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A nice list, but I can't be the only person here that is trying to speed up my page-load time and reduce the number of development tools that I depend on. Which would make a smaller shortlist?
This is just a guess, but I get the feeling their market share is probably not too large. We use it at my current job, and I actually enjoy using it. The integration build system combined with work item tracking and testing is nice if you have the ability to tailor your companies workflow to the "TFS way" (we are only partially there, still tracking bugs in our legacy intranet site). That said, it truly is a beast to setup/configure/maintain, to the point where I can't imagine any small MS shop bothering (esp. ones w/o a partner license and decent inhouse servers and possibly a build/deployment guy).

My last employer was still on sourcesafe (shudder!) when I left last year, and I'd bet they'll eventually go with something from SourceGear or Seapine before heading down the TFS path.
The parent did not say that the jokes about men were at technical conferences. I believe he was referring to all domains, not just programming / technical conferences.
"Far too often things break between releases and/or upgrades."

I recently tried to upgrade my older 9.10 install to 10.4 LTS. I got a bunch of errors about x.org upon upgrade (I think maybe because I downloaded and installed Nvidia's Linux driver a while ago), and yep you guessed it - hosed system upon reboot.

These sort of showstopper problems should not be occurring - not in the year 2011. Totally inexcusable as far as I'm concerned.
Or to be more precise, the article claims that "experts" (meaning undergrads, ie above average but by no means expert tasters) can be deceived, and then acts as if that also means "Wine is a complicated elixir, full of subtle flavors only an expert can truly distinguish" is false. It's a complete non sequitur.

I agree with you 100% on the Coke versus Pepsi thing. Anyone who has spent much time drinking wine has wines they like better than other wines; there really are taste differences. (Note that I'm not saying more expensive is better; rather, that there are $15 wines I love, and $15 wines I don't like.)
I cannot recommend the writings of Max Tegmark on the multiverse enough. Among people doing science at the heights of their fields, he is perhaps a uniquely talented popular writer. He even keeps it readable on his scientific papers, which read mostly just like his popular papers except shorter and with more math.

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0905/0905.1283v1.pdf is his overview of the levels of multiverses.

If that properly blows your mind, see Bostrom's Infinite Ethics. http://www.nickbostrom.com/ethics/infinite.pdf
It might be more effective to simply have a page showing sample good comments, so people have a reference point when deciding to comment. I'm not sure how to pick a list of good comments, but it would be best if it specifically included examples of comments that went against HN groupthink.
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An important nuance: you self-select into Java programming, whereas you do not your gender, race or age.
If a woman at a conference for some female-dominated profession (say, nursing or elementary-school teaching) made a joke from the podium about how incompetent men were at that profession, it would be just as inappropriate.
>One in five (18 percent) of men have been victims of domestic violence by a wife or female partner as opposed to 13 percent of women by a man.

>One in nine women admit to having used physical aggression against a husband or male partner (compared to one in ten men)

>14 percent of men say that they have been slapped by a partner (compared to 9 percent of women)

>11 percent of men have had a partner threaten to throw something heavy at them (compared to 8 percent of women)

>Only 4 percent of women explained that their behavior (either verbal or physical) was because of drink or drugs (compared to ten percent of men)

>Nearly half (47 percent) of women say that their behaviour (physical or verbal aggression or verbal reasoning) was because "it was the only way I could get through to him"

>Working class men (20 percent) are more likely to have been subjected to physical agression by a wife or female partner than upper or middle class men (15 percent)

>Here and Now's survey reveals that fifteen percent (6.3 million people) of the population say that they have been subjected to physical agression by a husband/wife or hetrosexual partner.

>MORI interviewed a representitive quota sample of 1,978 adults in Great Britain. 1,865 of whom had ever been in a personal relationship with the opposite sex.

>Field work was conducted from 17-21 November 1994 in 150 constituencies. All interviews were conducted face to face in home employing a self completion technique. Data have been weighted to the known profile of the British population.

[1]: http://www.coeffic.demon.co.uk/descrim.htm

Merely mentioning that in contemporary times, sexism towards men may be more prevalent as vice versa gets one booed off the stage.

And your question is loaded. There are plenty of sexist jokes going around on medical conferences. Mere notion that women, do not make sexist jokes against men, I find offensive. When in reality, a man complaining about it would be seen as a pussy (sexism?).

In the country where I live it is practically impossible to get stewardship of your kid if you are a man and mother also wants it. Hell I know cases where mother doesn't want the kid, but takes him just to spite the father.

There are loads of evidence that modern civilization is doing something very wrong with its men (especially young men). Lack of role models, bias towards women in affirmative action, bias against men in legislative and enforcement action is resulting in a dramatic shift of gender equality.

And in a bad way. I know dozens of attractive, educated, successful women who can't get a proper mate. Its a sellers market out there for ambitious, educated, refined man - lets say a classic gentleman.
Yeah, the article was a little ridiculous for not mentioning this. The impact of obamacare and the ever increasing risk of getting sued as an employer are huge and growing disincentives to hire low skill labor.
It isn't surprising at all.Soviet Union maps were also intentionally inaccurate. This inaccuracy still often appears in xUSSR maps.
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Agreed, the women in the audience weren't offended by the joke. They were offended by the laughter.

No one cares if one idiot is sexist, racist or whatever. They care that the industry is a boys club for men with the social maturity of 12 year olds and it's absolutely pathetic when there's guys on HN saying essentially "I don't get whats wrong with that joke".

I don't care if I get downmodded for saying this: HN is the best community on the web because of the sheer intelligence displayed on a daily basis by our regular commenters. If our regulars genuinely think there's something okay with this Adam guys public idiocy then I've lost a huge amount of respect for this community. In fact if the IT community really thinks this way, then PG should probably quit his efforts to better it and use his great talent elsewhere that needs it.

You're a scumbag when you make fun of the vast minority. You're a comedian when you make fun of the vast majority. Adam isn't a comedian, he wasn't telling a joke he was making a public display of patheticness.
The BLP is single-threaded, and the component that modifies the application's current state. It is my understanding that "Events" in event-sourcing are immutable and that state is just a memoized computation over the total journal of events -- so the layer of atomiticity that is provided is at the event level (as the BLP only processes one event at a time.)
The population growth rate is decreasing (the average number of children per woman is down from 5 in the 1950s to 2.5 today) and in much of the industrialized world, it's already going down.

The population is still increasing, but much of it is no longer due to a high birthrate but due to an increase in lifespan.
According to Google Image Seach :) more than a half has body, and some have a hat
http://www.google.com.ar/search?hl=en&q=moai&gs_sm=e...

(IIRC, all most of them had had a hut, but in most of them the hat had fallen an been lost.)
If you want symmetry, ask male nurses whether they think they find jokes about them having somehow given up their masculinity for their career are amusing.

Two of my martial arts instructors (as well as a student) work as male nurses for their day job. They make such jokes themselves, so I assume they find them amusing.

Of course, it's easier to laugh at such jokes when they obviously don't apply to you.
> Are you suggesting that slighting the intellect of women and doing likewise in respect of the fashion sense of a (minority/majority?) of men are equatable wrongs?

He wasn't slighting the general intellect of women, he was slighting their intellect in regards to java best practices. Saying a gender isn't knowledgeable about java best practices seems equitable to saying a gender isn't knowledgeable about color/design complements. Please explain how they are not so.
What more substantial info does the bellhop need? One of the problems with displays of numbers like that is that they are mostly a curiosity unless something breaks, then what you need to see is whatever indicators of brokenness are relevent to identifying and fixing it. And not much is going to break there unless she arrives at a different time or is moved to another room. A future full of attention grabbing displays of data just because we can is not utopian.

Perhaps the cab cost submitted to the expense account happened behind the scenes - why would she need to be alerted about it at all? I imagine the cab was pre-paid by whichever of her staff planned the trip, or provided by the hotel. We don't know, but if this is a display of techno-efficiency around her trip, she doesn't need to know or care either.
On problem solving, it takes loading a dataset into a brain and then time thinking about it; it can't really be shown on a slick video and it doesn't need a particularly futuristic office except to the extent that we see people looking at screens of data/information. "A smaller pump would be more efficient"? As if the software which calculated that needed two people physically meeting to say so.

By necessity, a video like this can't display happenings which don't fit video as a format, and that seems to me to be a lot of everyday life experiences on the smallest scales.
Interesting, he also posts a response by Jared Diamond: http://www.marklynas.org/2011/09/the-myths-of-easter-island-...

I had heard about the "JD is wrong, rats were the culprits" theory before and always wondered about JD's reaction.
The 230 and 300 mile Teslas are perfect for large metro area use (like SFBA, metro Seattle, LA, etc.).

I still think most people buying $50-70k cars in general, and especially Teslas, are likely to actually own another car (either in a 2-car 2-driver household, or just by keeping their gas/diesel and augmenting it with a Tesla), vs. renting. It might depend on garage space more than anything.
This is definitely wrong. But the other side of the story is women make sexist jokes about men, all the time (fashion, shoes etc), nobody complains about that, why the double standard?

Sexist behavior is wrong, whoever does it.
I don't think that they are suggesting to use all of them. They are a collection of different addons that may be useful to different people.
I am not sure how that changes the context of the joke in question here. The meaning that is being derived from Adam's statement - "Women are not nerdy/techie/geeky enough and this will be hard for them to understand". The same can be done for the Java/Python case as "Java developers are trained like monkeys to work on a largely boring and inherently ugly language and Python will be too hard for them to understand. So if this presentation can explain X to Java developers, you can definitely learn it for you are better then them."
My grandpa once advised me to read a new book or magazine about something I was unfamiliar with every month. Terrific advice, I have so much more general knowledge that lets me interact with customers and new people than many of my peers.
The kind that believed meditation was something he did sometimes.
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Self-deprecating humour is in no way comparable to having the majority direct the same joke at you. You know you didn't mean it. Do you know they didn't?
That is about the best advice ever.

I've subscribed to Nature Magazine, and even though it is completely over my head, I learn so much every week.
Both of my parents are IT professionals and former CS professors. If you're substantially older than I am (I'm 24) it's not hard to imagine assuming that everyone's parents are clueless about programming, just for generational reasons, but you're not going to be able to assume that forever.
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Most racism and sexism appears mildly offensive to those who are racist and sexist. If you watch a non-US television station with subtitles (or if you understand the language), you may be very surprised to see the amount of racism and sexism (depending on the country) that occurs regularly.

It's easier to see it when it's outside of our own culture. It's often very hard to see the significance when it's coming from the people that we identify with.

I was not at the JavaOne talk but the statement made is clear. I understand why these statements can be made. If a technical person is boring and goes on enough dates, it is easier to blame the opposite sex rather than blaming himself or herself. If a person is comparing women to space aliens, that probably says it all. It's easier to say that 'they' are space aliens rather than admitting that dating makes him feel like a space alien.

He could have easily made his point without reference to a space alien. He could have said: explain it to a nontechnical person or explain it to a child. These points become more clear, if we focus on the point on hand and the best way to express it in a non-offensive way.
I agree and sympathize -- insofar as you accept that you've taken nothing away from the original posting.

Sexism cuts in both directions. IMHO, M-to-F sexism is much more prevalent, more damaging (for example to women's career prospects), and a more serious issue, but as you complain, F-to-M sexism is real, is (in some circles) more widely socially acceptable, and is sort of insidious. I admire it when men or women stand up to either sort of sexism.

I especially admire this woman's stand. She stood up alone, in a room full of men who had laughed, and calmly demanded to be treated with respect. I submit that she's a role model for anyone who faces discrimination of any type and any severity.
I'm glad to hear it's great for you. Being a tenured professor in a field with low overhead is great.

However: The median undergraduate won't get to be a prof.

The median grad student won't get to be a prof, however much they might wish to.

In physics the median postdoc won't make it to prof. Too many postdocs. Not enough new profs.

I went to a top grad school and made a bunch of
friends. Of all my Ph.D.-holding friends I know of exactly one tenured professor. He recently graduated his first Ph.D. student, who promptly got a junior faculty position. He jokes that his work is done: All of his future grad students will be aimed at positions that don't exist yet. May never exist.

I'm aware that being a successful prof seems like a fun job, just as I'm aware that being Lady Gaga is a silly and remunerative job. But when I advise anonymous people on the internet I try to advise the median person, and the median person ain't going to get tenure, just as the median musician isn't going to be Lady Gaga.

Or is it different in your field? The physicists used to dream of easier advancement in math or CS, but the grass is always greener.

Congratulations on being a winner, by the way. Have fun, and help your students have fun!
I can think of a few good reasons, but hey are purely developer-oriented. At my last job, I had an Ubuntu-based desktop because it made virtualization cleaner with a more stable base system—and the company wouldn't buy Macs. Windows ran in a virtual machine, and I developed on Linux, Windows, and a couple of Unixes. For that job, Ubuntu was the best choice I made.

Now? I'm happily running on a Mac.
I could certainly see a young woman rejecting software engineering because it's "for men", and a sexist atmosphere certainly contributes to that perception.
so what you're calling scrambling/encryption is actually a transformation? the encryption library transforms the coordinates so that they match the distorted map?

what is the advantage of this? couldn't an attacker get a copy of the software? is there some kind of real-time authorisation step so that they can disable the transformation or change it?

[edit: thanks; wasn't thinking you thought it a good idea, just curious for more info]
You can't understand the difference in context between a joke that targets people on the basis of conscious choices they've made and one that targets people on the basis of their biology? /Really/?
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"I just can't see a young person rejecting a field because it's too sexist"

In the field of law (which is my original background) you can pretty much walk into any sizeable firm, look around for the female partners and know you have identified the family law or employment law team.

Is this because all women who become lawyers have a burning desire to handle divorces or employment tribunals?

Perhaps?

Or perhaps was it the case that historically law firms (then run exclusively by men) were most willing to admit females into the partnership in areas deemed "feminine" before they did likewise for macho stuff like construction or commercial litigation. Thereafter, a meaningful % of female trainees looked around on their first day and figured out where their most likely root to a partnership lay. And so the cycle perpetuated.

That this cycle is increasingly being broken in the legal sector is, I'd argue, as much because of the sheer weight of numbers (more than 50% of law grads are women), as it is down to a more enlightened approach by male partners.

In the abstract, I'd argue that it is not sexism that puts people off choosing a career path, but rather it is a combination of not wanting to fight against the current (not everyone fancies being a trailblazer) as well as the innate human desire to belong to a tribe that physically resembles themselves.

Or to put it another way, I greatly enjoy the company of women, but if I had walked into a lecture theatre and been the only guy present, I'd have felt very much that I was in the wrong room no matter how much I loved the subject (or the attention!)

(Edit: Despite what I wrote in the last paragraph, I must acknowledge that currently I am working in a 4 person startup, three of whom are female including the technical lead.)
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If all your potential role models have left the industry because they found the social atmosphere uncomfortable, it's going to have a pretty profound effect on the number of women who'll study it in the first place. Strong role models are important.
Perhaps because one (an individual's fashion sense) is entirely subjective (and ultimately fairly trivial) and the other is not.

Anyway, my main point was that introducing the existence of another perceived injustice is completely irrelevant to whether a wrong was perpetuated in this case.

Or are you suggesting that the underlying premise of the initial comment was not: "man up love, you lot are just as bad"?
Honestly, I don't mind.

I like people saying whatever they want to say. If they say stupid shit - then that reflects on them and only on them.

Ok, so the guy doing the presentation and uttering a cleanly well thought out joke is whatever he is. Also Shifra is whatever she is (have you read the thread?).

E.g.: I actually got up and made him apologize for his stupid and offensive joke. On the way out, one woman thanked me and one man told me I should "relax." (I told him he should shut up.)

Statement like that also reflects poorly on the person saying it. I see it as an abuse of power: I am a woman and since I am a woman I will now make you bow down to my might - else I might get all lawyered up on you.

Consider this scenario: It's a JAVA conference and the guy titles his presentation: Explain it to COBOL programmer. And there is a COBOL programmer in the crowd (alog with the rest of the 1% of COBOL programmers) who gets so upset, that he makes a guy apologize for it.

Was the statement offensive? Yes. Was making a fuss worth it? Seriously doubt it.

Like I said, people speak for themselves. Making offensive jokes is highly inappropriate - in any scenario.

I sincerely hope that all the people who are so concerned about morals, do so without discrimination.
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This is not a problem with using a GPS, the problem is the shift from using different mapping technologies.

Trying to get satellite and the map portions to line up is very difficult. Trying to do it on a global scale with data from multiple sources... you get the idea.

Now please get back to China bashing and don't let the facts get in the way of your political/religious feelings. Remember to include lots anecdotal evidence and use the word red. And as always bring up other countries that seem scary on fox news.
Everywhere in China you can buy illlegally imported smartphones (cheaper, avoids chinese sales taxes) from Hongkong, all with GPS included.
no mention of lossless audio compression formats :(
The way it works is you will never be cleared, the security-theater machine has eaten you.

In other words, being on a security watch list is like being diagnosed with cancer. You're never cured. The symptoms are just in remission and can resurface at any time.
Re: 1. There is no "hoping", the input disrupter garauntees a total ordering to events as written to a journal. this journal is then processed by BLPs.

RE: atomiticity -- the BLP processes one message at a time, which ensures that you do not have multiple threads clashing, but you do not have MVCC or any form of rollback, which he addresses thusly:

>LMAX's in-memory structures are persistent across input events, so if there is an error it's important to not leave that memory in an inconsistent state. However there's no automated rollback facility. As a consequence the LMAX team puts a lot of attention into ensuring the input events are fully valid before doing any mutation of the in-memory persistent state. They have found that testing is a key tool in flushing out these kinds of problems before going into production.

I am more concerned with the hand-waving around the failure case -- falling over to an alternate BLP on failure does not prevent you from duplicate instructions; if a processing an event would create multiple output events for the output disrupter, but the blp is terminated before all output events are sent you either a) must have some kind of multi/exec on output events or b) must write code that is able to resume the processing of a message from an intermediary point or c) must otherwise prevent or accomodate duplicate output events from the same source event.

This is a result of the lack of "transactionality" that you are referring to, and I would love to read more about how they address this particular sticky wicket when a system fails.