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Byte, Dr. Dobbs, MSDN mag, Builder and the early Wired I remember fondly. Reading it really felt like you were part of something special, like a private audience with some of the smartest people in the world.

Those magazines were also hard to get, I would travel by bus to a larger library in the city, or download what was available via BBS. Everything that was mainstream such as the PC mags was just complete garbage. You were lucky to get 300 words in a tech section, and even then it would be something simple like teaching a DOS single command each issue.

For me that has been replaced by HN, reddit, other aggregators and a much broader range of sources. The difference now is that there is enough high quality content that I could spend 12 hours a day reading it, whereas 15 years ago I remember I would read all the magazines within a week or so and then eagerly wait out the following 3 weeks for the next issue to arrive.

There is so much high quality content on the web now. If there is any complaint, it should be that it is difficult to find and surface. I would love a pure technical, programmer oriented community that is not news related but rather just interesting advanced tech related, picking out old good stories from those good sources or finding real gems in individual blogs.

Most online communities and aggregators are too focused on content from the past 15 minutes. Even an article published 24 hours ago is seen as 'old news'.
See "A Wild Sheep Chase." It's full of humor.
Why can't the "privileged classes" discuss these issues and have open discourse with women? As long as both parties have open minds, it seems like a far better way to walk in someone else's shoes.

I'm gay and think that it's hard for many straight people to understand some of the setbacks I've encountered - but I would MUCH rather talk about it to achieve better understanding than letting people assume that I'm seething and angry all the time.
I get angry everytime that I think about how a few vile people attacked Kathy and shut down one of the best blogs to grace the internet, Creating Passionate Users (http://headrush.typepad.com/).

After she stopped blogging, I wrote a program to scrap her TypePad site and then hand edited down all of her posts into a single, massive book. I printed a single copy on Lulu for myself which I've marked up with highligher and pen calling out all of her incredible points.

I don't want to earn any money from her work, so here's a link to download a free PDF copy of the best of her blog:

http://www.kevinmconroy.com/pdf/creating_passionate_users.pd...

It's print-ready for you to upload to your favorite self publishing book website (e.g. lulu.com) and print your own copy.

Thank you for continuing to inspiring me Kathy.
I have a similar problem, but I'm off by a year. I'm fifteen and have basically run out of any CS-related classes to take at my school. I have shifted into math classes (Calc, Stats) to help me get some "computation" this year at school. Just as someone who was where you are, I'd say don't get discouraged by what your school offers and try to work on your craft outside of school. Depending on how much you have learned about CS and programming, maybe learning more and iterating on some side projects would suffice. It's definitely something that is hard to get over, you're not alone. Keep developing.
"It would be a great metaphor if it were extended out to all the handicaps people face."

This. People often forget that 32.8% of Americans are disabled, including 27.1% of adults age 18 - 64. (According to the CDC.)
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Yeah, I think NDT has earned the benefit of the doubt when it comes to his sentiments about the importance of science and exploration. So yes, it is different than if some random schlub said the same thing.
Defamation per se is very limited under the First Amendment, and mostly historical at this point, dating from an era when courts would entertain prosecutions for calling someone's honor into question. To the extent it survives, it's been limited mostly to where "regular" defamation would also apply, to false statements of fact. For example, "injurious to another in their trade" can't be used to prosecute any comment that could harm someone's business, but only false factual statements that could do so, such as accusing someone of selling counterfeit parts. Nowadays the only real distinction is in showing damages: in a per se category, once defamation is proven, the plaintiff doesn't have to further prove that they were harmed, because harm is assumed in those categories.

I think mostly we're discussing something else here, angry and vitriolic "piling-on" responses, which is a different issue from defaming someone.
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Like most legal issues I don't think this one is so black & white.

I'm still not sure if government intervention was the right answer in Microsoft's case but the fact that some kind of government involvement (patents) is clearly bad for the software industry doesn't necessarily mean that any government involvement is bad.
We learned about it in CS201 in the University of Virginia. That's 2nd semester CS.

But it varies. I think now adays, the students don't learn about it till 300 level---the Principles of Software Development class.
I disagree. It is true that a male is hardly qualified to talk about how a female perceives things. But sexism in IT is an issue that concerns females AND males. A male should be allowed to say that, as a male, he thinks that he is annoyed by any kind of positive discrimination in the work place.

In the same vein, a white person is allowed to have an opinion on positive discrimination, an heterosexual is allowed to have an opinion on gay marriage, and someone who doesn't carry a gun is allowed to have an opinion on gun regulations.

Oh, and to defuse any bashing: I'm black, I have no opinion on gay marriage, or on sexism in IT (not working there).
Coding Horror has a write up on what happened, why it matters, and why you should be mad as hell that an incredible voice like Kathy's was silenced:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/03/death-threats-intim...
While I was at TC there was a hard and fast rule that if a story had already been reported on another tech blog that we wouldn't write it, even if one of the writers was 90% done on his or her version of the story.

The only time this didn't happen was when there was a pre-brief and an embargo, which we usually got a head start on anyway.

Arrington was strict on this rule and that was his editorial style. If you talk to any writer from that time period ('06-'10) they would each have a half-dozen stories to share of stories they had been working on being stopped because somebody else published the same story first. It didn't even need an instruction from editors, it was just understood.

(this isn't a comment on the 'new' Techcrunch, I actually like it, the rewrite content doesn't get in the way of good original content from being written, and it usually adds new information to a story).
They want to interview you on exit. It's not exactly startling stuff here---in fact it used to (and probably still is) a selling point on many products that you have a no-questions asked guarantee because so many stores wanted to badger you as to "why" you were returning an item.
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Glad to hear that! It's not easy, but it was definitely worth it :)
I've been seeing a lot of sites lately that I like more on mobile than desktop - this is one of them. I consider that to be a good thing BTW.
With a native grasp of aero / astro, can't imagine they had a lot of CAD or simulation horsepower. I have to think its a great story of fundament mastery.
This looks awesome. My concern though is giving a 3rd party access to my sites. There's not a lot of info regarding terms, security, data handling etc.
I am going to say this knowing that I am venturing into "downvote" territory...but...for every woman that really experiences sexism, there are two that exaggerate their circumstances (and to be fair, this is not at all exclusive to women, it applies to other "isms" as well). I remember one woman at a place I worked at filed a complaint about sexism because a coworker (kindly) asked her out. Maybe its not appropriate to ask a coworker out, but it certainly is not sexist (read the definition of sexism if you disagree with me). A good deal of it actually winds down to the fact that people do not understand the definition of sexism. Being hit on is not sexism. Even being sexually harassed does not qualify as sexism -- although it is clearly another type of bad thing. Sexism is the act of favoring one sex over another. There are women who do experience sexism, but I would say tech has more "reverse discrimination" than anything else. Objectively, I have seen some very average women programmers get hired into high positions just to fill diversity quotas (and yes, I do know of a few very smart female programmers as well).
I don't know how this failure happened, but I'm certain it wasn't intentional. IE market research has been tracking the effect of the browser ballot closely and found it to be almost completely negligible - the people who don't pick IE from familiarity / brand recognition are the same people who would have downloaded another browser anyway. They wouldn't have risked another legal/PR/financial fiasco over that. I'd really hate to be whoever's responsible for whatever snafu was the immediate cause ...
Relevant. http://xkcd.com/1118/
Fair enough. The future is bright, surely.
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Doh! Wish I had saw this yesterday. Just started work on my resume that has a similar style. http://resume.amccloud.com/
You were talking about how this is an unprecedented time in which a creative person can really leave the world different than he found it. My point is that I don't see any reason to think it's any different in this regard than it has been before.

I think it's a lot of naive optimism to believe that the current tech boom is unlike previous booms in its social impact. I see a lot of high-minded talk about the industry these days, but as far as I can tell 90% of the industry revolves around trying to deliver eyeballs to advertisers in novel ways. I don't see it having the social impact of even the interstate highway system much less previous revolutions.
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The definition of a monopoly according to the US government, is a 60% market share.

As Apple doesn't have a 60% market share on smartphones, they are allowed to do what they want.
Although, that'd be an increase in expenses, not lost revenue...
The tech community should have a discussion about the best way to move forward with CSS, but it will probably turn into this: http://xkcd.com/927/

Like it or not, CSS has legacy support built into millions and millions of devices that cannot be easily updated. Newer versions can come forward, but more likely than not, the best thing to do would be to build on frameworks such as LESS (or one of it's cousins) that allows you to code in a meta language. Combine it with some static analysis tools and you can create a system that warns you when you cascade too much (for some value of too much) and help keep you sane.
No, these are very obviously jokes, not insults. They include several joke tropes so that they're easily recognized as jokes.
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Maybe Gen Y are not the best consumers right now because they are over their head in student debt and the economy sucks :(
Here in Malaysia, we get 14 days off.

Then again, in Malaysia, engineers are glorified sweatshop workers with degrees.
This is a great idea, you can also make use of the free accounts offered by Heroku, Amazon Web Services, etc which are definitely good enough for learning.
Almost anyone in America is playing on 'easy mode'. The people playing on 'nightmare mode' predominately live in third world countries.
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It's just a little bit ironic that you can't express your opinion that an internet celebrity is overexposed without name-checking another internet celebrity.
I honestly think the web was better in the 1990s, period.
Waving my hands about the syntax and myriad literary devices in the book to distract the teacher from the fact that I had no idea what was actually going on. :)
In common usage, "sexism" doesn't mean what you say it means. You're technically correct, sure. But "sexism" is commonly used as a label for any socially unacceptable behavior related to gender.

Also, a word of advice: claiming something like "a third (EDIT: actually two thirds) of sexism complaints are exaggerations" should always be backed up by some sort of data if you don't want to look unreasonable.
The thing to do is just tweet that you're going to be taking a vacation from Twitter for a few days. By then the tweets will have died down.
I've ended up defining it as a kind of poisoning the well. I posted on both Reddit and HN about this and got some interesting responses:

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/r5zrf/is_there_a_...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3732508
I definitely think it was useful and thank you for writing it.

I understand the point that its like saying "you'll understand when you're older", but I also hope we here are wiser than the children who resent their parents for making that argument. That we in fact can see that its possible to be blind to what is happening around you just because you personally haven't experienced it.
Our team had a ton of fun. Hadn't participated since the very first rumble years ago, which we won in the design category.

Since we spend our days working on serious stuff, for this rumble we decided to do something funny (whether this is funny is actually up for discussion). http://getreadytojoust.com is what we built.
It looks pretty awesome, but Linode is not listed in the deploy option.

And yeah, security would be an issue for me. I would most likely set up a user just for DeployButton.
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I don't see a typo. The way I read it, Lopp doesn't believe that email cannot ever be used as a long-form communication method, but he sticks to a general rule of 3-4 paragraphs.
Hi Kathy, it is good you bring up these points as you did in the letter, it is definitely hard to see past privilege and assumptions.

I must say though, as a long time reader and fan, and regarding your modesty regarding yourself, that your design insights place you in the top 0.1% of developers, not average as you stated. Also, you mentioned you felt your looks were below average. I would normally never comment on someone's looks since it is inappropriate in a professional environment, but you mention in the article along the lines that you suspect your looks at 55 were not good enough to be discriminated against, but at 55 you were an exceptionally beautiful person, and again far above average. I thought you were closer to 40 than 55. I'll assume your coding skills aren't great like you claim since I have no idea about that as I've not seen your code, but someone with the level of insight into human factors/interaction design comes along quite rarely and your skills and insight there are remarkable and exceptionally valuable. Any company would benefit more from one Kathy Sierra overseeing design than they would from 100 of the best coders.
I'm moving away from bootstrap too, it's nice in the beginning but when you start implementing your own design you end up having to override everything and it just seems like a waste of time.

For my latest project I just started from scratch by building my own framework using Stylus, that way I can also avoid messing up my HTML with loads of additional classes.
Second that, it looks like maybe a cool gimmick for a personal site or small project but you are crazy if you would use it for anything important. Not to say the slick front-end wouldn't be useful, you should release the source code.
That's a neat use of JavaScript Source Maps. Unfortunately, it looks like you would effectively need to make your non-minified codebase public. Any plans for ways to get around that?
It's deprecated in HTML5, you should be using CSS to center elements. You can do this pretty easily:

width: 500px;
margin:0px auto;
Agreed.

I won't give read/write access to private repos unless I've committed to using your product and I fully trust you.

Right now there's not enough content on your home page to cross either of those bars.
It would be useful if you had a demo or explanation of the process before requiring Oauth. The bottleneck for me is that I don't want to Oauth via Github until I know I'm going to use your product.
True - when I say for every x there are two y's, I mean it more in colloquial terms (understandably that is not necessarily clear here), not hard statistics: that is, it is only my perception that there is more complaining about sexism than actual sexism occurring. It seems that the most vocal sexism victims actually experience the least amount of "real" sexism (like the girl who complained about being hit on at DEF CON). Again, these are just my perceptions/opinions, and I could easily be wrong. However, one thing I am certain of is that we focus too much of our effort on trivial cases of sexism, when we should be battling more important cases like countries that do not allow women equal rights.
You probably have done it already, but just in case: setup a personal website and create various freelancer websites. You wouldn't get called everyday but its likely someone will find you through one of those channels over several weeks. I have found that most people who contact me through those channels aren't from big corporate companies but rather people who currently hold a job and got an idea to implement. I am always doubtful of their success, but they can be more prepared and persistent than you think.
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Thanks for the input! I've been debating the merits of minifying HTML, CSS, and JS. I learned about all three of those extensively by exploring others' code. Minifying breaks that. How do you address that issue?
Hoping you'll see this even though it's two weeks later but would iOffice be interested in recent grads?
I think it's fairly natural for some topics to become third rails, if they attack views people hold strongly, or are seen to be outside the acceptable range of debated opinion. You even occasionally see it at HN: I recall a thread some months ago where someone expressed a leftist, vaguely anarcho-communist viewpoint on something, and got a flurry of replies that weren't really engaging the comment's content in debate on an intellectual level (if you don't like capitalism you shouldn't be typing this on a computer, accusing him of ignoring gulags, etc.). Certain opinions are just outside various communities' "ok to debate" range, which varies by community, and will get you piled on if you cross a particular community's line (trickier these days because web communities are very fluid and stuff criss-crosses between them).
check http://processing.org and http://www.openframeworks.cc/ forums, they both have communities full of digital artists and these are mostly the tools of choice for these artists.

London is actually a great hub for this kind of work with artists such as http://ww.chrisoshea.org/, http://toxi.co.uk/, http://www.memo.tv/category/work/, etc based there. I am sure there are local organisations promoting digital work, contacting these people and posting the above mentioned forums might be a good place to start.
"a third of sexism complaints are exaggerations"

Was not how he phrased it. It said there were multiple people experiencing similar activity. So that could be read as not everyone considers XYZ to be sexism. While anecdotal, the comment that this "should always be backed up by some sort of data if you don't want to look unreasonable" doesn't make any sense. The data quality, by definition, are what is being questioned. You don't solve such a problem by quoting similar data, and you most likely won't find "proper" data given the nature of the observation.
Looks great, just one comment: please don't use Disqus (or any other 3rd party service) for comments, they suck.
Observation: If you're going to write long-form content, use a serif font designed for reading. Changing the font from ars-marquette-web to Georgia immediately and drastically reduced the headache I got when reading this article.
None of them help much, but all of them together can help.

As I think to myself sometimes: Not a single step will be significant on a thousand mile journey.

I have earned a little more than 10k from freelancing in 2 years, (Still at university), but here are three places I got clients from: University job board, HN freelancer posts, profile on a freelancer website. I also had someone contact me on LinkedIn once but I didn't make it.
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These two quotes from the article seem a bit contradictory (italics are mine):

"From cars to association memberships, jewelry, and non-light beer – Gen Y just isn’t buying."

"Old-fashioned marketing won’t reach this generation that spends $200 billion annually."

Hard to spend $200 billion without buying anything.

Plus, not a single citation to back up any of these claims.
This blog post? http://antirez.com/post/different-take-sexism-it.html

I'd be curious how many people here find this beyond the pale. As a data point, I didn't. I don't agree with all of it, but I don't see what part of it counts as sexist, in the sense of advocating discrimination based on gender.
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My (extremely biased) favourite is Folder Chute :) http://folderchute.com
To be honest I can't understand your comment right now (I'm tooo sleepy - it's 5:35 AM!), so I can't comment on that. But the gist of what I was getting at was this: is government intervention in a free market "a good thing"? Even if it is to (temporarily?) protect us from the evil of Big Co.?
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Not the dev, but multiple canvases can improve performance by reducing redraws. This is best used with scenes with small moving sprites over a large mostly-static background (like the submission).
I'm not sure what you're seeing, but Linode is right under Heroku on the right side "your web server" list.
As Ben Rich describes in Skunk Works, the SR-71 was designed using slide rules and drafting instruments and tested in a wind tunnel that could only run at night because of how much energy it used. IIRC it was the early stealth stuff (an SR-71 launched drone and then the F-117) that ushered in the use of computers.