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Don't know how OO Calc compares to Excel today, but I stopped using it after having an unfixed issue(1) open for a few years that made it impossible to produce a simple line graph with more than about 2000 points without slowing down the program to a halt, whereas Excel didn't even break a sweat.

These are the limitations of Excel alternatives. They look nice on the outside, but fail to understand that users don't use them just for the simple stuff. It is well known that Excel is what really powers many companies, and these are often absurdly complex.

(1) OO Calc insisted on drawing an x-axis label for every single point in a graph, on every redraw.
I'm an avid user of Pages because of its consistent UI. But it's still lacking a very important feature for the usecases you mentioned: cross referencing and bibliography.

As an aside: Did you know that you can create a halfway decent xhtml from Pages documents by exporting to epub and extracting the embedded documents? I've used that in the past to create a simple database my wife can edit using the tools she knows (Pages) by converting that stuff to an xml db. You can even script all the intermediate steps using AppleScript. As a platform to hack on, OSX can combine the strengths of Unix with the UI scriptability of Windows OLE.
This is really a shame, as I loved the Tab product. To take my money, the staff in the Campus cafe _had_ to know my name, which got us engaged in conversation. I guess this is one of the qualitative benefits to which the post refers.

I would love to see something like Tab work across multiple shops. In my home town, it would be great to have something like a Tab account which works in the butchers, the bakers, the grocers, etc.

Anyway, thanks to the Tab team and good luck with whatever you do in the future. Thanks for the post.
Totally agree. This line in the original story was also evidence of the expectation of guardianship/protection:

I was a deer in headlights staring into the eyes of the two
male bartenders hoping someone would help me.

I don't know about you, but I can think of exactly one time in my life when I felt like a deer in headlights and that was in 2002 when I had an M16 in my face and a 9mm pointed at my temple. Long story.
They sent me a email earlier today.

"The changes to the Terms will be effective as of November 11, 2013. If you do not take any action, the Shared Endorsements setting will be turned on."

I imagine many people won't read the email.
If you think about what you just said for a few more seconds, you will agree that it's demonstrably false.
>Now there's absolutely no reason to believe that Google or HP care if your friends got the best computer for their money, Google wants their ad money and HP is in the business of selling computers at margins as high as they can.

You seem to be convinced that all business is just one big scam. I wonder what you do for a living?

>Why isn't Google letting your friends see the websites you ranked but only ads? To make them more likely to click on ads.

Well I certainly think they wouldn't add this feature had they thought it will drive down the click rate but immediately approaching this as if it were a conspiracy to get some extra clicks while users figure it's a scam is just that, a conspiracy. In the long run it just doesn't make sense for google to display results that are not relevant to visitors and they know that.
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OK, I think we have very different definitions for what aggression is, and also a different understand of what reading means.

Probably best to leave it there, although I would encourage you to consider taking legal action, it really might stop this kind of thing from happening again.
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You sure seem to have a horse in this race
What are your issues with Exchange? Actually, it was Exchange (at least since 2007SP1) that made me start thinking that it was actually possible for Microsoft to produce extremely reliable software.
The option seems to have been enabled by default at least on some Google accounts.
> Nice try, I bet you drunk some GKoolAid.

I find it funny that you undermine the credibility of your whole carefully constructed argumentation with a nasty little ad hominem at the beginning.
People do know they can turn off the new "shared endorsement" thing don't they?

https://plus.google.com/settings/endorsements?hl=en
I ride with several people who do lots of mileage on 'bents. Lots of mileage (one has completed a 1200k brevet). These guys can cruise on the flats, and even on slight climbs, but as soon as the gradients hit 10%, they are forced to spin up in a ridiculously small gear. So, in some cases, yeah, 'bents could very be a performance gain, but I cannot imagine anyone riding competitively up the 20%+ slopes that races like the Giro and Vuelta include in their stages.

I agree, however, that the UCI seems to selectively make their equipment rules. At they've given up the disc brake fight in cyclocross, though some early returns show in certain conditions, rim brakes are still better.
I agree, that is a tragedy. There are a lot of bad things in the world, although thankfully less each year because of the efforts of good people who want things to improve.

The Italian government has volunteered to hold a state funeral for those who died, and has asked its fellow EU members for support. In response, the European Commission allocated 30 million Euro towards helping refugees.

I hope we can also help those who unjustly suffer in our community, and find our own ways to make things better.
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Or you could just opt out of Google+. I deleted my Facebook and Google+ accounts about a year ago, deciding that the benefits I was getting from them were not worth the hassle and the privacy concerns.

The benefits, incidentally, after I thought about them carefully, could be classified as "chewing gum for your mind". Neither social network enriched my life in any meaningful way. Both consumed a lot of time that could be much better spent elsewhere (for example, in this Hacker News discussion... oh, wait).
Islam forbids alcoholic drinks which is why most Muslims, including myself, do not consume them. I mentioned that I am Muslim by way of explanation as to why I don't drink, so it actually has everything to do with this.
A good example of this is the heyday of Group B cars in rallying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_B
The article neglects to mention that he's requiring his neighbors to sign non-disclosure agreements as a condition of leasing the houses back. Money talks.

See Guardian's coverage - "Mark Zuckerberg extends privacy settings to neighbouring houses" - http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/11/mark-zucke...
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> For example, idiomatic foreach block in Rust is a syntax sugar of passing lambda, which is more friendly to parallelism

This changed with the recent 0.8, `for` is now syntax sugar for using the Iterator trait, which optimises exactly like C++ (the vector iterator even vectorises when LLVM can do it).

Rust has actually moved to have iterators that are very similar to (a subset of) D's ranges.
Yes, obviously that is an important exception, which doesn't change the fact that the statement is generally correct.
The problem is not the software,it is the proprietary format,just like PDF or PSD. These formats force industries to use specific softwares, were open formats would be plateform and software independent. That's the fight one needs to do, impose open and free file formats on the industry level. Microsoft like to break stuffs like it wanted to make his own version of XML, that's the true evil of Microsoft.
I think you hit a local extremum, so yes, I'd advise you to stay there :-)

The day will come when you will need those two figures side-by-side, together with a caption positioned just right. Or a table that spans multiple pages and has multi-column cells. Or, heaven forbid, you will need to submit your bibliography in a byzantine format invented by someone with nothing better to do ("we take pride in the fact that we place a period after author's names").

LaTeX also has another problem: even if you know it, getting from a document.tex file with 0 bytes to a document that looks good takes much longer than it should. By "looks good" I mean doesn't use Computer Modern, and overall doesn't look like a thesis from the 70s.
The author's argument that Microsoft Word in unavoidable because doc format is de facto standard in his problem domain seems bullshit to me. You can't substitute a document editor with document format like that. I mean, you can totally avoid using Microsoft Word for creating doc files by switching to latex/markdown/org/... with [pandoc][1] converter, for example, or use any kind of MSWord-like word processors, e.g. OpenOffice Writer(if this somehow change something). The author didn't mention any other problem with Word, except it's local ubiquity, which i don't find a problem at all. So, why hate so much?

[1]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
I'm sick of this bullshit convention culture that allows stuff like this to happen. The CodeMash sponsors should be fleeing from the event and be embarrassed.

I'm a fucking professional, not a frat boy. I like to socially drink as much as the next person but a fucking professional convention is not the place for it. CodeMash is responsible for this incident; they created a situation where a woman, overwhelming minority in this type of place I'm sure, was compelled to engage in this person to the point where it escalated to this level. It's fucking sickening.

I for one vow not to attend another convention where drinking is part of the event. We are fucking professionals, people. Stop trying to prove how hip you are.
> VMware has a responsibilty to ensure that conference attendees don't get drunk on the conference floor.

You are right. Employers should babysit their employees at all times.

/s
Where have all the girls gone?
This sure looks interesting. What are the theoretical foundations of this? As for SBS I found this paper: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.222... . I couldn't find anything relevant on DBS, though.

At a cursory glance the algorithm seems like a variation Luhn's abstract algorithm.
When I hear "systems programmer" I think computer-to-computer. Therefore when I hear "systems language" I think computer-to-computer even absent Go's use of the term. I not be disappointed if a systems language were not appropriate for creating operating systems.
Having played all StarCraft games so far, somewhat well, I can get by with maybe 8 buttons as Protoss: A, H, E, P, B, V, G, Z. Other races might need other buttons, but 8 is reasonable. If I remember correctly, the Steam Controller has 16 buttons. The other functionality is 1 click away and is (usually) not hat time sensitive, if you are not from Korea :-) obviously it's not for competitive players.

Also, flipping the camera 180 degrees can be achieved with a button press. I think I remember Need For Speed having this feature, though they didn't allow you to flip the car, just the camera. Anyway, I think pressing a button to flip 180 is an acceptable solution given the constraints of the controller.
It highlights the fact that you are being far too general about when rape is allowed.
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You're forgetting that shorthand properties give multiple ways to set some values. This wouldn't work reversed:

{
border: 1px solid red;
border-bottom-width: 10px;
}

- http://jsfiddle.net/afXGN/
Sorry, on my Modern Minimalist setup, there's no way I can read a YouTube video.
I purchased the "Home and Student Edition" for my wife to use on her new MacBook Air. A few months ago she started writing short fiction, which we have since self-published on Kindle. We had to switch to Libre Office, though, because when I contacted Microsoft support and asked them about the "Non-Commercial use" restriction, they told me writing a novel counts as commercial activity.
Probably worth mentioning that Adria Richard's probably lost her job because she dragged(drug?) her employer into the fray on twitter.
I wasn't there so I don't know, but were her signals only obvious at a distance of a few feet. From the description of the events they were physically close and from what I read she only implied only two non-verbal clues and one verbal clue:

(1) Expression on her face as she looked at two male bartenders waiting for them to help.

(2) Not reciprocating in the kiss

(3) Mentioning that Joe has a wife and children to which he replied “Don’t’ worry about it we have an agreement”.

The first one would have been completely missed by Joe because he was caressing her back and kissing her forehead. So that one doesn't count as obvious. The second is difficult to say whether it was obvious or not without being party to the kiss. Only Joe and Justine can fairly assess the obviousness of that non-verbal clue. Drunk people tend to kiss pretty poorly, even consenting adults, so I'd say that's a pretty shitty clue as well. Lastly, the third clue is ambiguous because it is not about what she wants or does not want but what he should or should not be doing. With that statement, she in a way put responsibility to continue or not in Joe's hands. If he does in fact have an open relationship with his wife where they can seek out other sexual partners, then to Joe its entirely possible that her sentence could have been misinterpreted as "I'd like to, but you have something good in your life and I don't want you to make a mistake". That sentence was not about her decision but about his.

That all being said, I was definitely inappropriate for Joe to do what he did because of their professional relationship, with him as her superior and her as his subordinate. For that reason, I definitely agree that its a firing-worthy HR violation. However, she is as responsible for unprofessional behavior. In what US country would the following ever be acceptable common workplace conduct:

began to start rubbing my back and kissing my forehead (let
me say this is not uncommon behavior between me and men I
consider close friends. I have a close relationship with a
lot of my former EdgeCase coworkers)

Overall, it's black and white case of sexual misconduct from an HR perspective, but based on her recollection of the events, its pretty far from a convincing claim that she effectively communicated that she wasn't consenting to the only person in the story that matters, Joe. They were two drunk adults who made poor decisions. Both are responsible.
Especially if both are drunk.

I think a large part of the problem is the social acceptance of alcohol and being drunk. Objectively speaking, getting drunk is similar to getting wasted on other (illegal) drugs. Alcohol is a drug which due to an accident of history is legal. The negative consequences of alcohol consumption are ubiquitous. More people die from alcohol than from all illicit drugs combined. If it is wrong to take drugs, it is wrong to drink alcohol, especially to the point of debilitation.

Being drunk should not be an extenuating circumstance for bad behavior, it should be an aggravating circumstance. When people choose to drink something which makes them less able to behave in a socially acceptable way, they should be prepared to accept the consequences.
If the victim actually, definitely and factually is partly to be blamed, why cannot the victim be blamed? Or do you disallow facts to be said? (This comment is general and doesn't make claims about this particular case).
All of the above is true.

But it also needs to be said, that a technical conference isn't the right place for heavy drinking or "body shots". It's just unprofessional.

I think what we need to change is not only attitudes towards sexual harassment, but also towards professional behavior at conferences. Which means drawing the line much earlier. Nobody should ever feel they need to do heavy drinking or "body shots" in order to be "accepted" into the community or "bond" better. That includes both sexes, I know men who do not like to drink, but do so in order to "bond" with the community.

Disclaimer: I am not explaining or justyfing anyone's behavior here. What was described in the original article was unacceptable by any means. So please don't go off with a knee-jerk reaction to this post, but think about what I really mean.
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So true. Excel can now be seen as some sort of platform rather just some number handling software. There is a real lock in when hundreds to thousands of lines of scripting and data bindings have been written to manage often critical parts of someone's business.

I wonder if there will ever be a shift to a future incarnation of hypercard, or some other mainstream oriented 'programming' platform that would displace Excel.
> Consent is not defined by the absence of a no, but a presence of a yes.

As nice as that sounds, there isn't a shred of truth to it in the real world. Pre-emptively asking a female before making a move will get you shut down every time. You're supposed to read the situation, pick up on signals, and often be a little bit psychic. Show me a female who wants you to explicitly ask permission before every action and I'll show you a liar.
> a friend who spent a year in Japan remarked that, e.g. policemen carry dictionaries with them

I am not at all surprised to hear that. I have family in Japan and have observed many times an inability to remember how to write a certain kanji eg. when filling in a form. Typically people will then type the word phonetically on a cell phone or computer, which prompts them with matching kanji, jogging their memory. There is a strong reliance on these technologies or, I suppose, dictionaries, which are also organised phonetically.

It is of course the case that English speakers occasionally forget words - I've looked up "diarrhoea" more than once in my life! But it's not an everyday thing like I've seen with my japanese relatives.
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Sorry, I can counter your antidote with ones of my own. I have, in fact, pre-emptively asked a woman these kinds of things and had success.
Agree 100% which is why I visited the page but didn't opt out after reading the page.

I assume that what I +1 is public and act accordingly.

But for those that don't, which is surprisingly a lot of young people, nice that this option exists.
Yes, thank you. Coercion is an incredibly important part of this.
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He's monetizing it as an API here https://www.mashape.com/mojojolo/textteaser
> And I somehow can't shake off the feeling that all it does is promote the victim mentality in the the author and the audience.

So it's not so much that it doesn't accomplish re-introducing trauma, but that it has other negative effects? I am legitimately curious.

> Also good job white knighting your pants off in this thread.

/me rolls his eyes
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Yep, @extends in SASS are exactly you need, but unfortunately they don't support params and interpolation in their names doesn't work as expected.
Nope, I was just trying to be witty and to make my point implicitly. I did not really mean it to be personal. My bad. So let's make this an explicit discussion, shall we?

What I was trying to say is that contrary to your original statement not every penetration is sexual assault, nor are (in general) sexual acts without explicit consent.

Why? Because in Western society, consent is more often than not implicit. People very rarely ask "do you want to have sex with me?" or "May I kiss you?". Instead, they rely on body language, suggestive statements or simply the knowledge that they're in a relationship of which sex is an expected part.

Now it is certainly possible that there are societies where this is different and any sexual act must be preceded by explicitly asking for consent. It is possible you live in such a society. That would be very strange to me - which is not a judgement.

However, it seems to me more likely that you live in the (mostly same) Western society I do and we're merely having different interpretations of how "explicit consent" can be given.
Yes, your tweet was right before the one I posted.
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Unfortunately the author clouds the facts and his mostly correct findings with his emotions. What could have been an interesting reading remains a rant.
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Everything Rich says and does is gold!

It surprises and disappoints me that he is not as well known nor revered as the agile craftsmanship peddlers.
I expect it to be like this:

(SELECT
("id", "login", "first_name", "last_name")
FROM (users)
(WHERE
(and
(or
(eq "login" login)
(eq "email" email)
)
(eq "password" (bcrypt password))
)
)
)

(Sorry, couldn't fit more parentheses in this)
Yes, I would prefer that the women in my community are not sexually assaulted. I absolutely have a horse in this race.

Furthermore, I have been friends with Joe for years, and don't know Justine.
Or the fact that you are being far too general about what is rape.
I had no idea what this was when I started reading it, but is related to this blog post http://blogjustine.wordpress.com/2013/10/12/because-it-needs..., and the hn comments are here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6537587

I'm not sure Matt really adds anything to the conversation, which is maybe good and bad. Does anything else need to be added? Do we need to hear from Joe?

I don't think the 'facts' of the case matter that much. The important thing is that Justine feels she needs to be heard, that the men in our industry should be more conscious of how they are making women feel.

That isn't a dig at Joe at all. This story should have the same effect if we know the names of the people or not. We keep hearing story after story of how women have been treated badly at geek events, and we should be thanking her (and the other women) for having the strength to stand up and tell us, rather than hide in the shadows in shame.

I guess the important thing is we should also thank Matt. Thank him for showing us how easy it can be to defuse these sorts of situations when they happen.

If you see wrong-doings now, will you take action? I hope I will.
> Summary
> Rich Hickey discusses how a functional database can impact the programming model, using Datomic as an example, but the principles apply to other systems using an immutable database.

It's just an advert of Datomic.
InfoQ is a pain in the ass, but if you open an account with their crappy site, as mentioned by others, you can download the presentation slides at the least. Not sure if the code mentioned will be clear, or even copy-pasteable. I know this is probably not what you are looking for, but that is probably the best you can do.
And if you are wrong in your 'psychic' ability, that's sexual assault. The ends never justify the means when you don't get consent. A woman (can we call them women instead of females?) may not care for explicit permission, but that's irrelevant since no woman wants to be sexually assaulted.
Is that even legal? I’m not allowed to send my customers email newsletters without them opting in[1], how is Google allowed to sell its users’ information without opt-in? Can a company suddenly decide to change its terms, without its customers’ permission?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003
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How can I tell if I have a G+ account? I have GMail and YT accounts, but just not sure about G+.