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Why is it un-PC to acknowledge that there are fundamental differences between men and women in terms of both innate talents and, more importantly, motivations? Differences that would lead to huge demographic disparities in incredibly niche fields like software engineering and starting technology companies?

Mike Arrington says flat out that the reason why there aren't enough women in tech is because "not enough women want to become entrepreneurs." It's a question of motivation. This statement is easily falsifiable and I don't think any of the responses make even a meager attempt to do that.

Is there a disproportionately higher number of women-lead start-ups applying for venture funding and then not getting it? Since this is a question of motivation, even showing that a significantly higher percentage of women-lead start-ups fail would suggest that Mike Arrington is wrong.
Good idea. Would it not make sense to have them categorized by language. I would really like to know what requires to be done in my language of choice.

I actually have a lot of time, and have been working on open source projects that people liked but no one seems to actually need, so this really would be helpful for me.
Anki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anki
and
Mnemosyne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemosyne_(software)

I like both... and spaced repetition will change the way you learn forever
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regardless of the truth it appears it's never too late to change and get better at what we do.
I just don't get this insistance on control over utility servers. If we take sensitive businesses out of the equation there's really no argument for it. How many times has gmail been down for me? Never. What about exchange/lotus notes? At least once a month. And even when they work they're shit.
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And now I finally remember why I stopped arguing with feminists.

Unlike reasonable discussions, where you make a point and the other person points out the flaws in your reasoning, or presents evidence for a counterpoint, or something like that, arguing with feminists always ends up with the feminists expressing their emotions and trying to rule certain arguments "out of bounds", not because the arguments are flawed or invalid, but because they make feminists feel "heartbroken".
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See my rant at the top. We in the US don't train our young to be entrepeneurs anymore.
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I agree that price isn't the issue, but by being free (to con sumers at least) these alternatives are ubiquitous, and therefore widely recognized as better. If they were paid for none of us would have used them, so we couldn't all agree that they are better.
Good call. And the xbox 360 has proven remarkably immune to modding.
There's a great comment on the article itself by a Max Kennerly, who appears to be a practicing attorney. He cites a Federal Circuit court opinion that basically says - yes, the claims must and do stand alone. You're quite right that if you know nothing about the patent you may be lost in the claims, but from a legal standpoint, they should be sufficient. And more practically, if you come to the patent knowing a lot about the field, you'll usually get a very good sense of the thing from the claims alone.

And if you've only got a minute, you're time will be far better spent in the claims than in the abstract, description, or title, which is what most people do!
The people in the article are not clients of mine. They are clients of my girlfriend — why is this a factor? I don't have access to their emails.

As for the 1% details... you missed them:

http://www.mailchimp.com/kb/article/about-warnings/

They are all over the MailChimp FAQs.

You seem kind of hostile towards me, and I'm honestly not sure why.
For business, I'd definitely choose exchange over Gmail. Especially exchange 2010 with the great web app.
Entirely true! It's hard to argue with the validation of guys with money.
Ha! But I must disagree. If you're time's short, I would recommend just basking in the majesty of the Sammy Hagar patent cover page.
Oh, and they make no guarantees that they'll get anything useful done, either. From the last page:

Nosotek grants no warranty for work results. Nosotek does not make estimations about the time needed to finish a project or task and does not guarantee to finish a task in any defined time frame.

Schedules? Work products? Pah!
Usually at the landing sites there's power feed equipment, as explained at the end of the article. There's some more basic information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable
An undersea cable is made up of a about a dozen different layers of alternating conductors, braided jackets, and water-proofing. Power is provided by a conductor surrounding the fiber in center of the cable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable
This vegetarian prefers Bacon.

http://github.com/chneukirchen/bacon/
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When was the last time a "Co-President" worked well?

Serious question, I'm just having trouble thinking of one.
The problem is, they never had to deal with software engineering; my mom, who served in the Israeli Navy in the late 70s, told me horror stories about the ship-to-ship guided missiles they dealt with. They were essentially analog electronics - addition done by adding voltages, for example - with error creeping in at every component. The way I remember her telling it, something like 30% to 60% of the things were down at any given time because some analog multiplier or adder had an error that was just a little bit too large. No one in the field was even thinking about software bugs at that point.

The reliable (and programmable) digital electronics were originally developed for ICBMs in the 60s, and only after quite a bit of miniaturization were they available for smaller guided missiles, meaning that there wasn't quite as much institutional experience of software engineering among guided missile designers as you'd think.
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Their competitors may have free up front costs, but the purchase price isn't the only cost a business has when they adopt a product.

For startups who are short on cash, these free up front solutions are good because thats what they lack, cash. For big enterprises they aren't going to go with something that costs them heaps in training, customization, has no support etc (not picking on anything in particular) just because there is no up front costs. Also, the Google apps version of Gmail isn't free if you have more than 50 staff.
Does It Even Matter What Ping 1.0 Is?
Not quite.

Hurd left because of a sexual harassment case where a contractor (Jodie Fisher) claimed that she stopped getting work after turning down his sexual advances. According to both parties, no affair existed.

So while there is good evidence that he wanted an affair, there is no evidence he had one.
My grandfather uses Ubuntu daily on his old Dell. He uses it to check emails, surf the web, and play hearts on Yahoo. Works quite well, and I don't have to worry about viruses or malware. Before Ubuntu, he had an old P3 600Mhz machine and I ran Xubuntu on it, and it was still fairly easy to use.
You're not the first person to mention that point, and I think it is a good idea. But indeed, like you say, it's a pretty difficult one, and not something I intend on putting time into for the moment.
I think the problem is worse than that.

I've taken Word 97 files and tried to load them into Office 2007 only to have the document formatting be completely messed up. I mean, I've come to expect that when loading a Word file into OpenOffice, but to have it fail from one version of Word to another is pathetic.
Heck, finding any engineering job now as a graduate with no experience is very difficult. I would know, having just graduated as a mechanical engineer.
still worth a link to http-console though:
http://github.com/cloudhead/http-console

(one of my favorite little tools of this year, need to spend some time to make it support oauth crap at some point)
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I also love the IntelliMouse. Version 3 to be specific.
It's not so much pointing out flaws in the reasoning, as Kiba taking the argument completely off the rails. "Boo hoo, we have it tough in some very specific edge cases" while ignoring the general everyday case doesn't do much for the argument either.

And how can you talk about why there aren't more women or other minorities in tech when you're just going to paint it as vague or emotional and ignore what they say?
Why are they evil? Maybe they're just business people. This is an honest question. You're not the only person I've heard react that way. Merely cutting R&D just doesn't seem inherently evil to me, even if it turns out to be the wrong decision.
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Ugh, does anyone have a transcript of this? These atrocious videos are a waste of time.

Just write a rant already.
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I like that idea(heh), maybe in addition to categories? So you could select "View all tools in python" or "View all apps in javascript" or just "View all apps"/"View all ruby".

Thanks for the review.
I think that the probation idea is useful as a hiring strategy in a business scenario.
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That's normal behavior for HP executives. The company also paid for them to make personal trips in HP's jets.
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The plural of anecdote is not data, but my parents have been on Ubuntu for two years now, and they've called me for help one time during, when they bought a new printer.

They migrated from the Mac, actually, so it was just "here's the new Firefox icon, have at it." and they were good to go.
I haven't heard anything like that, and I work in a company with female developers. Further, I have no doubt that it wouldn't be tolerated by any of my friends at the company, and would be a firing offense.

No company name because some commenters here are jackasses and anything I say is representative of my employer :rolleyes: Nonetheless, we're a startup in SOMA you've probably heard of.

edit -- Perhaps you should sack up and tell people you're uncomfortable with them talking about your coworkers / women in such a manner? Much like racism, sexism is aided by ambient acceptance of such stuff. Like, for example, when people hear sexist comments and are quiet about it. It's not necessarily easy to do, but the right thing isn't always easy.
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I've just been through a round of hiring--and it was more painful than it has ever been. It was a telecommute position for US candidates only. The quality of applications was abysmally low. The majority of applications were Java programmers who couldn't be bothered to a) read the instructions on how to submit their application or b) write a cover letter AT ALL.

I don't care if you have a degree. Write a good cover letter, have a resume that isn't all HR keywords spam and actually tells me about your skills, and PUBLISH somewhere. Have a blog that shows me what you're doing and that you can write. Publish some code on Github or contribute to a larger project so I can go look at your work.
Where in the Tech Sector do recent grads get $25K? Most internships pay about twice that (if annualized).
I've been thinking about setting my mom up with Jolicloud (http://www.jolicloud.com/), which I believe is based on Ubuntu.

She has an HP netbook with an 8GB SSD, and WinXP gives her "running out of space" warnings all the time. She doesn't download anything, but her pagefile.sys file quickly grew to 2GB. After limiting the size of the pagefile, clearing a bunch of other temp files, and uninstalling everything I could, the problem came back within a few months. I think it's an indication of the collective ignorance of Microsoft and PC manufacturers that they would sell a "netbook" that can't reliably browse the web.
Dropped you guys an email, but apologies for the dup sent to platform@.
Talk to law firms that provide services to freelancers, they may sponsor you. Also reach out to co-working spaces.
One thing I've noticed is that corporate adoption of wikis is slowly chipping away at MS Word's marketshare. There aren't many times when you genuinely need a word processor today.

We still use MS Excel quite a bit - it's a good program.
Except I keep meeting female engineers (including several coworkers) who are all foreign -- chinese, indian, british, E European. So it's not unreasonable to infer that culture - specifically American domestic culture - is a big piece of the puzzle.
That's not been true in my experience. My parents found Ubuntu easier to use, especially w.r.t. installing software (Synaptic vs. a-different-process-for-every-app).
Oracle has been running with two presidents for a while now, so presumably it's working.

Larry and Sergey are co-presidents of Google.
That's a nice restatement of Smith's 'Invisible Hand' concept.
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The biggest thing Microsoft provides is ease of management in large environments. If you're dealing with thousands of computers in different departments/locations with different administrative/technical requirements nothing beats a managed Windows environment. There are other things which may not be as clear cut such as security, support, legacy support, software ecosystem, etc.
If nothing else, seeing that other people are pursuing a similar idea is GREAT -- it's a confirmation that the market probably exists for it.

Well I agree that the converse is true—no competitors is definitely a red flag. But having lots of competitors in the startup space doesn't necessarily mean there's a market for it, quite often it's just something cool that geeks are into but may be a small winner-take-all market that's already been won (eg. Twitter/Facebook clones).
So how that would be different from someone local holding a webcam? (or a cell phone)

My point is that maybe there is an opportunity for such solution today. Instead of an expensive robot, one could hire a trusted person to hold a camera, so someone else could do the inspection remotely.

Would that be useful for your job?
This isn't studying, but memorizing. Studying is when you have to think critically about a subject and understand it, whereas with memorizing you just have to remember the magic phrase or word that get's you points on a test.

I find that having a single, clean, quiet place is the best for me.
I tend to make fairly minimalistic powerpoint presentations, so have found Google Docs presentations to be a good substitute.
This approach does seem to cut to the heart of the matter... I have had a patent in the system for a while, and just to reassure myself, I read just the independent claims.

While reviewing my patent I have always become worn out by the time I get to reviewing the claims so I have always been a little wary of them (especially because I am used to being as precise as I can, but claims are written to be interpreted broadly).

Sure enough, when I looked this time, the claims spoke loudly to me. What needs to be there is there in the independent claims.
>Without those ads, their service isn't one iota worse for the vast majority of their users who aren't in contact with the sex trade. The adult services section of craiglist is practically a political statement.

I'm not sure... I mean, would San Francisco be San Francisco without Folsom St? I mean, maybe, I guess?

I mean, I think the weirdness we see in San Francisco goes along with the innovative culture we have here.

Now, is the same true of weird sex ads on craigslist and the rest of craigslist? I've really got no evidence either way, but I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand, either.
Another thing that he ignores and that most of these seemingly cookie cutter "Apples more expensive" articles ignore is that Apple is a software company. They always talk a out the a hardware and then compare it with random, usually not even similarly equipped hardware to try and pretend like apple is overcharging.

But at least half of the value of apple products comes from software. Even of one of these iPad competitors is comparable in batery life and other qualities, these other manufacturers seem to be always way behind apple in software.

I don't mind buying spell products because I've never been disappointed with the value they deliver.

But apple doesn't make everything and when I have to buy someone elses digital camera, for instance, I'm constantly being let down by the terrible quality of their software, at least in comparison to apples way of doing things.
This is precisely why I enjoyed hearing our main competitor received $5 million in a series A. It instantly validated the market, and it will do nothing but create opportunities for us.

Since our software is fitness tracking, that same good news applies to RunKeeper as well! MapMyFitness, no matter how much money they get, won't be able to keepup with small, agile development teams like FitnessKeeper, ridewithgps, CycleMeter etc.
I would go with an FMRI, while showing photos of symbols from different areas - unique street signs, fast food restaurants, anything identifiable and strictly regional. Start with a broader scope to get a calibrated reading of his recognition - show signs and brands from across Asia, Europe and the Americas, and narrow things down gradually as recognition happens.

Once this is narrowed down to a region of the country (i.e., if the In-N-Out logo triggers a strong hunger response, you could narrow things down to the west coast), start working with landmarks, TV station logos, commonly used community areas like highway exits, streets, and eventually houses. I wouldn't be surprised if they could pinpoint an exact address using this method.
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I see no reason to believe their conversion rate would change. If it did that would be a nice disclosure, but why are you seemingly so offended by an optimistic entrepreneur? Is there any other way to win?
Do it. I put jolicloud on my aspire one. So much quicker. Having tried ubuntu though I'm not sure whether I'd just put that on next time and ignore jolicloud's social wrapping.
I didn't use the word entrepreneur, either. That's a bad stab at replying to me, and you know it. You often imply, although in not so many words, that the essence of what it means to be a "hacker" is to do a "startup".
Wow. They practically just described exactly what happend to me in the last few days of the Ping launch (albeit on a smaller scale).

When Ping launched I had a 3-month long solo developed music app that NO ONE knew about. I thought surely, I'm screwed, especially since Ping was almost identical to my app (Like.fm) when it was announced.

Thankfully the hype and the underwhelming Ping launch got people to think about what such a service done right should look like. Next thing I know I've actually got users :).

And like Nike apple is just focused on boosting value to its store, and selling more songs. But I can integrate with everyone, not just iTunes, and deliver the product true to its purpose (and not some corporate ulterior motive).

Thanks Apple! I might even buy one of your Apple TVs to help you guys out too.
Primarily, I'd say it's application software support on Windows. Games? You get a few working under Wine, sometimes, partly, but they're far more likely to work well under the version of Windows they were tested with. Photo editing? Photoshop, or even Corel PhotoPaint, leave Linux in the dust. Video editing software? Nothing on Linux comes close to Vegas Video in features and usability. 3d Graphics? A slew of high-end solutions on Windows; Blender is nice on Linux, but has an exceedingly steep learning curve. There's a reason the original company went out of business. And as much as I want to like OpenOffice (and I do use it instead of Microsoft Office), it's too clunky compared to Office for me to recommend to non-geeks in good faith.

And, for developers, there's a market to sell applications to. When's the last time you saw someone making a living selling software to Linux consumers? (Web based products are an important exception to this rule, of course, but not everything can work well from a browser.) And as a bonus developers get to use the best IDE available anywhere.

These are just the needs I've had, for which I've actively looked for software on Linux to fill. Every single time the software available has been pathetic compared to the professional offering.

It's hard work getting that final level of polish on a piece of software that brings it from "it kinda works" to "it works really well." That's what's typically missing from open source apps: The push to make something really easy to use and solid. Frankly not enough professional applications reach that stage, but the ones I mention above all do.

Firefox is one of the few apps in the open source community to really reach that level of polish. Google Chrome is another. Thunderbird is another. There are a dozen other free programs I use, but none of them really feels polished -- they're good enough to get the job done, but only just. And if more things happen "in the cloud," that may be all people need in the future.

But until "the cloud" is brought to my house on fiber at gigabit speeds, I'd like to keep doing my video editing on a local system, thank you. And until it's less expensive to get a WiMax or 4G or whatever-new-technology wireless connection, I'd like the computing to stay in my laptop as well.
Can Open Office and/or Google Apps access OLAP datastores as well as Excel can SSAS? Do either versions of their word processor have programmability layers so we can develop workflows directly in our office documents?

Across all departments we have probably close to a million lines of VBA, COM, and VSTO code that we use most in Word and Excel. And a little for Outlook. And I just recently, like last week, seen some incredible stuff integrating Pivot, Silverlight, and Sharepoint. Sure it's enterprise and not Web 2.0 social web, but its the type of stuff that makes CIO cough up millions of dollars.

We've looked at Open Office and Google Apps in years past and they were literally at MS Office 2000 level. If all you want to do is write a memo, Word, OpenOffice, GoogleDocs, or Notepad will work fine.

When you're in a real enterprise with real enterprise needs, the features in Office that you think no one uses, are a huge win businesses. And once you're using Office, BizTalk and Sharepoint just bring everything together.

And the other tool that only MS has is Visual Studio. Still hands down the best dev environment I've used.

We should be clear. Windows has never been the only OS choice. IMO it has always been Office that has been the key to MS dominance. And while pundits, who generally aren't in the enterprise, think that world can move away from Office. I think just the opposite. The new features, that aren't of general use to Joe Schmoe, make it more invaluable for the enterprise.
I'm a .Net developer that has recently started working in the Java/GWT/Google Apps ecosystem, and honestly have found Eclipse Helios to be a perfectly good IDE. I can't honestly think of anything that it is missing - it has a unit test runner, "intellisense", easy dependency management etc.

Eclipse also has some neat plugins like eclimd that let you run genuine vim inside the IDE.
Definitely an oversight! Cheers, I'll add it in.