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I've asked both men and women that have interviewed me if they are engineers.

The OP's anecdote sounds genuinely sexist and in a really bad way, but I can also imagine a situation where someone says he has never been asked if he's an engineer because the question was not confrontational e.g. casually at the beginning of an interview "So what's your role at COMPANY X, engineer?"
Did you find out about a new app? Yes? Then you've just discovered it.
Yes. Actually I recently experienced something very odd.

I was recently quite angry with someone, and I told them. I was noticeably, noticeably angry at the time.

Ever since then, that person's taken my professional opinion more seriously.

I suspect that people don't take rational data (like observed technical competence) and apply it to their subconscious reasoning and attention systems. It's a failing of theirs for mis-prioritizing input. To get across it, you've gotta get priority on other planes.
I've never performed interviews, but I've definitely experienced the latter two examples many times. Perhaps it's more common because of gender, but it's certainly not the only factor, or even the most important. It IS the most fixable, though; if it's a factor.
Apple's early support for HTML5 audio/video tags is worlds better than the contemporary alternative. It seems plausible to me that without Apple's refusal to support Flash the audio and video tags would never have taken off.

Isn't the open video codec problem still unresolved?
Oddly, Ceglia-Zuckerberg lawsuit over Facebook still continues
Guy I know started tweeting increasingly erratic things over the course of a 48 hour bender, followed by to-the-whole-company emails about working remotely from Fiji so the CIA couldn't follow him. Didn't recognize me when I tried to meet up with him to get him some help. Later he apparently tried to light his apartment on fire.
Currency and company's shares are two very different things. Currency is meant to be a shared dream, since it is no more than means of exchange and means of bringing values of many things to one common measure. However, when you start treating currency as investment, the picture becomes much more complicated. Especially with bitcoin, because the value right now has long detached from any supply or demand considerations and is driven by pure speculation. As such, it is heaven for speculators, but entirely unsuitable for use as a means of exchange, since it is unpredictable and impossible to use in business which values predictability. Let's say you want to build a business that accepts bitcoins. Unless your whole supply chain is also paid in bitcoins, how can you price your products if one day bitcoin costs 45 USD, next day it's 250 USD and next day it's 80 USD? How can you predict your profits, give forecasts to investors, make long-term plans, basing your business on such huge volatility?

Of course, there are ways to deal with it, and there are even ways to profit from it. But for average users of currency - used as currency, not as means of gambling - bitcoin right now is absolutely wrong. I would go even further and say any business that accepts it and doesn't do it for the tax/law enforcement evasion reasons is doing it for PR reasons only.

>>>> As a currency, the fundamentals are there

I don't understand what you mean by this. Currency as such needs no fundamentals as long as there are people willing to accept it. But currency as money is different from currency treated as an investment commodity. Confusing the two is a dangerous mistake IMO. And I see no fundamental reasons driving recent rally in bitcoins - could you name one? Please don't talk about weakening USD - if that would be the reason we'd see rallies in all traditional physical commodities used as hedge against fiat currency - such as noble metals, and we'd see other commodities raise at least in similar manner, and we'd see it in relation to other currencies too. While modest raise in bitcoin could be explained by weakening dollar, it's no way even near what we see here. So any other ideas?
guys leave him alone... he will let everyone know if he wants any attention. If ever. And this is fine. It must be up to him. Don't push it.
Do poor ratings even matter for a super-brand-name application like this? I feel that if I want something like, say, Facebook messenger, I'm going to install it regardless of what its rating is on the app store.

(though I guess with something as "strange/new" as Facebook Home, ratings might matter in giving "on the fence" people enough confidence to try it out)
| I've stopped yet another half-assed idea from
| going into production, but at what cost?

I will say that this statement definitely gave me the, "I'm the only smart person here, everyone else is just dumb," vibe.
Can someone recommend a similar app that shows nice pictures on lock screens and backgrounds, but fetches them from sources such as Flickr?
I test most, but like l said I tend to be over cautious such that some exceptions are not mine to throw, as in only major platform issues will generate them, and I refuse to add logic to the main code to facilitate tests. On some platforms I would be in complete agreement with you but Force.com has it's own specific peculiarities.
>What this bizarre reality really meant is that I couldn’t be myself.

Ugh.

In my experience, this is one of the most painful situations to be in (I've been in one myself, obviously). Pretending like you're someone who you're not (or worse yet, feeling that you have to dance this dance) is unexpectedly draining and demoralizing.
_why, please come back.
In my experience, all a man needs to do in order for someone to ask if they are, in fact, an engineer, is to dress well. Nice leather shoes and a well fitting suit worn casually will instantly create doubt about engineering interest and capability.

That being said, it's pretty common for the female engineers I know to not be taken seriously, especially at the start of their careers.
We Are Hunted [Music Delivery Service] Acquired by Twitter
Virtual Bitcoin Mining Is a Real-World Environmental Disaster
>> an application that more-or-less tucks away all of these smartphone features

That describes like 1,000+ apps with the word "launcher" in their title, and yet a lot of them are 4+ stars
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=launcher&c=apps
ICANN CEO Wants To Shift “Centre Of Gravity” Away From US
Every value is purely subjective. Welcome to the Matrix!
> simply that the loudest, most assertive person dominates the conversation.

This is very true. I watch quiet men get rolled over quite a lot. It's also true that in the US, women are socialized to be quiet and non-assertive.

Well. You can figure the sad story out from there.
Buying Fake Twitter Followers Isn't Worth It
With ghc 7.4 onwards you can have that style of static dependent types very easily, and it's even nicer still in ghc 7.6 onwards. That particular flavor of dependent types is singleton types.

I'm actually leaning on the singleton types and type class machinery in ghc very very hard to write some numerical libraries with both a high level API and very strong code specialization guarantees.

A lot of the same stuff could be done with cpp Template programming, but I'd have to worry about a lot more code bloat, a much more inscrutable set of type error messages, and no hope of end users getting good type Inference.

There are a rich space of decidable type systems out there leverage some or all of dependent types. The work on idris is very exciting in my novice opinion.
lol trying to pull rank on HN on a Friday afternoon... too aggressive.
It's harder with large transnational corporations since their money flows are much more complicated. But it's globalization. Basically they are force to do that. If it's more economically beneficial to open plant in China and every other car producer does that, GM will lose money not doing that. And ultimately will go out of business (what they almost did any way :). Government can try to change rules to make outsourcing less profitable, but there's WTO and other things (like laws of economy) prohibiting that.
> And you seriously assume an attacker with that kind of resources (be it millions or billions) would be dumb enough not to realize that a crash of bitcoin would merely spawn the next, more resilient crypto currency?

That could actually be what the attacker wants.

> That would have to be quite a large irrational player because this isn't compatible with today's corporate and government firmware (game theory) at all.

While governments may be against cryptocurrency gaining traction, if it seemed inevitable that cryptocurrencies were going to gain widespread traction, assuring that any that had wide open attack vectors were crushed before they became economically significant would be a gain from most government's points of view, even if it just meant encouraging a more stable cryptocurrency.

An unstable cryptocurrency is a ticking time bomb whose yield increases as it gains transaction.
Weren't some people here suggesting some months ago that Google could use C# as an alternative to Java for Android, because C# is an ISO standard or something, and it's protected against Microsoft doing what you're suggesting?

I don't know much about the C# license, but to me suggesting Google would use C# seemed very strange, and probably very foolish on Google's part if they were ever to do that, but a lot of people thought that would be a good idea at the time.

Either way, I think this is just another vector of attack from Microsoft towards Google to hurt them, along with stuff like #droidrage, scroogle, the push for the Google search anti-trust, and now the push for the Android anti-trust in EU, too. They just want to hurt Google, badly. It doesn't really matter how they'll do it. They'll simply explore and take advantage of all opportunities to do that. It's actually a very similar strategy they've used in the past like a decade or more ago. Microsoft hasn't changed.
We Are Hunted was acquired by twitter, and allowed you to stream to last.fm.
It's platform specific, Salesforce requires a 75% minimum to deploy to production so really you want it to he as high as possible. That part of the post in particular was for Salesforce developers, I wasn't anticipating it being seen by so many people outside of that community!
Krugman obviously don't know what he is talking about. The resources he is talking about are used to process the transactions between bitcoin owners. The mining is just a side effect.

How did a nobel prize winner made a so basic mistake on a topic that has been covered before by him so many times?

Bet one Btc that he did that on purpose.
What exactly does a force to be reckoned with wear?

I'm being serious. The more posturing with clothing, the more I assume someone isn't good enough at what they do not to bother.
What I like are safe zones, such as smaller communities within a larger. The club I run does that (http://www.fvrb.org). We really strive to not only be accepting, but encourage others to take risks and be willing to fail or look foolish.

If someone threatens that safe zone at our club, I remove them. We simply do not tolerate people who are disrespectful to others. That doesn't mean we agree on everything (in fact we argue all the time!) but as long as things remain respectful, and apologies are publicly made when the line is crossed, our club remains healthy.

Smaller communities are, IMHO, the best way to foster growth in those of us with fears about being different.
OT: Tmux/Screen are a little bit RSI inducing to me, to be used effectively. Any tips?
there is nothing to hide, pal, i just like it.
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Krugman doesn't understand Bitcoin. The computing power expended on mining is used to secure the Bitcoin network.

There are many, many costs associated with securing the integrity of established financial networks too.
New file: CAPRICE

Converted to PDF from PCL here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/135653743/-why-Caprice
Pinterest does scroll downwards (infinite scroll as well). And he's right, it prompts the user to scroll down out of curiosity. IIRC Apple have employed this technique in the most recent update to the App Store, except you scroll horizontally.

In regards to the OP, I don't think the examples are related at all. The Pinterest example is more of a functional design choice (which I think works quite well), while the other two are purely aesthetic.

I agree with you on your second paragraph, the Delicious and ALA examples are simply a way to try and look a bit different. The A List Apart logo design choice caused quite a stir when they unveiled the redesign a few months back.
Yelling "PUT DOWN THE CRACK PIPES!", while effective perhaps the first time, is not a sustainable means of interacting with people, even problematic people. Once you've done something like this a few times, people will begin to associate you with negative outcomes in group discussions, and will thereafter try to ignore you so as not to encourage you. This is a subconscious reaction to shocking behavior.
I'm not sure of the etymology, but "forte" also refers to the strong part of a sword blade (in contrast to the foible).
Sounds like a bipolar guy I know.
Krugman is an arrogant ass. He makes sweeping generalizations about topics he knows little to nothing about all the time.
Boys will be boys? What does that phrase actually mean?
Well, a more neutral response is always better if you are being ignored. Even if you have to stand on the table, then yell, "TIME OUT EVERYONE", then proceed.
I would like to see Bitcoin in real world use, even if just as an experiment, but part of the issue with that is that you can't just accept a payment and everything is done like you would with a credit card or cash. The network has to verify it, which could take anywhere from an hour to days. That's not exactly attractive to businesses.

However, that sort of thing is probably why Bitcoins have started to (slowly) gain wider acceptance from internet retailers. They can simply wait for the payment to be verified before processing and shipping the order, or enabling the account, or whatever it is that they sell.
Calling it a "paid app promotion app" isn't factually correct. Most of the app developers who participated in AppGratis deals didn't have to pay anything. AppGratis' major revenue source was through commissions from the Affiliate program.[1]

The only justification for the removal of this app is that it was against Apple's AppStore Guidelines & policies.

[1] http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/
This is a fine article if you already believe that busyness is bad. The trouble is that busy people are, by definition, people who think being busy is a feature not a bug.

For example, we can spin the wheel and play bug-or-feature:

> And when you start sounding like an appliance, it makes it hard to connect with you.

Bug or feature? Depends on your personality, depends on who's connecting with you.

> This is one of the easiest outs for stuff I don’t want to do.

Bug or feature?

Another sentiment I see in TFA and the comments is that saying "I'm busy" is a euphemism for "I don't care about you" so people shouldn't say it. But this analysis assumes that the heaviest rock is for a person not to be rude. I suspect that in many cases that if you remove the method for a polite brush-off, you could get an impolite brush-off instead. Nothing has been done to address the underlying motivation behind saying "I'm busy".

If you find yourself in the author's shoes being frustrated by how other people are too busy for you, I might recommend reading some sales books and figuring out how to make proposals that are more agreeable to others. Writing a blog post about how other people need to change will not help you solve that problem.
Progressing as a professional software engineer? Who says that's the goal? What defines a professional? Being able to reinvent the wheel to be a couple of milliseconds faster than one that exists?

No, jQuery may not be around forever...but then again browsers might not be around forever. Should one be completely dependent on jQuery? Probably not. But should one discount the level of genius that's been input into something like jQuery? Sure, if you think that you can write something better than their team. And that brings me to my main point:

jQuery isn't just "Easier." In most cases, it's BETTER.

"Oh but I can write in ajax functionality that's faster/ follows standards/ etc."

Great, but while the edge case dev is doing that 100 others have released their product. And I honestly doubt that whatever the edge case developer has written is THAT much better than what the jQuery team has written.

The best software engineers, especially in a high-paced entrepreneur role, GET SHIT DONE.
The above comment questions Rachel's expertise and judgment in regard to her own experience on the basis of the commenter being a man.
I have a hard time with these examples.

I fully accept that sexism could be driving all of the incidents laid out.

But ...

If one person tells you r=2 is a bad idea, maybe you listen. If two people say it, then three. Well at some point you are an idiot if you keep ignoring. And Google(?) is not known for employing idiots.

If you have to interrupt your co-workers discussion with "put down the crack pipes", I would like to suggest that it might be worth considering that being blanked in the aggressive and frustrating way described is really unprofessional. I mean deeply revealing of a lot of anger and problems. Which means her team is made of of men who have some serious issues, life-crippling levels of sexism.

Or

Well, maybe being prepared to shout that the team is so wrong they are smoking crack, indicates that it is worth looking at the glass house around us.

Getting on with others is hard. In a high pressure work environment it's very hard, in one where Aspergers is just next door for most of the industry, then its even harder.

Running good technical teams is hard and we get it wrong more often than not. Which is why "don't flip the bozo bit" is a vital piece of advice.

But I would also suggest that don't flip the -ism bit without looking deeply at our own behaviour is important.

We live and we die. I was born in 1971, the year of a sitcom called "Love thy neighbour" where the 'joke' was a black family moved in next door. The range of deep seated -isms in my head is vast. But it is a fallacy to think that my head is the only broken one on the planet.

I take my steer from a man with a truly broken head - John Nash was right - we live in a Game Theory world, where actions breed reactions and re-reactions.

In some egregious cases the -ism is so bad it is clearly offensive, and clearly intolerable. Let's say it's order of magnitude out of whack.

In other cases, less so. Women, ethnic minorities, LBGTG and others are at disadvantages because of who they are thats got to be wrong. But we are in a ever shifting game. And the secret of winning the game is not winning, it's improving - changing us.

Want my opinion on the best path to business success. Therapy. Seriously.

I have met billionaires and tramps, people who sold all their possession dn people who have ten of everything, the ones I am jealous of are the ones who have peace. They were not the ones with the money.

There is sexism, racism and every other ism around. It seeps into every day life and it is never acceptable to just let it lie. But just as challenging something there and then is cause for for ing those responsible to look at and question their base assumptions about how they behave, there is always room to look at our own assumptions, for we are all playing a game called life, there is no umpire, no final score, no second round play offs.

Sometimes other people's problems are an opportunity for us. Sometimes just move on.

Edit: I got a bit carried away sorry
Cyber- was a prefix long before AOL.

iirc, it was coined in '82 by Gibson and popularized in the cyberpunk genre of literature.
Can't even try the app out. Who releases a big application that doesn't run on flagship Google devices like the Nexus 4 [1]? It's absurd.

[1] Google Play insists the app is not compatible with my Nexus 4 phone, so I can't even try to install it.
What you are basically saying is that they can observe you knowing your shit plenty of times, but they don't actually put a little checkbox in their head next to "this dude know what they are talking about" until you yell at them and say "I have demonstrated plenty of times that I know my shit, and you need to put that checkbox in your head" ?
But it's not a black hole. It's profitable company that gathers money from global market (facebook) and sends it partly to Argentina and partly to Canada. Canada still gets positive money flow. Yes, OP didn't create developer jobs(some other jobs he did create) in Canada, but he most probably couldn't start the company if he didn't outsourced, so jobs wouldn't be created any way. And it's hard to judge what has more value, positive real money flow to the economy or several absent vacancies.
So wait, somebody asks you for an advice, you give advice that they don't like, they don't believe you, go around for more advice and then when everybody says them the same advice they finally realize the advice was right in the first place - you then assume that they didn't accept the advice in the first place because you are "women in industry", not because it is common for people to resist advice they don't like? Well, I don't even know where to start with it...
FYI, unreadable on a galaxy nexus.
Remap caps lock to be a ctrl key, then preferably remap your prefix key to a. Caps+a is way easier to type.
I've installed both the pre-release leak and the one released today on my Nexus 7. Try being less of a condescending "power user" and then we could have a discussion.
Original idea is that ring tone is generated by same exchange that provides the ringing voltage to analog local loop that rings. Idea there is that it tests that the whole connection is built correctly and can pass this ring tone. On the other hand this is horribly inefficient and thus often ring tone is generated on another places. For this cell phon behavior it's entirely imaginable that (G)MSC (lets just use GSM terminology) starts generating ring tone when it had found correct MS in location registry and sent paging request to it, obviously there can be significant latency between that and actual user observable ring on the terminating MS (on the order of 200ms in best case, few seconds or call being dropped in worst).
Except none of those launchers remove functionality like the Facebook launcher is doing by hiding your status bar and removing widgets.

The 4+ star rated launchers add functionality to android.
Yelling AND saying something insulting at the same time was overkill. Just repeating "Hold on here" or something similar at increasing volumes until other people finally shut up would have had the same benefits. Still insulting, but less so.

I interrupt people all the time, male and female alike. (Hey -- if you're paying my rates, you might want to actually hear what I have to say. :D) It does seem more necessary to then go back and ask the women afterwards what they were trying to say; the men generally don't need that kind of prompting.
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This is just incredibly presumptuous. "Here's what you probably mean when you say something." Thanks for that input, but I think I'll decide what I mean when I speak.

Sure, some people sometimes use "I'm busy" as an excuse, or as something to brag about, or for any number of other purposes. People say all sorts of things for those same reasons, though.

"I have plans."

"The cable guy is coming out that day."

"I just got a promotion."

"We just got a new dog."

All of these things, just like "I'm busy," can be used and are used as lies in addition to actually being valid excuses. I'm not sure where the author got the idea this is somehow insightful or informative, or even remotely unique to one claim.