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Rails is there to generate static content as the alternative, hitting the Rails stack for live data, is asking for trouble -- just ask Twitter ;-)

Of course by saying such a thing on a Rails thread, I am clearly asking to accrue yet more karma. I can take it, the truth hurts, I'm a compile time Boddhisatva brought here to enlighten the heathens, willing to descend into runtime hell to save all beings and bring them to the other shore of static compilation.

May all beings be snappy (and never sluggish)
I agree that women are underrepresented in our field (and certainly others).

I have two issues with your post. Maybe they are a failure to understand what you're saying (blame it on reading comprehension in that case):

1) ".. has negatively affected most women's ability to be treated professionally and respectfully"

If you reread those lines, would you still choose them? _Most_ women's ability to be treated in either way or both is negatively affected? Maybe I stumble when I read 'most' and change that mentally to 90% or so - which my gut rejects as unreasonably large and way over the top.

2) Did you watch the video? Would you, if that girl came now down the street, think disrespectful about her? Consider her unprofessional in her job?

I think the video was obviously shot for this effect and completely unnecessary. The 'I need new pants' comment at the end was the biggest issue I have with that stuff.
Watching it I reacted like w/ most advertisements: Lack of interest in general, disgust for so badly disguised tries to influence the viewer, me.

But I don't think videos like these will go away, nor are they the biggest problem. Failure to distinguish between a model with little more than a shirt on (job: to be looked at) and your fellow rails programmer (job: produce awesome code) because they share the same sex is .. stupid. And needs to be eliminated.
iPad is "retina" at a viewing distance of 15 inches. iPhone is "retina" at a viewing distance of 10 inches.

Pixel density is only half the equation.
Design case study: iPad to Windows 8 Metro style app
Based upon a comment by some random person on Reddit?
> I once had a boss who wanted to turn me into a personal assistant so badly, it ended up in a meeting with HR (he, as white and male, should be allowed to rein in the only female on the team!).

Actually, he should. It has nothing to do with his sex and race though--it has to do with him being THE BOSS.
+1 on the Anandtech reviews; prefer the format and benchmark comparisons (they compare more than just the fastest cards, giving you an idea of the bump in performance you might get if you have a few generations old).

I have a Radeon 6970 (last cycle) and in Skyrim, BF3 and Arkham City the 680 is just shy of 2x as fast... really didn't expect that big of a gap.

The 680 isn't cheep at $499, but my 6970 was $425 new months after release and I've given up PhysX support in the few PC games that support it for nothing (I don't make use of the OpenCL advantages that AMD currently has).

680 overall looks like an awesome upgrade.
Your morality is not everyone's morality.
I'm biased, but this is one of the most down-to-earth startup PR articles I've ever read. Practical and useful.

Nodded my head a bunch of times when I read it -- which is why I agreed to run it as a guest post on OnStartups.
It's a low power device. They'd press charges if they caught you (to discourage other people doing the same thing), but it's not worth sending out counter-surveillance operatives to trace the device, then calling out a couple of linesmen to take it down simply to save power. A 60 watt device (my laptop running at full power) costs ~$70 a year. A Raspberry Pi, even with a reasonable Wifi transmitter, costs far less. And I bet the cost of power at a distribution line is less than what a consumer pays for power in their home.
Let me just state a fact: every programmer tests code. Whether you're checking a command line output, experimenting in the REPL or reloading a browser, you're testing your code.

What rubs me the wrong way is that, instead of a simple "you know all that ad hoc testing that you do? There's a way to automate that that'll probably save you some time and let you test the same things, in an automated fashion, with the press of a key...", non-testers usually get a condescending "oooh my sweet summer child, what to you know of code?"
I think you meant unflattering clothes?
I'd suggest making a pot of coffee and diving in to the wiki:

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CategoryTesting
As the woman, I've been the only person in the group asked to put together a pot luck (presumably, this work is beneath the males). I've been the only one asked to take notes in a meeting... even if I'm the one who's presenting (because my title really should be 'secretary who we let on the servers').

Not saying this is what's happening in these cases, but I've often seen this happen to women not because they're women, but because they create the situation by training people to rely on them to do these things. Women who will take on the tasks nobody else wants to do, who will always do whatever others leave undone, who offers to bring other people food when she goes out, etc. In the spirit of helpfulness or whatever.

This happens to men, too, but more women on the whole seem to be the "step in and get it done" type (for whatever reason). The kind you can rely on to bend over backwards to do something when asked, even if it's ridiculous. You see it in families and it's natural that people behave the same at work as they do at home, when it comes to this kind of behavior.

I'm not like this at all, though. Not at all. Nobody says "Oh, Amy will get it all done." And this never happens to me.
If you turn innocent (or even well-intentioned) comments into an HR case, I'm guessing your co-workers are not sad to see you gone.
Filling bogus information, is actually illegal.

Either ways, the National Commission on Data Processing and Liberties is your friend in the story (CNIL in French). They go to great length to regulate access to your data. There are several cases of national agencies being forced to collect less data thanks to them.
A transformer consists of two inductors that transform electricity by - you guessed it - induction.

You don't need a transformer because you can just get the electricity in the correct voltage by using the right inductor. I haven't made any calculations but I would expect the battery to be bigger and of greater weight than a sufficient inductor.
I agree, the topic _is_ silly, because most US workers are 'at-will' and can be fired at any time, for any reason. Many people don't know this or don't believe this. Unless you
re under specific contract, or live in a few states with employment rights, your boss may fire you just because they didn't like how you type on the keyboard.

Recently, I was watching an episode of Mad Men with a friend, and one of the characters abruptly fired one of their employees. My fried was aghast and was glad that 'that behavior couldn't happen today.' Well - it can and does happen today.

Last year I worked for a start-up owned by a friend. Before coming on-board, I had agreed verbally on an equity sharing deal. I didn't put anything in writing because I trusted the guy; I knew him for years. The red flag was that he kept waiting for a certain 'favorable legislation to be enacted' before splitting up the corporation. Well, when business started picking up, I reminded him emphatically about the equity, and then I was abruptly fired. Naively, I was shocked that it could happen like that. But, every attorney I called said I was out of luck.

Anyway, the point is that employers can probably ask you to do anything they want, that isn't explicitly denied by law. So, it makes sense that they may fire you for not sharing passwords.
Not sure why he threw compulsory military service in their which seems to be counter to the other points, all that would do is give the corrupt politicians a low wage, essentially temporarily enslaved, class of people to do their bidding. If politicians should be assumed corrupt why on earth give them our young people to control and indoctrinate for two years against their will
>>Spotted the massive, gaping flaw in the argument yet?

Yes, in your analogy

it's

air:internet
smell:music

NOT

air:music
smell:???

also, from above...

Water is free, but bottled water has essentially added 'smell', or, the convenience of having it in a bottle and across the street, refrigerated.
I built GCC 4.6.3 with GCC 4.2 using the LLVM backend without any problem.
Complete bullshit. The "anger" that you refer to has very little to do with her being a woman. If the same words came from a guy, he'd be met with a similar response.

On the whole, I think the guys involved in the conversation end up looking more stupid and petty, especially given they are cofounders. Now, am I sexist in saying this? Does everything have to viewed from those lenses?
Why need use SecureZeroMemory() function
The only major reciprocal licenses, the GPL and LGPL, do not require that the entire codebase be under the GPL/LGPL. It only has to be under a compatible license.

From many software vendors' perspective, this is a difference without much distinction. The salient point to them is, if GPL code sneaks into their codebase then they might be forced to switch to a permissive software license, and that might be very disruptive to their business.

And it does manage to have a chilling effect in some industries. In the one I work in, for example, there is a prevailing culture of outright fear of open source software, including of supposedly "business-compatible" code. The worry is that it's hard to trace the provenance of all code, which makes it difficult to dismiss the possibility that, e.g., ostensibly MIT-licensed code is actually GPL-licensed. The fear is perhaps far too great, but from the decisionmakers' perspective this is a situation where their livelihood is potentially at stake, and many of them would rather pay to develop 100% proprietary software than risk getting infected with open-source cooties.
Indeed. I do lots of development using Unity and need Photoshop fairly frequently. Unity runs fine, but when I launch Photoshop it's time for a coffee break and to live with my Mac limping along for the forseeable future.

No software is able to cripple my hardware like Photoshop.
Then why discuss her article at all? She has made up her mind and quit, and that is all there is to it?
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Could you give some examples? I'm very curious about these types of uses..
Thanks for the thoughts! I'll modify the Viral line to say "Compatible" rather than the same.

From the perspective of "what can I do with this code", if you modify a BSD-licensed file, and include GPL code, the entire file will be essentially under the GPL license.

In theory, could you parse out individual lines? Maybe. Theoretically.
But in practice, the file is now GPL.

The Weak versus Strong notions come from the FSF- That's not my terminology. I do think my descriptions are accurate, and don't disagree with you. What am I missing?

WRT AGPL, I'll clarify. I agree with you, and may not have made this clear enough.
I am not equally offended because I don't feel that the sexualization of men in advertisements is equally offensive. The reason is simple: the sexualization of women comes from a male-fantasy prospective. The sexualization of men also comes from a male-fantasy prospective.

What does offend me are advertisements with the bumbling-husband archetype or similar man-without-a-woman stereotypes.

Edit: I should point out that I do think male sexualization is bad as it can promote poor body image, etc.
The electric grid loses a lot of power through inefficiencies anyway. If anyone did try this, I've no doubt the electric companies would be (rightly) very pissed off, but more about the potential risk to their power lines than the actual power lost.
This is awesome. Didn't see a mention of node anywhere... Once Chrome supports this, anyone have an idea how difficult NodeJS integration will be? Am particularly interested in Coffee w/ NodeJS :)
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You do not speak for me.
Most European countries do not have the same interpretation of free speech as the current US interpretation.

Free Speech definitions change over time, even in the USA. For lots of the 20th century movies didn't fall under "free speech", and before then blasphemy laws were not uncommon. Regions differ with other rights aswell, the free speech rights might be weaker in EU than USA, but employee or anti-discrimination law is stronger in EU than USA say.
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I didn't read that as specifically referring to military service. Many countries, at least in continental Europe, have non-military national service, or at least a non-military option.

It's not a system I'm terribly comfortable with, either, but if you're specifically looking for a way to create social cohesion, it's at least worth discussing.
I am not saying that there isn't a market for what they do.

I am saying that maintaining quality with this is extremely difficult.

You are dealing with food service and rag tag food service at that.

Having owned (non food service companies) that employ the type of workers that are essentially the same as in food service with an equivalent amount of variables (that can go wrong because of human error) it is my feeling that this is difficult to scale.

And while it is true that zero cater will be an important customer to any of their vendors, they don't have control over hiring and food quality as well as other things that will impact their customer base. And they can't just switch to a supplier in another state. They are limited by the existing suppliers in their market.

Now of course if they want to operate the food suppliers (with their own canteen) that would give them the control they need. But that is an entirely different business.
Also, "define <word for which the definition is obvious>".

If you can't write a mathematical proof of it, it doesn't exist, and any discussion of it will inevitably lead to a bunch of people arguing semantics.

This site is one of my favorites, but when an article about sexism in the industry hits the front page, I do what I can to avoid the comments. The majority of the time, it will be things like

* "I still have a problem with this notion that simply because women may be fun to look at, that they are objects."[0]

* "I don't think you'll ever be able to take the objectification of women out of society, and I don't know if it's necessary to try - we've seen women begin objectifying men in some capacity in the last seventy-five years or so, and I don't know if that's necessarily an unhealthy thing. Better to let that objectification be out in the open than keep it locked up in your head."[1]

* "I really hope that everyone is as equally offended and quick to point out sexism for every advertisement, television show, and movie featuring a very fit, shirtless man doing a stereotypical "masculine" activity"[2]

[0]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3740048

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3740090

[2]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3740003
I agree with what you said and respect the vulnerable position you have put yourself in. No matter where you say what you just said it may be construed as sexist by some people.

There is some axis of reactionary behaviours, with "passive-aggressiveness / indirectness" on the left, and "meanness / directness" on the right, and in general women are further to the left and men are further to the right.

Anyway, I wrote a post based partly off the things you have written and hope that you do not disagree with anything I have wrote. I'd love to hear your feedback? You can read it here:

http://redd.it/r8bk5
> I have a cron script

Neat. Any chance of you putting it up somewhere?
I like the thought, but it touches on something else important but isn't very direct about it.

We are best represented by those in our own communities and those who we know on a first name basis. The article suggests 1 representative per 100,000 people - I'd much rather see that number down around 1k. If you want to get power back in the local, make people ONLY elect a local representative per 1k people (+/- 100) and then you can have tiers of representation above that - the local could be a collective 10,000 people with a council of 10 voting, where 1 of them goes to the region / state level - composed of 100 localities - representing 1,000,000 people. Then the national level is just the collective states in the system - preferably, somewhere around 100. It does make national borders harder to cope with, but you can just add layers on top to make super-nations and eventually a global council on top (haha, I made a funny :P)

You get the benefits of having national and state representatives that don't need to be hell bent on campaigns and buzz words and an even more important trait is passed on to the public - it makes political influence easy.

You have ONE person who you, and everyone in your community, knows. You pick that person collectively. If you don't like your regions pick, you can move. If you don't like the local region, you can move to a different local. You should have laws start small and get large through consensus across multiple constituencies.

That kind of system would get people SO MUCH MORE INVOLVED in the political system. And with technology, we can easily usurp the overhead of linkage between different levels of government. You get a small national government that has explicit powers, and tiers of representation below that, down to the local, where law needs to pass up through the tiers by consensus of senate like bodies past the local.
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The aren't going to fire a varmint rifle into the air in a populated area. They might want retrive these to get fingerprints or DNA samples, so they could chase down whoever put it there (and the MPAA / power companies might lobby for them to make this a priority), but I doubt they'll do anything dangerous simply to take down the devices.
Yeah, why not? In a room full of men, the comment would be made to the other men, but for the benefit of that woman. It would be flippant and funny. In a room full of women, the comment would be more personal, and I would have to keep the tone extremely light because the more serious I am, the more vulnerable I am.
It sounds counter intuitive but don't look at other people's code (yet). It's kinda the equivalent of being in a race, feeling like you're doing well, looking up and seeing those runners miles out in front, feeling panic which causes you to stumble and give up.

Don't do the comparing thing, it only hurts your feelings. Like a pianist diligently practising scales only to give up when they hear Chopin.

I was stuck in the same cycle for a long while re-learning the same things every night. My best pieces of advice would be:-

1)Build increasingly bigger projects that work, are useful and go in some kind of portfolio - this demonstrates your progress when you feel overwhelmed. Much better than churning through a pile of tutorials and exercises.

2)Try tutorials that force independent problem solving - Like Udacity.com. More "find a way to", less "type this out"

3)Get good at noticing when & why you are stuck. Write down things you hear that don't make sense and look them up, ask online/forums etc. Write down what you tried. You can still make progress when stuck. If you're working on a project and you hit a wall - your job is to stop coding and research.

The fact that you keep trying says you're obviously willing to stick at it!
In the US any politician proposing to ban access to certain opinions would be run out of town on rail, and rightly so.
What I assumed was that it would still ask permission from the user before sharing the data, but it might be the case that you are disqualified from a job opportunity if you do not share.
If it's a django app then it will. Just use the run command, see http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/django#using_the_django...
In Canada, there are two provisions of law that are common in many "manager 101" training courses that I can recall:

The Employment Equity Act is aimed at protecting women, visible minorities, people with disabilities and Aboriginals.

"5. Every employer shall implement employment equity by

(a) identifying and eliminating employment barriers against persons in designated groups that result from the employer’s employment systems, policies and practices that are not authorized by law" (1)

The Canadian Human Rights Act is aimed at preventing discrimination "practices based on race, national or ethnic origin,
colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation,marital status, family status, disability orconviction for an offence for which a pardon
has been granted."

"7. It is a discriminatory practice, directly or indirectly,

(b) in the course of employment, to differentiate adversely in relation to an employee,on a prohibited ground of discrimination." (2)

I'm no lawyer but I would tread lightly on "differentiating" by any of these statuses.

(1) http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/E-5.401/page-3.html#...

(2) http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/PDF/H-6.pdf
err.. the visibility thing's all too real.
just happened to me last week. project is nine months old. was an orphan until 1 month ago manager(s) 2 levels up asked about it. now ? daily updates. and i work at a well known co.
are his initials the same as a foundational religious figure?
I agree with badclient, there are ways to speak to people about things you disagree and the way she handled it was far from being professional.

You can try to reason with people or you can just have a bad attitude and smack them and hope the other will bow.
This is not Iran. Women are allowed to dance around in underwear. And get paid for it. It was that model's choice. She was OK with it. If she's OK with, I'm OK with it.
That was my first question too. This is the best summary I found:

http://smus.com/backbone-and-ember

It links to a much longer IRC argument between their respective evangelists -- the whole thing is an interesting read if you like that sort of thing. But the takeaway is that Ember is pretty opinionated about how to connect views to subviews to templates to models to controllers to data stores, and backbone pretty much lets you/makes you do it yourself. So backbone might mean you're writing a lot of boilerplate, and ember might mean you're locked into decisions you don't like and slowed down by cruft you don't need -- same old tradeoff.

I'm excited to give ember a try, because my initial response to backbone was "wait, where's the rest?" I was expecting the level of handholding of, like, Django. So it'll be interesting to see what that's actually like in practice.
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