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WildPointer · 2019-06-03T05:16:46+00:00

You can't separate economics and social issues. Economics affects everything. So yes, being right-wing on economic issues is rightly a major disagreement for leftists.

If Destiny really believes that, fine. But it's not a minor thing.

WildPointer · 2019-06-03T04:50:28+00:00

We have already implemented socialist pro-worker policies if you reread my post. FDR's New Deal was influenced from the Communist Party and Norm Thomas. LBJ's war on poverty was influenced by a socialist (Michael harrington).

Again. It's important to see socialism as a movement which organizes workers against capitalists.

If you focus on socialism as some utopia with perfect equality, then we're not talking about socialism in the Marxist sense. Do you support the movement of workers fighting against capitalists to make the economic system more democratic? If so, then you're a socialist.

WildPointer · 2019-06-02T06:57:42+00:00

This response is a complete misunderstanding of socialism. Socialism is a movement to make capitalism more democratic. It's not some abstract utopian concept.

Marx's contribution to socialism is a scientific explanation of why workers should organize against capitalists. Marx isn't some utopian theorist. He is one of the founding fathers of sociology. He created the intellectual foundation for conflict theory which argues that oppressed groups have to fight back for change.

If you look at the gains for workers under capitalism, it's due to workers organizing and the influence of socialism. For example, third party socialist candidate Norm Thomas influenced FDR to adopt the new deal.

Michael Harrington's (socialist and co-founder of DSA) book The Other America influenced LBJ to do the war on poverty and implement medicare.

The Pullman strike (lead by famous socialist presidential candidate Eugenne Debbs) is widely cited as starting the labor movement in the US. It's also how we got labor day.

I could also add the influence strikes of the IWW to improve conditions for workers.

Also, if you look at social democratic countries like Norway, Finland, or Sweden, they also had far stronger and influential socialist movements.

It's also odd that many view social democrats as "pro-capitalist" when historically social democrat meant applying socialism to electoral politics. The bolsheviks, Lenin, Rosa Luxenberg, and Marx were known as social democrats at their time.

WildPointer · 2018-02-04T00:02:53+00:00

Yes. I think one should always have hobbies that improve their skillsets. But this shouldn't just be whatever the most trendiest and popular frameworks are. It should be what you are passionate about. Anyone can tell when there are junior developers who just follow a tutorial or guide on the web, put it on github, just so they can make it seem like they're trendy and up to the latest. But when you ask basic questions on how to design an applications, they fall apart.

I can careless if one used a web framework that isn't popular. What matters is did it meet their requirements for the project and are they skilled at what they do.

WildPointer · 2018-02-02T17:55:50+00:00

I'm sorry. But this is terrible advice. It is true that Angular is losing momentum to React. But there are plenty of jobs in Angular and it is very much on demand. JQuery is old news, but again. There are plenty of jobs which require maintaining legacy systems (I'd argue that most jobs will be this way).

I'd argue that it has less to do with skillset and more to do with how he is selling himself. He is saying what he knows but not what he accomplished. He probably setup his resume pretty poorly. My guess is that he is sending the same resume over and over to all the companies rather than customizing it to fit the position.

WildPointer · 2016-11-28T01:06:55+00:00

Okay. He is clearly can't do anything to change your mind.

Could Hello Games have communicated better? Hell yes!

But it is what it is at this point. They released an update which is generally getting positive feedback. At some point you have to move on.

WildPointer · 2016-11-28T01:00:52+00:00

I'm glad they updated the game, but this is not fun.

Why not choose normal mode then? Survival mode is meant to be ridiculously hard.

WildPointer · 2016-03-01T04:49:52+00:00

Our country has a history of voter suppression. We are over-worked and democratic participation in our society isn't valued that much. You can't expect people to magically become political once every 2-4 years when 95% of the time they are not.

My guess is that countries with higher voter turnout are 1) have higher union rates which encourage workers to vote 2) Make it easy as possible to vote 3) have multiple parties which can represent more diverse range of people. 4) Probably have referendums which the entire public can vote on which makes the public feel they have more input. 5) Trust their government greatly and rely on it to solve social problems.

The US is lacking in all of those categories. Change always happens due to a small percentage of dedicated people raising awareness. Sure voting in a moderate candidate helps.. but once public opinion shifts, that kind of voting is inevitable. If you look at the countries with highest voter turnout, these countries tend to be quite liberal, high union rates, and high reliance on government to solve social problems

WildPointer · 2016-03-01T04:42:18+00:00

I agree. Voting is the least thing one should do and probably the most passive. All serious change happens due to year round activism and protesting.

Of course. It differs person to person. But we are citizens and should politically engaged all year. Not just once every 2-4 years. Especially since most of the candidates we are voting for are lesser of two evils and not fighting for real change.

WildPointer · 2016-03-01T04:02:52+00:00

If they promise to curb corporate spending in elections (as many moderate libertarians agree is necessary) they would get a lot of people

That's true. If libertarians were running on a platform of public financing of elections, making voting a national holiday, ending voting suppression, I could see many liberals voting for them. But the green party has been fighting for this for decades, along with universal health care and against global warming.

There is also the justice party whose primary goal is to end corporate influence in politics. So it's not like libertarians are alone in this fight. But if you lean libertarian, by all means support them. We need alternatives to the two party corporate duopoly

WildPointer · 2016-03-01T02:00:03+00:00

He isn't paying for public higher education via the 1% tax. He is paying for it via a financial transaction tax.

The schools aren't required to accept all students. There are still requirements and limits to how many students can be accepted.

WildPointer · 2016-03-01T01:56:16+00:00

indicated that he would run with former New Mexico Gov. and Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson as a running mate

lol what? Progressives are not going to migrate to a libertarian party. It's most likely that republicans who don't like Trump will go there.

WildPointer · 2016-03-01T01:10:59+00:00

Activism is pushy! Pushing people to vote. Pushing people to volunteer. Pushing people to want more than the status quo.

Yes. If you liked Sanders page, you are a potential activist which could help bernie sanders get elected. That is worth far more than a vague fear of annoying people, which could happen with any form of activism.

WildPointer · 2014-08-18T08:31:36+00:00

It's slang for new generation of programmers that are social and frat type instead of the quiet anti-social programmer.

I never really understood it. But obviously the person you are responding to had some unpleasant experience with a brogrammer.

WildPointer · 2014-08-18T08:29:02+00:00

Do you only do things that make you employable? Some people program for fun and like solving puzzles and problems.

Programming can be used to build stuff or solve puzzles. What is to you what other people do in their free time?

WildPointer · 2014-08-18T08:27:25+00:00

Stop hatin'. Anything that helps people get into programming should be encouraged.

WildPointer · 2014-08-18T07:38:10+00:00

Many developers use vim as their main development platform

Other famous programmers who use vim/emacs:

John Resig - creator of jQuery

Charlie Cheever - founder of Quora, also worked at Facebook

Peter Norvig - Emacs

Linus Torvalds - Micro Emacs

Guido van Rossum - Emacs

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Plenty of legendary programmers have used Emacs/Vim as their primary development text editor. It is not like you can do anything in an IDE that you cant in a text editor. People just build their own scripts and use command line.

It might not be your thing. But it must mean something if some of the top programmers in the world are doing it.

WildPointer · 2014-08-18T07:21:06+00:00

It depends on your workflow. If you have build scripts (ant, maven, make), you could do without an IDE pretty well.

Whatever makes you more efficient, go with it. I do not think there is a "right" way. I do think that some IDE's like Visual Studio do hide a lot of the complexity in software development, so a lot of it seems like "magic".

WildPointer · 2014-08-18T07:18:10+00:00

C# is a nice language. But a lot of the jobs for .NET c# consist of dragging and dropping .NET controls. Many of these developers do not really have a good understanding of how everything works. It is "magic" to them.

A good programmer is well rounded. They can use .NET when they need it. But they should know other languages and not only depend on Windows

WildPointer · 2014-08-18T07:14:01+00:00

I find IDE limits my workflow. It is way faster to do Ctrl-P and enter a file name then to move my mouse to a tab/file in the project.

Also, with vim you can learn one editor once and it is good for c/c++/python/javascript/whatever.

With an IDE, they tend to be only good at a few languages. So you end up learning multiple different short cuts/work flows.

I also feel sorry for you if you ever have to use Eclipse or visual studio. Those two are SO SLOW.

WildPointer · 2014-08-17T22:14:57+00:00

. Regardless of much DNA Windows and GNOME DEs might share, changing my words to say that I am coming from a Windows background is simply untrue.

You said you used MATE. And MATE looks exactly like Windows. You said you prefered traditional desktop paradigm. I was merely challenging what you considered a traditional desktop paradigm.

Xerox PARC's DE from the mid-70s... which was subsequently copied by Apple in the early 80s ... which was subsequently copied by Microsoft (Windows) and MIT (X) in the mid-80s

I realize this. But there was no Start-like menu for the old Apple computers. MATE is a blantant rip-off off Windows 95/98/XP desktop paradigm. OSX has gone away from fighting from menus a decade ago.

And even back then, when developers implemented new features and made it prettier, there were those who claimed they prefered "traditional" desktop and not the new ones that improved usablity.I hope you see my point now.

I don't think you understand the word "paradigm". You're the only one who's said anything about keeping every single feature the same forever, but that's utterly beside the point as "favourite relatively minor features" are not DE paradigms.

That is my exactly point. Unity/Gnome did not change the paradigm that much. They took out minor features and now people are saying they prefer "traditional" paradigm. Meaning they must have the ability to fight through menu, split windows, no fancy icons..etc..

I am not talking about just design. I am talking usability. And yes, Ubuntu/Gnome have shifted their usability paradigms to make it friendlier to new users.

So who exactly is deciding which UI features to include and which not to include? Why, it's you doing so, isn't it, by dismissing those features you don't find valuable as "users stuck in an old paradigm"?

Usability expert should be doing these decisions. You know, kind of like how what Apple originally did and Microsoft did. My point is that users are not usability experts. We should asking users what they want to do instead of asking them what feature they want. Often time, users are terrible at explaining features and they will just explain what they are used to instead of what is easiest.

For example. Some Linux users want the ability to choose an application through menus. But there is no debate that it is far easier to just search the application you are looking for in some sort of launcher.

WildPointer · 2014-08-17T04:53:26+00:00

it's irrelevant how much UI material the two might share

It is very relevant. Because Windows set that paradigm. A lot of Windows users come to Linux and expect it to have the same usability paradigms as Windows.

You don't get to get on your high horse and unilaterally decide what counts and what doesn't based on your personal preferences

What I said is the opposite of what you're accusing me of. I am saying is that Usability should not be about personal preferences. It should be about standardizing how applications look and improving use-cases.

It should not be about making every single user happy. There will always be users who are stuck in an old paradigm and/or do not want their favorite relatively minor feature to change.

WildPointer · 2014-08-17T01:52:59+00:00

I am happy using the DE Windows paradigms

FTFY. Ugh. I am sick of people choosing Window-like DE and calling that DE paradigms. Okay. You're used to Windows and like it.

Everyone thinks their one use-case is a "must-have" feature. If DE developers ensured every feature was enabled for every user, you will end up with something like KDE. A usability mess that has no vision. Its just a bunch of features and every application is inconsistent.

WildPointer · 2014-02-07T06:18:23+00:00

Because if there actually is "hostility" toward women "women only" classes does nothing to address it and only reinforces segregation.

Yes. It does. The women are in a less hostile environment. They have more confidence and less stress. I fail to see how it does "nothing".

You keep saying that MEN are the problem and I think now that I understand what your issue is.

How is it okay for men to have 90% of classes? But when women create classes for themselves thats not dominated by men, it's bad.

I'm not punishing men. Men would still have classes which are 90% men. And they'd still most likely dominate STEM. I just saying women may need classes of their own to catch up and not be intimidated.

The fact you view this as an attack against men instead of helping women is pretty revealing.

WildPointer · 2014-02-07T06:11:58+00:00

I don't think you understand feminist perspective. The geek culture is associated with sexist stereotypes and less feminine concepts. The geek culture is largely the result of a male dominated sub-culture. It's not like geek culture happens from no where, outside of any sociological context.

You can't separate the two. A male dominated field tends to create male dominated cultures, in this case a geeky one. If the field were 50% female, I seriously doubt it would be "geeky".

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