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This used to be a reflection of narcissism, but now it's been beat into the head of anyone who wants to do anything worthwhile: you have to be a promoter; otherwise, don't bother.

Put another way, it used to be that when I saw people saying, "Hey, look at this!" with nothing worthwhile to look at, I assumed they were narcissistic assholes. Why else would they be trying to get me to spend my time on attention that is obviously not worth it? Now I wonder if they're just normal people trying to master a necessary skill. First learn to make people pay attention, and if you're good at that, then do something worthwhile. Otherwise it doesn't matter what you do.

I don't think that's true or ever will be true, but I think there are people who believe it, people who suck at marketing themselves but put all their energy into it instead of something they're good at because they've been taught to believe that marketing savvy is a prerequisite for contributing to society.
If we fast forward 20 years, I wonder if we could be a graphene 'sawing' diamond?
This is mostly thanks to De Beers expanding the scope of their advertising campaign internationally.
When you bring up Clojure, I think it's fair to point out that, beyond even the default-unsafe reader thing brought up a couple weeks ago, the JVM itself has had several fatal security issues recently. No platform is completely without bugs.

That said, I don't really know if RoR has had more than normal or whether they're just more widely talked about. It does have a huge and vocal user-base.
Can confirm it. few watches I had all been with sapphire glass and no scratch since purchase (10-15 years)

Only one watches have small blemish after drop of hot metal dropped on it while I was welding exhaust turbo manifold for my car. And even this one is tiny and adds nice touch to my watches :)
As I said, someone in the reddit thread that antirez linked to did the digging.

>> This accurately reflects a particular academic school of thought.

Holocaust as well accurately reflected a particular academic school of thought. Does that mean it's correct? (does this count as invocation of Godwin's law?)
I think that, as a young engineer, you also have to ask yourself why you want to work at a start-up. Is it to get rich? In that case you should be working somewhere that can teach you the ropes on your way to launching your own start-up (and even then you might be better served working somewhere you can get some domain expertise to separate you from all the fresh college grads). Is it to learn a lot and get a lot of responsibility? In that case you might consider small engineering firms that have moved out of the start-up stage and have real revenues coming in and can offer market salaries and full benefits. You won't get meaningful equity at a place like this, but you won't get that at most start-ups either. If you want to get in on the ground level of a growing organization, consider companies that aren't going the usual angel/VC route. I worked at a "out of the founder's basement" start-up that had some cost-plus contracts, and so could offer market salaries and benefits immediately. Again, no real equity in a situation like that, but on the flip side you know you'll still have a job in a year. And don't overlook working at a big faceless corporation just because it's not cool. Big organizations have the resources to actually train you, they have internal tracks for your career progression, they offer pretty good job security, etc.
The point is I have a choice. I can choose to edit TEXT files in netbeans or eclipse, I can choose to edit them in vim or emacs. Using pharo and smalltalk I'm not even given a choice the environment is forced upon me and I have to use their specific environment.
A diamond is just as easily faked as a bank statement.
Other than tenderlove and (sort of) myself, nobody is paid to work on Rails. This means that it's an entirely volunteer effort, and people's lives are busy, so sometimes, tickets take a while to merge. I try to stay on top of it actively and thing still sometimes slip through the cracks for me. It's not that you're going about it the wrong way, it's that projects with ~200 open pulls are slow to merge, sometimes. Sorry it's taking so long with this one. :/

I'll bump this up in my personal list; I should really learn AR better anyway.
I agree entirely. Great base. Not sure that it scales well.
They might see value in it if staff no longer feel comfortable working there.
You do skew quite young in your choice of founder, though don't you?

I didn't see anything in the article state that you guys were explicitly advising founders to do these things. One of the first things the OP says is:

"YC seems to be a cult which is quite adept at turning college students into millionaires while creating billions of dollars of wealth for Venture Capitalists."

So the outcomes he's referring to may just be a direct result of the level of prior business experience amongst people you accept into the program.
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shouldnt be too bad, because the button they click to login says "Persona," as does the email. I guess if a person is already familiar with logging via fb/google/twitter, then they should "get it." but someone not familiar with logging to site A using credentials from site B.... yea i can see that being confusing.
You have to wonder about someone who has interviewed with "about a dozen" YC companies and turned them all down for the same reason.

If the pattern is that obvious, what's he doing going back for interviews 4..12?

In a shock development, apparently YC companies don't slaver over "senior" employees who have stuff like this in their profiles: "I'm just this guy who used to enjoy tech, now I would rather build bicycles. I still work in the tech industry, for the money, but I no longer call myself a "technologist"."

Wow, you can really feel the passion.
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You're right about the defamation. However:

> Yes, they had an opportunity to defend themselves.

That is to say, they had an opportunity to defend themselves to the PyCon organizers. Who, subsequently, did not kick them out. From what I understand, after discussing the situation and hearing both sides (and, presumably, their apologies), PyCon issued them a warning. At least one individual then left of his own accord.

Where they had no opportunity to defend themselves was against the public shaming (and subsequent outcry) brought about by Adria's twitter post. At least not immediately, and by then the damage was done (I see that later one posted a comment on HN).

Regardless of what the law may or may not say, or whether or not they crossed any lines (and I believe they must have, to at least some degree, for Adria to have felt so strongly about it), Adria really did not give them any opportunity to even apologize, let alone present their side of the story.

Perhaps their jokes were truly indefensible somehow. But it hurts the community when, instead of affording each other some form of due process and making an effort to raise awareness and education, we choose arbitrary scapegoats and pursue vigilante justice.
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Australian governments, from the first fleet until today, have kept records of births, deaths and marriages.
Python conventions are places where people can overhear my conversation, take pictures of me, and publicize them as personal accusations with impunity?

I've been to plenty of conferences and I haven't heard of this happening, except to politicians when they forget there are microphones and news reporters around.

This is why our society does, in fact, have a separate set of privacy rules for people classified as "public figures". So the rest of us can hang out and chat in comfort by assuming in all probability the absence of a news reporter or papparazi trying to play "gotcha" with a camera and microphone.
I don't write Ruby either right now, but I would suggest you not discount it as a nice language because of your perceptions of Rails.
>Point one is also increasingly true for the SFBay area itself

This might be one reason why Seattle continues to thrive: its rent, although rising for the usual reasons related to land regulation, is still far lower than SF or NYC, it already has two very large tech companies there, it has no income tax, and it's a fun place to live.

Google and Facebook are both steadily expanding their Seattle-area offices for reasons that make sense to me: moving from the SF area to Seattle means a de facto 15 - 25% pay raise for people making $100,000 or more a year.
FWIW, the Rails security team says they're about to drop suport for 2.3, and this time they really mean it. (They say.) The current announced security policy is that once 4.0 gets released, they'll only be doing security patches for 4.0 and 3.2; 2.3 will be left out in the cold.

It's quite possible that someone will pick up the baton, as there still are a number of production 2.3 apps out there, and porting to 3.0+ --- more a "port" than an "upgrade" --- is a real pain. But I'm not sure anyone has stepped forward yet, and until someone does, you're taking your chances.
http://nplusonemag.com/raise-the-crime-rate

"In January, prodded in part by outrage over a series of articles in the New York Review of Books, the Justice Department finally released an estimate of the prevalence of sexual abuse in penitentiaries. The reliance on filed complaints appeared to understate the problem. For 2008, for example, the government had previously tallied 935 confirmed instances of sexual abuse. After asking around, and performing some calculations, the Justice Department came up with a new number: 216,000. That’s 216,000 victims, not instances. These victims are often assaulted multiple times over the course of the year. The Justice Department now seems to be saying that prison rape accounted for the majority of all rapes committed in the US in 2008, likely making the United States the first country in the history of the world to count more rapes for men than for women."
I too find the vagueness troubling. The incident she described earlier in the day (describing a lame joke involving skirts) was described in much more detail, making it far easier to understand what was said and how offensive and discomfiting it must have been. The later incident (involving talk of dongles) may have been equally offensive, or it may have been nothing more than banter/wordplay. I really can't tell, and wonder why this important context is absent.
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MediaWiki uses lots of caching on the server, but the question is how hard it would be to move rendering to the client.

For a sense of how hard this would be, try using the Special:Export page on Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export

If you download transcluded templates, the article for Barack Obama is 781K.

My experience of Special:Export is that it has some flaws that cause it to miss some things it needs to export, so the real total may be much larger.

And that's just the data - one would also have to download a lot of related code, which might balloon that up to a megabyte or more.

Wikitext is particularly ornery (because it's just based on grinding regular expressions against each line, it is not easy to describe with regular grammars) so you'd have to download a very large parser, with various plugins as each MediaWiki install uses them to warp how Wikitext is processed. This is assuming some optimistic scenario where MediaWiki's rendering, and all related plugins, are entirely ported to JavaScript compatible with all desired browsers.

I'm not denying that, if you wanted to create a new Wikipedia from scratch today, based on JavaScript, you could probably move a lot of rendering to the browser. You would choose more browser-friendly formats, like JSON or XML, rather than making up some random text-based format, just because it was easy to type into a textarea. You would make transformational operations work in JavaScript, or be exportable to JavaScript. You could definitely get it to the point where it would be practical for quick previews while editing.

For the Wikipedia that we have today, it's really hard.
I'm still doing that step manually as I figure out how I want to automate it. An easy way would be to emulate your load balancer's health check (or interface with your load balancer if you can), in our case this is AWS's ELB which just hits a /ping endpoint on the instance that gets handled reasonably deeply in our stack and puts that instance out of service after enough consecutive failures.

It helps to look at what your past failures have been when going live in production to know what to audit during incremental rollout. In our case, /ping has stopped responding before, but some other common cases were increased 500 response rates or severely decreased performance across average or peak response times. These can be used as metrics when we automate. It doesn't help much for infrequently-used features, but I think the main idea is to prevent all of your instances from going down/going haywire at once together, which is unlikely to be a problem caused by such features even if you rolled out to all at once.

Would be interested to hear if you get that working with Jenkins to handle incremental rollout, I haven't tried yet. I'm not even sure how this would be done in Fabric but that might be another option (and have Jenkins call Fabric and block on its completion).
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Well it could work if the amount of stock is effectively fixed at creation time. Everyone I've ever talked to who doesn't already know how stock works is very surprised that more stock can be conjured out of nowhere. They always assume that new stock is formed by subdividing the existing stock (splitting) and that investors get shares that used to belong to the founders.
An informal competition has sprung up among the engineers at my company but we are mostly trying to hack it. Does anyone know what happens when you put a FitBit in a paint shaker?
I think you nailed it . There are plenty of real problems, this is not one of them.
Last batch the median age was 27.

http://blog.statwing.com/a-statistical-portrait-of-a-y-combi...
> The author states the problem himself: Wordpress is a blogging platform that people are trying to turn into a full blown CMS.

Trying and succeeding.

Pressbooks, book publishing engine on top of WordPress (selfhosted & Saasversion)

Woocommerce ecommerce with 600k+ downloads (selfhosted & Saas version)

WP e-Commerce, 2 million+ downloads

BuddyPress, equips WP with social network features 1.4+million downloads

P2 Theme, quick community messaging almost 350k downloads

Collabpress, project and task management solution 36k downloads

bbPress, complete forum package, half a million downloads.

S2Member, Wishlist, DAP, MagicMembers, WP Member are among many other membership site solutions, >1 million downloads

Pods, Toolset and other solutions that extend its CMS capabilities, easily 200k+ downloads.

EditFlow, adds professional editorial workflow experience, 50k+ downloads

Fundify, Ignition Deck, crowdfunding solutions on WordPress.

And look in the wild, sites running WordPress: Real estate sites, agencies, hotel sites (there's a WP saas for that now too), restaurant sites (Happy tables), auction sites, market place sites, portfolio sites, photo gallery sites, governmental sites, membership sites, marketing sites equipped with landing pages etc, news sites, online magazines, Event sites and more.

Just a blogging tool, I see. Do continue to look away as it is only going to get worse (in your eyes).
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You could also play Quake over the internet in the 90s, which should show you that Quake is not IO-bound.
I think I see where you're coming from, but "totally inappropriate" seems excessive to me.
I think she'd certainly be wrong. I made the assumption based on her responses to comments on her blog (in which she denies any hint of wrongdoing even when confronted by a polite, rational comment by someone who appears to be a friend/acquaintance of hers), as well as her actions to begin with.

I didn't make that assumption because she's a woman.
Isn't she some kind of YouTube public figure? You've never read YouTube comments before?

I don't have proof either way, but somehow I doubt it's the Python developers of the world who are mostly responsible for that "FLOOD of hateful, violent, racist, and misogynistic comments".
+1 to your decision. I HATE site that use usernames instead of emails... i wont even use sites that do that unless i really really have to (like my health care provider).
Thanks, good suggestions all.
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They all do. So once again dealing with any company proves we live in multi-colorred world; not only black/white, yes/no, good/bad.

OK, true, but they're not all they same, and not all transgressions are of equivalent morality. They may all be guilty, but they're not all equally guilty.

At the end of the day people have to decide where to draw they line and just stop giving money to certain companies because of their behavior.
All I'll say is this, and really it's what it boils down to. Regardless of if you think she was in the right or the wrong, she is a developer evangelist. That means she goes around and tries to get companies to pick up her product. After all this, I wouldn't get near her with a 40 foot pole. God forbid I slip and say something that get's misconstrued and I or my company gets dragged through the mud. With that being said, I feel like she's lost the ability to do her job. If she's an evangelist and the people she's supposed to be evangelizing don't want to be around her, where does that leave her or Sendgrid?
When I was in middle and high school I was teased relentlessly also. I'm male so the teasing directed at me was not about my breasts, but it was still very vicious teasing.

I know exactly what you mean when you say "laughter can be super cruel". I still get a chill when I hear people laughing in the way I was laughed at, even when its not direct at me, even when its not direct at anyone but just sounds the same way.

But still I have a sense of decency, restraint, and a enough self-confidence now that I'm able to realize that the chill I feel is from a lingering bad memory and that I can act like an adult now and not feel bad because of cruel laughter. I feel like Adria Richards' reaction was deeply indecent, unrestrained, and revealed a profound lack of self-confidence.
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Asa woman who hangs out at tech events, I've had people make all manners of offensive jokes around me. And a really great way to handle it is to talk to them about it. Or ignore it. Or talk about it loudly in front of them with my friends. Putting someone on public blast for something overheard, and then writing a douchey post about how you're creating safe space for future generations... is just pathetic. Be a !@#$ adult about it.
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Probably because DigitalRev is based in Hong Kong... just a guess, though.
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I was just talking to another developer about this, except we took it one step fruther: If all man made objects disappeared in an instant, how long would it take us to build a modern computer? The best we could come up with was: a really long time. Anyone have any input or recommended reads that pertain to this?
wow, this is so interesting.... i cant even fathom that. getting old i guess
Am I the only one who sees the irony in the fact that this happened at a conference for a programming language which was named in celebration of a crude, sometimes immature, comedy group?
There is a dramatic difference between twitter hysterics and unleashing a lynch mob (and a woman under duress is a dangerous weapon to unleash on the intertubes), and direct messaging responsible parties. Had she messaged pycon (if she wasn't willing to simply ask them to shut up) this would be a non-story. But, as many suspect, she had to take the opportunity to be the hero of the story to save that little girl on the stage, unless of course that little girl on the stage says something that might be construed as offensive in the future, losing their job and reputation as a result.
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> I pay $118/mo for better coverage than ~any company I've seen

Could you please elaborate on this?
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The suggested options, if I comprehend you properly, are A) Stick with the version you originally programmed against and B) Analyze the overall diff between versions if upgrading.

New features/improvements provide an incentive to not choose Option A. With regard to Option B: Although Backbone may be compact and easy to comprehend, the code calling it is much larger. Analyzing Backbone's changes and factoring in all code that calls it is a difficult and error prone process - laregly due to the dynamic nature of the language and lack of tooling for refactoring.

Two changes that bit us from 0.9.2->0.9.10 were model.set no longer accepting a model and, instead, requiring model.attributes (not a big deal, as it threw an exception and was immediately noticeable). The second issue, with collection.fetch, was a silent failure (I forget the exact issue, but the solution was providing two options, perhaps reset/update/add). Neither of these were documented in the changelogs.

It's not so much an issue of patching these breaking changes as it is knowing about them. Perhaps the ultimate issue here is our lack of adequate testing.
I'm not saying it does, just pointing out the order. I agree, no matter which way it happened, it was bad.
You don't see a difference between an employee losing her job and a company losing some business? You must be in management.
I've had an algebra professor who lectured by preparing notes for the class and then reading them and writing them on the board verbatim. After particularly difficult proofs he'd sometimes turn around to look at the class, to see if anyone had their hand up, before moving on.

Said professor has made serious contributions to modern algebra and is probably about as close to "the forefront of modern mathematics" as anyone. Not everyone who's good at math is good at lecturing.
But the allegedly infringing content in the DMCA takedown in this case is (nonsensically) a trademark, so the safe harbor wouldn't protect SoftLayer against anything.
There is typically nothing stopping you from using your email as a username, though. I like the freedom of using either, to be honest.