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It distresses me that "political correctness" has become a dirty "four letter" word rather than simply a shared understanding that people who address others in a hate-filled, bullying, disrepectful and demeaning way should be actively shunned and censured (i.e. not "censored").
"I'd like to become an electrician, but don't want to fork out the money to buy wire cutters or something similar."

Yes, the analogy falls apart because you don't run proprietary software on wire-cutters. I understand that you might want to "try before you buy" with Mac and iOS dev, but I'm speaking to a slightly different issue.

If you want to do a job, you either acquire the tools to do the job (wire cutters/a Mac) or you Work Harder rather than Working Smarter (bend the wire until it breaks/shoehorn OS X onto a Hackintosh.)
Adios, AmigaOS.
He would have to have ordered an aviary for that comparison to have worked (people don't give parrots by default).
As someone who runs a service where a google map is THE interface, I don't think these rates are all that bad considering how powerful of a tool gmaps is. However, my service doesn't come close to the 25k required before billing comes in to the picture.

I do wonder what the people behind padmapper.com think, which most likely will get charged and has a similar gmap as the service interface.

The really interesting cases will be things like Yelp, where the map is a small feature to the overall service. At 1.5M page views/day that's $1,500 per day...
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Adafruit has an FPGA for sale: http://www.adafruit.com/category/products/451

I haven't tried it, as I have a much cheaper but far less documented CPLD sitting around, gathering dust. =p
A good example is a site I do work on that seems to have very occasional problems with uploadify only on Macs. I can't recreate on any win-based browser, don't have access to a Mac and really don't want to have to buy yet another computer just for this very occasional bug.
I was going to post this next week but after seeing the Rent-a-Mac post I figured let make this a cloud day and announce our new Rent-a-PC service :-)
If this is your first real job, then I very strongly recommend that you stay. 6 months is a very short period of time to take this call. Give it at least 6 more months. Righ out of college, sometimes 6 months can feel like a really long time especially if you are doing 90 hours weeks. In another few months, perhaps the workload would reduce, some of your options would vest and you would feel that you have given it a fair chance before you finally take your decision!
What was the solution for n = 1?
I was going to try it out, but once you've registered, you have to raise a support ticket to ask them to put a free trial on your account.

> Step 2 - Experience a Free Trial
After registering your MacinCloud website account, please log in and create a new Support
Ticket under Help > Support > New Support Ticket. Click New Support Ticket -> MacinCloud Trial -> Sales, and request for a trial. Please attach a note and let us know if you have any specific needs.

Um, no, sorry. I don't have that much patience. Honestly this could be a great service for Windows-based web developers who just need a few hours on a Mac now and then for testing, but the signup process needs to be instant.
I believe lots of iOS/OSX app developers want to make money out of the apps they are planning to develop. So why would someone just not invest money on a computer (which is a really good and hi-quality) machine imho) that is going to make them earn money?
> It is easy to uninstall junkware on Windows, and to pop in a CD to upgrade or crossgrade the OS.

Can you enlighten me as to what it means to "crossgrade the OS". Native english speaker and I've never heard the term :)
There's a lot of things besides nudity that can render an image inappropriate for use in a conference presentation, and judging from the description in the linked article (There was one image of a pig indulging in sexual activity with a goose...), I don't think it's unreasonable to expect people to be offended.
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> I can say that I had a great life for this phone (3.5 years and counting) and that I'm not mad Apple decided to stop supporting it.

I think ajanuary is talking about the fact that the 3G was still for sale until right before the iPhone 4 was released (see black rectangle). So people who bought a 3G right before the 4 was released (not necessarily a smart move) got about 10 months of support (support essentially ended in March 2011, with iOS 4.3)
I haven't hear that version of prostitute ever, and I'm from Colombia, and live there.
It wasn't just that she was female, it was that she was female and spoke out against the disgusting behaviour she saw and experienced.

Sadly this is not limited to the tech community; feminist bloggers in general have to deal with an unbelievable amount of shit.
I run OS X on VMWare, it's fast, it's perfect.

I wonder if they're doing the same (virtualized OS X, which works well but is, I believe, against Apple's EULAs) or if they use actual Macs (which would be quite burdensome)...?

Edit: confused iOS and OS X. I feel stupid.
"I heard about this really cool new game, but it won't work on my three month old phone" really doesn't endear devices to the masses.
Yeah, the European marketshare is a little different: Motorola releases few of their devices in The Netherlands (more in Germany & UK), but Samsung has a very high market share here.
It doesn't appear to be due to server reboots, instead it's to spread the load. If you're an after-hours coder--doing things as a side project after your day job is finished, or just like being up at night--the 9a-5p plan isn't for you. As someone who is up all night (basically 9p-5a), I appreciate the ability to pay less because I'm never going to use the "peak time."
After reading this article, twice... huh? All I can tell is she is bitching that she didn't get respect purely out of being a woman in tech and nothing else actually substantial.

I personally encourage woman to enter various tech industry roles (programming, IT, etc), and women like this push Woman's Rights 2.0 back a decade every time they do this.

Also, MikeeUSA is a known troll, and anyone who is stupid enough to fall for his shit rather deserves it. He tends to hang out (and by hang out, I mean banned frequently) in the IRC channel for DarkPlaces, a Quake engine used by many games including Nexuiz and Xonotic, and we can't stand him either.

tl;dr: Geek men support Women's Rights; one specific geek woman didn't and suddenly its a new story and somehow its the men's fault.
(1+1+1)! = 3! = 6 as the parent comment suggested.
Here is the direct link to the blog post referenced on itwire.com: http://geekfeminism.org/2011/10/13/on-being-harassed-a-littl...
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Guess I just have a very high 'offended' threshold then.
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Did I miss something, or this basically trying to call out something that Amazon fixed before anyone actually discovered it. Reads like FUD
This is why the phone gods gave us CyanogenMOD.
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I didn't read that from the quote. I read it as "It sucks that there's nothing I can do about this", not "The system should change".
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Nicely done! We have just launched a similar concept for Windows desktops at leostreamdesktops.com.

I think the growth of tablets is really going to drive the cloud desktop market as people switch to tablets as their primary access device.
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Unless he's swapping IP addresses on a regular basis, or hiding on a highly shared server, figuring out who this actually is without any help from an ISP or law enforcement shouldn't be that hard (this is the same way that "why the lucky stiff" was outed), assuming that the person is also an active contributor on other lists.

I tend to view this as another example of how anonymity allows people to be jerks (with the requisite comic: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/3/19/ ).
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- Thomas Edison

http://startupquote.com/post/11990980073
Unfortunately, this is not the first time this sort of reprehensible behavior has cost the tech community good talent. Kathy Sierra comes to mind.

Other notables (male and female) have recently removed their presence from the internet. Although it isn't always clear why, I'd speculate some sort of harassment was at play there too.
What are these guys expecting? The Wii came out 5 years ago. Where's the followup? The Wii 2 isn't coming out this xmas, so we're looking at 6 year cycles on what's essentially disposable consumer electronics.

I'd love to see the industry shift to 3 year cycles with backwards compatibility. The status quo is begging to be disrupted. I just played 30 minutes of BF3 yesterday and its a world of difference on whats going on in the console world, and my rig isn't some impressive gaming rig. The current Wii not only doesn't come close to my PC, its weaker than my phone.

Yes, gaming shouldn't be all about the graphics, but giving developers some leeway and a decent GPU now and again should be part of every console company's plan.

Gabe Newell thinks Apple is going to launch a console. Dunno if that's true, but I'll bet you they aren't looking at 5 or 6 year cycles like MS and Nintendo. Just doing what these guys do with a 2 or 3 year cycle is going to each their lunch.
I dunno. I'm sympathetic and all, but this seems to boil down to:

"Nasty person A keeps harassing nice person B via email in ways which do not warrant the involvement of law enforcement."

Which is terrible and all - especially for person getting the nasty emails - but this really doesn't seem to have any real relevance to anyone who isn't involved.
I actually had breakfast with him at a conference in Havana in 2007, so I was a little surprised to see this in his rider. Another reader posted that it's new since 2008, so maybe he had some sort of breakfast-related disaster at some point in '07-'08... or maybe having to spend an entire breakfast lecturing me about why Linux should always be called GNU/Linux put him off the meal for good.
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Well done and good luck!
yes, but you have to agree this is really awkward, beyond sharing with fellow hackers. most casual users would never go to the trouble just to try your app.

my point was that the technology exists to make sharing apps easier, but apps like this are artificially crippled by apple's app store policies, because they want to control everything.
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MikeeUSA frequently states dumb shit like "oh, women deserve to be raped since the day they first bleed because this is what God created women for" and other shit.

He does it purely for the sake of trolling, and people periodically bite the trollbait.

Is this illegal? No. Should he be beaten with in an inch of his life? Yes. Is that going to happen outside of a prison? Probably not, no one is quite sure of his exact address.
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Looks like photos and graphics are on Akamai, so yes.
I suppose it's primarily useful for people that develop cross-platform applications and want to test/develop on a Mac as well. Sure, if the Mac is your primary platform then it makes little sense not to buy one.
Yes. A $10 Spartan 3 could run a simple core and interpret LISP code. It's been done before, check Open Cores.
Men have to put up with such abuse harassment and dickery all the time online. Welcome to the internet.

Unfortunately us men can't just play the "sexism" card.
I hope Skud's life improves with her new career. I'm horrified that she was treated this way by any human.
"Bayley wrote, in a blog entry for the Geek Feminist website, which she founded..."

"This kind of harassment and bullying is endemic in many circles, including towards women in technical communities, particularly if they _complain about community norms_."

So no, she wasn't harassed to this degree just because of her gender. She was harassed because she had spoken up about other, less disgustingly over the top issues.
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Interesting idea, but the pricing is just much too complex. By having to choose between monthly/weekly, morning/day/evening and then number of hours there are perhaps 50 different plans available? I'm just too confused to make a choice.
MikeeUSA abuses open proxies and tor like mad. He also comes onto IRC channels with random nicks. Soon as he opens his mouth, though, he usually has outed himself.

I have referred to that same PA comic in the Darkplaces IRC channel (which hosts frequent games of "ban the MikeeUSA").
So what do you think of the 40-hour workweek? Should we eliminate the concept of time-and-a-half pay for overtime?

> In the case of a software company you're introducing the twin evils of bad hires and oversized teams. For what? An inferior product produced at a higher price.

Software engineers are not hourly workers last time I checked.

> What are you going to do with someone who works more than 35 hours?

The same thing we do with people who work more than 40 hours now. Pay them overtime.

> I hope you're young and still learning, because if you're of any reasonable age, you should know better by now.

You sir are an asshole.
have you not been reading? not everybody is an ios/osx dev. web devs need to test on macs sometimes.
Probably not the best place to mention this, but I am in a way offended that BBC doesn't consider PoK or Jammu&Kashmir to be a part of India!
It's going to composite everything into a buffer on the Mac just as quickly as normal. Transmitting that buffer across the Internet is going to run into lag. It will be anything from a minor annoying delay to a completely unusable lag. You probably aren't going to do gaming or videos (or Quartz Composer, etc) on your remote Mac.
That is not political correctness, that is basic respect for a fellow human being. Political correctness goes much farther.
There's a major point that can be added to the Why Don’t Android Phones Get Updated? section: Third party skins and interfaces.

HTC's Sense, Motorola's Motoblur and co can only introduce an engineering overhead and delays in upgrading. I would much rather they concentrated on making awsome hardware and leaving the UI to Google, rather than attempting to differentiate themselves in this way.
I still think we are. The progress is that this kind of stuff is increasingly discussed in public like this, rather than being allowed to slide.

Sadly, I fear it's still going to take a lot more progress before people can speak up without a reasonable expectation of retaliation.
I haven't tried this particular development board but it looks pretty inexpensive and would be a good starter board.
http://www.easyfpga.com/
I agree that it wasn't easy to make conclusion, especially it compare only one parameter from forums (new registered accounts), and doesn't take mailing lists in account for example, maybe I should leave the conclusion to the reader. The trend for Arch Linux is more obvious I think.
He's not the problem though. The problem is people being offended by it or taking the bait.

Ban, ignore, report, shun etc...

Setting up a geek feminist movement is pretty much the worst thing you could do if you wanted the abuse to stop.
They're using Akamai. My profile picture is hosted on profile.ak.fbcdn.net, which for me resolves to a machine that looks like it's in a datacenter of my ISP.
You can buy used imac or mac mini at around $300. Even 5 year old late 2006 imac, which I got from one of my friends for free, can install Lion and be used for iPhone app development.
Also, someone who lives in a country that is not loved by Apple.

Here in central Europe, a Mac Mini goes for 1200$ without a monitor, and that's in the cheapest online store (where you will have to wait for over a week for it, as they do not have them in stock).

Also, since there are no Apple stores, repairs and warranty in general is a pain to deal with.

Considering these circumstances, a "Mac in a cloud" seems appealing, especially if you need it just as a testbed.
Thanks, interesting read. Will certainly follow up if I find more interesting stuff.
You can't pay to upgrade?

I'm in the UK, and here you can upgrade at any time - you'll just pay more for the phone if you upgrade within your current contract period.

As for environmental practice, there's a number of companies that'll refurbish used phones and sell them on, and they'll even give you a bit of cash for it if it's a reasonably recent phone. Here in the UK most of them will send you a prepaid envelope you can just drop your old phone in, and mail you a check when they receive it.
> The OP asks for control of wages and working hours.

So you're saying minimum wage and overtime are bad things? I'm not proposing new laws, just new numbers in existing laws.
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There are lots of bad apples but I'm kind of surprised Skud would just give up on the "whole" industry.

I hope someone encourages Skud to continue developing. Even though the tech industry is still majority male I have to think there are many more industries (in particular certain horizontals like sales) that are even worse when it comes to sexual harassment.
There's no magic here; either will do.

If it were me, I'd pick up the phone, but I'm old-school.

Something like "Hello, my name is temp9900-- I'm the guy who created XYZ. Do you know it? I've been thinking about the future of the site, and I wonder if you'd have any interest in buying it outright. I have NN subscribers, and generate $XX revenue each month on expenses of $YY, and I currently sink about ZZ hours a month into it. Interested?"
I'm no designer, but the grey background seems pretty dark. Very low contrast.
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And is pretty solvable by setting up an email filter.
I can't get the "Go" button to do anything in Chrome :(
Just signed up, couple thoughts:

- I think it is pretty clear what you do, so that is good

- The left right buttons on the homepage weren't working for me

- after signing up its weird to see some red text "You're 33% of the way there...", it makes me think something went wrong.

- its also a little weird that I have to add my e-mail address again to create my first notification, maybe that should be pre-populated with the address I signed up with to save a step when signing up.

- I got 2 e-mails every time (signup, e-mail verification, notification)

But it looks cool, I will give it a try on some of our pages, nice work.
Either way, it takes an absolute lowlife to be that over the top over something so trivial.
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You said "GnuLix" in the original subject line. Gag. Awful, awful. Lix = licks = round appendages. Linux = Line-ucks = Linus = Torvalds. Don't shorten it please.

As for Stallman- GNU has a branding problem. Sticking it in front of Linux may bring GNU up but it will bring down Linux. GNU should be called Free. Free has better connotations. Free Linux? Well that is just unnecessary. All Linux is free. Only those wishing to have a false sense of security pay support for Linux.
The problem is that your reasoning only works for those capable of producing their own software.

That is entirely the point. One of the stated aims of the GPL is to ensure that everyone is capable of producing software. The GPL attempts to ensure that your software won't ever be redistributed in a form that takes away the user's capability to build on your code.
Perhaps political correctness didn't used to mean that. But for a while now the term has mostly only been used as an ingredient of the defensive protestations of people who get called out for displays of bigotry. Consequently, its meaning has shifted.
Your mom, dad, wife aunt and neighbor wouldn't even know what the hell you are talking about so being on version X has no particular significance to anyone outside of the tech community.
I'm very concerned about Nintendo but only because it was the first console that I grew up with and loved, though my first was an Atari 2600.

They've lost it. Their next-gen console strategy looks like a desperate attempt against Apple even though their immediate threat is MS.

I've always wondered what would happen if Nintendo would become a 3rd party platform developer. I don't think that's very far from the truth today even though their 1st party games are still the benchmark for gaming.
I've dabbled in it. It's neat. In many ways a lot like Javascript but without some of the design errors (I'm sure some will argue that Lua has its own design errors).

For some more comparison I found this on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1022560/subtle-difference...
"quits tech industry"
Quits tech industry because of one troll??? Does this mean she will never hack or never program (for money)?
Interesting. I have seen lots of trolls and falemwars on the internet but I could not quit programming for thousands of trolls. This is the only thing I am good at, this is what I fell in love at 12, this is what I do to earn money to support my family... Also trolls have nothing to do with my own projects and the projects of my employer...
Maybe she meant she will quit tech politics? (Then she will probably enter another kind of politics, because she is seemingly a 'political person'.)
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Not about startups specifically, but still great:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X38PCf7kao
The in-device market app won't see unsupported apps. If you go to market.android.com you can see it, but you will see a note telling you if some, all or none of your registered devices supports it, and an option to install it on one or more of them, so when you do upgrade or get a new device you can push any apps you've bought or installed previously to it.
When you start ban evading, you ARE a problem.

Not that I'm sticking up for those who take the bait, feeding the troll is always bad, but MikeeUSA and his ilk should just stay on /b/ where they belong.
'Otherwise known as the "I want to do X, therefore X should be legal" school of legal thinking.'

You mean like "I want a monopoly, therefore monopolies should be legal. Also, I should have police powers to enforce my monopoly: search people's computers, shut down their internet access, make accusations based on flimsy evidence like IP addresses, and presume guilt rather than innocence."

Like that?

I mean, if society were a roomful of people, and someone stood up and suggested that, would you nod and agree?

I'm not saying copyright isn't a useful tool for society to encourage creation of works, but it does need to be balanced with other things. Not least is the fact that it hinders the creation of derivative works. This argument is even stronger in the realm of patents.
Somebody sends her an email that she doesn't like to her publicly available email address and she decides to quit working in the community? I hate to say this, but attitudes like this will only make the situation worse.

Anybody, anywhere can write an email. You really shouldn't take them to seriously. I am honestly surprised that she let her real email address be publicly available anyway.

It's important for community leaders to stand up for this sort of thing and publicly disown discrimination. But unless she gives them a chance, i.e. unless the community is anti-female, I can't see this as a good move on her part.
Too complex...
That is too bad. It sounds like she was constantly harassed by some crazy troll psycho. Unfortunately leaving tech may not make him stop if he's that dedicated.
iOS or OS X?