In my experience, the people obsessed with diversity are the real racists, except they've "changed" the meaning of the term "racism" to mean being born into privilege, and they've defined the most privileged people as having a white skin color.
According to these people, people are literally born racist.
Not only that, but racism has nothing to do with skin color to them, it's all about power. They've removed the race from racism to justify their authoritarian agenda and to make discrimination based on skin color "non-racist".
Guess what guys, discrimination based on skin color is the real definition of racism, not your bs power and privilege crap.
Elitism != racism
But elitism is a real problem, especially in STEM. Too bad we'll do nothing to solve the problem because we focus on helping privileged non-whites instead of targeting people equally based on socio-economic status (and yes, using ones race as the sole basis to guess their socio-economic status makes you a racist piece of shit.)
Exactly, the top comment in this thread claims MS is the only company doing cool things (which is 100% not true). The top comments in the Windows 10 thread yesterday were mostly people claiming "it's sad to see such negativity toward MS" and there was maybe one or two negative comments followed by a circle jerk about how good MS and their software is.
Microsoft has historically been one of the worst tech companies for tech enthusiasts. We can ignore all the awful things they did in the 90's that stifled open standards (because apparently that doesn't matter anymore?) and just look at 2013, when they were exposed to have been participating in the NSA PRISM project. That means there is a whole team at MS that worked on a secret government project to help violate our fourth amendment rights. Even much of congress didn't know about NSA mass data collection, but Microsoft did.
People who trust MS these days are either naive or employed by them.
>The Git community strongly suggests and prefers developers have more and smaller repositories. A Git-clone operation requires copying all content to one's local machine, a procedure incompatible with a large repository.
They aren't copying all the files like you do with Git. They have a custom set up that sounds like it lets you checkout just the parts you need. I don't have time to read the whole thing, but it sounds like it works by breaking down a "super repo" into small "sub repos". This actually makes sense.
There is no way working with a 300gb git repo is fun or efficient, and they've probably been doing that for years at Microsoft.
Why is that so hard to believe? America is run by Donald Trump.
The problems with these companies is that developers aren't making technical decisions, it's executives who know nothing about computer science. That's why Windows 10 is such a mess with spyware and adware.
Now they have some FOSS advocate who doesn't really know anything about software or VCS but saw that an internal problem they were trying to solve was making their code base work with git. So he decided it would be really cool for Microsofts image to develop an open source extension of git, instead of actually solving the underlying problems (because he didn't recognize them). Now he's probably got a promotion at Microsoft for "fixing" their problem with git.
I think it's more naive to believe that large companies always make the right decisions. We see Microsoft make mistake after mistake (look at windows 8, windows vista). The only time they fix their mistakes is when they're made public.
So there is no reason to fix their mistake of a code base.
>the Windows codebase has over 3.5 million files and is over 270 GB in size
So instead of cleaning up this mess they decided to "fix" git? With this type of thing going on at MS it's no wonder Windows 10 is more buggy than my Linux box.
Also why would they keep the entirety of "Windows" in one git repo? The only reason I can think to do this is if very large parts of the ecosystem are so tightly coupled together, that they depend on each other for compilation. I know it's not UNIX but any basic programming course teaches you to decouple your programs (and the parts of your programs) to make them not dependent on each other. Is the developer of explorer.exe expected to clone the whole Windows repo? Do they have no idea what they're doing? If they seriously have one monolithic code base then that really explains a lot.
Sounds like it's amateur hour turned up to 11 over at Microsoft.
Out of Jobs, Gates, and Torvalds, Jobs and Gates are some of the worst people to become part of the tech industry. Microsofts anti-consumer practices lead to it's world dominance and now the world is ruled by closed standards. Here is the Bill Gates copy pasta (and it's all true):
Disable spyware and adware. I don't think you can really disable all the spyware though. We're talking about a company that participated in the NSA PRISM program. That means that Microsoft has an agency within it that works closely with the government. I like to think of MS as an extension or a branch of the NSA.
I didn't see any progressives (or conservatives) marching against the Obama administration. I'm sure they had some small rally, but look at what's going on now.
Under Obama if you got detained at an airport (which happened all the time, possibly every single day) no one gave a shit. Now apparently it's the end of the world as we know it.
I thought that when Trump won, the left would finally realize that being arrogant, lying, authoritarians was a mistake. Boy was I wrong.
We're seeing thousands protest over travel restrictions from 9 countries, meanwhile the US under Obama has has an international no-fly list with very little over-sight for years. Obama and Clinton wanted to use the no-fly list as a basis for banning people from owning a firearm. that means they wanted to have a list that they can put people on to take away their rights without due process.
No one cared when Obama did it and when they get another liberal in the white house they'll let them continue endless global waring, mass spying, and eroding of our liberties. Sounds like America is basically fucked to me.
looks a little longer, but if you notice they both use the same back end tools. I see that VSC has partial delve integration, but vim running inside tmux makes delve (and every other CLI tool) feel like it's already integrated. I don't use debugging that much with Go though.
Agreed. Since VSCode came out there has been one gigantic circle jerk over it. It's "always" been better than sublime and atom, even though sublime and atom had been out for much longer.
I've used a lot of text editors. VSCode really isn't miles ahead of the rest. As tech enthusiasts we all discuss new software regularly and we know none of us agree on one thing. According to stackoverflow, VSC is only used by 7.2% of users, yet people want to argue that "everyone just agrees it's a good editor". No, no they don't.
The MS employees aren't tricking anyone and it's really more of a turn off than anything. I'll just stick with Vim (there's a reason it's still popular after decades).
It looks pretty bad on Linux too. Somehow they managed to transport the crappy font rendering from Windows to Linux. It really feels like it's not built for Linux, but just shoe-horned in.
>The business world has been even more recalcitrant. In a recent study by Softchoice, an info-tech consultancy, corporate computers were found to be running a whole gamut of legacy versions of Windows. Fewer than 1% of them had been upgraded to Windows 10.
One thing I've learned over the years: you don't need a high IQ to run a successful business. Without a lot of smarts you're never going to compete with google, but you don't need to compete with google to make a living running your own business.
>Chromebooks are now outselling MacBooks in the crucial education market, where long-term preferences tend to be established.
It's unfortunate that proprietary software ever came to dominate schooling. Hopefully ChromeOS will open things up just enough so that cross platform tools become the norm. Schools using both Windows and Chrome will be more aware of proprietary/incompatible software and file formats and choose to use open formats.
>It is impossible to retrofit older Windows versions with the sort of defense-in-depth that has been built into Windows 10. Nor would Microsoft do so even if it could. If anything, it is about to do the opposite. Windows 7 users will soon lose access to a stand-alone toolkit for mitigating zero-day exploits.
Another reason why Windows is a joke OS for serious tech enthusiasts.
>A word of warning, though: such upgrades do not necessarily go without a hitch. A Windows 10 tablet your correspondent relied upon for much of his mobile computing was broken irreparably when a recent update corrupted the display driver, rendering the touchscreen useless.
......... makes you wonder why they lock these things down, are tech enthusiasts even designing them?
>But he has also dusted down his four-year-old Apple MacBook Pro and upgraded his Windows 7 desktop to the latest version of Linux Mint rather than Windows 10.
Yes I prefer Linux to Windows in most cases too. I never have good long term experiences with Windows.
>It used to be that only free software came with advertising; users paid a fee, if they chose to do so, to get the software free of advertising. Microsoft charges top dollar for Windows 10 ($120 or $200, depending on the edition) and now wants to bombard users with sales pitches to boot—without so much as by your leave, let alone the option to turn the nuisance off. Despite their idiosyncrasies, Macintosh and Linux have never looked so attractive.
Yeah these days pretty much the only people who are using Windows are people who don't know any better. Most people aren't even exposed to Linux except those of us in the tech sector, and it seems to be just as popular as windows and OS X at the shops I've worked at.
>Wealth has gravitated around massive city centers since time immemorial
Well yeah, but there were times when wealth was more evenly distributed within America.
When we first started taking in immigrants (when America was founded), we were in a state of high-economic entropy, meaning that there were so many jobs and things to do (and no minimum wage) that we NEEDED to import people from around the world.
Times have changed and the world is changing faster and faster. America is now in a state of low economic entropy, and having a free-for-all international jobs market is not helping that situation.
Is the goal to move the entire world into a state of low economic entropy? We can have big wealthy countries running the world like we're use to, or we can have big wealthy cities running the world like we're aiming toward.
I think concentrating wealth in these big tech centers makes it harder for people in the US to work their way out of poverty. It will be great for the people in Africa living on two dollars a day when their wages go up to 15 dollars a day, but it's going to be hell for people in the US who are use to 50-100 dollars a day going down to $15.
Everyone will be equal though (well, all the poor will be equally poor, and all the rich will be equally rich).
According to these people, people are literally born racist.
Not only that, but racism has nothing to do with skin color to them, it's all about power. They've removed the race from racism to justify their authoritarian agenda and to make discrimination based on skin color "non-racist".
Guess what guys, discrimination based on skin color is the real definition of racism, not your bs power and privilege crap.
Elitism != racism
But elitism is a real problem, especially in STEM. Too bad we'll do nothing to solve the problem because we focus on helping privileged non-whites instead of targeting people equally based on socio-economic status (and yes, using ones race as the sole basis to guess their socio-economic status makes you a racist piece of shit.)