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Structuralists and Post-structuralists though tend to see most cultural constructs as arbitrary on an atomic level, and to the extent they are useful to a group that comes out of context with other cultural constructs. So for example the fact that we associate pink with girls and blue with boys is entirely arbitrary. It could be (and indeed historically has been until surprisingly recently) the other way around.

With humans though the linking of physical sex and gender is not as simple as you suggest. As I have said, some cultures (like ours) have two genders. Some have three, with children being genderless, and some have more genders than three. To pretend that gender is only about display of sex-based characteristics is to gloss over the fact that in most cultures it doesn't really work that way, nor does it really even in our own.

Gender is instead a social category and a social position. It affects division of labor and all sorts of other things. Different genders often have different taboos and these are often aimed at preventing gender-crossing, as well as maintaining a symbolic order between genders.

This is a very broad category of anthropology, and it's dangerous to assume that everyone structures their society around two genders fairly closely tied to biological sex, since this is not really the case.
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The NY Times, back in 2007 shared how they generate PDFs using Map/Reduce (on Amazon infrastructure)[1]

Hadoop has a long, long list of companies using it[2]. Cloudera has a similar list[3]

[1] http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/self-service-prorat...

[2] http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/PoweredBy

[3] http://www.cloudera.com/customers/
Piracy is already illegal.
Splunk is killing it in the "Map/Reduce for enterprise" market. See http://www.splunk.com/industries
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That's not really an advantage. If service providers and marketers were regulated reasonably, you wouldn't have to pay for receiving calls AND you could prevent telemarketers from calling you.

Here in Finland there's a number you can call to register your phone on a do-not-call list. It doesn't stop all callers I guess, but I have had no telemarketing calls since registering about a year ago, so it is pretty effective. I do get an SMS or two from my service provider every few months, but I'm not bothered enough to do something about it.
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Simply c/foo should work, if I understand you correctly.
I'd say that besides the fact that he actually brought the troops home from Iraq (sort of), he's worse than Bush. He's been asking for totalitarian powers that even Bush didn't have, and pretty much everything he promised in the campaign he did the opposite when he got in White House.

As for the Iraq part, well if he starts a war with Iran already, he's really not better than Bush at all. Check out how they want to collapse the Central Bank of Iran in 60-180 days, and also a bit of history between Iran and USA:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy3KDYE5KQE&feature=youtu...

Also, even Bush thought bombing Iran would create blowback (which is exactly what Ron Paul has been saying all along):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/25/iran.israelandth...

Also, Bush's foreign policy before he got elected was almost identical to that of Ron Paul, of non-interventionism and not being the world police:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9SOVzMV2bc
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I don't agree.

It's quite acceptable to me for Congress not to know how technical stuff works. But they do need to pay attention to the input of their constituents and experts in the field. They also need to make sure constituents get enough information, in a timely manner, to allow them to advise Congress appropriately.

P.S. Why the endless mockery of the late Ted "Series of Tubes" Stevens? (Because he said "tube" instead of "pipe"?)
Now you (and the site's rules) are just getting pedantic.

What's the legal definition of a "Chatty, open-ended question" or a "practicable, answerable question"? No question is un-answerable or impracticable imho.

Those are some very ridiculous requirements if you ask me, and 300 odd other people who voted in favor of this question and it's answers.

P.S. in the midst of all this argument... CasperOne has added and removed his vote of no confidence for this question. It is now "closed as not constructive by Tim Cooper, lwburk, Tobu, 一二三, Graviton 8 hours ago". So which is it then?
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This should not feel special at all. :-/
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Treating the exam here as a person (indulge me), the test says: "I'm expected between Monday and Friday; and I'm completely unexpected.". There lies the contradiction and, hence, is beyond logical reasoning.

It's sort of like the following self-referential paradoxes:
"This statement is false" (Statement is refering to itself).
"All truth is relative"
"Its extremely important that you understand how completely trivial this statement is".
Someone in CBS News site's comments pointed out an interesting thing: there were already two bill like that.

"Communications Decency Act" and "Child Online Protection Act", which both were tossed out by Supreme Court.
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[...]

The MIT guy did not see any code that handled this case and asked the New Jersey guy how the problem was handled. The New Jersey guy said that the Unix folks were aware of the problem, but the solution was for the system routine to always finish, but sometimes an error code would be returned that signaled that the system routine had failed to complete its action. A correct user program, then, had to check the error code to determine whether to simply try the system routine again. The MIT guy did not like this solution because it was not the right thing.

The New Jersey guy said that the Unix solution was right because the design philosophy of Unix was simplicity and that the right thing was too complex. Besides, programmers could easily insert this extra test and loop. The MIT guy pointed out that the implementation was simple but the interface to the functionality was complex. The New Jersey guy said that the right tradeoff has been selected in Unix -- namely, implementation simplicity was more important than interface simplicity.

The MIT guy then muttered that sometimes it takes a tough man to make a tender chicken, but the New Jersey guy didn’t understand (I’m not sure I do either).

[...]
What about other operating systems like FreeBSD, Solaris and OS X? I have to support many platforms and my code is heavily multithreaded.
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That was my first thought.

But it doesn't necessarily shed doubt on Zynga either. What happened here is not that the IPO failed, it's "only" that the price went down from the initial offer. Predicting a "good" initial price is hard. I think people commenting here aren't taking that into account.

Besides, I bet every pre-IPO investor is still making a lot of money on this.
I would not worry about it.

Probably worth looking into establishing some credit anyway though, if you're thinking about buying a car or anything like that in the near future.
>> I'm not sure it works even if it's moveable because there's no guarantee it will make copy elision everywhere it's needed.

Of course it works, since std::thread is movable but non-copyable, std::vector<std::thread> will be movable but non-copyable too. So the compiler type checking will make sure it's not copied anywhere.

This works like a charm (with GCC 4.7-ish from git):

#include <thread>
#include <vector>
#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>

int main()
{
std::vector<std::thread> threads;

for(int i = 0 ; i < 10 ; ++i)
threads.push_back(std::thread([=]() { std::cout << i << std::endl; }));

std::for_each(threads.begin(), threads.end(), [](std::thread& thread) { thread.join(); });
}

>> Better use std::generate.

I used to nitpick about not using std::algorithms when they're available, but I grew out of it. I figured out that std::algos are very limited (esp. in c++98), and while you can use them to do stuff, it usually takes a significant amount of brainpower only to reformulate your problem to be suitable for std::algorithms. There are so many situations where a good old loop will produce more readable code faster, so why bother with the standard algorithms if they're not a perfect fit?

Btw. has std::generate improved at all in C++11? It's one of the most limited algorithms in c++98.
I was one of those nerds. I was not bullied by girls, but by guys. Most of the girls were really nice and lovely, in fact. I have nothing but fond memories of girls from those times.

As such I find your hypothesis quite hilarious and insulting. Misogyny in Newspeak does not mean hatred of women, it means things women hate. Think about it. More often than not it is a pure strawman.

Your logic chain goes as such: bullying -> misogyny -> boobies in entertainment.

My logic chain goes as follows: I like boobies -> boobies in entertainment.

Somehow you jump from sexism to misogyny without blinking. Those are two completely different things.
I'm sorry, but: if I stood up in the middle of the day and loudly proclaimed it was midnight, would I also be a bad-ass contrarian?

The way I see the clip is: Hitchens (who I admire for a lot of things) was trying to soothe his bruised ego that he had been so colosally wrong about Bush. He was just doubling down on his massive error of judgment by continuing to support Bush. Claiming that nobody in a theater full of people he does not even know is not smarter than Bush is silly.
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They made a lot of mistakes.
Not really sure whether that applies. There is a rather combative part of geek culture when it comes to defending either your own or the established view of your immediate peers. In that regard, geeks can indeed be astonishingly egalitarian in their derision of somebody with a perceived inferior viewpoint or understanding of the matter at hand. At that point, really all bets are off and if it is a battle between geeks, it is often a competition for who can be the most emotionless asshole.

This piss taking is something that most people would find offensive and it is this area of geekdom that is often perceived as the prime example for the emotional and social inability of geeks, particularly when a non-geek or a very fresh geek gets into such a fight. Put differently - the inability to understand that an argument about viewpoints can have limits that are deeply hurtful to other people when crossed is something that is often lost on geeks. In that regard, it is easy to conclude that the geek in question was simply being sexist. But it is also true that it was just an example for a geek not understanding that he didn't win additional points by venturing into the area of gender.

The problem is that the article really doesn't do much to qualify the "because she was a girl" statement. Was that an actual quote? Was it heavily implied? Or did it just fit the narrative closely enough that it would be accepted as another example per default?
I thought there were some interesting things that he missed in his assessment of comic books, presumably because of a specific cultural lens he was looking at.

The commic book male figures he mentioned fell into two types: The deadly serious, strong, sexy Batman and two not particularly sexed supervillains. In other words, while the women are all about sex, for men, only the good guys-- the superheroes-- are. This may still make a case for male privilege but it's not as clear-cut I think as he wants to think.

The second thing is that men tend to stare at boobs. This is not unique to geek culture.

This being said, I do think that it is important not to dismiss people's views because of gender. Some of the most talented programmers I have ever met were women. In fact I would take that further and say the most talented programmer I have ever worked with is a woman. I learned a heck of a lot about security audits, programming secure code, and also general algorithms and good software design, development, and engineering practices from her (including her starting IRC dialogs to call me on the carpet for mistakes on my part). To the extent women's views are ignored because of gender that's pretty bad.

But another thing I have heard from women in open source is that one of the most annoying aspects of gender in open source is to be asked over and over "so what do you think we need to do to get women involved in open source?" I have seen plenty of replies of "Do you have ANY idea how annoying it is to be constantly asked that?"
Same here in Norway. I think most (all) European countries do the same.

The only exception is if you are in another country. In that case the caller only pays as if the call was domestic, and the other has to pay the extra costs. The providers are required to allow you to set a maximum limit on your costs for your phone use outside your country, so you can't be surprised by huge bills.
>but what about the Joker and the Doctor? Skinny guy with disfigured face and pudgy dude with a neck beard?

Yes, I'm sure no woman found Heath Ledger sexy in Dark Knight. Also the Doctor being an imposing, dominating, taking the control type, surely kills any and all appeal he might ever have on women.

Both the Joker and the Doctor are still very masculine, powerful characters no matter how you look at things.

If you use male criteria for judging the attractiveness of a man to a woman, you are using male criteria for judging the attractiveness of a man to a woman. It is also called projection.
Yes, and I maintain that jeans simply aren't as gender specific as a dress. I have never heard that jeans are 'male'. That's why it's not a comparison of opposites.
This is a classic dirty trick in politics. Organize an unpopular vote when a lot of the voters have left for xmas holidays. Just make sure there's a majority left when the vote is on. As an example: the federal reserve act was established in the same way on the days before xmas when a lot of the opposition had already left for holidays.

Since it's holiday season, the news will be a lot quieter than usual and the public can be left in the dark.
I wonder how far we should take this. TCP/IP training for all Congressmen? How about including detailed briefings of how MPLS works as well?

Actually the tubes metaphor is closer (particularly regarding MPLS backbones) than people are willing to accept both because of the pipe metaphor (a socket being two pipes) and the use of label switching (which acts logically as a big series of pipes).

And along these lines, bandwidth was originally a technical term in plumbing.....
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Ask HN: SOPA in America - Will IT go overseas?
From my comfortable (regarding IT-laws, not the financial crisis) watching post in Europe I've been following the frenzy in the American Internet industry, that has been stirred up by SOPA. Some people even think that Google might move its DNS-Servers to Europe. Do you think other firms might also migrate overseas? Will there be some kind of new IT-boom in Europe (or somewhere else, like India) whilst America is simply left behind by "fleeing" companies? Or is this simply a hype with negative results only for the users?

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I've been using Vim for something like a decade, and I only recently started toying with hjkl. At first, I ignored it because I was already pretty good with the arrow keys and hjkl are annoyingly not quite the home keys; then I ignored it because I switched to Dvorak and hjkl are scattered across the keyboard.

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Now that I think about it, dup2() to an existing file descriptor must be broken in a similar manner. In fact, with dup2() you can't even figure out whether the implicit close() succeeded.
That jeans have ceased to be gender specific is my point in a nutshell.
What is the average lifetime value of a customer too "cheap" to buy a full bottle of shampoo? The people who want that business sell sachets of shampoo. It's a model that works.

I guess if people are spending money sending text messages that's money that they're not spending on my business.
I considered citing that in my post, but it didn't fit anywhere conveniently. In general I like the New Jersey approach of "push complexity to the caller", but not in cases like this where it's impossible for the caller to handle the complexity correctly.

I have the same issue with eventual consistency, for what it's worth: I'm fine with the fact that my updates might not be globally visible immediately, but I want to have a way that at some point I can know that they have propagated (aka. "eventually known consistency").
Or mounting a filesystem with the noatime option, which is common.
The UK has a similar system. It's pretty effective. the loophole is that telemarketers are not allowed to call, but market researchers are allowed to call.
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I believe FreeBSD will never return EINTR for close, but I wouldn't bet my life on it. I've heard rumours that Solaris can return EINTR, but likewise I make no guarantees. I have no idea what OS X does.
Well to give another example, pornography is illegal in China.
A company having a free-to-call telephone number has to recoup the cost of those calls somehow.

When people have very little money (they don't want to spend money on a text message, not because they are skinflints but because they are poor) there's little chance to upsell goods to recoup the cost.
Obviously it's a PR move, but still, a good one!

Congrats to Sprint for having balls!
SMS expanded from "minimal messaging that utilised slack space in the system" to "primary use of the system for many people".

There could and should be a way to get free, minimal messaging, sent as the system has free space, working. That could be used alongside modern sms and mms systems.
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>I am genuinely sad that such a statement would ever be uttered. "Even when"? Why would you choose to use a database that isn't reliable?

How many NoSQL DBs are guaranteed ACID compliant? They are reliable but not ACID.
And consistency checks are put in application layer

>Maybe if there were some way to do that, but there isn't. It doesn't get replicated, it gets re-implemented,....

I want to ensure that X is always equal to the sum of Y and Z. I can achieve consistency at Database. But It would be a waste of resources to query DB for consistency on each request when such check can be implemented at application level only, or even better at client side (assuming web application).
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Is eventually known consistency even possible if at any point while the notification of consistency is being transferred to you, the system can enter a non/eventual-consistent state again?
Recruiting other people is always a good next step. Talking to friends is the simplest way to do it. I'd also posting about SOPA on FB/Twitter/etc. This article might be good to link to, though it's a little too long:

The Definitive Post On Why SOPA And Protect IP Are Bad, Bad Ideas
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111122/04254316872/defini...
I remember doing this as a teenager when we all started getting mobile phones (England). At first it was just to annoy people, we'd call it "pranking", where you'd call someone and hang-up before they answered; but later it evolved into a "I have no credit, please call me back" signal.

The phenomenon seemed to die off pretty much exactly at the same time as when everyone got jobs and/or money.
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As for keeping calm during the interviews, it would help to try to keep the frame of mind that you are just having a normal conversation with another person. Take a breath before giving an answer. This should also give you a few moments to compose an answer in your head. If you feel you need more time to think you can use a phrase that will buy you a few seconds like "That's an interesting question..." or "Let me think about this a bit", etc.

Finally, get some practice. Have conversations with people as frequently as possible. These don't have to be technical conversations, any situation where you get to practice framing your thoughts into clear, concise sentences will help. If possible also go on more interviews. Practice makes perfect. Don't get down on yourself if you do not get the job(s). It is usually not due to a deficiency on your part. Maybe the interviewer had a bad day. Maybe you sound/look like a person that the interviewer hates....