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I don't have hard data. All I know is that I have known more than one women who quit her job after being told she couldn't take a year off following childbirth and never known a man to do the same. I have also known far more women to take unpaid timeoff than men, and to cut back on work following having kids.

Interestingly the data presented in the TC article is stuff that's been true for over ten years: unmarried women without kids earn more than similarly experienced unmarried men without kids. This then reverses particularly after a married woman has kids.
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Interesting that a format change such as in large print or braille is an allowable exception.

My local lending library has a huge number of large print books and I've often wondered why, especially when it seems out of proportion to the size of the aged population. Perhaps the library gets them cheaper.
I think that was before laws could be bought with money, like in a supermarket, which is what we have today.
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Why would FF do that? They get funded by Google.
It should've been neither an opt-out nor an opt-in. Since it's a one-time notification, it should've explained the rationale behind this feature and asked for a decision. That would mean treating users as intelligent adults. Pre-selecting a good-deed option for them is annoying and insulting. I know that I don't like a good Samaritan behavior stuffed down my throat, so I would've gone and disabled this feature just as a matter of principle (even though I agree it is reasonable).
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.

Also from what I have heard is that in the sciences, it is extraordinarily hard to succeed as a professor and a mother at the same time unless you simply don't want to take time off to spend with your newborn and expect your kid to be factory-farmed.

Edit: What's up with the downvotes? It seems like they go up and down this thread largely randomly. Are people just downvoting things they disagree with?
>Why exclude an entire gender, even if it is potentially already dominating the given market.

Because it's dominating the given market. I don't see anything on their website specifically banning men, though. They probably just cater to women.
So again, what is the problem when you can "flash" the phone with the OS variant you want? I noticed there already are floating various user builds for Galaxy Nexus. I'm much more worried about the frequent hardware build quality issues that German users are reporting about so much. I hope I won't have to send mine back. Let's stay optimistic!
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If women can get tenure at a top-10 university while raising a kid.

If by raising you mean outsourcing to a factory farm....

The fact is that today it's getting harder and harder for women to both have careers and raise their kids (instead of outsourcing that to day care centers and the like).
edit: I can't respond to your response, so I'll post it here

> have known more than one women who quit her job after being told she couldn't take a year off following childbirth and never known a man to do the same. I have also known far more women to take unpaid timeoff than men, and to cut back on work following having kids.

Sure, I know plenty of women who have done the same, but it's never been that they wanted to do so more than men, it's that the cultural expectations ("father has to be the breadwinner") meant that the fathers felt they had to keep working, while it's more cultural acceptable for the women to stay home. IOW, all of the young fathers I know would gladly quit their jobs and stay at home if money wasn't a problem (and in the case of one friend who's wife is a surgeon, that's exactly what he did).
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I think many people would be happy to pay if the payment method was easier and less intrusive. If there was a method for sending a few cents for a pageview without a credit card or permanent account, I would use it , constantly. Such a payment method does not presently exist, paying for stuff is hard and there are fees and fixed costs severely limit making it easier.
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It is actually a problem in quite a number of people's minds. And by the way, all problems occur only in people's minds.

I am of course not trying to fix other people's voluntary decisions. But I would like to fix a system that unfairly limits the options that people have. So if you're arguing for more freedom of choice, we're on the same side.

If you would like to apply scientific rigor to your political choices, go to it. If you would like to fund me sufficiently so that I can bring my level of rigor up from "best I can do" to "finding the Higgs boson" then I will happily cash your checks. Until then, I'll press on with what I've got.

Arguing that all action should stop until the data is perfect ignores that we are talking about real people's lives here. Around the time of the Civil War, people didn't say "Hey, let's wait a few hundred years until we can determine for sure whether or not, as the slaveholders claim, negroes are inherently inferior." Some people decided slavery was wrong, and worked to put an end to it. The same goes for women's suffrage, which isn't even 100 years old in this country. There is no particular reason we should default to the status quo if we lack data: it has been wrong before, and there's no reason to think it's perfect now.
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The list of exception filters in question -

https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/exceptionrules.tx...
How would you promote non-for-profit, locally targeted app?
In short, I recently released a simple app for local transit system and I want to promote it without spending any money. How would you do it?

When I moved here a few months ago, I made this app to make it easier to find bus schedule. I found myself using it more than I expected. So I took some time to finish it and submitted it to the app store. I don't _really_ care if not many people download it, but at the same time it would be nice to see people benefit from the app.

For those who are interested, it is for London Transit in London, Ontario, Canada.
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> Ok so you can't as an employer treat your [women] employees having babies as a life-changing [and work-productivity reducing] event?

No, you have to actually evaluate their performance, instead of making assumptions about it based on family status. Try evaluating things and making decisions objectively, instead of with your personal prejudices.
> Women often want to take more time off after having babies, scale back on work, etc. Men usually don't.

I'm going to shoot proper discussion methods in the heart and counter your unsupported claim with an anecdote: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/world/europe/10iht-sweden....
"Apple set the bar for realistic textured apps. Developers followed."

IMHO, this was to be avoided. I think this move on Apple's part to move towards such literal skeuomorphism was a major step back. After decades of learning that literal analogies on computing devices simply doesn't work all that well, Apple decided to forget about all of that lesson learned stuff and just throw it all away.

Even Gruber can't manage to fake gushing over it

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/10/26/against-skeuomor...

These themes aren’t lies. They’re not designed to help users understand how these apps work. They’re just decoration. They’re per-app branding. Apple no longer endorses system-wide visual uniformity. Special apps are supposed to look special. Why is Find My Friends wrapped in rich Corinthian leather? Because someone at Apple likes (and, sadly, if my guess is right, better said liked, past tense) how it looks.

I'd say in general the design gods are not happy with this move

http://www.andymangold.com/skeuomorphism-the-opiate-of-the-p...

http://madebymany.com/blog/apples-aesthetic-dichotomy

http://kensegall.com/blog/tag/ical-address-book/

http://cushley.net/2011/07/in-depth-os-x-lion-review-part-3-...

So in less than half a dozen links this design trend is called cheap "kitsch", "infantile", patronizing lies, "hideous" etc. These are not slight disagreements, these are fighting words.

I agree that Google's Android apps suffer from terrible UI consistency problems, but using Apple's trend towards textured apps as an example of consistency cum success doesn't work here.

A better example might be the pre-OS X guidelines that Apple used to publish. You couldn't tell one company's application from another!

In the end though, I'm not entirely sure that it really matters all that much. Users will learn how to use the apps they want, and they'll think about those apps as tasks, each with discrete ways of doing things. e.g. opening a car door is different than opening a fridge door is different from opening a closet door is different from opening the screen door is different from opening the shower door etc. UI consistency just isn't that important, it's just annoying when you notice it.
The artists must start to learn how to use social media and build their own communities, and then sell directly to their fans. Google Artist Hub is allowing them to do this:

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I guess URLs don't get linkified automatically for posts: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ltwatch/id482807766
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> Women often want to take more time off after having babies, scale back on work, etc

And when they do, you can make objective evaluations of their performance, not pay them for days they don't work, etc.

If your employees are working reasonable hours, and you're applying leave and vacation policies uniformly, you'll get in no legal trouble. If not, your company has problems beyond sexism.
I attempted to get one but had no luck. I didn't even think of using ebay.ca like the commenter veeti mentioned.
I know Google Adsense pays out a bit for "impressions", just displaying their ad on the page. I'm not sure how much revenue this really generates for very small sites though.
The thing is, though, we think in patterns. Patterns mean prejudices. I.e. This person like this treated me like that. This other person is also like this so he will probably treat me similarly. When you look at how people in oral cultures think (see "Orality and Literacy" by Walter Ong and "Myth and Reality" by Mircea Eliade), it is entirely in this pattern-centric approach. This means I meet you and I assess you based on how you conform to everyone else I have ever met. Maybe that's not the same as judging you, but if it isn't the difference is quite narrow.

I don't think there is an easy way out of this, nor do I think that would be productive. Instead I think the correct approach is to be aware of limitations and simply allow people room to break out of one's pre-conceived assessments (prejudices).

I don't think you can wave away hundreds of thousands of years of human development just because for a few centuries here and there we've had widespread literacy with a largely phonetic writing system (note that excludes Arabic and Hebrew from consideration because of a lack of vowels in how the languages are usually written).
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It's a fairly well thought out and well researched argument for the abolition of copyright. There are a few examples of how people can still make money off of content that anyone can access.

The basic premise is that the content creator has the advantage of releasing the material, and therefore can leverage it for profit even though others can copy the material.
Is there any risk of a bidding or lobbying war between advertising firms trying to coerce the list maintainers into marking their ads as "non-intrusive?"
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Doesn't it bother you that there is only 1 retailer in the world who sells software for the iPhone? It is very possible that 3-5 years from now literally every byte of information flowing to our portable devices will be 100% controlled (or approved) by the big 3: Google, Apple and Amazon. Wintel domination pales in comparison.

P.S. In my comment above I used wireless carriers but forgot Google. In reality they all try to do the same thing: google/apple/amazon are using the platform, while carriers are using the pipe, but in the end they all want to own the whole enchilada.
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I did wonder whether I should post the comment. Take a look at the site. The photos show how many folks showed up at the event. Guys aren't prohibited and in fact are often leading the seminars.

Stereotypes or not, the format works. When I go to traditional developer meetups only single women who aren't moms tend to show up. You have to, at some point, wonder whether the format of the events has something to do with the low turnout of women.

But yeah, let's focus on the stereotypes. I've been here long enough with a low karma that I don't really worry too much any more about being controversial.
This would seem to have more to do with the 535 dumbest people on the planet than with Google.
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I find it ironic that you would say this about a type of business that is usually praised for it's ability to be flexible with work hours, granted that the employees finish what they are expected to finish.

This obviously varies with position to position, but flexibility shouldn't be thrown out of a window because it might be an inconvenience. It's important to treat your employees well!
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> 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.

Basic sanity determines where things should appear on the page. Ads, by definition, try to draw your attention from useful content. If they provided the content you wanted, we wouldn't call them ads.
Yes. I agreed with you. I am not a big fan of those textured apps myself and I really like how WP7 look. That is a post for another time.
Do you believe that the conception of "natural imperative" she's using refers to a deterministic binary, and not a normal distribution with a somewhat shifted mean in relation to that of men?

Treating individuals as mere instances of categories is a bit absurd, isn't it?
I can easily change every single thing in the system, should I really want to

Ok why don't you start removing Verizon's bloatware on this Nexus phone.
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

i don't understand, are you really complaining that there's a 64gb iphone? compared to the 32gb that comes with the galaxy nexus or the measly non-expandable 16gb that came with the nexus s? you can use icloud to store all of your media on apple's servers if you want, you don't ever have to sync it to a computer.

that I only use on the phone

you never play music on your computer?

conversely, try actually synching music from a computer to an android phone. how do you do it? you need some 3rd party apps and none of the solutions are as seamless as how itunes does it with wifi sync to an iphone (i say that as someone that has had many android phones and written android mp3 synching utilities).
Funny isn't it, how "son cry" and "daughter cry" have very different rhetorical weights.
The problem is that EAs products are not shovelware, but actually worth the 7+ Dollars they usually sell for. Thats where the huge perceived value comes into play.
What's detrimental is that most of the big names have a lot more resources to advertise their $.99 apps. Since the top ten is kind of the sweet spot, simply by having many more people buying their apps it pushes good smaller indie titles down the list. The things that influence the app ecosystem isn't just limited to the app store.
there's a project I have recently come across called Postgres-XC which would solve the problem you describe quite nicely. Basically it's Teradata-style clustering based on PostgreSQL. It isn't full-featured yet (version 0.9.6 is the current version, and it doesn't support things like windowing functions), but it looks extremely interesting in this space.
This might be accurate with some people, but it can't be applied to everyone. I am working towards everything I want, and honestly I think the journey is much more desirable then the end result. A big part of Zen is killing your ego, and I think this is a very powerful mentality to have.
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Paralysis by analysis. Stop thinking about it and just do it. Launch, then find out what users say about your product.
i was pretty disappointed with the nexus s as the successor to the nexus one. cheaper-feeling hardware, all plastic instead of rubber and metal, no sd-card expansion (i think that was on purpose to push google's cloud synching), no notification light, and a bigger footprint with no bigger screen resolution.
If you want something to play with that could scale to that size (although maybe not ready for production), see Postgres-XC (http://postgres-xc.sourceforge.net/). This looks promising.
Projected usage, is my guess. I am probably missing key information, but it seems to me that the only way for netflix to work is if nine out of ten netflix subscribers watch one or two movies a month (or less).

Comcast is TV. I want to say the average American watches something like 3 hours of TV a day.
This comment says all I want to say in reply: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3342514

edit: This comment wasn't supposed to come over as rude, but given the downvotes and rereading it, I guess it probably does. Apologies.
So it sounds like the media companies are trying to do something like this:

1. Launch free to cheap streaming services like Hulu, Netflix, and Spotify, to draw people away from DVRs and piracy and dry up the pirate networks. Since the services are streaming only, users don't own archived copies of the media they enjoy.

2. Lobby governments and hire lawyers to crack down on the remaining pirates, flood their ISPs with DMCA notices, etc.

3. Once the pirate networks are dried up, kill the legitimate services that everyone used instead (mostly done on Hulu for many shows, work in progress for Netflix).

4. Since people don't have archived copies of the media they enjoy and stopped using their DVRs, media companies hope consumers shell out for the DVDs and CDs to restore access to the songs and shows they used to enjoy for free/cheap.
are you talking about the Chrome Store or Android Market?
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I'm glad he's progressing.

If the internet had existed when I was a little tike, I'd have been 13 for about eight years.
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Its more common then you think, and not everyone can afford to leave their job for something as relatively insignificant as this - i.e. its annoying but its tolerable and the bills gotta get paid
Some of those apps from the first few days are still at the top of the top 10. I wonder what the benefit of that for subsequent full price sales will be!
Under that legal framework, how does Stephen King make money selling his book? I see an enormous race to the bottom in terms of prices, especially with ebooks. The official ebook comes out and within minutes it can and will be sold for less elsewhere. Given the triviality of duplication, it'll be essentially free, soon. I'm certainly not buying the official one if I can get it for 10% the price - and I think that's being generous.

Paper books actually cost money to print, so people who love the paper book experience will likely be the only ones buying books. I strongly suspect the ratio of those purchasers to those who consume ebooks is steadily decreasing. And if ebooks race to the bottom as I have no doubt they would, I suspect that ratio would drop even more.
Ha! If only it were that easy. I've spent most of my life being a goody two shoes, only doing what other people told me to do and never really exercising any individual free will. Passion? What passion?

I'm aware of the irony of reading what more people, this time strangers on the internet, are telling me to do. I doubt I'll see the answer in a web browser.

For the time being I'm simply trying to do something I've never done before every week. It doesn't have to be drastic, maybe something like trying out a new recipe or taking a photo of a different neighborhood or going for a moonlight run at 3am. Sort of a "throw lots of things at the wall and see what sticks" approach.
How is excluding a dominate group beneficial? I find groups based on gender and race to be questionable. Leave the segregation in the 20th century. How are we to break stereotypes if people keep on grouping themselves into groups defined by what they claim to want to overcome? To me it seems ironic at least. Let's focus on the root issues and solve them organically.
Also, no going to the bathroom or talking to your family during commercials.

if everyone blocked ads, there would be no more free apps.

If nobody blocked ads, we'd still be bombarded with popups and flash ads on every site.