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As always, Linus is right. 99% commenters here probably work for businesses which are surviving only because of the Free and amazing kernel which he has managed to build.

Linus has explained his directness and lack of sugar coating several times. Sugar coating something, he believes, dilutes the importance of the message AND confuses his subordinates. "We can try avoiding X" is more ambiguous than "X is crap, you dumb morons". The latter statement is absolutely clear where Linus stands. Which is what communication is all about?

Plus, i reckon it is different in a "Proper Business" where employees are paid to do work directly under a manager. To avoid connotations of servitude and slavery, modern businesses decided that managers should be polite so that their subordinates feel that they aren't slaves. With Linux, no one is forcing you to commit "bullshit" patches.

RANT: I reckon a deeper problem is that a lot of kernel developers are now paid to work on it (as observed in this thread). So i reckon that in this case, the developer expects the same kind of feel-goody emails as her corporate manager keeps sending her.
They don't have to. That's what the NSA is for.
> Diversity is to be cherished, not frowned upon. It makes for a more interesting world, and I am not willing to lose that just to make my environment have a few less sharp edges.

If the effect of not censoring yourself in this regard is to work in a much less diverse environment, which side is going to give? Honest question.
Badmouthing Reddit at every opportunity doesn't reflect all that well on HN either.
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Of course there is

Someone who can do anything just because they put their mind to it? Then why did nobody ever put their mind to curing cancer in 5 minutes then? Too busy with more interesting stuff?

If you can excel at anything others put your mind to, simply because you want to excel (which was directly what was in the cartoon), then you can do it for anything you can put your mind to as well.

Not unless you know and respect yourself. Not if you're too glued to authority to do it.

If she can excel at any task set, she's very smart and she's proved to herself she can do anything if she tries.

You responded to ZERO of the point you were just quoting. You just ramble on and on. I'm sorry, but I get nothing out of this and you're just talking to yourself.

No, I think that the image of school as a robot factory and point of government control is overblown, almost to the point of a conspiracy theory.

"conspiracy theory"? Really? That's your best shot? Bye!
Back to 200 and shredded. Lean as fuck. I eat a lot of fat and protein, not really many carbs, under around 50 a day.
Another open source project going professional?
This is the standard procedure in Sri Lanka as well, when people aren't lighting those poison coils (because some people still don't have indoor fans) or putting on the mosquito net when sleeping.
I'm sure the females in question had this ran by them and thought it would be a fun joke to play along with

This is a stupid story
What matters is that Linus isn't attacking someone for WHO THEY ARE (identity). He is attacking them for WHAT THEY DID (actions). I think this is the gold standard for whether behavior is abusive.

Other than that,

This concept of "professional standards" of behavior is completely parochial. Try going to a constuction site. Or bootcamp. Or working on a pig farm. Standards of behavior vary dramatically between organizations, industries, and cultures.
I self published a book over a year ago. Happy to share all my sales data and let you know how I formatted it.
The UK has the world's largest DNA database. The figures Wikipedia cites suggests the UK has 10% of the population's DNA on file, whereas the US only has 0.5%. In my opinion, British people (like me!) should be far more worried about what's going on in their own backyard with regards to DNA retention and processing by the state.

I don't even know why the state would need to go through 23andme. You're shedding your DNA everywhere you go. It's not hard to collect a sample.
Thanks for your humor advice, I will cherish it always.
Do you believe it is hard to acquire someones DNA? Mammals shed DNA constantly. If you are interesting enough to people who have enough power to access PRISM you've already lost. I'm sure getting some of your DNA would be trivial.
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Their [evvnt's] responses are even more confusing than the original post (http://www.newstatesman.com/economics/2013/07/women-offered-...). It almost seems like there is some sort of english language issue here. I can't even be sure what they were trying to accomplish. Whatever it was they got it so very wrong.

Another reply: http://www.newstatesman.com/economics/2013/07/women-offered-...

Edit: After reading their confounding responses it almost seems as if they were literally asking people what "perks" where most important to them. Kind of the way social media marketers suggest you word Facebook posts as questions to prompt engagement. I honestly can't imagine how someone can be this naive.

Their ongoing response to criticism on Twitter is mindblowing. I really am at a loss to understand how anyone can be this foolish.

https://twitter.com/evvnt/status/357120127113773056

Also this is the original article: http://www.newstatesman.com/economics/2013/07/women-offered-...
The rude-car-driver problem may disappear as self-driving cars go from luxury to common to mandatory. Wonder how long we'll have to wait?
We haven't done it yet but are in the midst of the process. We talked with Kevin Gao who sold more than $100,000 of his ebook in a single year and is now running HyperInk (a publishing company you might want to look at). We shared what we learned from Kevin here -> http://www.kickpreneur.com/what-kevin-gao-taught-us-about-pu...

Hope you find something helpful there.
I am amazed. I just did a quick search and couldn't find any token ring network cards for sale, you guys must be hoarding them to keep it all running.
Locally most of the nature trails are built thru swamps (aka eco warriors holy wetlands). They're economically worthless, so they make nice parks and trails.

The point of the article is they can't fly faster than 2 mph or so. Simply move faster than 2 MPH. I've ridden my bicycle thru swamps and not gotten bit.

I also hike and between walking and a bit of wind there is not much problem as long as I don't stop.

A bug in the eye still hurts... wear sunglasses.
Well I agree with you based on the 2nd agreement only. But really what I should have said was we could see a LOT more use of the FOUR agreements out of everyone.

Being impeccable with your word takes the "burden" off of the recipient, which of course is the first agreement.
I think this is a case of unfortunate wording that leaves the wrong impression. My take on that "perk" is that the meaning that was intended is something like: "we have a gender diverse work place and have hired 4 awesome woman engineers! this is a great perk because these women kick ass and its a privilege to work with them."

but of course, those words weren't used. they probably should have been rather than the words that did appear.
Why aren't the kernel maintainers allowed to voice their opinion on how their product is being utilized? Changing the license would have impacts far beyond just preventing Canonical from leeching their work. Sometimes the best thing to do is voice an opinion and hope that the message is heard.
Seriously, 'programmers being dicks' gets upvoted to front page?

Someone might as well start 'programmers being cunts' with the first post discussing 'women and programming - one small step for productivity, one giant leap for drama and bullshit'
Corrrrrect :)

The hosted version is making it easier to get started with RhodeCode. And for companies we offer a dedicated support.

But RhodeCode itself is and stays completely open source.
Guy Kawasaki just published a book on self publishing called APE (Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur): How to Publish a Book (http://apethebook.com/).
Have you seen postmodernism? It seems to fit more or less with that, at least to my layman eye.
I agree with you completely. Same for me and this is how I understood. Not all of us are great copywriters as well, this doesn't look like it was well written.

If we are to work with women, we really need this hysteria to calm down. Maybe I worked in places where women were treated well and didn't witness bad things.
This, or something close to it, is surely the reason. Everything Apple does can be traced to a motivation to sell more hardware. (e.g. iTunes, App Store, iWork, Apple Maps, etc...)

Hardware and the OS are their secret sauce, commoditizing everything else (applications, services, content) is in their best interest.
He's not a programmer, he's what I would probably describe as; an MBA.

Dev community does has it share of issues, we don't need to fuel it with more crap from people like him.
Women listed as perks of a job, almost as "employment benefits," is thoroughly degrading. This is definitely the kind of issue that needs to be addressed in the community, and it not suitable to disregard smaller occurrences of sexism because we can pointer to more serious cases that we "have to deal with first." All instances of sexism are issues and deserve our the same contempt.
Really impressive. How many backflips a human can do?
Google Calendar: Adding Other Calendars to Your iPhone
fair points all - in this way, Ubuntu is indeed more similar to Windows 8 on a tablet than iOS on an iPad is to either.
"If that's the case they're also comparing "commission from online sales" to eclairs and "30 days paid holiday" to a coffee machine."

Clue: none of those things are people.
This is the struggle of the internet all over again.

We'll need to have personal genome sequencers, and control and protect the flow of our genetic information, just like we need to control the flow of our speech and sites visited.

Right now a company owns the rights to the genome marker which is responsible for breast cancer.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130713/01171423788/myriad...

This means nobody can check their genome for potential breast cancer without paying this company a tax. Again, this is only data.

We will have genome marker piracy soon enough, where people will be exchanging databases of genetic markers, and biopirates who help people bypass the power structures that want to own the genome markers.
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Ah, this is really cute. Lamenting lack of acknowledgement of women in tech, but (crazy internet lady) DAMNED IF ANYBODY DARES TO MAKE IT SOUND LIKE WORKING WITH WOMEN IS A DESIRABLE SITUATION!

Above all, these "perks" sound a bit like they are addressed more at attracting potential female employees.
That's not the point. When they have an unknown DNA, the NSA can use 23andme as a giant DNA database to identify you or one of your relatives
As mentioned in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6052122) I've been considering getting a DAW to hobby shop around with. I've lightly dabbled with several over the years, and am very comfortable on my actual instrument, but am a bit overwhelmed when I look at some of these for doing anything other than just recording and basic mixing/editing (would be nice to build some background/accompanying tracks from some of the synths etc). I think I just need to pick one and dive in to figure out how it all works - are there any resources anyone here can recommend for doing just that? Are the provided tutorials from the DAW vendors sufficient?
Do you still WRITE custom list adapters for Android? I don't.
Being polite is not the same as being a push-over.
I used iuniverse. Their service is pretty good, although their support can be sucky and they tend to spam you a lot with newsletters (it's almost impossible to get off their mailing list unless you yell at them a few times). I think I'd still use them again.

Some advice:

- Spend a lot of effort on designing the cover, as you can't easily change it afterwards and it makes a big difference to whether or not people will buy your book.

- Proof read it thoroughly multiple times (and get someone else to proof read it as well if you're not 100% confident in your own spelling/grammar).

- Don't expect to sell many copies unless you do a bunch of marketing yourself.
If you're being individually targeted, sure. I think the argument is mostly about having your genetic information swept up in a dragnet and culled for I dunno, some genetic marker that the US intelligence community decides is an early indicator for jihad.
This has got nothing to do with ruby other than the fact that they are looking for ruby developers on its mailing list . The title seems link baity IMHO.

But I am against adding women as a job perk.
I think that the bigger, and more tangible worry, is that there might be something in the result of the DNA analysis that causes his children to become interesting through no fault of their own.
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I would have marked him down for his build up but the execution and landing get top marks. Amazing.
Navy vet wakes up, speaks only Swedish
:). The logs at physical security could not be faked: they used to have a pen and paper system; it was a little more than a decade ago.
I would say that if they were trying to appeal to women, they shouldn't have counted them, and listed their place of birth, in lieu of you know... meritocratic qualities.
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Why would one choose this:

var int_item = $(Int, 5);

over this:

int int_item = 5;

What am I missing?
This is the first drawing app I've see that actually works properly in a mobile browser. It has a wonderful UI for mobile use!
You might want to check out the essay "Magic Ink" by Bret Victor [1] which explains what the parent comment is alluding to.

I do think that he's describing something orthogonal to Flat design though, since you can do the same with skeuomorphic design.

[1] http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/
You argued:

"That would be relevant if the chess winning programs mimicked the way humans think -- so that the same intelligence could be transfered in other fields."

That implies that, in humans, intelligence in chess can be transferred to other fields. I pointed out that that certainly isn't universally true. I think that correlation is fairly poor.

I also think the correlation between IQ and great chess playing is not that great, but don't have evidence for it. Chess playing _ability_, maybe, but good chess playing requires lots and lots of rote learning that the brightest humans might find too dull to spend their time on.

Also, one can argue that your claim that humans "prune much more intuitively and effectively than AI chess engines." isn't true anymore. Humans prune more, yes, but they also cannot beat today's best computers, so the 'effectively' part is up for discussion. Maybe, they are pruning too much? Or is it just that their evaluation function is inferior?
Yeah, a better idea might have been to put up a picture of the team to communicate the same thing.

On the other hand, if the intent is to communicate the same thing, should we really be that upset about it? The ad is a bit crass I admit, but I don't really think the spirit of it was bad, and this whole thing with "omg, they're equating women with free beer" is just hyperbole.
Agreed, can a mod pretty please edit the URL so the actual creator gets credit?
My wife figured this out, though both of us should have known. We visited my in-laws in rural Georgia and our 17-month old son was covered in gnats and mosquitos when we went outside so we limited his time. When we went to the beach, there were no insects and my wife said, "must be the breeze. We should get a fan for our porch when we get home" Luckily she is smart or my son would suffer a lot!
Awesome, thanks! Will buy this and have a read!
I've self published two books now ("Double Your Freelancing Rate" and "Sell Yourself Online: The Blueprint") Together they've netted me a little over $100k in revenue.

1) Don't write in a vacuum. Build an audience of people who want to buy (double points if you presell to them), and deliver value to them once a week in the form of takeaways from chapters you've just written, thoughts you have on the subject, etc.

2) "It's a comedy book" means you're likely selling to consumers, and it's pretty hard to explain the value (e.g. why someone should pay you for your book) when you're selling to a consumer.

3) Don't promote the book, promote blog posts that reinforce what you're writing that end with a call-to-action to join a mailing list.

4) I'd usually say setup multiple packages, but again, I'm not sure if that'd work for a consumer product.
bugger, did not work on ipad under safari or chrome. still pretty awesome on pc
>> Someone who can do anything just because they put their mind to it? Then why did nobody ever put their mind to curing cancer in 5 minutes then? Too busy with more interesting stuff?

You deliberately twist my words just to try to make your point. I said "the sort of person that can excel at anything they put their mind to". Brilliant cancer researchers can excel at their chosen field without having to have the whole field sewn up by the end of the week, no?

>> Not unless you know and respect yourself. Not if you're too glued to authority to do it.

I've said in several places this seems to be a girl realising she has choices. I just don't think it's unusual, damning of the school system or a reason for anyone to lament her life up until now, I think it's a normal part of adolescent development expressed naively (which is to be expected of adolescents!).

>> You responded to ZERO of the point you were just quoting. You just ramble on and on. I'm sorry, but I get nothing out of this and you're just talking to yourself.

Back at you, see top of this post and twisting words.

>> "conspiracy theory"? Really? That's your best shot? Bye!

Bye then.
I think this is largely generational. People over 30 are not surprised at all to run into abrasive, hard nosed people at work, people under 30 in many cases have a very hard time with any amount of criticism or negativity and consider even tiny amounts "bullying".

It's become a well known issue in professional sports with coaching where old time successful coaches have had to completely change their style to deal with the latest generation of athletes who do not respond well at all to the traditional dictatorship that coaches used to run.

Now a lot of hand holding is reportedly required. I'm not judging but struggle to think of anything great that was ever built by a committee.
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Huh, thanks.

Much of the language and frame I use comes from Daniel Ingram's "Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha". You can check that out if you want more. If you've got some meditative experience, that has some good stuff. If you're coming in from entheogens, that is a great book to read after a couple breakthrough experiences. One note though: Ingram is considered controversial by a number of people for some reason.

As for my own stuff, I have written a cheatsheet at some point: http://www.quora.com/Meditation/Whats-a-nice-little-cheat-sh...

... though I will be updating it soon from the things I've been learning from practicing pranayama and yoga.
Ask HN: What exception tracking service do you use?
There's quite a few including BugSnag, AirBrake, HoneyBadger and more I'm sure. Any recommendations on which is best?
> What if you're a straight lady dev looking for a job? Why would "female" devs be a job perk?

Because many women are sick of always being the only woman on a development team. I think the line can be read to either signal that the environment is female-dominated ("There are lots of women here to work with!") or male-dominated ("There are lots of women here to objectify!"). Whatever their intent, it's a terribly awkward line.
Got any solutions for horse flies? Those things are brutal.
I could never have written the ad in such a thoughtless manner myself (neither could I have written your own well-reasoned post, for that matter).

But I do think it is just clumsyness - I don't think he thinks of women as objects, he is probably just happy to have them around for what they add as a person.

Or am I being naive?
Glenn Fleishman's latest The New Disruptors podcast episode interviews a guy who did just that. Should be very relevant to what you are looking for. http://www.muleradio.net/newdisruptors/31/
Why Develop in the Newsroom?
The apology and aggressively calling out people criticizing them in blog/asrticle comments is particularly egregious as well - from both a "doing the right thing" perspective and from "stop digging the hole deeper" perspective.

Apology here: http://evvnt.com/2013/07/i-love-ruby-an-equal-opportunity-em...
Hi, OP here. I guess the trick is not submitting DNA in a way which makes collection and sifting scalable. Sending people out to collect DNA would be expensive, so less likely to be used routinely.
Both USA and UK collect DNA data from the new-born children just after their birth. Yes, the New World Order.

This surveillance and all.. They want everybody to be under total and permanent control. We must stop it, while we can. Yes, adjust your priorities, freedom is much more important than security.
So basically you can be a dick as long as you can get away with it.
That's really kind, thanks. If you're able to give me any advice then that would be much appreciated! Can be reached at stevewhyley at yahoo dot com. Would be very interested to hear what tools you used to format it. Thanks!
Looks pretty reasonable, although for me personally the real question will be how good the data organization / searching / maintenance / provenance / exporting are. There are a number of open-data portals with a nice front page backed by a not-as-nice archive, and if you use it regularly that matters a lot more than the first impressions of a nice web design.

For example, the French government's open-data portal [1] has a pleasant interface and a nice search, but much of the data itself is miscellaneous files they've received from different departments or cities, not normalized into any kind of standard format. I can grudging overlook a lot of it being in Excel rather than some more portable data format like CSV, but much of it is even inside PDFs rather than available in a tabular format.

[1] http://www.data.gouv.fr
Is there some kind of elaborate joke going on in here? Or are you people incapable of reading a simple text?

You don't advertise a diverse environment with "4X female french, italian and spanish junior". It can be stupidity or a lack of understanding of the English language (if you're feeling like justifying it) or just plain gender discrimination and a really sexist statement to make.

Anyway, not much more can be expected from a job posting that seems targeted to 12 year olds.
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You signed up to Hacker News 10 minutes ago just to spew bigotry. I don't think its what this community needs. "Adria wins" as a username was pretty telling of your bias as well.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a good outdoor fan - something you could leave out on your deck and that would be weather resistant? Does such a thing exist?
11 Big Myths About the Economy That Are Destroying America
Hey! Still pre-coffee so I'm glad my argument made some sense. Does this mean participating in government run healthcare and blood donation breaks your threat model?
One job description contained this

> Young and dedicated colleagues

Now I am being put up as a perk because I am 24 only because of my age? And is that discrimination?
Linus wasn't always "Linus". It'd be interesting to graph his profanity / other communication metrics over time.