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It is unfortunate, and it is a good question to ask why Rust is attracting so few female contributors.

To assume when asking that question that the project is misogynist is a bit of a stretch, however. It's worth checking the project's policies and behaviors, to make sure it isn't doing anything that provides some kind of bias, but simply starting out by claiming that Rust is "anti-female" goes a bit far.

A few things that I can think of off the top of my head:

Some of the prominent contributions from women don't show up in the list of contributors because they are not directly to the compiler and standard library which are what are tracked in this contributor list, but rather to the broader ecosystem. Julia Evans has written some good blog posts on writing an OS in Rust, that have inspired other people in this space: http://jvns.ca/blog/2014/03/12/the-rust-os-story/. Emily Dunham does some excellent work on Rust infrastructure: http://edunham.net/2015/05/20/open_infrastructure.html There are of course many more that I'm not listing here, but the point is that the Rust community, and even the upstream project, consist of more than just the compiler and standard library, though those contributors are the ones that get credited in a release since that is what is being released.

Rust is still a nascent language; while it is starting to gain traction in the industry, it is not yet broadly adopted, and thus investing a lot of time and energy in joining the project is still a bit of a risk. People who have more social capital and more free time can afford to spend more of that on projects like Rust with a lot of potential but a higher amount of risk. Unfortunately, in our society men tend to have both more social capital, and more free time as domestic labor and child rearing is still seen as primarily women's work.

There are probably a large number of other factors at play. The Rust community that I have seen has been very supportive of women contributing, and has been doing a better job recently of outreach, but there is still probably more that can be done.

Can you provide any suggestions; any place you see the project structure, or contributors, being "anti-female", or any positive action that could be done to increase outreach or increase participation?
I've been using this awhile and will definitely buy a license. Congratulations on the release!
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Wouldn't an infinite number of things imply an infinite amount of energy which would render the conservation of energy laws meaningless?
Give the recoll package (and Unity scope) a try and your opinion might change. I use this all the time and it's pretty amazing to just type a string of text into the dash and see whichever document contains that text string appear in my search results. If I already have a terminal window open I'll do grep -R "text-string" /dir/ or if not I hit the super key and type the text string for recoll, both are equally fast.
Try Elixir (https://elixir-lang.org). Phoenix framework is awesome and working with it is a pleasure.
No, it's worse than that: From Wikipedia [1]: "In computability theory and computational complexity theory, an undecidable problem is a decision problem for which it is known to be impossible to construct a single algorithm that always leads to a correct yes-or-no answer."

The definition of algorithm includes termination after a finite amount of steps. This number isn't predefined.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undecidable_problem
Reminds me of the recent discussions: What benefit offers a blockchain here, vs. any other public logfile or database?
My understanding from reading Scott Aaronson, is that his belief is that most algorithms will not have significant speedups as a quantum algorithm, and that the currently known algorithms with large (exponential) speedups aren't very useful in the sense that they're just breaking cryptographic problems which were used solely because they were hard to break. In other words, don't expect everything to have a Shor's algorithm analogue.
The first heatsink I mounted was on a Athlon XP 2500+. To this day, I've never fried a CPU or let the magic smoke out, but it concerns me every time I mount a heatsink.

That CPU ran at 3200+ speeds for a few years, until I noticed the capacitors getting nasty.
Run the job through something that will do it, there is no need for this feature to be provided by cron itself.
> I wage a minor war of replacing "Cybersecurity" with "Information Security" anywhere I can.

For some reason, both of these terms make me grate my teeth!

I imagine it has something to do with only hearing "cyber" being used by people who are woefully out of date, and "Infomation Security" by people who are actually marketers that can use a computer...
Sort of. The author is ignorant, confounding the silly "no plastic guns!" law with ITAR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_...) controls on "exporting" arms information, which is being played out in the courts and the State Department.

So, yeah, once it's released that's it for "removing it from the Internet", but that's unrelated to State forcing the author to remove his official copies on the net unless and until the above is resolved.
> Yet, I strongly oppose feminism. I believe in equality, but not equality for one gender or skin color or sexual orientation.
That means you're a feminist. I'm sorry you're not able to get your definitions straight.

I disagree with that definition. I think that view means the parent poster is an educated, rational person. Are you sorry for me as well?
Having few female contributors isn't a sign that Rust is anti female. It could just be that females aren't that interested in Rust, or perhaps more likely that there just aren't as many female developers.

Honestly of all the engineers I've worked with, I think less than 5% have been female.
Most users aren't programmers, we would serve our customer a lot better by understanding that.
Considering that anything else is pure speculation, we can safely say that the Allied powers went to war to stop Hitler's expansionism.
Looking forward to medi.bot from Look Around You.
So angry about tea.
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cabot 2.84

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I disagree. 152 is a large sample, enough to make statistically significant statements. "small" sample usually means less than 30.
>That means you're a feminist. I'm sorry you're not able to get your definitions straight.

Old school maybe. Old school feminism is incompatible with the new stuff.
It's not a constant period of time. The amount of time is allowed to increase with the size of the system. In fact it's allowed to increase quadratically, or exponentially, or factorially, or whatever - it will never be enough. Whatever algorithm you come up with for calculating the rate of expansion, you will always underestimate the amount of time (for a sufficiently large system).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver#Non-computability_...
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I like it and I like the intro.
I had precisely that problem and this is the first time I've heard someone else mention it.
> Ideally the tools would be language agnostic and easy to monitor

That's literally cron.

In order to get the output of a cronjob, most of the implementation will let you prepend a MAILTO="<user>" before the line containing the job.
A mail will be delivered to the system user identified by <user>, likely in /var/spool/mail/<username>.

I am not sure, but maybe you can use a full email address too.

Want statistics? Wrap your command in a statistics-gathering application (go find one in the internet or roll yourself).
This is being downvoted, but I'd like an explanation of what the alternative is. Can someone to explain how this result differs from a claim "I can build a computer which turns a light on when a given program terminates, so therefore 'light on-ness' is undecidable".
For certain definitions of 'awesome'; we'd be inviting murder and deception and all manner of crime via robot. I think the lesson from Asimov is that we can't bank on a simple set of laws to protect us from killer robots.

The zeroth law is most important, as well. If we try this route we'd have to be sure to implement that law first.

> A robot may not harm humanity; or through inaction allow humanity to come to harm.
Slight side-track, but I'd be interested in your "pre-deployment" process. Could you enlighten me, or point me somewhere I could find out? Thanks.
>For large parts of history, domestic violence against women has been ignored or joked about

And the same doesn't happen concerning DV towards males?

>or in some places explicitly made legal

Duluth model anyone?
I did not say that.
They very much have. Actually, that is pretty much the only thing that drives them. It's not your kind of morals, I assume. But they do what they do because they consider it the morally right thing to do, and that is what this article is trying to tell you.
Oops. Missed that. Sorry
The linked movie up there.
Wait wait wait.

So are you saying these people deserve it and that the government is right to allow these folks to freeze and starve?

I just want to be clear on your position, here. Because, to be blunt, on its face it seems pretty monstrous.
It looks like there are at least 11 plastic parts. I'm completely unqualified to even make these guesses, but as a "Just Some Guy on the Internet", I will anyway.

part uses until failure? possible failure mode?
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cylinder body 10^1 melting/fouling in barrel holes
upper frame 10^3 cracking/melting around exit hole
firing pin retainer 10^3 misalignment of firing pin
cylinder axle 10^3 shearing fracture in axle
trigger 10^4 elastic band breaks, cylinder rotation arm breaks off
firing pin carriage 10^4 elastic band breaks, sear-catching arm breaks off
trigger sear ? elastic band breaks, rounded-off pawl
cylinder ring ? cracking, wear on rotation teeth
lower frame ? crud accumulates inside
frame assembly pin(s) ? pin retainers break off
trigger assembly pin ? shearing fracture

I'm not sure about the frame parts, as the article had no disassembled detail pics. The cylinder body has metal tubes inserted as barrel reinforcement. Presumably, those could be drilled out and replaced, if necessary, rather than recycling the whole thing down to filament and re-manufacturing the part on the printer.
How does failing to apply for asylum make them no longer refugees? What do they become by your reasoning?
Hi! I didn't know about this site before but at first look seem that there are some differences with my project:

- it is not open source (or at least I didn't found the source code)

- it require you to sign up in order to create messages.
This is one of the discussions we had at the Reproducible Builds Summit last week: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-12/msg001... .

In GNU Guix, we don't go as far as the author suggests (starting from a FORTH-like VM, then building a small Lisp, etc.), but we've been thinking about going in that direction: We already have Guile Scheme at the bottom, with which we can implement a range of tools, ranging from HTTP/FTP clients to ELF parsers, and more. We could imagine having (possibly feature-limited) variants of some of the bootstrap tools, written in Scheme, for the purpose of building the "real" tools.

Our current bootstrap looks like this: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Bootstrap... .
And awfully in Firefox, full UI lag.

I know Firefox's implementation makes this its fault, but come on, it doesn't hurt to test the home page in it.
From https://popehat.com/2015/12/07/talking-productively-about-gu...

Me: I don't want to take away dog owners' rights. But we need to do something about Rottweilers.

You: So what do you propose?

Me: I just think that there should be some sort of training or restrictions on owning an attack dog.

You: Wait. What's an "attack dog?"

Me: You know what I mean. Like military dogs.

You: Huh? Rottweilers aren't military dogs. In fact "military dogs" isn't a thing. You mean like German Shepherds?

Me: Don't be ridiculous. Nobody's trying to take away your German Shepherds. But civilians shouldn't own fighting dogs.

You: I have no idea what dogs you're talking about now.

Me: You're being both picky and obtuse. You know I mean hounds.

You: What the fuck.

Me: OK, maybe not actually ::air quotes:: hounds ::air quotes::. Maybe I have the terminology wrong. I'm not obsessed with vicious dogs like you. But we can identify kinds of dogs that civilians just don't need to own.

You: Can we?

Unless your agenda is compete and total confiscation, unless you want to be routinely dismissed by those who actually know something about the target, you'd best learn the basics, the sort of thing any grade school child who's a member of the US gun culture routinely picks up.

Come to think of it, this actually equals a "my mother and sister know more than you!" sort of thing, and they were never a fraction as serious about it as my father and the male siblings.
in the google music app, not play, go to the hamburger menu -> settings. Should be at the top under the account section, you may need to hit the refresh button under the same the section.
Communication requires logic and logic requires the presentation of counter-examples. Wrapping counter-examples in warm fuzzies is merely obfuscation; it's a third-rate management technique.
It's inoffensive but can be taken hesitantly as a lot of people seem to mistakenly think it's synonymous with "English".
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I am baffled as well. My brain is hurting trying to understand this decision.
I believe the movie Field of Dreams existing had the single most detrimental effect amongst app developers and executive producers than any other movie, because they keep thinking if only they build a good app, then the audience will come to them. NOT TRUE.
Just listened to the first episode. It's very good and Bergdahl's narrative is fascinating. According to him, he had deep grievances with his battalion leadership, and decided to leave his combat outpost, run 20 miles back to FOB Sharana, thereby creating a Dust 1 (missing servicemember in theater), get everyone's attention that way, then use the debrief as an opportunity to blow the whistle on his chain of command.

I'm really looking forward to hearing the rest of the series, especially the exploration of the command culture at his unit.
Your response sounds super unsympathetic, but your side note hints at some actual understanding of the situation. Briefly, what should be happening?
The loading time is too damn high. For the longest time it just showed me black screen. I didn't remember what their old logo looked like, so I looked it up and it was pretty bad, like a shareware software logo from the 90s. The new one is much better. Also, I'm disappointed that their CLion software (abbreviated as CL) has nothing to do with Common Lisp.
"But find what works for you, do what feels good, don't compare yourself to others, and enjoy yourself."

That sounds good and right, especially 'don't compare yourself to others'. It is a good Zen training to let others go faster and stick to ones own goals.
TLP is brilliant as usual, but seems a bit depressed to me. The message "stare hard at the painful reality instead of comforting lies" might not be good advice for many people, especially us geeky folks who are already biased toward taking ugly truths too seriously.
Much violence among (other) animals is also motivated by morality, it's a pretty common trait in social species.
> ...they just couldn't afford to deal with yet another $50 million revenue opportunity.

I wonder if Facebook was just a "$50 million revenue opportunity" and that's why Google didn't enter the space until it was too late. Maybe if Square and Westwood would have looked at a few more $50 million revenue opportunities they'd still exist.
They notified us at 10PM EST last night.
Sorry, but what part of the world isn't anti-immigrant? In my experience, the East, esp. India, China, Japan, the Arab world are extraordinarily more anti-immigrant with more entrenched race-based outlooks than the US. How is there no cognitive dissonance being from an incredibly racist society yet scoffing at the US for not opening the doors to immigrant workers more? It's not the US - it's the world we live in, and the US is not close to the worst.
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Indeed, Drupal 8 is first and foremost a data modeling tool. It's for structured content, not pages.

It allows you to reuse that structured content in many ways, everywhere.

(Django CMS as demonstrated in the video is purely about building pages, which makes it — if I'm being a bit harsh — just a glorified MS FrontPage.)
Awesome initiative, however I would suggest to avoid presenting this as an early application to something.

PS: Specially for the US, as you are presenting SF as a potential destination, I don't think that will make USCIS happy.
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It's not a refugee camp. Refugees go through the system fairly quickly and get all sorts of help. They definitely are not left destitute.

And I really don't see what's so special about them compared to people in similar conditions in India or Uganda or some other poor region of the world.
This put me off too, although only Firefox has responsiveness issues.
The website looks great, but what's with that stupid intro?

Neither informs nor amuses the user. It's just (beautiful) clutter.
Though there are outliers that produce successful products (37signals being the most famous), a web development company is going to scale linearly by adding staff and client projects and seeing revenue growth based on stable margins over stable unit costs. This means that the "next levels" are going to be bigger versions of previous levels not quantum leaps.

There's nothing wrong with that strategy. It just means that the business grows horizontally and the role of an owner/manager will tend to shift from production to administration and sales and human resources.

The quantum shift into a company based on producing and selling a product can be abstracted as starting a new company (it may help to keep in mind that there's nothing that prevents a person from owning two or more companies). Maybe the consulting sustains the owner while they develop the second company.

Random advice from the internet: It's not going to be appreciably less work growing one kind of company over the other. It's probably harder to get reasonable initial success as a product company versus a consultant. It's going to be hard to be successful at both.

Good luck.
I was thinking "wow that's a great idea" while reading through this and then noticed it's basically what a Lisp environment does. :-)

(And probably the environments of many other languages, but Lisp implementations (including Scheme implementations) tend to do this exceptionally well. A very good example might be Emacs, which has just an amazing help system and all.)
What a great description! It perfectly describes my impression.

Awful authoring experience for non-technical users. Which doesn't mean it's not excellent for certain use cases :)
Siri's mistake (which also applies to Cortana and Google Now) is to bet on natural language. I seriously believe natural language to be a mediocre interface, and we have the opportunity to do much better. We need to create a completely new language.
Who are sitting around with nothing else to do? I imagine that they've got jobs, have to show status on those assignments, and this would get in the way.
He said there are resources available to help, but for whatever reason these people don't use them. Monstrous?
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I was thinking the same thing about all of them except the girl who's boyfriend fabricated his life story for her.
The evil bit is a real thing.

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/evil-bit-RFC3514-real-world-...
You are probably right about the forced advertising but I have mostly positive memories of Channel 1. I actually think those programs/TVs probably help peak a lot of kid's interest in media. The school I went to had their own news broadcast that came on every Friday. It was entirely produced by the students and everyone really enjoyed it. A good friend of mine was a part of that program and went on to become a TV camera man. It wasn't all bad and we probably could have used some Clearasil.
You can upload FLAC to google music. Not sure if it stores in that format though, and I think streaming is max 320
I recently read an interesting comment on politics.stackexchange.com that gives some insight about this situation.

http://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/8460/why-is-the-...
I'm an immigrant myself and I'm not sure how exactly software is going to help with this process. It's true that there is a lot of paperwork involved and that could potentially be easier using more integrated software (that keeps your information and plugs it through all systems as opposed to you writing your info 10+ times). However, the main problem with immigration is not the paperwork but the bureaucratic regulations and emotional aspects.
I'll second the Concrete5 recommendation. It's MVC under the covers, a common sense architecture, highly customizable, an exceptional UI for content editors, and a good community. For content editors, we do a one hour boot camp and that is sufficient to bring anyone non-technical up to speed.
Thanks for the heads up. Will get on fixing that.
Shorter version of GP comment: use all proper terminology or I will consider that you don't know enough to comment on the matter.
I would say that UI language and speech input language are different enough that taking them to be the same would qualify as a good guess, not simply obeying a setting.

Apple takes this approach with Siri, for example.
Same. It looks slick, is very fast (thanks to well defined and configurable keyboard shortcuts) and easy to use.

Whatever the haters have against it, in the end I get stuff done faster and spend less time configuring my DE.
All of the "scary" features are more than cosmetic. Straight line recoil pretty much requires a vertical pistol grip for ergonomics, that tends to go along with vertical forgrips, detachable magazines are anything but purely cosmetic and must be outside pistol grips for serious rifle cartridges, and flash hiders help preserve your night vision.

Heck, even bayonet lugs are functional, not that that a fixed bayonet has been used in more than one US "gun crime" to my memory.

So now you're reduced to being an ignorant foot soldier in a culture war following people who complain about "that shoulder thing that goes up" instead doing anything to actually help with what are some real problems.
Actually most of the page does load with JS disabled with exception of their logo.

> "The rest of the internet has been there for a while now."

This is not my experience at all. Most of the sites I use, especially text/image content-driven websites, load fine without JS and it saves me from having to deal with a lot of annoying UX issues.

In fact, in this case I was able to avoid having to suffer through the intro JetBrains decided to show visitors on this website, until just out of curiosity I decided to enable JS to see if their logo would render.

I am well aware that some web applications use JavaScript frameworks but even then it's possible to render content for SEO and other purposes where JS might not be enabled. Certainly the logo can and should be rendered without JS even in these cases.

I would imagine that web applications implemented in a JavaScript framework are a minority as should be the case. The vast majority of websites simply display text and images and there is no sane reason to require JS just to view text and image content.
Is this coincident with Go 1.5 release?
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And then suddenly one day you notice that Facebook now has access to your phone logs, microphone, and camera without your knowledge.