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You'll love http://www.lesswrong.com. A lot of the discussion centers on 'Existential Risk Reduction.'
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Kind of meta, but I've noticed two things from this thread

1) I think I always imagine everyone here as a man, unless they identify themselves otherwise or I notice their username suggests they're female, and

2) reading the female voices here really gave me the sense of HN as a much richer, more interesting community
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It seems to me that this is where the men on the team can help: As a man, I'd volunteer to take notes.

Of course, this may not be tempting, because you may be on the kind of team where you just know that, if you volunteer to do some thankless task, you'll be stuck with it forever. And that is an entirely different kind of problem. But it's a problem that should not be covered up by deploying sexism.
I'd like to see more in terms of an artist's profile, something like a CV along with their statement. While a couple thousand dollars isn't much for art, people are still going to approach it as an investment, and as such probably would like to know where they studied, where they've shown, who represents them, etc.

On the other hand the work on the site seems kind of kitschy, so maybe you're targeting more of the decoration market?

Either way, nice concept.
Acceptance is the only rational response when you lack sufficient power to effect change.
Zynga is a publicly traded company. That being said, sometimes their are sometimes restrictions on when employees can sell their stock (i.e. a waiting period after acquisition).
Very cool bunch of dudes if any designers are wondering.
Using the iPad 3 now and yes, it is too good for the web. It is also too good for many PDFs, images, and other content not using vector based rendering. But I noticed something else, text heavy content sites with more content and less image fluff (reddit, hacker news, etc.) look much better, and quite frankly I wouldn't mind if the iPad pushes the web back towards a minimalist, text heavy interface it was once, just as it did away with Flash.

With the huge advances we've made with CSS and better understanding of page layouts, a text heavy web wouldn't be a bad thing, and I could do without all unnecessary images distracting the meat of the content. I'm now clicking the Readability/Safari Reader icon on nearly every page now as the signal to noise ratio is really starting to get absurd (even getting strange desires to make a plugin that makes reader the default view). Bandwidth use from implementing high res images should not suffer much since you would be trading quantity for quality, and only placing images that are absolutely necessary to support the content (i.e. product images).
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but another way the author could have stated it would be to say that in order to have people know who you are, you should do projects that matter to people and make sure they know you are doing them.

In my view, it is only about visible progress that they can see, but they cannot easily see invisible progress that actually matters.

The worst people I have worked with, on teams, as employees etc. are the ones who decide to do things like optimize the backup process by 50% when no one needs that done. They miss the big picture which is easy to see if you follow the author's (while I admit cynical) strategy.

The big picture includes having a backup plan and having a backup plan that works.
You put quotes around the phrase "nothing can ever change", and yet that phrase doesn't appear in the parent comment. I suggest restricting yourself to rebutting arguments I actually made.
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Some women are secure enough that it bounces off when stupid people act stupid. Some are making meta-jokes about sexism and how backward comments like that are. Some are comfortable with the prototypical 50s-style gender roles that you abhor.

To know "what the best sort of the response would be," you'd have to know a lot about the person you're talking to and how they'll respond to your unsolicited advice, and no one on HN is going to be able to grant you that.

But then, I'm not too sympathetic to what strikes me as an arrogant desire to transform the primitive worldview of a thinking adult with your wet blanket nostrums. By all means intervene if someone's being demeaning to another person, but in the case of a woman making a kitchen joke, I doubt you're dealing with a neanderthal waiting to be shaken into the 21st century by sobering thoughts about how retrograde it is to even joke about such things.

Emotional fragility has got to be at an all-time high these days.
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It's pretty silly to stress-test a C or Go-written program using a client written in Python. It's very easy for the stress client to be the bottleneck in benchmarking memcached implementations. Even when the client is written in C.
That's orthogonal to what waxy said. Public stock can vest as well. The liquidity of the stock is only relevant at which point it vests. So, if, as suggested, ZNGA were to lose some percent of its value before the first cliff hits, the effective value of the transaction would that percentage of the sticker price in an all stock deal.
How many apple products you own?
me:

1 - ipad 2,
1 - iphone 3GS 16GB,
1 - ipod touch 8GB,
1 - ipod nano,
1 - mac mini,
1 - Apple TV,

Will you sell any old one to get new one?

1 - ipod nano,
1 - apple TV,
1 - ipad 2,
1 - iphone 3GS,

What would you buy:

1 - new iPad,
1 - iPhone 4S
To give an opposing opinion, I'm appalled that anyone said that to her, and am appalled at you for thinking it's a reasonable thing to say.

Why would you make sexual comments at work? Making jokes is fine, commenting on clothes is fine, telling a joke involving sex is probably fine (depending on the joke...). Having a conversation (two-way) about sex is fine.

Making a specific comment about a colleague's sex appeal is inappropriate. I don't see how you can't see that someone might be offended by it.
Every big website on the web right now (except Microsoft-stuff), runs either on top of the JVM or with custom-baked solutions written in C/C++.

What does that make Wikipedia (PHP), Craiglist (Perl), Wordpress (PHP) and Youtube (Python[1]) ?

[1]: http://www.quora.com/Is-YouTube-still-written-in-Python
It's appropriate to take someone to task privately, while still making public statements of principles and expectations, even alluding to "the tenor of conversational has been unprofessional a few times recently, and it's not healthy, it's not productive, and it's not acceptable. If you hear something that's not right, talk to the speaker, or your manager, or HR, or the CEO. If someone tells you that you've crossed a line, make an adjustment and let's keep working as a team. ".
Well, I thought "expanding the pie" versus "taking a larger portion of the pie" are particularly common metaphor for growing economy versus taking advantage of the economy.
The talent pool consists of the people who are already being irresistibly drawn to the work. No matter how severe the shortage, nobody who needs to be lured into the industry (by pay or a more polite environment or whatever) can adequately substitute for obsession. When we try, we get the kind of embarrassing trainwrecks software is infamous for.
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That's not so different from what most men in programming jobs experience

Tell me, when was the last time someone sat next to you because "you were wearing tight trousers and they hoped they could see your junk"? How many men do you think experience that at work? Would you be OK with them telling you to lighten up if you took exception to it?
Erm.. Why does it have to be a low cut dress. I see plenty of light dresses that would be suitable for professional situations that wouldnt bring out these comments. Men should be allowed o have there shirts unbuttoned down to their chest because their chests are hot from all the hair?
Does it matter? It can still be the complete account of someone's reasoning for wearing particular clothing.
This is a great template that I use often. Just mentioned it in my resources post: http://nathanbarry.com/25-free-ios-design-resources/
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I think you should revise your perception of what is being gained by sexist humor. It seems that you get some good laughs out of it-- no problem for you.

For the people on the other side of the joke, it's not fun. From what Katie Cunningham writes, it's so unbearable that she's on the verge of leaving the profession she loves.

With that understanding of the situation, sexist jokes lose their humor, at least for me.
Really great framework for thinking about a very noisy, complex field.
The guy sees the "one joke." He doesn't see that to her it's the billionth-and-one "joke."

Bukowski put it best: "The Shoelace"
http://allisonlanda.blogspot.com/2009/02/bukowski-shoelace.h...

Attention my fellow men: Just STFU unless you are reading stupid jokes from a bad sitcom script before a camera for TV.
Being a victim is no excuse to victimize others.
Honest question: Why is it so bad when guys treat gals like they're just one of the guys?

Guys give each other small disparaging jabs all the time, be it the workplace or a party between friends, it's what we do to fit in; it's how our social groups work and what keeps them together.

I've never been female, so I don't know what it looks like from their perspective, but to me telling a lass to 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.
> No, the real reason I'm "white-knighting" is because I think it's shitty to make people feel uncomfortable for who they are.

I don't think you get it. Your "white-knighting" on the internet does so little for the cause you're claiming to be fighting for that it begs the assumption of an ulterior motive. That motive does not have to be "getting sexual favors." It can also be, hey, looking really great and noble and pure to your peers! That's been valuable since the dawn of society.

The best part about all the white-knighting that's happening in this thread is how many people are being zealously villainized for their rational responses. It's absolutely delusional how far words are being stretched and twisted to shove someone over to the side of "the problem" including your twisting of what "white-knighting" is to not-so-indirectly implicate me as a "sexist asshole." Bravo, you deserve a medal for that one.
Mine does. We have people from a lot of different parts of the world, so there's plenty of opportunities for good fun.

The line between tasteless and tasteful humor is blurry.
I agree that the guy is probably suffering from his own insecurities, but the bottom line is that he allowed his issues to place him in a situation of antagonizing a co-worker, probably without any repercussions, which speaks to a general climate of discrimination against women in the workplace. Still, some of your other points are interesting and I feel are valid in a larger context. Zen monasteries in Japan were segregated - women were a minority anyway, probably to a very large extent, but there were women monks, and they were generally not allowed much interaction with the male monks. All discipline among the males fell apart when a woman was in their presence, as the culture really gave them no background for normal interactions between the sexes. The head monks chose to sidestep the problem -- what could they possibly do to address the ills of the society at large?
"... Artists get a new source of income... targeting a younger audience — people who have a little bit of money but aren’t yet connected to the fine art world ..."

Smart. The 'traditional' art world is primarily analog & conservative so targeting the younger can create a new online market. Interesting the early artists are curated but with an eye to a broader selection. An online art gallery.
This is good design? I sat at the first screen for a while clicking on things to no avail. It was not immediately apparent that I needed to scroll down...
This is from back in Jan, 2011. As in, last year. But I suppose one would never know.
For a long time, I assumed the recursive tail call optimization was a really smart optimization done by the compiler to transform a normal recursive call into a tall call. I was trying to figure out how a compiler could do that.

Then later I learned that the optimization part is really done by human to transform the recursive call into a tail call. The "optimization" done by the compiler is relatively trivial in reusing the stack frame for the last function call.
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This is really good news. I just hope the article is correct and this can actually be modded fairly easily for T-Mobile(T989) and AT&T phones.
Your comment assumes there is a ready supply of programming jobs that do not suck in this way. I think the point people are trying to make is that there isn't.
Not at this company. I was told "white people are crazy" by an african american coworker at a different company a few years back.

I guess that was racist humor. I just LOL'd, though. Maybe because I'm "crazy".

Do you think I should have brought it up with HR instead?
Well, male coworkers pick on each other all the time.
Even when they have absolutely no incentive to hurt, once there's an awkward situation and they can say something smart - they'll fire.

Most if nor all of humor revolves around something bad happening to someone. That's what funny.

(In normal workplace setting women are actually shielded from that friendly fire because men don't feel as comfortable/can't predict what's OK and what's not)

You want jokes, you have to acquire certain skin thickness.
If you don't, then I don't want to work with you. Fun is fun.
This is a joke, right? What's to stop kids or the MPAA from taking potshots at these things?
Where to find people to validate your MVP?
Will Schumpter win out here?

Presumably in a perfect labour market competant women will leave companies like this and go work for the non sexist competition

I believe that will be true for companies that do not embrace for example lean product discovery or software as transformative. But I just don't think the labour Market is really perfect enough to make this kind of difference

but even so, start looking at jobsites. You won't change them, and if you leave for good reasons, good employers will understand.
no dubt:

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This is really disappointing for me.. (well.. from a games on my phone perspective)

I used to really like Words with Friends.
Then zynga did an app update where the icon was more about the zynga logo than the Words with Friends logo. (reverted after user backlash)
Then it was more and more 'buy our other games!' notifications.
Then the facebook integration slowed the app down so much it took 3-4x as long to actually play the game.

Yesterday I was saying to myself. Draw Something is so much better than Words with Friends, because it doesnt throw ANY of the zynga shit at me.

Now I wake up and see this on HN... so upsetting.
I gotta say I do not feel at all sorry for her. Why? Because I live in Sweden and here the women are always at the center of the light. No one cares about problems related to men any more.

If she'd live in Sweden that would probably never happened since Sweden is the Saudi Arabia for feminism.
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FYI, you can also type "What time is it in CityName" into Google.

My problem with Google (and this site) is sometimes I don't know a city and am only given a timezone (e.g. on the phone someone says "Call me back before 7:30 Pacific").
It always makes me feel young to read an article that was published before I was born, and in this case saying that my intended niche is dead. I wish I knew more of these older, wizened ideas. I will probably never be comfortable in assembly, and I would seriously enjoy a course entitled, "what we knew about computing in the 70s which still isn't part of mainstream languages today."

If I may reappropriate a line from Hopkins, "hackers build--but not I build, no, but strain,	time’s eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes." I guess it's a broader anxiety for all people working in artistic professions. In any case, I'm envious of the amazing ability of the past to get work done, and am surprised that with the huge network of modern coders, modern thinkers, modern design techniques, we've only elaborated the slightest on what they've done. They built me the Internet: but I use it to read blogs and get into revert wars on Wikipedia.
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Yes, I've looked at PhoneGap before and it looks like a great tool. Unfortunately our needs (or our customers) involve using an existing web app but wanting the ability to find that app in the app store. Our solution has been to create small wrappers utilizing UIWebView but that is far from ideal! It appears that PhoneGap is mainly a platform for building apps using html/js, not for creating wrappers around existing web sites (but I could be wrong).
Obviously the safe bet is to not crack jokes that may hurt people around you. If you don't know how to joke around without hurting people, don't joke around with your co-workers.
How do you know you lack sufficient power to effect change if you don't try?
What. Are you... are you serious? I hope to god there's a rational point that you're trying to make, you're just making it very, very badly because you're so angry at the "man hate."
Charles left a year ago.
Two things because the person is already dead pardoning them isn't going to do a lot of good for them is it? Furthermore the governments opinion that convicting them was wrong is already apparent due to the fact that they changed the law. Next, England is one the oldest governments on Earth being roughly 1000 years old (give or take a century), individually pardoning every dead person who committed a crime that is no longer a crime would be a major burden on the parliament taking time away from addressing the needs of living people. As a result it makes a lot of sense to have a blanket (and longstanding) rule; no pardons for dead people.
Actually, men are better at cooling themselves http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11492897
That is clever. I always like simple, quality design. The copy reads well also.
Having a backup system in place is important, and I think most management understands that and would like to "see" it be built.

If someone is ultra technical and working with someone ultra non-technical that will create friction if they are talking about future potential problems, especially due to scale.

But, I would assume any company you are working for as a technical person generally has someone technical in charge of you.

I would never run a company as a business person with a lot of technical knowledge without a strong technical cofounder who can manage the technical team.

I am probably making an assumption here that everyone thinks like that, and most likely that is a bad assumption.
Public perception (as judged by art, which usually represents a slightly caricatured version of reality) seems to imply that your attractiveness and the appropriateness of your comments are inversely correlated.

That is to say, if you tell a woman she looks good, it will be a compliment if she likes you, a sexist remark if she doesn't.
The article forgot about Reddit. Not sure what the terms were though.
Learn to troll. You, as a woman, can bite a man ten times worse than any male colleague.
Just respond. The effect would be amazing.
Interracial marriage was illegal in much of the US until just 45 years ago. The Stonewall Riots were the same year we landed on the moon. Romer v. Evans wasn't until 1996, and Lawrence v. Texas is just eight years old. You have a poor sense of history and the passage of time if you do not recognize the staggering speed with which the world can and has changed.
How would you characterize the difference between "the problem is unfixable" and "nothing can ever change"? They are substansively the same position.
Any act of film/literary analysis obviously requires thinking about something after you've seen/read it. The harder you think the better, and what you need to look for when evaluating arguments are evidence of internal consistency, plausibility and authorial design.

So where is the problem? Nolan himself has said in media interviews that the significance of the top is that Cobb walks away. He's also remarked on the centrality of creation imagery in the film and explicitly stated that "there's a relationship between the sand castle the kids are building on the beach in the beginning of the film and the buildings literally being eaten away by the subconscious and falling into the sea." Funny how he even specified the beginning of the film in that quote. No-one is post-rationalizing those words into his mouth.

Frankly, there's tremendous power to any interpretation that leads one independently to the same conclusions the director later makes, all the while explaining away what are inconsistencies under other readings (why Mal is bad, why the continual biblical references, why there is so much damn water in the dreams, etc. etc. etc.). The fact that Nolan is using fairly conventional symbolism (water = death/subconscious) is just icing on the cake.
Ah, I see they're ahead of me. But that policy is pretty vague about what heavy use means.
OK, but millionaire CEOs and invented the Old Boys Club, so what does success in business have to do with egalitarian respectful behavior toward all?
Well, it's more subtle than that. A male may wear shorts to be comfortable, but he's wearing a sleeveless top because he wants to show off his biceps. Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
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