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If you don't like DI or AOP, then you can just code plain Java.

If you like DI but not AOP, then something like Guice or plain Java and some self-discipline would probably work better for you.

If you like DI and AOP, then you can let Spring get you as close to proper AOP as Java allows without weaving, or you can use the same syntax to do compile-time weaving to get a non-leaky abstraction

All these are just choices to make; it seems like you're more fighting against the fact that you don't like how the 'industry' is making these 'enterprise standard' choices for you.

On a technical level it's more like criticising Rails for using meta-programming everywhere, or C because it's so low-level (i.e. that's what they were designed for! If that's not what you need, don't use it!)
Anecdotes and anecdata can be ignored from a statistical point of view, when determining the truth of a statement about a population, it's true, but people can still illustrate a point with an anecdote - and the anecdote is not central to his post's argument, it's just an illustration.

What he is suggesting is that both privilege and a lack of privilege (he mentions homosexuality as an example, poverty might be another example) are more important than "being a geek" to whether you get bullied.

When you are called a geek, consider what the aggressor means by that; is it that s/he considers you overly-effeminate? That you can't afford to take part in social activities, making you an outcast? Or perhaps that you have opportunities and a position in the mainstream which they can't have?

That is all the author is saying (I think, I may have mis-read or read selectively). They're not saying that poor geeks don't get bullied.
Do a few google searches and you'll see a broad range of newspapers cited as the best in the world. Search in a few different languages and you'll get an even wider variety. My search brought up The London Times as a contender for prestige. Wikipedia cites "Yomiuri Shimbun" as the newspaper with the largest circulation. If you were to survey people in varying countries they would give varying answers. Unless you state specific metrics it is very difficult to choose a "best" anything.
- Do you have email server?
- Can I SSH into the hosting?
- Will you run out of business in the next year or so :)?
Doesn't Reddit's meme caption bot actually do this, or is it in fact a human? SFW example: http://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/1f8ld3/worked...

EDIT: ah, no, it just scrapes QuickMeme's UI for the entered text. Oh well...
I'm not totally sure where you get the idea that I get that idea based on my statement(s).
I read up to "gender roles" where "more into D&D than football" was mentioned. The I stopped, as author linked it to homophobia.

This thing is not a gender role difference. This thing is difference in force and fitness. Being fit allows you to both bully and stand for bullying. There nothing related to homophobia there.

I was bullied myself until some spring my "friends" found that I can pullup more than them. I wasn't bulied anymore. I was hated, but that's different story.

I also should mention that there are almost no gender roles in human society. Especially for males - they should be successful in finding food and a place to stay at night and that's all.

Thus I consider author dumb one. He sees things that do not exist.
Just wanted to say that. I hesitated for months before switching to zsh but here's a short presentation that sold me: http://www.slideshare.net/jaguardesignstudio/why-zsh-is-cool...

Speaking of git completion and branch info on the prompt, there are plugins in zsh for this and they're very easy to customize thanks to well-established conventions in oh-my-zsh.

It took me couple of hours to migrate from bash but it was time well spent.
> In fact, i'd go so far as to say that if Microsoft ever actually tried to enforce, it would run them into serious regulatory trouble.

The main interest of Microsoft is to keep their OEMs in control. Even if it is legal for the end-user to circumvent the protection, the following will probably still hold true:

- Microsoft can still contractually bind their OEMs to implement the protection scheme

- Microsoft can still prevent installations on machines without protection

So, in the best case regulatory action will allow users with hardware implementing the protection scheme to install custom OS (i.e. free them from prosecution when cracking the protection scheme). There is no way of forcing Microsoft to allow installations or usage on devices not implementing the protection scheme or on devices where the protection scheme has been circumvented and this circumvention can be detected by the affected Microsoft OS.
How to Enable Two-Factor Authentication on Twitter and Other Popular Sites
The People Who Helped Conquer Everest, Sixty Years On
The problem is reversed for those of us learning French. Tough pronouncing the 'err' :)
I like http://www.edis.at/en/home/
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They might not want to base their financial calculations on Microsoft Excel, after what they heard a few months ago.
Take a look at my comment above. It does what you want.
I am not sure why I was down-voted!
My motherboard is Windows 8 certified and my USB keyboard works perfectly fine during boot. Additionally you can get Windows 8 to give you more boot options if you just keep rebooting while it is trying to start up. Eventually it will give up and attempt to repair your computer before asking what you want to do next.

Has anyone experienced the problems described in the article actually in practice or is the article purely theoretical?
Did this author not watch _Revenge of the Nerds_? Were Booger, Gilbert, or Lewis of economically higher class than the Jocks?

I was bullied, I grew up poor. Neither of my parents were college educated. Mother raised 3 kids as a single parent while doing menial jobs. Living in a crime ridden neighborhood in Baltimore City where other kids were getting killed for their Nikes, books and computers were my only refuge, fantasy words of SciFi, even distopian ones, a better place to live than where I started. (BTW, when I got into a better school finally in the suburbs, I was made fun of by kids because my family was poor, not because of privilege)

My theory of why geeks are bullied is the same as why goths are bullied, or why fat people are bullied. When lions hunt buffalo on the plains, they look for those they get separated from the pack. Simply put, attacking an individual that is part of a smaller, less powerful, group is more likely to succeed without anyone coming to their defense.

If geeks, even as a small population, worked like the Crips, bullies wouldn't dare, knowing that an attack on one would invite tit-for-tat counter attacks. If a bully goes after someone who has lots of friends in the main group, they put themselves at bigger risk.

The more interesting question is why geeks don't have a mutual defense or strength in numbers, the answer there probably lurks in perhaps connections between seeking out things because you implicitly like them, and seeking out things because they are likely to strengthen the bonds within your social group ("fitting in", "bowing to peer pressure"). Most of the non-fake-geeks I know just can't stomach being in-authentic, of pretending to like stuff just to fit in, and so there may just be some core personality or emotional intelligence traits that are different in people end up at the fringes like this. If you subscribe to Meyers-Briggs, then it's people who are in categories like INTP.
Dell probably couldn't sell the computer for a lower price with no OS or a free OS without losing money

I find this hard to believe, even when considering all the mechanisms you mentioned. Do you have any evidence for this very counter-intuitive hypothesis?

IOW: Citation needed
Nice books... :)
Why .Net should become independent
New virus called a global threat.
Not according to the HDI, on the inequality-adjusted HDI it's not even in the top ten. Not in the top ten for literacy rates. Not in the top 5 for GDP/Capita. I'm sure there are tons of other metrics as where they fail as well, those were just a few that I googled. They have a lot going for them though, a strong economy and military, a incredibly strong media industry that is affecting the culture of countries throughout the world, an innovative technology sector etc. Greatest as a broad label however cannot be applied to any area without very specific metrics.
Mou is pretty good (and free)! http://mouapp.com/
Freelance pricing?
Someone asked me to do a sore for them and that they'll pay me. We haven't discuss yet about pricing. Should I charge by the hour or project? And how much?
Mine is coming up in 2014 :) Can't wait! This is a great piece about doing something like this:
http://www.ted.com/talks/stefan_sagmeister_the_power_of_time...
I'm pretty sure the people who bullied you were to blame for you being bullied! Continue to be a brat about those better scores, it encourages the rest of us and sometimes it puts a bigger brat in their place.
Plain English explanation of Big O? (2009)
Previous, very lively discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5777578
I believe OP was ironic, quoting a cliche for both parties and then showing that repubblicans promote actions that have little to do with "small government" (i.e. wars and enforcing state wide religious positions), while saying that 90% of the democrats are sane.

Your misparsing of the comment is a good example why politically heated comments should be avoided in discussions like this.
> And thanks also for such a calm response to my hostility.

Well, it was understandable hostility because I fogot to give the proper context, and then it's easy to misinterpret what I intend to discuss. So also my responsibility to fix the miscommunication (seems to be a theme here... :P).

> It's just not the time to talk about "Nigerian scams" -- a phenomenon which is at worst a minor #firstworldproblem.

Ah, but there our communication still goes astray: I completely agree that it's a minor #firstworldproblem. I was wondering about it's influence as a #thirdworldproblem - "corrupting the youth," ruining local perception of the internet and getting in the way of its adoption for other purposes. To quote tomjen in a separate response: "we don't need people with the morality of 419's to destroy the start-up ecosystem."
I'm just waiting for him to give the atlantic a wedgie.
You can think something is wrong without necessarily seeking to ban it.
> Email providers became very pliant toward handing over whatever was requested, first with the Feds, then it trickled down.

It helps that the outrage of customers (affected and non-affected) usually does not go as far as to cancel their services with ISPs, given that it is often the only one available.
It's domination-posturing all the way down!
Are we talking about BTC or liberty reserve? The content and format of the article are very confusing. I find people are to not aware about what the possibility of anon tx entails when they argue the counterpoint. Of course the first people who are going to use it are criminals. One opportunity missed here to reflect on the issue.
Google: Pirate Site Blocking Just Leads To a Game of Whac-a-Mole
There is a related event held in Germany, also every fourth year - but amusingly two years apart from the event in The Netherlands by the Chaos Computing Club.

I can say it's like UEFA European Championship and FIFA World Cup for Football (Soccer) :D
where did they remove the possibility? To be honest, anyone who is able to install another OS should be able to check the BIOS.
I wonder if rape jokes targeting males will also be removed as I have found these much more common than rape jokes targeting females, particularly regarding the rape of suspected male criminals. An example: http://i.imgur.com/X8cjv2v.png
s/Mac/Linux :)
and we're rapidly getting through the remaining 10% too.
I think it’s sad that people at one of the world leading machine learning institutions would name “Recommendations” and “Online Advertisement” as part of the top 10 challenges for machine learning in 2013.
Even Women Who Graduate From Harvard Aren't Immune to the Wage Gap
The second sentence isn't a reasonable statement. I am not a big fan of Ecco quality, especially not for the cost, but I bought a pair of their GoreTex books at a discount shoe warehouse for $40 and wore them until the soles fell off before I sent them back to Ecco for warranty coverage (the soles literally fell off). They gave me a $200 credit to buy a new pair. I bought two pairs of Ecco loafers from sierratradingpost.com for $60/ea. I wore one pair for about five years until the sole cracked in half. They gave me $190 warranty credit for that pair. The second pair of loafers lasted one additional year before an elastic band on the monk strap gave out. They repaired those free and sent them back.

At this point, I'm not going to purchase any brand new Eccos using my own money, but as long as they keep giving me free pairs I'm happy to wear them. Others in my family have had similar experiences with Rockport and Clarks. I think most people just don't bother trying to take advantage of workmanship guarantees.
Infinispan to move to the Apache License
> rape apology groups

I don't even have a Facebook account, but is this real? Do people join groups to defend their "right to rape"? That's beyond disgusting.
The forest cover in New England is almost 80% - about what it was when the Pilgrims landed. Since hitting a low below 40% in 1830 it is now the most forested region in the US as well as one of the most densely populated.

http://www.wildlandsandwoodlands.org

How did this happen? People stopped trying to eke out a living farming the thin rocky soil during the short growing season and went to work at the mills and factories.
OpenXava 4.7.1 released: Rapid Application Development with Java
Because I honestly have no idea how many times I've crossed the street, but I've never been hit.

Just a fortnight ago, a driver undertook (should not in highway code) a right turning van (UK) entering a bus lane during restricted hours (must not in highway code) and directly pulled in to my immediate path (must not in highway code). I had to take some avoiding action, it was a choice between his van, or trying to squeeze to the left of him between the pavement. I choose the pavement. I hit the ground with a total speed of at most 4mph. My rucksack hit the ground first, this is what happened to my phone: http://imgur.com/a1jqN9T.JPG . Keep in mind this nokia had happily survived worse injuries. Hell see their youtube channel for the stress tests. The point is the angle of the accident and force I had were a perfect storm, my dlock moved and smashed everything, my washkit was demolished, even the metal anti-perspirant can was crushed.

The driver didn't even stop.

I am not an unsafe cyclist, I follow the rules of the highway code, I'm head to toe in good commuting clothing, my idea of a bank holiday is 200 miles of cycling on the continent or wales. I never have headphones in, always wear corrective vision sports glasses, I have an advanced driving license, rather than just the standard british one, I also have a pilots license. I have good spatial awareness and do not take unnecessary risks. In the last 4 years, I have been knocked off 3 times. I have bailed off (ie jumped voluntarily because I can't stop to avoid hitting someone) 5 times, once, cutting up my face rather badly, ruining the helmet completely, I've no idea what would have happened if I wasn't wearing it. Same goes with my shorts, 15mph on tarmac is not good.

I have also had to crash into a very kind mans car, because someone "couldn't see me", they then left the scene of the accident, the police didn't do anything as I only had a partial number plate.

When I cycle in London, and I'm doing 30 miles a day, I'll wear a helmet, I'll consider anyone who has headphones in which is sadly now a common site, a complete idiot (its illegal in some countries, but not UK).

I have also first responded to two accidents involving bikes.

So lets re-cap. Amount of times spent walking the streets, lots. Amount of accidents, 0. Amount of time spent cycling, lots. Amount of accidents, too many.
I think a big factor in this discongruety between education and the job market is the fact that students cannot write off student loan debt in a bankruptsy. It alleviates the banks from their due diligence of making sure their loan will create a return on investment. There is virtually no risk on their side. They can be certain. That no matter what you do or where you go you will have to pay them and the longer it takes is just more interest for them to collect. You can be certain that if student loans required the bank to take a risk there would be a lot more engineers coming out of colleges in america and a lot less degrees in ancient Greek philosophy. The banks would require people to choose majors that will pay enough.
How to Motivate Students: Infographic
Every teacher I know (and that's quite a few) shared this cartoon on FB recently:

http://www.coreyshepherd.com/wp-content/uploads/Grades_Carto...

Sad but true..
You are getting it wrong (disclosure - I do not live in the US).

Everything you read in the news is outlier in a sort. With 30 million kids in tens of thousands of schools you are guaranteed to get a few cases of something "stupid and abusive from the administrators" daily. After all - a normal school day with no events hardly makes a headline. And with the power of the internet some local news get much more national visibility than decades prior.

Same is with TSA - you will hear of something bad daily, but a lot of people pass checks without problems.

You have to aggregate the news about school authorities, police and federal behavior over a very long time to try and find some meaningful trends (there seem to be some, and not comforting at least)
If the plague of Facebook Like buttons wasn't enough.
i hate to admit it, but where there is smoke, there is fire.

I predicted that the financial elites who owns the banks and control cashflow (such as the holders of shares of the privately owned fed reserve) would not want a form of currency they cannot debase at their will. Gold was first to go in the 70's, and now bitcoin, having similar properties of gold, is on the crosshairs. I can only just hope the general public has enough sense to see through propaganda. Bitcoin survival depends on it going mainstream, and its the one weakness no technology can solve.
So does this mean that all that money Microsoft put into getting this 'standard' through ISO was wasted? It would be a delightful slice of schadenfreude if now everyone was refusing to use it. I remember that the main reason they wanted the ISO to bless it was so that governments could use it.
http://www.webfaction.com/
Ask HN: How does clicktale work for password protected pages?
How does clicktale work for secure pages?
Is it safe to use from security point of view?
That 16% must all have been on my way to/from work then. I swear not one of those idiots actually paid attention to the lights.
We can't answer this (especially with the insane amount of ambiguity provided by your 1-liner).

How much you charge all comes back to how much your time is worth (and how much they're willing to pay if you're desperate for the work).

Are you confident enough to say 'this will take x hours'? If so, then charge per project and let's hope that you're right. If not, charge an hourly rate and give them some rough indication of how many hours you think it will take you.
To me it feels much as you have described. These sorts of incidents, while the extreme cases are still rare, are increasingly common. And separate from the extreme incidents, the overall culture of infantalizing children feels quite harmful. I am expected not to send my children four houses down and across a street at the light to play by themselves at the park. My children are 10 and 7.
Microsoft is doing the same thing as Apple with their iPhone and geeks get upset. Apple is not allowing arbitrary OS to run on their system unless you find an security hole and manage to work around the protection. I don't hear claims that Apple is having an uncompetitive behavior but obviously the difference is that they didn't take that away, iPhones have been locked down from day one.

That said, I'm very much in the geeks' camp. "Secure Boot" doesn't really protect the end-user, viruses and trojan mostly operate in the user-space and exploit kernel security holes anyways. This term is misleading, what it secures is Microsoft's position, letting them dictate whatever they want to manufacturers.
Best comment on HN in ages!
'We Have Always Fought': Challenging the 'Women, Cattle and Slaves' Narrative
Very likely, the map doesn't say the full story.
Geeks get ostracized because other kids are more or less forced to compete with them for grades in school, and resent the fact that they come up short. This is as opposed to, e.g. jocks who mostly compete with other folks who've voluntarily chosen the same arena of competition.

Geeks get bullied because it's easy for people who are prone to bullying to bully ostracized kids.
You mean this, right? :)
https://ohm2013.org/wiki/HackersonaBike
How does this compare to 2scoops of django(1)? I bought it but it seems like that's the book after this one. If so, how come you put that one out first? It would be nice if these books came out in order of skill

1) https://django.2scoops.org
To be fair OOXML supports features that have been in Office for a really long time and ODF simply does not.

That said, for moving data around, ODF is the format to use; use OOXML only when you need explicit Excel/Word/PPT compatibility.
Europe honours LCD screen pioneer Martin Schadt
This is true. I watched the Great Gatsby the other day and I thought "Baz Luhrman would have a field day if he ever went to a furry shindig".
>>>I also should mention that there are almost no gender roles in human society.

That is just so wrong. You need to have a look around.
Come on, this was posted less than a month ago here. My browser even still marks it as visited.
Or drug addicts or alcoholics or suicidal. So, no.
Neo4j 2.0 Milestone 3 released. Cypher: Merge, Transactional HTTP Endpoint
Okay I see what you mean. That's good feedback. Thanks
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You're misunderstanding the issue.

The issue is that the placeholder text disappears once you start typing into it. The usability assumption is that once you start typing in a value you no longer need the placeholder, but that is a bad assumption, particularly if a mistake is made as the gp is alluding to.
> how would you even attempt to prove something like that?

How do we measure whether access to pornography increases the number of sexual assaults? We rely on the natural experiments: measure the consumption of pornography in the area and correlate it with crime rates. For more reliable results, we look at changes in time, or control for other factors.

> images on social sites are wrong

I don't use Facebook and they can ban whatever they want. The more stuff they ban, the quicker will their grip on the web fade.

What I find weird is the disconnect from physical reality. Speech that makes people uncomfortable is banned but videos showing people being assaulted, hit with a plank are not? Or are they?
This isn't reddit and it's especially not r/mensrights

[Edit] Since I got a downvote right away, here is my reasoning: Rape of any form is terrible. But the reaction to rape of females shouldn't be changing the subject to rape of males. It's diminishing the gravity of both by brushing away the importance of one with an inappropriate overstating of the other. And that's precisely the style of discussion prevalent in r/mensrights and it would be terrible if that made its way over to HN.
I'll be going there this year. Can't wait! Hopefully there will be some Hacker News people there!