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Ahem, we have repeatedly intricate issues that are related to this kind of behavior, and I have yet to see an annoying white space bug.

Not to say I think python should be changed on this point. It shouldn't, there are code checkers that warn you on the gotcha, let's use them.
If the cyclist is following the rules there's no reason to hate them as you pointed out. And I don't think cyclists are better than drivers (i know its a long post, but i did say 50% of cyclists ignore rules. Actually its more than drivers IMO. But that may be specific to SF, I don't know.)

Note that if you turn after a stop and you almost kill a cyclist it means that you are most likely turning RIGHT. Because cyclists almost never go on the LEFT.

It means also that you're not in the proper lane for making a right turn. You have to go in the bike lane BEFORE stopping. The bike lane is a lane like every other lane, unless both lanes are "forced turn right". I've never seen a bike lane that was "forced turn right" however (or the lane next to the bike lane for that matter)
Fascinating stuff, thanks for the link
Re: The default state of a startup is failure
Actually, that works out to $20/hr, which would be pretty good for a supermarket salary.
http://lorempixel.com is good enough for images
Authority and Paying Your Dues
I hope he got paid well for it--that kind of thing can leave you wiped out for a long time.
Why enterprise software sucks
Kids and startups are doable. Like she mentioned in the article - its about prioritizing and the support you have at home and at work. I'm speaking as a father of two boys and a as someone at his third venture.

The most unintentionally interesting point of this article, which was written in 2011, is that going to profounder.com reveals that they are now closing down, due to regulatory restrictions that prevent them from growing their business.
Actually I'm referring to a Macbook whose battery is permanently dead (or removed). It's also a problem when the battery is fully drained.

I don't find it useful at all really. It's very neat but I've never had problems with the power plugs of any other laptop.
Here's A Completely Different Reason To Be Skeptical About Facebook
Windows 7 on a Raspberry Pi (sort of)
How did that exactly happen? I understand the car is quiet, but I'm wondering how the situation was. Most of the time cars pass and brake (bike can't brake nearly as good as a car).
I agree strongly. It amazes me that in the ugly vs. beautiful category, the article uses this as the beautiful:

return [i/2 for i in nums if not i % 2]

"not i % 2"? That's beautiful? We do a division and ask whether the remainder is not true? What does it mean for a remainder of a division to be not true? Is sqrt(3) untrue? Is 17 not yellow? Is this really the clearest way to say even number?

Yes, after years of working in C, I'm well aware of how C does bools, but that's because C's values are small and fast, not beautiful and clear. In C, there's barely any abstraction to leak--you just manipulate bits and don't worry about mixing your metaphors. But Python has different priorities, which is why I prefer it to C when my users (and I) won't be hurt by the performance difference.

If we're showing off clarity instead of cleverness, wouldn't this be a better way to demonstrate it:

return [i/2 for i in nums if i%2 == 0]

And I prefer the concept of "clarity" to "beauty" when it comes to code. Beauty is, well, whatever in the eyes of the beholder. Clarity, for me, is the question of how fast code can be read and understood correctly by a given programmer who is familiar (not more) with the language, not necessarily familiar with other languages, and unfamiliar with what the code does.

The faster such a person can skim the code and understand it correctly, the easier it will be to modify and keep free of bugs. If we're so smart, why don't we show it by using our brains to write code that is quicker to read and understand correctly than code written by lesser lights?
Um. The headline here says "The VC Who Wouldn't Fund Her" but the article talks about a VC that did fund her though expressed his doubts. Also he's one of "thirty plus" investors.

Both articles were written a month ago and the company she founded has already shut down: http://blog.profounder.com/2012/02/17/profounder-shutting-do...

However I'm sure Forbes and Business Insider are very grateful for the ad impressions.
At the risk of being a sexist pig, not funding a pregnant entrepreneur sounds like a pretty smart move. Attempting to start a company and a family at the same time would indicate to me incredibly poor judgement, and a lack of commitment to both the company and the family.
it's not everyone discriminating against her, its a VC deciding whether he should make a multi million dollar bet on her. startups are hard.
A couple of issues:

1. "assuming you’re with the rest of us in the 21st century" - that's pretty insulting to the millions who can't afford a smartphone.

2. "it’ll run from your phone’s browser" - but only if it's WebKit.
According to the article step one is getting a job with a six-figure salary. Why didn't I think of that?!
Python: Reddit.

Ruby: Twitter.
This one, about hacking hacker news, is pretty epic:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639976
I think it's interesting to analyze these things in terms of how many different things you have to pay attention to.

With a roundabout, you need to look to the left (or right, for those in the appropriate countries) for oncoming traffic in the roundabout, and yield to it. You also need to check your entrance's crosswalk for pedestrians, and wait for them. Separately, when you exit, you also have to check that crosswalk for pedestrians, and wait for them. In total, you have to pay attention to two things as you enter, and then separately one thing as you exit.

With a four-way stop, you have to check all three other entrances when you arrive. You must also check your crosswalk, of course. You must also simultaneously check your destination crosswalk, since it's simply not reasonable to wait for pedestrians while in the middle of the intersection. You also have to check both other crosswalks, because pedestrians there can influence what the cars there will do. Thus there are a total of seven different things you must all check simultaneously to make it through a four-way stop.
Holy color clash batman!

That blog has to be the ugliest thing I've seen in a long time. Same for their actual (former) home page.
It would certainly make it a lot more interesting to see how the US Government deals with him.
As I said a month ago.

May 17 is a terrible time to IPO. Facebook will be fighting against a falling stock market. Operation twist is about to end, and there are a lot of believers in "Sell in May and go away."
Possible Stonebraker Trajectories
1. Changed that blurb
2. I don't have an Android/WP7 phone to test it on, does it not work from yours?
He sold his company, IndexTank (http://engineering.linkedin.com/open-source/indextank-now-op...) to LinkedIn a few months ago.
victork2 mentioned "anybody" having children and "both parents". I think it's clear that anybody who will have to deal with a new baby is going to be under additional stress. And the party becoming pregnant is going to be under even more stress. It is reasonable for those stress factors to be taken into consideration if you're making a decision about a person's likelihood for success. You can't simply ignore those facts for fear of being labeled a sexist, or anti-family, or something like that. Reality has a way of ignoring what is politically correct.
I agree. That being said bikes ARE both "vehicles" and "pedestrians" and that's something you have to know as a driver.

The thing is, you CAN'T behave like a vehicle on the side walk and you can't behave like a pedestrian on the street.

That means no blowing through the crosswalk obviously.

In most part of Europe (yay I'm generalizing again), there's no "turn on red" and there's no grid system, thus this is less of an issue
I can't tell if you are forcing your point or not, but I have to correct. You're doing through hole wrong: that way will take forever to do a board.

Stuff the board with the smallest height components. Place a compliant material on top of the board (e.g., firm foam rubber). Flip board over and solder all components. Put iron down. Cut leads. Flip board over and repeat for next highest components.

This minimizes the number of tool swaps and handling and is very fast.

That said: I much prefer SMT soldering and I don't even use an iron anymore, even for just one board: manually dispense paste on all the pads. Place all components at once. Put in toaster oven. Bake (I manually adjust the profile while watching the clock). Remove perfectly soldered boards. But yeah, I won't do anything smaller than 0805 or 0.5mm pitch QFP just yet :-)
I've seen at least one company go on the back burner due to a founder-CEO becoming a dad. It's a very real concern. That said, I know quite a few new parents running startups without visible incident, so who knows.
I'm quite sure that most people in the Valley-VC-feedback-loop have no idea how they appear to the rest of America. Someone doubting another person's ability because she's a woman in a public blog, and then that woman calmly writing a public response, and then commenters here agreeing with the VC--it's like you guys are on another planet, one that mirrors 19th-century society.
Thanks. I appreciate the quick response. Mobile Opera & Firefox don't work for me. I haven't looked into why yet but can do that on Monday and get back to you.
Do you want to hire someone at this age? What's the difference, they've got the same goals, one is pregnant, one isn't yet.

The only difference is that with a hiring decision, the law demands the hiring manager should ignore the risks to the business. In aggregate, this is a transfer of wealth from shareholders to pregnant women (in practice, childless women are also harmed [1]).

What right do you have to judge?

The VC has not only the right to determine how his fund's money is spent, but also the responsibility to do so in order to maximize returns.

As long as P(big success | funds preggo) < P(big success | funds slightly less awesome non-preggo), it is the VC's responsibility to choose the non-pregnant person. He would be throwing away his client's money otherwise.

[1] In practice the biggest losers seem to be childless women since the market for hiring women becomes a lemon market. Employers are not able to differentiate lemons from cherries and wind up paying all sellers less. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
But 'def' doesn't have to work that way. Consider, in CL:

> (defvar *fn*
(let ((x 3))
(lambda (&optional (y (list nil x)))
(push 7 (car y)) ; modifies the list
y)))
*FN*
> (funcall *fn*)
((7) 3)
> (funcall *fn*)
((7) 3)

From this example you can see two things. First, the binding of 'x' is closed over when the lambda expression is evaluated. And second, the expression that provides the default value of 'y' is evaluated every time the function is called.

There's no fundamental reason it couldn't have worked that way in Python. (I understand that changing the language so it worked that way now would likely break some code.)

EDIT: fixed formatting.
I have to agree. The day I need to do an 0402 is the day I seriously start looking for a used P&P machine.
About a billion people agree with you, and a billion people don't.

The other several billion do not give a shit, even under the most promising of conditions, because they have real, actual, human problems in their modest, meager, live-a-day lives.

Are you fucking stupid, sir? Or are you simply ignorant? Do you not understand this is the very meta-issue that finds itself under debate? Are you incapable of abstract thought?
I'd appreciate that! My email is austin (at) clay [dot] io
> victork2 mentioned "anybody" having children and "both parents".

That's great, but the practical reality is that you're unlikely to see a male founder asked anything similar, or be judged based on it. There's still a societal conception that "the woman will take care of the kids," so the new-child flak that would potentially make a founder look worse doesn't necessarily affect potential male founders to the same degree. It still boils down to a male-privilege issue (I mean, like the story said, have you ever heard of somebody claiming that an expectant father being likely to cause his company to fail?).

(Aside: the story sucks and is misleading, however, because a VC did fund her project. Good for both of them. I hope they kick ass.)
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My experience is the same. I recently pulled my x220 off the table onto a hard floor. My first thought was, "what an idiot!" My second thought was, "oh, it's a Thinkpad, nevermind". The laptop is obviously undamaged. (I will admit the display is rather flexible, but so are all Apple laptops. Gone are the days when you could run over your laptop with a car, sadly. I guess being so cheap that you can replace them without caring is better peace of mind than any magnesium roll cage.)

I am a qualified EE so will not comment on the initial article as it makes me squirm a bit.

I'm not, though I did take a lot of EE classes in college, and I think the article is fine. He took the thing apart and noted which components Apple used. He's not telling anyone how to engineer their own power supply.
It's not really a grey area. There have been politicians who have failed to be present enough days in their electorates in the past and suffered the wrath of the electoral commission.
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Personally, I don't. I always think about it.

I watch my back at every single crossing. Every one of them, zero exception.
I slow down when it goes down hill. I slow down when cars are next to me.
I don't care if some bikes pass me full speed like "hey look how fast i go". I don't go slow either, but I'm not "full speed". Bikes brake very poorly, specially road bikes. (Mountain bikes brake a lot better, btw. Much larger tire.)

Also important, if there are cars parked in busy areas I go on the far left of the bike lane (there's no way you can anticipate being door'd). Saves me about twice a week. I go back on the far right whenever there's no cars parked.

And when there's no bike lane and cars go by relatively fast, I just claim the lane (of course you need to go nearly as fast as cars for that, else you're going to piss off a lot of people and create traffic issues).
So glue it in. Your situation is rare.
Cool! First thoughts:

* how many of the supported options boil down to Amazon S3?

* is this the new "upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it"? https://groups.google.com/group/linux.dev.kernel/msg/76ae734...

* whoever put together this newsletter is clearly doing a great job for that community
Two things that may be worth taking into account:

1. Most people have a value system that doesn't refer only to themselves. Driving has staggering negative externalities. Every time somebody forgoes a car for some - any - other method of transport, everyone on the planet becomes a little better off.

2. Daily exercise is one of the few things really demonstrated to significantly improve your health, productivity and lifespan. If you have the temperament or willpower to go to the gym everyday, that's fine. If not, being able to make your mode of transport double as exercise is arguably worth significantly increased risk.
What percentage of your fellow Googlers are ex-startup-founders?

Yes, there are interesting (and uninteresting) people everywhere. The people I personally find more interesting are found in higher density in startups than BigCo's. ymmv.
Anecdote: My 2008 charger had its "hot" prong break off. It was in a dorm, so I couldn't turn off the breaker to pull the prong out, so as far as I know that prong is still there ready to zap the shit out of some unsuspecting college freshman...
Insiders were selling their Facebook shares pre-IPO.
or just Teams/Groups :)
UK Police keeping suspects' text messages and contacts indefinitely
Looking at this from a purely business point of view (which I guess a VC does), funding is not charity. Investing in someone who's about to start a family, male or female, sounds like a bad investment.

So, is a VC a bad person for not investing in what could be a bad investment?
Actually that's a pretty typical supermarket salary if you've been there for a while. Scary you don't know that.
I'm sorry but to me it sounds like a lot of bla bla about how their startup is all about work life balance, and a small footnote addressing the real "problem": "yeah, I have planned for that".

It's crazy to assume that having twins won't have any impact whatsoever. Even if she says she will hire full time help. Is that a 100% certainty? Or just a 70% certainty or whatever? Even if she is 100% determined now to have full time help, she might change her mind once the babies are there (nobody knows what it really feels like before they have their own kids). Even with full time help, I suppose either she won't be breastfeeding or it will be a lot of hassle.

So while I won't say it is impossible to work at the same time (although personally I can't see how, I have a lot of respect for anyone with twins to begin with...), there still is some distraction. Seems to me it should be the right of a VC to take that into account.
And lost 7 of the best years of his youth.
Is this why people sometimes will say they are "banging their head against the wall" trying to come up with a solution?
I don't think it is sexism at all to take basic statistics about people's lives into account.
> The point is that she thinks she can handle it, she thinks her team can handle the slack, she's putting her ass on the line. Fair enough, go for it.

There's no obligation for anybody else to put their ass on the line along with her.

If she thinks she can do it, then more power to her.

But if I think she's unlikely to succeed, she's not getting my money, pregnant or not.
For those not aware. There's a running joke in the skepticism community, that in the next few years we're gonna have baby mammoths flying around in jetpacks [1]. That's because stories of both mammoth cloning and jetpacks in development keep coming back on the media. Every other year we hear about a new exciting research about either of these, but not only they never delivered, we also haven't seen any real evidence that we have the technology for either of them to become a reality in the near future.

Both jetpacks and baby mammoth share a common problem. They're both things we have already theorized as possible. So we do know we can do it, any research on them could be legit. But there are way too many little technical details in the way to actually make them happen. In the case of cloning mammoths, there are just thousands of little things that could go wrong. From your DNA sample not being as good as you thought, or the womb condition of the elephant not being as appropriate for a mammoth as you thought. To the big elephant in the room (sorry) that is, even if you perfect the technique (we didn't), and happen to successfully give birth to a new baby from mammoth DNA. That new baby is actually not a mammoth. But a mammoth-elephant hybrid. That would be like mating a German Shepard with a Poodle, getting a short dog with curly hair, but with a hair color that resembles the Shepard. And saying "here's a German Shepard". Well, not really. If you really want an actual mammoth that is, at least, very close to a mammoth with little elephant DNA in it. You'll need to reclone that new baby with more mammoth DNA. Even if you assume perfect cloning technique and infinite samples of perfect mammoth DNA. Considering the pregnancy time for elephants. It could take centuries to have an actual mammoth.

So yea, it's exciting research, we love to see it, and it's sure something viable that may become true in the future. But don't get too excited just yet. The correct skeptic stance would be to assume they might succeed, but their chances are very slim to at best, move forward some baby steps in technology. But since that's probably not the best stance to get your research funded, we'll keep hearing about exciting new breakthroughs in baby mammoths flying on jetpacks on the media every other year.

[1] http://www.skepticalrobot.com/products/Jetpack-Mammoth-Tee.h...
Don't forget that in a supermarket there are actually labor laws so you get 1.5 for those extra 40 a week.
In some states (for example Illinois), bicycles are required by law to stay to the far right of their lane, which makes it look like they are "creating a lane".
The graphic is almost impossible to understand, but in another post the author tells the steps to draw it:
http://www.eyebeam.org/feeds/ramsey-nasser/process-of-design...
HashTraffic wants to spread the Twitter hashtag love to the rest of the Web
I don't get it. Why is this better than just using an SD card?
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such as?

'in their electorates'? Do you mean he has to be in a particular state or territory if elected to senate?
Incorrect. I'm talking about 4 way stops where I've already stopped and am entering the intersection when a bike coming from another lane ignores the stop sign and shoots in front of me. There is not many bike lanes where I live. That's not to mention turning right on a green light when the pedestrian sign is red, and bikes deciding that is the best time for them to cross using the crosswalk. This is in the far right lane, making a right hand turn on green light. Bikers need to be prosecuted for this stuff like cars, then they might learn. I do realize I am generalizing the other 50% that DO follow the rules, but the 50% that don't completely overshadow them.
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Expensive, though.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1651154/why-are-default-a...
Yes, there is a series of posts; I think the one I linked to here is the start.
In 9th grade I took an IQ test. 165

I had a 1440 SAT.

If I'm stupid, now, my doctors did it.
Not her ability because she is a woman, but because she is pregnant. In what enlightened part of the world would that not plant a seed of doubt in people's minds?
You're awesome! This is a great first app and a wonderful example of getting things done. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Send me a resume! Our company here in the Bay Area is looking for Rails people like there's no tomorrow and we have plenty of people working remote. canterburry@gmail.com.
That avoids the construction of the list, but doesn't check that the sequence only contains one value, which was the point of the example.
Actually, it was written a year ago, 04.21.11.
Don't forget Scwartzenegger
Does any consumer display come with an appropriate stand? For me, a high-quality monitor arm is something you buy when you buy a desk, and when you buy a new monitor, you don't even bother to look at the junk stand the monitor includes. Stands just don't have the adjustability necessary to be comfortable. So, including a cheap stand seems like a good engineering compromise; it's just going to get thrown away, so why bother making it good?

(Oddly, I seem alone in this view. At Google, where a monitor stand is just a helpdesk ticket away, I've only seen about five other people that use them. Some people even use big stacks of paper to support their monitors. It's crazy!)

I also agree about Apple hardware running hot. I have a new mac mini on my desk and that thing is always very hot to the touch and often makes a lot of noise while under load. (To compare, I never hear a peep out of my generic 6-core tower, and that thing is always under heavy load.)
When I worked at Wal-Mart the old timers(+5 years) typically made between 14 and 18 and hour. At Wal-Mart. Yes. One more time. Wal-Mart.