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I could care less about Geeklist but from a purely analytical perspective: this is so "how not to write an apology" that someone ought to take it apart and do an annotated version of it as a lesson to the community. It literally starts out in its first sentence by undermining itself.

Incidentally, publicly threatening the job of someone who criticizes you (as a tit-for-tat for them "threatening your brand") is one of those slip-ups for which no apology is going to stem the tide of drama. I'm sure this will all be forgotten in a week, but until then: Geeklist is the villain and just needs to roll with it. As long as they're in this PR hole, maybe they should tie someone to a train track and make some demands.
I agree. The "asked to put together" is the offensive part. I consider myself lucky to work with people that I do want to hang out with, and sometimes we collectively decide to plan a social event together, but having it come top-down really riles me up.
I don't understand the "as a man" part. That's further propagating the problem.

I'd rather we point out "sexist behavior" to help make it stop vs introduce an even more subtler sexist behavior

In your senario: You, as a man, aware that she as a women, can get treated differently, so you will then treat her differently based on that.

You see, you are still treating her differently, where ultimately, no one treats her differently.

Reminds me of this quote from Morgan Freeman in an interview

Wallace: Black History Month you find...

Freeman: Ridiculous.

Wallace: Why?

Freeman: You're going to relegate my history to a month?

Wallace: Oh, come on...

Freeman: What do you do with yours? Which month is White History Month?

Wallace: Well...

Freeman: Come on, tell me.

Wallace: I'm Jewish.

Freeman: OK. Which month is Jewish History Month?

Wallace: There isn't one.

Freeman: Oh. Oh. Why not? Do you want one?

Wallace: No. No.

Freeman: Alright. I don't either. I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

Wallace: How are we going to get rid of racism...?

Freeman: Stop talking about it. I'm going to stop calling you a white man. And I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. I know you as Mike Wallace. You know me as Morgan Freeman.
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Actually, browsing that entry paints a bleaker picture. Of the five most recent testing reports, two are gold, one silver, one bronze, one garbage.

According to the bronze report:

The text tool causes the entire application to freeze (even with atmlib installed). The paintbrush works only very intermittently. Moving and docking panels was buggy, and the bluish docking indicators instead rendered as black rectangles making it impossible to see.

and:

What was not tested: Vector manipulations, filters, adjustment layers.

It's fine for playing with Photoshop on Linux a bit, but not something you'd want to rely on for your business. I guess a virtual machine with Windows is still the most viable solution.
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Yeah, reading that again this AM, I totally missed that point. Somehow read it as the inverse. I agree with it 100%
Its called "the filter bubble" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ofWFx525s
It's a nice idea, you could really do with some fun usage ideas though, something simple like "Don't eat a donut"
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Correct. But there will always be trolls. That won't be the first time, nor the last time they get nastily toned messages.

They could have handled it a lot better. Bringing her employers into it? Etc.
"We never meant to offend any woman and are very sorry as we clearly have." and "In my wildest dreams we would never wish to offend any woman."

This is pretty frustrating, although I certainly accept that it's probably unintentional. I was offended by their behavior, and I'm not a woman.

I also don't appreciate the defensive "but I have tons of black friends" rhetoric. I don't care that they don't self-identify as sexist, and that their friends don't think they're sexist. I want to know that the really, deeply understand the problem and the subsequent feedback, and what is going to change moving forward. They're going to ask the producer to remove the video, but are they going to stop threatening people on twitter?
Yes, the crash the server effect :D
Oddly, I've had exactly the opposite problem. It's difficult to find contracts in the $100-200 per day range. If I could find consistent, rewarding, challenging work, then I would gladly do it for standard pay. Unfortunately, I spend so much time finding contracts or getting burned by expanding scope or nonpayment, that I have to charge more just to survive.

Freelancing should pay at least the overtime rate of a typical developer. If someone is contemplating freelance work and makes $50,000 per year, than he or she should probably charge at least $37 per hour or else it makes more sense to work out an overtime arrangement with his or her current boss.

When we account for all of the downtime and having to eat so many losses (that are normally handled by an employer), I think that's how so many developers arrive at numbers of $75-125 per hour or more.
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Interesting idea. I respect that you are trying to match the client and the developers well, but the process you outlined seems to involve a lot of steps. Is there a way to simplify or automate portions of it? It also might be a challenge to be profitable charging 10% with the amount of back-and-forth you've proposed..
Funny idea, though I wouldn't sign up before I saw what it actually looked like. Maybe put up the image in your deviantart gallery (if it looks like this):

http://idered.deviantart.com/gallery/36159015#/d4t5dva

BTW, what is the "Design It & Code It" project? Just a personal thing or something done across the deviantart community?
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Yeah, some screenshots would be ideal. A guest account would be even more ideal. Without these, you will have a very high bounce rate.
I don't think there's an exact answer I'm afraid, depends on the product, how much its going to sell for, and how easy it is to find good keywords that match your product (and which people are searching on!). But maybe £200-300.

What I will say- is that if a decent numberpeople are signing up with interest in your product, on the basis of a single page of html, with no release-date, screenshots or demos in sight, then its probably something they REALLY want!
I believe that in most cases the Male programmers have a hard time digesting the "discouragement" angle because it simply clashes so hard with their own experience of getting into the IT/Programming field.

A recurring theme in this debate is that women are discouraged from studying CS, or perusing a career in Computing because of various discouraging factors; maybe they were put off by the "geek" stereotype, or were convinced that programming is a "boys job", etc, etc. This adds up to a sad situation where young girls who would otherwise be excellent programmers are discouraged from ever learning to code.

Now on the other hand, we have the male programmer, for whom it was all a simple matter of "I like this, so I'll do more of it", which then snowballed into a career. No blocking factors, no discouragement. So naturally the male programmer in this example doesn't really understand what it's like to be discouraged from IT/Programming and thus they are quick to dismiss and minimize those concerns.
As I saw commented elsewhere, giving up your password / access to another person appears to be a pretty clear violation of Facebook's TOS (terms of service). So, my first response might be to ask whether they are soliciting me to breach a legal contract that I've entered. (I'll leave my thoughts on the actual legality or interpretation and reasonableness of claimed legality on the part of the service provider, here Facebook, as a separate question for another time.) At a minimum, this might be enough to ensure e.g. that the unemployment agency decides in my favor with respect to unemployment insurance, if things happen to go that way.

I also recall another comment where someone pointed out that their friends on Facebook have an expectation of privacy in their own communications and that s/he will not compromise (betray) that expectation. That seems to me to be a pretty clear ethical argument. As a reasonable person, I would have a hard time challenging the ethics of such a response.

Finally, personally, I agree with other comments here, that the access and information is none of their business.

What perhaps some (not all) in the preponderance of relatively privileged professions represented on HN may not fully realize, is that for many people in the workforce there is effectively little or no choice. Jobs -- especially with decent pay and benefits -- are hard to come by, and many do not have the financial means to risk an episode or continuance of unemployment.

For the sake of those people, as well as ourselves, we need to band together in opposition to this behavior. Even for ourselves, if the practice becomes commonplace, that sets a precedent that may subsequently box us in.
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A few questions / comments (as a prospective client):

1. Do you have any thoughts or guidelines as to project size? Any lower or upper limits? (I sometimes have projects as small as a few hours' work for someone with the right background -- say, integrating with a particular tool or API. I would love a way to find skilled freelancers for this type of task. AnyFu sounds like it might be aiming at this, but they've been stuck in "we'll notify you as soon as [we're] ready" for a while now.

2. How is the project price determined? Direct negotiation between client and contractor? Do you get involved (at least to make suggestions)? Is price determined before or after the matchup is made?

3. It would be nice to have a general notion of what sorts of expertise your contractors have (collectively). For instance, are you recruiting designers? Frontend developers? Backend developers? What technologies are best represented? Before writing up a project proposal, it would be nice to have an idea of whether I have some chance of finding a good match.
Some had probably read Filmer, who knew more about political science than "the rest of modern political science:"

http://www.constitution.org/eng/patriarcha.htm

Unfortunately, Filmer was not PC in 1770s Massachusetts. Probably even the Virginians turned up their noses at him. We're all paying for the result. If you want a real laugh at the Founders' expense, though, read this:

http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?documen...
This is a matter of regional vocabulary, and the local cultural expectations that go with it.

You ask any aspiring developer in Silicon Valley what they're working on and it's always "oh yea, I have a startup I'm trying to get off the ground on weekends."

In Toronto, there's a very vibrant startup community, but back there we call them "side projects". Really same idea but the word "startup" means something rather different than a few kids eating ramen. There are plenty of freelancers who band together into a consultancy and have a couple of startuppy products they're working on together. Effectively a bootstrapped team working towards a unified vision, but they'll still be shy about calling it a startup.

I suspect a lot of this has to do with the investor and acquisition community. As someone who moved down to Silicon Valley from Toronto, I was very uncomfortable calling what I did a "startup" up until I was raising funding or entertaining acquisition opportunities. It just sneaks up on you when it's an option, and these options hardly exist in Toronto.
It is incredibly important not only because of the sexism angle, but it opens up a pretty clear case of the appropriateness of handling customer complaints in a public forum.

Flagging something do to a perceived "possible flamewar" is no better than lame use of fallacies to discount such a commonplace and pregnant problem.
I come from this path too. I've usually found that writing code is too easy. Confronting the potential customers is harder to do and I believe the hard part of the business.
IMHO
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re: adwords - impressions vary from industry to industry. instead of focussing on impressions as a measure of success, here is what you ought to test when running an adwords campaign:

Test 1: are people clicking on my ad? are they at all interested in what i'm offering

Test 2: if not clicking, then how can i change the ad to gain clicks?

Test 3: if not clicking, how can i change the keywords i'm bidding on?

Test 4: if click throughs == true, how is the landing page working? am i converting people via an email sign-up or some other call to action?

Test 5: if people are coming to the LP but are not interested, how can i improve conversions? A/B test components of the landing page is a good start.
This is almost along the lines of the "if you don't want to get raped, don't dress like a whore" argument.

Low cut dress can be functional (as described by Katie). Or maybe she's out for a date after work (in which case there's feminism is appropriate, encouraged, and even sometimes needed for the benefit of the relationship). Or she just like that dress or the way the dress looks on her (in much the same way some really rip guys love to wear tight tops).

Most women do realize when they wear low cut dresses, she will attract attention, both positive and negative. At the same time, it doesn't give her coworkers free rein to make comments like that -- the comment was made to other male in the room but was directed at and objectified her.
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Not to put too fine a point on it but, forthrightness always makes one vulnerable. I'd say that's part of the reason it's valuable and part of the reason people are sometimes afraid to be so. When you openly (and kindly) share your grievances with someone, you give them a chance to respond, either with understanding or retaliation. It's entirely reasonable to fear retaliation because people often feel attacked as well when accused of something, but if we don't give people the chance to behave rightly, how can we blame them when they behave wrongly? People deserve the chance to be good and if they don't know they've wronged you, they haven't had that chance.

Let me give you an example of what I mean. When Charles Dickens originally wrote Oliver Twist he included the character of Fagin, who a stereotypical 'evil Jew.' Many Jewish people were rightly offended and later when Dickens made some Jewish friends they explained to him why they found the character so offensive. Dickens took what they said to heart and removed direct reference to the character's Jewishness in later reprints. Imagine if Dicken's friends, instead of reasoning with him, spread rumors about him and turned the world against him. Instead of making him less of an anti-Semite it would have merely made him more paranoid, and more afraid of Jews than ever.

People who are forthright and reasonable gain respect, people who aggressive, either sneakily or openly, gain fear, but not respect. I respect you for being honest here and I hope you continue to be so, but understand that I could not possibly trust someone who behaved in the manner you describe.
_(The people using Photoshop that don't need much of it's power are mostly those that use a pirated copy for some basic home use)._

I disagree.

I did pirate a copy for home use - I was a youngling, the version was v5.0 (not CS5), and that early curiosity turned into a career full of purchased Adobe products.

Along the way I've learned a lot of new tricks, but my core practices are largely similar to what they've always been. I struggle to think of any other tool or skill that's changed less over that length of time - for me, the new useful bits are largely codifying and refining old manual processes.

It's precisely because the core has remained so untouched by age that the simplified version can be translated to iPads and web apps - Photoshop is a classic case of 20% of the features are used by everyone, and the rest is deemed absolutely essential by specific groups. This happens to most successful programs over time.

Building Photoshop again for other mediums can't help but discard a lot of cruft while discovering a bunch of significantly new things to do - it's actually a pretty exciting time for image editors as they rediscover purpose and set new charters.
as the link appears to be taken down, can someone explain the context?
FYI: The eurofighter has about 1.2 million LoC (but they use other languages too) and is written in the same programming language (Ada). They have about 500 coders working on it. Impressive..
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Really? Who faults someone else for being distracted by an inability to breathe? I know that they're trained for high-stress situations but when it's the fault of the equipment in the first place, own up to it.
It is far from reality.

1. The weather balloon will keep going up until it bursts (typically in the stratosphere). This will not take long (under two hours). So, if you are going to use a balloon it's going to be tethered. Tether it means that it can easily be shutdown by cutting the tether.

2. WiFi range with omnidirectional antennas is very limited. With directional antennas it is measured in km. So either you have to keep the balloon near the ground (which makes it easy to detect and destroy) or you have to point an antenna at it from somewhere (which means that you can't scan for open WiFis easily).

3. The typical payload for a weather balloon would be about 1kg. The solar panel that you are pointing to already weighs more than that and you'd have to include the Raspberry Pi, storage (Pirate Bay is 21.3Gb), suitable antenna, backup batteries and housing. So you'd be having a hard time and would need multiple balloons.

So suppose you really want an airborne server platform. You are going to need the following:

1. Something that flies under its own power and has sufficient energy to keep flying. That probably means a gasoline or kerosene engine of some sort, unless you keep it really light and can use solar power.

2. The computer bit is easy and everyone is focussing on it but it's not exceptional. Pirate Bay is small and needs a not complex computing environment (especially if there were many of these and any load was spread across them).

3. A way of communicating with this device. This means radio communications with sufficiently high bandwidth and that implies ground stations to pick it up.
What was this? looks like geeklist hushed it up quick-like.
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404'd for me. "jennifer" seems no longer to be a member of "geeklist".
404, what was there?
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Touchwiz has a very poor UI and looks. Sense is far superior to Touchwiz.
There's a vast, vast gap in the complexity of Chrome's ui and Photoshop's. I maintain an app with a cross-platform ui (Mac/Windows/*nix), and it adds an enormous amount of time re-doing everything on different platforms, particularly Mac.
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In some environment the term is "startup" is really cool. In other is something more meaningful.
So, I agree!
Ok, apart from the 'plug' about LiveDirectory, I really wish there were some standard like the:

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as suggested in the article.
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I mostly agree. In general, I think such threads belong to the same class as political threads, where the impetus for contribution is some combination of intellectual and moral masturbation.

The only reason I did not have flag the previous thread, was because it was an example of sexism par excellence. Both sides started out wrong in some way -- her curse with a demand yielded his emotional tilt. This produced to a weird feedback loop that lead to one side being really wrong, when in reality they were probably not that far apart initially.

It was an example of an entire evolutionary chain of an emotional conflict. You don't get to see that too often. (Well, on twitter, you actually do, but this chain was much more relevant to the sexism mime of the last week than "mY ScaLa buTthUrts your RuBy.")
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There's no single answer.

In Palestine, most of the terrorists (but maybe not the leaders) are alturists. Israel has captured quite a few, and profiled them - http://utexas.academia.edu/AmiPedahzur/Papers/209890/Altruis.... The same may have been true of the IRA, and it may be true of the Tamil Tigers. People only blow themselves up when they believe they are fighting against evil oppressors. In these cases, you are right - you need to address the root cause.

In the case of 911, the terrorists themselves may have been altruistic, but they were given support by Afghanistan (and maybe a few Saudis, but we need their oil). Knocking out states which support terrorism (which the US can do quite easily) may be an effective way to stop state-sponsored terrorism.

In any case, it's partly the result of peer pressure. If everyone in a community sees terrorism as a good thing, a few people in that community will become terrorists. Threatening states forces them to fight this attitude. In other cases, there is no state to threaten.
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This is great advice for building a project for which you can find measurable demand.

If you have picked an idea for which there is no searches yet, but people might want, don't give up. It's where you have to listen to guys like Hiten Shah and Eric Ries that say get out there and talk to customers first. Just know you'll be building the channels to reach your customers too and it's not the same as being able to look into search results that aren't being met with a product.
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