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I really can't stand websites that force me to increase the width of my browser window in order to accomodate their layouts. This website is simply text, having a fluid layout is not terribly difficult.
sexist and generalist piece... you can't (and shouldn't, really) put all pieces of the same gender in a single bucket.

Plus, you have nicknames on HN. What can assure you anyone is (or isn't) a woman? If you feel unconfortable by "being one in the man's club", just pick a neutral nickname and be treated "like a man"...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallet#Food_safety_risks

Food safety risks

Wood pallets used to transport food can possibly harbor pathogens such as
E. coli and Listeria.

A release by the National Consumers League announced the testing of 70 wood
pallets and 70 plastic pallets that have been loaded with perishable products
and shipped to an end user was shipped overnight to an independent microbiology
lab for testing. The results came back with 10 percent of the wood pallets
positive for E. coli and 1.4 percent positive on the plastic pallets.[29]

Contaminated pallets is enough of a thing that you should at least think twice about bringing one into your home, especially if you have ankle biters around or eat lunch at your desk.

If you search for salmonella pallet you get a lot of link bait, and some indication of a PR war between the wooden pallet industry and the plastic pallet industry, and a very small number of level headed, topical articles.

The idea is enough of a thing that the wooden pallet industry has responded at length: http://www.palletenterprise.com/articledatabase/view.asp?art...

Part of their defense is "anyway, it's tertiary packaging, so why worry?" That's fine if you're worried about individual resale items in their own packages, in a wholesale box of packages, wrapped on a pallet. Maybe not so slam dunk safe if you're bringing the pallet itself into your home.
Offer HN: I'll build your iPhone/Android app
I'm a bit of a web generalist and I'm looking to get more into app development (on a freelance basis). However I need a bit more of a portfolio before I'm confident enough to get started properly. So in this respect, I'm offering to build someone (or someones) an iPhone or Android app. If it's something interesting or fun then all the better!

I can also do some light backend work if needed, but I don't really want to get into massive API's - so if you need that sort of thing too, you'll have to take care of it.

IMPORTANT

- The app will be developed with Appcelerator Titanium (http://www.appcelerator.com). While it will make use of native components and the like, it is not Objective C. I know JS/Titanium far better at the moment. If that's a deal-breaker, then sorry :)

- I have an iPhone 4 and Samsung Galaxy S2 to test on devices. I do not have an iPad other than the simulator. So if you want an iPad app, bear this in mind.

- Please bear in mind that given the platform, stuff like 3D games etc are not really feasible.

I will of course deliver all source code and assets, which will be your property upon completion. You will need to agree that I can mention the app in my portfolio though.

I'm not seeking any kind of payment for this, but if all goes well and you're extra happy with your app, you could always shout me a Macbook Air :)

Email me on veiledprawn at gmail for more or to discuss!
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(thereby sucking all the intellectual content out of their posts and killing any reason you have to post there).

Oh my god, it’s a girl and what if she breaks down and cries because I argued with her

What??

Who thinks that, where?
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Sadly it links a blog entry on the old projectfortress.sun.com site (available at http://web.archive.org/web/20110716163344/http://projectfort... but without the nice formatted code snippets).

Too bad that the new project fortress blog at oracle.com is almost empty and filled with garbage (non-processed TeX sources).
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I'd be curious to see the level of quality in their service. They probably have an advantage of the box being connected directly to their network. However It has been my experience that femtocells are bad at switching from the micronetwork to the macronetwork. Though my best guess is that is related to latency..
I'd much rather that women didn't have to hide their gender to be treated the same way that we'd treat men.
In the context of the OA's first sentence ("Why should an object-oriented programmer care about tail-call elimination?"), I think the author is thinking more of Scala and Ruby than Java, and there's no expectation that the tail call will return at all.
Honestly, in your budget, I think your best bet is going to be focusing on building your library. You can get the same benefit from conferences by snagging the webcasts and papers online. Colleges and Universities (other than mine, and our backend courses probably won't be ready for another 6 months or so) don't really teach Python, and the Java they teach is academic. Plus, you are looking at $500-$1000 a credit for anything decent you might find.

Certs are nice for networking and security, but for application development, experience counts for way more.

So, as much as it kind of sucks, loading up on the reading material is where I would spend my budget.
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There are plenty of women who do just that - hide their gender on HN or downplay it. That approach fails to change the social dynamic and, in fact, helps keep it entrenched.

But thanks for commenting.
When you hide your meaning and the centre of your argument in mazes of long sentences, as the author does, you necessarily lose it a little. Which is kind of the point. If you want to confuse your reader with contradictions and vagueness, then long sentences are a good idea.

I don't think clarity is a bad thing, and certainly doesn't preclude strangeness or multi-faceted descriptions of Istanbul. It does hurt understanding. Even in fiction and poetry, surely writing is primarily a communicator, a tour-guide to your thoughts. Making it easy for your reader to follow you makes it easier to take them on the journey of your choosing. Go slowly over rough terrain; stop and stare at the acropolis; don't run zig-zag through the forest till they can barely keep up.
My ex husband for one.
Not so true. Being teaching English means he will meet many interesting young Chinese. The danger is to eat burgers everyday and stick with a bunch of foreigners. Still, it is ok as a first step. Better go to inner cities.

Then go deeper, learn Chinese, etc.
Watched the videos but I can't say I particularly enjoyed them.

I doubt most teachers gain some sort of satisfaction from boring their students and not connecting with them.

But, I think you would be hard pressed as a middle/high school teacher to meaningfully connect each lesson in an engaging way to your students...all 210+. The videos practically screams that we all have different learning styles so it seems futile to promote this idea that teachers fail because they don't know that education should be about motivating and engaging.

Perhaps better funding, availability of apprenticeship/mentorship programs, and a more flexible curriculum (for upper tier students) would help improve the situation.
Our one year old is doing CIMT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint-induced_movement_the...). She had 3 heart surgeries when she was born, after she recovered we saw her having difficulty using her right hand (doctors say stroke). Over 4-6 months we saw this difficulty increasingly lead to non-use of her right hand. Yesterday we started constraint-therapy with her and we are hoping she can recover use of her arm and hand. Our physiotherapist was surprised that we came to her asking about CIMT, she said that in most of her cases she has to really persuade the parents to do it - and in some they refuse. She also said that her personal results with it have been very positive with most cases making a full recovery.
TL;DR: We declare beforehand, without consulting any science (including Sociology and History), that men and women should have absolutely the same interests, and then lament about the existence of fields where men and women are not equally represented and condemn them as sexist.

Different groups of people have different priorities, likes and such. Not even Democrats vs Republicans -- even women vs men, black vs white, etc. Whenever you can make a distinction between two groups, you have attributes group A has that B does not.

Not everything is because there is some power at play keeping A/B different, and A/B not being absolutely interchangeable is not always a problem.

Get over it.
I must say, after a whirlwind career of bashing android for all the wrong reasons it seems like the cognitive dissonance has reached a point where even his bullshit excuses were not acceptable to his internal meter anymore and this just comes across as a "Why I'm Still Right About Android" post.

The article even goes to great lengths to point out the responsible party for the situation with the mobile market in the US, and then fails to make the obvious leap and blame them instead choosing to blame google. The average american consumer is who to blame for the shitty situation the US market is in, and frankly that's a kind of poetic justice.
What is this? Einstein didn't leave school at 15 and never look back...
Yes, because men generally treat each other with the outmost care and respect in internet forums, including HN, right?
I also started using pinboard, and the 'killer feature' for me is saving and tagging all of the links I've posted to twitter. I actually started rolling my own before I discovered that they already do it.
Oh man really? Kudos to them for getting this really slick game out in HTML5, but I think they missed a trick by not giving touch support. I was playing with the mouse but the game is made for touch; it's much harder to play with the mouse. I wonder if this is a "don't compete with yourself" thing? I'd imagine the full game offers quite a bit more than the browser version.
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What do you think about "grid computing" concepts? Are they too academic? outdated? more/less general? Is your architecture a different approach or just a variation on the theme, a special case?
I'll admit that the base pay wasn't great, though most compensation was bonus based, and the work load was chaotic (very busy one day, nothing for four days), but here's a timeline and I'll let you judge:

He joined us in August...
We launched in November...
He started shopping for another job in January...
He quit in February...

He is my girlfriend's childhood friend's younger brother. After doing a year of postgrad at Columbia, he spent April to August looking for job, which did not pan out. I was putting together all of the tech for this firm, I knew they had an entry level position.

There was no interview process, no whiteboards, no nothing, I said "Hire this guy, he's hard working and smart, and look at those prestigious degrees!" They met him and then offered to hire him next day. So, this guy went from no call backs in a five month job search to being offered a job after a single interview.

Of course he felt that we were under utilizing his skills (he felt like a glorified secretary), but PR is a networking business, clients want to talk to the guy they've worked with for 20 years, not some dude who started a month ago.

I don't mean to drag all this out into the public, but, this op-ed is the definition of adding insult to injury. I like to make connections, if I know about an opportunity, I really enjoy putting people together. It's something I've always done and now I'm going to question myself every time because this blew up so badly.
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What horror stories? Do you mean kids regularly gunning their schoolmates? oh, sorry, that's in the USA?
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I've added the link on the site. Thanks for the hint!
Ask HN: Non-trivial web app/data model using NoSQL
There's a lot of buzz in modern web app development over things like node.js/express, mongodb, backbone/spine.js etc. etc. There are plenty of "how to build a blog with comments using $STACK_OF_THE_WEEK", but I have yet to see a good discussion of modeling a non-trivial app using a NoSQL db + $STACK_OF_THE_WEEK. It doesn't even have to be that complex, just a bit more complex than a blog example.

Let's take an example: an order processing system. You have products, stock, orders, customers etc. Modeling this using Rails+MySQL is pretty obvious, products have stock, customers have orders, orders have line items, line item have products. Any recommendations or article links on using a NoSQL database + stack? Or should I just stick with a relational setup such as rails.
Idiot! NB: ironic insult :)

I'd love to say I agree totally with the article because it does raise some really good points and it is an extremely interesting topic. I'd also like to give the average (talking a mean average here not some kind of "norm") man, and cisgender males more specifically, the benefit of the doubt. Agree there are some intellectuals (read nerds) who are acting in the way the article suggests but personally I think the main cause of the "egg-shells" treatment is a basic view of women as being, again on average, inferior. Or, that all women are essentially the same (as the article hinted at with the "my girlfriend" comment).

I thought the use of the word "intelligence" in the post was an interesting choice too. By the description can only assume this is referring to IQ. What about EI? Surely we’ve progressed beyond the stage of thinking of IQ, which is essentially just processing patterns, as the be-all and end-all of intelligence!
He gives examples in various contexts, rather than advice, but it looks to me like there's a whole series of "Lean Startup" books coming up (e.g. this one: http://www.ashmaurya.com/2012/01/the-new-and-updated-running... ), and some of them will inevitably focus more on practice. I think the point of Ries' book (which I think is reasonable) is to lay out the theoretical basis and start a movement.
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Imagine if someone could get your telephone disconnected by suing you. Not by getting an injunction against you using the telephone, mind you, but simply by filing the suit "in good faith." That's SOPA.

This really isn't like SOPA. The courts were involved, a ruling was made. Maybe it's bad precedent, but due process was provided. SOPA wants to let privileged multi-million dollar conglomerates act as judge themselves and cut people off on a whim.
Yeah, does anyone know what the deal with that is? I was really enjoying following Steele's notes on Fortress. I hope that neither the language nor the blog has been binned.
I usually can tell coming out of the interview if I am going to like the job. If I get an offer, generally I ask them for a day to think it over. Of course, everytime I have been interviewing it has been casually. First time was in college when I had plenty of time to find a job and then when I already had a job.
Modern technologies you are talking about? What I consider modern technologies are modern FPS games, like Crysis, Metro, Dirt or Rage. Cut the Rope uses techniques that are dated at least 10 years. It's a shame that people think of it as anything modern. XP can run a lot of games that are orders of magnitude more complex than any HTML5 game.
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She's not asking to be treated with the utmost care and respect.

The article states, actually, exactly the opposite.
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At the expense of sounding crass, that sounds like a personal problem between you and he, not you and the HN community (assuming you are the OP of this blog post).
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2 things:

1. As a socially-awkward smart dude, the last section of the post resonates with me, because I'm getting over a lot of my social awkwardness through interacting with women. And it's great.

2. I don't know what all the fuss coming from other HN-readers is about. As a man, I readily acknowledge that women sometimes see things completely differently than men, and while I could ram a lot of sociology theory down dissenting commenters' throats about women and minorities and how each non-male or non-white constituency develops a consciousness/worl-view particular to and shared with their respective cohorts, and that to males (white or otherwise) these world-views might be hard to parse... but I won't go into theory.
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The article doesn't say anything like that, and doesn't lament that men and women aren't equally represented.
The HN title is very confusing. I was full of righteous fury when, initially, I interpreted it to imply there's a difference in quality between girl-thoughts and boy-thoughts. Could you please replace the hyphen in the title with an em dash?

Edit: Thanks!
Teaching a 22 year old PHD student or a 22 year old collage dropout a brand new skill does not favor the dropout. However, there is a fair amount of research that link rates of learning with biological age. With critical time periods that favor specific types of skill acquisition with significant benefits. What's interesting is ~25 years old is one of those cut of periods AND education tends to end at about that age.

PS: There is also trade offs involved which probably provided evolutionary benefits to those cutoff ages.
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1. Make a hypothesis: Men are overly nice to female HN posters.

2. Make assumptions, like that HN's readers are predominantly male. Sure, the probably are, but who knows for sure? If I was asked for my gender when I signed up, I responded randomly. Reliable demographics are simply not available.

3. Test your hypothesis in a way that does not control most variables: Change your name and post on completely different topics. Maybe your male posts were dumber or more interesting than your female posts. Maybe you posted to newer threads with more active commentors. etc. etc. etc. Even your choice of names could bias the study.

4. Have no objective metrics of "niceness". i.e. Evaluate everything with your "gut feeling". (Note: Your gut is biased towards your hypothesis!)

5. Conclude that your assumption was correct based on a statistically insignificant amount of highly suspect data.

I'm not saying your hypothesis couldn't be true. I'm just saying it's going to be a lot more difficult to prove (to even a modest degree of confidence) than you thought it would be. I'm also not saying we should ignore an unproven theory. We act on unproven theories all the time after all.
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I think Clojure is ready right now. For "standalone" languages haskell seams to be on a good way, some people are allready doing start ups with it.
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Oops, right about the US Army Air Force mistake. My bad.

Also, agree it might be nitpicking but for me the dropping of the A-bombs and associated killing of a crap load of civillians is one of last centuries most conveniently forgotten topics. So treatment of the subject has a tendency to get me riled up!

One last question though...Can inanimate objects really be responsible of anything?
As far as I'm concerned, I don't even look at the username of the person whom I'm replying to. I just put in my two cents and take part in the discussion, only if it turns out to be really, really interesting do I actually look at the username to go to said person's profile. I'm quite sure a lot of other posters have a similar attitude.
HN is a forum about interesting stuff, and (dare I say it) similar to it's secular community, is also probably a very asexual (unconcerned with the gender of the participant) community. If the author of the post had included more examples, then perhaps we could come to some sort of statistical guess about whether gender really is a 'problem' or not.
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No it isn't, that's the point. It is easier to find any programmer. It is not easier to find a good programmer. 99% of java programmers are bad. 50% of scala programmers are bad. Finding the 1% of good java programmers is just as hard as finding the 50% of good scala programmers.
Using this approach you would often also need to maintain state about what was requested, using closures or similar to avoid race conditions. Alternatively, Haskell offers the Maybe type, where Nothing means "not found" and Just x means "found x". Using a callback seems more prone to disaster than just encoding the possibility of null into the type system.
Most of the reasoning about piracy is based on the idea of content consumption. Content is not consumed in the sense that consuming it doesn't make it vanish. If I listen to a recording, you can listen to it, either at the same time, or later, when convenient.

The economics of content production and distribution changed. It's no longer difficult to move, replicate or make content from it. When refrigerators threatened ice factories we didn't outlaw them. How much does long-distance telephony cost to airlines? How much more business would they have if, in order to talk to your factory manager in Shenzhen, you had to be there? How much business have hotels lost thanks to it?

Luckily for us, they didn't have the power to outlaw long distance telephony.

This is exactly what's happening with MPAA, RIAA and others - they are afraid they will have to change their businesses and will fight to prevent it.
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note also the specs of each of those tests; the windows tests have i5/i7 chips with at least 4gb of ram. The Lion test is a dual core with 2gb. That's not a fair test, so the whole table is bogus.
Managed code is safe, verifiable and strongly signed, with no place for insecurity.

Like .NET applications never have had security holes.
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I happen to be the OP. You asked for an example. I gave the first real life example that came to mind. No, not all men are like that. But some absolutely are.

Thanks.
Safari does support WebGL, but it's off by default. You have to enable it in the Develop menu.
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I've seen this once before on HN, I just don't see how it is relevant (to HN) in either case though
In the end, this would change how movies are funded.
>I'm not convinced that I would be more productive developing say a web app , database app or game using say Haskell rather than Java or Python

Have you tried? Why do you think your baseless assumptions are interesting?
How is Firefox 7.01 an old browser, huh ?
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