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>Yeah, that is the point I never really understood. If you get people to fill up their own gas, that is one thing since it makes sense from a business perspective.

More importantly, a professional can't fill the tank any faster than I can, and on modern cars, it's less important to check the oil every fill-up. (Still a good idea, but it's not as important as it used to be.) So from my perspective, why should I pay extra to have someone else do the task, no matter what the wage differential?

So yeah, I think self-service gas stations make sense, and self-service groceries make more sense than making people wait in line for too few checkers (though, I think if you have sufficient checkers, professional checkers make more sense. A professional is a /lot/ faster at that job than I am)

Yeah, though 'support staff' I think, is pretty important, and it's one of the major reasons why I like having my own company rather than working for someone else. Nobody has support staff for SysAdmins, and yeah, while I recognize the need for bureaucracy and tight bookkeeping, I don't enjoy dealing with those things and I'm not very good at it. It's really nice to hand a wad of receipts to someone else and say "yeah, this was for the conference last week" and have them handle the paperwork.
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From the industrial manufacturing era, I guess.
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Yes, but it's in some abstract, distant part of the world that hasn't yet been transformed by MS technology. So this company is trying to do the right thing and help them from afar, in the end goal of spreading Utopia, connectivity, and screen technology.
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Very true for me. Computers were a tool to build programs. Then I spent time researching programming languages and making frameworks (in summary: building abstractions). Now I'm back to building non-abstract things again. I wonder if it's going to repeat itself or if it'll stay this way.
Have you seen much pressure for data driven science to reproduce code+data alongside the pdf?
I used xubuntu some time ago when I was on an underpowered netbook, and it was pretty okay. I'll try it again; thanks for the tip.
A lot of the arguments I hear about why making jokes of women in computer fields is wrong is that these jokes make women (and some men) uncomfortable which is irreproachably wrong.

I couldn't respond to the thread directly on google because I was uncomfortable expressing any sympathy for Adam. I felt people I know would judge me in a negative light if they saw it in their feed. I feel here, the thin layer of anonymity/indirection is enough to say this small tidbit.

I don't think Adam woke up that morning, or any morning in fact, and thought to himself that he wants to hurt or harm anyone, physically or emotionally. I think Adam is a good person as are the vastly overwhelming majority of the human population.

I feel the continuation of being hostile towards him by some posters (including Shifra despite accepting the apology) after he apologized is unwarranted and furthermore, unproductive. Adam ate a huge piece of humble pie by posting that, regardless of whether the joke was meant in good faith or not and for others to come back with more negativity just encourages others that make a similar mistake in the future to not acknowledge it as such. People that want to participate in a reasonable debate focused on results can have their voices oppressed by a feeling of discomfort.

I'm not sure if I have anything of real value to add to the women in IT issue (and I'm sure most people that do also doubt the value of their own ideas), but I can say I am one person who is dissuaded of trying to help the issue because I don't want to offend people or alienate them and make them uncomfortable.
Related: http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2006/03/03/the-new-civil-disobedi.... (Video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6g8pJTsoBQ)
MacPorts is a pretty good packaging system, though as its name imply more like ports than aptitude. Since it's hosted on Mac OS Forge, you could say it's the "official" Apple packaging system.

As far as I am concerned it fits the bill, I rarely encounter anything broken (except during the Leopard / Snow Leopard transition that was quite a nightmare).

That said having to compile everything sometimes is annoying...
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Isn't a bit distasteful to use the occasion of someone's death to sell books?
Obviously it's implied that the repl be implemented in the same language as the rest of the codebase. So adding one to a project written in C++ would be a waste of time.
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There's more and more pressure for that kind of thing, but it's still early days in most fields. For an example of a forward-thinking policy, consider the Wellcome Trust: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/About-us/Policy/Policy-and-positio...
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People in a society have to take care of each other. Otherwise, why have a society at all? Anyway I'm libertarian, but I'm pro-private welfare. (I'm against government welfare.)
That's because it's illegal to pump your own gas, in those states.
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I feel the continuation of being hostile towards him by some posters (including Shifra despite accepting the apology) after he apologized is unwarranted and furthermore, unproductive.

I went through 22 months of withdrawal from medication fairly publicly while a member of an email list. I was incapable of keeping both feet out of my mouth and it seemed to not matter how hard I tried, things just came out all wrong. I wrote many heart-felt, sincere apologies. I had no agenda in terms of my public reputation or whatever. My only intent was to take genuine responsibility for my actions in spite of the burden I was living with and to try to take away whatever hurt I had done.

The result? I became the list scapegoat and if some asshole attacked me out of the blue for no apparent reason on some flimsy excuse, the entire list went "there she goes again!" It's been, oh, maybe six or eight years since then. Some of those folks have never forgiven me. I no longer feel responsible for their on-going hostility. They have a personal issue.

I'm a lot less apologetic than I used to be. Someone once said (in essence) that real justice must mean justice for both sides.
If it were, it doesn't take a bodybuilder to kill or hurt someone with an axe or a knife.

Yes, women can (and do) pick up equalizers at times to make up for the typical physical differences in prowess between the sexes. This is part of why (last time I checked such statistics), on average, women who defend themselves with lethal force (usually premeditated and with a weapon) against an abusive husband do more jail time than men who finally beat their wives to death ("heat of the moment", with their bare hands) after years of abusing them.

I think electromagnetic makes some good points. That doesn't justify a woman slapping a man but a) it does put it in a different light and b) there are many forms of abuse, so just focusing on who got slapped hardly tells the whole picture. I will note that I read somewhere (probably many years ago) that when men were asked what they most feared from a woman, the consensus was "being laughed at". When women were asked what they most feared from men, they listed "being murdered".
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Some might even call it attention whoring.
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You were probably modded down because your comment was totally tangential to the discussion, not because they disagree with you.
I used to be skeptical of modern artists. I like to see a conventional painting from the artist. Then, I'll pay attention to the modern stuff. Usually, they really can paint normally. Actually, I still ignore the modern stuff.

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Oh, this makes sense -- linux for a toaster.

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/10/30/006256/25-pc-protot...
My girlfriend, who is a landscape architect, has a subscription to Interlocking Concrete Pavement magazine (http://www.icpi.org/node/745). On average, I probably spend twice as much time reading it as she does. Most recently, there was an article that described different parking lot geometries designed to prevent rainwater that lands on the parking lot from making it out of the parking lot, carrying lots of toxic crap with it. I also learned recently about horseshoe swales, which collect runoff from things like tennis courts.

I've previously read issues of Appliance Design and American Laundry Digest and found similarly interesting stuff.

[Edit: In trying to find a diagram of a horseshoe swale, I discovered that there exists a social network for landscape architects: http://land8lounge.com/ Looking at the source, I think it's a Ning site branded to look independent (or at least there are a bunch of ning.com assets linked).]
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You would love "Design News"
Agreed. In my projects that have scaled, we've built a Sinatra API for internal use, and had a front-end (Rails, now moving to Backbone.js) query that API.
Another way to frame this point -- that's kind of like asking a novelist what they do, and having them answer "I type out sentences, in English".

No, even if they started with "I'm a full-time writer", they'd follow up with "well, I've had two novels published -- I guess you'd categorize it as literary fiction? -- and I'm finishing up the draft of a third."

If you are a "programmer", what does that mean? Do you do anything of value? To whom? Do you know? Or do you program whatever you're told to program (inasmuch as you can figure it out, and it's their problem if the specs were bad) because that's how you earn your paycheck?

If you're in the latter category, and that's the only thing you grasp about the work you do, that's a pretty big limiter on your future.
D'oh, I don't understand how I missed that one.
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I don't see how this will backfire. He seems to live a right life. No one in the government cares about whatever petty crimes he may commit.

Federal law enforcement only cares about petty crimes when they can lead to stopping major crimes. If they think you have information they want, they'll hold the maximum penalty for anything you do over your head until they get it. But they have no reason to harass someone who isn't involved in major criminal or subversive activity.

Being on a watch list sucks and it's going to cause this guy inconvenience for life, for whatever he does. But federal agents tend to be intelligent and driven people. They aren't any more likely to waste time harassing a stranger than you are.
Adam would have just been an idiot had he made a mistake. He's a fucking idiot because he self-admittedly remade the mistake. IE he had the learning opportunity he said he had to change the slides name, but did so repeating the same insult.

You had a learning opportunity, and you self-admittedly learnt. You didn't then go in front of a hundred-fold bigger crowd and repeat the same mistake.

Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results.

I've been an idiot, many many times. I don't repeat mistakes on a much grander scale expecting a better result. I don't try putting out a candle with my fingers and burn myself and then try to snuff out my gas stove with my hand. There's a logical progression that if a small scale attempt fails, just abandon it.

What I'm wondering is whats wrong with this guys brain that he got burned in his small scale and then thought "I know, this will surely go down great in a convention hall!"
Maybe there was something wrong with my 1.9.2, but when working with rails projects (rake, rails console etc), this feels a few orders of magnitude faster.
Yeah! I plan on to start learning Ruby.
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Put your college professor mindset on, because you're going to need it.

For books about war, famine, disease, and horrible death, I find his books incredibly dry.
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ruby-build was already updated to support 1.9.3-p0, just clone the latest: https://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build
Exact same path for me.

Now I'm hyper-pragmatic and feel like I've plateaued somewhat as a developer - I'm producing systems that work well and fulfill clients' needs but I'm finding building them isn't the exciting challenge it once was.

Where now?
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I think the fact Microsoft considers one of its current models to be futuristic enough to figure in that video relevant to the discussion. They think people will use keyboards in the future and they'll be small, wireless and curved.
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Thanks for the suggestion.

Strangely, that's approximately my field of expertise. I got Design News for a few years, but it was less interesting because I was already familiar with most of the tech. Contrast that with ICP Magazine: they have pictures of machines that make racks of bricks shaped with interlocking profiles.
I've never been so excited for an unstable release. 1.9.2's require was painfully slow without the patch.

edit: by "unstable", I mean a dot.uneven number.
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Construct 2 is a tool that lets you make HTML5 games without a single line of programming. We had 42 competition entries which was far more than we expected!
Here's a map, in case it's useful to anyone else:
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If this prompts more people to discover Ritchie's work then I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing.
A 'point release' might be the phrase you are looking for.
It's not only C/C++ but also books about vim, git, linux kernel, shells, etc.
Especially that the offer does not seem particularly good since they are only ebooks and seem overpriced in the first place. The physical books are already cheaper on Amazon and kindle versions cheaper still.

Edit: Just had a thought that any profit on these sales should really go to a charity or foundation.
Ask HN: best way to get $10k in 2mths?
Throwaway acct for obvious reasons; been on HN for a while now.

Been trudging along on a startup for a few mths, (still in development). Long story short; got into startup chile but from all accounts, I'll need 10k to fully access the 40k allowance (because it is given as reimbursement after the fact). Prob is, I'm dead broke with no other job or any savings left. I've been trying to think of the most efficient way to raise $$ but my mind keeps freezing with panic. I've tried finding short term contracts unsuccessfully. All I've come up with is working at retail stores for the holidays which wouldn't make enough. I'm of business background and although I can do basic web dev for my startup, (+worked in non-web IT firm before) I'm not a developer.

I'd appreciate any suggestions.
That's great!

An important thing to keep in mind is Customer Development and Lean Startup both are very cautious about directly just asking your customers what they want. It's more about validating the problem and then getting the minimal solution in front of them somehow. Hell paper prototyping, RAD... w/e you have to do.

Not saying "You're Doing It Wrong" just throwing an idea out there since I'm not sure exactly where you are mentally with all this. :)
Don't use "FUD" as a synonym for "I'm too lazy." I suppose the author shouldn't use any words you don't understand either?

Highlight the author's names, right click, select "Search with Google", pick any of a number of hits. The second hit for me is the referenced PhD work.
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I liked the quote on music. Sheet music is good, but as any video can tell you, you can't just play it and expect it to sound good...

"Beginning musicians play by ear, to the extent that they can play at all. Then they learn to read music. Eventually, maybe years later, they realize that music really is about what you hear and not what you see."
Ask HN: How to Be an Entrepreneur in the US, if you aren't American
At the moment, I am a student at University in America? I am sure that there are people here who are not American who are entrepreneurs in America? How do you go about doing it, and what are the barriers that you faced?
The thing that facebook has taught me with a vengeance is that the definition of "quality content" is extremely subjective and personal. With my close friends, we often have a lot of overlap. But once I'm out of that small circle (into the larger & more intellectually diverse group of "everyone who has ever friended me for whatever reason"), there are tons of things people post that get lots of likes from their own circles of friends that I find trivial/boring/irrelevant, misguided/false, or even ideologically repugnant.

I'm not sure what kinds of content people are going to be posting as thots -- I'm curious about that (hopefully you'll post some data, like the okcupid data analyses at some point?), but I suspect that's going to be tricky to navigate.

Something like HN with a technical focus is safer ground -- but if people are making political "jokes" etc. in their thots (or thotting humor that treads the line of offensive), you could have a decent percentage of content that resonates greatly with some folks and really irritates others.
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Entirely unrelated and irrelephant.
So the system is as "weak as its strongest link".

Hmm.
My impression is that programmers who work in the gaming industry programmer in the US accept poor work conditions because they love games, they love writing games, they feel there's a certain "glamour" to it, and also (sort of recursively) because of peer pressure. Similar to aspiring Hollywood actors and film makers. So the employers take full advantage of that. But it's really the programmers' choice. I'm quite sure anyone working on writing games (as opposed to actors) could get a job with better conditions in a MegaCorp very easily, if only they could bring themselves to write "boring" apps in a corporate environment. And I suppose after a certain age, getting married and having kids, many game programmers will eventually do that anyway.

Here in Japan the problem is deeper. It's not limited to a subset of IT/software companies, so there's not much choice. The difference between working in a big company and in a so-called "black company" is not that big. It's mostly perceived prestige and stability, not so much actual work conditions like hours, pay and career path.

To make things worse, this is a country where social change happens very slowly. Technological novelties are readily embraced, but companies would rather slowly sink than give equal opportunities to women or foreigners or otherwise change their modus operandi. Some examples:

* companies expect hand-written resumes. You're a student applying to 10 companies? Write 10 resumes by hand. Oh, and include a picture.

* if you're a woman, things you should expect to be asked in a job interview: "Are you planning to get married? Are you planning to have kids? If so, are you leaving the company?"

* are you 30 years old and already changed jobs twice? Job hopper.

* are you over 35 and want to change jobs? Too old.
The protestors could do worse, although not for the reason Winer suggests: many of the jobs that they thought they were going to have upon graduation have been eaten by technology.

I am ambivalent on the topic.
I've actually thought about this a bit, and I think that a really interesting design for a launch gun would be to encase the payload in a cover composed of diamagnetic material and then pump liquid nitrogen through channels made inside the material. The material would become perfectly diamagnetic and it will repel all fields, so you can easily levitate it and use it's tendency to go from a stronger to a weaker field to accelerate it.

I don't know for sure, but I think that the main advantage of doing something like this versus just putting a magnet over there, would be the fact that an accelerating magnet in such an assembly would generate huge amounts of back-emf and you would have to a) sink that and b) compensate for that.

However I don't know much about what other people's designs are, but I would like to change that. Do you know any resource where I can learn more from the scratch on how to build something like this?

Also where can I read more in detail about launch loops, laser launching, and space elevators?
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searchyt is a ThriftDB-based filtered search app for HN. This is the first iteration. Its a
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There are still a bunch of features I'm working on. Stay tuned ...
There is simplicity on the other side of complexity. Not sure who said that, but that is another way I've heard this idea expressed.