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In related news, Silicon Valley VCs spotted hanging out at the Clift's Redwood Room in search of new talent.
We've been using Sails in all of our client projects for the last year, so I guess we'll see what happens :)
Careful with all that talk about "blindly groping". There may be ladies present, or blind people :).
Twitch: The EditUndo feature is stuck in the 90’s
The Promise library for Ruby
Is this really news or even a new idea? The idea that being exposed to "dirt" or plentiful foreign germs/organisms can build the immune system is one I have been aware of for as long as I can remember. Maybe it just hasn't been "proved" yet.
Hey, so I am the developer of this service. You can surely use GA Experiments for general purposes. The benefit of using a specialist tool is that there would be much more features. Right now, Accredor is in development. In due course it will have more features like User Targeting, Custom Reports, a WYSWYG editor for creating experiments, revenue tracking, etc. Also, very soon we will provide integration with GA to push the reports onto GA.
Stop this. Every got hurt on this. Hopefully we've _all_ learned something valuable. There's nothing to be gained by keeping her under scrutiny. I hope this thread is deleted and I'm flagging it.

EDIT: added that I'm flagging it.
It's not about "the remotest possibility of offending people", it's about the cultural background that a large penis is pushed as a dominating, masculine thing, and being in a room of 80% male attendees and someone makes a "big dongle" comment (for example) skews the environment in a male-friendly-masculine-dominance way and a female-unfriendly way.

In the same way that being around a group of really rich people and saying you missed an appointment because your car broke down and they say "didn't want to get the weekend car wet, eh? Why didn't you hire one for the day you cheapskate! Hahaha!".

It's not the mention of money that matters, it's the automatic dismissal of your life situation as something that doesn't happen to real people - it isn't even a concept - to all the other people in the group, and how alienating that scenario is to be on the 'wrong' side of. The implicit pushing of the idea "everybody" is rich and because you aren't, well, you aren't really a person. Not really.

And you say "hey, I couldn't afford one, I missed whatever it was and that sucked for me" and they say "what do you want me to do, pretend I'm a pauper forever and never talk about money? That's just political correctness GONE MAD!".

But the request is not "they should pretend to be poor", it's more like "they should consider your situation as a real person and then not say something that sounds like a clueless bozo said it".
“Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.” - William Keats

For what she's after, I think a first game in anything is good. The technical knowledge will come later after the passion has been ignited.
> "sexual joke" are not necessarily "sexist jokes"

There is absolutely no point to this statement. Inappropriate comments do not need to be tied to a particular group of people.

> there is no particular reason to say that women are somehow traumitized [sic] by the mere mention of sexuality.

Thanks for the man-splaining. Are you, by chance, on a tour of inner city high schools telling black kids about how affirmative action is unfair to white people?

> Yes, but it's unprofessional regardless of the gender of anyone or everyone in earshot.

Oh ok, so you're fine with an offensive joke being offensive, you just have an issue with the fact that a woman brought it up. Got it.

> All I can say is, don't invite me to represent at any event you put on. Being professional is one matter, catering to PC bullshit in the misguided belief that you can avoid even the remotest possibility of offending someone, is quite something else.

Mommy, help! They're taking away my boys club!!
On this kind of situations I usually follow the "vulcan" philosophy described by Wayne D. Dyer in "Your Erroneous Zones".

It comes down to "you choose how you feel". There is nothing I can do to make you choose a different feeling so I dont' need to bother trying.

Needless to say, you gotta be smart and avoid or apologize if you can help it, but in my opinion, the whole pycon situation would not be a big deal if everybody understood that concept.
I think that at a hospital you aren't washing your hands for yourself but for others that (probably) have compromised immune systems already. I know it kind of goes without saying.

I know that the people I know that work at a day care got sick a lot initially (and so did their partners from them) but not so much anymore. I wonder if hospital staff have that happen as well?
By the way, I forgot to mention this before, but you can quickly disable this behavior in polices.js or routes.js config file when you're ready to switch to production. In 0.9, you'll be able to generate controllers with this feature disabled from the CLI as well.
And because only 'lazy-fat-fucks' get autoimmune diseases such as Type 1 diabetes, Celiac, MS, and lupus?
It seems like without waiting for the results of this study there's a more simple solution - to protect your children from rich man's disease (of all kinds), travel with them to developing countries and live there for reasonable periods of time alongside the locals, how they live ("When in Rome"). Not only will they be more worldly, gain linguistic prowess and be better adjusted to foreign cultures in general, but they are likely to receive immune system benefits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Man%27s_Disease#Cause
Article is of the form:

1. States known facts incorrectly showing poor research (Alex Reid was not the PlayHaven developer fired and so this statement is almost certainly not what he wanted to be saying The event I'm referring to is the fiasco at PyCon involving Adria Richards, Alex Reid, Playhaven, and SendGrid.(http://blog.playhaven.com/addressing-pycon/)

2. Recommends placing women on pedestal

3. Recommends taking women off pedestal

4. Ends by recommending women be placed back on pedestal Perhaps the reason we've had so much trouble maturing is that we don't have enough women to help us make the transition from child to adult. Their attitudes, their ways of thinking, different from ours, may be the very things we need to complete us as an industry, and a profession, and as a craft. It seems to me we need these women in order for our profession to become a profession.
Well, like, a man said it, so it must be true, right?
I used to work at Microsoft so i can alpreciate how that shapes the lense of how you view the world.

I think the statement that Rails might of gotten further on the windows platform is a ridiculous statement. Ruby as far back as remember is a language that prefered environment was Linux. There was a point where there was no windows version. I remember when even on OSX the installation of ruby was an endevour. OpenSsl incompatabilities, gems with c extensions that never worked right (rMagick which is a Linux first lib). So the underlying language that backs Rails is not windows friendly. There is no doubt in my mind that Windows would have been a hindrance not a positive.

Macs are only popular because for the most part they are similar enough to Linux that you can develop on a Mac and deploy to Linux. I don't know of one Rails shop that chooses to deploy on Windows.
Maybe because I'm young and I don't know "how it works" yet, but I would hate for the Tech industry as I know now to become "professional." To me, the tech industry is one of the few places I can work without wearing a suit and tie everyday and still make more than 6 figures. I don't want my presentations to be "censored" because someone has a stick too far up their ass. I don't want the next Linus to be fired because he was "unprofessional" in the way made a statement. Maybe I'm trying to cling too much to College, but I like being able to talk to my co-workers as friends and not robots where work goes in grunts come out.

I get people aren't 100% politically correct. I'm black and some people still panic when the word "nigga" plays on their speakers. I know its a song, not KKK propaganda, and I'm not going to give a lawsuit for "oppressing" me with your taste of music. I think its important to consider people's intents for their action. I think thats crucial for maintaining the "hippie" culture of Silicon Valley. I'm a grown man and I know women have periods and men have dicks. You know what pisses me off more than sex jokes? Cat Jokes. I fucking hate cats. If I can keep myself composed over a shitty 5 second cat joke, I think most people can make it through a man saying a woman has a "cute navy hat."

Lastly, I understand there are lines however. The CouchDB porn star talk was way over the line. That is something I don't even understand how most guys would be comfortable with. All I'm saying is we should recognize when people are being hyper sensitive and when people are really being insensitive.
This is very simple. Women have an instinctive revulsion of anything that could be construed as sexual. This is no doubt a relic of our early days as a species, where a sexual context that a woman had not pre-approved could mean a costly nine month pregnancy. This is why its not just dick jokes that women consider offensive, but even something as simple as calling a hat cute. If it can be construed from your words that you are a male who sexually desires females, then the words will result in women taking offense. It doesn't matter if its not directed at any woman present, or if the idea of a presenter sexually assaulting a conference-goer is inherently absurd. These are our instincts, and you can't change them.

I leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine why this is your problem to solve.
>> To be frank, you don't see these things as offensive because you're ignorant. I grew up in the same era as you did, and I'm guessing you just had the misfortune of not being asked to walk in another person's shoes. You go ahead and enjoy all that delicious privilege.

Amazing how you can write such stuff about someone that you never met. I'll just say you're dead wrong and not bother extrapolating.

The rest of your comment is representative of the very crap I am railing against. You're reading way to much into it and now you want to create drama and tons of deeper meaning into something means almost nothing at all.

EDIT: I just read your comment downstream about Affirmative Action. Fwiw, I am a white guy that went to an all-black school. When I say that, I mean, I was like 1/3 of the entire white population. Regardless, blacks didn't like AA either. I'll let you figure out why.
A question for the guys of HN who know their movies: what would your reaction be to a service called Treehorn with a client program called LogJammer?

I only found out where those names came from much later.
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This is probably just a nitpick but it annoys me when they say minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit, since it doesn't matter.
The power of music
No, the compiler couldn't have kept resVal in a register because it doesn't know resVal doesn't alias with any of val1..val7. Therefore, it must store resVal each iteration, and it must load each of val1..val7 each iteration. Otherwise, it would violate the C++ standard.

Well, I'm assuming the programmer wrote it like that, because otherwise a smart compiler would have calculated val1+...+val7 before the loop and just added that precalculated value repeatedly.

Also it doesn't matter if it did keep resVal (and val1..val7) in a register, it would be every bit as fast as it is now.

Similarly, the compiler has no leeway about the order of floating point additions. If the C++ was written to have identical output as the asm, the compiler could not be faster than the asm without violating the C++ standard.

Again, OoOE plays absolutely positively no part whatsoever in making the asm slow. Neither does which values are in registers or memory.

It's slow because a chain of instructions that use the output of the previous as input cannot execute in fewer cycles than (latency)*(num instructions). Period.

It's the sort of thing that should have been written by the programmer as something like

res += (val1+val2)+(val3+val4);
res += (val5+val6)+(val7);

then we wouldn't be having this discussion...
The Delphi reference made me shudder.
She is complaining about how her "true" life doesn't reflect the facts that Google says about her. This was a problem before the internet, before computers, before TV even.

We have all been subjected to our public persona in high school or in our home town. It is not accurate. Sometimes, it is the complete opposite of the truth.

So, I don't know why this author thinks it should be different with Google. Google gets a lot of things right, it gets a lot of things wrong as well. I don't worry about what a search engine says about me.

I know what I am. I am not what Google says and I am not what my high school yearbook says either.
Much of this sounds like a joke [1] to me really as the most of the companies I have interviewed with won't tell all this even after signing an NDA. Even asking such questions elicits a strange look (don't you know we cannot disclose what we are working on).

A second question then is why did they ask for an NDA then, and the answer is "company policy". I have refused to sign such NDAs, and they have refused to interview me then.

Interestingly here is something that has worked: I have signed such NDAs with my annotation saying something like "It is mutually understood that this NDA is null and meaningless" right above my signatures, and they do not have any issue with that. Well, as far as I "signed" the NDA per the company policy!

This has been the case with several big name companies I have interviewed with.

[1] Not making fun of you here, rather of the companies and bureaucracy.
Yes, white and/or Asian guy. Live in fear. The rules have changed. There are no rules. Bullets won't harm the women unless they're made of silver. The garlic thing is a myth; they'll just laugh at you before they use their terrifying "I'm offended" fangs to rip your throat out. Keep dogs outside your door to spot the Terminators and the gay people who look just like real humans.
While this is true, technology and society are conspiring to make society even more coarse and making coarseness even more acceptable. (for example, tweeting and txting and expletive usage among teenagers and beyond). Not only that, but there is also a slow moving trend away from the separation of work and home, professional demeanor and casual demeanor at work. This blurriness contributes to this kind jocular humor creeping into the workplace. There is also the facet of how this is perceived by a people in a society (how in France double entendres are quite normal and sexual repartee btwn the sexes is in metropolitan areas present).

Watch family TV shows form the 70s. Did they say things like "Mom, this sucks"? Watch a family TV show from modern times. It's normal to hear teenaged characters say that on TV. Does anyone even think she meant to say "Mom, that sucks dick"? The ellipsis would have been tagged mentally in the 70s --not today.

What I'm saying is that college/crude humor has crept into society wholesale. Unless there is a societal move away from that, it'll be hard to decouple that from people, even in a professional setting. There would be two forces in opposition and the demarkation is getting blurry.
To my understanding, the way this idea is being applied in research is new. There is a difference between the presence of germs 'boosting' the immune system and a lack of germs causing the immune system to target -- and severely damage -- the entirely wrong enemy, as in the case of an autoimmune disorder.
>An analysis of which factors made employees more likely to quit yielded some surprising results: “Those employees who had been promoted more times were more likely to quit, unless a more significant pay hike had gone along with the promotion,” Mr. Siegel wrote.

Sounds like it's just a simple case of disparity "hey, I know I can get a much higher salary elsewhere given my experience and title. HP hasn't given it to me over the last few years, so it's time to go."
I'll never understand why Apple customers put up with such poor treatment.
Since you've started this analogy what am I doing in that group of rich people if I don't belong there? Also, do I really want to be there or am I doing it just because it's cool or whatever?
You Americans have a real love story with this political correctness thing that I'll never understand, when I say love I mean bashing it.

In the past it was the commies, now that they're gone I believe this is a good way of saying why things fell apart and why the are not as good as in the old days, if they were ever that good.
Used to recommend just paper, but these days my favorite is http://popapp.in - basically you sketch app screens on paper, snap photo of each page and then stitch them together. it's not going to help with process but is a great way to nail down an idea
What a crock.

"Would you tell a male admiral that his hat was "cute"?"

One of us (men) might very well make that crack about a picture of an admiral or a pope.

You're the ignorant one, because you're being duped by infantile and maladjusted people who aren't really offended at all. They're literally throwing a tantrum to get attention, and flourishing in an era where too many people tiptoe around and pander to this crap.

Here's an "ignorant" sentiment for you to chew on: GROW A NUT.
That's why I ride the MUNI each and every day.
>When I first read this in the article, I cringed. Then, when he further tried to 'explain himself' with, "I was mostly making a joke about how seriously C++ programmers take themselves compared to Java programmers," I cringed even harder. IT'S OFFENSIVE TO SAY THAT ONLY MEN TAKE THEMSELVES SERIOUSLY IN PROGRAMMING.

Disclaimer: not defending dizzystar.

The way I interpreted it was that, compared to Java programmers, C++ programmers have a "macho" attitude about being "real programmers," which as a phrase is riffing on the idea of the "real man." Again, not that women don't possess the quality "real" in any way whatsover, but just that I can't even think of what the female equivalent of macho is. Perhaps Bob Martin would have done better to say that the C++ community suffered from excessive testosterone. That's what I believe he was implying, but as he says, we're both just Wilson talking over the fence here.
While we're enjoying our "delicious privilege", I hope you're similarly enjoying your oh-so-righteous victimization complex. Taking offense when no offense is intended is the very picture of being the fun police. You're the kid on the playground who would beg to be let into the game, but then run, crying, to tell his/her (see how neutral I'm being?) mother as soon as he/she got fouled, and then would complain when no one wanted to play with him/her. No one likes that kid.

>> It boils down to men = serious and women = emotional, flippant, hysterical, etc. It's a horrible horrible analogy and quite frankly I'm surprised that didn't blow up in his face even more than it did.

While perhaps not the most innocuous choice of words, testosterone is associated with aggression and strength because testosterone makes you aggressive[1] and strong[2]. Strictly speaking, his statement is not even talking about genders, it's talking about hormones.

[1] http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=tes..., among many others

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20061435 among many others.
Fascinating conversation with the LoseThos guy
I am getting so sick of this story. How many millions of man-hours were wasted this week by people being offended that Adria Richards was offended? I saw this story on the BBC and CBS today. Before long, one (or both) of the fired employee victims will hire Gloria Allred to file a wrongful termination lawsuit and we'll be subjected to this circus for months.
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Well said, we humans are th weakest link and since we will always be the designers there will always be flaws
LOL...
this is true...
I live and i was raised in a third world country (mexico) and i dont get sick of cold, flu or cough only once every 2 years.... and i dont even have a strong immune system.... and i see other people from developed countries get sick when they come here twice or more in a month... it includes diarreah lol....
Honestly, and I don't mean this in a bad way, I find your criticism of the parents response to you a little silly and kind off putting. If I interviewed someone and he or she put a list like that in front of me I'd probably just put in the reject pile. It's a little pompous for an interview. Just being honest.
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So, I guess more like "Cafe Press for socks". Apparently, Threadless already has a sock option.
I am actually really relieved and happy to see that he's still doing interesting technical work and capable of having good technical conversations. I didn't realize that was the case.

This guy posts on HN all the time, but his posts get shadowed, because they're just crazy babble.

He's schizophrenic, for those who don't know.
But why not a billion dollars? The worst that happens is someone has more than they need. And then what happens?

One of two things:

1: It sits in the bank, where it's lent out for investment

2: It's spent, possibly on something optional but still legitimately useful and non-frivolous, in which case it flows back out into the economy

I don't see a bad outcome..!
Why wouldn't you optimize for salary, if it is a bad place to work, you could, you know ... leave ... As far as becoming bitter ... sounds like a personal problem!
Game development never sucks! Believe me, what sucks the most is the public mood.

Think about it, what if Gangnam Style would not have released, the RIGHT time? Psy would have said music video development sucks?
Adria was spotted playing "Cards Against Humanity" at the conference and I would assume that I would be safe making almost any joke in conversation with someone that played CAH. /But I would be wrong and she would kill my job with her special weapon/

Evidence for this claim?
how so? which assumptions?
>stops having anything relevant to contribute

You mean like Lumia Phones, Nokia Maps, Nokia Free Music...

I love their apps and hardware but I do however disagree with their stance on enforcing unnecessary patents!
A simple fix would be to give each disabled person a "wage bonus" subsidy. For each hour they work, their employer gets x$. If they were more disabled, the number gets bigger.
Being in an industry where there is still a chance to do new things and be judged on our work instead of other things is pretty great.

We just need to be sure that we all act with the maturity and respect befitting our good fortune--this includes dealing politely with things we disagree with, and having the good grace not to cause drama over dumb shit.
I recently read up on this because I want to move my subs off. Feedburner has support for redirects and extracting email subscribers, although I still wish there was a tool that would automate a few of the steps.

See this post, which is the best I have found on the topic:

http://devilsworkshop.org/tips/how-to-leave-feedburner-witho...
Please tell me you don't really care.