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I love Penelope Trunk and her political incorrectness. Her advice may always be controversial, but she's never afraid to speak her mind. And she's right too about women. Their natural imperative is to raise children and nurture them - not to do startups. Most also want the social companionship from friends/family as they raise children (which is missing today as most people don't live near extended family), but they don't need to go the extreme of climbing the corporate ladder, or starting a venture.

If anyone wants career advice that makes sense from a human perspective, her blog is a must-read. You just can't dish out career advice without considering human happiness and human nature as a whole.
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#whyAllTheMen?!
Not his father, his mother.
Ultimate Bet player data is hacked
This week saw millions of online poker players lose their rights to privacy. Ultimate Bet, the online poker site that was shut down by authorities on Black Friday this year, apparently leaked a long list of players’ personal information, revealing millions of names, addresses, account numbers, and seemingly encrypted passwords. Among those millions of players were hundreds of thousands of Canadians – 319,000, to be exact.

While it’s highly unlikely that Ultimate Bet could have been behind the leak, as the company responsible for protecting these personal details, they are ultimately responsible for what happens to these sensitive files. A number of scenarios are possible – a disgruntled employee could have stolen the list of player details and intentionally leaked it to the public in order to create further scandal, or perhaps a hacker decided to target the trouble online poker site. Whether the information was intended to be made so public is also unknown – perhaps it was illicitly procured with the intent to sell it, only it was leaked before a sale could take place. It’s really anyone’s guess what may have been going on behind the scenes, but the fact remains that millions of players’ information was released without their consent.

Now that Ultimate Bet has been shut down, it’s uncertain how anyone can be prosecuted for this lapse in privacy protection. For any players who fear their information may have been revealed, the only thing left to do is hope that no one who saw it will use it malevolently.
Start at the root of the tree; at each node:

- If the node value matches, return it
- If the node value is too low:
- If possible, step right and repeat
- Otherwise, return this node value
- If the node value is too high:
- If possible, step left and repeat
- Otherwise, return the value of this node's predecessor:
- Walk up until you traverse a right link
- Return the node's value
- If you hit the root, the requested value is less than any value in the tree
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Do they help??
NASA's Mars rover finds key traces of water
I suspect the vast majority of customers don't care about the ads, and wouldn't expect them to pay to remove them in the first place.

As far as ad-supported services go, the Kindle is actually quite good - totally unobtrusive, and you actually get some good offers, things like $5 off a $10 purchase.
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This is an interesting finding that demonstrates how sensitive instruments to measure the movement of the Earth's crust have become. Because those instruments are fairly new, it's still not certain how often movements of similar magnitude ("as high as 20 mm (0.79 inches) in some locations") have occurred in the past, and what implications they have for people living in Greenland

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&#...

or for people living anywhere else.
We've actually implemented automatic DNS search withing 0MQ itself. You can then use it like this:

zmq_connect (s, "dns://myservice.example.org");

If people are interested in that, we can upload it to github.
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It seems to be available already. Check it out here:

https://github.com/mato/libzmq/tree/dns

Thanks to VMware for sponsoring the feature!
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This is great. I went to a couple of Dylan sessions at WWDC in 1994 and couldn't wait to try it. It was just one year after Apple and Symantec's Bedrock fiasco, and it seemed like a huge step in the right direction after such an enormous misstep.

Dylan and NewtonScript were very exciting languages. I remember many late-night drunken conversations at WWDC about how we were probably the last generation of desktop software developers to use C and C++. Boy, were we wrong.
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I think she made some very good points. It was a bit ranty, and self contradictory at times:

>On top of that there is evidence that the members of the VC community go out of their way to attract women. Of course, this makes sense. VCs look for underserved markets. Women are likely to address different markets than men, and since there are so few women founders compared to men founders, it’s likely that women are addressing an underserved market.

and then this:

>Whoever started the TED Women’s conference is pathetic.

Uh, ok. Right on TED Women's webpage they say that "Over the past several years, a flood of fascinating data from the worlds of education, microfinance and more has shown an essential link between investing in women and girls and economic growth, public health, political stability."

And it goes on to state that TEDW wants to explore those 'underserved markets' to borrow the author's words, in greater detail, -behavior that she just got finished praising.

But whatever, I'm nitpicking. I think the general thrust of most of her arguments have merit. Women often choose to disengage from the business world to realize life goals that make them happier than what business success can offer them. What guy hasn't had this dream? To be sure, it's probably a different dream. For women, it may involve having children and raising a family for some. For me, it might be throwing caution to the wind and traveling the world. Bottom line is that I think there are some very basic 'non-business' aspirational lifestyles that humans of all walks of life wish they could engage in at different times. Biology and culture have conspired to offer women one of them up on a silver platter if they so choose. Many do, and there's nothing wrong with that.

EDIT: I don't know how scientific this is, but just an ironic post I came across browsing just now. Check out #2 on the list:

http://www.rense.com/general95/regrets.htm

I think this would be an interesting study to formalize and conduct, don't you?
I agree, he obviously understands the entire issue much much better than most artists.
Very true, and I should have picked an earlier date. But I was erring on the side of caution, and it somewhere between 1990 and 2000 when agile methods, which explicitly reject big upfront design, became mainstream.
There's knowing the quickest route to take and then there's taking the longest route you can get away with. Two different problems with the same data set.
In a roundabout way, the author points out that because of differences in preferences between groups, equal access to opportunities don't lead to equal outcomes.

However, the 'equal opportunities don't lead to equal outcomes' argument is often used as an excuse to ignore inequality - if we all pretend we've all got perfectly equal access to opportunities, we can attribute any difference in outcomes between groups to group preferences and call it a day.

Yes, I'd expect that in a world where access to opportunity was truly equal, the gender balance of founders would still be skewed. But that doesn't imply that there's equal access to opportunity in tech today, and it certainly doesn't mean we can say 'no gender problem here' and stop thinking about the ways we inadvertently discourage women from doing what we do.
If women's natural imperative is to raise children and nurture them, why is Penelope Trunk running a start-up?

I really thought that this kind of overly-simplistic "men do X, women do Y" was in the past now, but of course such things never die.

There was a time where it was generally believed women should stay at home and worry about the children rather than go to school, or vote. I am sure we will look back on this kind of advice in the same way.

I hope you see the irony in thinking that there is nothing stopping women from running startups, but they shouldn't want to, as women want to stay at home and look after the children.
Seems to me like there's an emerging consensus to go for single-codebase over using a 2to3 pass during build.
Yes, but unless they know they'll be making lots of money, it would cost them a hell of a lot more.

The US now has a tax regime that is possibly the worst in the world for people who are somewhat rich, but not superfilthy rich (a category that I guess includes > $1M and < $50M in liquid assets).

If you live in the US with a green card (which can expire or be canceled at the governments whim), you take on ALL the obligations of a citizen, including gift tax, estate tax, reporting of everything you ever own outside the US (with a 50% penalty if you knowingly fail to report something -- google FBAR). \

Furthermore, if you do that for a few years, and you move back (say, because your green card was cacneled), you have to pay the "exit tax", which is more or less the estate tax you would have paid had you died that day.

If you're making $300K a year, your tax rates are probably around 45% (35% federal, 5-13% state; although e.g. NH has no state tax). The state tax has no treaty cover, so if your income comes from another country, you're likely to be double taxed on that.

Also, if you're making under $500K a year, you likely fall under the AMT, which means those attorney fees, tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars of them, are not expensible (and neither is almost anything else).

I really don't see a reason why someone who already has wealth would pay $100K, let alone $1M, to gain US residency. It is pure lunacy.
The Dylan language spec has amazingly few edge cases. It allows a continuum of dynamic -> static typing and a range of functional <-> OO. With the right set of libraries it could be great in the scripting space as Python, but is also designed for building large systems that run fast.
I'm not a neurologist but I believe that not all learning is the same. In this case they were specifically learning spatial mapping (and possibly manipulation and reasoning). The study doesn't say anything about linguistic learning, which happens in a different part of the brain.
In general companies seem unwilling to "train". Everyone has to start somewhere. I honestly consider software development to be a trade skill.

For startups, it makes sense to desire a senior level developer. Midsize and large companies really should explore internal training programs. Everyone a generation older than me talk about a world where the "entered through the mail room" and worked their way up. Does this world even exist today? From my point of view, it seems like we only expect top talent everywhere.
Summary: An SEO expert says "Google shouldn't be allowed to make money off of Google search! Only I should be able to make money off of Google search!"
What a bullshit article. Breaking news people, Google's monetisation of their search engine comes from adverts, that's a shocker.

Oh, and "Google admits..." what? I read the piece, then skim-read again in case I missed it... where do Google even say anything in that piece? Edit: oh, because they ran an advert saying that adwords are better than SEO. Well... no shit, they're trying to sell a product.
Facebook Brings Ads to the Ticker. A lot like Twitter Promoted Tweets.
The clueless startup experiment
But you still have to make an explicit action (eg hit play on spotify). It's not like Facebook is pulling things out of your head, you still have control over what you're sharing with people.
You seem to have some kind of chip on your shoulder, because you are reading a bunch of things into what I said that were not intended and are way out there.

In short, the company you describe does have technical culture.
I think it makes sense to encourage women to consider doing a start up - yes for some women raising a family is the fulfillment that they want. But for those that do want to focus on a career, it's very possible to feel left out. Although (intellectually) you know that there's no reason why if this guy or that guy can do it, you can't - there's something somewhat sobering and potentially disheartening about almost everyone being "different" than you. As the years start adding, up its the same thing with age - I /know/ that I can do it, but there's that seed of doubt for one reason or another.

So I think it's a good thing to encourage anyone who doesn't meet the standard expected start up founder profile - whether it's women, or people who have been around the block a couple of times. They (we :)), might have good ideas, we might need to be reminded that can be done - and to be pointed in the right direction.
I should've thought of this earlier, but we have an entire book online (although it hasn't yet been converted to our new documentation / publishing format): http://opendylan.org/books/dpg/db_1.html
Are these companies willing to recruit remote workers? :D
Oh for crying out loud... Everyone on the internet now has to include a disclaimer every time they write a general statement that doesn't apply to 100% of people, but is pretty much true . The majority of women don't do startups - that's empirical evidence right there. There's nothing stopping them of course, and I'm not saying they shouldn't do startups. I'm just observing why I think most don't.
If women's natural imperative is to raise children and nurture them, why is Penelope Trunk running a start-up?

Unless something changed since October, she is living on a farm raising her kids.

http://venturebeat.com/2011/10/24/how-to-know-when-to-leave-...
Her point was that women have a choice, and by nature, women have different options than men. She did not say that all women should just sit at home having kids.
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Very nice, it is by the way using a TXT record to store the information. As pointed out before, an SRV record could be better (but only for udp/tcp for the transport mechanism).

https://github.com/mato/libzmq/commit/d2782c7b1c401037718eaf...
Maybe he's hanging out with transplants? I find that a lot of transplants tend to carry this attitude, no matter where they're originally from.
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I agree it's more important that everyone has an opportunity to do something, whether they want to or not -- and if they want to do it, the more help and encouragement the better.
The clear implication being that there is really no loss from piracy. While this point could be argued, these numbers show nothing.
First off, we don't know how much money would have been made had there been no piracy - that is, the music industry might have made even more money every year.
The other issue is that while the music industry's worldwide revenues have increased, recorded music revenues have actually decreased, with North American revenues falling from $13 billion in 2007 to $12.6 billion in 2010, and worldwide revenues falling from $35.4 billion in 2009 to $35.1 billion in 2010.
Of course, by that same note it can't simply be claimed that the loss is because of piracy. It may be that people are simply buying less music.
Madison is quite nice. There isn't as much excitement as in New York or San Francisco, but I'd take it over suburbia (including Bay Area suburbia) in 1/5 of a heartbeat.

If the three worst things about a place are December, January, and February... that's a pretty good place to live.
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> This is the issue right now in London where lots of Arab and Russian oligarch-types taking advantage of non-domicile tax laws drive up the cost of living

The US tax law is not like that. If you're a legal permanent resident (i.e. a green card holder), you pay taxes for everything you own and make everywhere in the world. So that's not actually a problem.

It is also the reason why those Arab and Russian oligarch types won't be moving to the US any time soon. (It's already cheap enough for them at $1M -- going down to $100k won't make a difference. The British requirement, BTW, is 500K pound, which is ~$750K)
> [Women's] natural imperative is to raise children and nurture them

This is the 21st century. Are we really still talking about "natural imperatives"? If nothing else, note that women are having fewer and fewer children, later and later - clearly, they are feeling this "natural imperative" less and less.

Traditional gender roles are unfair to women wanting to have a career, unfair to men who want to stay home with the kids, and far more rigid than needed. Having some "standard patterns" makes sense, but there should be more than one, and the freedom to deviate from those.
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No, there is no need for a disclaimer. This article make very clear that the opinion of Penelope is that the only reason women aren't running more startups is their genetics tells them to settle down, have children, and only run little lifestyle business between having children.

While there certainly is help for women running startups, there is also still sexism at many levels.

There are lots of reasons why women still stay at home and look after the children other than genetics. One of the most obvious ones to me (from personal experience) is that men are looked down on if they are the primary carer for their children.
The distributed model imposes a cost that most startups would rather not pay. There's a lot of communication latency that occurs once a company becomes distributed. It takes a high level of aggregate professional maturity and attentiveness to communication to work.

Some teams, usually small ones, can make distributed work work, but it doesn't work for everyone and it doesn't form the sort of culture startups generally want.

That said, the distance metric isn't linear. Across a parking lot is almost as far as 1000 miles away. Once a company is scaling to this point, remote-work arrangements make a lot of sense.
Yes, but there's a prior prediction from theory that the Higgs will be within this energy band.
"While it's true that demand for goods and services increases GDP, it's not good for any person. "

Nonsense.

If I, as a red blooded "non immigrant" (what the fuck does immigrant really mean? who cares where I was born?) sell widgets, and "immigrants" love to buy lots of widgets, it is trivial to see how this is good for me.
Actually, I've met a lot of guys who are in high powered positions who have implied or stated explicitly they'd much rather spend more time at home. And these guys have told younger guys, mentees, to pretty much spend more time as dads and husbands. This advice is becoming increasingly common.

So, um yeah, Penelope is pretty much wrong right out of the gate.
Hm. While croakit is an interesting idea, I'd note that croakit comments aren't searchable or quotable. Sometimes text is better.
"Rock star" is code for "junior dev who thinks he should be senior and will work 90 hours per week to prove it". People who've been programming for 5+ years generally avoid the "rock star" epithet like the plague.
the biggest obstacle in moving to Austin is not what the article states..

Think about it people..if the developer has a house mortgage will he move? No..

If the dv still has edu debt will he move? no..
Been looking to port SQL Server to NIX but I can't seem to find it on github?
How many people in the 60s smoked pot? Just because a majority does something does not mean it will become legal.
Evernote and Springpad are two options.
"""If women's natural imperative is to raise children and nurture them, why is Penelope Trunk running a start-up?"""

1) She doesn't, as a comment below states.

2) I fail to see how your question makes any sense.

Tendency/Preference etc is not Absolute Law.

For example, a human's natural instinct is survival, yet there are still people willing to sacrifice their lives for others in danger, etc.

(I always hate it when someone takes some statistical observation and thinks it's very smart to point out that there are exceptions --or even worse, uses them to "prove" the statistical observation doesn't hold. Happens all the time in pedantic-land).

"""I really thought that this kind of overly-simplistic "men do X, women do Y" was in the past now, but of course such things never die."""

Overly simplistic? Just because there are counter-examples, and complex cases, doesn't mean that the generalization is overly simplistic.

To make sense of the world you have to generalize, that is not to give equal importance to a multitude of fringe cases.

"""I hope you see the irony in thinking that there is nothing stopping women from running startups, but they shouldn't want to, as women want to stay at home and look after the children."""

Nobody said "shouldn't", she said "wouldn't".

And, statistically speaking, most don't. Do you see equally as many women founders? Or do you think you can attribute that to some mysterious general sexist attitude that prevents them?
These stats don't start until 2006, which after the Napster revolution killed the CD store. I don't think these stats are useful for making any argument about the impact of piracy.
During my senior year in college I built a company with a very good friend of mine. I came out with the name by picking random letters written in pieces of paper out of a plastic bag, iterating over and over until they formed an easy to pronounce two syllables word with the .COM extension available.

After that, we needed a website, and to build it, we needed a logo, so we bought one on the Internet for $11 in one of those websites that sell templates and logos, I don't even remember the name but I can't forget the amount we paid for it.

We had the company for more than five years, gained a lot of experience, made a profit and had a successful exit before embarking on new adventures.

I am 100% sure we could have done exactly the same without a logo or with a completely different one.
His site [http://www.theoryoffun.com/] includes the slides from a presentation on game grammar [http://www.theoryoffun.com/gdc2005.shtml] that lists boatloads of academic work, which is really what I was looking for - thanks!