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Even though I may use FB connect to sign into a site, I (and I guess many others) would be deeply suspicious of any site that exclusively uses FB connect.

At the bare minimum, offer FB, Google and Twitter so people don't feel like they're coerced. (And you'll be surprised how many "not likely" people use a decent application if it's useful and you don't send them away).

My guess is that 90% of potential user will go away when you force them to use FB, whereas 70-80% of your potential user base will still find something not to like when sign-in is not a problem. (i.e., think about the conversion ratio from people who learn about your site to people who either go "ooh, I'm going to try this out" or "hm, looks interesting but whatever" - people are often walking a thin line between these options and shifting the line by making trial and sign-up as easy and convenient as possible will get you more conversions).

Otherwise, if you're willing to put your soul into FB's hands, do the full monty and structure your app as a facebook app. If you don't think that would be a good idea, think about why you're only targeting facebook users. (And do remember that "facebook demographic" and "actual facebook users" are very different things).
Yeah, we want to do a ton of apps in a similar fashion. Supremely focused on getting things done in the simplest way.
If 1 in 5 managers are female should 1 in 5 pronouns? :)

People seem to have forgotten that "him" is the long-standing traditional way to refer to an unknown person. In Spanish, for example, "ellos" can refer to "them (male)", "them (mixed or indetermine gender)", or "them (inanimate objects)"
What was your reason for not just using openid? It is a standard, gets you a wider user base and the services already mentioned support it too.
We have engineers in their 50's; as the youngest on the dev team at my work, I'm getting closer to 30. It's nice working with a bunch of x-Microsoft guys (people who started in the early 1990's there).

I've had the privilege to interviewed potential hires. It's always fun to ask why they put down java/javascript on their resumes. Point being, we have all dev job applications come to someone on the dev team. We know what to look for, why let HR mess it up? From our point of view it has nothing to do with your age & everything to do with your skill set.

IMHO asking canned interview questions is not the best idea. Ask them "what are you currently working on". Then ask them to write code in that language. Start with simple things like a loop and go from there. You can learn a lot by seeing how they do it. If they have done any kind of open source code thats always a huge plus; you get to see the code before the interview is scheduled, always nice.
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Note that the use of gender-specific industries is a bit of a sham when you can't demonstrate that the tech industry /itself/ has any overt gender-specific targeting, outside of the occasional attempt at tech fashion. In fact, it isn't too hard to imagine a culture where cosmetology /is/ male-predominant - just switch the zeitgeist around so that peacock behavior is seen as sexually beneficial.

I'm afraid your underlying logic is full of holes. At the very least, it's unimaginative, and fails to at least ask "actually, /why/ is this so?" As for the 70%, Wiki's "Science in Iran" lists it as specifically degrees in science and engineering. While Wiki is, at times, unremarkable in its factuality, this specific assertion is actually backed by citation.

Furthermore, biology being /also/ male-dominant in the US, your point doesn't hold well. What makes biology more female-oriented than chemistry or physics anyhow? What basis are you making such a claim?
My two little nieces had a birthday this week and for their birthday I gave them each a cool LEGO set, and, some rubber balls, play masks, a game and some windup toy robots. A few days later they came over to visit, and you know what they brought out to play with? Again? Dolls. And they wanted to bake cupcakes. No LEGO or robots or games in sight. Funny that!
I didn't downvote you, bmelton.

it also seems like a much more performant idea

Why is performance important to you? Presumably to make it cheaper to run, in which case I suggest you weigh the costs of coding and maintaining multiple dbs against the cost of that extra join. Note that the multiple db approach is already costing you since you are still trying to get it to work while you could already gave the single db approach in place relatively painlessly.
The abundance of such trivial apps is more than adequately explained by (1) their trivialness to implement, and (2) their established reputation for actually making money.

I'm sure there are exceptions, but I don't believe the kind of people who want to make significant, high-quality apps like the one Rob made are the kind of people who would so easily stoop to making a fart app.
If you want a group to become more involved with a process, they need to be interested in it first.
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practitioner's --> practitioners

and I 404'd it off the byline link: http://alexblom.com/blog/author/Alexander%20Blom/
I would back it if the movie was going to be open-source, now I'm not sure.
> they didn't have the people, the experience, or insights. They just threw money at the venture

Throwing money at the problem could have worked in this situation: they could have just acquired an incubator :)
What makes dancing so much more female-oriented than male? What makes playing dress up? What makes gossiping on the phone? What makes playing with dolls and toy babies? Make-up? Shoes? The beauty of this line is that one doesn't need to come up with any "line of reasoning" or "logical argument" if it just comes down to biological/hormonal/neurological differences between males and females.

Why do so many women have vaginas and so few have penises? Cultural conspiracy? Or is there perhaps some other force or mechanism involved? I know which I think it is. :P
Yeah. Common saying amongst my friends, mostly techies.

"The plural of 'anecdote' isn't 'data.'"

To counter that, though, I would say that your presents to your nieces, while a great idea and well-encouraged, palls in the face of parental and social pressure. Their friends are playing with dolls. Playing with legos by yourself can be fun, but not quite as fun as playing with their friends.
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I think the Dragon book is pretty approachable for someone with basic CS background. It's also quite extensive in its coverage of compiler implementation techniques. However, as others have already pointed out, certain aspects are not covered in full and implementation details are not always provided.

My suggestion? Read it. True to its title, "Principles, Techniques and Tools", it delivers just that. I don't think you'll find its contents impenetrable, but perhaps it will seem too abstract in case you're looking for implementation guidelines.

Some things that might bug you about the Dragon Book: 1) extensive coverage of lexical analysis and related techniques, 2) it's not suited for a more pragmatic course - this is better left to books like Muchnick's "Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation" and friends 3) it omits certain important advances in the field, such as the work of Pager, A Practical General Method for Constructing LR(k) Parsers. Acta Informatica 7, 249-268., 1977 (in all fairness to the book authors, all work after yacc was out in 1973 has apparently gone unnoticed by all).

Disclaimer: I've only read the Pearson International Edition, which according to what I hear, is identical to the first edition. I don't know to what extent this is true. Maybe someone can confirm/refute this?
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Exactly. And this was Arrington's point.
NO NO NO!!! For the sake of all that is holy don't do it!!!!

Or rather, read & understand the fallacies of network programming: http://www.jezuk.co.uk/cgi-bin/view/jez?id=2650 before you do it.

The failure mode of networks is quite different to that of files, and the programming model reflects that.
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> I saw them treated like shit -- usually by guys who didn't have a clue that the way they behaved was boorish and offensive.

I agree that this problem does exist, but I don't think this is the only factor. In my experience, the programming profession does have its basement-dwelling neckbeards, but there's an even larger number of progressive, enlightened males who are egalitarian by default.

I know that some women believe that the instant they leave the room, we break out the pork rinds and start watching porn videos, but really, most male programmers I know are pretty mild-mannered.

Compare our profession with the legal profession. This is a group where older lawyers have vast power over younger colleagues, that's traditionally had a very macho and elitist attitude. And right now law school admissions are almost at parity. 52.7% male. [1]

So either the behaviour of male programmers is really, really bad compared even to lawyers, or, there's something else intrinsic about the job that is differentially unappealing to women.

[1] http://www.abanet.org/abanet/media/release/news_release.cfm?...
Well, the thing is that Great Britain is a country, thus "British" describes someone from that country.

America is a content (two, actually), thus "American" describes someone from said continents, not necessary the most powerful nation on it. I'm well aware of the colloquial usage that "American" = "person from the United States of America", but keep in mind that parent poster was not trying to be disrespectful, but rather wanting to be technically correct.

Which, as Futurama would have us know, is the best type of correct.

There's no disrespect meant when the word "USian" is used, and as a Canadian it's a tiny bit annoying that you guys have unilaterally taken the term.
Summary:

Cageface: the old guys better watch out because there's lots of hungry smart young guys.

Patio11: anyone regardless of age needs to understand how they create value and aggressively point this out unambiguously. And creating value doesn't mean solely working hard or being smart.

Cageface is cautioning to not assume more experience means higher value. Patio11 sorta did the same thing cageface did earlier and keyed in on the "60+ hours" bit. His (patio11) point is that the way to demonstrate value is not to count yourself among the young, or old, or authors of foundational research papers on computer graphics.

I've been in my position a few years now, and I have accumulated domain knowledge that is valuable to my employer. I have no doubts that someone else could come by this body of knowledge, but it would certainly take time an mistakes. If I do not make these differences obvious (measurable and visible), I fail to do so at my own peril.
Tango is male-dominated, mostly because of its internal culture. Dressing-up is, again, cultural pressure and can conceivably be changed with altered values. Plus, guys dress up to - only, when they do, they get called a fag and suffer detrimental social effects. Guys gossip all the time - Hacker News is /full/ of gossip, if you haven't noticed.
Genitalia has nothing to do with technical merit. Or, rather, as my point has been this entire time, it /shouldn't/. Most of our cerebral functions are a good long ways away from it - that is, unless you really do think with the smaller head.
Trying to say that there doesn't need to be explanations for these only demonstrates the limits of your own range of exposure. In fact, there has been plenty of discussion, academic and otherwise, as to the roles and functions of cultural norms. It's call anthropology.
No. If your differentiating feature is a principle, then you can't ignore that principle.

Today, DVCS is essentially the foundation of developer social networks, both formally (github, bitbucket) and informally. How are you going to make a supposedly decentralized open source social network when the foundation isn't decentralized? Mom doesn't care right now whether a social network is decentralized and open source, developers do.
Thankfully law enforcement, ultimately, is responsible to the electorate. This whole thing is our (collective) fault. The American people have gladly exchanged essential freedom for the promise of security from a threat that was never terribly real to begin with.

- We flocked to suburbs because cities just aren't safe.

- We turned into a nation of helicopter parents terrified that our children were surely going to be kidnapped at any moment.

- We elected politicians who promised to be "tough on crime" giving us such gems as mandatory minimum sentencing, huge prison terms for petty crimes, trying 15 year old kids as adults, etc...

- We massively increased the number of police on our streets.

And we did all of this, despite the fact that statistically we we're actually never in much of anything resembling danger. I remember folks in Cabot Arkansas (where I attended high school for two years) freaking out over a perceived gang problem. It was ridiculous then, but they made sure to hire a few more police officers to keep an eye on it.

Americans have proven to be two things: 1) terrified and 2) really bad at math. Our reporters don't understand statistics and our soccer moms are even worse.

That's why I'm greatly amused about all the fighting we do over national politics. Who cares about Obama... you should be fighting tooth and nail over your mayor. The person who is in charge of your police and ultimately much more likely to impact your freedom.

How many folks have made this an issue locally? I haven't heard a peep here in Denver.
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This seems strangely off-topic if you're not going to at least vaguely discuss the specific point. And on this specific point, it looks quite strange to be feeling superior as a European. Is Europe better when it comes to asymmetric surveillance, i.e. the government increasingly videotaping everyone but not allowing anyone to videotape them? That isn't the case as far as I know: many European countries have extensive CCTV surveillance systems on the one hand, but broad, restrictive laws about filming "sensitive" government activities on the other hand.

For example, in the UK, there's a CCTV on every corner, but photographing the police can get you up to 10 years in jail (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29225389/) and harassment of photographers is common (http://youve-been-cromwelled.org/?p=1079 , http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/16/police-delete-touri...). It seems Germany harasses photographers as well (http://www.toytowngermany.com/lofi/index.php/t3168.html).

I'm not a fan of the direction the US is going on this issue, either, but I don't think this is a case where Europe is doing better. On health-care and social safety nets, yes, but not on civil liberties, which was the subject at hand.
It's pretty universally acknowledged, even among PHP developers, that the language is a mess. There are reasons to use it despite this, but don't try to pretend it's something it isn't.
Aside from appearing petty ('someone was mean about America, I'll be mean about their country'), I wouldn't raise the issue of healthcare as an example of America doing things right. You have one of the worst healthcare systems in any developed nation!

My wife is American and when we were first married, we had a discussion about where we would live. I didn't want to leave Scotland, so she moved here. Now she would refuse to move back to the US, even after the election of Obama in the US and Cameron here.

America is a deeply confusing and terrifying country to many people. It's a country that doesn't appear to care about its citizens in any meaningful way - and its citizens appear to be largely in favour of this. There are very deep cultural divides between the UK and the US, divides that are easily missed due to the common language and shared history.

In any event, this particular issue is in no way an American one. The same problem of overzealous police reaction to photographers is widely reported in the UK, to the extent of questions being asked in Parliament and the ACPO issuing guidance telling the plod on the beat to stop harassing photographers, which said plod largely ignore, especially in London.

I think it's pretty much inevitable. Our governments are spending so much time pounding out the 'BE AFRAID, BE ALERT' message that any push back against that is perceived as a direct attack, and is treated as such. The answer is to stop the paranoia about terrorists, but neither of our countries new governments seem keen to do that.
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I like this article. I wish, however, that it didn't include the little interpretations in the second half of each section. I think it would be more powerful, and honest, if they weren't there.
http://web.payk.net/mailingLists/iran-news/html/2000/pdfj3iW...

In 2000, Iranian women accounted for 56% of students enrolled in the natural sciences. No matter how you cut that, /that's not nursing and teaching/.

And isn't it a bit of a sign of discrimination to merely assume off-hand that another culture's definition of "science and engineering" isn't as "rigorous" as ours, even if we seem to be gearing up for a clash with them? Instead of pooh-poohing their efforts, it seems more appropriate to be astonished by their capabilities in as hostile a cultural paradigm as they live in.
Insufficient sample size for drawing conclusions about target population. /sarcasm
Should have been more explicit with my question., I'll try to do it now.

With tools I meant, which standard libraries language serverside, training corpus etc., I hope to have made clear.
Tonight one niece was playing dolls by herself. The other was baking by herself. shrug Actually data is comprised of anecdotes and anecdotes are data, in my judgment. Life and actual experiences in the real world are data. Reality is data.

If your point is, well, this is just two little girls, you're right, that alone would not allow one to extrapolate to all little girls everywhere. However, I know for a fact that large companies and institutions have already done lots of experiments with kids (especially companies that have a vested interest in figuring out exactly what kids want, in order to maximize their profit) and my understanding is that the studies show that yes, girls mostly prefer to play with girlish things and boys with boyish things. This was the result of Science with a capital S. Now, do all boys hate dolls and all girls hate robots and dump trucks and guns? Of course not. But in the majority of cases that's how the cookie crumbled in the real world.

Also the whole "pink vs blue" thing you see in stores in the kid sections? Do you think that's some conspiracy or cultural artifact? From what I've heard, it's isn't. They've done experiments. Girls in general, world-wide, really do tend to prefer pink and boys prefer blue. In the general case, when dealing with large enough numbers, etc.
The law (and law enforcement) system is very hard to understand for a foreigner used to western systems - maybe one of the most weird thing.

One of thee most surprising thing is how little respect law enforcement people get, and their total lack of authority whatsoever. The first time I was arrested with my gf (who is Japanese), I was truly shocked to see here talking back to the policeman, especially since she was clearly in the wrong (not stopping at a stop sign by car). I told here later that it was the most sure way to spend some time unpleasant time at least for the night in France (or worse in the US), and plead her to never ever do that. I also saw once a guy in plain day, in the center of Osaka, circumventing a policeman who asked him to stop, and running away by car.

I think this is linked to the most defining aspect of Japanese society: the perpetual social obligations to each other, and the lack of individuality. My interpretation is that law in Japan is mostly "unused", because people restrain themselves so much in general for every aspect of everyday life. As such people whose job is to force this on people besides social conventions are not well regarded. I would love to get a better understanding of this aspect of Japanese society.

Concerning low rate of crimes, I think this is partly an illusion. True, issues related to physical aggression are much less likely than in any other country I know, and the country is very safe. But there is also a covering of things which are considered as crimes in western countries. Things such as rape, sexual harassment are often covered up, I believe - certainly, I have seen more inappropriate behavior in Japan in 6 years than all my life otherwise. Corruption is also prevalent, the comparison of number of white collar crimes with other countries would be interesting, for example. Finally, many activities related to child pornography is disturbingly tolerated in Japan.
So treat them as directories (or more specifically, as mount points). I still don't see the problem.
Yes, but that actually proves the point. I don't mean that it actually costs banks $2 to handle a transaction. It's what they charge small businesses for a transaction. If you're Apple and can negotiate a 5cent (or whatever) fee per transaction and able to sell apps to millions of customers - then $2 apps would be profitable. For all other approx. 99.999% of companies out there - $2 per app or month is just not feasible.
IMO, Its considered an issue because 1. Women have succesfully entered lots of other previously male-dominated fields (Doctors, Lawyers, Business execs, etc). 2. Tech is considered a "sexy" field to be in.

To expand,
Women are still a minority in a lot of areas of work where physical differences are mostly unimportant-E.g. truck driving, skilled construction workers (carpenters/electricians), etc. Other engineering fields (eg EE) are similarly male-dominated, but being an EE or whatever isnt "sexy" in the way tech is, so it doesnt get as much attention. By "sexy" I mean the software industry has lots of high-paying jobs, growth, job security (if you are good at what you do), and, most importantly, publicity. Facebook essentially didnt exist 6 years ago, now they have 500m users every tiny change they make is "big" news. If you can create your own company (which , relative to other industries, is incredibly easy to do), you get lots more money and publicity. This makes it a popular target for the "Why arent there more women in industry x" discussion.
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Thanks zoudini.
That's still likely to deter a lot of people. It should be one-click; there should be no need for any copy and paste.
Meh, I would guess being snarky over trying to be technically correct. 'American' has always been the preferred (not just colloquial) demonym for people from the United States of America. I hardly think that Americans intended to step on other North and South Americans' toes by taking that name. In fact, I don't know anyone who refers to North and South America as a combined America. It's much more plausible that 'American' was the logical (or at least the easiest to say and recognizable) name to give people from the United States of America, just as 'British' was preferable to 'Greatian' :-)