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Why does a client-side app hand wavingly take a second or two minimum to load compared to the 400ms server-side rendered one?

Exactly the same work is taking place on the server apart from template processing. It makes no sense. If your API is going to be taking 2 secs to build a response, so will your server-side rendered one.

There's no real overhead to DOM insertion and simple template output. If you're doing crazy stuff, it's going to take long wherever you do it.

Admittedly it's still very tricky to get it right at the moment. I also don't really agree with the author's statement about desktop experiences in a browser. I'm beginning to believe it's impossible, especially without the native UX of the OS. I don't think we ever will have that experience as long as there's an address bar, back buttons and all the other cruft at the top of the screen. I think users may always see it as a web page and expect it to behave like a web page. Hopefully I'm wrong.
> go back to the kitchen is on the same level as telling a guy he should stick to computers because he sure as hell sucks at talking to girls

Why is "go back to the kitchen" on the same level? My girlfriend can't cook and wants nothing to do with it, let alone the fact that the phrase has been a stereotype actively used to demean the gender for a very long time.

Ribbing someone by telling them to stick with something they're actually active in and good at is really on the same level as a gender-wide stereotype?
Hey man, lighten up.
On a similar train of thought, he showed that he spent at least as much time and effort appealing to said designers as said designers will (should?) spend applying. Cast the net on Monster and you'll get plenty of fish, but go out with Ahab and a spear and you'll net a couple whales.
I don't know. As somebody that was a day-one G1 customer, I think the influence of Mattias Duarte coming on board has had far more impact on the platform than any of these OEM skins. You can see the influence of Duarte's previous work at Palm all over ICS, far more so than any of the custom skins.

What I have certainly seen is manufacturers breaking baked-in functionality on Android trying to differentiate themselves. Moto managed to break both manual Exchange configuration and Facebook sync on my Droid 4, for example. It's not like those are obscure functions nobody uses.
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Apologies in advance for not actually commenting on body hacking, but did you serve in the military? I'm trying to decide whether the writing style where you omit subjects and occasionally verbs comes from the military only, or whether it's more pervasive.
this looks great, justin! i'm looking forward to game artists hosting their work here instead of blogspot :)
I think you misunderstand. Acceptance is the only rational response when you lack sufficient power to effect change. When crude behavior persists even in the face of a draconian legal environment, complaining about it or writing frustrated blog posts certainly won't fix it.

Your situation is slightly different. As a CTO, you have the power to prevent this behavior in your sphere of influence. But fixing the tech industry in general is beyond your reach.

You should also be aware that you face the other end of the cannon here. If a woman feels maltreated on your watch, you could be held liable even if you are not culpable. In a small startup, this could be enough to sink the ship. Perversely, this gives you an incentive not to hire women. Indeed, posts such as the OP also provide an incentive not to hire women. There's no defending boorish jerks, but beware of unintended consequences when you propose ways to punish them.
You've touched on a really interesting point here, and one that we've thought about really hard. In building the company, we had to decide what sort of portfolio we wanted to represent. We were gaining the most traction with work that's often described as narrative or illustrative, and we discovered that the people most excited weren't even thinking about their pieces as investments (in the sense of future resale value). I wouldn't describe this work as kitschy, though - it's got a broad appeal that most people are able to connect with quickly. The narrative aspect is important for motivating people to commission, too - it's not as easy to commission an artist that works in a very minimal style. Even then, I don't think the kind of people that would prefer that sort of work are going to be early adopters.

You will notice that we do represent some more contemporary styles. Like any smart startup, we're measuring and exploring different niches. We'll recruit artists based on what people respond to. Moving up the ladder to more expensive and established artists that people regard as investments isn't out of the question as a part of our future.

Having said all that - we are working on including more background information in our artist profiles. Good feedback.
I don't think they're lying. I think they're a drop in the ocean.
Just tried Doodle or Die for the first time - it's a riot! You guys are doing fantastic work.

I dug up my wacom for the first time in years. Do you have any plans to support mobile safari? Would be fantastic on an ipad (or any tablet for that matter.)
4. I took the fact that there wasn't particular order on them to mean they have a very flat structure, or that you'll all be equals. Looked good to me.
I wrote this for students in CMU's operating systems course, to try to give them a few more useful "C tricks" but I thought it might be interesting to others.
Unless you actually do want to serve the low-res images first, to make the pages download and render faster initially. On 3G it probably makes a big difference.
Don't downvote, respond. I am not abusing anyone here.
The data did not send,
It was too bad to store.
So I sat in my chair
All confused and in awe

I sat there with sartak.
We sat there, we two.
And I said, "How I wished
For serialization to do!"

Too flat to send out
And too hacky to patch.
So we sat in our chairs,
and we stared just like that.

To boring to fix,
And to complex read
So we sat we started
With our eyes glazed like peas

So all we could do was to
Sit!
Sit!
Sit!
Sit!
And we did not like that.
Not one little bit.

And then
something went <BLINK>!
How that <BLINK> made us THINK!

We looked!
Then we saw, it was big white and black!
We looked!
And we saw it!
The BSD stack!
And It said to us,
"Why do you sit there like that?"

"I know some good patches",
The License it said.
"I know some new code"
To inject in your stack
"A lot of good code
I will show it to you.
Your upstream
Will not mind at all if I do."

Then Sartak and I
Did not know what to say.
Our upstream was out of the house
For the day.

But our Boss said, "Yes! Yes!"
Make that License work out!
Use that BSD License
You DO WANT to patch.

FOSS should be here.
It should be about.
It should be here,
we can help the Upstream it out!
I'm very interested to see what the future holds for JQuery with these new JS micro-frameworks appearing around the web. I, for one, am a huge fan of JQuery and their entire team, but have recently switched to using Ender simply for the minimal bloat and it's fantastic package management.
There's some truth in this, I have observed women who will happily let some strange guy basically feel them up in a club if he is good looking and call him "cheeky".

Whereas an ugly looking guy who makes eye contact or smiles at them is regarded as a creep or potential rapist.

In fact I remember reading somewhere that a persons physical attractiveness had a fairly significant affect on the likely verdict where they to be the defendant in a trial.
Aren't you asking the obvious here?
Yes, please, let's avoid the linkbaiting and inflation. Ah, better now.
"What they urgently need is some sort of cross-licensing agreement, but I'm unsure where it's going to come from ..."

Yeah, that's the issue. Here's my pipe dream. Someone at one big studio/label/publishing house stands up and says "This is ridiculous" and begins a Sherman's March to Sea on the existing system and streamlines it using common sense and ass-kicking.

That's my dream. I wish they would, while they still have the money and power to make it happen. Of course, that still doesn't address the problem that the industry heads and the artists have very different ideas about what's equitable. So, that's another issue. The industry doesn't have a great track record on treating its artists fairly so in all likelihood any slash-and-burn revamp would likely heavily skew in favor of those at the top of the heap, much as it does today.

A very slim possibility exists that this revamp, though heavily skewed, would still end up being a net gain for most, if not all of the artists working within that system.

What gets me is that they have still have massive amounts of power and money and they're using it all to play a largely defensive battle. Being the last to market, so to speak, isn't going to help them take control of the future. I understand that you can't suddenly yank an ocean liner into a tight 90-degree turn, but you also can't avoid icebergs (to continue this awful metaphor) by waiting until it's tearing chunks out of the hull before making your move.
There was recent convincing discussion that to the vast majority of the 20+ million(?) people who own the phone have no idea what ICS is and would be shocked if Samsung put out an update that completely changed the UX.
Reddit was pretty low, I think. It was an undisclosed sum, but Reddit was not the internet juggernaut it is today.
I was disappointed that zarklxyr.com was not a real link.
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To whatever extent the "girl's game" is such, it's largely because for centuries, female social hierarchies consisted of social groups of gossiping housewives and male social hierarchies consisted of business and politics--though the two certainly intersected when the wives of businessmen and politicians talked. (One notable intersection happened during the Andrew Jackson administration and ultimately led to the end of John Calhoun's vice presidency: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petticoat_affair)

Analogously speaking--just because whites held social power over blacks by virtue of better education doesn't somehow mean education itself is an artifact of white supremacy, it means that lack of education is an artifact of oppression. Likewise, having to passive-aggressively gossip in the background isn't some kind of feminine power, it's an artifact of oppression against women preventing them from speaking and acting more openly. If women are going to be peers and equals to men in a professional workplace, they should act like it.
There are plenty of sites that do this. Crazy prices on the reproductions sourced out of china. overstockart.com is one of them.
Why is it abdurd to have compassion for jeffrey dahmer?
I assume you're referring to starting their own startups or joining one correct?

While I agree there likely is some confirmation bias, I can at least say that I included those who joined startups.

The sad part is, there are very few of them. When I was thinking of starting a startup at CMU, I was completely blown away by how little people there cared about taking risks. In 2010, the only startups people knew about were really Palantir and Facebook. In 2012, people at CMU actually still buy the tagline that Facebook is a startup.

It would be great if someone could change this, but as of right now, I'm relatively certain there is less confirmation bias than you think.
Laws are the bare minimum set of rules for your moral behaviour - the stuff that's so bad we have to punish you if you do it. If you can't do better than the bare minimum, then you're doing very poorly at morality.

Not all good behaviour can be written down as clear-cut rules. I sure wish you could, but you can't. It's a bit like the story of what happens if you try to measure programmer productivity: whatever measurement you use (eg. lines of code), someone will find a way to game the system. Yet people can still be "obviously" more productive even if we don't have a numerical way to prove it.
I lot of companies have real mentors. Ask about that before starting somewhere. Find out who your boss is. Ask them questions.

A lot of startups are bad at this because they're, well, starting up. I'm a big believer in mentoring, but a lot of startups I worked for didn't appreciate this at all. Just gotta keep looking.
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I made this today instead of doing real work. I'd appreciate feedback.
I fucking hate all of this talk about "manchildren" and "brogrammers" and whatever else. Stop essentializing the problem. Stop the man hate. Fucking hell.

If you're experiencing this pushback from women in the profession as 'man hate' that's certainly your right. I view it more as listening to a professional colleague telling a story from her perspective. I'm not experiencing it as hate, more as hearing from a woman 'this is my perspective'.

Do you really think the man who said:
"Oop, Katie's got the low cut dress on today! I know where I'm sitting!"
is a happy, mentally-healthy, well-adjusted human being? Hmmm? Where's the compassion for him?

Perhaps he's a victim too - none of us know the full story and we can speculate until we're blue in the face. But wouldn't you agree that his actions are highly unprofessional, creepy, and personally discouraging to one particular woman, and part of a broader pattern of discouragement toward women in technology overall?

I'm at a loss for words, this whole clusterfuck makes me so angry.

So what do you recommend to fix the problem? Where will you direct all that energy that your anger has activated?
You justified bullying when you talked about how childhood aggression is useful because it toughens the victim up for later life (that is, putting up with other aggression).

Sexism is not some uncontrollable virus. Sexism is something that people do to other people. And, happily something that some people don't do to other people. We have a choice, and pretending otherwise is absurd.
We have a text description at http://getliveloop.com but to tell you the truth, the video is the easiest, and dare I say, quickest way to understand what we do. The reason we have the text is that our target users are PowerPoint users, who often work in settings where they cannot listen to audio.

Obviously a site should have both text and video but I don't blame anyone who does the video first.
What kind of glue did you use?
I'd love to try the concept, but as a physicist I can't afford to be permanently magnetic.
I would like a set of instructions about how to talk to women properly

Like you would talk to men. Simple.
We just released an app intro video at Budgetable http://budgetable.com ... Adding captions didn't even cross my mind, but we'll do it.
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A new infographic, based on anonymized data from users of The Little Black Book App, reveals that the average person prefers unprotected sex, mostly hooks up on the weekends and has an average of 7 different partners a year.
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>Men should be allowed o have there shirts unbuttoned down to their chest because their chests are hot from all the hair?

We can, and I do. There are very different showing-chest expectations from us, we can even show our nipples in non-work public.
That's pretty much exactly the conversation the military is having about letting women serve in front line combat roles.
I disagree on almost all points.

The attitudes and actions of certain people made someone's job so bad that they quit the industry. I am appalled by that, and I strongly disagree that they should have just put up with it. I don't think her leaving the industry signals acceptance; merely that she's been bullied out of it. I think this essay (I also disagree that it's "whiny") may, in some small way, help other people become aware of sexist behaviour.
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But isn't saying "You're not dressed in line with our code for dress and appearance" the complaint here? I thought that with respect to low-cut/suggestive tops, the problem was never that they weren't professional clothing (with respect to the workplace in question) - which of course is an entirely independent and asexual issue - but that some people made inappropriate comments and thought it acceptable.
Thanks for perpetuating stereotypes in the name of excusing unacceptable behavior. Many of these same comments could probably also be applied to stock traders and construction workers as well.

While it's unfortunate that some people fail to develop appropriately and learn to interact in an appropriately professional manner in the workplace, I don't know if that means folks have to feel sorry for them any more than if they failed to learn the appropriate technical skills to do their job. Interacting appropriately with the opposite sex and other ethnicities, etc., is a reasonable expectation of someone who wants to work in a modern workplace (and I don't limit that to the office or technology jobs.)
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Are you sure?

Of course I'm not sure. But when you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras. Why do all the waitresses in Hooters wear low-cut tops? Is it for comfort? Is it because they couldn't afford the other 30% of the shirt? Or is it because that's proven to be very effective at gaining male attention?

I wore them for me, not for anyone else.

This makes no sense. In a post-apocolyptic world where you're the only person on earth, would you dress the same way you do now? Would the last woman on earth wear low-cut dresses and mini-skirts? I doubt it. Being "attractive" specifically refers to other peoples' attention and emotions towards you.

I'm not saying that it's ok to leer at women, to verbally or physically harass them, etc. But it's incredibly ludicrous to me to think that someone dressed in a manner usually considered "provocative" probably did so without any intention, or that anyone responding to that mode of dress is automatically sexist.

Would it be appropriate for a woman to start coming into the office topless? Would it be sexist of me to find that sexually arousing? If so, I guess I'm a sexist. My only consolation is knowing that I'm not alone and that you (if you're a heterosexual male) are almost certainly right there with me :)
You think she needs to lighten up because you haven't had the same experiences and you have different ideas of comfortable clothing?
The map framework they are using supports mouse wheel zoom but i think they chose not to use it so you could use your scroll wheel to scroll the page.
Sure, it could be group-think and thought police, or it could be reasonable people finding a consensus.

In media studies there's the idea of the circle of consensus (everyone agrees with the notion that slavery and rape and child abuse are bad) and outside of that is the area of legitimate controversy. ("Does Keynesian economics actually work?" "should states mandate that people wear motorcycle helmets?" whatever). Outside of that is the lunatic fringe ("Show me the birth certificate!" or "Dick Cheney was a Hitler Youth")

It seems that in this community, the statement "yeah, maybe these chicks really should just lighten up" is outside the area of legitimate controversy. As it should be.
Sure thing.

The West Indies As They Are (1824) by Rev. Richard Bickell. It was written about slavery in Jamaica, where conditions were almost certainly worse than in the American South. http://books.google.com/books?id=Y4QZYM7MOUcC&printsec=t...

South-Side View of Slavery (1854) by Nehemiah Adams, a Unitarian minister and abolitionist. http://books.google.com/books?id=sCg7P2c3W5MC&printsec=t...

American Negro Slavery (1918) by Ulrich Phillips. http://books.google.com/books?id=7E1_n7O9KvIC&printsec=t...
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No, I said that as consultant who was in a number of companies, I didn't see behavior she describes. It is not the rule, but exception and not characteristic for IT, which is pretty much what she is implying.

And you are being a jerk :) for downvoting, thank you very much.
Don't worry, your explanation did sound perfectly reasonable and I have a feeling that the source of these downvotes are attempts to be holier than thou.
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Whereas in the US, if you get 25,000 signatures on a petition, you get... a polite response summarizing the talking points you already knew, and explaining why nothing will change.

That is, if you're lucky - I believe we're still waiting on the promised response to this one: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#%21/petition/actually-...
I think you're correct that the best solution is to increase the number of women in technology.

However, as members of that community today, you and I and our male friends can call out the creepy dudes making inappropriate remarks 100% of the time we hear them. Creating an environment where people feel comfortable doesn't have to mean getting rid of all bad actors; it can be enough to make it clear that bad actors are found universally unacceptable.
There's a running joke on Reddit that the best way to avoid being labeled creepy when hitting on a woman is to:

1. Be attractive.
2. Don't be unattractive.

And there is definitely truth to this.
OpenStreetMap pays to host tiles that are intended to be used by mappers. Ideally you would use one of the other providers (MapQuest Open, MapBox, make your own, etc.) if you are releasing a product that doesn't directly relate to improving the OSM map data.
I’m a bit loath to add to the already long discussion, and most of what I might address has already been thoroughly hashed out. However, as a bisexual male, perhaps I have a different perspective than most people here.

Fact is, I’ve experienced sexual harassment just as much from women as from men. Who does it, in a given situation, depends only on who’s in power. In the male-dominated tech industry, that means men. But most people like to make sexual comments and advances sometimes, when we feel we can. And, unfortunately, that often make others feel rightly uncomfortable.

It’s a sad paradox—one of the best ways to make the industry less hostile to women is to attract more women, to even the power balance. But women aren’t attracted to the industry because it’s so hostile in the first place.
There's a kernel of truth to this, but it's also somewhat disingenuous.

At work, as a male, I can't wear anything too casual because it's unprofessional or might mark me as a hipster, but I also can't suit up every day unless I want to be seen as a corporate drone. I have to find that perfect middle ground -- between professional and hip. Every single day.
+1 from me. Looks like my site would not have to have any server-side handling for this, which is a big PLUS for me. There's still plenty of "dumb" sites out there where we would have to add server-side components only to handle contact forms: this sounds like a great way past that problem. You won't see me create an account today, but as soon as I have one of those projects back on my desk!
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That's true, and an even more powerful response of a man in this position is to deal with the problem less passively by (a) pointing out the trend without making a big deal, (b) suggesting that the team rotate more often, (c) proceeding to lead by example by taking notes.

This may be even too subtle a message for a problem as severe as this one, but it at least signals that not everyone within the team will tolerate this behavior, without claims of sexism backed by little evidence.