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The original artist is a bit above "considering a cheaper run" - originals of their work would be hundreds of thousands of dollars and long since collected. I was not buying as an investment so I could not financially justify a $1,500 (plus framing) print-out. I could not find their pieces as unnumbered prints/posters in the way that you can buy cheaper prints of classics in art gallery stores.

I couldn't buy the original or justify a limited copy and an unlimited copy was not otherwise available. I figured some money to a less privileged worker overseas at least helped someone in the art world.

All of my other purchases are generally student pieces, from early exhibitions of new artists or smaller prints.

I didn't mention being "proud of this" but I do like having the piece on my wall. You are welcome to disagree with my behaviour regardless.
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Dissing Nokia? Sorry, but while Apple did blindside everyone, Nokia is a legend. Some of their phones, made for the $20+ market, last for ages. Remember that in Africa, parts of Asia and eastern Europe the iPhone is just a dream. Their latest Windows Phone got great reviews as far as I can tell. Totally different design, did not clone iPhone or anyone. So if they can make a tablet with the same material I'm in.

Personally I'd choose a Widows tablet over an iPad in a heartbeat, simply because all my computers are Windows. I'm too invested in them with dozens of already purchased programs to change to Apple.

Lastly, never underestimate Microsoft (Tim Cook certainly isn't). What they did 10 years ago is no longer relevant; they are tenacious, mint boatloads cash every quarter and Microsoft Research is top notch.
Most sites with the kind of traffic that could potentially run up the bill thousands of dollars will have checks in place to ensure a mistake like that wouldn't happen. Anything else would be irresponsible.. I'd challenge your assumption that Amazon is intentionally trying capitalize on mistakes... A company a big as Amazon doesn't have the time or need to even consider something like that.. And yes, I think you're being paranoid.
Fwiw, I thought your original post was quite clear on the topic. Even pre-edit, I saw the post for the internal turmoil it represents. It's an important post, too, because behaviors like these are hard to change. The problems don't come from people like you, who recognize it as a problem. They come from those who shrug it off as "that's the way it is".
And it isn't even difficult to do so, most of the time! Everyone has some personality traits they could stand to work on; those that don't will look for any excuse they can find to justify their continued poor behavior.
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I like how it can apply to all the use cases you mention above, and also how they have a variety of demo videos on their website demonstrating them. About to try it out now for my startup.
Glad there's a plan for this. But everyone is going to have to do a lot more work to make their UIs truly resolution independent, though. It's really a major task. But this is a good initial step.
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Ah yes, I obviously share a piece of the blame for being sensitive about how hard you work to secure the future of sexist jokes.

Wouldn't want to have to spend half a second considering the implications of our actions, now would we, Mr orblivion?
I haven't laughed out loud from a website in a long time. This is really well done. Nice work.
I wholeheartedly agree that for web applications client side applications are the way to go and spend all day every day working on one which we are as you said going to throw on a CDN. I argue however that the experience of sending down the whole asset package (or parts thereof) just to show the login page or other assumedly tertiary screens of the application is worse than rendering that server side and sending it back lickety split. There are other use cases too, you might want to leverage Rails' ability to pump out both XML, and JSON, and maybe capitalize on how easy it is to add new formats like CSV. My point is that you lose _so much_ flexibility to do anything at all server side by ditching Rails that it simply isn't worth the performance increase until you are absolutely sure you should switch and that your requirements are stable. If this is the case it might even be time to ditch Ruby for something more roflscale.

With regards to your other comment, I again disagree. To me it seemed like you were advocating switching off Rails because you were no longer using it's view rendering bits. I say balderdash, as above, I think you will run into weird unforeseen situations which you don't want to implement client side. To your ecosystem point, indeed, decoupling progress has been made and its wonderful to see. It's great for Rails to have stellar competition, but the reason I started using it in the first place is that it took 15 minutes to make a blog. It just works. Smart people have made decisions about what ORM and tempting engine and test framework to use, and how to architect it all in such a way that my teammate and I both know where to find something to change it. I don't want to have to make all those decisions and make all the same mistakes Rails did before arriving at the happy middle ground it has, and I want my teammates to just be able to jump into my project and know how to use the thing.
I'm genuinely curious, how is the ICS TouchWiz overlay a problem for you in practice?

Pre-ICS, I'll agree that the custom manufacturer widgets could create issues (performance, app consistency, etc.). However, starting with ICS, manufacturers will have to include the stock widgets as well and apps are likely to select them (to avoid these kinds of issues).

It also isn't hard to replace the TouchWiz launcher with an AOSP-based one (e.g. Apex, Nova, Trebuchet). After that, what is left and how important is it?
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> Personally, I recognize that I have an unfortunate automatic physiological response to breasts. I've discussed this with female friends whom I've respected and liked strictly as friends. If exposed to low-cut tops, I find my eyes darting to them, particularly when I'm distracted or concentrating on some thought. If I were in a position where a well-endowed female coworker were wearing very snug or revealing clothing, I'm honestly not sure how I would handle the situation.

I have been in that situation years ago, and I remember it to this day. It didn't help that I was much younger then.

Anyway, I found it incredibly hard to concentrate on what she was saying, because I was concentrating on keeping my eyes away. It didn't help that she was absolutely gorgeous, well-endowed and was wearing a dress with a cleavage probably modeled after the Grand Canyon. Thankfully, she was not a coworker. But even worse, she was a potential client.

I don't want to be too quick to blame it on instinct, but it is there. I wonder if I were (proportionally) as well-endowed as she was, and wore tight shorts. Some female friends told me that they do look - but women seem to be more discreet, on average.

Is this sexism? Or just normal human behavior?
A or B?

Consider this thought experiment: if it is the case that there is a ton of interest by women in programming, but that interest is frustrated by the "star wars" factor, that would imply that there's a huge pool of untapped female programming power. Why hasn't an enterprising business person realized this and created the next facebook-killer or google-killer by assembling a team of all-female ninjas?

My first reaction to this experiment would be "Because they were frustrated before they had the chance to graduate with a CS degree".

And the response to that would be to examine what the rate of CS enrollment is at all-female universities, if such things (still) exist. (I don't know that data looks like yet. lazyweb, can you answer this for me?)
I get the feeling that this is going to be a problem with a lot of upgrades. We have quite a few netbooks (HP via Verizon) that will not work. Wal-Mart sells a lot of netbooks that aren't up to spec either.
While the article is informative, it seems like a poor decision to type your password into anything that isn't the site you access with it.

While the site isn't doing anything harmful, it is not served over SSL so it could easily be modified. (The author uses some obfuscated JavaScript code, but it turns out to be a silly Easter egg :)
Though my response won't be as forward as yours, I couldn't agree more.
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This post raises two issues which everyone keeps conflating. I don't think we can have a productive discussion unless they're kept separate.

The first issue is the "you should take notes" mindset. This one is unequivocally wrong. The second issue is the "low cut blouse" remark, which I feel is wrong only by social convention.

Here's why the first issue is wrong: It implies that women don't belong in this line of work, that they can't do it effectively, and that they should get out. Factually wrong.

The second issue is wrong largely by social convention, I think. It's natural for men and women to be attracted to others in the work place. It's hard to avoid. That said, by social convention we're not supposed to talk about it. Talking about it makes you seem creepy since you're flouting social convention and if you're willing to do that, what else are you willing to do....?

However, if the underlying physiological response is not inappropriate (and I don't think it's fair to suggest that it's inappropriate -- it's how we're wired), then how could it be logically inappropriate to mention your feelings? I think our society has found that business proceeds best if we don't mention them and pretend we're not feeling them, but I could envision a culture along the lines of Radical Honesty where just bringing up how you feel isn't wrong.

So, keep the issues separate and treat each appropriately. Implying women aren't able to do tech work? Absolutely wrong. Stop it. Indicating that a woman is attractive? Realize it's inappropriate because of how our society determined we should interact at work, not because it's inherently immoral, but still don't do it because it might make her feel uncomfortable.
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There's a real problem here that comes down to the status-quo of the office. Imagine your office of 100 people is 50% male/female, and a nice sampling of racial groups, sexualities and ages (I've had the fortune to work in such a place). What happens is that there is sufficient diversity and commonality between enough people of their varying interests, looks and views, that you find it completely unnecessary to make comments about what someone is wearing, or whether their gender deems them capable. I say again, the problem with the high-tech industry is there is simply not enough diversity. Now we can't fix this today or tomorrow, maybe not in 10 years, but you can certainly imagine that it's there. With any comment, consider what is appropriate given a hypothetical situation where there is a good balance of whatever-stereotype-you-are-addressing and go from there.
Interesting problem. Everyone knows that intuitively, but people do it anyway.

Instead, how about: Don't promise any specifics until you've already implemented them, and all that remains is debugging and optimizing.
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Sensitivity needs to be used with common sense. If a small fire has started in the kitchen, do you wait hoping it will go out on its own because using a fire extinguisher will make a mess?

Before I continue, how often have you said a line or phrase to a friend or someone you have had a long term relationship with (without defining that relationship) that could be viewed as "bad" out of context? I have seen blacks call each other the N word, people call each other homosexuals, all in their comfort zones of understanding that the other person was not saying anything to be offensive. It is called understanding each other.

She rants on about how "guys" think and how the "guys" push roles upon her. It has nothing to do with roles. Pot luck? There is a very good chance that no one wanted that job regardless of gender. I'm a programmer. I don't have time to do a pot luck. It doesn't matter if I am a man or woman, I am going to try to get out of it. You didn't and you got stuck with it.

I have said comments not unlike the one in the article to a woman before. I didn't do it because I felt beneath her, or that she was weaker, or didn't belong there. I knew her for a long time, and felt comfortable that she would not be offended, and that she would get a laugh about it. If she didn't like something I said, she would likely jab me in the gut or tell me to clean up my mouth, and I would oblige.

The problem is she never addressed the issue, and instead let it go even though it was eating her up inside to the point where it did serious damage to her career. Why? Because she caved in to her own assumptions and did not address it. The guy could be a complete douche, or he could have believed that he was giving her a compliment (albeit a lame one) about her dress and the effect it had on him. No one knows from what place his comment came from except for him and she didn't try to find out.

True to tell someone to "lighten up" is a remark that disallows someones point of view. That is horribly wrong. But it is wrong to force everyone to make assumptions about everyone else without discussing it with them. If someone steps over the line, it is your responsibility to address it to them. She did not do that. Instead she went on a blog and lambasted every male coder in the business. Strange. I find that horribly inappropriate.
You could set your own cap by monitoring on your server, and shut down services as needed. Maybe a new startup idea here for someone? We monitor our bandwidth here, and while we haven't had to deactivate services it's something we're prepared for.
I came across this while deploying to Heroku. It's the little things like this that make your day a little better, right? It's like coders give little bits of humors in unexpected ways. I bet when whomever wrote that they weren't thinking it would give someone else something to smile about months later.
They've been growing and hiring like crazy for the last 2 years or so.
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the video is the easiest, and dare I say, quickest way to understand what we do

Another way of saying that is that the site's target audience is people for whom that video is the easiest/quickest way to receive knowledge.
Argh, I knew I shouldn't have used a broad description of male behavior and narrow one of the female.

The male equivalent of what I described here would be when two managers shouting against each other in ever stronger terms that they are more important and have more authority than the other until one backs down.

Equally destructive I believe, but something you'd never see a woman engage in.
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I'm doing API first stuff in Sinatra(or grape, or radial-ruby), sequel/mongoid.

Static assets like JS and CSS can live on a CDN. If you need something google friendly on your views render with sinatra and your favorite template language, if not just write straight html/js apps with your favorite js framework.

In a world where you are building API first, what is the point of rails over something lighter and more performant like sinatra?
Their latest Windows Phone got great reviews as far as I can tell

Positive Windows Phone reviews are almost universally courtesy of iPhone boosters, the general tone being some variation of "if for some unexplained reason the universe will not allow you to buy an iPhone, buy WP7." It's a rather transparent ploy at an "enemy of my enemy" play, and it yielded the expected sales results (if everyone who loves your device loves another device even more, only some massive supply chain issue stopping their sales could benefit you)

Personally I'd choose a Widows tablet over an iPad in a heartbeat, simply because all my computers are Windows.

I'm typing this on a Windows 7 PC, which I love. Most of my development is on Windows devices. Love Visual Studio.

For tablets I have an iPad 3rd gen and an ICS tablet. I have zero motivation for any of my Windows experiences to follow to the tablet form, and I cannot imagine a world where the legacy of Windows is any benefit at all. Which, of course, is why Microsoft is desperately trying to flip that around, forcing their tablet experience on the desktop, which may be the first time I seriously give OSX or Linux a shot on my desktops.

Lastly, never underestimate Microsoft (Tim Cook certainly isn't).

I don't underestimate Microsoft generally, but the Windows 8 Consumer Preview makes me think that I generally overestimate. That is an unmitigated disaster in the making. Though it's interesting that you made special note of Tim Cook when he just recently went out of his way to say that he feels no pressure from Microsoft.
I think it's also important to point out that young programmers often don't know that what they don't know is reasonable to not know. As one of these drywall saw guys, sometimes I'm cutting drywall because I feel like I should be able to figure out a certain amount of things on my own. When I started my first (and current) job, no one ever expressed to me that it's okay to ask lots of questions and to not know much. Sure, it's probably the junior's responsibility to ask questions, but the senior has been in both situations. The junior has been in neither. The senior engineers have to have some responsibility for letting the juniors know to ask when they're unsure of something, etc.

Also, at risk being 'that guy' (also, proud suggester of using Rails in lieu of the GWT that every developer constantly complains about), I think it would be helpful for junior engineers to pair with someone more senior, at least some of the time so that they're not halfway through cutting up the wall before it's noticed. I know I've come up with some fairly terrible solutions now that I've learned better and I'm probably doing things now that I'll look at in a couple months and think are terrible.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception#Ending - Nolan himself noted that "I choose to believe that Cobb gets back to his kids, because I have young kids. People who have kids definitely read it differently than those who don't". Good enough for me.

You're still right he meant to leave it up to the viewer, but it completely destroys the rest of the movie if everything is a dream. People want to play games with the rules the movie presented and hypothesize about the whether Mal is in the "level above"... but everything we think we know about the rules comes from that level. We learn about the multi-layer inception, the wife, the concept of limbo, everything in the movie, on that level. If it's all a dream, then there's no target to the obsession in the first place, no children, no wife, nothing.

Incidentally, note I'm sort of making a metapoint... if Nolan came out and said "Yes, it was all a dream" I would accept it. But it would still dramatically destroy the movie.

I'm also sort of hostile to the "all just a dream" idea, whereever it appears in fiction, because it's redundant. It's already just a dream, a movie, a book, a TV show, whatever. It's already not real. Saying that in the context of the not-real work of fiction the entire story was also not-real is silly. (Note the word "entire".) It started at the maximum level of not-realness from the very first word or frame. And it's a short trip from there to the Bergman/Braga incoherent style of ass-pull storytelling. (Or Tennant-era Doctor Who.)
I know this is getting really tangential, but prolongued exposure to the Japanese language (where they usually drop the leading I/he/she/we on a sentence) has made me start doing this myself fairly often in written communication, ala "sounds good, arriving soon."
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Companies often have specific dress code regarding clothing choices because of issues like this. So I believe his point is valid at least in a generalization point of view.
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Theirs has a nice, simple presentation which makes it very easy to use, especially for casual users. But it includes much less information (no confidence intervals and p-values are only approximate), uses much simpler statistics (z-test with no multiple testing correction can result in highly overconfident results), and doesn't describe what underlying statistics it uses. Although not as immediately accessible, I think Abba has much more to offer to anyone who's serious about A/B testing.
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>Why do we do such a bad job of developing people who are good managers/leaders AND understand technology?

From my experience I think the issue stems for looking at management as the next rung on a ladder. A good developer might never gain or want the experience needed to make her a good manager. A manager might never learn what it takes to be a developer. But the idea of moving up to management ignores the real issue.

Management relates to handling people and handling projects. If you can't deal with people enough to understand how they fit into your project you manage poorly. If you can't manage a project well enough to use the people you have, then you manage poorly.

The skills to manage, and the skills to be a developer/engineer/designer/widgeteer seem, to me, orthogonal. I could write code for ten more years and never learn a thing about management.

The best run tech project I ever worked on involved a PM who could still remember the Great Depression. She had the ability to ask the right questions and had a clear picture of how to move the project forward. The worst managed projects came from the PM who used to code.
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