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My 2c:

- The conference organizers set a very inclusive mandate that was, perhaps unwittingly, violated.

- The blog post author was justified in using social media to alert the organizers that their mandate was being violated, but this probably could have been done privately with a similar effect.

- It is extremely unfortunate that the violator's employers fired him. That is a big overreaction on the employer's part.

- The individual outcome here of the guy getting fired sucks, really badly, but that was not the blog post author's decision to make in the first place.

- If this helps people think twice before speaking in a public place, that's a good thing. The community will become more inclusive as a result.

I think that this is not about political correctness but about fostering an environment that allows everyone to feel comfortable. Perhaps the general short term trend will be to overcorrect by being extremely polite and reserved, but when the community embraces women and the community is evenly split between males/females/other this will eventually fade into history as we collectively reach a tone for public conversation that embraces as many people as possible while still maintaining emotion.

This isn't just a tech problem. The whole world is figuring out how to communicate with each other anew. There are gay people, ethnic minorities, people who identify with an uncommon gender, recovered drug addicts, people who have had family members die, vegetarians, etc. who will all take offense to certain remarks that were par for the course some time in the recent past. This is inevitable as the world embraces diversity and myriad forms of identity.

I suspect things will work themselves out in time, and the world will become more tolerant, while allowing people to poke fun at each other in a way that doesn't take things too far for the majority of each minority.
Fair point, I missed that!
Have a look at opera:config.
You're right. There are so many issues with this, on top of the ones mentioned.

No serious enterprise-grade software today would do without leveraging Maven, annotations, IoC, AOP...

And why isn't the UI decoupled from the business logic? What happens if one day another team in the organization needs access to Fizz Buzz? Writing their own Fizz Buzz would be extremely redundant (even dangerous), and if anybody changed the logic of Fizz Buzz it would have to be changed in multiple places at the same time: a simple change like making "Fizz" print every fourth time instead of every third time would make every Fizz Buzz team go through architecture, various change management meetings and at least one weekend deployment. And all of this would have to be coordinated to make sure it all happens within a single change window (assuming this could even be rolled out in a "big bang" situation).

No problem. IT solves this problem easily with the seamless integration of EJBs, or SOA (as mentioned), or a modern plug and play ESB. There are multiple ESB vendors, each with their own advantages and disadvantages, so best practice advises organizations to create a working group comprised of all the stakeholders of the organization with the aim of reaching a consensus on the best product to use and the best way to move forward with this (it's more than likely the whole company will want to move to an ESB platform quickly because everybody likes to leverage and everybody likes things that are seamless). The team does not have to be very technical (the brochures and online PDFs explain things very well). Plus anybody inside the organization who thinks they need to participate should be involved.

On another note, the programmer who decided to take the initiative and write this needs to have a one-on-one with his or her manager immediately. Even organizations that value proactivity will find problems with this: there is a strict violation of at least one of the basic principles of enterprise software. I don't see any constants defined and everybody knows that "the enterprisocity of an application is directly proportionate to the number of constants defined."

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Enterprise_SQL.aspx

This would never get promoted through change management. Why hasn't anyone in-house written an Eclipse plug-in for this yet?
I've done the same thing all over SE Asia before settling down in Nha Trang in Vietnam. I tend to get more done in quiet places like this than I ever did in offices in S.F.
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Really like this, looks the nonsense of real-time marketing.
I posted a version of this solution too: https://twitter.com/haroonmeer/status/307473218057433089 :)
I prefer just briefly frying a steak, and using a nice fresh baguette for bread.. So much better!
Would E-mail work as a "simple" internal messaging system for my app?
I'm building an app, where people can work with his team and they need an easy way to send messages each other.

It would be a good idea to setup an "internal" smtp server to send messages between them? Then I could use a lot of existing tools around that (smtp libs for an mobile app for example...)
Wait so now it is 100% un-okay to make any kind of sexual joke ever if women are remotely in the proximity? I make sexual jokes with female friends all the time, and they don't care if some of them are duds, because they are reasonable people.

Surely the idea of feminism is to be treated like equal human beings, and human beings should have some sense of humour.

I mean, of course tits in a slideshow is horrible because it makes women feel marginalised, however forking and dongle jokes? Seriously? Fuck that. Unless they were clearly being used to make her feel uncomfortable, what business does she have overhearing a private conversation and being offended by it?
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Isn't the Nexus 4 meant to be disappointing hardware?
Fun fact: Coke tried adapting the Diet Coke recipe to use real Coke. The result? 1985's ill-fated New Coke.

Diet Coke and Coke Zero are only two of their diet colas. The original was TaB, which is still sold today.
A very interesting read on the subject of equality and competition in education is Lorenzo Milani students' book 'Lettera a una professoressa' (Letter to a Teacher) [1].

Milani was a catholic priest that was deemed a bit too radical by the church establishment and was sent in a tiny rural community as a teacher so that he would stay away from the workers in large cities. There he developed a full time school, where older students would teach the younger and there was no notion of marks, testing or even holiday.

Learning was a collective experience that relied on critical thinking and research rather than rote learning. The book is also seminal (at least in Italy) since it uses hard numbers to show the social inequality of the school system. The statistical and economical analysis was performed by his students as a research project.

[1] http://www.swaraj.org/shikshantar/LTAT_Final.pdf
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Given that the author was contributing to a more accessible culture at one of the largest tech gatherings in the world, it's disappointing to see so much disbelief and anger here.

Her response and the resulting actions may seem harsh as an isolated incident, but they reflect her frustration with the countless times that she would have ignored such statements.

In the context of an event that prioritises diversity and equality - such that it has achieved 20% female attendance - the behaviour of the gentlemen involved represents exactly what the organisers are fighting against.

The best response to this story would be for readers to reflect and to realise how unintentionally alienating the macho nature of code communities can be.

The larger picture here is not Man vs. Woman. The issue is that we are members of a subculture which projects an image of immature and offensive behaviour. Behaviour which offends other races, ethnicities, ages, abilities, religions, sexual orientations AND genders.
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Compromised credit card adds significant hassle while Bitcoin transaction adds zero hassle. So CC is worse than Bitcoin for both parties: merchant can lose money and have to insure against it with paper work and higher prices, customer has to worry about reputation of a merchant and check his balance regularly, call the bank quickly etc.

Yes, if the merchant steals from the buyer, the raw BTC transaction is not reversible. But normally merchant has much more to lose than you if he is not nice (and merchants show their commitment by investing a lot in marketing and development) and in rare cases when you transact more money, you can use escrow and extra paperwork. But that's totally optional and is not needed when paying for a coffee, a book, or some inexpensive service.
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Build services so good that people prefer to use them
I have mixed feelings about static site generators on one hand i really like the geeky approach where you make everything yourself and build it all from scratch and you fiddle around in the terminal ... on the other hand im really lazy and just want to push a button and it just runs.

And I think that is why I love the idea and concept of Kirby. It's PHP yes, but I this case I don't really think that, that is a bad idea. I wan't my blog to be easy and cheap to host. And a PHP hotel is easy and cheap. With Kirby you build your site and upload it to some random host and it just runs. No need to setup S3 or Github commit and push.

So thumbs up to Kirby, it suites my lazy habits.
I always assumed those who work at coffee shops are homeless people (living with mom at their 30ties) or idiots.

What is behind working in coffee shops anyway? What's the point, what's the advantage of working in quite room all by yourself?
Nope, you are completely misinterpreting the article. Perhaps, if you studied in a Finish school, you would have a better understanding of what the author was trying to say.
Go to public libraries before 3pm. Students will be in school, and college-age students have their university libraries.
Pointer arithmetic should be confined to unsafe/system blocks as it only makes sense when writing low level code like device drivers.
I posted a solution in the link above ^^ sticker for the ass :_) and I linked to your tweet
You're telling me that some people don't change their bed sheets for three months!!!!!!
Yeah, the rust devs have said a number of times they're going to change the name due to this confusion.
> Soviet Union had a similar system, and selection was driven by a combination of merit exams, social status/personal connections, and corruption

I gather that you've also attended one of these schools :) Anyway, I also come from that part of the world and I remember how my parents had to pull a lot of strings to enroll me in a better school compared to the one I had been automatically assigned to.
It's nearly infinitely divisible, so not really limited as a medium of exchange.
So, to improve PISA scores, do not let children immigrate.

Is there a country which drastically changed their immigration policy in the last 20 years and does regular PISA tests? Your theory predicts a corresponding change in the PISA scores.
Up-boat and comment for later reading and look thru.

I like your idea and I hope it's okay if I borrow some of your concepts for a future idea of mine ?
"DFWMIFV"
People work in coffee shops to be noticed.
This was an early idea for the Matrix wasn't it. Machines using human brains for processing power.
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So, we've got the "Think of the children!" argument:

I realized I had to do something or she would never have
the chance to learn and love programming because the ass
clowns behind me would make it impossible for her to do
so.

I'll entertain that argument, though I think it is a wee-bit overbearing on her part to assume what will and what won't scare off this youngster; I don't believe, for example, that simple clumsy bawd would actually be enough to ruin software development for all people forever--and honestly, how many of us would want to work with someone who can't take the occasional obscene joke?

This is where I have a problem with the author's actions:

I decided to do things differently this time and didn’t
say anything to them directly.

...especially when, in the same article, we have:

I know I don’t have to be a hero in every situation.

Honestly? This is what passes for heroism these days? Are you kidding me?

Had the author talked to them, expressed discontent, explained why she felt their behavior was inappropriate, and all that, I'm sure everyone would've come out ahead. Instead, these poor folks are getting smeared for cracking wise to each other during a conference.

No amount of hand-wringing will change the fact that the author, when given the opportunity to directly improve the situation and help set a good example, chose to make a mess of things for what is probably at best just ill-timed immaturity.

If you want to help the cause of women in CS, you have to make sure that you are setting an example where your actions cannot be interpreted as fearful, backstabbing, or passive-aggressive. You want to be a positive role-model, right?

EDIT: Here, a call to action. Folks, don't put up with people who are being jerks--but at least try to explain to them why they are being jerks, and try to set a good example. A lot of people don't try to screw up things--they just need a nudge to keep on the right path from time to time.
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Stop annoying people in art galleries or squatting coffee shops, and just get a co-working space.
Or just rent a incredibly overpriced office space in airbnb, that will do as well
they're not so much "overseen" as they are "bent over".
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Forking and dongle jokes are benign. Unless you are basically a mormon, I'm not sure how being a woman gives you a "right" to be offended by something like this.
Currently Chrome is not an open-source browser. Chromium is.

As for Chrome, unless you are willing to go through hoops, it is only willing to install extensions from the Chrome Web Store.

You are now jumping through hoops to reinstall something you had installed which Google removed from their web-store.

Now Google which is your application (Chrome) and service (Reader)-provider, is working against you instead of enabling you. It didn't use to be that way, but now Google has changed.

That's the uphill battle. That's the not enabling part. That's the not open and welcoming. Contrast that to for instance Firefox and you will find a completely different picture.

Firefox has no mixed interests here, and that means they wont pull moves like this.
Ethnic issues aside, I think the OP's most important point is that schools are not the only thing that goes into education. Their family, community and friends might even be more important. Imagine you took a school performing in the top 5% academically and swap the students with a school performing in the bottom 5%. Which do you think will perform better?

Universities ares someplace where this is widely accepted. Go to a good Uni because that's where the good students are. It probably works for primary schools too.
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Finland has a very quirky school system, it's nigh impossible to apply in other countries. It's also a matter of a concerted PR effort - the paper reality often looks better than what actually happens in schools.
While it's very interesting and certainly still a role model, many educational professionals are slowly dropping the 'Be Finland' chorus and are starting to look elsewhere.

New Zealand seems to be the new hype.
I wrote that jokes were fired because she was in the earshot. You commented that I postulate unfounded facts, while they are very well founded if you'd go through as much as first half of her write-up.
I had to laugh out loud because it still looks the same. Or was that the joke?
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> Its screen resolution is 1600x900, which is not only higher than the typical 1366x768 resolution found on most laptops, but it's a nice resolution...

I'm a bit surprised to read this sentiment on this thread. As I keep saying - ten years ago I had a t42p with 1600 x 1200. For software development, vertical resolution is extremely important, and 900 is the bare minimum in my opinion. It's certainly not good.
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Even with a page file on an SSD I haven't had a problem over years of operation. Granted, this is anecdotal, but wear levelling wouldn't exist if it made no discernable difference. Windows disables defragmenting on SSDs, but from what I gathered that's not so much because of write cycles but rather because it makes no performance difference and thus is time unnecessarily spent.

That being said, making the algorithms smarter should probably help, e.g. only caching in memory if there is an SSD and just store frequently-used sites' resources on disk which might be a viable compromise.
Chips with more defects can be sold on the low end rather than scrapped, making production easier and more profitable.
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For the record, I didn't downvote you.

Her article is worded in such a way as that it can be construed as being directed at her, but it is never outright said, nor does the guy who got fired suggest that that was the case (of course, he does have a horse in the race; however, he was very honest and apologetic in his response).

It smells disingenuous to me.
"The statistical and economical analysis was performed by his students as a research project."

That is the way to do it, thanks for this reference. Paulo Freire has had a similar influence in adult teaching. One quick quote from the PDF...

"I'd have you paid by piecework. So much for each child who learns one subject. Or,even better, a fine for each child who does not learn a subject. Then your eyes would always be on Gianni.

You would search out in his inattentive stare the intelligence that God has put in him, as in all children. You would fight for the child who needs you most, neglecting the gifted one, as they do in any family. You would wake up at night thinking about him and would try to invent new ways to teach him - ways that would fit his needs. You would go to fetch him from home if he did not show up for class."

Er - no, I'd just go and find another job, subject to a definition of what 'learn a subject' means! I'll print and read the whole PDF carefully but this is exactly the opposite of what the Finnish system does.
It's literally impossible to arrange a tech meetup in London without it clashing with another event.
I don't want to get into an argument about it because I think you're on the right side of things but the one thing I would say about your assessment is that I think you need to think about how benevolent someone should be in the face of not just a single instance of something happening but continually being subject to this stuff on an on-going basis.

The "we could just code in peace" is fine up until something actually happens (such as people making inappropriate comments) at which point people have to make up their mind what to do about it. Turning the other cheek has, to date, been a remarkably ineffective technique.
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My sister is a teacher in elementary school, in a somewhat diverse school community, and achieves high scores by focusing on equity and a community outreach to get parents involved in the classroom.
32GB of RAM is $220 on Newegg.
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This says more about you than anything else.
My ex has a standing rule whenever buying stuff of e-bay to always check misspellings, and there's regularly items going very cheaply with misspelled items. I'm sure there's an opportunity there, but hard to gauge how big. Especially with relatively small ticket items that people just want to get rid off.

E.g. toys - there's a thriving market in Lego minifigures. In fact, sometimes the minifigures can individually fetch more than the set, because for many of the ranges, all the sets will contain different subsets of recognizable characters, so there's often a market consisting of people that have e.g. 3 of the 4 ninja turtles and want the last one without paying for a full set. So the prices are already ridiculously high for some items.

But many of the people in that market are totally unsophisticated. For example parents selling of their kids collections once they've "grown out of it", and when they misspell something, items can go for 1/4 of their market value or even less...

If you're willing to hold on to them and monitor prices for a while, you can do even better, as many of the ranges appreciate substantially in value (big collectors market...).
Looking forward to see a HN meetup in The Netherlands, does anyone have any plans? I'd be willing to help organise.
DB in RAM still requires to write to disk, which is often the bottleneck, not the reads.
Seems all Nexus devices are. I just bought a Nexus 10 overseas, knew this would happen the week I got it ;)
Your comment is stupid. Sexual jokes made by strangers create a hostile environment for women. Don't do it. Period.

If you are among friends, go crazy and nobody gives a damn.
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"Depression comes from not keeping up on tasks and losing your streak."

I think you mixed up cause and effect. Depression mostly leads to not keeping up with what you're doing, which is the starting point of a downward spiral. Depression isn't "solved" by motivation. Depression is complex, but most times a common source is a overwhelming emotional event, which is re-felt in every down turn.
After checking my calander to confirm its not April 1st.

Wouldn't this remove all the coatings on the optics? I thought those couldn't be re-applied?
Apparently triple monitors on linux with nvidia cards can be achieved without this hardware hack.

Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/13vkup/3_monito...
Looking forward to see a HN meetup in Shanghai, China. Does anyone have any plans? I'd be willing to help organize.
And the masks are just a really, really small part of the total cost. Intel has to pay for their fabs, they have to pay for the research into ever smaller line widths, they have to pay for materials research for new gate materials, and they have to pay for the massive research and development to design new, better chips.
It's just a situation where capitalism doesn't lead to the most economically efficient solution.

The company and the consumers are rational, yet for no additional cost, everyone could be benefiting from better hardware.

Unfortunately I don't have a better system to propose :)
I loved the start up feel of the company and the fact they had a sense or humour. They also listened to customers, once when I had a minor complaint about one of their drinks they brought in an entire tray of smoothies for the people in my office. Way cool.

It is a shame however that they also took the startup route of selling out to Coca Cola, and from then on in my opinion their product has gone downhill in quality and the new drinks they do are just crap bottled under the Innocent brand.
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There is huge difference between sexual jokes being made among friends and the ones being made by strangers in a professional environment.

The latter makes the environment hostile to women. This is not specific to women. You can apply this to minorities (of any shape or form) as well.