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Very very interesting. Especially for people speaking several languages.

Here some of my personal interpretation on the graphs - I am speaking German, French, Russian:

* German:

The many links to German sites I would tend to explain
(a) by geographical neighbourhood (France, Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, Czech/Slovak, Italy, Slovenia with Austria);
(b) by national minorities present in Germany for different historical reasons (Italian, Turkish, Polish, Greek (immigrants helped to reconstruct Germany after 2nd WW); ex Yugoslavian (refuges during Yugoslavian wars )); ex-German colonies/settlements like Hungary, part of Poland

Very interesting for me that the only link that in 2 directions is with France! For me it shows that Germans like very much French and are willing to learn it. I do not know if the feelings are the same for the opposite (French learning German), but I can see that there are more and more French people starting to learn German - and knowing the linguistic introversion of French this really a sign of change to more openness.

Very surprising to see Mongolian sites to link to German sites? Why is this? Any explanation?

* Armenian/Georgian:

1) How comes that there strong bidirectional links between Armenian/Georgian and Belarus? I was not at all aware that many Armenians/Georgians are living in Belarus? And the languages are really different! Could somebody enlighten me?

2) I am very surprised that there is no link between Armenian and French?! This is very strange, because in France there is a very strong Armenian population and historically France was the first country to provide asylum to Armenians. Does it mean that the Armenian community in France is isolating from their roots?

3) Finally it is funny to see how their is no link between Turkish and Armenian at all. Not really surprising knowing the history, but still sad.

* Russian:

Did you see that from Russian there are no relevant links to other languages? And all the links to Russian are from former Soviet Union republics where Russian was mandatory in school. I bet this will change in mid or long term future! I strongly believe that many West European countries will make an effort to learn Russian and I hope that Russian government will make some of efforts in this direction. Sure this is biased because I love the Russian language and literature.

* Turkish:

Very surprised how isolated Turkish is. The only link being Azerbaijani which is a very similar language. I expected to see many more links to Turkish from other Ex-Soviet countries with close linguistic relationship (Turkmen, Kazhakh, Uzbekh, ...)

When looking to the graph that shows the relationship with English it is surprising that there is a strong link from Turkish to English, but nothing in reverse direction. How comes? Does it mean that there is no much of Turkish content that would be interesting for English audience (with Turskish roots)? Look how it is the same with the relationship between Turkish and German.

* Spanish:

Not very surprising that there are only links TO Spanish and no links FROM Spanish.
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I don't know why, those unlit caves have some eerie feeling to them (e.g 3:15 to 3:40). They look really nice. I suppose they're randomized but they really look organic/mineral/geological in their shape. There's a reminiscent feeling of Parallax's Descent to it.
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You are sadly continuing the perjorative drift with no beef. It's almost a cliche to say a few rude words about it, isn't it? I wouldn't argue with that view if it concerned the Sun or the News of the World (R.I.P - no, I'm joking) though again, a critique minus the purple prose would be welcome.

Over the Anglosphere seventy million people read the Daily Mail. It's a highly successful enterprise. I agree that that does not mean it cannot be 'ridiculous' or 'dubious' but it does suggest that a smidgeon of supporting evidence for your view should be forthcoming. I read it most days and find it amusing and interesting in its reporting on topics not covered in the British broadsheets. Personally I enjoy a spot of reasonably-sourced gossip. I also enjoy looking at pictures of nice girls on beaches. Probably I'm a lost soul.

And so, how would you improve it? Please don't construe my comment as suggesting that that should not take place.
The main question to ask is: do the benefits outweigh the drawbacks? For developers, when google opens up their platform, having the gender by default will make it easier to make a better interface and use pronouns correctly. On the other hand, i dont know many apps that distinguish gravely between men and women. The name of a person and their photo is usually enough to infer sex anyway. So, they're just making it easier for a developer to have the sex of the user. Another useful variable would be language.

I actually think the friends' list maybe should be private, but gender should be public by default. I think Mr. Munroe's concerns are completely unjustified. It's kind of horrifying too, it paints things as being really bad for women in america; I doubt it's really that bad. I find the whole "attracts more attention" argument rather weak. After all, when you introduce yourself in the real world, its apparent from either the looks or voice whether you're male or female.
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There is a problem: The document must be valid. That's why people struggle with Regex instead. Or you have to use or build a fault tolerant parser.
Right now core P generally has to completely flush its write buffer and broadcast invalidations to all other cores, even the ones with no references to that memory and no reason to care about its contents.

That's not strictly true. Modern CPUs have snoop filters and other mechanisms to reduce cache communication. If they didn't, the buses would be horrendously congested (you can indeed render the snoop filter ineffective by writing bad code).

In any case, it's not clear to me what alternative you're suggesting. x86 is about the easiest architecture for the programmer to reason about in terms of cache coherency, and CPU designers seem to run into scalability problems at every doubling of x86 core count. I fail to see how making even more coherency guarantees at the hardware level will improve matters. Yes, you can make it very easy to reason about (even in software, at the VM level), but you'll end up with terrible performance.
"if you had read the report"? "weren't you curious"?

It should have been clear from my conditionals ("If this report is representative…"; "If other reports are worse…") that I was curious about the alluded-to prior history, and my analysis was contingent upon the (at the time unlinked) specifics.

The concern I still have is that this latest comment was so mild and non-insulting that one possible interpretation is that the previous warning(s) were working. He depersonalized his criticisms into the zone where, if judged dispassionately, they could be more more helpful than hurtful.

Now, you've also been quoting other incidents ("simians", "die die die") that might be more recent and salient. I can't find the context for those. (Searches only turn up this thread.)

But I am only opining on the exact comments and actions referenced here. I'm not defending any particular person (who I don't know), but one most recent comment. And I'm not criticizing a general policy of exiling recidivist assholes, only the act of pulling the trigger after a comment that, standing alone, is innocuous.

If someone else over the years posted a thousand comments with the same level of sarcasm and exasperation, but also the same level of actual useful info (and no insults), as in Mlynarik's most recent comment, would they get a ban? Or even a warning? I suspect not. They'd just be considered a cranky but useful bug reporter.
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And for the next ten years, flawed attempts at imitating this will show up in production code all around the world...

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.
Interesting indeed. But weird that he uses obfuscated code when doing a piece of explaining how it's done. Or do people actually write for loops like those? :P
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Sure I will.

But if he writes me a letter letting me know that I suck and that I should rather die than writing buggy code making millions of lives miserable everyday, I'd be fine.

He didn't throw stones at Mozilla labs, he filed and commented on a bug report. Its just text, not a man in their office. Virtual != Real.

Its a mind over matter issue. And as Twain would agree..if you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
> They need all the Richard Mlynariks they can get.

Only if each Richard Mlynarik they have increases the quality of the product. Do you have any reason to think it does? This particular Richard Mlynarik wasn't writing code for Firefox or Thunderbird (which is too bad because i hear he's an excellent hacker). He was submitting bug reports, most of them allegedly duplicates, full of inflammatory language.

If you believe that bug reports filled with inflammatory language make a project work better than bug reports without it, then do please present your evidence for that. My own guess is that being rude to people may be effective in getting them to pay attention in the short term to your needs or wants rather than someone else's, but that it doesn't do anything to improve their overall productivity and may well make it worse by reducing their motivation.
Almost everyone files a bug report in frustration because you're filing an issue about something that doesn't work the way you think it should. But most people are considerably more civil about it.

I really don't like to play the "free" card. Too often developers say "well, it's open source so fix it or stop complaining." I don't think that's right at all . . . especially if you've advocated people use your software. However, having been involved with a lot of OSS projects, I can say that the bugs that get fixed the fastest are the ones that affect the developers themselves. Anything that gets fixed above and beyond that is a developer being a nice person in volunteering his time to help someone else. More to the point: it's hard to get people to work for free when they're demoralized and bug reports like this are demoralizing. If I were involved with the project, he's about the absolute last person I'd try to please no matter how right he may be.

So, while I'm neutral on the ban, the bug reporter has to realize this is a very ineffective way to win friends and get his issues resolved.
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Is this some type of joke? Internet trolls rule the internet.

Most of you, seriously, are just plain jerks. But so what.
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They at least used to allow it - I've got "n/a" on all my contact IDs (except the e-mail fields, of course). Not sure if they allow it when creating a new contact ID today. The last one I set up anonymously was 4 years ago.
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Of course it's not the end of the world. But the societal pressure towards certain physical ideals skews everyone's perception of "attractive" (Not more than a century ago, slim women were considered unattractive). So it's not 100% a "personal decision", and i understand it's really hard as a psychological burden.
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"If you currently have a private profile but you do not wish to make your profile public, you can delete your profile. Or, you can simply do nothing. All private profiles will be deleted after July 31, 2011."

http://www.google.com/support/profiles/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2321727
The crazy thing to me is that the deal is structured more like a loan then an investment, and yet they are still only entitled to 10% of net income. Could you imagine a tech entrepreneur accepting that kind of a deal from a VC?
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This is something I have always wondered about.

Can the reverse be true too? i.e. if you are on the moon and can see what happens 1000km away, before someone else on earth 2000km away from that event, is that the future? Is that possible?

Can that then be extended to 27 lightyears into the future too?
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I don't understand the physics but I do believe Stephen Hawking disproved this[1]; he said that after entertaining the idea that as the universe contracts time might reverse he concluded later this was wrong.

[1] A Brief History of Time (the documentary film)
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One of the best and academically proficient answers I've seen on SO. And if I understand correctly turns on its head the old refrain "You can't use regexes to parse HTML", of which I've always been a staunch proponent.

Now I understood the reason _why_ you can't use regular expressions to parse HTML is that HTML is usually not regular. Is this true? Does this solution in perl work because of the extended capabilities of perl regexes?
"in six lines of C"

I'm not impressed. It could be done in 1 line of C when he left out the line-breaks.

I don't think obfuscated code is interesting. It's unreadable. And therefore it's hard to learn something from it.

But it's nice he is explaining the code. Now that is interesting!
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I tried to keep it simple, since it's self-run and bootstrapped.

I know my landing page needs help. It's a lot harder to distill down a service (even a simple one) into compelling, actionable copy than I thought!

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I don't understand this statement at all. Are you saying that he's ignoring the fact that women have different abilities to defend themselves from attackers?
There was some form of consensus in a recent discussion not particularly pertaining to Perl that the term regex did not equate anymore to regular expression.
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I'm arguing that it's just as toxic in a bug report as in the real world (maybe even worse considering it's not ephemeral in a bug report and many more people are likely to be exposed to it.)

And I'm arguing that what's reasonable in the physical world, kicking people out who are abusive, is reasonable in our online meeting places like Bugzilla.

I may not personally mind, but I'm not easily bullied. I've got a pretty thick skin too. But that should not be a requirement for participating in our project.
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I would not disagree. I completely expect there to be some societal influence and it is definitely a hard thing to come to terms with especially when you fit the profile that your culture currently deems unattractive. It's still a personal decision though, no matter how skewed.

Ultimately, in the original context of the fat guy story, it isn't so much the appearance as it is behavior that is problematic and people latched on to mostly the appearance and not the behavior. And as I've mentioned in my comment, some people don't seem to understand the nuances of a situation. Combine both together and you basically have the recipe for some of the bitter replies and downvotes found in these comments.

A woman has every right to be disgusted at that kind of behavior alone, before we even get into what she or society might think of fat old bald men. The same applies the other way around and however which way you want to organize the situation.

So again with my ideals (hopefully everyone including myself can work towards this goal!). Act like an asshole, you'll be treated like one. Act courteously, and be treated that way in return. Anyone that deviates from that is likely to be an asshole :P
When I need to extract data from HTML I use XPath. But to do so I have to use the combination of following tools

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Although Mozilla would be quite right to ban someone if this kind of behavior becomes repetitive, I do find these kind of bug reports extremely useful, because they also convey the impact it has on the user. I can easily identify with his reaction to this "feature", and if my software annoys people like that, I would really want to know.

In fact, this kind of irritating software behavior is one of the reasons I ditched TB a long time ago. I'm sure that was considerable less useful than actually filing a mildly offensive bug report.
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Dear Asa,

You complain about Mlynarik being a bully, and yet here you are, with your comments on this one post at about 18 now, all saying what a horrible person Mlynarik is, and how you think no developer should have to put up with him, and yet, I don't believe you've disclosed your role, or why you have such a dog in this race....

I haven't read each of your posts, so maybe I missed where you told everyone what your role is in this.

Anyway, I do see Richard, a user, being blunt and creative and passionate in the bug reports he gives to the developers. But I do not see how a user bug report should actually offend or bother a developer.... At all.

And I do see you wandering around this post making sure everyone understands your point of view, that Richard's behavior is intolerable anywhere, and you can confidently say that since you are such a tolerant guy. I guess you're passionate too, but I think it's borderline speech policing and gate-keeping behaviors.

Boo hoo, a user calls the developers simians. I actually thought that was pretty funny, along with the imagery of Richard reaching through the computer.

I hadn't realized that the Firefox developers, developers of one of the utmost free speech tools of the 20th and 21st centuries were such wilted flowers that they could not handle the frankly amusing, sarcastic, accurate, precise, correct bug reports from one of their more knowledgeable users.

But now I know.
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i don't doubt it. i just question his ability to talk about what many women feel. how many women do you have to "talk to", "listen to" and "observe" before you can consider yourself to be assigning what "many woman feel" without ever being capable of feeling it yourself?
One pottential difficulty in achieving this in practice would be that the amount of information (photons) available to measure would rapidly attenuate with distance, so you'd need to mitigate this by building larger and/or more sensitive detectors.
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