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From the article "teaching still only equates to 33% of my workload".

Teaching at universities is virtually never their sole function, and rarely the majority of their function. At UK universities most such staff take the job for research and have to teach as a condition of that job.

It's true that university staff vary in their commitment to teaching and I can remember many who felt that teaching was beneath them and a distraction from what they actually want to do. Unfortunately, this is the nature of academics, unless you have distinct research and teaching roles, this won't change (and that's another endless discussion).
The README's linked Emacs animation guide is compact and informative: http://dantorop.info/project/emacs-animation/
> Didn't openbsd attempt to rewrite sudo recently?

You're thinking of doas, perhaps?

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man1/...
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The "!Bang" feature allows you to redirect your searches. For example:

"!w Sam Altman' would instantly return you to the wikipedia page on Sam Altman.

And, "!Amazon shoes" would instantly return you to the Amazon search result page for shoes.

We've got over 7500 !Bangs currently and users can request to add them for any site https://duckduckgo.com/bang - just like our community efforts in 'Instant Answers' on our duckduckhack.com platform, this community driven experience allows you to get involved and shape a search experience you want to see.
Composer (or the alternatives for other languages) do more than the vendor/ directories do. Those tools manage the versions in the directories which are important for compatibility, ensuring versions around security issues, and so on.

Glide[1] is a tool like Composer but for Go and it uses the vendor/ directory. It's designed to complement the go commands.

disclosure: I'm one of the glide devs

[1] https://github.com/Masterminds/glide
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my personal belief is that the vast majority of these horror stories are simply the behavior of the huge number of socially awkward and unattractive men in our industry. they go through life pretty much offending everyone, until they learn social skills and mature a bit.

i've been on the receiving end of it because of my ethnic background.
1] Build a capabilities slide deck.

Frame this exercise as what you would prepare if you were given the opportunity to do a 15 minute formal pitch of your capabilities to a room full of potential clients/employers.

Advertising Agencies and Consulting companies often have this as a section of their pitch decks. This is the "generic" part in which they are telling potential clients why they are generally capable and able to handle whatever will come up in the course of the project and they focus on the people and skills that they think make their agency stand-out while also assuring clients that they have all the "table stakes" covered.

The deck will help you with interviews and networking. How do I tell my story succinctly and engagingly?

2] Create an online portfolio website and other mini-sites.
Build a portfolio site describing your accomplishments in various projects at your current newspaper job and include URL to relevant page. That portfolio site should also link to 2 or 3 mini-sites that demonstrate various sub-sets of your skills in action.

This is helpful because you can just send someone you are networking with a single URL that lets them explore who you are and what you can do.

3] Map out your skills. For each skill: label, short description, depth of experience, breadth of experience, assessment of your skill level, clear path toward improvement, enjoyment level and local market demand.

What this map will help you to do is decide where to focus your specialization budget, your time, money and intellectual energy. Ideally you would find a skill where you already have a nice breadth and depth of experience, market demand is at least moderately high and that skill has a clear path forward for improvement such as online courses, great books for moving toward expert status. Of the things you have listed, Javascript stands out as the skill that has market demand and a clear path toward expertise on top of your practical experience. It also has the virtue of being demonstrable.
That's fair; I can see why you'd have that viewpoint, in that case. In my own experience, my male and female friends all swear with about equal frequency. I've never noticed a trend like that myself. It might be area- and culture-dependent to some degree, maybe? I live on the US east coast.
If we are paying for access to the infrastructure, then why are students boxed into many separate cells staffed by a human "teacher". If you admit the teacher unit is worthless, then why are they there? According to your business plan the tuition does not go to pay the teachers, so then where did these teachers (who have no role what so ever in your view of education) get funding. I want to know. If we were just paying for access to infrastructure, then why are we not packed into large warehouses filled with desks and library books, overseen by a single armed guard on an overhead walkway? That would more efficient, and we all know us evil capitalists love efficiency.

Just because you pay money for something does not mean you can invoke the specter of consumerism and then proceed to shame it. You need water, no doubt about it. Is it evil when you pay for clean water?
But it's not a generalization from one example; I'm giving a string of different possibilities, based on the fact that we only have a single point of data. People seem to readily except that particular scenario - the "AI as smart as John von Neumann on modafinil, that never thinks about food/sex/art/etc., that never sleeps, that has access to Wikipedia etc. at the speed of thought, and no morals" scenario - based on zero evidence that an AI would actually be like that.

People seem more ready to accept the idea that an artificial general intelligence would act similar to it's portrayed in SciFi stories than accept that it might act similar to the other general intelligences we can observe (namely ourselves).
For the UI of a serious program that requires performance?
The article was probably based on this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_S...
The death toll is definitely low compared to Eastern Europe. It is very very low compared with the rest of the world. However, in much of Western Europe it is still perceived as being a place where people drive dangerously.

The main reason for how people in the West of Europe seem to perceive Italian driving has traditionally been Rome: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/31986...

My personal experience travelling in both Sicily and Rome was that people don't pay attention to lanes and don't care about traffic lights at all, and they're not afraid to drive quickly around tight corners and down narrow streets – this is not unique and is similar to how some areas of the UK drive, for example rural Essex and rural Wales have a lot of this.

Italy may have an unfair reputation as being a dangerous place to drive, but it does have that reputation in Western European countries.
You're just bitter because your text editor can't do this. ;)
No. I'm sick of this game. You clarification of the definition isn't clarification. It's unnecessary linguistic prescriptivism.

If you want to talk about the type of sexism also often refereed to as "institutional sexism" then that's fine. If you want to call it just "sexism" thats fine too (but puts an unnecessary complication on the reader). But "sexism" is an overloaded term whether you want it to be or not. Just like I can't say "Bi-monthly now and forever forward only means every other month, and never means twice a month," you can't just wave away the regular-prejudice definition of sexism just because you want to.

Also, this "academic definition" meme is bullshit. Academic writing is about clarity and making sure the reader understands the author's meaning. So, if at the beginning of the paper the author clarifies when they use "foo" they only mean one of the 3 possible definitions of foo, that's just good writing. But if they say "definition 2 of foo isn't actually foo, it's just bar. For any and all uses of foo, including outside this paper" they're a hack.
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You're describing a tutor, not a teacher. It's the equivalent of blaming the customer service rep when something their company made broke.
Food can be guaranteed. Functionality of medical care doesn't often depend on the actions of the patient.

Learning can only happen with active studying. Nobody can push the knowledge into your brain. All you are offered is the chance to learn, and no guarantees of graduating if you turn out to be incompetent at it.
The go core team may not be the best group to describe the best practices. At Google they work on a large monorepo and don't do distributed packages the way many others do. They aren't intimately familiar with the problem and solution.

I would expect the best patterns to come from the community which is something Rob Pike pointed to at the first Gophercon.
Qt is not a GUI toolkit, it's a goddamn framework. An operating system by itself. :-)
The utility is now doas(1) (http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man1/...)

Also, I'm surprised: I'm actually thinking about leaving Linux to put FreeBSD (or OpenBSD?) on my laptop (Linux is just too unstable and base utilities change non-stop: ip(8), iw(8), ifconfig(8), iwconfig(8), dhcpcd(8), systemd...)
> but multi-threaded Python code is not, by far.

Eh, isn't that because of the GIL?
This is a really interesting point of view, even if I disagree. What you basically have proposed is that the person who has responsibility for the end result of learning is the teacher not the student.

I certainly never thought about it that way in either undergrad or grad school, but I am struggling to actually come up with a good role based counter. The best I can come up with is that learning, generally, is the result of an individual's capabilities and motivations not the teacher or material. So the implications of your approach are a generation of people who feel as though the effort that they put in for learning must be less than that of the teacher and that seems to me to be a disaster waiting to happen.
I'm doing my PhD in a Russell group British university. In one of our big group meetings someone asked about what was being done to encourage students to take theoretical CS courses, because after first year (when they're forced to take one) almost no students took them.

When someone suggested we "go ask the students" the Profs and Lecturers shot it down saying "they'd only lie". I did go ask some of the undergrads and the reasons almost universally that the prof who taught it in first year was a harsh marker, bad lecturer, and that it wasn't worth losing the credit points in years two onward when they could get a better grade elsewhere and come out with a better degree at the end of it.

The staff don't trust the students and the students want to make sure they get their money's worth; even if it means missing on some important stuff.
It could go back even further than that - Rome ran on patronage, and maybe the southern states didn't fall as far as the northern ones.
Maybe they misunderstand the service they're buying. It could be seen as this: the admission to exams that eventually may give them a degree and the assistance of a professional, within some limits, with some rights and some duties.

On the other side the career of many professors depends more on the papers they produce than the students they help. The interests of professors and students are in conflict so a clash of this kind is inevitable.
You must be a vim user...

In seriousness though, why not? He probably had a good time writing it, learned a thing or two, and now has something fun to show off. "Why" doesn't need an answer if it's fun. Besides, the odds are that "hey, look at how this code makes a fireplace" will get someone interested in coding who was bored by "hey, look how this code lets me manage a large database of packages."
Thanks to the OpenBSD developers!
I may be completely wrong about this, but I read this as suggesting that the words "Show HN" be hidden from the titles after they have already been moved to show. The words would still be visible elsewhere on the site.

I somewhat agree. It is repetitious, but I've never really felt that it particularly hinders my ability to read the titles.
Reporting from Hindustan Times: http://www.hindustantimes.com/tech/facebook-is-rolling-out-a...
Hi Bad_user

Thanks for the detailed feedback - have you tried toggle on regional settings and language selection from the settings menu? These are a big help in regards to local results outside the US and especially in cases where the word may be a common term.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weber#The_Protestant_Ethic...
Really fun to read article, but could someone give me a couple examples of what kind of system you'd use this with? I guess I'm so used to S3 now that I've forgotten what it's like to manage your own files.
That seems like a bit of a strawman and overgeneralization. I personally think offense over "fuck", "fork", or "dongle" is absurd (beyond typical professionalism/politeness standards), but this is one branch of feminism finding "fuck" offensive, and in the "dongle" incident, one single woman who found it offensive at the time. Obviously not all women find these things offensive. Not all people (women or otherwise) use or advocate for the modern-tumblr definitions of "microaggression" or "trigger", either.

You're acting like the article you linked is some sort of rulebook all women in technology abide by.
A few posts on the subject of CSDs, by the developer of KWin (he knows his shit):

* http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2010/05/open-letter-th...

* http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2010/05/why-you-should...

* http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2010/05/follow-up-on-c...

* http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2015/11/october-plasma...
This could be made more fun, by using more system resources so your laptop heats up too!
Valid point for university, but I have seen this same attitude all the way down the chain to primary school and secondary school. Maybe teachers in primary school are apeing the attitudes of college professors in an attempt to capture the greater social prestige associtated with being a researcher, however this motivation buys no forgiveness in the hearts of all the students that then pay directly for this ego trip.
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I just happened to be reading The Emigrants' guide to Oregon and California. It was the guide that the Donner party used to take a short cut.

The book doesn't embellish. (The Donner party took one sentence out of that guide, and made a mistake.)

My reason for posting here is when the author was describing California; it was almost like reading fiction. The amount of wildlife was staggering. We were all told about the Bufflo, but there were so much more wildlife. Wildlife that we destroyed. One sentence really got to me. It stated, 'Salmon are 10 lbs. to 60 lbs.' I thought 60 lbs--it must be an exaggeration, but I think it's true.
> but simply by people treating others (women included) nicely, or as my first grade teacher taught me, by following the golden rule, treat others the way you want to be treated,

So, no more "ladies first" and gentleman treatment for women?
So teachers should work for free?
I can. I'm very sorry you can't.
> are solely there to get a piece of paper

And why should anybody care at all about this disgusting and lowly category? They wanted to game the system, they got what they deserved.

> and many times taking on dangerous levels of debt

Student loans are quite a peculiar form of a debt. They can be largely ignored quite for a while (or ignored at all).

> College has become a barrier to entry to the job market,

In most of the areas this is not true. In the other areas this is great, let's keep it this way as long as possible. I do not want to be butchered by a doctor who bypassed an assessment on their "performance on (sometimes quite arbitrary) classes" by simply paying more.

If anything, this performance assessment must become more and more rigorous and tough. We need a grade deflation, not a grade inflation.

EDIT: since the article is UK-specific, I am talking about the UK only. Student loans here would not cripple anyone financially.
worked with GTK2/3 and QT 5+ years and got the feeling that GTK has been turning into the GNOME toolkit as well. not very pleasant to work with if you want your application to support the look&feel of different linux-DEs and not suited for cross-platform applications at all

GTK3 is perfect if you want to develop for the GNOME desktop. for anything else it would need way more developers that are not focused on GNOME
>You go out of your way to imply that GNOME developers are intentionally evil.

Not really evil, just focused on other areas.
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I have been a huge fan of sublime text since the beginning .
But recently I feel there is nothing much new and very few updates.
What are you guys working on next?
Any big releases coming soon?
>It’s impossible to know, especially since they don’t know either! If you confront them on their sexism, they will deny all of it, and truly believe it. It takes a lot of introspection to see one’s internalized stereotypes.

My entire problem with this isn't that I deny I have such stereotypes (as I know I have them), but that the people who call others out on this will seem to be the group most likely to deny having their own.
Hypothetically, it it were true that going at 80 is safer because everyone else is going at 80, wouldn't you have to choose between a risk of paying a fine versus a risk of losing your life? That sounds messed up.
Hey Jay,

This is something actively being worked on that we hope to have an update for in 2016.

We also recently released a new "News Instant Answer" that pulls in fresh relevant content on popular news topics. Have you come across that in your searches? And, are there any specific topics where you are looking for more freshness and currently aren't getting it?
I run a web hosting business and have servers to spare. Email me and I'll get you one for as long as you need it (see profile for email address).
I don't know. I LIKE NAT. It's easy for me to reason about, easy to read and understand. I know it has a litany of shortcomings, and I'm not in a huge corporate network, but I'm going to miss it when it's gone.
You're describing a tutor, not a teacher.

I had the same thought, but what practically is the distinction? The only thing I can come up with is scope, but even then, there are plenty of tutors that teach a fairly wide range of a topic like a teacher would. I have seen plenty of Calculus II tutors but never a integration by parts tutor.
>Client side decorations give way more space to the actual content than to waste space for an almost empty titlebar.

That's a problem that's better solved by the window manager, not by the application.
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It would be nice if they were a bit more honest and switched creepy/non-creepy with unattractive/attractive.
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> I am paying for a self-professed expert in pedagogy, whose has spend devoted their proffesional [sic] life to the art of shoving information into arbitrary people's heads

That's not what you're paying for. They're not experts in pedagogy, they're experts in their field of research.

If you don't understand the course materials it's your job as a student to rectify that, either through self-study or seeking help. Clearly the student in question didn't understand the course materials well enough compared to his peers to receive a top-class grade (in the UK 70%+ is a first, the highest grade you can get).
IMO there isn't one right answer. But, if I had to choose just as you laid out, for a new organization/product I'd put product and engineering in one office, for a more mature product/organization I'd put support with the product team and leave devs separate.
With a central database you're trusting a single entity. Banks aren't willing to do that so interbank settlement takes a couple days to satisfy auditing. They'd like to speed that up, and it looks like some kind of blockchain might accomplish that.
>Teachers are supposed to be experts at matching students with explainations of concepts.

I thought teachers were supposed to be experts in their field of study that have a desire to pass that knowledge on to those that are interested. Not everyone will have the capacity for learning those things. As an example, I love art but despite years of trying both books and classes, I just cannot bring the images in my mind into the physical world. I'm a responsible enough adult to accept that this is my shortcoming and not the fault of my teachers. I simply don't have the hand-eye coordination necessary to produce the things that I can imagine.

>[edit] The attitude of teachers astounds me

The overly-privileged, entitled attitude of the younger generation astounds me. You have to work for what you get. The world does not owe you a living. You have to understand that you are not a special little flower that is more important that everyone else. That said, neither are you just another cog in the machine unless you choose to be so. It is perfectly possible to be an individual without being a disrespectful, self-important boor. Why is it okay for you to inconvenience your professor, who likely has a life outside of work, but it is unthinkable for them to schedule anything that inconveniences you. What makes you more important than the other 500 students they are teaching this semester?
>A soldier that would do the same would be charged with war-crime, and it happened.

Such a great thing that we have such loose criteria on what it means to be a combatant.
I can't really respond to this without knowing the actual content of the comment, and the context.

But if it was literally him saying something like "what the fuck" or whatever, then yes, I think she was not being reasonable. If she were to say "I don't like that kind of language", that's fine, but to suggest ladies don't like that kind of language is a big overgeneralization on her part.

I'm guessing it was a different kind of comment, though, given "ribald". In which case it's not just an issue of profanity anymore, and so her reaction may have been perfectly justified.
Lazy people everywhere. Lazy students who can't be bothered to do something as simple as an assignment and then complain about it. Lazy professors who repeat the same lectures for over a decade, don't give any feedback and don't give a fuck about what the pupils are learning. In my university we don't even get to see the corrected exam we handed in. We receive a numerical grade by email and that's it. I have no idea what that meant. It's disgusting... :(
We recently commented about this on a Reddit thread too (https://www.reddit.com/comments/3vtxib/duckduckgo_search_lik...)

We do have a short domain "http://ddg.gg" although it is worth noting that duck.com is owned by Google and points to their main search engine. So it's not really an option for us.
Please stop with the HTML5 UI madness. While HTML/CSS is, imo, a great UI toolkit, nobody wants a browser engine in every separate application. A browser engine that needs to be kept up to date with upstream on an extremely regular basis, separately for every app, lest you are vulnerable to whatever exploit of the month.