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I think this kind of behavior is considered a ban because it doesn't take a formal government decree to effectively preclude someone from being able to access undesirable literature.

If your school/community library is your main source of literature, then if you can't get it there, you can't get it anywhere.

This argument probably held truer a decade ago, but I'd wager that it's still disproportionately true in less wealthy/technical communities.
>by (a) violently suppressing competing militias[1] in Gaza

In other words, behaving like a government, which they supposedly are?
↑Ad hominem logic
For posterity: I edited my comment to clarify my statement prior to seeing this comment.

Half of all people are women. !caucasians and !males are probably at least 30% of the industry, especially when you consider how minorities are overrepresented.
You are saying that greater than 40% of the developers in GB are not white males. What are you basing this on?

GB is only about 10% non-white and last statistic I saw on gender was that only 1.5% of people participating on open source projects (world wide) were female.
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He also had in his possession the largest component of a suitcase bomb.
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I was one of the people that downvoted "thisduck" because of the naivety of his/her statement. The statement was so logically simple that it is axiomatic, but none of it was necessarily based on evidence.

On the other hand, I upvoted your comment because it is a more reasoned argument. There's no right or wrong answer when someone charges another person with racism, unless it is overwhelmingly obvious (re: your 1950s example).

Charging the BritRuby organizers with racism is a harsh indictment, and I would feel profoundly hurt if that charge was levelled against me. Now that the charge is out there against BritRuby, what are they to do about it? They can't "show their work" in choosing the speakers, because it acknowledges that they might have been racist to begin with, and nobody will do that. If they stay quiet, they have to contend with people like 'thisduck'.

@apawloski you make the right call that one needs to step back and reassess the situation from an objective standpoint before using the word 'racism'. Sometimes admitting that you don't know the answer is the first step to actually getting the conversation started.

Lastly there's a voice in the back of my head saying that, based on the way people are saying that having x% white people at a conference is sign of racism[1], I'm not sure if I should ever submit an application to speak. I'm "white", but I don't want to be charged with being racist or taking a 'non-white's' speaker slot because I happened to want to speak at a conference. Now, what do I do?

It's now my turn to be naive: I honestly didn't think my skin colour and willingness to share information with others would be seen as a sign of racism.

[1] where x >= .... what's the right number? is it 50%, 80%, 1%?
Just to play devil's advocate, TSA could also put pressure on airlines to build the cost of the screenings into the price of air travel. Travelers could wind up paying for it (beyond taxes).
Was just about to say. Win 3.1 on a "multimedia PC" was finally good enough at around ~92, but few PC users left the comforts of DOS before that.
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There is one! Scotland Ruby Conference attracts pretty high profile speakers: http://scottishrubyconference.com/

I'd far prefer one in England mostly out of convenience, but Scotland does have a pretty good one, to be fair.
I'm no fan of the TSA, but how can you be "pretty sure" when terrorism acts are extremely infrequent events with unpredictable results?

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.

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.

It's an extremely hard problem. Most people who talk about it simply don't have enough knowledge of statistics, or the psychology of deterrence.
I don't think sticking with GTK for the OS X version is a wise idea. It really just needs to go Cocoa or not bother, since right now it's downright unpleasant to use for me. Scrolling through text using a trackpad, for example, feels completely unnatural next to the rest of the OS X UI (horizontal scrolling appears to barely work at all - vertical scrolling isn't too bad but there is something very off about it). I think the decision to go with GTK for the OS X version was just a poor choice and probably not one made by anyone who uses OS X often.

In the meantime, I guess I'll go look at the source and see what kind of changes would need to be made to use Cocoa in place of GTK on OS X.
If you want to have more diverse people speaking at conferences, make sure you get more diverse people interested in school. Don't give a conference flak because biases in school and society have emptied their prospective diverse speakers to a pool of zero people.

You can't possibly think that there are no non-white or non-male developers qualified to speak at this conference.
Why Brit Ruby 2013 was cancelled and why this is not ok
Paying attention to diversity doesn't mean picking worse proposals. It means ensuring that minority groups in your community submit proposals in the first place. It means being aware that proposals written by minorities are likely to sound less confident and may understate the value of their content. It means ensuring that your conference has a clear statement of supporting members of minority groups who may feel uncomfortable in a space dominated by white men.

If your defence against claims of your conference lacking diversity is "Well, all our proposals came from white men", that's your fault. Countless other technical conferences around the world can attract proposals from community minorities. If you can't, you're doing it wrong.
To be strictly fair, I live in Toronto so that may skew my own perspectives - my graduating Computer Science class was definitely <60% white.
System 7.x was a work of art imo. The system was still small enough to 'understand'. Loved the old system folder layout (with folder for Preferences, Control Panels, Fonts, Extensions, etc...). Whenever the Mac had issues, the fix was generally to start-up without Extensions (by pressing the Shift key on start up) and clean-up the folder. Then add a few extensions at a time and keep restarting until the issue was found.

Extensions were often things like drivers and other code that 'enhanced' the system. Like this loveable addition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE7EWDKVM1Y
Of course they didn't use your mock up.

Everyone knows Javascript is the true cookie monster.
OK, so I find Sublime Text 2 extremely perfect for my needs... now how does this thing beat pure perfection? ;)
You can scrap for yourself (or in Instapaper, but that's another story), but sharing a script and telling the others to do so is bad.

Call me old fashioned, but I'm thinking that an author has his word to say on the way to structure and distribute his works.
You're factually and practically correct but the problem here is that you seem to be operating under the assumption that your preferences are shared by everyone else or should be shared by everyone else and that's where I think you're wrong. Apple has made a decision to operate in a locked-down way so they can control the experience. And as much as people want to say its some evil plan to make a bajillion dollars the simpler and more plausible answer is because being in control of the experience actually makes the platform better for its users and the monopoly is just aside effect of that.

People buy iDevices because they work well for them, not because they lack the freedom to choose something else and certainly not because of lock-in as many would have us believe. Yeah, it takes effort to jailbreak your device but so what? It's not meant to be jail broken. Your prison analogy is not a good one at all. It's more like the freedom to work on your car. It's like a person who really likes Volkswagen Jettas and buys one but wants a spoiler, racing stripes, and a V8 engine. Volkswagen isn't going to promote you doing that nor will they help you but you're still free to do it if you want to put in the effort. And if not, then choose another car.

Apple does things a certain way and there are pros and cons to it. Google and others do things differently and they have their pros and cons. But in the end no one has taken your freedom away. You may want an iDevice with the benefits of Android "freedom" (freedom is in quotes because in this context it's subjective) but if you got that then it would no longer be an Apple product because you've taken away the very thing that makes Apple's iStuff, iStuff.

All of these arguments just smack of "I think I know what's best for everyone"-ism and "I'm entitled to XYZ and I don't get it then that means I have no freedom"-ism. Right now youve got the freedom to choose between Android, Windows Phone, and iOS (I know there are others but let's not be pedantic about it). You're free to choose any one of them or none of them. If you want to mishmash features of all three then you'll have to do that itself because no one is obligated to create a piece of technology that exactly suits your every desire. You pick what suits you best and one thing you are entitled to do is complain about it. But if the market as a whole doesn't agree then you probably won't get it.

What I'm really saying is that you can criticize and complain and lobby for the things that you want all day long and that's fine but don't exaggerate and start saying you've lost your freedom because you haven't. This is the real world where the only way to even be able to obtain a thing that does most of what you want is for the company making it to be able to profit off of it and that means trade offs and decisions that you may not agree with but are nonetheless best for a certain demographic for which the thing is made for.
So you suggest that on top of volunteering time the organizers should also cover "overflow expenses" from their pockets? Sounds excessive to me.
Chocolat is an editor for the mac - very similar looks-wise to TextMate - that uses javascript for it's scripting api, though I've never used it.

http://chocolatapp.com/

http://chocolatapp.com/blog/?chocolat-node
One possibility people seem to be overlooking is that this outcome -- getting arrested and having the case discussed in the press -- is exactly what the artist wanted.

One of the greatest purposes of art is to hold up a mirror to society, and McGann has done that very well here.

If that was his intent, I applaud it, and will be happy to chip in to his defense fund if one of his friends will start a collection.
In other news, Israeli citizens are also under attack. I made http://irondomecount.com yesterday for people to follow along and http://lifeunderfire.com to understand what it feels like.
>Mixing the concepts of functionality and freedom into one concept do not work.

I don't mix them. Reality does. While the two sources are theoretically orthogonal, they are also practically connected -- and it's easy to see why: proprietary a la Adobe equals huge company and tons of paid programmers, including people doing the necessary but less glamorous grunt work, i.e more functionality. So, most of the time, in desktop application software (server OSS software fares better) people have to chose between a more featured proprietary solution, and a less featured open source one. And more often than not they chose the latter, as they for example chose Windows/OS X over Linux. We cannot just turn a blind eye to that choice.

>If the program has more functionality, but limits the users in way of Intellectual freedom or Liberties, it doesnt make people more "freer to do stuff". What you got is a program with less freedom but more functionality. Two distinct property of the program. Let me make an example. Is a video editing program "very free" if it have every function in the world, best usability, and is perfect in every sense, but as a legal requirement it demands all copyright ownership of any video edited?

Well, if what I want to do is make a movie, and I cannot do it at all with an OSS program due to functionality limitations, then yes, the proprietary one is freer, even if I have to give them my copyright.

Which is a strawman argument, by the way. Proprietary software mostly asks for your money, and for you not to tamper with the source. No video editing program asks to hand them over your copyright.

>What if the proprietary did allow the users to retain the copyright, but, only if the video included a ad snippet?

What if? It's between the users and the program. If they accept that, then they want to use the program despite the ad snippet.
So what you are arguing is essentially 'if you are not with us, you are against the terrorists?'

The only reason that strategy sometimes works (and it does by no means work in all cases, just see what happened to Pompey the Great when he tried it) is that there is some kind of punishment for those who are against you.

If you want to win people over, don't be combative. Stand firm on your belief but hand over olive branch after olive branch -- people that will give people plenty of opertunities to change their minds and will leave a favourable impression, which will be useful later.

What you have just done is the opposite of helping your cause.
I'm not disagreeing with your first paragraph -- that's what I was trying to acknowledge in my original post.

And I think there are many people who share the viewpoint of your second paragraph. Personally I don't think I do -- compromise is rarely made in the name of strong emotion. But I understand where these feelings come from. After all, for every MLK there is a Malcolm X. Maybe it's a combination of these forces that facilitates change. I have no idea, and can't speak about much else other than the fact that there are reasonable goals on both sides of this debate. We should be working towards them.
Interestingly, was reading this and saw:

"This was also a favorite time for scholars and poets to write uninterrupted, whereas still others visited neighbors, or engaged in petty crime."

Scholars and poets, programmers could fit into this category
That is pretty cool. I very much also like the other info-box style summaries that they provide. For me there is high value in sometimes not having to navigate off of the first search results page.
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Essentially, that's what this campaign is- they're looking for funding to make a good linux distribution for Allwinner A10 systems. The hardware already exists, and it already runs Linux. For example, their PengStick seems to just be the MK802 II, which you can pick up for $50 to $60. I have one of those running Xubuntu. I'm not sure what the tablets are, but you can find candidates at sellers like http://www.w2comp.com/catalog.asp?catid=75148

Getting linux running on these devices requires a lot of expertise on your own part, or trawling forums for builds other have created. What they're proposing sounds like a real improvement-

"While we have a good, running Linux system now for all the devices, there are still some rough edges. We intend to fix up the tablet related features, host a central repository of A10 specific packages and create images and guides to make these devices even better. All these efforts will take time and we plan to use the proceeds from the crowd funding to fund the remainder of the software work and maintenance."
>It means being aware that proposals written by minorities are likely to sound less confident and may understate the value of their content.

Why do you assume that the color of someone's skin will make them less capable of writing a good, confident proposal for a conference. You are suggesting that you weight the value of the proposal based on the race of the person who submitted it.
Disagree. The fact that McGann actually has a Web site demonstrating his artistic bona fides is plenty of evidence for me.
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Kim has friends at the tier 1 level, that should be clear from the Mega days. Those same commodity bandwidth friends would likely be willing to expand into an industry breaking market like NZ. Those players would likely be willing and capable of terminating a cable AND providing transit.
I don't think in the current Apple that Tim Cook is the one that is expected to have the vision for the company going forward. I think this responsibility is partly in the hands of Jon Ive and probably some other higher-ups as well. It's also interesting that Apple will allow employees some time to work on their own projects, perhaps Apple is expecting the employees to develop great new ideas that can be turned into products.

See: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-tries-20-time-2012-11
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Just released v0.61, refactored with klass.js and icanhaz.js to something much more manageable. Also now it finally shows the next airdates on your shows!

Last week I had a nice testcase where al the TPB mirrors were down, that allowed me to implement automatic alternate mirror search. With that, I think this tool is now just as resilient as TPB itself :)
I'm willing to bet NZers use less than the average. Data caps are very low (30-40gigs is standard, all you can eat is uncommon) and speeds firmly abysmal (3-4mb here off peak, I'm in the biggest city, Auckland, and am about 10-15 from the centre).
I have a fair amount of experience dealing with this, as a contractor, full-time employee, and CTO. My background is even predominantly Python (used to do Django back in the 1.0-1.2 days).

The best advice I can give you is to do it step by step and don't let yourself get overwhelmed. It's just work. Just do the work. Here are some steps to take:

1. Start cleaning up and commenting the code. Start using a linter. Don't attempt to refactor aggressively here. Don't refactor at all. Just surface details for now.

2. Start adding unit and functional tests. If you have an API, test against it. As much coverage as possible.

3. Start refactoring, breaking things, then fixing the tests.

4. Repeat #3 until it's a clean codebase. This is the point at which you'd start looking at performance and coupling too.

A little bit at a time and don't get overwhelmed.

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Oh, it's definitely a combination of the two that engenders change. If the calm, reasoned position is the only one expressed, the compromise position will never reach it. You need an extreme position in order to shift public perception to the point where the calm, reasoned position is the compromise position.
This is all true... if you play the VC game of growing your business before you have revenue to support the growth. The fact is many web-based businesses can be built without spending all your time raising money that you need because of a self-fulfilling burn-rate crisis. Some businesses need VC, but you should ALWAYS avoid VC if you can.
You should calm down and read what I actually wrote.

"So yeah, you do end up with a problem if somehow, conference after conference, we only field white guys."

I agree with you. But in this case, racist and sexist are not appropriate terms unless you believe that speakers were actually excluded based on race or gender.

Also, when you begin a post that is meant to argue against discrimination and prejudice with "Listen, white guy", it might be time to step away from the keyboard for awhile...
Has anyone tried this out in terminal (ncurses version). I get an error on osx, so i can't load a file. I get this if I give a file on command line.

> ....0.osx/Textadept.app/Contents/Resources/core/file_io.lua:143: bad argument #1 to 'iconv' (string expected, got nil)

Open file (M-S-O) does nothing.

Tried C-u (snapopen) and get a similar iconv error:

> pt.app/Contents/Resources/modules/textadept/snapopen.lua:67: bad argument #1 to 'iconv' (string expected,

I am executing the textadept-ncurses.osx file. Thx.
Please note that <backspace> is acting like a TAB but C-h is working correctly.
Because there's strong social pressure that encourages anyone other than white men to sound less confident about their ability. Failing to take that into account means that you're not actually engaging in meritocracy.
Glad to see the free service and a dedicated ruby blog.

I successfully deployed one of my apps to AWS via Elastic Beanstalk with no issue, while previously I used Rubber to manage my deployments. I think I like beanstalk because of its zero-cost and simplicity. Though I haven't figured out how to use private gem.
> Have you seen the Classics app for the iPhone?

Nope, neither did anyone else. I was talking about major e-book competitors, not every reading app ever made regardless of popularity.

> Apple even copied the bookshelf from them.

That's funny because if you ask the Delicious Library folks, they would say it was copied from them. Just goes to show that the concept of a digital bookshelf looking like a real bookshelf is a good one.

> Silly and obvious things

First of all, the best ideas are obvious once someone has thought of them. Of course we all want a minimal tablet, right? Well that's news to Microsoft who was letting 3rd parties sell Windows tablets for a decade. Not one of those tablets was minimal or boasted a clean design.

Then Apple comes along and does it, everyone ridicules them, it sells like crazy. Now, suddenly it's obvious. As someone who has stood by them, it's hard to really give a shit that Apple is getting the patents they filed for.

I find it much more bothersome that the rest of the tech industry gets to use Jony Ive as their hardware designer than Apple being afforded some small protection from what is slowly becoming an industry of clones.

> And many act like it's OK. Why?

Because they filed and were granted the patent. Where is the patent from the Classics team? Exactly. If you aren't going to even participate in the system, don't be surprised when things don't go your way.
Let's not be naïve. This is geek-clad redistribution.
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Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4799929
I have spoken with people high up in the Ultra fast broadband rollout, and they have no idea. I work for a radiology company, and we would like to be able to have 1 gig files belonging to 20ish patients shuffled across town in a reasonable time frame. The UFB guy just didn't get it - orthopedic surgeons see patients for 15mins tops, and spending that waiting for imaging to arrive is somewhat useless. The guy was telling me how well YouTube works on his home UFB. Great.

Edit: To be clear, the people I talked to had no idea, presumably the company as a whole does as the scale of the work they are doing is pretty huge, and there haven't been big issues as far as I am aware.
I wonder how long is this going to last. Lately I been hearing more about startups that provide tools and services to make apps than about startups that make actual apps.

I think that might be a sign that this gold rush it's on its last legs. Too many devs got tired of trying, so the question now is how long until the vast infrastructure of app-dev startups starts to crumble due to the old offer>demand imbalance.

Pickaxes sure got a lot cheaper when nobody was looking for gold anymore...
Runs choppy for me. What can I do?