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"Fortunately that argument has been thoroughly debunked by the large number of successful female professors who are also mothers."

The argument hasn't been debunked. I don't have the facts to back this up, but I'd guess that on average, men work more hours per year than women with the same jobs, because women tend to give birth and take care of children more than men. The reason there are so many successful female professors is because we've decided as a society that optimizing for hours worked per year is a bad idea with detrimental effects on our lives.

If someone were choosing between a man and a woman of equal skill to work at a startup, wanted to maximize hours worked per year, and didn't care about the law or the effects of their decision on society, they'd pick the man. Fortunately, there are far better indicators than gender of how prone an individual is to take extended leave.
That's a name of a Java App Server, not sure if the connection is desirable
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(I'm a Mozillian.)

These are slightly sensationalist ways of phrasing the following facts:

* libxul hit linker limits on 32-bit Windows builds with profile guided optimization enabled, as it did a couple of years ago. PGO uses a lot of memory, but it's how we deliver on Windows, so it's important.

* mozilla-central and mozilla-inbound were temporarily closed to avoid further build failures whilst the issue was explored. Other trees (try, services-central, etc. etc. etc.) remained open.

* some recent large changes to libxul were backed out in order to relieve pressure on linking.

* mozilla-central is now open for landings that aren't libxul-related, apart from those to trim it down. JavaScript and other landings continue unabated.

See Bugzilla for the full scoop.
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Another great fact of Fennec (Aka Firefox Mobile) - the latest version is the highest scoring tablet/mobile browser on html5test.com, scoring the same as Desktop Firefox.
The blog posts in in English, yes. But he's asking about the sources for the data in the post.
I'm working on a similar blog post for Play 2. But I can't do what I wanted to with the Play 2 beta because it doesn't have direct JSON support. However the latest on github does. :)
Me too. I had done my research and found the T-Mobile plan, and a Galaxy Nexus seller, but now, jeez louise.

The number one best feature of my Nexus One is that it is pure Google Experience.

I can justify the outrageous amount of money I spent on that based on the ease and frequency of OS updates.

Just when I thought I was back in, they push me back out. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPw-3e_pzqU)
Won't do them any good until they have remote fMRI scanners. Which would be positively scary.
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Err… you're wrong. Native Fennec doesn't use XUL for the UI. It still uses Gecko and XUL for web content.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/NativeUI/Architecture_Overvi...
But your initial decision was to turn off ads, in opposition to your desire to support sites you like, which led to your current notion of where things should be on the page.
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Why does there have to be a compromise? Please don't take this as some sort of flame bait. Instead it is a serious question about why some advertising must exist and be tolerated.
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My grandmother was a theoretical physicist (G. R. Caughlin, co-author of the FCZ papers on element formation in stars). She found it difficult to succeed as a woman in physics. She also raised four kids (without child care). She taught at Montana State University, Caltech, and others, and worked with Willie Fowler, Fred Hoyle, and other great minds of her day.

However, having talked to women in academic sciences today, she had it easy. No long post-doc programs, tenure was an easier process, and so forth. I hear over and over from such women that they have to choose between having the family life they want and a tenure track. This is an indication of an institutional barrier to women in the field (as is your wife being passed up for the grant).

These are the sort of things that need to be fixed. I am afraid simply asking how we encourage interest among women will make the problem worse because it will make the positions more competitive and hence lead to longer post-doc programs and more family sacrifices in order to achieve tenure.

This gets back to my point. Focus on institutional issues only and stop worrying about outreach.
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Heh, I guess I should have known better than to have fun with the title of my email.

This really isn't that interesting. Doing whole program optimization on a large codebase takes a fair amount of memory. We've exceeded virtual address space limits on MSVC 2005's linker a couple times in the past, and gotten past it before. We'll hack around it for the moment, and we're in the process of replacing our toolchain with a more modern version.

I'd note two other things:
1) The amount of binary code we ship isn't actually that high. "Libxul" (meaning Gecko, the networking stack, XPCOM, etc) is only about 16 MB of compiled code. The JS engine, crypto libraries, sqlite, etc, add a couple more MB. Compare this to chrome.dll or mshtml.dll and I think you'll see that we stack up pretty favorably.
2) Code size is actually about the least interesting metric of performance/bloat/what have you that there is. A lot of the code sits idle most of the time (think things like video codecs, character conversion code for random charsets you've never heard of) and can be swapped out (or not even loaded into RAM).

tl;dr: hit a compiler/linker bug, will have it fixed in a day or two.
It would been cool , if I can generate model classes from DB Tables directly. I saw the youtube demo and not impressive with just a javascript code editor.Still then VIM is the way.
Yes, this! :)
Fascinating and crushingly disheartening. It is obvious that a coupled force feedback mechanism is the simplest human interface solution to showing what is happening between both sticks, and pilots prefer it. I would really LOVE to hear the thinking behind the fool that chose to produce an interface that allows for me to press "up" and you to press "down" and we each get fed the bogus result "up" or "down" while actually it has decided to process it as "asdfasdf".
There is no x64->x86 cross compiler with MSVC, so if you want to produce i386 binaries you have to fit under 4GB of memory no matter what.
I have no interest in ethics, certainly not universal ethics.

All I'm saying is that "everybody is the same" type positions ignore reality.
Sure, but still...

One thing we have to face here is that having kids is different for men and women. Women often want to take more time off after having babies, scale back on work, etc. Men usually don't. Maybe we should treat this as something to be supported instead of a problem to be solved? Maybe women who want to do these things should be encouraged to do what they want (or not do them if they don't want).

But for many women, having kids is a much more life-changing experience than it is for most men.
The linked article said that Boeing indeed to behave this way, and frankly I am not boarding ANY Airbus flights in the future.
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Indeed and the reasoning was mentioned in another poster's reply to this thread. There are sites which are simply obnoxious in terms of their ad usage and I'd prefer to avoid it initially rather than opt-in to avoiding it on each site. There is, of course, always was the option to disable ad-block on a particular site but the reality is that I frequent lots of web sites, many from when I was younger and didn't care at all about how the site made money thus would never consider allowing the ads. Now I'm trained to not see the ads, not to say I can't change but I think the take away here is that the addition of ads, even if 'non-intrusive' has a significant impact on the UX of a site.

In no way trying to say my view point is 'correct', completely rational or that I'm the best 'web user' for dealing with it the way I have, but rather simply pointing out a contingent impact on the change from my perspective.
Ah, it was a different person. I was wondering how the guy got away with reposting the same story...
It happens all the time, and it can be essentially invisible to management at larger companies. People get close. Cliques with their own sub-cultures will develop, HR-unfriendly and perhaps legally-actionable things will go on behind closed doors when everybody in the room is friends with everybody else.

Nobody will really notice or care until someone with a different worldview starts having to work closely with them and stuff starts bleeding through.

When it goes on for too long, people may get angry and resentful when trouble starts, and then you have a much quieter but more insidious mess...

What? No, I've never seen this happening from the inside! Of course not! I'm a perfect angel!
Well, I agree to how you pointed things out but look closer to the article in TC, she says: "People are pretty good at making choices for themselves. Men can stay home. Women can do startups. The thing is, most don’t want to. And that’s okay." And there is the word 'most' in her phrase.

She's expressed her opinion pretty clearly. And believe me, most of the time you, me and all of us runs on generalization. So this is no exception, except you just freaked out because you just didn't fit in this generalization. And frankly, you are just as an exception to that.

Now really, tell me how many of womens really think as you do?
Fennec doesn't use XUL for primary UI, but it's still compiled with XUL enabled.

Fennec's improved launch speed is partly due to the order in which components are loaded: the primary UI can appear before the layout engine is ready.

Compiling without XUL would shave some size off the binary, but probably not a whole lot. Most of the code involved in rendering XUL is the same code that renders HTML.
A purely rational actor who is ignoring externalities. A purely rational actor taking a different set of factors into account may make a different decision. We generally call the first "a dick" and the second "a worthwhile human being".
It is incredibly ironic that the top comment on an article blasting stereotypes is itself full of stereotypes.
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You'll probably want to wait until webrtc to do cool things with voice.
Yeah, I'm a female software engineer. It usually surprises people when I do anything remotely feminine. People have twice speculated that I would enjoy putting on a strap-on and taking on a, ah, masculine role.
Gotta love someone who follows through with their dreams. We all wanted this house at some point but he actually built it!
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Well, isn't this basic differential pricing? If there are customers who are willing to "pay as much as needed" for "the fastest chip they have", why wouldn't Intel offer it? It shouldn't be too expensive to "brand" yet another model, and there are enough enthusiasts to shell the required cash on this thing. $1K isn't that much, really.
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i think his post is actually in agreement with your comment. his point being that things like: reading HN, updating twitter, deleting email, etc is not really "taking a break". it is distracting yourself for a piece of instant gratification.

a real break is taking a walk, or "looking away" as you say; getting away from the screen.
Actually if both sticks are actually linked, the person taking over will find his stick already full-left, and have to actually pull it over to the right as part of "taking over". Such simplicity and it would result in none of this insanity.
I don't run AdBlock Plus, but I do use FlashBlock, mainly to cut down on fan noise.

I also have a few entries in my /etc/hosts ...

127.0.0.1	googleads.g.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1	ak.p.openx.net
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127.0.0.1	resources.infolinks.com
127.0.0.1	resources.intextscript.com
127.0.0.1	kona.kontera.com

Google ads was simply responding too slowly. Too many pages were not rendering correctly or at all, pending a response from them. That's probably the fault of web authors not embedding the Google ads correctly. But not to worry. Now I just see error IFrames.

As for the others, the damned double-underscore spam links were getting to be just too annoying while reading text — especially the ones that would react to mouseovers.
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Same here, it was through some channel called ViennaChannels.com [Sales-Focused Demo Programs for Mobile Device Manufacturers & Carriers]

I signed up, and was later told that they were out of devices, but later I got one (last one according to them).

I see that the ebay.com's site the $149 one is still for sale (the one I got).

I was able to cross-compile and run luajit on it, and creatonix (Tim Caswell) got even more stuff (but haven't tried it yet).

It looks like there is a whole "homebrew" society distributing lots of open source packages. It's called Preware.
Stick a fork() in it. It's done.
> Women often want to take more time off after having babies, scale back on work, etc. Men usually don't.

Is there data or research to support this statement that women want to take more time off and (by implication) men don't want to (or want to less)?

I don't have kids, but looking among my friends, both the mothers and fathers want to spend as much time as possible with their kids. While the fathers often went back to work before the mothers, it wasn't because they wanted to, it was more about the cultural pressure for them to be the bread winners and not about them "wanting" to care for their kids less than the mothers.
Nearly every website would happily have a pay wall if advertising didn't exist.

If the majority of people with internet access preferred to pay directly for every website they use, advertising wouldn't exist. But they don't, so it does.
Better to release more content, for Christmas, for a polished game than to EVER release a game that needs weeks of more polish.
I don't believe advertising itself is necessarily evil, and it provides an easy way for website owners to fund operations. You're provided a service for no monetary cost but, in return, you must requite some of your focus to an advertisement. This seems fair to me.

There is no answer to why advertising must exist aside from it being the best answer we have to a growing problem of who's going to pay for the Web. I'd rather have a few ads than fork out money on a package-basis a la cable channels.
Agreed. And would a man be welcome at such an event? Why name the event/group/org based off of a gender? Why not name it "learning code", and have marketing based towards women. Why exclude an entire gender, even if it is potentially already dominating the given market.

I personally am not a believer in excluding, to argue for including. It seems counter productive.
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But I think women, in part because of a certain stereotype of what womanhood or motherhood should be (I think the signal from the media that such a huge number of mothers are stay-at-home is hard to ignore), and in part because of the collective sum of the world's signals, make startup career paths or STEM career paths in general less plausible for women than they should be, and less plausible than for men.

As I have said we need more family-run micro-businesses where both parents spend most of their work time at home. In my ideal world a lot of businesses would be run out of the home (as is the case in most of the world, but zoning laws can make that hellishly difficult in the US).

Stability most probably influences women towards defined career paths. But the mental calculus they do in making this decision might not be well informed. Even if any particular startup fails, if you're good you can join another one, or enter a larger company if need be. An entrepreneurial skill set is much more resilient to outside forces than other career skills. I think this message isn't quite communicated as well as it should be.

And yet, how many stay-at-home moms have their own part-time businesses? I am betting a majority. The difficulty that they have re-entering the workplace later I think is tragic because:

1) These women have entrepreneurial skills that they don't value sufficiently and that the prospective employer doesn't value sufficiently and

2) This leads to devaluing the experience of having a household business.

We have amazing problems in this country due to our worship of the education system as the path to economic success, and the idea that you have to go back to school to switch careers. This is another thing we need to work on because it chains everyone, man and woman, to early decisions in life.

I choose not to play by these rules. I, as a man, work from home full time. I encourage others to do the same. I have my own business. More recently my wife is talking about joining a small startup business (good for her).

I'm much more interested in spreading the attitude that one can do what one wants and be who one chooses to be than achieving exact gender population parity in every given sub-field.

That's exactly right.
That's true, but in practice networked games built on websockets are doing fine right now, and will until browsers get stable capabilities for more intensive 3D gaming (likely in around 2 years time). I guess I meant they won't be needed yet.
100% turnout in chechnya, 99.87% for the ruling party of one russia....

and you need statistical evidence to detect fraud!?
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Is this actually a useful observation to make? How many people have sociopaths for bosses? Why haven't you left?
I don't think the archetypes correspond to 'what people want'. The 98-pound weakling may be playing world of warcraft all day telling everyone he is a muscle bound beach head for example. People often want what they are not, "The grass is always greener".

There is an artificial idealization of a 'Man' and an idealization of a 'Woman' in almost all societies around the world. The closeness of the individual to the idealization doesn't always change their want for the idealization. This is how we get media that often portrays the 'ideals' in various forms. People live vicariously through that which they want to be but aren't willing to work to be.
Well, unless there's been changes made to the LGPL'd code then the App using it could simply point to VLC's webpage for the source code. LGPL only requires changes made to the actual LGPL licenced code be made open source, unlike GPL which requires the entire application using/linking GPL licenced code to be open sourced under GPL.

The reason why Apple AppStore and GPL don't mix is that Apple added a restriction as to how many times you could copy the binary while GPL explicitly states that you are allowed to make as many copies as you want.
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The LLVM backend will also improve our platform support. I talked a bit more about this in the thread on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/n8d6o/open_dyla...
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Given that the answer most certainly is not "because it's illegal" or "because the media companies won't let me", I think it's at least worth considering.

HN evidently doesn't agree, so I'll leave it at that.
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Nobody is taking an "everybody is the same" position. People are taking an "everybody should have the same opportunity" position, which is an ethical stance.

The root comment in this chain claims that women's natural imperative is to raise children, with the implication that encouraging women to do startups is therefore wrong. That's also an ethical stance, one justified by the naturalistic fallacy.

All animals, people included, have built-in behaviors. But that tells us nothing about what the right behaviors are.
Speaking as a person that converted a big shell script to Python a while back, I think both languages have their strengths. Writing something like:

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in Python is not nearly so succinct as in the shell (using only Python's standard library). And don't screw up waiting for processes or flushing buffers, things that the shell takes care of for you AFAIK.

On the other hand, things like string or date manipulation are easier in Python than in the shell.
Sigh. Another useless fucking article is #1 after 1 hour. It is the same tired discussion repeated ad nausea.
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I think it's funny that you got hung up on the idea that it was a 'ladies only' event. I think the post you were replying to was referring to this part of the parent post:

> If you're a woman with a family, it's probably
> preferable to carve out a Saturday morning, let your
> partner (hopefully, if you have one) take care of the
> kids and come home (not sloshed) to your family than
> it is to head down to the bar after work to have a
> couple of pints. It's just a lot more feasible.

Obviously the only thing that is holding women back from going to other tech events is that the schedules aren't 'family friendly.' This conclusion would only make sense to me if there were some evidence presented that most/all of the women at the event had families of their own.
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I Like these posts. Getting more and more into UX and its clearly something more people should pay attention to
The fact that if I buy a 64 GB iPhone, then I have to dedicate half of my 128 GB Macbook Pro's SSD just to keep a duplicate of the media on the iPhone (iTunes Library) that I only use on the phone - is a total deal-breaker for me as far as iPhone goes.
Another absolute deal-breaker is that I don't have a credit card - for online stuff I use debit cards from Payoneer and Moneybookers - and these are not accepted by the iTunes shop, and I won't bother with gift certificates.
So Android it is.
I also love the fact that as a C and Java coder, I can easily change every single thing in the system, should I really want to (OK except the baseband and few other things).
All things considered, I think Google is doing extremely good.
Somehow, I can't help but think "LOL, Verizon."
this is the first time i am reading about the Play Framework. Are there any good ressources on how it compares to other frameworks like Rails and Django?