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Agreed! (It's already killed a few weekends for me. :-) CoffeeScript has "Most Favored Executable" status in my terminal window these days. On a related side-note... here's the "Hello World" Node.js web server ported to CoffeeScript: http://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/blob/master/exampl...
Cringely actually does something besides writing broadly over-generalized predictions that end up totally missing the mark?
I'm sure you don't mean to do so, but you shouldn't compare black women to "u r so hawt" guys. Very different categories, and very different dating problems. The moron can stop being a moron and learn how to write decent messages. In addition, his disadvantage is a shortcoming that sends a strong signal about his worthiness for a relationship. The black woman's disadvantage comes from her being black, which will never change and which is a signal of anything other than her skin having melanin.

It's not just OkCupid. Black women face a systematic disadvantage in the dating scene, even now and even among educated people. I'm not saying that it's so severe as to make it impossible for a black woman to find a decent partner, but the disadvantage exists and it's a lot more common for an attractive black woman to have long single spells. I know a couple of beautiful, smart, incredible black women in their mid-20s who haven't even kissed a guy, much less been in a relationship. Asian men face a disadvantage of a different character that is arguably as bad. Anyone who can't see this is either living in delusion or sheltered.
> Medicare is a "disaster" because of the funding cuts, which are a direct result of our tendency to elect assholes to represent us.

Whatever the cause, we're going to continue electing the same kind of people, so if the result of doing so is broken govt healthcare ....

I am curious about the argument that medicare would be less of a disaster with more money. Govt healthcare advocates claim that govt healthcare would make medicare cheaper. That claim is inconsistent with medicare needs more money.

Medicare with more money might well produce better outcomes, but that's not cheaper.

FWIW, Obama's cost numbers assume significant additional medicare cuts. Those cuts aren't likely to happen, but ....

As I've written before, I'm perfectly willing to give Obama free rein over everyone currently covered by govt healthcare (not just IHS, VA, and medicare/medicaid, but govt employees, including state and local govt employees, and maybe the beltway bandits too) to see what happens. Part of the deal is a 5%/covered-person-year cut in years 3-6, which is a bit over 20% total, which should be a slam dunk given the claims of 30% cheaper with better outcomes. (That's starting from what they're spending now to cover those people.)

If he wants to spend the savings on convering more people, great. I'm also open to letting other folks buy in at cost. The only non-negotiables are "all govt employees" and the per-covered-person budget cuts.

If the claims are correct, that experiment will be a huge success. If the claims are wrong, govt employees will revolt. Either way, we'd know.
How do you know this? Maybe the fight he got into was over spending too much time eating cheetos and playing xbox?
She got my attention.
The countdown to their affiliate accounts being shutdown starts now.
When your race makes up 13% of the larger population, the economics for a niche dating site will work out. At 75%, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
It's a hall effect sensor:"http://corollamob.com/corolla-parts/toyota-recall-a-look-ins...
Hopefully everyone here can recognize that Ta-Nehisi Coates' post simply presents a hypothesis and contains absolutely no supporting data.
> Wouldn't shifting to neutral make the engine rev up really high? Does the computer limit the RPMs to prevent damage?

Yes, the computers do.

However, if you're going to have an accident, engine damage is pretty low on the list of concerns, even if you ignore the fact that accidents cause engine damage.
I've been going to Seaside FL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaside,_Florida), one of the early NU towns for many years, and just had my wedding there.

The highway 30A coast, which includes Seaside has at least four examples of New Urbanist towns within a 20 mile stretch that is all bike-able. If you're into this kind of thing, it makes a great vacation spot.

If you want activities or restaurant recommendations, check out my wedding website which is still up: http://mattandmeara.com/more/
I think that people are interpreting that as you encouraging them to 'concede to the man.' When you're just trying to get people to realize that the security guard they are talking to isn't 'the man' and people should realize that in their interactions with them.

I really don't get how people see that as a concession though. Sneaking 'unapproved' products into the Olympics isn't taking any sort of stand against their ridiculous policies. Why? Because it's under the radar. You can't encourage change by secretly resisting the policies you hate in the dark where no one can see you. The purpose of change would be better served by boycotting the Olympics altogether, or loudly and visibly protesting their policies.
Swarm behavior is widespread in nature. One Million Heads, One Beautiful Mind http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gq43y
I was also a Home-Account customer. We cancelled after a month or two.

A lender did get back to us, but promised a rate they couldn't actually get, and eventually stopped calling. We also have really good credit, so perhaps that's why I at least got an initial call back.
I mean, ok, but that's not going to make or break the product.

You said that was for starters -- what else?

Also, what type of corporate entity is Browsarity? Is it actually a 501(c)(3)?
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This is interesting, because it shows exactly the kind of miscommunication that I witness so often. Because "Redheads are ugly" is supposed to be interpreted as "I think most redheads are ugly and of course there are obvious exceptions." It's a generalization that has absolutely no bearing any individual person, so the thought "he thinks my wife is ugly" shouldn't even enter your mind (even though I understand that for many people it will).

Needless to say, this can still rub people the wrong way, exactly for the reasons you describe. So it's a social rule to never say anything negative when there is a positive substitute. Saying "I think blondes and brunettes are attractive" is always preferable to "I think redheads are ugly". Even though the one essentially implies the other.

The second thing I'd like to emphasize is that you said "I would think [...] that's fine". A lot of people would say, "My wife is a redhead" and instantly make the conversation take a turn for the worse. Exactly as you say, you have to give the other party an "easy out", and by stating "My wife is a redhead" you put the other guy's back to the wall.

I think the "easy out" rule is probably the one rule I see socially capable people violate the most.
Er.... like almost all the time. Getting used to them means that you read code in a slightly different way as well, so I highly recommend it.
That said, I do try to avoid them as long as it doesn't degrade user experience. However if you're going to build an app of any great consequence you're probably going to need them.
A big help (if you're new to them) is viewing the threads as players in a turn based board game where your lines of code are squares on the board and everyone gets a random roll.

Some uses (personal (of various sizes) and enterprise):

- Background worker that wanders off, does some shit and then says: "yo, I finished".

- Subsystems and services: Sometimes you just have "stuff" that is going on. An example would be a little doohickey I got monitoring the USB. It handles a little protocol so it can identify stuff our system knows about that gets plugged in (on any port). This is so when the "main" part of the app asks for an "external XYZ" device it can return the device (or a "null" Object if it is not connected).

- To preserve your intentions: If you broadcast events with your own thread it is possible for a consumer to chomp on your thread's processing time, so sometimes you need to spin off a background thread/s to do the event firing to free you up so you get back to your job.
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"or just put synchronized everywhere"

Won't you deadlock this way?
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Also, I can't speak from any racial perspective than that of a white man, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to date a woman who joined a whites-only dating site, and most of the women I've dated or been interested in dating haven't been white anyway.
I'm no fan of sprawl, but once a critical mass of households own a car, it's economically much more efficient because people can travel point to point rather than fixed paths.

Sprawl can be made much nicer and less economically competitive by eliminating or raising maximum density limits, eliminating or lowering minimum parking limits, and channeling development into designated areas so that transit is easier.

For instance, look at Skarholmen, outside of Stockholm (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q...) . It's Stockholm's sprawl, built in the 60's to handle population growth as Sweden urbanized.

The subway runs parallel to the highway, with regional draws (factories for employment, big shopping like Ikea) by the highway and local shopping like a grocery store, a small mall (Skarholmen Centrum), post office, etc clustered around the subway stop (the "T" on the map). There are apartments (3-6 stories) clustered around the Centrum, then townhouses beyond that and some houses beyond that. Nearby stops have small grocery stores (similar to a CVS or Walgreens) and apartments around them, and if people need more stuff they ride the train to Skarholmen. For specialized stuff they ride into Stockholm or drive/bus to the big stores by the highway. So most people don't need cars even for work or shopping.

Overcrowding? No, apartments are very affordable so people don't need to pack into them. Concrete jungle? Hardly, there are parks between every apartment building and raw forest less than a mile away.

So what's missing from here? That's not rhetorical, I'd really like to know what is bad about this compared to American-style suburbia. The only thing I can really think of is that very people have a private yard or an apartment big enough to entertain a lot of people.
While I did make and launch http://browseforacause.com a few months ago (which this may or may not have been inspired from), I welcome this launching - any innovation to donate more money to charity can really only be a good thing.
I think the parent is trying to make the point that there's no clear evidence here that black women have a systematic disadvantage in general, just a disadvantage in the self-selected OKCupid community. (No comment on whether there's evidence of such elsewhere.)
Any chance you're using WinCE and are loading graphical resources? There's a bug somewhere that makes that incorrectly OOM. There are workarounds though.
I think the idea is attractive to many users.
The newer Toyotas all have push button start. Apparently, it's not very intuitive, unless you have a lot of experience building PCs with ATX power supplies, that you need to hold down the start button for 3-4 seconds to turn off the engine when it is in drive.

It's almost like Microsoft designed these cars: "What? I push Start to shut down the car/computer?"
I wish that, rather than building another game with rich play but steep learning curve for all the keystrokes, somebody would take Falcon's Eye (http://falconseye.sourceforge.net/ ) a little farther.
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I still think buying Opera, and adopting/adapting would be a good thing for Microsoft. It would give them a major playing hand in the mobile browser market too.

From Opera's perspective, they might gain a lot of users overnight, which may or may not be a good thing. But i do think Opera as a browser is the neatest, most feature-rich and yet unbloated piece of software i've seen. And they deserve a bigger desktop market share than they currently have.
The problem with all these programs is that its arguable if this generates any value for the company's paying the affiliate fees. Usually a company is not happy with the idea of paying for a customer they already (would have) had.

However, sites like skimlinks seem to be growing (and staying in business) which I think surprised alot of people.

Lets all not forget that these programs mainly survive around 2 affiliate programs- eBay and Amazon. Getting canned from either would be disaster.
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petercooper has a very valid point. A whitedating.com site would cause an uproar, even if it was done as tastefully as possible. The anti-racist reactive culture we have is too quick to jump on something like that.

Note: I'm not white.
While I think this is a really cool idea; I wonder what the investment strategy could possibly be for funding a company like this. I have a really hard time envisioning how you go from this to any kind of exit short of acquhire.

(I'm genuinely curious, for anyone who feels like speculating.)
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The professor apparently hooked up an "external bypass device" to a brand new Toyota Avalon, and then complains that the computer should sense the artificial short he introduced into the system and disable the acceleration system. Hardly the most reliable test.
He is relying on the same data for his assertions as everyone else has been. I see his analysis of that data as no less valid than that of OKCupid, etc.
Honest question: what does it really take to get an affiliate account shut down?

If I understood how this works, it simply replaces the URL of the affiliate link on the page I'm viewing. If that's all it takes to redirect the affiliate payment, what's there to prevent a rogue Firefox extension that secretly replaces every amazon.com link with one that deposits into the author's account? How about a proxy server that scans for these URLs and rewrites them so they make the server's operator rich?

While it's good to see this being used for a good cause, it feels as if exactly the same method can be serving more nefarious purposes. Perhaps this will require oversight from the whoever runs the affiliate program, and I'm having a hard time imagining how they'd be happy if a third party is taking a cut of these fees.
Why should it be hideous?

Let me try an analogy. Discrimination based on sexual orientation is illegal in a lot of places, and seen as equally bad as discrimination based on race.

But there are plenty of dating sites that are exclusively targeted to gay men or lesbian women. If you think that race segregating dating sites are bad, then what are dating sites that segregate on sexual orientation? Are they also bad?

But a gay dating site that didn't segregate on sexual orientation would be completely useless! And to the extent gay men are members of non-segregating dating sites, they will definitely filter out all the women and be filtered out by all the straight men, so in essence they would self-segregate.

We have anti-discrimination laws because race or gender or sexual orientation are irrelevant in some areas, such as the ability to perform a job. That's why it's illegal to deny a job applicant based on those attributes.

But when it comes to dating, those attributes are relevant! Incredibly relevant! Everyone has preferences when it comes to dating, and it not racist to only date people of one's own race. It is not sexist to only date people of one's preferred gender. It is not bad to want to date people that share your culture, your religion, your world view.

It is not bad or distasteful to have segregated dating sites.
Agreed. Also the geek people that "study" or "learn" this stuff are the best in the world. They not only do what is needed, but know the reason too, witch many "naturals" don't do(they just are this way).

It takes a lot of work and practice, but it could be learn like anything else.
Wouldn't being a non-profit cause problems with investment and potential exits?
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that is a pretty seriously flawed report, and was even when it was released almost two years ago. even at the time, nearly everything in both the "Git Advantages" and "Mercurial Advantages" sections are either plain wrong or misunderstood. either ignore the report entirely, or read the comments with point out most of the issues.
Depends on what you're doing. Synchronized locks on the instance (or class if you're using a static method) and the locks are reentrant -- a thread holding a lock can reacquire it as many times as it wants.

But yeah my comment was a little imprecise :) If you're using a bunch of different objects which have interactions, using synchronized "everywhere" could very well lead to a deadlock :)
Indeed. It's shown on the digital terrestrial channel More4 the day after broadcast, as well as available online via 4OD. Sadly, The Colbert Report is also blocked and that's not shown in the UK.
I think the coding theorists here feel that it's an inefficient encoding if the most common case requires more syllables than an uncommon case ;-)
I find that most people find disagreement of any kind uncomfortable. So whether you're open to discussion or whether you've considered your opinions carefully is immaterial.
I believe the issue is that Amazon and others specifically forbid affiliates from overwriting or replacing other affiliates links with their own.

But yes, you are correct, some of the more "successful" (if you can call it that) Windows malware has taken the form of IE6 browser plugins and toolbars that overwrite affiliate links in any page you browse to. I can seriously imagine some enterprising 16 year old somewhere in Eastern Europe making 5-6 figure monthly income from this back in the early 2000s.
In spite of all the hate IE gets, I have to concede that their developers are rather decent people.

Of course. Some Microsoft people may even frequent HN. ;)
Why is that? Would you refuse to date a Jewish woman who had signed up on Jdate? (Assume you met her outside of Jdate.)
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I thought his article did a good job of logically asserting his point. What kind of data do you absolutely need that he didn't provide in order to believe that OKCupid is but a small part of a bigger picture when it comes to black women and (online) dating?
Maybe you read a different post, but the one linked here simply argues that "any black person will tell you, when black folks date online they don't go to OKcupid," then lists a bunch of sites targeting black users and concludes that the OKCupid data is not representative of the public at large, despite the complete absence of supporting data. I don't see an analysis of data, just a hypothesis.
I totally agree. I have a friend who is for the most part in the same position as me in my life - married, day job. The only difference is that my wife understands that for my entrepreneurial ventures to bear fruit one day I have to network, meet clients, talk to people, dip into the savings here and there and make up for it and work late or burn the midnight oil. However my friend's spouse expects him to leave his work at 5 o clock sharp and be home and be present and that's it, no and if or but. So he can't even take a freelance gig and do it from home.

A tolerant spouse makes all the difference.
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What kind of data do you absolutely need...?

The kind of data that demonstrates that the OKCupid data doesn't reflect broader dating patterns.
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There are a number of libraries that provide useful utilities for controlling parallel execution in JavaScript. Here's one nice one for Node.js: http://github.com/creationix/do

And two more that aren't Node-specific:

http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/PL/arrowlets/index.xhtml

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It's posting just like this that continues my downward spiral into unproductivity...
It's more parsimonious to just assume that black women have fewer options.

Black men between 20 and 34 (prime mate-choosing years) have an 11% incarceration rate. The unemployment rate and median income among (unincarcerated) black men is also low. So black women are more likely to need to look for people of a different racial background.

That means that if everyone has a slight bias towards their own ethnic group, it's going to hit black women the hardest. (It would be a pretty strange mutation if you didn't have that bias.)

Thus, they have to try the hardest, and have the least to show for it.

Or they're on Ebony Elite.
Is Adobe actually taking the high/intelligent road? This is cool.
In my experience people prefer the "I think" when you are unsure of what you say, and to be clear when you know what you are talking about.

Odds are that a person that never ever say "I think" believes that his opinions are 100% right, witch nobody else will like(Mr Perfect) and a person that always says "I think" is insecure, weak, always depending of what other people think about me mentality.

As the romans said: The true is in the middle.
Doomed to be forever dominated by nerds, perhaps. Can anybody name an example of a field of entertainment that was successfully de-nerdified?
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I enjoyed the point about prepending sentences with "I think." I have found that, during emotional discussions with friends or loved ones, it also behooves us to prepend many phrases with "I feel like."

The common nerd defense to this approach is to cry, "But I'm saying it... of course it's just my opinion!" or, "Of course it's just my feelings!" However, prepending a sentence with "I think/I feel like..." indicates that you are not one of those frustrating people who refuses to consider other people's emotions and opinions.

Additionally, "You don't consider my emotions enough" and "It feels like you don't consider my emotions enough" are two wildly different phrases, no matter which way you slice it.

By prepending that sentence with "it feels like," we profoundly alter its meaning. The first sentence indicates an objective truth for which the listener can be blamed. The latter sentence indicates nothing except the speaker's internal feelings, which--for the most part--cannot be consciously controlled.

No one is to blame for feelings: they simply are, and denoting a sentiment as "a feeling" rather than "a fact, which may be your fault," is a vital tactic for communicating constructively on a deep emotional level.

Many nerds approach debates and communication with a feeling of entitlement to being understood. "I have spent a lot of time learning what I know, and if someone else can't understand it when I explain it to them, it is their problem, not mine." Unfortunately, this leads to severe communication issues with everyone, including other nerds.

If you want someone else to understand something, and they don't get it, it is your problem as much as it is theirs. Maybe if you never have to deal with that person ever again, nor anyone else who they have to deal with, and so on, it is not your problem. But if they are a friend, colleague or loved one, it inarguably behooves you to go out of your way to make them understand what's going on in your head. Only mutual understanding of needs and desires will provide us with the opportunity to reach constructive conclusions to our problems.
I think it takes a certain lack of humanity to use the word "hideous" to describe anybody's born appearance.