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> The conference is not in the business of protecting its attendees from unwanted advances, especially outside of the conference areas/sponsored events.

The conference is in the business of getting people together in a way that they find enjoyable and useful. Maybe it's just me, but being harassed by an asshole is neither enjoyable or useful.

I'm organizing a 300-person (non-conference) event right now, and getting the right attendees is something I think about a lot. If I were a conference organizer, I'd take this very seriously. There are an infinite number of things people can do with their time and money. If I want to be the one they pick, I wouldn't want them worried that the experience will suck. Whether it technically happened on the conference grounds would be irrelevant to me, in that attendees see it all as part of the conference experience when deciding whether to attend or not.
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> you can choose

Microsoft isn't known for playing nice & allowing competitors to compete fairly. So yes there will be choice, but relying on that as a justification is pretty risky imo. Esp considering MS's standard MO and history.
1. Only need rudimentary Photoshop/illustrator

2. Learn to talk to users and do usabilitytests (Paper prototype, etc) as well as understand the results (read about cognitive sciences and such)

3. Find a company that cares about it and don't think the UID and UED are the same as graphical designer
Meh. Pocket (née Read It Later) pretty much already filled Instapaper's uses for me, and it's free. Too little too late, IMHO.
Agreed. The ability to log in with facebook or twitter can streamline the sign-up process, but sites should really also provide the option to sign up via more traditional (email) means. Not doing so limits your ability attract a broader user base.
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How to program like an explorer (with Pry).
Yeah, except for the cost of 1.5 dynos a month, you get a core i7-2600, 16 GB of ram, and 6 TB of hd space.
Most soviet equipment I have seen (1980-1991) was programmed using plain Assembly or C. The Soviet Union manufactured its own version of the 8086 processor that worked with all popular compilers of that time. However I don't know about the 1970s era.
I imagine the OP isn't defending them, but just remarking about how sick they are of hearing people bitch about javascript.
Is it just me or does this look like a massive advertisement for Steve Blank's books and program? That's not to say that the books and programs aren't necessarily good, but still.
If you're going to get me to 'sign up' via facebook or twitter, at least please make it clear that i'm only signing up for a mailing list, and that there is not yet any product to use. Thanks!

EDIT: received a welcome email after about 20 minutes, so I may have spoken too soon.
If the early shareholders invested significant time and effort into the business, I don't see why it's 'right' for them to give up their shares. While they are certainly entitled to do so, pressuring them to drop even their 0.5% seems unethical to me.

If those early founders actually did not contribute much in those early days, I would revise this opinion. However as it stands, it seems akin to asking an early financial investor to return his equity. If I give you $50,000 and you pivot ten times, I should still own a piece of your company. Same goes for early founders.

The early founders had already agreed to diminish their share to 1% combined. Pressuring them to go any lower seems greedy and unnecessary assuming they invested significant time and energy over a long period of time, even if it was for an earlier idea.

Unlike most of the comments here, I'm not sure this was a class act. Given that the early founders voluntarily gave up their equity, I suppose the continuing founders deserve some benefit of the doubt.

I don't think I would have agreed to give up my last bit of equity as I would feel 0.5% was fair simply for being a part of the early team formation, ideation, and apparently discarded product development work. I would probably be annoyed by the offer and ignore it.
Limited number? Quite a few enthusiasts will buy x86 tablets JUST for this purpose. Sure, enthusiasts, but enthusiasts also drive Linux to some extent.
I think if you learn Rails, build an app in it, and open-source it on GitHub or similar, that would be fairly strong evidence that you know what you're doing.

If I were in your position, I would go to the source ( http://www.uscis.gov/ ) and examine the visa categories that are available to you. Immigration law is complicated, but not as complicated as, say, the tax code. If you've completed a Masters in CS, you can probably navigate it yourself. Protip: Do not lie or mislead USCIS or USCBP (i.e. customs) as you can be banned from the country easily.

Unfortunately it may be very difficult for you to get a visa to DevBootcamp as it's almost certainly not a SEVP-certified school, so ICE / USCIS won't grant visas to people to attend, and you can't just get a tourist visa if you're intending to study. I would instead learn Rails yourself, start / open source a project, and try to get a job offer here with a company that will help with your visa situation (once you have a job offer, immigration becomes much easier as long as the company is game). I guess my main question becomes, is DevBootcamp the only reason you want to move to the US?

I'm an immigrant from Canada but I'm more familiar with family-based immigration as that's how I came across (fiance visa).
http://www.cantenna.com/
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I can’t offer a solution for the ultimate workflow, but I can make some suggestions based on what I do. I also use Things, and I have an area for the company where I put all bugs and feature requests. When a user mentions an existing bug or feature request, I can increase the count to track the popularity of an item. For each release, I create a new project and add all the to-do items that I want to complete for that release. I usually schedule items based on when I think I can have them done by, which gives me a pretty strong indicator if I start slipping my schedule.

[As for everything else, I use email for all communication and don’t use Github, so everything stays in email or Things.]
I see your point, but something producing a stream of neutrons sounds a bit like a self-sustaining nuclear reaction which might be tricky to manage as a device node :)
depending on where you were, the truck stop could have been reached with an ordinary 2.2dBi dipole.

Free space loss = 32.4 + 20xLog F(MHz) + 20xLog R(Km)
At 2.4 Ghz, this formula is: 100+20xLog R(Km)

one mile = 1.61km, so your free space path loss was around 100dB.

Let's say the truck stop had about the same radio as you, maybe 17-18dBm transmit power (50-62mW) into a 2.2dBi antenna.

Signal leaves the radio at the truck stop at 17dBm, encounters about .8dB of loss in the coax and connectors, and then is raised 2.2dBi by the very short antenna, for 18.4dBm EIRP.

It then encounters 100dB of path loss, arriving at the antenna on your laptop at -81.6dBm, where it is raised 2.2dBi by the dipole in your laptop, and then encounters perhaps another 0.8dBm of losses in the coax and connectors.

The net result: the radio sees -80.2dBm, which is more than enough signal to decode 11Mbps CCK (802.11b @ 11Mbps) or 12Mbps OFDM (802.11g).

So, what you did was unremarkable, though probably fun.
I disagree with this. Think of the basics of the UI if you'd like, but this idea of creating it first might only apply to a narrow project definition.

In my view you must think in terms of data models / data representation first. Then you move on to CRUD. At that point you might move into some of the functionality above CRUD and other app mechanics (for example: login, authorization, verification, support interaction, etc.). At this stage, if we are talking about a web project, the UI doesn't need to look any prettier than a Craig's List page.

Once that reaches flight altitude (meaning, that the basics are working) the UI can become the focus.

This becomes particularly true when you consider multi-platform applications. Say you have an app that needs to run on the web, mobile-web, as well as various phones and tablets. If the UI is first, which one? They are bound to be different. If you focus on the UI first you might do things that skew the model to suit a particular platform.

I you believe in MVC then you ought to be able to separate the three through specifications and marry them once each has reached a certain level of compliance with said specifications. Of course, there are difference that contrast a solo developer/designer vs. a multi-person team.

I want to see the engine sputter, backfire and pop before I try to optimize anything and make it pretty (UI).
I hate MS just as the next guy. But Open Thinking (tm) people should no seek freedom (as in speech) through restricting other's (namely, MS) freedom. They have the right to do what they feel like, and we have the choice whether or not to buy them.

(I'm not being snarky)
Yes! Exactly that one. Thank you.
In a certain practical sense, aren't "the 99%", i.e. people without any significant cash cushion, precisely the ones who can't as easily take this non-VC, lifestyle-business route? If you need to pay rent and buy individual health insurance, it's a lot easier to do that if an angel or VC is fronting enough money to pay you at least a modest salary.
smarter staff == higher salaries, not welcome in big companies.
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I can't think of a community that doesn't act, to one extent or another, to regulate the behaviors of its members. If nothing else, to protect the integrity of the community. But often also in support of shared values.

That's certainly true of tribes, towns, cities, and states. It's true of every virtual community I've used. It's even true of anarchic communities like Burning Man.
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Cost/benefit? What's the cost, and what's the benefit?

From your description, it appears they are asking you to take on a "cost" with no corresponding benefit. Fail.

If/As you are under no legal obligation to do so, why do so? Is there some professional, relationship, or other benefit to doing so that you've not yet described here?
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It's the same reason you use a mouse even though 99% of the things you do on a computer involve a keyboard.

People tend to be visual, especially when they are in unfamiliar territory - which everyone is in when they are learning.

"Visual Programming" helps with learning, thus comprehension.
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Really not my type of music (a lot of mainstream/club/dubstep stuff) but the website looks good.

How long did it take you to make this?

Where do you get the songs? How do you deal with licensing?

What do the numbers on the right of the play buttons mean?

UX wise, I noticed the login and register links displayed an I-beam on mouse over instead of the hand. I'd also re-skin/shrink the "play" and "add to playlist" buttons to better fit in your kind of minimalistic view of the song list, but that is really more of personal preference.

I like how the home page is really straight to the point and the purpose is so obvious. Nice work!
> I really felt like going home and have a good night sleep. But I didn't want to let your fellow hackers down

This is the tricky bit, because it's where our social instincts give the wrong answer, and it's important to be able to recognize it because it happens in other contexts than hackathons.

In reality, if your teammates want to stay at work all night, you are letting them down by joining them, because you are reinforcing their irrational and self-destructive behavior as well as damaging your own ability to contribute. The best thing you can do for them is go home and rest so you can work productively tomorrow, tell them to do the same thing, and hope the message will eventually get through.
No worries, just happens to be a peeve of mine.
this is because all the 'cantenna' does is shield most of the environment, which acts as noise (or interference).

But yes, the opening should be at least 1/2 the wavelength of the signal you seek. The lambda of 2.4GHz is around 0.125m, or 4.9 inches. Half this is just under 2.5 inches.
By the way - Hetzner lowered the setup fee, it used to be 149€, now it's 49€.
I am really quite disturbed by all of the people who are responding something along the lines of "this isn't the conference organizer's problem, it's happening outside of the conference." I've seen several such replies, so rather than responding to one, I'm responding to the whole sentiment here.

At a conference, there is a lot that goes on during unofficial off-hours, that is really an integral part of the conference. We shouldn't consider it acceptable for women to feel unsafe going to such off-hours events. If there is someone who is a guest at that conference, and showing up to off-hours events associate with the conference, that is still the conference's problem, as it significantly negatively affects an important part of the conference, and could be avoided by making that person unwelcome at the conference.

And this is not a court of law. We regularly ban people from online communities with a much lower bar of proof than would be required in a court of law, because those people are harmful to the community. Yes, any particular process could, in theory, be abused. But that isn't, as far as I know, a problem here. I have never heard of someone being banned from a conference unjustly. And we have a lower bar in these cases because the consequences are not as severe as criminal sanctions. We are not trying to lock someone up. We are not trying to get them arrested. We are just saying "this behavior is unacceptable, and you are not welcome in our community if you are going to behave this way."

All the original post is asking is that conferences have a clearly defined policy on what is unacceptable, and what will happen if someone crosses that line. It doesn't sound like there's any dispute about what happened. It sounds like the person in question had a history of problems, as the organizer said he shouldn't have allowed this person to come to the conference.

There isn't a problem here of people being unjustly accused and cut off from conferences because of it. There is a problem of women being harassed, seriously creeped out, feeling unwelcome and unable to do anything about it because of the actions of a few, and the lack of any clear policy or action on the part of conference organizers. And heck, a clear policy can help. Perhaps it can specify that the first time, someone will be warned, and only banned if they have already been warned. Perhaps it can specify a dispute resolution procedure. A clear policy will help everyone. We need to do better, because this keeps coming up and it is a serious problem.
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So, now, Microsoft wants to "enhance" competition by making Windows 8 only devices that cannot be upgraded to a non-Microsoft OS.

That's an interesting interpretation of "enhancing".
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> trying to paint the tech community as misogynist because of some random bar encounter

Could you show me where that happened? If anything, I think her feeling comfortable speaking up about this is a great sign that she thinks it's not irredeemably misogynist.
I am also a Pocket user, and find it to be an adequate analog for Instapaper.
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The presentation is mostly live demo... the slides are mostly useless.
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Not blinking doesn't mean that one can't investigate. It just means that one shouldn't flinch at it.
Try it on the iPad.. The UX completely breaks.
due to the loss of orthogonality in the channel matrix, you're not going to get anything from 802.11n, other than perhaps the double-wide channels.
Though MD5 is considered utterly broken for cryptographic purposes, AFAIK there are as of yet no known practically viable preimage attacks. Finding a collision for an already signed certificate would require a preimage attack.

There are very cheap collision attacks, which let you to generate two values that hash to the same MD5 signature; an attacker can exploit that by making you sign one object, and then swapping it out with another with the same hash.
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No, that's just the signal "That's beyond my scope", a sign of professionalism. If you try to be hobby cop and judge you will fail. That's a job for the pros.
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If you have a Bachelor and Master in Comp. Sc. then you should first give it a shot by trying yourself before entering to Dev Bootcamp. There are several amazing ruby on rails guides and resources which I think you will have no problem to follow putting some time and effort into it. Heck I even can understand ROR up to some extent being from Biotech and Pharma background. First go to railstutorial.org. and try yourself. If you feel you are not motivated enough to pull it off yourself then consider applying for Dev Bootcamp.
What the fuck is going to happen when I need to reuse my JavaScript code on a different platform e.g NodeJS, vert.x etc?

I'm sorry for negative comments but, what ruby and .net communities produce for JS is shit. It's even more harmful then IE6 for our future.
If I were a spook, "asking microsoft" would seem like a huge compartmentalization and classification risk. If you were already sitting on an exploitable cert already in the wild, why bother?
I'd venture 90% of all new businesses have nothing to do with VC money.

In fact, my hunch would be that most are started with personal savings and family money.
Well, it's obvious in retrospect, but I'd imagine that took some pretty awesome reasoning powers.
Judging from the organizer's response there was little doubt concerning the validity of her claims in this case though.

In other cases, pulling said person into a room, asking him if the claims are true and if so asking them to leave is already a big step forward.
"Visual Programming" helps with learning, thus comprehension.

how do you know?
I don't understand the apparent disdain here for phonegap. I'm currently working on a freelance project to convert a blackberry app to a phonegap app. Everything they want to do they can do using phonegap. I don't feel held back or like I'm half-assing it. I have access to CSS for, in my opinion, easier UX designing, and jQuery for things like posting or modal dialogs. Why aren't more people excited about developing once and it working on multiple platforms?
Agreed, Backbone is great! I haven't looked much at the alternatives, though.
TECS (http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/) is a great book that leads you through that entire process, too!
One can take a stand against the kind of bad behavior without being prejudicial toward the accused.

E.g., the organizer could go to the culprit and say, "As you know, Joe, we take sexual harassment very seriously here. Could you tell me what happened last night at the bar?"

I could imagine a lot of ways it goes from there, but all of them seem compatible with taking a strong stand against jackassery without giving up a strong stand for fairness.
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One thing to note about Hetzner, in addition to high US latency times, is the initial setup cost. For the EX4 (core i7-2700, 16 GB ram, 6 TB HD, 49 euros/month), the one time setup was 149 euros. However, I just checked and the setup cost for this server has dropped to 49 euros. I'm not sure if this is promotional or permanent.
The problem is the "size" as in number of participants, in the Cap table rather than what people are getting paid in the event of an exit.

All else equal, you want less people on your cap table for each round. Big cap tables increase complexity.

I wouldn't be suprised if the current CEO were to pay them on the backend regardless of his dance.

[edit] I shouldn't guess what the CEO that I do not know would do, but I would expect myself to reward them later, just not contractually. This is really relationship/person dependent.
Agreed, and good suggestion.

Make the downvote reason only visible to the writer, and do not allow the writer to reply to the downvote reason - the system already heavily favors upvotes over downvotes, so that writers can just shrug off the downvotes.

The main thrust of my suggestion is to make downvoting even harder.
It plays video well enough. I never hooked it to the big tv to check whether it does 1080p at 60fps, but, apart from that, it works well enough. In any case, the Atom should not be the processor doing the video decoding and rescaling - that's what GPUs are for. Flash is very slow and Gmail is not very snappy, but that's the extent of my problems with it. I'll probably replace its battery, give it a small SSD and use it when I really need something small.
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I have found that the Github GUI for Mac is pretty good, my teammates who are designers figured it out pretty fast. But honestly, if you are using linux you are probably the type of person who would get comfortable with the command line tools pretty fast.

Like anything else there will be a learning curve. The hard part is getting used to the clone/commit/push/branch/merge/pull workflow as opposed to the typical open/save/send/saveas environment most users are accustomed to.

At first it seems like an extra step, but once the light bulb clicks it's like "This changes everything, again!"

I do agree that there is a lot of room for improvement in get an average user from zero to lightbulb phase faster.

A good place to start for anyone learning git is the github bootcamp, starting with: https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git
Ah, well ... here's some of the code samples used: http://cl.ly/H0Ox
Unless, of course, the poster meant the year to refer to the year in which the yellow box strategy took place, rather than the year the article was published. Then it would be 1997, not 2007.
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I've met frustrated parents, from those with lazy kids to those whose kids where skipping (and failing) most classes to go smash stuff and do drugs (and not exactly pot) with adolescent criminals.

I still believe only an asshole would talk about their son or daughter like that, particularly to someone not close.
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Maybe it is the right time to make all this rage converge into contributions to coreboot [1]. A free working alternative is the only practical way out of this future kind of subjection.

Google has already contributed core for some current Ivy Bridge chipsets. It would be nice if coreboot received more testing and development from a broader audience.

[1] http://coreboot.org
So, what happens when black holes collide, and merge into a single one? Serious question, btw - would we experience it, or does our universe contain all matter to ever enter our black hole, therefore all it has merged with?

If the latter, how big can black holes get? Can they consume a universe? That would be a neat end-result - the whole universe goes down the drain, to cause a new one.
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