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All good points. Men really don't get this issue from the female perspective.

But umm, showing up on a male dominated board, picking a few admittedly lame comments and then busting on the entire group for their cluelessness?

I also saw a great deal of support for Noirin, a great deal of concern for the state of the tech community and some really good discussion on how the problem might actually be fixed.

There exists an enormous asymmetry in power between men and women when it comes to sex, and so it generates equally large asymmetry in consequence when it comes to accusing men of misdeeds. This causes a great deal of fear and mistrust from both sides, which leads to huge differences in perspective. (Sorry to go Yoda there) To say this causes lively debate is somewhat of an understatement.
As a teen, I did quite a bit of work to keep my family out of my room. I come from a very large family, and I'd managed to turn my room into the cleanest and quietest place in the house, which meant everyone else wanted to spend a lot of time there (defeating the purpose of my clean, quiet space.)

I arranged the furniture such that anyone entering the room would have to walk through a narrow space between a dresser and wall, then walk all the way around my bed through another narrow space, before they could get to the open part of my room. I furthermore made sure there were no good places to sit except for my computer chair (by raising the bed to an uncomfortable height, and leaving piles of school papers stacked on my other chair, which I could easily move if I wanted company but nobody else would've moved.)

The best part was, I didn't have to make my room messy, smelly, or uncomfortable for me. I just made it uncomfortable for other people to spend time in the room without my intentionally creating space for them.
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When you change the way IMAP works for the better (a feature), then yes, the client should support it. If it doesn't, it's not a fault of the service, it's a fault of the client.

I mean, have you ever used labels? I mean, REALLY used labels?
There is a HUGE flaw in your analogy here: "If people did go in there and got killed we'd cover the event in detail on TV, as a warning to others (like Shark Week). Even really stupid people would know not to go into the "valley of the stabby monsters."

Dolphins don't have TV. They have no technology, apart from using sponges to protect their noses.

Imagine that, back before the Stone Age, you were a primitive hunter-gatherer, and you had to warn the entire world population about the valley of stabby invincible guys, since you were the only survivor of the last massacre there. How the hell would you do it? Who would even believe you?
I have noticed the same thing on many, many occasions, and most of the time I cannot think of a single good reason to justify why the text is contained in quotes. As much as I don't want to believe this, I honestly think that people are just stupid. There seems to be some apparent correlation between emphasis and quotation marks, but this is obviously not their intended use.

A quick google search turned up a blog dedicated to the subject: http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/
Great article. But it only sheds light on the performance and scale aspect. Having used nosql in my last project, I found some other aspects:

- Flexibility
- Replication
- License agreements

Nosql allows easy and painless schema changes, because there is no hard-coded schema. Using a morphing library every object can be stored without any additional coding.

Some nosql DBs support two-way replication for nodes that can be offline for a long time (for instance mobile clients). This can be very handy if you need such a feature.

Some nosql DBs come in a very liberal apache license.

If find it great to have so much choices today.
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I'm studying Korean. Learning Korean (or other Asian) words is hard because they usually don't sound anything like the words in other languages I know, making it tougher to create mnemonics for remembering them.

I want to build a super-simple webapp that works like a mad-lib, preferably based on excerpts from Hitchhiker's Guide, in order to hang vocab on memory hooks, using the Greek mnemonic method. User enters a bunch of nouns/verbs/adjectives/adverbs to remember, and the app replaces them into the excerpt. User reads the passage a bunch of times, and the weirdness of the words in the passage helps to give the words some context when remembering them. [Example below]

I'm not a developer, but I built this thing in vb.net reasonably okay. It's really meant to be a webapp though, and I'll bet a lot of language learners would use it.

Wanna design/build it together?

Example

This 은행 has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the 고양이 living on it were 날씬 for pretty much all of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of 큰 pieces of 숙제, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the 큰 pieces of 숙제 that were 날씬.
I'm sorry but this whole discussion has been beyond obnoxious as far as I'm concerned. It started with people taking one drunk jack ass and extrapolating that to slander the whole male tech community and now we have someone taking one insensitive comment and extrapolating it to slander all of HN (the other comment she quotes just pointed out it would have been a better idea to go to the police)

Does the author really believe anyone in their right mind would think it was ok for a man to stick his hand down a woman's pants uninvited?
At the same time though, you're saying you failed solely because you used HBase? Sure twitter's architecture evolved out of necessity but starting out with some NoSQL solution doesn't automatically set you up for failure.
Great advices. Thanks for sharing.
Does the author really believe anyone in their
right mind would think it was ok for a man to
stick his hand down a woman's pants uninvited?

That.

Even more, she cites a comment which really explains everything:

I'll probably get downvoted for asking,
but I'm curious, would everyone be as upset
over this had it been a drunken female guest
inappropriately grabbing a guy's package? And
if the male blogger had then written a similar
blog about being sexually assaulted at a party,
naming the female who grabbed him?

I'm not endorsing this sort of behavior obviously,
but the public shaming element here seems fairly
twisted. If a sexual assault occurred she should go
to the police about it and press charges.
Not start an internet witch hunt.

You feel ashamed? You're getting abused? Go to police and social services for god sake.
One comment and at least 31 other people who upvoted the comment.
your call :) but they need to remind the person you give them too of you, so copying the "classic" look is not a great plan imho. I use Claimid.com (there are others out there like about.me) as a "home" URL so that people can link up in a way that best suits them.
I would check out moo.com whatever you decide. Simple, low cost and classy looking (oh and the small ones stick out)

Couple of ideas;

- include your picture also the one you use as your avavtar on social media if it is different

- if you have some graphics skills make a set of cards for each event you attend
Hi there,

I'm the administrator of the box running the blog. I'm also colm@apache.org, one of the authors of Apache httpd. KeepAlive's are enabled on the host, but with a deliberate timeout of 1 second. The listen backlog is 25, which can contribute to a backlog looking like the above but it isn't.

The hosted ended up getting wedged due to poor MySQL contention, there is a limit of just 80 server processes (and hence connections - we're running pre-fork on this host), and they were each getting blocked on MySQL reads.

That's been sorted now, and some better caching, compression and more put in place. It's a 1Ghz, 1GB RAM box is a colo that got slammed by HN, Reddit and Techcrunch in one go - to an uncached wordpress instance. I'm surprised it did as well as it did ;-)
someone said X10 "is horrible" but this guy uses it, anyone can give a (link to) comparison with z-wave?
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This sounds more like "Ben left Pylons to fork BFG"
It's certainly common, but it is radically different across demographic groups.

I find it very hard to believe it is common for women to get sexually assaulted at a tech conferences full of intelligent, upper class , and generally meek around women guys. I'm sure it unfortunately does happen, but I doubt it is something occurring every other conference.
Nice instructions, but I personally hate programming books that are written this way. I suppose if you've made it to adulthood having never programmed a computer, you might need a book like this for your first language, but if you already know how to program, this format is just tedious and wasteful.

Give me a language reference that covers all the components of the language, followed by an alphabetical listing of the most common class libraries that you'll need to use. And that's it.

The trick though is that you need detail for everything. If I'm firing up a multi-dimensional array, your book had better have the code to do that, or it's worthless. Don't hold my hand on the learning side, but have all the information I need to use the language in one 2-inch thick chunk of paper on my desk.

Very few books get this right. I can think of exactly one, in fact: O'reilly's DHTML Definitive Guide. Copy that format exactly, and you'll produce a good programming book. Deviate into "teach yourself in 21 days" or "Cookbook" land, and you've lost me.
What is "schema rigidity"? I'm genuinely curious, do the NoSQL types really believe that you can't add a column to a table on the fly in a RDBMS?
Why would someone want to make @Flo any worse?
I don't pretend to know what it's like to be a woman - nor really how situations like this are to be resolved positively for both parties.

However, one thing that strikes/confuses me is that while some women may wish to paint the current poor girl's reaction as some kind of universal truth - I've heard of zillions of yarns where it went exactly the other way... i.e. the guy and girl end up having a night of great sex because he was bold enough to go all in (pun a little bit intended).

This schism in results tells me that only one thing can be known for sure. If you're going to go stampeding for the crotch, make sure you've picked a girl that's up for it. Don't know how to pick such a lady? Don't know if you know how to pick such a lady?

Buy her flowers then... and we can all be spared these excruciating discussions on a place where we'd all feel much more comfortable chatting about code.
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I use to consider as truth what other people says for a limited time frame, and test it in real life. I don't care about the person making money or not, just about if what the person does improve my life or not, or gives me an insight.

When I was a kid I used to be the "know it all" rational child witch only believes what it could understand, but as the Buddhist say "if you make the wrong questions, you get the wrong answers", we know it today as "garbage in, garbage out", no matter how powerful is your processing unit or the processing time if you supply it with bad data, you get bad conclusions.

I continue trying to understand "everything", but the time frame of "suspended belief" lets me to experiment without judging. If you rationalize too much you could become the ancient Greek that despised experience. The current ideas(beliefs) in your mind fight against possible new ones.

e.g. Some people(most of them) suffer from being wrong, your "ego" responds with pain, you could feel hurt if someone publicly prove you are wrong, so the obvious solution for your brain to protect you is to put down external ideas. Everybody wants to change the world, nobody(few) wants to change herself.
Excellent walk through. Great to see these new libs and touch-related additions in action.

This is also great example how web apps can replace native apps. I think we will see more and more of this stuff.
Didling around with qBasic when your 9 doesn't exactly qualify as a year of experience in my book, any more than didling around with crayons at the age of 5 would qualify as a year of experience for a designer.
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There seems to be a bit of "talking past each other" going on here, because nobody is stopping to consider the real motivations involved. In particular, while I think lepid0ptera has defined her side of the discussion well, I think she may have completely misunderstood a strong motivator on the other.

Many responses on one side have been along the lines of "that kind of behavior is reprehensible, but we have no idea if it happened here without an impartial inquiry", perhaps going so far as to suggest that she was irresponsible to name him publicly.

Responses on the other end of the spectrum have echoed the idea they understand how horrible the experience was, because they've either experienced something like this themselves, or know someone personally who has; again, many going so far as to applaud her bravery in both coming forward and being willing to name her assailant.

Consider perspectives.

One side is terrified of the idea of an assault like this (either on themselves, or on a loved one), which informs their view of the situation. They put themselves in the shoes of a potential victim, they empathize, they appreciate the emotional and potentially physical harm that could occur. This gives their reaction to a post like the one made earlier essential context: they believe a woman was attacked, with no witnesses, leaving her in a uniquely helpless situation that she'll relive in her mind for the rest of her life, but at least she has the courage to name the man who did this to her.

The other side is terrified of the idea of being falsely accused (either themselves directly, or someone they care about). An accusation of sexual assault can end careers, take away essential freedoms, mark them for life in both a professional and personal context. They empathize with another possible victim here: someone falsely accused. This also gives their reaction essential context; they are watching someone's career and personal life dragged through the mud, accusations and discussion threads that will live online in perpetuity for future employers and lovers to see regardless of the outcome forcing them to relive this experience for the rest of their lives, without any kind of due process for the accused.

I think it would do everyone good to take a deep breath, try very hard to set aside their own prejudices, and understand why the other side is reacting the way they are. I'd like to think, especially here, that most participants are trying to act in good faith. Perhaps a little perspective would help.
It's possible he's randomly generated the docs or something. Which, I agree, is a bit lame. It's nice to get optical confirmation that what you're doing is correct, and to get some real insight into language.

Much better would to have been take real sentences from wikipedia.
An immense repository of good background information on all the numerous dynamics involved in situations such as a rape:

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I concur in your assessment; this is a premise. A fundamental one, too.

I declare being cought in the notion that your mind is a (pure) function of input to be self-deception, which will ultimately lead to a path of misery.

If this were not true, how come that many people experience a change in themselves when they meditate? If you haven't been exposed to Buddhism yet, for example Zen meditation (Zazen) has the ultimate goal just to sit and breathe. Thoughts and external input are to be dismissed during Zazen.

Telling from personal experience, this practice changes people. Without any external input whatsover. Hence: The human mind cannot be a pure function of external sources.
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> why I'm being downvoted

Your comment was at first a quick snipe, without any reason expressed in it. If you vote incorrectly, you should either leave it or explain your opinion properly, as you have now done. It looks like you've now been upvoted back.
What I mean is that it's pointless to talk about how to ace an interview if the person in question isn't even capable of the job.

Such guides tend to be more along the lines of "how to hack the hiring process".
Thank you for taking the time to respond intelligently.

I completely understand what you mean and it bugs me to hear, often from myself, that a certain work of fiction "changed my life". Sometimes in exaggeration, to emphasize our appreciation, but often not.

And yes, I get your point about blind trust of "published" materials.
The problem is not whether you can, but how long does it take. At least with mysql, alter table for a large table will take a long time (hours, if not more), during which the table cannot be written to.
That second one's really interesting. I've tried the SSH route and while it works (and works well) it really knocks up the time to send an image over the wire.

We've used this for forensic imaging in the past and have relied upon digital signatures as integrity checks. It's not great I know, but it's the best way to get disk images from a big server onto a NAS (when you can't plug the NAS into the server).
Because it's so much more ironic to brutalize the language with classicist inheritance and call it 'Prototype.js'
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Well, I kind of thought that is was obvious that sex does not equal assault and that I didn’t have to spell it out. I will be even more verbose in the future than I’m already used to be ;-)
alphabetical?

I'd rather have a listing of examples by category.

Such as:

Category: Net
Example: here is how to download a webpage,
parse its URLs, then download those
URLs recursively.

<example source code here>

An alphabetical list of classes is like an alphabetical listing of tools in a toolbox. It's like, great, but how do I use them?
Yes, thanks, I'll upvote that since it is spot on. You pretty much nailed all the issues we have.

At this point we have chosen to just keep on. If we manage to sustain this type of progress for the next 2-3 years, things cannot go worse. All that potential buying thing puts an extra layer of problems, heavy discussions, waste of time, lawyers, etc.

As far as out assets go - we might be very valuable since we bring a very successful open source project (site has 1.2M page view per month) + commercial products built on top of it. Just the name and open source site pointing to our competitors may bring them a lot of value alone.

Our usage base (for the open source products) is also huge. The goodwill and IP are I believe quite expensive at this point.

But we will just move on and keep going. Thanks a lot.
"... what is the line between these red guys? ..."

The blocks are chained together and appear to be elastic. If you pull one block others follow.
I had X10 all over the place when I was living in the US. It's quite cheap and not too bad of an investment, especially if you are just renting the place.

Now I am back in Europe and I left all that equipment behind in Wisconsin? Is anybody interested? I was planning to sell it on craigslist but maybe a fellow HNer will have a better use.
Why would the guy still be a software engineer if they were making 80k a month? Something is not right with the story.

Have you ever thought that these guys are inflating their #s to sell the ebook?

What proof did the interviewer have of their revenue stream? Did they show you any of their live google revenue stats?
The best way to gain confidence is to be able to list a series of things you have done which you can be proud of. How does one generate such a list?.Pick an easy task you want to achieve, write it down, do it, cross it off your list. Continue to repeat this with increasingly difficult but achievable goals, one at a time, step by step.

I appreciate it can be motivating to have a grand vision but you need to design a series of smaller wins for yourself along the way, it's too hard a slog psychologically otherwise.

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The experience of green is, by definition, whatever goes
on in your head when you look at green

You never 'look at green'. You can only experience the impression of instances of green things or have thoughts involving the abstract concept 'green'. You may be looking at a traffic light that just turned green and anxiously press the pedal to reach your destination. Or in the context of a psychological experiment, you may be looking at a green square, while remembering what it was that you were supposed to do when you saw something green. In the same context, you may be asked to think of 'green'. However, that will evoke images of grass, traffic lights, a girlfriend's dress. What goes on inside your head when looking at these instances of something 'green', or thinking of 'green' is a jumble of things, none of which could be described as the 'raw experience' of 'looking at green'.

On another note, not involving the actual experience: I was just reading the wikipedia entry on 'Grue and bleen'. It ends with:

Kripke then argues for an interpretation of Wittgenstein
as holding that it is not possible to state the meaning of
a word.

That's purely out of philosophical arguments concerning language. If you can not state the meaning of a word, then you can not agree upon your experiences of that word, firstly because you don't know what experience you are trying to relate and secondly because relating it requires other, vaguely defined, words.

You may also be interested in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinguishing_blue_from_green_...