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I think the solution to this problem is:

- Listen to motivational audio daily/religiously.

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Brian Tracy

This site has a pretty good selection for reference:
http://www.nightingale.com/
Note then that you were probably looking for a word like 'occasionally' or 'sometimes' rather than 'often'. The phenomenon you were outlining would only happen with a tiny fraction of video game enthusiasts, so regardless of its statictical significance it wouldn't be described as happening 'often'.
I too am interested in a lot of things. But it would be a trivial exercise for me to name something you're not interested in.
It isnt that entertaining if at all. The Times of London has a much better article on interesting and really entertaining judgements.
> The article lacks some statistics and research.

In fact, I believe there are statistics out there that contradict the article's suggestion that there aren't significant and consistent differences between airlines.

http://www.airlinequality.com/

I don't know if this particular website is unbiased. But at least in my limited experience, the Japanese companies (JAL and ANA) and Swiss Air are much better than American Airlines, Continental and Canadian.
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Was sorely tempted to write in a new headline: "Taiwanese physicist's theory threatens much-loved TV show, common understanding of the universe."
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Too bad there's no way we can find out. If we had some kind of a computer where we search for the answer, perhaps the confusion would subside.
Let me first say that you are right that her comparison of 'cowboy' vs. 'good developer' is completely ridiculous. Talk about her prejudices showing in conjuring up that straw man. I've never worked with any developer that fitted in the cowboy category, while most did their best to fit in the 'good developer' category. However:

Can't you say that about any form of discrimination?

She could, but that's not what she is saying. She's saying it about this form of reverse discrimination.

You implicitly assume 'forms of discrimination' are interchangeable and you consequently draw a completely skewed analogy. 'Female students in CS' are the party being discriminated against, while 'white people' are not suffering from discrimination (when compared to 'black people'; we're comparing in general; I'm not saying individual 'white people' don't ever experience discrimination: I'm saying it happens much when compared to the amount of discrimination black people suffer). That's why your argument is wrong: we're trying to offset discrimination against women here and we're not trying to defend the continued discrimination against some other party (note: you have to look at the situation before this particular instance of reverse discrimination is instituted: this instance cannot be defended by itself).

Let me repeat that: female students in CS are being discriminated against. Almost nobody is doing that on purpose, but research in discrimination against women is crystal clear on this. There are many cognitive biases in our culture that prevent women from entering CS and becoming successful in it. We need positive discrimination to offset those cultural biases. Someone complaining about the unfairness of 'women-only' grants fails to understand the deeprootedness of prejudice.

This, BTW, is a trap sophisticated men keep falling into. We tend to think there isn't much discrimination against women: after all, aren't we being completely fair against our female colleagues? The answer is simply: no, we probably are not, even if we do our best. The aggregate result of even very small amounts of prejudice are still noticable.
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Well at least in Germany, there isn't any admissions process for CS. The quality of education is good, too.

We don't have significantly more women in CS than other countries, I think.
I agree with the complete opposite of this.
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Ideas soak in your mind when written down.
You will be proud as hell looking back at the ideas you have. They reflect your highest level of thought from your current mentality, and are great indicators of your growth.

Without writing them down, you give them little power to thrive and iterate. Think about how great businesses are made, or how code is made.. It's all iterative.

Write down every idea... Just try it for a few weeks and see where it goes. Like I said before, I use ActionOutline, which is a terrific program for managing all of the 'words' in your life that isn't in code.
I basically agree with your conclusion in practice as a thinking human being—but I'm also a writer, and it's very hard to write speculative fiction when there's no FTL and our nearest neighbor might live in the next galaxy over—so I like to ask the angels-on-a-pinhead questions anyway :)

So, a reasonable alternative solution: use the Anthropic argument. First, assume that there is intelligent life close to us. Then, realize that we still exist, and haven't been consumed by grey goo; and, according to our long-distance observations, all the planets around all the stars we've surveyed still exist too, in shapes that don't suggest intelligent redesign (even though "they" have had a few potential billion years to do so.)

Given that, it's likely that whatever path civilizations tend to follow eventually preclude them from wanting to leave to go redesign the galaxy in their image. This might just be a problem of limited extra utility derived from expansion: if Moore's exponential curve does, in fact, turn into Moore's S-curve, then there's no point in sticking more Computronium onto the pile, because the lightspeed-delay in the optical relays could just get to be too long for the extra circuits to do any good (presuming everyone wants to live on a single "instance" of AwesomeUniverse2000, rather than sharding it.)

Now, the number of additional assumptions in the conclusion can, by working back through Bayes' law, tell you how probable the assumption itself (that life exists close to us) is. I'm guessing it's a small, but not infinitesimal (compared to space) number.
Comparing with facebook isn't a good idea IMHO. Facebook also have way too many servers. But they have a business model - they can afford it.

10 pageviews per second is pretty lame IMHO. Crazy crazy server costs. Amazon is crazy expensive! Why use them? Either Reddit need to drastically change the way they do things, or they deserve to die.
I must admit some parts of that annoy me. You can't argue with the sexist jokes and assumptions of being a secretary. But not wanting to be a Cowboy Coder? What does it mean, women coders always comment their source code? I don't think I have actually ever met a Cowboy Coder (I am 38 now, 10 years professional software developer, coding since I am 12), so I seriously doubt their mysthical existence is a significant deterrent for women in CS.

Also things like "computer games are for men" - well if you really want it, create games for women. Nobody is preventing people (men or women) from creating games for women, or in general, from creating the environment for learning and working they desire.

If it is true that it is harder for women to get CS jobs, it would be a serious concern. I'd like to see more hard data about it, though. The people I know all would love to hire more women.

At the company we currently work for, we also have one woman coder (this is 100000% more women coders than I usually see at companies). But thanks to Scrum, we have several female designers in the teams, so at least the overall atmosphere is not all masculine. That's one of the few things I consider good about Scrum. By overall atmosphere I just mean a lone woman does not have to feel weird. I don't in general encounter penis jokes or whatever in masculine environments either (also no Star Trek posters - most offices simply have blue carpet, some unhappy plants, desks, computers).
Isn't every single subreddit cachable?
Only the starting page isn't 100%, but I'm sure that many users have the same combination of subreddits (e.g. the default ones).
Would be interesting to see if they have certain "user classes". Something like:

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I highly recommend reading the comments to this article as well.
When I read the headline, my first thought was about the show.
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Even if women (statistically) suck at programming (a common claim here), I'm pretty sure that even the good ones are turned off programming because of the lack of female co-workers, discrimination, and other factors.

I'd guess that the average women in technology is underrated (only the real enthusiasts get through), and talking them down is going to lead to further discrimination.

Would I suggest that CS departments aim for 50% female students? Not this decade, and maybe not ever. But should women be given more credit, more opportunities, and more encouragement to start their own projects (rather than just contributing)? Hell yeah.

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_women_in_FLOSS
You linked to a web design website in defense of trival eye candy in a discussion about computer science.

I'll just leave it at that.
Why not just get some dedicated servers? :/
I still don't understand why anyone with any amount of load or traffic would use the most expensive hosting available.
Well, only relatively. I think the test is "given immortality, would you get bored?" After exhausting all the stuff I like, I'd learn to like more stuff.
"should women be given more credit, more opportunities, and more encouragement to start their own projects (rather than just contributing)?"

What exactly does that even mean, though? And wouldn't it also be rather patronizing?

Btw, I don't think anybody ever encouraged me to start my own projects. Society in generally encourages you to become an office drone, no matter if you are male or female..
You can also get worked up about reverse discrimination if you fail to understand how it differs from regular discrimination. Using the same word for different things can throw off the mind in surprising ways.
That's ridiculous.

Facebook have revenue, and profit. They can afford to buy more servers and have them sitting idle.

Reddit, should be trying to run on an optimal number of servers. Firstly, cheap hosting (Which is NOT amazon), and secondly less servers. 80 is just crazy.
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Well that may be true in theory (and I used to think so too) but in practice I have only really seen two kinds of code in production: good code written by good coders and bad code written by bad coders. Yeah, it is true that some languages are by design bad choices in certain kinds of applications... But really, the quality of the programmer seems to be the dominant factor in most cases. YMMV and all that.
Actually, a better analogy would be African-Americans getting extra scholarships, to compensate for the relative lack of wealth their families accumulated. I certainly wouldn't begrudge this.

Whatever cognitive differences there are between the sexes, I think they're very minor. Do they keep people like Shakespeare from being considered great writers, though women are said to have stronger verbal ability?

Anyone reading Hacker News knows how important communication, teamwork and the human elements are, in real-world software development. We are not troglodytes who shuffle into the office at night to partake in an ancient ritual of becoming one with the Platonic forms. (Not most of us, at least.) The reality is more like Office Space.

In fact, it is strange to consider men good at even just the technical aspects of programming. Most apparently have a hard time solving basic programming tasks (a common complaint here). Lore abounds of programmers with intimidating resumes who turn out to have problems with basic datastructures. The software world looks less like a meritocracy, and more like a cushy office job that beats working at Wendy's.
Another article demanding that coders have no self-respect, but this time, it's assumed that self-respect is a masculine trait.
It depends. They have quotas for different countries. Think of how many people are applying from your country. Then think of how many people are applying from Mexico, China, India, Guatemala. That is just the means so you have a much higher probability than if you are from a West European country than you do from a developing country.
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For those who have trouble believing the argument, Scott Adams puts it more cogently: "If I had a holodeck, I'd close the door and never come out until I died of exhaustion. It would be hard to convince me I should be anywhere but in the holodeck, getting my oil massage from Cindy Crawford and her simulated twin sister. I'm afraid the holodeck will be society's last invention."
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> and I don't have access to their code/architecture/etc

Actually, you do! :) http://code.reddit.com

But to help you out, I'll tell you that a good chunk of the expensive loops are written in C.
That's funny, I'm trying to land a job Stateside, so I can secure a H1-B, hopefully progress to a Green Card so I can do a startup! Small world! There's certainly much less opportunities and talent over here. Most young smart people don't see startups as a viable and rewarding career opportunity....which is a real shame.
Whitelisting solves nothing. It's still a 'bad' userbase. It's been cultivated to be anti consumerist anti advertising etc.

Whitelisting on adblock will let through a tiny bit of CPM based revenue, but people won't click in the numbers that 'normal' people do.
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Mobile phones have always scared me, these are no doubt addictive and possibly very bad for ones health. In the sense that one is putting a transmitter which is outputting up to half a watt right up to your head. As a electrical engineer this was instinctively insane to me. We have long since forgotten the alarm bells which some sounded about this process, I only hope that we don't see a major backlash, like we did with asbestos etc etc.
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We had dedicated servers. It saved us 30% a month to move to EC2.
A key trend that supports his claim is the drastically lower birth rates in more developed countries - it appears that as consumerism and perhaps, indulgence, rise, children become more and more scarce.

Per-capita GDP and birth rate don't linearly correlate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TFR_vs_PPP_2009.svg Above a certain standard of living, people just seem to stop having as many kids. I don't think it's fair to call practically every nation with per-capita GDP over $15k "consumerist," so I think your argument is pretty weak.

As Islam, India, and China rise, the western consumer will mix in among them and become their descendants. They will move toward our consumerism, we will move toward their work ethic, their pragmatism.

Islam pragmatic? Is this a joke? Many Islamic countries discourage women from working. Think about how crazy that is from an economic standpoint. It's cutting your nation's workforce in half. And work ethic? Not only do people in developed countries work more ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yearly_working_time_2004.j... ), they are more productive thanks to automation, better infrastructure, and better education.

In an interaction between 500 million and >3 Billion people, Newton's laws of motion apply as though we were free floating masses.

I think you're saying that if you have 500 million people with one culture and 3 billion with another, you'll end up with a culture much closer to the 3 billion. I don't think this is true. People copy ideas, but they don't copy them randomly. They usually only copy ideas they deem "good." So the more useful ideas like money, human rights, and social support systems get copied more often. If anything, developing countries (lots of people) have copied the 1st world (smaller number of people).
If you've ever seen someone go 'cold-turkey' then you realise that plenty of additions have reached the status of 'physical need'.

In fact, at a molecular level in the brain almost all addictive substances and activities have a physical component.

I once read a book about addiction, the title was 'from chocolate to heroin' or something to that effect. It listed an absolutely amazing number of substances that you can develop an addiction to. Oxygen wasn't one of those, but I get the point the OP tries to make, which is that there is physical discomfort associated with not being able to satisfy your cravings. Now in the case of Oxygen that 'discomfort' will lead to your rapid expiry, a thing that in the case of most - but not all - substances you can be addicted to will not occur. But there are addictions that will make you very ill indeed if you try to break your dependency bonds too quickly.
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It's only worth it if it makes a difference in performance. That's far from established fact.
I seriously doubt that is the reason - on the contrary, I constantly hear that people would like more male teachers. However, I don't think the salary is sufficient to feed a family. Not sure if that is the main reason, but it might be a factor in men's decisions.
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You only remember the queries that don't work. :) Seriously though, we've measurably seen people expect more from search engines over time, so if your impression has stayed constant then we are doing pretty well. In particular, the average query length has increased by ~ 2 words if I'm not mistaken.

Big changes I can think of in the last few years that we've publicly announced:

* The index is several orders of magnitude larger.

* Most documents that you see in results can now go from crawl to serving in a matter of minutes.

* Ranking for the extreme head is pretty much SEO free.

* Improved ranking for long tail documents with little data available about them.

Those are just the really big launches I can remember off the top of my head.

Most of our day to day work in general falls into two categories.

1. Making our existing systems faster, fresher, higher quality.
2. Searching for brand new sources of data, most of which don't work out that well (like in any other research area.) and occasionally finding the diamond in the rough that dramatically changes search results enough for at least the SEO community to notice.
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I have to say I’m shocked by this news, especially considering that Bing will be behind Yahoo’s primary search engine here in the states and in Europe.

Bing seems to lack mobile search. While there search page is optimized for mobile, they don't seem to rank mobile differently. That alone could be a deal killer for the Japanese market.
The second state is important as legal consequences are removed and the situation becomes subject to market forces.

If an ecosystem for adapting and jailbreaking phones or cracking DRM for fair use grows up, then it will start drawing customers in if that's what people want.

At some point some of the original sellers will realize that if they remove the original locks themselves, their customers will get their unlocked phone with less money (just buying price instead of buying price + unlocking price), and eventually the markets make the shift because they are no longer constrained by the old legal monopoly.
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SF to LA is 6-7 hours, and I prefer to fly. Given that the drive to the airport is around 25 minutes, I usually arrive at the airport no more than an hour before my flight, the flight time is around an hour, and getting out of the airport post-landing takes about 10 minutes (I never check bags), that's less than 3 hours, during one of which I get to sit and do nothing (nap, listen to music, watch TV), versus 6-7 where I have to concentrate on driving. With the driving option, I also have to deal with parking at my destination.

Sure, flying is probably still more expensive (though gas alone for the drive is probably at least $100), but I find it worth the added convenience.