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See, the funny thing here is I agree, up to a point and with a lot of footnotes.

The "extreme male brain" is overrepresented in programming, and programming tools are made by the people in programming.

But those "male-oriented" languages would be better describe as "extreme male brain-oriented" because it's more common in men but not exclusively a male trait. I have met women just like that, too, and there are tests that place you on a gender scale (for lack of a better way to put it), based on your cognitive style. (I test as more male than female in my own cognitive style, for example.)

So these "extreme male brain-oriented" languages don't really exclude anyone, but they may not feel comfortable or natural. And I wouldn't say they are unnatural for women, but unnatural for anyone with a more "typical female brain" cognitive style -- including some women of course, and lots of men who happen to have different cognitive styles, including designers, linguists, architects, teachers, musicians, etc.

I think Ruby is an anti-example of this assertion. So is HyperCard, AppleScript (to some degree), Logo, and Ethan, and there are others.

Of course, it's entirely ridiculous to say that the fact that languages are "extreme male brain-oriented" is some kind of oppressive conspiracy.

People who have to make their own tools, make them to suit themselves.
You can also write margin-right: 5px in SASS. CleverCSS is really very similar, not only its syntax.

But that’s a good thing, seeing other solutions emerge which get rid of those bloated CSS files.
btw, google missed the boat with jaiku, being a great and clean service, even prettier than twitter, they could have evolved it and have an edge over twitter, but instead they let it die, dunno why.
Staying at home means watching TV for a lot of unemployed people. Getting any job is often better.
Like geocities, then friendster, then livejournal, then orkut, then myspace, then facebook, then twitter, then (insert next fad here)
The supply of cheap labour gets diminished by companies competing for employees thereby raising the wage.

Abolishing the minimum wage does not mean, that suddenly all former minimum-wagers have to work for free.
samson, As we all know, if your startup plan relies on getting a review on TC, you're going to fail.

Some people are living in a bubble, so they think a review on TC matters.

My gripe with TC is that lately, most of their articles have been based on "anonymous sources" or gossip. Having said that, I don't really mind too much either way if they're banned or not. I'd much rather they started reporting unbiased facts and news.
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What's a "ginsu knife"?

Yes, I know I can go and look it up on Google (and I have) and I know I can do more work to understand your post, but why should I bother? If you can't make the effort to make your post understandable to someone not in your domain, why should I assume you're saying something worth reading?
Agreed. One of the problems with some of the welfare models is that it's often very hard to get people out of them once they've adapted to being jobless and doing nothing.
of interest in the modularity of the chipset itself. why throw away the screen and power supply when you can upgrade by replacing the main board?
Feel really sorry for the employees of the prisons that are being shut. Fortunately there is no shortage of prisoners in the USA and there is real job growth potential in prison guard and other security related industry in the USA.
Same reason you buy a digital camera that takes AA's. So as when they run out, and you're away from home, you can pick some new ones up from any shop.

I bought a netbook lately, Asus Aspire One. It cost £179, and a new/spare battery for it costs £80. That's just obscene.

edit: ACER Aspire One.
While I agree with your point, I have to admit I know absolutely noone who reads techcrunch or are even aware of its existence. Only reason I even know about it is that people here keep on yammering about it constantly.

I think you might have been tricked into thinking techcrunch is important. Maybe by the power of marketing? ;)
Sorry, I call bullshit. Under some theories (not particularly more or less credible than yours), rape is an "evolutionary urge". As is sex between adult men and 13-year-olds, as are all kinds of violent acts. Part of being an adult human is to control your "evolutionary urges and drives" so you can live in a society.

Would you accept "the estrogen made me do it" from a woman as an excuse for behaving incivilly?
What they are trying to do is build the 'ibm pc' of laptops. If they use enough off the shelf parts that are somewhat standardized (or open enough to make into a new standard) it could be a platform that takes off.

(though the market demand for such a platform is probably more aligned with people having to maintain large numbers of laptops than the casual consumer)
"If you can't make the effort to make your post understandable to someone not in your domain, why should I assume you're saying something worth reading?"

He assumed the domain of people familiar with ginsu knives is roughly identical to the domain of people who have ever watched an infomercial in the past two decades.

Obviously, there are people all over the world for which this assumption is false. However, globalization is arguably incomplete until every single human on earth has at some time thought: "Gee. Cuts through a boot. How tired would I have to be for this advertisement to work?"
Do you think you'll still be using Facebook, and/or Twitter, 10 years from now?
No use using bias in your board to avoid bias in the articles it links to.
Perhaps Tonido gets the plugs for cheaper than 99 dollars. Sounds like Tonido has a deal with Marvell.
Huh? My phone cost $140, and it was a pretty cheap model. Batteries are $20.
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You can get an Asus router with a USB port for $45. Don't think I'd pay $40 for the USB port minus the router.
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I resent being called "smelly". And I WISH I was 15 again ;)

>> "But what none of these detractors seem to understand (except for the script-kiddies) is that the important thing about this demo is the web. CouchDB is part of the web, and serves web applications natively."

Yeah ok, CouchDB includes a web server :/ why is that a good thing? Less scaling options when things are bundled together like that.

>> "The second set of detractors say realtime applications shouldn't go to disk, because it's slow and a lot of data. To them I say "disk is free"."

The only reason a real time messaging system should go to disk, is if persistent logs are required. And in that instance, when you scale, it most certainly is not free.

>> "Call me when performance matters."

Here's a little story. I built the predecessor to Mibbit using php and mysql. It took a long time. It didn't scale so well. I knew using a db was a stupid idea, but I wanted to see just how stupid. I started using shared memory, semaphores, message queues etc instead. It scaled a bit better, but still lame.

In the end I decided to scrap it, and rewrite it from scratch in something I knew would scale. It now does about 2 billion messages a month or something.

You should think about scaling from the outset. Having to scrap everything and change language/architecture/etc is kindof a pain. Just because there's some "new" "so hot right now!!!" language/framework/etc out there, it's probably totally the wrong tool for the job.

The traffic going back and forth from the browser to the demo CouchDB chat couldn't have been less efficient if it tried - it was sending all 50 recent lines of chat every single time. I don't know if that's easily fixed, probably not. Maybe you'd have to delve into CouchDB code :/

I hate this trend of "Less code.. more ease for the developer.." etc. Focus on the user and what they want, and how you can best give it to them. Not what's least lines of code/easiest for you.
If you really want to go to an out-of-state school, move there and work for a year and take a couple of courses at a JC. After a year you'll be a resident and eligible for lower rates. Most schools will allow you to defer entrance for a year after you are accepted. If you have a couple of AP's and some JC credit, you may not even miss a year. Of course check the local residency requirements before you leap.
Black holes are visible, but emit less radiation than the cosmic microwave background. It's therefore possible to take a picture of one if you have very very sensitive instruments.

However, the article is talking about taking a picture of a shadow, which isn't really the same thing. Yes, it's impressive, but it really should read something like "First Picture of Black Hole's Direct Effects". We've already taken pictures of gravitational lensing caused by black holes, so we've seen some indirect effects.
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TechCrunch is opinionated, they have favorites. Controversy sells and Arrington and crew are masters at it. Just don't click on the TechCrunch posts if they bother you.
Sounds more like someone who needs to be special.

I was the same way in highschool. ;)
Maybe the hypertumor gets it's own tumor after a while, and the cycle continues. Or the immune system of the whale which doesn't react to the original tumor does react to the hypertumor. Or maybe the hypertumor only grows on the original tumors type of tissue. Etc.

This article is just about a hypothesis. It's anyones guess at the moment.
If it has a number of digital or analog I/O ports, robot, most certainly.
Just ordered mine, don't have any specific plans for it just yet, just tought it might come in handy during summer-boredom. And at that price, incl shipping (to Norway!), it really was a no-brainer;)

But I do have a question that I couldn't find an answer for on their page, can it run without being connected to a computer? Can i just mount it with a 5V battery and send it on my verry own Mars-mission?o0

Given that I just ordered it I havent googled it that much, but do anyone have any blogs/communities they can recommend for reading/getting help/getting ideas/brainstorming?
I suppose I am one of only a few here who agrees with the author. He calls them fashions, I'd call them fads. They are fads, like the pet rocks and beanie babies and friendster and on and on. There will probably be die hards forever, but innovation won't stop and there will be newer and better ways to communicate in the future, so these new things will become old, just like newspapers and magazines and television...

Facebook and Twitter actually damage real world interactions from what I have seen. Before facebook, when you saw someone, you had a conversation with them and you could make small talk filling in the gaps of what has happened since the last time you met.

Now, people say, "Why are you asking if I'm dating someone, why don't you look at my facebook page?" It's like you have to go catch up with someone's facebook page before you meet them.

I don't know maybe it is something about a particular kind of mind. I don't hate FB or Twitter, but I don't understand the real value. Maybe there is real value that can be gotten, I don't know... I don't really use them too much.

I suppose the author's point though is that he doesn't like Facebook and Twitter because they are just more of the same stuff in real life. In real life, people are boring and on Facebook and Twitter, there's just more of that same boring kind of interaction. I wonder if he were to find interesting friends in real life and interact with them online would it make his impression of facebook and twitter different? A lot of people I admire/respect use twitter and facebook, so there has to be something there, they just aren't for me. But neither is WOW or Shoots and Ladders or TV or reading romance novels. Doesn't make those things bad, just "not for me." There's no reason to believe that same "not for me" can't apply to things lots of people find popular on the internet too.
Actually, the general low quality of articles on Techcrunch is a good reason not to ban them here. Usually they have one good/important article every day or so, and having them linked to from here saves me the trouble of sorting through the junk over there.
Slick, but isn't it only half the job? If I use mercurial to clone from a git repo, is there a way to publish the work I do on top using mercurial in a way accessible to git users?

Still, this is a step towards it not mattering which tool you use if you want or need to collaborate with others—definitely a good thing.
Heh. Not a bad question. That combination of pretentiousness and self-righteousness gets to me. I can sense it a mile off and feel an urge to take it down a peg. But why? I don't know. Maybe I'm a closeted ideologue. Or a closeted satirist.

It once occurred to me that to be angry about hypocrisy is hypocritical, since no one's words and actions are in complete agreement. I toned down a bit after that :)
I agree with you -- I wasn't refuting your point, but rather noting that it's worth considering as a major usability issue for the language, rather than strictly a technical decision. (I meant to say, "One can argue ...", but hadn't had my tea yet. I can see why you read it that way.)

I had Hexstream's glib "The solution is to use prefix notation. Problem solved!" reply in mind, actually: in that case, the language trades a syntactic ambiguity for pissing off everyone who expects to do basic arithmetic without major problems, which will disproportionately be people new to the language.

Cavalierly dismissing this is hardly a solution. If I were new to Lisp, and trying to use it for something based on relatively simple arithmetic (say, totaling a categorized spending log), and a question about why "total + val" didn't work was answered with a digression about parsing, I would be pretty annoyed. If the person talking up Lisp were to then go into a spiel about how Lisp is great because you can extend the language to express things in their own terms when I couldn't even use arithmetic, I would probably assume they were full of it and write off Lisp entirely.
"If there is enough fear of bias you'll end up with too much risk-averse behaviour"

But why start out with the fear of bias? For what it's worth, there are a lot of bad male programmers. I even suspect most programmers think that most other programmers are bad. And for men, there can be bias, too, like "we have always been disappointed by coders who did not study to university level" or "coders from India" or "Java developers" or whatever.
I tried to yahoo it, but did not find it. It came up during the recent "male vs female programmers" surge.
Some of the descendant cancer cells might lose their capacity for spreading and survival, but wouldn't selection favor those that maintain it? Is there really any reason to believe that its reproduction fidelity is so low that there wouldn't be enough non-mutated cells in each generation?
1. If you're going to write a "demo app", why not write one that is in the niche that you are targeting. I understand messaging is not it.

2. "The second set of detractors say realtime applications shouldn't go to disk, because it's slow and a lot of data. To them I say "disk is free"" I think in many applications it's safe to say that disk space is free, but disk access time certainly isn't, especially if you're syncing transactions to disk on commit.

3. "Call me when performance matters." You can write nifty apps with little code in many languages/frameworks. The question is, what happens if the shit hits the fan?

4. Hacker News load probably isn't that high. It's certainly not the same as the "slashdot effect".

5. "the important thing about this demo is the web ... your applications can be deployed anywhere there's a CouchDB." - I really don't understand this point. The same applies to AMP or Tomcat+Mysql+Java. If it's there you can deploy it. What's P2P about it? I can write Java code that speaks to other Java code on another Tomcat server, and it's not even particularly hard, as there are frameworks for it. I don't like Java, but then again, I don't like JavaScript either.

6. "Actually, there isn't much complexity to hide as CouchDB is simple on the inside as well." As a user, I don't care. The point of systems programming is for engineers to sit down and write hi-performance C/C++ code that will then be used by thousands of developers to run billions of transactions for several years. If the engineers spend an extra month to make it 10% faster, then it's worth it, because it will be used by so-many people for a long time.
So, Sass + object-orientation?
If it cuts down on the useless spam in my reader do it. Honestly HN needs to categorize things 80% of the news here I could care less about (i.e. twitter, startup 9,000,001, I had a company that failed, bla bla)
It could still be "they don't want to" - conditions in society might have chanced so that other options have become more attractive for women.

Wasn't 1980 still a completely different time, when it was more typical for women to stay at home? In that case, it would be even more surprising if there was parity back then.

I had the impression that a lot of women from Russia tended to be into technical careers, I wonder what was behind that. "Better" childcare (as in children being raised by the state)?
That's actually a really interesting question.
I think your machine is Acer Aspire one :)
Real estate is important and for every link to techcrunch, and for that matter, cnn, nytimes, washingtonpost, and all the other mainstream sources there is less room for somethign outside the mainstream and finding that stuff outside the mainstream is why I have liked HN so much in the past.

The lack of that kind of watered-down-for-the-masses content is why I found HN so appealing. I would much rather read hacked together transcripts from Dijkstra's brain.

It's not so much that I have something against those publications, but rather that it is easy to get that content somewhere else. People forward it or it's at digg or something.

Which niche is HN meant to fill?

It seems like as the population of a community approaches infinity, the mainstreamness of the content approaches 100%.
hah that's the one. Always get those mixed up, surprising they didn't choose more distinct names.
I really wish some people who have commented on that post would never come on HN.

Example comment: "doesnt seem like it has much use... though it is cool to see computers being made so small. id probably use it for a usb cup warmer"
Wrong IMHO. Simple for the developer, is often equivalent with 'inefficient' for the user.
got any link to that tapes?
The article assumes that $100 million is a large spend for a search engine launch, though a quick search on google points to Ask.com allocating $100 million to their 2007 ad campaign, and that didn't seem to do much for them.
http://searchengineland.com/askcom-goes-weird-creepy-with-ne...

I couldn't find any official ask.com numbers.
It is also about the way the business is started. For example, if you get VC and fail, then that's it folks. You've got nothing.

If you do not get VC, then how can it fail unless you give up? Go back to work, get a job, and keep a side business. Admittedly that can be difficult. I have been denied a position at a top 5 auto manufacturer due to my "entrepreneurial spirit." That was odd to say the least, but probably the correct assumption and the hirer knows better than I do. I digress...

Point being, if you start up a lean company, with no debt, no commitments to leases, no big expenditures then really the only cost is rent and food and maybe a car and some other stuff like that and you can expense those out of your revenue if you do it right, but shoot... it's like free will. There are no rules, except what the government tells you to do and those suck, but they'll remind you if you are late on your taxes and if you aren't making money, then it doesn't matter. Unless you are inc'ed in california, then it's $800/yr, but that is really insurance to protect your personal assets if you get sued... it's all about perspective.

The hardest part of a startup is figuring out all the laws and regulations and getting over the hit by the bus syndrome if you want "real" customers. But the solution there is to create something that doesn't need support. Build a quick hit and if people don't care if you are around after they buy it, it's less of a concern.

It may not be as risky as they say, but it definitely isn't a sure thing and it isn't easier to make more money at a startup than at a corporation. The potential is greater, but the average amount made by startups is probably lower than the amount of salary earned by those who kept the corporate life. A lot of the people I used to work with have multiple homes in different cities and nice cars and are rolling in the dough making six figures. They think I am not taking my life seriously because I don't have a bed and sleep on a blanket and don't watch tv or do anything but write code, but heh...

But that's the thing... I'd rather make $50k at a startup I built with my own hands than $100,000/yr working in a gray cube "slinging code" for some corporation... not everyone feels the same way though and if you don't, probably better to stick with the "real world"...
Andr, what site do you think is a better source of news about startups?
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And imagine you are using the machine in an industrial app and you need it to work in 5years time.
How much will they charge you for batteries then when they are the only source?

That's why we pay so much for Psion handhelds now
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I understand that. However, Apple is free to apply whatever criteria they want, however they want. Expecting 100% fairness in all cases is mind-numbingly naive.

To make the argument that Apple is "evil" because they disallowed something they had a right to by applying standards they decided upon is nothing more than trying to make a private entity do what you want without regard to the freedoms of that entity.
Seriously. I read about 10 words and then gave up.
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Obviously it depends on what kind of a phone we're talking about. A cheap phone might be a Nokia 1208, i.e. about $40 new.
i think SASS is a little more featureful. i was looking at this recently and found no way to include other (clever)css files within a clevercss file, but sass has a way.

something i didn't find in either language is a way to embed literal css (useful for writing ugly hacks that sometimes rely on css parser errors in the browser)
I have 5 computers at my home and I use WHS to backup nightly.

It had some issues with a crazy corruption bug a while back which resulted in many corrupted MP3s from my collection. It has been fixed now and in general, using WHS is a positive experience. The two times I have really appreciated having it:

- Laptop HDD died; I was back up and running within an hour or so

- SO clicked on one of those messenger "Please see your pic on this link" spyware/trojan; reverted to previous night's backup rather than having to make sure the system was fully clean

Anyway, I don't have too much experience with the other aspects of WHS like xbox streaming etc but I do like the backup setup.
Sounds like he had a recent bad experience with a manager =(
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If history taught us a lesson, next step will be solar powered netbooks.

In order to do that all you need is to get rid of power consuming devices like HD, DVD etc and just leave a motherboard, memory, SSD and a low consuming display.