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These are my top 10 in no particular order. They're basically what reside in my dock. I think you can really tell a lot about a person based on what apps they keep near.

1. Textmate
2. Transmit
3. Espresso
4. Adium
5. Tweetie
6. The Hit List
7. NewsFire
8. Safari/WebKit
9. Terminal + VIM
10. Pages
I think she's insanely hot! As for smart, she worked as an IT consultant in the UK for over three years.

And her IQ is 131 (higher than mine).
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Look at Adium (which is IM, but I don't think IRC) and Colloquy (IRC and SILC) on OSX. They output chat to XML which is then 'themed' with XSLT into HTML to display in a Webkit frame.

It sounds really convoluted, but it's presented in HTML form. and you can use images etc.
men with high ambition or men who chose a "safe career" and "stable income"?

Neither! People on the dole who have never worked and never intend to.
Man doesn't consume vitamines and trace elements in the optimal amounts. They never did, but as we gain enough understanding of the interactions, we can amend that problem and make for healthier, happier humans. I see no reason why we shouldn't, provided that the criterion 'enough understanding' is met.
There are already, and there have always been, many psychoactive chemicals in any food or drink.
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Yes, but atop quarter members that estimate themselves to be in the top quarter don't necessarily estimate themselves to be better than non top quarter members that estimate themselves to be in the top quarter. The 'better' is 'within the top quarter'.
How does anyone actually tolerate the awesome bar? When it debuted, I thought it was some kind of prank.

I still kinda do.
If you would stop posting personal anecdotes, and focus on objective arguments, you wouldn't find yourself in a position of taking the conversation personally!
Neither is fully VT100-compliant, though, nor does either one fully support mouse input. Terminal.app also has a few rendering bugs that show up occasionally in screen. (Noticing a pattern here?)
NoScript 1.9.2.6 removes the controversial Adblock Plus hack
>> "Ads are a soft form of brainwashing"

Every input we receive to our brains could be said to be a soft form of brainwashing.

Good advertising serves a use for consumers. Without it, you wouldn't be aware of what you can buy/do etc. If you want to opt out of that, fine. Personally, I find it invaluable to be aware of what is going on.
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The Elusive Female: Developing for Women
>> "If they don't like that, tough luck, stop sending it to me then."

It's certainly an option. It's easy enough to detect adblock, and send the user to a "Since you're not prepared to give us the benefit of the doubt that we'll show you a few useful unobtrusive adverts, please donate something or get lost" page, or otherwise degrade their experience.

For example, if the user has disabled javascript, sites should degrade gracefully. Likewise, if the user has disabled common forms of advertising, it'd be good for the website to disable any features that cost them a lot of money to run. Say it's a photo sharing site, give adblock users lower limits or something.

Adblock usage is a very small minority though, so unless you're a massive site (And want the very vocal minority to moan about how they should be free to leech all the content they want without giving anything back), probably not worth it.

Using adblock actually makes things worse for everyone. If you don't use adblock, and a site abuses your trust by doing popup ads, garish flash ads, then don't go there again. Stick by those principles. If everyone did that, then websites with intrusive stupid adverts would die off. By using adblock, you're rewarding those practices, but since you're never going to click on anything, the webmasters will likely make their ads more intrusive and garish to try and increase their CPM.
Twitter is a bit of a niche app for this. I think more of your potential users would use facebook than twitter.
"The Django REST interface makes it easy to offer private and public APIs for existing Django models."

Piston doesn't tie you to a model (although it can), which is very important for any decent sized API. Exposing models is something you want half the time, but there's a lot more to it.
No, a constructive argument showcasing pro's and cons and highlighting merits of competing products serves a use for consumers.

And while that also has a soft brainwashing effect, it actually adds some information that allows you to make a conscious decission. An ad is just the brainwashing.
He doesn't work at Google any more.
1) Dropbox

2) Firefox (with StumbleUpon and AdBlock Plus)

3) Scite

4) Leo (http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html)

5) My own tools
1. terminal / putty
2. textmate / vim
3. quicksilver
4. firefox + firebug

Whenever I use any computer, I find myself installing all of these programs, in order to get anything done.
Pretty good, and true in its way, altho like many things on HN, it just touches the surface and doesn't go further down to the core issue.

Which is:

Intelligence (capability) is not knowledge (facts), AND knowledge (facts) do not equate to wisdom (judgment).

Many people here on HN pretend to have knowledge they don't, that's true. But they also do not have or exercise wisdom, or reason.

For an example, just go back to that thread where I baited that misogynist jerk time_management into revealing his true colors.

He may have been stating facts up to that point, and people defended his statement of facts or debated their factualness, but nobody else questioned that selection of "facts" -- and the motive behind stating them.

If only other people would study the art of rhetoric.
I'd be all for that. I don't mind paying for an increased user experience if I actually need it. This would kinda let the user opt out of the ad-based revenue model.

Unfortunately some people will try to hack it, tragedy of the commons and all that.
Well... moot is influential enough to win the Time 100 poll... It isn't as if political or social influence is always above board either.
Its defaults might not handle it (I don't use "screen", I'm not sure). But there are lots of things you can change; something like line wrap would probably affect a status bar.
"Ultimately you have to judge any argument by what it says, not who said it."

That's not sufficient. You have to consider incentives, motives, history, etc. etc. Arguments do not stand alone in a vacuum, neither do "facts." The selection of facts, the selection of arguments, have everything to do with who says them... and why.
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Funny. So what's the optimistic version of that comment?

How about:

I'm always interested in the thoughts of other programmers. This article is a bit longer than I have time for at the moment. Would anyone care to summarise?
You can hire a VPN account from witopia.net to fool Hulu and ABC into thinking you're watching from the US. I do it all the time...
Let me see if I get this straight:

1. You believe that jobs should go to the best-qualified candidates.
2. You believe that irrational beliefs about gender differences prevent this from happening.
3. The article claims that gender differences are real.
4. Therefore, you call the article disturbing and suggest that the author is irrational (last paragraph).

This is a poor line of reasoning. You and the author have different explanations, but instead of challenging the author's reasoning or providing evidence for your own, you seem to dismiss the entire article out of hand. If you really believe that an irrational hiring bias is at work here, I would like to see some arguments.

Small biases certainly exist, but I doubt that they explain the dramatic gender gap. There is a reason no woman has been president of the United States, and I don't think that biases are a sufficient explanation. This problem is as old as civilization itself, and that suggests that something deeper is at work.
Perhaps if you're particularly susceptible to brainwashing, then advertising could be a bad thing. But I think you have to give people a bit more credit than that. It's about giving potential consumers information so they can make informed choices.

Word of mouth is still the best form of advertising though - agreed. That's not to say other forms of advertising aren't effective, or useful for the consumer.

For example, I know what movies are out mainly through billboards. It's useful to me. If one looks interesting, I might look it up on the net and see if I want to go see it. I'm not being 'soft brainwashed', I'm being informed of a new movie I might want to go see.
I have mixed feelings about Seligman. Those three concepts are indeed useful. On the other hand, the experiments that made his name, though presumably within the standards of the time, involved treatment of dogs so cruel that it's hard to read about them without wondering what kind of person would do such things. Basically they showed that, when randomly tortured, most dogs become depressed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness). Bizarrely, or perhaps naturally, these experiments turn out to have been one of the inspirations for the CIA torture program. Seligman says he had nothing to do with it, but he did have contact with the people who designed it and has declined to publicly disagree with their application of his work (http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/07...). This is admittedly a weak link, but a notable one.
Sure, it may turn into an arms race, although one of the other points of adblock is also that it doesn't download the advert - so it's extremely easy to detect an adblock user.

I think if adblock usage increases (I don't think it will), we'd move to a 2 tier internet - a degraded slimmed down internet for adblock users, and the full internet for everyone else. Which I think would be fair and just.
Interesting that you call trying to teach someone about music soically odd, but by not commenting imply that it is totally normal to sit in a concert ignoring the music. Perhaps social norms are not all they are cracked up to be, and a little "out of the box" thinking can be good. Or even thinking out of space and time :-)
This is what a social-network exodus looks like
Tragically, the dark side appears to be now dominating...

[root@jira ~]# telnet www.baylor.edu 80
Trying 129.62.15.253...
Connected to www.baylor.edu (129.62.15.253).
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /index.htm
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 09:05:09 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
This is time-sensitive, but as of 2:00 AM PDT Saturday, only one out of the 8 most recent entries on my LiveJournal friendslist is not about Dreamwidth. There are many other friendslocked or older posts also saying "I'm moving to Dreamwidth; find me at xxx."

I posted this because there is a persistent belief among technorati that social networks benefit from large network effects that prevent users from switching, even if the underlying software sucks. When I've said "No, users just use the social network as a venue to tell everyone where to find them, and then whole groups of people migrate en masse," people have asked me "Well, do you know of any cases of this actually happening." Well, here's one.

This is not unique at all - LiveJournal has had persistent problems with whole cliques of users splitting off to form other sites, eg. JournalFen, Plogs, uJournal, and GreatestJournal, because of the ease of forking their codebase. Hacker News started largely as dissatisfied Reddit users moved to a site where the quality of debate was higher. FictionAlley started after dissatisfied users migrated en masse from Fanfiction.net.
I've found that Twitter SMSs don't always get to my phone. Anecdotally, I'd guess it's probably around a 5% drop rate.
Maybe you're not serious, but the thought of people communicating that smarmily makes my skin crawl.
1) Webkit (Safari)

2) Ruby

3) Terminal

4) Textmate

5) Photoshop

6) VMware (Windows Vista image running on 256MB RAM)

7) Spotify (used to be iTunes, but who needs that when you have practically every song you may want for free?)
1. Firefox w/Firebug

I hate Firefox as a browser on the Mac, but as a professional front-end developer it's the most valuable piece of kit I have.

2. OmniFocus

It's pretty expensive but it's also really really good, and has industrial strength data integrity. Allows me to stay on top of everything at all times. The apparent high cost disappears when you realise that I use it all the time and am able to rely on it 100%. In fact it's my only app with "Start at login".

3. VMWare Fusion

Allows me run all kinds of virtualised environments (particularly copies of live environments, and Erlang development environments) as though they're local folders, which means I can use the OS X desktop toolchain to work on code, but use Linux for package management etc. Also for Windows, obviously.

4. DropBox

One of the best services on the Internet, bar none.

I haven't listed a text editor here as I use TextMate, but am not so attached to it that I couldn't replace it with something else.
Well, that was quick, and really I think it was the only solution. The difference here although there are defined extension interfaces in Adblock, NoScript was subverting the expected functionality rather than extending it. I’d rather not have extensions fighting among each other.
Perhaps you have a problem with terminfo?
Jail time for lottery fraudster 
What would you do if you knew that you had purchased a winning lottery ticket, but somehow, somewhere, the lottery ticket was lost? This is the scenario that found resolution just last week in the UK, the only difference, the finder of the winning lottery ticket opted to instead cash in the winnings and use the winnings for personal gain.
I like the idea of cognitive therapy (mind hacking), and this interpretation of optimism/pessimism, but I get tripped up on the categories. It seems to me that "permanent/temporary" is an instance of "general/specific". Even the illustration of permanent, "gems are always a pain", seems to be a generalization from one gem to all gems. Although it uses the word "always", the focus seems to be on the gems, not on time. I'd prefer not to be tripped up by issues of categorization that don't really matter, so I welcome clarification of this confusion. :-)

Fred Brooks claimed that programmers are optimists; but I've heard many people claim that engineers are pessimists - and need to be. What can go wrong will go wrong, so anticipate it. It seems that Dr Seligman has data showing that his tests really do predict the success of salespeople - but do they predict the success of engineers? Or... predict engineering success inversely? (Even if true, programming is not exactly engineering; and of course a startup has at least as much sales as engineering, e.g. Jobs/Woz).
I have to say, as a professional web developer, that I've never found that "application markup tends to be heavy in javascript", or that I've "(screwed) up the DOM". HTML isn't particularly difficult, although things like HAML might prove that doing it well without a helper abstraction is difficult.

Code management (breaking things up into appropriate templates and fragments) trumps things like HAML for ease of use and clean separation every time.
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Apparently, when Charles Goren was asked which sex was better at bridge, he replied: “Women are better; men are best.”

http://dailypundit.com/?p=3388
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Re: iTerm, I used to use it, but then I figured out how to (ab)use Terminal and I'm now happy with Terminal.

Have a look at my tutorial on how to create and use multiple profiles on my geek blog: http://www.swombat.com/setting-up-terminalapp-with-tr-0
If I am a selfish gene, I want to hitch a ride with a chick. Why? Because as much as 8 / 10 of women who ever lived reproduced. Only about 4 / 10 men who ever lived reproduced (according to the article).

This argument is wrong.

The discrepancy you point out is offset by the fact that the men who did reproduce had more offspring each than the women who did reproduce. On average, males and females produce the exact same expected number of children, because each child has a father and a mother. This explains the near 50/50 ratio of males to females in many species: if females substantially outnumber males, a selfish gene would find it beneficial to twist the mother's physiology to make a male child more probable. So it balances out.

Needless to say, memes have absolutely nothing to do with the whole discussion.
I noted the conceptual connection between "learned optimism" and "learned helplessness", but didn't realize it was the same guy.

I want to expand on "randomly tortured" dogs. The electric shocks given weren't damaging (though they were painful), it was the lack of power over them was damaging, leaving the dogs hopelessly cowering in a corner. It wasn't the torture that harmed them, but its arbitrariness. That is, the cruelest part was not the torture itself. Knowledge can be used to harm people; but it can also be used to help them, as Dr. Seligman has subsequently done with "learned optimism".

I agree that giving electric shocks to dogs is a disturbing thing to do.
Textmate

Transmit

Sequel Pro

OmniFocus or OmniOutliner for GTD

I'm finding I use Nambu more and more for reading Tweets
1. emacs (incl. shell, irc, personal wiki)
2. firefox (incl. email, blog)
3. wmii (tiling window manager)
I don't think a sample space of 12 people, however eminent they are, isn't enough to make a general statement like this. Sorry!
The carbon will be used by the plants to regrow where the goats grazed. Goats turn grass into stuff and the grass will turn it back into grass. Net effect: zero. The difference with mowers is that they turn fossil fuels and grass into mowed grass. Other organisms will turn the mowed grass into stuff (like the goats) and grass will turn this back into grass. Net effect: burned fossil fuels.
I am touched by this story. Any chance of it being true? (not that it matters, truth being beauty an' all).
I've heard that the soft drink 7-up once contained lithium among its ingredients. I don't think it's a good idea to add lithium to drinking water because of its toxicity, but I don't see anything intrinsically wrong with adding chemicals psychoactive or not to the drinking water for the purposes of public health. If it is permissible to add fluoride to water to improve the average smile, I don't see how one could object to adding a chemical to improve the average mood. (provided that the chemical was otherwise harmless)
So the smart social networks create lock-in. Here're a few things Facebook does (all of which are smart and some of which were probably not done solely for lock-in).

1) Encourage the uploading of lots of pictures without an easy way to download them again in a batch. Same thing goes for chat and mail messages.

2) Encourage high friend counts via the friend suggestion tool so that a small number of friends leaving as a clique have minimal impact on your overall experience.

3) Hide the defriending process so you aren't notified when friends leave the service. In fact the news feed, has so much in it now, you probably wouldn't notice anyone's absence even if they did notify you. You'd probably not see a "goodbye" group half your friends were joining, either...

Which is to say, Facebook may retain users a little better than Livejournal.
Why stop at Lithium? Surely a more comprehensive solution to mood disorders in the population would be to add prozac into the water supply.
The problem is the definition of 'healthier, happier humans'. Who gets to decide? Some people would be keen ensure 'healthier, happier humans' == compliant slaves.
you should try 'm', it'll work really well with the rest of your tools.
Another two workhorse candidates:

- The 7400 TTL quad 2-input NAND gate (pre-1970, TI and others?). And family ... many other pages in the catalog.

- The 2408 1kB UV-erasable EPROM (~1980, Intel), and siblings: 2416 2kB, etc.

Perhaps also the 2900 4-bit slice ALU from AMD, possibly more often admired than actually used ;-)
In the end the rational thing to do in society is to match each job with the person who has the most compatible skill set.

This point is far from obvious. What if I don't like the job that your rational algorithm assigns to me?

Whenever people say something is "rational for society", they make two leaps of reason: 1) That individual people act as to maximize the value of some function. This is a factual statement, but utterly unfounded (Allais paradox, preference reversals etc.) and IMO incorrect. 2) That it's okay to aggregate the utility functions of many different people into a "common rational direction" for society, to be enforced by the state or other powerful agents. This is a moral statement that has been convincingly demonstrated to be repugnant by any number of 20th century socialist regimes.

Tl;dr stop telling me what's rational for me.
I was skeptical when the article didn't mention any numbers, and even more skeptical when the report's summary didn't mention them. But then I saw this graph, and I'm really kind of surprised at how big of an effect tiny amounts of lithium actually had:

http://dustincurtis.com/screenshots/Lithium_levels_in_drinki...
Great stuff.

I found a bit disconcerting the constant use of words like "fairness" and "morality". I tend to see them as "quick and dirty" models useful for everyday behavior. But in a scientific work, which is supposed to study the real thing, I find them not so fitting.
Well its a serious question. There's definitely value in the ideas of Seligman. But it requires skill to apply them in conversation the way Reg suggests without sounding overly deferential and false. Depersonalising criticism where appropriate seems a reasonable approach. Often the personalisation is just a habit that doesn't actually express your intention. Prefacing every criticism with praise could get very old very quickly.
The electric shocks given weren't damaging

According to whom?
They make Python 5x+ faster too:
http://crosstwine.com/linker/python.html

JIT optimizations are the way forward for dynamic languages and like they showcase it's really not that hard to improve Ruby / Python by a factor of 10 by using JIT (and other common optimizations such as inline caching) Java got a 20x improvement by moving to HotSpot VM (which introduced JIT).
I've not read the book (yet) but I have read a couple of reviews and it sounds like Seligman appreciates that there is a time for pessimism as well as optimism.

Here's one http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40033602.

"Unlike many self-help books, there's no bad-mouthing of pessimists here. In fact, Seligman describes studies that seem to prove that pessimists are much better at seeing the world as it really is. ...

... The author explains how to balance optimism and pessimism and when to listen to each voice, though of course it could take a lifetime to perfect this process."
This makes me think of the movie Equilibrium -- a futuristic dystopia where the people are forcefully placated via drugs:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238380/