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This reminds me of Infinite monkey theorem.

There are so many religion disciplines with so many diverse views on so many things that someone from somewhere will point to an obscure reference to a religion and argue "See this religion also talked about this 1000s of years ago and science just discovered it now". And lets forget overwhelming majority of the religious reference that science obliterates.

So, lets say tomorrow, we discover with definite evidence that the universe did actually came out of something, instead of nothing (which we don't know yet for sure as krauss pointed out), most religious people will forget about this reference made in Buddhism and Hinduism to proclaim "Science validates us", but instead will argue "Science doesn't know everything".

Please note that this is not what I am saying your personal position is, just making a general observation of religion sometimes looking for validation from science, only when it fits their world-view.
Do you think you were paid a "fair" salary to begin with? If you worked somewhere for 40 months and didn't get paid for 2 of those months then it's like you were paid 5% less than the agreed salary (I realize this isn't totally accurate in that the last 2 months you were probably paid more than the first 2 months). If they took you out for nice lunches and sent you to conferences then maybe they also overpaid you by 5% compared to other jobs?

I've lost out on a month's earnings before and it really sucks, but if you had a good relationship with them and learned a lot then maybe it isn't so bad.

Definitely keep up the pressure and hopefully you'll get some of the money you are owed.
to further clarify: when choosing a session (and thus a collection of windows), in screen the process id info etc is exposed at the user level, which perhaps is useful to someone, but not for how use terminal and such. Thus because these things are not as directly exposed via the interaction model that tmux does, doing stuff becomes simpler and semantically clearer
Don't forget to add title insurance to the list

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1113/148.html
The subtitles thing is just a custom. I find it amazing that people believe the Japanese need subtitles in order to understand spoken Japanese. How the hell would the Japanese listen to news radio if they needed subtitles?
I'm 20 years old, tech savy, and I'm weary of facebook connect simply because other cross-site facebook tools have been exploited before, particularly the like-button click-jacking worm (Troj/iframe-ET?) which has filled my own feed with spam messages. I removed my facebook account a few months ago, so I wouldn't be able to use it anyways, but if your site doesn't need real-person verification, then don't even bother, a lot of users prefer a nick over a name, and a sign up form isn't as big of a deal as potentially giving away your facebook credentials to a spammer using an unknown exploit.
Someone has a vendetta.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1642069
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1642075
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1642072

Chill a bit. Even if the trolling has gone both directions to some degree, feeding it doesn't improve squat.
I've heard that through the grapevine, and other commenters have concurred, but I've never confirmed it.

Update: according to 11 USC Section 507, wages fall in 3rd place. I am not a lawyer so I may be reading this all wrong, but it goes "administrative expenses", "unsecured claims", then wages up to $4000 (about half of what I'm owed) and earned within 90 days of the bankruptcy filing. It's been about a year since I quit the company, and the wage claim through the labor board has a 3-year statute of limitations. I wonder what would happen if I filed a wage claim on a bankrupt company...

(http://www.lawdog.com/bkrcy/bkmd3.htm#726.)
I'm totally with Arrington on this one.

The next time I see somebody complain about too few women in software I want to see them complain about too few men working in hair salons, too few men working in child day care centers, too few women working the trash pickup trucks, too few men in corporate HR, too few women in Tactial Special Ops teams. But I'll never see that because I think secretly deep down they know, gee, people are different, genders are different, and there's something about gender that just has this shaping force on our interests and talents. And that there's nothing wrong with that. Really, it will be okay. Just relax. Carry on.

Instead let us all please focus on real problems and challenges like hunger, disease, WMD proliferation, climate change, pollution, education cost & disparity, etc.
Now you are just knocking down a straw man argument of your own making. Nobody said anything about conspiracy theories of the kind you are putting forth or pretended that this was feudal England or ancient Egypt. Many women feel that tech is male dominated and that it would be nice if there were more women in tech. Seeing as how so much of our modern day living depends on technology I think it is an excellent idea to have more participation from the female half of the world population in the tech industry. Once again, what excuses of what demographic are you talking about?
>I get the impression that most people who recommend the Dragon book haven't read it.

These days you can usually tell that they haven't read it if they refer to it as "the Dragon book" and don't say anything about the edition. The same thing goes for "Knuth", "the Appel book", etc.
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Men probably would not feel comfortable working in female-dominated industries like hair salons, professional child day care, cosmetic sales or modern dance classes. But nobody cares about those cases for some reason.
in 1 and 3 those extra square brackets aren't necessary.

secondly i'am trying to solve this as it will help in working out laplace transforms in the future.

i went through the partial fraction tutorial in wikipedia and khan acadamy and i'am able to solve the following problems.

1) x/(x+1)(x-4)

2)3x+1/x^2-6x+8

it appears that the above problems are straight forward.all i have to do is solve for 'A' and 'B' after writing them as A/x+1 + B/x-4.
but the problems which i have posted are not .i've tried to jiggle it around a lot of times and going no where.

with regards to the second question i really don't know how on earth to factorize x^3+1 that's in the denominator.

lastly i'll be really happy if you wanna test my ability in math.i'll answer your questions if i'am capable of so that you can suggest what needs to be done next.
In fact i believe in learning math the hard way!!!
I'm always slightly puzzled as to why this is an issue. Surely the goal is to have lots of innovative and successful startups, and the gender of who is founding them is irrelevant.

There aren't, as far as I can tell, any real barriers to women starting a tech company; being able to code, having a lot of mental resilience and having some starting capital is not something that's only possible if you're male.
why women decide that they don't want to work with us -- even before they get to school. And it's our fault.

It's not fair for women to make that generalization of all men involved in technology. I think you're probably right that plays a major role but I certainly won't take any responsibility for it. It's not my fault someone who doesn't even know me might decide they don't want to work with me just because I might fit a stereotype.
The Gnu Screen command 'stuff' writes directly to the STDIN on the window. This is how the REPL integration setups with screen/vim that appear on HN from time to time work. e.g.

screen -a window1 -X stuff 'import sys'

would send 'import sys' to whatever app was reading STDIN on window1.
I try to make rational, reality-based appraisal of the facts, the pros and cons. But this often takes the passion away, and recently I've been wondering if it really is the most intelligent approach.
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I think there more obvious problems with the dragon book:

in particular, ~300+ pages are spent focusing on techniques for doing parsing and lexing.

Now if I want to write a baby yacc [sic], this might be useful. But in this modern era, parsing is a very well understood problem, with lots of easy to use tool. Yes in a production compiler helpful syntax and type error messages are key, but when you're learning the compiling part, you want a book that doesn't spend half of its volume on that topic. Also, the 2nd edition doesn't seem to have a single level reader in mind.

The intro book people should look at is (as mentioned elsewhere), should be the intro to compilers in ml book by appel, and for advanced stuff folks should look at stuff like appel's compiling with continuations, the munchnick (spelling?) book, and one or two others.

I think the point is that 1) most exposure to the dragon book for most folks predates the 2nd edition, and in your experience, most of the learning sounds like it was from the lecture notes and problems sets rather than the text (presumably used as a reference supplement in practice?)
I think it's a lot less drama-inducing to consider any Apple contribution to open-source as a fork of the original project. The KHTML people were just as annoyed that Apple were bad open-source citizens, but there's nothing in any FLOSS license that requires you to play nice with the existing maintainers of any project if you don't want to.
Has the company already received multiple serious acquisition offers and turned them down? Or at least some very serious interest from big companies? That's often the case with companies that end up selling for >$100M.

If that is the case then it's easy: do it. If they haven't then perhaps you should exercise half them as a hedge against kicking yourself later.
Buddhism isn't really a religion like Christianity is. There are no faith-based assumptions in Buddhism and it makes no claim to anything you can't reason yourself independently (as far as I know). I think you should read up on it a bit before lumping it with traditional religions. I don't think your infinite monkey theorem applies to Buddhism because it doesn't have prophecies (afaik) or literal descriptions of how the universe was created. In fact, based on what I reAd I don't think buddhists even worship a god. A Buddha seems to be just a description of a state of spiritual enlightenment.

And a trait with most religions is that adherence needs to be exclusive from other religions. From what I learned from the simpsons, buddhists are allowed to practice other religions. That's another sign Buddhism isn't just another branch of Christianity.
tmux was able to split windows vertically before screen was able to mostly due to politics, AFAIK.
Yes, the other employees that have beef are taking it up with the CEO. I wasn't a real "CTO" as you one might think. But as far as that small company was concerned, I was responsible technology direction, although I didn't have my own budget for hiring.
The Register covered it a) better and b) earlier.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/25/commodore_name_bounc...

And it has the story of crazy commodore name lottery. Older stories linked in article.
If you haven't heard of it, Xpra is sort of like screen for X, in that it lets you run persistent X sessions (rootlessly, unlike VNC). Shifter (http://shifter.devloop.org.uk/) packages screen and Xpra together with a nice user-friendly interface for Windows, OpenSolaris, BSD, Mac OS, Linux, etc., and it includes a patch for Xpra so that it works for Windows!
USians

Please don't use that. Aside from the atrocious grammar, we are Americans. We could refer to the British as "wankers" or whatever pejorative is in at the moment, but you call yourselves the British and so we respect that.
My point is that if you see bad behavior and do nothing to stop it, you're complicit. We could all do more.
Which is fine, of course. He's more than justified in defending himself. This article just isn't interesting from a "too few women in tech" angle, and you can't really generalize from what's going on here. It's fine that he wrote it, I just don't see that it warrants much attention from HN.
Yep I just got back from a 7-hour or so long wargaming session. Historically I'd say the participation has been about 99% male. There was actually 1 female there today, but the other 10+ people were males. This is extremely common. And I've never heard any participant in this hobby complain about it or point out oppression/repression/supression/conspiracy. The simple fact is that if more females wanted to play wargames, and got out there and played them, there would be more females playing, and thus they would not be able to say they feel dissuaded by the gender ratio.

Arrington's point was: maybe this is the natural gender ratio (or very close to it, plus/minus some small percentage, however you could possibly deduce that), and the women in these cases just have to suck it up and deal. Just like a man would have to suck it up and deal if he wanted to work at a Great Clips or as a cosmetics salesman in a department store.

Life is not evenly homogenous in every aspect, and there isn't anything inherently insidious about that. It just is. Heck I wish there was 1 Earth-like planet in every star system we've probed so far -- there isn't -- therefore perhaps we're discriminating against them. :)
It's not about differences or different people having different interests. Technology and technology companies are major drivers of societal change and it is important to have as many different groups involved in that process as possible. That is the larger philosophical issue here and I don't think anyone can disagree with that.
The modern versions: vim + gcc + curses.
In the US at least the state DOT's do go out and check on the pumps and check both that they are calibrated for liquid measure and that the gasoline falls within the acceptable temperature range (because warmer gasoline occupies a greater volume).
You could say that I assumed the general risk of dealing with people, but amirmc is correct that I did not assume any formal business risk. I.e., I did not receive stock options or any other compensation that is normally given to risk-bearing stakeholders.
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I think rather than looking at the overall numbers, what you really need to identify is if there are any women out there that do want to get into the industry but are being held back by something.

If in fact every woman that wants to run a startup or be employed as a programmer ect doesn't have different barriers to males then I don't think there is really an issue here.

I think many female dominated fields just genuinely don't interest the majority of males so that fact that they are female dominated isn't a big deal. The important thing is that both sexes get the opportunity to participate, whether they choose to take up the option is another matter.
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Cool, that's a great idea. Very similar. I'll have to keep an eye on them.
20 "Hello World" programs to say the world "hello"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1642815
Nginx can proxy incoming connections to unix sockets

http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpProxyModule#proxy_pass
The nice thing about computers is that they don't discriminate.

A male and a female have equal opportunity to sit down at a computer, and get themselves to learning about it, write "Hello World", read books, study, learn new techniques, grow their programming knowledge, etc. But you know what? I bet the ratio between genders of the folks that actually sit down and do that, at home, wherever, is skewed toward male by a large percentage. Exact amount? Dunno. But I'm sure it skews male. All else is going to follow from that.

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70% of the technical degree holders living under the Iranian patriarchal theology... are women.

That's problematic to me. That suggests to /me/ that the gender disparity in Silicon Valley has very little to do with genetics. In fact, the role of genetics in intelligence is too heavily disputed to be considered anyhow - the tech field being a supposed /meritocracy/, and genetics having little to do with personal /merit/, it instead suggests to me that the problem is how our culture is defining "ideal merit" to our women.

The reason why tech conferences can't find enough women speakers is because there aren't enough girls encouraged /socially/ to enter the tech field. And by "girls," I don't mean to use disparaging language, but indicate that the problem is rooted all the way in how they're taught and influenced, be it in schools or amongst friends and family.

When mathematics, science and computer programming are considered culturally gender-neutral, that's when female representation in the tech industry will be less of an issue. Until then, we remain unable to tap a good half of our population's intellectual resources.

That's a bit of a problem.
It is not that surprising though. When you are part of a 50-50 group or a group where you are part of the majority, then you can hide in that group. If you are part of a 1-10 group, then you really won't be able to hide in the group.

Or in other words, it is a bad feedback loop that ends up perpetuating status quo.
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You are correct, sir. Equity in this company would be worthless to me, just a token of their appreciation.
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I think that's the best advice here. Under normal circumstances they could probably resolve these problems with little difficulty. It's easy to focus on the symptoms, but that's not the real problem.

The problem is that they're under the influence of an extra high dose of stress. They're not really themselves right now. The best thing they can do is constantly remind themselves that they're in a really stressed out state. If they can get past this and find a way to reduce their stress it's quite likely they'll be able to work together happily again.
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I'm using local storage; when you leave the page it should remember all that information - As soon as I've got the user accounts down I'll make it happen.
I'm a heavy FB users and always opt to create a separate login account rather than use FB Connect.

My understanding of FB Connect is probably flawed, but I don't trust FB to use whatever linkage/info they get from the login with my best interests at heart.

I also don't trust any app that requires FB connect as, rightly or wrongly, my suspicion is that any app requiring FB connect is out to spam my newsfeed and my friends news feed like Farmville does.

If the only login method is FB Connect, I just move on.
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Yeah, I think FB Connect hits right at the time that anti-phishing education has finally made people super wary of cross-site types of issues. They've had repeatedly banged into their heads: if the URL bar doesn't say example.com, don't give any of your example.com-related information to it, no matter what story it tells you!

Of course, FB Connect doesn't actually require you to enter your Facebook password into a non-Facebook site, but I can see how people would be scared off. Using your Facebook credentials for something you didn't reach by typing facebook.com into the URL bar yourself feels at least superficially just like the sort of thing all these campaigns have been about...
I can't speak to your 70% Iran science degree holder figure but I do want to make the point that we can't make generalizations about gender participation in "tech" when tech is a generic heterogenous basket of different activities. It jumbles together all/most of the the sciences (for example, would bio be tech but social science not be tech?), engineering and programming, for example. Still speaking in rough terms, but at a little higher degree of fidelity, I'd say female interest/talent/ambition in science fields is much higher than in programming, which in turn is higher than in traditional engineering (EE, mech eng, etc.) -- and even within engineering the percentages vary by specific field. So if you told me of one particular country or region or whatever where say 70% of bio science degree holders were women, that wouldn't sound too extra-ordinary to me. If you said 70% of electrical or mechanical engineers, that's different.

Btw, do you think society also has a problem (speaking USA) that the vast majority of cosmetics salespeople are women? Do you think there's some horrible educational/cultural/societal conspiracy or flaw going on that has caused there to be so few men in that field? And how about child day care? How about the small percentage of women that are garbage truck pickup workers? Auto mechanics? Hunters? Weightlifting?

I think that today in the USA we're about as close to "culturally gender neutral" in mathematics, science and programming as we're ever going to get without some sort of significant genetic engineering or neurological/cyborg modification. Small changes? Sure, of course. Big changes? I highly doubt it without hacking on our DNA or hormones.
In the real world people will rarely tell you that they are going to a competitor if you don't stop raising your prices.
I strongly recommend having a look at the Gnu Screen customization in Ubuntu Server.

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2008/12/ubuntu-server-include...
No, that was no Commodore.
This a real new Commodore 64, daymit:
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Or its called being a patron of the artist, if you aren't a bitter cynic.
Just to expand on this a bit - The South African webspace is a not very interesting and maybe a bit dead; we have a few gems and I would like to add my own voice to that.

Also... I'm looking for very rich South African clients :)
If you're not hearing the Glass Ceiling/Patriarchy Excuse every time you see a story involving gender and employment, you're living under a rock.

Many women feel that tech is male dominated and that it would be nice if there were more women in tech.

Tell me WHY it's male-dominated. Tell me what barrier is keeping women out. Give me a cause.
70% of the technical degree holders living under the Iranian patriarchal theology

Highly unlikely, their must be some difference in definition of "Technical", are they including Biology, Nursing even Teaching under "Technical"?

Even in India, Women in engineering have similar proportion as USA.
Like FlemishBeeCycle said, perhaps different people have different interests.

I believe the number of men and women who want equal treatment under the law is more even than the numbers of men and women who are attracted to (or tolerant of) the realities of working in tech. Therefore I do not think it is fair to compare this disparity to the civil rights or suffrage movements.

Perhaps evolutionary biology has something to say about why there aren't more women techies, entrepreneurs, prisoners, or homeless. If you missed it a few days ago, here is the link again: http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm Even if you don't agree with it, I think it is safe to say it is an idea worth considering and seems pertinent to this debate.