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100% agree and I'm glad you said something.

I clicked the link, saw the photo, blinked in disbelief and closed the window without reading Tom's article.

So awesome that the guys get to be the nerds while the woman is literally nothing more than an ornament, existing solely to fill out Google's logo.

I mean, seriously? That's the kind of cheap "humor" that I expect out of strip club signage.

(For the record, even though it shouldn't matter: I'm a guy)
The problem is that Firefox can't implement these APIs without OS support, and OSes don't have the same kind and number of such APIs. We are working on better cross-mobile-OS Firefox, but it cannot be our only bet.

What's more, Firefox is locked out of many mobile OSes (I do not mean iOS in particular), but the commoditizing hardware can support a fully open OS and web-based "home" and open web apps environment.

The increasing vertical lock-in and tying among all OS vendors (Android included) and the at best half-open- / delayed-open-source status (ChromeOS excluded, bless it -- but it won't support other browsers than Chrome) are problems for Firefox.
Hacktivists? These guys are breaking into private companies and stealing property. They're criminals.
Very few micros (such as the original Mac or IBM PC) would have been used to store and forward significant Usenet traffic. Most of it would have been on DEC VAX disk packs.
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So the A-Team dox were a bunch of rubbish? (or perhaps that was already confirmed and I missed it).

http://pastebin.com/iVujX4TR
Aggressively clone as in...? A top statusbar? A touchscreen? A virtual keyboard? A grid layout of applications? Custom applications? Hate to break it to you, but iOS wasn't the first to do any of those, Android included most of them before the iPhone announcement (from the little that we know of its development at Google beginning in 2005), and the first Android phone (G1) didn't resemble the iPhone more than any other smartphone on the market. Most people that I knew were comparing it to the Sidekick when it first released.
There were quite a few women who commented and did not complain about the picture.

This comes up all the time when people call out sexism and it is not a valid rebuttal.

Just because someone is a woman does not mean they are an expert in recognizing sexism. Women tend to have more experience with sexism than men, but many deny some or all kinds of sexism, many block it out (often a useful and necessary defense mechanism), many have not spent much time learning about sexism, and many are purveyors of sexism themselves.

In addition, the more sexist the subculture, the more it tends to A) attract women who are more sexist, and B) filter out women who are more adversely affected by sexism/lack strong sexism defense mechanisms.

"But [my wife/my girlfriend/group of women X] didn't think it was sexist" doesn't necessarily say anything conclusive about whether it is actually sexist. If you are looking for an expert opinion, seek out the opinion of someone who has spent time learning about how sexism works. Your wife/girlfriend/group of women X may or may not be in that category. There are more women than men in that group, but having a vagina does not gain you instant entry.
This is a prime example of how the Male Gaze* systematically expresses a power imbalance. By using this image as an illustration of Sexy, Sexy becomes the objectified. In this context there has been debate after debate about why women are not comfortable entering male spaces (particularly of late coding environments and google+). While there remains a particular imbalance it is harmful to the cause of trying to rectify this by further objectifying the subject of the imbalance. Now, in Facebook where I have equal male/female participants in my stream I can see far worse than this, but Facebook has managed to grow a balanced community, and the comments on an image like this, if posted by someone I know, would be far more relevant to the person's personality and placed in a context. In this large, open space that is currently Google+, an image like this serves only to remind the minority that they are the minority. I have since uncircled Tom, as the comments posted remind me that my time is wasted in participating in such a dialogue.

* http://google.com/?q=male+gaze
Point taken, but these situations are much more fuzzy. If I understood correctly, this was an automated detection of possible child pornography. In such a case it would seem likely that Google acting proactively has no culpability. The only legal requirement (from the many articles I've read on the subject) is to remove illegal content once the company is made aware. Automated detection based on heuristics likely would not fall under that category.

If specific pictures are under question and a human deems them likely to be illegal they can disable access to those pictures. They have no legal responsibility to prevent access to legal data.

Edit: downvoting without a rebuttal is cowardly at best.
5%, but if you take out the time I am writing console.log, 1% or less.
Oh, they certainly have a right to call it a Chrome experiment, but the question is: What unique thing about Chrome are they trying to show off in this "experiment"?

Google could just as easily call ...

<html><body><p>Hello world!</p></body></html>

... a Chrome experiment, but that's not going to make me switch from Firefox.
Perhaps you should consider a non-Apple product? Blue-ray appliances and PCs are not exactly hard to find or expensive.
Noticed that as well. changed because of bad PR perhaps?
I'm not so sure about this. People might know what is good (for the most part), but in weakness it is violated, and in strength it is often ignored to pursue self-interest.

Let's just say that, I've been betrayed, and I'm very aware of the circumstances needed to be betrayed by people I care about -- some of them are impossibly extreme (and some aren't so much), but they do exist, and you do have to navigate that. Whether the person would be apologetic or not after the fact really doesn't enter into it.

If one lives, I think you automatically develop protections against other people. I think that you've set up a protection zone around yourself just like everyone else. But it's a good one -- instead of withdrawing, you simply force the surface interaction to be a positive one (as much as you can). Sometimes this translates, sometimes it can backfire. For what it's worth, I think this is the right way to go. You can be wary, but still positive about your interactions.

But there's a necessary bit of detachment -- I can wave to people on the street, but I'm not going to let just anyone into my apartment.
troels, I completely agree with the sentiment that "inasmuch that it doesn't pose a risk (in legal terms) for them to keep the user informed, they could be expected to do so."

The issue in this case is that with a potential child pornography situation, the legal risks are much different and harsher in all kinds of unexpected ways.
It's not just "some guy." It's Tom Anderson of mySpace fame, who Techcrunch is working hard to position as some kind of senior statesmen of social media. His articles are getting picked up by Techmeme and are pulling a lot of eyeballs lately.

It's irresponsible and immature to attach that image to an article titled "Google is Sexy." If he were 19 years old and posting to Reddit, then yeah, whatever. Nobody would care. But I think anyone who's in any kind of leadership position should know a little better.
For urls true. But not if you post the html source from a bookmarklet or a script on the page.
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There should be a link to this article at the top of the page.
True. You'd think that rather than spending all that money on paying ever-increasing salaries to a small pool of people that just keep getting poached from one company to another, they'd take a few million and open a dev center in, say, Alabama. Would likely get a much better ROI, and a longer-term strategic benefit over competition. But alas, it's apparently smarter to go to Tel Aviv to find a CTO and move him to New York than it is to look in Nashville or Houston for someone with CTO skills.
I always that its the other way, human thought determines the language
How would you describe the attention to craftsmanship of software in scientific computing? The most illuminating thing about Climategate to me was the state of the software: is this kind of code widespread? Is there interest in improvement? If I went to work for a research team and suggested pairing, code reviews, version control, continuous integration, or other accepted good practices from my experience in software development how would that be received?

Also, the dilemma in my mind is whether I can stand going back to grad school in my late 20s for a career I don't really know much about. I'm not sure if you can speak to that experience, but would you say it's been rewarding?
In addition, even "cat picture project" technology can sometimes be used to implement "world changing" technology. I think "do what you love doing and always challenge yourself" still generally applies here.
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The internet backup option isn't really feasible for a normal home connection. With the Comcast 250gb monthly quota it would take me half a year to get all my data up.

In this case physical drives is the way to go.
Only in the same sense that we can say "intenex wears a diaper" (because you were once a baby). Defining somebody by an off moment is one way to look at things, but I'm not sure it's particularly reasonable.
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Jobs-as-Palpatine, really?
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Exactly my problem with time spent typing code as a metric for efficiency/productivity.
PhantomJS is great, although there are some bugs in the WebKit embedded inside QT because it's a bit old, it has the advantage of supporting flash plugins and it can do screen caps. I'm using it for a project now.
The woman in the photo commented, Steph L Davis - +Tom Anderson Tom - I'm sad you used this pic :(
Yes, Weiner's pictures of his underwear is absolutely male objectification - but not in his original context. That was a complicit choice between him and his partners. It become objectification when the media chose to focus on this as a sex issue and deem him unworthy of being in office.

And on the comparison to prostitution: why are there prostitutes? Why do men go to prostitutes? Do you think any 7 year old girl says to her parents that she wants to grow up to be a prostitute? It's slavery that is allowed by society because woman are objects (in this context).
Working on an implementation > working on a code by thinking of it > typing code.

Still, all activities above are strictly technical.

So, is your question really about whether we have as much time for technical activities (as opposed to bureaucracy, marketing, managing, selling...) as we'd like to?
Or is your question about how our time devoted to strictly technical things is organized?

FWIW, I recommend RHickey's "Hammock-driven development" to think of it more..
Agreed. It's hard to find engineering talent if everyone only squabbles over the Stanford grads, for example. But what about other graduates or even self taughts? IMO companies that over value pedigree have lost the hacker spirit.
Every day I see people act nice and behave well even though it would be trivial to be a dick or a thief with no appreciable consequences.

In real life, under ordinary conditions, most people simply act decent and it does not seem to be fear of punishment.
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meh -- this is not an assault on openness, it's a silly little music video.

Locking other browsers out of gmail, gmaps, youtube, etc would be an assault on openness.
Google+ is not sexy. No one thinks Facebook is sexy. My mom doesn't think it's sexy. My mom doesn't think the electrical company is sexy either. Neither does my sister, or my girlfriend, or my roommate. They are all tools for communication and some are better than others.

I think most of this Google+ noise is just fanboys who are glad to have something new. I'm all for competition but Google+, to me, is not very impressive at all.

I'll use whatever tool those people I mentioned above are using... because that's all that really matters.
I have absolutely no clue as to how much time I've spent programming. I've been programming for about five to six years now, and in a month I'll be a sophomore in college. I don't really know what my skill level is either - for me, I just like learning new concepts. Take what I know and use that to learn more while refining what I know in the process.
When we're talking startups or even small established shops, I can't imagine finding the time in the day (let alone the resources) to set up a "strong" internship program to supplement a handful of developers. And then teaching them a full stack, and then seeing them head back to their dorms? Odds on the company won't be around by next summer, let alone ready to reap that particular harvest.
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I didn't downvote you because your comment is a sentiment that I think a lot of women have.

I just viewed this as two guys taking a picture with an attractive woman, no different than viewing pictures I see on Facebook of my female friends taking pictures with attractive male athletes (famous and non).
Bad analogy. The war isn't over patents, it's general competition. It's more like the UN pushing you to sign a treaty pledging not to use nukes just after you spent a pile acquiring them.

Now if patents were only used defensively (which they're obviously not in this case, since Apple went on the attack) the analogy would then be banning ballistic missiles right after acquiring a ballistic missile defense system, which would be easier to swallow.
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> This comes up all the time when people call out sexism and it is not a valid rebuttal.

It's a perfectly valid rebuttal to someone who tries to make claims about women as a whole. Marquis made a comment about "disapprovals from the women strong enough to speak out". The implication there is that all women are offended and only the strong ones dare to speak out. Clearly it is not true that all women were offended. Many (most?) of the women who commented did not complain, and several commented positively about the picture.

> "But [my wife/my girlfriend/group of women X] didn't think it was sexist" doesn't necessarily say anything conclusive about whether it is actually sexist. If you are looking for an expert opinion, seek out the opinion of someone who has spent time learning about how sexism works. Your wife/girlfriend/group of women X may or may not be in that category. There are more women than men in that group, but having a vagina does not gain you instant entry.

This is a candy-coated way of saying that we must listen to those most zealous about sexism. We can't listen to the average woman or the opinion of most women. No, we have to listen to those obsessed with finding sexism, even if that means they find it in places it doesn't really exist.

Why must sexy always be synonymous with sexist? These are two different things. Lack of sexism does not imply a lack of sexual interest (nor vice versa).
For what it's worth, we used PIE for IE7 support of some css3 features at my last job. Performance was awful and buggy. I do not recommend trying to force non-essential graphical niceties onto browsers that can't support them. If you or your boss is insisting on some insane pixel-per-pixel matching between all browsers, either you or they are wrong.
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If he can only get them to come up 2K, there's no way they're going to come up 15K more. Bail and don't look back.
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He is sad at the same time nervous and happy as it is now finally going to a school for deaf and leave behind Daniel.
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I use h5py's datasets (which are organized hierarchically and stored in compressed chunks) to do basic filtering and then load a fraction of my data into memory as numpy arrays.
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It's still some guy. It doesn't matter that he founded MySpace. He didn't post it there, where it could be seen as a statement from the company. He didn't post it on Techcrunch. He posted it on what is basically a personal blog.

If it's irresponsible and immature to attach the image, then shouldn't it simply be irresponsible and immature to call Google "sexy" at all? "Sexy" means inspiring the desire for sex.
...perhaps we should demand to see recruiters' resumes in exchange. :D Asymmetrical relationships tend to create feelings of resentment.
Activists tend to break laws, no?
if he was arrested, somebody probably gave a reason good enough for a judge (keyword is probably...i know nothing of UK law)
About time, and good riddance.
These are only excuses to show off their "skills". Everyone loathes script-kiddies, and they know the only way for them not to be considered script-kiddies (which they are in fact) is make everyone believe that their motivation is different than fame and feeling of power.
I'd prefer if this question was "How much of your work time is spent developing?"

I spend very little of my day writing code. Yet it's the sole reason I'm employable. I do spend a majority of my workday working on design, development and implementation (code)... this does include meetings, emails and written documentation.
Why was the title of this submission changed? Was it because the old title mentioned AirBnB?
You could just go crawl all the user profiles to get karma stats...
Yeah it's hilarious how the original "let's get things done and plan this sprint" has been replaced by run-of-the-mill ass-covering and bean counting and pushing for sloppier software on shorter deadlines. If you can't change people's motivations, no process is going to help you produce better software.
You say that as if it's some sort of objective truth.

It's not. It's much more complicated than that.
Oh, yeah. Even differences in standard deviation, for instance, might be more important than differences in average. And it's not just a matter of mental capabilities, but also in interests and desires.
You have a pretty marginal business model, because each customer gets less than 1 Mbps and thus is not willing to pay very much. And as cheap as the towers are, they're still expensive enough to eat up your revenue.
yeah, i'm interested to see what the reasoning behind this change is. seems suspect.
There's a difference between all of those and giving a person you've never met free, intimate access to your home.
It may be that managers don't want their employees seeing this and being inspired to quit to work on more meaningful stuff -- it would be like a run on the banks in the tech world.
Potential revenues from patents aren't a sunk cost...
The level of IP related discourse on HN is reminiscent of talking politics with people who spend all their time listening to talk radio. I mean of course Ronald Reagan singlehandedly killed communism and minorities caused the housing crisis but did you know that the entire patent and copyright system could be removed tomorrow and everything would be just hunky dory?

Fact: way too many obvious or stupid patents are granted.

The solution is not to abolish patents, the solution is to properly staff and fund the USPTO and/or change the system so that rubber stamping applications with approved is not incentivized.

You could fund it by taxing the patents themselves. Think your patent is worth $10 million? Ok, you owe the USPTO $100K and the legal damages you can claim from violation of that patent are capped at $10 million (this allows the competition to effectively public domain patents by buying them out).
maybe it's my mind, but that was the worst angle possible for that animation at the bottom!
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Not entirely true. Both interns and new college hires can require a lot of work from your previously-productive employees. I've met many firms -- particularly in the finance sector -- who don't hire anyone below that 3-5 years' experience bracket. If you are willing to pay, it can really be worth it to avoid the amount of early-stage training it takes to get a young person either up and productive or determine they're not capable of growing into larger-scale development and have to manage them out.

I'm not in favor of it personally, mind you, as I did a lot of hiring across the board, but I can understand where they come from, particularly little sub-500 employee shops.
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Is there any way to find out who changed the title? The submitter or admins?
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Language DOES shape human thought, as anyone who knows APL can tell you.

"Language as an Intellectual Tool: From Hieroglyphics to APL" by Donald B. McIntyre in IBM Systems Journal Vol.30, No.4 1991, p.554-581.
http://www.electricscotland.com/mcintyre/index_f/menu_f/j_f/...

"Notation as a Tool of Thought" by Kenneth E. Iverson in his 1979 ACM Turing Award Lecture.
http://elliscave.com/APL_J/tool.pdf
There is a new field of extracting wiring diagrams from brains at the level of individual neurons. This is what I work on.

http://openconnectomeproject.org has some introductory material. (This is not my site, it is by some people at JHU who picked up our data set and are working on it.) Massive image data sets, lots of need to develop workflow. You can browse the image data here: http://openconnectomeproject.org/catmaid/?pid=4&zp=40635...

Concretely, look at the plugins being developed by the Fiji project and pitch in, especially on the electron-microscopy-centric plugins:
http://pacific.mpi-cbg.de/wiki/index.php/Category:Plugins

edit: also think about contributing to the CATMAID project, which is the software serving the browsable data set above, and perhaps will someday enable crowd-sourced markup: http://fly.mpi-cbg.de/~saalfeld/catmaid/
Is the name a homage to PositionIsEverything.net? The quintessential IE6 CSS bug documenter since the first wave of web standards?
If they're of the same general quality as software patents, then yes. I sure as hell don't want anyone holding a patent on "a process and system for fashioning transistors from silicon".
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Taxing a patent directly in the way you suggest is a terrible idea. Then smaller innovators who might benefit from patent protection are priced out by larger players directly! The value of the patent becomes proportional to the wealth of the patent holder, not the value of the innovation being protected.