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What's your rationale behind your reasoning? I'd say we need people in this field who can actually take some heat, no matter shether they are male or female. There are certainly also plenty of guys who get driven away. Just have a look at how quickly some people get shot down on SO for submitting not-that-great answers.

Further, there are surely quite a few women around who are only around because they are women. In other words: their work is sub-par but they keep their job due to their gender. Just like we lower requirements for women in the military, we lower them for women in tech. Yet, there aren't many women signing up for the military. Maybe it's because they just aren't interested in the first place?
In the case of the GPL, everyone can use, modify and re-distribute it of their own accord, as long as it's distributed under the license the author chose. It's not the same, but effectively pretty close to ownership. It's a public entitlement to a permissive license. Open source != GPL, however; the BSD license creates something indistinguishable from common ownership.
'Reducibility' in general is an informal notion, and as such there are many different technically precise ways of capturing aspects of it. Mutual interpretability and bi-interpretability are two of these, but they apply to formal systems with the same underlying logic (that is, the same semantics and proof theory). There are also many other notions of translation between different logics like Gödel–Gentzen negative translation between classical logic and intuitionistic logic. I'm not sure if there is a good introduction to all of these different ways of capturing reducibility, but you could try asking on math.stackexchange.com, there are usually helpful responses to reference requests there.

Second order logic does not have a complete proof theory, so your Turing machine will not be able to compute the consequences of a theory formulated in second order logic. This can be avoided by employing Henkin semantics, but then you're not working with full second order logic anymore. Stewart Shapiro's 2000 book, Foundations without Foundationalism: A Case for Second-Order Logic has the technical details should you be interested.
Nice article John. The team I manage solves this issue mostly though iterating quickly. By keeping our cycles quick, they don't have to expend to much power/time thinking ahead of all possible bugs/edge cases. When we discover an edge case, it is fixed within a week!
Good question! One I've been trying to wrap my head around for a while. This level of control at this stage/size is unprecedented (if somebody has some good analogs I'd be interested to hear...).

There are all sorts of responsibilities and duties for an exec (of a public company in particular) - but I'd assume the FB board is insured to the hilt.

Ultimately execs always answer to shareholders (i.e. they bring a return). Otherwise the market doesn't work - the market they've used to raise 16 billion... How this will manifest for FB now and in the future, I've got no idea.

One thing happy shareholders does give you is access to future capital. However, can't see that being a problem for a while yet.
> never have an even number of DBAs - it leads to tyranny

Please explain.
Stocks are never priced "appropriately" in the US

And yet, big companies and time can change the rules. Google used the Dutch auction. Facebook has long been traded on non-public markets. Facebook also demanded lower fees from underwriters, and less first-day-pop 'money left on the table' for initial-distribution purchasers.

A negligible 'pop' could mean FB's strategy worked beautifully, capturing the maximum amount of capital for their own goals. It doesn't send the same signal as when another company, which needed more help from the underwriters and media, has a stable first-day price.
He may have changed only a single line, but making the queue 4 months instead of 3 could break other parts of the system. Perhaps the "save data" and "backup" functions assume 3 as well, so you'd lose data. Perhaps other assumptions are made in the code, so with a 4 you'll end up with buffer overflows. Those test and security people are in the process to catch these issues before there are problems. It may seem a trivial change, but people make assumptions all the time.
Paul Graham Says...
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"The reality is that the most basic automation is a task impossible for someone who hasn’t spent months learning to program. Automation is what computers were supposed to help humans with in the first place."

When one wants to express a complex operation (say, automation) one almost resorts to language. Law, mathematics, chemistry, physics, they all use language to help them express complex ideas.

How would you even express simple automation without a language. Macros? Sure, up to a point. Visual tools? Sure, up to a point. Both lead to diminishing returns for their ease use. The benefit of learning the domain language is you have fewer limitations.

Computers are the future, and are the most important piece of technology that currently exists. You either learn how to use them, most effectively, or the future is not for you.
Wow, I never thought of that.

I'm heading for a situation that will most definitely result in a counter-offer and my thoughts were to ask for an employment contract to lock in my time and terms so I don't get backstabbed a few months later. But my problem was how to generate and finish the contract before losing one (or both) jobs.

Severance seems a lot easier to get in place and locked in. Does anyone else have experience with this?
He would be if this was his homework assignment...
I don't agree. I am the type of person who thinks exactly like that. If I am doing badly at a videogame, clearly the game hates me. People like me probably invented gods/religion. I take things personally. Not everyone does. I had to explicitly explain this type of view to my oldest son. He views things in terms of cause and effect rather than "motive".

It is something on my mind a lot here lately. I have serious financial problems and have for quite a long time. A few months ago, I ended up homeless. The amount of money I need to clean up my financial mess is a drop in the bucket compared to what I am saving American tax payers by getting myself and my sons well. Saying that almost never gets me any support online. What seems to get some support is when I say my webites will cease to exist because I can't afford it. Donations have kept them online for three years.

In other words, people care about my work. But they mostly don't care about me personally. That has its good points and bad points but is counterintuitive for me. I'm a bleeding heart who cares too damn much about other people.

Edit: Let's a do a little experiment to make my point. I currently have 23 cents in the bank and I don't know how I and my sons will survive (as in get enough to eat) for the rest of the month. Do you and other people give a damn about me? Enough to donate money on my sites? (Call the goal of this experiment $500 this weekend.)

I am guessing the answer is a resounding "NO". I am guessing you will be the first person to prove me right and not give me one thin dime.
Author confuses humans with other mammalians which lack abstract thought and language.

['current human', 'ape'].each do |new_subject|
open('http://adeel.ru/notes/computers-are-for-humans.html').substitute('human',new_subject)
end
I do that kind of workload a couple of weeks a year at 'crunch' times in the UK academic calendar, I could not sustain that long term as a result of care responsibilities let alone exhaustion.

Suggest using those meetings with colleagues to explore team planning. Leverage a good lesson by using it with more classes at same level/subject.

Assessment ('grading' in American): any scope for MCQ or self/peer assessment?
Does it generate the quotes automagically, or are they input individually?

Maybe add a timer & automatic refresh with a new quote?

Add in additional photos to rotate and keep it fresh.

Nice work!
> IMO the beauty of a hack comes from two places:

"In fact, hack has only one meaning, an extremely subtle and profound one which defies articulation."

"Hacking might be characterized as `an appropriate application of ingenuity'. Whether the result is a quick-and-dirty patchwork job or a carefully crafted work of art, you have to admire the cleverness that went into it."

So it has nothing to do with automation, perfecting your craft, saving time, making money, impressing Paul Graham, "hacking education" (?), putting in tremendous amounts of work, being irreverent, growing a neckbeard, or linking up a button to a cell phone.

It boils down to somebody else saying "are you fucking kidding me?" and you get to say: "no."
I'd say that the statistics speak for themselves. If you (sp332) say that women are discouraged from entering tech, it's just as valid to claim that men are discouraged from entering basically any other field. Besides, I get the uncanny impression that you have some political agenda, as evinced by your lack of facts and reasoning in your arguments, and substituting it by mere claims and rhetoric.
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You are not being creative/edgy/innovative/etc. when using terms ninja, unicorn, rockstar in your job posting. These three words are have morphed into cliches being used by hiring managers who think they're on the "pulse".
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I'm reminded of this quote...

"…feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel we’d rather collapse and back away. They’re like messengers that show us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where we’re stuck. This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we are."
― Pema Chödrön
nginx has a ppa:

http://wiki.nginx.org/Install#Ubuntu_PPA
Works made using Objectivist C is licensed under copy-far-right licenses, where the rights holder cannot share the source code and is obligated to use the code only for projects that further his own selfish goals.

The Objectivist C API is also copywritten.
Sure it's a relief to hear they are up again since their decline 400 years ago.
I was pondering the same strategy, and that same problem came up: the window of "well, I need the lawyers to get into this" and have the process stall long enough to let both deals die and get screwed.

Is it possible to present your own contract and say "have your lawyers look this over and give me an answer in 48 hours"?
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Once the author calls third party software "crapware" it calls his objectivity into question.

"It could only be worse if the OEMs wanted payment to remove crapware."

Might at best, be considered damning Microsoft with faint praise. But it's clear that this article is intended as an indictment of Microsoft's practice:

"This isn’t an example of Microsoft benefiting at the expense of the hardware makers, it’s Microsoft benefiting at the expense of consumers"

It is actually possible to estimate the degree to which this is asinine:

16 stores * 40 customers * 365 days * $99 = $23,000,000/year.

If they actually get 40 customers per day per store and all that revenue is all pure profit, it represents 0.1% of Microsoft's 2011 Net operating revenue.
bad news: Instagram isn't worth $1B. sorry.

hope you have a good cost basis.
Aren't they a little bit late in the game? The whole ninja / guru non-sense culminated at some point last year but is pretty much gone now.
they can operate as kind of a private-sector bailout fund,

Or, as we used to call it: Buy low, sell high.
Well he told the boss to hire me. He didn't hire me personally.

I think there's a fine line between networking and cronyism. Someone off the street ought to be able to get a job without knowing any of the employees. In my experience, that's pretty much impossible these days, even for minimum wage jobs.
I don't know, seems more childish than nerdy to me. Being nerdy is being enthusiastic about something, whereas all this Ninja stuff is like escaping from the real world and hiding in your childhood imagination.
You made your own correction irrelevant when you stated that this happens on every platform, which is true. But that's how great apps appear on a platform, and how great niche apps come to be born on the platform, too.

You can't say "there's an app for that" on a platform with 100 or even 1000 apps totally, even if you have the "top apps" in there.
>Just as we would not suggest everyone would be capable of calculus

Programming is a broad spectrum. There are parts that are of comparative difficulty to calculus* and there are parts of similar difficulty to prealgebra. No one is saying that everyone should learn Vector calculus but everyone should at least be acquainted with the basic things like ratios and intervals.

*Calculus is actually extremely easy. In fact, programming can make it even more intuitive if the learner has played with streams before, the objects of calculus are kin. Besides, knowing calculus does not make you a mathematician any more than knowing how to write IF X < 10 THEN PRINT makes you a programmer.
You need this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLjyo51qmrI
"So, like I said, it was just a normal day here at Facebook" -> I love this.
In the press conference about an hour ago, I think I heard Gwynne Shotwell (President, SpaceX) say Russia offers a seat for $63M, whereas SpaceX will be offering NASA Dragon launches in the $30M range. A Dragon holds seven astronauts.
This is Hacker News. The top-voted comment on this thread really should be words of praise for what Zuckerberg and his team have accomplished.

Every hacker, every entrepreneur, every creator should derive inspiration and uplift from Facebook's story. It's a rare bright day in the middle of the worst economic environment since the 1930s. It doesn't matter whether the company will grow into a $100B valuation. It does matter that it was started in February 2004, by a single guy with a computer, and has affected the lives of billions of people and created billions of dollars in wealth.

Maybe the markets won't be kind to them. Maybe they won't grow into the $100B valuation. But outside of those who are direct competitors, I can't understand anyone who actually wishes them ill. As a creator, as an entrepreneur, as a hacker, if you tear down Facebook you're just tearing down yourself.
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Lot of good advice on dealing with the $ aspect of this at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3974781
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I don't like it, but I do get it. There's something to the romantic notion of being so competent that what you do looks like some mystical martial art to someone on the outside.

That said, it's a cliche, and I always avoid cliches like the plague.
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...hmmm.
Somehow I expected a blog entry about statistics. :-(

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(statistics)
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There are tons of options these days though.
Me? You asked, Isn't it just equally plausible that women just don't really want to be in technology-oriented fields? And I said, yes, but that's not the whole story. Also, I don't believe there's a biological imperative to enter tech. Of the two of us I'm the only one who's presented any evidence.
What do you think the "W" stands for in WASP?
"A live video platform for the whole web" vs. "a social video layer for video games" are very different visions.

The most obvious difference? We have a partner program to help encourage an ecosystem of professional casters and players to form. We never would have built that for Justin.tv.
Waiting for the uptick in job posting looking for "bacon zombies".
Indeed. Open source software is the first example I'll reach for when talking about the difference between the ideas of "free market" and "capitalism". Anybody can choose to contribute to open source or not, for reasons that are selfish or altruistic, in any way that they decide. Other's may or may not decide to pull their changelists, but everything is all about voluntary transactions - what you'd call a totally free market. On the other hand its totally unlike capitalism for reasons I hope I don't have to explain.

I can easily imagine collectivist code development, but I can't imagine a collectivist software effort that would allow both Ruby and Python, both Java and C# to exist. I mean, if you're making these decisions collectively how could you justify the division of effort?
The me-simulation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality
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I would imagine so, but the downside is how it'd look to the employer. It might be taken as basically saying this:

"Oh, you have a counter offer? I thought you might! I just so happen to have this legally binding contract here..."
Maybe you should read the referred article and the comment thread on techcrunch.
Some would say it is easier to setup and manage.
Update: We just got a call from Apple developer relations explaining that all apps which makes use of animation on the lockscreen are not allowed. Well, at least a definite no saves us development time in trying to iterate further on this.
considering 50% of humans can barely shit in the middle of a toilet instead of the seat, I reckon you're about 1000 years off...

Also for the young and inexperienced, PalmOS grafitti did that in the 90s and it was a POS.
I don't understand why most comments here are so jaded. This is just a fun simple hack pulled off by a creative engineer, nobody claims that it was groundbreaking or even necessary. Personally, I think it's good that they have a culture that encourages things like that.
"Paypal doesn't require this. A buyer can use their credit card. They don't need to sign up for anything."

This is not exactly true. When a buyer uses their credit card they are promoted to add an email address which essentially creates a Paypal account for them. They may never actually log into that Paypal account and use it, but they will have a paypal account with the info they've entered. It's Paypal's sneaky way of signing people up.
> I always avoid cliches like the plague.

I see what you did there...
I am fully aware of what it represents, hence the need to come up with a less divisive term. I was just observing that it's often used in that context.
You don't need the actual source code. You can have perfect knowledge of its inner workings by sensing and reasoning about its output.
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The technologies used to track users across sites are the same as those used for 'regular' browsing. Are you suggesting crippling web browsers as a solution?
goes both ways. Trying to buy services? (for me, dark fiber and data center space) is way more difficult now than it would be without a bubble. (that, and I don't want to sign long-term contracts on any of that stuff, 'cause I know it will get cheaper after the crash, and that I'll have less of the high-end customers to pay for it, too.)

On the other hand, customers are far more free with their money. (but that doesn't help me as much as you'd think; My big weapon seems to be my willingness to accept a reasonable margin; e.g. I can lower my prices more than the competition. (yes, yes, amazon has lower costs than I do. But they also have more credibility, so that translates into margin rather than into savings for the end user.) For me, the big upside is that individual Engineers have more disposable income that can be put towards the 'hobby' budget, which is the budget most of my customers pay me out of.

I dono. I have a long history of crying 'bubble' long before the crash. I refused to buy a house in 1999 because I thought housing was a bubble.

Only recently have I started thinking about this bubble as something that would last long enough to take advantage of on the upside. I have pretty extensive plans to take advantage of a crash, but I'm only now considering how I can take advantage of the upside.
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I love the simplicity in this. Eloquent and seemingly effective. Cheers.
Please explain the other "Bootstrapping"?
I'm a Software Engineer and I understand Bootstrapping as a technical process. "When the computer activates the hard disk drive, it finds the first piece of the operating system: the bootstrap loader."

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/operating-system4.htm

Please explain the other term for "Bootstrapping"?