talking head thinks.

Why do you think I asked for a concrete example? I notice that you didn't provide one either.

Dealing with your own subconscious biases is a continuous activity. I grew up in a society with deep structural problems around equality and those sorts of problems seep into every aspect of life. I think it would be arrogant of me to claim I'm somehow immune, that it hasn't influenced the way I think.

I have no problem accepting that I have subconscious biases around things like race and gender, but I work to recognise those biases and I do the best I can to mitigate them.

I don't think it's enough to pass a law and declare the that the war against racism has been won, society has to work clean up the mess and pay off the debt left behind. If that includes compensatory justice, so be it.

Do you think there are negative sub conscious biases around race?

Do you think racism has the same consequences for all races, for example, someone who is a member of a minority group vs someone who is not for a particular region?

No, OP really didn’t.

Can you provide a concrete example of this “political correctness” you are opposed to?

Is it really unreasonable to be scared of catching a virus that may leave you with severe long term health conditions? (assuming you survive it to begin with).

I think a better question is why shouldn’t people be afraid of catching Covid-19.

I don't share your experiences.

I'm a developer on Windows and OSX, so I have MacBook Pro and a ThinkPad.

I want to run the ThinkPad over with a car and then drop it in the sea.

Developers always have to estimate the cost/benefit of how they're spending their time and overly strict coverage targets get in the way of that.

Test coverage targets make very little sense for a statically typed language like C#, a fools errand almost. In dynamically typed languages, it's hard not to almost hit 100% if you're doing some honest TDD. Just for example.

I'm a big fan of unit tests and from my perspective, this article misunderstand what unit tests are for. Unit tests verify that the central assumptions you've made about some module's behaviour hold water. Unit tests aren't supposed to "exercise user behaviour" or "verify business logic", it verifies the theoretical behaviour of a carefully isolated module under specific conditions. A well crafted suite of tests makes it easier to reason about your application's behaviour.