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omegant seems to think you're refilling the cartridge, rather than replacing it.
If the hardware meant they could get rid of the sysadmin, it was probably a good deal. The loaded labour cost (salary plus facilities, insurance, redundancy payments, etc) is probably upwards of 200k per year. That means the hardware is cheaper.
That's only a valid comparison if you're really big into polyglot programming AND believe that all languages are great in their own special way.
Hence the word "expanded".
That's a fine point to make - separating out variables is hard. But when talking in a biological context, you're going to confuse people if you use the colloquial definition of "inherited".
Yes, and...?

When someone self-identifies as 'not a sexist' they also implicitly identify as a liar. To think we can ever get past discrimination -- sex, race, or whatever -- is extremely naive. It is as fundamental to us as making the distinction between 'me' and 'not me'.
If your not coding in blood you're taking the soft option.
Unfortunately, something like "fmt()" isn't really elegant enough, or "objective-c" enough.
>Why do you have an account, but not want people to be able to find you?

It's a placeholder for Pages, and for the rare case I want to see baby photos.

* edit: not to encourage FB but would probably pay for a business page that didn't need a personal email or setting up a fake account just carry it.
You have a spelling error in the first chapter on the Kindle preview. "Then a kind from Oregon named Dick Fosbury came along..."

Shouldn't this be "Then a kid from Oregon named Dick Fosbury came along..."
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I don't think that having mostly men as coworkers is a deterrent. I had a conversation with a co-worker about general work life in our company. There are no work from home opportunities and no paid time off for maternity leave. Most of my (male and female) coworkers like the idea of a work from home or alternative work schedule (4x10 or 9x9 days) but only women commented about better maternity practices. Don't be disheartened by the few number of applicants, that's more due to there being less women in general with the skills needed. I agree don't hire for token numbers, but work on retention, see what keeps them.

Also work with community to encourage both boys and girls into your field. Women get discouraged not when its time to find a job, it starts when they are learning what they are supposed to do (good and bad of gender roles).
A previous discussion on HN mentioned good successes with out-reach programs. It seems the best method to get a larger number of female applicants, and it thankfully work fine without the need of affirmative action or other similar sexist methods.
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Indeed, they can be programmed to follow GPS waypoints for example, but I don't think that's a common use case, especially for high production value photography/videography like the examples highlighted in the article. Perhaps it would become more common if radio jamming became more common.
I don't think increasing accountability would solve every problem in government IT but it's hard to under-estimate how many problems it would solve.
I'll believe that "tech" is interested in diversity when it stops being married to nerd-culture. Tech seems to be just as homogenus as any other subculture, and people within it actively encourage it with trying to playfully out-nerd each other with whatever slightly obsessive quirks are in vogue.
> "I don't think it is in society's best interest to think of information about a person as being generally owned by them."

What is the worse case scenario of people start widely adopting that notion? It becomes harder to run certain types of businesses that count on that not being true? We have to adopt new social etiquette for public photography if we don't want to appear rude?
I've been considering moving to the Austin/New Braunfels/San Antonio region for a while now (I'm currently in Arlington, VA). Any reasons I should reconsider, other than what you just mentioned? The housing prices here are insane, and are only affordable if you work for a contractor. Hence my motivation to look for a more private sector fueled economic area with sane prices.
Even if selmnoo's account is deleted, the pictures that friends took and/or tagged will still be online. I believe that was the objection.
I have to agree with you here (mostly with the edit).

Differences between genders do not boil down to just the shape of the genitals; there are significant physical and psychological differences, so it is only to be expected that there will be gender disparities occuring. It seems to me that the very talk about sexism is starting to be a
"silly reason" for changing things.
I'm sure a lot of senior level engineers would think twice before working for a company that treated them poorly when applying in the past, even for an internship.
And sysadmins are basically a combination of an janitor and mechanic that works on computers, keeping the lights working and the machine buzzing.
Yeah, I admit the comment pre-edit was pretty snarky. The edit expanded on what I was referring to.
The issue starts to become semantic. If by "discrimination" we just mean "recognizing differences and making decisions based on those differences," then it obviously shouldn't carry a stigma. But usually "discrimination" is being used to refer to unfair or undesirable decisions based on differences, and in this case we need to define what is and isn't fair or desirable.
Oops, I mean "swath" :)
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While I agree with the synopsis, I don't think it makes a better title.
I wrote what I think the problem is: "instead of taking the book as a series of illustrations of an idea Gladwell finds compelling and wants to share, they take it as settled science performed meticulously by the man."

I think people often aren't synthesizing and drawing their own conclusions (it is generous to apply this IMHO uncommon quality to the average departure-lounge-pick-up reader). They are reading Gladwell like a textbook.
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'underexaggerates'? I don't know what it means, but I like it. From what I've seen of TPM, they seem to be a very "preaching to the choir" sort of site. I don't think wider exposure will help, they are niche and need a niche strategy.
> "I'll believe that "tech" is interested in diversity when it stops being married to nerd-culture."

I hope that will never happen. Being a nerd is not a fashion statement, it's a way of thinking, which happens to drive the progress of technology.
Yeah, except you can add properties, though you have to do it with objc_(s|g)etAssociatedObject

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Cocoa/...
To be fair, I've never done a port, always a custom implementation. http://oursonic.org/ is my favorite personal project. You can see the source at https://github.com/OurSonic/OurSonicSharp

https://github.com/OurSonic/OurSonicSharp/blob/master/OurSon...

maps to

https://github.com/OurSonic/OurSonicSharp/blob/master/Output...

As a bit of self promotion, if anyone is interested in helping on this project, or any other web based c# -> js game, shoot me an email dested@gmail :-)
As someone from Ohio, I can understand why so many others here have felt the need to leave the planet. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gesERte...
That's the part that I found a little funny too. Sure, it's a lot more pleasant to work closely with somebody you get along well with, but I don't really see what gender has to do with that. I guess she doesn't get along with the men she works with all that well, but being a guy myself, I don't necessarily enjoy working closely with every guy I've worked with just because we're both men. If there were 50 women developers at her company, would she enjoy working with every one of them? Or if there are 50 men and she doesn't enjoy working with any of them, then that's a little odd too.
Failing in three months = success
I'm not sure social satire is your forté.

Maybe try again with the NAACP or UNCF websites?

Or, maybe you could:

a) put away your childish things
b) accept the world for what it is
c) ask yourself what you could do to make this world (which we all live on, together) a better place?
What I would love to see would be an annual rent/house price ratio report.

Anything below 6%, and buying is basically stupid. You are paying more in interest to borrow the money than you are to borrow the house each year. Hence one of the motivations that's making me want to leave the DC metro area. Here you are either stuck renting or having an ultra long commute from one of the shitty exurban communities.
The Federal Gov't is a bubble that never really pops.
"You can't eat 'reach' and we can't pay salaries with 'brand awareness'."

Something people in a great many endeavors should keep in mind.
Almost everything is possible via a category though a lot of it involves hackery with objc/runtime.h
You are not who you think you are
Around $7 million in todays money.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+million+USD%2C++in+19...
My understanding of Finland isn't that teachers are paid more, it's that they are highly respected. (Similar to Singapore) They are in a positive cycle: Teachers are respected -> The elite want to become teachers -> Teachers are respectable.

We are in the converse of that: Teachers are not respected -> The bottom want to become teachers -> Teachers are not respectable.

I'm not putting all of the blame on teachers. Some part of the problem is individual teachers. Some is the stupidity of their unions. Some is poor administration. Some is society for not demanding more out of everyone involved in education.
How. Absurd.

Do you board up your windows? Never venture outside? Do you wear a tinfoil hat?

I doubt you even have friends or family - that's why nobody has pictures of you.
Actionscript has basically no error checking. It'll check for syntax errors and that about it - every other error manifests as a strange bug or "why the F* is nothing happening!?!" Then you spend an hour tracking it down and discover the cause was some trivial thing that any normal language would have simply raised a compiler error for in the first place.

And on top of that, its libs are very callback-heavy even in places where a synchronous option should have been available, so even very basic sequential code sometimes gets turned into a messy chain of callbacks.

That's why I made a beeline for the "ActionScript - Dislike" button.
You claim to "risk downvotes". Women like Kathy Sierra risk — no, get — death and assault threats against their families. (http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/12/4693710/the-end-of-kindnes...)

"I don't have the answers..." Well, evidence is but a google away. We might discover commonsense answers, like from the founder of MenTeach: "If you started paying teachers $150,000 per year, you'd see a lot of guys going into the field". (http://www.edutopia.org/male-teacher-shortage)

I know many closeminded software devs who turn out bad product. Why would they turn down their cushy programming job, to be a deunionized elementary schoolteacher? And if we know that males dominate well-paying jobs like software dev... is it surprising that females get a higher proportion of lower-status jobs?

The claim, "if we find successes in some areas we may be able to replicate them in others", doesn't map to the real world. When females couldn't serve jury duty, were males merely waiting for female jury-duty successes? Or did it require firm activism to force humanity to improve?
It certainly should be, as well as most other such software funded by taxpayer money.
Because I want to share 'things' with the people in my social network and have no desire to share things with people outside of it like: employers, prospective employers, lawyers, police officers, people I do like but didn't want to hang out with more than that one night, etc.
Please don't mention how you think people will vote on your comment. It essentially becomes a dare.
I've heard this many times. Not contradicting it (I believe it, for the tasks we tend to give ANNs, anyways) Do you have a good review/citation for this?
Median London salary is probably higher. This[1] says about £35K.

Now it doesn't change the reality that much, prices have been driven ridiculously high by the escalating levels of borrowing. We need a strategy to limit the amount of borrowing taken rather than government encouragement for even bigger mortgages.

[1] http://career-advice.monster.co.uk/salary-benefits/pay-salar...
This doesn't seem to fill in the gap of where people are living if most of the housing is above median income. They did imply that the median income was calculated per city so that rules out any wealth concentrations. This seems more of a market/response problem than a 1%er debate.

EDIT: Now that I think about it, I would bet that the SF numbers were heavily influenced by the <2000 DOTCOM bubble
Thanks for the comments. I respect your concerns around digital rights. There are obviously benefits to pushing through Amazon as well. If you buy the book via Amazon and then forward the receipt to winningisntnormal@gmail.com, I'm happy to provide a PDF.

As for your point about "I" - also great and one I don't address enough.

1) I do cite ideas and thoughts by other people as well as research by peer reviewed journals in the book.

2) That said, most of the book is about my experience. Here is why: I am not in your head. I have not lived your life. I can only observe other people from a far distance - look at what they say and do, guess their intentions and understanding, etc. The only thing I can definitively say with certainty is what I have learned and what i have experienced.

3) I think self knowledge is extremely important and that you (and everyone) should seek to appreciate how you differ from other people. And this filter all advice through the lens of "I'm like this, they are like that, therefore I should modulate the advice in this way". If you read my book, you get a fairly good sense of how I think ans approach things. Only you know how to modulate my suggestions to your own life and your own goals.

There few universal truths when it comes to getting shit done. What I hope to do is to illuminate ONE path, warts and all, in hopes that others can navigate their own journeys.
Fun fact: the Fisher pen cartridges come with a Parker adapter. I like throwing them in the Parker Jotter (a favorite pen of James Bond).
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In my observation, it is very hard for a humanities major at a non-elite university to get a good job outside of sales. You can get away with majoring in history at Princeton, but don't expect a good job with the same degree from Fordham.

In terms of usefulness, I do find they help a lot in combination with practical degrees. Philosophy on it's own - not so useful. Philosophy with Computer Science - now you have someone who understand logic and linguistic processing. English on it's own - useless. English and Accounting - now you have someone can explain complex jargon-riddled Accounting statements in plain English.
There are already a lot of Ruby categories out there. ObjectiveSugar covers a lot of bases. I personally wouldn't import more Ruby categories. The NSString API is a weak point of Cocoa, IMO, but in general I wouldn't like to see a large amount of unique, dependent, astonishing code.
No argument with that, but I think most senior engineers would think twice if they felt they were getting the treatment they got as an intern. I think everyone should expect some level of respect, but it's naive to think the CTO is getting the same treatment in an interview as an intern.
By misappropriating their work?
NASA is using smartphones in space. See: http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=18151&news=Goog...

(first link I found when I searched)
My understanding is the privacy settings will still exist and function. You have every ability to decline friend requests from the people you listed. I suppose there are social ramifications to declining a friend request from people you may see semi-regularly.
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Steven Pinker is an experimental Psychologist you might like. His book 'The Blank Slate' is very good.

Joseph Stiglitz, Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek & Paul Krugman are all winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and all have written some accessible books for the public.

The Richard Dawkins books on biology are really good.

Steven Weinberg, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics has written some fine popular science books.
I'm doing pretty well if this is your biggest gripe with the whole project.
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This is awesome and, as an Obj-C dev, is yet another thing that makes me want to learn Ruby.
Google to award bounties for fixing non-Google open source code.
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It's just unfair, users aren't on equal footing with respect to privacy. anyone you send a resume to can search for your facebook and know for sure it's you, for example. (just one example).
Heh, you could probably blame many of Perth's failures on the role of the mining industry there. Engineers have to be flown in from as far away as New Zealand to make up for the shortage, a flush city administration happy to double-down on pet projects, and so on.

But, obviously these are all anecdotal, I just know from my time at a large civil engineering company that the failure rate appeared to be very low. Part of that is excellent risk management, but also long-term client relationships, clear and long established success criteria and a distinct lack of political meddling (once the project is underway, at least).
From that it seems to assume a four times salary purchase that is largely borrowed. The calculation is based on current borrowing cost and looking at historical interest rates a doubling of the current rate seems plausible in 5 to 10 years potentially putting those buying these currently affordable houses into trouble.
That was a great story! And inspirational as a Software Engineering Student! :)
Like! Much as I love ObjC, reducing verbosity via better syntax can go a long way to making code more readable.

For example, I ended up putting together some defines like this after building a bunch of UI programmatically.

#define RGB(r, g, b) [NSColor colorWithDeviceRed:(r)/255.0 green:(g)/255.0 blue:(b)/255.0 alpha:1]
#define RGBA(r, g, b, a) [NSColor colorWithDeviceRed:(r)/255.0 green:(g)/255.0 blue:(b)/255.0 alpha:(a)]

RGB(255, 104, 0) may be a bit too C-ish, but it sure beats the long form. Have similar GRAY(x) and GRAYA(x) defines for producing grayscale colors.

Definitely interested to see more projects along these lines.
Am I the only one who didn't interpret the quote as him showing off? If I used that line, it would be a way of telling them that the problem of segment tuning is an artificial limitation imposed by a format that hasn't gotten enough attention. "I wrote FAT on an airplane" would be my way of saying, "don't come up with better ways to work around my half-assed implementation. spend time improving the implementation so segment tuning isn't even something you have to worry about."
She probably gets along great with her male colleagues. But if she is straight (I don't know if she is), and she was with a straight, male colleague after work, and spent "the night writing code together", there would probably be at least some romantic tension.

At work, it's possible to have none, because everyone is a professional and we all understand the boundaries. But once you're electing to spend time with a person outside of work hours, then it can become ambiguous, and one party may feel compelled to say "By the way, this isn't a date...". If she is straight, and she is spending time with a straight female colleague, then that tension is not present at all.

When you're a straight guy, working almost exclusively with straight guys, then this doesn't have to enter your thinking.
That is an insufficiently imaginative worst case scenario, especially if you're going to put "Orwellian police state" on the other side of the scale -- with apologies if you were not planning on going there. How about: it becomes a crime to do an unauthorized biography? Someone is jailed for writing an angry blog post about their ex? Etc.
I always thought it was like "patient 0". The day-counting started once the exploit was first exploited, meaning the first to exploit it was doing so on the 0th day.
According to the article, the Russians switched to using pens a year later as well, which implies pencils weren't such a perfect solution even for them.
Texans love Ruidoso.
And that crapware is one reason why Chromebooks feel about $100 nicer than they should.
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I do not consider it discriminatory to make an extra effort to recruit an under-represented group. Hence, I don't see this as "sexism to fight sexism."
I've been using an X230 as my personal laptop for a while and I absolutely love it. Comparing it to my work T430, it's smaller, with a vastly better screen (IPS, albeit lower resolution) and on the whole it doesn't make too many compromises versus the T series.

I second the Lenovo service manuals. Behind the excellent Linux support they're the reason I buy Thinkpads. Not only can you completely disassemble them, reading through their service manuals it's almost like Lenovo encourages you to do it. Compared to this, a teardown of the 2013 Macbook Air makes for some pretty depressing reading: soldered RAM, proprietary SSD modules, proprietary screws, etc. I get why people buy the Air and Ultrabooks, but I'm glad the T and X series are still around and still dependable workhorses that you can service yourself with nothing more complicated than a swiss army knife.
I make almost exactly what is listed as the median household income for my area, and I would never dream of buying a $200k+ house. My price range when I was house hunting was around $120k, which is around 2.5x my salary. I didn't find anything worth buying, so I rented.

Who buys a house that's 4.5x their salary?!
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I've read a tiny bit of stoic philosophy (Marcus Aurelius's Meditations) but have not written much about it, mostly because I just find other things more interesting.
More:

- http://cs2hx.codeplex.com/ (open source)

- http://jsc.sourceforge.net/ (open source)
> if everyone's income & wealth were equalized, we'd soon return to the economic disparity & distribution we see now.

This claim is very america-centric and it does not hold if you look to countries with different social and legal structures. Examples of such countries are Canada, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany.
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Amazon pricing is crazy. I just told them to charge whatever was equivalent to 7.99 in other countries.
Seconded.

Shells like rc have much more different syntax (and are arguably cleaner) than common ones like Bash.
My name is very unusual, so unusual that other family members haven't been able to sign-up with our surname for the three or four years as it's "too fake".