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seems hardly worth the trouble. don't flatter yourself your brain needs to stay around - highly unlikely and very un-ecological to power up a machine to maintain a presence of virtualitzed shit for brains. -Just saying. Next Question?
99% of billboards are commercial in nature, and are quite expensive even before heavy taxation.

Non-commercial speech is much better served by a human standing by the side of the road holding a placard.
I based my comments on the following observations:

-It's well known that Americans are over medicated.

-It's highly plausible that the Adderall is the cause of the psychosis.

-Physicians in the US are paid a sales bonus for prescribing medication to their patients.

It's really sad that things have progressed to this stage but taking amphetamines every day is not a good idea no matter what way you want to paint it.
Upon hearing de Blasio's announcement, my initial reaction was mandatory programming classes for high school is as unnecessary as mandatory calculus.

After reading the article, I'd update that opinion. I still don't feel it should be mandatory for a basic High School degree, but perhaps forming a track for college bound students that includes programming (and calculus, AP english, etc.) and requiring that track to graduate with honors would be a good positive incentive.

Programming & algorithms is a pretty advanced academic topic. Requiring it for graduation would set up a lot of students to fail or become disillusioned with what education has to offer them. Much like if Calculus were required.
About two years ago the Avaneya project released software that can decode the Viking Lander tapes. A few tapes contain images that were (as far as I know) never released.

Beautiful results: https://gist.github.com/jakeogh/fa995a3277d500ab59b1

There's even a very nice DVD which takes the included raw tape data and processes it: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Avaneya:_Viking_Lander_Remast...
Its a prop for being low social status. If they wanted masculinity instead of low social status, they would have used football posters and GQ magazine for props in their thought experiment.

I'm not quite sure what a prop would be for low social status women.
True story: DEC was so vertically integrated that it owned a turkey farm, because that was the most cost-effective way to give every employee a turkey for Thanksgiving.
I think the google example is interesting because if you watch people use google they formulate their questions as if they are asking a human and not a search engine or a command line. They don't search for keywords, they don't use the + and - operators, they don't enquote snippets of text that should match exactly, no they ask a question, starting with how/what/who/when/where and sometimes even add a question mark at the end!

If i were to find out who is starring in a movie for example i would search for the movie title, click on imdb and browse through the actor-list. If a non techie would do the same thing the query would be something like "who was the lead actor in X?".

Now translate this into replying to a comment in a bug tracker, google has thousands of engineers just working on interpreting "stupid" queries, there is no way this type of AI can scale and work against some arbitrary API to a bug tracker maintained by 5 people.

Discoverability of available commands is also still an issue, not even solved by google. In their case people only know about one command because there is only one: search. If you were to add commands such as "create task", "reply", "send email", "tweet", how would that even work, is it first interpreted as a search query about how to send emails and then it suggests opening your email client? While it's a nice way to start your email client, and exactly how windows start menu works, it doesn't help any further in the workflow of translating GUI-tasks into command line tasks because it only takes you past the first step.
After reading what you just wrote here, I am now much more convinced you are experiencing a Schizophrenic episode. Please please seek treatment immediately.
The article that lies herein, was, in a manner of speaking (but not literally speaking - 'in a manner of speaking' is just a phrase), so overly verbose in many places that it drowns the reader in verbal diarrhea as thick as pea soup. That is to say, I, as a reader, felt that the author (of this article) could have made these points in a more reachable, succinct fashion.
The article on Der Spiegel is an opinion piece (Kommentar) and not thought to be neutral coverage.
So I haven't done web development since the early 2000's when I transitioned into becoming a technical PM and recruiter full time, nothing more than tweaking something in my blog theme (changing a font or a link color). Therefore, I am way behind the times.

Here's my genuine question: it seems like the term 'static site' means something different from my understanding of it in the 00's-a plain HTML page with no server side processing (PHP, ASP, Coldfusion, etc). Is this correct? What exactly are these static sites and why does one need to be "generated" versus crafting your own markup? Time and efficiency or is there more under the hood than I understand?

Thanks!
Url changed from http://www.businessinsider.co.id/federal-reserve-paper-on-th..., which points to this.
I was gonna be sarcastic, but I'll just say it out: this (4) thing, the image of the supposedly do-gooder who is dettered by people subscribing to CIE, is not realistic at all.

If people's thought process was as you portray it, people wouldn't get involved at all or very few would. But the fact that we have so many businesses merely paying these people as LESS as they can (2), proves that the concern of (4) is doesn't exist, or, at least, doesn't deter them.

They do go into business in those areas and they do pay as little as they can get away with -- people's criticism and "hate in the media" be damned.

Besides, if the people portrayed in (4) REALLY wanted to "help them by doing as much as they could afford", then they would be (1).
> Boy nerds get beaten up, girl nerds get ostracised.

The key is to make it a priority to move to an area where all the families promote a culture that views academic excellence as a good thing.

I know this isn't available to everyone due to financial limitations. But it's probably available to more than realize it.
> Boy nerds get beaten up, girl nerds get ostracised.

Exactly: both boys and girls get strong negative feedback for being nerdy. Yet, somehow more boys are sufficiently interested that they find their interest more important than the negative feedback.
For me, the value I get from StackExchange is that potential employers see me as more valuable. GitHub stars and open source commits are all forms of social currency and in my opinion, are worth way more than inflated USDs.
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> A new version of the ARRL Handbook is published every year. It's a staple book to have on your shelf if you do any radio electronics work.

Yea, there's often lots of great projects in there. I still have a mid-90s book kicking around and have been meaning to build that 5 GHz 10 mbit/s wireless link. Some day...

> I never did HAM radio

Just a note – "ham" isn't an acronym and so shouldn't be in all caps, like one wouldn't write "AMATEUR radio". "Ham" in this instance is derived from "ham-fisted" operators[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_ham_radio
Android's market share mostly comes from phones much cheaper than the iPhone. Galaxy S-whatever is stealing market share from the iPhone; $100 Huaweis largely aren't, because people who buy them could never have afforded iPhones.
Having been on the receiving end of both from my childhood peers; a punch doesn't hurt the next day.
> What really keeps women out of Tech?

It is because they don't want to be there. The opportunity is there for everyone to take thus men and women. I actually think women have an advantage in this space and it is up to them to see it and advantage of it.

As a woman, I am tired this. If you want it, go and get it. There shouldn't be any special treatment. Prove you deserve to be at the table, prove you deserve to be there based merits etc.. Not because of gender, race etc.

People are going to wonder why this conclusion? Because when people see you as a women trying to achieve something, a lot are willing to help and push you. Don't moan about it, go ahead and just get into Tech if you want it that bad.
> It's also weird to see Australia called an apartheid regime. For all the terrible things done to the indigenous here, things weren't arranged as in South Africa.

Tell me again how denying Aboriginal Australians the right to be considered citizens - still the case in 68 - is "better than South Africa". Black South Africans may have been treated like shit, but at least the whites didn't pretend they weren't even humans.
This was a very well written and balanced article. I want to contribute a reason why I think that many men in tech hold back from fully endorsing this viewpoint.

The reason is that there is a very fine line between saying that you don't have to be nerdy to be in tech, and failing to acknowledge that in general being nerdy is a disadvantage in society, and many people found a refuge in tech where they were mocked and often bullied outside[0]. To fail to acknowledge this is to risk promoting the same negative attitudes towards nerds within tech, as exist outside it.

So I would say that we should all encourage tech to be as open an welcoming as possible, and to avoid any implication that you have to have a certain personality, appearance or interests to succeed in tech. But we shouldn't dismiss the traits of people who currently are overrepresented in tech as a "stereotype", much less a "negative stereotype". I also don't think this is what the author was suggesting. As the article says, "stereotypes are only partly true, and women who actually take classes in computer science don’t hold the same prejudices as women who get their ideas from pop culture."

[0] E.g. see http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/08/programmin...
As soon as I learned to start every interaction in the CLI with the word 'help' I became many orders of magnitude more proficient with it.

Good CLI programs have a relatively straightforward path from 'help' to where you need to go. Contrast this with GUI's, which is what people are familiar with:

- The help is basically the instructions manual for your new gadget that you won't read, too detailed, not helpful and you'd rather just play with the thing and learn how it works.

- That's also how people solve problems, by playing around with the available options in the interface or if you are a 'superuser' by googling.

So basically people have been trained not to ask the program for help, they'd rather go on the internet or ask their tech friend for help. Which means they are predisposed to not 'get' CLI programs.

There's also the fact that man pages are way to threatening (and ancient). They should be structured like a wiki (with links between each other and to definitions as well as a conversation layer for improvement etc.).

Telegram bots are CLI programs that follow the unix philosophy (in a sense) and are a step in the right direction when it comes to starting an organic conversation with the user. However they are also very small programs and there is still a lot of improvements to be made.

So no terminal commands don't need to be taught in school and GUI's aren't the ultimate solution. If we were to pour the same amount of effort into improving CLI interfaces as we have with GUI's computers would become much easier to use. However that doesn't mean that CLI's are the ultimate solution either.

Hopefully people will one day realize that personifying tools is actively harmful and that everything is context dependent.

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> No, I'm arguing that correcting people when they're not wrong has no place

Except you just argued that pronouncing Kyoto and Tokyo with an "ee" sound is okay and I just pointed out the real world consequences of not correcting their pronunciation, namely that native speakers won't be able to understand you. You'll probably argue English speakers don't need to interact with Japanese speakers. I'd argue if we just corrected the English speakers pronunciation everybody wins.
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I guess sending no-one was deemed better than sending slower runners.
I agree with this. If weed becomes legal it should be restricted like alcohol.
I don't see how this is bait and switch. I am a programmer and I cant't stand star wars or the vast majority of science fiction. Neither do I enjoy running around with geeky tshirts. You do not have to be nerdy to enjoy working with computers.
Sounds like the BRO (Border Roads Organisation) signs you can see in the Indian Himalayas. These are some of the scariest (and most dangerous) roads in the world, so it's a special sort of relief whenever you come across their subtle life-saving jokes:

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=bro+signs
>Its a prop for being low social status.

Its a prop for having a functioning brain. Other than the star wars and science fiction stuff (which I haven't seen at any tech companies I've worked at here in the bay), the rest of the props indicate that you have a genuine intellectual interest in the field.

We don't make fun of NASA for decorating their offices with space paraphernalia or claim it means a low social status. Frankly I'm not interested in people coming into this field who are stupid enough to think that people genuinely excited about what they do have a "low social status".
In the city I live they just have a maximum sign size. I forget how big it is, but billboards are definitely not allowed.
> Yet, somehow more boys are sufficiently interested that they find their interest more important than the negative feedback.

In these scenarios, boys find groups that are supportive. In their case the video game playing, computer oriented, math/physics/etc. "nerds" are one such social group.

The entire point of the article is that those same groups are not supportive for women and girls.

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! It's that they find a safe haven in those social groups where they are not bullied and are inclusive.
Are you saying that boy nerds don't also get ostracized?
It's even not only an opinion piece but explicitly labelled as "polemic" and has a reply linked at the end.
That's the right attitude. Of course, once their companies grows to a certain size they will be forced by law to diversify their workforce and then they are back in the same situation.

Not the case? Then this problem isn't as endemic as it's being portrayed.
Do you mean "prop" as in holds something up or "prop" as in, a thing from a scene in a movie? Because I am having some difficulty in parsing your comment.
Probably trashy women's gossip magazines, lots of pink etc. That would do it for me.
Leaf blowers next, please.
I bet people would volunteer to do it. :)

My guess is that he more means that they have become entrenched in everyday life and that somehow that will make them harder to get rid of. It's always been this way ...
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> Just imagine - instead of searching through a dozen menus for an option you just ask.

A lesser example: half the time I want to use a menu-item in OSX now, I find it by going to the Help menu and typing something in the fuzzy-match box. I'm not sure why this hasn't been made the primary OSX menu interface.
>It has nothing to do with them being so strong and manly

Where did you read that? I wrote sufficiently interested. And no, not because there's a "safe group", but because they lose themselves in the technology and f*ck the groups.
How well correlated are those things with CS or Engineering studies? Star Wars and science fiction won't help you write software. Building a computer from scratch won't really either, these days. (And magazines are a weird one because they're very much a relic of the past, and not as much of a realistic way to pick this stuff up for the past 15 years.)

Tech posters also seem entirely like a high-school/college-age cultural thing rather than a sign of real interest. Most of my (almost entirely male) software engineer coworkers have as their desktop pictures nature scenes, cityscapes, or picture of people, very few have sci-fi/fantasy/anime/whatever screenshots or art.

If you go to more directly-related things like "reading and commenting on HN on a Sunday" where someone is likely to very well be learning things that apply to their job, it would be interesting to see how much of a turnoff that seemed to be compared to the above-listed tangential culture markers. Though even then, while I'm sure business owners love having employees who will willingly do uncompensated work-related study on the weekend, I'm doubtful that it's a thing we should be striving towards.
If we ever do get to the point of even attempting this, it won't be because the source brain is in any way special. They'll just be medical volunteers, and their best hope is complete failure, because any success will (I think) result in complete insanity.
There's a few traffic related mods (traffic++ or something like that) that open up lots of new possibilities (but requires a beefy computer). A few updates also introduced new features with some versatility. And a new extension pack added tourism and some other stuff.

It's probably worth giving a new shot, I guess.
I have to admit, I'm kind of sick and tires of this fanatic mania of an obsession with fantasy stories. It's like some retarded fixation. It's so obsessive and annoying when someone makes a trite star wars reference and everyone laughs or feels compelled to laugh
Exactly the opposite of what I am saying. I wasn't considering the gender of the victim in that comment - rather the relative effectiveness of the victimization tools typically used by genders at that age. I was calling myself out as a non-typical case which received both (as a boy) only to point out exactly how one can just walk away from a punch in the face.
> Any discussion about city builders without discussing Cities:Skylines is crucially out-of-date

Cities:Skylines is discussed in the article though. There's a few paragraphs on it right at the end of the piece.
I always thought that instituting a similar policy as was done at Five Points in Long Island City in Queens in New York City (a curator who allowed talentedt artists to contiually refresh the walls of an abandoned warehouse with beautiful pieces of art and graffiti) would be awesome for the subways here in NYC.

They're just silver boxes with a tiny US flag as it stands now. They're pretty clean which is nice, they feature advertising although unless a company like Pepsi or Google buys the entire train's advertising and remakes their outsides as well it's generally not particularly intrusive (and to be fair, I found the Fanta train kind of neat).

I'd like to see more art in general although in neighborhoods like Bushwick there is generally a fair amount, and if you keep your eyes peeled there's still quite a fair amount of illicit street art as well. I'm all for it and think there should be a concerted effort to provide and encourage those who'd like to try with places to practice and eventually when they're very good rotating spots around the city.

In a city of 8.5 million in the five boroughs alone how could we not make use of our artists more effectively?
good to see amazon embracing this line of thinking.
Furthermore, if someone puts up a movie poster because they've finally found a "safe space" then who is the author of the article to take that away from them?
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I suspect that that's a minority of the miles driven, well behind shipped goods. And that benefits the city dwellers too
Anti-speeding PSA billboards are actually a thing on motorways in most(?) of Europe. Not so much in cities but most people speeding in cities are either driving at much lower speeds or criminally negligent (e.g. illegal street racing) in the first place.
I do often see PSA's from, say, the Ad Council, on billboards. I don't really think these should go away, even perhaps if it means living with the obnoxiousness of commercial billboards.
Does it work with a database of word triples to locations, or is it a list of words, and an algo to convert between word triples and locations?

I would think the latter would be much smaller to keep on one's phone.

the surface area of the earth divided by 9 square meters is around 57 trillion (source: wolfram|alpha ) , so for word triples, you would only need around 4000 words stored in the phone. But, that wouldn't have the redundancy (any of the 3 words wrong would get the wrong result), so if you have any two of the words be enough to encode the result (so, getting 1 word wrong would result in the area you mean, and maybe two other areas you didn't mean), then you need uh, about 8 million words?

I'm not sure english has that many words.

oh wait maybe its only on land.

That would uh, actually only help a little...

Ok I don't understand their claim that it is redundant, but I'm pretty sure they don't /need/ to make it use a central lookup table when you can just convert coords into lists of words.

IDK if they have their algo being open though. If they don't I guess I should make an open clone of it, because not having it be open is dumb. A standard to refer to a location should be open if it is to be useful.
Lots of games run fine on this computer including games that came out this year or recently, including Kerbal Space Program, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, XCOM: Enemy Unknown and XCOM: Enemy Within, and Papers Please. Cities: Skylines is the only one that was a slideshow, which is weird because city sims don't need graphics. I'd be perfectly happy with Transport Tycoon-level graphics from 20 years ago.
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If you're opening a business in a place with poor people there's either (1) or (2).

(3) doesn't concern a business or a relation between you and those people. It's a total lack of interaction. We always have that, for 99.9999999 of the population of the planet.

Now, when it comes to business, a few do (1). A whole lot businessmen do (2).

The Copenhangen strawman wants us to think that it's either (2) or (3) -- as if (1) is impossible.