notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Dart 1.8: library improvements and experimental support for enums
notjackma's comments
notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Black Friday deals for developers
I expected more, nothing really interesting on that list. Just the usual suspects, the same old Mac software that's (1) always on sale or (2) bundled up every few months.
notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Our Sincerest Apologies
> This is something which HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH TECH.
THIS. You get my upvote.
This is what is wrong with Mozilla and it was exposed for all to see when they forced Brendan Eich out over a political donation he made years ago.
Too many people at Mozilla are spending their time as social activists instead of working on technology. They are bringing their own personal beliefs to work and in the process ruining Mozilla.
Perhaps the first line of the employee handbook should read: "Open Web" != "Social Justice".
notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Tim Cook Speaks Up
So you can get married without having to ask for anyone's permission.
Yet individuals who are 16 or 17 years old, need parental consent, before getting married.
How is this "equal"?
notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Tim Cook Speaks Up
We're going to have to agree to disagree - I think 834 people is too small a sample size to draw any conclusions.
Btw, if the campaign for "marriage equality" were truly about equality, it would also include polygamous heterosexual families in Utah looking for recognition in law, as well as religions where marriage partners can be under 18. Thus the campaign for "marriage equality" has a narrow definition of equality and should be renamed the campaign for "same-sex marriage".
notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Tim Cook Speaks Up
You're quoting a rather meaningless poll given the low sample size: "The latest Field Poll was completed February 5-17, 2013 among 834 registered voters in California."
Since we're quoting statistics, here are some from the CDC.
Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) represent approximately 2% of the United States population... In 2010, gay and bisexual men accounted for 63% of estimated new HIV infections in the United States and 78% of infections among all newly infected men.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/gender/msm/facts/
In 2012, there were almost 9,000 cases of syphilis, and 84 percent of them were among gay and bisexual men
http://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditions/news/20140509/syphili...
My friends (who are gay) tell me there is a growing complacency amongst their younger gay friends, that HIV is seen as a long-term chronic condition rather than a killer disease. The results can be seen above.
Why does the issue of marriage dominate media headlines but not a peep about health? How much funding has gone into the campaign to legalise gay marriage versus educating people on safer sex?
notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Tim Cook Speaks Up
> It's wrong regardless of when it occurred.
The world is a big place with different cultures and different opinions.
You are making a giant assumption that your world-view is the correct one.
notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Tim Cook Speaks Up
I can't believe that anybody would be so naive to believe that Brendan wasn't forced out.
Every single day, there is an employee going to work in a hostile environment, shunned by co-workers or left to sit in an empty room with no work to perform. Eventually they'll be forced to resign in order to save their own sanity.
notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Tim Cook Speaks Up
Semantics. The fact is, of registered voters in California, more people voted against same-sex marriage than for it. Of course, that was 6 years ago... so why should Brendan Eich be ostracised in 2014 for donating money to a campaign which was quite popular back then?
At what point did Mozilla's mission for a free and open internet turn into one about social justice and identity politics?
notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Tim Cook Speaks Up
> Tim Cook continued contracts with Foxconn with the sole goal of minimizing production costs by using underpaid overworked labor
I'm going to upvote you for this.
Just because Tim Cook is gay doesn't make him Mother Teresa. He seems quite happy in promoting brutal Victorian style work-houses because it's "over there". Out of sight, out of mind. He's quite the hypocrite.
He's also no better or worse then the operations guy at Dell, Samsung, Lenovo, etc. who are all churning out products from the same manufacturers and assembly lines in China and South-East Asia. I don't know why people keep promoting the myth that he is some amazing operations guy when everything is outsourced anyway, and recent products have suffered from manufacturing delays and raw material supply issues.
notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Tim Cook Speaks Up
52% of Californians voted in favor of Prop 8 (to ban same-sex marriage) so you could argue Brendan Eich holds a rather popular opinion.
notjackma | 11 years ago | on: World first as Hong Kong surgeons transplant single liver into second patient
Quite amazing to think that a single liver has helped three people.
"Hong Kong surgeons have performed a double world first with a transplant from one Hepatitis B sufferer to another of a liver that had already been transplanted once 11 years ago.
Bodybuilder Wong Wan-shing, 37, received the graft at Queen Mary Hospital from a 60-year-old donor identified only as Mr So, who died of a stroke on October 1.
...
A daughter of the donor, giving her name only as Miss So, said she hoped her father's donation would make people more aware of the need for organ transplants.
"My family benefited from an organ donation 11 years ago. I understand the feeling of having slight hope in the midst of desperation and of being reborn. It is not only a rebirth [for the patient] but also for a family."
notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Hong Kong protest: Why are pro-democracy supporters staging a sit-in?
Can you add this live stream to your comment so others can see it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4q8fs8gTIs
The live stream has been covering the whole protest and also shows recaps (picture in picture). Jimmy Lai, who has been seen protesting in a poncho and goggles, owns a media empire in Hong Kong, including the Apple Daily newspaper which runs this YouTube channel.
From a tech perspective, they've been running without interruption and they even used a drone, I think a helicopter, to take footage swooping over and around the protestors and police.
page 3
This puts me off Dart - for now - for two reasons.
Firstly, the language appears to have been rushed. Yes, great tooling, but was the language rushed out the door by corporate Google? Will they ditch Dart just as quickly if it doesn't gain traction? Lots of risk in learning Dart.
Second, if it wasn't rushed out the door, then the language designers made a mistake. It's nice they can admit that but it also shows a lack of conviction and belief in the language they have created. So what makes Dart unique? If I want Java, I use Java. Contrast with Golang and the reasons the team give for not having generics.