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There are multiple points you make here, some I agree with some I don't.

> Apple's patents haven't stopped me from being creative. No one has asked me not to design using rounded corners. How about you? I bet not.

Patents have stopped people from being creative. I don't think it's a matter of stopping you or me, but a more general perspetive. I'm no specialist in patents, nor is it a topic that I like talking about, but imho a critical issue is with their generality: rounded corners, mouse clicks, page turns seem like very very wide ideas.

> When you buy Apple you're not just buying hardware or software. You're buying into a ecosystem and that ecosystem works really well! Now if Apple's ecosystem doesn't suit your needs then you're still free to not use it or jailbreak your iStuff.

I do buy Apple products because they fit my needs and their current limitations are not over the threshold I feel comfortable with. Now. But ideally I'd prefer to buy into an ecosystem that is not closed. I'd like to know that in the future when a shift occurs I'll be able to get my things and move to what fits the needs I have at that time.

A related question is: should I complain or not about it if I already chose to buy into it? Me belief is that by expressing ourselves and not being complacent with the status quo we are able to influence things.
Ever look at the itemized list of costs on your air ticket? There is a "9/11 Security Fee," and I'm guessing the airlines don't have much input into its amount.
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.

Do you have any evidence to back that up? Most people I know who program started because they were fascinated by it. Certainly when I started coding on my C64 I didn't know anyone else who programmed. Not everything has to be social.
Right, Israel occupies their land but Gaza is the aggressor?
Now we know why China blocks Google Docs
Guys!

It's cool. Everything is totally cool.

I haven't had a boss who wasn't a white male in nearly a decade, women are still harassed at conferences, and we can only find white guys to talk at a conference about a language invented by a Japanese guy.

But Camillo's class has foreigners in it, so everything is completely okay now.

There's a big difference between the composition of your university class and the social makeup of a professional community. Let's talk when you're out in your career.
You couldn't be more right but I still don't see how it makes shutting down Brit Ruby okay. White guys like me have white privilege and though white dudes like me sometimes know this intellectually it's easy to forget because no one is reminding us of it. So yeah, you're right about every last thing you said but you didn't really address this particular conference.

There are ways to go about this sort of thing and while the issue deserves attention and the situation needs to be addressed, shutting down a conference over it doesn't do anyone any good. I don't think its really an issue of minorities being excluded so much as is it an issue of minorities not being included. There's a subtle difference.
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Judges are significantly harder to get a grip on than the police.

The problem then becomes one of how effective you frame the case. Without a lawyer it is safe to say you're screwed so the police did what they could to make it so our friend would be arraigned without representation. They'd already squashed previous affidavits by another lawyer (who had disappeared without so much as a trace, go figure).

So there was a good indication this was going to be a railroading, which was born out by the subsequent unfolding of events.

Even so, and in spite of having a lawyer (and a good one) it is scary how close this whole thing came to unravelling. We had several bits of good luck thrown our way (one of which was the involvement of a second judge) as well as a very competent lawyer and together those proved enough to swing the whole thing in our favor, but that was by no means certain and I probably slept about 10 hours combined over the four days while the whole thing played out, and I'm pretty sure Daniel didn't get much more. We're just about done dealing with the aftermath (which is why I finally had some time to write this up).

I'll need a whole new set of nails.
This is a nice example but I doubt this skill is transferrable, and anyway I don't think ruining a conference will make anybody happier. Barring a few trolls who didn't care much about Ruby in the first place.
can you explain the "and America" part? The PC was invented in the US, and the majority of the culture still comes from there. Microsoft, IBM, Google, Sun, HP, Dell, Facebook...

You can argue that Samsung, Sony, etc. have made inroads, but I think America runs tech-culture while other nationalities are sometimes responsible for hardware. But software runs the world, not hardware.

The only company I think that isn't American is RIM (I'm Canadain), but their impact is definitely in decline.

What do others think? Is ARM, Samsung or Sony, as influential in technology as these American software companies? Or is there a non-American software company I'm missing?
I would have put Linux in there, but they aren't a company, and are truly international.
From the article:

"even internal projects like Orca were dependent on quick fixes from outside talent"

I don't see anywhere that it implies that Orca was built by Best Buy.
Brings back memories of reading Scripting News back in the day. I worked for a certain silicon valley university and we actually had one of the Power Computing boxes. They certainly weren't great in terms of quality but they ran the OS. I also remember Ric Ford getting upset when Steve pulled theplug on the clones. Seems a zillion years ago.
This is orthogonal to the main point of this thread, but since Ruby Manor has been mentioned, and Peter doesn't read my blog (which is fair enough): http://interblah.net/ruby-manor-is-not-an-unconference

Just for completeness sake, there was also a successful RailsConf Europe in London, and a well-received Rails Underground too. I therefore assume that 'full scale' must mean something quite specific. Anyway, as I said, orthogonal.

I'm aware of and not fan of the gravitational well that London influences, and definitely agree that it would be great to have events all over the UK. It's a shame that BritRuby isn't going ahead, whatever the reasons.
Because the only difference there is neater indentation, which you could do using the keywords method.

Additionally, there's no point checking that the script is the main file, as there's only ever one use-case for the script, and that's to call setuptools.
While I've already been doing things a similar way, it's nice to have a clean, clear explanation of how to package stuff.
Has the title changed since submission? It makes no mention of Windows 8 now (current title is "Malware Uses Google Docs as a Proxy Server").
They fit in while doing other tasks. For me: cooking, driving and exercising. I only have a ten minute commute, but cooking twice a day and exercising add quite a bit of time.

I also listen to them at faster speeds. People generally talk slowly, and listening at 1.5x or 2x isn't much faster than most people read, so they can still be understood easily (and after an initial adjustment they no longer 'feel' fast). A ten minute commute, listening at 2x, will consume 40 minutes of podcast per day alone.
Yes, we're keeping a pretty good file on all these things. Mostly because we don't know what will happen next and if we ever have to go public by having our hand forced (say, if our person of interest suddenly disappears) then we want to make sure we apply the pressure in the right spots. Obviously, that would be a means of last resort, after that her identity would be common knowledge which in turn would create a whole new set of problems. But in that case we figure that would be the lesser evil.

This has been going on for a long time now and the end is not in sight yet.

As for the movie rights, we've been joking about that, but I personally could do with a lot less realism in the excitement department and I'm pretty sure so can our friend from India. Boring is good.
FWIW the Zeus editor is scriptable in Lua, Python, JavaScript and TCL just to name a few.
The person who originally complained about the speaker lineup on Twitter is an organiser of the Golden Gate Ruby Conference. That conference successfully attracted a far more mixed speaker demographic. Are you implying that he was attempting to ruin the conference?
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>How do you propose to fix things?

Make sure you pick two or three females for at least every eight to seven males. Aim for as high a mix as you can.

>how do you know they aren't being subconsciously racist/reverse-racist in exactly the same way you're complaining about whites/males being racist?

That's easy; there's no such thing as 'reverse racism'. There's discrimination, and anyone can be discriminated against. Furthermore, few if any conferences are organized in the matter you described. There's no selection committee. Only 1-to-3 people are involved picking speakers.

>How do you objectively evaluate the race-blind quality of a set of potential speakers if your claim is that everyone on any possible selection committee is potentially subconsciously biased?

You misunderstand my claim. My claim isn't that people are subconsciously biased, my claim is conference after conference filled with white dudes is a sign the conference speakers aren't doing their jobs of presenting their audiences with the widest range of interesting ideas.

>Is this demographics equality campaign to be pursued at the expense of attendees' perceived value of the conference?

This assumes that your pool of potential speakers is only slightly larger than the number of speaker slots. There are fewer potential female speakers, but this does not automatically mean that you can't provide a full slate of A+ speakers - only that you have to work a little harder at it.

See: http://2012.jsconf.eu/2012/09/17/beating-the-odds-how-we-got... and http://2012.jsconf.eu/2012/09/17/beating-the-odds-how-we-got...
> Also, Ruby got its big break with Rails, which was developed in Chicago, I think, so the Japanese community might not have gotten as much of a headstart as one would expect. Or maybe they are using Ruby for far more interesting things than web development. I don't know.

And I think that's the heart of the matter...The Japanese (or any number of non-European/American Ruby communities) could be doing something amazing...and we would have a hard time knowing, because of the inherent geographical and language barriers. That's why it's not just the "moral" thing to make an effort toward diversity, but it is a potential creative and intellectual boon.

In any case, the OP should've just included a statement saying, "we asked speakers x,y,z, for example, but each had a previous commitment, etc. etc. etc.". In fact, that's a point they should've made more prominently in the debate before canceling the conference.
>In Firefox and Opera, the arrow buttons are showing up fine for me. How are you viewing this?

I see it in chrome, not firefox.
If it were a huge success, Microsoft would be exhaustively celebrating the fact, showing the sales numbers everywhere. The lack of numbers is a bad sign.
That's actually kind of a fallacy. Gun lovers don't want guns because they are scared of the Government. They want guns in case the Government fails. To protect them that is.
It may just be down to logistics. In the past starting a company just required more time in the beginning phase (i.e. someone to build the hardware while someone else writes the code and someone else does bureaucracy). Nowadays, with the cloud, the outsourcing of all kinds of work, accounting and legal stuff, you can build a company literally in a day.
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If you use 8 after using 7 along with Android tablets and iPads for a while, you'll perceive it as a huge improvement. If you come from a Mac or Linux background with iPads and Android tablets, you'll find it unbearable (a bit less than 7, but, still, a horrible experience). If you come from a straight XP-Vista-7 sequence with little non-deskop experience, Windows 8 will feel like a mixed bag.
Shouldn't the Al Jazeera correspondent know that Israel pulled the settlements out of Gaza in 2005?

I read his first answer, and I doubt the authenticity of this account being from a correspondent, or at least an unbiased one.
What were the original tweets that caused so much trouble? I've tried to gather what I can but I don't see much 'trolling', just criticism, some polite and constructive, some less.

And there's a few tweets by @britruby that have been deleted.

http://www.exquisitetweets.com/collection/iamdanw/1898
It actually comes in handy if you're using Sphinx and don't want to maintain release and version in conf.py separately from the version in setup.py. There's no reasons why the data should be consumable only by setuptools .
>It's perfectly possible that the way the TSA works (e.g. knowing that you'll go through body scanners or thorough patdowns) has deterred potentially nasty attacks. Luckily we'll never know.

You can't justify national policy by saying "it's immeasurable, it could work!" That is like proving the existence of god by saying "we haven't not seen him, he could be there!"

>Everyone who criticizes the TSA (and with reason) should also think about what they would do if they were given the task of trying to prevent Black Swan events with minimal disruption to the 99.9999 percent of normal travelers.

A key feature of black swan events is that you'll never be able to predict them. It seems like this fact is behind 99% of the criticisms you hear about the TSA. Perhaps we should stop chasing the boogeyman and start figuring out how to deal with him when he comes.
Does this support tiled windows in a terminal like Vim or Emacs? Relying on a terminal multiplexer to provide that is less than ideal I think.

Looks good otherwise. Not to my taste, but it is refreshing to see a new text editor that actually seems like it was written by someone who understands the variety of use-cases of text editors.
Non-white Ruby programmer here to explain:

There aren't that many Ruby (or Python) programmers compared to say Java, PHP, or C++. There are even less Ruby programmers who want to make a 30-60 minute presentation on Ruby, let alone have the time to travel to some city in the UK. When you add a requirement for race in addition to skill, experience, and motivation; at this time you're probably not going to get anyone.

The main reason people go to programming conferences is mainly all about what's being specifically presented. Most people in tech don't care about ethnic group; they care about results. As someone else already posted, even when programmers go to see someone; it's really really rare that they even know what they look like unless their last name gives it away.
As a practical matter, how would this work?

Wouldn't there have to be a fair amount of upfront and unique legal legwork to put something like this in place? Would the investors be guaranteed a certain percentage of any money Carson takes out of Treehouse?

I'm pretty much allergic to the idea of answering to a board, shareholders, and and analysts myself. 37 Signals seems to have an interesting idea about how to compensate employees in the unlikely case of a liquidity event, but some sort of structure that would allow profit sharing, without requiring a path to IPO or acquisition would be great:
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2987-an-alternative-to-employ...
Why should Wikipedia have done this? Wikipedia is conservative because their job isn't to do much more than be a solid encyclopedia. What's great is they keep their data open so people can do what they want with it.
Just like women were so busy playing with barbies and learning where the best tanning salon is to go from their mothers, right?

Stop generalizing. What do you think racism is?
I put the version information inside the package, then anything with access to the package (which both setup.py and sphinx have) can access it - quite useful for doing things like checking the version number from the REPL, for instance.
Its not even number #1 on Amazon's bestsellers list, windows 7 is.

http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Software-Operating-System...
I'm not familiar with Knockout, but it sounds like my experience when we were getting into the Flex framework at work a couple of years ago. We thought the data binding was so magical, but once I started to work with it, I had a very good mental model of how the MXML/ActionScript compilers were doing their magic.

It was much more pleasurable to work with when it was no longer magical.
The whole article ends with a paragraph on Orca, implying the issues discussed above were the cause of Orca. As I said a careful reading will indicate that they were completely unrelated, but the article is written in such a way that many people will conclude from the article that they are related.

Look at the other comments people have made about the article, how many are from people who think the article is about operational IT and how many think it's about strategically important custom software ?
Are setuptools suitable for packaging the whole web application (for example in Django) together with html/js/css files, configs for uwsgi and some management scripts?

I once tried to do something like this and failed and I had an impression that setuptools are not really intended for such things, but mainly for packaging plain Python modules.

Is this a right impression? If yes, what is a good way to package the whole Python based web application?
I think the assumption is that given that other successful conferences have had speakers that were good (technically), that were non white/male, that if such speakers had been considered for this conference, the organisers wouldn't have ended up with a lineup of 100% white & male speakers.

You're right though that we have no real evidence for this, this is just a natural assumption to make given the evidence we do have (the lineup).

As a poster said above me, this could have possibly been mitigated by publishing who they considered and possibly even selected that were non-white/male and couldn't make it. (this would give us some of the evidence you mention).
Off-topic:

In this image: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R2DPjmtAo3E/UKkcVxeORZI/AAAAAAAABK...

I see an elephant icon that looks like the Evernote icon. Anybody know what's going on there?
I quite liked the profile of @harper in The Atlantic the other day, even if it was a little too fawning.

To me the lesson to be drawn from these articles is that the Obama campaign saw their IT infrastructure as a 'core business unit' and vertically integrated it, whereas the Romney campaign treated it like any other commodity service.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/when-t...
I know you want them to tell you, but I'll tell you a bit. HTML5 isn't downloaded, it's just like HTML with some extra features that are now supported by browsers (Canvas tag, local storage, audio/video) that you actually don't have to use. You can continue to use whatever web frameworks you want, and unfortunately the way they want you do it is however you want to do it.
Doesn't distribute miss out on a few of setuptools really useful features, like develop installs?
Hey, looks great! There's a slight bug that's kind of annoying though. When I click on picture to enlarge it (on http://mystorify.com/a/BjYb08qE) and use the back button, it scrolls down to Monaco, whatever the photo. I don't know if it's specific to the demo album or to me, but it makes the process of going through the trip's photos a lot less enjoyable!
I agree 100% with your point that coming from financial disadvantage keeps anyone out of technology, from any race. And that this is a big problem that we should solve.

But this is a conversation about existing technologists. About people being welcomed into a community as leaders versus being held at arms' length as outsiders. About the disproportionate representation of a single demographic in tech.

As to the race thing, I get it. It's an uncomfortable conversation to have. People work hard in their careers, it's uncomfortable for someone to come over and point out that they got there with the help of a ladder they didn't know they had.

Growing up poor sucks no matter how you look, no matter who your ancestors are. But let's also be real – growing up poor versus growing up poor plus the additional disadvantages that stack up when you're not part of the majority, those can still be very different experiences.
True, but it would be nice to have separate instances for workers vs app servers.
Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4794720
It sounds like you're trying to package an entire application, not a python package. If thats the case, maintaining and distributing it may be simplest to do with a git repository.
You'd want to either go through the DNC, NGP/VAN [1], or maybe the Analyst Institute [2]. Those are the groups who both have the right connections and would be willing to take the meeting.

[1] http://www.ngpvan.com/
[2] https://analystinstitute.org/
What the fuck.

You're flaming Mark Suster -- that's what it means when you tell him he has his head up his ass -- because you don't like some of the conclusions he's drawn from his experience. His experience as a successful entrepreneur, investor and mentor.

Essentially, from what I can tell, you have a problem with tone -- the guy uploads his brain and you slam him for his choice of words. He's not telling you that you're stupid or inferior, he just used a tone you didn't like. And for this reason, you're blasting a guy who just dumped a wealth of valuable experience into a coherent, emotionally relatable stream of consciousness. A humble and gracious thing to do, by any standard.

But no, you're totally right -- let's get mad and tell him to fuck off for his style.

Instead of blasting a guy for having an amazing career and sharing life lessons which you find personally inconvenient: go do something amazing and then come back and let us all know how it felt.
Different devices should behave the same in the sense that a browser on different operating systems behave the same.
HTC’s Droid DNA makes sacrifices in the name of pixel density
This whole situation has been quite eye-opening. Our (the US) government often likes to hold up India as a counter-example to the oppressive regime in China, but in practice, it seems there is little difference.

It is reminiscent of the North Korea vs. South Korea debate, where the US likes to hold up South Korea as an example of how democracy leads to economic success, when in actuality the export-based economic model used to this day by the South was put in place while the country was under a series of brutal US-backed dictatorships that it didn't emerge from for more than 2 decades, when it had already been set on the path to economic success.
Agree. I thought this was some sort of add-on to Storify.