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Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook
The two co-founders of Facebook Inc.'s popular Instagram app are stepping down, a move marking continued tumult at the social-networking giant.
The co-founders—Kevin Systrom, Instagram's chief executive, and Mike Krieger, chief technology officer—clashed with Facebook executives over the extent of Instagram's autonomy in recent months, according to people familiar with the matter. Earlier this year, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg shifted a senior Facebook executive, Adam Mosseri, over to Instagram in anticipation that the founders might leave, one of the people said.
Among other things, Facebook officials, including Mr. Zuckerberg, clashed with the co-founders over growth tactics and how to more rapidly expand the photo-sharing app's user base, another person said. Senior Facebook officials had known the two men were frustrated working within a large company and had begun making preparations for them to leave, another person familiar with the matter said.
Also at NYT, The Atlantic, and Gizmodo.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by acid andy on Wednesday September 26 2018, @10:47PM (11 children)
FTFY. It's an incredible handy gender-neutral pronoun that's been in use as such for a long time. You can't escape the fact that the word "he" does have some associations with masculinity, regardless of whether or not you choose to use it as a gender-neutral pronoun. The singular "they" just does not have that problem and when used carefully there need not be any ambiguity.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 26 2018, @11:17PM (10 children)
The explosive usefulness of modern, variable-based mathematical logic can be traced back to this revelation: Making a statement about a single object is far superior to making an Aristotelian statement about a group of objects.
Stupid, mundane communication can bear singular "they", because it's easy enough to fix it on the fly into something actually intelligible. However, when it comes to communicating a complex thought, it's the dregs.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 26 2018, @11:53PM (6 children)
Um... your understanding of algebra is... unique.
May I blow your mind? Allow me to introduce you to the set of real numbers, which we may call ℝ for shorthand. In middle school algebra, x ∃ ℝ. Thus any statement concerning x is a statement concerning a group of objects.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @12:34AM (5 children)
All you've done is revealed that you are a sloppy thinker, which is fine enough for mundane purposes in life, but not for much else. That's why you've never noticed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @01:29AM (4 children)
Do you have a counterargument, or...?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @02:24AM (3 children)
Your statement is false outright; it's not a logical fallacy that can be pointed out—it's just wrong.
Write a sentence with "x", and we'll discuss it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @02:37AM (2 children)
Ok. The x is blue. Enlighten me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @02:51AM (1 child)
I don't need to enlighten you, because you enlightened yourself.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @03:17AM
Objection! Parent comment does not provide any enlightenment or discussion! Immediately provide discussion, or I will be forced to refer this matter to the infinite contract-enforcing turtles!
(Score: 2, Touché) by khallow on Thursday September 27 2018, @12:53AM
Are you ever going to give us an example of non-stupid or non-mundane communication? Because nothing you've said to date has been worth the fuss. "They" works for much more complex communication than anything you've said to date.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Thursday September 27 2018, @12:50PM (1 child)
When used in the singular form, "they" does refer to a single object and not a group of objects, a bit like how the gender-neutral form of "he" does refer to someone of an unspecified gender and not necessarily a male. The reason the singular "they" is better is because you can almost always distinguish it from the plural "they" just by looking at the verb. Conversely, there is often no evidence presented in a sentence to distinguish between the masculine "he" and the gender-neutral "he".
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @03:43PM
There is just feminine "she". Everything else is merely non-feminine; there's the definite feminine, and then there is everything else, which depends on context—a special place is given solely to the feminine.
Your singular they is a failure of the mind [soylentnews.org].