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> A sysadmin is the last thing you'll need while doing fast iterations on an MVP

I'm not sure I agree with this. Someone needs to be working on your CM scripts and debugging production issues... and if it's not a SA, it's you or your developers. If you really want to iterate as quickly as possible, you need your developers focused on developing, not system administration.
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A lack of women in a given profession usually means there's no work-life balance there.
I do iOS dev so I could potentially help. Feel free to email if you want to talk more.

me AT chetanshenoy.com
I was interning at RIM (now BlackBerry) during the era around the release of the iPhone. RIM also had prototyped iPhone form factors at the time. They were backwards, poorly implemented, and generally turds. You may remember the BlackBerry Storm. You may wish you didn't remember it.

Android was clearly in a similar situation. (In fact, they were clearly playing catchup until at least Android 4.0). However, there was something working. The concept was there. A prototype implementation was there. The execution was not.
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You know, this whole "men with guns" thing is a pretty tired, and basically vapid analogy.

The whole point that libertarians fail to realize -- and one of the most basic and obvious lessons of thousands of years of recorded human history is that one way or another, we're all stuck on this same, leaking boat together. And we're just going to have to find a way to cooperate on some basic level.

Else things start to get really inefficient and wasteful -- or potentially really, really ugly and violent -- really, really fast.

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
This is as true for men as it is for women. We face different societal pressures, but those pressures do exist and it is impossible to fulfill all of the expectations placed upon us by society/ourselves.

Work is important. Being good at what you do and recognized for it is vital. But so is spending time at the dog park and going camping and lazy Sundays. It's easy to get sucked into working too hard when you're fresh out of college and have nothing else going on in your life, but that is not the road to happiness.
PMI in 1984 was exactly what it says in the name, project management. It didn't become a programming methodology thing until the agile craze. Six sigma was big in the industrial world, not programming.
Just do an indirect branch, using a table of target pointers. If you had the opcode in eax, the single instruction would be something like:

jmp [lookupTable + eax]
Ok, gotcha. Eyeballing the graph it looks like physical alone is rising and also you seemed to be implying physical would start to grow.

I've bought so few physical music products over my life that I assume my buying habits are completely different than the average person... but I have no idea. One case you might consider is gifts. On an impulse, I bought several Christmas music CDs last year and I also happen to use ad supported Spotify.
Giving away money is easy. Giving away money effectively is hard.

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Does this software just emulate ftp when reading/writing to s3 since s3 doesn't actually support any type of ftp protocol?
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For what it's worth, on the Mac Pro product page, there's a snippet about a "Unified thermal core" with a graphic showing a birds-eye view of the machine that would lead me to believe the cylindrical design has an actual purpose to it.
There are other ways to do this which stay within the bitcoin protocol which keep pseudoanonymity and do not place all their security and do not place all their security in the unaudited Retroshare network:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=280292.0
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> I must admit that this rather surprised me

Why does it surprise you? It's come to light the American government is sifting through everything it can get it's hands on. Any rational person would take steps to try and prevent their important data being looked at.
That's my point though, he certainly didn't go to jail, did he?

These are still new enough that a person could mask any legitimate hacking attempts in the guise of "I didn't know I couldn't do that". So you get to be as malicious as you'd like, and no one's going to come after you, lest an Internet mob forms or something.
I have never met any person who isn't somehow perpetuting the patriarchy, nor seen evidence any they exist - not even amongst radical feminists.
It's made by the same people who made Express. It seems like it's an off-shoot that uses generators, something that would be difficult to do in Express.
> The variation of opinion across the U.S. is at least as big as the variation across the planet. Just watch Louis Theroux's documentaries to see the evidence of this. You have extremist thinkers in any country.

I'm sure the range of viewpoints within the U.S. is bigger than the difference between the average viewpoint in the U.S. and the average viewpoint in Bangladesh. But what's the really relevant measure is the average viewpoint in the U.S., weighted by 300 million people, and the average viewpoint in Bangladesh, weighted by 150 million people, and the gap between those two huge masses of beliefs.

Moreover, we have internal boundaries in the U.S. to ease certain internal disparities in belief systems. E.g. right to work versus right to unionize? That's decided at the state level. "Rights" that are recognized at the national level tend to be supported by national consensus, and when they're not

> and why we have constitutions and courts of law to uphold them

Who decides what's in the constitutions? Unelected Philosopher-Kings? If, instead, people get input into the constitutions by which they're governed, then you're back to square one. Bangladesh, originally created as a secular republic, amended its constitution in the late 1980's to make Islam the state religion. The new Egyptian constitution makes "the principles of Islamic law the main source of legislation..." Which courts of law are going to tell them they can't do that? What of the real danger that they tell us that we have to do that?
Digging it. Seems pretty accurate so far.
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My hardest bug:

Memory corruption in a video game that I was developing in the 1990s. It took 2-3 days of running attract mode to trigger it, whereupon the game would crash catastrophically.

Solution: Videotaped attract mode for 2 days until it happened. Then I single frame advanced through the 4 frames between its first manifestation and the complete crash of the program. 15 minutes later I knew exactly what was going on and fixed it shortly thereafter.

These days, any bug that survives my best efforts for more than a day usually ends up being a HW/driver issue in equal measure. I've learned a lot since then.
Almost certainly one of the reasons your applications sell is because they are very good.

This is HUGE for the educational market. With all the word of mouth that goes on, it's important to do something good. All the tweaking of pricing and viral strategies doesn't help if the core app isn't good.

Thank you for the GOOD software Pierre.
> "Barry" was Mr. Obama's chosen nickname, and he didn't give it up until college

Which would make its use understandable if Obama gave it up in college a few months ago, and the person using it was someone who had interacted with him frequently during the time he was using it. Less so when he graduated from college before many of the adults using it were born, much less became aware that Mr. Obama existed.

> I think you're reaching looking for an insult here.

I think you're reaching looking for a justification for the equivalent of mocking a mid-career professional by persistently using a nickname they stopped using in kindergarten.
Many of the comments seem to have relegated system administration to "code deployment" which is a gross understatement. Ansible, Puppet, and Chef are great configuration management tools but someone still has to do the configuring, and not configuring a system properly can be disastrous, especially for a startup dealing with financial information. Additionally, I feel that it's ridiculous and plain implausible to think that web application frameworks, e.g. Ruby-on-Rails, or a hosting companies, e.g. Engine Yard, Heroku, etc, should be responsible for your system configuration and network security.
The variation of opinion across the U.S. is at least as big as the variation across the planet.

Nitpicking: That is impossible - besides both variations are equally large - because the USA is a part of the planet. But I guess the variations in many countries are not much smaller than across the whole planet.
HHVM is a JIT engine for PHP code. The performance increase in relative to the previous release of HHVM.
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What I find interesting about this idea is the way it crystalizes networks of interest. I think Twitter creates these networks informally, at least the way I use it, but having something more explicit offers new possibilities.

I have to add that most companies would have rested on their laurels with great UIs like the previous Prismatic apps. So, I applaud these guys for not settling on an already great tool, but taking risks to move forward.
Clickable:

https://medium.com/p/872e3afdec9f
The problem lies where the UDHR doesn't hold to local values. In the US, for example, we have codified the second amendment in our Constitution. Most other nations don't share this belief. In Iran, the stoning of adulterers could be seen as religious expression, though the most of the world doesn't share that view. In short, the UDHR, at least as it exists currently, doesn't allow for heterogeneity. In some cases, that may be clearly right, and in other cases, it may be clearly wrong -- but only from a particular point of view, and only by imposing value judgements... and with value judgements, more often than not, there is no clear, demonstrable answer.

> And don't US constitution and laws also have things in them that apply to all people, period?

I think what you're referring to is the content of the fourteenth amendment. Ironically enough, not a part of the original Constitution or Bill of Rights, but it is there, though it only applies to US citizenry.

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the
privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor
shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property,
without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its
jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Privacy, in general, to me, seems to only go as far as an individuals/groups ability/will to assert it "technically".

In physical space, as you may have seen in the ACLU parody video of the NSA, people threw/swatted at the cameras and "santas" that were snooping (a "technical" solution, not an "theory" one [they did not try to reason with the santas to stop doing what they were doing before they resorted to the "technical" solution, from what we were led to believe]).

Most people are not doing that in the realm of the internet, so to me the video was interesting because at the end, it's a call to action in basis of a "theory" that made no mention to the "technical" that could be at ones disposal.

How can one use only reason with someone/organization/government who asserts their power over another through technicalities ignored by those who lack the ability/will to assert their privacy through the technicalities available and discussed many times over on places like HN from information accessible online?
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This is obviously written to be clever/cute, not readable. If you just wanted the max of something, you could just write: $x > $y ? $x : $y; (This is the ternary operator borrowed from C, which still is a little confusing.) You could also just use an if / else statement, or write your own min/max functions. Or you can use min() and max() functions imported from List::Util module which can return the min/max from an entire list: http://timmurphy.org/2012/02/01/min-and-max-functions-in-per...
RoboRally is a fantastic concept, but imho the game is terribly bogged down - they hyper-dense maps, the long areas, the card-locking damage mechanic, the confusing conveyor-belt-turn rules... it makes the game take forever, and usually one player had a breakaway lead anyways.

I'd still recommend any programmer give it a try, it's a brilliant game that makes your brain grind hard. It just has its flaws.

If this "Robot Turtles" game is a stripped-down form of it, I'd love to give that a try.

And no, you can't copyright gameplay mechanics. As long as no actual art or verbiage of the rule-book is copied, a game can be copied freely.
It’s one thing to have a transparent salary policy, it’s a whole another world to publicly blog about people’s salary with a link to their Twitter account.

I hope all employees agreed to have their salary published on the buffer blog.

Kudos to them for trying something different.
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I don't think steam has that many users - if I remember correctly, steam numbers are dwarfed by WoW / LoL (PC) and console shooter numbers.

You'd be better off introducing a Call of Duty Coin... Call them Dogtags or something.
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Bill Gates' original inspiration was his mother, Mary Gates, who did an enormous amount for United Way and other charities.

Mary Gates -- She's Much More Than Just The Mother Of Billionaire Bill; This Former UW Regent Has Made A Career Of Community Service
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=199...

Not saying other philanthropists had no influence, but the idea of giving back was part of Bill's (privileged) background from birth....
Is this a subtle joke or are you serious?
Totally valid points, but the post is about work-life balance, and not really anything to do with women in tech. While women absolutely do have it harder in tech, and different work-life balance challenges, making it an Open Letter! is a bit dramatic. Make the balance choices that are right for you, no matter if you're a man or woman.
It is really scary that some people need a 300 page report to realize that foreigners have privacy rights, too.
A mix of lint-y and style problems, and over-use of named returned parameters.

https://github.com/cloudflare/bm/blob/master/src/bm/bm.go#L4...

-- comment block should start with Dictionary.

https://github.com/cloudflare/bm/blob/master/src/bm/bm.go#L5...

-- comment should precede the declaration.

https://github.com/cloudflare/bm/blob/master/src/bm/bm.go#L6... and others

-- spurious newlines

https://github.com/cloudflare/bm/blob/master/src/bm/bm.go#L7...

-- needless named return parameters

https://github.com/cloudflare/bm/blob/master/src/bm/bm.go#L1...

https://github.com/cloudflare/bm/blob/master/src/bm/bm.go#L1...

https://github.com/cloudflare/bm/blob/master/src/bm/bm.go#L2...

(many others)

-- prefer early return or continue over if/else

https://github.com/cloudflare/bm/blob/master/src/bm/bm.go#L1...

-- more boilerplate due to the needless decision to use named return params
"Or are white males just that much more "lucky" than women
and minorities?"

I take exception to this because I have advised a bunch of non-technical people on how to get into coding, probably about a dozen or so. White males simply ask more. That's what "luck" is here. Asking, then doing.

Among all those people I've had one black African ask me. I sat down with him for a while giving him tons of advice and corresponded a few times more after that until I got swamped by work.

I've had only one woman ask me (recently, just this past week), but only superficially. She had recently picked up a book on generative art because she fancies being able to do that. Ironically, we have the same exact book at the office because I work with one of the best generative artists in the Bay Area, Reza Ali, so I actually had some decent advice on where to start if she was serious. The conversation was shallow and brief before she got into general discussions about life with my girlfriend who was also in the room. It was simply a qualitatively different way of asking for advice which isn't likely to lead to success. Not all women are like this, I know. But I only have on anecdote thus far and I'm disappointed by this. I'd personally love it if more women coded so I could nerd out about programming with both men and women equally.

The above are only anecdotal (and the plural of anecdotes is not data). Maybe I only have many more male white friends, but my girlfriend certainly does not and her friends are all aware of what I do for a living and I do have a decent amount of contact with them. Near as I can tell from above, the number of minorities that ask for help is roughly in line with base rates. The number of women who ask is not. Women are roughly 50% of the population. If they want to learn and do this kind of thing, they need to ask and then do. This definition of asking and doing for women is "luck". Woman do not lack contact with people that can help if they just asked.

For minorities, it's a bit more sinister in that luck also has an element of propinquity that is far more outside the control of an individual. A minority in a poor neighborhood in the Bay Area is unlikely to come in contact with me or someone like me, so they will never have an opportunity to ask. The guy in this posted article on the other hand does have the luck of propinquity. All he needs to do is walk up to Google employees either before or after his shift and ask a few of them if they are an engineer and if they can offer him advice on how to learn to do what they do. I'd be surprised if he didn't get actionable advice that can get him out of the rut he is in in about 2-3 years.
It's bugs like those that both make me miss embedded system development and make me glad I don't do it anymore.
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It's a $1.50 MCU at low volume which probably has off the shelf USB drivers. Why would you build-cost-optimize a prototype for a product you never plan to mass produce? Choosing the path with lowest engineering cost is almost always the correct solution in such a situation.
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HipHop was the PHP -> C++ compiler. HHVM is a JIT-compiled implementation of PHP.

The 15% increase is relative to HHVM at the beginning of the 3-week sprint they just completed. HHVM was already far faster than vanilla PHP when it was first publicly announced over a year ago.
> re: 1, obviously this is true in any element of creative work. there is, of course, a line, where a creative work becomes distinctly new and reasonably un-plagiaristic even though it clearly draws upon the work of others.
in other words, pointing out copying by a copier does not make them a hypocrite, since there isn't just one definition of copying, and anyone doing creative work is by definition a copier.

Exactly. As a wise man once said, "Good artists copy, and great artists steal".

If only I could remember who....
Other than Facebook, does anybody have HipHop running in production? Any big caveats?
My suggestion to developers of such tools: whenever you make S3 an option, try to also include Glacier. I think it's good for the market to start understanding the difference between those two types of backup and their respective values. We should start breaking the old paradigm of "having as many copies as we can of the same thing saved in different places".
What are "top" Android apps?? What does it mean?

It sounds like only top-selling Android apps are available, because they need to be ported somehow to the Sailfish OS and that the porting takes resources that are only applied to those "top" apps...

... which is not very reassuring: if the porting effort dries up then the phone won't be able to run any app...

... which is scary for something that costs almost as much as a top-brand phone (at under EUR 100 I'd be willing to take a chance, but not at EUR 400).
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My story is similar to yours; googling to find the dates of concerts. Have you tried solving that part of the problem for your users? People remember a lot of details about the shows they see, but rarely do they remember the date.

Even if you manually created your own database for the dates, that would be a great start. It would be nice to select a band, then a location and be presented with a list of dates and venues they have performed at.

Also, there's a lot of bands missing from the auto-fill. Does that update as people continue to add more bands?

This is a great start.
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> Can you patent or copywrite gameplay mechanics?

No, but Wizards has in the past, so it really depends, like everything else, on how much money you have.
Storm (and Trident) are just fantastic. If you're looking for a streaming complement (or replacement!) for Hadoop, you can't go wrong here.
Maybe they should give iPads to the teachers, too ;)
Or maybe it would be enforceable but we wouldn't like the means or ends of the enforcement. Why would a world government be any less corrupt, unjust, inept, or capricious than the median national government?
Both can be true. If I give away or sell cheaply a high-quality copy of your movie, people have less incentive to purchase an official copy. If I give away a low-quality copy, people know that the official DVD (or whatever) offers a higher quality.

If I give away a low-quality copy of your unreleased movie, and that is the only copy extant, then people may decide the film itself is of low quality (ie bad lighting, sound, camerawork - things which are degraded by generational loss) and lower the reputation of the film before release.

Context matters a lot. Ignoring it leads to a lot of fallacious arguments.
Static electricity can generate hard X-rays http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/science/28xray.html?_r=0 (in a vacuum at least).
Yeah, I think it would have been more than enough to simply explain the formula and provide some anonymized examples.

On another note, I am quite surprised at how underpaid some of their positions seem. Senior iOS engineer barely cracking 100k in a very expensive market...
This is a really interesting platform for learning to code online. I was part of the pre-launch class learning Python.

To be able to live code with the instructor, to see his/her face and going one-on-one with the webcam seems to be the closest thing to an actual classroom.

Hours are good too if you want to learn while keeping your day job.
This is also quite assuredly one of the best ways he could have possibly advertised for Heifer International.

Indeed he used his reputation for something that would go viral, and in the end helped that charity quite a bit.

It also suggests to me that he's not above having a little bit of fun too. I'm sure the gift took some thought, and this was more than "I'll have my admin think about it."
The performance increase in relative to the previous release of HHVM.
No links at the YouTube page. I found this neat in-browser demo though: http://stenoknight.com/kws.html