If I understand correctly, they're moving development to GitHub, and not hosting their own git servers. So you'd need a GitHub (Microsoft) account to merge a change to the code.
It's because of the salaried "UX experts". Paying somebody 6 figures to bikeshed the precise size and color of the home button is obviously farcical so they pretend to be more useful by making more dramatic changes, which amount to shuffling things around to make users relearn the software. They're ostensibly supposed to make things better for users, but in reality there's little to do on that front so they make themselves look productive by sabotaging users instead.
They can never provide rational justification for any of it. Their "data" arguments are farcical. Have you ever tried to push back against a UX expert's decrees? They can't rationally defend their changes with the data that supposedly informs them so it rapidly devolves into "your opinions on UX are invalid because you're an engineer. I'm an expert so you need to trust me." Salaried "UX experts" are a blight on software development; if their services are ever needed at all, they should be given a short contract with clearly defined goals.
It's certainly not normal in my country for schools to display the country's motto or flag, nor do children pledge allegiance to anything. We did sing some hymns though.
This may not come as a surprise but Germany is neither doing flags, nor anthem singing or any kind of pledge.
The day begins with "Good morning" - "Good morning Ms/Mr X".
And being a secular country there is no prayer in school either (however there is religion as a school subject if you are a member of one of the major churches (+ sometimes Islam is offered as well)) or ethics if you are not.
Germany is less surprising to me, given the history involved. Based on what I am looking into on Google Maps, however, it hardly seems to be a phenomenon confined to the US, and at least based on my spot checks it seems to be more common than not for public schools to display national flags.
You really think that the USSR of the early 1940s could have fought that era's Germany and Japan at once?
What about the comments by no less than Admiral Zhukov himself acknowledging that in his view, the USSR couldn't have defeated Germany without US assistance?
A pledge or prayer would be unthinkable in France for instance.
We do not display the French flag in schools (for no particular reason, except that you would need someone to take care of that), you would find Forbes on official buildings.
Its very much a US thing. Sure other countrys have flags and they like them but Americans really take it to a whole other level. In the uk every school I wen't to had a flag pole but would only fly a flag on special occasions such as sporting events and we would fly sports flags. In America they seem to worship their flag when I see they are scared to let it touch the ground.
From the outside it looks like Americans value the flag more than they value other Americans, in the uk we value brits more than we value the British flag as the flag is just a representation of the people.
Yes I am sure. [0] The first Canadian school I looked at on google maps doesn't even have a flag pole never mind the flag. If this school was in America I would expect it to be burnt out by the end of the day for such a disgusting display.
not in NZ either, we sang hymns in school assembly when I was a kid but these days more that half of us don't believe in religion - you have to choose to pay to go to a special school if you want to be taught god stuff, which is as it should be
In czech republic state flag is not always displayed.
Some schools have picture of president in classrooms but it is more of a rare sight.
Also there is a separate subject about topics ranging from state symbols to law creation.
so yes it probably is US thing
It's interesting that in the countries where it seems to be less common, everyone assumes that displaying flags outside of schools is a US-only thing, when spot checks of Google Maps seem to suggest that it's relatively common throughout the world.
Americans get a lot of flak for assuming the world looks like their backyard, but maybe this is a case of the reverse?
I don't see why, given that looking through Google Maps seems to suggest that it's at least as common as not...
Let me just step back and observe that this is possibly the worst way to do cultural exchanges. Why does everyone have to take an attitude of superiority and judgement, instead of objective inquiry and mutual discovery?
Perhaps it's because you didn't start the exchange with enquiry, but instead claimed that what happens in your country is "exactly what every country does"
Some examples of things I've used telemetry for at Mozilla:
* Noticed performance regressions not caught by our testing, and therefore been able to fix the regression.
* Noticed an unexpected number of users with hardware acceleration disabled, and therefore been able to find and fix the bug that was causing them to have acceleration switched off
* Figure out which device in a category is most commonly used by our users, so that I can dogfood my work on a representative device
Those are just a few examples off of the top of my head. It's not about removing features because telemetry says nobody uses them. People Mozilla use telemetry to answer all sorts of important questions. We also have to jump through hoops to add any new data collection, justifying why it's needed and ensuring the data is not personal. As is right, because we take user privacy very seriously
There is no evidence that Rogan's opinions are either dangerous, or considered "information" by most people. Beware overusing this term or it will lose all meaning.
I'm not sure what should be done about it, but again don't see the relevance of that question. Your argument was that there's value to be had out of such a debate, which there isn't. And that a debate cannot be misinformation, which is again clearly false. Packaging misinformation up as a debate doesn't stop it being misinformation.
To be fair though, the freeze was probably caused by a xul extension.
I switched from Gmail to fastmail last week, after planning to do so "one day" for a few years. Using a mixture of the web client and Thunderbird, just like I did when using Gmail. No regrets so far, I recommend taking to leap!
What makes you think that?