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I listen to 2-hour episodes in multiple parts. That is, I have a commute of about 40 minutes per day, so I just listen to one episode over four days.

Sometimes, this leads to having a few new episodes in my queue, but the nice side-effect of that is that I almost all the time have something to listen to, if I want to :-).
Yeah, I tried the 'source-map' layout but it won't remember the zoom levels when re-opening a session. http://i.imgur.com/mxYO0.png

And it doesn't use Exposé for windows, at all. That's a shame. I'd like to have several editor windows open, with separate buffer lists.

I like where they're going with it, but are they there yet? Meh.
Kanban? No, it can't
eBay is another example of one founder company. It is an insanely successful company.
The best bit is in the comments:

"Most marketing in the technology world is in the form of lies, to be impolite, even when the data is accurate. A device is revolutionary and will transform the world, and your old way of working will be replaced, and so forth. That is rarely, if ever, true, even with truly revolutionary hardware."
It sure is convenient when terrorists gently place the trigger for their bombs in the x-ray bin.
> When most of us started, it wasn't a trendy thing to do, we just did it because we enjoyed it.

Actually you most likely started because someone you liked or admired, were friends with, were inspired by, or simply thought was cool, was doing it.

And that's sort of the point.
I have found the Big Nerd Ranch iOS programming book to be very good.
http://www.amazon.com/iOS-Programming-Ranch-Guide-Guides/dp/...

In relation to the criteria you raised the book is a good fit.

- I understand most of the basic concepts, but cannot implement them via code

I think this is particularly true with iOS programming. The book is more written in a tutorial / HowTo style (i.e. the book gives a step by step walkthrough to create an example program). Most importantly it specifies how to use the IDE to do GUI building.

- I am a person that does really well when I have a set path

Me too. Each chapter is an exercise designed to teach you some part of the iOS library. There about 30 chapters in the book and each chapter can be completed in about 2 hours.
Nice blaming of the victim, buddy. It seems that you are coming from a very loaded position here.

It's one thing to say "you must not discriminate because of race or sex". That's racism and sexism and we all find it abhorrent (or at least, I would hope so from HN's readership).
But is the fact that they had a non-diverse lineup of speakers proof that they explicitly excluded non-whites and non-males from participating? From what we know, that's not really the case. Ending up with a lineup of white male speakers, at a Ruby conference in England in the year 2012, is not at all an unlikely outcome for a selection process that ignores race and gender. I think you understand this.

But you're saying something else. You're saying that they should have made it a goal to have a diverse panel, by specifically taking into account race and gender to override other factors and get the diversity makeup you want. Don't immediately think of merit, either: it could have taken something such as offering a larger subsidy to get that one female speaker they wanted who had initially declined, or to fly in someone from Japan. Whatever it took, they should have done it, because the race and gender makeup has to be what you decide.

That's not being non-racist and non-sexist. That's positive discrimination, or affirmative action. It's a somewhat controversial policy that might have its place to rectify situations of long-ingrained oppression and prejudice, but it's certainly not the required standard for being non-racist and non-sexist in all situations. Certainly not at a conference for Ruby programmers in England in 2012!

Mind you, explicitly aiming for a diverse panel is still a fine goal for a conference organizer. But that's not to say that it should be the primary goal of all tech conferences in the world, and that any organizers who fail to put it at the top of their agenda should be publicly tarred and feathered as racists and have their conference boycotted and cancelled.

As well-meaning as I'm sure all people involved are, some parts of the tech community have reached a level of paroxistic politicization that will be detrimental to the community itself. We're going to lose conferences, and we're going to lose people who feel uncomfortable with this forceful imposition of ideological attitudes.
I think there's a window for developers to move en-masse to a new OS. It's a shame that at just the same time as developers are finally waking up to the fact that OSX and Windows are both moving in a worrying direction, there's no clear champion with mainstream (dev) appeal in the linux/bsd firmament either.
Given that the entire principle of asymmetric warfware, of which "terrorism" is an element, is based on attacking the enemy where they are weakest, the TSA effectively serves no function. If the enemy reinforces security at one location, attack another. It's a fact that you can't protect all locations all the time. There will always be weak spots.
Right now the weak spot is you usually have thousands of people hanging around outside the security gates waiting to get screened. Maybe they should have a pre-screening area for screening people who want to go into the screening line to make sure they're not going to do any terrorism!

The thing is, an attack in a queue could happen anywhere, not just an airport. But the effects are highly localized. Part of what makes plane bombs extra-scary is that they could go off anywhere, so not only does the plane blow up, but it falls out of the sky and lands on people. That's more terrifying than a bomb explosion in a fixed location, plus it impacts all other travel arteries, giving the travel network in question the equivalent of a heart attack. A bomb in the air causes a lot more problems than one on the ground.

So of course it serves a function, however badly it does so. They overstepped in this case, but I don't have that much sympathy for the artist. He knew quite well that what he was doing looked like a dry run for a bombing; I'll warrant he just didn't expect to actually get arrested.
The big question is, who should they have invited to speak?
This is probably unfair and biased, but what the heck.

If this whole story is true, it seems crazy that this man nearly became president. He was running his campaign as if it was a business that he was trying to wring dry, and it seems he would have run the country the same way.

Anybody knowledgeable in IT should have been able to tell him that this approach was a bad idea. I mean, Best Buy's consulting subsidiary? They probably thought Best Buy was a cool place that was "with it" when it came to tech. How clueless can you get?

It sure sounds like the Romney campaign's IT was run on "connections" and ideology rather than sound technology. This was probably a good way to run a campaign a few decades ago, but doesn't seem to work as well today.

It will be interesting to see how this stuff evolves, anyway. The US presidential campaign cycle is so slow relative to the technology sector that it seems hard to apply lessons from previous elections. The current smartphone revolution was just getting off the ground in 2008, so there wasn't much experience to draw on for 2012. By the time 2016 rolls around, will 2012's experience be similarly obsolete?
Or it makes the case that the goverment should do things inhouse instead of outsourcing everything and having hordes of contractors.
On Systems and Boundaries: Artificially Intelligent
Why Opera thrives in Europe’s last dictatorship
> Romney's campaign followed a typical "go small" mid-sized business strategy for IT—outsourcing day-to-day IT to a managed services provider, bringing in spot consulting to help form strategy, and buying software and services from old friends.

This is a decent way of having a lot of small groups doing their own thing. It's a terrible way to coordinate an organization as a whole to accomplish a specific goal.
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I see. And what do you call a person who calls names and makes absolute statements without any support or reasoning?
What I see on the screenshots there should be possible in Textadept.
Direct link to the PDF: http://terrytao.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/blog-book.pdf

Older collections:

1. http://terrytao.wordpress.com/books/whats-new-2007/

2. http://terrytao.wordpress.com/books/poincares-legacies-cours...

3. http://terrytao.wordpress.com/books/an-epsilon-of-room-pages...

4. http://terrytao.wordpress.com/books/compactness-and-contradi...

5. http://terrytao.wordpress.com/books/hilberts-fifth-problem-a...

The downloadable versions are labelled "drafts" but are of very high quality.
Haven't listened to any of those, but scanning through the topics they are too iOSy, Mac newsy for me. The echo chamber of Mac news is too big for me right now to add another podcast.

On the other hand, I couldn't say for sure why I was listening to B&A. Maybe because Marco is a person with many hats & interests and the podcast wasn't focused only on Mac news?
Here's a question for you (no, it's not a rhetorical one--I can see the answer going either way):

Is it conference organizers' responsibility to mimic the current industry (in % minorities and all)?

Or, is it conference organizers' responsibility to lead the movement and adjust for where the industry should be?

If you answered yes to the first one, I would like to hear your explanation on who would be a better person to lead the movement.
Gotcha. Next time, I'll watch my swearing more carefully.
#1 is irrelevant or even slightly negative from YC perspective, because mostly it reduces pool of companies and founders available to YC itself.

#2 is a good observation though:

Because multiple founders could be potentially split - it makes it less risky for VC to invest. Therefore it's easier to get VC funding for multi-founder startup.
Which is a competitive advantage over single-founder startups.

From YC perspective making access to VC capital easier (by going multi-founder) is even more important, because "deals with VCs" is one of the core services that YC provides to startups.
More of an engineer than a scientist, no?
FizzBuzz in the type system
I'm not sure that's accurate, given their history with openness and the System/360.
Some PO box places forward, you might want to look into that...

Deposit slips are itemized lists for what you want to deposit, like XXX in cash plus YYYYY in checks. You list each check out with the check number and the amount. Then you simply write the total and hand the entire bundle to the teller. They'll reconcile it later.
Correct. Additionally I was thinking of what they'd want in a promotable employee.

I am no fan of the TSA but I recognize that TSA employees, like employees of any other organization, can always do their jobs better and bring educated perspectives to the various situations they encounter.
I know of a handful of non white male programmers who are vocal and prominent members of the community, they exist, but they are hugely in the minority. That is the problem, what you see at conferences is a manifestation of THAT problem.

I do not know the organizers at this conference, but I know people who have been put in a similar situation, even when as organizers they are non white males. For example, Rebecca Murphy getting accused of sexism when she organizes a conference. Even when she has done way more for the cause then the people calling for her head.

As a conference organizer, you ARE put in the position of either finding token minorities, or facing a backlash. Who talks at a conf is based on who submits talks. If you end up with a situation where you have no submissions from minorities, or going on merit, the few minority submissions don't really make the cut, what do you do? It sucks for the organizers, and it sucks for the people who are asked to speak, since they never know if it is based on merit, or based on the fact that they aren't white men.
Stor, localStorage for Humans.
You don't explain why equality in representation is desirable.
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Vim is cool but... crufty. It seems like the point of this project is to be both extensible and simple/comprehensible. For that, there's nothing like starting from scratch.
There's a ton of literature on the topic if you care to look, but in short: this simply does not work due to societal assumptions and levels of privilege.

It's a non-starter to "not care", because privileged groups automatically get their foot in the door.
That's a good point, but keep in mind three things:

1) It's a process. We already have non-white people in top positions (both in the industry and in academia), so there's no lack of inspiration, but it takes time for those who have inspired to make their way through school and immigration. Right now there are multitudes of Indian and Chinese students in American universities: in a few years you'll see them at conferences. And that is already going to happen: they're certainly not going to drop out of their degrees and go home because some Brits were not diverse enough with their conference in Manchester.

2) From what I've seen, many of those students are more interested in enterprise or research applications than in doing web development with Ruby, so you might see them at slightly different conferences.

3) This particular conference was in the UK, not in America or in India or in China or in France. Let's be careful not to call the entire country racist just because it's mostly populated by whites.
We are pretty sure _why is a white (afai can tell?) dude from France.
I think the patent post probably meant hotter with worse battery life than other tablets.

I would want a tablet with a core i5, 4gb ram and a 1080 screen, IF it still feels light, runs cool, and battery lasts as long as an iPad.
I'd have to agree with this assessment. I'm not sure where they got the idea from that people actually want to do work on these machines. I actually like the surface with metro UI purely as a tablet - the snap in keyboard is super convenient but I struggle to think of enough use cases where I would have it snapped in for more than 5 minutes - let alone fire up word or excel.
I am not an expert on all the issues involved - who is? I think a lot of those studies are quite interesting and might not always say what they seem to say. I only skimmed a bit, for starters, your study seems to be from 1991 (or the women were interviewed up to 1991). Then I only glanced one text snippet where a man says "perhaps because it is so rare for a man to go into that profession, they think I am so special and think more or me". Note that your study is about men in typically female professions. For all I know, the reverse could be true for women in typically male professions. From my own anecdotal experience I think women in IT would get preferred treatment most of the time. Also (anecdote again), we actually chose the kindergarden for our son because they have a male kindergardener in it (I guess that makes me officially sexist), so I confirm the study...

Another study that made the rounds recently showed that even women seem to prefer to hire men over women. Sadly it didn't explore possible reasons, and references to motherhood diminishing "work value" were dismissed out of hand.

Sorry, no time to watch a movie.

Also, I agree that gender issues are complicated, but not necessarily that women get the worse cards. Men and women both face their challenges. Just an example, I happen to think that it is rather cruel that men are automatically expected to work while women raise their kids - it deprives men of one of the most joyful aspects of life. Also, men tend to die 10 years earlier than women on average. Just genes? Or perhaps more pressure and stress?

But that is not the main issue for me. I have to say that personally, I have little patience for the woes of employment. That is, I really don't care who gets promoted to what. At least in IT, if you don't like other companies, you can start your own. And 50% of the world are women (more, in fact), so even if men don't want to deal with you (which I doubt), there should be plenty of customers. (That's of course all over simplified...).

I don't doubt that there is inequality, but I think there are plenty of ways around it, that are open to everyone.
Please see my reply to hmahncke, it should address your point.
Ask HN: Fake LP vs. LP with subscribe form
I have seen, and read a lot about having a landing page with subscribe form, driving some traffic to it (i.e. Google Ads), and using that to validate the idea.

The way I see this, a lot of people would drop out, because they realise that this is actually waste of their current time, and maybe going to the next search result is far better then filling in the form and then waiting for something to maybe arrive.

A lot better way, in my opinion, is to make a fake landing page, with a "buy" button - making people think that there is a product and they can buy it. If the idea and price is good, then measure the clicks on the "buy" button, and you got yourself a good estimate of where this can go, and how much can it make. Although, one big minus that I see about this - tricking people, that they found a solution, and then actually asking them to wait, plus usually somewhere there is your name on the page too, so not very good PR.

I am sure somebody here had experience with these things, could you please share it with the rest of us? :)

Big Thanks!
Expecting perfection from a process largely performed by human beings is ridiculous. Of course there were legitimate shipments that were blocked by mistake and of course, there were those who were rightfully pissed when that happened.

I am sure that if no missiles were being brought into Gaza or if those missiles weren't used for killing Israeli civilians, there would be no blockade of anything.

What do you expect the Israelis to do? Just die? Oh wait, that is what you expect them to do.
> The barrier to entry to becoming a Ruby programmer is as low as can be

This isn't a conversation about being a programmer, however. This is a conversation about being part of a programming community. Successful assimilation into a community has numerous benefits for one's career prospects, social life and overall success. Exclusion can be correspondingly damaging.

As a result, programming communities all over the place are having a tough conversation: is this community sufficiently inclusive? Some are indifferent to the cause of inclusiveness. What's unfortunate is that those most indifferent seem so consistently to be those most already included.

So in this case, some people decided they were uncomfortable with the level of inclusion. That's a fair conversation to have.

(As it happens, while _why's true identity may have been a secret, his membership in the racial and gender majority group for his field is not:

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q... )
It doesn't even have to be an exotic watch to arouse suspicion, something like a Casio F91W will do just fine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Guantanamo_Bay_detainee...
Star Trek references and all I have a feeling you will like this keynote from YAPC::NA 2012, "Perl: The Next Generation". Like he says, demographic diversity is the canary in the coal mine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAOxGjNbp_Y
Thanks for this link, hadn't seen it before. Made me go and find:

http://www.unz.org/Pub/Encounter-1958oct-00003

Which was the only freely available on line copy of the original essay I could find.
Everyone should be a CEO of something
I have yet to encounter an unbiased and objective commentator. I think he's wrong about this, but not because of his history with Apple. Actually I think your whole mindset here is totally backwards. You don't need a reason to not listen to someone on some topic, you just need to not have a reason to listen to them. I don't know why we should think Gassee has any particular insight into Microsoft today.
The conference speakers, though, were not limited to being British.

I agree with #2, but Ruby is a fairly special case, in that its creator, and still one of its main contributors, is Japanese. So you can't make the argument "if only non-whites stepped it up in Ruby dev"...(but the argument that none of the Japanese speakers could make it/were affordable/wanted to come is still legit).
With all the talk of this being a big data driven election I was surprised to not see Palantir utilised by either party.

If I was running for office I would be giving those guys a call.
Awesome. Glad everything is ok!
iMessage and FaceTime are currently suffering from systemic downtime
The memo's author is on Twitter and talking about the subject.

https://twitter.com/dkhanna11
What about search, and multitenancy (ie postgresql schemas?)?

How do you store extended data (hstore?) that you talk about in the upper comments?
IMO it is not the programming model that needs to be changed, but the tool chain creating around the programming model that needs to be built with a larger horizon of ideas & ideals in mind.

So far most of the tools have been created in a very strict, single purpose way. While that's a good engineering approach it also leads to limitations that are hard to overcome. I do remember the early days of Eclipse when they had to build their own java compiler to be able to pull out enough data for the IDE. And that's the simplest example. Or think of the days before JMX.

Obviously this is not a simple problem to solve. I think the only way we could fundamentally change things is to completely rethink the way programming models/environment are thought.
You could probably get funding to create such an infrastructure for other groups that do canvassing, like PIRG, and open source much of it. Then you'd be in a position to sell consulting services.
> Because they evidently were unable to make an unconscious effort?

What evidence? If they choose speaker based on purely technical factor and ended up with all white-male, why must they change the result?
So, we use reviews from 4 months before the stable release to then dovetail into a completely disjoint "apple can do it better" rant that somehow involves Snap and iCloud? What? Seriously, I'm just in awe that this is on the front page.
His chronology is wrong; Windows 8 was planned as a "reimagining" from the start of the project in mid-2009. It was never intended to be an incremental update.
Original: http://abcnews.go.com/International/taliban-accidentally-rev...
The App Bubble
I don't know when Google started to do this but as you say it's becoming annoying. At least they are using the canonical URI, so maybe browsers should get smarter in interpreting/using this bit of info.