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> Why would a workplace filled with happy young males be necessarily a bad culture?

That's not what I said.
Please still use foursquare?
Come to Singapore. There's places where there are 7 or more malls all right next to each other and more being built. Kuala Lumpur seems to have lots of shopping centers being built and many of them get full as in the there's no parking left.
I also find dual boot painful. On my old machine I switched main OS several times (back and forth from Windows to Linux). I couldn't dual-boot because it just wouldn't be fun. There's no real way to share data properly between the two OSes, I wouldn't have the exact same set of available apps, etc.

Now I have a MacBook with OS X. It combines the things I want from Windows and Linux, so I have no need to change OS. If I really need Linux or Windows for something, hardware virtualisation makes things easy.
I don't know when, might be due to the language of your Windows installation, but sometimes in .NET they even translate exceptions and other error codes to your local language making it impossible to use google for troubleshooting.
I hope they're dying - malls are miserable places to spend time.
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You don't need rEFInd with Lenovo. The built in EFI boot manager is good enough.
In France we had that thing called Minitel [0], which was heavily widespread before the WWW took off (I think it was given to everyone or something like that). The economic (and technical) model was completely different than the internet: you had a passive, stupid terminal, and you connected to a server that offers services for a fee. So you paid for connecting and using a service that could technically not be done on your own minitel (at least in the earlier version). Just like a browser that is completely stupid and allows you to connect to Facebook, Twitter, Google et al. for things you can't do on your own machine. You were depending on a third-party to do things.

We speak a lot about the Minitel model and how it is after all these years a model for all the big WWW players and ISPs to monetize their services. But it's not a common reference, so 'feudalism' works well in this context.

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1shi77/textsecure_no...
Having now read the full code and not just the diff, I have to say it looks pretty good. I note that plain "zh" is not redirected to the cn site. ;) Whether it should or not is debatable though -- I actually think ignoring "zh" altogether is a rather prudent move if it is intentional.
If only there was some way to organically grow outdoor shopping areas, in central, easy to reach locations, with a distributed ownership structure ensuring that no single entity can ruin the whole area. Maybe some historically significant structures (town halls, parks, etc.) could even add a sense of civitas to the whole thing.

We could call these things something catchy... like "downtowns".
Oh. That's interesting. It would read much better if they specified the ac/h rating they are referring to. It would also provide some actual information rather than a statement that sounds insane.
Robots will have their own agendas though, so you'll still have politics.
> Isn't the point she's making that she didn't fit the culture primarily because of her gender?

It is, but the point a lot of people are making here is that maybe she sees the situation in a wrong way, as her perspective is a reflection of her gender, so she cannot really judge if the problems happened primarily because of her gender. Actually, the fact that the other female employees felt secure and relaxed enough that they were hola-hooping in the office suggests otherwise.

> A workplace just filled with happy young male developers is not necessarily a healthy environment, or one that necessarily has a good culture.

It's also not necessarily an unhealthy/toxic environment.
agreed. back in the 80s, the closest mall to me was pretty good - a decent mix of entertainment stores (music, games) and arcades, and water slide for a while, movie theater, and a decent mix of food (well, some of the better food was anchor restaurants in the parking lot). My recollection is there was a lot of natural light on sunny days - large glass sections in the ceiling structure let in quite a lot of light. I seem to remember one wing (of the 5?) being a bit drearier than the others, but might be bad memory (or... it was the 'lord and taylor' wing and I rarely ever went there!)

Biggest drawback I see to the older style 'mall' areas was lack of expandability - the structure was forever in place - you couldn't change the character with a new wing/section very easily. Outdoor shopping areas have a bit more flexibility in that respect.

Much like radio and tv have far more competition for our time, so too do malls have more competition for our time and money. But they had a good run :)
Are you using any desktop environment with the Linux VMs you run ?
>> It's an story on predators that happen to be male (and female for that matter).

> Don't you think it's then disingenuous to call it sexism?

Not if each group unfairly characterizes the other based solely on gender traits. Sexism is a two-way street -- if a man says, "All women are dumb", that's very clearly sexist. If a woman says, "All men are rapists," that's equally sexist.
I can't imagine what "experience" we all thought we were enjoying in these grayboxes for so many years.

The indoor shopping mall was, initially, a huge convenience. You could drive to one place, park once (usually for free), and visit a variety of shops in climate-controlled comfort (nice in rainy/winter seasons or hot summers). Most people found this preferable to driving all over town or even to a central downtown or shopping district, hunting and paying to park on the street or in a remote garage, and having to walk from shop to shop outdoors. As malls got bigger and bigger, though, the shops became more and more specialized and less interesting to most shoppers. Walking vast distances between the one or two shops you want to visit just recreated the original problem.

Young people used to like to hang out at malls because it was something to do. There was usually a video game arcade and movie theatres, offering entertainment you could not get at home. You could browse shops with friends, and catch up on gossip. Before mobile phones, Facebook, Twitter, etc. you actually had to stay in touch face-to-face and meeting at the mall was easy.

So malls are dying because a) most of them are too big and b) most of the social and entertainment opportunities have been replaced by technology.
> See this childish engineer who was rejected by Horvath became angry at her and started ripping her code out.

How does not allowing dating between employees solve this situation? Regardless of whether Horvath was seeing anyone or not she could have rejected this person because she wasn't interested and the same things could have happened. If anything her trying to avoid dating anyone in the office would have led to the same result, so how exactly would a rule like that have helped in this situation?

I think the general mentality of don't date anyone from work is silly, you can't just sweep under the rug any emotions or relationships that might happen to develop with people you work with 5 days out of the week. The important thing is to make sure that no conflict of interest issues develop and make sure these relationships are known so HR can handle them properly.

Of course there are a lot of complicated scenarios that can develop, but like someone else said, we're all adults here. People should be able to handle these things in a professional manner and if they can't then really the company needs to question whether they should be working there in the first place.
Yep, we have Easton Town Centre around here (Columbus). It was one of the first of its kind, I believe and is very nice and a great place just to hang out.
No. I run windows as a desktop. I wouldn't run any Unix derivative as a desktop - they've all been horrible to me (that includes OSX). Server-side though, it wins a lot of the time.
That's awesome. I had the After Dark pack on my very first computers, a Powerbook 100 and a IIsi.
Indian farmers were doing something similar back in 2009: http://www.pcworld.com/article/168895/article.html
Reaching 4096 is achievable. I've just done it!

http://i.imgur.com/JhwQzln.png
You make it sound as though racism against black people is a largely resolved old issue rather than an active and present problem.

I invite you to take a walk around Oakland and SF and see if you think that is still true.
Is that based on the average income of the area they are located?
This is typical for many developing countries. I still wonder why, while we have Facebook, Twitter, Kickstarter and so on, we do not have successful online systems that would allow societies to organize and fight corruption and kleptocracy through participative democracy, crowdsourcing legislation, crowdsourcing social innovation, and so on.
Multiple, simultaneous rubies.
Yes and no.

Crappy malls are dying. Decent malls in more affluent areas are diversifying their experiences and thriving. In some places, indoor malls make a lot of sense. I live in Minnesota (home of the original indoor mall, Southdale). It's cold here a good chunk of the year, and an indoor mall isn't a half bad idea.
It’s not “get rid of meritocracy” but rather “recognize that it isn’t really meritocracy and it’s preserving problems”.
Let's not be too quick to make this an indictment of no-management businesses.

Even if you dismiss the hula-hoop stuff, the involvement of the wife, the lack of grievance resolution, & the under-involvement of HR all point to a serious lack of leadership. It doesn't take a management structure to have good leadership at an organization. It takes leaders.

I have seen the "wife wearing the husband's rank" so much in my life. I spent a decade+ in the Marines, it's very common. I extrapolate from that that it's common in the world. The fact this was allowed does point to an environment where HR was either ignorant, complicit or complacent, otherwise they would have stopped this shit cold.
SimCity’s offline mode in ‘Final Testing’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_property
I don't think it is anything like that.

If you read /r/bitcoin or similar forums for any amount of time, you come across people with the opinion that the existing financial systems are "banksters" or what not. People with kind of extreme views. I'm betting it is just one of those people who feels like by using a cryptocurrency they are not using the existing financial system and thus not supporting "banksters".

Kind of some false bravado if you ask me...
Hula-hooping is an especially complex example because it sounds like a strip-club kind of activity, but is also a kind of reclaimed hipster activity like knitting or roller-derby.

The connotations depend a lot on the context.
Primary sources are not immune from bias
At least the agendas can be manipulated. :)
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> What has this got to do with Secure Boot?

It's got nothing to do with Secure Boot. If he had gone into the UEFI and disabled Secure Boot, the problem would still have occurred.

Secure Boot has become this scapegoat for everything that could possibly go wrong.

As its name suggests, Secure Boot prevents the OS from booting. If the installer is complaining about a product key mismatch, then it's got everything to do with the installer and nothing to do with Secure Boot.
Come let me exploit you and convince the meaningless amount of equity I give you is worth working 80 hours a week.

And, even though you don't have time to meet anyone, you can't form a life bond with the designer that you work with everyday- despite you mutually digg each-other and are best friends.
Mozilla really needs to add its own sandboxing system. Even Chris Soghoian from ACLU says that right now it's hard to simply recommend Firefox over Chrome, because Firefox may be better privacy wise, but it's not better security wise.
I agree. I don't just use RVM because my OS doesn't have the latest version.. I use RVM because I work on a project that uses jruby, and another that uses 2.1.1, and yet another that uses 2.0.0. Those projects may also require different versions of the same gem. With RVM I can have a .ruby-version and .ruby-gemset file in the projects root and RVM takes care of switching the version and gemset when I move into a projects directory. To quote the article: This seems like a much cleaner way of working!
In Europe, malls are still constructed in many places and they have the advantage of being built a few decades after many of the US malls.

Where I live summers are a bit too warm and winters a bit too cold to make outdoor shopping joyful. Also, streets are noisy and full of aggressive drivers and the sidewalks are full of holes and broken tiles. So in the last few years this 1.5M population city has seen the construction of 10 shopping malls, most of which are actually really nice "gathering places" as you put it and most of which seem to thrive.

One advantage from most of the US malls that I have been to is that cars are parked under the malls, not around them, that most of the malls are built near subway or tram stops and that they somehow fit nicely into the surrounding architecture.

Often the malls are built in the city center and usually in a very nice quality. Usually the malls have one major supermarket chain in the basement that acts as an anchor store and usually they have a cinema and a food court in the top floor that offers not just the usual fast food but often also some decent food.

I really enjoy shopping in a mall and until someone fixes the problem of waiting and paying for delivery I don't see online shopping making malls obsolete.
Or at least some spring rolls.
Agree with you, although I still think you will get many "shouting responses like "Victim blamer!" or "Misogynist!""

"The aforementioned wife began a pattern of passive aggressive behavior that included sitting close to Horvath, to, as she told TechCrunch, “make a point of intimidating” her."

Get a freaking life, go sit somewhere else if you see her sitting close to you. And are you a mind-reader? What if she wasn't being "passive aggressive" and just wanted to sit there! Unbelievable how as soon as a woman is involved in tech industry everything blows out of proportion.

Again no one is winning, when a woman "stands for her rights", because when you stand up for your rights that means you have to be standing up against someone, that is a male or a female. If you're standing up against a female well you're not helping the women cause. If it's a male you make the industry look even worse than it is by portraying men as monster bullies who will do and say anything to destroy a "woman". The argument against men can only win if we keep repeating the same fairytales that we keep hearing from the likes of her.

Geeks building an amazing platform like Github are different than the sexy attractive guys that you see on TV. Their passion lies with technology they are not here to gossip or put anyone down intentionally. We simply have better things to focus on than caring about your petty feelings. We're men building shit! Unless what women see men as changes drastically I don't see how men in positions like this would take women as seriously as other men. And by that I mean you can't think the guy must have a six-pack, not be nerdy, talk to you about your feelings when you're down. This is not reality but this is what women are brainwashed to expect from men in order to even truly respect them as human beings. This is mainly the effects of watching TV and other media, etc.

Change your perspective about your enemy (stop calling men your enemies) and see if there is still such huge gender imbalance in tech.
Malls are on life support.

Our local mall has 3 anchor stores: Macys, JC Penny, and Sears. Two of those three have reported sales increases in the last quarter but it's a mystery on how Sears stays in business.

The other popular stores are all gone - American Eagle, The Gap, etc. Instead, new tenants have replaced them which make the place look like an indoor flea market.

Also enhancing the flea market look are the kiosks of people reselling things from cell phone cases to cheap sunglasses and worse jewelry than the mall jewelry stores, which are half gone as well. There's even a store that's almost like a 7-11, they sell candy bars and bottles of soda and chips.
That doesn't really matter, because they don't need to. All it takes is one crypto-savvy person taking an interest and finding a fault, then posting about it.

Even if they do actively cheat and provide some obscure not-really crypto to give an impression of security, they need to put in an effort, whereas with serverside encryption they could cheat for free. There is also a constant risk of some techie discovering their lack of security.

Anyway, it doesn't matter if you consider auditable security imperfect. Auditable security is objectively more trustworthy than non-auditable security.
out of curiosity; do you get paid for one day you miss work or it is implied you should take a day off ?
The Bitcoin devs don't really want the blockchain used for non-financial transactions.

If makes sense if you think about it. The current BTC blockchain is gigabytes of data. Add text information to every transaction and you are adding even more bloat.
Or more appropriately, you get what you don't pay for! :-)
You really should look at your metrics at this point. Metro is a failure if you believe their numbers and there is no reason not to.

You might be working on a cool product that like 1000 people might use.

Anyway just a suggestion, no worries if it does not apply
Something that has become clear to me fairly late in life is how sensitive many women are to feeling sexually threatened, and I've noticed this even in my wife, who is an incredibly adventurous person (e.g. she has lead multiple months-long geological expeditions in Tibet where she is both the only woman and the only Westerner). I think it's a brain-stem type reaction, not a rational one, but once people begin to feel deep-seated fear, there's not a lot that can make it go away.

Although I agree that in many cases, such as this one by the sounds of it (limited information, though), there may be a very low degree of physical danger, I think it is best just to realize/accept that women have a deep-seated fear of sexual, physical and emotional aggression that many men do not have, and adjust one's behavior and expectations accordingly to try to make women feel a little safer. It's pretty rare that this causes any actual inconvenience, other than like not sharing a hotel room on a business trip.
Absolutely shameful that this is the top comment. People on HN have no idea about geopolitics and what danger Russia represents to countries like Poland and the Baltics. The West should now be speaking in unified voice and pressuring Russia to give up Kaliningrad. No patience anymore for objectivity.

Oh and it's fucking rich to complain about supposedly fascistic tendencies of Putin's opposition when it is Putin himself who says things like, "Russia doesn't need minorities. Minorities need Russia." Fucking hypocrites.
How to save Windows Phone: make it dirt cheap to license
I love github, but toxic cultures can happen anywhere. Github employees have been involved in commit abuse since the beginning https://web.archive.org/web/20130117043748/http://sheddingbi...
> the question should be asked very loud and clear... "Who can access private company data, why, and for what reason?"

I am against using private github repos simply because: it's safe to assume that the NSA can access them via hardware backdoors on github's premises (as per many US ISPs), or by compromising crypto keys that github holds (as per lavabit).

It's also safe to assume that github will be legally compelled to either remain silent on this topic or lie and deny it.
CINT: http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cint
First Jamaican bobsled now charity.

They are really trying to push dogecoin.
Radeon cards for GPU mining are sold out low stock. Prices have gone up.

Coworkers of mine invested $40k into GPU mining setups.
At the current rate they aren't evening mining enough to cover electricity costs.

Let alone paying off their initial investment which was a high interest loan.

Idiots to say the least...

Sorry to say I don't think dogecoin is going to skyrocket.

The future isn't dogecoin, nor bitcoin ever.
I think I a newer protocol will raise from the ashes of bitcoin that's more broadly accepted.
Weekend project to v1 for ManualViableProduct
>> indoor, stale, sunlight less, copycat malls with the same awful pizza and Chinese chains and the same terrible jewelry stores.

What a depressing yet accurate description. Growing up in California suburbia, spending time with friends or family at the (Brea, Santa Ana) malls was always mind numbing. Those places had no life or character. Others didn't seem as bothered, and I've chalked that up to my mood being more influenced by my surroundings than most. Even today I find my mood and productivity drastically affected by the age, quality, design, openness, brightness, etc of my work environment.
One of the more interesting solutions to malls is transforming them into office space, one good example is Rackspace converting the Windsor mall into their HQ - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/31/realestate/commercial/rack...

It's easy when you have 3,200 employees that you need under one roof, but malls would work great for for 20-500 employee businesses as well. The larger companies would take the spots used by anchor stores and of course the smaller companies could subdivide or take the smaller stores.

There's plenty of parking, they're located in the suburbs where many people live - and the food courts can even stay open, those employees have to eat lunch somewhere.
Those anchor stores are on life support. New channel anchors: American Girl, Apple Stores, etc, etc. What is dead is price-based stores the internet has replaced.
> Huh, could you elaborate?

A shell script's structure is lost without indentation, making it necessary to very carefully sort out its meaning. BTW your corrected script still doesn't have the indentation done properly -- here it is, correctly indented:

#!/bin/bash
# filename: trash-rm
shopt -s extglob
recursive=1
declare -a cmd
((i = 0))
for f in "$@"
do
case "$f" in
(-*([fiIv])r*([fiIv])|-*([fiIv])R*([fiIv]))
tmp="${f//[rR]/}"
if [ -n "$tmp" ]
then
#echo "\$tmp == $tmp"
cmd[$i]="$tmp"
((i++))
fi
recursive=0 ;;
(--recursive) recursive=0 ;;
(*)
if [ $recursive != 0 -a -d "$f" ]
then
echo "skipping directory: $f"
continue
else
cmd[$i]="$f"
((i++))
fi ;;
esac
done
trash-put "${cmd[@]}"

> I found the script written by someone else but decided to run it through a beautifier ...

The beautifier your chose failed to indent consistently -- note that the original doesn't consistently indent the block between "case" and "esac", among other errors.

This might sound like something trivial and after the fact, but beautifying can reveal logical errors that can escape the eye in a program listing that lacks indentation.

To force your beautifier to behave, temporarily comment out all cases of ";;", run the beautifier, then uncomment them.

> I found the script written by someone else ...

What? Your article doesn't say that. Please take some advice and give proper attribution for code that you include in an article but didn't write.