This is great, and I am happy Microsoft has put forth a great product to fulfill collaborative white boarding on their platform. Microsoft has been supporting of digital convas technology for a long time, which was finally streamline in the inkcanvas control in WPF over a decade ago.
This solution from Microsoft has been floating around the education sector for sometime already by Dyknow, a small company HQ'd in Indiana. Curious if this firm's tech was bought out or just copied.
I find the sexual harrassment to be appalling and it upsets me that she had to face those types of challenges when her only goal was to increase engagement with the user base.
Though I have to wonder how many of the total user base were responsible for the harrassment. They should be able to track this through logs etc to better understand the scale of the harrassers.
One must equally be prepared to ask if this is an expected outcome from selection bias? Her user base appears to be onlya sub section of a subsection of a slice which is only a slither of the meme following community. I a going to generalize here but when you cater to a community which runs off dark humor, sarscasm, and the occasional debauchery - I wouldn't be surprised of the possibility and abundance of users that are non-pc and disregard most of the norms established in society.
To be very honest, I feel like her post is the equivalent of a female prison guard complaining of the lack of empathy and manners in the male prisoner population... One could also make the comparison of female guards in a female prison.
Females are not as physically strong as males on average and due to this and other societial factors, they are exposed to an over adbundance of harrassment.
It's a problem yes, but it is an obvious expectation of unfettered anonymous communication on this the internet. Just as the potential for violence, injury and bodily harm is there for many professions that engaged with large the populations - cops, guards, public relations, celebrities, journalist, etc.
Unless the internet is regulated, I believe all users should be very aware of it's faults, and perpensity for unusual and harrassing behavior. To control that aspect of the internet would be to implement censorship which would cause way more harm.
> To be very honest, I feel like her post is the equivalent of an prison guard complaining of the lack of empathy and manners in prisoner population...
This is not a valid comparison because when posing as a male she did bit receive the abuse. That's like a female prison guard being harrased while the male one isn't.
Unlikely -- As a parent, I am regularly exposed to messaging from local, state and the federal government, public school system, healthcare professionals, and parental advice "experts" on the importance of family bounding and spending time with my children.
I go out of my way to be more attentive to my children in the evening after work, and during the weekends. Their day to day lives are significantly more structured than my own upbringing.
Perhaps the rise in family time is due to this decades long mass messaging campaign around the developed world. And I don't think this is bad! Why? This social response is natural response to the rise in use of social media, entertainment and other electronic distractions.
The concerning thing, though, is the way we start demonizing and going after parents who are unable to do this because of, say, their jobs not making it feasible.
I am appalled at the attempt by Chipotle to downplay the scope and scale of the incident. The sentence which reads, " Not all locations were involved, and the specific time frames vary by location", is a blatant attempt to deflate the significance of the problem. This public disclosure should have been more direct, and disclose in plain language the number of stores affected. Chipotle should explain the full impact in plain language: "2,249 out of X,XXX Chipotle restaurants were compromised."
They are international now, right? I at least think I have memory of running across them in Canada.
The file name in question (thanks, heywire) is "us.json". I'm left wondering whether and how much of an international scope there might be to this.
While the version of their web site that I'm receiving by default seems to be geo-centric to the U.S. and doesn't mention foreign locations, Wikipedia has:
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (/tʃᵻˈpoʊtleɪ/)[6] is an American chain of fast casual restaurants in the United States, United Kingdom,[7] Canada,[8][9] Germany,[10] and France
I fully accepted TDD at first, but now only implement certain principles that have helped me develop better software. I am not the type to implement needless code just for the sake of it. However, many times, unit testing have saved me from countless hours of debugging and introducing new bugs. I will admit, I am one of those developers that write code first, then unit test second. That's just my style, and it really does not matter if the end result is the same. More reliable, robust and less buggy software.
It takes a pragmatic developer to evaluate methodologies and patterns, utilizing the concepts that suites the job. Ultimately, mindless use of patterns and methodologies will not solve the problem.
I can't judge because I do the same, but I think part of the reason you're supposed to write the tests first is so that you aren't influenced by what you already wrote. Ie you test what's correct rather than testing the implementation.
This solution from Microsoft has been floating around the education sector for sometime already by Dyknow, a small company HQ'd in Indiana. Curious if this firm's tech was bought out or just copied.