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The same way the Open Source "community" has time to get actual work done - real developers do it while the trolls mess around.
you did not read the first line of my post. My point is just that this is nothing new...
and freenode #startups is basically HN irc
Eventually persistent. Thats all there is to say.
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It does makes sense for multi-platform software that predates C99's precisely-sized integer types. I first got my taste of them through a rough predecessor, the u32/i32/etc. types in the Linux kernel. I see them as a much more transparent approach to portability for system-level software, but concede that higher-level software may wish to preserve more meaning in some its type names (as in your example of OraText vs char). This still doesn't excuse DWORD_PTR, IMO :).
Disclaimer: The author of the post has been nothing but helpful to me in my latest endeavor and I have never met her in real life (yet).

If she [the author] cares so much about the social aspects of being in IT industry then I don't know why she cannot accept the way it is.

Why should she have to accept it the way it is?

As human beings we all have the basic right and duty to improve things for the better. If the situation is not the way it should be and I believe the comments agree to that premise then WHY should she try NOT IMPROVE them?

If the same topic were addressed by a male programmer we would all be talking how chivalry and good people are in abundance who want things to change, would not we?

Thank you for the downvote that you shall soon exercise but someone had to say this loud even if it shows mildly irrational side of me.
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not here to discuss ethics. Just making the point that this is extremely typical and far more common than you may think.
There are viable alternatives. Debian for instance uses eglibc, which is LGPL but AFAIK not part of GNU. The BSDs use their own libc as well.
It's a recurring complaint I'm mystified about. Do women really think young male computer nerds got positive feedback and support? Because hell no, that didn't happen. I learned because I was drawn to it. Nobody understood that, it made me a freak, even my few friends thought it was weird, but I couldn't resist. If seeing a perfectly objective machine pronounce your work correct doesn't amaze you, if you need external validation and enticement into the industry, if you can resist, then you probably should because it means this isn't your calling.
The FSF actively embraces non-copyleft or weak-copyleft licenses. The GPL3 was explicitly designed to be compatible with the Apache license. The Apache license has a weaker copyleft than GPL2.
With the Graph API, the user_likes permission allows your app to get a list of all of the [Facebook fan] pages the user has liked. I don't think that even you as a user can see what articles etc. you have liked - at least I haven't been able to find that information.
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This was posted as a comment by Ryan Willis, but is probably worth watching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k74r1aoMc0
Imagine the data mining and semantic analysis you could do with this. Behavioral psychology all through Facebook.
"you can have someone who is absolutely amazing due to her own strengths, but cannot realize them because of the vicious and mean environment around her"

Really? Have you seen a case of somebody that had truly amazing, useful strengths and was still somehow being "blocked" from success by the environment as a whole?

It sounds like a huge conspiracy to me (the way I rephrased it, of course it might not be what you meant).

Like I said amazing people will always have trouble fitting in, but if they can produce amazing results there's always a way to reap rewards from that.
There's nothing that's only exclusive to the "gender gap". It's a general fact that being different is not being average.
I don't even see a problem!

For me it's like saying 10 sticks out amongst 2s and that it's a problem. Well no wonder it does as 10!=2. It's a fact not a problem.

Either accept that you're different or make yourself more similar, you cannot have both.
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Facebook has recently hit 700m users. How do they not have "many people signing up"?
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Because more people will understand the longer version than the shorter one. A wiki is not a computer program.
I think it tracks everything with the public key that you use to push to github. The username will look the same, but will not be linked to your account.
This seems like a good place to mention the Tueller drill. A melee attacker can cover 20 feet in 1.5 seconds

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tueller_Drill

This being said, the US has a very high murder rate (triple its contemporaries) with the bulk of them done by handgun. It seems that it's not that easy after all to escape...

... and this is part of the problem with the gun debate on both sides - there's so much emotive argument on hypothetical situations, and very little examination of what actually happens in the world out there.

One example is "if mugged, would you rather knife or gun?", but that question doesn't allow for my answer "I'd rather have better social programmes so the chances of being mugged in the first place are lower".
I used to host sites out of my closet for fun. I had a monitor that had tail running on my server log.

There was something really cool about seeing hits, knowing that someone in another part of the world requested a file and it was sent from the hard drive in this very closet.
WHY should she try NOT IMPROVE them?

Because she's not trying to improve them - she's trying to skew the game. Maybe it's "male-centric" to insist that only the quality of the work matters - but personally I say that quality of work transcends gender and speaks for itself. Because my long experience of this industry is that we are the least biased people on the planet, gay, straight, black, white, boy, girl, fat, then, it doesn't matter if you can deliver. And if you can't deliver - the excuses that work in the rest of the world - don't cut it with us.
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Let me clarify. The safety and security of women tends to be far more important and of a concern than men. That is not to say that we don't care about the security of our male users, but rather we focus more on the safety and security of women as a priority.
From the same author: http://www.jeanhsu.com/2011/02/28/the-benefits-of-being-a-fe...

The odds are really freaking good, and only some of the goods are odd. Sure there are a bunch of socially awkward engineers, but because of the sheer scarcity of women in the field, if you are a single female you can have first pick of a lot of really nice available guys.

I thought the days were past when women only got jobs to find husbands, seems not!
Redis is in the AOF configuration as durable as your MySQL InnoDB store. This has nothing to do with durability :)
the police...turned up an hour later (I phoned 999).

I see the problem. you should have dialed 0118 999 881 999 119 7253 [1]

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> After harvesting email addresses (I only grabbed real email addresses, not anonymous craigslist addresses) I did one email blast to people that were advertising vacation rentals on craigslist...My results: 1,000+ vacation rental owners signed up and listed their properties on my test site.

He's missing a few steps...
How many email addresses did this dude harvest and blast to get 1,000+ people to sign up for his special vacation rental site?
What did the email say that he sent out?
Was he also sending them from throwaway gmail accounts?
What were his tactics?

This guy needs to follow up with more details. All he's shown is that at some point he posted 4 vacation rentals to Craigslist and he got 5 emails linking to AirBNB.

His findings rely on the fact that he got 1,000+ people to sign up their vacation rentals on his site after spamming some number of emails he admits to harvesting.

The "test" site he made (he's since edited it out), but google cached it http://bit.ly/iOPWi5 is www.mimbeo.com.

A quick look at the press page (http://mimbeo.com/vacation-rentals/press) and they have press releases announcing they got 1,000+ properties in one month: http://www.prlog.org/10408565-mimbeocom-reaches-1000-vacatio...

Here's a quote:

> "It's a no-brainer" said one of the founders. "We are offering owners and managers the same great service they receive from the pay-for-placement sites like VRBO & Homeaway. Not only that, but we broadcast our members listings to Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and more - and we do it all at no cost. We like to think of ourselves as the 'craigslist' of vacation rentals - with the added bonus that the listings do not expire - which is the main complaint we have heard from craigslist users."

Seems odd to go through all that for a weekend project "test" website. What's this guy's deal? This seems weird...
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That she 'uses more software provided by KDE' is an unsubstantiated claim that people make way to fast. Is it possible to build KDE without GNU tools? If not, every use of KDE is an indirect use of GNU tools. While running, how many times are glibc and related foundational components called?

The problem of GNU tools is their invisibility. But by that metric (what users see), your wife should call the system KDE, since the kernel is entirely invisible to her. Surely no one here suggest dropping Linux as the appropriate name for the system? But if so, doesn't GNU deserve to be mentioned as well, for making Linux actually usable by things such as KDE? The foundation is Linux + GNU tools. Neither can do without the other, but nothing can do anything without the two of them. That's as foundational as you can get in a GNU/Linux system, which is why people call it that.
It depends on what we understand by "accept".
You see, I don't know what's the author's agenda. If she wants to "fight it", change the society so that one day being an average-skilled woman programmer will make you a totally average person amongst programmers. Then that article will probably help to forward that cause and I should not criticize it.

But if she truly believes that being a woman that truly likes programming (aka does not want to be just another average person gluing code for a big company or equivalent) there is so magical force that makes it harder for a woman then she is basically wrong. And that is a feeling I got from reading it, so my "accept" meant recognizing that it's not any harder to be an exceptional programmer for a women and move on.

As for the down-vote I wanted to do it after reading that trick sentence, but somehow I cannot find that option :-). I never vote here anyways.
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I partly get what you are trying to imply here.

The thing is if she were talking about how people are extra rude with her when she commits a mistake or how she is given lesser opportunities than male counterparts I would totally agree with your point.

However, all she is saying is that the environment and attitude as a whole is not as supportive as it should be. That includes things like 50 females in 1000 programmer group at random, even if it is not within the control of you or I.

We might just need to be a bit more welcoming and receptive to these issues before we start saying that Hey, we have done enough and we no longer have that issue anymore.

Just saying it from a third person's perspective. I have not worked extensively with tech teams where this is a problem but maybe I was naive enough to just not realise that the one female programmer in the team of 25 programmers was not always supported to voice her thoughts about how things can be made better; in code and beyond it.
Internships, done right, offers something very different than an entry-level tech job. During an internship, you should get a chance to circulate through several different departments and try out several different positions under the mentoring of several different people and really get a chance to find out what you might want to do with your life, without any real demands to perform.
I.e. a commit can complete successfully before the data has actually been persisted? Or just the part about all data being kept in memory as well? If the former, seems like a bad idea, big e-commerce company or no.
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Note that Paypal will allow you either a micropayment or a normal merchant account, though - so this only works if you don't need a normal account.
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> Let’s do the math. If you worked from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. seven days a week, you’d still be two hours short of 100 hours.

... and you'd never see your children.
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If they can modify it without worrying about legal repercussions, they're not afraid to modify it

Oh, they can modify it. They just can't redistribute the modified code as proprietary software (or under a non-compatible license). But there's nothing stopping you from taking emacs code, for example, and modifying it any way you want. Actually, that's the point of Free software.
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Shoot me an email (in profile) if you can code hacker news into php. I need some further modifications done as well.

As for budget, I was thinking around $500 for a conversion of the site into php, then pay you by the hour for extra changes.

(if someone is a lisp coder and wants to do this job with the source code as is, also contact me).

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I think it's even worse that he is posting pictures of a guy who has his laptop.

What if it turned out this guy did not steal it but bought it from someone? He, his house and a sleeping woman are now on the internet.

You should read the post here on HN about scanners at airports where we all are suspects. Everybody would scream about the privacy issues...
Fair enough. Down voted for a legitimate suggestion. HN really going downhill fast.
> at the very least, try to intersperse some technical discussions into your gender articles

Maybe you should check the actual contents of her blog before you post condescending BS like this? Only two of the eight most recent articles are about gender, less if you go further back.
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Agreed. The problem is that the common user has the misconception - perpetuated no doubt by comments like the one by Eric Schmidt - that somehow a Mac (or a Linux) is just a better designed OS that is not vulnerable to malware and viruses. There are plenty of security holes and vulnerabities in the Mac OS as well as Linux - the malware authors just get more bang for the buck targeting Windows users - because of the 90/10 split in the market. In fact, recent reports clearly indicate a huge recent spike in malware and virus attacks on Macs - see this article : http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/The-Mac-malware-pr...
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hacker news? you mean y combinator?
May be before putting all your blames on a open source community, you should have studied a little bit of social-anthropology.

You see, if you had involved deeply with any hot new tech community, like node.js, instead of Rails, you would have had the same problem with that community.
> I don't quite understand how he's built such a following

Possibly by releasing some pretty cool stuff? You've heard of Mongrel, right?

> a monstrous waste of resources for github

Can you quantify how much resource github wasted in implementing a reasonably useful feature?
Probably just to help this guy out and get his laptop back from that douchebag
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The edge is getting so jazzed about what you do, you just spent 24 hours straight working on a project and you thought it was a couple hours.

I always lose interest when I read something like that. The last time I experienced this flow state was in college (or just after), when I was still coding entirely within a domain that I knew. Once I got into the real world, things got hard, domains changed with every assignment, and flow state became impossible.
I think it makes more sense than ever to call the operating system "Other" instead.

"So, what OS are you running?" "Debian Other on the laptop, Ubuntu Other at work"

This would also make the usage polls more relevant. You usually have "Windows", "OS X" and "Other" in the results already.
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Attaching a sexist comment to a post about the challenges of being a female engineer is not cute or helpful.
It's also worth considering that only a fraction of the kernel's LOC are even compiled in the average distribution's kernel (are the LOC dedicated to Itanium, Alpha and PA-RISC support really useful to Ubuntu?).

Does the kernel spend more lines of code on platform support or on drivers? I was under the impression that drivers made up the vast majority of the kernel, most of which are enabled in distribution kernels.

Sloccount seems to confirm this on kernel 2.6.35:

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It's called the internet. Information is free - if you can't teach yourself something, you have no chance of survival in a world filled with jobs that often require you to learn and adapt independently.
I am pretty sure that you are overplaying the 'poor github bullied by Zed' angle.
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You are, however, apparently comfortable with (indirectly) accusing Joshua Kaufman of violating a man's privacy, in a public forum without a conviction in a courtroom. Why won't you afford him the same presumption of innocence?

At least he contacted the police first, who wouldn't act on the evidence and only then did he try to garner public support for his case by showing the world the evidence he had. He even did this without accusing the man in the pictures of anything other than possessing his laptop, which is a fact arising from the evidence, even if it hasn't been considered by a court. This case wouldn't even reach a courtroom if it weren't for the fact that this website eventually got the attention of the police.

Ideally the police should have just taken the evidence and investigated the case, but instead the justice system failed. What options did this guy have, other than drawing attention to the fact that the police didn't do their job? Grabbing his pitchfork and willfully instigating a real lynch mob? Letting his computer go?
Sure, but in the banking world "next easiest option" does not equal "easy option". Switching banks is considerably more difficult than switching hosts.
From other computer nerds, they often do.
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and its competition, Clang, is it even stable yet?

Yes. Clang can compile the kernel. From http://clang.llvm.org/:

Clang is considered to be a production quality C, Objective-C, C++ and Objective-C++ compiler when targeting X86-32, X86-64, and ARM
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