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Re:Google Protest Leader Leaves by mkoryak on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @10:57AM (#20450659)
what is political about this?

for(const i = 0; i < 100; i++) { ... }

Re:Google Protest Leader Leaves by spamizbad on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @11:01AM (#20450698)
If you work for a defense contractor your work is political. Not literally political, but you are now serving the state.
Re:Google Protest Leader Leaves by pessimizer on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @12:38PM (#20451612)
An IBM subsidiary worked on software to tabulate census results in order to classify individuals by degree of Jewishness. Is it alright to godwin in order to directly answer an obvious question?
Re:Google Protest Leader Leaves by ssully on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @11:45AM (#20451135)
Hard to tell if your are intentionally or not ignoring the fact that code as a whole serves a specific purpose, and that purpose can itself be very political. Either way, this is an incredibly embarrassing response.
Re:Google Protest Leader Leaves by ionised on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @11:11AM (#20450786)
Nothing, but we're not talking about contextless for-loops here, and you know that.
Re:Google Protest Leader Leaves by Frondo on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @11:23AM (#20450925)
mkoryak, your task today is to write us a for-loop that lets us isolate people conducting protected workplace organizing so we can fire them.