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Well, okay, you've got a point there. The only woman on my team confided in me that she wants more challenging technical work, and she hasn't talked to our boss about it because she has an image of him as being unapproachable and moody, while all the men he has worked with think he's just the most easy-going and tolerant person imaginable. (The other women do, too, but my teammate is the first woman who has reported to him. The other women are peers.)

But when I say self-aware, I mean that cognitive psychology is a favorite topic here, and people here have read a lot about the importance of intuition in every kind of thinking, and how everything about a person influences our intuition about them whether we want it to or not. Height, race, sex, age, attractiveness... and even worse, that our biases in intuition are mostly beyond the reach of introspection... and of course we can't dispense with intuition in dealing with people, so we can't really be fair, we can only be skeptical of our intuition, check it against evidence whenever possible, and try to observe our biases and compensate for them.

At least, I'm pretty sure that picture emerges clearly from the various links that have been posted here, or anywhere else that geeky guys hang out. I think we have the problem of understanding the nature of bias licked. Honestly, I think the biggest two problems are

1) An attitude problem stemming from personal wounds and resentment over the perceived advantages of women. Some men really are deeply angry with women because of their own personal disappointments.

2) Sheer ignorance about how women experience our behavior in the workplace. Knowing how we might be screwing up isn't sufficient to recognize when we're screwing up, as the example of my boss shows. We need outside input. The internet is a perfect place for women to share their experiences, since they can be anonymous if they like, and they don't have to talk to people they have complicating relationships with.
It's not settling for less.

Look at it like a basic negotiation. You suggest a proposition, if it gets declined, you keep coming back with propositions more in the favor of the other party until they accept.

That is how I view it. I can't get a job that pays 60k right now, so I'll take this job at McDonalds that pays 20k. Meanwhile, I will continue to work my ass off to find a 60k job and prove to the hiring manager that I am the person that will benefit them the most.

The difference between people that work hard and have something and people that work hard and don't have something is a combination of desire, drive, and confidence. As I stated before. You obviously have a mountain of heart.

THAT IS WHY IT'S YOU AND NOT THEM.
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A three-person startup with 0 revenue is better than Goldman Sachs
Au contraire. For example, if we help people make sense of the incumbent vs. non-incumbents in the primaries, even in a system where 2 parties is basically mandated by law, people can more easily shift which candidates the parties actually run, vs. the ones that get booted out.
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My first year of college education was probably about $2000. I'm not sure I could have done much more than pay a couple months rent with that.
In the Marines I was taught that there's always one more thing you can do to improve your situation.

That's what I do when I'm stuck on a programming project or unsure where to start: identify one thing that will improve the situation, and then do that thing. Repeat until done.
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Is Google shooting itself in the foot in trying to compete with Apple?
So...why does an article about bootstrapping focus completely on how bootstrapping will make it hard to raise VC funding?

That's like writing an article titled The Problem with Being Gay and then saying it will make it hard to pick up women.
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Depends on whether or not PixelQi and others are able to deliver such a display based on LCD technology.

Economies of scale for LCD as found in laptops, tablets, TVs, etc. are huge, vs. the relatively tiny market for e-paper / e-ink.

If (currently a big "if") a decent reader-like display can be made from LCD, the market will quickly shift to it based on cost alone.
_pra is right. I use a very lightweight tiling window manager called dwm (http://dwm.suckless.org/).

I do have a desktop background, though I rarely ever see it.

What I meant was I don't have a desktop in the Windows/Mac OS X sense -- a place with icons, documents, mounted drives and the like.
"Higher taxes don't necessarily mean less freedom with your money; a collective good that a group largely (or even unanimously) in favor of purchasing might go unpurchased due to the free rider problem."

When you are taxed, that money may or may not go toward something you want to purchase (and many times, the people in the middle and upper classes are paying for programs that they will never use). That money is gone and you have that much less to spend, save, or invest.

You also don't really have a say in where it's spent.
On top of that, it's liable to be rejected by Apple as an abuse of public APIs.

Just last week there was an article on HN about a guy who got rejected for using the VoIP background API for an IRC app. Which actually is bending the rules a lot less than playing a silent audio file on loop in order to claim to be an audio client.
The difference between people that work hard and have something and people that work hard and don't have something is a combination of desire, drive, and confidence.

There's certainly something to that. For me, though, it was psychologically difficult, to say the least, to hold the confidence and drive to make something of myself, while doing a good job at manufacturing refrigerators or operating a cash register. Given the large number of folk who never seem to get out of those dead-end service jobs, I think there may well be a lot of people like me. :)
That's OK, the law takes priority anyways.
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That is required by 2872.
No, that was the sarcasm. It's funny because it's ironic that Apple wants to lock down what apps are available, and yet it's being openned to those very apps through an exploit in their own software. BUT, it's yet more ironic that people will try to use this in attacks again the App Store even though it's irrelevant. Apparently this wasn't obvious despite me pointing out that the comment was multidimensionally sarcastic. oh well.

People attacking AppStore policies in the context of a browser exploit is as relevant as a "malicious app" that reports having access to your contact list, "stealing" your data through a Wallpaper that you manually install and grant access (ie, last weeks "debacle"). THOUGH, one could question why the Mobile Safari process is allowed the ability to become rampant anyway. I particularly appreciate the separation of the Dalvik VM in such scenarios.

Also, I posted two comments this evening. One is at -4, the other is at 10. Why did my overall "karma" move from 92 to 89. Should it not be at 98? Maybe I don't understand it. Oh well, hardly relevant.
I need some people to do some heavy lifting work - I don't have long to establish suitability, time is money and all, what rough sieve should I apply to a list to get the most strong/fit people?

I'm going with 20 something males.

We often deal with groups and have to make decisions without full information or without a long time to ruminate.

"Which babysitter will be better?" The grandmother or the young single male teen? Snap decision, I think I know who most would choose. Such choices are based on prejudice developed through group behavioural observation; it's a shortcut that mostly works.
I've grown to dislike that habit in all languages. It's too cute and it doesn't scale with code changes. It's easier for me to read code that's formatted in a standard way, even if that means conceptual columns don't line up.
That's a good idea. What were your problems with Digium cards?

Problem is we are on a very tight budget. Any money spent on testing is not on phone calls, which means less jobs for the population.
When open source disappears into government...
It's too bad Potion Factory never made the iPhone app they were talking about for The Hit List, I'm a big fan of the desktop app.
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Jailbroke my new iPhone 4. I've been jailbreaking for years, although primarily to change my SMS sound (sad but true, and practically required in an office full of iPhones).

I tether too, but only for conferences, which is pretty rare.

I've been playing more with various apps since the iPhone 4 can certainly take the performance hit. SBSettings (swipe status bar to pull down commonly-used options, like toggling 3G/EDGE), LockInfo (put calendar, mail, weather, etc on your lock screen), BiteSMS (SMS replacement with a bunch of features).
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You can vote both or neither as well. Quaternary.

Of course any true geek who fits one of the !(0,0) responses must reply simply "yes".
Go back to school and learn the basic principles on which UNIX was built upon.

Try to recognize the differences between text file and XML file.

Try to understand the difference between 'file /bin/sh' , 'ldd /bin/sh' and /usr/bin/java.
"I certainly think that education is important. I think the problem lately is people have been valuing formal education over life experience. College is not the only life experience, nor in my opinion, is it the most important one."

College can't replace life experience. But, many of the articles I have seen go in the opposite direction and say that college is useless.

To some it may be useless, but you will only get something out of it if you put in the effort.
Nice table. Until my wife's MacBook slid off it.

Note to self: Add a sticky mat in the future to add a little friction.
It is puzzling to me that you feel better about yourself living off of loans playing video games than working at a dead end job.

Oh, if I'd thought I was living off of loans, I'd have been doomed, sure. Instead, I was just temporarily borrowing some money until things improved. That turned out to be true, and those people got paid back. The whole point was to live as though I were about to get a job paying what I'd been making, which helped enormously in believing that I was going to, which helped me stay optimistic over the months until I actually did, which meant I kept trying at an optimum sustained level, and that I could smile and joke when talking with recruiters and interviewers, rather than saying the minimum required to get off the phone in the expectation that it wouldn't matter anyway, etc.

But enough of my life history, eh? :)
Agreed, but to my confusion Amazon has been very aggressive in competing with B&N. Every price drop of the Kindle in the last 9 months has seemingly been in response to a price drop of the Nook (B&N's e-reader). Given that B&N is like a gnat on Amazon's elephant, I haven't been able to figure out what is going on.

So it wouldn't surprise me if Amazon somehow got involved here, perhaps in a way that would avoid the sales tax issue.
You mean you support C# 2.0, since var, LINQ, et al run on .Net 2.0 :-P

Doing a full blown Linq Provider would be pretty cool, but would also be very very very time consuming to get right. Expression trees are pretty cool, but you're still dealing with the AST so it gets crazy. There needs to be a Linq Provider framework / library to work at a slightly higher abstraction level.
It looks to me like they're shutting out competitors looking to replace their service. That's apples and oranges compared to Twitter, which they are supplementing.
I'd be interested to see if the idea of switching between epoll and poll at 60% ATR would have too much overhead as to be impractical.

Re: > 60% active fd's being real-life or not, I don't really see what's the problem in wanting to handle that case in a project whose goal is basically to keep humming along nicely regardless of what you throw at it.
The most salient point to me was the fact that github was not initially conceived of as a business, but as a tool the founders desired for the betterment of their own day to day. And not only that, but github was quickly adopted in the founders' workplaces at the time, giving them time to focus on it and refine it without giving up an income. Dogfooding is a common theme in startups and it's worth noting that 37signals' Basecamp product was, as I understand it, built with the a very similar purpose. Initially it was a tool for them to help manage their own projects first and something they could charge for second, built under similar conditions where they already had a business designing client websites, providing them an income.

A lot of times I dream up projects I think of as potential startups but often have to ask myself, "Would I actually use this product?" If the answer is ever even a hint of "no" I tend to suspect that I could not dedicate myself to the project wholeheartedly enough to back a business. I wonder if this is a meaningful metric and if dogfooding is really such a powerful motivator.
One of the main reasons I'd go to a brick-and-mortar store is to be able to pick up a book that day rather than get it shipped.

Borders has nice kiosks you can use to look up where a book is, but at Barnes and Noble you have to talk to someone at the information desk and watch over their shoulder to make sure they're spelling the name of the book right, etc. Inconvenient.

Also, usually at brick-and-mortar stores, if they don't have something they'll say "but we can order it for you", which has never made sense to me. If I wanted to order it, I'd do so more cheaply online.

Bookstores also need to focus on the browsing experience and the immediate gratification aspect if they want to compete with Amazon.
That's a lot to wade through to get to this conclusion: "There is only one way to decide which App is best for you, and that is to try both."
No more Android-beginner group
Dunno why, but this wonderful group is being disbanded. The beginner groups are more accepting of well, beginner questions.

I wish they gave more info. I always feel so outside with Android....
Things is nice but it really and truly does feel like development there has majorly stagnated. They are providing small, incremental updates for various features, but we've been waiting on the "coming soon" push notifications support in Things for iPhone for a year now with no real changes beyond delays.
Final result is either complete anarchy/lawlessness or one single very long law.

Depending on the exact implementation rules you might get stuck on zero or 1 and not be able to make any more laws (except the one that states "+1 -2").
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B&N have been doing a good job not only selling their e-reader, but bringing the nook readers into the store by various promotions (show your nook and get a free book, show your nook and get free coffee) and the ability to browse any e-book on your nook while physically in the store. Clearly a lot of thought has gone into the nook in-store experience.

So I can see how bookstores could survive as essentially a book showroom and congregating space. Of course you don't need as much square footage for that, which would also lower costs.
One cannot forget that the USA is a superpower who has taken on the mantle of world police and has been expected to perform in that role for decades. I don't think either of us are qualified to make a judgment on how many countries we need a presence in. The question of a deficit is mostly a separate issue IMO. Their are plenty of other places to point to in the budget that take up a significant amount of money.
you'd be surprised how much companies spend to find employees. I think recruitment agencies take 10-20% of yearly salaries.
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These sorts of issues already exist in copyright law, and have been covered pretty well. It seems to me that this would essentially be an extension of the first sale doctrine.
I thought we were talking about startups, here, not investment bank jobs.
ok, I understand, but please please please keep us informed. It would be great to read you blog. Looking forward to hearing from you. thanks for this thread.
For the downmodders: is an honest question; I wasn't being flippant.
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Slightly off topic, but that project sounds quite interesting. Shoot me an email at steve at stevenwei.com if you want to chat about it (I have experience in this space).
if it's not money, is it time or talent?
It is a little wonder why this kind of people think that everyone else are just stupid to realize such things. What they want is a fame and followers. (btw, don't you forget to donate!)

hint: nginx/src/event/modules/ngx_epoll_module.c

May be one should learn how to use epoll and, perhaps, how to program? ^_^
What is it that you are A/B testing with such a low level (I assume, the blog post doesn't seem to state an actual number) of current users?

Are these really accurate experiments of the signup process if your only visitors are ones who actively asked for an invite or were referred?
Sounds like an anti-trust problem.
So by your logic, do courts not matter because they only intervene after the crime is committed? The logic of accountability is that consequences influence future action. Advocates can punish politicians for voting the wrong way on amendments just as easily as they can bills, by lowering the politicians' scores.

I'm not asking people to pay attention to minutia - on the contrary, I think we should make technology which minimizes the amount of attention they need to pay in order to be informed. That is, reducing the role of committees &c. in their minds.

[condensed for the tldr crowd]
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I think Anamax is referring to war between the East and the West, not between the West and the West.
The idea that money is speech is absurd.

Tell that to the Supreme Court. Which has said that, because of free speech, corporations are allowed to spend as much money as they wish directly advertising for political causes.
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Last suggestion (and I'm not kidding): What about Cuba (http://bit.ly/a9qVqN ) OR Suriname ?
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"Millions of Americans who by objective standards belong to the working class or lower middle class have persuaded themselves that they are part of the professional-investor elite, because they have worthless degrees from diploma mills, negligible amounts invested in stocks, and suburban trophy houses they cannot afford."
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If I was a better blogger, I would probably try and build/break the story myself. But I'm not, so I'm seeking the wisdom of the crowd...

ICANN will soon be voting on a change to the .jobs TLD. They took comments on it for a month (http://forum.icann.org/lists/jobs-phased-allocation/), and just released a summary of all the comments (http://forum.icann.org/lists/jobs-phased-allocation/pdfD2L3BBFXOj.pdf). The thing is that this "summary" so biased that it is hard to talk about it without sounding like I'm making it up. But I'll give an example...

In the summary, they give the following list as a sample of the companies that oppose the change: American Veterinary Medical Association, National Science Teachers Association, Pacific TransUnion LLC, Job Target, IAEWS members, Newspaper Association of America, CareerXroads, LatPro, Inc., and NAFSA: Association of International Educators.

Not in the list: Google. Which is interesting, because Randy Levinson of Google submitted a fantastic article regarding the need for the rejection (so http://bit.ly/d8Zx3b). Somebody at ICANN nuked the record of the letter though (http://forum.icann.org/lists/jobs-phased-allocation/threads.html) - thank god for Google Cache.

Any directions on who I should try to tell this story to?
It would be more useful it there was some information about what it checks for. I've also never had problem with this, so it would be good to have some information about why this was created.
good job guys!
What were there opinions of AppEngine? (the closest thing there is currently)
Sounds like someone who got dumped hard by a girlfriend, got mugged in the street, or came down with a terrible disease in New York and has formed a bad association with the city.
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Adding/removing from the poll() array is more or less free, but with epoll, you have to use epoll_ctl(), so you'd definitely want an hysteresis to avoid bouncing things around too much.
The obvious difference is Apple's problem is unintentional and a theoretical malicious app distributed in Apple's store would be intentional. Probably something along the lines of going into a B&M Apple Store and falling down due to a wet spot on the floor versus some Apple employee running out and pushing you down on purpose. The damage may be the same but they don't have any real connection to each other.
To be honest I'm glad that professors are doing more research and instructors are more pure instructors. The typical professor has 4 jobs: Researcher, Fundraiser, Teacher and Evaluator. They all have a conflict of interest with each other in some way and they'll all steal your shower focus. If they were all separated, universities could provide much better services in each job category. I remember Knuth saying something along the lines of "I retired so I can actually focus on research and attend less meetings". Students won't have to deal with the scheduling nightmare that is final exams because professors are too valuable to provide flexible (scheduling wise) examination services. Things like back to back finals or having them 3 days after the 'get all of your large projects in' end of classes rush don't have to happen anymore! People who want to interact with professors can come on as undergrad research assistants/apprentices and actually learn some research vs. some extension of high school. Professors wouldn't have to deal with something alot of them aren't that good at and most dread and actually get the grants they need!
I am very interested in your life history.

What I get from this post is that you have to delude yourself into thinking something that isn't true to not lose hope.

That is a very dangerous way to think. If you don't accept reality, you are losing out. Not just on what is actually happening, but it is how to build confidence in yourself. "I am in a terrible situation, but by my ability to think of my feet and provide for myself when I needed it, I am very capable." There are a lot of important self actualizations that occur when all hope is lost.