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I absolutely agree with you. This is no hard work at all. Hard work is doing physical labor for 16 hours a day so that you can't think anymore of what the words "hard work" even mean. Everything else is just eyewashing to feel a little better.

The "hard work" is a mantra repeated over and over and over especially by entrepreneurs to a point that I really get sick of it. Entrepreneurs love that phrase and love the idea to think about themselves of being hard-working.

Truth is, you don't need to be hard-working to be successful. Not at all. If you "work hard" (in the wishy-washy terms of how entrepreneurs use that phrase), you're doing it wrong.

Edit: I want to add that we all should be glad that none of us really has to work hard to get decent money in the bank account. We should appreciate every day that our lives are so comfortable and that we have so much money that we aren't required to do the really hard work like our ancestors had to do. As long as everybody has the self-delusion of being hard-working, we can't appreciate the comfort we have and pay some true respect to the people who can't have the same wealth and comfort.
Forming a consensus isn't the problem; the problem is enforcing honest application of the new rules. Assuming the majority of people in the network are honest, you need some way of determining what that majority decides, within the network itself.
It doesn't mean 'nothing'. Hard work is sometimes needed. But I do agree with you that it's usually more important to work smart than to work hard. Pick your battles carefully and such... Mindlessly working hard without a good idea doesn't get you anywhere.
I'm sure there are multiple alternative solutions, but hnsearch.com is a pretty good one. Written by the Octopart guys and runs off of ThriftDB, the search and database backend that they wrote for their site.
How do iLBC and iSAC compare to the (also open source) Celt, Silk and Opus (Silk+Celt) codecs?
> vicious and mean environment

Honest question: is that your experience? I'm not a programmer (currently doing a PhD in crypto), but I was under the impression that female programmers encounter lots of "innocently offensive", "maladapted" and "uncaring", but not so much "vicious and mean". (Which is bad enough, but "well-intentioned-but-stupid" is easier to fix than "evil".)

I'm pretty sure that you have more experience being a female programmer than I do, though. ;-)
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She quit Google and found a place for herself somewhere else, I don't see any gender-gap specific stuff there.

You make a distinction of amazing people being on the "wrong side" and the "right side".
Ones on the right side do have some trouble but can progress in a fairly fluid manner aka did have some setbacks but could still progress without major environmental changes (got that right?).
Those on the wrong side get more trouble and have to do a lot of searching for that perfect niche where they can succeed，right?

Well, then I think most amazing people ARE on the wrong side, I'd say that's the way things are for most amazing people. Ones on the "right side" are lucky or very very amazing.

Anyways those are some general facts about amazing people that go along with everything I said so far and still show no indication of the "gender gap".

I feel like I'm missing your point maybe, if so then we all love examples :-)
"git has a too-steep learning curve and is just cryptic and hostile."

that is quite untrue. it's more to do w/ unlearning the legacy of central repositories, checkout, checkins, copy-branching, etc - and that is not hard if you're sufficiently pissed off with them :]
A message from the same thread that possibly better explains my point:

For Redis on disk to work well, you need:

1) Very biased data access.

2) Mostly reads.

3) Dataset consisting of key->value data where values are small.

4) A dataset that is big enough to really pose memory/cost problems on the ever growing RAM you find in a entry level server.

What is left of Redis semantics and advantages here? The intersection of 1+2+3+4 is small and fits exactly in the case where
Redis for metadata, or as a cache, plus another datastore designed to
work on disk is the right pick. So why should not we focus, instead,
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structure server) better? It would be already an huge success to
enhance what we already have (not to say that Redis is so important, just that Redis can do his small part in the big picture providing something simple that works well, instead of trying to do everything and save the world).
Zed just seems to react strongly to anyone who tries to intimidate him. Same deal with all the people called out in the classic Rails post. I don't fault him for it.
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A question. Is there a way for anyone to know their laptop is taking photos of them? Be it a Mac or a PC. And is there a way to know if my computer is transmitting those images. I wonder whether such apps can be installed by malicious individuals to spy on people.
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http://www.google.com/trends?q=reddit%2C+digg%2C+slashdot...

Also interresting:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=hacker+news%2C+slashdot&c...
Just curious - anyone know why?
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Bionic is missing a fair amount of stuff, as it only has to run a limited subset on Android, but has enough to run much software.
It still cant build a fully working out of the box Linux kernel for x86, eg no 16 bit early boot stuff, patches for various stuff, some things not working.

It is stable though. Linux is just a hard target...
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Only if it actually stopped people buying things advertised in spam emails. That would probably need there to be a credible risk of getting caught when buying something advertised in a spam email. That seems awfully difficult: how are the police -- or whoever -- going to know you're buying something from a spammer? how could they prove it? why would they bother, given all the other crimes they could be going after?

Now, maaaybe making it illegal to by Hrebal Vigara would dissuade potential customers despite the negligible chance that they'd get into any trouble for it. But do you really think it would dissuade them enough to make much difference to the profitability of the spam? Doesn't seem at all likely to me.
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Smurk reply just to shrug off the fact you are only looking to your own bellybutton.
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I'm not surprised that it mostly happened in Plymouth really, it certainly seems to have a great deal more poverty and thus criminal/anti-social issues than Exeter, largely relating I suspect to the reliance on the military docks down there at which work has very significantly reduced.

Anyway, hope all is good for you guys now!
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Bill Atkinson improved on code and made it 2000 lines shorter, so he entered his contribution as being "-2000" lines.
+1 on what pbreit put in.

and, i felt the name 'SimpleTing' was a bit contrived. i'm assuming you tried for "SimpleThing" and couldn't get the domain?
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tablets with finger input? with a dedicated OS built around that UI? really?

i've worked with stuff from HP, Lenovo, all using Windows Tablet edition. NOTHING came even near the iPad in usability. fucking booting that thing? field force users HATED these crapfests.

the tablet notebook pc is dead, the industry is switching in droves to the iPad. not nerds, business people.

Android will catch up, the HP PalmOS stuff looks nice too. But the iPad was a true first.
My attitude on the whole qualia matter is: how important can a thing be if no one can define it well enough to measure it?

In my opinion: Very important. But I'll read that paper you linked, and we'll see if I still believe that. :-)
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Okay, well, years before I got there, someone made the comment that "the company doesn't want women engineers, it wants boys with boobs". That is, there's talking the talk about diversity, and then there's actually living it.

An example, because you asked: I had a manager tell me I was not doing anything more than meeting expectations because folks at my level are expected to be "fire and forget". Apparently, because we had been having conversations about things going on with my project and how broken the code base was, I was not meeting his expectations of how engineers are supposed to behave.

I had to inform him that just because a great number of software engineers in his experience don't like talking about problems doesn't mean that everyone is like that. Indeed, some of them may be more likely to approach a problem in that way, and automatically treating that as bad is a pretty clear sign of biased behavior!

Note that I'm not saying this particular trap is a 1:1 with gender bias, since there are women who will never trip it and men who will, but you wanted an example and that is one from my life.

(Side note: I was delivering plenty of technical goodness during the period in question. When they can't find anything technical to fault, they invariably turn to something "soft" as described above...)
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Very impressive but I'm having a little problem at the end of the video. Things were rendered incorrectly. Latest version of Chrome for Mac (stable), probably latest version of Flash. Anyone?
"It's been blisteringly obvious for a decade that tablets are the future of mobile computing."

Really?

When the iPad came out, there was a lot of argument whether it meant anything - lots of people thought it would be a failure. "Just a big iPhone", as so many people said.
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Second paragraph says "A SpiraClock SDK is no available", which should very probably read "now". I first interpreted it as meaning that a previously-existing SDK has been taken down.
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Exactly. She's the sort of person who will use being female to her advantage when she can - and when not, she'll use it as an excuse.

Me, all I care about is the work, same as everyone else who's not got an agenda of their own.
If Pidgin (the cross platform IM framework that Adium/others use) doesn't get this, I'll be sad/grumpy.
The mainstream press would pick it up, and put a "big business is evil" spin on it. No way would they risk that, not with all the flak banks are getting right now.
In case anyone's wondering about the actual timeline:

September 1983: RMS announces the GNU project. (Work actually begins in January 1984.)

March 1987: first release of GCC.

June 1989: first release of bash.

May 1991: FSF announces that work on GNU Hurd (their own kernel) "has begun".

June 1991: first free-as-in-speech BSD release ("Net/2").

October 1991: first release of glibc.

September 1991: first release of Linux (0.01) -- not free-as-in-speech.

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That thread spiraled into the absurd
But where are the Erlang trolls or the C++ trolls? They don't exist!
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Thanks for the reply, and your accusation of hypocrisy has some justice to it. I actually have a lot of respect for you and appreciate your projects and most of your writing, but I still don't think you handled this entire situation as well as you could have. I apologize if some of my vocabulary ("tantrum") is itself an example of what I was criticizing.
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That's precisely the point here.

There were three kinds of iPad naysayers:

1. iPad sucks compared to the tablets released in the 90s. They had more features.

2. There is no market for tablets, tablets are dead. It's been tried and failed.

3. The iPad isn't useful for anything. It's just a big iPhone.

(1) is wrong because it fails to recognize "ease of use" and "style" as features.

(2) is wrong because the market was not educated on tablets and therefore tablets were not truly tested -- no one did the sales and marketing work that is necessary to introduce a new technology.

(3) is wrong because, like usual, people with only a hammer can't imagine using a screwdriver. It's necessary to educate people on the value of innovative technology. Future-oriented product people such as myself were waiting impatiently for both the iPhone and iPad since the 90s when they first became technically feasible. They were held back by entrenched telecom monopolies, bad UX, and poor marketing/sales.
I got one of the first sidekicks when they first came out and got into mobile development through it since it was really easy to get a developer key. With SK2 they made it a lot more difficult for no real reason and myself and a number of hobbyists I knew moved away from them.
I'm getting a slightly confused with that small debate we're having.

My original point was that a women that truly loves hacking and is exceptional at it won't have it harder to succeed, which does not mean it will be easy, it will be as hard, because most of the time if you're really good at something where performance is hard to measure you WILL get a lot of trouble breaking through.

My second point is that a women wanting to be a simple, average programmer that nobody knows about might indeed be less appreciated than your average man. But if she want to be a simple, average one than I guess she doesn't love programming, so why not pick something else?

I got the feeling that the article was trying to make us believe that there is a problem that should be solved, but I see no real problem.

Do you disagree?

(replied to my own comment because couldn't see the button under yours)
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The iPad is just a tablet that doesn't suck.

Just like the Sidekick:iPhone relationship, there were a few tablets that didn't suck too much, but the parent companies tended to hamstring them. They would stop supporting them, they wouldn't do proper marketing, and basically they would constantly trip over their own feet. Suits were calling them dead before they even had a chance to be born. It wasn't a technology failure it was a business failure. Hence, Steve Jobs to the rescue.
A mere 1 day later: https://github.com/blog/862-block-the-bullies

This was not some kind of conspiracy inside the Ruby community to troll Zed.
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