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If you look at fortune 500 companies, most are run by tall, old white men over 50. The reality in today's world is that if you're a short black woman (for example), you're up against huge discrimination that runs deep in mainstream society.

I found this article the other day that Female Fortune 500 CEOs were at an "all time high". Female CEOs represent just about 3.6% of Fortune 500 company heads. That's 18, a new record. And it's not a very multicultural bunch: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/26/female-fortune-500-...

The issue is not "crap", it's a very real issue that a lot of people experience every day. Thank-you to Brad Feld for putting the spotlight on this issue into the tech world, at least for a few hours.
Reread the headline. Its symbolic meaning is clear enough—"why most CEOs will never be women"—but its literal meaning is stupid. Of course most women will never become CEO; most men won't, either.
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Anybeat was formally Altly which did intend to become a Facebook alternative. Once Google+ launched they realized that Google+ is positioning themselves as an alternative to Facebook and made a major pivot which included the name change. The new focus is not to be an alternative to Facebook at all. Facebook and Google+ will more than likely remain the place where people go to socialize online with people whom they already know including their personal and business relationships. However, Anybeat's focus is entirely on meeting new people who you do not already know in the physical world. Yes, pseudonyms are supported but not forced and are really only a small aspect of their focus. Other features which I find the most enjoyable but not often mentioned are the Interests Roulette which pairs you up to chat with random people on the site based on similarities. Also, the public square which is a place to have conversations about topics you are interested in with people you have never met. Public square is very much like a forum but having that functionality within more of a social network type environment leads to some really interesting interactions.

Bloggers and tech media love to try and spin Anybeat as a Facebook killer, or alternative because it sounds like such a juicy story and in fact has some truth in the history of the company. However, the vision of Anybeat is much different than Altly and whether people want to acknowledge it or not they are really going after a totally different type of interaction than both Facebook and Google+

For anyone who wants to see something besides the login screen, here is a link I found on Techcrunch for some beta invites http://www.anybeat.com/ia/4e6d1ab62caca06253000024
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To me this just sounds plain wrong. Is this approach contributing to the world we want to live in? I think not. Fuck the "obligation" to maximize revenue - that alone is no justification to crush people and startups by any means necessary. Of course this is a dilemma!

Lots of companies choose not to use all means available to crush competition. Google could kill hundreds of startups with their patents alone.
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No, you couldn't. Did you look at that link? You have to wrap all this OO ceremony around it.

I don't think it's optimal to make someone type

class Cross extends TurtleGraphicsWindow { public void myTurtleCmds() ...

at the start of every program when they don't yet have the background to understand what a single one of those words are for. It instills a habit of doing crazy shit mindlessly to try to satisfy the mysterious computer.
For me, it works such that you go to a crappy site, navigate backwards to the search results and then a link "- Block all crappysite.com results" appears. It also mentions you need to be "signed in to search".
But why do they need to make a video to then make the products? How does a concept video help in product development?

You say that they are "important" but you don't say how or why - you're listing a bunch of stuff MS has done since/alongside the video. But I don't see where the proof is that a video like this was necessary.
I can summarize them by a statement they make "Just get it done."

Sales equivalent is

"Did you get the sale?"
"Did we make our numbers?"

I remember one VP of Sales at a Mac peripheral company that didn't know at the time (1993) what a Syquest drive was when I put it on an expense report.
My point is that there are good tools to learn programming. I think that there are languages in which difficult concepts befome easier to explain. logo being the prime example of such a teaching language.
Under the "Development" tab?... https://github.com/immutant/immutant/
There's so many ways to analyze this and so many possible ulterior motives. It's also unfortunate that their anonymity is under threat, even if they don't release the info they are still in danger.
How are the updates delivered? New OVF?
Also $4995 (or even $4990) is better than $4999 as several large companies audit purchases that are very near the limit.
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The date on all the emails is much higher :)

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Google is in the midst of the largest redesign in its history. There may be more to come. Here is a cool talk about this by Jon Wiley, Lead Designer for Google Search: http://vimeo.com/29965463 He talks about GMail around 11min10s
I taught my 6yo for loops in the first lesson using Scratch, but I think our treatment may have rather less rigorous/complete ...
I find it strange that they're using Cortex-A9 CPUs. I would have expected anyone going for the server market with ARM cores to use Cortex-A15, which has 40 bit addressing with PAE.
the true facebook killer is going to be a "social markup" standard and its many implementations that has the potential to surpass the power the facebook platform gives to the advertiser, not another centralized service. (note how hosting your own social hub elegantly solves any privacy concerns you might have) given the amount of work that goes towards this (not much), I don't think facebook has much to worry about.
I totally agree, except that I tend to use [y] to archive, since it also does the "right thing" from views other than the Inbox (e.g. removing label "Todo" from selected emails when viewing all emails with label "Todo").

I also use [ and ] a lot. From message view, they archive the current message and immediately move to the previous/next message in the current list.
Indeed. I don't live in Mexico, but from what I've read the Zetas are like a rogue cartel among the Mexican drug cartels. They kidnap "civilians", kill policemen, compromise the security of the local population, etc, things that the other cartels apparently frown upon.

See, for instance, the Mata Zetas (Zeta Killers). It's unlikely that Anonymous can play this game.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2011/09/mexico-gov...

(take care if you stumble into videos, they're disgusting even if not explicit)
Does it matter for this purpose if there results are fairly terrible? I'd be surprised if they were so bad that the reporting off the loss of half their traffic overnight didn't at least resemble some real loss of traffic.
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Wouldn't anyone who actually knew much of anything about the cartel situation already know this before the original announcement?
Normally I don't think this link belongs here (after all its Hacker News and not Sociology Today), but since we're talking about genders here's a good article on the negative consequences of feminism: http://www.singularity2050.com/2010/01/the-misandry-bubble.h...
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"Also it's the first place users often look" — err, no, the package file is for computers, the README for users.
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The OVF will be updated infrequently — there is a software package you upload in a management interface that installs the new software and configures your instance with the updates. It's pretty seamless — download a file, upload it, wait a few minutes for install and you've got an updated version of GitHub Enterprise.
Yeah, I looked up the wikipedia page for JBoss and it was just acronym soup.
What other languages have you used?
Im starting to teach an intro cs course n highschool next semester and would love to hear some real experiences on this.

have you looked at: etoys scratch starlogo alice or scheme ?
When I watch this stuff I'm reminded that calling myself an "engineer" is outrageously inaccurate.
or assume away the concern that a super-high-tech economy will leave unemployed people who aren't intellectually sophisticated enough to participate.

Is changing your intellectual sophistication hard? I mean, I learn programming by basically bashing my fingers against the keyboard. The concepts aren't difficult to learn, but it require tons of practice to become competent.
Do you know of a basic introductory course using Scratch so I don't have to ad-hoc it so much? We're supposed to be building a game but I need something, like KhanAcademy, that I can give my primary-aged son space to explore by himself without me hovering over him.
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The insistence on misrepresenting other peoples comments here is simply stunning.
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> Fogbugz/Kiln financially scales way better after 40 users.

I don't agree with how you're using the word scales. It actually scales fine, as a percent of their budget per employee. It's flat.

With GitHub Enterprise it's approximately 250 * (n + n % 20) dollars per year. For companies they're targeting, $250/yr is less than a percent of their total budget per employee (including salary, benefits, workspace, etc). If it saves each employee fifteen minutes a week it's worth it.
And they probably won't bother to trace actual Anonymous folks exposing this information but may end up targeting random people who are into computers, or even heavy social media users.
You are basically choosing your competitors over your investors if you stick to your position. I would rather protect the interests of the people who have taken a risk to help me realize my vision than nurture a future competitor.
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I believe it means it's slow, unreliable, and expensive.

Oh and there will be some certification program to train people in it.
We did not make it as well...www.geokiwi.com
We are in Europe and not incorporated in the US so I presume it is even harder to be selected in that case.
Agreed, it's strange how people continue to support that kind of marketing.
I agree that compact view doesn't solve the problem.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3184606

The problem are non-scrollable regions. What's next, status bar on the page and even more menus?
Given that the parent comment says this is being integrated into Symfony2 (if I read it right), it seems strange to introduce another config format to handle it.

As if a mixture of PHP arrays, YML, annotated comments and XML wasn't quite confusing enough.

Not that I have a problem with JSON itself. It's my serialisation format of choice in PHP as the extra verbosity of its native serialisation seems unnecessary given the lenience of the language.
BTW, that online copy is the 1st edition of the book, for ruby 1.8.6 (or maybe even earlier).

The language is now at 1.9.3, and while things are fundamentally the same there are assorted little differences.

Still, as a free intro to the language it's not bad.

If you want to buy a book I'd suggest The Ruby Programming Language, as well as anything by Gregory Brown or David A. Black.

Greg also produces the Practicing Ruby newsletter which I cannot recommend highly enough.

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Greg does amazing stuff.

See also http://university.rubymendicant.com and http://blog.rubybestpractices.com
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I wonder how this compares to using flocking algorithms? It seems less efficient from what I gather.
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Dropbox lived at getdropbox.com for most of its early history. They didn't announce their Series A round until they could acquire dropbox.com from a domain squatter. [1] I bet it wasn't cheap.

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I'm going to guess that by 'no virtualization ability', you probably mean no hardware acceleration for virtualization. That doesn't mean you can't have OS-level virtualization. In fact, I'm working on a hypervisor for BeagleBoard.

Plus, TrustZone has been hacked in the past to implement virtualization.
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Yep. That is exactly where I remember this from. Thanks for pointing it out.
I ran Debian for years and respect it. The reason I switched to Arch Linux is the complexity of the Debian system coupled with the assumption made by most Debian writers and maintainers that learning great gobs of stuff about Debian is a good use of my time.

What would be ideal is a distro that combines Arch Linux's ethic of keeping small the amount of stuff a guy has to learn to make a change to the system with Debian's loving craftsmanship.

I still have fond memories of how much saner the default configuration of Lynx was on Debian Potato and Woody than on other distros (including Arch Linux) and how well integrated Lynx was with the rest of the system.
Way way back the reason Google succeeded over other SE for me was that they required all terms and that they made sure relevancy by checking that the terms were used in proper context on the page (eg not stuffed, not font-color hidden, etc.).

Now, it seems I can't do a straight search, even quoted text returns results that don't contain the string I'm looking for it's highly frustrating.

It must be working for others but when I need to use Google for anything serious now (rather than a general query) it is a lot harder to get it to return good results at the top of the SERPs.

The worst are the 1st-result-has-none-of-your-keywords type queries. Aagh! At least they used to placate you with "pages pointing to this result use that keyword".
u413 tried (and may still try) to build its community as a piracy hub. The owner also stole content and despite the "cool" interface, the community is largely dead. Just a warning. :(
I disliked getting expert exchange In my list of search results. But that doesn't change your main thesis that this is too much power for one company.
GitHub's not sad, and it's good they aren't. If you want to help your customers and your own business, it's best not to be too cozy with potential partners that may wind up being competitors. They've already been through this with LightHouse, and GitHub and their customers are better for it.
Interesting schedule. My school's AP Comp Sci A class (also teaches Java) is designed for people who are completely new to programming, but we are introduced to loops fairly early. After first being introduced to the different variable types, mathematical expressions, and how to read user input, the students jump directly into boolean, if, switch, and then the for/while/do-while loops.
Not to exclude racism from the picture, but look at the requirements profferred for CEO: experience in the field, wisdom and experience in a management position. Given this it makes sense that many CEOs would be white males in their 50s. They have experience in the field. They should have gotten wise (though, that's anybody's guess). They would have had management experience during their 30s and 40s. So the question is how many, as you said, short black women were looking to be CEOs of a F500 company 30 years ago when they were in their 20s? Probably not that many. Given that there are only a tiny number of F500 CEO positions (500 or so), that small initial population is competing with a large pool of white men, men in general and taller, non black women.

It will be interesting to look at CEO ratios in 20-30 years. That's about the time you'll start seeing women (more in the work force now then every, especially better educated) start to have the paper credentials to fill those roles.
"Let’s face it: unless there’s beer involved, men don’t have many instincts at all."

And this is where I closed the page and moved on.
Prototypal inheritance isn't inherently more complicated than what we're used to. Familiarity is not the same as simplicity.

In fact, it may be what holds us back from genuinely better paradigms.
Well I think you're right...but this "culturism" that you talk about has something to do with the fact that Indians from India are not inherently very good at managing people or software projects.

It's not racism if it's true!
Interesting, how does it compare to PEAR?
I wish the same were available for python. I know there's pip/virtualenv, but they just don't come close to node's npm or ruby's bundler.
You're a misogynist. From your link, you oppose female contraception, no fault divorce, and female economic freedom. To pick but one point from your pseudo history: "There was never any organized male opposition to women entering the workforce". Did you miss the history of the women's lib movement? Marriage bars? Was the equal pay act of 1963 passed unanimously? Did women have equal access to education? etc etc etc

Anyway, you won't change your mind and there's really no point in debating stupid people, but that doesn't mean I have to be polite to jackasses.
It's so easy to integrate a clojure / scala app with Glassfish, JBossAS etc anyway, what use is this?
The reason hardware support for virtualization is necessary on x86 is only because of some design decisions dating back to the 80286.
Well sure. I actually wasn't trying to be harsh OR sarcastic. It's not pop psychology (I think it goes back to Freud) that in some sense there are no mistakes. We all make errors and I was just saying that two errors about the same issue might be a hint that one has "issues" about the, er, issue or that some self-sabotage in important matters might surface under stress. You're the only one can answer that. I admire your courage in sharing your experience with all these crack programmers.
ooh harsh

thimmy is right though gleitz, he is wayyyy better than you
Pete mentions both of those, and another (and gives me a nice shout-out) in the readme:

There are some open source and commerical stacked implementations out there, yet none of them were flexible enough to fit my needs. Special thanks to Cocoacontrols for this article[1].

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It's a product distribution strategy that fills a need in the enterprise marketplace. I wouldn't marginalize OVF as a "nominal feature" or the value of offering a secure, localized version for clients.
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Seems like they are talking about clustering, load-balancing, etc.
I hesitated to post this, but I'd like to think of HN as a community, so...

I had a bad interaction w/ tellapart; Mark (founder) and Amy (head of hr or something like that) are somewhere between flakes and liars. I personally don't work with dishonest people and would suggest your time can be spent better elsewhere. If anyone has questions feel free to email me.
Looks cool. But if you want this to be anything more than just a toy, you really need to focus on the extensibility factor. It'd be great if you could inherit from some core load balancer object and add in your custom behavior with just a few lines.
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You're right to point that out. I abused the term. The real thing I think ggplot and protovis/d3 share, and the fundamental thing that makes them powerful and interesting, is the declarative nature of those DSLs. GoG is quite a bit more on top of declarative syntax, but, while I really enjoy Hadley's work, I don't think it's the end all be all in declarative graphing DSLs.