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> Backing up your data on Megaupload and then not keeping a local copy is active stupidity of such vast scale that I refuse to believe it has ever happened in the real world.

The purpose of having a backup is so that you can restore your data after the original is lost, because there is a good chance the original will be lost. Explicitly retaining it on your local system is not enough to keep it safe. If it was, there would be no reason to backup in the first place.

If a million people used the service for backups, it wouldn't be unreasonable to expect several of them to have a drive failure each and every day.
Well, you can't say the chinese aren't persistent.
Not to mention the fact that the Nuclear (uranium) fuel cycle is much more established than the more immature and unproven thorium fuel cycle is.
Let's start with some facts.

FACT: Men and women have significant, measurable neurological differences[1].

FACT: These differences are measurable before birth[2].

FACT: Men and women show large, reproducible differences on average in tests of visuospatial ability, differences that can be mapped back to the brain[3]

Men consistently outperform women on spatial tasks,
including mental rotation, which is the ability to
identify how a 3-D object would appear if rotated in
space. Now, a University of Iowa study shows a connection
between this sex-linked ability and the structure of the
parietal lobe, the brain region that controls this type of
skill.

The parietal lobe was already known to differ between men
and women, with women's parietal lobes having
proportionally thicker cortexes or "grey matter." But this
difference was never linked back to actual performance
differences on the mental rotation test.

...

"Differences in parietal lobe activation have been seen in
other studies. This study represents the first time we
have related specific structural differences in the
parietal lobe to sex-linked performances on a mental
rotation test," said Tim Koscik, the study's lead author
and a graduate student in the University of Iowa
Neuroscience Graduate Program. "It's important to note
that it isn't that women cannot do the mental rotation
tasks, but they appear to do them slower, and neither men
nor women perform the tasks perfectly."

There are literally thousands more studies of the deep rooted genetic, neurological, and endocrinological differences between the genders on pubmed.org. These differences manifest before birth. And this research is what your tax dollars pay for. It is just young earth creationism to postulate that evolution did not happen, or that biological gender differences do not exist or are somehow disconnected from their real world consequences.

One of the consequences is that in any niche which requires cognitive or physical activity, we should not expect an exactly 50/50 distribution of males and females. Interests differ. Abilities differ.

The religious outcry against stating these basic evolutionary facts got Larry Summers ousted as the President of Harvard in 2005. You simply cannot state these facts and retain your job. And the irony of all ironies is that those who drove the President of Harvard from power will insist that they are actually the oppressed, rather than the powerful.

That's the root of the matter here. The ostensible evil of the term "brogrammer" rests upon the tacit desirability of having a 50/50 distribution of women in programming, which in turn rests upon the presumption that it is even possible to achieve this equality given biological constraints, constraints that are obvious upon a cursory skim of the relevant literature. We are just not blank slates to be blasted clean and remade by ideology.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Female-Brain-Louann-Brizendine-M-D/dp/...

[2] http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-10/uu-spb102309....

[3] http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-12/uoi-sdo121708...
I feel like I'm missing something here. Why would someone (of any gender) feel like they're missing out due to an inability to fit a stereotype melding douchebag frat boy with programmer?

It's sad to me, because there are so many much more worthy things for us to aspire towards, as software developers, than some stereotype based around degenerate behavior.
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Looks interesting. The kind of thing that I would want to come back to if I am looking for something in one of the few categories that you support. I was just looking at UserVoice and GetSatisfaction the other day and would have loved something like this.

I want to see a lot more categories. Currently, I feel like you support way too few areas for me to even want to remember you guys. Try to launch something like your take of http://alternativeto.net

Also, I can see what you guys are doing might be interesting for me to use to monitor my company and our competitors. There might be an interesting business model for you there.
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Wasn't there a story last year about a similar service for delivering sandwiches?
I suspect that many people are offended by bros, especially the bros who don't grow out of it after college.
Clever attention-grabbing title, based on just 3 or 4 offhand sentences about people optimizing Clojure for Android.
Yeah, I'm from the Cape. Never had to pass a state cruiser. I dive a lot in CT though and their staties never drive fast without their lights going.

One time I had to call 911 for a drunk driver and the dispatcher asked me to follow the guy saying I could drive as fast as I felt safe. I was about 1/2 mile behind the guy going 95 mph when the cruiser passed me like I was standing still (with no siren or lights). I'd swear he was going 140.
I think there's something to be said for faking it until you make it, in this case.

IF men in tech learn to "hide" their sexist thoughts, this will help women in tech feel more comfortable and will thus encourage more of them. And then they will show men how competent women can be in CS, sexist stereotypes disappear because they aren't true at all anymore, etc. etc.

I know this is an optimistic oversimplification, but you get the idea.
I coudn't even finish the article, it just sounded like a bunch of whiny nagging.
Do you realize how dangerous automobiles are? You're piloting several thousand pounds of steel around a populated area at high speed.
A couple of general things.

(1) Svbtle is actually a decent name (I sort of thing the 'v' is tired, but that's just a product of things I'm following doing that) Unfortunately, it's probably not appropriate for a tech audience

(2) I'm very surprised at the significant negative reaction to his 'curation' of his blogging network. I understand the feelings of condescension, but is it really that big of a deal? Many things are invite only, vetted by one person. I'm personally bothered by /other/ elitist attitudes prevalent in the industry. This is pretty consistent and he never said this was never going to be public...
Are these credentials all that are needed to impersonate your authenticator?

This seems "bad" - as I'd personally expect there to be no "magic" data migration path between different apps.

There should be a confirmation step from the security manager at least.
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Thanks. Yeah, the porn bit didn't even occur to me as I started writing the post. I just wondered "25 petabytes is an awful lot of data, although numbers on data can get pretty big easily, let's see if I can come up with a reasonable estimate ...", and then, "... what else could be there? TV series--waitaminute--PORN!"

So yes, PORN.

(Unrelated, your username is awfully similar to mine..)
There's nothing wrong with stating facts. The problem comes when people state facts in a way that implies some political or ethical conclusion that isn't justified. Like Larry Summers did.

You correctly complain about the moralistic fallacy, which is where people assume that the world must be way X because it's how they'd like it to be.

But you do that while committing the naturalistic fallacy, which is the assumption that what's natural (or what currently exists) is what's right.

And of course, you also highlight a very small number of facts, ignoring the millennia of oppression of women, biased educational systems, and a lot of cultural pressure that keeps women away from STEM fields. So what you're engaged in isn't some rational analysis of a problem; you're just using a few small points of data in isolation to justify your predetermined conclusion.
Brogrammers are the Jersey Shore of programming. A small, laughable, easily ignored minority of the population. They are a joke whether they take themselves seriously or not.

If you don't like them, spend your time with programmers who don't brag about sex parties.

And why do you want to be a part of brogramming if you hate it so much? (inferred from your comment on exclusivity to men as a problem)
>They have as much power in web dev search results as Wikipedia has in regular search results. That is just wrong.

Except they've been providing useful info for longer than Wikipedia has been around. Sounds kind of right to me. They may not be as current as they used to be, but for the 12 years that I've used them they have helped fill in my knowledge cracks and I've appreciated it.

I don't understand the hate. If you really want someone to hate, hate the W3C for making their info so cryptic or non-existent for years that places like W3Schools had a market.
You mean this one? http://googlesystem.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/google-verbatim.h...

Yeah I'll investigate that tomorrow.
As a group of Computer Scientists, Software Engineers, Developers, we seem to try hard to be "accepted" by the public.

Why is that?

Ever since a very long time ago, we want to be acknowledged and to be put in pedestal. Be it the word "prodigy", "young hacker", "talented nerd", "millionaire boy" or something along that line....
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I have a few apps in the marketplace that I made on my old pc years ago. The keys I used to sign the apps weren't lost, unfortunately, the original Android eclipse plugin was signing my apps as part of my build process (I think they have fixed that now).

I wiped the machine, and hey presto, I can't update those apps anymore. I was shocked there was no workaround, and it seems Google have been hit by this now also. At least they're sticking to their own policy I guess, I'm sure they could update the app if they really wanted to.
Uh, no.

Jobs already had a Mach kernel, with a BSD user layer. And that's what they kept. I don't think Linux was ever seriously considered. NeXT's OS made heavy use of Mach messaging, and other features, that would be missing in Linux.

The original article says the offer happened in 2000, which would be kinda late to be changing the OS X kernel so dramatically.

And why would he need Linus to do a kernel when he had Avie Tevanian, from the Mach project and NeXT? Linus isn't the only "kernel guy".
I actually wonder if the brogrammer faces more discrimination than the female programmer. Who would want to hire a loud drunk frat boy to program for their Fortune 500 company?
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What? Who said anything about evolution or achieving a 50/50 female/male split in the industry?
"... Rome2rio is a platform for organizing and searching the world's travel information. ..."

That is an interesting idea.
Great. The idea is to reduce transparency and let mom and pop play the game. A missed opportunity to promote transparency.

For most of these little companies no advantage is lost by reporting cash flow, transactions and other relevant metrics. All easy to calculate. The new services around these little companies should be accounting support. Instead all we are going to get is "social proof" followed by an info blackout.
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See, this is the thing. Startups are now using "brogramming" as a recruiting buzzword (including one I interviewed with--though I dropped out partway through the process because I accepted an offer elsewhere).
processing.js is hardly indicative of HTML5 game performance in general. Also, if this code were to actually only redraw what needs to be redrawn (the paddles and ball), CPU usage would be near 0.
I'm familiar with the 'extract from a backup' vulnerability for any information stored on Android. However, I'm more concerned that another (non root-privileged) app can access credentials without confirmation.
I want the exact opposite. To use something else as a controller for my smartphone.
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Not getting the downvotes here. Anybody care to explain? I expected to have some of my more polemical contributions ride the vote rollercoaster. But as somebody who often wasn't sure how to usefully participate and who made a variety of mistakes in the past, I meant this to be helpful.

EDIT: Previously it was down to -3. Now it's back in the black.
The photo @11:30 wasn't identified correctly. She's talking about spent fuel, high-level waste ("very big problem"), but the photo slide is absolutely not that at all; it is stored depleted uranium hexafluoride, a byproduct of isotope enrichment. (The site is the USEC gaseous diffusion plant in Paducah, Kentucky, USA). Comparatively benign chemical waste.

(Maybe I misunderstood, but the talk seemed to imply that spent fuel storage was being shown. It wasn't.)

http://g.co/maps/b9haq

http://www.usec.com/media/photo-gallery

http://web.ead.anl.gov/uranium/faq/storage/faq16.cfm
The root of the matter isn't some egalitarian desire to have a 50/50 gender distribution in tech. It's about acting professional and not making your female colleagues feel uncomfortable or alienated.
I'll assume they're just doing a public service but a conspiracy theorist might say:

A record of who's wireless routers are secured/unsecured would come in handy when a citizen is taken to court for seeding torrents.
> because loads of people that knew it was good would link to it because it was just that good of a comprehensive resource

This is exactly why w3schools is at the the top of search results, and exactly why the http://w3fools.com was started -- because there are a ton of developers out there that think that w3schools is authoritative, correct, and kept up to date and link to it and use it. At one time it seemed to fill a niche, but no longer, and the cycle needs to be broken. In the meantime, unless you do some kind of sentiment analysis (and arbitrary changes based on the leanings of google, which you seem to be classifying as a bad thing), pagerank at least would probably conclude that the internet still loves w3schools.

> whether it's even possible for a small guy to come up top in the results like that

w3schools is actually about as small guy as you can get. They may have ubiquity, but it's run by like two people.

> I know I'm missing out on a lot of honest good web content that Google simply isn't showing me.

Yes, but there is too much good web content out there for you to see in your lifetime anyway. Meanwhile, defining "good" based on a nebulous query is kind of the crux of the whole problem, isn't it? I'm not convinced there is an answer.
I think this is a really good example of "being famous does not mean that you are good at everything". Do not forget why you are famous. If you are really famous actor and body builder, you might be governor If you try really hard, but do not run for presidency.
I don't think that works. We've had a lot of (unintentional) "fake it until you make it" with anti-semitism at various times in various countries, but it has never solved the problem. (Example: France during/after the French Revolution.)

PS I don't agree but I don't think you should be downvoted.
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You could actually show us what goes into the rankings for [weather]. Until then, some will be cynical, whether you think it's warranted or not from the inside.
Like most stereotypes both frat and sorority stereotypes are offensive, as are the people who intentionally try to fill them.
Pretty hard to read any text with that going, it's a shame it doesn't respond to <esc>.
My take, complete with caricatures:

Businesses think academia generates nothing useful. Not ideas, not programs, just a bunch of papers. Businesses, unfortunately, mostly don't read or follow these papers and dissertations.

Academics mostly don't want to "waste time" implementing anything that is, from their point of view, 25-40 years behind the times.

For a nice example of the dichotomy at work, look at Golang. It's an act of pure, truest industry stupidity: they built a programming language by ignoring the entire academic field of programming languages. The result has been universally panned by PL experts.

For an example of the academics going to make money in the same field, look at Martin Ordersky, Scala, and TypeSafe.

Business often seems to think it knows technology, when in fact it knows the small subset of technology that is fashionable or just plain old enough to pass into the industrial mainstream. Academia just doesn't care to re-solve a "solved" problem, even if by "re-solve" we mean make usable for common people and capture heaps of cash. Admittedly, each of these biases arises from how each group gets paid: entrepreneurs by staying on the "business frontier", but academics by staying on the technological research frontier.

So oftentimes, academia will invent something in the first place, but a full generation later, entrepreneurs will finally get rich off it.
Oh no, if anyone can make TacoCopters work, it's her. She got arrested for a TSA overreaction, not for a hoax.

I'm disappointed in how cynical you people are. We live in a magical world, with axolotls and honey badgers; can we not dare to dream in the TacoCopter?
Stereotype was probably a bad choice of words on my part as it has inherently negative connotations. What I'm saying is that there doesn't currently exist a Computer Science "image", or idea of what it is like to be a Computer Scientist, that is friendly to women.

I'm just using the logic behind how it would be ridiculous to say that the frat boy image is putting women off from joining Greek organizations (beyond having to interact with them), as most women who are thinking about joining a sorority probably aren't worrying particularly much about becoming a frat boy.
The point is that attempting to get rid of all behavior that may fit a stereotype is a futile effort, so why not attempt something that might actually work?
What I actually meant was that the argument was extremely narrow to the point of pedantry.

Is Rails good for an API?

It's a tool, and it has different merits depending on the situation. That's the answer to the question, and it's the answer to any question like it.

I said I didn't want an invite because I didn't want to be associated with the three of them arguing over so fine a point, and getting so much exposure for it.

It all seemed very weird to me. That was my real point.
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I don't actually have Asperger's; I just tend to (in a rare act, for me ;-)) give people the respect of not calling them "naive" in the ordinary sense without actually knowing their decision-making process.
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That's a rather difficult question to answer. I usually don't remember what I've searched for recently. I'm just relating my general impression, which has gotten much much worse over the past year.

Really it's hard to say because 9 times out of 10 it works fine. Probably even more. Because most of my queries are simple ones. I'd have to go dig through my browsing history, it'd take a lot of effort. I did it once, when Matt Cutts asked a similar question, but right now it's rather late here so I hope you can excuse me :)

One thing I can say, I have tried to diversify my usage of Search Engines in the past, to not just use Google but also Yahoo, Bing, and others. Even changed my default search engine sometimes. But it never stuck. Google just was too good--its speed was a big factor btw, even when the results weren't great, the fact that you could quickly try different queries made up for it. But since a couple of months I find myself more and more going for DDG at the first query--also because if DDG doesn't have my answer it has a convenient link to Google to retry, if Google would have the same I might even still use Google with DDG as a fallback instead :)

Another tweak I did was disable Javascript on the Google result pages. There are a lot of shortcut keys I use in Opera all the time and Google's persistent autofocus was really getting in the way. Especially with the instant-refresh feature, your whole results would change just because you pressed some shortcut key even though the input box wasn't even focused!
I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on genetics; FWIW, I know that (1) the % of women programmers has gone down since the 50s and (2) in Israel, where I grew up, the % of women programmers is substantially higher. As an exercise, though, I'd like to accept your point and explore its repercussions.

Even if women are and will remain a minority for whatever reason, that doesn't mean we should be dicks to our colleagues. My intuition is that most damage being done is not malicious; I don't think programmers as a community are mean-spirited or misogynistic.

Tess has already made the relevant points about over-sensitization and the relative nature of offensiveness. Ultimately, it's up to you to figure out to what extent you are willing to be conscious of the effect you have on those around you.
FACT: the number of women in CS has been dropping for decades. The prevalent reason for this appears to be "cultural biases that discouraged girls and women from pursuing a career in the field" [1].

There have been several high-ranking HN discussions over the last few days on this topic, all of which revolved around women in the field feeling ostracized and even harassed by their male colleagues. There is absolutely no need to draw in a spurious evolutionary argument to explain this trend.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/business/16digi.html
I don't.

I didn't elaborate much on how this got started, but this began when the CS group at my school (I'm on the board) considered printing shirts with "Brogrammer" on them. For all the CS students.

Do you understand, then, why exclusivity is a problem?

Also, I'm sorry that so much of my post was overwhelmed by BROGRAMMING. The forum was really about sexism in CS, too.
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