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Give me a break. I have seen worse pictures on the side of a bus shelter.

Who cares if a couple of wowsers get their panties in a bunch? Society suffers when everyone has to tiptoe around some deranged minority's wacky list of things to be outraged about.

No-one important that I know about has left the community because of this or any other contrived pseudo-scandal. Rails' popularity has not waned; rather the opposite. I could not care less if a small number of easily-offended prudes are scared away by a mild show of skin. In fact, it seems like a good thing.

What was that PG said .. "offending the right people"? Sounds like the right people have been offended here.
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I second that notion. You'll love working with these guys. Also, Mark makes some killer sushi - you can probably convince him to bribe you with some.
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thanks! and crap - yet another example of 'i'll never have an original idea...' deflation kicking in about now
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Link to the presentation, only suggestive images, no explicit images or nudity.
http://www.slideshare.net/mattetti/couchdb-perform-like-a-pr...
I just think a hack is an improvement to anything while the action in the post is just ruining the online voting system.

A hack would be to let the TIME web team to know the details of the crack and the solution to fix it.

Cheers. :-)
I got a "Page Unavailable" from the original URL [1]. On a hunch, I removed the "?mod=googlenews_wsj" part, and lo and behold, it worked. Is WSJ blocking GoogleNews links ? Or is this something much more mundane ?

1. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124087181303261033.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
The objective of a business is to create returns for shareholders... and they did that pretty well.

You have a very narrow definition of entrepreneurship if you think it has to be along the lines "startup founders on HN"

BTW - I am not a fan of Murthy/Infosys.
It's a hack to me, and a pretty cool one. They wanted something done, they found a novel way of doing it. Probably taught themselves some valuable skills in the process.

Learn by doing. Get things done, one way or the other. The very essence of hacking!
I sure hope it is propaganda. There is a very real possibility that the administration, or at least some elements of it, are completely serious.
(Insert big anecdotal evidence disclaimer here...)

It's not programmers that keep women out of programming (or IT in general). It's not the tools, the bad hours, the awkward guys, or the 'girls are bad at math'/'girls can't program' stereotypes. Right from the beginning I was pushed away from computers (before I'd even decided what field I wanted to apply myself to) by teachers, career advisers, college lecturers, friends, strangers, employers and sexist colleagues.

I remember being 13/14 and sitting down to an 'interview' with a career adviser. We had to answer a series of questions on screen which were supposed to tell us our ideal career. Every time I answered I could see that various computer related careers were climbing up the list, and yet I was told by the chap doing the interview that I should be a vet or a police officer. Neither made much sense to me.

My computing teacher in school used to prioritise computer access to the boys for after school 'computer club', and although I did ICT at college (A levels in the UK), lecturers informed me that I would only be able to use the qualifications to get into admin/secretary jobs (boys were told otherwise). I was one of only two girls on my course at college, and the other girl dropped out by the end of the second year due to family pressure. My last boss used to make derogatory remarks about the fact that I was female, and colleagues supported my male colleague over me.

It's the attitude from everyone else that women can't and shouldn't get involved with computers that pushes women into other fields. I was lucky to have a very supportive family and a partner that wholeheartedly supports women in IT to push me through - oh, and being a stubborn bugger helped too :)
When Apple gets its act together on the "enterprise" front, so people can write apps that organizations are willing to pay for, then it might be a gold rush. Right now it's a land grab, like the 90s on the web.

There was a story on the BBC I think, not long ago, about how it's basically impossible to make money on the App Store. You'll be ignored if you're not on the front page, and people are willing to only pay $0.99/app, it's just not viable. The only reasons to do it are a) for the love of it and b) to get your name out there ready for when there is some commercial demand.
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Bold, italic, heading, list, link, image.

I've never seen a remotely compelling argument for anything more, and I've never seen anything more used in 99.9% of user-generated content. Where did this fascination with perfecting pointless bloat come from?
And?

I can fit twice that many on a HD for $150.

Unless these are guaranteed long-term storage then what advantage is there to using them?
It definitely varies. I was not all that invested in programming at all, spending most of my time biking and playing music, but as a "smart kid" there was lots of ostracizing going around, just because I didn't play the main sport that everyone plays.

What I take away from this is the importance of growing up - you get through those stages and move into a more nurturing community of people that support what you create, not the details of how you created it.
Web proxy farms mean you can't just say "100+ votes from a single IP address = blacklist". You'd probably need manual intervention to distinguish proxies and individual abusers. Once you're manually intervening, you may as well just wait until the poll closes and drop the results you don't want.
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I very much doubt that the gaming of the poll was merely an exercise in autodidacticism.
Nah, that's voiding the definition of "without _breaking_ the shell" - you have to be able to reconstitute the shell, leaving it looking as though nothing had happened.

This is the obvious answer, but we're hackers - we need to be pedantic and anal otherwise there's no real fun in forcing others to think beyond there assumptions.

;)

keep trying
one would think (100 - equity needed to incentivise other workers)... sarcasm aside, that's the only thing that counts - you have to make a deal and the only thing you have to buy their time is equity in your idea. 1% of a x-million dollar company or 100% of a not-million dollar company.
Are expensive running shoes a waste of money?
I think this points at a general problem with developers.

Developers assume that just because "it works" then non-code issues are irrelevant.

In truth, people choose frameworks and languages not just because of the code and career opportunities but also because of the community. This goes for developers and management.

There is nothing wrong with that - software development is as social as any other human activity. A good community is helpful, welcoming and tolerant. Compare for example the Lisp and Python communities - Lisp has definitely been hurt by an elitist, unwelcoming community, whatever its technical merits.

After this presentation and related comments across the blogs, the Ruby/Rails community comes across as arrogant, sexist and immature (as do its leaders). This does a completely unnecessary disservice to the technology.
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My experience with motion-control running shoes quite different from what the article reports. My knees stopped hurting once I switched to them.
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Yeah I wasn't too sure of the origin, but it does seem to be an esoteric nomenclature and very specific to SF geeks. Now I'm not saying I'm not an SF geek, but first and foremost I'm an agent of the word and find the ambiguities of such a concept as "The Singularity" alienating for both sides. One can't express it to the other because of it's vastness, and the other can't grasp it because it's a poorly conceived metaphor.

Hell, for a mind boggling position on where my doubts are loosely based, read the Quine-Duhem Thesis or The Indeterminacy of Translation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indeterminacy_of_translation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duhem%E2%80%93Quine_thesis

The first states that the search for "meaning" in language is a dead end, due to the problem of translation (an agonising and paradoxical conclusion to realise).

While the second states that no scientific theory (that of "the singularity" for instance) can ever be tested or even contemplated in isolation. All knowledge essentially "faces the tribunal of sense-experience, not alone, but as a cohesive unit". So my primary assumption that "singularity" refers to "black wholes and baby universes" refuses the "singularity meme" to be accepted by my cohesive knowledge web... as ever - food for thought

peace
«Leaving performance considerations aside, what possible difference does it make to the developer whether the CLR’s jitter happens to allocate memory for a particular local variable by adding some integer to the pointer that we call “the stack pointer” or adding the same integer to the pointer that we call “the top of the GC heap”?»

I'm all for avoiding premature optimizations, and giving priority to short and comprehensible code over faster code. But "leaving performance considerations aside" is like discussing dictatorship and "leaving human rights issues aside".

Good programmers have good hunches about performance, better programmers pick the shortest code anyway, the best programmers measure and then maybe optimize.
Yes, it's a few months old. But I find it interesting how prophetic now seem his comments:

"I’ll be surprised if they manage to hold on to their top talent in the User Experience division for more than a year or two"

...given the exodus of the intervening months. Couldn't hurt Google to look at how it's hurting itself.
From tfa: "I hear you, dear creme-de-la-creme Rails (core) member, I know you don’t give a shit, and you think this is all prude babbling - because your hourly rate is more than some of us earn in a day, and you’ll be sought after even if Rails will have a much worse image than it has now. But 99.9% of us are not in the ‘circle of trust’ and would be happier if Rails would not be constantly associated with a ghetto."

I feel a lot of misplaced entitlement coming from that article. Open source developers build a framework and give it for free to other people. Other people use the fruits of their work and complain if the developers do non code-related stuff they don't agree with.

Besides, some people should watch some porn, just to know the difference between the images of the presentation and the label they give it. This isn't porn people.

The main issue I have with it that people go to a presentation that was titled "Perform like a P0rn Star" and afterwards "feel offended" or "uncomfortable". I just don't get that.
If someone would say this in Europe the first reaction would be: "so why did you go and see it?" It's not like there isn't any other couchdb information on the net. There were also multiple other talks at this event at the same time slot.

I also understand the position of the core team. What if I write a code-framework and distribute it for free? Should I watch my words so I don't offend people, who might know some people who work with my code? This is just insane. Open source is a gift for everyone, and everybody is free (not) to use it.
The side of a bus shelter usually displays advertising, not a subtle technological discussion on the state non-relational distributed key/value databases and their comparative value to RDBMs systems.

For example, compare slides 15 (RDBMs):

http://www.slideshare.net/mattetti/couchdb-perform-like-a-pr...

and 52 (CouchDB):

http://www.slideshare.net/mattetti/couchdb-perform-like-a-pr...
nice hack returning the next function in the chain. As a FSM user I will probably need this someday.
The moar you know.
After nearly 50 years in this world, one of the things I cherish is great conversation with someone worth talking to. Invariably hard to pin down, impossible to define, but unmistakable when you are lucky enough to find it.

One of the things I've realised is that the vast majority of people have very little to say that's of interest. The web gave many, many people the ability to be heard. We are all learning that most of them aren't worth listening to.

This is especially true when there is no reputation, no trust, and no accountability. That's one reason I treasure HN as a place to get sensible comments and decent conversation.
| I have seen worse pictures on the side of a bus shelter

So? That makes it any less wrong?

| Society suffers when everyone has to tiptoe around some
deranged minority's wacky list of things to be outraged about

Do you have evidence about this? I think that's quite the contrary. Surely free speech is important, having personally experienced the aftermath of a communist regime, and not being allowed calling a turd for what it is surely sucks. But this is a different story.

And I think that deranged minority you're speaking of are the women.

| I could not care less if a small number of easily-offended
prudes are scared away by a mild show of skin.

What ever happened to manners?
Personally I don't care about looking professional. I don't like the term, because "professional" means working for money, and I happen to enjoy what I do.

But this isn't about being professional or not. This is about respecting other people. It's about showing courtesy to others, such that the others can do the same for you. I don't know in what society you live in, but I'm fed up with the racist, antisemitic and generally foul language in the one I live in. Maybe you've been spoiled? ;)
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Same for me.

The thing that matters is where you buy your shoes. Go to a running store like Runner's Need where they do gait analysis first, not to Nike Town where you buy whatever Shaq is wearing this week.
There's absolutely no need for that trolling headline. What would have been wrong with "Flash enables perfect replication of Word's layout engine online"? Truthful and probably more interesting.
I'm with you so far. As an (originally) low-level programmer, I learned to deal first with state machines and performance, so functional programming looks sort of ivory tower and meaningless.

However, trying to get things to work efficiently in parallel on clusters of multicore machines, working mostly in Python, the issues I think FP tries to address are starting to come into focus.

I once sat through a 2 hour seminar just to hear Guido Van Rossum talk about parallelization in Python. When it came time for him to speak, he said something like "I don't know why I was invited -- I neither care nor think very much about parallelism". This was sort of amusing. Note his comments on tail recursion elsehwere on YC.
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I really love Guido's pragmatism. It's inspiring how he says "no" to a "would be nice feature" - - a feature that seems simple to implement at first, but probably would complicate a lot of things.

Viva la Gudio :)
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I'm not a rails developer but from an outsiders perspective, really who cares. And the people who are bothered remind me of the same people complaining of late night cable tv. The title of the seminar was called "Perform like a p0rn star"! That should be your first clue that it wasn't going to be the same dry stuff. It's not like they were rickrolled or anything. They gladly attended a seminar with pr0n prominently in the title and then get all offended with the imagery.

It would be like if vegetarian orders a meat lovers pizza and is devastated by what shows up.
This all depends on if you know how to really read a book, how to take good notes, and what to do with notes. :)
It will be frustrating if the "Touch on Steroids" (or Newton-II?) will be so tangled up with a phone company to make it difficult to purchase...
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Any reason why you like it? I thought it's really basic and the rendering can do with some improvement (maybe due to the content source). Oh. And it's slow.
"So? That makes it any less wrong?"

No, it means that it is self-evidently common and of questionable "offence value". In other words, the burden is on you to prove wrongness, since it seems to be just fine everywhere else.

"I think that's quite the contrary."

OK, let me get this straight. The contrary of what I said is:

Society prospers when everyone has to tiptoe around some deranged minority's wacky list of things to be outraged about.

Surely you are not seriously asserting the above. If you are, I can't be bothered arguing because you are either a troll or .. probably incapable of understanding no matter how much I explain. If you are not saying that, please restate.

"What ever happened to manners?"

What has this got to do with manners!?

"This is about respecting other people. It's about showing courtesy to others, such that the others can do the same for you."

I'm sorry pal but I have no idea what you are talking about. I do not see how this presentation had anything to do with "respect" or "courtesy". Of course I am in favour of those things.

No, this is about a small minority choosing to find offence in the utterly mundane and then demanding heads roll to quench their self-righteous outrage. Fuck those people. Makes me want to offend them.

"I don't know in what society you live in, but I'm fed up with the racist, antisemitic and generally foul language in the one I live in."

Rather orthogonal to my original comment, don't you think? If you don't like where you live, maybe you should consider moving.
Only been here for 27 years but while I think you're somewhat right, this is probably true for everyone, only everyone's tastes as to what constitutes great conversation seem to vary sometimes a little, sometimes a lot.

What the web really taught is that for everyone saying something, there seems to be at least one other person who thinks precisely that is worth listening to.
This is absolutely not Hacker news material. This is not reddit or Digg. Lets please keep the news constrained to a fine selection from advances and learnings in software development and Comp Sci.
As of right now, the theme that I'm using breaks entirely in Internet Explorer. I've had it up for about a week and haven't had the time to determine just why that is. The text simply won't display. So I put that up for the time being, knowing that my blog is read almost entirely through RSS, typically not by IE6 users, and that it's unpopular enough that I typically don't see my postings show up anywhere else.

I wrote out a thoughtful little thing explaining why it was currently redirecting, then got a complaint from an IE6 tester that that page wasn't displaying, and decided "Fuck it, I'll wait until later to make my blog respectable." I'm in the middle of a big redesign/name change/shebang, and since this isn't the blog that'll be the center of that redesign, I'm not focusing very much on it until the other pieces are more ready.
I was thinking of a site that does this but for business people to tech guys.

http://suitmeetsgeek.appspot.com

Most tech people don't know how (or want to know how) to write a business plan, find funding, etc. So there could really be a nice symbiosis.

It seems to me that rock bands, book authors, etc. have agents who understand how to get the content to the people in the right way. It's a system that's worked well for those industries.

What do you guys think?
"You have a very narrow definition of entrepreneurship if you think it has to be along the lines "startup founders on HN"

Well, good thing I didn't say that and you are just putting words in my mouth and reacting to things I didn't say.

Let us try some logical analysis.

"X is not a Q Y" where X is a proper noun, Y is a common noun and Q is an adjective (or adjectival phrase) is not logically equivalent to " All Ys have to be Q."

Thus,

Peggy (X) is not a cloned(Q) sheep (Y) != All sheep have to be cloned.

Murthy (X) is not an entrepreneur(Y) along the lines of startupfounders on HN (Q) != All entrepreneurs have to be like startup founders on HN.

It would really help if you reacted to what I did say.
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Google Talk, Labs Edition is an experimental release of the Google Talk client. It has many of the same great features as the Google Talk Gadget, including instant messaging, emoticons, and group chat.
Can't say this mirrors my experience of geeks at all, but then again, I went to a school where all cliques were extremely loose-knit and accepting (it was just part of the school culture).
Also, though Facebook is clearly a resounding success, I'm not sure I'd use the words "beautiful" and "makes people happy". More like "useful" and "makes people connected".
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