technology

23218 readers

2 users here now

On the road to fully automated luxury gay space communism.

Spreading Linux propaganda since 2020

Rules:

1. Obviously abide by the sitewide code of conduct. Bigotry will be met with an immediate ban
2. This community is about technology. Offtopic is permitted as long as it is kept in the comment sections
3. Although this is not /c/libre, FOSS related posting is tolerated, and even welcome in the case of effort posts
4. We believe technology should be liberating. As such, avoid promoting proprietary and/or bourgeois technology
5. Explanatory posts to correct the potential mistakes a comrade made in a post of their own are allowed, as long as they remain respectful
6. No crypto (Bitcoin, NFT, etc.) speculation, unless it is purely informative and not too cringe
7. Absolutely no tech bro shit. If you have a good opinion of Silicon Valley billionaires please manifest yourself so we can ban you.

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

Jadzia_Dax@hexbear.net

blashork@hexbear.net

context@hexbear.net

EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net

SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net

gaycomputeruser@hexbear.net

ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net

[CW: SA] The Worst Programming Language You Know also has the worst people you know in positions of leadership (patricia.no)

submitted 1 year ago by itappearsthat@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

6 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Yet another reason to never touch that piece of shit language ever again:

CppCon leadership and the C++ Foundation board have worked in secret to protect a person convicted of rape and possession of Child Sexual Abuse Imagery. They have refused any transparency into a process where they have decided to allow this person full access to CppCon as an attendee, speaker and trainer. This person is well-known and trusted in the C++ community.

For some reason a lot of material around this avoids naming the person. He is Arthur O'Dwyer. Here is an article about his arrest and conviction: https://dailyvoice.com/new-york/yonkers/news/sex-offender-convicted-of-raping-drugged-victim-reports-move-into-yonkers/773166/

top 6 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Weird. That article is the only one that shows up about his conviction on google. I wonder if it's being censored considering he works in tech, and google probably has interests in these people and events.

He was sentenced in June that year to a term of 120 days in jail and three years probation

What the fuck lol. 120 days? In JAIL and NOT prison? That's not even a fucking year

[–] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah I can't find anything else about this online. It seems like California has pretty advanced privacy laws around criminal history so trying to find the original case through that turns up nothing. It appears he is no longer in the NY sex offender registry either; a search for O'Dwyer turns up nothing.

edit: found this image on kiwifarms, someone screenshotted the NY sex offender page at the time:

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Wonderful state lol

[–] chickentendrils@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck whoever it is, but I cannot say that I know a single person involved in the formalization of any language and I'm not starting now.

I've only used C/C++ and Python for the last ~10years. Fuck Java, the last thing I worked on was a rewrite of Java mixnetworking software, totally interoperable with Java version peers. Went from 1.5GiB memory consumption out of the box to 15MiB.

[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Sounds like the Java version wasn't written with aggressive GC reference culling in mind -- it will never be as memory-efficient as a purpose-built C/C++/Rust program, but 1.5 GB sounds egregious.

[–] buh@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

thought this would be about javascript and brendan eich