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blueskin_ is wrong. As a middle name, I named my 1-year-old after Countess Ada of Lovelace in order to encourage her to view computer science as a positive, welcoming field.

Try explaining to a 15-year-old or 21-year-old woman why the presence of booth babes shouldn't impact their choice of a career. In an industry with an overwhelmingly male population, with a (deserved) reputation for cultural quirks that tend to follow those of adolescent males, and few widely acknowledged and celebrated female successes, the contextual message of booth babes is pretty clear. And that message, based on the evidence, is: your gender is not welcomed here.

I know you believe that your private pleasures have no public impact -- you enjoy booth babes, so what's the problem?

I'd say the problem is that my goals are different from yours.

I don't think a professional event should appeal to the sexuality of either gender, and should support the professional development of both.

I don't think your private, personal enjoyments have all that much relevance to the success of the industry as a whole.

I don't think waving off the high turn-off value of this marketing mechanism is warranted on the facts.

And I don't think, in an industry that prides itself on being rational, scientific, and logical, that booth babes reflect well on the marketing choices or expenditures of our industry's leaders.

With our different goals, we will come to different conclusions. And, as a value judgment for what our industry is and what it ought to be, I think your goals are wrong.
This "shortage" talk is the problem with engineers. They take peoples' opinions and petty desires (such as business requirements and deadlines that are arbitrary) and assume them to be objective truth. I worked at a startup that was cargo-culting Scrum (badly) and people started talking about "Iterations" as if they existed objectively and had real, phallic, meaning. They don't.

Engineers insist on truth and struggle with the fact that most people who succeed in human affairs are extremely dishonest.

"Shortage" just means, "we can't hire talent at as low a wage as we'd like to pay". It is not an objective condition. It might qualify as a true shortage if companies were reducing the pay of executives and non-techs to make space for engineers, but that is happening almost nowhere.
Well, this isn't incompatible with the perception that a lot more college grads are stuck in dead-end jobs.

Let's imagine three tiers of college grads: winners, middling, and losers, depending on how employable they were when they graduated.

Before, the winners and middling grads got real jobs, and the losers went to Joe-jobs.

Now, the winners are still getting real jobs, the middling folks are now in Joe-jobs, and the losers are unemployed.

And nobody cares about losers because we're all callous that way, so all we've noticed is that people who used to get the real jobs are now stuck in the Joe-jobs.
how often do great ideas succeed when done part time?

Even if nine out of ten times you lose, total belief and commitment in your idea makes the difference between success and failure.
I think they have to push something and STEM is what the frontbench in Government perceive as cool - no doubt their management consultants concur! Plus they're struggling to sell financial services as a viable career at the moment - though that's another example of where jobs are flowing East.

The program I watched was also interesting as it followed HSBC who had brought call centre jobs back from India to the UK - what it failed to mention is that the higher paying STEM based jobs are moving (rapidly) in the opposite direction!
The thing that helps me work through this is to be very aggressive about a small list of features for "version 1". Focus on getting version 1 online and working, and put all your shiny ideas on the TODO list for version 2. Once version 1 is out the door, the momentum of people using it will carry you forward.

I've learned the hard way that for me, by far the biggest risk in a side project is me losing interest before I have something up and working. So now I just keep that in mind as I'm planning and pruning features for the initial version. The risk isn't "what if I don't have feature X and people get mad?", it's "what if this gets too complex and messy to implement and I get bored and quit before finishing?"
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Indeed. Giving a blank/puzzled reaction to a reference to "The Varsity" will raise lots of red flags.
I was a H1B before, and I can tell you that I was not paid less, if not more. Most of my H1B peers are well paid as far as I know, you can tell that by how fast they purchase the house and cars and start a STEM-professional new life in USA. The low-paid H1B steals good-quality-STEM-engineer-job theory does not hold water for me.

The STEM shortage is so true, while I agree outsourcing saves money, H1B are most often not, more likely, it's because the company can not hire the right STEM candidates and they have to go through the painful H1B hiring process, while paying for their very expensive immigration attorney bills to keep them.

More high-quality STEMs, less outsourcing, are the real solutions for a booming local job market. When we have more good STEMs locally, the H1B will become a non-issue.
No, I am pointing out something very obvious and important that you seem to have missed. A bunch of totally independent, distinct projects don't all vanish because one of them wants money. The entire premise that "BSD" would vanish makes no sense.
> Good times are over

Beyond the lump of labor fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy , did you consider that those people have every right to do their best in this world as anyone else, no matter where they happen to be born? That might mean coming to the US or Germany or whatever. If that's easier for them, fine by me.
> Also people who aren't doing that well aren't bragging about how bad they are doing.

Well they don't want to brag, but an online community where you can be anonymous if you want seems like a good place to reach out for help if you're in trouble.
Hi! Your product looks very nice - not for me - but the design and overall feel is well done. I have some intimate knowledge of how these apps fail however and thought I'd heed warning. Once people get over the initial analysis part they'll slowly start winding down their use. So you'll have to introduce some feature (down the road) that gets people to consistently use the app over a long period of time. I don't have a specific answer on this, it's just something to start thinking about and try to get feedback on as early as possible.
This is my #1 gripe with The Nest.
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"very wary of a manufacturing economy"

Like the US, the UK still manufactures loads of stuff - it's just there aren't many people employed doing it and it's a much smaller percentage of the economy than it used to be.

e.g. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/22/manufacturing_figure...
I have been using Magento Enterprise Edition (EE) for 6months on a production sites in Europe and US, with total revenue so far exceeds a few million dollars. The reason I mention this is to give everybody a context of my comment and background. I work for a large company, so the money doesn't go to me.

To be fair, some of the features mentioned, for example abandoned cart reports, do exist in Magento EE. While some features like consumer profiling don't really belong to an eCommerce platform. Instead, those belong to CRM (consumer relationship management) tools. One of the reasons CRM is an independent system is a lot of shops have offline presence also, and lumping CRM features into eCommerce platform unnecessarily complicates things. There are extensions to sync between Magento and a few CRMs.

My wish list for Magento: built-in A/B testing, and multiple campaign management.
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I guess that in your life you have to leave some unfinished projects behind to be able to finish others.
How come the special '?utm=hackernews_tarikozket' got added at the end of the URL?
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What browser are you using? I didn't have any issues at all with that page.

I'm using version 7.2.0 (this is a very old driver) of the open-source Radeon X.Org driver on a four-way Phenom II system with 16GB of RAM and a Radeon HD 6950 with Chromium 31 and Chrome 32.
If you want to support MIPS for embedded applications then loongson is one of the fastest and cheapest ways to run stuff right now.
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Yeah, that solicited a WTF in my head when I read it.
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> but it's incredibly hard to do right in mass manufacturing.

Any particular reason? From the outside, wood seem easier to use than plastic.
I've finished something before. It pays back somehow.

But now I barely working on anything. I admit I don't like any work at all. Working for Google or SpaceX? No.

I think we want to finish something because we are not satisfied with our current life. If you feel your current status is okay, it's not easy to get motived to put yourself into some extra work.
Magento has been poor software since Varien started trying to monetize. It has always been slower than necessary, a huge resource hog, and relatively complex to configure.

The real problem is that there is nothing better out there.

Magento is the Drupal of the eCommerce world - relatively prominent, but almost universally reviled by developers and not all that easy to use for users. It's the worst of many worlds.

It's too bad, really. Five years ago I was really excited for Magento, but within months I realized that it would almost universally be cheaper (from a development standpoint) to write an eCommerce project from scratch than use Magento - it takes you 95% of the way there in a lot of ways, but that last 5% is critical.
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I definitely don't agree with "Correctly"?

It's a social investment in the future of the country, there's nothing objectively correct that at some arbitrary point in your education you suddenly need to pay. I wonder when you want to start having school children accrue their loans for primary/secondary school?

Why is part of your education free and part of it not? And perhaps the most important part that you arguably desperately need if you want to access a middle class job?

Isn't that massively elitist and a class discriminator? That when you do finally get that job you have to pay a load of money back that your richer peers just put in a saving account and earned some free money?

And if that's what's changed why do so many more people go to university now than previously?

Everything you've just said makes absolutely no sense from a different perspective.
>as if they existed objectively and had real, phallic, meaning.

Did you mean to do that? either way, it's pretty funny.
What does yet another gripe about generics in Go have to do with a tutorial written by an independent party, one that is about features in the language today ?
I don't even know(I am the creator not OP), the website doesn't even have any type of analytic ATM.
I don't think STEM reflects market demand as much as it does our new understanding of 21st century skills. While the gov't loves the "college = success" equation, I think it is somewhat valid for STEM students, as it introduces a much more practical skill set and mind set to students.
There is so much more educational value in this conversation than just people saying "serve your users but question what they say they want", as it is right in the action - with all its nuances.

Great lesson on prioritization!
It works just fine for me on Chromium 31 and Chrome 32 on Linux, using the open-source Radeon drivers. It would be interesting to see what the common factors for others who are reporting poor performance is.
From the favicon on the site, looked like Drupal.
Wood is basically more expensive than plastic for mass-manufactured items. The basic raw material is more expensive. You can't source a large volume of aesthetically-identical pieces, so its harder to produce identical items. You can't injection mold wood, so higher manufacturing costs.

There are "manufactured" woods which address many of these issues, but they also tend not to be deemed as beautiful / strong as the real thing.
RCA went after Armstrong. They knew that by convincing the FCC to change the frequencies they could seriously disrupt FM and make existing equipment useless. Armstrong later committed suicide. His wife won all of the on-going lawsuits. Basically, RCA broke him financially and mentally with multiple lawsuits and years of "discovery". Armstrong is the father of frequency modulation (FM) and some argue the father of modern radio.
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Yes, in production code you'd usually use a library implementation - although if you had specific requirements you would still need to build your own. That's beside the point though - any decent engineer should still understand how they work and be able to write a implementation of them fairly easily.
My father in law is an EE. He was forced out of his job a few years ago (in his mid fifties). From what it sounds like, many of his similarly aged coworkers face the same treatment - if you don't hit a certain level of management by the time you're middle aged, promotion paths become closed to you and eventually you become marginalized, because there are so many new graduates coming in willing to work for close to half of what the experienced EEs command for salary.

He wasn't able to find another EE position, except at a small company as a part-time tester. He's retired now, mostly because he gave up trying to find fulfilling work.
Probably because it's been posted a few times before and the querystring is to make the url look different so it can be posted....again:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=hackertyper.ne...
Yep ... the (unmodulated) carrier frequency is in the middle of the channel (as it is with most AM radio stations). What's more interesting is to look at the old analog television broadcast channels. They were transmitted using VSB AM (Vestigal Side-Band Amplitude Modulation) which effectively meant that the luminance information (brightness) was transmitted using both side-bands (regular AM) but the chrominance information (color) was transmitted using SSB (Single Side-Band).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-sideband_modulation#Vest...
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In fairness that's more about the current range of FM frequencies (originally in the 42–50 MHz range), not why they all end in an odd number.
If they used GIFs, rather than h264 videos, what would that do to their bandwidth usage? Wouldn't it be substantially higher than if they used videos?
It seems to me that the true motive behind talk of a supposed STEM "shortage" is to flood the market with new STEM workers in order to drive down labor costs (i.e. wages).

The problem is not that STEM workers can't be found, it's that they can't be found for the wages business owners want to pay. And what they want to pay for skilled labor will always be: "less".
Pocco[1]/Docco[2] is a good way to do this.

[1]: http://fitzgen.github.io/pocco/
[2]: http://jashkenas.github.io/docco/
> And yet the wages being offered for these jobs haven't gone up. It's pretty hard to have a labor shortage if the remaining workers aren't seeing wage increases as demand exceeds supply.

Isn't it possible the jobs just aren't worth that much?

There could be hundreds of unfilled positions, but not filling the positions is only costing say ~$50k in revenue. It's not worth paying someone $51k for that position
I've seen several schools decide to implement mandatory functionalities using ActiveX...

You know the thing that forces you to use the most dreaded program of all times...

Edit: I hope you were /s'ing
Why shoot it into the leg? Aren't most injections given in the arm? If it needs to go into a vein is it an issue of it reacting faster there?
I'm not sure the developer ecosystem that Magento currently has would be responsive to that - I only worked with it a little, but it seemed like 75%+ of the "solutions" to issues people ran into were provided by other devs saying "well, if you pay $$$ for my FooBarBaz plugin that problem will go away".
Thanks I appreciate it! I'm really interested in how your experience searching for jobs online has been -- Because from my experience, it is a giant pain in the ass.
Would it really take four years to do a masters? I thought most masters degrees were one- or two-year programs.
Not every campus is like this by far.
I believe its the reason that injection molding plastics is so popular versus doing metal and wood. Wood and metal most of the time require a subtractive(sp?) manufacturing process that requires a lot of raw material, assembly steps, and waste. Injection molding and 3D printing is additive that is automated and simplifies the process with minimal waste.
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A different video card, codec chain, and on and on, can yield a very experience. Being an early adopter of many Harry Potter-esque moving pictures can yield nice content, but it will invariably cause client issues.

As I mentioned in another post, it works fine in Chrome 34 on the same hardware that it struggles dramatically with in Chrome 32. Both of them have hardware decoding enabled, and so on. The Chrome 32 instance has no problems at all playing video anywhere else.

Indeed, on that same line, the videos don't load at all on Chrome on the Nexus 5. The N5 of course supports h264, and has no problem on any other site that I've ever discovered. Maybe their server is now overloaded (EDIT: Okay they're using S3....going to be an ugly bandwidth bill from that...and it's fully responsive), but it also doesn't load on the iPad 3rd generation running iOS 7. Again just black boxes.

EDIT: I wonder if it's because they're (s3) setting the content type to octet-stream, rather than video/mp4. Some clients seem to be going on alternate decode paths or are refusing to display it because of that.

e.g.

Content-Length:6915107
Content-Range:bytes 0-6915106/6915107
Content-Type:application/octet-stream

There's a lesson in here somewhere.
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> Microsoft saw the threat of the Internet, and reacted swiftly to own it with Windows 95.

No they didn't. The original release of Windows 95 didn't come with Internet Explorer. Microsoft were still trying to push their own Microsoft Network (MSN), similar to Compuserve and AOL. They were late to the party - which is why Netscape managed to dominate for so long - and were heavily criticised for it at the time.

Thankfully, they failed. Even though IE dominated the web for far too long, that's a lot less scary than the thought that everyone might be using the MS Network right now while the Internet remained an academic curiosity! shudder
Duke Ellington's ultimate compliment was to call someone beyond category.
I'm well over 30 and I like facebook and have it on most of the time. I think it's mostly the teenagers who are giving up.
Go become an accountant without an accounting degree and tell me how that works out.
Cautionary note, if you think Earth-bound identity theft is a problem, you don't want to know what you're in for once the rest of the galaxy finds the treasure trove on this asteroid.
So they went into debt for a Yugo instead of a BMW. It's the same problem. People aren't able to separate wants from needs and do the basic math that would tell them they'll end up with a crushing debt after a 4 year degree program that will (in most cases) provide them with no advantage at all in the workforce because of the glut of other "educated" applicants.

Desire and aptitude don't always go hand-in-hand. The people who always do well (you know the ones) will get the jobs and everyone else will whine about not being able to find a job that pays $100K right out of school. If you're going to end up flipping burgers anyway, why not save 100K and just go directly to the golden arches?
I really liked the effect, but took my headphones off to hear my MBP preparing for takeoff.
You can't beat polymers for consistency, finishing, handling, tooling, durability, etc. For each friction point with wood, you could create dynamic systems to alleviate the pain or you could just start with materials designed for scale.

The future is not made of wood.
I didn't say it was the only way to get hypo-unawareness, it's my experience.
It's game theory.

All three options exist, but the maintainers pretending that option b doesn't exist at this point in time increases the probability that option c will succeed.

If the pretense doesn't work, be very much assured that they will go with option b.
To be fair, they're one of a small set (possibly of size 1) of organisations that would be able to carry out most of the attacks discussed. Things that were considered highly unlikely pre-2013 are now a real possibility, if not probability.
They are harming your privacy and freedoms.
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Employees don't take their job serious.
Totally agree. I've been tinkering with my own project to do this. I wanted the recirc fan under programmable control as well to try and mix the house air once in a while and distribute the temperature a little better.

Nobody has ever offered this in a thermostat with the possible exception of the RadioThermostat CT30/3M50, which has a JSON API and lets you manually control the relays.
Best answer.

Most of our jobs don't mean shit. It doesn't matter.
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The attack in particular is named KARMA.
Autoplay has been the devil for 15 years in UI. You don't repeat animation and you don't auto-start it unless that is the expected primary feature of the landing page.
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Note however that Eloquent JS is undergoing a rewrite; the original edition is a bit outdated.
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I'm curious as to why you want the physical switch rather than the ability to turn it to always on via software?
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Less technical know-how needed to get customers to sign up for the store rewards card, and no one will complain about you using that data.
The common PHP developer mentality.
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This year, for any apps I make, I've decided on no more (or as little as possible) html. Everything is going api and Cappuccino.

Ah, an eccentric, you say. Perhaps. But all these new js frameworks just don't click with me. With Cappuccino, it's not so much the objective-c feel, it's that it's not munging a js framework with html. I design my views like I would real apps - in this case I use XCode (I know, it's not on Linux) and there's a util that translates the xib's into cib's. You can also build the ui in code, which I try to avoid.

I've worked with html a long time and Cappuccino was the first toolkit that made me enjoy making apps that run on the web. So, this is my commitment to myself this year. I'll also be releasing all the server tools on github/gitlab that help facilitate this sort of development (gems and whatnot).

Thanks to the op for the post. Even tho I'm not interested in Angular, still an interesting read.
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