The AWS management console (Not the AWS services themselves which are great). Just navigating the console and getting things done is a major source of frustration.
This is just bullshit. The opposition hasn't been able to mobilise a single popular protest against the government in the last 5 years, how could they do this now? These are spontaneous protests organised by ordinary people across the whole country. Open your eyes and stop spreading government propaganda.
Violent protests are often organized by politicians. I won't blame Congress because I don't have proof. However, it's not something completely unheard of.
While speculation has been rife on social media on how BJP workers have been posing as anti-CAA protesters with the intention of turning the protests violent, this is the first noted case where police have taken action against someone for purportedly seeking to blame a particular community.
There has been a lot of speculation on BJP's involvement in fanning violence. But it's not clear how much truth is there to it. I hope they are held accountable for whatever wrong they have done. And victims of riots (that happened in 1984, 2002 and other years) get their deserved justice.
> The cognitive dissonance is strong.
Could you be more specific about what you're trying to say here?
They've broadly been peaceful in nature.
It's immoral to paint the entire struggle as being violent.
People are just trying to uphold India's founding principles.
I don't think they termed entire protests as violent. You are right in saying that protests have been largely peaceful in nature. But there has been some significant violence throughout the protests. Acts like stone pelting, lynching policemen, torching buses, uprooting train tracks, attacking school buses are petrifying. And this will become worse as protests spread to semi-urban areas.
The protesters in Hong Kong were also throwing Molotov cocktails, destroying public property, and beating people up, but Western news media didn’t call it “violent.”
The Google Maps APIs are point in time. Using OSM and Kalman filters, we can continuously snap points to the road in realtime. Plus it's a lot faster doing it on our own database than calling external APIs.
Trying to be as sensitive about this, but hard to believe this is all over a dongle! I think it's because anonymous got involved http://pastebin.com/ubmznGhn
It was completely in her right to turn around and tell the guys to shut up or bring it to the attention of the organisers. However, I don't think that was her intention at all. Her intention was to gain more mileage out of this. She took an issue about a couple of guys being immature and made it a sexism issue.
Based on her previous tweets (the now famous penis joke that she made, a picture playing cards against humanity), I find it difficult to believe she was offended by a dongle joke. I think she saw an opportunity to use this to further her online cred and that's what she did. Her blog post is the less about the incident (and indeed less about tackling sexism) and more about herself (i find the part about the girl in the picture particularly PR-ish). It was a typical PR move that got blown out of proportion.
This in no way justifies what followed on twitter, which was definitely sexist and misogynistic and very unfortunate. IMO this has pretty much pushed back much of the progress made on tackling the real sexism issues in our industry. Seeing a fellow developer get fired over something so benign (at least for most men, it would seem benign) leads to mistrust and political correctness in dealing with women in the workplace (which sucks!).
