What bothers me is that Hamas (and jihad-driven islamists in general) are seemingly a minority, even in Gaza. Why don't you build a reservation for them or something?
There are many parties who are interested in re-igniting the conflict, for example those who sell weaponry. Clearly neither Israelis nor Gazans (talking about general population, like 99.9% of the people) are enjoying the moment.
(I personally wrote many loc in a shelter, to a soundtrack of sirens and explosions — islamists' rockets aren't even targeted at something specific, they just continuously bomb more populated areas in Israel, major cities.)
Fun fact: they are not alone in this, I am aware of at least two startups that do the same thing to CVS (one already acquired by Cisco, the other one is ongoing).
And having used CVS myself, I strongly disagree with any connotation of "productivity loss because of old SCM" etc. — it all depends on workflow. Kind of like Vim certainly isn't inherently less productive than a shiny new Visual Studio 2022.
Whether you end up in jail depends on something else entirely. Let's say that our individual in question needs to lack empathy and be more able than an average cop in that location.
It's not "you deserve it" (which has a bad connotation, as if not being rich is derogatory). More like, if you seem to be unable to amass cash, then you are probably unable; do something else instead.
Being rich or poor is overrated, this is just another condition like being healthy, or able to read Chinese. Everything can be fixed to an extent, and depends on whichever characteristic is perceived as more valuable to have.
Exactly. I had a co-worker once, who was a JavaScript programmer — with zero knowledge of JavaScript. Could not tell function call from variable definition, and wasn't willing to learn, because why do that.
The scary part: he worked there for 2-3 years. Doing absolutely nothing. Like that dude from Dilbert, only in real life.
With this I completely agree. Professionalism is just that — being productive, doing your job and not behaving like a princess in the absence of ideal conditions and stuff.
In "right environment", given great code in a most beautiful and readable language, two hours a week with a coffee break in the middle — everyone can be a pro. Sadly, reality is not like that.
While an Orthodox Jew cannot directly ask you to take his cellphone and turn it on, he or she will be indifferent to you taking and power cycling it voluntarily. It's the intent and activity that's considered sinful, not state of the device per se.
Also it's perfectly normal to leave a phone powered on for a Sabbath, if you don't actively use it. Same applies to e.g. elevators, that just cruise in an endless loop and stop on every floor. You can ride in it, as long as you aren't the operator.
Israeli here, flying to Europe couple of times/year. They don't make you turn on all electronics in Ben Gurion, that's just not true; asked me to boot up my laptop once or twice (probably because it can be used as a case for explosives due to its size), but not cellphone or an iPod.
Maybe they do check Muslims more thoroughly, that would make sense. I never took any interest in it, so cannot confirm it. (In the Army, I would totally pay much more attention to Arabs than to other civilians, but that's so painfully obvious, right?)
Myself, I was very skeptical, until one day I decided to start my new project in Python 3 and quickly realized that everything isn't that much ruined. Couple of pull requests here and there, could be worse (after reading some of the more... opinionated blog posts I expected something truly catastrophic).
But the new goodness in 3.4 is totally worth it, in my opinion.
Some Google Apps users got banned (allegedly for TOU violation, but no one cared to even tell wtf was wrong), a number of emails weren't delivered, no support whatsoever was provided for a paid product — long story short, it was pretty bad.
Exactly my thoughts. It may be acceptable-ish for a personal home page, but using this for anything that's remotely useful and/or has more than one user, no way in hell.
Already tried that with email (Google Apps for Business), and the punishment was swift like the new Apple programming language.
This hypocrisy is just ridiculous.