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In general, I have to agree with this - but the part that bothers me is men are being stigmatized for having the conversations that are typical for a group of guys. What is frustrating is women often complain about not being included - but when they do and when they are the minority (2 women in a group of 10 guys, say) they also complain about sexism or "boys talking about sex all the time". Whatever else it is we talk about.

I dunno what I'm saying anymore, this topic is remarkably frustrating for me as a man because I can see where women are coming from, they don't want to feel like the minority even though they are and I don't necessarily see anything wrong with the way men "socialize" with each other but it is also a deterrent for women in joining our industry.

Another point to raise. What if women wanted in on men's football? Casting away the physical disparity and only considering the cultural implications, I could see this very same kind of interaction happening - the only difference is, in our industry the barrier to entry is an intellectual one but we still bring all of our gender-assigned cultural baggage along with us...
I've always been intreagued by the notion of democracy and allowing people to choose their leadership. All political systems sound good on paper.

But my point is this. At a psychological level people are driven by emotion rather than logic. Most of the general public do not understand or are interested in politics. They do not have the indepth knowledge required to make a good decision. Rather they rely on the media to tell them who to vote for. Depending on the economic circumstances at the time, the ordinary person will vote for the person who promises to overcome their short-term pain, while ignoring the consequences for the long term. The most recent example is Greece, where the people have voted for a government that is threatening to wreck all progress to date on solving their financials issues for the sake of easing austerity.

Thoughts?
Context: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3952263, Adobe's initial response, mentions upgrading to CS6 as the only remedy. The comments are predictably unhappy about this.
> The lack of polish may be charming

I don't think so, personally: the common redirection to pages which don't exist is bothering, and so is the overall slowness of the posting and (especially) edition.

Oh, and the completely fucked up comment formatting (or lack thereof) markup.
Your theory that apparent sexism in the tech community is actually only poor social skills requires that sexism in the tech community has died out. Because otherwise poor social skills would just make the tech community sexism more obvious than mainstream sexism.

Which I think is exactly the case. Sexism is a millennia-deep, society-wide problem. I think it's absurd to say that the tech community is actually not sexist like the rest of society, but just happens to act the same way for a different reason.

I'm sure you weren't intending to derail. Few do. But speaking as a fellow privileged person, you should be very suspicious when something comes out of your mouth that just happens to reduce or eliminate your responsibility for acknowledging your privilege in a situation.

Like, for example, suggesting that sexism isn't the problem, but rather those poorly socialized nerds.
If you over-use it, it's not effective but for copywriting purposes, you'll get more clicks. Same with email: even if the subject is not a question, put a ? in it, and you'll get more clicks (it's been A/B tested by a few folks)
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Alright, lets do this.

1） The only “best practice” you should be using all the time is “Use Your Brain”.
If working on individual projects, sure. The problem is that best practices are an opinionated collection of tradeoffs. There are often other alternatives that may be better tradeoffs to work with for the situation. Most of the time, these tradeoffs involve coding style rather than any real functionality changes. At that point, whichever you advocate - either your own thought, or a "best practice" is going to cause disagreements among people. The "best practice" then, is a good option simply because you have a lot of public support behind it for whatever reason, so hopefully the people who disagree with that particular practice will be convinced to work with it.
Counter-arguments?
Thankfully it has hit Geenstijl:

http://www.geenstijl.nl/mt/archieven/2012/05/onafhankelijke_...
Yeah, the plug-n-play is neat but why not do it properly, and get a two-way meter?
Ah, in that case, you're quite right to walk away! It's just meant to see if someone can 'put their arms around a problem', a rough way of weeding out people who can't make a move until they have every answer, a blunt tool.

Sounds like you used it appropriately as a blunt tool to weed out the company :)
Not to put too fine a point on it, but if you made this comment during an interview, we wouldn't hire you unless looking for someone to sit alone in a cubical to write device drivers.
> 41 different SE sites

Wow, didn't know that there are so many different SE sites, thought there's just one.

Anyway SE, its Q&A system and the community are just incredible.
Normally when I see a design pattern I instantly get it. However they don't work when jerry-rigged into something they're not supposed to fix.
What variables are you trying to isolate and why? And how does asking about golfballs on a bus or raccoons on a battleship effectively isolate those variables? What was the thought process used that led to that solution?
There are underlying reasons why people are 'shy.'

Shyness could just be being shy talking to girls or boys you're attracted to, it could be shy talking to anyone. It could be shyness that occurs when presenting.

Shyness has a base of one having their guard up. Their energies will lock up, close off, and then it's difficult to impossible to use feeling to know you're safe (or not) in a situation.

Figuring out what these guards are, allowing the thoughts that come up and feelings triggered that cause your guard to go up is the only way to let your guard start to come down and stay down when it doesn't need to be up; If you go on medications you could even further distance yourself from being able to connect to your inner-self (to your body and emotions, and 'intuitive' understanding that comes from that connection).
There was a bit of a brouhaha about this a few years ago with TV pundit Glenn Beck as well. Beck has a certain style of saying he's "just investigating" questions, where he'll posit some extreme allegation, and wonder out loud why the target of the allegation won't go on record denying it and provide evidence. He'll insist he doesn't even necessarily think the allegation is true, but just wants the questions to be aired and discussed openly, and says refusal to do so is suspicious evasion.

In response, someone started a website wondering aloud why Glenn Beck won't deny allegations that he raped and killed a girl in 1990--- the website author, of course, claims he doesn't believe the allegations, but is just wondering why Beck won't address them publicly, and provide evidence of his whereabouts at the time of the alleged incident. Beck, of course, sued for libel in response...

http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2009/10/beck_tries_to_kil...
that's a good point.

at my large company i do this every day on the embedded system i work on, which luckily is not a CRUD app. i guess i would hope they would ask me about that XD

databases can get tricky. but you're right, if something complicated like a bloom filter is used to solve subset-query it's probably in an third-party API they grabbed somewhere that handles most of the difficulty.
You can. Just make sure you say something smart, and everything is fine.
The shitstorm might be, however, a little bigger than usual if you say something stupid. (Günter Grass' poem etc.)
Misused is key... The idea of a self-describing data set is pretty cool, and could have a good use if you had to dump a data-set to be consumed by some external 3rd party without any other documentation... (when has that ever happened)

What maddens me is when people use XML to communicate with themselves. It is the biggest waste of bandwidth and processing power, when there are much simpler formats.

Many years ago I took the XAjax library for PHP and re-wrote it without XML.. Using 2 simple delimiters instead, the code was 80% smaller.
Spqr - very few people can read your comments. You've been hellbanned. In fact, I don't think your posts have ever been seen!
It wouldn't have a chance to hit the front page if it were submitted on Monday. Slow news day is exactly the time for submitting this sort of fluff.
Wayland lacks feature X is not a valid criticism against Wayland. Because that does not mean that a system using Wayland lacks feature X. And the primary feature of Wayland is that it implements as few features as possible.

1st Bob: What you do at Initech is you take the specifications from the customer and bring them down to the software engineers?
Tom: Yes, yes that's right.

2nd Bob: Well then I just have to ask why can't the customers take them directly to the software people?

Tom: Well, I'll tell you why... because... engineers are not good at dealing with customers...

1st Bob: So you physically take the specs from the customer?

Tom: Well... No. My secretary does that... or they're faxed.

2nd Bob: So then you must physically bring them to the software people?

Tom: Well... No. ah sometimes.

1st Bob: What would you say you do here?

Tom: Look I already told you, I deal with the @#$% customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people, can't you understand that? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!
I thought this article sounded familiar but it took me a while to place it. It's the parable of the sower, Matthew 13:3-8.

3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;

4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:

5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:

6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.

7 And some fell among athorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:

8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
Have you tried http://ihackernews.com/ ?
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Oh, I get the point the interviewer wants to reach -- using size estimation questions to gain an understanding of one's logic process. But as a method of achieving that goal, I've found it's a poor instrument.

Suppose candidate #1 is unimaginative and cannot offer a reasonable response.
Suppose candidate #2 says "well, a golf ball is such and such size, and there is empty space around each ball, and the bus is such and such size....."

What, exactly, have we learned here? In my experience, nothing.

Having gone through this cycle as both a candidate as well as hiring manager (not my choice to use this line of questioning), the real-world results I've found is little to no correlation between candidate responses and accurate assessment of logic process. The false positive/negative outcomes were significantly higher, and the success rate for candidates into the positions we hired them for were mixed. Basically, these questions offered us nothing in finding candidates who would be successful in the position for which we were hiring.

If I were to ask a question such as this, it would be to gauge one's reaction to the question (assuming it's a stressor) and how they react. The response is nearly irrelevant. But I don't like the tone the question sets between myself and a candidate, so I just don't resort to this as a means to achieving that goal. There are better ways to get at that information.
There's a complete list on http://stackexchange.com/sites; there are actually way more than 41 sites in the SE network.
printf/scanf do have a syntax. But you're not wrong saying it is not part of the syntax of the language stricto sensu.

I personnaly don't like the printf/scanf style, which unfortunately often prevails in newer languages. I definitely prefer the string interpolation method, or just plain string concatenation.
>>Free Software has completely replaced the space previously occupied by ATT unix. But, then I realized this piece was authored in 1991, which makes this opinion merely lacking in foresight.

I think it would difficult for anybody to predict how things would pan out. Linux wasn't yet there. Perl was still just the sysadmin's tool, yet and extremely powerful one though but still looked like a little advanced awk. Not until a couple of years later, when Linux was everywhere. Perl had eaten severely in most languages share.

No body could have predicted somebody could co ordinate an effort like building of a language or kernel from distributed locations, yet managing to build high quality software that would go on to rule the world.

And also look at the kind of people who built it. Although I agree that Linus Torvalds and Larry Wall had strong university background. Development of things like Linux and Perl happened in the most unconventional environments, to solve the most unexpected problems. Software design was taken over by hackers from academics and researches in big labs run by corporates.

For most talented people who didn't participate in those movements at that time, they basically a lost a shot at making their mark in history. Rob Pike is just one of such many smart people who missed the boat. That fact will always remain.

Rob Pike might be a genius. But the future generations of software won't seem him in the same light as RMS, Linus or Larry Wall.
> organized gangs of beggars

I'd say that that part is similar, and it is not something I was aware of. So, I find this informative and contributing to the discussion.

Some of the other language might be viewed as a bit slanted. Or it might be viewed as a bit ironic. Given that uncertainty, I didn't find it too extreme. (Although, I am in the U.S. and so separated from the particular circumstance, and my judgment/opinion is of limited value.)

P.S. I should add that I have not yet read all the ensuing responses, which I am now getting to and which might change my opinion somewhat. But, based just on the original comment, I think the above applies to it.

P.P.S. HN is getting way too political. Reading through this thread reinforces this impression. Makes me sorry to have commented on it. OTOH, I rather liked the description of RMS's approach, and I found it informative to read comments on the "industry" behind some of the world's begging. (To which begging, like many other commentors here, I have a hard time formulating a coherent response that I find helpful, practical, and coherent.)
> Even if I didn't, gold can be dissolved by a number of different acids.

Which acids other than aqua regia? Mercury is not an acid, and alkaline solutions (of potassium or cyanide) are the opposite of acids.
>Derailment is a purely rhetorical technique, so I'm not seeing the problem.

The problem is you made an appeal to authority to "derailing for dummies"...

>It's to devalue the given examples of sexist behavior so that the privileged person can avoid confronting their privilege.

Half of those points could be made by someone who has no intention of derailing. They can be legitimate observations.
How does Wayland draw things on the screen if it doesn't support the video card?
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I can definitely relate with the feeling described. I too got the "prize" from Unix&Linux.SE. The hand signed letter by Spolsky definitely had a strong effect. I felt proud like a child receiving a gold star in kindergarden.

A piece of advice for all the startup/business founders here on HN. When you send personalized communication to your users, be it a personal email, or something as superficial as putting your handwritten signature on a bunch of papers, you make us very happy.

As a frequent user of the general WWW, I could not recommend enough you do this.
I'm sorry if this is a stupid question... but what's wrong with "googling it"? I can see the flipside to most of the points made, but I don't understand this one.
You are entirely correct. The difference between online payments and any POS transaction can be summed up in three words, 'card not present'.

3DS attempts to create a 'cardholder present' situation, hence the shift of liability.
it's called a compiler :)
Yes, because his argument was that it could be done with cheaper hardware and some IT-smarts (aka salaried employees managing it).
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If I were the President, I would do exactly the same thing. Fact is, that Supreme Court nominations are highly political motivated. You have in your presidency one or maybe two chances to appoint a new judge.

That judge is going to sit there for about 20 years. As you see right now with the upcoming supreme court decision on the healthcare issue, the decision is most likely going to be made along the party lines, with most of the decision power hanging on the mercy of a single judge. If you are the president and have the ability to appoint/suggest a judge, you need to find someone that you can rely on to keep his political leaning intact for the next 20 years. Otherwise you are significantly reducing the chances to see your worldview represented in the rulings for the next 20+ years. Sure, the process is questionable, but I can completely understand that politicians see the appointment of judges as a very strategic element, and therefore making it necessary to keep them close. But apparently too close in some cases...
The problem though, is empathy is going to be really hard for men -> women or women -> men; both sexes are remarkably different culturally.

What you see is a large number of socially awkward and inept people flocking to industries where being socially tact is less valued over intellectual prowess. Women have always been more socially tactful than men - it's how our society is set up, women are treated as a valued commodity.

If you want a "close" approximation of figuring out what it's like to be the other gender in a "x dominated field", you should go the route of the author of this book: http://www.amazon.com/Self-Made-Man-Womans-Journey-Manhood/d...

She did a remarkable job of actually experiencing what being a man in our society is like. I would be very interested if someone of the male sex were to do something similar and write a book about it, this article doesn't cut it IMHO.
I received a similar package from my participation in the English Language and Usage site (I was a temporary moderator there while the site was in beta). The letter that came with it had several intentional mistakes noted with copy-editing marks, which I thought was a nice touch.

The T-shirt, however, un-intentionally misspelled the site's name (see http://meta.english.stackexchange.com/q/1926); they sent out another batch of shirts several weeks later, so I now have both a good shirt and a special limited-edition shirt.
I'm not sure... you may have to email pg
So is SE the better Quora?
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Yes, democracy is the worst system of governance we have, except for all the others.

In Greece, voters punished the two main parties who colluded to fuck them over so badly, by voting for other parties. In fact, almost 20% of the parliament is now composed of members of brand new parties - brand new because many voters don't feel their interests are being represented by the older parties. Isn't this result exactly what we would want and hope for in a system of governance?

> is threatening to wreck all progress to date on solving their financials issues for the sake of easing austerity.

Oh my.
Just to be clear: I was the person saying things could be better... But I also wanted to point out Vim CAN do most of it. I agree with you on many points...

Maybe I could try writing some plugins in the future :)
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No thanks from me. The no discussions rule means the only questions on the site are the trivial questions that could be answered by reading some documentation. If questions are broad or open ended, the value lies in the discussion, not in any particular answer. I also found that many accepted answers are blatantly wrong, or encourage very poor practice. Sure, the StackExchange network is better than experts-exchange or quora, in the sense that's a much better implementation of a concept, but I believe there's just very little value in that concept.
If being intelligent enough to make billions off (in op's opinion) no work, makes you an asshole, then count me in.

Also, popular narrative is "Steve Jobs is an asshole." Popular narrative also wonders who this Mark Zuckerburg fellow is. Does he sell hard candies?
Can I just say "I assume it's about 2000." and be done with it? I mean, that's a good enough estimate when we're not actually going to be putting golf balls on buses and are just chatting about it.
That actually is the reason why you hold your car keys. It's less of a "being able to get in the car quickly" and more about being able to "gouge their eye out".
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It looks like AppJS is built on top of CEF framework which is basically a stripped down version of Chromium.

This also means that AppJS-based apps can't be shipped on Mac App Store because CEF makes use of private frameworks.
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Adobe has become a troll of the software industry. Everyone dealt with their Flash crap for years, Apple/HTML5/etc finally killed it, and now all they have left is the CS suite. As soon as a better crop of graphics apps comes around Adobe is finished.
One nice feature of the iPhone right now (and the Nokia N9, but not any other phones I've used): you can simply hot-swap the SIM without any battery pulling or even rebooting. Just take out the tray, replace the SIM, and pop it back in.