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The key is to teach children to question tribalism, and to do it calmly and rationally. If you do that, and they trust your capacity to judge fairly, they'll come back to you for extra perspectives whenever they aren't sure about anything.

Parenting is deceptively simple. Everything comes down to building enough mutual trust that an adult relationship is possible fifteen, twenty years down the line. Everything else is either there to make that possible, or built off that fundamental.
I'd interested to see the original source code somewhere.
The concept is flawed. Getting random feedback from random people is not at all useful. Feedback needs to take into account the target users and the goals of the design. The designer needs to ask specific questions, not just "what do you think?".
Maybe this product would be useful if users could put out a call for people who meet certain criteria (i.e. music-lovers, 25-40), and then focus their attention on a small set of questions. In this way, there's a possibility of getting something useful to go on.
And the best keyboards are also the noisiest, :p.
> Removing (or reducing) fixed gender stereotypes allows individuals to express themselves withut fear that they are different, or that some how their behavior is wrong.

Removing "free playtime" because it leads to gender stereotypes(as quoted in the article) is simple, plain wrong. Children can very well be taught that being different is Ok, and schools can actually try to combat bullying rather than sweeping it under the rug. "You don't go out on the road, you aren't going to be in a road accident" is hardly a solution for road accidents.

> The harder we make it for them as a kid to express preferences the more repressed they will be.

If a boy A likes playing with trucks, taking his trucks away so that another boy B doesn't feel guilty for playing with dolls is simple, plain wrong. It's difficult and it will take a lot of time and understanding for the society to adapt, but that is no excuse for not educating both A and B that people are different, and there is nothing wrong with being different.

> You don't have to make a boy play with a doll, but you absolutely should make dolls available to him, without biasing the media he sees so that he thinks only girls play with dolls. Only then can he make a decision on what toy to play with without the influence of millennia of patriarchy.

Say I have a boy and I buy him only trucks. What wrong am I committing? I like trucks. Am I under obligation to buy him dolls? I am not depriving him of dolls. I just won't buy one myself because I don't like dolls. If he wants one, he will ask for one.

From the quotations in the article, it's not about making dolls available to him but rather taking his trucks away and handing him dolls.

I don't care if he is playing with trucks because all the ads on tv show boys playing with trucks. You(metaphorical you) have no right to take his trucks away and force dolls on to him.
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being married to a woman who collects bicycles like stray dogs it really made a difference in our bike storage.
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>Was this for content that can live outside of the app?

I don't fully understand your question. We have a voip app that among other things allows users to call landline or mobile numbers. These calls are not free, so a user must pay. We started with web site+flash and added paypal and stripe payment options. Then we've created iOS app and as anyone else found out about 30% tax. Long story short, nothing worked until we added in app purchases. Before that, the app was continuously rejected on the grounds that if it's possible to pay on website and then use that credit on iOS app, then we must provide also in app purchases.

> I can see why apple doesn't want you to sell it anywhere else.

It's not that apple don't want you to sell it anywhere else, but that if you do sell it anywhere else, you have to sell it also on iOS.
The attention goes where the money is... I believe that yes, we are behind iOS devices... I just hope the complete Mac line will not slowly "die" as the Mac Pro...
Property plus mortgage should still be net positive.

An irrational fear of debt means investment returns will be perpetually poor.
Because Evernote is willing to pay the Apple extortion fee for something which isn't costing Apple anything.
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Wow, this + MOAI is going to be a fun week .. ;) Seriously, thanks for the Artwork, its exactly what I need to get things happening in a more creative way on a couple of my MOAI projects. If we make something nice, we'll definitely let you know!
Well. And what when AirBags stop working, or anti traction in cars, or...

Every technology might fail. And every device will fail. And it does so in cars, in planes, in trains or whatever.

That's why (so do I believe), they built two gyros in there. One for fail-save-mode.
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My apartment building has a locked bike room.
> " Apple's argument for the 30% charge when they first launched the app store is that traditionally you'd have to publish through a telco, and telcos used to charge way more than 50% of the revenue in order to place your application through their portal."

That logic doesn't work though because phone and PDA apps have been available to download from 3rd party websites since even before 3G. You could set up a download portal for Windows Mobile or whatever OS the "dumb phones" from Sony Erricson's K-series featured using free hosting if you really wanted to. Granted it wouldn't be a centralised repository like Linux distro's feature (which are also free), but it certainly wouldn't have cost you >50% of your budget.

Apple do this sort crap all the time, they deliberately merge vaguely related statistics to promote whatever prejudice they're trying to peddle at that time (eg classing their notebooks as tablets when talking about their dominance on the mobile space. Or including iPod figures when talking about the dominance of the iPhones).

Smart phones, feature phones and PDAs have been around a long time before the iPhone; central software repositories have also been around a long time before the Apple App Store; and there's never been a precedence to take >50% (nor even a 30%) cut from transactions and nor has setting up independent 3rd party portals cost that much either.

Plus lets not forget that Apple also charge developers for the privilege of developing software (even just for your own personal iOS device) via their developers subscription (note I said subscription; not a one off payment) and (if I'm not mistaken) again for just adding your application to the App Store.
So, if it makes you feel any better, Visual Studio 2010 was developed, at least in some major part, using WPF (I remembered that one, and managed to find a reference for it on an official website). I can't say much about the other technologies, though. You certainly can't blame your WPF issues on them not eating that particular dogfood.

"Get an insider’s look at how Microsoft created the next-generation, large-scale integrated development environment experience using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) 4." -- http://www.microsoftpdc.com/2009/CL09

Apple, in contrast, consistently uses things that they deny access to for normal developers; not just high-level libraries and platforms that you could technically re-implement (although they certainly do this, and they do it ludicrously often), but fundamental capabilities on their platforms that they have reserved "only for Apple" (whether just by radical un-documentation, or now by controlling software distribution and manually checking for usage).

The difference is dramatic: when you see Microsoft release a application for their operating system, you can feel pretty confident that if you spend enough time reading their developer documentation, you could build that exact same thing yourself. This is not the case with Apple. (This also has nothing to do with whether or not they will deprecate your code a couple years later.)

I'll happily believe that Microsoft has gone horrendously downhill on this axis, though, since I stopped paying attention to them in 2008 (that's when I started doing Cydia fulltime, which led me down a path that forced me to eventually switch to using a Mac as my primary development machine). If nothing else, I am under the impression that Microsoft gave up this feature with Windows 8 Metro :(.

Hence why I used the past perfect "always did" (as opposed to the present imperfect "always does"): the contention from JonnieCache was that MS does not nor nor that they ever did (as if they actually were to do so it would be "for the first time"), when radical dogfood eating that was always what made MS great and set them apart from everyone else.
The video says it has 2 where one of them is for redundancy, but still....
Minimizing the differences between the sexes destroys lives by emasculating men, leaving them depressed, unable to secure a mate and suicidal. See, we can all do it. The "It Gets Better" campaign has nothing to do with this, taking a tiny subsection of the population and trying to say it shoud apply to us all is bad science.

I am absolutely fine with saying we should foster the understanding that there are different gender choices than just hetro male/female. That we should embrace those choices as willingly as the other two.

What I am vehemently opposed to is your outrageous view that the way to do that is for us all to become the same. I'm for more choices, not less.
> Which was to prove to you that those damn gender equality activists have taken us too damn far.

They haven't proved anything to me other than triggering me into hoping that these crazies are in minority, and don't enjoy the support of majority.
Except, Apple set up an agreement with Dropbox to do that, but apparently they're refusing to let Microsoft do it with Skydrive.
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> the plural of anecdote is data

Did I say this was the norm? And didn't I specifically mention that I hope these crazies are minority and don't enjoy popular support?
It's good to be reminded that the toys you like to play with really have nothing to do with masculinity or femininity.

But to other people it's the first sign that gender realignment surgery might be required.

What gives? What really is the correct response to toys?
Yeah the Internet is full of porn, but where do you find meta discussion about porn sites? You know business opportunities, history and stuff life that.
I'm not sure this is the conclusion that I would draw. It appears you're measuring technological progress by the gap between what is available in the 3rd world vs. what is currently available in the 1st world.

I would argue that making $50 phones is an amazing sign of progress as it speaks to just how amazing the technology behind manufacturing has got.

In fact, it has almost been a side effect of Moore's Law (almost the de-facto measure of technological progress in the CPU space for a while) that processors have become cheaper as they became faster.
If my childhood is anything to go by, the boy will try to look under the doll's clothes, then try to pull its head off, swap its limbs around or otherwise deform it, then get bored and find something else to do.

I have no idea if girls do the same and wouldn't wish to make a value judgement...
Not a majority. Not even a minority party with enough support to hold office. Literally an insignificant minority of the population.
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Why would a gyro abruptly stop? If there's some sort of collision with enough force to crumple the gyro casing, which appears to be buried deep in the vehicle and can be made of very strong material, you have a lot bigger problems than the gyros stopping.
Ah, yes, iGoogle and myYahoo are cases of home page dashboards. Nobody would really use those for financial analysis and the widgets are generally skeumorphic and distinct looking. I would say it's not a strong enough execution of the idea.

I agree it would not necessarily be a killer product for Yahoo. It would, however, allow Yahoo to streamline and combine some existing efforts.
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Much of your comment is valid but this paragraph is just so wrong I needed to pull you up on it.

> In the case of houses, you only lose if the resale value of the property falls below the outstanding amount of the loan, presuming interest + taxes + maintenance do not exceed the equivalent amount of rent.

While absolute dollar loses may not be bigger if you are leveraged than buying the same house outright the buying power is and the absolute loss is greater than it would be if you bought something that you could buy outright.

Example 1: If you have 100K and buy an apartment for 100k then the market drops 10% you have 90K in equity and could still buy a similar apartment (and trading up is actually cheaper than before).

Example 2: You have 100K and borrow 400K to buy a 500K house. The market falls 10% and you have a 450K house with a 400K mortgage and only 50K equity and you are unlikely to be able to get a similar property. You may need to trade down substantially and you can't even buy a 90K apartment without a mortgage.

The final sentence is true but makes it sound like there is a high confidence of keeping up with inflation (doubtful in my view given the current levels of private debt.

> Because loans are fixed at a currency amount on the date of funding, a property that keeps pace with inflation wins.
>Just thinking it through logically, a flat fee is effectively a decrease on expensive purchases, and (if the books are to be balanced) must be matched by an increase on cheap purchases.

I think that sounds fair in terms of where the value is coming from. For a $1 app, Apple probably did provide 50% of the value. For a $20 app/book/etc., Apple's contribution is likely minimal.
>it's mainly been girls that have provided rebukes based on gender. Not sure where 2 and 3 year old girls are getting it from but the most often gender-biased comments I've heard targeted at the boys has been "pink is only for girls" and "that's not for you it's for a girl". Strangely in my limited experience (though I work with young children every day) I've yet to hear any boys do the same sort of thing.

This does not surprise me in the least. Females tend to be more socially orientated than males - so any cultural memes are expressed through them more strongly.
Still if the traction system in cars fails you dont fall over and and lie on the street immobile. They have a second one for fail safety, but i think there could relatively easily be a case where both fail, like no energy for whatever reason.
Very cool! I created a small bookmarklet that injects it into the system we're developing over here. It's nice to amaze some colleagues real quick. ;)

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Note: if you copy this in the omnibox of chrome, you will need to re-add "javascript:" in front of it.

Edit: And a working bookmarklet for HN that also injects jquery.

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Just to give a little more context, because I think this gripe is very common:

There exists a proof that NAND gates are all you ever need to compute an arbitrary boolean function from M bits to N bits. Actually, you also need a "copy" gate -- the ability to generate two bits with value X from one bit with value X -- and "wires" to communicate values from gate to gate, but that's about it.

The proof starts out like this: "a function from M bits to N bits is actually just N functions from M bits to 1 bit, as long as I can copy the input N times and feed it to the N functions which compute each output bit. So if I solve the problem for M-to-1, I automatically solve M-to-N as long as I have COPY and SWAP gates."

It's very important to see that the exact same approach is being used in the P-vs-NP question. P and NP are designed to be about functions which take M bits to 1 bit, hence they are "decision problems" with a boolean output but a variable input.

The question "P = NP?" can also be phrased more common-sensically, if not totally precisely, as "is brute force ever really necessary?". What is brute force? It is if you have to try a substantial fraction of the 2^M inputs to find a certain 1-bit output. What does this look like here? Well, that gets more complicated because we use scaling of a problem and a system of solution to discuss what's going on.

So a problem is in NP if (1) you can reduce it to some sort of M-bit input to 1-bit output, and (2) there exists some constant number K such that if I double the input size from M to 2M, the circuit has no more than K times the number of gates. This gives the logic circuit a "polynomial-time" size.

Then a problem is in P if we can find an input which makes the output 1 in a polynomial number of gates as well. Thus this is the "inverse" problem, "find me an input which makes this function 1." In fact we've just defined what's called a "satisfiability problem" -- find an input which satisfies this polynomial-size M-variable boolean formula.

A problem is in NP-complete if the recursion holds: if you can implement COPY and NAND and wires in that system in a polynomial number of gates, so that any problem in NP can be written in terms of your problem. This is part of the value of having these "constant K" constraints rather than specifying a given K; we get to define these NP-complete cases as the "hardest cases in NP," because if you can reverse them, then you can reverse any other problem in NP.

Does that help?
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The bearded guy raised the point of needing to trust the vehicle to not fall over, and there was a lot of talk about how it looked and what kind of cool features were included.

But before I purchased it, I'd definitely want to have a test ride to see how it went, and perhaps some decent feedback from Top Gear - how does it really handle in a variety of situations?
>(possible only in "unmoderated reactors", and I don't know what that means)

I'm fairly sure that refers to a nuclear reactor gone into meltdown. By the time you've knocked together enough particles to make gold nuclei it's quite hard to calm the thing down again...
Damn. I'd forgotten about that one.
> I'm not saying there are no differences (although there are virtually no professions that need be gender specific - men and women can be equally proficient at almost everything), but that we should foster an environment where we minimize those differences because the outcomes of not doing that quite literally destroys lives.

I have absolutely 0 interest in minimizing difference. Some people are straight, some are gay. Straights should act a little gay, or gays should try to be straight to minimize differences?

Minimizing differences is not the objective, embracing differences is.
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Remember that you can put money onto your iTunes account using gift cards bought at retailers. Those retailers will get a cut (someone here probably knows but lets guess 10-15%).

That doesn't reduce it to a zero profit operation but at least on that portion of the revenue it looks like a lot than 30%.
Is it really called the C1? "C1" is the name of a scooter with a hard top, distributed by BMW:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_C1
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The "girls can't do math" stereotype is not just wrong, its false in the sense that we should just stop saying it. Its more akin to a bad told myth, brining harm where ever its being retold.

The #1 preferred profession from a woman in Sweden is economist, based on yearly polls. If one look at university education, women dominate the class room in every areas of match except one subject (abstract math), and then men only reach above 50% in abstract math after the 3rd year.

So the stereotype is not true. Its not true as in, women are as able to handle math as men, but it also not true because women actually work with math more commonly than men in real life. Its not true in any aspect what so ever, so please, please stop spreading the myth. Its only doing harm. If you need to describe a stereotype, take one that's not this one.
You know what I would like to contribute for? To bring the old Mac interface back.

(BTW, I already contributed to VLC in the past. It's very useful and I think they deserve it.)
>stereotype is that it limits choice ("I'm a boy so I -must- play with guns instead of dolls"), which leads to inefficient use of the potential of the next generation //

Stereotypes don't themselves limit choice they enable statistical analysis of populations. It's what you choose to do with the analysis that can lead to limitation of choice.

However, if I'm tall and you're short then it's not better for us together as a [small] population to cut short my legs and give you stilts to give us a semblance of similarity - who's going to reach all the high and low places [efficiently] then?

Of course this doesn't speak to an individuals worth, but your sentence says "the next generation" and so we're looking at the population as a whole.

>To miss out on a math genius just because she happened to be a girl and was taught that she's too stupid to handle advanced math is detrimental to the advancement of the human race. //

Individuals are largely irrelevant to the advancement of the human race.

Now the question is if group A have a propensity born out of their biology to activity X but you have to ensure that equal numbers of group B are doing X, despite their propensity for that activity being statistically reduced over group A's then that is inefficient. I would warrant in a far more significant way. It's a big if of course.

No one is supporting teaching people they're stupid.

>So limit an individual's choices based on gender is as dumb as limiting them based on race. //

I don't agree that these are comparable. If I want to be a mother then my race is largely irrelevant.

However, those who wish to remove gendered play are attempting to limit choice based on gender. By not letting gender-C do activity Y _because that's a stereotypical activity thusfar for gender-C_ you are doing that very thing that you'd claim not to. Moreover you're assuming that the behaviour is bad just because of the gender of the subject.

[FWIW if you'd couched your arguments in terms of something akin to a Kantian imperative instead of in terms of benefit to the human race I think they'd be much stronger].
Sweden is a horrible place. http://www.scb.se/Pages/PressRelease____342528.aspx
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