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I agree, I think this is aspect of the article is a huge mistake (although I generally agree with the rest of it).

The notion that a great team has good communication seems pretty obvious. But drawing people from the exact same pool of talent is not necessarily a good thing to do at all -- in fact, it can be down right detrimental to the team. But to be clear, I am not saying that diversity is a cure either -- having too many opinions on how something should be done is also problematic.

I agree with the main premise of the article that you need a team of complimentary individuals. I think this touches on something that is similar to the notion of 'how to hire someone who is smarter than you are.' So hiring people that are like you, or the rest of the team, could be a mistake. Hiring people that compliment the current team is, IMHO, the right way to build a team.

I have experienced both sides of this coin: one team that on paper was probably not all that impressive, but came together and made a brilliant team. And the opposite, where the team was a collection of brilliant individuals from the same school who were unable to function effectively as a team because there was no leader and everyone thought their approach to a given problem was best.

So while communication is hugely important, I think that it is also essential to avoid hiring people who are like you or who you feel comfortable around simply because of a shared background.
Ben and Jesse are great guys. I'm surprised more startup companies don't reach out to their potential customers like this. This exchange proves how valuable that contact & communication can be.
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Comic-book culture seems to me very tangentially related to nerdism, computing, what have you. Al Capp was drawing remarkably endowed women in "Li'l Abner" a decade before ENIAC appeared. I doubt he was the first cartoonist to do so, as he very definitely wasn't the last.
Which part of:

* More divergence in browser script runtimes

* More divergence in standard libraries in script runtimes

* Slower performance than native JS due to Dart cross-compilation in non-Chromium browsers

* A more difficult debugging experience for Dart authors and regular web users due to obfuscated dart JS, bugs in dart runtimes, and bugs in dart compilers

seems like evolution to you? Dart does absolutely nothing useful at present. Your claim that Dart will just 'die off' if it lacks merit because of developers rejecting it is ridiculous. Google will shove it down everyone's throats whether it's good or not.
Re OLPC: The Ceres computers built at ETH by N. Wirth between 1985 and 1990 came close. They weren't laptops, but had been designed from the ground up (i.e. hardware, operating system, programming language) to be fully understandable and teachable. The OS was booted from ROM and took only a few seconds to show up on the screen. Project Oberon was documented in the book http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/books/ProjectOberon.pd...
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Some version of #2 might actually not be a horrible idea; companies seem fairly adept at losing old source code, and physical archives run by competent librarians are a little bit more durable and organized. Reminds me of a recent story from engineering (http://wrttn.in/04af1a), but there are plenty in tech as well, where e.g. someone resorts to emailing a former contractor asking if they have a copy of the source code they wrote on their contract job three years ago, because the company has somehow lost it.
You note that in medicine and law women are no longer a minority, and that they receive equal pay, and nearly equal social power as their male counterparts.

Sorry to be [citation needed]-guy, but a quick Googling tells me that this is not true. In both medicine (http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2011/02/gender-gap-physician-sal...) and law (http://www.theglasshammer.com/news/2009/02/05/the-wage-gap-p...) the pay gap is substantial, and a quick look says that they're both worse than tech.

From that first link:

Without these adjustments and just looking at a Population Survey from 2007, the New York Times reported that women doctors earn a whopping 40% less than their male colleagues. That is worse than every other profession the Times looked at. Yes, even lawyers.

I don't think wage gap is what's pushing people away...the worst case difference in tech is around 10%, which is not particularly bad compared to most fields, and for recent grads the gap is much smaller, around 4%.

I'd probably look to absolute value of wages instead for an explanation, though that wouldn't explain a difference between men and women's preferences.

If you want to bring women into the industry, you need to make the industry appealing to women. With current discriminatory practices that is just not the case, and until that changes, there won't even be an opportunity to recruit women, because those with anything less than a burning passion for the career are going to look elsewhere.

While I don't really think that discriminatory practices in tech are any worse than the general average across fields (I at least think that's an accusation that requires substantial proof), you bring up an interesting point. Most tech people that I've worked with do have a burning passion for it, and to be good in this field, it's pretty much a prerequisite.

I wonder what is blocking more women from feeling as passionate about tech as men do, especially since such passion usually emerges very early, well before one has opportunity to interact with anyone in the field (this is why I'm always skeptical of claims that teachers, professors, bosses, etc. have anything to do with this, I was programming on my own almost a decade before I ever interacted meaningfully with other programmers). Do girls spend less time with computers at the critical young age, perhaps? I wonder if perhaps the difference could have to do with time spent playing video games, at least for the current generation...
I'm not sure this part works: "to grow by a large factor (10x or more)".

Most businesses I come across that describe themselves as startups and fit the rest of the definition, haven't yet got themselves to a point where a 10x improvement over the next year would make them that significant.
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Maybe this can still be worked around by copying the target fd first so it can be closed after fdup()ing the source fd, e.g.

// Assume x and y are open fds and we want to replace y with a copy of x

z = open("/dev/null", O_RDONLY); // Guarantees no other thread is using z

dup2(y, z);

dup2(x, y);

close(z);
I'm specifically thinking of participants in accelerator programes like YC, TechStars, Start-Up Chile and SeedCamp.
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I think that as consumers our reflex is to send a text when a missed call might be faster/more convenient. For example, if I'm picking up a friend, I'll text "I'm here" or "here", whereas I could simply make a missed call and my friend sees that it's me on the display and goes outside because she's expecting me.

Making a missed call would just not occur to me, but when I moved to Lithuania for a few years it became a habit because that's what everyone does over there (and in other places where there is a missed call culture and people have several cell phones to take advantage of cheap/free calling plans within a given carrier network). It's faster by a few seconds than sending a text or calling the person and telling them.

Once you're in the missed call mindset, you see all kinds of situations where you can use it, but until you get in the mindset, the reflex will be to send a text or make a call.
Perhaps they should exercise their right to abstain from voting if they're being asked to weigh in on a subject they don't, can't, or are unwilling to understand.
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He is not stupid, but he is unfortunately very right-wing.

Like someone else said, the internet is going to be weird without all you americans around. Good luck.

Also, I do detect a bit of the old "first they came for the..." dynamic going on here. Why wait until now to kick up such a fuss? This nonsense is utterly trivial when held next to the mistakes and crimes of your leaders over even the last 5 years, let alone the last 10, 20 or 50 years.

Aren't you guys currently passing a law authorising the indefinite detention and torture without trial of your own citizens? They're probably loving the fact that they've got you all distracted with the possibility that tumblr might go away.
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I'm a little slow this morning....the top solution is just a string? The submitter just did a fake entry to get the answer and then submitted a second one?
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A far from perfect translation of a dutch article, but it is about research they're doing at the Holst centre, http://www.holstcentre.com/ (collaboration between Imec, http://www.imec.be, and TNO).

Cursive is science-fiction, normal is non-fiction.
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I am not a social justice geek, much less a theorist in that area. I think a lot of times we see a lot of hogwash coming out of that area and I think this is impossible to resolve because social justice theorists tend to deny basic aspects of human nature, despising sexuality (which is a necessary part of life), social divisions and hierarchy (socially necessary) and the like.

I think when we look at these things something more objective and less judgemental (like anthropology) is a better starting point. I.e. it is better to criticize from a standpoint of functional understanding than from functional ignorance (seeing only portions of a dynamic that bother one and not seeing how something benefits the target group).

As far as the checklist, it's fairly rife with definitional problems (sexual harassment has a very narrow legal definition for example but I doubt that's what the blogger means, and even terms like rape are more and more frequently subject of definitional problems, as jurisdictions pass laws saying that drunken sex is rape regardless of how the intoxicant was administered).

Moreover I think one could turn this on it;s head and come up with a female privilege checklist too as unpopular as that would be (particularly important in areas of parenting, child support, and the like).
The scam works something like this: The banks who back the IPO get the right to sell themselves and large institutional investors (who treat the privilege like being handed a giant bag of money) shares before they hit the market. They buy these reserved shares, wait for the "pop up" in price as everyone scrambles to get in on the IPO, and sell at a considerable low risk profit.

To put it nicely, Zynga or anyone else in their shoes, doesn't really decide how much money is "left on the table." The adults are in the room, and they are making the decisions.

Zynga didn't really "pop" like it was set up to. The banks who had rigged the horse race to be a surefire bet, watched their horse break a leg around the first turn. Sure they still made some money, but nobody involved in inking the deal is looking forward to going into work on Monday.
Can we look at general themes, rather than exceptions? I'm well aware that exceptions exist, but it's impossible to analyze situations like this that way. There are men and women who are attracted to animals as well, but obviously, these are outside the scope of this discussion.
> no exposure to identity provider (this is unlike any existing solutions; if you log into a site, your OpenID provide, Facebook, Google, etc. will know which site it was; not with BrowserID!)

Unfortunately that might be what prevents this or http://webid.info/ from getting traction. The big guys wouldn't like losing that data, and OpenID/OAuth already do the job well enough for them.

A comparison WebID/BrowserID can be found here: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/5406/what-are-th...
rather than post lists of ip addresses somwhere (which, btw, won't work on virtual servers that have multiple sites on one ip) we need something the rest of the world can link to if we expect Americans to use the links on our site, so we can write for example href="

http://uncensoredsite.de/redirect?siteiwant=thepiratebay.org

which returns http-equiv refresh; url=194.71.107.15

-- essentially a web-based, but trustworthy dns service.

there are sites like

http://baremetal.com/cgi-bin/dnsip?target=thepiratebay.org

but they're presumably just doing a lookup on a us-based nameserver, we need a site that uses an uncensored server and that provides an http redirect.

Is there to be direct blocking of ip addresses at all? Will everyone nerdy in America just be able to change their OS DNS settings to something outside the US?
I am thinking of the descriptions of missionaries to Ireland who were horrified at what they saw as women in battle hacking eachother to pieces, while carrying their infants on their backs.
Yes. You can edit CSS in Resources panel (http://youtu.be/N8SS-rUEZPg?hd=1&t=7m18s) and JS in both Resources and Scripts panels. It doesn't have any code completion yet. Also, you have to double click to enter edit mode (I don't know why https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71645).
I think it was David Pogue who wrote something up on this: press "1 * #" in that order, slowly, listening after each press. Depending on the carrier, you'll skip the message eventually.
I also want to add in that this seems complicated -- I mean, I get the purpose of tags and the like, but the UI steps to get there are unintuitive, and the video doesn't do a great job of showing me why I would want to.

I see elsewhere in this thread that you present a use case -- make that clearer.

It was surprising to me that the ONE thing this had the potential to offer over pen and paper isn't a feature -- the thing I hate about pen and paper is that when I scratch out something I've put in the cart, it doesn't go away.

See tadalist for what I mean -- when I check something, it is grayed out AND pushed to the bottom of the list. This is a huge feature that I think you're missing (for me at least).
This section is a little bit misleading.

"One advantage (from Nvidia’s point of view) not mentioned is that llvm is licensed under a BSD style agreement. This means Nvidia don’t have to release the source code of any modifications or additions they make (they said these will be kept closed source); gcc is licensed under the GNU general public license which requires source to be released. Arch rivals AMD (well, the ATI bit of AMD that does graphics hardware) also promote llvm and I’m sure Nvidia does not want to help them in any way."

The GPL does not require the modifications to the source code to be released. It just states that if the modified software is distributed, it must comply with the well-known GPL requirements.
It's a shame the original paper seems to be stuck behind a journal paywall.

Does anyone have access to a preprint?
I can relate to your link, since I now have a number of hard-drives with a ton of stuff on them that has been copied back and forth and mixed up so many times I am not quite sure what is what and which directories are complete (I have a small suspicion that none of them are). I can't imagine how a large company can possibly figure this out.

But your solution isn't going to help much. In twenty years, do we even have a computer that is capable of reading the old floppy disks? Most computers these days don't come with a floppy drive and the new mac mini doesn't even have a CD drive. Sure USB may be around, but twenty years ago you would have said the same thing about the 3.5inch floppy.

Really if you want to store source code like that, you would have to print it physical paper and store it in a massive archive. And how would you handle changes?

Do you want to print everything each time you do a svn commit? Or just the diff (yeah, that is going to be fun to type in)?

A central server, properly organized and upgraded would properly be the best, but even so it is never going to be very good. In a world were the price of data is very close to nothing, good metadata seems increasingly expensive.
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Ah, you're absolutely correct, I did misunderstand what you were saying - indeed, your argument is a classic example of kin selection, I'm just so used to hearing group selection arguments that I jumped the gun [1] (when I wrote "given your comment above, I'm surprised that you would make this argument" that should have been my first clue that you did, in fact, know better). You're 100% right that help-out-those-with-the-same-genes altruism is not only possible, but expected, and your argument makes perfect sense in that light.

Personally, my suspicion is that homosexuality is more directly linked to a positive physical trait in the individual, though I don't have much to really back that up other than a vague sense that kin selection effects in evolution are rarely as strong as direct expressed ones. But yes, the "gay uncle" effect could explain it, too, and it's definitely an interesting enough phenomenon to be worth keeping in mind.

[1] In fact, I probably shouldn't react as negatively as I do against most invocations of the group selection argument, because oftentimes the points would be valid if expressed as kin selection arguments instead.
"This code has already been submitted by catphish."

Is this by design?
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http://www.ics.uci.edu/~franz/Site/pubs-pdf/BC03.pdf

Google site search for HN for Oberon os:
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Because North Americans know that when they call somebody they pay a single, predefined rate to call that person: the rate from their location to the destination area code.

I don't have to know if I'm calling a mobile or a landline. In fact, a lot of people in the US pay a flat rate to any number in ANY area code in the country.

Let me pick a country I call often from my plan's list. Germany. I see two rates for landlines (49 for Telekom and 49115 for civil services), and then six rates for mobiles based on five major carriers and a sixth catch-all that is 5 times more than the others.

For kicks, let's look up India. Nice. 18 rates.
Add Singapore to the list.
Also, if it's by design:

Placing a random comment after my submission lets it through. So you might want to strip out comments for that bit.
But in certain domains (childrearing, for example) females are definitely in a net-privileged position in terms of power and control, particularly if unmarried.
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I'm not enjoying this much. I think the tone is a bit harsh. Compare to Learn Python THW:

(http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/intro.html)

See, especially, "do not copy paste" which is firm but clearly explains why you don't copy paste.
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Do you also maintain a home in the state that you actually represent? This might be FUD (I don't know) but saying that you do fine with less money isn't indicative of anything if you aren't doing the same thing.
From the article: ...you can leave the password blank (if you secure your laptop with encryption, a locking screensaver, and a strong password, your SSH key doesn’t require a password)..., but what if that is still not enough security for you or your policy prohibits you from using key pairs for authentication, or maybe you are not using a server that often and just don't want to set up key pairs.

Enter the ControlMaster mechanism (see man ssh_config):

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So now you type in your password for your first session only, and every other session will be slaved to it (this includes directory/file auto completion over ssh in zsh and other nice nibbles like it does with public/private key pairs).
This is the important thing. Would it be useful if they read some Wikipedia entries before they started writing legislation (or, perhaps more accurately, accepting legislation written for them by the MPAA)? Yes. Do they have to? No. They just need to accept that they should bring in experts, and have the experts sit and explain everything to them. They can ask questions and find things out. This is actually accepting that you are not knowledgable with everything, and this is OK.

What they have done is said "No, we don't understand this stuff, because we're not socially-inept nerds like you chortle chortle and if we have you sit here, we'll have you say one thing, the guy from the MPAA say the opposite, and then we'll be right where we started and not know who to believe. So why bother?"

This is amazingly unacceptable. What I find particularly galling is the idea that any single opinion has the exact same weight as any other. The other thing that frustrates is that if, for some reason, you don't trust the private sector to tell things to you straight, there are countless government entities that do know how this all works and are theoretically more impartial. Have a guy from the NSA sit down with you and tell you what's up.

But they haven't done any of this. It's quite amazing that they don't even bother to do any of the song and dance just to give the impression of any due process. It's just "voters don't pay for my new kitchen, but these lovely donations do."
They cheated. The page says all code will be rerun with different input at the end of the week to determine the true winner, so all the hardcoded answers will drop out at that point.

Though it seems this problem has an obvious fastest solution that has been found and mimic'd repeatedly.
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Or a man wearing a pantsuit?

Edit: The point of posting this wasn't just a funny fake political ad but also the nuances of suggesting that Bill Clinton wears the pantsuit, instead of Hillary wearing the pants.
Love that story! Thanks for linking to it.

Just as hard with software, whatever version control system is used...

Who is going to remember the culture of old-but-still-running Ruby on Rails apps in 30 years time, when even Node.js isn't fashionable any more ;)
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Your initial argument was about having your sexuality judged if you are a man wearing a dress, but not if you're a woman wearing pants. You must concede that my point - that dresses being so specifically female (let's face facts - a man just cannot fill that cleavage without surgical help) makes it possible to even wear them as a comedic statement or an underlining of manliness - at least greatly reduces your point. That you appear to insist on the 60s idea of pants being inherently male (not as your argument, but you still use it as an argument, which makes no sense) further takes away from it.

Actually, I really thought you were only pulling a lame joke in the beginning. If that's really your entire argument then I'm not sure why we bother arguing it in the first place. It seems like you don't care elaborating on your point anyhow.

Edit: Hey Downvote Police, what about stepping out and adding reasoning to your downvotes? Thanks.
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