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> These sexist policies are making my life WAY more difficult. I'm jealous of people who got to experience tech before it got popular enough to become a target for feminists

And I feel sorry for you for that. It's always painful when a subculture you feel at home in enters common culture and moves itself out of your comfort zone in the process. I'd feel even more sorry for you though if your sphere of empathy wouldn't ever expand to include the more feminine geeks that currently don't feel welcome in our industry.

The author of the story wrote this from a good heart and a desire to say the right thing and get people to skip all those frustrating awkward stages in between but unfortunately I'd say that is as useful telling someone who's stressed to just relax: it might even work for some people but if you really care about the outcome relying only on this tactic leaves a lot of room for improvement.

That's why I will continue to do what I feel is best to make our industry more inclusive. The simple fact that we're having this discussion here is made possible by people like me who've repeatedly criticized pg for letting gender issue stories be flagged off the front page so easily and I'm grateful for having played a small part in that small change.

As a genderfluid person from the same generation as the author it's truly a breath of fresh air for me to see thoughts and perspectives I've always had discussed out in the open. I for one feel more at home in the industry already through this all.
If it's like that for me, someone who can at least always choose to pass as male, then I'm sure many women feel the same and as far as I'm concerned that's a good thing worth fighting for.

And yes, I acknowledge that will make things harder for you, the author and her son. I believe though that an industry where everyone feels welcome regardless of gender, which just isn't the case right now and hasn't been for a long time, will be worth every ounce of sacrifice it takes.

> Any given feminist will happily claim to be the voice of all women everywhere.

That's a rather dubiously broad statement; but if that happens then call them out on it. Improve the discourse. Ask them if they want to feel the pressure of having their every action represent their entire gender. If they say no then remind them they shouldn't be speaking for their entire gender either.
> This is about the myopic quarter to quarter focus on profits by the market, the stock market in the last 30 years has been increasingly unable to to focus on the long game - if it does generate income or profit by the next quarter, its rubbish.

I've seen this sentiment about the market like, forever. Yes, I've been investing in the market for 30 years.

But I seriously doubt that investors are so stupid. If they were pushing up stock prices based on quarterly results and the long game be damned, then where are all the smart investors shorting those companies? Are you making money on shorts?

And, why are there companies like Amazon with enormous P/E's? Clearly, investors are playing the long game with them.
Dependency Walker. That is what you need to see which DLLs are needed.
It could for the attention it causes. Everyone's going to be talking about the listing.

It sort of creates a bit of value in the name 'Flappy Bird'
It should be fairly clear from the responses to your post that the characterization of this reaction as a "lynch mob" does not meet the established standard of usage of this term.

Getting universally criticized for a statement is not a qualification for assuming "lynch mob" victim status.

> I meant the forces that drive lynch mobs are driving people here.

This particular statement can be interpreted in so many different ways that it remains meaningless as it stands.

> Did he say that?

Did anyone lynch him?
Ok, the lack of power button options is silly, as is the location for the said button. But there is a "fix" for it: http://binchewer.org/blog/index.php?id=1

Live patching if not the best thing in the world, but it works.
> Wait, how don't macro need to take escaped sigils?

These are proper (hygienic) syntax macros, much like Scheme's syntax-rules. C's "macros" only work at the token level.

> Is 'do' still a keyword?

I believe it is still a reserved keyword, but not used anymore.
Almost certainly you're right, considering Tim Heidecker (an exec producer of the show) retweeted a pic

https://twitter.com/timheidecker
It helps me to maintain a fairly inflexible work schedule along with a dedicated space free of outside distractions (ability to close door is a must). Since you don't mention having kids/spouse living with you, this will be easier. I've worked from home for the better part of almost 15 years now, both with and without kids, and I will say that kids change everything! I'm glad I learned how to work independently without kids because trying to do it with young ones around is a challenge.

I like the idea of just replicating "my desk" from my job at home and just "pretending" I'm actually at work.
I saw reports that he removed the ads from the application.
> Rust is a systems language pursuing the trifecta: safe, concurrent, and fast.

> It was also discovered that we closed the second largest number of issues of any repository on GitHub!

Doesn't make me very confident...
I think MS is conflating unified with Apple's end-to-end approach. You can have a great end to end experience with two completely different UI. The key take away is interoperability, not looking the same.
Bitcoin is not the future of money.
Ah, don't remind me.

In an old job, they used gmail for email, so most of the company used Thunderbird. This worked fine for most of them, but sysadmins got so much email (mostly alerts) that google's crappy IMAP implementation kept breaking so the clients would be constantly syncing, and folder operations such as moving stuff would often take multiple minutes.

My cheap VPS I run my own email on vastly outperforms gmail's IMAP.
I've found Duolingo to work quite well, probably because it deals with entire phrases.
I'm surprised google are making it easier to escape.
Thanks for that, that's really interesting. It behaved differently in my experiments so I assumed it wasn't the same — but it must just be a different configuration.
I see - didn't know that kind of thing exists.

Seems to me they very simply not good enough at crunching the numbers then.

Also, I think even insurances tend to have insurances against very high insurance claims. Maybe they should look into that kind of thing.
This article is kind of dumb and your comment is irrelevant to it, and this submission is already getting bombed off the front page, but:

a) they're pretty clear on how recovery numbers are used1[1], so honestly, I'm somewhat skeptical of your claim, but regardless:

b) you can easily change that setting, and no you don't need a g+ account. I found it in like 30 seconds. Just go to your account settings[2] and click the box with your phone number on it. The option is right there. In fact, the help page even explicitly mentions this is independent of any Google+ use of your phone number[3].

[1] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/183728?hl=en&ref_...

[2] https://www.google.com/settings/

[3] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3113316
My biggest tip was to have a "work computer" and a "personal computer". Resist the temptation to switch the work computer on when you're not working.

Otherwise you want to get a good routine; none of that making coffee for hours, or doing the laundry. During the working-day you're supposed to work.

Otherwise the single biggest thing I needed was to leave the house every day - Regardless of how much food I had at home I'd always go out to the sandwich store every day to make sure I had some away-time, and a little conversation. (Granted most evenings I'd see people, but working day-in, day-out at home "alone" contact is important.)
Or it's a way to keep it on people's minds - that isn't mutually exclusive with having a few laughs, I guess I can see that more easily than others coming from a nation with a long history of self-deprecating and dark humour, but it's by no means a unique phenomenon.
An extra large EC2 instance is $360-$3311 per month. Maybe I have an imagination failure, but I can't see how cloud costs could be past 10k per month. So, how much could the infrastructure cost, and still be worth the investment?

Maybe I just don't understand the costs.
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I wonder if they could sell Xbox to Lenovo for $huge. I don't think consoles are going to do very well this time -- mobile gaming killed the market for 'people who will tolerate lower spec hardware because it's convenient', and IIRC the PS3/360 were better relative to $2k PCs when launched than the PS4/Xbone are today relative to $2k PCs. The PS3/360 have been pretty mediocre for years, so the PS4/Xbone are going to get mediocre in a couple of years, so there's a long period of ugh ahead.

Media convergence is the only reason to keep the Xbone business, but if Microsoft focuses on Enterprise (or at least "work"), that doesn't matter, either.
100k MRR does not mean that much if you've got staff costs. Let's break down super simple costs:

Office - 5-10k/mo
Employees - 10k/mo ea
Servers - 5k/mo
Legal/accounting/etc - 5k/mo
Misc - 10k/mo

All of a sudden with 10 employees you're losing 20-30k/mo. Want to hire 5 new amazing engineers? Now you're losing 80+k/mo.

100k mrr is great if it is you by yourself or a tiny team, but to scale you need a lot more.
Sounds nice. They have a different business model.
drone.io is free for public projects.

I also think the Go+Docker factor is something for those who are into this kind of things.
I think the "change" slogan on all those Obama posters referred to the change to his promises and projected morals.
How can you say xbone is a disappointment? I have a jar of mayo that's been around longer than that device. Give it a year or two, sheesh.
Pursuing != is.

Its a language in the stages of infancy and under active development, of course there are bugs. Its not even at version 1.0 yet!
http://beta.slashdot.org/

It's absurd, really, that you have a company who fails to understand why digg ultimately became a non-entity after their "Our designers love whitespace and so should you!" redesign.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/sdredesign
> Slightly OT, but how does owning < 1% of a company's shares qualify for a board seat? Can someone who knows about these things enlighten me?

That's easy to explain:

1. Corporate boards should show a fair representation of the largest stockholders.

2. For a board with 100 members, it should be apparent that anyone with more than 1% of the corporation's stock must be given a place on the board. But this only makes a point and isn't a typical board -- 100 members is unwieldy.

3. Another case is one in which the majority of the corporation stock is held by many small investors and there are only a few majority stockholders. In this case, someone holding more than an individual investor but less than the majority investors may still earn a place, even on a relatively small board.

4. Another way to describe this is to take the number of board seats and distribute them among those individuals who hold the largest stock holdings, in declining order. For example, let's say there are ten board positions, five majority stockholders and a pool of smaller investors with quickly declining stock percentages. In this case, a stockholder with a very small stake might acquire a position on the board simply by being counted among the ten largest stockholders.
They need to take balanced braces/parens/brackets (i.e. only escaped if they are possibly unbalanced), so that Rust source can still be parsed without having to run the macro expander concurrently.

And, it looks like do is no longer a keyword at all, I must've missed that part of the do-removal patch! So it is possible to call that macro do.
He means don't talk to the police until your lawyer is there.

Which countries will use that against you?
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Exactly the same for me. Internet can act as a big distractor sometimes.
I don't disagree. But I post this because it actually happened to me. Googles closure compiler to be specific. The only way to make it happy was to actually assign the value to the window scope, where it couldn't know whether the value was ever used.
A lot of the issues included in that count are pull requests (including ones adding awesome new features, not just fixing bugs), and we get a reasonable number of duplicate filings (which doesn't particularly matter: it gives us more test code for the suite).
https://www.codeship.io - Working on bringing Continuous Deployment to every team, because it's so much better, but still hard to accomplish for small or medium sized teams
Why should MS invest in hardware, when PC's offer better hardware, run the windows store to share profit with MS and have good enough DRM(as steam shows, and might even be improved by working with pc manufacturers) ?

Most likely in the future, MS will do something similar to steam - just sell software for so called "consoles", and have hardware partners. That will help with the losses issues.
The point of stockpiling is that you do it before scarcity sets in.
I don't actually have any experience with it, but Monkey X looks like a nice way of creating HTML5 games (and cross platform) quickly: http://www.monkeycoder.co.nz/

The guy who coded it wrote the language I first learned to programme on (Blitz Basic, back on the Amiga in 1992 or so).

Has support for most things you'll want (3D, input, sound etc).
Don't forget that Apple makes cars and trucks, and they keep them separate.
> [1] Owned 360 for 5 years, played 5 hours on it.

so because YOU only played 5 hours on YOUR 360, the console was a failure?

Let me counter your anecdote with one of my own: The XBOX was a disappointment and the 360 was a good console. Reason: I played much more on my 360 than the original.

The 360 was around for a much longer time than the original and there were many more games made for the 360 than for the original.

If you don't believe that to be enough, there were 24M original xboxes sold, compared to 80M xbox 360.
That's completely different. OS X is not really free, the same way iOS is not free. It just comes bundled with the hardware and you get updates till the EOL of the product.
It appears to not be a reserved word at all:

$ echo 'fn main() { let do = 1; }' | rustc -

runs with just an unused variable warning (if it were reserved it would fail with "error: `do` is a reserved keyword").
It's a surprisingly common bug in custom web-based systems that handle documents or images - I've found this a number of times in systems I was reviewing (and I'm not a security expert).
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At 300 billion market cap .8% = 2.4 billion investment. It seems ValueAct demanded changes from the management and they could argue they represent the vision of also other (activist) shareholders.

Read this article for details: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732332490...
There's going to be a lot of clones:

http://www.soylentnews.org/wiki/index.php?title=SoylentNews
The one thing that bothers me the most about bitcoin is it's similarity to a ponzi scheme. Get in early, mine the low-hanging fruit, wait for the exchange rate to spike, and you're set for life! If you were to buy in right this moment, what would be the benefit?
Bind keyboard shortcuts to maximize (vertically, horizontally, or both), minimize, restore size, tile/split, move to adjacent desktop. There's a lot I could learn to deal with on Mac, coming from Linux, but it amazes me that this doesn't seem possible without Applescript.
I am not totally sure about the "representation" thing, meaning that you need a role model to like something. I clearly did not have any role model that I can look at to play around with computers on the TV (I'm not young)

I think that the inner motivation to be a hacker or programmer comes from liking to know how things work, and how to build stuff. I remember dismantling and reassembling my toys when I was a small kid. If we are able to give a try to kids that feeling (which it was extremely satisfying to me), we may "lure" more people with potential into tech.
If we teach that tech is cool, that nerdy t-shirts are amazing, and you'll make a lot of money, we are spreading the wrong ideas, something that will deviate the focus from "what's really tech about" with "perks around being in tech". People that are attracted for those "perks" will never be truly happy and probably, will never be good professionals.
As it happens, I'm 43, and I've also been coding for 30 years. I even have a beard :)
Go was very much designed with the intent of being a better C-replacement than C++[1]. As to whether it's an actual viable replacement or not, well, that really depends on how dependent you are on libraries.

Back when I was getting into 'serious' coding, anybody with experience in both C and C++, whether they liked one or the other better, could have told me enough to make me realize I was better off learning C first.

[1] http://www.drdobbs.com/open-source/interview-with-ken-thomps...
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Thanks for the tip. An init system that gets itself into such a fragile position is a signal that something isn't quite right (not to mention there was not even a response to this bug report, which isn't a great sign either)
Or you can just install Skype for Windows Desktop. Metro makes perfect sense when you consider a tablet formfactor like Surface, it just shouldn't be used for regular computers, which is where they screwed ujp.
I'm not sure even George Orwell could've written such a cynical reality.
If I were one of the people listed on this link, I'm not sure how I could look myself in the mirror without throwing up in my throat just a little.
It's hard to know. Speakers are insanely complex beasts whose electrical reactance changes depending on the signal. To simplify things we use measures like RMS current ratings for amplifiers because if you put a sine wave through a speaker they tend to approximate a resistive load due to most of the load being air, and we use nominal impedance to describe speakers because while even though for something as simple as a sine wave a speaker's impedance can vary 4x from nominal depending on frequency, it at least gives us something we can reliably measure.

Once the signal is more complex than a sine wave things get crazy. The more frequencies in a signal, the harder it is to model the power draw since different parts of a complex curve cause the speaker to act more like the low resistance inductor it actually is. Discontinuities and areas of constant voltage (both caused by clipping) are the worst, and to make things even more fun the amplifier is part of the system and affects things as well.

But assuming you know a lot about the speaker, the amplifier and the DAC you could probably build a model that works well for simple sinusoidal audio, but that doesn't cause problems anyway. All bets are off for anything more complex.

So instead you're left with a few options: buy reasonable gear and don't play crap audio, play crap audio but massively overbuild your system so you lower the risk of getting into the unknowable danger zone that changes depending on what you're playing, or use a bunch of heuristics on a signal and try to distort it in some way so it's less potentially damaging.

The problem with the latter is since you don't know where the line is it's easy to be overzealous and end up distorting lots of stuff you don't need to. Problem with the middle is you either end up with something much larger and more expensive than you need, or you cripple what you have to give you a wider margin of safety. Problem with the first is apps like VLC make it exceptionally easy to accidentally play crap audio. Pick your poison.

Could Dell spend a couple extra bucks for higher quality components and create a wider margin of safety? Probably yes. But at the same time the VLC developers are being reckless by putting a tool into consumers hands that makes it so easy to play potentially damaging audio signals.

Edit: clarifications
It could be worse, you could have been one of those companies that tied themselves to IE6.
For comparison, Singapore is pretty well off, too. And only heroic efforts by the government keep the car population in check. Eg there can only ever be around 1 million cars on the island, and permits are auctioned off. A ten year permit goes for around 100k SGD at the moment.
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Many people misunderstand what the Ponzi scheme is. In Ponzi scheme you get a dividend without selling off your shares. The fraud here is to tell you that the dividends are taken from real profits while they are paid from extra recently sold shares. You get both cash and keep your stock.

Bitcoin is like a dividend-free stock or commodity: you have to sell your share to get some cash. Of course, those who come earlier get easier access to more shares, but they are exposed to a higher risk. Zuckerberg had 100% of Facebook initially and was selling it partially to get more cash to keep it going. When he started anyone could do the same, but not many succeeded. Later investors were willing to pay higher amounts of money when the value of the company became more certain in their eyes. But in each case, the owners of stock had to lose some part of it to enjoy extra cash.

Also, consider this approach: http://auroracoin.org
These guys intend to distribute coins "fairly" to each individual in Iceland. Sounds like a fair distribution? Well, once some individuals get this weird coin, they will decide if they want to keep it. And some of them will sell them to collectors for cheap. This will make the price go down noticeably and cause more folks to get rid of such coins. So they will end up for very cheap in the hands of a very few "early adopters". Whether it will start growing organically from there or not - is another question, but you can see that you cannot force "equality and fairness" on the market. It will reconfigure itself according to everyone's personal preferences. And in case of a weird new tech it will always mean little number of early believers vs. big number of mainstream doubters.
I think this doctor has run out of regenerations. Not the same world as before.
Ironpants seems to be game for people who thought flappybird was easy. Also, making a game where you tap the screen and often puts adverts there, seems like a way to get a lot of click throughs.
And, as another commenter has said, make it once, sell it 10 times.
I use BetterTouchTool to do these things. I'm told there are other tools, but this one works so far.
The interesting news for me were:

- Slashdot was redesigned (it seems I really haven't been there in ages, and I had a 6 digit ID starting in 1 :) )

- Slashdot Media is doing badly:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dice-holdings-inc-re...

"revenues decreased 9% year-over-year to $4.3 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2013 from the comparable 2012 period, due primarily to the financial results at Slashdot Media"

"advertising revenue has declined over the past year and there is no improvement expected in the future financial performance of Slashdot Media's underlying advertising business. Therefore, $7.2 million of intangible assets and $6.3 million of goodwill related to Slashdot Media were reduced to zero"

On SoylentNews itself, I don't think a MediaWiki install will take away users from Slashdot, I see they're trying to install SlashCode, good luck with that.
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