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To answer your question, clearly the answer is b. That is exactly the double standard as stated.

What I'm really trying to get at is that no one should be staying home full time while the other is at work all day.

Careers are a very personal thing. Having a child shouldn't be thought of as something you do for yourself. You are doing it for the child and the world. It is important to raise them right, but not at the cost of your future. With two parents, it shouldn't be that difficult to split the time across both.

That may sound wrong, but in reality, it takes a village to raise a child. Why should one person sacrifice the rest of their life?
I've often said the same thing to .NET advocates at Empathica. In terms of language constructs, C# is closer to Scala than Java is to Scala. However, IMHO Scala still offers more than both combined. :)
It is interesting (kind of scary to me) that this is totally stripped out of all humanity. Dating is now a game, people are prospects and they receive rates from 0 to 10. These are not just metaphors anymore, this is how people are actually considering others human beings. It became the paradigm of finding a partner.

This formal meeting where both sides are constantly analyzing their partners and odds, i.e., dates, inevitably leads to this paradigm. It is just like job interviews, you can't possibly get to know deepily each candidate, so you have to create artificials proxies that will help you to chose wisely. And this proxies are wrong most of the times.

But when finding a partner you can possibly have time to meet another person more deeply. Actually, you do that all the time, at work, at your neighborhood, with friends and friends of friends. But that is not longer a possibility if you have spent all your life not interest at all in people surrounding you, waiting for the time when you will chose a person from a shelf to marry you.

Tl;dr: I don't think is much about successfull women high expectations, but about women didn't have much interest at all in another humans and now think of a partner as a product. And they don't get how this 'product' has a mind of its own now.
> In Slavitt's defense, data security may not have been an explicit feature of QSSI's federal contract

Coming from the construction industry, there isn't a contractor in the world that cares about things which aren't in the contract. Implementing features which the client has not asked for, in the design-bid-build world of public-sector contracting, just means you will lose the bid to a lower bidder who won't do those extras.
This statement is pretty funny given the focus on intentional transition to Scala: "So, no hard decision has been made about our future languages or technologies, and there are no rules that all new development must happen in Scala."
It did change. I noticed it too, been like that for perhaps five hours.
Aye, which is why putting your administrative credentials in client-side JavaScript is an unspeakably bad idea.

Instead, serve {client,user}-specific keys from the server on request, or let the user generate them through a signin process in the frontend, say by using the _users database that CouchDB and Cloudant allow.
Interesting data point. My father-in-law was a math prof who gave up research. He felt bad about it. He went to the department chair and said that since he wasn't doing research any more, could he be given more classes to free up other professors who were doing research to spend their time that way.

He was told no because, "It would make the rest of us look bad." And so he spent many years working a half-time job and feeling bad about it.

(He was also one of the best teachers in the department. In large part, possibly, because his attention was on teaching, not research. And face it, most of the material that is presented in first and second year math courses has not been a subject of research since the 1800s.)
But that is such a meaningless distinction given that state borders are so arbitrary. It wouldn't be hard for any of us to re-draw the arbitrary state borders in the United States to come up with a situation where bikes outsell cars in every state. And we could redraw borders in Europe to create almost as many states as we want where cars outsell bikes.

Something like the EU as a whole vs. the US as a whole has a lot more meaning, IMO.
A lot of people are extremely touchy about their third-tier M.A.s, including probably a lot of the people who write these kinds of articles.
Of course, the wonderful d3.js
It's stupid. That is what it is. The industrial surveillance complex that is being set up, do these companies really think people are that naive?

And what makes me even more sad about this is that #meth and #protest are considered as dangerous.
If we are justified in spying on foreigners, then foreigners are justified in spying on us. If foreign intelligence agencies have records of all the emails, phone calls, metadata, etc. of US citizens, what's to stop them from handing that information to the NSA and vice versa?
This looks to me like bin Laden's Mountain Fortress, the one Donald Rumsfeld told us about:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2011/05/bin...
Exactly. The most successful lothario in my university class was a short guy who went to the gym 5 days a week, had exceptional grooming and was extremely confident/comfortable around women. Height is a very small factor in these things.

Not to mention fringe benefits of being short. Relatively, EVERYTHING IS BIGGER. This idea alone makes me want to try being smaller for a day. Fitting on beds, fitting in airplanes, all food portions are bigger, cars are more spacious.

Also, you'll live longer statistically.
Ah, good ole web archive! Forgot about that. So, I went digging through, and I made a mistake. It's not on his ramblings site. More of it is located here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20120201172033/http://www.math.ha...

But, he rambles a lot on there and weighs the pros and cons of being a professor in Hawaii. Basically, though, his final sentence says it all: "I've got to get out of this place."

Some more about his salary he keeps talking about, " Unfortunately, though, the one thing at the University of Hawaii that was not under my control, nor under the Math Department's either, whether by ``shibai'' or otherwise, was my salary. I had known when I accepted the position here that I was being offered a salary that was too low, but what I had not realized was that, unlike Kansas, faculty salaries at the University of Hawaii are controlled by a rigid civil-service structure, so that the salary one is hired at determines one's salary for the rest of one's life. But added to that, the nation soon entered an extremely drastic phase of Reaganomics inflation, and the State of Hawaii responded by giving only minimal salary raises (0% one year and 2% the following), and the entire faculty here at UH was becoming financially desperate.

One of the reasons I dropped out of active mathematical research was a realization (even before Reagan came into office in 1981) that it would soon no longer be financially feasible for me to continue working here. And as I stopped letting my life be taken over by doing research, and after being promoted to full professor had finally jumped through all the hoops that young academics (although I was no longer exactly young) are require to jump through, more and more I was asking myself exactly what it was that I want out of life, and to what extent my career as a mathematician was providing it. "

He also mentioned before about thinking about becoming an actuary; and, how another math professor started taking electrical engineering courses at the university and later left for California to become an engineer in the aerospace industry (which turned out to be poor timing since the aerospace industry went under major turmoil in California during the late 80's).

Then he talks about how he has a strong distaste for living in Hawaii here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20120218124307/http://www2.hawaii...

It gives a very intimate perspective from a man who has lived the life of being an academic, and what that entails. I don't recommend reading his entire web site, since he writes quite a lot. But, for anyone interested in academia, I think a perusal is in order. He does talk a lot about what life being an "institutionalized" academic is like. It's pretty sad, and it made me realized I would never want to get into that field.
That was back then, when science was the humanities (remember: when Theodor Mommsen solicited research funding, saying "If there is big industry there must be big science" it was for the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae), and professors were public intellectuals.

Today research costs money, and often a substantial part of a professor's salary comes from external funding. I feel that tenure has become something of an anachronism, and when you see tenured professors who haven't had a grant in ten years sit in a circle, each one giving an easy job to the person on their right, and dropping the rest of the work on the untenured faculty it becomes very difficult to defend the practice.
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If anyone saw this briefing, it was mostly a lot of really technologically illiterate people asking pointed questions about a gigantic set of systems that can't easily be answered to technologically illiterate people. At one point, a congressman, with the tone of a disappointed parent, said (paraphrased) "I am very disappointed in you all. have yet to hear any one of you say sorry to the American people."

Someone in the room retorted with "we didn't hear an apology when the government shut down either."

(You'd expect someone to get timeout for this kind of pettiness.)

With that said, one of the obvious problems was blame shift, as this article points out. The guy was (I don't remember this particular interchange) most likely outlining the fact that the question being asked of him wasn't relevant to "his responsibilities" in the contract. However, when responsibilities of a project are distributed, things fall through the gap.

This article is a bit too short to give enough space for the subject, but I think it does point out the most important issue - no one really had full control of the project.
So because someone doesn't practice what he preaches, a good practice should be avoided?

I don't seem to understand your logic.
Caveat: I'm an Apple Fanboi - but the 27" Cinema Display is like warm butter for your eyes.
Take two people who make the same amount of effort, groom as well as each other, can hold conversations, etc.

One of them is 6'2", the other is 4'10". Which one is going to have an easier time?

Hight is an advantage.
The output of a monte carlo simulation is a list of N (for N really large) of possible futures. You can average them, you can compute P(business makes a profit), you can do whatever you want with it.

If you want graphs you can spit out not just one, but multiple representative ones, credible intervals, etc.
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So Rep. Mike Rogers is now suddenly concerned with protecting the security of data? The same guy that's been defending everything the NSA has been exposed to have done?
Can we talk about software engineer certification yet? I tought things like this suppose to push on the movement.
I'm out and about walking every day now that I live in Seattle; it really depends where you live. Thankfully, I don't believe you know what it's like to be cornered by five guys who want to beat your brains out for no good reason at all other than they are bored and have nothing better to do. At some point it's not worth it. It was a good motivating factor for me to work my ass off to make sure I don't live in such a place.
It makes for a nice change, since there was a long period of time where they downvoted any mention of women at all.
Well I don't think anybody here is saying that he is a relationship role-model... only that he did do it.
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Where is the value-add to convince me or my QA team that this is worth $ compared to the current practice of using browser extensions (like Awesome Screenshot for Chrome) to take screengrabs and annotate them? Yes, our method is lacking the interface to bug trackers, but we don't use any of those bug trackers anyway, so no loss.
As a 6'2" man, to me it is evident that I have a clear advantage over my friends, and it is evident for them too. Of course, I'm not a bum with dirty fingernails who can only talk about WoW. Think of the extra height as an extra effort, social skill set, whatever, that the person inherently has. It sucks, I agree.
For a topic as large as dating, broad brushes are all you have.
There is a very nice book that dedicates a chapter to analyze Final Cut Pro X, which Apple removed features used by power users. The book is "Why we Fail. Learning from Experience Design Failures" http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/why-we-fail/
It is a very good read.

History repeats itself.
It's funny, I see so many crash courses offered on how to code, hack your way to a startup, etc., yet not a lot directed at actual startup owners/CEO's on exactly this: Now that you have a startup, what now?
Is it really that bad? I had contributed to some articles a few years ago and didn't encounter a 'crushing bureaucracy', but a very welcoming community.
Maybe it's better to say: height is great advantage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_attractiveness#Height_...) but it's still possible to screw it up.

I don't agree that it's "truly doesn't matter". Yeah you won't be a rockstar popular guy if you are fat or have bad social anxiety but your position and prospects would be even worse if you were short as well.

>Exactly. The most successful lothario in my university class was a short guy who went to the gym 5 days a week, had exceptional grooming and was extremely confident/comfortable around women. Height is a very small factor in these things.

It really puts me on tilt reading things like that.
Yes, height is not the only factor, yes it's still possible to achieve great things without it, yes you can be attractive/popular without it. Yet it's still very important factor which puts you at great advantage in both dating and career game. Just because there are some shorter guys who "outperformed" taller guys doesn't mean it disproves the height=advantage theorem.
At this point, it's traditional. See CorePlot, for instance.
Neither your characterization of the mating behavior of primitive man nor your explanation for low birth rates in affluent societies are consistent with reality.

Age of first pregnancy and number of children both tended to be higher in early agricultural societies than hunter-gatherer societies.

Finland has a marriage rate above the OECD average[1], which suggests that its low birthrate isn't a result of women being unable to find partners. It's dropped since 1970, but the fertility rate has actually increased since then[2] and is now 1.8, not 1.5.

[1]: http://mattbruenig.com/wp-content/uploads/marriagerates.png
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Finland
Tomorrow I am marrying a girl 17 years my junior. I tried to date women my age but they were not interested.

I think when dating changes from having fun to a search for the perfect mate the qualifications for application become impractically high. The only people that meet expectations then are the top few percent of men (who are extremely in demand) and sleazy liars.
Thanks for taking the time to write and share this :)
I really hope I can help. It's so important and rarely talked about in our community.
Beware of using DateTimeField for anything which uses DateMixin - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/ref/class-based-views/...

You can end up in a weird situation with 404s due to timezone settings. Our timezone is set to Europe/London, the get_absolute_url method for any objects between midnight and 1am BST returns the result for the wrong day. The object will still be visible, just not at the expected URL.

If you're using dates for URLs, add an additional DateField, set it to editable=False, add something in save() which sets the date based on the datetime, and use the date field for your get_absolute_url method.
"criticism is not tolerated"

These are the people doing research and peer-reviewing? No wonder the quality of research is so bad. Criticism should be encouraged, not suppressed.
I think this article reinforces a lot of the problems with marriage in our society in the first place, and pinpoints a lot of the reasons why a majority of marriages fail.

We're trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Marriage was born a long time ago and used for very very different purposes than what the 21st century 30-something career woman is hoping to use it for. Of course said demographic isn't getting what they want from it.

Both the criteria for a spouse and the reasons for getting married are either too superficial or overly vague. You need to first ask yourself why you want to get married and then develop criteria for a partner based on that.

Why do you want a spouse? To have sex? You don't need a lifetime commitment for that, it'd be a wiser life style decision to move to a place with legal prostitution. Do you want a spouse because you're lonely? Then make more friends. There's no need to make the relationship legally binding, go to places where people congregate with similar interests. Do you want to have kids? There's tons of charities out there where you can mentor children and make a very real impact on our society without creating new children with a spouse whom you selected based on criteria that are terrible predictors of being a good parent.

We as a society are never going to be able provide healthy guidance on marriage until we start to be very honest with ourselves about what marriage is for and what its purpose is for each us.
The nbviewer links are just HTML pages, but if you were running your own IPython notebook server, it would be the actual python interpreter running your live code!

Setting up that IPython notebook server is easy: check out this 2 min video (http://vimeo.com/72383764). Bonus: if you use the one provided in github in that link, it comes with all the python imports you'd already need like networkx, response, etc. :)
> The developers who liked Ruby loved Scala, while the rest of the team stuck with Java, I believe.

Not true. But hey, its a free country. You can believe whatever you want.
Got any other great ideas that tax the working poor?
The links that you're viewing are "read-only" version of the notebooks. The great thing about them if you install IPython Notebook and "run" them is that you are able to read the content, and then when you encounter code, you execute it interactively - kind of like Mathematica if you've ever used that?

There are some videos that show this in action. One that I put together is here if you'd like to see a quick demo of it as it (rather generically) relates to Mining the Social Web - https://vimeo.com/72871930
I'm glad you enjoyed the post, thanks.

In the beginning there wasn't an initiative to migrate away from .NET. Management encouraged us to try new technologies all time and the BeetleJuice spike seemed to me like a good opportunity to try something new given its simplistic requirements.

From an organizational perspective, there was some discord about how expensive our Microsoft infrastructure was and how poorly it scaled. I won't blame Microsoft for all our scaling problems, as a lot of it had to do with our legacy architecture, but licensing fees were a legitimate concern. Management didn't have any clearly defined goals to move away from Microsoft, but when we started using Scala, Mongo, and other open source projects they took the opportunity to make the case for more migration of our infrastructure. This new direction was officially announced as part of our CTO's Technical Strategy message to the dev department (included in my post).
Wow, big long thread here will take me some time to read but I know what the OP is saying. A few pages not mentioned already...

The mysterious K Mandla gives 10 reasons not to buy a new computer

http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/ten-reasons-not-to-b...

The TOPLAP project (a real hack - give a teenager an old laptop and Ubuntustudio or similar, light blue touch paper, retreat). By the way, if anyone has resources for live-coding in puredata, please post here

http://toplap.org/

The Zero Dollar Laptop Project [1] and current progress [2]

[1] http://jaromil.dyne.org/journal/zero_dollar_laptop.html

[2] http://www.furtherfield.org/zerodollarlaptop/

Now, I made a major discovery over the summer: I am actually more productive on a laptop than on a desktop with a large screen. Strange but true, so I am donating the desktops and adopting a couple of Thinkpads off Ebay (X60 from Dec 2006 and X200s from March 2010) as my major computational devices. One with Debian stock and the other with gNewSense 3.0 for a giggle.
I'm surprised more people haven't heard of PouchDB, so good on Cloudant for donating buzz to an excellent FOSS project. And thanks again, Dale Harvey, for being a fscking genius. :)

My boss tells me I'll be making a whole private document management & CRM around it and CouchDB, and that's my fault for showing them to him.
I have beef with your statement, specifically emotional risks.

In today's world, from a male's perspective, too many women are self-entitled and biased (different skin color, race, height, whatever) when it comes to natural selection and the progression of blood line. I mean that's their every right to do so, but it often means that emotional risks are far greater for men that women wouldn't fancy for a date to begin with.

And lets about the return on putting in efforts. For a man that puts in effort (dress nice, be approachable, with smile and the whole nine yard), I can tell you that the return is often zero and nada. It would be insanity to keep trying and keep failing, especially when I keep lowering my standard into what I want from a relationship.

Now I am in my early 30, and I can tell you that this dating game isn't worth of my time and emotional effort. I am much happier be left alone than chasing after women in general.

The article suggests that women in their 30s are getting more anxious to settle down, but lets not forget that their entitlement remains quite intact actually. Even if they settle down with a beta, in their mind, there is no equality. They still look down at the beta like I am above you (and that translates into seeking thrill and cheating if an "alpha" opportunity pops in). So fuck that. They can dry up their eggs for all I care.

Lastly, lets be honest about "alpha males" The article fails to mention that a lot of these women are in market for "white alpha males" I can't remember how many times women slip out shit like the following during a date "oh I find white guys very attractive...I love talking to white guys." Again, I am telling it as is. The world isn't about fairness. If you picky, that's not my problem when you are antsy about your offsprings.
> IT IS A GIANT COMMERCIAL, FOR FUCK'S SAKE!

Is every form of communication from a company about its products a "giant commercial"? While an Apple keynote is no doubt a marketing event, I think it's also pretty clear that Apple gives a crap about its products and their effect on the world at large. That's why people get so excited about these things. It's a rare opportunity to peek inside Willy Wonka's factory.

Compare to a company like Samsung, whose events tend to be gaudy, sleazy, and very clearly aimed at selling the product.

> This is the point where it becomes impossible to avoid comparisons to religion.

No, and by doing so, you lower the level of discourse on this website.
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This is really cool - any plans to turn this into a service so it can be integrated with a post-commit hook like TravisCI/CodeClimate/etc?