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Absolutely not. He pretends that women tend towards being good mommies because of some ridiculously over-simplistic "natural impulse" or similar crap. This approach is altogether stupid, complacent and wrong.

1° generally human behaviour can't be described as simply as bacteria behaviour in a petri dish.

2° there is a general trend recently in using some pseudo-scientific discourse as a comfortable vehicle to shocking ideas, basically pretending there is some science behind the differences between men/women, blacks/whites, etc. This is UTTER BULLSHIT. There is NOT the slightest fucking speckle of science backing this.

3° there is a more profound philosophical error that is trying to justify a scandalous state of matters because "nature makes it this way". Let me tell you one thing, nature sucks. Living in the "good ol' natural way" is being eaten alive by wolves and dying young, and painfully with that. Nature is a very bad excuse; everything that civilisation is about is precisely doing things in unnatural ways because you know, nature is nice as long as you aren't really part of it.
Well since this is for 'hot cities' the snow thing is pretty irrelevant.
> But then there’s Mint, a pretty name conveying no information that nevertheless got acquired for $170m by dinosaur giant Intuit.

...LOL! That's the worst example ever. Mint has plenty of money related meaning. Mint is green. Money is green. A mint is an industrial facility which manufactures coins for currency. I could go on...
I cannot possible recommend sage enough. I used it in every math and statistics class that I took in school and hacked on it a little towards the end of college.
am i the only on who looks at stuff like this and thinks "professional wrestling"?
I would recommend Devise over Authlogic as it doesn't pollute your application with as much generated code...
Wonder how many companies already have these types of jobs?
Ok. Your original post sounded as if you thought the technology to do things with low impact didn't exist (i.e., pollution was inevitable).

On a different note: So you're OK with pollution in China? You do realize that China and the US are on the same planet, right?

Airborne pollution from China is exacerbating fog in LA [1]. A beneficial example is that sands of the Sahara are a major source of fertilization in the Amazon [2].

[1] http://factsanddetails.com/china.php?itemid=392&catid=10...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_storm
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No - the CEO has a legal obligation clearly spelled out by the SEC and other laws, I'm sure.

Given that the market is made up of humans, and that nobody can predict with certainty the public reaction to every move a company or person makes, it's absurd to think that insiders in a corporation are not entitled to privacy.
I was hesitant to switch to AT&T when I bought an iPhone 4, but I have to say I haven't had any problems with them. In Chicago I have had more problems with Comcast than I've had with AT&T. I'll be sticking around.
I know nothing about malware, but I know a lot about shipping production software.

- Simpler is better than complicated. As pointed out in one of the comments on the article, increasing complexity increases risk of failure.

- Proven techniques are, uhh, proven. Newer techniques are inherently riskier.

- Really speculating here, but maybe impenetrable obfuscation was actually undesirable? I wonder if the authors, (seems to be Israel and/or US), wanted Iran to figure out who was behind it. A successful cyber-attack means that future attacks of the same sort are possible, and adds a bargaining chip to the Israeli/US side. This can lead to Iranian concessions down the road. Without a proven success, a similar negotiation tactic would have to be much more difficult.
Agreed about the large accumulations. I was more thinking about the smaller ones that leave a thin coating - we seem to get those once or twice a year. With the asphalt, we can just wait until the sun has been up for an hour or two and melted them off.
As one of the commenters pointed out, CSRF is just as possible with POST requests as it is with GET requests...
I imagine that the database is enormous and constantly changing, so it's probably impractical to have development copies that are sufficient to test your code against realistically. I'll bet Google engineers have access to their full database too for the same reason.

On Reddit, someone mentioned that 'becoming someone', which I presume means making the software think you've logged in as that person, is unusual and must be justified and closely tracked when it happens. So I'm guessing that you can't just pull up records for some person from the database; you need to 'be' that person to get their data. The free access is probably just for stuff that is shared via the privacy controls.
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Hardly.

Apple could certainly avoid continuing to innovate and continuing to compete and get eaten by competitors (especially Android in the mobile space). However, there's still plenty of room at the top for Apple. The developing world is a huge, and growing market. And smartphones and similar devices are likely to be a huge business there for a variety of reasons.

Moreover, Apple is better poised than ever to compete against Microsoft on MS's own turf (business computing). Computing devices that take advantage of ubiquitous networking and heavily rely on managed applications (in the style of iOS) are almost certainly the wave of the future in enterprise computing. The era of ad-hoc application deployment is on the wane, managed applications will be a huge boon to enterprise IT, and to users as well. There is still a lot of work that needs to happen before that vision can be realized though, but Apple certainly has as much, if not more, of an opportunity there as anyone.

To a quick approximation I'd say that Apple could grow its revenue by a factor of maybe 5-10 in the near future without having to do much heavy lifting, merely by continuing to keep up (and occasionally get ahead) in what it's already doing (in phones, computers, and music). And it could grow by another factor of 2-10 in the near future (10-20 years-ish) if it made significant investments and pushed into new markets. They'll probably do the former, the latter is probably more unlikely.
Sorry for your loss. :-( I hope you both start feeling better as the spring comes closer.
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I have always thought that "mission critical" software means that if something goes wrong, a human being might get hurt (ie: heavy machinery, missiles, etc.)
OK, so according to him there's code review and some automated tests.

But that still doesn't address wide open access to the live DB by brand-new devs, and the complete disregard for having a dedicated QA team.

Why QA? I would think FB engineers are more busy doing real work at work than fooling around on their own site (heh, the irony) and finding out that Junior Dev 39's change to the thingamabob broke chat for the umpteenth time in IE7. And as many people have pointed out here, they are a platform for many other businesses now--there's no dogfooding that--and the API stinks in terms of stability and documentation.
It's a bit of both.

It helps that Apple's products are cool and some of them practically sell themselves - but Jobs is able to bring a level of genuine sincerity to his presentations that few other CEOs can (despite their best efforts).

IMO the big thing about Steve Jobs and showmanship is that he feels sincere. We've all seen the keynotes and launches where the CEO is trying to express his/her enthusiasm about their new product in the most contrived, artificial, cringe-worthy way possible (Ballmer is a master at this). Jobs seems immune to this - he comes off as just as excited as you are.

The enthusiasm is infectious and helps the press (and in turn, the general public) get hyped up about the product.
I used both and I agree with this recommendation. Devise is more modular with less code generation.

Edit: By the way, GREAT first product. Congrats and Good Luck.
Hey Matt,

Just a quick little note to thank you for your series of posts, not just this one. I've been trying to get my head wrapped around the lambda calculus and your posts have been by far the most enlightening ones on the subject.

Thank you very much!
Multiple mentions of "public shaming". Doesn't seem so good. A good engineer is anyway going to have a sense of shame inside when he/she screws up. I really don't think there's any need for "public shaming".
I know for sure that Trada does (because I fill one of those data roles there :) ), but not sure about others! I'd love to hear if anybody has a big list that does though!
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I don't think anyone believes that 26% will actually switch. Surely the actual conversion will be lower - but that's not the point.

The point is that 26% of AT&T's iPhone customers are so displeased that they are itching to leave, and as you mentioned astutely, if they stay it's only because they've been effectively chained down by a contract.

A business where a large portion of its customer base are involuntarily there is a severely sick one, and will either fail out of its own accord, or continue to hold back in the industry by propping itself up with monopolistic behavior and paid-for regulations.
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I lost my mom to cancer when I was 20. I can only tell you the truth - it takes a long time for the pain to subside, but it never truly goes away. The only thing you can do is to talk with friends and family and to tell stories about your dad to keep his memory alive. It's been 13 years or so since then and recently I got married and we had our first kid. We "adopted" a very good family friend to be a surrogate grandmother to our son, not in replacement of my mom but just to fill the void.

I know this goes against the ethos of HN, but life is really not about software. It's about people. Get out there and live life and meet people. A lot of exercise and playing loud angry music was also really good for me for a while.
In other news, you'll be way more productive if you don't hang out on Twitter all day :-)
And when the page is loaded again, how would the browser know that the base64 encoded data in the page matches the binary data that has been cached?
I'm guessing you're not in the SF Bay Area? Come join us for gold rush #37! (Right order of magnitude, anyway.)

I mean, at least you're very unlikely to encounter a place with a dress code. There's still plenty of fluorescent lights and droning HVAC systems, though.
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Get better, Mr. Jobs.
True. Clearly professionalization is not the only required step, but the natural experiment doesn't tell you it's not required — hence my "yes and no" reply.
Presumably we'd only be killing off the originals once they were malfunctioning to the point where continuing to live was not a pleasant experience. At that point plenty of people that don't have "backups" are happy to die, so as long as that's how it was happening, then the fact that you're copied into another body is just a bonus, this body is going to die anyways.

Further, once you did the switch at least once and had the memory of "waking up" in a new body, you'd have a lot more confidence that "you" would still exist after the transfer.
Jobs is man with a vision and Apple is built around his vision. Apple is still fresh and needs to make good strategical decisions to further establish itself. This wont happen if the new CEO will try to continue where Jobs left off. Why? Because 'proceed as before' will not lead to innovation. The new CEO has to be a man who will be willing to invest big in new technologies and fight for his vision.

I'm sure there are lots of good people at Apple, who can come up with great ideas, same goes for Google. The difference between the 2 is that where Google has lots of separate small projects going on, Apple delivers one big product with lots of features and that's what makes it so great. Integration and simplicity.

Apple needs a strong leader with a vision in order to be as successful as it has been in the past.
> By "help people" they do NOT mean anything like what a plumber does! What they mean is more like social work helping the needy.

You have an extremely arrogant stance on plumbers, you know. BTW your quick-n-dirty generalisation doesn't work : it seems quite obvious that psychiatrists and psychoanalysts are doing an extremely social work, helping the suffering and the needy, though they're almost all male. You start from the conclusion.

> The big, classic example is the SAT scores: The girls do better on Verbal, and the boys on Math.

Sorry, that may be true in some particular place and time, but last time I checked girls did better on BOTH in many countries. Hint : this hasn't much to do with genetics.

> Uh, the girls like English literature and fiction much more than the boys do; if you don't like this 'generalization', then think in terms of distributions.

Ghaaaaa, this is moronic. Once again you're pretending that vague social trends are rooted into genetics.

> Amazon 'gets it' on this point and aims their Kindle reader at women who want to read fiction.

Funnily, my impression is that the Kindle mostly appeals to geeks; or at least they're the one talking about it.

Too bad, at times you made some interesting posts but this thread is saddening.
And keep the sign up form above the fold. Currently it's almost all the way off my screen and therefor easy to miss.
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Hi, my project is a language education portal with an element on social networking (something that resembles livemocha.com). The dashboard design you have is fantastic and we'd like to build on it. If you're willing to share it, contact me at arthur DOT ax AT gmail.com. Also curious to hear what went wrong.
Agreed, the new twitter is way demanding compared to the older version.

Once they stop allowing the old version, I'll probably have twitter loaded much less. On a core 2 duo, even scrolling in new twitter is way below par.

Is there a low cpu-usage client? I tried one of the flash based ones, but it brought the fans permanently on on my MacBook... Yeah, that's not going to fly.
Years ago I read an article titled "Our genes are not us" (something like that) that touched on the problem of cloning a wooly mammoth.

As I understand it, the problem is that the same genes can produce a different result. An example of this is the caterpillar and the butterfly - same genes but different expression. External factors can change how the genes are expressed. External factors include when and how long the fetus is exposed to certain chemicals in utero.
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No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

Substitute any of a thousand critiques of <any language except Lisp|Haskell>, Windows, Linux, you name it that is out in the world getting its job done.
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> Every single review would say "it's cute and all, but without the apps its a nonstarter".

I think we're getting to the point where we can't discuss this alternative reality meaningfully (but don't get me wrong, this was a very nice discussion!), but I'm curious. What makes you think that without Android nobody else would launch an App Store, or that nobody else would have the clout to get the sorts of apps that users are interested in?

Sans Android, the iPhone would still have the limitations inherent to a closed system that it has today. Anybody else could have added the background multitasking, or the free GPS, or any of the features that made Android popular, to their own OS, and attracted the same audience that made Android big. I mean, Microsoft is by no means a company that can't afford to compete with Apple financially, and RIM's no slouch either.
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I appreciate the point you are trying to make however @HilbertSpace did say that it's impossible for a woman to be successful at both motherhood and a career:

With feminism, some girls believed "Women can and do things, too", charged into male careers, and paid a very high price in lack of children, busted marriages, and sometimes even their lives. It's not nice to try to fool Mother Nature.

Further, what on earth are you talking about when you say that his post is in line with expert opinions on the subject?

A few random quotes...

It's not nice to try to fool Mother Nature. To get girls to major in computer science, you are dealing with forces you cannot possibly understand.

Having women pursuing computer careers will stick like water on a duck's back -- not a chance.

There can be a reason for a girl in college to take some courses in computer science: Look for a husband!

I am all for a balanced discussion but seriously, is this not a little nutty?
I don't think anyone is trying to make the point that you seem to think they are. I was responding to the fact that in this comment here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2112766), you seem to be drawing some very odd parallels between bus drivers and CEOs. The reality is that most people could drive a bus. Very few could be a CEO. The skillsets and levels of responsibility are just completely different. If you genuinely think that they're comparable, I don't really know what to tell you.
what happens when one of those 1000 engineers decides to leak the FB database to wikileaks?
Oh please! Copying something is not theft or stealing, either legally, ethically, or physically.

You can argue about the economic effects, but at least stop using misleading terms -- it does not help anyone understand anything.
Actually, Steve Jobs is quite lucky. His type of pancreatic cancer, called islet cell carcinoma, has a much better prognosis than most other types of pancreatic cancer. It is also quite rare, making up only 1.3% of pancreatic cancer cases.
It's easy to dogfood an API. Not saying that FB does, but it's easy to.
The difference between GET and POST is interface-related, not security-related. A better example for why you avoid GET for non-idempotent operations is to prevent a webcrawler from coming along and innocently making massive changes to your site just by following links. Security-wise, there's little difference between the two, it's trival for the client to change the type of request. (If I can't get some guy on a forum by embedding a picture, I'll send him a link to some website I control where there's a hidden <form> that posts to the site I want.) CSRF is only preventable by putting secret tokens in your forms that get echoed in the submission request (or by double-submitting the cookie as I do, but tptacek will be in here shortly to tell me why that is so silly).
Subtlety acknowledged. "Into" is correct. "In to" is forbidden.

I guess we've squeezed the life out of this one.
I don't read all of the books I get already. Some I read cover to cover, others I read portions of, use for reference, or just pick out a few key ideas. Other times I change to another topic for a while before I get to the book, and end up reading it years later. I'm not just feeding my short-term reading, I'm building a library.

Also, I specified an open, non-DRM format because that way I could apply software to the problem: text summarization tools, staged memory training, and/or just copying sections out manually into summary documents.
I can corroborate this with iPad app sales. I believe a large number of iPads were Christmas gifts this year and am in my highest grossing 30-day stretch to date.
To be fair, they can offer their stock to anyone they want if they follow the rules like thousands of other companies do. Trying to dodge those rules is what got them the media attention. You can argue over the usefulness of those rules, but Facebook (with the help of GS) is pretty clearly trying to subvert them.

I think it's a case of trying to be a tad too clever. It reminds me of Google's more successful attempts at an unconventional IPO.
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lol nice. I realized quickly that the input doesn't really seem to matter. I put in the same input ("xxxxxxxxxxxx") and got just random headlines.

But funny nevertheless :)
FWIW, if you had a CDMA phone you couldn't have done that

(not an argument for AT&T, but for GSM)
This sounds serious. I wish him all the best.
With the exception that this is supposed to be, y'know, fun.
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I would like to know what are the other items in the 'clear list of “fire-able offenses” , e.g., sharing private user data)"
It would be interesting to get some verification, because no one could work in this environment for very long. Regardless of compensation. The stress and associated error rates that would accompany it would've been a problem long ago for Facebook. Particularly with no QA.

I cannot imagine Facebook existing and prospering for this many years without any QA team.
> [...] our emotional patterns are not tied directly to our genders.

Of course they are. Gender has a direct effect on one's emotional patterns. (Direct effect does not mean only effect, by the way.) Depending on whether you have XX or XY chromosomes (or some other combination), you will grow up with different organs in your body and different hormones in your blood. Such things define your gender, and they directly effect the emotions you experience.

As an example, men are prone to wanting to engage in pistol duels at dawn over minor quibbles.
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I would never get a CDMA phone. iphone or not, AT&T sucks.
This is really a much better way to do it than the arbitrary silliness of alpha, beta, rc, dev, etc junk. See e.g. ridiculousness of python's PEP 386. Nice and deterministic.
Sounds like a great option for students. I think for a lot of companies, however, Matlab has a leg up on Octave. In particular:

-The specific packages offered by Matlab (like the mapping toolbox, simulink, parallel computing, etc..).

-The training support offered to companies (I am not a huge fan of this, but I meet an awful lot of people who are).

-The existing user base.

-Finally, $10K (Matlab + a few packages) annually is not that much if it enhances productivity.

Even for students, I wonder if they would be better served getting used to Matlab because that is what they will end up using in industry.
Is this museum starting the tour off with a simple, "old" video game with a custom joystick?
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ITS. ITS. Really, I'm only that angry because seconds ago I saw this caption: http://somerville.patch.com/articles/photo-gallery-snow-art-...

I mean, maybe we should change that rule or something so people stop breaking it.
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