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> You should not care what gender, or anything else, they are - except their ability.

We don't live in that world. Neither do we live in a world where people of color are afforded the same opportunities as white people even though they have all the same rights.

Software (and tech in general) is a toxic and often extremely sexist community towards women. It's easy to take your attitude of "not caring", but that doesn't solve the problem, it simply shuts off the light so that nasty people can do their bidding in the dark.

> I should do that because they are female?

Yes, if it's a freaking thing about women, then they should have the last freaking word. :)

> If people need to see that there are others like them in a community (do they though?), then this module list is exactly right.

This is exactly the sort of blind, toxic attitude that some of us are trying to help destroy. If women who are CPAN authors want to organize a community amongst themselves, then it's up to them to decide how they want to go about doing it. It is NOT up to men to do it for them without consulting or considering the consequences given the continued problems with sexual harassment in the tech community.
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Cool - they just showed a quick shot of Peter Higgs in the audience - he looked a bit emotional
In 2000, Hawking bet Gordon Kane $100 that the Higgs Boson would never be found.
Peter Higgs just teared up. This is amazing.
TL;DR: "I think we have it."
Being a Windows mockup doesn't mean Gnome or KDE can't take inspiration from it. :)

Actually when this was first made (a few months ago) it was just an experiment to see how Metro styles and concepts could be applied to the desktop. Back then the Win8 builds were still all using Aero and there was no hint of a new style, so in retrospect it got quite a few things right.
Remember reading that Enron was also one sad example of stack ranking system.
My thoughts precisely.
The code is still out there though - just waiting for someone to pick up where Google left off. . .
http://incubator.apache.org/wave/about.html
My plan is to try to rewrite this as a sharepoint add in, so that all those companies who install sharepoint as their "solution to everything" get something good with it; that could help grow the user base / promote belief in the technology. Then it could be openned out into allowing people to connect to hosted public services, and eventually get back to Google's original vision.
ps. In honour of the subject matter, perhaps we should be calling it Google Duality?
Oh, okay, I misunderstood. That's fine.
I think it's mainly so they can be as condescending and smug as possible at interdisciplinary conferences.
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I searched but didn't find an explanation of this 5 sigma. Any reference to share?
Exactly! Take that, Valley's "Beautiful" startups ;)
I disagree, just because PHP has recently obtained features long available in other languages doesn't bring it close to being on the same level. All the other ecosystems are still light years ahead in terms of features, and contain fewer gotchas.
Stank ranking is not ideal for everyone.

Also stack ranking requires a great leader with courage in the top who actually has the vision to take things down to the last employee. For this you need to cut bureaucracy, bring in meritocracy. And do nearly every thing your traditional exec can't.

The reason this fails is some clueless MBA's in the name of case studies take it up and blindly without knowing the spirit behind it apply to anything and everything under the sun.

Each leader has his style you can take some lessons from it. But you can't be that leader copy cloned and template act everything he did. When you do, you only do it ritually and not in spirit.

Which is what cause things like Stack Ranking to no be viable else where. Because you are not thinking as Jack Welch did, you are trying to imitate his action and hope to get the same results.
The first rule of Rockstar Developer Club is that you always talk about Rockstar Developer Club.

It certainly seems like there is an element of truth to the numbers, but I think they tend to be both drastically overstated (there are fewer cases where there is a drastic difference and/or the difference doesn't matter) and drastically understated (there are cases where one developer can accomplish something that another simply can't, making the difference infinite).

So much time is spent trying to point out and quantify this difference, often in an implicitly self-congratulatory manner, and I think it would be better off spending that energy on:

1) Figuring out how to quantify developer skill, or at least come up with roughly accurate ways to determine whether or not a developer is appropriate for a given task. We, as an industry, are pretty bad at this.

2) Figure out ways to move more developers from the B & C camps into the A camp, insofar as we can actually identify those distinct camps.
Probably because the guy's presentation style is terrible, rushed, and his slides are a graphical disaster. He jumps from overload to overload, connecting with "obviously" and "as you can see". There is no overview, nothing connecting the endless series of slides. Everyone in the room is just waiting for the Higgs announcement.

I gather that they wanted to include last minute data, but given that they're livestreaming this and tons of people are watching, it was a huge chance to get a decent presentation done that would at least highlight the important results clearly rather than having them be throwaway lines between jargon.
This somehow reminds me of Aol.'s new branding, which as I remember was soundly criticized in most design circles...
In an attempt (presumably, I can't really know) to distract from a truly historic scientific achievement. Don't forget that part.
In case anyone is interested, the non-witty answer would go like this: Clearly, 1+1=2, which is not 3, so ¬(1+1=3) (by usual rules of addition). But also 1+1=3 (by assumption). Since 1+1=3, then either I am the pope, or 1+1=3. But we know that ¬(1+1=3), which means that I must be the pope.
Skype allows my son to have a relationship with his grandparents who live more than 10,000 miles away.

That's a huge problem solved for an absolutely enormous market.
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There's a good reason why the Zune "design" (which this "concept" is copying) is not used more often. It's a usability nightmare.
That'll happen, someone will explain it in "layman" terms about why/how this is fundamentally important. That's probably not going to be done at this announcement though, but hopefully in the aftermath by the media reporting on the announcement.
> We don't live in that world.

Online we do. No one can even tell what gender you are unless you tell them. And why tell them? Why should they care?

> If women who are CPAN authors want to organize a community amongst themselves, then it's up to them to decide how they want to go about doing it. It is NOT up to men to do it for them

To me you sound incredibly sexist. (Men do this, Women do that.) Women have their club, Men have theirs.

Sorry, but I don't divide up the world like you do. Who cares who made the list? Are you saying that if a Woman made that list all is well?

Why does the gender of who made the list matter? Shouldn't the only thing that matters be if the person wants to be on the list?
5σ =	1 / 1,744,278 chance this was just luck.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deviation
> This also makes me ask, is the only way to radically change UI to come up with a completely new from scratch paradigm, and if so, is this why we have metro?

Surely, quite a lot of time a design can be tweaked in its current version to make some great changes which drastically improve upon the usability. But on the contrary I think that Windows has reached a stage where some minor tweaks in its current incarnation won't make a lot of difference. It can only be optimized not radically improved until it is completely though from bottom up.

You might like to read about the concept of "Local Maximum"[1] on 52 weeks of UX. Here's a excerpt from the post.

Do you ever feel that your design has become stale and that despite your making lots of little changes to it over time without any big overhaul there is just no way to drastically improve it? If so you’ve probably hit what Andrew Chen calls the “Local Maximum”.

[1]http://52weeksofux.com/post/694598769/the-local-maximum
I very specifically didn't say that PHP couldn't be used to build real products, but that still doesn't (at least on it's own) make it good or make it the best.
"Yes, PHP has a better dependency manager than any other languages."

> Better than Maven or Gradle? I wished someone made a chart with all these tools that covered dependency management and analyzed their features. But in the end, dependency management is only a part of the platform built around the language, it's a good factor in whether to choose or not to choose a language - but not the crucial one.
It looks too bland but definitely better than what Microsoft decided for Windows 8. The metro UI is just not usable for a normal desktop configuration.
The two main rationales are that systematic uncertainties are historically under-estimated and that we are looking in many channels (more than 1000), so it would not be too hard to find a 3 or 4 sigma anomaly. The second part is the so-called "Look Elsewhere Effect." If you hit 5 sigma, you are fairly safe from either of these effects ruining your "discovery."
Are you suggesting that research into the top 10 causes of death isn't a lot more than the $9 billion spent on the equipment needed to discover the Higgs?

The NIH gets $30B/yr[1]. I don't know where the $9B figure for the LHC came from, but I bet it's total cost, over what, 10-15 years?

[1]http://nih.gov/about/almanac/appropriations/part2.htm
Yeah, PHP isn't perfect, we all know it has its quirks and oddities, but isn't that part of learning a language? What separates a hobbyist and professional PHP dev is experience, and knowing the correct method around such quirks.

In the end, PHP gets the job done. I've yet to come across a problem in my 11 years that was due to a bug or a quirk that I couldn't overcome.

Whether you defend PHP or rant about it, I still think PHP deserves respect within the programming community. It would be nice to see the end of rants and defensive posts, and for everyone to agree it's down to personal taste and experience. If we (defenders) are doing it wrong, then let us find out for ourselves.
Plus A players have a tendency to care a lot more about their own knowledge that it allowed Steve Jobs to yell at them to improve their efficiency.

If Jobs yelled at a typical B player or corporate drone, they would just take it and go on and maybe sit at the bar wallowing in their sorrows.

With A players, Jobs would tap into their insecurity that they might not be smart enough causing them to want to learn more to close that insecurity which then allows then to produce a better product. Their fear that they may not be smart enough would cause them to become even smarter.

Jobs needed A players otherwise his "motivational techniques" would fall flat.
I guess the worlds most popular websites, and the vast millions of PHP programmers must all not really exist. They can't exist, and can't be making good stuff, because PHP is just doesn't work.

Here is a list of template languages people on 'real' platforms use:

Python.

Airspeed, Castalian, Chameleon, Cheetah, CubicTemp, Django template system, Elements, EmPy, Evoque, HRL Powerful macro preprocessor for HTML, Genshi, Jinja 2, Mako, moody-templates, Myghty, Qpy, PML, pyratemp, Spyce, SUIT, Tempita, Tenjin, Template Toolkit, Templite+, thrases, ClearSilver, HTMLTemplate, JonsPythonModules, meld3, PyMeld, Pyxer, pso, Sprite, teng, webstring, XSLTools, PyPa, Genshi, kajiki, htmltmpl, Kid, SimpleTAL, CherryTemplate, AsciiDoc, Markdown, PyTextile, ReStructuredText, txt2tags, PottyMouth, Creole,

Ruby.

Radius. HAML. cs/Template. ERB, eRuby, Erubis, Galena, Tenjin, Liquid Markup. Ruty, PageTemplate, Amrita, Amrita2, Kwartz, Markaby. Maline. Builder::XmlMarkup, RedCloth, BlueCloth, RSmarty, Tempura, TAL, Curtis / Punk, Erby, RBML, RTALS, Tie, RVelocity, RailTags,

Java.

FreeMarker, SiteMesh, StringTemplate, Tea, Better Templates for Everybody, jxp, LSP, JCopist, Dynamator, RTFTemplate, Velocity, JByte, Jamon, JDynamiTe, WebMacro, Viento, IKAT, Bluprints, Transformica, Hapax, MiniTemplator, Xtempore,

_Not a complete list._

PHP is a pretty good template language, with pretty amazing documentation.

To deploy, you just upload a file.

You could walk outside now, and start yelling "I NEED A PHP PROGRAMMER!" and you'd probably find someone pretty quickly.

There are millions of hosts to choose from at tiny prices, who can provide support because they know the platform.
If Fabpot seriously believes Composer is better than Bundler/apt/Maven, then he's crazy.
I am so sick of this kind of talk.

What language do you like to code in? Really? That's great. Now shut up and go code in it.

What difference does it make to you that I use PHP, Ruby or original ASP?

My website achieves the result I desire. I chose the programming language I use because of reasons that made sense to me and my project, not because I want the approval of a bunch of hipster start-up kids.
I will note purely that CPAN has quite a lot of similar modules categorizing authors by several attributes, most notably country of origin. From that perspective, it's very easy to believe the author acted entirely in good faith and from a non-creepy perspective, without having to invoke the idea that it's some kind of sexual/stalking thing.
Every blog post about PHP mentions its 'easy to set up for non-technical people'.

I can't disagree more. PHP is as easy as any language should be. As if everyone implies the harder a language to use, the cooler it is.

In my understanding a smooth set up experience is a sign community cares about the thing. Extensive and up-to-date documentation means the community is large and not stagnating. A language easy to learn and use is a properly designed language. If the language is hard to understand and write code in, it should not exist at all.
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You too? Does no one understand my point that I am talking about stealing information to use it to make something? Not just to understand?
And just because a big site uses it the language does not become good either, see the availability argument. I think most PHP programmers would not recognize what's running at Facebook as PHP with all the customization they have done.
You can't polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter.
Why's that? Do you have any information to back this up? I'd be interested in that.
I keep hearing people mention Facebook as a reason why PHP is a great development language but they compile it down to C++ using their HipHop compiler, and from what I understand they develop Facebook _in spite of_ PHP ( http://www.quora.com/Do-Facebook-engineers-enjoy-programming... )
"Software (and tech in general) is a toxic and often extremely sexist community towards women. "

It really isn't. Maybe you get a distorted view because complaints get a disproportionate amount of attention (much like reports about crimes in the newspapers - most people overestimate the amount of crime happening, at least in Europe). Precisely a reason to deal with those complaints in a sensible way, because people like you already got the wrong impression.
I've asked a classmate about Android security recently and he complained about downloading a fake Yahoo mail app by accident. He only realized this after friends asked him what was up with the spam.

Just an anecdote, but I found it interesting that it was about the same freemail service as the OP. I haven't been able to Google a written report of it up though.
Mate, nail on the head.

The way I see it, is if the final item is as you've envisioned it, what difference does it make what it's written in?
Opera has user-agent switching built in. You can just masquerade as Chrome.
Quick tip: On images.google.com, go to 'Quick preferences' (either F12 or right click on the page), hit 'Edit site preference', then set the user agent under the 'Network' tab.

I'm tempted to do this for all google related services, because they are such browser prudes.
"PHP is easy to deploy on. That's it. That's why it's popular. It's braindead easy to go from text editor to web URL, it's braindead easy to unzip someone else's project and run it. It requires virtually zero sysops experience to be able to use. You don't even have to worry about setting those +x bits like you used to in the good old cgi-bin days."

And that's exactly why PHP is the better choice for those of us who distribute software to non-technical users.
I'd argue PHP is, for any project of reasonable size, harder to get up and running than say Rails. For any serious development a PHP developer (some experience, did several years of PHP dev) will have to setup a local instance of Apache/ MySQL/ PHP and deal with making sure libraries installed on this dev server match libraries on the production server.

When it comes to deployment for both Rails (in this case) and PHP you can choose between pretty automated providers like Heroku/ PHPFog which make git deployment trivial or you have to deal with server set up and configuration.

So I'm not really sure these days that for anything except the smallest projects PHP just works any more than any other reasonably popular web language?
Agreement. My "college friends" have all but disconnected, even though we are still nominally linked via Facebook(which arrived on campus around our second year). We've all ended up going in mostly unrelated directions. In the meantime, the internet has done unimaginable things for both my career and social life.

For help and research, there are online references, online discussions, online correspondence...even if it's all "informal" and done in an IRC channel or something, it's all out there and you can, potentially, spend 24 hours a day immersed in a subject.

And in making more connections, there's an odd feedback loop between the local gatherings and the online stuff. It can start at either end, but the two complement each other well by presenting different situations.
To put my comments in another light, let me postulate this. If I started a project in python, Go, ruby, C# or even something that ran on the JVM, I could give reasons for why I would choose it for something non-trivial. Outside of "I can hire cheap devs" and "I can run it on el-cheapo hosting", I can't think of a good reason to specifically pick PHP.
What about Twitter lists? I have created all sorts of lists without asking people first. No "women who do x" lists, but still - the idea was I think people creating lists of people who fall into a common category of their interest.

It doesn't seem so strange that people might be interested in female developers. For all I know, that list could have been compiled by another female developer who wants to feel less lonely.

In another context people will rush to present such lists to entice more women into the field. Also, the argument "there are almost no female developers (in OSS)" is common, so such lists might be handy to answer those arguments.

I was just considering how I would feel about a "black developers" list - sure it is a double edged sword, but I think it could be interesting/valid for the same reasons. People will gather those statistics anyway, and I believe public data should be as accessible as possible.
It really is beautiful. If I didnt know it was going to annoy me to no end like all windows apps do, I would try it. Very good effort.
No offense but even after some years still most npm don't come with any tests. Is that considered normal or to hard to do with the current javascript test libraries?
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Why an extension and not a greasemonkey userscript?
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Namespaces, closures and traits are "all the bells and whistles you might dream of in a modern web language"? Really? Now I understand why Lisp users are smug. And that's ignoring the basic syntax touted as a feature.

What I actually dream of in a web language (or any language, for that matter) is quite a bit more. I want to be able to get event-driven IO without writing event-driven code. I want to get parallelism for free or as easily as possible. I want to encourage smaller functions and reduced coupling. I want good, or at least decent, performance with no especial effort. I want a consistent and elegant underlying design rather than an ad-hoc collection of features somebody thought were useful.

Ultimately, I want a high-level, modern language that's concise, fast to write, easy to maintain and reasonably performant. And PHP is none of those things. Which is why it's no good.
Saying PHP is good because Facebook use it is kind of like saying phone hacking is good because it was utilised but some of the UK's most popular newspapers...

I'd be interested to know if there's any commentary from people high up in Facebook on whether they'd use PHP again if they were starting now?
Don't dismiss the legal situation so easily. This could be an interesting case.

First of, which law is to be applied? Philip and his site seems to be located in Germany, so german law, or american one, because of where youtube is located? Seems to be determined that german law it is. This is important, because it profoundly changes the importance of the ToS and wether they are accepted by simply using the service or not.

The case itself is also interesting. Youtube is a public available resource, the videos are accessible for everyone. This means that it might be perfectly legal to use those for anything, including conversion to mp3. In Germany, that would not be the case if they were proteced with any effective means, which seems to mean with any means at all, like basic encryption (even with a known-to-be-known key). For Youtube-videos, that does not seem to be the case, there is no protection.
This has to be compared to the needs of youtube (i think so at least, if the case is not clear already because of a definitve law), which most probably lose money from operating their service - for another service which earns money - without having the opportunity to earn any money with it (given their ad-based business-model).

Which means that the case can be linked to the discussion of property of digital products, with drm and open access. So no, i think it's not simply blocking access, end of story.
I'd love to see a startup create something like IBM Watson, we can all agree that's the future, right?
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