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I could be wrong here, but I think most people would consider the US a better country than Liberia.

You can sort subjective preferences to get an objective rating.
Broadly speaking, the UK is a Christian country in a cultural sense. I think the confusion sets in because the British who identify as Christian are also broadly impious in relation to their more devoted American counterparts.

Even amongst Brits who would willingly tick "Church of England" on a census form, it seems to be only a minority who attend church, perform religious rituals, proselytize, or attempt to defend their faith.

I caught my wife ready to tick CofE on a form once and asked her if she believed in God. She thought and said "Well, no. Not really." Yet, culturally, she was brought up to just say she was CofE and a Christian because, culturally, she lived that way without ever being pious or knowledgable about the theology of it.
Why can't you predict crimes of passion? People with poor impulse control are easy to predict: they react violently or opportunistically to common situations.
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Yes, but my poll is from 2010 and yours is from 2006.
Whether the actual number is 40% or 20% or 11%, I'm sure it's much higher than other modern, secular countries. That's all I'm saying.

In any case, that's not the scary poll. It's polls like this one that are scary:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/12/interracial-marriag...
Imagine if there was a 'default assumption' that everyone had blue eyes.

Maybe you just picked a bad example, but that would mean nothing to me. I actually generally assume brown eyes- but I don't have brown eyes myself...
Hmmm medicaly powered induced low blood sugar! Thats what I'd have to ask.

Now if they could power them on stress - that would be something. I could power the planet :(.
Alexis Ohanian said it better and in a less incendiary way @ HN's event in NYC last year:

Being a middle-class white male with loving parents is like playing the game of life on easy mode. One has an obligation to do good things for the world - in acknowledgement that there is more to be done and that others deserve the same environment you were born into. (Paraphrasing)

That's a balanced viewpoint, one that's hard to resent.
"They" is confusing, as it can be singular or plural.
> So, really, you need something like car insurance, where everyone (and here I also mean every country) is required to buy in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Afforda...
Interesting question and I'd say the answear is YES. Now can humans show empathy towards dogs? That is the question.
What is the point? I don't understand why anyone would want to use this. The Arduino IDE is limited enough already - why make it worse by embedding it in a web page?

"improves compilation time" - but compilation time is nothing, it's flashing the microcontroller that takes the time, and there's nothing a "cloud" system can do to improve that.
That doesn't sound like anything I wrote.

Here's a summary of what I wrote.

1. Sometimes people use "he" to refer to unknown gender.

2. Men outnumber women in tech

3. Men make assumptions because they outnumber women.

4. If women want to make it clear that they are not second-class citizens, they should correct these assumptions.

5. The author of this article feels that if they do (4) they are discriminated against in the form of inappropriate comments etc.

6. I say so what, it's better in the long run.
Honestly, because I'm lazy. Maybe I'll use 'they'. Maybe I'll use 'he'. Maybe I'll use both. If I'm not given the gender of the author, I'm just going to write what sounds right rather than take the time to make it gender-less. It's not like I would blatantly disregard the author's gender if it was provided, though.
Unfortunately, it also means I no longer know if an app is accessing my webcam.
Perhaps English needs a truly gender-neutral pronoun.

"It"?
It lasted less than 6 months before they created the Federal Surplus Relief Corporation, which instead of creating artificial scarcity bought the stocks and distributed it (some 600 Million pounds of grain, cotton, and meat) to impoverished sectors across the US.
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Yeah, NYC's so out of touch!

/s
I was going to sarcastically reply that my apartment building also wasn't holding a fundraiser for the robber barons on wall street until I remembered that we already did.

Also, you are aware that in 2011 the usa spent .86 trillion dollars on the military and wars? Maybe we should go after that for food aid before complaining about a paltry billion donated from the richest country in the world to our fellow human beings.
>>the patent that Microsoft is suing OEM's with is related to ActiveSync

Can you provide citation for the above?

As far as I know, neither Microsoft nor any of the Android H/W manufacturers have revealed any details on which patents are covered as part of the licensing agreement.
What is the OP's point? That people don't pay attention to the gender of the writer? If someone did a dedicated study about the last 6 months of top Hacker News and top r/programming articles what percentage do we think would be male authors? I would set the over-under at 95%. (Please don't point out that those audiences are sexist because the OP just showed that the readers don't pay attention to the gender of authors.)

For the record I think there is sexism in tech but it mostly starts in jr high and high school - at least in the US.
Something similar in South Africa. At least India has decent mass education, the only way I see out. You need everyone to be educated, connected and have a true participatory democracy.
>>They note you're getting an economic benefit from their grain (which is true) but they are unwilling to build their own distillery and capture that value but still won't cede the value to someone who does that original investment.

I think this is because, 'If I'm not gaining anything, you shouldn't either' attitude.

Programmers would be pissed if the code written by them gets used by somebody else to make money, while they don't make any money out of it. Isn't this the whole Java debate these days all about. Sun/Oracle aren't getting much money out of Java(While writing/maintaining/advertising it) while the whole world is using it to make money.
Most of the time, context alleviates that confusion pretty quickly. "The developer of AppX [blah blah]. They wrote it in C#". Etc.

A lot of closeted or previously closeted homosexuals can tell you that it's not that terribly confusing. I used "they" for years to refer to a singular person. After coming out, I was accused of lying. My response was that I'd never lied about the gender of someone I was seeing or referring to. No one ever asked.

Which ironically plays into a whole different set of gender assumptions, but that's a can of worms I don't want to open in an already dangerous thread.
I have tested and clink works with Console. Actually I don't see reason why it shouldn't work with Console. Maybe there might be shortcuts collisions but I have not met yet any.
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It was more a thought exercise. If only those two options were made available, what would a population prefer, given the track record of the technique. I'm aware that one ought not justify a means for its end, but rather otherwise (in this case a kind of elective choice).
You had phone interviews with us, didn't get an interview, and never found out why? That sucks. You should send me mail (I'd write you but don't know your email address).

This is exactly the kind of thing I want to make sure we never do in our recruiting process.
Console2 looks releases 1-2 releases per yer. Looks quite stable while not active as some other projects. Check dates here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/files/console-devel/...
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The problem is everybody talks against corruption, but when they themselves get a chance to be corrupt they go for it.

People feel what they do is right, and what others do is wrong. No matter what the truth is.
For years I have seen Joggers stop, duck in to kids playgrounds and use the playground equipment to do various excercises. The fears could have been unwarranted but no doubt this made parents wary. I was going to joke that we already had fitness trails in the form or long avenues choked with cars, bikes and pedestrians to dodge but I guess giving adults some equipment to use while keeping parents happy is a good development. Wish they had swings and slides though.
I drooled far more PHP into my terminal that weekend than you would believe. There were a scant few legitimate errors, and I've removed all the ones brought to my attention.

The rest of it should be factually correct, in which case, why do you care that I listed it? If you're correct in that many of the things I listed aren't really a big deal, the reader will agree with you anyway, right?

(Also, "trawled". No snark intended; it's a neat word and deserves more exposure.)
The phenomenon discussed in the article (the surprising lack of any de-facto currency arising in TF2's barter economy) is very interesting, because the economy in Diablo 2 did develop its own currency around a single item -- the Stone of Jordan (SoJ).

D2's economy was very similar in that it was almost purely barter-based and players had limited inventory space to store their items. SoJs occupied the smallest possible amount of space in the inventory (1 square). They also had high intrinsic value, as they were not only powerful items but also ingredients in two important crafting recipes.

Interestingly, SoJs lost their currency status once their intrinsic value depreciated [1]. A new mechanic, runes, was introduced, and they became the new currency. However, to my knowledge no single rune type rose to dominate the others and claim true currency status, so the current market is a bit more muddled.

[1] http://www.diablowiki.com/The_Stone_of_Jordan
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With you're example highlights the amount of 'hype' around the issue though.

If someone assumed I was brown-eyed (when in fact I'm blue), I'm not going to write about it, because it is a non-issue.

The issue is around the stigma we place around 'female developers' not the fact we (mis)identify them.
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Also, e.g. video phones have long been available, and though they have definite niche applications, they have not become the ordinary mainstream way of using a phone.
That's a bit extreme, but totally fine. And will save you a lot since i know Apple pays well thanks to their hold on some markets.

Lots of people refuse to pay taxes for similar reasons.

just don't do it before trying other methods, like writing to your representatives and all that.
"Even if they are broadcasting it, we're probably listening to it with the wrong technology. Even if we happen to be lucky of listening with the "right" technology. We probably wouldn't be able to tell it from random noise."
That's why you start by blasting prime numbers on all em frequencies for 5 years.
If it gains exclusive control of your webcam, then that's one way of knowing. It would pre-empt any other control.
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I love absolutist comments like this. Never is a very very long time. Its possible we already were visited and they've moved on. What most folks don't conceptualize well is that the width of the timeline which constitutes "humans are here" is so damn small on a 4 billion year timeline as to be hard to spot with the naked eye :-).

But lets look at your points:
1) You don't have a good grasp of physics but that's ok. One of the things that happens as you accelerate is that you gp through something called time dilation. Travelling a significant fractions of the speed of light will have time passing much much more slowly on the ship than on Earth. You'll want to work it out so that you approach 'c' at the halfway point, then flip over and decelerate. If you do it that way your crew will easily survive the entire trip. There is the question of energy and reaction mass, real problems and as yet unsolved, but not insoluble. We can and do regularly manufacture anti-matter these days, its a pretty good fuel.

2) You make a number of interesting assumptions here. One is that aliens are 65 million miles away. Consider that we already know that our planet is a death trap, its killed off everything several times already, so we figure out how to leave. Better we create our own environments where all we need do is scoop up interstellar hydrogen for fuel, or perhaps harvest a bit of space junk. The Earth is a spaceship that is gravity locked to the Sun. There is certainly enough material in our solar system to build something that could wander amongst the stars. And if we've figured out cellular biology, and can thus 'fix' any issues that come up, it means we can 'live' in our bodies forever via mechanical repair. If we can do it, so can other species. Imagine a flotilla of 'units' moving in parallel, carrying our alien visitors, from star system to star system. Perhaps seeing a new system every 100 years or so.

3) We can certainly create habitats that don't kill us and that keep things that might kill us out. Further there is a really really interesting change coming when pieces of how people work comes together in a provable way. One good thing, the health care crisis for 'rich' people will be gone. Once we've got the source code, all bets are off.

4) This is just projection ;-) We would go visit a society that was in its early stages of development just to see how they do it. We've been doing that with indigenous island people on the planet, I would be surprised if we had interplanetary capability and we didn't do that.
Do you disagree that they have abandoned their native Mac client?

Personally I don't think the "Discover" tab is worth its real estate in the menu.
They should have taken the time to visit the office in alpha centaury. After all they make a living of it, they should be able to spare the little time to the trip.
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Defender (the game Stargate was the sequel to) and Galaga are the icons of the era.

What amazes me is that you can still find Galaga in arcades today. If, of course, you can find arcades at all.
If the company you work for provides office space, equipment, and sets your hours, you may be able to force them to pay for half your social security tax, etc. It's a fuzzy line between employee and contractor.
Not really.

Thats, well I don't know how to categorize that.

The brits - the East India Company to start - destroyed several different kingdoms starting with Bengal. They also demolished the Rajputs, the Sikhs, the Marathas - all Hindu Kingdoms. They demolished the Sultanate that ruled from Delhi, and several other princely states.

You could even say they were equal opportunity in that - no matter what religion you were, you would be cowed, because, well - they knew how. Divide and conquer worked.

They also didn't put Hindus back in charge. They realized that they needed a new class of people to work for them and then worked to create a peon/intelligent worker class. They didn't choose those people based on religion.
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How much of this could be due to the fact that Americans got all their genetic material from immigrants?
I can say from my personal experience that this book inspired me to come to the US first and move to Silicon Valley later. Everyone's perception is different. I read it 10 years ago when Coelho was not that popular and while reading it I was not thinking about what other people thought about Coelho, I was thinking about what was written and it related to me deeply.

So I think you might be right that he became too populat, but I disagree that "nothing to see here", I'm sure a lot of people will find inspiration just like I did.
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Yeah, it's really confusing. "You" has the same problem, so I try to avoid that too. /s
No, they did say why, after a bunch of vetting; I phrased it weird, sorry. I think I did OK, but I don't have any web app experience, and I can understand given the small team in MV. Your team did well, although, I'd like to have tried the web-app challenge. They encouraged me to apply again so I think I will this fall.
Honestly, this is something you should get over.
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Robotron:2084.

Gravitar.

Bosconian.

Red Baron and Battlezone.

Many, many quarters spent.
You are trying to make a moral argurment, and the parent is asking a legal question, so it seems that you're talking past each other.
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Chromosomes are directly responsible for most developmental differences between living creatures. If someone uses this fact to convince themselves it's why women aren't seen in the tech world, Amber has done nothing to disprove it.

Amber has benefitted from male privilege for most of her life. If people believe male privilege, brogrammer environments, etc. are why women aren't seen in the tech world, Amber has done nothing to disprove it.

She is literally the worst possible piece of evidence to use to disprove the stereotype.

This is not a burner account and I am not transphobic.
> ... the managers have much more flexibility when the company is private. For example, Facebook's acquisition of Instagram would not fly if FB were public when that happened.

Is that really the case? In other words, what additional restrictions does a publicly-listed company have that privately-traded companies do not have?

Your comment seems plausible, but I could imagine that the SEC regulations around > 500 shareholders etc. could also include all the shareholder protections we associate with public companies, as well.

Additionally, I wouldn't be surprised if Mark Zuckerberg's controlling interest in FB had some sort of an impact on what regulations apply to the company.
I think you are correct, that captures the problem.

How do we make recycling and efficiency more important than personal gain?

Me: "Give me the grain and I'll put it to productive use."
Them: "What do I get out of it?"
Me: "Nothing"
Them: "Then why should I give it to you?"
Me: "Because the resources you used to create it won't be wasted."
Them: "Oh, Okay." <- never happens

The challenge comes when the choice is 'put to use, but only if its free' or 'rots away and nobody gets anything.' People choose to have it rot. Its the prisoner's dilemma writ large, and one of the inherent traits in humans, and one that religions seem to try to overcome.
Why add the "white" qualifier?

Think about it: By many measures, all things being equal, it's actually (institutionally!) easier to be a non-white (non-Asian) male.

The all things being equal qualifier is extremely important, of course—being born white is correlated with being born middle-class with loving parents. But it in-and-of-itself, it does not make things easier.

If you are born black, it's less likely that you will be born middle class, and it's far less likely that you will have loving parents. But that's issue we need to focus on.

Being born white does not make your life easier. Being born middle-class with loving parents does. Love your kids—don't teach them to hate themselves (and their peers) if they're white.
She is not presenting a story of "a woman succeeding in the tech world"; she is presenting a story of how everyone assumes anyone who writes a tech article is male.

It is like the New York Times saying, "men invented the Internet", or all the people who have written, "Why are there no women programmers?" There are women programmers (22% in the US according to the Department of Labor.) There were women involved in the creation of the net (8% of RFC 1336). Just because there is not equal representation no excuse for erasing those that do exist.

If you mentally turn everyone male unless they are speaking about gender it is unfair to then turn around and complain that women only ever speak about gender. When you were listening to them talk about other things it wasn't that they were men, it was that you assumed they were.

That is all about you, and has nothing to do with the cis* status of the people pointing it out.
Lets be honest, there's obviously other intelligent life in the universe. There's probably tons of it, I don't think it's ever visited earth before, and we'll likely never shake its hand, but its out there. One day we can hopefully communicate with one, it would have to be done with radio signals over generations, but it would be amazing to see it happen.

I've always thought it more likely than the fact that intelligent civilizations destroy themselves is the fact that intelligent civilizations are out there and the really smart ones actually know the Earth exists. Interstellar distance is likely a problem that no one has truly solved but I like to think there's civilization out there that knows the Earth exists and is ripe for life, just they're too far away to do anything about it.
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Huh, I never knew "you" was also plural. Practically never heard it used that way.
I doubt that, since they keep losing in courtrooms around the world.
I'm sorry, I wanted to write a brief comment and it seems I offended you.

I don't defy USA has a great contemporary culture but it's just one side of it. Another side is what you so easily dismiss - the history and traditions. Culture in the sense we're discussing is not something you can associate with one person. It's a collective term that basically describes the full range of learned human behavior patterns, which of course includes the baggage accumulated over the years (in some cases thousands of years) of history. Which USA doesn't have in the same degree as most of other countries, simply because it is a relatively young country.

Maybe I put too much stress on the traditional side of culture but coming myself from culturally very uniform background I always thought about USA as a multi-culture nation. Hence my surprise at pixie's statement. Shared media, history and education are basically common traits of every country (except for the ones that changed borders recently). Unity of values and the perception of the surrounding world may really be unique to America, though I'm not sure if putting Black people from Boston and immigrants from Asia and Mexico in the same bag as Rednecks from Florida is not an overgeneralization.

What you describe as a part of culture I see as a proof of multi-culturality. Can multi-culturality be a part of culture? I guess it depends on the definition. But I would argue that American culture is not uniform (of course many aspects are but I think most historically rich countries are much more uniform in that matter).

I admit it's kind of remarkable how everyone is religious in America. A bit less if you look at the crime rate (what happened to Thou shalt not kill?) but still. However I still stand by my previous statement - all the things you mention are not characteristic only to America. Maybe you can't appreciate it because it's a foreign culture to you but culture of many countries is just as uniform as American and often richer thanks to the hundreds of years of history. And wealth is hardly an American-only thing. As I mentioned, all these points together apply to Japan as well and many of them (not necessarily all at once) to other countries as well.