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> "The foremost cause of sexism is the fact that many males (consciously or subconsciously) perceive women as mentally and physically weaker"

If this is true, it is not a proximal cause and amounts to armchair psychology. Like I said, sexism today is generally institutional rather than individual. Since you may or may not be familiar with what that means, I will clarify: social institutions are the things in society which you as a member take for granted as aspects of social order, of norms of behaviour, of the sorts of social relationships which you may form with other people. (I like to think of them as: memes which organize societies.)

So for example, you are maybe technically correct that sexual harassment is not one and the same as sexism: however, a workplace that allows sexual harassment is a sexist institution, and to complain about widespread sexual harassment is to complain about sexism as a whole.

Like I said in the post you are replying to, you are trying to view sexism as an individual's act. But if you look at the way that sexual prejudice and sexual discrimination actually emerge you'll see that it happens because women and men have different role models, different social organizations, different education models, different standards of behaviour, and different norms about what sort of conduct is excusable or inexcusable towards us.

Let us return back to the case at hand: a woman has to fend off many requests for sexual favors and many absurd abuses (like licking her tattoo -- do you really think that this person also licks men's tattoos?) simply by virtue of being a lady at this conference. You may object that the individual requests are not sexism per se, they do not promise any special treatment to a woman if she accepts or any inconvenience to a woman if she declines. What you're missing is that taken as a whole the atmosphere generated by these requests does amount to a special treatment and an inconvenience, and therefore as a whole this is sexism.

In this respect you have been missing the forest for the trees.
>"Earlier this year Facebook revealed that about 5-6% of its 901 million users might be fake - representing up to 54 million profiles."

I've been singing this tune for a bit. In my experience, this is a big problem. If Facebook is saying this is the actual number, then consider is much higher. Facebook, as well as every player in their ecosystem, is economically incentivized to inflate the usage numbers. It's why Facebook is "worth" what it's worth, and how every single application on the platform is measured for investment. Games are literally ranked by their daily active users.

I spent some time combing through the data of an oldish FB game (as an employee), with about 300k MAU and 150k DAU. We figured that about 40% of the accounts playing on our game daily were fake, created solely to take advantage of any mechanics where it was advantageous to have more friends. Some people would have 10 or more accounts. Now there are businesses sprouting up in countries where labour costs are cheap who sell "likes"; you can buy thousands for less than a hundred bucks. Mostly fake accounts.

And this is only the blatantly fake accounts. What about the people who actively, honestly use Facebook, but have lied about minor details that are important to advertisers? Things like their age, sex, name, jobs, location, whatever? I did this myself.

And yet, the value of the advertising (and Facebook directly) is derived from these measures.

>"One, going by the name Agung Pratama Sevenfoldism, showed his date of birth as 1997 and said he had been a manager at Chevron in 2010.

>Mr Tinmouth said this seemed "unlikely".

I'd say.
Untrue. My daughter loves the 'Lego friends' range. She still loves all the other ranges, but they have done the range extremely well for people who love flowers, animals, etc etc.
You did not understand me. Using “gay” as a positive term isn’t a problem. “He came out first as a gay footballer” is a perfectly alright sentence. Using ”gay” (or “retarded”) as an insult is where the problem lies (with “retarded” the additional problem is that no one uses it as a positive term – and since it’s so overwhelmingly used negatively, using it neutrally isn’t really possible).

When someone tells you he likes My Little Pony and you respond with “Man, you are so gay!” then that’s a problem. You are using “gay” as in insult, as if being gay were a bad thing. That’s the reasoning behind why many people think using “gay” in that manner is a bad idea. That works analogously for “retarded”.

That’s not to say you can’t express, say, disgust at someone liking My Little Pony. “Man, your taste fucking sucks!” is a perfectly alright response no one will have a problem with (beyond disagreeing whether My Little Pony is good or bad).

Again, I don’t want to ban people from using “gay” or “retarded” as insults. But when they do I will call them out and explain my reasoning.
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It's because “We don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services.”
Just in case you see this (I left it a bit late)... My stance is one supported by Stephen Fry whom I absolutely adore. It's nice to see that at least he can accept the argument.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/04/21/stephen-fry-it-doesnt-m...
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That makes little sense. Placing new advertising takes almost no time at all. It's not like you need to consult the design department; your only creative on Facebook is 100 characters of text. One employee can create dozens of new placements each day. You advertise everywhere that's effective at the same time, not just the single most effective place.
> This issue is that studies show us vim's rules are wrong: modal editing is a source of confusion and error.

The so called studies show people who aren't used to modes are confused when using a modal editor.

> I used vi[m] exclusively for 8 years or so and until the very last day I could still make major modal based errors.

I have been using vim exclusively for 5 years now. And I stopped making modal based errors after 2 weeks. My anecdote cancels yours?

From what I have seen, people who leave vim in insert mode are the ones making mode errors. Insert mode isn't the rest mode for vim, normal mode is. You are bound to make errors when starting because out of habit, your mind assumes insert mode as the rest state.
Agile software development must be a conspiracy theory. When a corporate IT manager keeps hearing "embrace change..." whisper all around him, he starts thinking that there must be something wrong with their piece of software that's been running just fine for years. I guess it's good for economy though.
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Everyone wants to be a chief, not an indian. They don't want to be contributor #1987123 to a big collective effort.

If they can't be the visionary genius, they would prefer not to play.
The gif is so offensive to me I have to upvote every article to get rid of it.
Upvote for the story and for the last paragraph realization. Unfortunately many in our industry still don't understand that.
I agree that coordinating an army of people is difficult. Still I think more can be accomplished. There are lots of problems that need to be solved and I still think some problems should be solvable by groups of tens of thousands rather than one visionary. The next level of crowd sourcing?
If you think my examples are not valid then provide some you think are representative of what he was talking about.
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Well, using the :before or :after pseudo-selector and content property is a possibility.
Chrome on Android does this as well.
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> As for the "can you do this" thing, I run bash on Android. Can PowerShell run on Windows Phones ;-)

Seems like you need to ask "Google" about these things ;-) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8892357/is-there-any-scri...

To be sincere I also prefer to develop in .NET with Visual Studio than in Java. And, if you ask me about the mobile market ($$$) size, I prefer iOS than Android. I see a lot of crap on the Android Market and a lack of high quality applications.
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Firstly, the question was "there is no comparable system on the market with those specs," I was pointing out there was a system with those specs, which has already been cloned.

Secondly, the screen, battery, and about 50% of the time the camera, are NOT integral on the board. They plug into headers. I'm not sure who's misinformed you of this, but not everyone designs like Apple. And yes, I can "just remove the screen, battery, and likely the camera." I just don't plug them into the headers. How many EEs do you think are working in China for these manufacturers?

Thirdly, it's interesting that you have both insight into the margins of several different hardware manufacturers and also into the internal R&D discussions of Ouya to know that they are going to end up selling a $200 Tegra2 instead of a $99 Tegra3 device. Gosh, they should've just hired you, no?

Why so aggressive arguing that they can't do it? It's one thing to be suspicious (and I, am suspicious as to their ability to hold reasonable overall margins unless they intend to make over 50k of these), it's another to spread FUD that something is impossible.
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From the case data - the scam was going on from 2005 - at least. Thats way before Too Big to Fail, and even before the domino of the Mortgage Market fell.

What would have happened if they weren't bailed out can be answered - They would act the same way they were already acting.

The problem is with the financial industry. I promise you.

Heck, its not incentives, they just don't give a shit. Really. At one point someone was designing CDOs to explode, so that they could take the insurance money. Except that once financial jargon is applied to this, it stops being fraud and its starts being "caveat emptor".
EdIT: The creator of above trade would also be held in high esteem by his peers for its elegance. After reading what keeps coming out the industry at this moment, going to the forums, working with people in it, I have no doubt that they aren't evil by individuals, but irredeemable in aggregate.

Here - Information is power and what not: Annotated guide by the NYT covering the Order Instituting Proceedings. One of the first few links in the Parent article

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/07/10/business/dealb...
I have a similar story. Fresh out of college (in a non-computing related discipline) I went to work as a temp for a gas pipelining company. Their data entry system was obscenely awful- an Access database that was used like an Excel spreadsheet- entering in the same data over and over again in different forms. So, I optimised it. Added some forms. Made report templates that printed out automatically. Eventually I stretched the limits of Access and turned it into a full VB.NET (shudder) application. I tried to get the IT department involved but they refused to have anything to do with it- I couldn't even install Visual Studio Express because I didn't have admin rights on my machine- I had to use SharpDevelop.

All this happened while I was still an "administrative assistant" on a temp wage. After a time, I left- it was time, and in any case they'd said that my work was going to be replaced by an integrated SAP solution that would span the entire company's workflow. I moved on, got a much better job and have been programming off the back of that original job ever since.

This was in 2006. I spoke to a former co-worker for the first time in years about six months ago, who told me to my jaw dropping surprise that they were still running my application. Aside from anything else, I was blown away that the thing still worked. There's a certain morbid curiosity that makes me want to look at the code I wrote back then, I'm sure I would cringe. But hey, it's still going.
I believe he's saying to not use "placeholder" attributes to indicate whether a field is required because it disappears when a value is typed into it. Instead, you should use some helper text underneath the field.
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I have 2 products in a similar-ish situation, both of which I don't even remember where the source repo is to make a bugfix even if I had to....

But after a few outages that I had no clue about until days had passed, I did learn to sign up for Pingdom so I can at least reboot apache within an hour of the site going down
I agree that social systems should be designed to minimize the amount of damage corrupt individuals can do. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't blame the corrupt individuals for their behavior. The author mentions regulatory capture and specifically refutes it as a defense for bad behavior. I also don't think it is possible to build a complex social system that doesn't rely on trust. I suggest reading "Liars and Outliers" (http://www.schneier.com/book-lo.html) if you're interested in this stuff. I enjoyed it a great deal.
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Does anyone know the rule on when a user gains the ability to downvote? I've been here a while, but I rarely vote for anything. I still never see the downvote icon.
Shouldn't we just switch to dimensional measurements like millimeters, inches, etc and expect the operating system to use whatever metric it chooses to make it display size appropriate (pt, px, em, etc)?

I think the problem with this is that developers (me included) have enjoyed using resolution to to change the physical size components in order to gain screen real estate. Perhaps, shifting to a zoom/scale setting would be a better approach than tying ourselves to resolution.

Humorously, it would be kinda like a print guy measuring font size in fibers and the size of the type changing based on fiber density. :-P Then again, they probably do that.
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I'm disappointed their judging environment is a single core. Multiple cores are becoming increasingly important these days, and with more and more functional languages supporting parallel programming, it's a shame that those languages won't be able to show off their full capabilities on this highly parallelizable task.
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Mmmmm... Modality a mistake? Seemingly, it depends on whom you ask. People have been using it for millennia in their languages (many words change meaning according to their context, context being the "mode"). Musicians have been using it proficiently for centuries for their music sheets(notes on the music staff change according to tonality, tonality being the "mode"). Nowadays (most? many?) people use modality every day on their mobile phones (e.g. T9 has a modal keyboard). Could it be that studies about modality were flawed? I think so. For instance, if you teach modality in the wrong way, I agree you will "realize" that modality is ineffective. I had an hard time using T9 before being told how to use it effectively, and I have helped a couple of people who hated it as well. And I had an hard time using Vim before being told how to use it effectively.
Decades ago, a friend of mine (call him Mickey) was under a DEA investigation due to some bone-headed thing he did involving one of his acquaintances (call him Ken) asking him to receive a shipment from Colorado for him.

Now the fun part is another friend of ours (call him Jeb) was in the habit of making movie quotes when he started phone calls, so he calls up Mickey and leads in with a Lethal Weapon 2 line about "shipments", completely unknowning that the DEA was potentially tapping the call.

Because of the way the warrant was written, Mickey was able to wave off the tap on Jeb's call since it only covered calls from Ken. But it could just as easily led to all sorts of other problems since between friends, the level of discourse can go far afield of what a non-initiated 3rd party might consider normal.
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By the time someone aquires 500 points, they will likely have spent enough time on the site to learn the distinction between the two. While using text labels would be fine, I do not think that would be better than using the symbols.

The reasons for clicking may not be symmetrical, but the actions when clicking are symmetrical. The points go down with the down arrow and the points go up with the up arrow. This is symmetry even if the reason (agree, disagree, quality, spam, etc.) for the increase and decline of the points is asymmetrical.
I love learning languages. I chose 12 languages and made a plan to learn each of them for a month, instead of watching TV. That way, in 5 years time, I will hopefully be very happy to have made this decision now.
Business needs change. New suppliers with new requirements come in, it has to be adjusted to this accounting change, that personnel change, and Maggie retired, and she knew all the ins and outs of the system better than the current programmers.

That said, if we all went back to keyboard interfaces, green on black screens, and people who used the same software for 10 years and got used to its "quirks", software development would be a lot easier. ;)
I learnt French at school and did badly and then as an adult learnt French to a very high standard (I would call myself fluent and not bilingual). Something definitely happened to my brain as my French got really good; it was like I became two different people.
Yes, mine! ;) I'm father of one kid, additional twins expected in december. :)

I think it depends on the type of work. We're developing software, and this can be done practically anytime. Personally I go to office very late (to have some time with my kid in the morning), and often return early enough to also play in the evening. Then, after putting her into bed, I can work again until 02.00 AM.
But it's also important to mention that your wife (or spouse) has to tolerate this, too! :)

And to side projects: I think they're even more important the more time you invest into a certain single project, to look beyond one's own nose. They keep you open-minded, and sometimes even integrate into your current main project.
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Does anybody else see font tags?

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I can't find the quote, but Steve Jobs said something about all great human accomplishments being the result of teams.

I think most of realize there are large teams of people working behind all these great visions. However, it's not like tens of thousands of people spontaneously get together without the visionary and solved these problems on their own. It does happen occasionally (e.g. Linux), but, in general, the visionary is very critical.
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I'd like to just post "doesn't work". But of course a comment like that isn't very useful. On Mac OS 10.6.8 with Chrome, It will only drag the image around and does not apply any CSS3 animations whatsoever.
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Economics is useful, I never said the contrary, but how is homo economicus "real"?
If that's the case, then why does UIWebView under-perform Mobile Safari? (I know Mobile Safari uses nitro, but I have no idea what UIWebView uses under the covers). Also, Apple's known for being a bit slow to contribute some things back to WebKit. I wouldn't be surprised to see them not contributing nitro back.
I think that Rand is an excellent writer and she does have interesting, if idealistic, ideas. That said I have not drank the Rand cool aid. For example, the idea of totally dismantling the EPA (current republican political plank) grosses me out. Also, one of the few valid functions of government is to enforce a small set of laws. Remember that 50K new government regulations were created in 8 years of W. Bush and I am confident that it will be as bad at the end of the Obama administration. There really are no absolutes: different philosophies all have their own strengths and weaknesses, but in different ratios :-)
While you're correct to criticize to a degree, there is also something to be said for reducing complexity and preventing bugs by avoiding unnecessarily long algorithms.
Perhaps an icon to the right that is an X or minus sign that would collapse the thread could work.
In Case you want an idea of how LIBOR rates looked to people in the industry while this was going on -

"Frankly, anyone with a Bloomberg terminal in 2008 would have been in on this, as one could see that the rates various banks had submitted did not reflect where they could fund. Deals were getting torn apart all over the place because no one could ramp up funding at a decent rate, despite what those screens said."
.....

"But it was just accepted. A great number of people didn’t even clock that there was a whistle to blow. Why might that be? We’d posit it’s because they didn’t even perceive what was going on to be wrong, and that it probably has a lot to do with social conformity (within the sphere of banking)."

Source: - http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2012/07/02/1067701/libor-man...
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"This is the problem of intelligent people doing stupid things for selfish reasons."

I'm gonna disagree. What these people are doing is very much the smart thing to do. They make huge, I mean HUGE amounts of money by doing just these sort of things, and yet what was the risk for them? Even those people who are directly implicated by this scandal will probably just have to pay some fines, or maybe even be forced to resign! Dear god how will they survive? Oh that's right, they'll survive off their massive net worth that they stole.

I personally support a minimum sentence of life in prison. Not because I hate them or anything, no, it's a matter, as everyone says, of incentives. In any other crime the magnitude affects the sentencing, and these guys colluded and stole money in the billions, maybe trillions of dollars. If they don't all end up in prison, what does that say to any future banker criminals? It says: steal as much as you want, because even if you get caught there's really nothing we can do about it.
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Does using a usb powered/driven screen have the same problem? (as they tend to use their own driver IME). I know they are slower to update, but for monitoring use should be fine.
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My wife (Polish) and I (British) are currently trying to have a child, and very much want to encourage our children to be bilingual.

I've spoken to a couple of people here who have one Polish parent, one non-Polish parent, and all seem to agree that it's easy enough to keep up the "Mum speaks Polish, Dad speaks language X" game for the first few years. Both said, though, that the real challenge was keeping interested during their teenage years.

That appears to be the challenge; thinking long-term, does anyone have any experience being raised in bilingual households? Did you keep interested past a certain age, and if so, how?
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