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The day when Google supports Android native app development in Golang, will be the day when Golang goes mainstream. But I don't bet on this thing happening.
I wonder what Apple's plans are for entering this market. Certainly if they add NFC to the iPhone, they will have to take slightly less than 30% of each transaction ;)
What should NASA do with the International Space Station?
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Men are as likely to be raped, but their (prison) rapes are considered funny in our society, whereas female rapes are considered a grave crime. Men are generally considered more disposable in dangerous situations ("let the women and children go"). Stereotypes and gender roles regarding men are much more rigid, and challenging them has much less cultural buy-in than challenging gender roles with women. Men are much more likely to be assaulted. I told my very feminist sister a story about a guy who punched another guy that his girlfriend was cheating on him with. At first she misheard me and thought he punched the girl, which was considered horrible. When I clarified that it was the guy he hit, she immediately made a comment that indicating that it was less serious. She has internalized the sexism that it's much less serious to assault a male.

I could go on and on, but you're so brainwashed by a movement that has overall very good intentions (empower women in a society that disempowers them) that you have internalized it and don't even see the blatant sexism on the other side of the coin. Even this piece contains so many generalizations about men, geeks, tech workplaces that are blatantly unfair.

It's so ironic that so many feminists/liberals are so guilty of what they accuse others of - being unaware of their own prejudices.
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GPLv3 is quite limiting for a JS library. The source file[1] also has no license in the header, just a copyright.

[1] http://veritetimeline.appspot.com/latest/timeline-min.js
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I don't think this will work. This is not how it works in any of the open source based companies I know, and I know a few.
Very neat. There are no examples for parsing times instead of just dates that I can see (but it appears VMM.Util.parseDate supports it). Something like a timeline for server monitoring data would be a good use of this. Also, I would hope for a little more commercially friendly license for a library like this instead of the GPL.
If your latency is generally a combination of # of routers, physical path, and network congestion between you and the destination. Locally number of hops dominates the latency. So if the old path is comcast > Level 3 > google then running a comcast > google line will lower your latency by removing Level 3's routers and probably proving a shorter path.
"What this means is that while just as many productive contributors enter the project today as in 2006, they are entering an environment that is increasingly challenging, critical, and/or hostile to their work. These latter findings have also been confirmed through previous research."

This confirms to me what I argued on HN last year: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3272926 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3273204
This article is much clearer on this point than the linkbait that was posted last time, but: This is a patent application, not a patent. When/if it is granted, the claims will not be anywhere near as broad as they are now.
Sorry, but the way they refute is is to say "the street does not extend to a point" yet you can draw the symbol on the streets and see that the design is perfectly implied.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=washington+dc&hl=en&ll...

I also assume you're not a Mason, thus you think that everything is simply coincidence.

Sorry - but there are very deliberate decisions, particularly with respect to design, that are, in fact, Masonic, all over DC.
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This ignores the fact that the standard for what is considered a good edit has risen dramatically over time. Most of the featured articles from the early years of the site no longer even meet that standard. There are 3,500 featured articles, and almost 1,000 that have become unfeatured as standards have risen.
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I see that I need to update my bio...

The reason I am so pissed is that I work in a company where we do things and make jokes that would get you kicked out the door in most suit companies and everybody enjoys it -- including the girls (who are often the best) -- and yes there is the guy who doesn't find it funny to change his screen, so we don't. To him. If he finds it obnoxious that we make those jokes with others, he can deal with it or leave.

And yet, if somebody where to join us who would get annoyed working there do you suggest the rest of us should leave?

I wouldn't make the joke I did in a company that didn't appreciate it but I wouldn't stand for it being change just to fit a few people either.
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This is gorgeous.

Thank you for making it open source.

Reminds me a lot of Simile Timeline (by MIT: http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/) but this looks so much better!

Thank you.
The primary people fighting prison rape is feminists (and both prison rape and rape of drunk girls are treated as jokes in our culture). The primary people fighting stereotypes and gender roles, supporting stay-at-home fathers, supporting the importance of gender-flexibility for men, are feminists. The primary people fighting men's violence directed at each other are feminists. Feminists fought the draft and continue to protest wars around the world.

Your examples are feminist. You are a feminist, whether you choose to use the label or not. The only question is whether you realize this is a loose-loose situation and support other feminists as well as those focusing on your issues.
I've done it. Without a doubt there is a high barrier to entry, but with anything you have to start small. Find articles that aren't fleshed out already. Find things that are entirely incomplete. Dive into those articles first, those are the ones that need attention, not Barack Obama's page.
I started getting involved with wikipedia about a year ago. If you start small and create a history of trust, older users are more likely to trust and approve your edits.
What's the advantage of storing a blog in a graph database? Or is it just one of those "just because I could" things?
Can I PLEASE see some pics of this, this sounds awesome.

In 1998, while at Intel, I did the Decepticon logo in circuitry for the album art for my friends CD.

I'd love to see what you did.
(Yes, quick quick, down-vote the heretic -- we haven't progressed much from Salem, have we?)

>Important things like women making less money than men, being more subjected to media objectification, being the target of laws that want to deny them rights because we still have a problem accepting that women are exactly equal to us?

Funny how you seem to have the missed the part where I SPECIFICALLY write: "It's not like I said we don't have to worry about men and women not receiving equal pay, or about rape, or freedom of choice, etc, which would be REAL sexist issues to worry about".

I.e, what I wrote is that THOSE are important issues, and "sexism AS IN "that's what she said" jokes and in "conference slides with some bikini-clad woman" IS NOT.

>Ever considered they don't like it because people like you see no problem with treating them this way?

No, because I have counter-examples, of women picking professions where they are treated the same or even worse, in much larger percentages.

Consider this: is every profession that women generally avoid a sexist one? Or do women also avoid some professions for other reasons?

Also consider this: could there also be some feminine and masculine side? (At least psychologists seem to agree). We know that hormones, for example, have a large influence on our behavior, re violence, introspection, sexual interest, etc, acting as regulators.

So could women also be more inclined towards some types of professions as women?

Can you get 5 year old girls interest in Star Wars as easily as 5 year old boys? (In general, not outliers). I don't think so --judging from the children I know, including mine, they already have their preferences re: cartoons. So, why wouldn't they also have re: professions?

Are those things never considered? If so, why? Because they are a "forbidden thought" since we must consider everyone the same? Well, being equal (a social ideal) is not the same as necessarily being the same. Well, I like empirical thinking, I don't care about "thought crimes".

>Even if the problem was as simple as "women don't like IT because they're given Barbies," the solution is not to shrug your shoulders and say "it's society, nothing we can do about it," because we are society.

I didn't said that, though. What I said was that "if the problem was as simple as 'women don't like IT because they're given Barbies'" then we shouldn't address non-problems, like "that's what she said jokes".
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I don't think Adobe understands the concept of "substitution"--namely, that for most things, HTML5 seems to far outweigh Adobe's inferior Flash. So charging for Flash may prove to be a bone-headed move.

This being said, what better way to force a spin-off than to totally wreck that side of the business' pricing?
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Awesome! I was actually planning on writing such a script over the weekend. I haven't take a look at this semester's courses, but I know last semester the quizzes and tests were quite useful for someone with no previous practice in the subject at hand. I can see your script doesn't try to get all that right?

In that case i'll still have a weekend project.
I've ten years of Delphi background. I'll choose Flask, because it's simple - I immediately learned how it works, and it's neat.
I'm sorry I didn't read the whole thread and I know this is late.

Why not provide two versions of Delicious Library Inf? One costs $20. It only works/installs correctly if you have the original app. The other one costs $40. It is a standalone app. Make a minor bugfix update that says "hey" to the users of Delicious Library 2, and link to the expansion. Sell both.
not sure what's going on. some other people had the same experience. I'll try to fix it as soon as I can.
>competition hadn't been crushed by these deals.

I assume you mean NetFlix's competition.

I can see your point there. In a perfect world, as a consumer I would have a choice of ISPs. I wonder if this will become an antitrust issue:

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/06/business/how-coke-pushed-r...
hmmm... maybe a database error. I will take a look and get back to you.
In 2006, bots were introduced to do various clean up tasks automatically. There are currently over 800 registered bots on Wikipedia. They are generally made to enforce the rules. But if you need 800 different bots controlled by 800 different people to enforce the rules, that means you have a lot of obscure rules.

For instance, there is a list of domain names that wikipedia sees often as spam. So if an innocent user goes to edit a page, and wants to add a new piece of information referencing a domain on that list, a bot will come along and mark it as spam (and revert it) even though its a good faith edit.

It can be frustrating and confusing for new users. The bot is often quite terse and rude, and so there is no incentive to return to wikipedia to make edits. 9/10 new edits are rejected, so no wonder they can't keep new editors.
I agree, but what happens when Comcast then buys out all the content providers?
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yes? should I have done something differently?
Tapose (Microsoft Courier squashed onto iPad screen) is released
This announcement is contrary to a statement made in July of 2011. Do they suddenly not give a shit about other customers service if it's xbox live traffic?

"If someone's behavior is such that it degrades the quality of service for others nearby -- that's what this threshold is meant to address," said company spokesman Charlie Douglas. "It can negatively affect other people."

http://hothardware.com/News/Comcast-Cuts-Customer-Off/
My point is this:

It was the company culture to have fun with a joke aimed at nobody in particular (sex is not sexistic). A bad, unfunny joke but a joke nontheless.

One person decieded she did like it and ruined it for everybody.

If you show up to a frat house party and don't like it, do you demand that the others change their behavior to something that isn't rude or do you leave?

She essentially demanded that everybody else acted a new way just to please her and when she was refused forced them to.
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This is a very nice classification. It does ring true in my experience, although I would put a few more levels between level 3 and level 4. Very few people are anywhere near level 4.

Your level 3 makes a few "level 2 mistakes". For example, time outs are evil, since they force a decision to be made at the wrong level of the system. Protocol stacks shouldn't use time outs. Rather, they should pass the request to stop or continue waiting to the right level of the system (which can go all the way up to the application level and even to the user level!). Unfortunately, the most-used protocol stacks either don't implement this or it's not exposed to the application programmer. And so we still have a long way to go.
Yeah, all the money going into maintaining Sealand could have just gone to bribes in a low cost-of-living third-world country to far greater effect.
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It highlights accidental double entendres: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=thats%20what%...

I think it's an objection to making the topic of sex more prominent at work, rather than anything specifically negative about women. The original bot might have been funny for about one day, and I can imagine getting annoyed at the preachiness of the countermeasure.
In the NLP class there are programming assignments with special formatting, headers, etc. I kind of want to write a script that uses NLP to snag NLP's programming instruction pages (as well as example code, etc.) Seems like that would be fun to do.
Those were basically my thoughts before reading this article. However, while it might be that its more difficult to create a good edit, that still shouldn't lead to more of the good edits that are made being reverted as the data shows is happening.
You're looking at the minimized file. In source/js/timeline.js it says:

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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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Talking with friends in the that work at backbone companies. One of the funny stories I remember is the sales people having issues making sure that they actually charged more money for higher bandwidth connections due to some internal issues they almost set the prices for OC-12 lines (622 megabits) below that of OC-3 lines (155 megabits). As I understand it internally OC-3 lines where costing them slightly them more to deploy at the time.
> The second secret is that most teams, frankly, are not that good.

It's so important to remember this, as well as the corollary: I'm not that good myself. The article included this line:

> If you need to follow a prescribed process in order to be in any way an effective coder then you are mediocre at best and so is your work and your project.

I'm not sure if I agree with the statement itself, although I certainly think -- and know no one who doesn't think -- that the quality of your staff is more important than your process. But I'm sure I disagree with the way this statement is used to dismiss the idea of a prescribed process. One of the main goals of such a process is to get as good work as possible out of mediocre staff. Because there aren't enough high quality staff to go around. You won't get great work out of mediocre workers, but if you can get pretty bad work instead of total garbage, in many environments that's a big win. (In the startup environment that is hn's focus, pretty bad might be just as bad as total garbage.)
I know reddit isn't the best for this, but these posts get closed on StackOverflow and I was hoping we could create a good list of the best books for languages.
I'm not sure how this will work, given a) Apple's restrictions and b) the lack of a second screen. Looks interesting though, and if done right it could be a good alternative to Evernote etc.

There's a lack of reviews so far, so I'm going to wait and see before I buy. (as an aside, mobile apps seem to rarely get proper reviews; they may be cheap, but I'd rather not waste my time with underwhelming apps)
How do you create the TP. In house or outsource?
If you asked a million people what Google was about, if as many as a hundred of them put "fun" ahead of speed and usefulness, I would be very surprised.
I find that funny because I looked into replacing my Comcast HD box with my own box and found out that it is nearly impossible. It seems like they want to maintain control over what happens with the content, and to do that, they have to pony up on the cable box. Recently I tried to fast forward through commercials an On Demand TV show and wasn't allowed to! Of course, no 3rd party box would have such a "feature".
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If I was a billionaire I would probably buy Nauru[1], it's a 21km2 independent island state with <10k people and GDP ~30M$, which comes at 3000$ per capita. I would offer 50.000k$ to every citizen (more than they will earn in 15 years), which comes down to 500M$, to abdicate authority trough democratic process and move off the island (or possibly stay and work for me). Then build your own benevolent dictatorship that's already recognized internationally as a state.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru
That's an excellent argument. Using it you can win any discussion and prove anybody wrong, whatever is the issue - just declare anything rational the opponent says from this point on is said because he knows he's wrong and tries to rationalize it - and kaboom! you win. Nicely done.
PhoneGap and Titanium are mutually exclusive.

Sencha would work with PhoneGap, in that you need HTML/CSS/JS to put into PhoneGap.

Be careful with 99 Designs. You're more likely to get a design that will be almost impossible to implement on top of Sencha, unless you give a lot of feedback to the designers. Given the cost of getting a mobile app design there, you'll need to stay on top of the process to avoid wasting money.
A "good-faith, high-quality edit to a page" has no reason to be reverted automatically by bots or hardcore editors. If the content is encyclopedic and not controversial, it will be "wikified" by contributors that know more the syntax.
Tangent: Thanks for disclosing your Amazon referral link. I don't mind when people use them, but they always seems much more polite with a disclaimer on the page.
It's probably true that less trades would occur, and HFT profits would probably be reduced by this, but they would be able to mostly avoid paying the tax.

What follows is full of holes but is a mostly correct explanation of what I was talking about before.

Each venue maintains an "order book" for each security that trades on the venue. The order book consists of a number of standing orders, either orders to buy at $k or orders to sell at $j (k<j, with many distinct values of j and k). These orders which sit on the book because they do not have a counterparty are called "add liquidity." When you want to just execute the trade and you don't mind the spread, you place an order that crosses the spread and transact with the person who has the best standing order (selling for the least money or buying for the most money) of all the standing orders. This is called "take liquidity." My impression, which may not be correct, but which forms the basis for my previous response, is that the HFT industry primarily plays the add side right now and that most firms only take liquidity to close out positions when they are unable to close them out by adding liquidity.
bugs DO happen.

the root cause is in the kernel component that deals with memory inappropriately though. user space should be free to blast whatever into kernel space via system calls and ioctl and rely on the operating system to not crash, and also for the kernel to continue enforcing the rules of the operating system.

this is like saying "the root cause is Dan, who typed in a `drop tables. our solution is to take away Dans keyboard"
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Oh, the good old days. I went and inserted some Irish Evil into Wikipedia in commemoration.
I don't think its possible to avoid technical debt if you are making something new on a deadline.

Just like real companies, bootstrapping sounds like the ideal situation but it's not the reality for most people.
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The discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3766874
Agreed. It goes without saying that you are anything but obsequious. Much respect you for doing it for the right reasons. You both struck me as similar types for a moment - very talented curmudgeons.

I think Curtis has a very bright future and would be a great collaborator for those who see through the exterior.
Twinkle? Which I think was introduced at the end 2006 or beginning 2007.

The Counter Vandalism Unit was created late 2005; so maybe it got traction during that time and over-zealous members templated the newbies?
We found a printer to work with, though that is what took the longest. Went all over the world and then managed to find one under our noses.
The US patent system is also not supposed to grant patents that have evidence of "prior art." Should another company apply for the patent after Twitter is using it, Twitter can simply show the feature existed prior to the patent filing date.
... except those who are the users of your system.

No product design survives first contact with users, and it would be a waste of time if you do not use feedback that the first prototype can get.
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I disagree that craftsmanship is a replacement for agile. To me, being a software craftsman is more about how you write and structure code. Agile is about figuring out what the end product should be and how you get there.