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Great comment. Thanks.

Yes, you are correct. I made an edit to that effect.

If I observe something, it is occurring, correct? Or I could not have observed it.

The question becomes why is it occurring? We can observe "simple" things like trees and rocks and disagree on the reasons happen the way they do.

I'm not trying to argue from ignorance here. Certainly you could ask each and every person and draw some general conclusions. But that kind of approach is very fluffy and you could spin the results to say just about anything you wanted. If you have a master's degree in computer science and decided to be stay-at-home dad, is that because the system is flawed? Perhaps you just prefer being with your kids? Most people don't make those kinds of decisions for any one reason. It's complex.

Like I said, I love diversity. I think my biggest problem is this continuing thing we do where we define diversity as external characteristics. It's the internet age. I could care less what your sexual organs are or skin color is.

EDIT: Just to be sure I am advancing the discussion, the moral question is this: Assume I run a company with 100 employees. Only 20 of them are a member of a sub-group that is 30% in the larger population. Is it the moral thing for me to do to hire another 10 people of this subgroup, even if it means not hiring people of another group that might be better qualified just so the ratios match up?

If the answer to that question is "yes", then I have two follow-up questions. One, how many kinds of subgroups do I need to track? One-armed people? People who have beards? Who gets to decide what subgroups are special or not? Two, is it moral for a voter to make somebody do something because they personally find that it has a moral outcome? If I wanted people to be nicer in the world, could I pass a law that required all of them to give 10% to charity? Does something I feel morally outraged about automatically mean I should go mucking around with somebody else's freedom? If so, where's the stopping point?

As for Jim Crow laws, please note that I am not saying that society shouldn't evolve. I'd argue that some degree of legislating morality is necessary for society to move along -- even though I find it most distasteful. But there should be time limits on these things. That's why I bring up the internet. I really don't need grandpa's generation telling me how I should think. This is something each generation needs to settle for itself.
Yes, I did and the thing it does is allow you to type the title of an application, not the name of its executable file. I don't remember the application I wanted to launch (synaptic maybe) and typing its name didn't work. It was registered with a fancy name like "Package management application"
Yes. I do, for one. For a site you like to use every day, being able to just tap and swipe to get to everything is so much better than constantly pinch zooming, aiming for little links, waiting for the page to load, pinch zooming, aiming for little links, etc. of a website.
Talk about a linkbait headline... this is just a list of a few startups that are doing social.

Besides, we already have a lot of the things he points out. Gmail contacts are synced wirelessly and embedded into the OS on android, and everyone has group chat now.
You're right; I was reacting to the count of char\s+star and snprintf calls, but only fair to chalk Redis up among the packages I have that rely on a high-level string library.
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I wasn't arguing against not using things for free (aside from agreeing with the parent post regarding small "sample" versions was a way to get the image noticed with lower risk of the full quality version being taken), I was questioning his way of calculating what he has lost through someone using the image without any sort of license.

Nothing is lost as such: the outfit using the image for nothing probably wasn't a potential sale anyway. This is copyright infringement, not theft. While setting his price any way he likes is his right, and he can sue that amount if someone uses the image without permission if he wants, this and "why you can't use the image for free or for credit" are separate issues which should not be conflated in this way. There is a big difference between someone asking for permission to use the image under different times (a lower, perhaps zero, price) and someone using the image without license - they are completely separate issues. One requires negotiation or just a straight no, and it then goes away. In the other case there may be need for legal redress.
I think his entire point is to call out that complicated web of social influences as the problem.
What about large user based content sites?

Wordpress and Tumblr account for millions of post/day.
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Do you have any examples to back up this statement, other than people getting fired from their jobs for foolishly posting incriminating information online? It seems to me that most of the alarmist reactions to social media are based on completely theoretical "slippery slope" arguments that assume we're heading straight for an Orwellian future. That may be true, but so far I haven't had any of my friends scooped up by the secret police for Facebook-related thought-crimes.
Man what a surprising bunch of uneducated crap I've been reading. Have any of you heavy criticizers installed it, learned how to develop themes, and gain a complete and full understanding of the WP core and the incredibly impressive Codex with a bajillion helpful functions at your disposal?

I've developed customized WP sites for things like realtors, business directories, news sites, restaurants, online stores, local governments, and quite a few small/medium sized businesses.

The only way to use WP to it's full advantage is to first of all, take advantage of custom post types and taxonomies. Organize your content. Also, you need to customize the backend so you're only allowing you client to see certain information. There are great plugins available such as Adminimize, and the User Role Editor for properly assigning permissions to your user roles.

As far as security is concerned, this obviously depends on the administrator. Simple things such as not using "admin" as the administrator, and NOT using wp-admin as your path for the backend, proper file permissions on the WP installation dir, etc, are all simple practices.

To say WP is just blogging software obviously means you haven't been paying attention for the past 3 years.
> Also, Gandhi went on hunger strikes.

As I pointed out, so did the IRA.
That plugin is a core part of their app. You have to download and install it. You can't just put in someone else's blog URL; they don't have the appifier plugin running. WordPress doesn't have a JSON API built in, that's something he created.
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I've been following the SOPA issue on the periphery and I agree there needs to be more awareness and publicity around it but I don't find a blackout to be the most effective way of defeating this legislation. Reddit is fine because they don't have that much money to lose by going dark for a day but we know clearly that money has a big influence on the outcome of elections and political races.

Why not take the revenue that would have been forfeited to a single day blackout which would probably be about $100+ million (between Google, Facebook, and let's say 2 other sites) and funnel it towards a Super-PAC that will use it instead to fund opposition ads during election time against those who supported the legislation.

What about finding a way to influence the primary supporters of SOPA, content creators and media companies? These companies will rely on the very tech companies they may damage with SOPA in the future to be the primary channels for distribution (YouTube, Netflix, Spotify, etc.), which means that there's leverage that can be applied.

Just my two cents.
I don't think that is a particularly good point.

If a snake bites you, and you are not sure if it is poisonous or not, assume that it is and go to the hospital. Life or death health issues should not be googled, they should be taken care of by professionals.
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Really? I google medical conditions frequently. I think this is common practice. I have also met a good number of folks (mostly older) who know only of google search engine-wise. Some of them are unsure what input field to type in at times.

Comparing critical services to political slogans is mentally lazy. Yes, the power grid in my city is "too big too fail" this winter--because people can and do die when that happens.
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People: please make some attempt at a precise and concise argument. I read your whole argument -- it could have been said with 75% fewer words. The worst part is that, even with all these words, you went directly past the point!
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split vote: do you really vote decisions? if it's 50/50, I'd say the real solution hasn't been found yet.
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True but nothing new. We've had it in the US for decades for all types of construction.
> Going dark is not something either company would do

Until someone decides that they're hosting infringing content, of course.
This comment is not free. Using the same weird accounting method, it cost me around 1000$ to make. So what ?

If you don't want a file to be used, don't put it on internet. Understand what IT is, understand what it means to freely exchange information. You are right, you got free exposure, for free. That's why we get your image, for free. The information super-highways flow in both directions.
Amazing, but unsurprising, that the first slew of comments are all about tearing down the post.
The bottleneck to success isn't simply the effectiveness of implementation groups. You've heard the old line of it being about who you know instead of what you know?

There are (real and perceived) barriers to entry, entrenched good-old-boys networks, gatekeepers, stereotypes, etc. Even if it's more like a minor obstacle than a brick wall, those tiny disparities add up can make a huge difference.
Intel has just announced a 32nm Atom SoC. Meanwhile, the first products based on TSMC's 28nm process have started to ship.

Yes, Intel is usually the first to bring a new process online (and their 22nm Ivy Bridge is due to ship in a few months), but for the entire history of the Atom product line, Intel has failed to make use of their fab advantage. They probably never will, so long as it is more profitable to put the desktop/laptop/server product lines on a new process first.
I heard that. Oh how I wished someone would have stopped him and said "Sir, I'm sorry, but you have no idea what you're talking about. We don't have the technology." Or something.

/rage...
I think the issue is that not only is this burdensome, but it practically invites the enforcer to err on the side of caution, leading to a chilling effect.

For those who haven't taken journalism law classes, a newspaper can print falsehoods without fear of being sued, especially about public figures. The threshold is that they cannot do it with "actual malice" or "gross negligence."...this is not the case in many other countries, including Britain.

Why not make it a suable offense to print any kind of falsehood, which are most definitely detectable by human (and probably machine) readers? Because if a newspaper -- or any media source -- had to worry about being sued because of simple mistakes of fact or, more problematically, because a whistleblower misled them -- then most newspaper businesses would err so far on the side of caution that they would not print anything useful about any public figure.

[insert ridicule for how the corporate-controlled media doesn't do that anyway]

To go back to the SOPA case...a company like Google has to deal with something much more difficult to ascertain than errors of fact, and so it worries that it will have to adopt a "it's better to apologize than to have to ask" policy, which would be detrimental to its search property.
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But the complicated web is what's called "life". It's infinitely diverse and complex, and if some optimal configuration could be discovered and enforced that would lead to this banal goal of "more members of group X in programming jobs", it could only have untold deleterious effects elsewhere.

The demographic makeup of tech careers may simply be the result of billions of people just doing what it is they do.
>much money to lose by going dark for a day

Google doesn't need to blackout and stop service, they just could change their homepage's logo to have a black censored bar across it and that is all it would take.
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The resistance comes from the fact that this idea -- lack of diversity is explained by differences in some fundamental, intrinsic way -- is offered and accepted without serious proof!
Alternate hypothesis: skyscrapers take a long enough time to build, are built frequently enough, and recessions/crashes happen often enough, that it's inevitable that there would be a few skyscrapers built during most recessions.

In order to link the building of skyscrapers to recessions/crashes, they'd have to show the inverse -- that fewer are built during financial good times. They don't mention that in the BBC article.
You are not worth answering to.

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I wouldn't.

I've gotten by just fine wearing what everyone else is wearing. hackers aren't some "mythical beast". We're just like everyone else. Sure, there's some features I thought that would be nice on articles of clothing, and could be considered "hacker friendly". But these ideas would generally be viewed as useful to anyone who lives in a modern technology-filled world, not just hackers.
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Devil's advocate:

If small teams _always_ and _unconditionally_ are so much more efficient, why do we still have the likes of, say, IBM, Hyundai, Microsoft, or ant colonies?

I think that it partly is because large teams do a lot of things that small teams deem unnecessary, such as documenting design choices, pre-estimating demand/bandwidth requirements etc, making sure one complies with legislation, etc. Not all of that is necessarily waste.

Another large part of the difference, I think, is due to the difference between programming and engineering. Many small teams, especially at smaller companies, program, while almost all larger teams engineer. Programming produces way more functionality per man month than engineering does (for an example, read GNU's well-engineered hello world source code).

So, I think the main rule should be "only start engineering if you have to". Large team size is, for a large part, just a side effect of the decision to engineer.
great post but i fear this is why designers don't get the credit they deserve. because in reality, designers usually tend to be a freelancer. the ones paying them, also tend to leave their relationships at that, just as a freelancer.

but i can name a few startups were able to completely take advantage of freelancers and not give a single credit back, such as mint.com (i maybe wrong but i did recall hearing the founder saying he hired a freelancer for their site for very low cash). once built, mint.com's design was spread all over the internet and posted for best designs showcase, etc... they might have gotten more initial press from the design community than their concept alone. but more likely the designers probably got nothing, while the initial developers gets a nice chunk of equity. it seems like it's a bit one sided. what happened to the days when beautiful art was worth more than what money can buy? now art is something you just buy in the streets for $10.

i'm a developer and i can't design to save my life. that's part of the reason why i have a great level of respect for great designers. i'd like to see them more as active founders in the startup community but it's really hard to find them.

so i don't know if this is just the nature of designers, just wanting to stay out of the business, and just satisfied with their project by project life. maybe they just really love to design, and quite simply satisfied with their life.

if that's the case then well great. but i feel that great designers are also worth a lot more than just a single paycheck.
Not only does he make the logical fallacies you suggest, but he also ignores plenty of evidence that there might be natural causes:

For instance, there is plenty of evidence women are less likely to be very good (or very bad) at math: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/321/5888/494.summary http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21038941

There is also evidence women are more risk averse, making them less likely to work in startups: http://www.pnas.org/content/106/36/15268.full

There is evidence women avoid computing specifically because they are intolerant of geeks: http://web.archive.org/web/20100106021904/http://scicom.ucsc... (The original article was taken down)

This report also pushes the intolerance hypothesis, as well as women being less dedicated, being fearful of text interfaces, and preferring more collectivist environments: http://web.archive.org/web/20091007234852/http://opensource.... (Please go read the report before criticizing me for citing it. It's written by a woman who is allegedly a feminist.)

It's safe to say that none of this is ironclad proof that the only cause of women not being present in computing is natural causes. But the author's claims that "there's no such evidence" is utterly wrong. There is evidence, he just ignores it.

Lastly, the author completely ignores the fact that computing is very diverse. We have whites, all different types of asians, israelis and a smattering of euros (and of all sexual orientations). Our diversity may not be statistically identical to the general US population, but it's nonsensical to claim a lack of diversity in computing.
It's the internet age. I could care less what your sexual organs are or skin color is.

Even if you don't care about those things, it feels shallow and dangerous to pretend to live in a world where nobody cares about those things.
But they are divided into individual users and the space belongs to the users and not tumblr/wordpress. I don't think changing other's blogs would be a very good idea and will be frowned upon.
Apple had to move to x86 because IBM wouldn't invest in development of a fast and low power processor for just one client (Apple) and Intel had a product (Core Duo) ready for them. One client, even Apple, is a very small market. Unit sales of ARM processors combined dwarf x86 sales and there is a huge market for higher performance ARM devices, something that didn't exist for PPC.
Honestly, that was a rubbish calculation! Price of the camera? Gas? Really?

The thing with any service that is heavily dependant on the person that does it, is that it cannot be priced by anyone other than the person doing it. How can you put a price on talent or skill or experience or luck or any of the non-material things that went into taking that picture? That picture is worth a million bucks if he says it is.
This article is very ignorant. The Clayton Anti-Trust Act doesn't require a monopoly as a prerequisite. It specifically addresses tying products that materially reduce competition.

You can compare them to Microsoft's "tying" arguments, you can argue about whether this applies to "free" products, you can argue about whether they are substantially reducing competition. This "journalist" should actually learn the laws before deciding the laws clearly back up their world view.
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Yes, I've been reading their stuff. And I'm hoping they are wildly successful! But I had to chuckle at your comment that their founder is an SoC architect because it reminded me of a really funny moment at this company I helped start back in the mid 90's. We had this new PCI card that we were getting manufactured for our systems and the guy who designed it was complaining about the delays in getting cards to put into test systems. Our director of manufacturing was really pissed off at the emails he was dealing with asking why things weren't ready and his response was along the lines of

"... some architect designs something and thinks that I can just bend over and pull a few thousand out of my ass. Doesn't he get that someone has to build the fucking thing and then somehow we have get them here?"

It was my first exposure to the more sordid details of getting a piece of hardware from prototype into production. For years up to that point I could easily get 10 or 100 of something made, but I hadn't ever tried to get 10,000 made, or had contracts in place to have them made on a regular basis.

Manufacturing acuity is not in the standard make up of senior technical people, its a process puzzle but with people rather than logic, with regulations rather than resource constraints, and with cash rather than electricity. The art of creating streams of parts which arrive at facility to take part in a process of assembly (and perhaps sub assembly) test and delivery, is a very different skill than designing an SoC.

That being said, its an amazing sight to behold when its all working right, sort of an eternal Rube Goldberg machine. And some folks make it look effortless.
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One of the most common things that encourage to people to do a Rhinoplasty Nose Job, is one of the greatest things that humanity has created and this is to see themselves computerize on, is to take a look of how is going to be their face after the precedent in front of a computer screen.
Absolutely agree with Daniel.