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Childbirth takes a huge and often unpredictable toll...

Sigh. You can continue to talk about birth|breastfeeding|hormones|etc as if my and parent's point was that those factors don't exist. Of course they do. The point is - please reread the parent and the grandparent - they exist equally for both men and women.

This is different for men.

If ever bigotry expressed itself more clearly.

I claim that I'm on very solid grounds here based on statistics and biology.

I addressed, and refuted, your facts, point by point. You responded with is, "I claim solid grounds based on statistics and biology", only to continue with an anecdote about some woman you know having carpal tunnel related to water retention. Uh, ok.

It seems that you think I have a stay at home wife who has never done anything in her life.

I neither said, nor implied, anything of the sort. Please reread my post.

My wife has a PhD in biology from Dartmouth College, and an MD from NYU. Can you claim accomplishments of similar difficulty? Can you honestly claim to have done anything with close to the effort of a medical internship?

Congrats on your wife having a PhD from Dartmouth. Not going to participate in your ridiculous fantasy where I am a defendant and you the supreme judge on whether I measure up to your wife. My proverbial dick is big enough, thank you.

I also spend rather less time thinking about sex than you seem to imagine.

Thanks for making my point for me. You said pregnant women/mothers live in a hormonal fog that makes them unsuitable for success in business. I turned it around and made up an example of how same bigotry could be applied to men. Now you know how it feels when the other half speculates on how your brain chemistry impacts your abilities, all based on cheap stereotypes. Feels shitty, doesn't it?

As my personal life makes clear...

Ah, the good old I Have a Black Friend™ defense.
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All manner of wonderful things look bad to such people.
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> For all of the digits (25.31 Megabytes) see:
http://prime.isthe.com/no.index/chongo/merdigit/long-m431126...

Damn.
This happened twice. Once at Yahoo, by engineers who really didn't want to understand product decisions, and then again at the new place, by people who didn't have access to the original product decisions.
Audio + video of the landing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCVySHDCqOA

Interesting writeup of the various alarms (beeps) that are going off: http://klabs.org/history/apollo_11_alarms/eyles_2004/eyles_2...

At 3:15 you can hear Charlie Duke say "60 seconds" - that's how much time they have until they run out of fuel and need to abort the landing.
Used Phonegap on 2 projects and I have to say, never again.
If you want to have the job done right and you want a quality product, go native. We lost days(weeks even) of time chasing an obscure bug in the location tracking of Phonegap. Also, the end result wasn't very good to be honest. It lacked the fluidity and responsiveness you have with native apps.

sure, you can develop things 2 as fast but then you spend all the rest of the time just messing around to get that "native feel".
I think that's incorrect. It's not like if being a CEO was harder that many technical jobs. In fact, it's usually a whole lot easier.

It is however about the amount, you're right on that.
There is 1 CEO and there are 10 000 employees. It's much easier to pay 1 CEO "a lot" than 10 000 employes "a lot". (and to become CEO you have to look good/smart/etc but you don't have to be or work hard. You can however stab people in the back in the name of capitalism all day long. I don't know many "big" CEOs who haven't done that.)

The only thing that really comes with a CEO title is the responsibility for other people's jobs. Large bonuses in that case make sense, but in general, they're already paid so well, that it's peanuts.

Being peanuts, they can afford the luxury of redistributing to employees. Don't get me wrong, I admire the gesture. But if the CEO wasn't paid so much to begin with, and bonuses weren't out of proportion, he wouldn't have done that.
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I did too and got one within 4 hours.
It will be interesting to see what's possible when or if we have supercomputers an order of magnitude or two more powerful than the present ones. The problem of producing software of similarly larger size is naturally daunting.

I think voltage etc is airtight abstraction mostly because each electron is guaranteed to be both simple and the same. Cells are both complex and distinct from each other (based on both genetics and internal physiology and so-forth). So macro-configuration of cells would seem to be a more leaky abstraction.

Roger J. William's classic text Biochemical Individuality describes how much the parameters of even very basic physiological functions varies from person to person. So unlike a chip which starts with simpler building blocks and is designed to depend on discreet inputs as much as possible, the simulation of an organism may not have a better solution than a bottom up design with perhaps a variety of clever shortcuts.
With the right bloke at the time and a team of complete drunken dimwits, well you might just be in the navy.
I may not understand this method correctly, but there seems to me to be an obvious way to generalize this method to work where the parties involved are not sending the same number of bitcoins. In their method, each person i with accounts A[i] to send bitcoins to the accounts B[i]. By using the sorted order of the public keys, the transaction from A[i] to B[i] is unique, guaranteeing that each person gets back the same number of bitcoins they sent. They also make use of a bitcoin transaction script to only let the transaction become valid if everyone involved signs the transactions they were supposed to. But why not just send any number of bitcoins, and distribute the bitcoins across the accounts in the appropriately sorted order? All that would be required is that each person announces not just their public keys, but also how many bitcoins they intend to send. Again, the bitcoins are sent using the sorted order of the public keys, except any time you are sending too many bitcoins to one address, you let the overflow go into the next address. Everyone would get back the same number of bitcoins, and it wouldn't be necessary for everyone to be sending the same number.
I always thought love of religion was the root of all evil. 809 million deaths[1] from religious wars, for example.

[1] http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstatz.htm
s/accumulation/concentration/ is more like it.
Generally you get a mutiny - or everyone leaves the boat. Hi Nokia :)
Startups: If you take a hiring test...
Recently, I came across a position at a Startup. Since it was a remote gig, the startup sent me a detailed problem to solve before discussing anything about the nature of the gig.

I liked the problem and hence, decided to solve it first and then talk to them. So I spent the entire next day taking a shot at the problem, carefully crafting a git repo to showcase my solution.

Once I submitted my problem, I was told that they would get back to me by end of the week.

Its been 2 weeks. I have no feedback whatsoever. I dont know what part of my solution they didn't like or if they simply found a local candidate.

I dont care if the reason for rejection is a local candidate. I understand that reasoning. It makes total sense for a startup to prefer a local candidate over a remote one.

But since they didn't reply at all, I am left wondering if there is something in my solution that didn't work for them. The 'developer' in me is very anxious around that.

If you give me a problem to solve, then I at least deserve to know if my attempt was right or wrong. Not replying/acknowledging at all is simply messed up in my opinion.

And I will not take 'things are usually crazy at a startup' as an excuse. If you are not investing in your culture, you are not investing in your business at all.
Not advocating a change of platform at all - Percona is a drop-in replacement for MySQL, and XtraDB is backwards compatible with InnoDB which gets much more performance out of multicore systems. Unless your server has one core, it's a no-brainer.
Apparently, my education was second-rate. What is 5-3-5? I could guess that the 3 represents the three paragraphs supporting the thesis, but I'm at a loss to guess the fives.
What are the odds of this behavior becoming a trend between CEOs?
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IMO, an even worse one is the MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco where MS abandoned it and the MS/IBM JDA after the SDK with a beta of it was already sent to developers. To be honest, the aforementioned JDA was not particularly good, but IBM ended up beating Chicago (Win95) by three years with OS/2 2.0, and during that gap MS used unethical tactics that was a lot worse than the JDA to attack OS/2.
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Oh, if only those were legal for Scrabble. (Not even possible, actually.)
True! And it's also very funny. (But a shade less so than the parents sentence.) Maybe our descriptivist/purist friends should start a campaign to bring back the dative.
Of course it takes considerably less guts if you already have many millions in the bank.
I'm taking for granted the question of whether there really is a supply/demand imbalance justifying high CEO pay. I didn't want to cloud my post with that aspect. You're right though, you can argue that CEO salaries are not the product of an efficient supply/demand equilibrium, but rather other things.
I had heard from square, but never bothered to look up what they exactly do. I've been surfing through their wikipedia entry and website (very nice design!), and it looks very intriguing.

Now the question is of course, who has had some experience with it? Is this confined to SF, other american cities? Does it work as elegantly as it looks? Paying with a credit card at a restaurant always seems to take forever, I'd like to be able to spare some hassle.
- http://bit.ly/OFM5cK

- Titanium at least still uses native UI. I believe that neither trigger.io nor PhoneGap do, though PG has a plugin to let you use some

- It requires XCode.
Because the technology for detecting such faking has improved dramatically since the 60s?
It is an extraordinarily interesting question.

Having multiple sets of same cell would only speed up the simulation under some circumstances. In the most general case, it wouldn't. For example, if a cell itself is a Turing complete computer whose computations matter, then you definitely need to individually simulate each cell.
If the attacker has long-term control (e.g. hostage, blackmail, etc.) this is useless.

If the attacker does not, you'll simply ask for help as soon as you're there.

If the attacker wants to impersonate you, a photo check will work as well and is much faster

The authors and the news coverage claim this offers some sort of rubber-hose defense but the only scenarios described are either contrived or duplicate more proven techniques (e.g. duress codes, biometrics)
Ho, stop!

When you buy a product, you pay for what it is, not fir what it can be.

This whole idea of free features for ever, is not economially viable in the first place.

It only works as long as they can keep getting new customers at a high rate. But at some point, that will slow down. Then they can either build a whole new product, or try charging current customers again.

My point being: you cant pay a fixed one time price for a service, only for a product as is. If you want constant new features, you should constantly be paying for their constant work.

So no. You dont get to complain,
Under $25 million.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/20/3172365/sources-google-spa...
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Where Steve Blank Went Wrong About Art, Science, and Entrepreneurship. 
(Don't worry, Steve can take it. He's right about nearly everything else :P)

I recently read Steve Blanks post - Entrepreneurship is an Art not a Job (http://steveblank.com/2011/03/31/entrepreneurship-is-an-art-not-a-job/) in which he talks about what is missing from the lean-startup solution stack. Steve was making the point that there is something missing. That just teaching people this set of solutions does not make an entrepreneur. (I think I know what is missing, but I’ll leave that for a post Monday). Here I’d like to take issue with the Art vs Science distinction.

In my experience Art vs Science is a false dichotomy (unless used in the narrow sense of a lack of objective standards of success in art, though I could point to many passionate researchers turning out papers no one reads on topics no one else sees the beauty in..).

For people outside of science, the science they are exposed to just works, because it’s finished (its highly verified, already in books and the people who have discovered it are dead). It’s like only looking at established companies.

The act of science at the bleeding edge, as opposed to the end product, is extremely analogous to building a startup. You are in unknown territory with a huge number of variables, and you have to feel your way to a solution. You fail often, usually for 2-5 years, and it’s almost never clear what the best route forward is. You fail and you fail and you fail, until one day, hopefully you don't. Then you start again.

Like the lean startup solution stack, no one has figured out how to train scientists to do this either. Many fail, many quit, and many can't remember at the end why they are working so hard. Spend some time with 4th – 12th year Graduate students in, say Physics, and you'll find them going through all the same emotional ups and downs that come with creating something new where there is no road map.

I think what is missing is the same thing that is missing in the education of scientists. It has to do with solving really hard problems. How do you attack a problem and fail over and over for month or years and preserver. I think it has to do with happiness – how you lose it, how you gain it, and how you protect it.
Well, my team publishes in both, and the team-wide rule is to always put alphabetical.
Cue Inception music.
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In truth, I hate these Indeed charts…but then, I started it, eh? Live by the sword and all that.

Some additional perspective: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=java%2Cruby%2Cpython%2C%22...

The Java market is massive. Nearly everything else is essentially background noise compared to it. I'm skeptical that any single language will ever have the same reach as it.

Runtimes, on the other hand, are a different story. The JVM, standardized JavaScript engines, even the CLR/Mono to some extent: polyglot sandboxes where you have the leverage to use whatever language will get the job done. That's a huge win for, as you put it, good-to-great hackers, trying to find the edge of what's next.

'course, that's a wash to a loss (i.e. increased risk) for those with the enterprise mindset. Thus, Java 8 with its closures may very well consolidate its position in such environments.

Glad you enjoyed the book, BTW. :-)
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My current grammar peeve is when people end a question with "... or no?" "Are you coming over tonight, or no?" "Do you like this outfit, or no?" "Do I sound like a teenager, or no?" What's up with that?!

Do any of you find yourselves talking like that, or no?
The source for the program used to generate the words is on the site. It's a pretty scary Perl program.

http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/math/number/number
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For those looking for a replacement: http://postbox-inc. I actually just switched a week ago from Sparrow because I wasn't happy with the way it makes unread mail disappear all the time. I'm growing to love PostBox, and the experience is not hugely different.
You're forgetting about interactions between the cells.
I would say that we're definitely not identical, but we can all be equal.

A better question, though I will answer yours shortly, is what does equality mean? It's simply the relative value we assign something. The thing is, we can think in terms of valuable and not valuable or we can skip the duality altogether and see everything on an equal level. A spade is thoroughly unvaluable if you have no hole to dig yet indispensable when you do. So what is it's absolute value? Is it equal to a saw? Is one person equal to another? It all depends on your perspective.

The problem with seeing inequality between people in terms of respect is that you will treat some of your fellow man badly, since you don't respect them. If their value is merely a matter of perspective, which is ever changing, would it not make more sense to see past our biases and show everyone respect, whether they are equal to what we currently identify as respect worthy or not?

To me, respect means to consider someone in high regard. In my experience, how I look at people ends up affecting how they act. People always tend towards living up to the expectations placed on them. By showing someone that I don't respect them, I am pushing them down rather than helping them up.

Putting it another way, when someone is on the defensive, because someone else looks down on them and does not show them respect, they close up and are not receptive to new information. By showing them respect even if they are bad at something, they are likely to listen to what you have to say and change how they act as a result of your words. Disrespecting someone with - "you type like an idiot" or ignoring them, will make them respond appropriately. Validating their actions - "cool, a more condensed form of English!" then suggesting something else - "I've had lots of success finding a job by writing like this", they might actually change.

If we want society (and spelling) to improve, we have to embrace those we call idiots and teach them, not push them away.

If someone is an awesome programmer but can't write English to save his life, why not educate him? You'll certainly have a more loyal employee if he feels that he's gained important skills from you.

tl;dr - Disrespect is damaging, respect is nurturing. Respect everyone and the sun will shine brighter.
I'm the author of the popular Mac Instagram Client "InstaDesk" (http://www.instadesk-app.com) and I can only confirm this. The reason why I started this whole thing was because I was fed up with working in corporations and not being able to control my life. Now I can enjoy the sun during the day, outside, sitting at a lake, and work late into the evening - or vice versa work at the lake.

Even if a huge corporation would offer me a lot of money, I still wouldn't want to join since I would loose so much more. Money doesn't make me happy, freedom does. So, as long as InstaDesk (or other, future, apps) generate enough money for me to survive, I really doubt I would sell (with the exception that if the offer is, just as Marco said, really good and the continuation of InstaDesk is guaranteed).

However, a free life where I'm not obliged or controlled by anybody is just so so so good. (I say this after having worked in IT companies and startups since 2000).

So yeah, support the products you love, and spread good news about them, and give them good reviews.
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Being a long time instapaper user, thanks for sticking with it.
You're comparing two things which are the same. A 20% jump in efficiency per worker is precisely what CEO's are there to create.
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I've often experienced what I like to call 'déjà-vous at scale'. Many times while re-watching a film or re-reading a book, I recognise that my mind, triggered by some apparently inconsequential detail, has spawned a series of thoughts identical to those I had first time around at that very point in the narrative. This has happened months, sometimes years apart. I'd be interested to know if this effect has been studied and what the conventional term for it is. Occam's razor would posit that I am simply experiencing déjà-vous from a moment ago, but the qualitive feeling is very different from the déjà-vous I am obviously familiar with.
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Oddly the app was on sale a week ago: http://blog.sparrowmailapp.com/post/27116220357/499sparrow
On the opposite, I work in an office with enormous windows, and people always turn the light on even if the sun is bright and shinning outside. SO DEPRESSING.
And yet, my Nexus 7 is perfect.

Making a offhand comment like 'Get what you pay for' seems to indicate you think paying inflated prices for Apple gear would be the better choice.
Funny because the only "real" difference between reddit and digg is the fact that reddit has an unlimited amount of categories. That and people seem(ed) more interested in the reddit categories than the comparable digg ones.
First, I should note that I've been doing a lot of language stuff in Haskell and OCaml lately, so I might not be entirely representative.

Also, I've only begun looking into abstract algebra. While I have a good idea of the very basics, I don't know much besides.

The first thing that got me interested in the subject was rather domain-specific. I was writing a simple Prolog interpreter. In Prolog, there is the concept of a "most general unifier" (MGU). Given two expressions like f(X, 1) and f(2, Z) it's something like (X=2, Z=1). If the two expressions can be unified without any substitutions, you have an empty unifier. The match can also fail (you can't unify f(1) with f(2), for example).

During resolution, you have to combine these MGUs together. This combination behaves algebraically. I'm pretty sure it's associative and commutative. The empty match is the identity and the failed match acts like zero. I think there is also another reasonable operation--rather than combining them, we alternate on different possibilities. This then acts like addition: the failed match becomes the identity element. (That is, given a choice between any match and a failed match, you can only choose the other match.)

If I had known more about the subject, I suspect writing some of the code would have been much easier.

Since then, I've also looked into more general uses of ideas from abstract algebra. The Haskell standard library has some types from abstract algebra like Monoid, and there are some other packages based on those ideas as well. And, of course, abstract algebra ties into category theory naturally, which is going to be useful in both haskell and OCaml.

So the first patterns I noticed were inherent in the problem, but using Haskell and OCaml is convincing me that they are common to programming in general.
A bit off topic, but anyway:

In buddism, the term for discipline is the same turn used for morality. ( they dont make the distinction )

You, here, interrestingly, suggest that a relationship between morality and guts.

Im not agreeing or disagreeing with anything in particular here. Just considered the contrast interesting.
The authors are claiming that it helps against duress but the system as described only does so in the most limited theoretical scenario where the attacker and defender both have significant, contrived restrictions. There's a reason why you remember those retina scanner tricks from movies: in the real world, security is about protocols and those tricks would fail in any realistic scenario short of, say, aliens with body-sculpting nanobots.

As a trivial example: this system assumes a single attempt in a guarded facility. What benefit does this offer over a duress password which our poor hostage provides knowing that it will trigger a full security response and locking out of their access? For that matter, why not have the same guard who looks for tricks check your face against the employee database?