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You're quite right, I'm not his audience. But here's the thing, I don't believe him. It's clear to me he loves a big audience (and the attention that goes with it). He's arrogant and also rubs me as a narcissist. I feel like he's just not willing to say he made a mistake, or admit that there were better ways to make his point. I don't believe for one second he actually feels that strongly about reaching a smaller more intellectually aligned group of people. I believe he doesn't want to admit that someone else might be right.
Car body paint shops could offer it for the darkest matte black on the block.

This might not be such a good idea when you consider that "black cars are 47 per cent more likely to be involved in road accidents".

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/7845366/Black-cars-...
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While I didn't really connect with his use of swear words on some of his slides (Like "Fuck ruby is so fast I love it so much"), I think the fact that everyone is talking about him and his presentations that he has succeeded in some weird way I doubt he expected.
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I talked to Fred about this after you pointed out, but there's basically no way that shorter url could have hijacked Fred's site. Way back in the mists of time we had things called "302 hijacks" but I haven't seen any attempts like that succeed in years.
I strongly disagree with the notion that swearing is a very strong tool for communication. In the conversations I'm a part of the in the real world I hear profanity used as a completely meaningless filler word.

In my opinion, in today's popular culture profanity doesn't hold much weight at all as an effective tool for communication. While profanity is often used by people who are communicating something passionate and emotional, it is used just as often in a completely flippant and emotionally detached manner.

For people who are offended by profanity it may evoke a negative emotional response but I find for people who are comfortable with profanity, it carries very little weight or meaning except for the fact that the speaker couldn't be bothered to come up with a more meaningful word to use.

I will acknowledge that because most of society is so lazy in their use of language, there is a strong relationship between a person who is communicating passionately and the frequency of profanity usage. This is why movie writers so often lace passages of emotionally intense dialog with profanity because it reflects what we hear in the real world. I however find that relationship to be one directional. The use of a profanity doesn't imply any kind of emotion in of itself because of how prevalent flippant usage of profanity is.

I'm aware that is a personal perspective and I may not be in the majority with these views.
Most developers learned in school to program, i.e. writing algorithms. Most development in the "business" world is not that, it is basically managing and transforming data. Something that RDBMSes and SQL is very good at.

The result is that many developers will do selection and sorting algorithmically (taking the bugs and LOC that entails), instead of using declarative SQL.

I have worked at places were the database is just seen as something in the periphery, that you just have to deal with since Oracle is a requirement from customers. Its sick really when you think about it.

Im disappointed by many of the comments here that basically is "SQL sucks because I don't understand it".
OK - I just want to know what blogging engine this guy is using? The html on that blog is very clean indeed.
I do see "class" level permissions, as I mentioned in my previous post, but nothing suggesting that finer grain control exists. I do see that you can store data on the authenticated user, which is a good start.

And if better security is something that's in the works, that's great. I'm not looking to give you guys a bad name. I just saw this being talked about in the startups I work around, and felt as if some of the less experienced developers were not considering what implications using a service like this might have. It's convenient, I'll give you that -- but instead of facilitating good security through its APIs, it obscures the need for it altogether. And from what I can see, it would be difficult for you guys to encourage good practice without being heavy handed.

Let's just hope your users are smart about how they use your product, because I'd hate to see what effect a few breaches might have.
The way I look at it is that if he's not swearing AT you, then you shouldn't be offended. He doesn't go up there and say "dear audience, fuck you".
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Interesting, I nearly gave up around that point. I think they tried to make the user experience a good one, but in the end it just looked confusing, and had my eyes scanning several times to try to figure out what was going on.
I think most people don't really care who registers their domain for them. They just use the first one that comes to their mind.
.. fixes for OS updates? Comparability with newer drivers?
Neither is especially useful in my experience. The value proposition is pretty much entirely limited to videochat, which is probably why both cameras on the iPad 2 suck so much for still photography. However, videochat still isn't all that common.
This is neat, although reading it in pg's voice in real time is kind of weird. Especially since the sentence structure and tropes are so distinctive.
>I can't imagine how you could present those slides in anything other than a perverted manner.

Off the top of my head:

* Feign outrage, deliver the talk as if you are furious at apple for including such filth. "WHAT IF MY CHILDREN WERE TO HAPPEN UPON THIS API?!?" and so on.

* Feign acute embarrassment, as if one has been forced to deliver a talk about programming but cannot concentrate because of the distress these perfectly normal method names cause to your repressed puritan 1950s mind. Mumble, sweat, stammer, dart your eyes around but never actually say anything bad.

* Deliver the talk deadpan, but become increasingly upset at the audience's inevitable laughter at the bad words. Admonish them loudly for being so low-minded. When you deliver the last and crudest method name, with suitably overloaded timing, throw your notes to the ground and storm off the stage during the laughter.
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No, I'm equating a conference session, likely one of several running at the time, described in the title itself as involving "dirty words", to a class on sexual behavior.

If you go to a session that says it involves dirty words, you really shouldn't be surprised or offended when it involves dirty words, or at least attempts at saucy double entendres.

Admittedly, one might think "dirty words" wasn't meant so literally - perhaps it meant "words that describe things you shouldn't do, like 'over-release'". That ought to have been made clear in the conference materials.
You could make the exact same argument over any word in any language. People have emotional responses to words and images based on their life experiences. Some are good, some are bad. Am I not going to use the word "staircase" in my presentation because someone in the audience might have fallen down one at some point in their life?

Give me a break.
Let me get this straight. The father made an account for his daughter, but lied about her birthday and broke the ToS?
Unless you register offense when people use unimaginative vocabulary in their presentations in the general case, then I do not believe that this is really your primary concern with so called 'profanity'
Google seems to have done pretty much the same thing with one of my accounts. It started a couple weeks ago when I needed a gmail account to test a mail server bug. When I created the gmail account they changed my 'primary' address to the new gmail address.

Then in the last couple of days, they decided that my secondary email address was now part of a Google apps account because it was associated with a Postini mail filtering account. They removed the secondary email from my account and created a new account for it using the same password.

Now I'm stuck with two different email addresses for logging into various Google services.
Backing up your e-mail regularly is a good idea, but not really relevant to this discussion, is it?
Zach dealt with this, specifically, in his blog post:

I don’t view it this way. I’m less concerned about my overall reach than I am with connecting with my audience. Put another way: I’m content with losing a handful of people if that means I connect much stronger with everyone else.
Static vs. dynamic is orthogonal to IPv6. I would expect that "residential" service will continue to use dynamic addresses for the foreseeable future.
I still used Grooveshark when you guys moved from Flash to HTML5, despite it being a less enjoyable experience. But, when the AIR app became just a wrapper for the HTML5 site, I cancelled my subscription.

It seems like a lot of work went into switching, considering the functionality is still the same as the Flash version. Did any good come out of switching to HTML5?
If only the author had some way of knowing she might be offended. Then this whole incident might have been avoided!

Oh wait, never mind: "I sat down to listen to a talk that I could tell by the title of the talk, was going to be inappropriate. I thought to myself, I’m at a respectful Mac conference... I’m sure it will be ok...The speaker prefaced his talk by basically stating there was a little substance, but that most of the topics were being presented simply because of the sexual or otherwise inappropriate jokes that could be formed from the topics..."

The author is being quite inconsistent here. On the one hand, she thought she was at a "respectful Mac conference". On the other hand:

...this experience and other similar encounters I have had in the last three years as a Mac developer...

So even though she's previously been exposed to dirty jokes before at mac events, she still thinks that "I’m at a respectful Mac conference...I’m sure it will be ok."
Is it ok if I hate few lectures in Uni?
Well, I hate one lecture. Don't like much one more. So, basically, I enjoy only 4 lectures from 6 (because that's how many different lectures I have). So, is it normal? It's first year and I am thinking, if I love Computer Science (especially programming, I love it), shouldn't I love everything about it? What do you think?
This material reminds me of asbestos in many ways. Would there be any health problems with repeated exposure to billions of tiny fibres like this?
Almost any form of rhetoric can be used well or badly. For a writer's take on the subject, have a look at Robert Graves's essay "Lars Porsena, Or the Future of Swearing".
I'm quite aware what the culture is like. Frankly, I don't care, I thought the original post was funny, and I said so. It's not that big of a deal if I get downvoted, but honestly, don't you think this type of downvoting is a sign people just might be taking things a bit too seriously?

After all: the original post was a site that made progressively more ridiculous names for Java classes. I could argue that post adds nothing to the discussion in the first place (other than being amusing).
It's not necessarily being dismissive, it's just going to be uncomfortable for some of the people in the audience. Let's assume the audience is mostly heterosexual males. So a women or homosexual male would be a minority. A woman or homosexual male may not want to be part of a discussion that involves sex when around a group of heterosexual men they do not know. They're not offended by the jokes, it's just that there is now an implied topic that they don't want to discuss with these people.
One code stream for obsolete windows a different one for new windows, another for iPhone/OSX, another for Android......
Might try http://techcofounder.com
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We're trying to avoid having pages and pages of such comments, which can drown out real discussion. It's a signal-to-noise issue.
Also, 750 jobs lost. Isnt that a lot? That is sadder than the loss of a plug-in. Adobe seem to lay people off quite frequently, or is it my selective recall?
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It depends on your definition. Define Heroku as web servers in the cloud. Then sure nothing alike. Define Heroku more generally as Web back end in the cloud. Then define parse as mobile back end in the cloud. They now share "back end in the cloud" and differ on what back end they provide with some overlap.
Basically, yes.

Someone will probably come along and hem and haw about the various competing sound APIs that everyone is working on right now. Then someone will say that Flash can do crazy 3D games, but Canvas/JS can't. Then someone will say that WebGL is coming along nicely. But not on every browser, and not with any consistency. And so on and so forth.

Switching to the Canvas/JS stack from AS3 and the latest Flash Player APIs is honestly like stepping into a timewarp to the year 2000 when Actionscript 1 was just coming into its own.
The question that is left for me is What about the work?
> Guadagno & Cialdini research (2002) showed that men seem more responsive to email because it bypasses their competitive tendencies. Women, however, may respond better in face-to-face encounters because they are more ‘relationship-minded’

Yawn. Maybe we just don't want to deal with salespeople but instead judge the product on our own without being harassed. How is that supposed to be competitive?

Oh, I forgot, the self-fulfilling world of pop psychology, brought to you by eternal twin slogans "It's true if you think it's true" and "You can convert any social belief into a universal truth by citing agenda-driven studies". The greatest Jedi mind trick is convincing people that your Jedi mind trick actually works.
Will keep all the useless staff

What do you do to keep the good ones that could get a job that pays $11K/year more and so in 5 years they would have $55K ?
The simple answer is that people don't scale. At least, that's what I've heard them say.

I've seen loops like this before, where the process to report that their process is broken is broken. And you're right, it's hell.

I'd double check just to make sure there's no mistake on your end, but yeah, unless you can find one of the Googlers who reads HN, you're stuck in limbo.
(The first part of your comment I have responded to above)

I think that a lot what you are describing is heavily dependent upon the culture of the participants. Certainly in my culture "total disregard for even the most basic of social forums." would be a gross exaggeration and the rest of your comment would likely be perceived as far more insulting than the casual non-aggressive use of 'profanity'.
I think the thing that you're not getting is that it doesn't show emotion. It might, to you, but it's not inherently emotional.

This is a lesson that i keep learning over and over again in life through my various amateur creative endeavors (music, writing, art etc)...just because you feel an emotion when you're creating something, doesn't mean that that emotion is somehow magically conveyed. This is cringingly obvious whenever i read old writing or listen to old music...i remember the emotions i felt at the time but, often, none of it comes across with fresh eyes.

If you want to convey an emotion, you'll have to figure out a method to creatively help people adopt a frame of mind, which then allows them to be receptive to your subsequent message. Cursing out of the blue isn't enough to do that. It's jarring and cringey, and you (or him) will look back on it in 5 years and realise that.

It doesn't/shouldn't take away from the main content of a presentation though.
"I wouldn’t have nearly as many of them if I played it safe. I enjoy keeping an edge, and they respect that. "

This is my problem with the "Swearing is a good tool" argument. Too often, and I'm not saying it's necessarily the case with Zach, people equate cussing with being edgy or controversial. But cussing is a shortcut; it takes the easy way to "edginess" because it takes advantage of how we've been raised to not swear in mixed company.

So, to some people, this otherwise bland statement qualifies as edgy: "Javascript is fucking awesome and fuck you if you don't think so."

I think a good rule of thumb is, if your point is uninteresting without the use of a cuss word, then don't use it. Or come up with a better point.

If your phrasing is reliant on the cuss word, as in, "[insert company name] can go fuck themselves", then keep it. But only if your evidence and support is just as strong as that statement.
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But if it absorbs IR and irradiates a considerable amount of heat at the same time, wouldn't it be considered a lousy, lousy IR absorbent?
> its up to those of us that do have a lot of privilege to listen, take a step back, and think about that person's experience and examine our role in that community.

After stepping back and thinking about it, the author's stance about the iOS community seems to allow me, as an iPhone developer, only two options:

1) I am, explicitly or implicitly, guilty of some form of discrimination or inappropriate behaviour, or

2) I am not actually part of the iOS community.
You can replace it with descriptive words:

"This piece of software is as useful as wings on Shamu"

"This piece of software makes me want to skewer needles up my thumbs for a relaxing break."

etc. There is value in shock. The problem with profanity is that it it only shocks whoever is not used to reading it (and in public writing it's hard to tell who is and who is not).
I've been on the receiving end of this. Though maybe a different group. The attacker was redirecting users to my pages with their ads. All complaints were then directed to us. It's not a fun place to bein having to explain to a bunch of angry people that yes it's your site but it's not really your site.
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so "fucking" and "staircase" are the same for you? If I've a female boss, I wouldn't drop F words or other sexual profanity words in front of her in work place unless I know she doesn't mind. And I can't just make assumptions for that. I'm just saying in some social environment and audience, people should think twice about dropping profanity words.
I don't necessarily disagree with you in the grand scheme of things. It's just somewhat hypocritical, in my opinion, to admonish someone for saying "lol" in response to, well, let's face it: a completely ridiculous post.

But fair enough. There are plenty of communities online that I am active in that have their own inconsistencies in how they police themselves (whether through moderation or downvoting). I'm not going to take it too personally.
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This is correct. More specifically, Comcast will be using 6-to-4. If you're wondering if your router is compatible, Wikipedia does maintain a reasonably up-to-date list of known compatible routers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_IPv6_support_in_r...

The weak link of Comcast for a while was their lack of not providing IPv4 forwarders on IPv6 DNS servers. Many public DNS servers (including Google DNS) are also in the same boat.

On a somewhat unrelated hardware note, Comcast actually supports IPv6 on the Motorola Surfboard 6121, contrary to what their compatibility list suggests. The 6121 is simply a revision of the 6120, and typically they provision 6121s as a 6120 with 6120 firmware.
I'd understand this post if it were just a cry for more professionalism, which is welcomed, but how can sexual innuendo be construed to slight women in particular? Because the speaker mentioned breasts? Is this the '50s?
You can assume shared knowledge and experience. Everyone's operating from the same baseline.
Image what "This piece of software is fucking useless" would sound like if it was read out by Stephen Hawking's speech yoke, 'fuck' doesn't emphasize anything, the inflections and tone of your voice do. A charismatic person could convey far more emotion by dramatically saying "This piece of software...it's useless! It's...useless!!" than a dull person who says 'fuck' with a monotone voice would.

It adds nothing.
That's a good way to describe our goals with Parse security - to "encourage good practice without being heavy handed". We are always looking for ways to make Parse easier, including security, so we definitely won't stop with what we have now. If you have specific suggestions feel free to drop me an email.
Those seem like stretches. I really can't see the slides fitting with feigned outrage considering the very first joke is "You said 'member'." and, a bit later, "autorelease — Enjoy while you can."

Feigning embarrassment is possible but extremely unlikely, given every "dirty word" has a comment at the end of its section emphasizing the joke.

I appreciate your comments, though. It's always good to have someone representing the other side in a reasonable manner.
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I might go the jailbreak route if it enables me to do that.
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Maybe devs will start to realize it is less/not about them and all about their target audience/user
It's not an admonishment. It doesn't mean people think you're a bad person. It just means that if that's all you have to say, they'd rather you said nothing.
I'll still be savoring the Gophers sweep over the Badgers... :)
"I’m content with losing a handful of people if that means I connect much stronger with everyone else." - definitely the main takeaway from this. I'd rather have half my audience write me off for swearing than have the entire audience not care about what I had to say.
This is really sad, and I hope that they ultimately regain control of it.

However... in my mind, it raises some serious questions about Russia's ability to safely ferry US astronauts into space over the next few years.
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It's illegal in some places to collect rainwater. I'm sure they'll ban any such methods too.
Sure, but how do you know if you've connected much stronger with everyone else? I've never left a talk thinking "I really wish that guy swore more." And I personally swear all time. But I abstain from it during presentations because at best it's a cheap technique to get something of a rise from the audience, IME.
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Sounds reasonable. But there's also people that are skilled but dislike change. They will be rewarded and will feel confirmed in their belief ("it will be rewarded to stay on board") this way.
This has been proven to be one of the things that helps grease the slide for a prospect to become a customer. One of the key things a salesperson does is to get the prospect to get accustom to a "series of yesses." Even the smallest yes, such as

Salesperson: "Nice weather today, isn't it?"
Betty, unsuspecting: "Ah, yes..."

The thinking being that since the final sale will require one big yes, building up a series of small yesses gets the prospect in the habit (albeit subconsciously) of agreeing with the salesperson.
Wow, thank you for the suggestion! I'll definitely be trying it. I can survive with webapp Twitter until my next upgrade (or even next year for the new iPhone if it's bearable enough).
Wasn't one of the reasons for the deployment of dynamic IPs to residential users (as opposed to LAN environments) the reduced number of IPs required, since you'd have a pool all clients could share?

IPv6 doesn't have that problem, and it seems to me that keeping them fixed is probably cheaper in terms of billing and accountability.
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