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This discussion is quite amazing. Someone with a high-quality technical blog writes a post about sexism.

Magically a huge stream of comments arrive:

"the author reached an entirely fallacious and baseless conclusion"

"without any evidence, concludes that the manager said this because she is a woman"

"Whether or not this incident was motivated by sexism, there's absolutely no indication, based on the facts presented, that it was."

"then she is overreacting. Not because she's a woman, mind you. Because she really is too touchy about this"

"she's raging over and reading so much into a statement that is, by normal standards, extremely neutral, leads me to believe that even if she has been directly accused of being too emotional in the past, then maybe there's something to the accusations"

"Playing the sexism card every time you run into a bad manager with a dysfunctional team seems like wasted effort to me."

"to look for gender based explanations just seems overly paranoid"

"It can only be used on women who give a crap about being viewed as emotional."

"I can claim that my business partners are space aliens who read my thoughts and are plotting to colonize the planet all day long, but as long as there's no shred of evidence of this, the fact that nobody appreciates the lengths I go to wear tinfoil hats and research anti-alien combat techniques is meaningless"

"it's related to "W" being a bit of a jerk than it is "W" being female"

"If you have a chip on your shoulder in re sexism, you will perceive every negative interaction through that lens"

"that, in effect, is simply a unilateral claim of immunity against the accusation of being too emotional: it gives one the license to be as emotional as one likes"

"It's obvious that she's frustrated from her previous dealings with certain people, and their alleged sexism (which, unfortunately, is not demonstrated in her recounting). Unfortunately, her response is to attack a hornet with a sledgehammer (with corresponding collateral damage) and then blame the result on sexism."

"this blog post brings to mind a different female stereotype: too much drama"

"that author's emotions are out of control in both cases - during the described incident and when she writes the post. She fails by refusing to recognize that"

"It seems overly emotional to me to write this article.
(Maybe it is perfectly sensible, but to me, it seems overly emotional)."

The actual article begins with the paragraph:

"How do you piss off a technical woman so she will leave your team? It's easy. Just go and lob a few complaints about her behavior that would never apply to a guy. The easiest one of these is to say "you're being too emotional"

This entire discussion is unbelievable - Rachel By The Bay ought to be a respected member of this community based on her blog - instead she is being attacked in a bizarre way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_(launch_platform)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broglio_Space_Centre
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There is nothing more exciting than creating something on the Web. Since it seems Flash is being phased out, I found out about Edge... after doing some work and experimenting, I want to give back to the community

Just launched Edge Kingdom a day ago. I did the animation for the header and the robot.

Check it out and have fun!

Adobe Edge allows HTML5 animations without any handcoding... which should only grow as mobile devices grow
If you write a Java app using the old Java2EE approach, perhaps. If you write one using Play or something equally agile, not so much.
thanks so much for the great feedback! I'll make the quick changes ASAP and start reworking the UI - again, thanks so much!
Here in the UK it's used to refer to builders/plumbers/etc who do bad work while claiming to be proficient.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy#Negative_associations
Users don't distinguish between poor UI performance and"code stutters". The "negligble" sub-1ms stutters are a real problem in practice. and it's not just limited to poor code. Sometimes, no matter what you'll see GC being called, there's no way around it. There are background threads that are doing all sorts of things, which very well might be getting GC'd. Theres also a lot of things you can't
reasonably avoid, like allocations from Iterators, etc. There are literally thousands of forum and blog posts discussing this online.

Garbage Collection very slow on Android with latest stable line
http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users/browse_thread/thread...

How can I avoid garbage collection delays in Java games
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2484079/how-can-i-avoid-g...

Avoiding garbage collection for smooth 2d animations
Options

http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thr...

Image tiling on Android, garbage collector slows down
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7916021/image-tiling-on-a...
At first glance, it looks a bit like a host-your-own alternative to Yahoo!'s YQL, written in Node.js
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From their website, it looks more like "Say ch(dj)eese"
What Freshdesk tries to do is redirecting your attention to the similarity of the names. If you really check out Freshdesk, you'll see that they copied Zendesk with no piece of difference!
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cool; I added some more css selectors (such as -moz and -o) and tested it on Firefox

http://jsfiddle.net/RGYUg/5/

[edit; saw typo in fiddle, updated link]
You can only imperfectly emulate anything more than a regular language in a finite reality (since a pushdown automaton has an infinite stack). A PC is just a big DFA.
It wasn't an apology at all. This is what he said:

@mrgirish not attacking your nationality only your lack of innovation for product development, if you were offended in any way sorry

Let's parse that.

@mrgirish not attacking your nationality only your lack of innovation for product development - here he attempts to justify himself, by trying to explain what he meant.

if you were offended in any way sorry - here he says he is sorry if @mrgirish was offended - NOT that he was sorry for offending.

That's like me saying "Please come out and have Thai with me and my friends. Oh - you don't like Thai food? Sorry to hear that - will I see you there anyway?". In both cases there is no acknowledgement of wrongdoing, and in both cases the other person is effectively blamed for either being offended or for not liking Thai.
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"Go move to berlin".

Did that help? ;)
This is interesting. Moving from sexism to generally dealing with crappy coworkers: you can't just limit your interaction and distance yourself from them. Part of giving them enough rope is to make it clear that you're doing your best to help them (without unduly compromising your own productivity), and they're still failing. You have to perfectly walk the line between being nice and not enabling them to come out alive.

I'm still in school. This does not encourage me regarding entering the industry.
That's fucked up. This is precisely why, if you have any ounce of morality or ethics left in your body, you shouldn't develop any technology for use by governments or law enforcement. The potential for abuse is large and x-raying like this is a clear invasion of privacy.
True, but they abandoned communism quite quickly when it's failures became obvious.

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2004/11/a_t...
So where is the consent to search on this one?
How is payment received and goods delivered? Since you can't ship goods and take delivery via Tor it seems absurd to use strong encryption for communication when you're so vulnerable taking delivery. I haven't used silk road so I might be missing something, but I'd love to learn how they get around that.
It's not all about a name. Freshdesk is an embarrassing copy of Zendesk.
The arguments here and elsewhere are all pretty much spot on. Lots of people like the 'concept' of being able to start fresh but few really internalize the challenges. One person I know feels it would be easier to privately colonize the Moon than to build a viable seastead.

That being said, there has been some interesting work in seawater chemistry that suggests you might precipitate out of seawater a form of concrete [1]. Of course it would be hard to precipitate out a floating island but one might imagine building a 'reef equivalent' by growing it from the seafloor up. I personally don't think it is practical but I find the exploratory engineering entertaining and thought provoking.

[1] http://www.build.new-atlantis.org/seacrete.htm
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Which part do you not agree with exactly? Personal choice?

If your lab works to stop and solve murders, fine, but my drug use (or lack there of) isn't hurting anyone, yet I have to pay a non-trivial amount in taxes to have peoples' personal choices persecuted.
Interesting. Isn't this the metalinguistic paradigm in action? Ie instead of creating a library/API you create a whole new Domain-Specific Language.

Thoughts on this? Is there room for innovation in APIs via DSLs?
Do programmers have any special skills that non-programmers may lack?
My local library's site is worse. It doesn't look as bad, but it takes a ridiculously long time to load. That is much worse.
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Check out the 'founder's pie' calculator (google it) not a perfect tool, but a great place to start in weighing the stuff that needs to be/has been done plus a way to view, categorically, what each person brings to the table - and if you haven't already locked in ownership equity you may want to consider a performance based profit equity that leads to the promise of ownership once he's willing to commit full time to the project. Good luck!
"terrorizing people" - That's basically the basic definition of what a terrorist does. And whoever the original terrorists were, they've have succeeded in making the US Government "terrorize" its own people. This is just the beginning. I have a feeling the worst is yet to come.

USA used to be the place where everyone wanted to come. I think more and more people will try to stay out of USA when they see measures like these implemented to mass-control their own population.
My point was that "one-line" is a faulty criterion for measuring compactness if we allow for arbitrarily long lines: or "long cat is long" considered harmful.
Something nice would be to have the threads appear at the point on the page you're scrolled to, instead of at the top. Having to scroll to the top is tiresome and makes you lose your place.
Thank you. I'll try that approach next time.
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If both parties don't agree to a re-negotiated agreement, then it is not "fair". If you can't come to an agreement, dissolve the partnership and start over.
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I believe NYC is implementing a bike-share program like the ones in Montreal, London, and other cities. Basically, you pay a subscription fee (or you can just pay as you go, of course) to get a bike from a docking station, ride it to another docking station closest to your destination, and push it into the station and forget about it.

The biggest problem, which does not at all make the system impractical, seems to be the availability of working bikes and open docks at the stations you choose. The city (Montreal) seems to have trucks that go around and redistribute bikes fairly often based off of the real-time data the stations give them. Still, there have been several situations where during peak hours there are favorite "pick-up" and "drop-off" points, meaning there are no bikes for you to pick up, and if you do get a bike, there is no space at the station where you want to drop it off. There is usually a bike or two that's broken down at each station, so it's important to put every bike through a few tests to avoid frustration.

For me, the times that it was the most useful was either to commute, supposing a bike was actually available, or to get home after a late night out after the metro has closed. I hate taxis and will only take one at last resort, it was awesome to just take a bike back home.

I overall liked it but it's difficult for me to justify the added cost, since I'm not about to get rid of my metro pass. I would probably end up saving money if I replaced my pass with bikes and packs of metro tickets if I really wanted to, but that would not work during the winter when the stations go away.
The royalties oil companies pay are a form of tribute that's been formalized into law.

Further, oil companies and cruise lines benefit from the protection of nearby navies as well as deterrence via international law enforcement. Would a seastead be provided the same?
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It's not that surprising. There's little or no clear evidence in the post that her negative experiences were more motivated by sexism than by more mundane personal issues. Her environment was definitely messed up, but can you point to compelling evidence that it was motivated by sexism?

Nobody wants to believe there's sexism in their industry. It's not surprising to see skepticism in the absence of strong evidence, even if it's not right either. It's much the same standard that would be applied to any controversial issue.
You get ripped off, so you laugh at other people who don't like getting ripped off. Nice.
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It's just the next act of Anti-Pattern Theatre.

Act I: In which a woman explains how and why she feels excluded.
Act II: In which the male community excludes her in precisely the way she described.
Act III: In which nothing has changed.

Okay, we should probably tighten it up a bit, but I say we take this show on the road!
>Spoken like someone who doesnt use one.

Obviously I don't use one. No one uses one.
Please please don't. The mess that is JQuery ui download is evidence enough to avoid this like the plague.

Or at least make it incredibly optional.
Interesting, potentially useful.

It seems a little sad to me that Twisted is so unappreciated; it solved many current problems a long time ago, including very good deamonizing.
I bought a Brompton folding bicycle in NYC. It's great. Very easy to bring on the subway, ferry or even a taxi.

The only downside is the small diameter of the wheels makes climbing a bit comedic.
Thank you for pointing out this obvious PR campaign.

The whole point of highlighting this exchange, the surrounding publicity, the custom url/etc is to raise the profile and get people to pick sides to generate discussion.

This PR technique is as old as the sex tape and about exhausted as it gets. It's the online equivalent of reading "britney spears vs lindsay lohan".
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There must be a different underlying issue there. Showing a keyboard view should have no performance implications on a web view. Similarly drawing text into a texture tile should not take "multiple seconds of delay".
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I was speaking more to the lack of religious tolerance, but okay.
There's a much more important (though somewhat cynical) distinction between the two though. A contractor is a guy working for your company on the equivalent of a 1099, who behaves much like an employee. A consultant is an outside entity who comes in to do a specific piece of work, and tends to be treated as something of a specialist who you should listen to. Given that the actual work being done is usually indistinguishable, guess which one you should call yourself if you want to make more money?

There's a 3rd term for this same position, "Freelancer", that you can use if you want to make significantly less than either of the above.
Google exposes a lot more services to IPv6 than SPDY, though traffic might be another matter. I am merely poking fun at any hopes of a replacement, for as long as HTTP still works; even a protocol with a death warrant and a significantly better alternative doesn't get displaced but merely coexists. On the other hand, SPDY can be enabled on the edges, and become useful without waiting for network support.
I've had this discussion with other people before, and I like to remind people of the first seasteading city : Venice.

It was built specifically to get away from people on the mainland, and thrived based on a platform of trade.

I'm not going to pretend it's a perfect example, but it is pretty interesting how one of the most powerful cities in the world at one stage was developed by deciding to build a settlement in the middle of the water, which was pretty high-tech for the time.

Of course the true power of Venice wasn't achieved until it acquired some mainland territory to shore up it's supply lines, so perhaps the lesson is that a seastead needs to be setup adjacent to a relatively weak nation state that can be reverse absorbed at some time (assuming a peaceful treaty rather than by force). There are plenty of caribbean + pacific islands that could fall into this task. It may not mean taking a whole country but simply signing a century-long lease over a portion, maybe like British Hong Kong or modern Guantanamo Bay. I'm sure plenty of poor nations would gladly accept rental revenues for a mostly unwanted piece of land.

As for revenue streams - if a settlement could be located somewhere climatically agreeable, and out of jurisdiction of sovereign states, simply having cheap alcohol + food, and gambling would be more than enough to get the cash rolling in. An off-shore casino could simply run tighter odds and more drinks and make it worthwhile for people to go to. After all, Monaco and Las Vegas used this to their advantage for a long time just by being places where gambling could exist.

I think it's a very novel idea and I hope someone tries it one day. If it's the same site I've seen before (TLDR) they posit the idea that the first attempt would likely be a re-purposed cruise ship. And don't forget, there is already a cruise ship ('The World') that is doing something like this but mobile instead of stationary.

Bascially, instead of predicting what would or wouldn't work, someone should try it out and see what happens. Predictions of larger governments squashing it may turn out to be incorrect if the politicians of said governments find it to be convenient for their purposes.
How is FreshDesk ripping off or poaching the customers of ZenDesk?

Last time I checked, it was people connected to ZenDesk who are the one's talking trash.
I was hoping he'd add a Fibonacci command. Ah well, one can dream...
If desk part of the name is Zendesk's issue. There exist multi billion companies with desk in their name (Autodesk) much before anyone thought of Zendesk.
Freshdesk really did good with their response. I never heard of them before and now anyone talks about Zendesk, I will remember Freshdesk.
Where is the right to a speedy and public trial in the latest NDAA passed in the Senate? I would argue that the most important issue of our time is the accelerating theft of freedoms by the federal government. To put it more quantitatively: the trend of our incarceration rates over the last few decades should be enough to give anyone pause.
It's kind of irrelevant, since both services are handily beaten by Assistly.

Well, Assistly before they got bought and couldn't keep their service up.
Some brutal advice: your team has failed and the project has no customers and no revenue. You have an overloaded executive team (3 founders) of non-contributors whose main form of involvement is working with you to maintain the fiction of their constructive involvement. Meanwhile, there is vital work that no-one wants to do (sales) and a misguided belief that the only solution is getting someone else to do the heavy-lifting of figuring out how to make money.

Wake up! Are you so desperate not to call yourself a single-founder that you are willing to be one in practice? In this situation your BATNA is closing down the old site and building something from a clean base. If you want someone else to tell you how to make money get a job and go on salary. If you think you can do it yourself, a clean-room build should take no more than a month.

The only question is whether to continue using the original domain/code/design assets. Try pricing them and let your partner come up with an alternate estimate if he thinks you are being unfair. Once you do this you can make a more generous equity offer (1-2 percent) as an alternative to cash payment. Just remember that the value of the time and money you will be putting into the project over the next three years will dwarf the value of any existing assets.
I was not agreeing with your comment that I was policing you.
As for my personal beliefs, like everything in life, it's a balance. Do I want society telling me I can't smoke weed, no. In fact, I don't really want society telling me what to do, period.
On the other hand, we all have to live together, and so we all need to agree on some rules to live by to protect each other and society at large. There are some obvious rules, like let's all try not to murder and rape each other.
Should drugs be illegal? I don't know. What impact would legalization have on our society? Well, that's the question isn't it? And the debate rages on.
It would be cool if there was some kind of meta-DSL which allowed you to create your own DSL. That way, more developers could go that route without having to learn all the intricacies of compiler theory and stuff like that.

I am imagining DSLs being useful both on the server side and the client side. For the former, imagine sending off a single query instead of doing a bunch of different API calls. For the latter, well, JQuery is an existing example of a popular client-side DSL (technically it's not, but it feels that way).
Interestingly enough, Freshdesk apparently got started when Zendesk raised their prices - and a comment on HN about how this created a market for a cheaper competitor gave them the initial idea. So, at least partly a rip-off in my book.

Source: http://blog.freshdesk.com/the-freshdesk-story-how-a-simple-c...
Ugh.

Please, no. It's terrible UI.
Do you know many devs getting that outside London for a non-finance sector straight out of Uni? I certainly don't.
I'm guessing you don't deal with Python much. Python actively discourages this sort of thing, it's actually hard to create obfuscated code of the kind you see in most other languages.

That this was even possible surprised me somewhat, that he actually figured it out I find quite impressive.
The speed of the stream of edits makes you realize how traditional encyclopedias have zero chance of competing with Wikipedia with respect to the quantity of information...
A detachable or detached launch platform would be trivially feasible -- at least at the scale of triviality in which one envisions seasteads in the first place.

We've been launching ballistic rockets from submerged platforms for ... oh, a half century or so now. Space launches for most intents.
Evacuating 50-100 highly trained rig personnel is different than several hundred rank-and-file knowledge workers. Rig workers are paid high salaries because of the risks associated with working on oil rigs. We lost a close family friend to an explosion that occurred during a "routine" welding operation. Routine is quoted because nothing on an oil rig is truly "routine".

A fire alarm in an office building means everyone saunters outside. A fire alarm on a oil platform elevates everyone's heartrate. There is a not-insignificant chance that you're going to die. Mitigating these risks to the point that it would make sense for companies to utilize them for operational duties will be very difficult, not to mention expensive.
There's absolutely no reason what so ever to use Path. It's like... well... this looks good on a superficial basis, but what is it for?

And that's why they're not going anywhere.