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Thanks for your very well thought out reply. To a certain degree what you are saying is very much true.

What you are forgetting however is that if you go further back in time men were hunters and women were gatherers. Women stayed around the camp and were free to chat and men went off to hunt and had to be silent.

I'm trying to make the point that part of this is probably genetically/hormonally engrained into the female psyche (it's probably what you have tweak to 'fix' people like me) and that part of what is holding women back in the workplace, especially in tech as compared to e.g. fashion, is that they are asked to leave this part of them behind.

'If women are going to be peers and equals to men in a professional workplace, they should act like it.'

Equals in what way?
There's a world of difference between a compliment (such as "nice dress!" and "Katie's got the low cut dress on today! I know where I'm sitting!"

You could look like a literal Ryan Gosling clone and I'd still be offended if you told me the second statement at work.
No, AFAIk AWS does not have the ability to restrict usage based on expenditure. There are startups that do this though, check http://www.enstratus.com/.
Back then it was a weird dating site where most of the users were actually VCs checking it out :)
Well, it'll toss all of your templates into a convenient object, rather then having to do _.template($('#thing')). Still, doing the templating fully on the client seems a little wasteful, when it's easy to at least precompile the templates to functions. Brunch is useful to automate this, and has mustache support: http://brunch.io
Google didn't buy YouTube because they didn't want to build YouTube, they bought it because everybody was on it and they couldn't gain traction with G Video. Same with Microsoft and Skype. Same with most acquisitions, including Draw Something.

Big companies clone each others IP all the time. What do you think Bing, Android and Google+ are? They are just clones of other peoples IP...

Zynga isn't buying this for the IP, nor is the IP itself what is truly valuable. They are buying it for the traction. When some small game company builds a tiny game that never takes off in any meaningful way and Zynga clones it and instantly creates something 10000x more popular than the original ever was, that is not the same thing. The smaller company had no userbase, community and traction to buy therefore they were not valuable to Zynga in the same way that Draw Something is.
However, each redirecting domain has this file viewable, so most are publicly viewable. For example, http://itunes.com/init.
Any issues dealing with a Zynga and their business practices? Will the founders and later employees of OMGPOP be protected from Zynga's underhandedness (reported aggressive clawbacks)?
Thanks for the backup. People around here tend not to realize that sharing something like this leaves you feeling pretty darn vulnerable.
I don't think THIS was a talent acquisition so much as a super successful game, so successful Zynga couldn't rip it off and kill it, but there are definitely large talent acquisitions in recent history:

* Powerset. ~$100mm, July 2008, to Microsoft.

* Friendfeed, ~$50mm, August 2009, to Facebook.

* Slide, $228mmm August 2010, to Google.

(Takeaway: sell your company in the summer.)
There will also be huge touch screens running Windows 8 like this one:

http://theverge.vid.io/v/4bfbecd4-6301-11e1-aefa-1231391e54c...

Sure will cost a pretty penny, but the sheer number of form factors that OEMs can churn out is impressive in terms of consumer choice depending on their needs.
Windows 8 is attracting a lot of vitriol, but personally I'm quite impressed just by how...well..."classy" it feels in comparison to XP or even 7. It seems like Microsoft is taking a page from Apple's book of good design.

What Windows 8 needs now is a killer Metro app (sorry for the buzzword). So far the available apps have been pretty neat, if a little unintuitive. A must-have app that also showed off all the advantages of Metro and served a useful purpose would probably erase a lot of the Windows 8 hatred, and spurn more Metro app creation to boot.
Am I missing something? Where's the "retina" display?

1920x1080 on 23" screens is not retina. It's not on 13" either. Has the retina name been diluted to just mean any resolution over 1080p and on any screen size now?

I guess you have Apple to blame for this, too. Retina used to mean 300+ PPI. Since the iPad has significantly less than that, they just say that it depends how far you are from it now.

I guess Microsoft will claim that for 1080p 23" monitors, you'll just have to use them from the couch a few feet away to experience the "retina" display.
Anycast IPs would be lovely, but they're tweaky enough to use that I suspect the support burden would be high (since they suck for long lived connections). And they're not nearly as easy to provision as a complicated DNS setup.

They need to just stop having region wide outages...
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I feel as you do, though she did not help her situation but not doing anything about it.
I love Apple too by the way. (I hate copycats.)

I don't love Apple. I don't love Microsoft. I don't love Google.

And they're all "copycats".
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If you are a commercial provider, you can expected to be held to tight standards regarding your definitions. A not-for profit gets a lot more leeway, and "heavy use" is about as specific as OSM needs to get. If you are wondering whether you are crossing the line from "reasonable" to "heavy" use, just assume you've crossed it and make an effort to move your traffic onto your own tile server.
Replacing function with form is "classy"?
bleh, Ubuntu is going down a similar direction with it's massive flyout menu. I can't use it without xmonad.
I'm definitely conflicted. OTOH, people commissioning art "in the style" of more expensive artists is as old as art itself. Pixel for pixel replicas is only a difference in degree.
this is awesome, I was talking to some friends/colleagues and got this link from @peterc.. added to get notification.. looking fwd to the launch...
Overly Sensitive.
What I thought could be a step in the right direction was Gilt's partnership with GQ. I envisioned a GQ magazine that was actually interactive, meaning each piece of clothing worn could be tagged with a link to purchase said piece of clothing, or at least get taken to a useful google search about it.

Instead what I saw was more of the same in large corporate partnerships...only one page would be dedicated to the actual items you can purchase. If you clicked on any of the items, you were actually taken to Gilt's Park and Bond store completely outside of the app.

Too bad. i'd really be interested in creating a Magazine using Pinterest, with the business model being links to affiliates.
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They list 2560x1440 on a 10" screen as a common display size for Windows 8. That puts it at 291 DPI compared to the new iPad's 264 DPI.
While what he writes is true, most magazines are not innovating for tablets. Compare Nat Geo with Dwell:

Nat Geo is pretty much an app (I get it through Zinio), the fonts are sized properly for readabilty, and there's a ton of interactive content with hooks into the web for updated content.

Dwell, and just about every other digital magazine, is basically a photocopy. Sure, the images look nice, but the text is unreadable unless you zoom in, and the experience feels wrong. Not to mention they are still pretty pricey.

None of them are searchable, though, which would be an awesome if hooked into spotlight so you could search across all of your magazines.
10.1", 2560x1440 (291 DPI) is clearly labeled in the graphic, "Common sizes for Windows 8". It's probably best to read the entire article and look at all the pretty pictures before commenting
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Do you want the overhead of testing your internal web application on two browsers or one?
I don't think that's really an argument that has anything to do with what I said. If someone does something to benefit you, in this case, writing a song that you enjoy, you should reciprocate somehow, preferably with money. It doesn't matter if they enjoyed doing it or not. I know lots of people who like their jobs, but they would be pretty sad about not getting paid.
I, too, am excited to see what happens with jQuery. It's gotten to the point now (between the main lib, jq UI, and jq mobile) that the little snippets people extract from jQuery are becoming their own micro libraries, which is super cool. I've seen some things on github start as simple jQuery plugins and then be extracted into their own smaller library, basically. It seems like jQuery will become like a launchpad for developing smaller, as-needed libraries/frameworks. It'll provide the groundwork of something, and then once that something is perfected, all the rest of the bloat will be removed. Pretty neat, and I've found myself doing this twice in the past few months already.

I also think the jQuery source code will become more of a learning tool in the future; I've picked up so many neat things within JavaScript just by checking out some jQuery source, reading the comments, and then researching that particular thing on my own.
I am not surprised you'd miss something that others are able to see in a MS post :)

See the left top corner of this picture:

http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-bl...
There is also such a thing as dressing well because it is comfortable, or makes one feel better about oneself, without the intention of attracting sexual attention, and the distinction between the two is not pedantic. It is at the core of the disagreement here.

Look at the original quote: "Oop, Katie's got the low cut dress on today! I know where I'm sitting!" A clear statement of sexual interest, which Katie clearly did not wish to receive.

The hypothesis we are being asked to entertain is that she probably was wearing the low-cut dress because she wanted to attract male attention, but that this comment was in some other way offensive. That is, she wanted this guy to think that, just not say it. Because women are touchy, or something. What an absurdly insulting proposal!

Is it really so hard to imagine that she might want to dress in a way which is gratifying to her, without intending to be the object of men's sexual fantasies?
"... all the linux users are going to switch to windows because they hate change."

Where the hell did you get this from? Made me lol.
"When asked, most men will gallantly express their admiration for women in general and profess a profuse love for their mates in particular. Despite these touching personal testimonials, society is rife with misogyny and patriarchy. A cursory glance at the current newspapers or television news reveals a global society in which the majority of men disdain women. While some cultures are more egalitarian than others, men's actions suggest that they believe firmly in their superiority over women.

-Leonard Schlain (Sex, Time, and Power)
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"That's such a come-hither watch".

Making objectifying comments in the workplace is wrong, no two ways about it. But because I don't have your context, this one jumped out at me as "could be interpreted in many ways". I'm curious if I can cajole a bit more context out of you? (because I've made my share of innocently-intended comments resulting in a situation going horribly awry, so I'm always looking to improve my appropriateness radar).

Specifically, do you think it was A) an innocent/clueless comment, B) a "testing the waters" comment as a prelude to hitting on you, or C) outright hitting on you?

A) Do you think he was just complimenting you on the watch? Particularly, I wonder because he made the comment about a thing, not about you. I.e., consider the difference between "that's a sexy skirt" and "you have a sexy ass". The later is clearly objectifying, but the former could be interpreted innocently or offensively, because its a comment about an object (although even the former is pretty risky -- you'd have to be very close friends with the person and be sure they'd understand your intent to feel safe making such a remark).

B) Or perhaps he was "testing the waters"? I've notice that being labelled a "creep" actually has more to do with whether your attraction is unrequited, than whether the action was objectively creepy, and a "testing the waters" approach is one way to try and avoid being the office creepster. Unless of course even testing the waters is creepster material (I hope not...).

C) or was he just flat-out being a slime ball?
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Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3667797
When I managed my team, I bought gallons of beers for everyone. With my own money, and handing the beers myself to my peers (In this example I'm using beer-time as substitute for potluck).

Of course I did ask for reimbursement through the company and the company did approve, but that's not the point.

The act of doing potluck is supposed to raise morale. Whoever manager in charge should organize the potluck him/herself for maximum boost of morale. Telling others to do potluck is so lame. Telling someone else to take note is equally lame.
> The most important thing going on here is Anycast. ... This results in packets being routed to the nearest DNS server.

Nearest in terms of AS path. This can be wildly different than latency as BGP isn't really implemented with cost/performance in mind. Anyone relying on anycast to answer their latency story is doing a lazy/poor/ignorant job of it.

> You're right that most users use a caching DNS server, so it is actually the location of the DNS caching server.

And another case where end users would be better served by providers implementing edns client-subnet extensions. This would allow savvy content providers to route to the actual end user, and not their resolver.
Apple's tablet market share has dropped to 54%. There's no other single tablet that sells anywhere near as well as the iPad but in the aggregate iPad has real competition now.
I'm not hearing impaired, but my first language is Spanish. I can read almost anything in English, but sometimes it is difficult for me to understand fast spoken English. So, if you care about international users, you also should add captions to the videos.
You should at least put the $1 sign in the title!!
The suggestion to change your setting is definitely a good one. If you can find way to change setting which also removes distractions it definitely helps. I find that just grabbing my netbook and going somewhere else to just focus on working really helps me.
Oh bullshit. If I'm hanging out with my boss at a barbegue and does something stupid and I say "you're such a dumbass", it's a fun jab. If my boss says incorrect or misinformed in front of customers, and I say the exact same thing, in the exact same tones with the exact same stupid grin, it could be a lost sale, and a reprimand. Context does matter, and it's not some whimsical flight of fancy by fickle and capricious women.
Yes, we sleep.

Come join us and be part of the fun that is AWS: http://aws.amazon.com/careers/

If you can name it, we are probably hiring for it.
> My first reaction to this experiment would be "Because they were frustrated before they had the chance to graduate with a CS degree".

Well, there's more to it than that. Female participation was fairly high in the 70s, dropped precipitously through the 80s, 90s, and early 00s, and is only now kinda-sorta-maybe starting to recover.

The hidden factor in there is the Personal Computer revolution. Prior to it, men and women entered college on roughly even footing w.r.t. computer exposure in their life-to-date. Once the personal computer took off, though, a big gender (and race) disparity cropped up.

Boys who had their very own computer to play with in their formative pre-college years received it, on average, around the age of 14 (IIRC, I'll try to hunt the exact stats down later).

Girls and minorities didn't receive a computer of their own to use until much later (19 as recently as the early 00s, which is, critically, after most people decide what to major in).

Intro CS classes turned into highly intimidating environments where the males had significant computer experience and may well have spent several years programming already; girls were at a significant disadvantage and enrolment fell off fast as they switched to majors where they weren't starting off at a several year disadvantage versus their peers.
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Exactly what I need at the right time. My game is progressing smoothly, but I've been having nightmares about not being able to find an artist to make game art.
Ask HN: How can I prevent duplicates in a crowd-sourced database of media titles?
For example, http://whatshouldireadnext.com/ will ask you to enter the name of a book you liked, and a list of books will pop up. If there are multiple entries, it will recommend selecting the top one. That'll work, but is there a more elegant way?
I think that WIRED has done a fantastic job both in terms of their physical copies and digital distribution as well. But even as a techie, the interaction on the iPad just isn't what it should be. I've seen plenty of ads where there's a link you can't click, and other physical representations of digital interactions that are unavailable.

It's 100% about usability, and 5% more about cost.
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Downvotes are for all your meta discussion about downvotes and comments that don't contribute.
Five hours does it for me. And I have to write all of those posts!

As one of my colleagues mentioned, we are hiring (currently 516 open jobs on the AWS team). Here's a list that's easier to read:

http://awsmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/jobs/all_aws_jobs_list.html
I think he nailed it when he indicated that the Blog has done a great job of replacing magazines.

I used to be a huge newspaper/magazine junkie - I haven't purchased a physical instance in 4+ years. What has replaced it:

o xkcd
o wsj.com
o nyt.com
o HN
o daring fireball
o theverge
o Yahoo Finance (Stock Portfolio)
o macrumors/appleinsider/loopinsight
o asymco

And, somewhat less often:

o Techcrunch
o parislemon
o dpreview
o pandodaily

And, for some reason, I keep tripping over interesting articles here:

o http://www.vulture.com/

I won't even get into how TV has been replaced with iTunes, and Radio has been replaced by podcasts (See http://www.macdrifter.com/2012/03/more-on-podcasts-changing-... for a good collection of many of the ones I listen to)

I've _tried_ to purchase these magazines on my Gen1/2/3 iPad - Wired, NatGeo, Economist, various Zino instances (horrible experience), Popular Mechanics - but Colbow has it nailed - you always feel like you are reading a broken PDF, and you are never certain that you've read all the content)

Other than blogs in web format, NYT has recently (finally) started doing a good job of presenting their content in a readable format on the iPad. I still balance it out with the web version, but I find, for long reading, more often sinking back for an hour or so with the Application.

Who knows, maybe we've seen the future of magazines, and it's the blog.
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Thank you for your clarifications. I'm glad we've been able to get past the quibbles.

I don't think smaller issues should be ignored. Continuing my metaphor, I don't think the flu should be ignored. It is a health problem that must be addressed. But for most healthy individuals it is properly addressed by sleep, fluids and relaxation. Sometimes people get it badly and theuy need further treatment. But by stuffing everyone with antibiotics to prevent the mere possibility of pneumonia or even bronchitis, we are causing secondary problems such as antibiotic resistance. Similarly, whenever we try to over-think human interaction we grow the beast of rationalistic meddling.

Trying to eliminate the flu would be foolish. Stuffing people with antibiotics is foolish. I am not making a dogmatic statement about how all small problems are irrelevant. I am expressing frustration with more complaints over increasingly marginal grievances. It points to a lack of character and a mindless quest to maximise some sense of fairness that for me often lacks authenticity. If we become touchy about small issues we will lose all resilience and perspective.

Leaving aside despicable comments about breasts and so forth that we can easily address through instant reprimand, I don't think being asked to do the notes in a meeting or organise a potluck represents subservience. It is just as stupid as complaining about a request for "a few strong men" to help move some things. Or the stupid outrages over "mrs" versus "ms". People are so sensitive. Raise your objection or get on with it.

I'm not saying the poster is a bad person here. I don't think it's wrong to make this post. Nor would I think it's wrong for someone to complain about any number of other trivial things. But it does point to a sense of entitlement and lack of resilience. I don't like that, and I think we should be working against that trend, not with it.
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A bit one-sided argument, but might be very common in some large companies. Indeed, if you're in the situation described in the article, the best bet is to play the game, knowing the constraints, and to do the least work for the most bang.

If you actually want to enjoy your work, having a chance to create something new/different/efficient, in the environment where your "boss" is your peer, and your boss understand the value of 50% performance increase and is willing to spend time to understand why your backend is better than other's backend, then pick a startup.

I am not just saying pick my startup, no, pick any startup that fits you. There are so many companies out there, if you search hard enough you can find the product / team that interests you, and people you're willing to work with. That said, be prepared to work hard, to have to fix bugs on the weekends, to probably carry your laptop everywhere you go, and finally, to have a lower salary than before.

It's pretty simple, imho, you can't have everything all at once, but you can pick the combination that is right for you. All you need is to do it. Do or do not, there's no try. ;)
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He's missing a subtlety in the essay. Even if the eventual vision is ambitious, don't tackle it head-on. Start with something that looks like a toy.

"Don't try to construct the future like a building, because your current blueprint is almost certainly mistaken."
I think there's some selection bias going on here. Companies which aim to do frighteningly ambitious things are less likely to launch, and most of us only ever hear about the YC companies which launch.

Just based on counting noses it's clear that there's a bunch of YC companies every year which vanish without a trace; I'm sure many of them were failed runs at frighteningly ambitious ideas.
How.. hypocritical. Dumbo.