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While the ACOE has a complicated role in all this, they must serve many competing interests. The State of Louisiana, the needs of the maritime industry, oil and gas interests, and the federal government that allows the situation to continue, because of the temporary economic benefits we all reap from inaction.

An incredible overview of the problem was written 20 years ago by John McPhee[1], as part of his book "The Control of Nature". Unfortunately, solving the problem in the long term means essentially undermining the entire economy of South Louisiana, and leaving the City of New Orleans destitute.

I served in Baton Rouge for 3 years and spent a lot of time on the Mississippi River. It's an extraordinary resource that much of America silently takes for granted. I with there were better solutions to save it and protect the people of Louisiana, but I don't feel like I have better answers to these questions that anyone else. It's a tough situation.

[1]: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/02/23/atchafalaya
why would there be buffer overflows in caddy?
Thirty years ago, John McPhee wrote about this very issue. At that time a ship on the Mississippi river could go through a lock, drop FIFTY FEET, and take a shortcut to the ocean via the Atachfalaya river.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/02/23/atchafalaya

Just because it's not a new situation doesn't mean it's not an emergency.
I use it exclusively as a proxy server.

I've never noticed any performance issues, I think I saw a benchmark where it said caddy can handle 2000req/s, which is at least an order of magnitude or 2 faster than any upstream service I've used it in front of.
"They are leading people not to change their behavior and this is the result."

Rising sea level is the _result_ of Mr.Trump swearing in 3 months back?, I understand this forum is echo chamber for anti trump discussions, but you are reaching so far here.

Most peoples behavior is mainly due to capitalism, all of them, multiple generations, were raised watching ads which gets them to buy new "stuff" all the time, so "stuff" gets made/sold to keep the cycle going.

Internet and TV ads are storefront's of this "stuff". Instead of using your personal dislike of few people and spreading the message to blame them for climate change, you could get politics/personal feelings out of it, and tell people not to buy so much "stuff".
As if I could ever find a clothes dryer in china.
God, that's depressing.
What's pseudo-science about it?
In reality Russia neither encourages nor discourages to go women into tech. But there's a long tradition way back from the Soviet years, when women flew in Space, worked as ministers, etc.
Its comes down to inconveniencing all the passengers because one person doesn't comply. As a passenger I would appreciate someone being removed like they were. Otherwise what if I am the next person chosen to get off the plane. If I were chosen I would get off the plane.

So from my perspective, they did the right thing, if I evaluate the outcome selfishly.

I think its all about personal feelings anyway. I feel angry that someone thinks they are to be held to a different set of rules than anyone else (as other passengers got off), and that they think its okay to inconvenience all the other passengers.

Other people look at the outcome, and feel sorry for the guy because of his injuries, and are angry at law enforcement because they are anti-authoritarian - maybe something to do with their upbringing or their status in society I don't know.

And I understand that on a human level that people feel differently. But one is more rationale than the other. And this is what I believe separates the political spectrum in the US too - but that is a debate for another day.
I wanted to be a poet.
Hard to make money tho. And takes a lot of time to get good I guess.
Others are far worse than IT, like mechanical engineering.
Caddy is written in go, not C, so I'm not sure why it should be especially vulnerable to buffer overflows...
It varies. My uncle had a band and toured the small venue scene in South Louisiana back in the day. My mom was a chorus singer in the New Orleans opera company.

Both made varying levels of careers out of their talents and hard work. Both were popular at parties.
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Thanks for that affirmation. I actually taught them binary counting too over a weekend a few months back...I was amazed how quickly they were able to pick up on it (3rd and 5th graders). With limited time/energy, I was hoping to find some great resources to add to what I can provide them individually.
>I find this kind of justification a pretty sexist view against women that they'd pick their entire career path on such frivolous details.

Young adults graduate from college programs that have low chance of getting them ready for a job that could reasonably cover their tuition debt. Some of those kids will choose colleges where the tuition is far higher than a reasonably equivalent program at a state school. People are not rational agents.

And it's not a gender thing either. There are plenty of men who will expand enormous amount of time, money, and energy to attempt to get into jobs or careers where they have a low probability of recouping their investment. This is pretty much the case for anybody who tries to make a living playing professional sports, or tries to make a living from acting, for example.
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The kind of work you do in STEM field is not the same across them.
> I've seen it argued that, paradoxically, the richer and more egalitarian a society is,

The former-Communist East-European country I lived in as a kid was a lot more egalitarian than most of present-day Western countries and the women were treated pretty much the same as men were when it came to work. I remember as a kid that I regarded my mother going each morning to work and returning in the evening as a very normal thing, and I regarded the few kids' mothers who weren't doing that as being lazy (to this day I still think that a stay-at-home parent is a lazy human being).

State-run kindergartens were also of much help for women back then.
I discovered now you need to have your extensions sign by Mozilla, we had such an extension that worked only with our product, you needed an account and we did not had many users, but now the extension will not work(you can make it work only on dev version of Firefox) until we get it signed by Mozilla.
Well, if you're using a hotbox dryer, it's not the hanging up while hot, but rather the fact that you just steamed and tumbled them. That gets wrinkles out of anything. Hanging up just keeps new wrinkles from forming.
My apologies, I didn't mean to come across as disagreeing with what you said, but just to put it in better context for the larger discussion of how noticeable disabling non-web extensions will be to the average user.
I thought the book Feynman mentioned was Woods: Advanced Calculus: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/17dq5l/is_there_a_mod...
If you want to go really old school with these kinds of ancillary notes, check out https://medievalbooks.nl/ especially for example:

https://medievalbooks.nl/2016/02/26/dirty-old-books/

https://medievalbooks.nl/2015/04/24/rare-medieval-name-tags/

https://medievalbooks.nl/2015/04/17/texting-in-medieval-time...
I wonder if it can really beat Surface Book?
54/46 is considered gender equal ratio in Sweden as its within the 40%/40% line.

However the argument that we should put our focus based on how high the gender unequal distribution is is an fascinating argument since here in Sweden we have a perfect record of every employed person profession (as part of the tax record). We can list every professions and their gender distribution, and naturally very few of the stem professions are at top or even in the top 20. Worst two professions (of each gender) had midwife and floor tile worker at both >99.4% of each representative gender.

The data for female dominated professions was midwife and dentist at 99.6% and above, with pediatric at 98%. For male dominated profession at 99%-98% it is tile worker, mechanic, thin plate worker, carpenter, concrete worker, electrician, and last plumber. With 90% of people working in a profession with less than 40% women or 40% men, IT with a distribution of 81%/19% is quite average and unremarkable on the list. molecular biology, being in that small 10%, is much more remarkable because it actually has a gender equal distribution.
The main difference is that here Microsoft arbitrarily put a check for the cpuid in while Kaby Lake is probably as compatible with Windows 7 as any previous 64bit Intel CPU. Windows 3.11 doesn't have this, if you have any i386 compatible CPU it will run just fine and will happily apply all available patches.
Provocative idea: maybe modern Russia is just bad at getting men into tech, so that a relative large part of the existing STEM inertia left over from Soviet days falls on women? Not saying that it is true, but from my outside perspective, it could be part of the puzzle.

Also, the Soviet era contained a lot of progressives in terms of gender roles. That is easy to forget with today's stereotypes of male-exclusive buddy networks on all levels of economic success and high-heeled golddiggers. (again: outside perspective! I don't know the facts on the ground, just talking about perception)
Agreed - I do not think the issue is with being technically correct, but in thinking that it always settles the matter and ends the discussion.

It would seem particularly unfortunate if a compiler were to do static analysis for undefined behavior, but only use it in optimization. From a cursory search, I found this blog post [1] explaining why LLVM does not warn about such things (at least in 2011, when it was written - attitudes may have changed, and the Clang project now has the UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer [2]). One of the arguments is that it is difficult to explain what the problem is, but in my view, that is an argument for making doing so a priority.

[1] http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-...
[2] http://releases.llvm.org/3.8.0/tools/clang/docs/UndefinedBeh...
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I recently started a similar journey, starting with basic pre-algebra, let's just say its been a humbling experience.
They specifically only hire seniors, they don't want to provide positions for juniors as they would prefer to pay more for more seniors than pay indirectly for training juniors.

I think this reflects poorly on them, just as much as companies that use OSS but don't contribute anything back.
Helpful? actually I've been pitching this same idea (don't rely on Google traffic for your business model) since 2004. I've seen too many businesses FAIL and have to lay off employees because they relied on Google traffic.
Mathematics is so thematically similar to CS that it used to house the CS departments. Please don't waste your time trying to conjure an argument about how CS somehow requires a different kind of brain than mathematics.
>> It's not only Russia, either, which I find to be a bizarre point of focus here. I find female colleagues are far more likely to be from India, China, or Taiwan than any western nation.

Where are you currently based? In the UK (and this is a BBC article) I don't see many (or any really) female tech workers from the countries you mention but lots from Russia and easter Europe.
its only appeal is relatively minor

Is that factual, or also something you feel like?

To us simple folks, you know, it looks as if Caddy has a number of use cases where it's a much neater fit than nginx. We like the extreme simplicity and the transparency of it all.
Some of us also like the Go it's written in. What with the magic Go modularity, you can actually embed this server in your web-app. Or is it the other way round? Comes in handy, at any rate.
Exactly. Beginning with the breakup of the Great Log Jams in the 1800s, this area has been extensively hacked by humans to do something it naturally does not do.

At some point, the river is going to go back to the way it's supposed to be, Army Corps of Engineers be damned.

c/f http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/02/23/atchafalaya
I don't think the parent comment disagrees with you that it's an emergency...I think he's surprised by the designation because it'll focus attention on the root source of the problem and make the local governments confront a not-new problem of their own making...it's a focus they may not expect or want.
Metaprogramming is less fun in D
Or a competitor comes along with a self squeezing pack.
Silly Americans. You are always prohibited from talking about the differences between men and women.

Americans think that men and women are exactly the same except for genitalia. We Russians don't.

It's an example of primitive, anti-scientific thinking driven by America's cult-like obsession with gender equality. Historically speaking, placing "equality of outcome" over "equality of opportunity" destroys nations. America will learn this the hard way, I think.

Here is the reality which is too painful for Americans to accept:

Women are as good at STEM as men. Women have a high capacity in STEM. BUT statistically, far fewer women than men enjoy STEM. Women are less interested in STEM. And no, that's not because of some invisible patriarchy. It's because wealth affords choice. Here's a news flash: Women like different things than men do. Entertainment, fashion and other industries understand this deeply. But tech apparently does not. Women and men have different goals, and therefore different tastes. (That's statistically supportable. But since it doesn't match the narrative, it's always easier to brand it as "sexist". Which is deeply ironic considering we're talking about science here.)

Let the down-modding begin... for great justice.
That tallies with what I've heard about the rest of the UK and the legal profession, although I'm Scotland-based too.
Balance isn't the goal. Equal opportunity is the goal.

If the imbalance is due to a lack of interest in a field by one gender or another that's perhaps regrettable but not a moral issue. If the imbalance is due to obstacles or prejudices faced by one gender over another then would you agree that is a moral issue that is more important for society to rectify?
Exactly. Who wouldn't want to work with some Russian hotties?
Do you think someone will approve that developers rewrite the Java/Silverlight app or the alternative to use the old/LTS browser and have devs work on current bugs and new features(that could be on a different project not the Java/Silverlight one that is currently in maintenance mode)?

I think the second option will be used in most cases.
You could use the rational for any business. Restaurants large up front cost, relatively easy to acquire customers, etc. but there's a large operational cost per transaction(same as uber). I think its a lot closer to a franchise restaurant model.
Wow. I knew there was a disparity; I didn't think it was this stark.
I did something similar. I returned to college in my late-20s to get my degree, and started at trig and worked my way back up. It wasn't strictly necessary, but I'm glad I did it.

Good luck with your studies, and never feel embarrassed to better yourself!
> women were _expected_ to work,

I also grew up in Eastern Europe in the '80s, and this is what most of present-day Westerners don't get. And women were not supposed to hold only "women-related" jobs, for example my aunt was an industrial-crane operator.
The company is called Ambrosia and the technique is parabiosis:

https://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/peter-thiel-young-blood.h...

They've started a clinical trial: https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02803554
So did I. What's the deal with this absolutely harmless comment being going all grey and dead?
"At some point, governments have to do what's fair and not what the angry mob they represents want."

Fair to whom? A government has to be fair primarily to their subjects. It's their subject's trust and resources that mandate government's power. Outsiders haven't contributed with nothing prior to their coming so it's unfair to give them equal amount of consideration about anything in the first place.
Yes, because each one of us is an island, and we're not influenced by society at all as it is.

I have a two year old and I can tell you fighting against pinky-princess girl culture is a battle. As a parent, it's you vs basically the rest of society that sends a million little cues about what girls are supposed to do. I had this conversation with my daughter the other morning:

Daughter: I want to be a boy when I grow up.
Me: Why is that?
Daughter: So I can be an astronaut!

Of course, I explained that girls can be astronauts too. And I've never done anything to set her expectations differently. But they just absorb this stuff from the ether of our culture. At her age, she's picked up on the idea that only boys are astronauts, and girls are ballerinas and princesses and shit.
I wonder how this compares with the recently launched AWS Batch.
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They are if you are willing to accept IQ scores as a proxy, the Wikipedia article for »IQ and the Wealth of Nations« [1] has a world map of average IQ scores. This whole topic is of course highly controversial because in some sense it is right around the corner of racism. There is substantial debate about the accuracy of the data, the magnitude of the effect, nature vs nurture, appropriateness of measuring IQ, biases in the methodology, the direction of the causal relation and so on.

But if you stay away from the details behind the effect and just look at the measured data, you see an unequal distribution of average IQ scores across the globe. The effect may not be as large as the referenced book claims, but the difference has been confirmed by critical responses albeit with reduced magnitude. It is pretty hard if not impossible the get an unbiased picture of this topic, so I will leave it at this and ask you to dive into the rabbit hole yourself, I don't want to accidentally spread false claims because I am certainly no expert on this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations
In case this needs to be spelled out for you, and I apologize if it doesn't, but the subtext of there being a unique gender disparity in tech not shared by thematically similar STEM fields, let alone STEM in general, is that the causal agent is misogyny.
same thing in China as well - Chinese ladies and men are both serious in their studies. I think it has to do with the national psyche developed during the harsh years of Communism where either inherited wealth or proving academic mettle meant getting a comfortable lifestyle.

In Soviet Union, it is no secret how much the scientists, mathematicians as well as intelligent people (e.g. chess players) were revered on national level.
> Compute is cheap.

Not on AWS.
Not having robots.txt is having no sign. So if you have the file you are putting up a sign that says something.

Also, it's meaningless for a bot to get permission without having permission to make a copy. There are arguments around the number of copies, but the clear implication is at lest all the routers can make a copy.
> it could be loaded into a browser using eval()

That's unrelated to the code/data distinction. But it does elucidate an important downfall of blurring code & data: using eval() opened web applications up to major security holes. (Not to mention it was incorrect, JSON won't cleanly round-trip JS even with JSON.parse.)

JSON is plain old data, nothing more, nothing less. Sure, I could replace all SVG tags with curly braces; that doesn't make it code.

> Users will keep wanting applications that do more, not less.

The ability to author vector graphics at a high level being a prime example of something more, that is not possible with a Turing tarpit of a data format like PostScript or JavaScript with lots of Canvas instructions. Applications like Inkscape are only possible because of rich data formats like SVG.

Note the lack of authoring tools -- both for vector graphics and documents -- which work natively with unattributed PostScript. That's because its nature, as code, obscures all structure. It makes for a mediocre final format due to (as you point out) its ease of implementation, nothing more. And even there, PDF, which is not interpreted, has proven superior. JS+Canvas would suffer the same issues.
Well yes I know that servo is about to make use of multi core but looking at its issues its far from ready for displaying websites correctly. So I am confused about this still as you have not really addressed what parts of servo are in fact in Firefox right now and what parts are not. I am not sure how "Rendering" is defined the way I understand it, its the part where servo has a looong was to go until its ready.
I went to a new city and wanted to see what entrepreneurs were up to. Too bad, because the only networking events were female only. What a waste. "Encouraging" women actually leads to them having fewer opportunities.
Its clear that certain people here want equal results probably because equal opportunity is much harder to track or destroys certain agendas.
You think it isn't?
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> They do tech because it provides a way of getting a good life. In the West, where conditions are less harsh, women don't feel the need to go into tech to get a good life.

But does it now? All of 'the West' isn't Silicon Valley.

I live in 'the west', Western Europe to be exact, and while I probably make more than a plumber or a shoe salesperson, I'd say someone with a medicine, law or business degree tends to make a lot more than I do, under easier conditions, and in those fields, you're not considered old at 40, and you're not on call in the weekends. IN terms of 'a good life', tech isn't the best return on investing 5 or 6 years of your life in a degree.

It's probably not a coincidence that these are the degrees women like to pursue. For a job that requires a college degree, 'tech' isn't that rewarding in terms of money or 'the good life'. It's rewarding in terms of getting to work in tech. You really need to want to work in tech to do it. This may be stupid prejudice of mine, but I get the impression guys tend to think more in terms of what they want, and girls tend to think more in terms of what would be smart of practical.

Now I can imagine that for someone in India or Romania, a degree and skills in tech means you could work for customers in the west or even move there, and make a lot more money than you would otherwise, while a business or law degree and skills don't transfer as well across borders, so the same dynamic of choosing what you want versus what would be the smart choice leads to a different decision.
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Here's the Quantum page on MozillaWiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum

And a recent blog post about the first piece of the project landing in Firefox: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/04/19/first-big-bytes-pro...
> to shove it up their ass.

C'mon man. You're better than that.
Also, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Individual lifestyle choices will never have the impact needed to solve systemic problems.
OpsDash's blog has some interesting technical posts, esp. on Postgres and Go:

https://www.opsdash.com/blog/index.html
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