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Easy to miss is an understatement, I couldn't even tell there was a footer on my crappy work monitor.
Where is this? Can i join you?
When you are working in the field, and you know that perhaps 10 % of all grants are funded you will begin to care.
Again bad example, Iran is not an Arab country. They don't speak the same language, they don't share the same culture, they consider themselves the descendants of the Persian Empire, not the Caliphate (the big Arab Empire a few hundred years ago).

Also, I'm not sure I get your last sentence either. An awful lot of revolutions in the world (Arab and otherwise) have been fueled by religion. Even in the US, religion might not have been a motivation for the War of Independance, but it had a major impact on the relationship between government and religion.

Arabs also know how to do revolutions without involving religion:

- Lebanon went through something extremely similar to the Arab Spring back in 2005. The revolution against the oppressors of the time succeeded by putting religion aside and having most parties unite. (Lebanon is a segregated mosaic of approximately 17 religions, each having more or less political power).

- Syrian resistance (or rebels, depending on your point of view) are not, despite what the media is telling you, an Islamist resistance. The leaders of the resistance have clearly repeated over and over again that they're not after the minorities, they're not trying to put Islam forward, they're simply against the Assad regime.
> ... favors your more extroverted engineers. My experience has been the engineers I really want to keep, the ones who solve the really hard problems, are much less likely to be in that group.

I, too, read "group" as "extroverted engineers," and I don't really see alternative readings.
let me rephrase it then, a numeric list of general stuff that came up from a committee, that changes every 5 years or so, that anyone in whole world could identify in them in some point their lifes for (generally) a lifetime diagnosis that's given with medical authority backing, like the ones where they know cause, effect and solution? sad joke...
Your title isn't clear, and it's not even February yet, so I assume you meant "over the last year".
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We've considered moving, sure. For us though the cost of moving houses in this market, and my wife's local reputation-based business (wedding photographer) would make it an extremely expensive proposition in the short term. I think getting left behind is definitely a risk. So far I'm the only employee outside of the bay, but the culture has remained pretty asynchronous and conducive. If we continue to find talent local to SF I imagine there's a solid chance that'll change, if we happen upon more awesome remote talent it might not. I think it'll just depend on who we end up hiring over time.

Early on though, getting big enough to have that issue sounded like a very high class problem so we decided not to care much where people were and focus on getting things built.

[Aside: That's awesome that you're in SD! Drop me a line and I'd be happy to pass your details along to some of my SD developer friends]
Grants go to organizations not people, and generally those organizations ensure that the money is spent legitimately. They don't allow a single person to collect two salaries. So if someone gets two grants for "the same" research, they'll have to employ more people or the same people for more months. One would assume that results in more or better research.
How common is it to find people who don't sympathize with depressed people? I don't care about anonymous trolls on the internet. I mean in real life?

In my experience with depression, everyone sympathizes and worries and wants help the depressed person. But being a vicious brain disease, depression will make you think the people who love you actually hate you and lough at you behind your back, when at work, or even while sleeping.

I have been accused of laughing at the person I love while sleeping, by her. No, it did not make me upset. I know it was the demons in hear head making her say that. I had been with her as she descended deeper and deeper and her self-hatred got worse and worse.

So when I hear that we need to sympathize with depression, I think you either have no experience with depressed people, or you're trying to convince anonymous internet trolls. The later is as futile and pointless task as can be. It is better to teach and train people on ignoring the trolls.
In the climbing example as presented, you should be at least three mistakes away from injury. The belayer should check the climber's harness and knots before allowing the climber to climb. Naturally the climber should check that the belayer's harness is fastened securely and that the belay device is rigged properly before climbing too.

Realistically, there are still several single points of failure in the system:

1) The space between the belayer's ears
2) the rope if it has become damaged since it was flaked and inspected or gets cut while catching a fall. Yes, that happened, though not to me [1].
3) The protection on the wall, due to improper use. although depending on how high you are, the next piece down might still keep you off the deck.
4) The harness itself, although barring invisible damage this should be caught by the belayer/climber him/herself and the cross check.
5) The protection on the wall due to gear failure.

The above are listed in what I would consider descending probability, although 2 and 3 are pretty close, with 3 probably jumping 2 in trad climbing. I would rate the probability of 5 being negligible barring manufacturing defects, the prevention and possibly detection of which is probably outside the expertise of virtually all climbers.

Moral of the story: safety is complicated. (edited to add) I'd believe that trying to get people to apply a simple model of "how many mistakes" is better than none, but I wonder to what extent it reduces safety by making people complacent about having done a risk analysis when the system is too complicated to be analyzed that way.

[1] http://www.redriverclimbing.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=132...
Relatedly, the KKK supported women's right to vote, but they did so mostly because the women were more likely to vote for prohibition, and prohibition gave them a chance to put the Catholic-Irish immigrants on the wrong side of the law.
You'd think that whole Scientology thing would have convinced them...
Probably not safe enough as most of them probably list external dependencies that will fall back to rubygems.
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> for use in medicine.

Ear-nose-throat guys still use it for contact anesthetic. I had a light shoved up my nose and then back into the throat while they examined the result of a punch to the throat. (Martial arts FTW.) I sat there amazed that I didn't really give a damn with a giant flextube ramming into my face.
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> did nobody ever have a small, general purpose computer before the Raspberry Pi came along?

I'm not sure I follow - does anything that runs http://archlinuxarm.org/ count? I have four Pogoplugs at home. For about the last year or so, two of them run a web server and an rsync backup server. The other two are for learning/experimenting.
Is our agency fiddling the figures?
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Binary transparency PNGs (i.e. no separate alpha channel) have worked in IE since at least 6. So except for animation support there really is no reason to use GIF.
From a bigger-picture strategic sense, the Developer Division at Microsoft is concerned about making Microsoft a good platform for developers. Fundamentally, if developers want to use Mercurial on Windows or Git on Windows or TFS on Windows, we're happy. And - increasingly - we'll donate money or even developer time to help make this a good experience.
This parent post is what I came in to say. I'm a sole remote employee at my current company and I think I miss out on like 75% of discussions that go on.
In my career, I have seen and participated in both kinds of offices.

Strong factors for success in a distributed office are:

+ Fit with the company culture. High-ceremony or even medium-ceremony development patterns work less well or not at all with remotes.
+ Fit with the personalities and work habits of the staff. Not everyone is capable of working remotely.
+ Industry requirements. Some high-security situations require that work be done on premises.

I once ran a very successful remote project where everyone worked at home. All had a separate office in the home that they could close the door.
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In our weird new world, it's not uncommon for young people to achieve this new type of psuedo-fame, fueled solely by social media. And we're not just talking the type of notoriety you can get from a viral YouTube video, which tends to require at least a sliver of talent, humor or skill. Instead, these kids are amassing huge followings just for being attractive. It's like a high school popularity contest on digital steroids, but this homeroom has more than 45,000 kids in it.
We founded and developed https://circuithub.com/ largely as a distributed team (all members in different locations).

This is a complex topic that i intend to discuss more in long form, but in short, with contemporary communication and collaboration infrastructure the productivity of small highly skilled dev teams is unaffected by location.

I can prove this for our case at least (5 team members).

I am writing this from a coffee shop in Mexico, we currently have people in South Africa and San Jose, if this lifestyle appeals, please do get in touch!
Especially since the TSA actually accomplishes almost nothing in preventing deaths. All a terrorist about to be discovered at the airport security gate would have to do to complete his deadly mission would be to detonate his bomb right then and there. It would cause people to fear airports and security gates and mess up the whole system. Terrorism is all about sowing fear that the government can't protect you. The TSA just shifts some of the risk from the airplane to the airport. You can't security check everything in life. Better to figure out why people want to detonate bombs in the first place and solve that problem. But symbolic solutions are so much easier.
It could be statistics - maybe people with depression in the undeveloped world simply die without having the depression diagnosed.

But to my knowledge the current(?) model of depression says it is both. There is the clinical depression without noticeable external factors, and there are those depressions which are quite obvious a reaction to an unbearable situation. The clinical depression can manifest itself again and again and will most likely never vanish completely. The situational depression normally goes away if the situation changes - but sure those people need help to achieve that.

Of course, that leads to the conclusion that both causes shouldn't mix, and it doesn't mean there can be no factors like genetically predetermined likelihood for situational depression.

To the first commenter: Saying that it is brain chemistry does not mean we shouldn't help those people. It is the other way around: In saying "this is a serious illness", we make it impossible to say that the depressed is responsible, why didn't he simply change his life? No one can do anything against his brain, apart from medication and maybe - and that is a big maybe - psychiatric help.
Well, if the game state is so small, then it's quite easy to combine all these functions together in FRP style.

How about big games though? for example, World Of Warcraft or Eve Online. The game states of these are humongous, and the game state's data constructor would be huge.
Interesting, so there are like a billion blog entries "How to build a Raspberry Pi <X> Server" where X is "file", "print", "media", "security", "email", "web", "DNS", Etc.

They are really just how to configure a Linux box to serve that function, except the new hawtness is the Raspberry Pi. One would assume people would get it by now that its just another Linux server so anything you can do with a Linux server you can do with this.

What I like about this is that folks are willing to jump into these sorts of projects with a Pi. (go go DevOps!) When they wouldn't for some reason with an "expensive" computer. It is a lot of fun and there is lots of information out there to guide you.

As for this particular example the original LinkSys ARM based file server was way ahead of the game :-). It suffers from the same problems (there is a lot of unreliability built into the equation) but it spawned a lot of copy cats and its at least as useful as putting a disk on your wireless access point to serve up tunes.
It's been a while since I read it, but it think it would be more about why one "tribe" developed guns and the other didn't. (Minor nitpicking by someone who also heard of Jared Diamond).
First, there is no one magical formula of totally being ok with remote working vs not.

The world isn't that binary.

One main issue is that these decisions need to be made based on the discipline of the developer to work well in their own time. It's not an issue with self-directed and self-teaching developers, but the simply, just, aren't.

I've worked remotely for a good 5-6 years now. You really have to still be reasonably available by phone, IM, and for meetings as reasonably needed. You have to provide benefits only available by distance.

One that I share a lot is remote screen sharing. You have to cram in beside each other on a computer, so pair programming actually works not bad if you need to help someone, or do something together.

Sometimes I have to give up an afternoon to do a larger "state of the project" meeting once a month, which is fine. Ultimately it's about a balance that all projects need. You do get some benefits from being in the same room with the right people that you won't distantly. With those right people, though, you could probably be away. The problem comes in when you're dealing with a productivity level that is average because of the people involved.
Not a powershell fan here, rarely used it.

But 'Bash for decades'? Is that true? A quick search for bash 1.0 shows me tarballs from '95, which isn't yet decadeS old.. Ignoring the question of whether bash is the optimum shell and that some systems migrated to replacements (think dash, all the zsh lovers).

So that last line of yours seems a little over the top.
I've experienced both styles for extended periods. I've worked with some really hard core engineering teams during my many colocation years and remotely for the past 2.5 years.

Over the years of working with many great people, I had built a habit of potentially over-collaborating with my peers. It was hard not to, considering how much smarter two people are than one. And with the right mixture of personalities and solving hard problems, it's almost always more enjoyable (even delightful) to work things through together. You get the stronger sense that together you are delivering a greatness that would be hard to achieve on your own.

I've really missed that part since I've been remote for the past few years. However I have had to learn to be way more self sufficient and resourceful. I think initially the transition hurt my productivity somewhat, but it also ended up making me much stronger and decisive because I couldn't fallback to the whiteboard anymore.

I think I still prefer the colocation style to some degree because working closely with great people is just so rewarding. Thankfully even while I'm currently in my fortress of solitude, I still have great peers to work and connect with through Skype. We have a team chat going all the time that is similar to the war room arrangement where we can socialize and discuss random (sometimes even relevant) topics.

All in all, working with great people is the key either colocated or remote.

EDIT: I should also mention that your ability to focus on your own dev work is great for personal productivity, but often your full value to the team is only realized when you shift your focus to helping the team. I've had many situations where I could have used one of those ticket dispensers because the line at my desk was out of control. I found that working from home for 1 or 2 days a week was a good balance in that situation. Time for some self focus and time for giving to the team.
Perhaps only the companies that aren't willing to hire remote developers need to use recruiters...
Maybe your older relatives were already familiar with computers, but, anecdotally, watching my parents, aunts, and grandparents attempt to drive multiple layers of menus … I do not think they could figure out how to un-trust CNNIC (and they wouldn't understand what the impact was, anyway…).
There's a great deal of scientific evidence for the cognitive benefits of mindfulness meditation. Here's a good survey of the literature: <a href="http://ideonexus.com/2012/08/27/the-science-of-mindfulness-m...;
Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South is also useful in tracing behavior and codified practice.
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As a temporary workaround until Psych is updated. At least that's how I read it.

We can either sit around throwing stones at them or pull up our sleeves and help. I'm not sure what there is to gain with the former.
I thought that both these meanings of shy were already negative?

Note that in the association is between two meanings of a word: the association is between one meaning of shy and the other, not between shy and the girl. The latter are only associated because you used them together in a sentence. So the fact that you used "We were just shy of our goal" does not associate "girl" with something negative. It does associate "shy" with something negative. In contrast, if you use "that movie is gay", just by using that sentence on its own you are associating "gay", and hence a group of people, with "bad".

For why there is more backlash in one case than another you also have to keep in mind the direct effect. If you say "We were just shy of our goal", the potential to hurt a shy person who happens to listen in will likely not be large, but if you say "that movie is gay" and a gay person is listening in, it might very well hurt. Secondly, shy is already negative, so it would be a little strange to complain that using it as "almost but not quite" is damaging the status of shy people, since the other meaning of shy is already more negative.
Because then the upkeep and maintenance of the PNG library for webkit relies on a middle-man.
I'm glad you have my back, adcoelho :D . @martinced, as adcoelho stated, I gave that disclaimer because I wanted to make sure that the reader knew that I gave a very rough definition that I hoped would be easier to understand, but was not rigorous. If the reader wants the rigorous definition and proof of this concept, there already are many resources on the internet for that.
Author doesn't understand how statistics/probabilities work and it ruins the article.

If you roll a dice six times, you have no guarantee to get a six. Each time you roll the dice, you have 1/6th chance of getting a six and this doesn't change no matter how many times you roll.

If you roll a dice six times, you have around 66,51% (1-(5/6)^6) chance of getting six at least once.

For the same reason, if you have 1/1000th chance of dying under the shower, and you take 5,000 showers, you won't die 5 times...

You will have 1-(999/1000)^5000 chance of dying, that 99,32%. That's not 1. So you won't die 5 times.
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Wow, I didn't know that...thanks, I will look into it
I think you can change app feed settings to "only me" then only you can see the feeds.
Yes, getting around it is easy. It's just obnoxious, and adds latency, and application support for SOCKS is shitty, and …

I guess I could set up OpenVPN on a VPS or something.
If the metaphor refers to flying apparatuses, I vote for a cable car.
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Saw that you connected on Linkedin if I hear of anything I'll let you know
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"Yes, everybody has bugs, but most people's bugs aren't an intentional feature that a trained monkey ought to have known was a bad idea."

First, given how many times I've seen a deserialization library "helpfully" allow you to deserialize into arbitrary objects in a language that is sufficiently dynamic to turn this into arbitrary code execution, evidence suggests this is not an accurate summary. I'd like to see "Don't deserialize into arbitrary objects" become General Programming Wisdom, but it is not there yet.

It's not like we live in a world where XSS is rare or anything anyhow. The general level of programming aptitude is low here. That's bad, regrettable, something I'd love to see change and love to help change, but it is also something we have to deal with as a brute fact.

Secondly, there's still the points of A: even if you don't use Ruby on Rails, your life may still be adversely affected by the Severity: Apocalyptic bug, and B: what are you going to do when the Severity: Apocalyptic bug is located in your codebase? And that's putting aside the obvious matters of what to do if you use Ruby on Rails and this was your codebase. The exact details of today's Severity: Apolalyptic bug are less relevant than you may initially think. Go back and read the piece, strike every sentence that contains "YAML". It's still a very important piece.

At which point a re-quoting of my favorite line in the piece is probably called for: "If you believe in karma or capricious supernatural agencies which have an active interest in balancing accounts, chortling about Ruby on Rails developers suffering at the moment would be about as well-advised as a classical Roman cursing the gods during a thunderstorm while tapdancing naked in the pool on top of a temple consecrated to Zeus while holding nothing but a bronze rod used for making obscene gestures towards the heavens." Epic.
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