skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in favor of questioning. But you weren't just questioning the process. You said it didn't work, that you had found "that any confidence gained by techniques like this would be superficial at best".

In this reply, you explain that you actually just imagine that. Which is fine, but it's not as strong as what you first wrote.
What? If you're writing software being able to produce clear documentation, write-ups, and other supplemental materials is quite important. In some cases, far more important than writing the actual code.

In some hires I've used a descriptive writing assignment, where I ask the candidate to describe in words what they are looking at. You can learn much from these things, including: analysis skills, close looking, how they think, and, well, how well they would document their software.
My point was that it becomes a small pool of potential hires. I was a history major with a love of natural language, btw.
Another significant event on that day was me being born. :-)
Just for the record, the shooting wasn't in Denver proper but rather in Aurora, a suburb to the east.
PHP 5.4.5 and PHP 5.3.15 released
Loads of bug fixes for FPM.

Overall over 30 bugs and includes a fix for a security related overflow issue in the stream implementation.
I'm seroiusly having difficult time figuring out how this is a "sexist" statement. It definitely is sexual, but I can't see how it would convey that women are inferior or that they don't belong.

Honestly though, I'm not a woman or programmer, at least not by trade, I have no idea how a woman would interpret this, so please enlighten me.
Hire him, but look out for lack of attention to detail.

In my last job they talked a lot about the difference between being "done" and being "done done". The latter requires significant attention to detail, and especially a lack of "it's someones else's problem"-attitude.

While the substance of the work would likely be done satisfactory and on time, wouldn't you want him to do the equivalent of spending 30 seconds reading the letter over once, clicking on the red squiggly lines? If those 30 seconds are not invested when writing an estimate, is he going to get spend 30 minutes re-fitting the foo to the bar, so it's perfect rather than just "done"?
A note to language haters
Cross-App model calling in Django
How about 0xDEADBEEF and vegetarians?
I encode my numbers in base 21, therefore I can use 0xB1GD1CK as a value. Anyone care to write an article about how sexist I am and shame my employer into a public apology?

Sarcasm aside, we ARE facing an issue in the tech world. People that objectify women, discriminate against them or even so little as treat them differently in the workplace should be shamed. However, this crossed the line (imo). Statistics suggest that this was written by a man but I can see a lot of my female friends (if they programmed) be comfortable enough with what they are to use 0xB16B00B5 themselves.

Heck, I'd use 0xB1GD1CK in my code if I could.
The nexus one (or at least some) had a similar issue. After a while the touchscreen became almost unusable. Turning the screen off and on again fixed the issue, but it was annoying. Seemed like a hardware defect, because it never got fixed by software. I hope this is not the same problem.
You could write a similar article about why you only hire people who eat with their elbows off the table, and it would probably be just as meaningful. I agree that the basics are important, but I disagree that it matters to the extent you're suggesting.
I don't see the big issue.
The phrase "big boobs" alone is not sexist.

If it had said "the only good thing about women is big boobs" this would be a different case, but it doesn't.
The phrase alone means nothing and anyone calling it derogatory or celebratory is simply projecting.
I wonder if that DOS policy will be the same for the new North America data center. I have a beta server with them and am enjoying their service but taking someone's service offline for a small scale DOS attack may be a game changer.
If they're good at what they do and not an imbecile then couldn't you give them a lesson or two in grammar. I was never taught English grammar at school - French and Russian grammar but no English grammar beyond learning a poem about it at primary school. I was educated in England, English is my first language.
That's fair. However, I don't understand what "objectification of body parts is". Men are attracted to big breasts, small waists and large hips, women are attracted to broad shoulders and big arms (or so I am led to believe).

Body parts are objects. I don't expect my broad shoulders to be able to hold a reasoned debate for long. What do you mean by objectification? If the fact that someone is attracted to "big boobs" and putting it in some source code is anathema, does the same thing happen with "intelligence is hot"? If not, why is one acceptable and the other not?

Granted, I haven't thought about these issues long, so my mind can easily be changed if someone demonstrates errors, but it seems to me that we went from "some men need to stop being creeps and hit on women at least during work hours" to "any mention of any attraction ever is forbidden".
I'm not entirely sure that we have locked out people without billions of dollars. I followed closely and commented on the low power FM rollout (I managed a college radio station at the time) and though it wasn't perfect, I do feel it was a major step. It allowed many small broadcasters to enter the market that would not otherwise have had an opportunity.

I don't have anything against whitespace spectrum (though I do feel it becomes a shoving match of who has the biggest tower), but there are certain applications that demand a monopolized spectrum, such as cell phones. If providers were not able to provide national, dedicated networks, the cell phone industry as we know it could not exist. This is not to say that cell phones wouldn't exist (perhaps just a patchwork of regional providers), but the level of seamless service that consumers have come to demand would not. Even a patchwork of regional carriers would require regionalized monopolies. Why would you go to the trouble and cost of building a tower if someone can just build another, larger one next to it?
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Applicants who don't think writing is important are
likely to think lots of other (important) things also
aren't important,

"Citation needed." Or to put it another way, what is the difference between this statement and:

Applicants who don't think wearing a tie and polished
brogues to an interview are important are likely to think
lots of other (important) things also aren't important
I was going to say the same thing.

'cut', of course, destroys the purely algebraic nature of the thing, and forces you to understand the whole search-tree and backtracking part of the language, but the basics work.
> (Yes, the double space after the period is a built in habit from typing class, and a debatable item in the computer age, but nobody seems to care one way or the other.)

Well, it does serve a purpose in the computer age - grepping for sentence ending.
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> Extenuating circumstances aside (dyslexia, ....

I'm Dyslexic and if I was applying for a job (obviously not to be a writer) and was told that there was a grammar test but I didn't need to take it, or it didn't count, because I am Dyslexic I would probably walk away. How do I know that they aren't going to hold my Dyslexia against me just as they would someone who has bad grammar? What's the difference between bad grammar and Dyslexia (obviously I know the difference ) the person you tested may have never been diagnosed with Dyslexia.
The Nexus One used to have touchscreen problems as well:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6296

Hopefully Google/ASUS will respond well with fixes. It really does sound like a heat-related issue affecting the digitizer.
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I don't know, I don't think your example sentence is particularly hard to parse, and I'm not a native speaker.
But I have to say, even as a non-native speaker, I just can't understand whats hard about "its" and "it's" and "their", "there" and "they're" and it makes me cringe every time to read such mistakes (as does confusing "loose" with "lose"). That said, I don't expect perfection but if I read a text that is littered with such mistakes and makes them consistently I won't read it because, for me, it's arduous to correct all those mistakes in my mind while reading.
Big boobs in linux 0xB16B00B5
I don't believe that sexual harassment is the only reason more women aren't in the field. The same level and types of harassment are found in any field. The problem is with the picture society paints of anti-social, acne-ridden males dwelling underground with only faint green light for illumination as the "computer geek". There are many other reasons as well including the lack of exposure to the field during education, the same goes for Engineering.
Hmm I can't think of an accent that removed the second E when saying developer. In my own accent it is quite accentuated. "de-vel-oper"

Which accents did you have in mind?
Even oxford discourages its use in public writing. http://www.ox.ac.uk/public_affairs/services_and_resources/st...
Why? People who don't get jobs because of their gender is a big issue. Why, of all problems, is this a big issue?

In my not so humble opinion, people are simply looking for something to complain about. If there were a supposedly man-degrading word that could easily be expressed in hex, I'd use that for debugging, too. There's absolutely no reason to think that the use of these words is somehow meant as some sort of insult, and taking it as such appears to me to show a very rigid mind.
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Related: I just noticed the original answer to the "How to be a brogrammer" Quora question got pulled down. Brogrammer backlash has been swift. http://www.quora.com/Brogramming/How-does-a-programmer-becom...
The difference between those two cases is well explained by the internal logic of the article (which I find spot on):

> In blog posts, on Facebook statuses, in e-mails, and on company websites, your words are all you have. They are a projection of you in your physical absence.
Zero-point energy, the origins of the Casmir force "may" (and this is a big may) be one day used as a source of energy

(Definition of 'may' in this case. As likely as finding and communicating with Alien lifeforms)

But the Casmir force itself is unlikely (for "ZPF" levels of unlikely)
To everyone saying it isn't fair...it's fair. I mean, they are his companies.

Stupid, incredibly shortsighted and very draconian, but fair.
According to Wikipedia, LCROSS had one visible light camera, as well has four infra-red cameras. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCROSS#Instruments. Presumably they were still cameras.

It was looking for water on the moon, so my guess would be that video just wasn't important.
Jews are atheist since holocaust--hate God.

God says...
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offerings.

29:12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an
holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a
feast unto the LORD seven days: 29:13 And ye shall offer a burnt
offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD;
thirteen young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first
year; they shall be without blemish: 29:14 And their meat offering
shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto every
bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth deals to each ram of the
two rams, 29:15 And a several tenth deal to each lamb of the fourteen
lambs: 29:16 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the
continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
You can take my life, but you'll never take my 0xDEADBEEF.
Regarding advantages for learning, via introducing concepts incrementally, Haskell has its own strengths over Scheme as well as vice-versa. You can start on both with "the interactive interpreter is a calculator!", and introduce the non-numeric data types -- but then, in Haskell, you can bring in the various monads to introduce other paradigms.

For instance: once the students have a handle on pure code, show them State for, well, state; Maybe/Either for exception handling; Writer for output; lists for prolog-esque non-determinism; ST for a richer model of mutable state; and finally IO for side-effects.

Also, I guess I like "getting them while they're young" when it comes to static typing -- it encourages a certain rigour of thought that I feel serves me well even in dynamically typed langauges.
As long as it's a reasonable test, you can argue its merits.

But on a site of mine, I've gotten so many e-mails complaining that I say "the data is" instead of "the data are", or arguing that either "what year were you born in" or "in what year were you born" or "what year were you born" are variously wrong, and only one is right (but they all seem to disagree on which one).

Beyond a certain point necessary for clear communication, one person's proper grammar is another's irritating pedantry.
My issue is if you're unable to delineate between "it's" and "its" and it's the language you've been speaking natively for the past 25 years, I tend to doubt your ability to know what form of "const" to use in C++. At the very least, lack of proofreading suggests to me you might be rash with your code as well.

Many disagree with me on this point of view, but routinely I've found that those that express themselves well in their native language write better code. That may be a self-reinforcing feedback loop because a lot of bad projects have a lot of terrible or non-existent documentation. And on a personal level I don't want to work with someone that communicates like a tween (NB: I'm not saying that you do, but I've run across it many times).

I also take a lot of issue with the "you know what I mean so you're being a pedant" retort. Not only is it wholly counter-productive, but it's not even accurate when you're talking about globally connected people. Quite frequently a non-native speaker will stumble upon what is written and be thoroughly confused.
It really depends. If you've looked at 100 candidates and one guy just knocks it out the park. He's an expert at everything you need. He wrote the framework that your company relies on and wrote the book that your team uses as the reference bible. Upon contacting him one of his sentences is "Im not available next week." It would seem foolish to not hire him -- at least IMO.
I'm definitely aware of people making women's lives harder, and some women say that even small things like these can wear you out eventually, but I don't know.

I mean, surely, if you reverse the sexes and this is okay, it should be okay as-is, too. The enviroment that makes women not want to be in tech would also not be okay if the roles were reversed, but this isn't an instance of that, as far as I can tell.
That's one reason. The reason why they need it for third-party applications is because that's what developers targeted, for two reasons:

1. It was the only game in town when the application was designed.

2. It was head-and-shoulders above everyone else. More, better, faster. Most people think you just throw SQL-99 at it, but then you're wasting your money. Look at their analytical languages, for example.
"Whom" is also almost impossibly archaic and no longer considered part of modern English (having almost completely fallen out of usage around the start of the 20th century). It survives almost entirely in discussions of when to use it and almost never appears in modern writing except as a demonstration of what linguists call a "prestige form".

"To whom did you give it?" vs. "Who did you give it to?" the latter is more modern and natural in modern English.
If he's talking about general grammar skills in any language then it makes sense. Poor grammar always stands out as a negative trait, but should not be the sole criteria to hire. Some of the best developers are immigrants and not always have the best command over the native language.

What if iFixit/Dozuki decides to expand into Germany or Japan and the OP fails on the basic level of grammar there? Will he be consider himself a sub par resource?
Then fight the people that are truly objectifying women and harassing them.

This kind of overblown press coverage for an hex value that is not degrading in itself serves only one purpose: making the sexist males take this issue even less seriously than they did before.

Try and imagine for a moment someone that truly degrades/objectifies/discriminates against women. This hypothetical person will not read this article and go "Oh I was wrong, I'll be nicer to women from now on". They think to themselves how ridiculous this is, perceive women as weaker (as is often the reason they have this attitude towards them in the first place) and go on their merry way.
You said it, they stink on ice.
> But grammar is just a set of arbitrary rules that some person or group of people decided were correct.

That's like saying the evolutionary tree of life is just a set of arbitrary rules someone came up with. It's not, it's a description of an existing evolved system.

Grammar wasn't handed down from on high by an authority, it's an evolved, undirected cultural artifact. There were definitely influential actors, like the (IIRC) monks who first developed the capitals, lowercase, and italics we now use without a second thought, or Noah Webster's personal preferences for spelling which he published and we now largely accept.

> To me, it says, "I went to a good school system and was taught correctly!"

I'm not sure. I guess it depends on the test - if it's asking "which is the past participle form of 'run'", then I'd agree, that's just memorization. But if it's simply asking "which sentence is more correct" and one of the sentences has an improperly conjugated verb, that's not something one even needs to be formally taught if they've read much.

If you can't string a sentence together such that it can be read unambiguously, how can I expect your code to be readable?

> I've met more people who couldn't figure out their and there or you're and your to save their lives who were both fantastically good software engineers and effective communicators.

I'd be willing to bet if you laid out two identical sentences, one with "your" and one with "you're", these people you speak of would be able to choose the correct one. They may not always use the correct one in the quick, ad-hoc process of writing a sentence, but I'm sure they know right from wrong if asked to scrutinize.
This Exquisite Forest
Don't get me started on 'curiosity' and 'judgment'.
> What? If you're writing software being able to produce clear documentation, write-ups, and other supplemental materials is quite important. In some cases, far more important than writing the actual code.

You are taking it to the extreme where there are only 2 states: grammar purists and monkeys banging at keyboard. Someone who mixes up "its" and "it's" is capable of all the important stuff you listed. I mix "its" and "it's" a lot while typing. I know the difference, my fingers don't.

> analysis skills, close looking, how they think, and, well, how well they would document their software.

And none of it is a result of good grammar. Are you implying that somehow good grammar leads to good analytic skills? Or are you saying talking with them gives you a window to their mind? If the latter, the window is wide open irrespective of how often I mix "it's" and "its". And how I prefer my period outside of quotes or parens(Why? Because I like it that way. That's why).
It probably won't change. Their US routers do not appear to be any different to the EU ones (e.g., they both intentionally rate limit ping to them so you'll see a lot of timeouts).
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Thanks for the deeper explanation. I kind of high leveled it there, but you are totally correct.
That sounds like a regional dialect. I've never heard it pronounced that way in the northeast US at the very least.
For me at least, I hope man goes back to the moon in my lifetime.

Dad has always talked about his memories of 1969 (he would have been a teenager at the time) and the excitement of it.

I feel like going back after so long will feel almost as momentous for some of my generation. Although possibly not the the majority, which is a little sad.
I'm sure you do both. Why would you ignore negatives?

Like "this guys skillset is great so were going to ignore that he was fired from his last job for laziness and that all his department left because of his sociopathic behaviour". Seriously?
Of course, Oracle and Microsoft are also major vendors of applications that run on their database servers. In fact, the application revenue for both is probably much higher than database server revenue.
In this case, 2976579765 should be considered sexist too!
it is NOT about being offensive, it's about creating an environment welcoming for all.
> If I tell someone I like boobs, should I issue a formal apology too?

Since you seem to think this is an appropriate experiment, feel free to start some professional/workplace conversations about big boobs and let us know how that works out for you.

Having to issue an formal apology seems like one of the more mild likely consequences I can think of.
This seems to imply that programmers never write natural language or that their ability to do so is unimportant.

If you're writing more code than natural language (documentation, discussion of specs, interaction with the team, etc) something is extremely wrong.
If they did that here, we'd need to find a new CEO... but the programmers would be in good shape.
I'm not saying they want to do that. I said it creates the incentive, not the action per se. Not all facets of a given incentive are acted upon.

I even understand the reason for the fee. It's to make sure developers give their maximum before submitting a game so they can avoid the need to patch and the fee in the first time. It creates an incentive for the developers, too... Hell, maybe it even costs more than $40000 for Microsoft to review the patches so they're being benevolent here and the whole thing is moot. I don't know, I don't work there.

My post was merely to point that, when one creates an incentive, there might be many sides to it, therefore one must be careful when creating incentives.

I'm an XBox owner who buys a lot of games (even arcade ones). I think it's the best Microsoft product I ever use (their awesome keyboards of circa 2001 being a close second). That XBox games on demand thing is just awesome.

Will try to be less succinct when commenting in the future.
I've been a long time proponent of CloudFlare. Usually they just speed things up and life is good. I've had a few minor problems where they 'clean up' some JavaScript and break it in the process, but those got resolved without any effort on my part within a few days.
I know I can't post on geek.net, but since apparently one data point is enough to ruffle feathers, my iPad had a non working rocker switch on the side ( the one that you can use to lock the screen or mute the tablet ). I had to send it back to get replaced. At the time I told everyone they should be concerned, clearly one failure indicates a real problem with the device.
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I don't think anyone pronounces it that way, because what everyone is saying is the word that is spelt "maintenance".

If you were to actually pronounce the word that is spelt "maintainance", that is how it would be pronounced, with the stress on the "ain".
You'd need some server side code to handle the form posts and this is not possible in static websites. Hence the app. This can even be done by using 'Google forms' and 'Wufoo'. However, they give you code which contains iframes. SimpleForm doesn't restrict you in any way, you just need to setup the form's action and method and you are set :)