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Sarah personally though has a history of looking for drama where there is none at least within the Linux community.  Her initial run in with Linus (T not S) and other folks came from her jumping into the middle of a mailing list conversation.  Ingo, Linus, and Greg KH were talking pull requests and a joke was made about submitting pulls to Greg since he's nice.  Linus then jokes Greg might be too nice and also that Greg is a giant human so he might accidentally squish someone due to his size and not realize it.
 
At this point Sarah jumps in screaming how it is not okay to advocate physical violence, despite the fact due to the use of emoticons by some folks, etc it was pretty clear this was just poking fun at Greg for being a giant human being, not saying Greg was going to come to your house and throw you through a wall for having low quality code.  Even more interesting, Sarah is the first member of the conversation to use profanity in this conversation, despite her claims the swearing needs to go away.  She comes in with how it is not fucking acceptable to threaten physical violence and so on and so forth.  She immediately goes to Twitter and attempts to jump onto the #adainitiative hashtag to get attention about installing a code of conduct.  
 
It doesn't really go anywhere, no one else rallies to her, and now after that fell flat she's leaving Linux.  Frankly with some egg on her face in terms of professional conduct in this case.

Why don't you go ahead and help us out with a nice summary of her GitHub and the kernel? Because Github has her at zero contributions in the last year from her account to any public repo.  So highlighting some pulls would be quite useful.

Sarah personally though has a history of looking for drama where there is none at least within the Linux community.  Her initial run in with Linus (T not S) and other folks came from her jumping into the middle of a mailing list conversation.  Ingo, Linus, and Greg KH were talking pull requests and a joke was made about submitting pulls to Greg since he's nice.  Linus then jokes Greg might be too nice and also that Greg is a giant human so he might accidentally squish someone due to his size and not realize it.
 
At this point Sarah jumps in screaming how it is not okay to advocate physical violence, despite the fact due to the use of emoticons by some folks, etc it was pretty clear this was just poking fun at Greg for being a giant human being, not saying Greg was going to come to your house and throw you through a wall for having low quality code.  Even more interesting, Sarah is the first member of the conversation to use profanity in this conversation, despite her claims the swearing needs to go away.  She comes in with how it is not fucking acceptable to threaten physical violence and so on and so forth.  She immediately goes to Twitter and attempts to jump onto the #adainitiative hashtag to get attention about installing a code of conduct.  
 
It doesn't really go anywhere, no one else rallies to her, and now after that fell flat she's leaving Linux.  Frankly with some egg on her face in terms of professional conduct in this case.

"Respect should be earned"
-Linus Torvalds
 
 
Sarah has been doing shit for a long time now. I am glad she is leaving because it seems she cares more about bullying people and talking shit than actually writing code. She gets offended by jokes or insults that aren't even directed at her.
 
 
It is not a cover up story. All the mails from the mailing list can be found on public websites. For example here is the mail where he jokes about Greg being a giant and Sarah freaks out calling it "advocating for physical intimidation and violence".

Sarah personally though has a history of looking for drama where there is none at least within the Linux community.  Her initial run in with Linus (T not S) and other folks came from her jumping into the middle of a mailing list conversation.  Ingo, Linus, and Greg KH were talking pull requests and a joke was made about submitting pulls to Greg since he's nice.  Linus then jokes Greg might be too nice and also that Greg is a giant human so he might accidentally squish someone due to his size and not realize it.
 
At this point Sarah jumps in screaming how it is not okay to advocate physical violence, despite the fact due to the use of emoticons by some folks, etc it was pretty clear this was just poking fun at Greg for being a giant human being, not saying Greg was going to come to your house and throw you through a wall for having low quality code.  Even more interesting, Sarah is the first member of the conversation to use profanity in this conversation, despite her claims the swearing needs to go away.  She comes in with how it is not fucking acceptable to threaten physical violence and so on and so forth.  She immediately goes to Twitter and attempts to jump onto the #adainitiative hashtag to get attention about installing a code of conduct.  
 
It doesn't really go anywhere, no one else rallies to her, and now after that fell flat she's leaving Linux.  Frankly with some egg on her face in terms of professional conduct in this case.

@GoodBytes
 
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/23/107
 
Given all the comments about developer's living in mom's basement, etc if someone takes that as anything else than a joking tone doing some self mockery of the Linux user neckbeard stereotype, not much you can do for them.  Nothing directed at Sarah or said in a serious tone.
 
Also of interest:
 
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/24/142

I think they make such recommendations to avoid someone seeing a weaker GPU, buy it and then complain to them about how their specs were wrong. They are playing it super safe for the less knowledgeable people in gaming.

@GoodBytes
 
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/23/107
 
Given all the comments about developer's living in mom's basement, etc if someone takes that as anything else than a joking tone doing some self mockery of the Linux user neckbeard stereotype, not much you can do for them.  Nothing directed at Sarah or said in a serious tone.
 
Also of interest:
 
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/24/142

I would have much preferred a rack-mounted KVM / screen.

You can, it won't do much though given PhysX never saw widespread use.  The largest benefit is in Borderlands 2 and I really doubt a GTX 780 SLi needs any additional help with that game.  The extra heat from the card is probably a greater concern than the benefit.

You can, it won't do much though given PhysX never saw widespread use.  The largest benefit is in Borderlands 2 and I really doubt a GTX 780 SLi needs any additional help with that game.  The extra heat from the card is probably a greater concern than the benefit.

Is this the porn video?  Because if we're talking TrueCrypt to stick the porn on a hidden volume, then sure it will do that just fine.  If we're talking TrueCrypt in a life or death situation, like you're a dissident in some repressive country, then it's not the greatest due to its keyfile management.  Although nothing else right now really does the hidden thing and the option to have a duress password.  Bitlocker for example is pretty solid as long as you go hard copy recovery keys only (don't upload them, no pin option, etc) , but it sells you out on boot that you have encrypted stuff when it asks for a password to continue the boot.  So then the nice secret police just start attaching the car battery to various parts of your body until you type the password in.  

TRS80 Pocket Computer Model: PC-2 + printer interface
 

I believe Tandy was the OEM and Radio Shack rebranded it.  I was the envy of others due to the printer expansion:
 

 
Many were destroyed and died unloved deaths, bearing the nickname Trash 80, but now everyone who visits my office admires it.  Turns out time can make vintage diamonds out of shitty coal.  
 
To load software you bought a book, typed in the program via that shitty little keyboard, using the tiny little screen.  Then it didn't run because you made a typo and you became angry, yelled at it for awhile, and then just assigned the task to a grad student.  Sadly for me I often was that grad student.  

TRS80 Pocket Computer Model: PC-2 + printer interface
 

I believe Tandy was the OEM and Radio Shack rebranded it.  I was the envy of others due to the printer expansion:
 

 
Many were destroyed and died unloved deaths, bearing the nickname Trash 80, but now everyone who visits my office admires it.  Turns out time can make vintage diamonds out of shitty coal.  
 
To load software you bought a book, typed in the program via that shitty little keyboard, using the tiny little screen.  Then it didn't run because you made a typo and you became angry, yelled at it for awhile, and then just assigned the task to a grad student.  Sadly for me I often was that grad student.  

After the intro I'm more exited to see the hard drive platter swap then the review of this case.

if you dont plan to overclock, it is a solid choice, you get to save around 80 bucks than getting the 4790 non-k, and you invest the money somewhere else (psu,gpu)
The 4790k is meant for overclocking, but if you cant afford it, the xeon would be my way to go

In both cases, Corsair and EVGA are repacking units made by other manufacturers.  In the case of the CS, which is kind of a midrange unit, there was a batch that went out circa Spring 2014 where they either just flat out died or had fan problems.  Corsair replaced them all and I believe the vast majority of the supplies failed in such a way they did not take other components with them.  So it seems for at least that batch, Corsair made a bad choice on whose units they repackaged.  
 
EVGA on the other hand has an excellent reputation for customer service and quality control.  Corsair is great if you stick to their high end products (I have a HXi power supply which is excellent), but they have annoying quality blips in their mid range products.  Another example was Corsair typically makes a very solid all in one water cooler, but one batch they tried to get away with sourcing a slightly cheaper pump and tubing (H100) and they had some issues.  They promptly switched back (H100i), but I tend to wait till someone else has gotten their hand on the thing, torn it down, and reviewed it before I jump on their stuff.  
 
It's not wrong to get a CS, but for your price point (if your PSU fails in a manner that fries your system you lose more money). and the fact I assume you'll have this rig doing long running jobs, stepping up in power supply is probably worth it.  Also if you have room in your budget when all is said and done, I might recommend you get a UPS (such as a sine wave CyberPower) if you are considering long running tasks.  Nothing sucks like a multi hour job failing because of a five second power flicker.  

@TheChris
 
For a purely gaming/recreational build honestly an i5 would sufficient and you might consider the i7 purely because strategy games tend to like threads.  I personally went with a X99 motherboard because of the render work I do and the fact the professional usage justified the expense.  The sooner tasks complete, the sooner I game.  I think that in terms of future usage the X99 option makes the most sense for anyone looking at a workstation that also can game right now.  You have the most headroom in terms of growing your processor if you need it (The 8 core 5960X and a number of Xeon options) out there, plenty of PCIe lanes, etc.  Professionally speaking there is no replacement for displacement. With my 5960X I can have a pair of Linux VMs up and doing stuff, a render job running on the host OS, and still have processing power to fart around on the web, watch videos, etc.  
 
A slightly weaker graphics card now will still deliver over 60 FPS in most circumstances and do just fine for at least a year, likely longer.  You can look at the high bandwidth memory next cards that should appearing near the end of 2016 and then decide when to upgrade the GPU. 

Don't get an R9 390. Get a GTX 970 instead since MATLAB supports CUDA.

@TheChris
 
For a purely gaming/recreational build honestly an i5 would sufficient and you might consider the i7 purely because strategy games tend to like threads.  I personally went with a X99 motherboard because of the render work I do and the fact the professional usage justified the expense.  The sooner tasks complete, the sooner I game.  I think that in terms of future usage the X99 option makes the most sense for anyone looking at a workstation that also can game right now.  You have the most headroom in terms of growing your processor if you need it (The 8 core 5960X and a number of Xeon options) out there, plenty of PCIe lanes, etc.  Professionally speaking there is no replacement for displacement. With my 5960X I can have a pair of Linux VMs up and doing stuff, a render job running on the host OS, and still have processing power to fart around on the web, watch videos, etc.  
 
A slightly weaker graphics card now will still deliver over 60 FPS in most circumstances and do just fine for at least a year, likely longer.  You can look at the high bandwidth memory next cards that should appearing near the end of 2016 and then decide when to upgrade the GPU. 

An i3 or used i5/i7 would be ideal.  About the time the i3 starts to become unusable due to games wanting more cores, the older gen i5s and i7s will be quite affordable and you'll be able to buy one, install it on your current mobo, and use it for some time.  With the AMD, the processor's poor IPC means the thing already has one foot in the grave and you have zero upgrade path that doesn't involve a new motherboard.  
 
Unless you already have a AMD board or are getting a really excellent deal on a board and CPU, there is no reason to consider AMD's current offerings.  Their top of the line is beat by lesser Intel processors and they have no upgrade path.  

Entirely incorrect.  Benchmark for up to six cores:

Source
 
See also this video, jump to 3:10 for TW.
 
Plus of course pretty much every professional program the OP mentioned can make use of more than four cores with HT.

Even at 1280x1024 I think Ultra is off the table for games like TW3.Realistically you will need to tweak settings in the medium range. Hairworks is a no-no if you want playable framerates.
It's not a bad card, it just happens to be a budget one.
^Got ninja'd

...at the hefty cost of absolutely no upgrade path vs. a socket 1150 motherboard that can support a 4.4ghz i7-4790K out of the box.

Purely as food for thought, and note my list doesn't include your case since I couldn't find, I generated this X99 build.  It would have you at about 100 over your budget, although with 16 GB RAM.  So you could trim RAM to bring the price down slightly.     You'd also have a 6 core/12 thread process vs a 4 core/8 thread processor.  If 1,200 is a very hard cap I might recommend this build with 8 GB RAM and a 4 GB 290.  Attila Total War loves itself some CPU cores and it's the one game that half the cores on my 5960X don't step outside for a smoke break when I play it.  That's the other beauty of this build, you can move to a 5960X in the future.     PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant   CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($379.95 @ SuperBiiz)  CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($24.89 @ OutletPC)  Motherboard: Asus X99-A ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($239.99 @ B&H)  Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($103.99 @ SuperBiiz)  Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($88.89 @ OutletPC)  Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.89 @ OutletPC)  Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 390 8GB Video Card  ($314.98 @ Newegg)  Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($64.99 @ NCIX US)  Total: $1267.57 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-02 11:13 EDT-0400   Edit, an alternative build that would get the job done under your budget including the case.  I'm partial to the higher RAM and cores given your projected workload.  I did this build with a new 380, which would keep you above 60 FPS in Attila, but you could get even better performance with an open box 4 GB R9 290 that should cost about the same or perhaps slightly more if you are open to buying open box/used off NewEgg.        
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant   CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($379.95 @ SuperBiiz)  CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($24.89 @ OutletPC)  Motherboard: EVGA Micro 2 Micro ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($212.98 @ Newegg)  Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($99.99 @ Newegg)  Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($88.89 @ OutletPC)  Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.89 @ OutletPC)  Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 380 4GB Nitro Video Card  ($198.98 @ Newegg)  Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($64.99 @ NCIX US)  Total: $1120.56 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-02 11:24 EDT-0400