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Because being sucessful on mobile is about creating the entire experience. If any other manufacturer created their own platform on Android, they wouldn't have the Google apps licensed to them, and consequently wouldn't look as attractive to consumers. Gmail, Google Maps, thousands of apps on Google Play, all these are valuable assets that consumers wouldn't be willing to give up.

Amazon is in a better position than most but they haven't yet created a general purpose device. All their tablets are a window to purchase more Amazon stuff. If they could create an entire ecosystem with a proper device to back it up, they could probably up-end Google. But slowly, Android on tablets is taking off now. I mean, Google recently released stats for number of tablets activated daily, which they hadn't done until now. Maybe that's because Google feels Android tablets are finally making a dent in the marketplace.
> My moral basis is preventing fraud and punishing people who commit fraud.

You appear to be going far beyond dealing with fraud, and instead wish to suppress activity that's being undertaken without any deceit.

> If you want to claim to promote health, your products need to be shown to promote health.

That's fine. Note, of course, that the vast majority of supplement products contain explicit disclaimers on their labels (e.g. "These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA" and "This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease") that make allegations of actual fraud quite spurious. And, of course, actual fraud of the kind described in the article - e.g. selling a bottle labeled "Vitamin C" that contains no actual vitamin C - is entirely illegal with or without FDA intervention.

However, if I want to purchase a bottle of foo, honestly labeled as "foo" without making any unsustainable promises, and use the contents of that bottle based upon my own understanding of the properties of "foo", that's entirely my prerogative, and it's entirely my right to assume whatever risks the use of foo entails.

(Of course, there is the issue of defining exactly what it actually means to "promote health".)
What do you mean by "pithatician"? Really, absolutely no results searching the web or trying to translate it. O_o
thanks, will look into that
I'm not defending the "nobody uses it", it was an overreaching exageration, much like the graphic seeming to claim that IE9 had 54% share.
What really shocked me in Diablo3 were some really simple programming mistakes that never should have passed Q&A or even be implemented in the first place.

Like one where you could change your local computer time and affect the auction house online to cancel your account at will and get the money bidden on these items.

They either had to finish the product on a tight schedule and did not focus on core aspects of the game or they had no real talent on the project. But this has probably something to do with the day Vivendi took over and they had to deliver ROI at any cost.

WoW is still a first class game but we will see if they are able to convert enough of their player base to Titan. But it looks like the brand name is starting to lose value.
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thanks for the link. the article doesn't talk about those settings because I'd never tried them.
I like the Chromebook and Chromebox adverts, but thats probably just me.

When I see a statement such as "IE9 is better at blocking malware than Chrome, Safari, and Firefox combined" I think of it as some clever marketing spin. Reason being is if you got the malware issues of Chrome+Safari+Firefox and compared the result with IE9 malware issues and you see how some statements can be true whilst not being accurate. This is the issue with any sample based comparision. There are many forms of issues out there and new ones every day at times. Lets face it only last week IE9 was open to a expliot that the other browsers were not and was emergency patched by microsoft shrtly afterwards.

True answear is no one browser is secure all the time and if you come across a new unpatched expliot in one browser then the option to fallback to another browser is better than being open until it is patched.

From my personal experience I've found Opera to be the best out the box for blocking general crap. Shame that was not included in there testing, especialy if they wish to give out solid advice. Also note these are desktop browsers and in that, how mobile browsers fair is still a question left unansweared.
They don't even mention the United States.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/23/sex-traffick...
Are these savvy users the majority of the kindle users?
Sense and Motoblur are but very thin skins on android. Nothing like a end to end experience that Amazon has developed. No wonder majority of people hate these quick hacks.
> When did founding a startup become about proving how brave you are?

It's not. What I was trying to say (perhaps unclearly) is it seems like you're arguing a moral point, that since VCs can diversify to reduce their risk, it's only fair that founders get to do the same.

And that's true. If you're founding a startup, and want to pool equity with other startups, nobody is going to prevent you. But VCs might be less inclined to fund you too.

So it's a question of what matters more to you -- taking more risk and perhaps getting more funding, or having less of both.
Anyone remember the old Facebook gifts? The ones that were virtual? People even paid for those! I think people will for sure participate in this. Who doesn't want to extend a nice gesture to their friend.
"I don't know how that assumption would correlate with SV. The Peninsula and the SR237 triangle aren't known for their creative diversity"

It isn't an assumption. There's a lot of literature backing up the association (for a popularization, read Where Good Ideas Come From, by Stephen Pinker).

In any case, for many years the city was a bedroom community for Silicon Valley -- people worked in the valley, and lived in the city for the diversity and culture (which is part of the reason we have Caltrain). San Francisco has always been a draw.
There was a recent screenshot of Uncharted (a modern PS3 game franchise) highlighting the differences between the E3 build and the final shipping build.

http://imgur.com/a/S0uQc
There is a reason they haven't forked because there is a value in the ecosystem. What they have done is that the have starved Google of the revenue it makes out of android and that is where the opportunity is for major device makers which I don't get how they not see it.
I'm quite aware of what I'm talking about, but thanks for your concern.

Russian entrepreneurs get to pay off their national Mafia, while Windows developers get to pay off Symantec. Life goes on, I suppose. But they'd receive fewer complaints if digital signing didn't only improve reputation "twice as fast," whatever that means, in the words of the blog entry you linked to. The opacity of the process is as offensive as the core idea of basing reputation on how commonly something is downloaded.
Is it that surprising that there are a lot of good ol' boy companies and that they are perverse in ways beyond just not hiring women?

I don't think anyone is seriously claiming that women are automatically better executives.
My personal belief is that a diversity of backgrounds and life experiences outweigh intelligence and skill to a fair degree. It counteracts group-think, and fosters more innovation and creativity.

So don't feel guilty about how or why you got an opportunity. You came by it honestly, and whether Microsoft feels their benefit from you is due to your ability or your gender, the fact is you are benefiting them or they wouldn't give you the opportunity. Enjoy it and use the chance to improve yourself as much as possible.
... but most of them are a waste of your time to view

As a curious not-New-Yorker, what makes them a waste of your time?

(I'm coming from a rental environment where every available apartment gets 20 applicants, no matter how bad the place looks.)
so we've made a few changes since I'd initially done the ephemeral port tuning, the most important being switching to unix domain sockets rather than TCP. with that, we probably no longer need the ephemeral port setting.
It is working for me right now--I already downloaded my book free of charge.
Meh to 'risk'.

I've seen employers tell my ex- that they were looking for someone to commit to multiple years, not just be fly-by-night. She agreed, and was laid off two months later due to 'change in business direction'.

It's the flip side of 'at will' employment. Unless a company is willing to put it in contract, I would recommend often showing little hesitation in not being more open about your future plans than you need to be.

If a company demands/expects loyalty, can you say that you expect they'll show the same loyalty when it's not working out for them? In the vast majority of cases (and it's not even necessarily malicious), absolutely not. You'll turn up one day, have a meeting with your manager, and, if you're (very) lucky, get some form of severance.

Quid pro quo.
Except that this exact situation had happened in earlier games - see cube13's link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4583135
I've visited and/or spent significant time in San Francisco since considerably earlier than that.

I've visited and/or spent significant time and/or lived in numerous other communities, large and small, since considerably before that.

Here's a little secret: things change.

Hardware, drug, and book stores have been closing across the country and around the world with consolidation.

High-quality fresh/organic food markets, good cafes, restaurants, museums, and of course, restaurants, have largely increased in number over the same period. Even art-and-creativity friendly places such as the Crucible (in Oakland), Makerspace, and the like have popped up.

Do I miss some of the things that were and now are not? Sure. Do I appreciate some of the things which were not, and now are? You better believe it. Are there still fascinating reminders squirreled away in strange nooks and crannies that remind us of the old times? Yep.

The 1950s - 1970s creative boom occurred in large part because Northern California was an inexpensive place to be. Other parts of the country are now inexpensive (including such near-range locations as California's Central Valley, or even Alameda County -- no need to go back to Ohio, not that there's anything wrong with that). It's part of the dynamic. Art's still got to pay the rent, and if there's not much money in that, it needs to go where the rent is cheap.

And if you didn't think the Hippie culture was ironic, well, brother, do I have a grass bridge to sell you.
> A great broker previews every listing and only shows the best deals.

But that's exactly the problem -- the best deals get taken on the spot. Luck, not a good broker, makes you the first one in. And in the end, finding a good apartment, and finding a good broker (with that kind of access) are equivalent problems.

In NYC last year it took me almost 3 months to find a decent apartment. I found the broker on Craiglist (of all places), he pulled a bait and switch on the apartment he'd listed, but it turned out to be a switch for the better. I was the first one who ever saw the apartment, because it wouldn't even be officially listed until the next day, but he was friends with mgmt, and I said yes on the spot. I grudgingly paid the broker's fee, despite only having spent 20 min with him. But I'd already met with probably 15 different brokers (some of them just horrible) showing 25 different apartments (most of them just horrible) before that. In the end, it's certainly not like any broker saved me any time or money. I just kept at it until I got lucky -- most apartments, esp. the good ones, just seem to come with brokers "attached" that you're required to use, and very often exclusive brokers, which means it's not like any other broker has access to them anyways.
You need to first create an account (if you dont already have one).
I will avoid the "easy" joke that it's because so many sites balk at running properly under IE9 (oh... guess I didn't after all), and point out that I do believe that Microsoft understands they need to regain a certain amount of cred if they are going to regain the number 3 spot they need to be able to eventually take a shot at the summit again. I do think their development process gets in the way - in that they are setup not to be able to accept good ideas from the community that Firefox and to a lesser extent Chrome are able to. On the other hand, they have a better view of the corporate environment than the others, and I have to assume that will pay off at some point.
A thousand times this. I moved away from San Francisco (not by choice) last year, and miss it terribly. This summarizes everything I love about SF.
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The video is going to be what sells this product. I'll check back in once you have it.
There's a link somebody posted below about how it works: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/05/17/smartscreen-17...

It's a reputation system for downloads. Sure its something a antimalware can do as well but given that most software/malware gets downloaded these days, makes sense to have something like this in browser
what if the ad network has an incentive to not do it?
True, it is done with people whose qualifications are unknown. However, I would find it very hard to believe that the bias against attractive women in a "masculine" field would be removed as soon as you knew the qualifications. Diminished a bit? Sure. But removed? Unlikely. Your initial assumptions will give you a lens through which you view someone's accomplishments.
There is actually quite a bit of evidence suggesting that the reason why discrimination on gender is illegal in the USA is that the term was slipped in as a rider when the Civil Rights Act was going down to defeat, and then after JFK died in the rush to pass it they forgot to take that rider out.

See http://www.siop.org/tip/jan11/12highhouse.aspx for arguments both ways. (The one that I just presented was the conventional view back when I was being educated about women's rights some 20 years ago.)
It's rather like the online discussion site cycle in many regards.
A study found that this isn't really true for attractive women though. Attractive women who included their photo with their resume got less response than less attractive women who did the same. The result was the opposite for men.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1378298/Attractive-w...
In my experience, mixed-gender workplaces are a far better environment than the alternative. Last team I worked on was 40% female on the engineering side, and it was an absolute pleasure. Skills and productivity weren't disproportionately on one side or another, either.

Particularly, as a grown-up with a family, I appreciate the salutory effect that women have on subduing frat-house atmospheres. You probably find fewer women who think of themselves as rockstar ninja pirate hackers, but I'm pretty sure that's not a bad or uneconomic thing.
I over thought the sh*t out of that. Thank you for pointing out this obvious confusion.

I'm trying to simplify a extremely complex idea, and because writing is not my strong point, I'm bound to mess up. Thanks again.
Watching society deal with the fallout of social media over the years ahead is going to be interesting, if nothing else.
So the majority of the server market, and embedded market don't count as major players. (Also technicly android, but I think we are talking about GNU/linux)
> companies with more women at senior levels earn upwards of 33% more on important financial metrics

There are two major problems with that. First is that it's just correlation, "greener" companies also do better but it's quite likely that they simply can afford to be greener.

Second why is no one buying that? I mean, if companies with many women at senior levels really did significantly better, speculators would bet on those companies, their stock prices would jump and there would be a boom for female execs (http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/07/femfirmfinance.html). That is not happening.
I personally found the correspondence in the comments between Adrian and Eric (the author) more interesting than the article itself.

It kinda highlights the contradiction between what people say, and what people do. Fuck 'em? Sounds bold! But "driving a minivan with two baby seats in the back" well, that sounds...like me in five years.

Stated alternately, there's an awful lot of people online with regularly updated blogs, twitter accounts and other social profiles who seem particularly compelled to tell me how amazing their lives are.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/europeanspaceagency/3694621916/...

Check the lat/long co-ordinates.
Thank you so much for pointing these out. All things I am going to use to modify the .PDF-- I want it to be as optimal as it can.
The strategy you describe drops the bar for all employees in order to achieve a gender target.

This is not how companies operate, for the most part. If a company wants to hire 1,000 people and 10,000 applicants are in the top 1%, they will move the bar up to hire the top 0.1% instead.

Given a normal distirbution of applicants, there is a huge difference in talent (10x?) between top 1% and top 0.1%. The bar always automatically adjusts higher; otherwise, a competitor will hire the fraction of the 0.1% that you've passed over. Now the competitor has a 1,000 workers, and you have 1,000 workers, but the competitors are 10x more talented for the same pay (most of the 0.1% didn't get an offer from you, so there's no bidding war for their talents).

Actually, if a company spends more money recruiting each equivalent female employee than male employee, they do effectively drop their total hiring bar if spending more money lets the company climb the bell curve, because it's effectively a reduction in spending efficency, but that effect is small, and skill parity is still achieved.
Since it's not clear from the link, I'll clarify that this refers to resampling for map (cartographic) projections. For more on our recent work on extended projections, see the geo/projections plugin:

https://github.com/d3/d3-plugins/tree/master/geo/projection

And more cool mapping demos here:

http://bl.ocks.org/jasondavies
http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock
so are you saying its better to let download a (not so commonly downloaded) binary than to warn about it? Thank god you don't work on security software
they're trying very hard these days:

http://marketingland.com/google-acer-android-aliyun-21631
Amazon's differentiation is price and a content ecosystems together with a great marketing channel, not the UI. Nothing that fits the model of the device makers.
I keep a personal wiki too.

If anyone's interested, I wrote a (very small) vim plugin so that I can use an environment I'm already accustomed to.
(It just automatically turns WikiWords into links)

https://github.com/Qu4Z/wwvim

It's probably got bugs.
I'd guess an expert in being pithy.
It is unusual that all 5 people hired were female. But, remember that coincidences happen. There are plenty of schools in which all 15 people hired are male. Unless there is some reason why your school specifically would be set apart, I don't think this is anything more than a strange coincidence.

It's possible that something in the middle is going on -- a recruiter asked a professor for recommendations and he/she happened to recommend mostly women.
How many housecats have you met that can use vi?
You callin' me pretty, boy?
I remember testing AJAX in IE9, and I couldn't do any cross-site requests, which may be impacting the click frauds?

Although, I'm a nub and don't know how to properly code an AJAX call I'm assuming.
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I anticipated your response (not you personally, the point you're making). I agree App.net needs top-notch personalities with interesting content or discussion. I don't agree with the "no 'there' there" premise, however -- I've already found that in spades. But I'm of the tech crowd. If they can draw more people from the margins of the tech world who can pull their communities in, there were be a lot more "there" to go around.
Imposter syndrome is quite widespread. I first learnt about it from a law academic: http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2008/07/12/imposter-syndrome/

On my office wall hangs my degree -- first class honours from a good university. I still half expect that one day they will ask for it back, that they were just being nice because they like me.

My Dad has it bad -- very bad. He has > 50 years experience in his field. He knows more about electricity than most electrical engineers. I tried to convince him to join the IEEE; with his experience and knowledge they'd probably bump him up to Senior Member grade quick smart.

Nope. Not good enough.

This can actually be quite crippling -- he used to give away his services rather than charging for them. "Too simple a job, I couldn't possibly charge for it". He was not a successful small businessman, thinking like that.

It takes most of my willpower to ask people for money. Because surely, I'm not that good. Surely.
Actually I think Google's openness is a quasi. Otherwise you wouldn't see them blocking the acer phone.
The first Metroid Prime is one of my favorite games. Great atmosphere, soundtrack, and level design. I should get my Gamecube and run through it during the holidays.
You've effectively said "I wont hire women because they might go form babbies" on a public forum.

That conclusion can only be drawn by people who perform simplistic keyword matching and fail to comprehend what I've actually said.

Did you notice that I've also pointed out several times that there is some evidence that companies who are more willing to hire women are likely to financially perform better? And that I've also pointed out repeatedly that discriminating on the basis of gender (either way) is illegal?

There is a pretty big gulf between saying, "Here is the standard argument for discrimination" and saying "I advocate discrimination" or even "I would personally discriminate."
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Nice, but I haven't seen it. (No, tent.is isn't it.) It's not a technology problem, it's a user problem. Users aren't used to social networking being decentralized. You tell someone "Friend me on Facebook" or "Follow me on Twitter" and they know what to do. If a social network has no "brand" and it's like email where you can be whatever@whatever.whatever, finding you on that network will not be easy for the average Joe or Jane Doe.
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Next time I interview someone for a position at my company, I'm going to ask them for their Facebook password. If they give it to me, they will be automatically disqualified from the hiring process for lack of common sense.
The recipient is notified of the gift, then needs to input their own shipping address.
Actually, this is unfair to particular people. Two students (a man and a woman) walk by the job board for company X. Both of them are ideal for company X, and they would love to work there, but they don't notice the board, so they both take a job at Y for less money and are unhappy.

Now, rewind. The situation is the same, but nearby is a recruiter. The man walks by again, not noticing the job board. The recuiter does not flag him down. Now the woman walks by and the recruiter walks up to her and interests her in company X. She takes her ideal job and is happy. The man takes a job at company Y, for less pay, and is unhappy.