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One of the common gender asymmetries of parenting is that a father's "more active role" is more likely to be as "the fun parent." Dad takes his daughter fishing and coaches her soccer team instead of taking her to get a haircut and serving on the PTA fundraising committee.

When our child was two, on my Saturday's as caregiver because my spouse was working, the day was organized around a "big adventure." When I was the one working the weekend, the house got vacuumed and the week's groceries got bought...our child got fed and bathed, too, of course.

On my days in charge, I got to be entirely present. The priority was a walk in the woods, not the laundry. The all of the article is cherry picked. The all that is expected of women is far more encompassing.
I was ready do disregard this as long-winded blogspam, however the line:

> You wake up every morning with a clean slate. But within seconds your mind dresses you up in all the lies for the day.

Excepting the weak grammar, really hits home. When I wake up, I'm certain that I wont be going to work today - it doesn't make logical sense.

By the time I get out of the shower, I'm frantic about all of the things I need to do today.
thanks for the feedback, the elo-system is the ranking system of chess players - and it works quite nice and was used often for problems like mine.

I'm planning to do a ranking algorithm - kind of like facemash (http://www.facemash.com.au/) but you have to log in and your own rating has influence on your votes.
I'm not saying I favor their solution, just that it would be consistent since they fought for it when the right wing had majority rule.

The biggest issue I see is, since it would involve some sort of administrative power to redistribute, it would cause pretty crazy costs and inefficiences, thus annihilating the intended effect.

Now, cutting Hadopi is a step in the right direction, but I don't see this government leaving it be afterwards, since "let the market decide" is really not a popular way to do things in France, especially among socialists.
Regarding your PS: Valve hired him as "cheif economist". This article explains it all:

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/it-all-began-with-a...

I seem to recall an HN discussion about it, but am too lazy to track it down :).
Or you "need" to buy a house now (circa 2006) before all the good ones are bought up and you're out of the housing market boom.

Man, if I could go back in time...
OK, lets get rid of the corporate sponsors, and charge £1000 per ticket instead. No, let tax payers in the host country pay more for the event, because as every Brit knows, we are not paying enough as a country, are we? Or lets sell exclusive rights, and then renege on the exclusivity part.

How do people think this all gets paid for? Already the games cost the UK more than double the original estimates. Business subsidises the games, to get exclusivity. Not only that, inside that actual games they have zero presence. So of course they will protect what little they bought. And yes, it is little. Look at the corporate graffiti over ever other sports events, like the football world cup. There is none what so ever with in the Olympic events themselves.

I read here many people being reasonable about facebook and craigs list protecting their assets, but the Olympics cant? How is that? Who can afford the complete costs of the event with out the money of the corporations? Must it be a "socialist" paid for by taxes Olympics alone? Is that what people are saying. Olympic spirit? Well, that costs money.

Choice people, take the corporate money, or your government and the fans pay. Choose. But if you want the corporate subsidy, don't complain about it afterwards.

Or should the Olympics be play out in a field in the middle of nowhere so that no one can watch it at all? The only other way this works is if the UN pays for it, or something equally stupid.

It simple: its a very, very expensive event which happens every 4 years. It needs corporate money to fund it, or no country, other than a super power, can afford it. It has to be exclusive, or there is nothing what so ever in it for the sponsors with out that exclusivity. That exclusivity has to be protected, or no deal.

Do I like that? No. Do I like the fact that most of the big sponsors are not British? No. But guys, lets be real, the money has to come form somewhere.
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This is an excellent answer. Peter Thiel uses some similar ideas in his answer about why people form companies: http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/20400301508/cs183class1 :

If we want technological development, why look to companies to do it? It’s possible, after all, to imagine a society in which everyone works for the government. Or, conversely, one in which everyone is an independent contractor. Why have some intermediate version consisting of at least two people but less than everyone on the planet?

The answer is straightforward application of the Coase Theorem. Companies exist because they optimally address internal and external coordination costs. In general, as an entity grows, so do its internal coordination costs. But its external coordination costs fall. Totalitarian government is entity writ large; external coordination is easy, since those costs are zero. But internal coordination, as Hayek and the Austrians showed, is hard and costly; central planning doesn’t work.

The flipside is that internal coordination costs for independent contractors are zero, but external coordination costs (uniquely contracting with absolutely everybody one deals with) are very high, possibly paralyzingly so. Optimality—firm size—is a matter of finding the right combination.
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Weighing in to agree. Or maybe just to pile on.

I'm a new father and I already can not count the number of times my wife and I have already been asked the cutesy "so how many diapers has he changed?" question.

The automatic assumption that I'm just going to phone it in -- not to mention the assumption that my wife would put up with me, were I that type of person -- has already strained more than a few relationships.

Never mind that my wife had a difficult labor, unexpected surgery and was stuck in a hospital bed, leaving me to handle everything other than breastfeeding, for the first four days and it never even occurred to either of us to call a grandmother in as a ringer.

We just always planned on each doing as much as we could and so my stepping up when she couldn't was the most obvious and natural thing in the world. At least, to us.

Seemingly half of everyone we know expected I'd hold my daughter just long enough to hand her to my mother and then head back to work.

And as to the people who see my wife out and about and ask in shock/concern whether it's a good idea/whether I can really handle looking after our infant daughter by myself while she so much as runs a few errands ... I have never actually been so angry as to see red before.
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I've had no more problems with the Lion machine I upgraded to Mountain Lion than I have with the two machines I did clean (USB stick, NetInstall) installs on, and the same was true when I moved from Snow Leopard to Lion.

With that said, there are fewer things that can automatically go wrong in any clean install (as opposed to the things that can go wrong manually with a clean install, like forgetting to deactivate Adobe CS, or that scripts accustomed to sshing in to your server don't take kindly to unannounced host key changes).
6.002x is an amazing course (it's the only EdX course that has run so far, but they have a great platform).

The Udacity courses are generally slightly easier (e.g. they avoid the low-level details of the maths), but I really enjoyed CS373 (Programming a Robotic Car) and CS212 (Design of Computer Programs).

The Coursera courses are a little hit and miss in terms of quality, but Quantum Computing and Design and Analysis of Algorithms are both very good.
Valve provides the connections and environment of trust without which spontaneous order can't occur. It also flattens peoples risk profile (lower risk, lower reward), which is actually quite desirable for most human beings.
Seeing as humans are mammals, there might be a biological argument which could be raised.
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Economic profit is a function of land, labor and capital. Taking out profit from labor still leaves the other two; You still need shareholders to finance the initial purchase of land and capital, and the shareholders still demands compensation for risk.

The corporation becomes unnecessary overhead if the company is owned by the employees, but then you have issues of what happens to the equity when an employee retires, and thus having an employee become a shareholder.

I think the word I'm looking for is a collective, and looking into the past, despite Valve I still don't think it works. The very idea has caused the deaths of millions of people implementing it.

I think Valve is a great idea; the idea being, the employees of the company get to decide everything in the company besides a few hard rules. Example:

Rule 1: shareholders get 50% of the profit.

Employees can decide how much is spent on profit-sharing schemes and salary versus how much to save for the company, to invest in new equipment, whilst following the rule. Employees dictate all aspects of business strategy.

Failure to abide the rule simply ends in the shareholders dissolving the corporation.

Ideologically it doesn't differ much from corporations you see today. The CEO, an employee, typically has free rein over the company until he does something really stupid, in which case he gets fired by the board. This "new idea" is simply making a hierarchical organisation a horizontal one, i.e. all employees are now co-CEO's. You still have leaders but they are distinguished neither by status or wealth.
Would it be fair to say that "costs of transactions" are in some part due to government bureacracy and taxing?

And could it be, that certain structures are less optimal (profitable) for the single "firm", but more optimal for the economy as awhole. Could there even be a distinction?
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I don't have enough knowledge of native graphics libraries, nor of WebGL, to speak to the core issue in this article. But, as a young'n, the last line really strikes a chord with me.

I will never experience the joy people had fiddling around with their Apple II's and I still don't know the first thing about the Commodore 64 besides the name. My attitude toward the "How will the kids ever learn unless they can tinker with it?" nostalgia that comes up on HN has always been: "Meh. No one I work with had an Apple II, and we all still ended up as tech-types."

That said, the first computer I owned myself ran Windows 98, and the first thing I learned to do with it was noodle around in HTML and JavaScript. Well, Okay. It was second thing I learned to do, after installing Sim City 2000 and wasting a week's worth of time.

It was very poignant to realize all at once how the internet provided a chance to be part of an easily-accessible ecosystem, one where you could tell a computer to do something and it just did it. Even if it was in a browser.
Friendster did the same thing. Look where it is now. https://www.google.com/search?q=friendster+who+viewed+me
It looks like there's a third-party product built on top of Dropbox that is HIPAA compliant: http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/15/dropbox-tigertext-announce-...
Why do we need an API rating agency?
I remember reading an article (can't find a link, it was the local paper) that highlighted that when my mom and dad when to college (1975) the average college student could pay approximately 44% of all their college costs by working part time and during the summer. That figure has dropped to 17% now, and that's why students are taking on more and more debt.

The problem is that colleges know that magic statistic that on average people with a college degree earn about 1 million dollars more than those without. So they can raise costs because it still pays to go to college and they're taking a bigger share of that future 1 million dollars in income.
I just want to point out that search results like Quora or Experts-exchange, are definitely not going away. Some websites might be penalized here and there but I haven't seen any consistent efforts to stop them.

In fact, Google wants even more such results. See First Click Free: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

Oh and here are 240 million login-walled pages: https://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:groups.google.com/grou...
Headline: Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously.

Reality: Quora launched a feature called "views", announced to everyone upon logging in that it was automatically enabled, and is disabled with three clicks from any page on the site.

I wasn't particularly happy when I was opted in, and immediately turned it off. Then, after a few hours, I turned it back on and saw that it was actually a pretty useful feature to see how people were getting to my content. I noticed that a few of my followers were "connectors" of Quora, through which half or more of my views on an answer came. This, I feel, is useful and relevant information.

Yes, being opted into a less private setting is unsettling, but I trust Quora at least as much as any other company. This is the first time I've been opted into anything, their settings are incredibly easy to figure out and are granular, and I trust the people that run the site.

I'll add that this seems to bother non-users more than people who actually use the site regularly.
In my experience if production environments are different from development ones then you haven't automated enough. Modern machines are so powerful there's no reason not to be running the full stack on every dev desktop, built from the same process that builds your live servers. You might not catch performance issues before going into production, but outright failures should be vanishingly rare. Deploying frequently is valuable but more of a side effect of having a good build process; the real value comes from it being automatic and reliable.
You realize that London is in the U.K., not the U.S. right?
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I had to can a project recently after spending over a month fruitlessly trying to get a response from Google's support resources.

On the up side, I made $70 and learned some interesting stuff.

But here's yet another way for Google to run false positives which send you into their black hole of non-support. So one of the things I'm still learning is "don't let Google be a mission-critical part of a project."
The grammar on that is also confusing. Is it IP && (impersonation || deceptive behavior) or is it (IP && impersonation) || deceptive behavior?

If it's the former (which is how I interpret it), then they should tell you what IP you've violated or who your accuser is. I understand they want to be vague to avoid giving information that may allow spammers to game the system, but I think they're going to be more persistent and sophisticated anyways. This leads to an ineffective deterrent technique and a poor experience for customers. You'd figure Google would have people smart enough to realize this.
The immediate solution is simple: Settings -> Views:
Allow others to see what content I've viewed in feed: No (yes) -- change to no.

It's creepy and disrespectful that they would turn this on by default and it looks extremely desperate which makes me doubt quora's financial stability. Which in turn makes me not want to spend time contributing to it (not that I've made many contributions).

But this is the sort of thing FB would've done in their place... So I don't know, maybe their staff simply has no understanding of how people feel about privacy.
The Ivies are actually selling exclusivity by attendance along with acting a filter for employers: only the absolute top students have any chance of being admitted and physically attending.

The quality of education obtained at the Ivies is not part of that.

An interesting question to consider is whether admissions to Ivies followed by independent, autodidact study can work around the actual attendance. "Here is my online coursework portfolio, research, and my admission acceptance letters to Yale and MIT . . . "
Meanwhile, other people study and work their whole lives trying to cure cancer or end poverty.

I am sorry if I can not really get into the admiration thing. Doing sports seems to be a very self-centered, egoistical thing. The only thing I can accept is that it motivates people to push harder and explore boundaries of human achievement. Also, some medical knowledge might also actually be gained (like how to train effectively - this could matter a lot in a world of office workers with little time for exercise). But for those effects the expense seems a bit high.

Also in the light of those benefits I think drugs (doping) should be legalized for professional sports. Those people ruin their bodies anyway, letting them experiment with drugs can only lead to more medical knowledge.
There is nothing about java in the article (ba article title) and it as usual tries to compare a framework to a language.
Thanks :) There's also a zombie mode easter egg which was fun to make: http://yaysarahandmatt.org?zombie
> reconstituted potatoe

I've never seen a deep fried reconstituted potato called a french fry. The closest thing I can think of do that is a tater tot.
I'd be OK with this if I could click on a search result link and actually read the web page; I wouldn't mind other links on that page leading to a please-sign-up.

The scummy thing here is that you're taken to a web page where the interesting content is hidden on the first page.
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I didn't know about this one, I'll check it out. Especially looking forward to an OSX package, as OSX is really lacking in pixel editors.
Unless I'm mistaken, the Old Spice videos that were going out in 30 mins (or less) were going out online, not on (very expensive) broadcast.
Haha, our definitions of "darn fast" are a little different I think. Has anyone told this guy that NBC's Olympics are not in "near realtime" ?
I almost cried, that was a beautiful use of technology :)
I hope they forbid everybody to talk about it or refer to it, except for some obscure TV network nobody watches anymore. Then maybe in a couple of years, nobody will care for the Olympics anymore, because nobody will ever have heard of them.
I can't relate. Its not because I don't have children. I've basically had children since I was 13. Well, they were my sister's kids, but I still took care of them as they were my own (in a way).

I recently had to watch a few of my sister's kids while she was touring with the Army. This was for a year, and the kids were pretty young (twins at one years old and another 3 year old). They were a handful, but I was always up to the task to take care of them. That involves, nurturing, feeding, disciplining, educating, cleaning, playing and interacting. Its a lot of work, but it can be done.

In away, I see them as my children, since I've been around they everyday for a year.

Long story short, it wasn't because I was a girl that I successfully took care of my nieces (for that short period of time). I'm a dude. I don't find it strange either. Parenting really is just a task. How well you do correlates to how much effort you put into it.

Its a lot of work to take care of kids as well as take care of yourself and your occupation. Perhaps this is the reason why we have marriages. Having two adults makes this task much easier. So lets go back to the subject on men being great parents and a great employer/businessman. It can be done. We are not aliens. We are no inept. We are human. We have as much of a chance to be successful fathers than any women being successful mothers.

Its all about effort.
The web platform is rapidly improving for games, on all fronts.

The HTML5 offline (appcache) spec allows you to have resources available when offline (and you don't need to write your own code to stuff things into localstorage...) Besides, localstorage is not considered, by browser hackers, to be the best idea performance-wise. They recommend IndexedDB.

Those specifics aside, my main point is to say that game makers are targeting the browser and browser vendors are very much aware of the pain points they have and are working to correct them. Browsers today evolve much faster than they did a few years ago.

(obdisclaimer: I work for Mozilla)
I think I know why women assume men can't raise kids. As we all know, at some point the biological alarm clock starts ringing in a majority of women's ears and they want to be a mother. The urge is probably such that they see it as a job that they want to do for themselves, and that a husband taking care of the child is removing them from that which they want to do, similar to a temp being hired to do part of your programming for you. I'm not speaking about all women, of course, just the ones that make comments insinuating fathers are incapable of being a primary caregiver.
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I was in the same boat: My wife carried twins and had a rough non-delivery followed by a C-section. She couldn't hardly walk for the first three weeks, and I took six weeks off total, so I pretty much did everything that didn't involve mammary glands (but I did have to wake to feed them extra milk from a bottle).

And not that I kept track, but it took a looong time for my wife to catch up on the diaper count.
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I completely agree with your first point, but I do think that the majority of people using git probably don't have more than a single remote. I am sure there are those few people that are tasked with pulling (and hopefully, pushing) to the upstream, and likely a deployment remote like Heroku probably exists behind some process or script.
It's a long comment so I'm breaking to a second reply.

A horizontal company to a hierarchical one is akin to a group of amoeba compared to an animal.

As a group of amoeba grow, it simply splits into multiple groups. An animal will grow very big, much bigger than any single group of amoeba, but it is vulnerable. Stab it and it dies; once the central nervous system is dead, all other cells will die off eventually. You can't stab a group of amoeba. To kill amoeba you have to kill every single individual one.

Large companies today are much more likely to make mergers and acquisitions than to make divestments. Divestments are only made when a group within the company appears to be unlike any other. I think horizontal companies are more likely than large companies to make divestments. The only other horizontal company I know of, Semco, is an example that is evidence supporting this; it is a company controlled only by employees. At times it has split off its services as separate companies, with the separated companies remaining horizontal, and most of them are very profitable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Semler#Semco_1990.E2.80...
Did someone manage to grab the text from this article? I couldn't find a cached version.
This was the main reason why I wanted Sarkozy out. That and the fact that he created "e-g8" as a way to get even more countries to do the same. He was very dangerous for stuff like this.
The only guarantee you have against a situation like that is to not use the platform. I would never rely on FB, Twitter, or even a single cloud provider. It's necessary that one be able to pack up and go if there is a sudden policy change or price hike.
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