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The problem comes when the child can't choose for themselves if they want to focus intensely on something like chess. The most important thing about raising a very smart child is to let them them make their own decisions and expose them to different appropriate things they can do with their intelligence.
I think you are calling "customer" what I'm calling "customer ID."

You then add getters and setters for the customer (custID) object. Any pre-processing is handled there. Also, some vars in the custID can certainly be handled with get/set--vars set via user input, for instance.

But I also use this for building, for example, custom buttons. Things like color, stroke, etc. all set in a "buttonData" object. My custom button comes from a class that extends JButton with a constructor that accepts the buttonData object.

The beauty of this is that I can add a new feature to my buttons, say transparency, but (i) modifying the new Button class to paint transparently, and (ii) adding the transparency value to the buttonData objects. Nothing else in the code has to change, and I have custom transparency.

If I want a particular set of buttons to have a unique transparency, say the "help" buttons, I simply vary the value of the buttonData object before calling that constructor.

This is the power of OOP: encapsulating what changes. Is it slower to build? Absolutely. But you can probably already see how simple it is to modify and maintain.
"hone to the right degree" what does that mean, exactly? Did someone forget to impart precision to you, ever? And how are you so sure that 6 is "for damn sure" to old? I was in a gifted program at 6, and I don't remember much about it except crying at some of the problems I couldn't solve, and nobody came and shoved rainbows up my ass to make me feel better about it, and I'm thankful they didn't.
Thanks for the feedback. In your opinion, what would convince you to want to switch over to Bookhuddle or any other service?
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It's completely possible to be able to play chess and enjoy it, in a sense, at 6 without being autistic.

"You would be shitty parents and you're autistic". Nice line of argument.
That the language has a concise placeholder for such a value means that it's probably culturally significant. I don't know how much it characterizes Swedish culture as a whole, but making it as easy to consider such a thing as, say, "truth" or "freedom" in English would probably influence discussions about e.g. sustainability.

Another is that English doesn't have an immediate distinction between free-no-cost and free-unrestricted, such as "libre" vs. "gratis" in Spanish. This has led to some ambiguity in Open Source discussions, so the phrase "Free-as-in-beer" gets used a lot now.
Reminds me of this graph: http://media.tumblr.com/LTrEP2xA77v9i9w1wGBRQSjV_400.jpg

(Originally from http://blog.gardeviance.org/2008/04/three-stages-of-expertis... but images aren't loading on his blog)
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Thanks for your feedback. On Bookhuddle, you can easily add books that you like to your list, simply search for the book and click "add to list" and select the list you wish to add it to. You can also tag the book and tagging with one of the predefined tags automatically adds the book to the related book list.

You can also recommend books to anyone within or outside Bookhuddle, simply click on the "Recommend to friends" link on the book detail page or any search result page.

The Activity Feed is also a great way to discover books through your friends. When they interact with a book (write a review, participate in discussion, add to a list, etc), you find out.
It depends on you. Wear what you feel the most confortable with. If you are genuinely interested in working in that company and you have a nice CV, it doesn't matter if you turn up in a suit or not. You are not yet working for them, so you don't have to obey their rules. But you must fit into that image. Don't forget that you are evaluating them as well.

I never wear a suit when interviewing (jeans, tshirt) and at a career day at one of the larger consulting companies, I was the first to get the job. But they said I would be obliged to wear a suit when I would work for them, as I would travel often to clients, which is a fair deal, as everybody else does.
I would to add that it was also noticed that in more reserved nations / communities and social class ... more women are into IT

This observation was first brought to my attention after a Linux User Group event in Egypt .... many many many women came most of them veiled.

I also noticed the IT field in Egypt have more women from lower and more reserved social classes

I am not sure how this observation can be helpful but its sure an area to investigate more.

My personal observation is that IT have a geeky laborish image (laborish as in you sit infront of the screen for hours without human contact) that repulse more femimin women, and by which poorer and more reserved women are not bothered, in other words, its a tuff field with tuff work envrionment, which is only suitable for tuff women (poor and reserved)
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Long is fine if that's what it takes to make the point. I learned to keep things as concise as possible to avoid losing the reader. The side benefit is that it forces the writer to clarify and distill his thoughts. Most of the work is done in rewriting.

Steve's stuff strikes me as a stream-of-consciousness, spellcheck and then post, type of style. Do the 3rd and 4th paragraphs about jocks really contribute anything to his point?
Correct me if I'm wrong but doesnt' WebKit already do that?
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Django may be easier than rails. I would not know because I've never used rails. But Django is way tougher to use than MFC or OWL because of how inconsistent the various things you can do are. So from my particular programming non-web background, django can sorely stand to be improved.
You don't get it, do you? I can do these things by using email and notepad. But it's not convenient. It's the same with your site. It does not fit my intended usage, but does this as a side effect, and so your site is not convenient either.

And please stop talking like a PR or salesletter and start talking like a person.
But. It's not out yet. Fools!
Where do people learn to speak this way? Why can't you just be Bob and say things in english without using words like 'challenges', 'constraints', 'excited' and other such fluffy words?

Just tell me what I want to know and stop trying to market me a free product.
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At both places I worked that had women (admittedly, both colleges), women were asked out. I'm told it's not uncommon at regular jobs either. What fraction of nurses (an 80-90% women profession) are asked out, do you think?

As far as I know, women are asked out at many hobby activities as well. I know people who have gotten dates at critical mass, rowing, the gym and some sort of "Free Palestine" club. I'm told that even church is not an unreasonable place.

This "men asking out women" problem seems quite pervasive.
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I wouldn't follow their example. Netscape Communicator was a big pile of shit.
FireFox wants to get press by being the most downloaded software in a 24 hour period.

A gimmick hit for the browser wars.
So what percentage of hackers are superhackers? Did the rockstar job ads of YC startups get many applications (and where the applicants really rockstar coders)?
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I've never had the problem with people pretending on freenode, not like you do on, say, yahoo chat.

Seriously, do we need to promote the stereotype of "don't believe someone if they say they are a girl". Better advice, say "cool" when someone says they are a girl, and otherwise ignore it.

In a sort of case/point, the most famous female on freenode, imho, is Christel http://blog.simplychristel.net/ the person that took over for lilo (when he passed away) on freenode, not including the other FOSS projects she's involved with.

I don't think I would insult her (and myself) by suggesting she isn't female, nor would I insult her (and myself) by 'throwing' myself at her.

She (and any other woman) should be respected, by the same standards you would respect a male.
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Am I the only one who is kinda bugged that everyone is getting hung up on the "37signals vs. 37 Signals" debate, both in HN's comments, and SvN's comments?

Look - that wasn't the point of the article! IMHO, the point of the article was to do some research, try your best, and not come across as shoddy. As a former hiring manager, I can attest to the sometimes shocking lack of attention to detail people have when applying for a job. You are sometimes competing against literally hundreds of other applicants, and people reviewing the resumes don't have a lot to go on. Just make sure you try your hardest and do your best if you want to be considered for the position.

And I didn't come away with the feeling that 37s would exclude someone ONLY BECAUSE they put a space between 37 and signals. But they do count it as a negative mark when reviewing a pile of 80 applications.

If there are 10 interview slots, and you and one other applicant have identical resumes and are competing for that 10th slot, and it's down to you and that other applicant, the spelling of the company name just might matter.

Of course, everyone here is an entrepreneur and not really applying to corporate jobs anyway, right? ;)
I find his writing to be more enjoyable than effective, but that's fine - there's not a whole lot of technical people out there that are actually enjoyable to read.
Probably not. You make a fair point. :)

But I still do enjoy reading all the anecdotes and slightly off topic stuff. I think that if it was too polished it would lose its edge.

The raw/unedited nature of his writing is what I like about it.
But hey, at least he proved on a web forum how he's smarter than a 6-year-old!
Looks very much like a plain amazon affiliate page for me.
goodreads.com is doing something similar. it's worth checking them out.
That was good. PG's succinctness is perhaps a bit better but SY is in the same class of essayist. Malcolm Gladwell, too, I think. As I was reading this I was thinking that he's described something I've noticed but couldn't categorize properly. All three of them write by finding some series of effects we've all noticed, tying them together through common causes and making further extrapolations about the effects of those causes. It really makes you think and in a good way.
Can we stop posting all these articles that claim to know the secret of why men like some things and women like others? These ridiculous articles aren't accomplishing anything!
Come on, "mirror neurons" are just bullshit.
Is it worthy?
HN user whacked_new builds these things, and doesn't get the credit he deserves IMO. Fantastic work.
I am sure they are not. We don't really know how the brain works yet. I am pretty sure the "mirror neurons" are not special neurons, but simply neurons like all the others.
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Well actually it seems to say in the paper "the same neurons fire when you poke someone with a needle as when you watch someone being poked". So how can they be "mirror neurons"? Seems to me they could hardly be both, "mirror" and "direct" neurons, or at least the term "mirror neuron" does not make much sense if the neuron also acts directly.

Therefore the "software" theory seems much more plausible.

Simply, the brain models it's environment. That is all there is to it. A flower is a flower is a flower.
I don't like FF3's "Awesome Bar" so I disabled it. I tried using it for a while, but noticed I mostly type in things like "n", "r", or "t" to get to news.ycombinator.com, reddit.com, or my own domain, respectively, and with the "Awesome Bar" this is removed and it actually takes me LONGER to browse, as I generally type in a letter or two of the URL and go to it directly.
How do you scale knowledge?

What you store, is as important as how you store it. Luckily, the Nazis (or any authority) can't easily destroy bits.

How do we organize anything more intelligently?

Everything you try to improve, is an attempt to organize matter more intelligently.

This is the most fundamental activity. And we'll continue to do this in new and strange ways.
But I feel like all mainstream programming languages aren't truly "languages", they're mostly dialects of X, where "X" is a fusion of Lisp and C, i.e. same old ideas repackaged in different syntactic packaging.

How are "normal" languages not the same old ideas repackaged in different syntactic packaging? I'd say "dog" and "hond" aren't different ideas even though one is in English and the other in Dutch. They're just the same old ideas repackaged in different syntactic packages. Isn't that practically the definition of a language? Some things that take me a sentence to say in English can are only a few phonemes in Japanese, but does that mean Japanese isn't a real language because it's the same idea in a different syntax? I'd say syntactic difference is possibly the defining characteristic of a language.

Perhaps this is simply indicative that the term "language" is innapropriate to apply to a programming grammar.
I started meditation, along with yoga, just over a year ago and it has had a profound impact on my work and general well-being. I'm more productive, more focused and generally look on things with a 'happier' (if that sounds right) outlook. I didn't tell my male friends I was doing yoga at first just because of the amount of laughter it would generate, but now I've become a bit of a yoga/meditation evangelist. erm, can you tell?
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Quote:
"That's right! All those loser kneebiter jocks in high school who played varsity and got all the girls and sported their big, winning, shark-white smiles as they barely jee-parlor-fran-saysed their way through the classes you coasted through: where are they now?"

I'm a programmer, actually.

edit: I was recruited by Miami, Alabama, Wake Forest, and a couple others, and had the potential to be one of the top tight ends in the state of Florida. Too bad I couldn't deal with the people.
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than not then
For those that jump straight to the downloads: "Downloads from FTP server will not count towards the Guinness World Record attempt for the most software downloads in a day. If participation in this event is important to you, wait for the official release."
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Structural, ingrained sexism in the education system stifles boys' communication skills. This is the only explanation I can think of.

Seriously, I wish all those boys/girls stories just disappeared from HN, until the day public discourse on sex becomes rational. Today it's all like this: males are still ahead, boo! Girls are getting ahead, yay! It's as bad as the pedo scare and the racism scare.
proof that software engineering is overrated.
"Mac users will see buttons, scrollbars and tabs that finally look not just “Macish” but entirely Mac-native."

Absolutely NOT. The gradient up top is TERRIBLY wrong, the buttons don't follow design style, and the feel is overall one that's very cluttered, one that feels like a definite port.

Terrible article. If I was able to downvote I would.
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No I just get:

Status: 500 Internal Server Error Content-Type: text/html
500 Internal Server Error

Edit the home page says:

An error occurred with Mephisto. If you're the administrator, check your production error logs for more info.

Need help?

* The Official Mephisto Site
* The Mephisto Community Wiki

More rails issues?
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Priceless :)
While I appreciate the support that these "women in technology" articles invariably generate, I can't help but feel victimised by them. It's almost as if - as a woman - I must fail, otherwise I'm not doing things right.
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We use Share A Sale for our (newly launched) affiliate program. However, the bigger sites generally aren't in their network, so you don't get top tier placement across the web.
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Especially amusing are all the comments by "bzzagents" sent to comment on the post.
It's easy to say that, but I once went to a gay bar with some girl friends and gay friends of mine. At first the attention was somewhat flattering, but it didn't take long before the people leering at me and trying to get me to dance with them when I was uninterested really started to bother me. At that moment, I was enlightened.
Please to make installing easier...learn from web2py.
Perhaps this will sound sexist, but in my experience, women are more critical than men, especially towards other women. And even if a particular woman does not exhibit this quality, she still expects it from others, both men and women. I'm not saying this is an inborn trait (although some aspects of it could be), but I have definitely observed it when I'm out with girl friends of mine.

Could it not be, then, that when considering the prospect of writing software and releasing it for scrutiny, an expectation of excessive criticism prevents many women from doing so?
Great game, very addictive! Will definately play again when I'm bored!
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I am Spartacus. :-)

The product already attracts customers, but a team is needed to grow our ability to make and sell the product. There is an actual physical product here, but we need a better way to make and sell it.
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Agree. He has build the funfair of brain fitness!
I know what you mean, but I still think it is the better problem to have: too many wanting you vs too few.
Are you suggesting that:

(a) There is no reason why men like some things and women like others

(b) There is a reason but it is unknowable, or

(c) There is a reason and it is knowable, but it will never appear in any past or future article of this sort?
Seems like a good guess based on http://news.cnet.com/2008-1024_3-5208228.html
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w_n! This new one looks great! Going to try it out today for sure.

The best part of the site is the tagline: "cognitive neuroscience for everyone"
Development hot spots: Silicon Valley, Boston, Lawrence Kansas. :-)
Some of those are hilarious! Thanks...
Joanna...fire.
One of the key details I like in this essay is that these people Yegge is referring to are experienced. That implies that for 95% of us, this is something we can still aspire to be someday. ("Every once in a very rare while you'll get a recent college grad in this category, but I think more often they tend to be experienced enough to make Gandalf feel young again.")

(Incidentally, Yegge has probably done more to advance the art of speed-reading among programmers than any other single individual. Not that there's anything wrong with that.)
1. "Steve's stuff strikes me as a stream-of-consciousness, spellcheck and then post, type of style." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=219653

2. "Mes Révérends Pères, mes lettres n'avaient pas accoutumé de se suivre
de si près, ni d'être si étendues. Le peu de temps que j'ai eu a été
cause de l'un et de l'autre. Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que
parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte."

Bribes: Petit Dictionnaire des Citations
http://www.bribes.org/temps.htm

A loose translation of the above quote:
"If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter."

From 1. and 2. it follows:
Succinctness takes more effort. Yegge took no effort. All other being equal a succinct text is preferable.
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Reminder: it's Firefox 3 download day
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Firefox 3, which promises page loads up to seven times faster than Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
"adds an extra level of clout"

only a chicagoan would say that :)
"She (and any other woman) should be respected, by the same standards you would respect a male."
Where did I write not to respect female? Anyway, how many girls do you know that hang out on irc? Sure, there are some, but maybe 2%. Especially on freenode. It's a matter of fact that there are not many IT tech girls.
And by no means I was trying to insult gils on irc.
"The object isn’t to be perfect. The goal isn’t to hold back until you’ve created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all."

- Brilliant!
This is a good example of failure of the threading model at YC. It's very hard to see, visually, what the parent is. It's just sort of this comment in the middle of nowhere.
with so much hype and press, one can only hope that there's not some mission critical bug or server issues when downloading it or something similar. this is a make-or-break release when it comes to infiltration of the non-techie market. here's to hoping nothing bad happens and there's tons of good press.
To follow up, we posted this last night just before bed time. When he woke up this morning, I showed him how many comments there were in this discussion and showed him the page you created. He got a huge smile on his face.

By the time I left for work, he was playing Rescue Heroes with his brother. :)

Thank you, everyone, for the words of encouragement and the constructive criticisms. I agree that just mindlessly praising anything a kid does can be bad, and I immediately thought of many of the criticisms raised here when my son made told me his idea. However, I wanted to present his idea without any editing or adornment on my part, because then it wouldn't be his idea any longer.

I will definitely save this discussion and go over it with my son again later when he's better able to grasp the arguments. I find that, when introducing a new idea, it doesn't seem to totally "take" at first. However, a few days later, it somehow has been fully absorbed and he's able to generalize and make appropriate inferences from the idea.

Thanks again!
Ask YC: Startup community Washington DC area
I currently live in the northern Virginia area. I am trying to get a sense of the startup scene do any of you have suggestions? I know that barcamp was here not too long ago as well as startup weekend. However everything seems to revolve more around web design and less about startups.
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