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'When the construct laughed, it came through as something else, not laughter, but a stab of cold down Case's spine. `Do me a favor, boy.'
`What's that, Dix?'
`This scam of yours, when it's over, you erase this goddam thing.'
"a controversial topic"

My observation: The "discussion" never seems to focus on systemd. Instead it usually turns to comments on the former sysvinit system or other init systems.

That avoidance is perhaps something to ponder. And maybe it's why this author felt the urge to put some focus on systemd itself.

Love the quote from djb. In sum, the best interface is no interface. Parsing amounts to high margin for error and often an incredible nuisance.

In another thread today I wrote about the command line interface and "expecting a reponse". Truthfully, djb's utilities that simply return an exit value and no output are the best ones I have ever used.

(It seems djb himself is a systemd user. Not sure what if anything that means.)

Imagine if the information dissiminated via www was as easy to "parse" as text0. Writing a simple "web browser" might be easy enough that programmers would not need to be paid to do it.
"It's that they find a safe haven in those social groups where they are not bullied and are inclusive." Is this last live referring to the "nerds" or women/girls? Because "nerds" deal with they same issues.
The title isn't editorialized, by the way. It is what shows up on the NYTimes front page. But I couldn't find it on the article itself.
Why must our obsessive hand-wringing be be reserved exclusively for computer science and engineering, which are mostly hidden and do not set the wider cultural narrative

Because now there's money in it. No-one cared about this when the IT department was at the bottom of the corporate pecking order. No-one cares that refuse collection is almost exclusively male, but that's a job of real social importance...
Being a software engineer I've been involved in this discussion for several years now. And I don't think it ever clicked with me so much as with this comment. Guys do find groups that are supportive, be it something like an MMO community, card game community, robotics clubs etc. While girls also exist in these domains they are pretty consistently outsiders. At older ages they will receive a ton of attention, much of which I would describe as predatory, and it is constantly brought up that they are attention-seeking if they actually embrace the space (stream on Twitch or what have you). I believe at younger ages they are just simply viewed as odd-balls who are tolerated rather then truly accepted.

Previously when viewing a thread like this I would take a perspective of "It's not discrimination, they just don't want to do it". Now I want to think about it some more in the context of what I just said.

As a corollary however, is it really a good thing to push a gender towards a particular field? Anecdotally in the case of SE there seems to be a huge amount of anxiety, depression, and various social issues, that comes with the work load. I often wonder if my life would be better had I never taken to computers. Interesting food for thought, do any of us really know what's "best for us" on a societal level?
In my opinion the article gives a valid point, could you please elaborate on why you think it is wrong?
Does the fact that you can't get rid of your student loans via bankruptcy mean that students should get the lowest rate possible? Since the creditors will get paid? It seems ridiculous that not only can you not get rid of the loands through bankruptcy, but also that you're not charged lowest-interest-rate deals for them.
A static site still designates a site with no server-side processing, just serving of (static) content. As for it being plain HTML, no, it can be full of JS, videos, whatever, it's still static.

I do remember a time when the expression "dynamic HTML" was popular to designate HTML+JS. Therefore, "static" may have been used in contrast to "dynamic" to designate plain HTML pages indeed. This is not the case now.
I can imagine one asking the same question with regard to the value of custom chips in phones, just prior to the appearance of the M7 through M9.
Sadly, I don't think most economists would agree with you.

I also would agree with you that social pressure would apply more if there were better established etiquette. Many EV drivers honestly think that charging spaces are "EV parking spaces" not "EV charging spaces". This doesn't make much sense, except that we have given such a huge goodie bag to EV drivers already (free charging, tax rebates, access to HOV lanes) that many of them just assume this is another benefit tossed to them by society. And, four years ago, when EV's were so rare that the local Leaf club drove in the Christmas parade as a novelty, it probably didn't matter much if you parked in the charging spot ...

But, to take an example from your daily life -- if your car is legally parked on the street in a non-timed space, do you feel obligated to go out and move it every so often so someone else can take a turn? If not, why not?

Finally, if EV parking spaces are 1% of the available spaces in a given lot, it only takes 1% "sociopaths" (or, alternately, normal people who don't understand the rules or who are "just popping into the store for a second" or who are late for their morning meeting) to park them in and make them useless ...
I grew up in Davis, CA, right dab in the middle of the Central Valley in CA. From a purely visual standpoint, billboard ads along those freeways were far more ugly to me. The ugliness of billboard advertising in cities can at least be mitigated by the visual "white noise" around it, whereas billboards in farmland stick out like a sore thumb.
I am a programmer and I cant't stand star wars or the vast majority of science fiction

Do you expect your colleagues not to mention or discuss these things in your presence?
> academic excellence as a good thing.

That's not all that is required. By the time you get to where "real" academic excellence matters (college) you have already made a choice based on what you have been exposed to. I'm talking about exposing children to as many professions as possible with no pressure from their childhood peers to fit into the more archaic gender role.

However, that is a brilliant way to curb the really damaging bullying.
What direction is OS X taking that makes it unpalatable?
I believe that girls and boys naturally (either through differences in neural architecture, hormone exposure, or early acculturation) simply have different average preferences, and that these preferences manifest over their lifetimes as differences in life stories and career choices.

I don't think this difference is a problem we need to solve. Diversity is supposed to make our culture richer, right? If so, why are some people trying so hard to make us all the same?

Of course we shouldn't artificial barriers to non-gender-normative career choices --- but gender disparity in a particular field is not itself evidence that these barriers exist. We've already done quite a bit to draw women into technical professions. Whatever disparity remains is on them.
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The beliefs I have would not be immitateable by such methods, even if brain uploading is achieved.

It could not properly deal with the problem of my moral imperfection.

Also, a computer would have only finitely many states, so it would only delay death, not prevent it, as having the same exact mental state an infinite number of times would, I think, be indistinguishable from having it only once.
> It has nothing to do with them being so strong and manly that they can stand up to the bullies and pursue computer science anyway!

The way bullying works with boys and girls is very different. A boys greatest wish when bullied is to be left alone by the bullies. A girls greatest wish is to avoid being excluded. In general anyway.

As long as I have enough good friends, I don't really care what anyone else thinks of me. My wife on the other hand would be incredibly distressed to find out 80% of her colleagues etc disliked her.
A "prop" as in a piece of scenery used in a play or movie. In this case nerdy posters are used as props to give a certain vibe.
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Interesting read, thanks for the write up.

Only time will tell how this plays out.
> had upgraded to El Capitan. That day I had 50gb of traffic on my network. Typically 2.5-5 or less.

After upgrading an iMac to OSX El Capitan the Photos.app decided to upload all photos on the iMac to iCloud. I consider it to be a bug since all photos on the mac originally came via iCloud from my iPhone. Seems unnecessary for Photos.app to upload every single file again, but it did.

Network bandwidth was saturated (high packet loss, almost useless) for a few days until Photos.app was done uploading.
Of course it's not replicable. There's simply too many external factors that can mess up any well meaning experiment.
That's how I feel when I surf the web without ad blocking now.
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The subway trains used to be covered in graffiti. This changed in the mid 80s.

I suspect the ridership would prefer them blank.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_in_New_York_City#Cl...
But how many letters for vowels does it have? German has A, Ä, E, I, O, Ö, U, Ü, Y. I think english has mainly diphthongs.
I'll confirm this anecdotally. My sister was extremely good at math and science... until the end of middle school, when she started hanging out in earnest with her friends. Her friends thought that any intellectual interest was nerdy and stupid, and my sister acted accordingly. Now, the girl who was easily learning algebra in elementary school "just can't do math."

I think that the big difference in STEM is that nerdy boys exist in such a number that they can still get acceptance and support. It's not as normal as, say, being a football player, but male nerds aren't exactly rare.

In contrast, because there are much fewer female nerds, their awkwardness is even more exaggerated, and this feeds back on itself to heighten the pressure to conform. Boys find some support in numbers, and their interest in the subjects smooths over any discomfort. Girls don't have any of that support, so if they aren't absolute fanatics about the subjects, they're going to conform.
Let's suppose that most HN readers are men. There's no obvious gender signaling in your username. (It's two letters long, after all.) What's wrong with someone using the male pronoun as a default until being corrected? Do you expect commentators to read a user's profile before choosing a pronoun for that user? That would be a big efficiency loss for no real benefit. It's unfortunate that this default bothers you, but it's not the responsibility of anyone to prevent offense-taking on the part of another.
IMO the reverse vesting is unjustified. You typically see it after raising a round, as a way for investors to protect against founders immediately leaving a newly funded company with shares that have "real" value now. Bringing on your CEO isn't that kind of event; the reverse vesting only protects the new CEO, and he's not putting in a real investment up front (an investor is putting in $X dollars today; your new CEO is building equity over time like you guys).

You and your technical cofounder should be compensated in equity for the two years' work you put in. If you get pushed out of the company before your cliff, you will have nothing to show for your efforts. I'd really fight for two years' vested stock up front.
Actually I've heard many people say (and I agree at least partially) that the "Spiegel" is quite "left" in the political spectrum. One example would be "Im Zweifel links" by Augstein and Fleischhauer.
I don't understand. I'm sure there are tradeoffs (as with all things) but what do the bikes have to do with it? Was the Véli program funded by billboards?
My high school had an abhorrently bad AP CS program. The teacher was a hobbyist who had no business teaching the subject and in fact turned off the majority of the students to CS, especially the girls. I fear anytime we make something mandatory in American education it will only exasperate the terrible education system that we have and ultimately do more harm then good.
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See a professional, and if they recommend medication, try it for at least a few days and see if your view of the situation changes.

Story: I knew a lady in her 40s who started experiencing some psychosis. She started thinking that people were spying on her and reporting her activities on radio and TV, that huge gatherings were being held in football stadiums to watch videos of her which had been secretly filmed, that songs on the radio (in languages she didn't know) were talking about her, etc.

She thought that all her friends knew about this but didn't mention anything so as not to alarm her. After a couple months went by, and still none of her friends mentioned anything, she thought it was strange and decided to have herself checked instead.

After taking the recommended medication, within a day or so, the strange music she used to hear in the distance disappeared, all the people on the radio and TV stopped talking about her, etc.

Moral: Don't get stuck on the stigma of the "crazy" label. Just like anyone can get sick physically, people who are otherwise normal can start having mental problems. That doesn't mean you're "crazy". It does mean that you should have yourself checked by someone who is knowledgeable about such ailments.
Well I'm not advocating for large installs in a single location, just lots and lots of small installs everywhere, which is far better for everyone. 20 in one spot would be far too many.
This makes sense, helping me get over the syntax of 'static' vs 'dynamic' in my mind thanks!
“The Home Information Terminal – A 1970 View” by John McCarthy [pdf]
My city doesn't allow billboards in town. Billboards on the highways are also banned in my half of the county. I really appreciate it. Less visually assaulting and you can appreciate the natural and built beauty better.
if you write html files individually, you'll have to update the navigation of each file when you add a new page

I remember this being a MASSIVE pain. Managing that is a huge benefit. Thanks for the explanation!
Paper written by John Mccarthy that shows the projected future in the 70's of users remotely logging into large computers to use the Internet and applications.

It's in the small handful of papers in this genre that make you laugh because of how true the predictions turned out to be rather than how far off the mark.

From the abstract:

"This article was published in Man and Computer. Proc. int. Conf., Bordeaux 1970, pp. 48-57 (Karger, Basel 1972). It is interesting to compare its 1970 proposals with the current situation, 30 years later. I have decorated it with footnotes commenting on the 1970 situation and making comparisons. Some of the improvements advocated in the paper are still yet to come. I claim quite a few prophet points for it."

Some notable mentions in this paper:

+ Worries about ways that the Internet as we know it might not have happened. (eg. Getting stuck in the compuserve trap.)

+ Paid for publishing model that we still don't have because micropayments are broken.

+ Self publishing for authors in the vein that Amazon now allows

+ The possibility of the system allowing for Orwellian editing because of centralization.

+ 3D printing/computer controlled manufacturing as a service.

+ In-depth discussion of the realities of resource usage and costs of computer hardware at the time of writing. (Eye opening if nothing else as to how indebted we are to Moore's law.)
Sewing kits, to me, sound kinda boring. Why not Lego for everyone? Lego is great! It stimulates creativity and you can do whatever you want with it. If you want to play with cars you can make em out of Lego. If you want to roleplay, you can make buildings and use the Lego minifigures! Doesn't that give you the best of both worlds? Heck, even if you're not interested in building your own stuff from scratch, a lot of sets are tons of fun, and all they require you to do is follow instructions.
When you say 'minified' in regards to code, what does that mean exactly? More concise code that simply does the same thing as larger chunks of markup?
What a strange expectation we have here. I have a couple lawyer friends; none of them have lawyer magazine, or wear lawyer t-shirts.
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I block all ads on my devices, don't watch tv live, etc but I do like outdoor advertising. It's different. All the loathing here is a little surprising.

From guerilla stickers on the bus and posters on construction site fences to entire buildings wrapped, complete with props (like a car hanging from the side) it makes cities look alive. LED signs, especially the larger ones capable of showing graphics, and (my personal favourite) proper, old-school neons make cities look like cities. Billboards cover unfinished structures or designs from architects who should have never been licensed.

Maybe it's all the crappy communist architecture here but even places that evolved more naturally generally gain. Sure, there are some old towns, picturesque villages and so on but that is nowhere near the majority of the space inhabited by people.
So you don't use prescription drugs of any kind or ever visit a doctor? Since it would be hypocritical of you to waste those resources on yourself.
It doesn't hurt my feelings. It does, however, make it harder for most women to participate here. The correct way to handle it is to either find out my gender or speak as if you do not know what it is instead of assuming I am male. If you do not know my gender, it takes very little effort to speak in a way that admits you do not know it:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2015/04/what-fool-be...
Just wait until you try a high PPI screen on Windows. You say Linux is a dead dream for you, well high PPI screen on Windows is a dead dream to me. I don't use Metro/Modern UI software, and it seems most software has been stuck at Windows 7 API level for obvious reasons. The result? Ugly ugly ugly. And it will not change any time soon due to 99.9% of Windows (be it XP, 7, 8 or 10) running on cheap hardware with even cheaper TN panels. Even on Microsoft's new hardware, the jarring difference is horrendously apparent even after a quick use. And at this point, if you limit yourself to only the software that is properly PPI aware, you will be much more productive on OS X.
> "if you disagree, I'd obviously love feedback."

You've clearly made your mind up that pursuing nuclear fusion is a waste of money, there's no point in debating if you're not prepared to consider that the research could pay off.
Because two wrongs don't make a right.
There's a lot of faffing about and bike-shedding that occurs in the other 70% of the time, but very little work gets done.
To a certain extent , the story of "important and unique manufacturing processes" is a story every luxury brand tells his customers ,and it's an important marketing tool.

As for most iPhone users, who mostly use the iPhone for social media and casual games, i'm not sure it's hardware differentiation is that critical. Maybe it was before, but it's not today(since android has matured). It's certainly not in the top 5 biggest competitive advantages the iPhone has,while more mundane things have much more importance like: control of iMessage, strong status symbol, people being used to the platform ,etc
Don't really want to edit in Emacs either.
I assumed people would infer my gender from the wording of my post.
That’s an awful big wall-of-text just to say, “Well, out of seven billion people on the planet, their maximum market share is only 6,999,999,999 customers, because I want something else.”

This becomes interesting, of course, if you can explain that you are an example of a larger market segment, and if you can share with us whether that particular segment is likely to grow or shrink over time.
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I would reckon that this is because default is not the same as bankruptcy: it is entirely possible for someone to be late or stop making payments altogether and not go through the formal process of bankruptcy. I would further guess that buyers are primarily concerned with stability of these cash flows, with prices being determined upon that basis.

There are probably many people making their living attempting to estimate the relative likelihoods of student loan defaults, distilling this paper into tranches and repackaging them into bundles to be resold to investors.
Speaking as a nerd who grew up in the early 1990s: persecuted nerds do not have the right to (in any way) cordon off computer science as a refuge for their culture. But a lot of male nerds think they do!
I think the parent was complaining that things which definitely have nothing to do with STEM fields (sci-fi and star wars) were interspersed with things that are germanely related (computer parts and tech magazines).

You wouldn't fault an anatomy course for having skeletons in the room or a Physics classroom for having copies of Science laying around, so the parent argues that it's also weird to tell technology educators not to display computer hardware (for instance).

FWIW I ultimately agree with you. Computer hardware and pop sci/tech trade rags have nothing at all to do with most of the Computer Science field.
It is forgotten that futurists around 1970 assumed that something like the WWW was going to come in the early 1980s; for instance there was a lot of excitement about two-way communication over CATV system that would not be commercialized until the mid 90's. The real story is "why was it so slow?" rather than the "it happened so fast" that people who lived through it perceived.
@Deng,

My point is Women are every bit as talented, smart, and tenacious as men. The focus on women is good in that there are women that just need to go for it - reference to the article however broad my initial response was.
I'm willing to consider that Alzheimer's Disease may be affected by diet, but this article seems awfully slim on real data and in one instance seems to diverge from actual experimental results.

They claim that Type-2 diabetes and AD are "exacerbated by high fat diets", but the link with regards to the diabetes study specifies diet-induced obesity, not "high fat" diet. Dietary fat has much less effect on blood glucose levels than carbohydrates, so insulin's role is markedly decreased.
Time and efficiency is the main point. Take a blog: if you write it entirely by hand and add an article, you now have to:

* include it in the main page

* update the RSS feed

* include it in all the category/tag listings

* if you have prev/next article links, you have to add it to the last article

* included images need to be prepared for web

* if you show a code example, you might want to syntax-highlight it

If you want to change the design, you have to touch all pages (or do search/replace and hope that it doesn't mess anything up)

...

Or you could have a program that you feed text + raw images for your articles and that automatically generates all the necessary files/changes old ones accordingly, based on this input and templates.

The result then can be served by web server that doesn't speak any server-side language.
> As long as I have enough good friends, I don't really care what anyone else thinks of me.

That's the definition of desiring inclusion.

If all of those friends that accepted you were marketing majors and not computer scientists the odds you'd pursue computer science goes way down. Particularly if the computer scientists were the bullies.

The point of the article is the computer (and in her case physics/science) culture was hostile to women, not inclusive.
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