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Its cheap indeed. At u$d 35.000 they must already have access to some serious facilities in order to really develop this (i.e. at least a Helmholtz coil and a relatively clean room).
I for one dont care who answers my question, man, woman, member of long lost indian tribe from amazon or a teapot, as long as the question is answered and i can get on with my work.

In fact, I fail to see the point of this article. Even its title fails to make a point. It does succeed in producing headline-baiting effect which implies sexism in StackOverflow community.
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Yes, of course you can. But like tedmiston said, your question is too general to answer in any useful way.

However, I will say this; from what I've seen, you're more likely to succeed with a mobile-based product aimed at a business niche. Businesses are more willing to pay larger sums (or subscriptions) for solutions, whereas consumers tend to place less overall value on any one app.

The only way to get any definitive answers is to test within the market you're aiming for.
This is by far the most interesting comment in this thread.

I think it's a fair question. Maybe at one point there was a need to have different namespaces, but what need there is now for it, hard to say.
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This article is interesting because I had never considered gender to be a component of the community at StackOverflow. To me, it is about questions and answers, both of which are measured for quality. It seems to be a pure meritocracy.

In the end, I don't think it matters what the gender of the participants is. But if for some reason the site could better serve people of either gender, it'd be interesting to know what tactics could accomplish that.
Or .acme or .ajax.
just saw your reply, and it's not been long enough where I completely forgot the context of this, so I'm just going to apologize :) I have no idea what happened here other than a brief lapse in sanity most likely.
Was anybody else expect a textarea under "what will you tell the world?" UI oberservation. completely missed it at the top
I would love to hear how they react. I'm excited for you just reading this!
Eugenics didn't go out of style. It's used quite successfully to prevent horrible genetic diseases.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dor_Yeshorim
Cool it on the ad hominem please

I'm not sure why you suggest RSS is somehow synonymous with Twitter, but I will say that in addition to RSS buttons almost every major media company on the planet has a Twitter button on its article page (I work on one, which is why I say "us in media"). Because many sites don't do proper async JS when it comes to social buttons, an outage on socnets can be crippling

Here's an example: http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/01/facebook-outage-affects-oth...
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This might be a crazy idea, but if more men posed as women, women would feel less intimidated to participate, and douchebags would have less effect on the actual women in the community.
An e-commerce site being down does not lead to exactly the amount of orders lost as is average for that time. Most people will try again later, with the possible exception of first time buyers and likely exceptin of impatient commodity buyers with alternative accounts.
I know what the word actionable means. I don't know what he is asking about. Is my suggestion to read the book actionable? Yes, I think so. Is the info in the book actionable? Yes, I think so, on several fronts. But I don't know what action he wants me talking to him about.
"Real education" sounds dangerously close to a "true Scotsman".
You are not forcing them to own it defensively. For $2k - less than pocket money for Google - they can register their trademark with the ICANN which prevents others from applying for it.
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For an article that refers to data-based decisions, what was the purpose of white on black retina-burning colors for this blog?
Is 'visitor should exit halfway through the article' a goal? :)
It's about brakes, accelerators, and random (mis/good)fortune.

Brakes are the things that slow you down. Accelerators are the things that give you a boost.

Any one of us has these both imposed on us and has some degree of influence over them, though to what specific extent varies a lot.

The point of the essay (confession: I skimmed it) is that an effective education is among the more powerful accelerators which can be applied. It's actionable (lifting a concept from a thread here) in the sense that both individuals and communities / society as a whole can engage productively in efforts to increase the availability / efficacy of education.

It's a fact recognized by the father of capitalism, Adam Smith, and the founding fathers, including Thomas Jefferson.
As long as all the parties profit from this kind of business there is nothing wrong with it. See for example Android. Whoever thought it would be what it is for Google today for Google?
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There is a flash based implementation of the canvas that could be used in place of missing element. It only requires a simple drop in code.

http://flashcanvas.net/
Even if it is inspired on IndexTank the difference is that IndexTank was a very valuable service and ended being an open source project. We can think of IndexTank as a kickstarter project now!
Perhaps because every person who makes up a corporation enjoys full freedom of speech.
Sorry? I don't think so. I have seen this discussed many times over the years. Genuinely teaching people to think more effectively is real education. What goes on in some schools is more akin to brainwashing, which is the opposite of teaching people to think for themselves.
Why is it, then, that despite the school someone goes to not mattering in outcomes once you control for external factors, rich people still disproportionately prefer to send their kids to private schools, and are willing to pay 20-30k per year over a decade to do so?

I could totally believe that it's totally irrational on the rich parents' part: kids and health are places where people lose much sense of rationality and perspective. But it's still worth considering that the people who are typically most invested and knowledgeable about their kids and the benefits of a good education do usually go for private school if they have the means to.
exactly. In fact based on the screenshots, the authors answers were greatly appreciated by people that asked the questions.
More often than not when asking or answering questions on SO I pay attention to persons reputation and answer accept rate. I dont even look at their name.
The article mentioned some anecdotal complaints from women on some engineering forum which make no sense to me whatsoever.
Id love to hear from a female SO user whether they did in fact turn away from SO because of lack of women on it?
I can't be the only one who gets confused with "Play" - I keep thinking that this refers to their music store, when in fact it's music, video, books, android apps. Not chrome apps, yet...?
yes, "walled garden" is "single point of failure" spelled backwards.
If more men posed as women online, they'd know how bad men are to women online.
Trollish nonsense. You haven't even really read my comment, or you'd know that the leverage ratio I mentioned, which you're challenging me to justify, was actually about the efficiency of the tools you yourself were touting, not vim. Your "conclusions" are obviously trolling.
This is part of Freakonomics (http://www.amazon.com/Freakonomics-Economist-Explores-Hidden...). Though you could have obviously seen it elsewhere.

In the book, it was referring to lottery based admission to the better schools. The result was that it didn't matter whether the students won the lottery or not. They performed equally well (on whatever generic criteria you use to judge academic performance in hs, most likely state standardized tests). The point being that students who cared enough to want to be in the better school would do well no matter where they were.
Who else thought this was going to be about dying programming languages?
> It doesn't really matter, unless you let it matter.

Yeah, that's the kind of pathetic platitude that condescends in order to pretend nothing's wrong. Having trouble because you're black, female, wheelchair-bound, recovering from alcoholism, etc.? Pft. It wouldn't matter if only you'd stop letting it matter.
The author is blowing the problem out of proportion. If Google uses the .blog TLD abusively or in a way that is irrelevant, users will go to another .TLD. There is no limit to the number of places users can go. The value in the mindshare of a word like "blog" is overblown, and it isn't the same as the monopoly power granted by an exclusive patent. If .blog domains suck, then we won't go there. Nobody will host blogs there. Nobody will care. It won't be a hip place. On the other hand, if someone makes a .TLD called something arbitrary (say .ddffdd) and everyone likes it, then guess what, it won't matter squat what is on .blog, everyone will go to .ddffdd. That's all.

Lets not act like the landing page URL is such a big deal. It is if you built up a trademark and if everyone is used to going to .blog for every single blog. But nobody is used to that. And nobody cares. And even if they are used to that habits can very quickly change. There were lots of so called "monopoly" destinations a decade ago and not even one of them is still standing today. Its a whole new ballgame on the Internet. And every ten years its going to be a whole new ballgame again.

Dude is seriously getting emo about a non issue.
Just checked my analytics out of interest. Sample of 200k unique visitors to a non-tech related website, 6.7% IE8 or less.
I would certainly consider using this tool even without knowing about the flash shim, especially for something that something is probably an eye-candy extra and not the central feature of a statistical page.
> Having been through this exact process, I can assure you that this is how it really works.

Read OA.
As a person whose love of news started at age five scrapbooking newspaper clippings about Nixon, Ford, and Carter, your point makes me very happy.

The 24 hr news cycle ruined TV news, and SEO has made Internet news worse (first links win).
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Making a realistic sword fighting game would be quite the feat for the advancement of human creativity and virtual entertainment.
Note that correlations between populations are not transitive like that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_fallacy
Don't apologize. This was apparently the only possible way they would respond (which you didn't know anyway). Remember all the tweets, emails and stuff they flat-out ignored.
It is completely static. I can do everything purely from javascript using filepicker.io to do all the I/O
Sounds like they were not using offline caching (correctly?) at all and had very obvious side effects as a result.
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douchebags can profess their douchebaggery across the gender lines. Furthermore, douchebags can be of either gender.
The only way to fight douchebags is to call them on their douchebaggery and to down-vote them into oblivion.
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Every time I read the word "blue" I involuntarily reel from the blast of political correctness coming out of my monitor.

Don't people know it's the same thing as green? What's the point of slicing such fine distinctions?
We already have those, they're called search engines. If you want a non-profit one you can use YaCy: http://yacy.net/
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But you only have so much energy and learning takes energy. I know from personal experience that the more stressed I am, the more time and energy I had to put in to getting enough calories this week the less I have to spend on learning. Being hungry or sleep deprived makes everything harder. It can be challenging just to summon the energy to make basic day-to-day decisions, much less reach out and learn new things. It's why free school breakfasts and lunches do such good things for educational outcomes.

The easier it is to learn the more people will be able to get over the hump. It won't ever be everyone, but it's basic behavioral economics: the easier it is to get the same payoff the more people will do it.
I think it was so the teacher could write comments on the pages more easily. That was 10 years ago though, so I'm not sure if students still have to hand in printed hard copies?
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There are plenty of venues where this is true, i just dont believe SO is one.
Wow, two distint populations correlations used to conclude heredity causes/affects poorness. Where to even start on why that's poor reasoning.
Funny enough, not one person is stepping up to the plate to justify and quantify the claims that vi/vim are/have "highly efficient text-editing capabilities".

Numbers. Not statements or links to the manual. I care about data. Show me a project that got done sooner and better because of the use of vi/vim and you'll have a point. I propose that not one person can make that claim and that the popularity of vi/vim are purely tribal.

There's an interesting show on TV called "Head Games" (http://news.discovery.com/human/new-tv-show-plays-head-games...).

In this show they demonstrate, among other things, how tribal behavior can be taken to an extreme. It is very hard for some to go against group behavior. They show one example of a guy in a room that stands up when everyone else stands up and he doesn't even know why.

To some extent I believe that some of these tools are like that. You work in a shop where the hot programmer swears by vi/vim and you adopt that without challenging any of it. Very soon everyone is playing the same tune, facts be damned. I happen to be one of those people that does not engage in crowd behavior. This can be a blessing and a curse. I never bothered to spend months on vi/vim because every time I used for days or weeks (out of not having other choices) I came out of it with the distinct idea that the whole thing was just short of lunacy. In the context of the project that needed to be completed these tools offered no real advantages. You are not going to impact the bottom line in any measurable way.

Put another way: If you took two kids that knew nothing whatsoever about computers or programming and set out to teach them. One is taught with modern mostly-GUI tools with "conventional" keyboard shortcuts while the other has to use command line and vi/vim. Both of them have to complete the same project. The vi kid would be absolutely smoked by the other kid in no time at all. No question about it.

OK, how about a second project. Maybe not smoked, but no significant gains would exist out of the vi camp. Programming is far more about things that have nothing to do with text editing. Projects are not late or buggy because of good or bad text editing tools.

I'd still like to see someone quantify the gains offered by vi/vim over the course of a project.
It's assumed that a company acting in its own interest is a foregone conclusion, but when a customer does the same thing it's a problem. Note that this post was apparently the only way to get attention to the problem.

Call a spade a spade: the ball was dropped here. No need for butthurt, you guys got paid.
Demonstrated enough up until now to have an indictment written up and acted upon by law enforcement officers on the other side of the world.

Not sure why I'm being downvoted, but the simple fact is that there was enough evidence to have an indictment written up, signed off on and then authorities in another country agree it had enough merit to be acted upon.
I hadn't thought about that - the words "What will you tell the world?" are now a link to the "add" page
Not necessarily - I don't understand how software interacts with, for example, digital cable. I've seen certain channels crash my cable box before. It wouldn't be that surprising to see a certain show reliably crash the cable box.
You can linkshorten instead of requiring a signup or showing a plaintext email.
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Heh, I just did it again and got your numbers so I think I made the mistake.

PS: It's off by ~2.4 so probably did the kg -> lb conversion twice + some rounding errors.

Let's see if I can redeem myself Heathrow Airport averages a little over 1300 flights per day. If 1 flight can handle 1.2 million TB's http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=180%2C530kg%2F1lb+*+3Tb... then Heathrow Airport in theory is a router than can handle 17,965 terabytes / sec http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=180%2C530kg%2F1lb+*+3Tb... (Not that they are setup to handle freight, but at least flight time is not important only throughput.)
> "efficiency gains from the use of vi/vim are insignificant in the context of a non-trivial project"

They are important to programmers.

You are arguing against a strawman that I suspect you do not even realize you have constructed.
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Interesting! I had no idea they had a non-XML option. If I was still working on the project, I'd totally push for that.

Good to know for future projects =)
It's because it does matter to the outcome, if you consider the outcome to be more than just GPA. GPA is not the best indicator of whether it's a worthwhile investment. The selection of a private school takes in to account additional factors like the environment you learn in, the connections you make, the college prospects you get and also the mere existence of religion.
Never knew about Sparkline...cool. Now that I've seen it, I second your question.
That is because almost all the time we are wrong, whether we were confident or not. However, we were generally less-wrong that were were before.

I recommend Asimov's article on the matter: http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm
I know I shouldn't feel this way but I never see the poster of questions or answers as women? I'm not saying at all that I think the value of a woman programmer is any less than a mans, I just do not encounter women in programming, full stop.

I actually started reading that post then as if it was from a man and I thought they were making a sexist remark about "are my women here". When I discovered it was a woman, I read it again in a different context completely.

I don't know what other peoples regions are like but whenever I encounter a programmer anywhere, they are male?
Mate, I was just asking why you are demanding an answer from one particular contributor.

Regardless, see this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4144499

Furthermore, "the other has to use command line and vi/vim. " seems to be confused. Using vi style editing does not really have anything to do with the command line (though it frequently does, that is out of choice, not necessity).
Apple is claiming that the app store is break-even. That it benefits them only indirectly by making iOS a more attractive choice.

If that is true, and HTML5 worked better with iOS than with Android, that would work well within that strategy.

I think perhaps there are other reasons for poor HTML5 support on the mobile platforms.
Current regulations bar NASA from building or researching fueled nuclear devices

I'm not sure what the author means here, but the Mars Curiosity Rover (on its way to Mars right now) is powered by a nuclear device (an RTG). Maybe NASA just isn't allowed to pursue the (real) project Orion-type spacecraft anymore?
A similar, but less conspiracy-y explanation is that there is essentially no browser competition in mobile so there is no motivation to improve like on desktop. Hence, the two major OS vendors update their browsers yearly.
The comment directly implies that some people are born predisposed to being poor on a genetic level, which is... absurd isn't even close to the right word.
Sounds like that's mostly outside the PM's sphere of influence, which is a good sign.
I think part of the "Being treated fairly" is transparency from upper management. If the company is in trouble and they are open and honest about it, and they were previously generous to their employees, then those employees will rise to the call. The book Influence [1] calls this concept Reciprocity, and Peopleware likewise talks about this. It's the same concept that good commanders use to inspire loyalty and trust in their troops.

There are also other ways to compensate an employee that does not necessarily involve a cost, such as flexible hours or work from home.

[1]: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/479628.Influence_Rev_
I'm not missing the point. I just disagree that for the next two years their app offerings will be lackluster. And my reason for that disagreement is the fact that they are converging their platform to run on all systems (desktop, laptop, tablet, phone and console).

Keep in mind this change almost instantly increases the potential market a phone app developer can tap into because it will be available to desktop users as well. You've just gone from developing for WP7 users, to every Win 8 user. That is an order of magnitude increase. Add to that XBox users.

I think Microsoft will catch up much faster than most people anticipate.

Edit: Ok I will rephrase the premature thing: Experience of using the phone from 1 year ago is not a valid criticism of the ecosystem today. Even less so for a new ecosystem that is not going to be released for another 3-6 months.
Where do you live? This is HUGELY dependent on geography. $18k a month in NYC, Seattle, SF, etc., is pretty painful. Add two kids, private school (unless you live in a great district), college educations, saving for retirement, summer camp, braces, health care for 4, housing for 4 in a good neighborhood, helping out your retired parents who might not have saved enough, etc., it stacks up pretty fast.
Re map your caps lock to esc. How often do you use that stupid button anyways?
I tried adding a hook for ExplorerCanvas - http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/ - a while back but got inconsistent results - https://github.com/benpickles/peity/issues/7#issuecomment-27...
CapsLock to Escape is something I find useful with Vim. A lot of people advocate mapping it to Ctrl then using Ctrl-c or Ctrl-], but It's better to just skip the middleman I think.
Thanks, hadn't heard of that one.
I wonder if your ability to not think about the technical details of photography comes from the fact that in the beginning, you did think about them, and now you have a completely intuitive understanding of them.
I use Acme for my hobby coding. But for work I tend to deal with horrible java and php code, with lots of code across lots of files so even small changes require modifying many files in many different places. I've found Acme gets difficult to use in this situation so I use a horrible IDE.

Acme is great for writing Go though. I don't miss syntax highlighting when using Acme, but I do miss Acme's ability to execute arbitrary text when using the IDE.