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I'm not sure why people still take Penelope Trunk seriously.

http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2011/08/16/blueprint-for-a-wom...

This should be enough to convince you that she is full of shit. She doesn't practice what she preaches and holds very strongly to the status quo.

She actively discourages women from entering the startup world, so no wonder she is annoyed that some people are trying to encourage women.

http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2011/03/05/the-workplace-shoul...

She regards inequality and unbalance as a non-problem and generalizes that all women are the same.

http://venturebeat.com/2011/11/29/woman-problem-what-woman-p...

http://baileybear.hubpages.com/hub/Penelope-Trunk-Brazen-Car...

Listening to anything this woman says seems to do more harm than good.
There is something like this in place. (Refer http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/types/types_1322.htm... ). The DV Lottery annually gives out ~ 50,000 green cards to people from which historically there have been low immigration rates (No India/China). The accepted candidates are required to have at least a high school education which I am guessing is designed to make the likelihood that they end up in the streets lower.

It would be nicer to supplement something like this with a system that allowed people who paid $X or employed Y people to get a green card faster.
> As someone who has been going through the green card
> process for over 3 years now, $100k seems cheap to
> get rid of all the expense, effort and risk required
> to do it legitimately under the current system.

As someone who recently got one through employment, I'd say $100k is a hefty price tag: legal expenses on a fully completed GC process is around $10k. During the time you're spending $10k, you are employed and are getting paid prevailing wage for the area of employment (more, if you are good at what you do - employer doesn't want to lose you).

Granted, things won't be so rosy for people from India or China due to time constraints, but $100k cash for these folks won't really be that easy either, I guess.
Uhm, yes it does. It may take time, but in most societies, that is what eventually happens.

Only corruption and religious or political zealotry slows down the process, but eventually people will realize there's no real crime here, just a desperate reactionary attempt to maintain the status quo in a way that does more harm than good.
Given that the Antarctic ice is also melting, the bedrock under that continent can be presumed to be rising as well.

Will these changes lead to more earthquakes?

Have they already done so?
This is good news.. atleast for texas. I'm about 45mins from austin and finding local gigs are always hard. Wonder if they do remote work...
You hit the nail on the head.

My wife gets the dismissive smile and nod from career women whenever she answers their obligatory "what do you do for a living" question.

This makes her feel bad for raising our children.

This only lasts until I point out that these career women get the awesome privilege that men have enjoyed for hundreds of years: slaving away for some overseer, pushing paper in a cube and staring blankly at fluorescent lights, having distant relationships with your own offspring, and dealing with office politics for 30 years, then dropping dead.

Families also get the added benefit of having their children raised by a rotating crew of $10/hr wage slaves at some cut-rate daycare from infancy, in exchange for about what a 2nd house would cost, because dad isn't likely to want to stay home either.

The neighborhood also "benefits" by being an absolute ghost town during work hours, so people who are doing the work of raising children are left bereft of any sort of neighborhood support (remember when you could just let kids run wild outdoors, or your mom stopping next door for coffee?).

The fulfillment angle of no-parent society is pretty slim I think.

Raising kids is about the only fulfilling thing left in the world that anyone you know is likely to do. Families with no full time parent (mom or dad, mind you) is a bizarre and frightening development.
This one:
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I would really love to see some research on this topic, because I would love to know if that is really that different from men. Growing up, I was told many options about what I could do: Founder was never one of them. It wasn't until I took stock and looked around at my corporate career that I decided it wasn't working for me.

And that doesn't sound too different from your experience. I want my daughters to have every option available to them, from stay-at-home mom to founder. I obliquely can't speak for the societal pressures of being a woman, but the educational aspects between my boys and my girls has not been noticeably different.
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Thank you. That is indeed a nice way to get Project Gutenberg books.
Yeah, but there are lots of alternatives to pot.

Also, pot-smoking is smoking. It is (and I say this in the nicest possible way, as one who supports the legalization of pot) literally a smelly habit; it affects everyone around you, even when pursued in moderation. You can't be in the same suite of rooms as someone who is smoking pot without noticing. The experience of second-hand pot is one hell of a lot better than second-hand cigarette smoke (and not just because I get to worry less about cancer or strain on my heart; it just smells better), but still not one I go out of my way to enjoy. Such a habit is easy to culturally stigmatize compared to, say, alcohol, which is orders of magnitude more dangerous than pot – in all kinds of ways that would take an hour to enumerate – but which bothers others not at all when consumed in small amounts.

Finally, there's a European cultural tradition of alcohol consumption (even excessive alcohol consumption that bothers other people!) that is alive and well in the USA. Pot, not so much. That feature is probably what made it so hard to make alcohol prohibition stick, compared to marijuana prohibition.

There's not a lot of alternatives to learning music by mimicking other musicians, and the act of extensively reading and quoting existing published works is called scholarship and is held in high regard. Quoting creative works doesn't harm the people around you; indeed, people generally enjoy well-played cover tunes, and routinely pay people to play them. And needless to say quoting stuff is a far more fundamental cultural tradition, in Europe and everywhere else, than taking any particular drug.
To be fair, Yelpers are an exceptionally tough crowd. I mean, I really don't know of any place offhand that is widely regarded as "good" in meatspace, anecdotally, that doesn't get savaged on Yelp. When I read Yelp reviews for a place, it's because I'm curious about the worst things that dickish, self-proclaimed connoisseurs have to say about it, not to get any real baseline for what the place is actually like. It's never even a tenth as bad as Yelp says it is.

Also, the owner mentioned utilising many different discount/coupon programs. Groupon may stand out because it's kind of emblematic, but there's no reason to think from anything that has been said that it was the majority of their coupon activity. Is there?
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I'm definitely comfortable with Haskell, and I learned Scheme through SICP and I've played with clojure enough to know my way around. I've done a little with common lisp, but not enough to claim I know it. Given my experience with related languages, would learning CL be useful for me at all, either academically or practically?
Wow, I can certainly see how that would be disastrous.
"This is precisely what patents are designed to do: create monopolies."

That's half of what monopolies are supposed to do, in my layman's observation of the field (i.e. everything I know I learned on HN). The other half is to encourage the dissemination of innovation to the benefit of society.

What we have now is the first half, the monopoly. The second half is disappearing, replaced by patent holders preventing innovation from moving through society, and removing the use of what was once obvious from society.
> You are exactly the kind of immigrants we as a nation want, but there is an incredibly shrill minority that shouts down anything that's immigration-related when it looks like that change could benefit "them durn illegalz" who are already here.

Not true. The "smart immigration" proposals keep getting tied to the amnesty proposals by an alliance of the open borders folk and the "smart immigration" folk.

And the reason why amnesty is such a tar pit is that we've had it before, with a promise of enforcement after that never happened (hence the current amnesty push).

The opponents to amnesty are willing to have smart immigration, but not with amnesy.

Are you willing to have smart immigration without amnesty?
Your apparent theory that too-big-to-fail corporations should be allowed to play heads-I-win-tails-you-lose with taxpayer money

I don't recall advocating that those corporations should have been bailed out. Indeed, I believe just the opposite. The market was malfunctioning back in '07, but the way to solve that problem isn't by rewarding those doing it. The correct fix, painful as it might be, is to allow it fail.

Maybe because the end of your slippery slope is oligarchy and/or crony capitalism masquerading as representative government?

Perhaps my previous statement clarifies that I'm not a supporter of corporatism at all. I'm opposed to the government grabbing additional powers. That's it.
LoL I always think this will work then I remember WiFi speeds suck compared to my UVerse connection and so I stay at home and the cycle repeats.

Glad you made it work though :)
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To each of his own.

It's very very tough to find the "best software folks" and hope this cog (yes, sorry bro) can join your company and fit the culture.

I joined a company with decent software developers (that are willing to listen, learn, and also live life like a normal regular human being) and I couldn't be more happier.

During my interview, the manager, the senior people, and the owner keeps stressing 2 things: we hire people that fit our culture and we don't hire stupid people (not the smartest). I asked everybody who interviewed me of how long they have been here and the minimum question was 3 years (the person is one of the Directors). The rest have been there for 6 years, 8 years, etc.

We struggled together. We went through hard times together. At the end of the day, these people go home everyday to their family and go back to work tomorrow without extra baggages.

The best software folks tend to have their own dogmatic approaches that may clash with everybody else that he thinks less superior (U KNO NO EMACS? Ur LVL just went down a few notch and U SHALL BOW TO ME!).

I mean... c'mon, let's get real here and clear those pixie dusts. If the smartest people don't have that kind of ego, they ain't smart to begin with.
Anytime I see this kinds of numbers, the first thing I think about is - What about inflation?

Sadly, without proper information about what these numbers represent, and without accounting for inflation, there is no easy way to compare them.
"natural imperatives" also say that people are attracted to the opposite sex. So what do we do with all those pesky gays? Probably encourage them to go to church more. Certainly, any kind of "if you think you might be gay , that's OK, be gay !" is just encouragement against "natural imperatives" - we should "Stop" doing that !
Technical Management - either Operations or Project - is still regarded as a soft skill, and therefore isn't desired by most startups. As a result, they don't know how to recruit, don't know how to interview, and don't know how to manage their teams, whether in the office or distributed.

I've been doing it for about 5 years now, almost exclusively remote - it's not difficult, it just requires that everyone communicate well, or be willing to learn, if they don't already.

Part of the problem I've encountered are founder/senior managment who are willing to learn these management skills themselves - they are conditioned that everything is on them, so that can be tough.

At this point, I'm of the opinion that in most cases, especially with startups, remote is far more humane than in the office. It's also far more cost effective.
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Why do Google continue to aquire IP4 adresses other than 66.0.0.0/8 they already own but do not appear to be using much at all. Do they even have legitimate purpose for assignment of 66.0.0.0/8 under ARIN justfification?
She doesn't practice what she preaches...

Pretty much anyone who says "don't make the same mistakes I made" doesn't practice what they preach.

She actively discourages women from entering the startup world...

Your link does not support your claim. If you disagree, please quote some text from your link where she discourages women from entering the startup world.
I don't have time to get better data, i.e. I couldn't find any MFLOPS data for a mobile CPU (not GPU), so just quickly unscientifically:

Texas Instruments OMAP4460 (in Galaxy Nexus at 1,2 GHz): 2047.7 BogoMIPS

1.7 GHz Xeon from 2006 (the small EC2 instance, single-core): 5203.55 BogoMIPS

Would be interesting to see some real benchmarks though..
Why is it suddenly about "happiness" and "respect"? Stop moving the goalposts!!! If society would benefit from more women doing startups (as is often alleged), and men are encouraged to change their behavior in the name of that goal, why shouldn't women be encouraged to change their behavior too?
Worse: I couldn't get into the WLAN (students only), so I could only use my phone's Internet connection w/384Kbit/s -- but that was good, you get so effective with such a low bandwidth (using Google's mobile client, doing only must searches etc.)
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This almost sounds like a front to keep everyone but the "true believers" out. If you try to make a startup three times, do they finally accept you and let you in?

I will continue to lean on everyone I know. One of them might break loose and go on to do something interesting, and then I will feel good about it. It might even improve the situation as a whole for the rest of us.
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Lmao. Love the ending.
Or, these "kids" understands copyright and did some economical analysis and figured out that the increased spending power that comes from the money saved by copying content at zero cost was more beneficial to the economy than any benefits gained by having content protectionism.
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I think that's likely to be the perception any time you have a company that's grown quickly and organically, at least when your whole company depends on your software as much as ours does. Ditching something that's interwoven into every business process is tough, and making new approaches play well with existing ones is tricky. We're all for doing things the best way.

If you have specific ideas, I'd love to hear them, and would gladly buy you lunch. Shoot me an email.
> I would be interested to learn if there are any non-profits that run campaigns that aim to educate and inform the public.

There are thousands of such organizations.

During the up-coming campaign, you'll hear lots of screaming that they're "unregulated campaigning" and the like.

> if they stop immigrants from coming and stealing their jobs. Which I suppose is a reasonable conclusion for an uninformed person to reach.

Unions and all professionals organizations believe that decreasing competition for jobs results increased salaries. We also believe that decreased competition in other products results in higher prices. Are they wrong or is immigrant job competition different?

Yes, some immigrants bring skills etc, but not all, and you didn't make that distinction.
I have found that good friends are hard to find. I feel that this hasn't changed much down the ages. Superficial friendship depends strongly on the culture and probably did so down the ages, too.
whether they are looking the other way on jailbreaks or not, this sounds like a rather serious security problem. it's nice that i can run my own code on the device, but that also means that any mp3 files i download off the internet can run other, potentially malicious code.
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Not sure how far off the mark this is, but Paperlex[1] could be interesting to check out.

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I have to agree. I'm lucky enough now that I have a great cofounder who I'm excited to work with, and who will put as much as I do into our project. I've been in situations though that I should have walked away from a lot sooner than I did. Instead I hung in there out of a misguided sense of loyalty and thinking I could change the company. almost a year of my life wasted.
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C or one of the derivatives of C would be a great antidote.
I just went through this process. For my team of four, we went with an Anthem Blue Cross PPO,.allowed us to provide health coverage for a remote worker in a different state. My recommendation is to find a good insurance agent who can help you choose. We went with Brad @ http://www.allpointe-is.com in San Francisco. He was really helpful. In case you are wondering, using an insurance agent does not cost any extra.
One thing that I took away from this is that there are plenty of women in their early 30s who have children who want to work part-time. I've heard this echoed in my girlfriend's circles as well. Perhaps a marketplace for mom's seeking part-time work is in order.
None of what you say is specific to women. As a former academic, I was told that a startup is a legitimate career path precisely once (in a grad student seminar, by Stephen Wolfram). Plenty of men are stuck in the same treadmills you describe, and there are many complaints that the grad school and finance treadmills also have too few women.

I don't think Trunk is asserting that encouraging women to do startups "co-opts free will". I think her main complaint is that it is bad advice for most women, i.e. many women who take such advice will be less happy than they otherwise could be.
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yup true, completely agreed.But doesn't it make more sense to discuss the things meant to be discussed? :)
Understanding all that is the biz owner's responsibility too.
Back in the '90s I used it for:

• the user interface of a call center scheduling system (my own GUI, built on X11 but it looked and worked a lot like Copland. All layout was constraint based and used lpsolve to figure out where everything went. You should try that sometime, very expressive.)

• a code generator to build sane C++ business objects mapped to a ridiculously normalized physical database. (A 20+ way join for the most common query. Bureaucrats for the project kill!)

• generating dynamic web pages. I made a template based system, very much like PHP, but before PHP was popular, even before I was aware of PHP.

These were all done with "mindy", the CMU dylan interpreter. It was a byte code compiled interpreter, but its compiler was so fast you never noticed the "make". Very fast startup time on the executables as well. You would need a stopwatch with milliseconds to tell the workflow from a "edit-run-repeat" scripting language. Mindy was later abandoned because it didn't have macros and it was deemed too much work to add it.

The rub is, Dylan macros will hurt your head. They are not easy to understand, ludicrously difficult to implement (been there), and I suspect frightening to extract coherent compile time error messages in a large system. I rather liked the language without them, though I can also see the appeal of a language with them (or a similar extension mechanism).

Overall I can recommend it for:

• Good compile time detection of many stupid errors.

• Excellent readability. (It is verbose, e.g. "end method frabulate-widget;", but that is a single keystroke in the emacs mode, the "end whatever the heck I'm in" key.)

• Safe.

• Powerful.

• Multimethods. Dispatch guided by both type and singleton values. Once you get the hang of this, and design your frameworks with it in mind, you will cry when you have to go back to a language without it.

Things which are concerns:

• Multimethods. Once you have built a system that is extended in different places by overriding multi methods, and you ask yourself the question: "What happens when I call XYZ(a,b,c)?" You don't really know where to look to find the answer. It could be anywhere. If you write a library, you can't really know what a call to XYZ(a) will do. It could be overridden in some flakey user code. (there are various sealing declarations to prevent extension on methods and types, but then you lose the advantages of extension)

• Macros. I doubt I could have taught one in twenty of our engineers to be proficient in the macro system. I can see what the language designers were aiming at with it, but I think they over estimated the abilities of the population.
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>This is the 21st century. Are we really still talking about "natural imperatives"?

I do think that "imperative" is a little strong. But males are biologically different from females in all species, and in all species this translates into behavioral differences. There's no such thing as a species where males and females don't show behavioral differences, and in particular in regards to mating behavior and reproduction.

Certainly humans, as a whole, in first world countries are failing to mate effectively. Children are being had later or not at all. But women still show a comparatively greater interest, despite this overall trend. It would be foolish to claim that the 21st century has made natural behavioral differences irrelevant.
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Loved it.

At work they have one organization about Women in Tech. That does nothing besides call out the misconception that women need help for some reason.

In my previous country that would outright illegal. You know, sexism. Here it's seen as a great thing. Well, we didn't have minorities guettos on every city either...
But why shouldn't you remix and derive their stuff?
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I know this is not what the article talks about, but ... Bellard did this in 15 seconds, in 2004 with a 2.4Ghz Pentium 4. In the 7 years since, I except a 4-fold increase in speed, so on modern hardware it will probably be 4 seconds, maybe 1 or 2 on the beast described in this article.