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Excuse me? I did not said a word about feminism nor about equality. Actually, knee-jerk reaction to my post without even trying to understand what I mean is pretty good indicator where we are headed, I am just curious how will that end.
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i made the switch to opera as my main browser a little while ago, but website incompatibilities (lot of them links from right here!) forced me back to firefox

but for those, the experience was good enough to make me consider switching completely
I might use it on the Desktop more if they would fix the annoying bug where the number of items don't appear next to the feed in Google Reader!

EVERY new version they put out I check and am disappointed.
One interesting quirk of the US is that the two main parties have strongly differing strategies with respect to turnout at the state/national level.

The Republicans have a stronger 'base' that is more likely to turn out, while Democrats traditionally capture more undecided voters, but have a smaller base.

What this means is that in elections with lower overall turnout (Non-presidential year house races, for example) tend to favor Republicans, and their game-theoretic response is to generally 'Go after the Base' and swing more conservative (E.g. Reagan, Bush II, adding Palin to the McCain ticket, and the US House races in 2010 and 1994).

Democrats tend to have much more impetus to 'get out the vote' and get undecided voters to show up to the polls, even if they risk adding Republicans to the ranks, so you tend to comparatively more centrist Democrat Candidates (Clinton, Kerry, Obama). They also tend to do better nationally in Presidential Election years with high turnout (Ceteris Paribus).

If you have any interest in how this plays out in the actual nuts & bolts of voter targeting, Hal Malchow's "Political Targeting" (2nd Ed) is the Bible for beginners.

http://www.amazon.com/Political-Targeting-Second-Hal-Malchow...
someone should do a comparison between Symphony and Yii , what type of web applications is each of them more suitable ( plugins etc. considered )
I love it how I get marked down for a clean post with an opinion and you get a pass by declaring people idiots for just expressing their opinion. The way I see it the idiots seem to be on your side. Just learn to express your side of things without getting irritated. I am open to correction but insults I'd piss on.
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haven't taken the time to look at it yet, anyone know how it's done?
Umm, those are really not that similar.

IPhone does not have navigation elements at the bottom of the screen. It adds a text description under the elements vs. the top. It includes status information as ribbon across the top and does not plaster their logo on the screen anywhere. Also, none of the icons look similar, their screen is significantly diffrent shapes and even there buttons have different shapes. And most importantly I think the number of people that would confuse the two is tiny.

Not to mention one was released in Febuary and the other with a clearly better interface was released four months later.
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Their views are usually pretty reasonable

You make it sound as if feminists are some kind of weird cult ;) But your basic point is true: just because a woman is a feminist doesn't mean that she thinks all penetrative sex is rape, such as Dworkin believed.
You've basically said nothing. Could you add some specifics to your criticism of Aubrey's thesis? And please don't assume that I don't know any biology.
If a consulting client came up to me and asked "Is it better for us to host our own blogging software on our domain inexpertly, get the SEO credit for it, and go down hard for a little while every time we hit social media, or to host on PostTumPressEr with perfect uptime?", I would say "Host yourself!" so fast it would barely be polite.

I don't mean this in an aggressive fashion: your eyeball is worth nothing.

Now, in the real world, hosted blogs do have downtime and self-hosted ones can be made nearly bulletproof by following a few simple guidelines. cough KeepAlive off cough
And senior civil servants are paid very well, have bomb proof generous pensions and pretty much total job security.

Just a little of bit of competence doesn't seem a lot to ask.
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Now that's funny. So you think I did say something about feminism and equality? Citation, please.
I always thought Opera was very standards compliant.

Potentially there are some shortcomings when it comes to new technologies which I'm going to sweepingly categorise as being HTML5 related, but that gets into a separate argument that HTML5 is still not yet a standard.

At the same time, for "everyday use" (whatever that really means) I've had no issue with standards compliance, and Opera does certainly have support some some not-yet-standardised things. Of course, there's the usual caveat that YMMV.

May I ask what issues you have with their falling behind on standards compliance?
I'm not arguing against the problem or trying to find solutions

But you are arguing against the discussion, no? Instead of using this article (as much as you may feel it lacks substance) as an opportunity to discuss the problem further, and propose solutions or suggestions... Instead, you label it a circle jerk.

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but you haven't done much to change that.
The NZ/US/Australian comparison is drastically confounded by the fact that NZ has multi-member electorates in both houses, which mean that the "winner takes all" dynamic is absent.

In MME/MMP it's a valid strategy to move away from the centre and to "capture" fringe votes before they reach a more centrist party.
Great point made in the paper, and I couldn't agree more:
"Now, freshman courses need to inspire students and invite them into the major". Absolutely! I think the first year should be just exploration and finding what subjects excite the student. So many folks just trudge through their years in a major that is completely boring. Even more just decide "college isn't for them" and drop out.
Swiss Francs, Silver, and investing in foreign stocks (Brazil, India). Mostly the later now.
Sadly there's a vicious cycle of Opera having small marketshare, being ignored, causing it to keep small market share.

Opera's biggest problem is lack of support for -webkit-* properties, they only support unprefixed ones or -o-* ;)

Honestly, the engine is quite good. For Opera web standards support is a matter of life and death (they know they don't have market share to get sites being bug-compatible with them) and they put lots of effort into getting things right.
You know, we are near the situation when asking a girl out for a cup of coffee is perceived as an atempt to rape.
If "coordinating" == "gaming", then no, SDHN is not coordinating voting. Thanks for your concern.
Bit strange to mention Microsoft 17 times when you'll find offices in Dublin for Google, IBM, Apple... anyone who's anyone. This is far from specific to Microsoft yet the article is for the most part very targeted. Google from memory boosted their earnings last year by something like 20% by tax avoidance (or whatever the correct term for completely legal tax-dodging is).
Some parts of what you are saying is partially true, but first of all, it's yet to be implemented, and like in other European countries, it has been blocked by high court, or similar.

But - linking to absolute bullshit sources that feed upon this idea that everything bad that happens in this world is a covert government operation will get you down voted, you clearly have a delusional viewpoint on the world.

I had a similar argument with some other. And I ended up concluding that they didn't agree with the official statement because it was too boring. They think they are not heard because they are being silenced, but it's actually just because everyone thing they are lunatics.

focuses his white gamma rays on everyone, so they agree with him
Thanks for elaborating, I'm (obviously) less familiar with US politics than Australian politics.
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I understand that age (lower in this case) is not a barrier to talent and that we in general seek talent. That said, why do we allow misogynist behavior? If these wunderkind were our children (of any age) these sort of actions would be curbed as best as might be possible. Children of all ages push boundaries---when there are no boundaries, there are no limits to behavior.
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With Gmail, my contacts change all the time. That is, every time a new person emails me, and I email them back.
glad you enjoyed it; if you were there last year I probably met you then. I'm in Silicon Valley too, hit me up if you happen to be near Hacker Dojo!
How is this a problem not faced by any other industry in the world? I have never seen evidence that shows that IT industry people are any more sexist than people in any other field.

So someone goes to a conference and there was a slide with something inappropriate on it. That means one asshole was immature and unprofessional enough to publicly shoot himself in the foot. It doesn't mean there are aren't plenty of other sexist people in other careers though. They're just smart enough not to be sexist in the middle of their speech.
But that's the thing - Apple isn't trying to prevent anyone else from using rounded corners. Apple's claims in that suit are pretty specific, especially if you look at the similarity of the icons.

There are countless ways to represent an idea on an icon. Google, HTC, and others chose to go their own route - For TouchWiz, Samsung copied Apple's icons with slight modifications.

Also, the story about the F700 is inaccurate. SlashGear debunked it, pointing out that it was, in fact, announced after the iPhone was revealed in January 2007[1].

Nilay Patel, an intellectual property lawyer, wrote about the F700 too[2]:

> In many ways, the F700 does nothing but underline Apple’s overall contention: that there are thousands of ways to design and package a phone interface, but Samsung chose drop its differentiated interface and instead lift elements of Apple’s style for TouchWiz. I don’t think anyone would use the F700 interface and think it’s an iPhone, and I don’t think anyone using the iPhone today is thinking about the F700. But do people see TouchWiz and think “oh, that’s an iPhone?” That’s the most important thing when it comes to trade dress and trademark: what brand does the average consumer associate with certain design elements, phrases, and words?

[1]: http://www.slashgear.com/iphone-samsung-f700-prada-phone-rum...

[2]: http://thisismynext.com/2011/04/20/talk-picture-samsung-f700...
If that works for you.

Some find it better to do stuff late at night. But a common theme I hear is to be consistent, make it a habit.

Chances are you'll want to do it, but the more automatic you can make it the less likely you are to skip out or find excuses ("reasons", they say) to not stick to a plan.
Sadly, Symfony/Symfony2 are not widely used enough. :/

(This may be a bit flippant, but seriously--there's not really a good reason to be using stuff like CakePHP, etc. in 2011.)
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It doesn't mean there are aren't plenty of other sexist people in other careers though.

Sure, but we are in this industry, and pointing fingers at other industries does not get us off the hook.
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> I suspect you can not not vote. Not voting is also a vote - in that sense, in every poll everybody is voting.

The point is not to stop everyone from turning out, or to stop the merely apathetic from turning out, but to stop the other guy's voters from turning out.
Apple iPhone share is dead in the water, like Henry Blodget predicted
Um. Ok, except ageism is widely perceived to be a serious problem in the software development industry and culture as well.
So someone goes to a conference and there was a slide with something inappropriate on it.

Go to a few conferences that aren't directly IT-related and see how often that happens. In my experience - and I'm prepared to be proven wrong on this - it pretty much well only happens at IT-related conferences.
I think one of Dalio's principles answers that.

"Ask yourself whether you have earned the right to have an opinion."
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Pagespeed is on the soon to be closed Google Labs (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/more-wood-behind-fewe...).
We're not at all, really, and that type of hyperbole is extremely unproductive.
You're getting voted down for not going with the group-think. For some reason, some people think that if even 1 women is offended, then it's sexist. They couldn't be more wrong.

Anyhow, if all humor that made fun of someone or something were banned, there wouldn't be much left. That's the basis of most of it, and they continue to find it funny to make fun of some things, but not others.

Everyone should stop being offended on behalf of people who aren't like them. Seriously. If you're offended because it affects you, I'm all ears. If you're offended because it's rude to do that to someone else, but you have no stake in it... Shut up. You're making the situation WORSE.
The real question is why is this guy so sensitive? There are sexist people in every industry of both sexes.
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"Asking a girl out for a cup of coffee" isn't perceived as an attempt to rape.

Flirting with a woman in an environment where they feel uncomfortable -- say, oh, for example, early in the morning in a confined space -- isn't perceived as an attempt to rape, but it does make the flirter an insensitive jerk at best.
yes, if he decided to increase measures, the life of blonde blue eyes majority would be harder
I'm glad someone called Tom out on that image he posted. It's minor in the entire scheme of things, but what irritates me are the casual comments and reactions like "That's ok.. haha, very funny!" It's like there's this cognitive dissonance happening: people believe in equality between sexes, and treating women like regular humans with respect... yet we also make casual comments that treat females as just objects. It's not just engineers of course, it's most men. And I'm being very very strict here. I'm talking about saying things like "Check that ass out." or "Damn, I'll do that" when you're with your buddies.

I may sound like a downer that can't have fun, but when the vast majority of humans on this world end up cheating on their spouses, you have to be somewhat serious about this.
You know, we are near the situation when asking a girl out for a cup of coffee is perceived as an atempt to rape.

Honestly, if that is a regular problem for you, I would suggest you work on your interpersonal skills.
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I tried to get into Opera Mini. I liked it because it is speedier than the stock Android browser, it handles tabs well, and the interface does pretty much what I expect most of the time. But I found that on a weak wireless signal it would just give up on loading the page, and its startup time was just enough to make it cumbersome. It has since been removed from my phone.
Yeah, opportunity cost is really hard to measure.

But I think if someone is industrious enough to support that project for an hour a month, they are industrious enough to use that hour some other profitable way, though. It's unlikely they would just sit on their thumbs and wish they had something to do.
> The big company probably eats the risk of the small company stuffing up

Completely the other way around, actually - our business relationship with the larger company was that we fixed their messes, some of which were gov contracts. Their sub-par developers would hack something together which eventually collapsed under its own weight, at which point they'd try to sell it anyway. If the client didn't accept it, we would then be brought in to close all the blocking bugs.

> or the government changing requirements halfway through the project

I don't think we were very insulated from this, but obviously by definition I can't tell you anything that we were shielded from!
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I'm more on the web marketing side, and it's nearly every 1-2 weeks where I see someone write an article or give a presentation likening customer acquisition and conversion to "tricking hawt chicks into hooking up with you." It's absurd. Real men operate with respect, not misogyny.
No, I haven't - because I still see nothing of substance in the article, and past experience gives me little faith that the discussion is going anywhere interesting. I don't see what I - or anyone - can contribute beyond "Sexism is bad, don't do it!". I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

Anyway, I've said my piece, I see no reason to clutter up the thread with more meta discussion from me.
Well, I can do all the speed improvement things myself, so I'm interested in some of the weirder things. They can detect bots quite reliably because with a network that large it's pretty damn obvious when something is crawling a site - and they can then strip out or mangle email addresses from your HTML before reaching those bots, so you can have email addresses in plaintext without having them harvested. That's a pretty imaginative solution!

Another thing they can do with their size is automatically identify and react to new attacks, so when a DDOS occurs it very quickly routes the traffic away and updates its ruleset to always be protected against that attack from now on, for all sites behind them.

I don't actually have any experience though as I've never used the service, this is all from their website and from talking to their staff on HN :)
Do you have a link to a website or something that sells good rental properties? I have been looking into buying a CA condo to rent out, but all the ones that I look at have ridiculous association fees like $1,500 or $2,000 per month. How the hell are you supposed to make a profit if you are paying $2,000 per month in association fees and then taxes, property management fees, and all of that other stuff on top of it?
We are not 'near' that point. The Rebecca Watson incident clearly demonstrates that we are already there.
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Come on, man. Stop riding around on your inflated high horse. There's no platform war here for you to win, you ridiculous anti-Apple crusader wannabe. These actors all in the same boat, knee-deep in shitty lawsuits coming from all angles. And, remember, Apple fervently stressed the breadth of their IP portfolio of the iPhone long before Android showed up, along with promises to defend it.
you know what the solution is?

reddit/stackoverflow style voting on badges. some way of tagging someone at a conference or whatnot as being an ass, or cool, that way you get a warning that this person is a douche. i'm bettin the same people who are creeps are the same people i wouldn't want to bother talking to anyway.

the only problem is someone of course is going to hack it...
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This post isn't starting discussion it's just whining about unfounded generalities and cherry-picking jokes like G-boobs-le which is not offensive and any so-called feminist who gets worked up about it should re-think her priorities.

The only remotely new point is the comment about Asperger's not being an excuse for sexist behavior.

So yes, the article lacks substance. There's essentially none. If I want to have a discussion about the role of women in IT and web development, this particular post is a horrible starting point. Resulting discussion will almost certainly be ill-informed and a complete waste of my time. Given the amount of work I would have to do to drag the discussion into productivity, I am better off writing my own blog.
While I understand the app store argument, the money waiting to be made from an international BBC iPlayer service equivalent to that offered in the UK, largely compensate the "hassle" of the web/desktop market.

The BBC Formula1 coverage is extraordinary, I would pay good money for it!
That's a good point, too. It shouldn't be that hard to restrict Git's features to a subset that is easy to learn and pretty much foolproof. (Foolproof meaning you wouldn't need to dig into the advanced features.)

I wonder if someone has already tried to do this? It suddenly seems so obvious.
Note: I really would like an answer for the first question. What's the reason that everyone seems obsessed over getting more women into programming?

Why do people care so much about having lots of women work in the software industry?

Seriously, there seems to be this desire to get women into programming. If women really were into programming they would get into it despite the 'sexist creeps'. It might surprise all the people here but a lot of industries (like real estate and sales) have a LOT more sexist creeps than programmers.

There are lots of areas where people are sexist and racist and jerks - it doesn't stop the people who want to get into those areas from getting into them.

Perhaps women just don't want to get into computer science. And no amount of bending over backwards and trying to appeal to female programmers will get us to a situation of 50% female developers.

The first question people going on and on about 'ratios in the software industry' need to answer is -

Are there really that many women interested in becoming a software developer?
Is their interest a lukewarm type of interest where the minute they see one sexist programmer jerk they run off?

We are talking about the same women who fought tooth and nail for things like the right to vote and who do lots of really tough things like raise a family (often alone). Are we to believe that a few sexist programmers scare off these same women?

Final Question: Is the presence of some percentage of sexist jerk programmers the real reason there are far fewer women in programming? Is that really what differentiates programming from fields with more social interaction (like sales) or fields with more of a human aspect (like health care and medicine)?
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I like how 'code examples' are above 'test cases' ... But a test case would include a code example, and proof that it works. -sigh-