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Whether or not it hurts men has nothing to do with discrimination. If the group does not allow men to join or benefit from it's opportunities, it is discrimination.

The question is whether or not PyLadies allows men to join as full members. I honestly have no clue. I'm sure it would be easy to see it that way since it is described as a group of women.

Now the question of whether all discrimination is bad is much more fun to ask.
Exactly, the web UI was mediocre at best, and went downhill the more they tied it to G+. But as a RSS syncing platform it was/is great.
> the critical success factor is having someone in the team that truly cares about it.

Entirely true. In my last job, I was that person. In my current job, I care about it, but in a sort of different manner. My personal documentation is great (or so I'd like to think), but I don't push for other people to post their documentation unless it's something they're trying to ask me to do by following the documentation.

As a result, documentation is sparse, even though they lament the lack of documentation for services.

You need someone who takes ownership for documentation. Whether it's a self-appointed task or a dedicated employee, if you're missing that you'll be missing documentation.
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> "quite a lot easier than native development for mobile
> platforms"

I am going to bet that anyone claiming things like this did not ever half-heartedly attempted to look into native development and has no idea how much native frameworks have to offer.
Yesterday I rewrote a tiny Javascript demo in asm.js and also saw an order-of-magnitude speedup. (I thought at first it didn't help at all, apparently because the framerate was limited by setInterval().)

Code at http://wry.me/hacking/canvas_asm.html
I'm not being facetious, i'm honestly asking. How many websites are actually still sniffing the user agent and depending on that Mozilla/5.0 bullshit at the beginning? what would break?

anybody who's surfed with a changed user agent for a while care to comment?
I would speculate that the solar power isn't the big cost savings here, in terms of operating costs. However, in terms of installation costs, it is probably a win - getting power to these would add a significant up-front cost, because a large chunk of sidewalk would need to be torn up to get power to the device.
So what do you do when you have a guy who continually fails to complete his tasks? I mean you can't praise him publicly. It's obvious to everyone that he fails.

You need to let him know that he is not meeting expectations and I feel that should happen privately. And if he continues to fail, then there has to be consequences, otherwise the team will think it's unfair. Other team members have to meet expectations, but Ted is special and can repeatedly fail and get away with it... so the whole team starts slacking off too and cite Ted as the reason why they can slack off.

Sooner or later, someone has to convince Ted to change or fire him.
Really? What do you do (no detail in your profile)?
Those are tiny!

In the States, a Subaru Impreza is a compact car in size
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Was just hoping for something like this. Totally genius -- awesome work guys!
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i'd give all that away to instead have tab completing based on man page parameters descriptions or something.
I think you took the worst possible approach to engaging in this discussion.

You definitely took parts of the previous post out of context and twisted the meaning of what he claimed to feel.

So rather than spring-boarding off the range of emotions that the poster felt and being productive, you made an attempt to destroy him by disingenuously twisting the spirit of his post.

Not cool.
It's using women as passive objects instead of as participants in the show. Women and men have different roles in the show. The men are taken seriously and the women are not. That's why it's sexist.
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whoaa!
That account is not factually correct. Media in general and television in particular is not a monopoly in Brazil. Globo is the largest player in the market and the one the viewers favor the most, but it's not a monopoly.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to attend February's Big Data Meetup, so I missed your talk. EDIT: (I did just view it online, my comment takes what you said into account.)

My point about intraday data with corporate actions wasn't really about the difficulty with corporate actions, but rather the leaky abstraction of trading present in the slides. To give you credit, I don't know what issues Quantopian addresses. On the other hand, has any one tried running Zipline-backtested strategies in real life? Does any one know what issues aren't addressed by Quantopian? Corp actions was one part, T-cost model was hinted at in the slides, but was any though given to borrow costs and availability? There leaks everywhere. It is not that you don't seem like smart guys who made this cool thing freely generously available to everyone, but that you seem like you spent too little time downtown NYC.

PS. Fully adjusted bars are nice, but they have an epoch to be adjusted to. Unfortunately having an epoch that is not today() means you can't add today's data to it. If you can't add today's data to it, you can use this system to generate real trades to trade. Now you need two sets of data and two sets of code to work with. Good luck.
>In practice, when I was attending meetups, I did not meet a single non-technical person who had done any of this leg work. I would have taken them and their idea very seriously if they had.

This is why I've stopped attending meetups that aren't specifically targeted towards devs. It's a shame, because there are many interesting people at those events, but every time I go to one I get sick of explaining why I don't want to work for startup X or be represented by recruiter Y.
This looks really interesting:

"Genome-wide expression changes in a higher state of consciousness."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22742996
From the front page of http://www.pyladies.com/ :

> Anyone with an interest in Python is encouraged to participate!

You're making an unfounded assumption that PyLadies is women only.
I actually got accused of being a hipster for no other reason than I use Linux exclusively - from an Apple fanboi.
I would love such a service for mobile platforms. Any plan to go beyond browsers?
> "honest and open discussion."

Never going to happen when people can profit off of the controversy:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1awnzx/so_you_know_th...

See this link & people like Rev. Al Sharpton who make bank off of a group's union in victimhood.
> Before BigBelly, trash collectors had to clear out each can three times a day. Now they do so three times a week.

Living in center city Philadelphia, I can confidently say there are a couple unintended reasons these things may require less emptying: First, they're often so dirty that no one would want to grab the handle and open the door to throw trash in (I avoid them at all costs myself). Who wants to touch a trashcan even when it's clean? Second, if you're willing to grab the trash-encrusted handle and open the door, they're frequently jammed (or locked?) shut. On the few occasions where I was forced to use them because there were no other trashcans in sight, they were difficult or impossible to open.

So what do people do? They throw their trash on the ground, or they find a nearby trashcan that doesn't require contact to use. It's not unusual to see bags of trash sitting by these things with random garbage scattered around or on top of them.
Good thing PyLadies doesn't, then! I'm sure they look forward to your support.

> Anyone with an interest in Python is encouraged to participate!
>
> http://www.pyladies.com/
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fit it with an altimeter so that once it is a meter above the ground it takes in air?
I couldn't agree more.

I'm sufficiently involved with Expect that I've collected enough material for an entire book on the subject (serious--I do a lot of writing, and am well aware of what's involved in such a publication); at the same time, I know that jlgreco is EXACTLY right that Expect use is a symptom of a larger problem. Much of what I've already published through the years about Expect is how a particular task that used to be done with Expect now can better be handled with automation-interface-X.
That's a shame; it was the most interesting experiment yet in a modern take on the command-line terminal.
> "than struggling to shoe-horn a single language/framework
> because that's simply all the platform-du-jour
> can support."

And in reality you just trying to poorly reimplement the stuff that platform-du-jour with decades of refinement has to offer. I don't want even to imagine what amount of effort is needed to replicate everyday stuff like Core Data + UITableViewController + UIFetchedResultsController and to make it even remotely performant.
as someone who uses several (SEVERAL) xterms on the same screen and focus-follow-mouse, my best bet to see where my words will go when i type is to notice which screen has the blinking green cursor instead of the static white one.

that one would help a lot.

(i used to have a very visible window manager active border and shadows, and also lower the opacity of the non-focused ones... but gnome 3 designers in all their wisdom decided i didn't need all that)
You'd be wrong. I have done quite a bit. They have a lot to offer, but I think web development is easier and faster.
Although I have never lived in San Francisco, I am a Philadelphian and think I can say with confidence that Philly is just as rough or (likely, I think) more challenging of an urban environment to deploy something like this. Philly can be a pretty rough city.
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https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/jexpect is an example. 'Need others?
That's a one sided over-simplification of what actually took place.
I think, as the article alludes to, men and women are less likely to consider certain careers/colleges/whatever. So if you ignored gender at a liberal arts school and blindly selected candidates, and the ratio was as skewed towards women as the tech industry is towards men, do you think men would be as comfortable there? Having a gender balance (as well as a balance on other axes that include more minorities) is good for everyone. Maybe that overall environment is better than an environment full of mega left-wing lady commies, or, in the case of tech, "hotshot" male engineers with poor social graces. These are all generalizations, obviously, but I think it's true to the overarching trend.
I love projects like these. In a few minutes I can have some advanced functionality and make myself look way smarter than I am.

Just a thought for the future, perhaps come up with a solution for iPhone/iPad apps.
Google Analytics javascript runs on your domain and the cookies it uses are on your domain. So it should count as "first party" here.
FWIW, I just followed your advice, searching Firefox Addons for "Referer". The results were not helpful at all for the goal abcd_f mentioned of blocking cross-site referrers. [Edit: Sorry, it looks like I mistyped "Referer". There is at least one promising addon on the first page.]

Also FWIW, I agree that this is indeed becoming a significant privacy issue. I too don't see why Google or Typekit or some widely used CDN should be gifted a convenient history of my web browsing just because they host popular JavaScript libraries or web fonts.

I'm intrigued by this comment:

In general, we cannot block the Referer header by default on cross-origin requests because we know that would break too many websites.

Is this because some of the third party resources are only authorised for use by certain sites and rely on Referer to establish whether a given request qualifies? Given that there is no security or verification for Referer headers, that seems like a rather broken model to start with.

I can't help thinking that if one of the big browsers forced the issue then those services would have to reconsider and do things a smarter way. That seems likely to inherently reduce the amount of unnecessary information being passed across to those third party services in the first place.
And thanks to you everybody focuses in them once again.
I completely agree. I would LOVE for some green solution to our energy problems, but everyone seems to forget the initial cost. as far as I know, there are NO energy technology that returns on investment less than 10 years. This includes 'hybrid' cars.
How do you explain Google trying to use Motorola’s H.264 patents they have FRAND obligations on to screw over the other H.264 licensees? Is it any surprise that Nokia’s not happy about this?

http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/07/google_to_continue...

“Google is now in the process of finalizing its $12 billion acquisition of a profitless company that holds at least 17 H.264 patents, an acquisition that it expressly noted was done primarily to "protect the Android ecosystem," despite the fact that Motorola does not appear to have valuable defensive patents applicable to modern smartphones.”

You state “If you use H.264 on your website, you technically owe royalties to the MPEG-LA.” This is incorrect, as long as you’re freely distributing the videos, so you’re also spinning the facts:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/26/mpeg-la-makes-h-264-video...
How did you install it? I'm on OS X, too, and make throws this error: "make: * No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.".
But his point still stands. And it's easy to see why. It's not 'backed' by any distro where it's the default.
I'd like to help out with the costs. My email address is in my profile.
"I swear it has become a catchall for the world-of-warcraft set to apply to anybody that doesn't spend their time playing video games."

I'm honestly confused. How did we start at hipsters and beer and end up with WoW players insulting non-video game players? How are the two related at all?

I'm guessing (wildly) you play WoW with older 30somethings who call you a hipster? I really have no idea, so someone please inform me if I'm off-base in my confusion about the connection between the two.
> It's not a freaking rhetorical device to point out that every single time a woman speaks up about inappropriate behaviour, she ends up paying a terrible price in harassment, abuse, threats, and hatred.

There was a code of conduct, a means to report issues, and the issue was addressed appropriately through it. End of story.

The fact that the internet trolls became involved is totally unrelated to the behavior of the offending parties at PyCon, and is the simple consequence of using an editorial platform in ways that can anger anonymous commentators of dubious maturity and judgement: http://hollywoodlife.com/2013/03/14/olivia-wilde-justin-bieb...

> It is theoretically possible to have a civil discussion about whether Richards went about reporting the inappropriate behaviour in the right way (and it is 100% clear that the PyCon organizers agreed the behaviour was inappropriate).

They simply enforced the basic human courtesy of taking reasonable steps to avoid offending the people around you.
Is this not what you want? Third search result:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/smart-referer...
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I'm really enjoying the self-destructing cookies addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/self-destruct... . It's really great to go to Facebook and see it have absolutely no idea who I am every time I go there. Plugin works very well.
No sign of RPL, which is insanely expressive :(
Fine, so what if I created something with the goal of:

> We are an international mentorship group with a focus on helping more men become active participants and leaders in the Python open-source community.

How do you think that would go down?
Let's be realistic. Beyond the initial consultation a good lawyer is incompatible with a student's budget. Sometimes life is grossly unfair and there's not much you can do about it. Throwaway may well end up owing the plaintiff. At least there's the option of bankruptcy to wipe out the debt.
I agree with this too. I'm not suggesting that e-mail is dead or anything, just that a lot of use cases aren't so much being replaced by an alternative to SMTP as being replaced by another communication channel entirely.
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What about a minimum viable HN RSS Reader, instead of a Digg one? It could appear at the top as RSS; we need to give a list of RSS feeds in a textbox, together with some tags (implemented in Arc). The whole client would be implemented in JS inside the browser, while 'starring' and 'read' states would be integrated with HN submit/upvote functions..

This way, we would merge, 'reader'ing and HNing.
So it would be fine if the scarcely dressed participants in the show were of the same gender as the main characters?

Furthermore, I don’t think that the ‘passive objects’ were chosen based on gender, but rather on appeal to the assumed audience, possibly complementing the main presenters as to offer likeable elements to every member of the audience.

Or are you saying that the visitors of this show are sexist because they only like women (assuming that this is true)?
This is a good approach for non technical people, no doubt. That is if it really suites their skillset.

As a non-technical founder, you are likely good at building and maintaining relationships. You are probably good at selling things. You might be great at framing, so people buy into your vision or get excited about your ideas. These are amazing, difficult-to-acquire skills.

Unfortunately, too many non-technical founders do not have those skills. Many people believe that an idea and "hustle" (working hard, being persistent) is enough. Now they just need to find people to build it, people to market it, people to sell it. They have this great idea! the rest will just fall into place.

The OP saw teams that made it through the YC process. Likely, those are not your average non-technical founders. If you do have those skills, then for sure - this is great advice.
>Subtyping isn't just for the benefit of Java compatibility. What makes you think that?

No objects = no subtyping.

>you do need at least some sort of proof that subtyping is bad in one way or another.

Why do I need proof of something I didn't say?

>Even GHC has extensions for subtyping,

What?

>however even if you're learning it for learning's sake, it's easier to get started in Scala because of the ecosystem

The ecosystem matters the least when learning for learning sake. The complexity and difficulty of the language matter, and scala is a poor choice for that reason. You can't just learn FP with scala, you also have to learn all the hairy OO/FP integration and the ensuing problems around it.
Haha, he said penis. /joke
> Simple means planning for architectural needs from the ground up. Simple means decoupling your service layers into individual pieces that flow together instead of a single monolithic codebase. Simple is difficult.
Web development. We use snap.
>>>> for a more careful look at what Richards has actually done by way of promoting gender equality

I've looked into the essay and I don't see what Richards has actually done to promote gender equality. What I see is justification of why what Richards was doing is actually good because it promoted right causes - e.g. fighting porn which is evil (note that in 99% of texts, "some" and "many" are first-person pronouns) and opposing jokes that feature women (which implied that women can be dumb, which is verboten). I think it is OK to support people that you ideologically agree with and that support causes that you like. That does not change the fact that Richards was a crusader for these causes and took the slightest opportunity to blow it up into @-ism case. This is not a case of common person being offended. This is a case of a crusader looking for an opportunity to be offended to promote her agenda and finding it.

Consider this - suppose the XKCD comics would feature men and not women. Would somebody say "this implies all men are dumb?" Not likely. Would somebody say "even jokes imply there are no women in tech - everybody assumes even dumb characters still are men, women just do not exist"? Much more likely. That's the distorted lens crusader sees the world through. You can find offense in anything if you look hard enough. Does it really make the world better if you look that hard? I do not think so.
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Yes! We're developing SDKs for iOS right now and constantly trying to improve our mobile web experience as well. In fact, with the uploader widget, if you were to open up the page on iOS 6, it should ask you if you want to record video right from your phone. It still requires more testing though.

If you want to email us at support@framebase.io, we would love to talk to you about what you'd like to see in our future mobile SDKs.
Genome-wide expression changes in a higher state of consciousness.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22742996
There are a few surprises in that list. I'd have thought both Coq and Lua would end up further to the left. I suppose the graph shows an interesting dynamic: expressiveness is not just due to a language's semantics, nor syntax, nor libraries. You need a healthy interplay between all three aspects of a programming language to truly be "expressive".
Maybe it's more me wishing he had taken that tact than him actually doing so. I felt like he should be more mad at the architects and those who award projects to said architects with these "never to be implemented" features.
I think this is excellent advice for developers too. We often get caught up tinkering with code because we enjoy it, when we should really be looking for an off-the-shelf or non-technical solution. If you can validate your ideas with nothing but google forms and manual email, all the better.
> Your comment is analogous to complaining that Big Bang Theory has watered down the word 'nerd', so now someone can no longer extrapolate patterns he finds at MIT and comic-con and describe them as nerd culture.

I don't see how the second clause follows from the first. Maybe it's just different definitions of "watered down." I think things like Big Bang Theory and the assimilation of nerd culture into the mainstream have watered it down, and are analogous.

MIT and comic-con are still nerd culture, but now all these other things are too, so that when you say the word "nerd" to someone, you have no idea what it means to them. It could be "true nerd culture" or anything else. Words like nerd and hipster used to have meaning; in other words, they were controversial, polarizing terms that triggered emotional responses and strong opinions. Now they're very general and common descriptions, that's what is meant by watered down.
We use DokuWiki (https://www.dokuwiki.org) and it's great, but as any tool, you have to be disciplined and keep the contents up to date, otherwise "wikis are where documentation goes to die."

Most comments tend to cover only code comments or API documentation, but a company has way more documentation than just that: there are policies, procedures, minutes, tutorials and documentation which relates to code but does not live within it.
This is exactly what I've been thinking as I've been reading through the comments. Yes, I've been in this situation a number of times. The manager can/should do whatever can be done (training, etc.) to bring Ted up to snuff. The last time this happened, the team really tried to help Ted, but ended up working around him so that we would not be hobbled, but we all resented Ted and and the manager. . .and all the previous managers who had allowed Ted to hang around. We did become somewhat more self-managing as a team, but we kind of staged a mini-revolt against our manager - and her manager to do it.