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I don't mean to be rude, but please stop this vapid series. Your last article measured HTTP throughput on a static file using localhost. I can't even begin to critique that benchmark as utterly unrealistic. And now that you've introduced a real world constraint, you find that throughput drops? That's not exactly surprising is it?

If you really want to do a realistic and robust benchmark, load up some typical database-driven apps like Wordpress, generate a sample HTTP request and response stream, snapshot the database and then benchmark the exchange by changing only the web server being used.
There are lots of free apps and a lot of the nonfree apps dont make any money, but people still make new apps.
Download is still going, but isn't this just the standard GPL parts - ie kernel & some libraries?

(EDIT: it is indeed just the GPL parts.)

In which case, can someone explain how it's really newsworthy? Samsung have been exemplary in all their GPL compliance for all their Android releases to date.

open source code ROM builders and other modders will be able to do more advanced ports and advanced ROMs.

Well, now they can build with the latest kernel instead of the Gingerbread kernel, but does that really make much difference to anything else? Are there outstanding kernel bugs in the Gingerbread releases, or new kernel features that ICS AOSP needs to run?
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I find it hard to believe that you think women should have to dress differently so as not to attract a running commentary.
For rapid prototyping, I like the serverless one-file simplicity of SQLite. No need to start a db server, the app and the db can be contained in the same directory (and versioned within the same repository). You can drag it to another system and the app still works, and restarting the db from scratch is as easy as deleting the file. If needed, it's easy to manually edit with a diverse choice of GUIs. And ORMs like DataMapper make it a breeze to play with.
Okay, so this is a javascript file apple uses to substitute high-resolution images on retina devices.

I think.

Why isn't this labeled at all?

Also there's a unicode snowman for some reason.
On systems that have a limited stack size, it is a semantics change. Usually this is more limiting than memory or address space. Split stacks are one workaround, but can have a performance penalty of their own.
Not really. Reddit also increases the number of other people competing for attention. It's a wash.
> The proper expression is "I was horrified and angered by it,"

I was horrified and angered by it, and I know very well that assholes who show their bare butt pictures in interviews are incorrigible bastards, and if I happen to meet one, I am afraid I won't be able to contain myself(not too sure I would want to), so it was for the best I wasn't around.
My point is that there is no "bottom line."

Your analogy to a Zen monastery is a good one. For a lot of men (myself included), programming/chess/mathematics/etc. is an ESCAPE from women. I feel like what has happened in the past 10 years (note I'm not saying this is "wrong" - just that it's what happened) is that these monasteries have been invaded by women and that men have been acting very awkwardly.

Here's the real issue, I think - these men are acting AWKWARDLY. They are dealing with their emotions poorly. They are not good at dealing with their emotions, especially towards women. But when did they ever say that they were? Did we stop to think whether this is the reason that they went into a profession which (for a long time) was almost 100% male? To not have to deal with women and their emotions towards women? Do you think that a man who has trouble interacting with women in a relaxed social setting will be able to deal with them well in a professional setting?

The real pain for me is that this awkwardness is being recast as evil, sexism, etc. There's a lot of hate directed towards it, whereas what it needs (paradoxically) is love.
What makes you think Jeffrey Dahmer was a happy, mentally-healthy, well-adjusted human being? Where's the compassion for him?
job interviews in which she was shown pictures of her interviewer's bare ass;

What the hell?
How on earth did that happen, I really can't imagine why anyone would think that doing this could possibly have a positive income without having drunk a minimum of 5 beers.
I hope that my criticism helps.

I think "I can imagine myself saying" implies he thought it was "reasonable".
It's a shame that your post is disappearing into the gray background - I feel something similar every time I have to use Javascript & HTML for a rich interface.
Every time that happens, I wish I was using GTK or QT instead.
Piracy is a reality in app stores. But you don't see developers running around to sue people downloading pirated copies. That's because they acknowledged that these people won't pay them and focus their efforts on people who do pay them. Most of the apps even have free versions just so that users can sample they app and judge it for them selves before buying it. All these are adaptations to the environment in which they operate. Content industry on the other hand refuses to adapt.
Where did I say it was an excuse?
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So does the top stop spinning or not!?
There's a YC company that does this: http://anyasq.com/
I'm actually quite sure you'll find much more diversity from Stanford on that front.

CMU students tend to be a little clueless on the job search side of things, so they tend to stick to firms that are well known or well respected because they're safe.
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I think threatening to fire men for commenting on women's dresses counts as trying.
Yep, that's the conclusion I'm coming to. I still want to try to optimize the interpreter to see if I can get it to acceptable speeds, but I'm quickly seeing that the way to go is to work with browsers to make sure they provide APIs for their debugger.
I know my wife will love it. Perfect for her to decorate our new home!
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~comp210/96spring/Labs/lab09.html (search for ""omatic".) The author seems to use automatic" to mean "mindless human", though, not "mindful computer"
"Schindler's List" would have made a lousy movie if he just told people to "Hang in There".
I agree this is a problem. But it's not one-sided.

I work (part time, not IT) in an environment where it's perfectly OK to generalize and joke about how men are assholes or idiots. I'm no writer, and I'm not about to attempt writing a post about the situation. I've been around enough that I can shrug it off at the end of the day, but in the moment it's beyond annoying and approaching degrading.
What a trainwreck of a comments section.

If your immediate knee-jerk response is to try to point out why it's her fault without reflecting on her points, you're part of the problem.
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As an Android user, I do not want the TouchWiz overlay. I want the pure, unadulterated ICS UI goodness. Why doesn't Samsung "get it"? (Don't answer that).
Counseling someone to accept a situation is not the same as endorsing it. And acceptance is the only rational response when you lack sufficient power to effect change. Indeed, the OP's decision to leave the tech industry is an implicit acknowledgment of her acceptance. That's a rational decision. Posting a whiny (albeit well-written) essay about it isn't—at least, it's irrational if she wrote it to help solve the problem. If she was simply venting, and attempting to garner attention and sympathy, then the post served its purpose well.
I really want Apple to move the games out of the App Store and into a separate Game Store. As someone that's frequently NOT looking for games it's hard to find good apps because so many of the top spots are taken by games.
"Oop, Katie's got the low cut dress on today! I know where I'm sitting!"

Anyone says that at my workplace and they will be shown the door in less than 120 seconds.
That EDS video was funny, haven't seen that before.

Fwiw, the author Dominic Connor is a pretty well known financial engineering/quant recruiter.

The 'Related Articles' section at the bottom has some other funny ones by and about him.
It's very rare for someone to be so overtly sexist that the HR department can intervene. Usually, there's some doubt for the harasser to receive the benefit of. And besides that, how would that affect her reputation if she turns into "the complainer who got Joe fired"?
OK, black people were literally property in mid-19th century America. That's pretty much rock bottom, just 157 years ago. For reference, a full human lifespan is something like 120 years, and the average is a little over 70. So today, a mere two lifetimes later, a guy descended from the slave owners can marry one of the slaves' descendants and nobody even bats an eye. And a first-generation African-American is running the country. In the face of all this, how can you say meaningful change can't happen on the scale of a person's life? (And most of that civil rights process did happen in raganwald's lifetime if he was born before the '60s.)
Neat, that top answer is mine. And yes, it does borrow quite generously from the first chapter of SICP, which is the canonical source for that kind of info. Still, it's nice to see something I wrote coming up again. I'm glad it's helping people.
I think these kinds of discussions are immensely productive even when they don't appear to go anywhere.

For a lot of people, these things are subtle and hard to process. It takes time and repetition for them to understand and acknowledge the problem, let alone become part of the solution.

Sexism is taking generations to sort out, so it's unsurprising that we can't see a difference in the course of a single discussion. But I believe that without discussion, we'll see no progress at all.
Google and Facebook are two companies out of many thousands (if not millions) of startups. The odds of anybody that big coming out of anywhere are microscopic. That being said, Dropbox and AirBNB are massive and very young companies. Between those two and the 150+ startups funded in the past 18 months, saying there will be no world-changing startups out of YC is premature.
I thought it was clear from context, but I've added a clarifying clause. The point is that, if firing people for commenting on low-cut dresses doesn't work, complaining about it in a blog post certainly isn't going to do the trick. The problem is unfixable using the means at the disposal of the OP. In this case, although the outcome is lamentable, leaving the industry may be a rational response.
In my mind, an important point here is that NO ONE should be asked to put together a pot luck. Why does anyone think this kind of thing is appropriate in the workplace? It makes me want to vomit when workplace boss becomes social boss. If anyone ever told me to put together a pot luck my immediate response would be "go fuck yourself."
Too bad.

Programing or any place in the world isn't some special place for poorly socialized men to hang out and ... what... hide? You know what would be good? Learning social rules and improving. Them maybe his life wouldn't suck and he could get a date. And you know what would help that? Being forced into social situations with women and being slapped when he steps out of line.

If you have a puppy and it pees on the floor, you don't feel sorry for it and lock it in the house so it can pee on the floor forever, you train it not to.

If we "just give up" on these men and leave them alone they will be miserable forever. If they are forced to learn (at a later age, you know what, all the rest of us learned this a long time ago) they maybe they can get on with their lives and not be miserable.
Found a Time article: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2109712,00.ht...

I wonder why this isn't considered entrapment.
That took some scrolling until I found a reasonable comment. Thanks for this.

The other aspect is: Groups will always bond together in one way or another and emphasize their "superiority" over some other group. May it be because of gender, race, political views, intellectual views or just sports teams.

The only difference I noticed from sometimes working with almost exclusive female teams is, that they are smarter in regards to "testing the water", i.e. those who don't share their sense of humor and are unable to cope with less appropriate remarks get isolate pretty fast. But I never understood why people get sensitive over things like these.

In fact I would argue that the more something is a high pressure environment, the less PC the environment becomes.
This seems a little confusing--the tail call isn't really eliminated per se, it just behaves differently in terms of stack space. Semantically, it's still a call, just one that does not have any unnecessary additional overhead.
I posted this one because it is an interesting response to customers who are very displeased with the company's product.

This one is different in that it uses an appeal to the "critic" that acts as an interesting deflection of the issue.
According to http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/Miscellaneous/pacemaker.h... they're titanium cased and designed to withstand cremation, although I have no idea if that's true in practice.

What surprised me was that the total expected exposure was much higher for the patients spouse that the patient themselves. It's got twice the thickness of partner in which to be absorbed, but there's only close exposure for maybe 8-10 hours a day, and the inverse square to deal with.
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For usability response time is everything. So for the moment if people want to build richer apps then they will have to be asynchronous. But do you think there will ever come a day when you can assume the network is always fast and we will be able to go back around the circle to the mainframe again?
My wife puts up with this all the time. She is an assertive and decisive businessperson, but is labelled "abrasive" and "a bitch" because she isn't meek, submissive and soft-spoken. The same behavior in males is encouraged and rewarded.

My parent's generation moved us past overt sexism; our generation needs to move us past subtle sexism. Otherwise, we are still wasting a large part of our human potential.
And who says he never did do that? You think he never came across people who were too risky to try to save? Why wasn't he able to save all the jews?

My point was that it's pretty far fetched for anyone to believe InclinedPlane would risk his life saving slaves when he won't even risk his career trying to legally torpedo the original poster's workplace. It's posturing, nothing more.
What if each student performed two standard deviations better?
Sorry, that's lame.

I grew up in a small, all-white community where jokes about blacks were common and accepted.

when I grew up and moved away, I learned how bad that was. so I stopped.

I don't ever, ever slip up, because I don't think that way any more.

"I try, I really try, but sometimes I forget myself."? No, you just THINK you are really trying.
Around here, the somewhat more technical terms "production" and "rent seeking" will probably serve you better. Folks on news.yc have already passed Randian Thought 101.
A bit off topic, but if you ever want a syllabus of what you've missed in physics with some links to good material, Gerard 't Hooft's page is pretty spiffy-keen:

http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~hooft101/theorist.html
Treating them like one of the guys can be fine. But if you're calling attention to their tits (as in the "low-cut dress" comment in the article), then you're definitely not treating them like one of the guys.
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> Why do women wear low-cut dresses if not to attract male attention (in the majority of cases)?

Yes, Virginia, this is sexist. Holy hell, is it sexist.

You are characterizing a woman's behavior in terms of how it makes you, as a man, feel. There are many reasons that a human might dress a particular way, but by characterizing it as a gender-based, "she wore that to make me do this" kind of transaction you have incorrectly emphasized a single way. This woman wore it for no other reason than to attract male attention? Really? Are you sure? Her decision is entirely based on how it would make a man feel?

I'm a heterosexual man and I wear certain jeans because I like to show off my butt. That's fine. But am I doing it because I want to attract "female attention"? Not exactly. This turns on a subtle point, but it's very important: I wore them for me, not for anyone else. Feeling attractive is not the same as receiving attention. I don't want to be honked at, felt up, leered at, or even commented on. But I do want to look good. Does that make sense?

This situation is only exacerbated when you bring in gender dynamics: men and women are equal, yes, but women are the ones who've been oppressed for centuries and are struggling up the slope to reach equality. What a man says to a woman exists within this context, so simply reversing the roles and pointing out that it's okay HERE but not THERE is not sufficient.

Check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaze The section about feminism and the male gaze applies here, too.
"In the workplace, open competitiveness and overt displays of hierarchical dominance (boy's game) are perfectly acceptable, but figuring out the motives of your enemy's friends, observing when he breaks them and subtly informing those friends about that in order to weaken his support base (girl's game) is considered 'nasty.'"

It is nasty. It's called passive-aggressiveness and it undermines honest communication in the workplace. It will make people unwilling to treat with you honestly. The fact that you think this form of behavior is more natural to women than men is actually quite sexist.
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Well, neither am I comfortable working with people as fragile as Ming vases.

Received autism is not a virtue. Some people seem to be honing their internal conflict and blaming it on people whose jokes (or anything, really) touched it accidentally.

A person without serious internal conflict would not be hurt by a mild nerd humor. Hate there isn't, just some reflection on the awkwardness of human existence.
Sexual assault is no joke. But so what if someone gives you "unwanted attention"? We have become a culture of whiners and rationalisers. It would be like me, as a man, going on and on about how unfair it is that I'm expected to hide fear and put the safety of females before my own. Of course, we're well along the way to destroying that tradition. People ignore the myriad of subtle advantages to this "sexist" approach, starting with the fact that in an emergency no thought needs to be exercised - men know reflexively that they are to put themselves between danger and other people. Maybe we can weaken this a bit and use some different criteria like "the best and bravest should protect others". But if we let the more fantatical egalitarians run the show it will end up with unworkable madness like demanding equal representation in self-sacrifice between men and women.
I may be a novice but shouldn't that document not be in a webroot or shouldn't the webserver not render it? I mean, It's not giving any terribly sensitive information but I'd assume that it shouldn't be just dumping like that?
Looking for programmers for Y Combinator idea
Hello,

I am looking for a programmer(s) for an existing idea that I could also provide to Y Combinator for Summer 2012.

I (we) have already provided an application with an idea, however, I may continue with this venture.
The focus is media distribution (made easier) and I'm looking for a programmer to help with the technical requirements of the idea.

The person (s) needs to be a very capable, however, the idea could see mainstream use (become very popular).

I am also available at jehns1@hushmail.com

Thank you,
Jehns
Exception ?

MongoDB, Wordpress (and all other blogging frameworks), MySQL, the list keeps going... they are out there for free because the creators figured out a way for it to be free why still getting paid (service contracts in most cases).. Being free didn't even reduce their quality (it probably enhanced it)...
I don't think this is a fair comment. I don't consider someone like Patrick McKenzie to be a "spammer" or "shadowy salesman", but I do consider him to be very good at SEO, copywriting and marketing.

HN has a weird doublethink when it comes to SEO/marketing. We are all "hoorah!" startups, but how dare you try to make your site more appealing to a potential customer.

Sure, there are tons of scammers that use SEO...but there are tons of scammers in every field.
Sure, he has problems. We all have problems. But when you make your problems somebody else's problems, you're still an asshole.

It would be great if one of his colleagues would pull him aside, explain some things to him with a LART, and suggest that he get a therapist and an Ok Cupid account. But that's not obligatory, and is definitely not the problem of the person to whom he's being an ass.
That was because of this: http://laughlines.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/look-at-me-ir...
Thank you for your honesty and self reflection. I really appreciate it.

> frankly, I don't know how I can help it.

Two things you can do are practice and self-education. Subscribe to http://geekfeminism.org and http://feministing.com. Reading those posts will give you the stories and information you need to understand the effects of your actions.

Then practice. You won't immediately be able to catch everything, so just focus on the things that make you hesitate. Those moments when I think "maybe I shouldn't say this", I almost always learn later that I was right. Use at hesitation to do a little analysis of what the effect of your words might be.

You can also practice in your head, or in conversation. When you're on the bus, think about things you said recently, and analyze them. Look for things that might've hurt people. When you're having conversations with people, think about what you would've said in that situation. Practice the analysis, and practice saying the right things.

You'll never be perfect, but you can TOTALLY get to the point where you're mostly not harming people. Which is an awesome place to get from the default for men, which is harming people over all day without having any clue.
I would prefer if Darwin remained on the £10 note and Turing was put on the £5 note instead.
Yeah, wouldn't it be great if everyone was just totally psychologically normal? I bet everyone can just fix everything that's wrong with themselves. Everyone has a surplus of love in their life available to help them overcome their problems.

Men are not puppies, asshole.
You're comparing someone selling a similar product that they had to grow on their own land using their own resources to someone taking a product that is completely unique and cannot be found in nature, and diluting your value from it down significantly without any financial repercussions to themselves. Apples and oranges.
a lot of female sf fandom is into knitting, crochet and the like too. i wouldn't even blink if i saw you at an sf con, and by extension i probably wouldn't be surprised at a dev event either (rightly or wrongly i tend to assume a fair amount of overlap among the two groups)
A serial killer
I have great compassion for Jeffrey Dahmer.

And do you realize that you just compared making an awkward joke to killing loads of people?
Bought a copy for my Kindle. Unlike many tech books sold as epub, the code formatting is great. Very readable on a variety of devices.

Looking forward to reading it soon.