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Premed and organic chem aren't advertised in "competitive language", though. How often do you see schools write course descriptions like "we're seeking the world's best chemistry ninjas to help us take our chemistry educating to the next level?"
This isn't a revelation for most people (or maybe I'm biased, a lot of my friends are pilots), but the second video there is the best demonstration I've seen so far of why this occurs.
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Here is one problem with life extension that I haven't seen mentioned - can we just assume that people who grew up in vastly different time periods will just be be able to coexist comfortably?

To give an obvious contemporary example - gay marriage is a lot more controversial among older American voters than younger voters.

Now multiply that times a thousand - what if people who grew up in the time of Christ were still a significant part of the voting population? We can't just assume they'll all become hip techno-libertarian atheists/extropians just because they managed to live long enough. My guess is that they'd have a strong attachment to the values and way of life they grew up with - thus creating potentially bitter conflicts among the different cohorts which might make contemporary domestic politics seem downright friendly.

So while its cool to imagine living indefinitely - it seems to be in many ways healthier for society to have a continuous "purge", to constantly start fresh with new minds that have less baggage from the past.

Also on a personal note - if society in 2,000 years is radically transformed into something I find really bewildering and bizarre - do I really want to be around for that? Of course I would gamely try and adapt, but it might be better for everyone to just leave that future world for people who grew up with it and who find it natural.

Still, I am not any kind of Luddite - if life extension and mind uploading etc. is perfected I won't oppose it - I'll just have a lot of misgivings as will a lot of other people.

Joe Haldeman's "Forever War" has some good exploration of the nature of "Future Shock": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forever_War

Actually, now that I think about it, if this whole scenario actually happens the best thing might be to maintain separate societies for people born in different time periods, which can communicate and interact but which operate relatively independently.(e.g. Being gay might be illegal in the 1000 CE society but being straight could be illegal in the 3000 CE area!) That might be the only way to keep some relative peace.
And fast; Mesa uses this.

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She didn't say she was put off by competition, she said she was put off by competitive language in the job listing. She recommended more focus on the collaborative side of the internship - mentorship, line by line code review, and being part of decisionmaking. "Things that have to do with collaboration and learning appeal a lot more to female candidates."

Couching something in mainly competitive terms does not just advertise that it's competitive, it also hints that there's a sort of pissing contest atmosphere at work. In the case of Fog Creek, it was an inadvertent, false signal, but what this woman is saying is that it's a negative indicator many women watch out for.

You can be at once highly qualified for a competitive field and drawn to that field for reasons having nothing to do with competition. Those female premeds are almost certainly more interested in working with patients than in beating their chest and bragging about how they got into a good med school. (And I'd venture the same holds true for the males.)
My bad, glossed over the table giving frequency counts just above it. Comment deleted.
The downvotes are appreciated. Where am I wrong?
As a general rule, companies have never hired people who want to rock the boat. The point is that the article missed that point. Nothing is different about "today" vs. any time in the past.
As opposed to the low-stress 9-5 world of medicine?
I meant an occupational breakdown among the developers. I'm sensing from browsing the site that it favors consumer-facing application programmers.
For me, I can only sign in with my facebook or twitter account? Is that actually intended?

I am uncomfortable using those two accounts to sign in.

If I could sign in, the question I would ask patio11 is this:
What advise would you give to someone who wants to run a solo software business so he/she can live anywhere and travel anytime?
Ask HN: We just got patent trolled by Kelora Systems. Need Advice
I run a mid-size eCommerce business and we just received via certified mail a patent infringement notice from Kelora Systems, LLC regarding US Patent No. 6,275,821 entitled "Method and System for Executing a Guided Parametric Search".

The patent is for a “search method” where instead of a hierarchical approach, the application uses family groupings to narrow products (they call it guided parametric search). A hierarchical approach would be one where in order to get to Small Red Widgets I would have to first go to Widgets, then to Red Widgets, then to Small Red Widgets. If you wanted to get to Small Blue Widgets, I would have to go back to the top of the hierarchical tree and then select Blue and then Small to get my Small Blue Widgets. The issue with this being you may not know how your end user may prioritize those things. They may want to see all the Small Widgets and don’t care about the color, but in this hierarchical approach, that isn’t possible as its a branch past the color selection.

This is something just about every major eCommerce site does.

Doing some research I see we are not alone - http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=kelora+patent+troll

Essentially they have stated that we can either pay a $150,000 licensing fee within 30 days or they will file a formal complaint and pursue 'legal remedies'. (A copy of the complaint was included)

eBay, Microsoft, Target, Office Max, Shopzilla and lots of other major companies have already been targeted. - http://www.docstoc.com/docs/60405793/Kelora-v-Target-Officemax-Shopko-Briggs-and-Stratton-et-al

eBay has also counter-sued, however I am not sure how that effects how we can respond to this letter (if at all) - http://dockets.justia.com/docket/california/candce/5:2010cv05106/234117/

Some, such as ShopZilla and Footlocker have settled: http://www.prweb.com/releases/Kelora-Systems/Step-Search/prweb5094424.htm

My gut is that we need to bite the bullet and pony up to get our lawyers involved immediately, however they are not by any means cheap and would like to be as efficient as possible when dealing with them.

Very curious to any insight or advice that can be offered, particularly from someone who has dealt with this in the past.
1. The fact that Joel's blog is on a separate domain means that Fog Creek doesn't reap all the SEO benefits that it could have from links to his writing.

2. Having people visiting the same website where the software is actually sold gets them one step closer to purchasing.

3. There's the "top of mind" marketing effect of constantly having Fog Creek's blog posts on the front page of HN and other tech news aggregators.
I worked with several women programmers who had worked for big-iron computer companies in the 60s/70s.

There was a demand for programmers, there were no CS grads, so the companies had simply looked internally at the people sitting in front of typewriter keyboards, thought "that's the same thing really" and trained them as programmers.
Well, they're the largest non-US-govt owner, including $150B more than US households. I'm not sure the Treasury and Social Security Trust count as far as external influencers, so China is still at the top of the pile, despite only owning 8%.
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Yes, but that does not mean that software engineers are not helping people (indirectly).
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I think the rise of males in CS was due to the rise of the personal computer. As someone noted earlier, as computers become more common in the home and males started using them, they picked up a stigma associated with the type of males that used them.

Why does that have anything to do with primary school teachers? I'm fairly certain very little.
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Isn't Buzz their twitter-like product? Now Buzz has hardly been a success, but it would be interesting to see how they can integrate it with Google+ since it has such a different model for communication.

I am not using Buzz, so if I am wrong please correct me, but isn't it like this:
Google+ -> You opt in your followers to hear your broadcast.
Google Buzz/Twitter -> Your followers opt in to hear your broadcast.

(And then there is FB with mutual opting)
It comes down to a question of culture.

In many organizations I've been a part of:

* Asking is regarded as an admission of failure (and failure is regarded as a bad thing). Asking more questions (or even worse, clarification on an answer) can jeopardize your standing among your bosses, and, by virtue of the culture they cultivate, among your peers.

* Missing a deadline for any reason is a permanent mark against you, to be trotted out on every review and used as a reason to keep your salary low (I actually had a boss LOWER my salary, at which point I left in disgust)

* Reporting something done is an invitation for a dressing-down, where your boss humiliates you for everything not done to his satisfaction.

And so, with a culture of fear firmly in place, the standard operating procedure is:

1. Never ask questions. Do a shitty job if you can't do a good job and try to cover it up as best you can, or better yet, unload the project onto someone else.

2. Never report something "done" if you can avoid it. This gives you some "wiggle room" when the boss comes down on you over everything that's wrong with it.

3. Never say that you'll miss a deadline. Cut corners if you have to. Miracles sometimes happen. Maybe this time you'll win the lottery.

Now that I'm a founder, I'm working hard to undo that culture, keep fear out of the equation, and encourage communication and experimentation (along with the possibility of failure). It's amazing to watch someone go at it when they're uninhibited by fear.
Sure you do. See attached link - I'm guessing women becoming trash collectors in the first place wasn't achieved without a struggle. http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2008/mar/29/city-hono...
It's hard to imagine Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs working on a custom made device in a garage and selling hundreds of them to a local electronics store today, though.
Just as often as course descriptions say "we're seeking the world's best javascript ninjas".
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Doesn't an M.D. imply more job security and a higher starting wage than any C.S. credential?
Mac(Book)s (and Macs with the magic apple mouse) have two finger scroll which is the same thing, but isn't supported (but should be, please!) on say the headline box in the Skimmer "Spread" layout.
As a Haskell user I have to say I love the "declarative leadership" idea...
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From 15 months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1301295
Also in 1987 the only count of "software developers" were people working at IBM/ICL/Burroughs etc. Most of these women devs were in pretty menial jobs - the equivalent of the Indian outsourcing outfits today.
Those companies had women devs because they were cheap - not out of equality.

Also CD degree programs in the early 80s were pretty rare - so 37% of 100 grads nationwide is easier to imagine than 37% of the 100,000 now
Have you read Rob Walling's "Start Small, Stay Small"?

It's the best book of practical advice I've read on the subject in a while.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003YH9MMI?ie=UTF8&tag=...
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2.8%, yep, looks like equality to me!
- Read up on customer development, then build your customer development plan. Getting your first customers is critical, so having the initial plan in hand is critical.

- Make a list of assumptions about your business: what has to be true for you to succeed. Then find ways to empirically test those assumptions. Then test them! You don't want to spend a lot of time going down dead end paths. Keep doing this until you have a repeatable business model.

- Identify your weaknesses (whether that is product development, marketing, sales, etc), and make sure you know how you are going to overcome those weaknesses (hiring, contracting, eliminating the need, etc). If you don't think you have any important weaknesses, you need to do more introspection.

- Have fun and take breaks. Your business can become all-consuming. Don't let it, or it will soon suck the fun out of it.
I'm doing this right now. The best advice I have is: Know what your costs are, and know how to make enough money to cover them.

Savings will last a finite amount of time, so you need to figure out how to replenish in order to give yourself some runway.

If you already have this plan in place then the next thing you should be working on is increasing customer acquisition.
Quite. Can't outsource a surgeon, can you? Not to mention the social prestige.
Did RIM lose its BlackBerry software boss just ahead of QNX transition?
Medicine is not really like the TV show ER, unless you work in the ER. Much of it is 9-5 and the stress comes from dealing with administrators and paperwork, the same as any office job.
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That might be true, but it does not negate what he is saying. I really like Skimmer,especially compared to the regular site, however I do miss scrolling with my wheel. The point is to A/B test within Skimmer.
When did they go #1 in the US? I don't see that at all.
Hm. This must have looked like self promotion or something -- it wasn't. (It does sort of read that way.) Sorry.
I tried it a few months back, I didn't end up using it. I felt like it was unnecessary, I rather focus on one app than two. I stuck with sabnzbd+ & nzbs.org, after newzbin was taken over.
I don't think it means much in the big picture but it does seem to be a reasonable example of a company where the hiring process is fair, gender-wise, from start to finish. The only problem is that a mere fraction of the applicants are women.

And it makes it easier to believe that, at companies unable to attract and screen that many candidates, they may get no qualified female applicants, period. It lends plausibility, even if it's not actually proving anything.
To extend the argument, incoming freshmen who have an aptitude for chemical engineering are likely to start on a level playing field, regardless of gender.

If you consider the CS track, though, the same is not true. Regardless of base aptitude, many more male freshmen will know how to program than will female freshmen. Females (on average) start out behind, and never catch up.
Congrats! Great team and vision. The way you focus on the product, your users and the feedback of the community is inspiring. In other words, you're doing it right.
Honestly?

Because Firefox performance is atrocious, and that is the single most salient point from the Mozilla project.
They are working on a way to detect fraudulent online accounts with a special focus on identity theft of famous people.
TIL Taiwan is actually called the Republic of China! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China
The project is DOA unless they also go and buy spectrum. Because no one is going to allow this phone on their network.

They need to buy some 4G spectrum and then this becomes interesting. Until then its just a failed project.
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What...is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
It's a question that others will probably ask themselves as they read the article. Some maybe don't understand significance and others, like you, will just miss the frequency counts. So I think your comment still had value, maybe with an EDIT added if you want to make it clear that you see the error now. It's your call of course, but I tend to think that comment deletion is something that should be avoided when possible.
Browser asks the user for permission to do stuff, the really sensitive stuff is pushed back to happening on click events, the even more sensitive stuff runs through code validation. What extra security is needed than what we already have with the above?
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Wording them so broadly only makes it more clear that they are algorithm patents.
I've never thought about this before but it actually makes a lot of sense. I can think of countless times that I've highlighted a piece of text while reading an article in a browser just to use as a bookmark while scrolling around.

Thanks for all the responses on this thread. I've found it incredibly interesting.
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They are almost the same thing. They perform the same function but because they are physical invisible they are even less likely to be used by an average computer user.
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At this point you have two options, pay 150K or contact your lawyer.
Wont work in a corporation. Essentially because of the stupid end of year reviews.

What will happen is that managers will count the number of WARNs you send out and number of bugs found after your DONE. Programmers will then game the system so that they never send out a WARN and increase the number of "UNCLEARs" to make the manager look like an idiot. They will also only send a "DONE" after they;ve put the system into production.

I think the bottom line is that the programmer needs to feel a part of the team and to trust the manager. Ie the focus of the team is in making a great product and that its understood that mistakes will happen once in a while. Also that its okay to make a mistake (once in a while) as long as you have a backout plan in place and/or your on call when your feature goes live.

This kind of thinking you will not find in a corporation unfortunately.
I've been taking allergy shots for almost 2 years and I'm really not sure they've helped me all that much.

What did help me was taking a nasal steriod. I started taking Flonase. It is an amazing feeling to not be congested all the time.
How about changing the home page into a two column layout with the new items on one side and the popular items on the other?
> The worst physician's salary averages about $50K more than the best programmer's salary. Nurses get paid as much as programmers

I was all primed with a fiery response about how good programmers in hot markets should be pulling more than 200k, lousy markets at least 100k, and anyone who wasn't is either a lousy negotiator or not good, but then I remembered where I was. The crème de la crème. Yeah, "staff programmers" (as I call them) might well earn less, on average, than nurses. And it's a guaranteed, standardised wage, none of this grasping meritocracy competitive nonsense.

The thing about programming is that it gives you a chance to shine. I mean really shine. God bless the nurses, etc, but realistically speaking any one nurse is not going to change the world just by being a bloody good nurse. I think the attraction to the high-stakes sink-or-swim pure meritocracy game is a very male thing.
"Microsoft sees Bing as more than a standalone Web search engine -- it's a key selling point for the Windows Phone 7 platform."

kenjackson made a similar point in our conversation a few days ago at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2794209
Myself and my co-founder are doing this in January. We're hoping to get in YC-W12 but if we don't, we're moving to the area anyway. We both have great engineering jobs, but we're tired of working for other people. One thing I would recommend is to make sure you have a strong co-founder who is as interested in it as you are. This is very important because it seems that everyone other than your co-founder will just think you're crazy and having some support is pretty critical to your sanity.
My dad has been a doctor for over thirty years and the most stress he's had to deal with on a weekly basis is filling out paperwork.
That's sort of different.

As they fought for the right to simply become refuse collectors. Now that they have equal rights, no one is stomping about saying "but wait... why isn't it a 50/50 split?".

Similarly, no one wishes for their child to grow up and join the wild world of hands-on sanitation engineering. They may not look down on those with such jobs, but it can hardly be argued that it is a prestigious job.
I might be completely misinterpreting sarcasm on the first points. Job insecurity in high tech? Absolutely not - the high tech industry is desperately trying to hire good people. Also, long hours are not a requirement. Lots of developers in startups or the game industry work long hours, but there are plenty of other positions (e.g. DoD sort of work) that is low stress 9-5. Medical work is decidedly not 9-5.
Good idea. The Daily Mail isn't responding to my email. Anybody know how to get ahold of Dmitry Bibikow?
The title "Systems Analyst" sometimes has absolutely nothing to do with software development. I know a couple of female Systems Analysts that know nothing about software development. I'm not even exaggerating.. they use a computer, sure, but they do not write or develop any software.
I know little about either side of the argument, but it seems to me that we'd have more chance of success (however small) extending the life of a complex body that supports a mysteriously complex brain and intellect, than to ever hope that we can extract consciousness at all, much less have it operate anywhere near its current level without its supporting body.

How much consciousness is in the physical body, and not just the brain but the rest of the body? Do we really know?
It's interesting in a macabre way - not the screeds of copy-n-paste so much, but the self-written sections.
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Well, yes and no. I've been laid off twice from high tech firms. Both times I found a (better!) job within a couple of weeks, but if you want a stable career, this is not the industry for you.
You misunderstand the quote. It's not saying that CS positions are too competitive. It's saying they're described as being about competition. Medical degrees are competitive, but they're not about the competition, they're about helping people. Meanwhile, CS is promoted by hosting coding challenges and competitions, and the top-tier jobs advertise how their teams are so much smarter and more accomplished than everyone, and so forth. This creates the perception that not only is the field competitive, but that the competition is practically an end in itself, where in medicine it's an obstacle to the actual goal of helping people (or getting a gigantic salary).
I got annoyed by some of the daft names in Java, so I went through and found some of the worst offending method names. The longest method names I could find are "supportsDataDefinitionAndDataManipulationTransactions" (for Java Development Kit) and "setApplyWebRequestInterceptorsToRenderPhaseOnly (for Spring).

(see http://www.fatvat.co.uk/2011/05/method-names-in-java-develop...) for more details.
I guess that's my point. My study is off of Reddit (and common sense) while their study which has unexpected results isn't being published.
Interesting. I was just pulling a random counter explanation out of my derriere, but of course it has been already thought of before.
Because it's only a "problem" when an industry is male-dominated it seems. Question is do we want equality, or not?
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