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I'm not saying he shouldn't have (I've certainly learned something I didn't know), but let's face it, posting this on StackOverflow is like handing a loaded gun to a bunch of children and telling them not to pull the trigger.

True, but that's the case for posting anything non-trivial where Google can find it. And isomorphic to using non-trivial programming languages or patterns in industrial programs.

At a certain point, you have to let go of the idea that if you hide anything requiring thought and judgment from people, they won't hurt themselves.

Some people are going to foul things up no matter what you do or don't tell them, and some will excel even if you make it hard for them to find knowledge. The interesting group are those who are open to being influenced by what you have to share.

I suggest that even if only a small proportion of SO readers walk away enlightened, this article is a win. The folks who use it to justify their own failed attempts to manage arbitrary HTML with regexen would have pooched the task in some other way even if they stuck to using a parser library.
The important thing is exactly when and why the ban happened. As others have pointed out, his latest bug report that got him banned was hugely better than his older bug report filled with personal insults that got him a warning. This shows that he took the warning seriously enough to stop the personal attacks.

Banning him now makes me think the developers of Thunderbird are ego maniacs.
"introspection" You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Seriously. Well, either that or your reading comprehension could do with some work.

Also, you seem to suggest that I am sexually objectifying men if I don't find every single one of them attractive? Absurd.
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Your previous "velocity" won't help you with estimating time for problems you aren't accustomed with.
Similar: Courtney Love does the Math: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1714338
forget 27 years, give me 1 minute and I'll be a rich man( I'll do sport betting :D )
One thing I'm unclear on is what the definition of "provider of an electronic communication service" is. From the bill text (http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h112-1981) and Title 18 definitions section (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/search/display.html?terms=...), it seems to be ISP, since they're requiring the "temporarily assigned network addresses the service assigns to each account" to be retained. This leads me to believe that the bill basically requires ISPs to keep IP <=> account mappings around, and isn't so egregious as to require e.g. Google to store de-anonymized logs for all account usage for 18 months; the definitions seem to corroborate this.

In which case it's questionable, but not near as bad as it could be. Or am I missing something?
Well they could stop with the ludicrous health "advice" for a start.

See: http://kill-or-cure.heroku.com/

Then there's the whole MMR thing, and the rest: http://www.badscience.net/category/media/papers-mail/
Any idea where I can find the whitelist? I've poked around (Google, fgrep, etc.) and nothing is jumping out at me.
why not use it for general apps, i.e. simple application packages installable on any number of platforms? I see no reason why mobile apps should be privileged in any way, and really, aren't we witnessing a general movement towards making the same apps available on many platforms?
Actually the "send feedback" link in Google+ does exactly that: asking you to highlight parts of the page where the error occurs and then obscure any sensitive info.
I think the saddest part of the article comes from the fact that future adaptations of the Wizard of Oz have to ensure that they are not to similar to the 1939 version, else they might be infringing.

How can this be promoting the progress of science and useful arts?
In case you're wondering...

$ gcc -o yanim yanim.c -lm
yanim.c:1:1: warning: data definition has no type or storage class [enabled by default]
yanim.c: In function ‘main’:
yanim.c:5:24: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘cos’ [enabled by default]
yanim.c:5:33: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘sin’ [enabled by default]
As an experiment, I spent nearly two years in a community of people my age (16-25, mostly 18-20) of all genders, advertising myself as a girl and communicating in a relatively gender-neutral way. I marked my gender as "Other" and only claimed to be a girl when queried directly, with the response "I'm a girl."

My experience was that girls seek the camaraderie of other girls online, and tend to be more aggressive about privately establishing lines of communication outside chat rooms, but otherwise there's very little difference in the way that people act towards people that they suspect to be girls online. Notably, there were just as many sexual or suggestive advances from women as there were from men.

The punchline, of course, is convincing people that "MostAwesomeDude" is a girl, but that's not exactly magic.
I'd add a couple more things to condition your list:

* people are sometimes contextually gendered or contextually express specific sexuality (I know people who might describe themselves - and present that way too - as TV in some situations, but not others. I might imagine certain contextuality in sex is possible also, but with rather more logistical difficulty

* people sometimes change over time, and while they may choose to simply identify as their current (or desired goal situation) sex/gender/sexuality/... some people are happy to identify some or all aspects of their history, such as visible trans people

It's a pretty diverse world out there if you pay attention, even in somewhat conservative communities, so take care out there.
it's really all about transcending the version number. Which Chrome has basically succeeded in doing. Hats off to them too -- it makes for a much more exciting development and innovation space
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Why does nowmov.com (YC W10) shutting the site and going with iPhone/iPad only?
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>No, I would have a problem with it from anyone if the attention was unwanted. It is the 'unwanted' aspect of things which is important.

Disagree. It should be the 'being objectified' aspect of things which is most important as that's the topic we're dealing with. Even if your dream man approaches you and you want the attention, it shouldn't matter - objectifying women is still objectifying women whether it's from someone you're into or the fat, bald guy.
They'll help somewhat. They won't make us precise, but if we keep underestimating then knowing that will (mostly) prod us in the right direction.
Keep in mind this is Aurora 7, and not Firefox 7. Aurora is like a public pre-beta build of Firefox (and Firefox 6 beta is not even out yet).
I know, but as an app maker I can't interface with that.
The headline is very misleading, in my reading.

The case here is not one of taking thing from the public domain and putting them under copyright (as happened, for example, when the copyright terms were adjusted to match the rest of the non-US world), but rather, a dispute about what is in the public domain and what is copyrighted.

The crux of this case is whether the attributes added to the film adaptation of a work of literature (not present in the work of literature) have a separate copyright term running from the release of the film (and not from the original publication of the book.)

grellas, am I reading this right?
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Asana has that ability.
Oh fuck off! If you want to be a woman, you're a woman, a man, then you are a man.
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I personally use text files on a repository to track my tasks. Each project has its own text file and each task is assigned a priority between 0 and 4 and a status between todo, doing and done.
I commit changes to the repository morning and end of the day.
The only problem I still have is estimating time (maybe I should look at a proper issue tracker for this)

So to check the tasks I've completed I issue a command like:
"./show done PROJECT_NAME"

Not sure if this is the most productive thing but my productivity has really improved since I started doing this.
First and foremost there is more to Ruby then Rails. Rails is one framework albeit the most popular Ruby framework. Ruby as a community is growing and developers are writing cool things with it. It's also available on the JVM and there is Ruby implementation written mostly in Ruby.

I think the problem here is that the author is writing about "Rails Developers". <language/framework> developers usually have a narrow minded view about other languages/frameworks and hence call themselves <language/framework> developers. Real developers use the right tool for the job.

I've come across some really delightful developers who write Ruby/Rails who are pretty appreciative of other languages. This notion that all developers who use Rails are arrogant is not true anymore IMHO.
I've been playing around with node recently creating some educational games for my local schools. Its by no means with any specific business goals in mind, its more I wanted to try out node and my wife is a teacher. There was no money involved but it was cool seeing the kids get into the games.

see: http://derrish.net/pages/hacking

I have been looking for a larger project to get involve in.
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It's somewhat sad to see the shuttles go, especially without a replacement immediately to hand. Though hopefully the end up the shuttle program will pave the way for a manned launch vehicle that can get us out of LEO.
The comment you reference was made in July 2010. The bug report that triggered the banning was made a week ago, and just sounded petulant. It didn't make any personal statements about anyone.

Nursing a grudge against someone for a year, banning him for a grumpy bug report, then spamming discussion threads with hand-wringing about what a toxic abusive bully he was really seems like a waste of time to me. I guess you can "coordinate" your community however you like, though.
Which one is this: a serious expression of concern or some kind of a lightbulb joke?
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In laymans terms...
http://www.quora.com/Apple-Inc-company/Does-Apple-have-a-Pat...
Since the mirror would be light years away, it would take light years for the reflection to come back to Earth.
There's no timer on the feed, but at the moment they appear to be vacuuming. I'll take that as a sign that it's not going to launch in the next hour.

Anybody have an actual time when that's supposed to happen?
The same logic is applied by extremist religious groups to "protect" women from lecherous men. Enter the burka or the nun's habit.

If you have a service where you publish your name, link people together into social networks, engage in video chat, post pictures, post status updates and converse with people, gender will become obvious very quickly, regardless of whether the male/female box is ticked.

Since you seem to believe that posting your gender online is analagous to walking around in downtown Bagdhad, and that women are incapable of conducting themselves in modern society, what other measures do you recommend we take?

Should my wife have to wear a Nixon mask while video-conferencing? Does she need to censor parts of photographs that would allow people to determine that she is a woman? Should she be not allowed to join groups or follow people of interest to other women?
Yeah, I would've bought a .name if I was confident that people wouldn't be confused.

On the other hand, I don't quite see the purpose of a new TLD for websites, it's pretty clear that nobody types URLs anymore. Sure, it's a new namespace, so you can choose the name you want, but on the other hand, colliding with a .com can cause confusion in searches, so I wouldn't risk it.
Exactly. I would like to hide my gender not for any gender related issues but for purely aesthetic reasons. You could play a game of “which one doesn't belong” with my profile and gender would win. There is no reason to explicitly name my gender in my profile. Google did a nice job with making nearly everything optional and making sure your profile looks great no matter how much or little information you enter, gender just sticks out like a sore thumb.

Google should just leave everything as it is and let us hide gender. Other profile fields already have an UI for doing just that.

That's not to say that other reasons for hiding the gender are invalid, it's just not even necessary to discuss them. Google should allow us to hide the gender even if those reasons were invalid.
There is a bigger version of the video here:

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/135_splash/index.html
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>The team I worked with tried something similar where we broke down tasks into cards, where each card represented something that should take about a day to complete.

This is almost basic probability theory.

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

Estimations could be viewed as random samples with some distribution. The total is the sum of individual estimations. The sigma of the total is less than max(single task estimation sigma) * sqrt(number of tasks).

30 estimations with 0.5 day sigma gives us total sigma 0.5 * sqrt(30)=3 and 96% confidence bounds of (30 - 3 * 2)..(30 + 3 * 2) work days.

Most of the time you will see 30+-3. ;)

Unless you find a task that does not break into one day. Say, with low estimate "tomorrow" and high estimate "half a year". ;)
Anyone care to explain why they're downvoting this?
It's due to be around 4:30pm GMT

(edited to correct the time, I was out by an hour)
If the "character traits" are under copyright, and thus these shirts violate copyright, then how are the posters that the shirts are based on public domain? The posters contain the same character images, and even if they were not registered with the copyright office directly, I don't see why the claim on the shirts would not extend to the posters also?
As someone who started making "big games" out of high school and then moved to making mobile ones, with remote teams, I feel like I am near the polar opposite of your tale.

I know your feeling about games. It seems that if you want to create something which satisfies you, you'll be doomed to have no sales. However if you just make what the market wants, no matter how 'dumb' or 'simple', you'll do just fine. Or at least that's where I'm guessing your 'seems fake' comment comes in.

My main trade is game design, so directions to move have never been my problem. If anything it's been finding the dedicated talent to walk the mile with me. As my projects are typically too big to do alone. That's why I'm finally learning to code myself, and to that end, it's not in games.

I'm now 33 and I want to get down to solving real problems. The more I travel around the net the more I find that's ripe for improvement.

While I personally don't know what to suggest for your own endeavors. I think coming here and talking to like minded individuals is a great first step. ^-^
As far as I know, I'm 100% male.
It's sad to see the Shuttle go without a replacement. And to jog my own memory of the day I saw the shuttle in the UK, here's a set of pictures from the day Enterprise visited Stansted Airport in the UK: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike_ward/sets/7215760339467228...

I was there as a boy standing against the wire fence with my father to see this amazing machine. Bloody marvellous!
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but let's face it, posting this on StackOverflow is like
handing a loaded gun to a bunch of children and telling
them not to pull the trigger.

No, let's not face it. How is sharing well thought out, designed solutions to problems ever a bad thing. Sure there are a handful of junior coders that now feel overly confident and will mess this up, but they'll learn.

And then there is an equal pool of good developers that are now even better thanks to the info-share.

I acknowledge I'm being pedantic, but the Let's all nod and pretend we are way smarter than THAT group over there mindset gives me brain-diarrhea... you see it in every community (reddit, slashdot, HN, digg, etc.) and I've never seen it help anybody accomplish anything, anywhere... ever.

</takes off his internet-police hat>
OSX with Firefox. I'll try Safari too.

EDIT: It works correctly in Safari.
http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/

some information there, mainly regarding the works of leading figures
The author seems to be focusing his argument primarily on productivity and tooling. In that regard, I agree that C# and all the surrounding OSS has surpassed vanilla Java and is starting to catch up to Rails.

However, he neglects to mention anything about deployment, hosting, data storage, and long term infrastructure costs associated with being on Windows and .NET. These are real problems that startups have to weigh along side productivity when choosing their stack.

While Mono is certainly an option, the recent shaky history surrounding its corporate sponsorship makes it a riskier choice. Also you lose most of the tooling advantages if you use Mono on Linux instead of .NET on Windows.
This. Is exactly how it works. A first-time startup gets worse terms then an established entrepreneur, right? A first-time band is the same way. You do well with your first venture, you get better terms the next time. The indie film industry is very much the same way with distribution rights.

So, VC ~= Record labels ~= Film distributers
Great statistics. What is the point?

Are you suggesting that knowing the gender of people is a risk factor for rape?

It seems like a few people are making this odd connection between assault, stalking and rape with knowing somebody's gender. You do realize that most humans can sit on any street corner and identify the gender of passers-by with a high degree of certainty, right?
That's what I thought as well.. I was looking forward to reading it, but then realized it wasn't.
Excellent interpretation. I agree with your reasoning.
A relative perspective on print design publishing to internet platform: www.psfk.com/2011/07/cory-doctorow-in-connected-age-what-role-for-a-publisher-today.html

platform agnostic content is losing the relevance. The question- Content platform will bring the change? Does projects like percolate.com prevail against social interaction platforms? Up against: blog.comscore.com/2011/06/facebook_linkedin_twitter_tumblr.html
Sure, but in the meantime the label made the band famous, which is worth a lot of money. They have a much larger audience at concerts, can sell merchandise and possibly have other sources of income. And, when the record contract expires, they can negotiate better terms.
I'm quite sensitive to bullying, having often been a victim, online and off.

Part of me wants to agree with you. Richard does "name names" and directly voice an opinion of another person's abilities and a judgement of their actions.

One of the comments in this HN thread reads: "Get off your high horse you fucking moron". That is abusive. Never mind that this comment is in response to someone I happen to disagree with.

On the other hand I did not find the "cutting off his fingers" comment abusive. It comes across an elaborate, possibly overwrought, way of saying "This guy is making me angry". It is OK in my book to give people feedback on how their actions are making you feel. The imagery is violent, the tone is not.

What I do find abusive is the phrase "people like you" which Richard uses in the same comment. So my considered opinion of these comments would be yes, they are somewhat abusive. But I would stop well short of "bullying".

Richard's attacks have a clear object-level target, which is not a person: he is clearly making legitimate (not necessarily true, but legitimate) claims about the TB development process - that it breaks features that worked, that the concerns of some users are being summarily dismissed, and that there is a pattern of these things happening over and over again.

Yes, the tone he uses for saying those things sometimes crosses a line. But on balance, the impression I'm taking away from this dispute is that Richard is being banned not so much for his tone, but more for saying things that are true and that the people wielding the power to censor him are unwilling to hear.

That aspect of the whole mess, the way the power asymmetry plays out, is what I suspect has people coming out in Richard's defense. People with ban buttons should usually err on the side of tolerance.

The success of open source rests on participation, and participation is a two-way street. When you open a bug reporting system, the intended message is "we care about your concerns". Marking a bug as "won't fix" sends the exact opposite message. That makes it, too, a power not to be used lightly: someone wielding that power indiscriminately can easily turn into what I'd not hesitate to call a "bully".

At some point these tensions stopped being about mere civility, and started being about the power politics of open source. At least, that's how it looks to this outside observer.
At a glance, quite possibly. It's entirely possible that it's one of those 'tiny changes that bugs you' sort of things. When you look at a font rendered in an exact way for 6 or so years, slight changes just look really...off.
Personally, I just have a personal Google account without any personal data (well, except for Reader subscriptions, but that's not really important) for normal browsing in Firefox, and a Google Apps account that I use in Chrome just for contacts/calendar/email.

Now with Google+, keeping that separation would be more difficult if I wanted to use it, though, since I'd lose the integration between normal browsing and G+.
The problem is that most of these people can't afford to pay a lot for this service.
So privacy is either impossible or mandatory? The slopes sure are slippery around here. I shouldn't have worn my dress shoes.
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His booming voice and massive swords to capture the essence of the original. No matter how many times I see Optimus morph on the screen-full of sound effects that mimic those cartoons my inner child still jumping for joy.
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No, if he was really "investing his time", he'd be producing good, well-written bug reports, and, since he's such an awesome hacker, writing patches.

Instead, he vents his frustrations on bugzilla and generally acts like an ass.
Glad that ended well and her neighbor didn't get his throat slashed.
As a heterosexual, male-identifying, rather vanilla-sexed individual, I instinctually chose 'Other' nonetheless when I signed up for Google+, much like Facebook, which still refers to me as "you" or something like that. Computers are not for that.
I would +1 this, if I could!