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> but most girls just don't like technology

I'm sympathetic to the idea that there are differences between girls and boys which drive behaviour. Hormones in adolescence are the clearest example to me.

But then, I used to think that "Girls just don't like chess." It turns out that this very much depends on the age of the girls. Why do numbers of male and female chess players start equal, and then drop off as people get older? It's not related to skill either.

The BBC Radio Four 'popular statistics' programme "More or Less" has a short segment. (They also ask "Are CEOs worth it?" and come to the conclusion that payment for CEOs isn't associated with performance of the company).

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01h7cf2#synopsis)

I don't know if this is downloadable outside the UK. I very much hope so.

> just as most guys have little interest in playing with dolls.

GI Joe / Action Man?
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Same question here. On the upside: they probably have a boatload of raw data on this failure now. Those are the first baby steps towards building in-house expertise.
The cameras should be required to be on in order for the officer to do anything "in the line of duty". Furthermore, they should broadcast a wifi feed of what they're seeing in real time so that anyone can have a "listener" running nearby to capture it. You could have a listener in your car, at your apartment, or running on your iPhone. There should be a listener in the police car that instantly uploads the feed to a server managed by an agency that is totally independent from the police department.

Camera always on. Everyone gets an immediate copy.
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This is a little off topic, but can I ask, have you used any other languages in any significant way and if so what keeps you coming back to PHP?
That's a problem with solid rockets (such as the shuttle's SRBs): once started, they burn. On the shuttle, the SRBs were started only after the SMEs were running.

An Ares I or Liberty launch cannot be aborted like this.
I think it's pretty amazing that this kind of thing can be co-ordinated down to a 1 second launch window.
I fully agree that for a new project, you shouldn't use PHP for any other reason than the ubiquitous hosting.

However, for existing projects and/or existing teams there might be another reason to stick with PHP: As a common denominator across all team members.
I think you'll find that, due to the highly polarizing nature of Objectivist-C, the truth value of rand() depends on what machine you run it on.
There are a couple of legitimate reasons why police officers might not want to be recorded 8-12 hours a day.

First is purely psychological. Would you want to have someone looking over your shoulder all the time? Would you want your employer to record everything you do on your computer through some spyware? Have a camera mounted above your head?

Second is procedural. There are so many rules and regulations that it's almost impossible not to break some of them (just like with laws in western countries) so police officers (just like citizens) rely on low detection rate for minor violations and difficulty of proving anything.

There is also something to be said about how trustworthy police officers would be everyone they come in contact while on duty. People (and that includes criminals) find it much easier to trust a person they see standing in front ot them than some unknown tape reviewer.

And finally, basic privacy. If you work for many hours with little to do (patrolling the streets isn't exactly a consuming task), you probably have a lot of personal conversations with your partners.

Those problems will also be made worse by the officers themselves struggling with yet another piece of equipment (have you ever seen a cop running?).

All or almost all of the above could probably be resolved with selective recording, clear indicators of when the camera is running, light and easy to use devices and other technical solutions. Though we all know that, as with any other technological project, first users will get a lot of leakage and other bugs. And with the feedback loops what they are in the government, many may not be fixed for a really long time.
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I do miss the free form play of Lego. I feel a bit sad that there are so many special use bricks. But I underestimate the ability of children to play - I'm confidant that they'll happily turn that boat into something else.

I've been wanting to stock up on Lego kits for when my boy is old enough to enjoy it. I'd prefer to buy from a real local toy shop.

I want big box sets of mixed bricks; mixed sizes shape and colours. I'd only need a few kits with plans, the rest I'd prefer to be free-form play.

It's much easier for me to buy this stuff second hand and then wash it than it is for me to buy it new. I don't think I'm an unusual edge case.

I can buy this stuff online. But I feel a bit sad that local toyshops are dying. I do tell them what I'm looking for. None of them have offered to order the stuff in for me.
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Another way of looking at this phenomenon is to inscribe a high dimensional sphere in a hypercube. As the dimension grows, the sphere/cube volume ratio gets arbitrarily small, although sphere touches the cube at every side. It seems that most of the mass of the cube was focused near vertices. This is because the side of a cube is a whole lot closer than the vertex from the center of the cube -- for instance, if we take a million-dimensional cube with a side of length 2, then the distance from the center of the cube to the side is 1, but the distance from the center to the vertex is 1000. It's not the spheres that are "spikey", the cubes are.
I have severe asthma, when I have an attack that will last for hours this used to be how I would describe what it's like during that time. I loathe those periods when I can't think, process a thought correctly or function like I do when I'm just breathing like normal.

I can't imagine going through this every second of my day for as long you do did. And in comparison those few hours when I can't breathe and I'm waiting for my medicine to work feel like a blessing in the sense that it could very much worse like what you experienced. Wow.
Seeing a gentle shutdown of a rocket is an amazing feet

But the "explosions" are usually from the rocket self destruction mechanism

Pretty and kinda sad yes, the alternative is worse. I believe there are some videos of russian rockets not self-destructing on Youtube
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Yeah sure you can keep layering till you get 47 different layers (some in parallel).... aka

"X Windows"

Layering does come at a cost. Speed and various hacks that have to reach below the layer. Partly because of X Windows Linux still has one of the slower and fragmented graphics shell.
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I like this essay.

In the move from '286 to '386 through '486 there were many messy kludges (addressable memory; 16 bit to 32 bit instruction set; etc etc). I felt that 'we' should just stop the relentless advance of this weird architecture and start with something more sane.

But refinement through iteration is incredibly powerful. (See Kaizen for business processes and quality control) Sometimes you get left with weird bodges; the digital equivalent of the human appendix dangling with no purpose but only occasionally poisoning the host. But mostly the benefits of forward motion outweigh the disadvantages.

There are projects where people stop and think about "how to do this right" - almost always they are over taken by people who build fast and break things. (see, I guess, various micro-kernels.)
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a friend from ESA explained it to me like this:

"we usually spend years to build something to put into orbit, even though 99% of the work is done in six months, because we have to be 1000% sure it will work, as it is too expensive to try again.
If we can send something into space for a tenth of the current cost it means we can do it much more often, do more things, and do it faster."

So, I guess it's like low cost airlines did not change the flight industry (you could go from A to B even before) but they changed the game cause now it's a smaller deal to do it.
First legitimately useful execution of QR codes I've seen. In 2 years of Android ownership, not once have I been compelled enough to scan a QR code to learn more about something.
This website informs you how to file an RTI application about the blocked websites. They have a ready made template.
They also have a template for a email to confront ISPs about the blocked websites.

http://www.iltb.net/2012/05/why-a-rti-will-be-more-effective...
This made it click for me. Thanks for explaining.

Just to expand a bit on the vertex thing, in 2 dimensions length is sqrt(x^2 + y^2). For a square of side length 2 the distance from the center to each vertex is sqrt(1^2 + 1^2) or sqrt(2 * 1). For 3 dimensions it's sqrt(x^2 + y^2 + z^2) or sqrt(3 * 1). For one million dimensions the distance to each vertex is sqrt(1,000,000) or 1,000 while the distance to each side is still 1.
Thanks for sharing your process. I've been dabbling with Trello for a few months and finally made the leap recently, after using Google Tasks in canvas mode. Much simpler, user friendly. Look forward to the next part.
Looking more closely I think I was less turned away by the content (which is there) than the progression of the tutorial. I started out scared by the "no conditionals, no loop constructs, no functions, no aliases" - What I really needed was something confidence-building, like

; for i in `{ns} {echo $i | sed 's/.* //'} | sort | uniq

It looks familiar, and you can mostly puzzle it out without having to know a lot. More to the point, it looks like something you'd do every day. It's also a nice introduction to the `for` construct and it introduces a quoting syntax. "Just enough rope to hang yourself." No doubt we wouldn't guess that those braces are for lambdas, but that's easy enough to correct. Perhaps my complaint says more about me than you - I'm more than happy to `load std` before I even know what a module is, because all I really want to do is process some text. Similarly, I can appreciate conceptual cleanness in a language, but in a shell especially it's an ancillary benefit.

The short digression on escaping and quoting (`fourspaces` and all that) at the end of the "Fetching Web Pages" is lovely. Really, that's exactly what I was after - "This is Bash and it's annoying, this is Inferno and it just works right." It's succinct and it clearly shows that Inferno does better than the alternative (and when you're convincing someone to use your shell the argument is as much about Bourne and Bash as it is about your option.)
Well, for starters the whole standard library is blocking, so are all the third-party libraries.

Then you have the fact that any good developer who knows PHP is also going to know enough Javascript to get by already.

The only reason I can think of for this to be a good idea is to allow you to use your existing PHP libraries in an evented system. React does not (and cannot) do this.
I wonder what the data looks like if you control for market performance during the week. NASDAQ has been falling for several days. http://www.google.com/finance?cid=13756934

Separate note: Considering Facebook is up 10-20% from the previous month on second market while the broader market was down quite a bit, it didn't do that badly.
The space shuttle engines could do (and did on I think 5 occasions) the same thing. That is why they turned on before the solid boosters were lit, to be checked out by the avionics. Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VELYTzUrjc

[Edit: I must apologise to the commenter below for just repeating him 10 minutes later - accidental]
IMHO Things are already getting simpler (or I should say external API complexity is slowing down).

There are couple of reasons why I think APIs are getting simpler:

* Services, Services, Services (RESTful services)

* Greater Automated Test (Unit Testing)

* Better dependency management

* Continous Integration / Deployment

* There is a new Apple-esque simple is elegance mentality now.

In short developers are not as afraid as they used to be to make drastic API changes.
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Technically, it was the orbiter's engines that could be shut down. "Space shuttle" is used to refer to the whole assemblage of orbiter, solid rocket boosters (which cannot be shut down), and external fuel tank.
Beyond the privacy implications, I wonder if the technology actually works. I'd be amazed if it's accuracy was even higher than 50% but I guess this kind of tech has probably been perfected by the gaming industry.

It does go down a scary path. So beyond gender and age, what's to stop tracking by race, etc?
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Quite right, I should have said Space Shuttle Main Engines, as that is what they were actually called. Apologies for the ambiguity.
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With sudo, you just set the variables in the child process (after sudo, not before).

Variables can indeed bleed into sub-processes if you're not careful. If the sub-process's command is declared as a dependency then 0install could reset the environment automatically when starting it. Currently, it instead finds a set of libraries that work with the process and its dependencies (which is safe, but could make some cases unsolvable in theory, if a program wanted to run a subcommand which used an incompatible library).

Direct support from the dynamic linker would be nice though.
This is so tired. Plenty of others responded with arguments and data and yet somehow I doubt you'll change your ignorant mind. Upset that I made an unfounded conjecture about you based on insufficient data? Exactly.
Yes, most girls JUST don't like to go into IT. Two years ago feminists said that girls are "too smart" to go into IT. Now that it's one of the few fields that are booming, they have to be in IT.

Also, did it ever strike you as slightly odd that there was never a woman speaking for herself who came forward and said something like, "Geez, I really would have loved to study advanced algorithms, and functional programming, and later on work in Big Data." The women seem perfectly content with their choices. It's only feminists (of both sexes) who think that they have to speak up for some allegedly silent majority of women who are kept out of technology for whatever reason. If they want to get into the field, they can acquire all the knowledge they want. It's available online, and for free. Let me tell you something: I am a man, and there never was a day when someone rang my door, shoved some programming tutorials into my face and told me, "Go, and work through that." No, instead I had to sit down and find my own sources, and people I could learn from. All of this is hard work.

Oh, and let me tell you another non-pc truth that is so unpalatable for you: technology and sciences are, even for most guys, not necessarily a ton of fun, and if we had the option of simply looking good and marrying a millionaire, we might be less inclined to go work hard as well. Or why do you think there are so few hot women in tech? Surely Elin Nordegren would have had no use for a CS degree.
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> I remember reading one of the Windows programmers' hero's writing about some massive document of several hundred pages he wrote while on the Excel team at Microsoft and being overjoyed when he learned Bill Gates had actually looked at it.

When you have a spreadsheet programme you start with something relatively simple. You then add functionality. You add pivot tables and charting and macros and etc. At what point do you stop and say "We need to re-write the entire code from scratch to make sure this stuff is all tightly integrated and bug-free?" or "We need to split some of this functionality off into separate by integratable softs to protect the core product and provide split pricing for power users"?

Never re-write code from scratch:-
(http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html)
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that would be pretty handy for actual criminals
Agreed. Process comes from a need. My point is that it sounded like the test and sec. people were not trying to speed it up. They seemed to offer little help or alternatives. Perhaps the communication process broke down. Did Ed know the importance of this change? Test and sec. certainly did not seem to.
I'm interested as to how you'd run it as a server without PHP 5.4. Looking at the code, it's written to be compatible with PHP >= 5.3.2, and the composer.json doesn't specify 5.4 as the minimum version.

It also wraps Silex and includes Guzzle (some sort of API consuming thing). Trying to gain credibility from using Node's name seems a little disingenuous given that it's microframework with an event loop of some sort plugged in, and an analogous 'hello world'.
GC is sure better in 5.3 as it was not available in 5.2 :)
This would not be possible with the german wikipedia. The Articles would be declared irrelevant and deleted.
Civilians may be uncomfortable with police officers recording everything all the time.

See, for example, discussion about CCTV in England. There are many valid concerns about the amount of stuff that's recorded.
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For the German readers, fefe predicted node.php:

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I think it's not a joke. look at the source code on github.

But I can't understand this elitism. Programming language choice must not be a cult. Anyone should be free whatever language they like to use whatever they want to do.

So bringing something good or seemingly good to any ecosystem should not get bad responses. They are trying to combine two worlds into a "new choice". Let them do even if yo do not like it. Nobody asks you to praise but just don't give uninformative bad responses.
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Sorry about that -- I mentally associate MSFT (the stock symbol) with Microsoft and MS with Morgan Stanley

Glad to see I'm officially not considered a programmer :)
Sorry about that, but 'MS' = Morgan Stanley.
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I created html5piano.com with pretty much the same end goal of using browser generated sounds versus static audiofiles but got sidetracked with implementing chords and sequencer and then moved on. Great to see it implemented using data uri's!
Here's the original Quora thread this is reposted from - http://www.quora.com/What-does-it-feel-like-to-be-stupid
Er, what needs clarifying? And why would you compare the cost of constructing an aircraft carrier to the cost of launching its equivalent mass? He wasn't speaking of any particular property of a Nimitz carrier other than its mass, and the cost of constructing military and civilian vehicles is not comparable.
It's a nice initiative and certainly an alternative to sticking up an outdated poster everywhere. However I don't quite understand the benefit of a qr code versus just googling or looking directly on wiki.

I remember seeing a massive qr code on the side off a double Decker bus. Can codes that big be scanned?
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Does this also mean that winbutton no longer gives you access to search through your programs and documents?
Over lunch yesterday a graphic designer friend was trying to convince me to include a QR code on my business cards. We ran through the many steps required to scan a QR code... and end of conversation. It is a very limited technology.
I thought this was going to be about a wiki-style government. But this is cool too.
I remember reading somewhere quite recently that the most popular screen resolution is 1366x768. Surely the makers of photo slideshow websites should reflect that? I noticed that the Atlantic recently allowed you to see bigger images, but retained the original size.

Even worse is that apparently they resized the images based on the horizontal edge, so vertically framed photos require a huge amount of scrolling to view completely.
My main concern with crowdfunding is the level of protecting the crowd gets. Assuming that startups and founders do align their interests with the crowd, how and where does the crowd get to help guide the direction of the company?

What mechanisms are in place to keep the founders honest? I've seen many success stories on Kickstarter, are there any widely known failures?
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There is a php to c++ compiler and with emscripten you can compile c++ to javascript....