Yeah, people are getting worked up about a good faith trade off in software features made by a company trying to create products useable by, preferably, every single person on the planet. And since gender is something were are - right now, whether you like it or not - revising our understanding of, it makes sense to wait until you have a better solution to the problem.
I mean, autocorrect can only take you so far anyway, your gonna have to change it a bit anyway and I assume most people with two brain cells knows the gender and preferred pronouns of the people mentioned in the convo and knows how to use them properly even if they don't have a clue about the pronoun debate. This is an edge case, but still something they saw value in avoiding a mistake in.
I always read German attitudes to the Eurozone with some disbelief. They always seem to insist the burden of changing policy to make the Euro work fall on other countries and not there own.
Yeah, I didn't like the barb aimed at Vestager either, mostly because as I'm Irish and appreciative of her making our Government collect taxes properly.
I still remember the horror when I learned the Sharepoint 2010 site i was pulled off React/Typescript for only supported IE8. And then learning the client was actually (slowly going down) our biggest source of revenue, and has so much stuff on SP2010 migrating away or upgrading SharePoint is out of the question.
I would'nt like to keep IE8 alive, sooner enterprises can't throw any more money at the problem, sooner we all get big paydays from the migration projects.
Right, look, This guy is doing everything that is being asked of him for the price agreed. None of the more wonky ethics of the situation change that, and I don't subscribe to the belief that he owes the company anything more then his fair-priced labor.
The only thing he is doing wrong is under-utilizing his own talents and potential productivity, for which the optimal solution is for him to find a better job. As he seems to indicate that the current options are to stay working 1-2 hours of work or be highly to be unemployed, I believe he seek to preserve his employment in future actions he may take regarding disclosure, and wait for a better opportunity to present itself.
If it's ultimately a choice between providing for him and his son and not, its pretty much no choice at all, ethics be damned. I know which outcome I would prefer.
Ireland has it, I'm not sure you would call the last few elections "boring" (Probably more to do with the financial crisis hitting us like a ton of bricks though)
That's what I was thinking, I don't quite know about "nito-groups" other then it has nitogen in it, but I get the feeling it blows up a lot, and that's good enough for me (to read about, not acually try this)
Arguably GOG solved it by not having it at all. Seems to be doing fine; outside of AAA studios, game devs don't seem to be going for it any more, giving GOG a healthy libary. And the AAA's have kinda lost enthusiasm for it outside of Ubisoft.
I think what needs to happen there is that the US needs to promise not to extradite him in exchange for him surrendering to the Swedish authorities for the rape claims. I don't believe he should be extradited to the US to be incarcerated under criminally draconian anti-whistle blower; I do believe that he has to submit to a fair trial after being legitimately charged with a unambiguously horrific crime. Assuming (and I believe this is the most likely seniario given the info I have) that the Swedish prosecution is acting in good faith and believe that they have a legitimate case, the US refusal to rule out extradition is, quite frankly, obstructing real justice for the parties to the Swedish case. Dealing with rape cases is far more important than grudges against Wikileaks.
Looked up my home city of Dublin, Ireland. Apparently we're number one for "sober activities". Which both surprises and doesn't surprise me at the same time (Plenty of people tired of Irish pub culture using it as an alternative place to find social events)