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Not how I remember it at all. At that time Digg was quite a bit larger than Reddit. Then later Digg decided to really push the revenue generation, and users fled to the obvious free alternative.
Just yesterday I was searching for a decent coffeescript node.js generator, but the one's I've been using lately[1] haven't been up to date and this is exactly what I've been looking for. Thanks!!

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I guess. On Android, the app is part of Google Maps, all they need to do is click the "join Latitude" button. Not only that, but they can enable real time updates/etc.

I'm not saying this isn't a neat idea though.
V4 was definitely the tipping point and nail in the coffin for Digg. However, once the Digg community became to large it became difficult to find interesting stories about a particular topic. At the same time twitter, hacker news and many of the sub-reddits became great ways to discover unique content.

So a combination of poor product design, a selling out the Digg community and availability of alternatives killed Digg.
To anyone who's devoted a reasonable amount of thought to the subject, it should be obvious that it is a Good Thing.

However, this crowd is full of entitled young men who don't like the implication that they somehow had any advantage or are (accidentally or purposefully) discouraging anyone from doing anything. I have literally heard this argument leveled as I tried to explain this to one such rich young white male, "I don't see why women need any [extra consideration] in our community. Nothing stops them from going to school then getting a job, just like I did. ... I never saw a no-girls-allowed sign on the door."

Outrageous, isn't it? The response to the declaration of a problem is to deny the problem exists because it is still strictly possible for a woman to press through the constant stream of discouraging media, denigration, and implicit unfair treatment.

Which just goes to show how incredibly out-of-touch some people can be. And so articles like this serve as reference points during conversations like the one above.
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There should still be a mechanism letting you go back to where you were. I don't see the 'clicking more until I recognize where I was' being very user friendly. I usually open up a bunch of links in a new tab and then go read them. When I return to the HN site and click more, everything is gone and I have no idea where I was before.
I think this is intended as a general fact--I'm inclined to say "theorem"--about communities, and there was not much of a notion that you would need specific information about a particular community to say that the fact applied to it. Anyway...

One advantage of diversity is automatic specialization. Different people have somewhat different strengths and problems, and they develop different skills that are best in either leveraging their strengths or solving their problems.

This has the specific benefit that if some threat to everyone in the community suddenly becomes much worse, then (in a diverse community) there will probably be some people who are already specializing in solving that problem, because they or their friends (employers, customers, whatever) suffered from that problem in the past.

To take the case of a community that does open-source programming: If, suddenly, a lot of people start caring deeply about performance, it would be a good thing if there already were a couple of people who had figured out techniques to increase performance. Those people might be people trying to run a large business on a low budget, people who hate or suck at multi-threading and worked hard at making primitive operations go faster, people who hate low-level stuff and worked hard at learning to parallelize tasks, and so on. All of these people would have specialized skills that would now become valuable to the community, which could now pick up those skills more quickly and with less pain than if no one had those skills and they had to invent them from scratch.
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I laughed at the premise alone, but seeing the submissions and trying it out myself was a blast. Great work on this. I'd almost like to see an X vs. Y poetry slam.
This definition is entirely dependent on the internal mind state of the individual. The guy behind the counter of the local 7-Eleven may think he's smarter than everyone, and may think he should be in charge, but nobody thinks of him as an elite.

I'd guess most people today consider an elite as somebody who wields influence within a political, corporate, or other type of entity that itself is highly influential within society, and who is well connected to other people of influence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_quota

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerus_clausus#Numerus_clausus...

President Lowell of Harvard tried to impose a 12% quota on Jewish admits in the early 20th century, and also attempted to exclude African American students from residing in the freshman dorms. You can find similar behavior at other universities until well after WWII ended. For example, Georgetown's first black student enrolled in 1950.
I like the sentiment of reducing user friction, but one statement sticks out to me:

> And we chose Facebook / Twitter / OAuth right? Nope. It's a shitty position to be in when you have this large, deaf middle-man between you and your customers. Period.

Isn't the user's mobile carrier in between? While it may look less restrictive at the moment, I wouldn't be surprised in the least if (insert-your-carrier-here) changed policies on their network that restricted sending the information you need.

It's better than the FB/T/Y/G/etc. dependency, but only as a form of the UI. I think you still have a dependency there, and that dependency could be more volatile than meets the eye.
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Other Python/Outreach/Education Resources:

Python Core mentorship: http://pythonmentors.com/

PSF Outreach and Education committee: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/outreach-and-educati... - this is meant to help identify groups/etc for the PSF to help fund. Via the http://www.python.org/psf/grants/ program(s) (see also resolutions: http://www.python.org/psf/records/board/resolutions/)

Boston Python Workshop: http://bostonpythonworkshop.com/
(as a side note, see this great post on Boston Ruby: https://openhatch.org/blog/2012/the-steps-boston-ruby-is-tak...)

PyStar: http://pystar.org/ (https://twitter.com/pystarphilly/)

OpenHatch: http://openhatch.org/blog/

Women who code: http://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-SF/

Python Sprints projects: http://pythonsprints.com/

Software Carpentry: http://software-carpentry.org/blog/

PyLadies Main: http://pyladies.com/ (groups are popping up all over the US)

I'm probably forgetting a few.
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To be fair, if you invoked a "What would Jesus do?" people would be apt to get testy.

The underlying assumption behind WWJD is that Jesus is a deity or exemplar of some sort, and that his example serves as adequate precedent to predispose us towards his point of view. For those who do not accept those axioms, it's irrelevant, just as if you said "well would my crazy cousin Max do?", or "what would Mohammed do?"

Those examples are often times important (such as the classic "what would my mom do?"). But they have to be properly motivated. Just as the mom example can be gendered and unfair, unstated assumptions that elevate certain groups (Christians/Apple-users in the running examples above) are also annoying and tedious.

Steve Jobs is not the exemplar of all things good in tech. There's a difference between listening to the words of a great man (Steve Jobs once said...) and deifying him into an archetype and extrapolating based on that myth (what would Steve Jobs do). The former is often relevant, the latter almost never is.
If I understand you correctly, you are saying that the act of inviting a woman to a pillow fight is sexism regardless of the gender of the requester. If so then we can agree that the act is equally <what ever label you use>. We may disagree on what that label is. If you label it sexism, that is your choice. I would call that rude or aggressively forward.

However, if you are thinking that it is only sexism if the requester is a male, then I think we'll have to agree to disagree completely because I am not going to buy into such gender based biases.
Great stuff. Too often people don't give attribution to past projects. More often than not, they ignore them and reinvent them poorly. You are doing a great thing by bringing a time tested idea back.

I'm a big fan of true message passing and will check this out.

thanks!
The fifth site on the list (https://www.ifeveryoneknew.com/) of the guy that started that thread is pretty interesting.

The five points listed there are well known and well documented. Those are not crazy unfounded theories.

Yet most people I meet do not believe any of them. Why is that? Cognitive dissonance?
i disagree, most people that I read here are painfully ignorant of the past.
What is it about usability guys and their shitty, shitty websites?

That Tufte page is a wall of red (and red underlined!) smashed together links. Just needs an Under Construction sign and a starfield background. [I'm certain the content is very good - I enjoy reading/listening to Tufte.]

I remember reading an article from usability guru Donald Norman a few years ago, another person whom I respect and enjoy reading. His (awesome) article was all about how aesthetics matter and are a key part not just of being beautiful, but about being usable. I wrote him an email asking (nicely) why his webpage containing that article was so ugly and had such poor typography, then; he promptly wrote back saying that it'd take too much time to format it nicely when there's too much to do already. sigh
Money is a factor. A company is YC is not flush with cash -- the YC investment is $11,000 + $3000 per founder.

If you were building a start-up, and had to cut corners somewhere, think about where you might do so.
Here are some others that are interesting:

Vitamin Cr : http://vitamincr.com

Brain pickings: http://www.brainpickings.org/

Synaptic Stimuli: http://synapticstimuli.com/

Timoni's blog: http://blog.timoni.org/
This is, legally, the correct interpretation of the difference between "stealing" and "infringement", at least in the US.

However, the copyright owner is being deprived of their exclusive right to the content. They have the right to control who uses the content and for what (exclusive of fair use).
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your sentence made me cringe. thanks.
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> The notional size of the derivatives involved is on the order of $360 trillion.

Total worldwide wealth is estimated at only $200 trillion. These derivatives are not serving their useful function as a hedge and are instead being widely used for speculation.

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/detailed-look-global-wealth...
Being in Canada, we've been able to put our daughter into French immersion schooling (we only speak English at home... for now!). She's only in kindergarten and so we're finding it really hard to get her to understand the reasons why it's good for her to do this. C'est la vie :)

Although we see all of these awesome benefits in our friends who are bilingual, like I say, it's hard to get her to understand this. Instead, we just tell her how good it will be that pretty soon she will be able to talk with her cousin and our son (who are both about to start school the same way) without parents understanding what it is they're talking about. She likes that idea.

Of course, my wife and I are feverishly trying to learn it ourselves, too!
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This is an old argument, and I frankly think it was better made by the man who coined meritocracy:

[snip]

The business meritocracy is in vogue. If meritocrats believe, as more and more of them are encouraged to, that their advancement comes from their own merits, they can feel they deserve whatever they can get.

They can be insufferably smug, much more so than the people who knew they had achieved advancement not on their own merit but because they were, as somebody's son or daughter, the beneficiaries of nepotism. The newcomers can actually believe they have morality on their side.

So assured have the elite become that there is almost no block on the rewards they arrogate to themselves. The old restraints of the business world have been lifted and, as the book also predicted, all manner of new ways for people to feather their own nests have been invented and exploited.

[/snap]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2001/jun/29/comment
Since that is perhaps the greatest point of contention in the debate, of course it would make the discussion a lot easier if one side simply gave up and accepted the other side's position.
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Powershell isn't a wrapper for CMD. It's a separate interface for WMI, COM and .NET.
Actually Digg killed Digg with the redesign. One time after the redesign I went to the site and there was NO CONTENT anywhere. It wanted me to make friends with people before I would get to see any content.

I logged in. Still no content. That was the last time I visited digg.com, and I'm sure I'm not alone.

My guess is that if the acquirers just rever to the pre-redesign version Digg will come back to life.
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Missed:

http://opensourcebridge.org/

http://www.blackgirlscode.com/

http://www.girlswhocode.com/
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It's possible you're not American and thus unaware, but with black students in particular, it wasn't subtle discrimination, but outright bans: many universities, up until the 1960s, explicitly prohibited black students.
Since it's not linked from the PyLadies main page (AFAICT): PyLadies SF: http://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesSF/
I really wish mobile app developers (especially those from iOS) would look at the AccountManager on Android and actually use it. You only ever need to enter credentials once and the AccountManager will store them. Apps can ask for tokens from the AccountManager so they never get the actual password. And new apps can be installed that add themselves to the AccountManager list (eg Dropbox, LinkedIn, Skype etc do this). This is how it should work.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/accounts/Acco...

iOS drives me nuts. There was an old joke dialog years ago "Windows has detected that you r mouse moved. You must reboot for this change to take effect." The contemporary version seems to be "iOS has detected you want to do something. You must enter a password (yet again) for this to happen." I can't understand why people are ok with this - your password should be long and hard to type and hence virtually impossible to enter on a mobile device.

You can always tell the iOS apps that were ported to Android because they have their own UI for asking for your account information instead of using the system. They also almost universally believe you only have one of a kind of account - eg only one Google account. Who doesn't have multiple ones these days (school, work, personal etc)?
I'm quite a newbie as far as mobile web apps go, so forgive me for asking... is there a way to use your cell phone unique device identifier to log in on a web application ? Or does this article deal only with native mobile applications ?
I also recommend http://lesswrong.com/
You could generate a random number, let's call it a "cookie", and hand that to the device after a successful handshake.
Good on you.

Unfortunately male privilege, usually white male privilege, doesn't allow a large portion of the audience to "get it".
It seems like a mistake for him to have done this interview. The Japanese restaurant was described in way too much detail, and if he's trying to shed his goofball image this article doesn't help (just look at the photographs...). And that overshadows the more interesting and important part of the article, which is the direction Groupon is moving in.
This looks cool, but are there any docs? I don't see any linked from the page.
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The difference between good design and good enough design doesn't matter to almost the entire world.
> Of course there's a whole bunch of cases I'm happily ignoring, like banking apps, the App Store and pretty much anything with money changing hands.

Exactly as you should. It's frustrating when I have to make up a new username and password just to try out some service where the ill effects would be small if someone gained access to the account.

It's only supposed to take "a few seconds," but then I have to pick a new username because the one I used was already taken. That one too. Type in the CAPTCHA again. Also that one. Oh, and the password doesn't have enough numbers and uppercase letters (we could have told you our unnecessary restrictions in advance but we didn't). Type in the CAPTCHA again. Now the new password is too long. Now I have to make up a security answer (no, I'm not going to use the same info I give to my bank). Type in the CAPTCHA again. No, you got the CAPTCHA wrong, try again, and also enter your new password again. Now I have to log into my password manager to store all this stuff. And we're done! Oh no, now I have to wait to get an e-mail to confirm my address. Still waiting...

It's at the point where I often just bounce when someone wants me to make up a new password.
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love the idea, but logins are not dead, you just piggy backed on device/passcode combination instead of email/password combination.

PS: I have always wondered why PINS from debit card are 4 digits, and some random consumer product will ask you for a crazy complex password with at least 8 characters.
This is the NYT equivalent of blogspam. Also comes with standard patronizing rhetoric about how today's uppity nouveau riche elites cannot compare with what he knew when he was growing up (as others have also pointed out).
You're free to move to someplace where they do not impose taxes, like Somalia.

Of course, you will have to vie with various competing warlords, all of whom will demand "protection money", but that's the price of freedom from taxation.
I don't remember all details. My co-workers searched to understand the bug and he discovered that changing the creation date for just some second made the bug disappear. I then discovered he called the function with a bad argument. Strangely using an integer instead of a time object (I am not sure about that but you get the idea) will render the exact same result most of the time. I corrected the bug by using the right function call. I then tried a brute force search to discover for how many time the bug occurs. And if remember well there were two close period of a few second each during wich the function bad called render a different result. It was something like 17 second and 3 minutes later another 10 second. I believe I simply tried for the current year. I might have tweeted about it some years ago.
Not only that, but we're talking about what the press knows. The press is a lot bigger now, because we're all a member of the press. There's more news now because there's more capability to disseminate information quickly. In the "heady days" of the 50s and 60s that David talks about, our speed of information uptake was much lower than it is today. So to tie our current problems to a meritocratic system that isn't run (well, as deeply) by a caste of elites is just completely ignorant of the fact that the average person knows more than the average person did in the 1960s.
I'm not criticizing your broader point, but I'd love to see your source that the entire marketing department at Apple is male.
The README should be a good start: https://github.com/bergie/noflo#readme

I probably should migrate this stuff to the website...
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Design is not impressive. Need to be more clean.

Your logo looks very similar to dropbox's except the color of course. Not sure if this would be a problem later on if and when you hit it big.

Also, I tried to click on "sing up" without entering anything just to see what happens. The list of error message is too many and redundant.Do you really need to say "Password missing password?"

Password doesn't match confirmation

Password is too short (minimum is 6 characters)

Password Missing password

Password is too short (minimum is 4 characters)

Password doesn't match confirmation

Email can't be blank

Email should look like an email address.

Password confirmation is too short (minimum is 4 characters)

My honest feedback, not much for me to even consider signing up. Put more info about what padseeker does for me as a user?
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I would place almost all of the blame of Digg dying on Digg itself.
Are these ids in plaintext in network requests? What if someone at Starbucks snoops my request? What if someone steals/guesses my id while I still have the same device, how do I do the equivalent of resetting my password?
OK, so some colleges in the 20s and 30s discriminated against Jews and others (vast majority?) didn't. Your link goes on about Feynman and Salk going to NYU and MIT instead of their first choices. These men both easily found their way to the elite.
Its not for everyone. I think the reason that a lot of programmers like Project Euler is because a lot of programmers tend to be problem-solvers by nature, mathy and sciency folks, and enjoy doing these sorts of things (especially when they get to use their programming skills in the process). So its more of a correlation in my mind than a direct link.

I seem to be the exact opposite of you (Doing UI makes me want to jump off the nearest tall building. Scientific computation is where its at for me). And its great that our community has a wide range of personalities.
I think the OP has his answer.

In any case I do not agree. Design does matter even if there are outliers that break that mold. If you have no funding then you have to do what you can given your resources. If you have money you can allocate it wisely which is not the same as throwing it away.
It may be smooth, but my job is to make cross-browser HTML5 games (a great gig if you can get it) and almost all of my worries are 'solved in Chrome and Firefox' but that fix somehow is not available in IE9.

IE10 might, be better but then you have to deal with all the legacy people who don't upgrade. Also when it ships, it will still be behind Firefox and Chrome.
great build, but simply dropping repeaters on the ground so that the antenna is two inches off the ground won't be practical since even the smallest terrain changes will kill the links. Adding a few feet elevation to the antenna with a simple mast will exponentially increase the range without adding to much to the bulk of your repeater boxes.
BrainTripping is a lot of fun, but what I love about is that it's one of those ideas that is completely unique. Something I've never heard of before and then get to experience something completely new.

Once you get past the learning curve of knowing that the end trip is a mash of your thoughts and the original's writings, it becomes easier to see how to think on BT.

Kudos on the launch, and here's hoping for a bright future.
As I understand it, a lot of Microsoft's certification training materials and tests are Powershell oriented... instead of clicking around in GUIs they teach you how to make the changes via Powershell commands. (I'm not an MS admin but I've heard this second hand so my apologies if it's not completely accurate)