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The problem seems to stem from the fact that bullying occurs out of sight of authority figures regardless, and that when children report it they're basically told to suck it up.

I agree that children should learn to handle confrontation for themselves, but at the same time when there are chronic offenders there needs to be repercussions. If a bully picks on a kid and they fight back, the bully will move on to the next kid. If he keeps doing it, take him out of the system, expel him from school, or (optimally) find him some way of acting out his aggression, anger, etc. in a more productive manner.

'Fighting back' would soon reduce the school to anarchy outside of the presence of a teacher, but telling kids to deal with it and shrugging it off as 'part of growing up' just encourages the bullies by teaching them that they can do whatever they want, as long as they don't get caught.
The quote is fine. I worry about this glorification of violence. The original article and this thread seem to be filled with adolescent fantasies of revenge against bullies past and future.

I hope this is mainly internet posturing and bravado.

I'm not sure every child has the perspective to recognize hyperbole. There are times when violence may be necessary, but that doesn't make it any less horrible, whether justified or not.
I grew up in a tough neighborhood, lower middle class, where we fix issues with fists fights. My dad, a tough guy, hated bullying period. He did not tolerate his child being the bully; he made us understand that is was shameful to mistreat the weak and the young. He always told us to stand our ground when attacked, he said if the attacker was stronger and bigger we could use a stick, a stone or anything that could really hurt the attacker. My dad said we should not respond to a push with a push, he thought an attack should be met with a response x times. A punch for a push; my two brothers and I were known for our fierce defense abilities, which made us safe from bullying growing up.

Today as a parent, I give the same advice to my children. We are a minority in our neighborhood and my kids go to great school. They have been through multiple attacks from bullies. My son is in middle school and so far has been able to fight back at many would be bullies. I made it clear to the principal and some parents of bullies that my children are permitted to fight back when attacked, that I will stand by them in all circumstances.

So far it has been working pretty well next year my daughter will be in high school and my son is a reputed defensive player in the basketball team.
S'what Godparents are for.
I agree with you and with Sebastian. As in most things, context needs to be given. In settings with 1 or 2 bullies, a show of strength is enough to have someone back down. In other settings with many bullies, I agree with max here in that it's better to solve it without violence.

My mom taught for many years in urban inner-city high schools. Had she stood up to bullies who bullied other kids or teachers she would have had to deal with bullies whose parents had been shot or killed in drug deals. There is a different mentality there.

Sometimes a show of strength is the best thing, sometimes a show of kindness is the best thing.
I too am in the other camp. I've already developed a MVP over the past year over many iterations. Now I want to find a co-founder that wants to help me take it to the next level for an equity stake. The problem is location. The midwest is a horrible place to birth an internet startup.
Yep, can't dispute that as a reasonable thesis (there are studies IIRC, though my reading on this was nearly 2 years ago when I started my current job).

I'm desperately trying to find a really interesting paper I do remember where the author posited that, actually, people abused in childhood were less likely to manifest as pedophiles in adult life. He claimed this was because "normal" childhood sexual abuse does create an initial emotional attachment (which you would expect to make such relationships acceptable to the subject, Stockholm syndrome style) but that later on in adulthood this usually adapted to dislike and hatred at their treatment.

I think the argument was that abused children were more likely to manifest as sociopaths and take a more violent path, particularly against adults.

The argument was pretty persuasive, and the evidence relatively solid, but I can't find it :(
The chart shows the number of computers on which the quantcast widget was loaded. The drastic decline makes me suspect that the widget is no longer being displayed on most pages for logged-in users.
I would assume it would be almost exactly the same as digital media works today, while it is best to manufacture things in mass quantities a CD of the machines components will be shipped with the dish washer. The opening of the box will imply acceptance of the licensing agreement for the machine. An alternative, is you get access to the washing machine support site with the warranty number included. You would be purchasing the right to the design, and maybe 1 working copy of a part at a time.

if we ever got to the point where it makes more sense for you to manufacture the entire product at home, then the concept would be the same. You are purchasing the rights to manufacture 1 working copy. If you give the files to another person who uses them, technically they are breaking the law.

Of course I think this is all kind of ridiculous. However the only solution I can think of to combat piracy is to crowd source the funding to the creation of new plans, and release the product in the public domain.
Also look into Ninjitsu, the Bujinkan, Ninpo, etc.
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1 - register YourName.com

2 - start a blog

3 - learn *SQL

4 - develop a javascript site, (gmail.com)

5 - write your own planning/todo program (because others just don't work)

6 - read, sign up, make at least one post on HN

7 - start an open source software project
They're both examples of private parties offering a platform for free speech. You just disagree when it's your private property they want to use for their platform.

And I agree it's a little bit unfair to compare the two: One is a bunch of ignorant people talking about how they don't believe in mating outside their race and the other is a guide to raping children. I don't think the distinction works favor of your argument, though.
I'm based in the UK, and last year spent a couple months dealing with recruiters whilst trying to find a new position.

I dealt with several companies, and got several job interviews. All the positions were as described, and I never got any nasty shocks.

I may just have been lucky, but is anyone from the UK coming across these shady recruiter tactics, or is the problem US centric?
It sounds like you're saying that it's the bullied kids fault because he's socially awkward?

The point you've missed in this article isn't to START a fight. It's that if someone starts one with you, you better bloody well finish it. The key phrase, "as soon as someone puts their hands on you..."

This isn't about defending an assault of words with an assault of fists. This is about defending yourself from violent, aggressive morons. Walking away from someone intent on hitting you will just result in you getting hit from behind. The best solution is to dig in and hope for the best. You're gonna cop a hiding anyway, at least defend yourself.

I don't think anyone is suggesting violence as a solution to bullying. But you sure as hell can't defend yourself from violence by joining in more social activities.
>> I had two guys try to mug me the other day in a dangerous area. Bad mistake, doubled one of them over with a kick the stomach and shouted at the other one, YOU WANT TO DIE? BACK DOWN, STAY BACK. He did, he let me walk away while his criminal buddy was doubled over.

Where I come from, the third kid, who was pretending to be a bystander all along, with the gun under his shirt, would've shot you from behind your back.

Just because resorting to violence to deal with bullies works doesn't mean you should go all rambo with actual criminals.
"- Scheme: this would have been a much better choice, because it supports integers and has a compact object representation instead of representing everything with hash tables. Bad point: all objects are boxed (like in JS). Good point: tail calls are handy when compiling all kinds of control structures."

The boxing part is untrue. Even on 32-bit systems (that have word-aligned addressing, which all current 32-bit systems do), you can get 6 arbitrary type tags by using up the three least significant bits of a pointer (6 and not 8 because you use up two of the possible tag values for even/odd immediate integers (fixnums)).

Tail calls are overrated, maybe you're thinking about continuations? Those would have been truly terrible - you get all the downsides of concurrency with no benefits. One of the reasons arbitrary crap JS code runs as well as it does is because there's no possibility of concurrency. The browser event-loop model is a good one.

"- Java: As an IL to compile down to this would have been better than Javascript. Good points on top of Scheme: unboxed primitive types, static typing means fewer runtime checks."

Don't forget: getting sued by Oracle.

Java blows in every way compared to JavaScript. If Netscape had put Java instead of JS into Navigator the web would be a very different place today, because no one would have used it [Java].

"ML: excellent choice: has both unboxed primitives and tail calls."

In 1995? Give me a break, or a time machine.
Sorry for being snarky. But you were one of the neutrals, yes?

You see - everything you said is true, just the order is completely wrong. You see, its impossible to do what you proposed as an act of assertion. Since one would need to already be confident and assertive.

And that's just why its so hard to do if you're the weak bullied kid. You'd need to have solved the long term problem, before you can even think to tackle the short term.
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It's just not interesting and informative enough.
Bing, Yahoo, Ask and dozens or hundreds of smaller, niche search engines already spend millions of dollars per month on Google Adwords.
Samsung's CDMA phones (at least, the Moment) have pretty bad data lockup issues too.
Funny that despite so many postings, it brought up almost no discussion at any point.
If I cared that much about typing, then I'd probably be thinking about using my favourite 3rd party Android keyboard, which renders a review of the included keyboard(s) moot to some degree.

I'd also question whether feeling "like a total dorkface while typing" is classed as a usability issue.
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9 - poke somebody on facebook

10 - comment on techcrunch story
Well, that is the difference between the bullied and the bully, the bullied feels remorse after committing violence.
Just to re-iterate many of the above comments. When I was in 7th grade (in Jamaica you are about 11 in 7th grade), I was perpetually bullied by one guy. Another 7th grader, but because I came from a middle class upbringing and he from lesser means, perhaps he felt a need to exude a 'gangster' image.

Given that I was one of the smallest guys in the class, that naturally meant I became a target.

At first I would try to ignore it, but it never went away.

Well, one day I decided I wasn't going to take it and I fought back. I hit him a few times and we rumbled together and I ended up having him in a 'sleeper hold' - i.e. my arm around & in front of his neck, with my other arm locked around the back of his head - with him fading quickly.

In a fit of desperation he quickly pulled out a compass (the one that had a 1-inch long point) and stabbed me in my arm - to get me to let go. Well, it worked, I let go instantly.

The pain was intense - but he was able to get his breath back. As soon as we both realized what he did, I turned to walk to the bathroom (because it had started bleeding by now), but he thought I was going to the principal's office. Naturally he ran after me apologizing profusely and literally BEGGED me not to go to the principal.

I bluffed a bit, and indicated to him that if he ever troubled me again I am going straight there.

That was the end of that...for the rest of my high school career he never troubled me again. As a matter of fact, if he ever saw anyone else try picking on me, he would kinda take up for me.

So while I wouldn't say 'take something hard and knock them in the back of their head' but simply fighting back and standing up for yourself can help significantly.

Although, a word of caution, I could have easily been stabbed elsewhere (like my eye, or head). So take that for what it's worth and advise your kids of the real potential consequences of fighting back - not to mention further retribution by the bully's friends (which is a very real possibility here in Jamaica).

That being said, I am definitely going to advise my son to hit back - but do it wisely and make sure not to do TOO much damage. i.e. once they back off, stop, leave, and report it (or not, as my case proved) or call me to at least let me know there was an issue.

Edit: Oh and for the record, the wound took about 2 months to heal properly and hurt like a mother-lover, for what it's worth.
I was hoping someone else felt this way.

In my view, it's never worth risking your life to protect your belongings. Be like Roger Sterling in Mad Men and give up your money & your jewelry.
I was a bullied kid.

In middle school, teaching me to be less weird would have been pretty difficult. Teaching me to hit back--well, I didn't even have to be taught. Turned out hitting back stopped the bullying, and growing up stopped the weirdness (at least, I think it did).

Your advice is probably good for kids who are just unpopular and weird. Once the line is crossed into violence, though, it's a different class of problem. There are only two responses to violence: involve the authorities, or if the authorities aren't present or don't care, hit back. The situation in that respect is more like prison than like coaching a weird kid in social skills.

Culture of violence? That already exists as soon as kids are getting bullied. A culture of violence is only solved when adults in authority care enough to become involved. People don't physically bully each other at work because if you did, the police would take you to jail. People do physically bully each other in school and in prison because in both cases, the authorities don't care.
Yes, that is a problem. It is one reason I don't advise kids (that I talk to about such problems) to take this approach.

One thing I actually disliked about the post is the way he has de-humanised bullies. When in reality the correct approach is to feel sorry for them - because they have all manner of deep seated issues. Not in a lovey-dovey way (which, he is right, is silly) but in an adult comprehending way.

The act of your violence is a potential learning experience for them too. Too much vitriol and anger and they may come away harbouring deep resentment, and later come back at you with escalating violence. But a short sharp shock could teach them some important truths.

For the most part, the really bad bullies I suffered at school are already failures in adult life. With the one exception of another bully who also got beaten up (not by me) late in the school system - he was dramatically changed after that and is currently one of the nicest and most successful adults I know (although there were other factors swinging in his favour).

So sympathy, but not hippy-love. Violence, but not retribution.

It is a tough balance.
If you find yourself to be interested in this sort of thing more broadly, in the justification of violence or it's utility, I recommend William T. Vollmann's exhaustive, intricate attempt to establish a framework for understanding the motivations, morals, and ethics of violence in his work Rising Up and Rising Down: Some thoughts on Violence, Freedom & Urgent Means.

To give some idea of what the text is like, here's a little bit of it from a section called "Where Do My Rights End?":

Justified Choices of the Self:
1. Whether or not to violently defend itself against violence;
2. Whether or not to violently defend someone else from violence.
3. Whether or not to destroy itself.
4. Whether or not to help a weaker self destroy itself, to save it from a worse fate.

Conditions:
1. No attachment to nonviolent creeds.
2. No attachment to collectivity or authority which might prohibit the self from removing itself from "the line of fire"
Caveat to (1) and (2): So-called involunrtary attachments are not binding..." (pg 81-82. Abbr. Edition)

...

The abridged edition from which I quote above is over 700 pages and includes case studies and narratives of people, nations or groups acting a certain way, which Vollmann slotting them into his "Moral Calculus," I haven't had a chance to finish it yet but I remain interested in the elaborate thought experiment that is the book and the vividness of the historical anecdotes it contains.

Vollmann would fully support responding to violence in kind, there's a long section on non-violent movements and their utter hopelessness in the face of regimes unwilling (like bullies) to tolerate any dissent.

[The classic example of this is perhaps Harry Turteldove's story "The Last Article," which proposes Ghandi campaigning in a Nazi occupied India and ends just as you would expect it to.]
These books are not sexual abuse of children. We must distinguish between talking about an act and committing that act. Talking about an act is free speech, and should be protected even when we find the subject matter abhorrent — though speech approving of illegal acts walks a blurry line between free speech and criminal incitement. In fact, offensive speech is pretty much the only kind that needs protecting. Freedom of speech that only guards unobjectionable things is like Henry Ford's famous offering of freedom: "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black."
As a native english speaker, I paused when I saw that construct too. Looking at the google results, these are examples of the way I would expect those words to be put together:

* "Video games could make violence on the whole seem more 'okay.'"

* "Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has promised to make violence on the basis of sexual orientation a priority for her office."

The only google result that seems similar to the original article is from asianoutlook.com:

"You can make violence on weeds, ideas, and terror, but not war."

In that sense, it's closer to the phrase "make war on", which is much more common. Without knowing any asian languages, I would assume that they use war and violence somewhat interchangeably, which would explain the odd phrasing.
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It's interesting that this is quite different from how dogs drink: http://bethesignal.org/blog/2009/06/13/how-do-dogs-drink-wat... They scoop up the water with their tongues by curling it backwards.
Do you know any off hand ?
I've had referer headers stripped for a few months now and afaik it's never caused my any problems.
Yup, same here. That is the only thing that worked for me after years and years of being bullied. No other way to stop it.
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I'm in the UK so it's probably quite different. I don't think as a nation we're anywhere near as confrontational, not to mention guns millitary etc

For me, it worked fine. (As well as obviously telling teachers and getting them involved if needed).

I absolutely detest parents who tell their kids "If someone hits you, hit them back harder"
I personally suspect several job offers I have recently been asked to apply for (this is in Europe) do not actually exist, the sole purpose being to get hold of well-qualified candidates' CVs.
You can get a .mobi, .epub and PDF version in the eBook bundle on Pragmatic Bookshelf:

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Sayrer,

"The indentation is crazy (subjective)." - I tend to like to use tabs just because it's easier on the eyes to see how code blocks differentiate and I've grown accustomed to hitting tab rather than space. Perhaps I'll try that out, though.

"there's a lot of repetition" - Right, I did that as kind of the quick and dirty way to get it up. I will most likely end up changing that as per your suggestion. Thanks.

"Attacking date inputs is tough, and will probably require a separate, tested library." - You're right, it's not very fun. Thanks for the suggestion, I think this should work a lot better for me: http://www.datejs.com/
I never understood why anyone would take anything Dvorak says seriously. His track record is a joke, his grasp of technology is tenuous at best.
Same here, some guy had been bullying me in high school and calling me names for a long period. One time he came to the park where I was in my friends and started calling me names again and generally being belligerent. After the second punch he fell down, he didn't really need much more than that. He didn't even get the chance to lay a finger on me, and never looked me in the eye again.

Come to think of it, shit, he really wasn't tough at all. Going down on the second punch and coming back up dazed? Good thing (for him) I didn't know how to throw a punch...
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Guy says he doesn't value the "vision guy" that much...has he looked at the photo he's using? It's not even sized properly. Simple, simple fix: http://i.imgur.com/o73DX.png
Yes that is what IndexedDB is for. We are working on BrowserCouch, a JavaScript library to "emulate" CouchDB on top of IndexedDB.

The big thing none of the HTML5 offline primitives provide is synchronization. Local storage is great, but in the HTML5 world it is still the application developer's responsibility to take data from the server and persist it to the client. For very simple use cases this is fine, but as soon as you want to allow collaborative edits to large data sets when users are disconnected, you'll end up implementing something that looks like CouchDB anyway. If you use the real thing (or BrowserCouch, when that is ready) you get synchronization for free.
I was with you until the fight dirty part. Often but not always bullying is due to insecurity. While I will definitely recommend to my son to stick up for himself and others he cares about (sorry but turn the other cheek is not my thing) I would never tell him to fight dirty.

Win or lose, getting beat up is not the end of the world. Some people are tougher and that's just the way it is. Winning a fight against a bully is not nearly as important as showing the balls to fight even if you don't think you stand a chance. It won't always produce good results one-off, but overall it'll be worth it.

As for some of these comments advising trickery like showing strength, staring, talking crap etc. Doesn't work. Once you've been in a few fights you understand this. A lot of it's on a subconscious level and your body language will make it obvious that you're trying to avoid a fight while pretending to act mean. People sense that and it's the absolute quickest way to lose a few teeth. So what if he's bigger and stronger? The quickest way to end a fight is to hit hard and fast with an utter lack of fear. If you really are at a huge disadvantage then yeah it won't go so well. But if that's the case you weren't going to scare him off with intellectual techniques either.
Shallow Minds vs Enlightened Minds
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>10 PRINT "STEVE IS THE BEST!"

Apple fanboism runs deep in this one

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I think there is a third distinction that's missing:

Idea + Code = Tech
Tech + Users = Product
Product + Plan = Business

It's also worth noting that you don't have to make it to step three to have a good M&A exit, as many examples illustrate.

(Good execution at all steps is, of course, implied)