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Most of the people on here are debating the degree that gender affects life choices and goals (obviously it does to some degree). It's not misogyny to debate the differences between men and women. No one is advocating that women should be categorically denied access to certain societal roles.

If I said: "Because of X, Y, & Z it's possible that biology has had more effect on female career choices than the 'patriarchy'." Does that make me a misogynist? Could there be any answer to why genders cluster around certain careers other than the 'patriarchy'? If that's the only answer you could ever acknowledge and anything else is "ignorance and misogyny" I think you should examine that.

And your argument is exactly how men are treated, and many of those biases are institutional. Imagine if women weren't allowed to seek protection from domestic violence, and had no reproductive rights at all? That's the world every man lives in. It's a little insulting to be admonished how to properly speak to women, while men are imprisoned every day because of their gender.
"CFO interim CEO".. yeah, those guys usually have a vision.
Not to say this isn't the case, but San Francisco, in some cases, actually has a history of hostility towards developers. For example: Live/work conversions are banned in the city and have been banned since 1999. There seems to be a lot of bad blood dating back to the bubble burst and half-assed redevelopment of SOMA.
It's certainly not for everyone. One of the big selling points of google plus is being able to do things with friends. The goal seems to be to add an additional level of "social" to their social network. They're doing that through games and youtube video. Hulu video seems like a natural extension of that. It won't appeal to everyone (nothing does), but it will to some.

Better sharing settings (through circles) and better social features (watch videos or play pokers with friends) could be a recipe for success.
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Exactly. This is the worst advice I have seen on entering coding, maybe ever:

The answer to every question is out there. Engineers know that better than anyone. Even the best engineers ask Google questions all the time. The biggest difference between you and an engineer is the mindset.

After you have the right mindset, here is how the execution will go:

You start asking Google questions, which leads you to all sorts of resources on StackExchange and Quora and a million blogs and other websites. You find twelve tutorials on HTML and nine on CSS, and you bounce around between them to find the best ones

Unless you're a pretty amazing auto-didact this is terrible advice. The author posits his advice as learning how to learn on your own (which is good to a certain degree), but what this advice requires is to first become an expert in querying Google and not only sorting results but going through all the different recommendations? How would someone without programming experience effectively evaluate which are 'the best ones' from the spam and the outright wrong articles?

Over the last few years < 10 people have asked me "how would i become a programmer" or "what's the best way to learn SQL", or something similar. The first questions I ask are 'what do you want to do' and 'why do you want to be a programmer'.

I'd never really considered "go google some keywords, read everything on the first page, and let me know how that works out for you"
Here is a YouTube (Google Tech Talks) video on how the Linux kernel is developed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2SED6sewRw
There are touch events and a touch API that make this possible.
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The New York Times already has a way around this through Op-Ed columnists. Thus, it's okay for someone like Warren Buffett, Robert Reich, or someone the Times hires on spec to completely ignore these policies. If TechCrunch were to adhere to the Times' standard, then Arrington might alternatively be either an Op-Ed columnist paid on spec for his pieces of writing, a reporter paid to do a job, or a staff editorial writer.

The reality is that this is a distinction without difference today (especially when editorial is mixed with reporting). Disclosure should be part of every article, op-ed, or editorial. As far as I'm concerned, TechCrunch is actually setting a more rigorous standard than the Times is for future media.
Why not ask the employees who actually WORK on their products what the heck Yahoo's vision for the future should be? Crowdsource the company vision so you don't have to rely on someone like Steve Jobs magically appearing out of nowhere.
I guess Reddit Inc. will be getting an application soon. Nice to see Tech Crunch still upholding their high standards of journalism despite Arrington's struggles.
Can't speak for joshu, but I invested simply because Simon and Natalie impressed me as co-founders, and I love the product.
Synchronous exceptions are debatable. For example, a library function throwing an exception may require its callers to use "finally" clauses (or similar constructs in other languages) in order to maintain Exception Safety.

Also, a common property of "pure" functions is that it doesn't matter what order you call them in. But if you reorder calls to functions which can throw exceptions, you may get different results.

Asynchronous exceptions on the other hand are usually fine. For example, square-root library library functions aren't defined in terms of how much stack space is available on the machine; they're defined in terms of their argument.

Systems which have asynchronous exceptions ideally permit programs to handle them with code at carefully chosen places, rather than code spread around everywhere.
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This "opinion piece" isn't very well written, and I'm genuinely unclear why it's on Hacker News.

Surely the author isn't the only hack journalist at MIT, and I doubt Mr. Wade is the only sex entrepreneur to emerge from MIT.

It's just not that interesting.
Given that those auto-applied signatures have been around for at least a decade, it seems odd to comment about them now.
Walked to school uphill, both ways, in the snow and with bare feet too, did ya?

Reddit is, and has always been, a large organic community that has always undergone change. Reddit had to introduce subreddits as a way of breaking up and categorising communities as things outgrew the "everything on the front page" model.

Getting big changes things, and I don't see how comments like yours are insightful when all the things you listed (yes, even the deep and meaningful posts and debates) are still happening on the site, your just need to sort through the noise.

Things like subreddits help you do that and get what's relevant to your interests.
This has been brewing for many years, the city has tried to kick out the landlord for about 10 years and he's been in bankruptcy proceedings for a while. It's amazing he's hung on so long. There's a detailed 9 year old profile about this crazy situation here http://www.sfweekly.com/2002-11-20/news/griftin-on-the-dock-...

I can attest from personal experience that the man is a paranoid hot head, and from this article he seems to be spiraling out of control: http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-05-29/bay-area/29596184_1_po...

The question will be what the city wants to do with that space after they finally get rid of Carl. With the ball park next door I doubt they will want to keep it as an office building.
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wrong:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/exploitation
If he wanted independence, he sold because...?
Funny, isn't that a description of Tim Cook and Apple now?
I went to a meet-up hosted at Dogpatch labs once. Great venue. Pier 38 is not quite in the Dogpatch neighborhood. I grew up in the Bay Area, but never heard of a Dogpatch neighborhood in S.F. until after the internet came along. The wikipedia article is no help http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogpatch,_San_Francisco,_Califo.... When did Dogpatch first get called Dogpatch? Perhaps it has something to do with the Hell' Angels clubhouse? Naturally the name comes from Al Capp.
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I see what you mean. But let's say he would have sold to Microsoft and then Microsoft would have killed and gutted the fish, you'd probably be criticizing him for having no vision by selling Yahoo to MS and letting it die like that.
Hopefully anonymous crackheads don't destroy the place.
Sure, but a language doesn't stop doing a particular job either. While there are certainly better ways to be doing things discovered all the time, software is susceptible to fads just like any other industry. Sticking with something proven isn't always a bad strategy. Especially if it lets you focus on solving a real problem rather than a growing pain.
Fired over the phone? Is that common at that level?
Here are a bunch of monetization ideas that wont divert too much from their culture:

1. paid mobile apps
2. paid API access
3. build an internal Flattr like service
4. offline events
5. go compete with Disqus
If you're a redditor, please submit your meme images to canv.as and help keep reddit true to its non-meme roots.
> making it easy for the non-artist and non-technical person to create and publish content removes a giant filter that would keep out a lot of trash.

To me, the biggest part of the fun of internet image culture all over the web is that it's mostly generated and appreciated by people who aren't really artists. If you look at the lively amusing stuff popular on 4chan/Reddit/Tumblr over the past few years - rage comics, dogfort comics, advice animals, complex reaction images referring to six different memes all at once in a humorous way, and a zillion other innovations that are only fresh for a week each - a lot of this stuff is made with MS Paint, copy-and-paste, GIF makers, and rudimentary Photoshop skills. The culture is very much enriched by people who know what they're doing with a drawing tablet, but overall it's folk art for everyone on the web who has time on their hands, art that is messy and wild and funny.

Canvas does something pretty neat: it lowers the barrier to entry even more, which adds even more folk-energy to this primordial soup. But it means that Canvas needs really good organic filters so that the best stuff bubbles up to the top in a readable way, like it does on Reddit and even 4chan (after you learn how to read 4chan). Canvas does some of this already, but I'm hoping for seeing even more, easier, faster ways to have fun browsing it without being already deeply enmeshed in the community (or even if you've been enmeshed in it before but took a break for a few weeks and now feel entirely out of the loop, etc)...I'd be interested in seeing more "entry paths", more blog posts with bits of context/explanation/decoding, and maybe also a lighter-page-weight option for browsing around (since I'm stuck on slow internet connections more often than I'd like).
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this is brilliant! in fact I used this technique out of instinct a couple of times (including with my father, who is an avid web app idea maker, lol!).
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To be honest, I know, and the DOJ certainly didn't help.
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I remember using Yahoo! way back in the days of Mosaic. Yahoo! has a long history (in Internet time) and many long-time and loyal users of it's email and other entertainment and lifestyle services.

Yahoo! has to break out of the "portal" mindset of trying to be all things to all people. When portals were the all the rage in the late 90's, options were limited in the online services space -- which is clearly not the case anymore. What Yahoo! currently brings to the table is talent, experience, traffic and a loyal user base of it's core services (e.g. Mail, Messenger, Finance, Flickr, Stores, Fantasy Sports, etc.). They need to integrate these services better by focusing on one core demographic and offering a more cohesive experience.

The first step is to identify their core demographic and build around their needs. They should raise cash for acquisitions through the sale of existing properties that do not service their primary audience. The Yahoo! brand and user base is strong enough to make a comeback, they just have to look at their company from a slightly different perspective and play their best hand in the current market.
I just hope this doesn't inspire people to really shake the macbooks so hard to cause a disk problem or any other hardware issue.

I advise you add a disclaimer for this? ;)
I co-developed a paid app on the iOS app store and we have and iPhone and iPad version. The iPhone version sells on the order of 10 times the iPad version. We also have an android phone version which probably sells about the same as our iPad version. So I would agree with the analysis that an app that targets Android tablets exclusively at this point is probably aiming at a very small market.
It doesn't seem to work on my 2010 MBA... perhaps due to the SSD?
>Not enough boards fire CEOs, is the problem we really have.

Sure, but that doesn't mean they have to forego all tact in doing so...
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As I'm self taught I lean towards the engineering side of software development, should I do a CS crash course before tackling Scala? Any advice on the best CS books to read?
Is this a joke? I'm really, really confused.
They do. There are numerous attempts internally at Yahoo to solicit feedback. I don't think they listen. Besides that people see such a sliver of what yahoo does overall that individual feedback like that can often be unhelpful at a corporate level.
Yes.

However, that depends on who you ask. Specifically, try banks (and other financial institutions), Fortune 500 companies (exclude the more tech savvy such as Google, Microsoft as the code that does get written is meaningful), and anywhere that is infested with suits.

And, by the way: I believe that, out of the 20, 15 are XML.
We have. But we still have to write something, don't we?
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There's an emotional connection that many geeks have to Yahoo: I know I'd still like to like it. If they made something that made us all go "Aaaaw....", we'd recommend the hell out of it, and soon enough it could replace Google News for some people, for example. And from that the next step would not be too long.

Imagine if they had a great news reading and exploring service integrated in a smart way with a reading list/book marking service - like del.icio.us? (ouch...) They have had great technology.
Yes, but to play that logic out if you already have a tenant paying a low rent and you want to make a lot more, you'd need a good reason to kick them out, remodel a little and then be able to put the place back on the market for the top dollar amount you want.
Absolutely, there is a major difference between 'ask Google' and 'ask a mentor'.

I don't get a lot of chance to code, but I do enjoy scripting. Google is fantastic at answering questions when I know what it is I want to do. But it's terrible at preventing bad habits. "But this guy on this website said do -foo- and it works perfectly!", to which my mentor says "yuk yuk yuk yuk. do not do that. It does not scale. It relies on -bar-. And most importantly, it's revealed that you do not understand the concepts behind why you are doing -foo- and what it is you actually want to achieve".

I'm extremely fortunate in that I have access to a very good mentor who loves chewing the tech fat with me and genuinely loves sharing tech info with anyone at any level. I don't take enough time to take advantage of him, but I recognise that it's really rare to have someone who is both highly skilled, a good teacher, and motivated.

Google is great for the things that google is great at. But it does not take the place of a good mentor. I've read code sample after code sample and made a script do -foo-, but my mentor has picked up some subtely as to why I should be doing -bar- instead.

To some extent, it's reflected in the "RTFM" ideology. Man pages are great... if you already know what you're doing. If you're new to a concept, they vary from 'great' to 'fucking abysmal', as they take all sorts of knowledge for granted. Telling someone "just go learn from the documentation" is slightly evil, in my opinion. Yes, absolutely, there must be a culture where you go for the documentation early and often, but guidance and direction from experts is extremely important.
On that matter, IMO the Revlon duties should be completely eliminated.
> Oh, and I prefer VIM to Eclipse

And yet think you are part of the group mentioned by the article?
"I subscribe to the belief that ideas aren’t worth anything, and that it all comes down to good execution."

If not for the idea, the execution would be unnecessary.

It takes a village...
I think you completely missed the entire point of the article.
This is my work for 2 months ( i know am slow ), but how whats your opinion on UI design, and the whole idea? and if you have any suggestions please tell me and sorry for annoyance
Windows should have a similar feature. "Throw on the ground to fix BSOD"
One other practical note, you can create a single (test) page that showcases all of the visual styles currently in use, so there is one page to check manually.
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I am guessing this is a nice little joke, BUT...

If the sensitivity was just right, and it only measured a shake like smacking the monitor on the side, it might actually make a nice UX.

Think of typing away at this message and then deciding, "never-mind", and reaching up with your right hand and smacking the screen on the edge. Could be a very natural feeling undo.
You really feel bad for Carol Bartz?
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The quote on the Mac was actually:

"You buy a Mac because you’re embarrassed that you ever used anything else."

The assumption there is that using a Mac will make you orders of magnitude more productive as an engineer. Possibly, if you're comparing it to Windows, but that's a real stretch for Linux, particularly given the level of support online and cost (likely $0, if you can snag an old PC).

Although there's the argument that that's likely what they're already used to, and trying to learn two things at once is probably going to stunt their growth.

A pity, since most of the rest of the article was spot-on.
If Groupon goes public and does that successfully this will finally shatter my last hope for the sanity of the average investor.
I'm pretty sure it's a joke
I work at Automattic (our office is in the pier, we're one of the companies being kicked out). I'm usually at the pier about twice/week. I have absolutely no idea what's unsafe about it. As far as I know, we've never been told. As far as whether it's justified, there's a lot of not very reliable information involved in the answer to that question, so I'll just say that if it is justified I couldn't tell you why or how.
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Right, TV Ratings are based on viewers during episode premiere dates. Not on how many streamed the show.

Besides, my point was that I was able to stream the new entourage and I think thats a great idea to get people to sign up for their new service.
Maybe Steve Jobs left as CEO of Apple to run Yahoo???
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I disagree. AOL and Yahoo don't have someone like Jonathan Ive who is, for all intents and purposes, Apple's "product guy". Jobs was just the guy that focused and drove them all to excellence.
I'm pretty sure there was a virtual desktop manager for OS X around 10.3 or 10.4 that, in one fork, supported smacking each side of the laptop to cycle left or right. I also recall being able to use the ambient light sensors under the speaker grills for the same thing: Cover one with your hand, and the desktops move that way.

It was pretty fantastic.
Google didn't have a product? When?
I really wouldn’t worry about “dirty energy”. There is likely no effect at all, any effects you might perceive are probably psychosomatic.

Here is a study looking into health effects of electromagnetic fields: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=5155

Here is another study looking at people suffering from electromagnetic sensitivity: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=S...

And another one: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=S...
Is there a transcript of it anywhere? Never mind, just found it: http://www.alacrastore.com/research/thomson-streetevents-Yah...

It's at the end, I believe he was the last speaker...
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I'd be really curious to hear exactly what is wrong with github's pull requests (seem fine to me).

And what "horrible things" does github do to commits?
Interesting - the StartupHouse guys are offering to house the Pier38 refugees free through 2011 at their new place at 880 Harrison St.

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The deal is that 4chan is influencing the mode of discourse on the web. For what that's worth.
Dang you HN... Dang you to Heck! I have managed to so far find reason on many occasions to avoid LA, and certainly to also avoid signing up for AirBnB. And now in one masterful stroke you have managed to get me excited to do both. I can only hope that Team Coco isn't part of your diabolical scheme and will turn down my petition in my own self interest...
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Opinion is different than news. Op-Ed columnists don't get the inside track on news that helps them make money and make money for others. Similarly, reporters stay off the opinion page. It's not just a matter of disclosing, the whole concept is against the policy of any reputable media organization (not that I'm of the opinion TechCrunch is, but that's what this is about).

The NYT doesn't let their reporters trade on companies they cover. Would it seem strange to you if a NYT reporter was hired to simultaneously manage a venture fund to invest in companies that are on his beat?
Wasn't that their original business model. I don't think it went very far (although it got them to a ramen level profitability).

They also have things like /r/dragonage taht was setup by EA (possibly with a fee?) to promote the game
Sure, Arrington doesn't care if he burns his bridges, he's ready to move on and he knows what a post like this will buy him (respect and enemies). That doesn't mean the controversy is empty though.

It's still ball-sy and more than 99.99% of people in the business would do and yes, for that he gets respect points. Like it or not.
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Can someone explain the timing of these switches?

Jobs resigns, Arrington resigns, CmdrTaco resigns, Reddit is spun off, and now this. (did I mis one?)

Is there something about august/september? Is it just my personal filter?
"It's just amazing that the city of San Francisco isn't able to care about something that has generated so many jobs," writes someone in the comments of TC.

I enjoyed my Muni-view of the the neon "socialmedia.com" sign in the second story window just as much as the next guy, but it blows my mind to think that people believe it's the fiduciary duty of a municipality to keep a place like this open. My various points in short (1) These jobs inevitably move down Penninsula; (2) Tech is better off without government playing VC; (3) if you've ever seen this place, it does look like it's about to fall into the Bay.

The company makes the place, the place doesn't make the company. I hope companies like Automattic are able to pack up and make some other -- hopefully more structurally stable -- place famous.