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While and rather excellent article on why the IT field is a suitable career, good grief, the sexism politics has really entrenched itself into people mindset.

It almost boggles my mind. Here some supposedly sexist snippets from "scenarios you may occasionally find yourself in when working as a girl in tech".

Colleague: “So...you are the new designer?"
(As if "so...you are the new Foobar" would not be said to any new hire. if I got a new boss, my first word might be "so...you the new boss? hi my name is so and so!". How and in what way would that be sexist remark, and does it matter if the new boss would be female or male? would it matter if the position is boss, developer, designer, sysadmin, or sales?)

Useless male developer has written some crappy code that he doesn’t even understand himself anymore. Now he needs to extend it with new features and asks you to do it.
(As if female developers get exclusively dumped with fixing bad code. Especially if its a new hire/consultant/out sourced, how does this surprise anyone? its even a saying that "the new guy gets all the work no one else want". Does it matter if its a female or male?

so for mega-upvote, the article has some issues. Its better than the normal articles we see, but its not 10 times better.
I'm not sure either, but I doubt that Chrome or any of the badware-stopping features that are built in to it cause the URLs they're checking to be indexed. I'd be even more surprised if Firefox did this.

If you've got the toolbar installed though, I'd be less surprised if they tried crawling or indexing URLs you go to.

EDIT: It looks like they've explicitly said the toolbar does not cause things to appear in search results: http://www.seroundtable.com/google-toolbar-indexing-12894.ht....
Have you played World of Warcraft? Is easier than ever to get into it from scratch. Cheaper (all expansions minus the last
Maybe you misunderstood. Those projects haven't achieved AGI or claimed to. But they are making tangible progress as I specified.
"That looks like sexism to me."

You say that as if letting someone's gender affect your decisions is somehow, magically, inherently always ALWAYS wrong. It isn't. Some situations it is. Some situations it is not.
i think it was really great work done by facebook team.
A robots.txt file disallowing crawling on the sites that display the contents of user email would help fix this.

However, as some of the discussion below points out, I don't believe that disallowing crawling of these URLs in our robots.txt would keep them from the index if a search engine finds reference to them elsewhere; I think it simply keeps them from being crawled.
There's also Goldeneye: Source, a recreation of the multiplayer portion using Valve's Source engine.

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benjaminwootton agree with your opinion what do you think for new start-up?
This is Hemanth, other co-founder at codelearn. all that code you see is actually command output, not exactly code. You only have to type in small commands at console, for first 5-6 lessons.
You mean 'consciousness' which is actually mainly a philosophical distraction in common usage.. anyway there are a lot of good starting definitions for what AGI is, including a bit in my comment and also in the descriptions of the projects that I referred to.
Sorry, but, where does it mention anything about making money for reporting security vulnerabilities on https://www.facebook.com/whitehat?
https://www.facebook.com/whitehat/bounty/
And yet the Danes are considered the happiest people in the world :)
Yep as chucknthem points out, try clicking the "bounty" on the left side: https://www.facebook.com/whitehat/bounty/. Sorry I didn't make that clearer!
Also, sizable portions of electric energy worldwide are generated from renewables (hydro, nuclear), so the efficiency is even higher.
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You mention that the nonces expire after a period of time.

If you don't plan on cutting the feature for ever, perhaps you could consider an alternative approach of limiting the validity of the URLs to the first visit and also removing the email-id (and other PII data) of the user from the URL.
(Regardless of whether one has a Facebook account or not) If your theory is correct, this seems like a good reason to not use Chrome or any browser with a Google Toolbar :)
This is clearly off-topic, but has anyone used Mongrel2 seriously enough to give an opinion on it?
Go fuck yourself. Seriously.
Dude,

That was one of the greatest things I have ever read.
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One shot kills created a whole different kind of experience where you needed to be ultra careful about exposing yourself.
If we accept that battery technology is rapidly improving and will be an order of magnitude better in the future, then those points of cletus' argument are indeed invalidated - the root comment is arguing that electric cars will not be the future because (e.g.) batteries are too heavy and take too long to charge.

For internal consistency, the argument should have read "batteries will continue to be too heavy and take too long to charge".
Dazzling title, even no Linear Algebra at all, but I like the systematic introduction about "Feynman Technique"
If its one thing the Chinese can mimmick, it's pretending there's a scarcity of fighterjetplanewhatevers.
Although it might not invalidate your argument, you have ignored the residual value of having a 5-year old Model S / Nissan Leaf.

We don't know what that will be, yet, but it will probably be higher than the residual value of a 14 year old gas guzzling Toyota truck.
Wake me when Chomsky finds some principals.
The maintenance needs of drones are the same or higher than comparable manned aircraft, so they're subject to the same restrictions. What they have is long endurance, which is really measured in hours not days for the size of drones that police want to operate, but then that's little different to the endurance of police fixed-wing aircraft.

In fact, in most cases drones are actually more expensive to buy and operate than fixed-wing surveillance aircraft, because their control systems are more sophisticated and require more maintenance, they need expensive ground stations which themselves require constant maintenance, they need dedicated comms links which also need maintenance and they can't fly in bad weather.

In the short to medium term I fully expect the police fascination with drones to recede dramatically once they realise just how expensive they really are. Sticking a pilot and observer in a helicopter or fixed-wing plane with an electro-optical turret is often a lot cheaper.
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> as opposed to recharging for 8 hours

Fast charging is faster than that, you just need special power feed, but that can even be included in every home, which is not the case for a gas station.

> Yes, that was my point. Look at all the people in NJ/NY/CT without power.

The actual problem is that the US infrastructure is in bad shape. Also by looking at the news, the places which have issues with electric power seem to also have oil delivery problems as well.
So for instance, fracking, or unethical medical testing, or massive layoffs, or hostile takeovers, or private paramilitaries and physical coercion.
AS the Security Service official history says this is a problem in the UK and is teh major gripe for the staff
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I'm somewhat curious, why MM for million/mega and not M? Or does the second M stand for some unit?
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Thanks Matt,

My only concern is my account security (not money).

I found this issue with almost no technical knowledge, so the crazy thing is:

How many back doors should be over there ready to be exploited by spammers?

BTW, a big "report security issue" button on https://www.facebook.com/help/ would certainly help next time.

Thanks again,

Nico
How and in what way would that be sexist remark

The assumpution behind that question is that women could not be a developer.

To give racist equivalents, it's as if in the USA, imagine you came into the room and there was a latino man there "Are you the new cleaner?"; or in UK, imagine one was introduced to a new eastern european member of staff, "Are you the new cleaner?". These questions are motivated by racist assumptions, and this OP's examples are motivated by sexist assumption.
1 million million? You mean a trillion?
Your point is also good. "Shallow engineering" will not give us deep theoretical understanding, and we need also deep theoretical understanding. But in our need for deep theory, we should not accept just any theory. The theory should be testable, and it should eventually yield some practical applications. Theoretical thinking can get quite lost if it's not guided by at least some connection to empirical data.

Early L. Ron Hubbard presented a theory (Dianetics) on the causes of mental illness. It's a theory alright, just not a very good one, and not very testable. We would still benefit from a better theoretical understanding of human mental health and illness, but we should not take just anybody, just because he is a deep thinker and has a theory.
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Seriously it's not that hard.
I think it's just meant to mean "million" but it's used a lot in the VC/startup community in valuations ("CompanyX receives $10MM in angel funding" etc). I think it has come from finance originally, but either way I think it's unnecessary.
Yes they are different, but they are so close aswell. After all how much job movement is there between IT & development? Lots. Compare that to the job movemement between IT & being lawyer (not that much) etc.
huh? Infrastructure is totally and utterly irrelevant to the problem. I know enough about common sense to make such a claim.

Just send a new message, exactly as you would post an original item/comment/etc, but have some special text/field in there that says "please ignore the previous message". The UI would then hide the previous message.

eg

COMMENT: {id:9374758, from:"mibbitier", data:"I hate you all!"}
COMMENT: {id:9374759, from:"mibbitier", data:"*IGNORE_MESSAGE_IN_UI* 9374758"}

Nothing whatsoever to do with infrastructure. Nothing to do with caches. Purely to do with the UI. Not rocket science.

Granted, it's a poor way to do it, but it's better than nothing, and easier than trying to invalidate caches etc
The field is now called AGI

S'funny... when I was at The University of Sussex a few weeks back I met a lot of folk who seem to think they're still doing AI. There are still Journals on the topic http://www.journals.elsevier.com/artificial-intelligence/. There are still degress on the topic http://is.gd/5ii0Eu. I know folk doing postgrad work on the topic.

My degree was in Computing an AI and is, I admit, more than 20 years old now. But I still keep a weather eye on the field - and have many friends and acquaintances who work in it. There are certainly some who use the AGI name for a subset of the strong AI work, but it's not anywhere close to a universally used term. It certainly hasn't taken over from AI - a field that seems to be quite happy trundling along thank you very much ;-)
What do they use to launch CGI? Did they write something custom?
The Roman numeral M (mille) means 1000. M^2 therefore equals one million.
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What triggers it being paid? Surely that part can't be automated, someone (or combination of someones) has to have power to say pay/don't pay.
Peugeot has already a very simple response for that with the mu program: lease your electric car, and you get a bigger/gas-powered car when you need it. http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/jul/10/peugeot-car-club...
There used to be many caucasian-on-caucasian racism. Many places would still count it as breaking anti-discrimination law.

After all, "No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs". That's racist for 2 reasons.
Maybe the comments have changed since you wrote this but I see very little hate amongst the comments - only 1 could be deemed uncivil to my eyes.

[and I know I'm guilty of this at this precise moment but not sure if leading with a meta-comment is especially constructive in itself. If you don't like the tone, then lead by example]
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I'm quite curious as to whether the speed of light across the game space decreases instantaneously when you pick up an orb or whether the change in the speed of light propagates at the speed of... umm light.

Also they definitely need to have a black hole or 2 chucked in and maybe some miniature binary stars orbiting at relativistic speeds
Millimetre is mm, not MM which would be "meter meter" which is nonsense. MM is actually the roman numeral for 1 million.
A couple of philosophical objections:

1. There is a real benefit to building an API into the core of your app - it forces the kind of loose coupling that will improve your entire architecture.

2. Your db schema != your business logic. The API should mirror the latter and not the former.

Having said that... Automatic language bindings? I want some of that...
So what is Square's loss rate?
"Guys are fascinated and scared by girls who roll up their sleeves and take on a job that society labels as “men’s work”"

Actually, I'm fascinated and scared by all IT people who roll up their sleeves and do manual labour.
I'm totally fine with empiricism! Your post here is helpful. It's just rude and not helpful to respond to a post like that with nothing more than "no".
There are places in the world where these are common:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_heater

Getting electricity out to a parking spot is not a problem, and hasn't been a problem for the last 40 years or so that people have had block heaters.
and most YCombinator companies still use GoDaddy. Bizarre.
As somebody who used to do a bit of NLP work in the dim and distant past I can testify that Chomsky's work on context free grammars, etc. (certainly used to anyway - not been poking at it for about fifteen years now) got applied a fuck of a lot.

The model probably doesn't have a great deal of relation to what happens inside folks heads - but it was stupidly useful for making computers do stuff though. Might be better techniques now - I don't know. But saying that it wasn't applicable practical work is basically ignoring the NLP stuff that was happening in the 80's and 90's.

(let alone the more obvious useful stuff for us geeky folk - the formal grammar stuff we use and think about for compilers. Chomsky Hierarchy, etc.)
Seconded - I sold between 200 and 300 of my old books on MarketPlace a while back.

I reached the point where I wrote a little (Shoes) Ruby app that uses a barcode reader and a headless browser to automate the selling :-)
No it's not. What makes a language functional is its ability to eliminate tail recursion.
When you like or share a post in your newsfeed, you're sending a linkback to the original post.

So, if your newsfeed is public "to everyone" Google is able to crawl and index the content on it (discard the original post privacy settings)
Capital M would be 'mega' as a prefix, but I think it does not exist as a unit. If you're willing to read MM as Mm, then it would be Megameter.

Your really should revisit roman numerals. MM = 2000, you have to add them, not multiply.
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There are several definitions of sexism, one is essentially "taking someone's sex or gender into account when making a decision". This appears to be the definition you're using. It's a very simple, easy to understand, easy to identify definiton. It also means that in many cases (e.g. hiring in an IT company), men can be the victims of sexism.

There's another definition, which is actions that's designed to maintain & reinforce the institutionalised power structure among sexist. Right now, if modern UK life was a video game, "male" would be an easier difficulty level than "female". There are statistically less problems for the "male" group. Sexist actions are actions that re-enforced that imbalance. This definition is harder for some people to accept because it means that you need to look at yourself and think about what power imbalances you might be benefiting from, and it means you can't just do s/female/male/g and make it just as sexist.

(There are some cases where there's an inbalance in favour of women, any men here ever took up knitting & crochet? Try getting involved in that, you'll see things from the other side)
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In those situations the assumptions may, or may not, originate from core racist/sexist beliefs. You need to be careful going around labelling people like that just because they made an assumption.

For better or worse it's just a fact that at the moment a girl working in a software shop is more likely to be a graphic designer than a coder. If I was in a rush looking for the new freelance designer one morning and walked up to an unfamiliar girl sat at a Mac Pro and asked her "Are you the new designer", I'm not being sexist, I'm just making an assumption based on the data I have. Designers and coders, whether male or female, both look the same: they're likely to be intelligent, smart and trendy looking and sat at a workstation.

Now, if in a similar situation I walked up to an intelligent, smart and trendy looking Indian freelancer sat at a MacBook and asked "Are you the new cleaner?", then that's totally different and inexcusable. I had enough data there not to make any assumptions, and it would betray racist core beliefs.

See the difference? Of course every situation is different, but I think the OP's example in this case was weak. We don't need everyone walking around on egg shells, paranoid that people are judging their every stated assumption against some kind of uber harsh politically correct scale.
Do tech women identify somehow with this girl in the picture and feel offended?

When guy sees some looser made fun of on some picture he thinks: "Hehe. What a looser!" as he sees almost no resemblance between him and the looser.

Does women feel more strongly connected to other women because of shared gender than men?
If by world you mean trend-driven web dev blogosphere then yes, however that's sort of a risky thing to use as your sole input to reality.
If that's truly how people use it, it is very strange.
In actual roman numerals MM = 2000. Using 'M' as a roman numeral but then multiplying digits makes no sense at all (you'd need numerals for all the prime numbers to represent arbitrary numbers...).

And in SI, the prefix 'M' (mega) already means 1 million, so to me it seems MM is the notation that maximizes confusion.
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GCC can eliminate tail recursion, so does that make C functional?

I don't think the author is seriously of the belief that C is a functional language. This is just a fun little example of writing C in a functional style.
True, true. I defended Microsoft's new branding. It does take effort to come to a decision between seemingly similar designs. This one just seems like it should have been done earlier, I just feel like it's getting disproportionate praise (not to bag the designer), maybe just because pg said it's good.
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The feature is absolutely too dangerous to ever have existed!

It turns out that Facebook implemented the plain links that are more powerful than the password reset procedures, considering the easiness in taking over the account of another user.

Having the actual user id in the link is just a small topping on that cake, not even worth to discuss as long as the "no login just click the link" possibility remains to exist.
This seems like a lot of work just to avoid using the heap...
That's not a very good definition. It means that GHC-flavoured Haskell isn't functional: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Tail_recursion
A plastic bucket of gas contains more hydrogen than a bucket of liquid hydrogen, and if you put a lid on it the gas will happily stay in the bucket, whereas for the hydrogen you need a pressurized corrosive-resistant container.

Hydrogen is not the future, because it's incredibly difficult to handle, we don't have the infrastructure for it (unlike gas and electricity), and the energy density of hydrogen is really bad compared to gas and batteries.

The engine is a part of the puzzle, but infrastructure is a much larger piece that has to be solved in a reasonable way.
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