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One thing that no one seems to address in these discussions (of which at least one appears every week) is how will feminism actually solve these problems?

Actually, I'd like to address this paragraph:

Feminism is not a dirty word. Feminism is the radical notion that women are people, and that we want to be treated as equals. Don’t let someone else pretend otherwise out of their own misguided notions.

The author(s) repeat a very common cliche, and insist on this as the one true definition of feminism. Yet in reality, feminism is splintered, divided into many schools, disagrees on fundamental issues (sex-positivity versus sex-negativity and transgender inclusion versus transgender exclusion, most notably) and is not a coherent movement. The same applies for virtually all ideologies.

Some will repeat that quote, some will say "gender equality", others will go for "women's liberation", "abolition of X concept considered problematic", "separatism" or a variety of other reasons.

Which school do we adopt? Why? How will it change things? Is feminism really that seamless of an ideology that it is the one true way to fix things?
I just wanted to reaffirm what you're saying about the deduction on lower value homes. When we bought, people were telling us "you get to deduct the interest, it will be a huge impact!"

Well, these days thankfully, interest rates are relatively low. We paid a little under $200K for our home, and combined with the married standard deduction, the interest at first barely even pushed us into the itemize category. By next year, it won't suffice to even do that and we'll be back to the standard deduction.

The people who were telling us about how great the deduction is were people who all had the means to purchase much more expensive homes, and many of them bought in the past when interest rates were higher and the standard deduction lower. So it was true for them, and continues to be true for certain segments, but is not universally true.
Because you attacked the author, not the argument.
I read speculation on another site that said that perhaps Wacom refused to partner with Surface Pro 3 because that device was more similar to devices that Wacom themselves make.

I'm actually not familiar with this area at all, but I guess the argument is that the smaller screen size of Surface pro 1 and 2 made it different enough from the Wacom tablets, where as Surface Pro 3 kind of fudges that line.

Again, just repeating what I read on another site. I'm not actually familiar with Wacom devices.
Loan issue aside, I would advise almost everyone who isn't already "fuck you money" rich to not get too caught up on that extra 19% tax on income vs capital gains and just delay on exercising.

There are occasionally exceptions to this (involving a rare combination of the employee leaving and the company being as close to a "sure thing" as possible), but in the general case the risk/reward is so extremely out of whack that I can't imagine people would even consider exercising prior to the options becoming liquid if it weren't for the irrationally that comes into play when the money is going to the IRS.

There are just so many ways in which those options can become worthless (and a lot of them can happen even if the company is 'successful'): company goes out of business, company is acquired under terms unfavorable to common-stock holders, company dilutes stock to the point where your strike price is a joke, company actually IPOs but stock goes south of strike price due to massive selling pressure as lockup ends, etc, etc.
With Surface Pro, Microsoft Is Trying To Recreate The PC Market
I wonder if banks will close this loophole where anyone can effectively "refund" a debit card as a negative cash transaction. (that is without a matching purchase transaction).

I saw an option to 'send cash' on Hangouts the other day so I presume Google is A/B testing this as well. (Don't get me started on the notion of hangouts where you can send the other person cash, it seems a bit too attractive to the webporn crowd).
Get ready for lousy stock returns

http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/21/investing/stock-returns-low-...

"The Shiller price to earnings ratio was designed by Nobel Prize winning economist Robert Shiller to give investors a sense of whether stocks are cheap or expensive. It compares stock prices, as measured by the S&P 500 index, with inflation-adjusted corporate earnings over the past 10 years.

"The magic number at the moment is 25. That's the current Shiller ratio, and it indicates that stocks are on the expensive side. The long-term average, going back more than 130 years, is 16.5.

"But the current level is significant for another reason. According to research by Credit Suisse, when the ratio has been between 25 and 26 in the past, stock returns over the next five years have been just 2.7%. That's after adjusting for inflation."
Compare that with http://jacobian.org/writing/what-can-men-do/ , which is linked to in the OP in which he criticizes Jeff Atwood for doing it wrong. So wrong that he won't even link to him, even though he acknowledges that his intentions are good.

Edited to fix pronoun.
> symbol mangling

Preference in all honesty, what besides the obvious requires mangling?

> split-stacks

What took place of split stacks? guard pages?

> ffunction-sections fdata-sections

an example is to use weak aliasing of dummy functions - but this is sort of elf dependent (I have no idea how or if weak aliasing works in pe). I think this is an area that needs to be improved.

If I'm wrong, let me know.
That is only kinda true.
Haven't read the thread here, but the idea of an iPad mediating such simple play between kids makes me depressed, and I can't imagine it's not simply diminishing what the equivalent experience without the screen would have been. Also that's not how the Tangrams puzzle is supposed to work.

I did think the drawing bit was cool though.
That's an awful lot of detail from a event with no surviving witnesses.
Anil - I'd have expected a bit less snarky of tone from someone so public, but I'll try and answer you anyway:

Yes, I asked other males what they've seen. You can't change reality. Our industry is about as male as the army. I could probably have counted the females in my computer science program back in college on one hand.

I'm just wondering if it really all is as behind closed doors/hidden as is implied, or perhaps I just haven't come across it. People talk. They meet up in bars. I hear all sorts of things from other people in the industry over FrieNDA - though I really haven't heard many stories like these.
iPhone, MacBook Air, iPad Air, AppleTV. These are the devices I use every day. It used to be Blackberry, iPod Touch, HP Laptop, Xbox 360.

It started with the Xbox. I played a lot of games in college, but before starting grad school I realized that I would need to really bring it if I wanted my M.A. to be useful outside of academia, so I sold my Xbox 360, Kinect, controllers, and games (Halo 3, MW3, DiRT, and some others) for $150. I then bought an AppleTV and had a nice lunch.

After setting up the AppleTV I was really impressed with how easily it connected to, and streamed, my iTunes library and Netflix. So soon after I ditched the Blackberry for an iPhone 4. That, too, was amazing and I soon snatched up an iPad 1 and, finally, ditched the HP for the Air.

Since then I've really enjoyed the Apple "way" and I am always amazed that, regardless of what new hardware comes out by other vendors, I am never jealous of anyone else's rig or laptop. I'm never thinking "Man, I need to get that 'droid device as soon as I can." And I never look at a PC and think I'll be ditching the Air and picking going back to PC.

However, I have coveted the design and hardware of the Surface since the very first one. It's a really solid design that has only gotten better with time, and the Surface Pro 3 seems to be even better. I love how it looks, how it feels, and the utility of the device. The Surface Pro is the first device to come along since I switched from PC to Mac that makes me take notice of anything else.

Unfortunately, there are a few things that I dislike. The keyboard cover is too flimsy to be really useful, meaning that it's really just a mildly-useful accessory that would be better off as a proper keyboard. Also, I dislike the stand aspect of the Surface. If I have a keyboard attached, then I shouldn't need a stand, it should just lock in place, more like a dock than a cover (though of course it needs to be easily adjustable, but I'll leave that problem for the designers and the engineers to sort out).

Other than those two things, the Surface seems like a really solid device, and so I'm genuinely surprised that it's doing so poorly as far as sales figures go.
The fact that Metafilter hasn't jumped on a bunch of javascript-heavy design fads over the years is one of the things I really like about it. Much like Hacker News, the site just works and doesn't get in your face with a lot of designer ego.
It seems that way. My UK bank card has the sort code and account number printed on it
It does look like it is only for extensions. Does this mean it will now be impossible for users to use desktop sharing from web apps?

I don't really see the security problem. Right now there is a popup asking if you want to share your screen, and there is also a permanent warning at the bottom of the screen while the screen is being shared. Also it is only available on https sites. What possible security risk is there?
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Steve Klabnik is a white knight, beta male Mangina.
A bug report with no evidence or sources making claims that cannot be verified by the readers. I could just as easily say I am being terrorized by my Female boss and shut down any women who disagree using your argument.
Hey, side question: I assume pdfium runs in the NaCl sandbox - how does that work with v8?
But if you were the target market, you'd understand it.

Victoria's Secret doesn't explain the purpose of bras on their front page- yet their target market understands the purpose of them.
So I have a theory:

http://www.ohloh.net/p/openjdk/analyses/latest/languages_sum...

The numbers even lineup fairly well in the 2010-2012 time frame which is around when the project would have started.
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You can use pomodoro technique. Go on radio silence while you are working. Set the expectations right of the folks who expect you to service their issues.

Use seperate tools to segregate internal work vs external work. For eg. We use our own product teamgum.com which is designed to reduce context switching while working in a team.
A good point. To be fair, I've only been to CA 3x and live in Boston.
I tried shortening a vanity domain of mine, and the asian characters can roughly be translated as "produce fire from the rays of the sun and break wind". I don't think I'll market that shortcut.
> I started fighting him, and his GF (who he had just been beating) smashed a bottle on my head.

I'd say "what in the actual fuck," but I know that those sorts of patterns are self-perpetuating and that since the woman was already in a place where she was allowing him to beat her, she'd fight to preserve status quo, as fucked up as that is. Did you first at least attempt to verbally stop him before you took it to the physical? Anyway, wow.
Author here. Thought I’d highlight my favorite, perhaps non-obvious feature: the slope of the charts tells you whether the variable is positively or negatively correlated with the cost of buying. And depending on the settings, that slope can change from positive to negative.

For example with the defaults, the down payment chart is flat. This means the total cost of buying is relatively unaffected by the size of your mortgage. Felix Salmon pointed out this demonstrates the Modigliani–Miller theorem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modigliani–Miller_theorem

Of course, there’s still a big intangible difference between having debt and not having debt, like your ability to respond to market or income changes. And in an inefficient market, loans can be more or less expensive.

Playing with the variables and seeing slopes change from positive to negative or vice versa is interesting, too, because these suggest different optimal decisions. Like as your investment return rate goes up, the down payment slope becomes increasingly positive — meaning when stocks are doing well (and assuming mortgage rates aren’t also going up), it’s better to have a smaller down payment and put more money into investments. To a lesser degree, your marginal tax rate changes the slope of the down payment as well, by discounting the mortgage interest payments.

The magnitude of the slope also gives a sense of your risk: you can see how sensitive the equivalent rent estimate is to small changes.
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Not at all. Make it clear to OEM partners that this is not a competitor to their low-margin products but rather a competitor to Apple's high-margin products. MS & OEMs both need to understand that it will always be a small fraction of market share. It makes the Windows brand more valuable, though: Some of their customers want a high-end device that's made to run Windows, and where else can you get that these days?
When you understand why you dismiss my viewpoint so easily, you'll understand why I dismiss yours with the same ease.
I feel uncomfortable that you have implicitly associated the parent article and its goals with extremism and hatred, which I don't observe.
It makes me sad to read this stuff, but a genuine question for other male readers. Have you heard of, or come into contact with any of this abhorrent behavior that's mentioned?

I've been out of college for about 6 years now. The worst I even encountered professionally was a joke shared in a group of 3 or 4 dudes about women drivers. I remember it well because it was so incongruous with everything else I've seen. There was also a booth babe at a conference I went to, and everyone I spoke with (including staff) considered it at the very least tacky. There were blog posts about harassment at that conference, but I never witnessed any nor did anyone in my group of friends, acquaintances and colleagues attending ever speak of being uncomfortable there.

I hear about more harassment towards the women I'm friends with after any given night of drinking at bars than the total I've ever heard from them about work.
"Evidence suggests.." -- yes, please, cite some.
Although I disagree with his conclusion's, he's right about Microsoft's strategy: they're creating a new market with the Surface Pro 3.

In my opinion it will be a massive hit particularly in the Enterprise; just where the MBA/MBP are unusable.
I'm in the same boat. I don't mind the Windows UI, but without a proper *nix environment I just can't justify spending the money on a Surface Pro. I currently have both a MacBook and an iPad and I really don't like carrying them both around. Having a laptop/tablet hybrid makes perfect sense to me, but only if it can run the sort of OS that I need.

I can see the Surface being a really awesome device for business managers outside of the technology industry, where Windows and MS Office are still extremely widespread. As a programmer though whose workflow is deeply Unix-y, it just wouldn't work.
"Some men made statements that made us feel unwelcome in the tech industry"

We are going to respond my making generailized hate speech towards all men in the industry.

But seriously, are people expecting 100% support from all sections of society? Is that even a realistic expectation?
We started with a server side Markdown parser, but switch to a JavaScript parser (https://github.com/chjj/marked). Really there is no reason to do this work on the server.
this is one of the more thoughtful pieces i've read on the issue.

it's obvious to anyone really paying attention the tech industry (and probably most other industries) has been extremely unfair to women. writing like this--clear on the problem and supportive of people who want to help--is important, but it's also important to remember that we all collectively have to act to actually change things.
So anybody who happens to have a compromised immune system gets to fight your personalised microbes, perhaps fatally? How very ... Darwinian ... of you.

Soap and water have saved more lives than any medication, ever. I now have no spleen (6 months ago I lost spleen, gallbladder and half my stomach as well as sundry peritoneal membranes to cancer) and nearly died as a result of post-operative infections. I take daily antibiotics, possibly forever. As a society, we don't just cleanse ourselves for our own well-being, we wash for others.
I think it does exist but the surface just isn't there yet.
The concept of being able to use one machine to sit down and do heavy work and then grab just my screen to head off to a meeting is very appealing to me personally. It almost seems like the inevitable evolution of laptop computing.

I think they got the hardware down right (although I cannot attest to that since I don't own one) but where they are really coming up short is software. If I'm going to drop that much cash to buy a portable device, it better have apps/programs on it that have a better experience than what Windows offers.
Fake your own death and run away to Argentina.
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I like the Unix philosophy: Do one thing, and do it well.
It's trying to scream "reference implementation!!!" I'm sure that MS wouldn't mind earning the odd nickel here and there from Surface Pro sales, but they have a much deeper interest in pushing a unified mode of computing, with one device becoming the device you need when you need it. For better or worse, that seems to be their model for the future of their OS and application software, and they seem to understand that a traditional form factor laptop or desktop is not going to be that device. The object of the game seems not so much to be to sell Surface units per se, but to persuade people to want Surface-like (or other convertible) units where there software they want to sell will make more sense.
Perhaps the quote was going for build quality, which the Surface RT did well in. I agree though that the processor speed + software failed it :(

Windows improvements + cpu improvements in Surface 2 make the experience much, much nicer. No longer do you tap a "new email" icon and wait 2 seconds for the action to register. The fact that it used to behave like that continues to blow my mind.

Go to a best buy or Microsoft store and play around with a Surface 2. You'll see that it's much better than the Surface RT, though I understand if you're reluctant to drop another ~500 dollars on the same brand. At least for now...
Yep, I though all cards around the world had that. But it seems to me that buying stuff with a debit card isn't that common in USA.
Yes, but ADHD is much more than just not being able to sit still all day. There are working memory problems, time management problems and much much more. It affects interpersonal relationships, job performance and many other parts of a person's life.

As a person with ADHD-Hyperactive-Impulsive type grows up, he will start showing less and less hyperactivity (the impulsivity is still there though).
Do you have a better solution to propose, then?
Afaik, Balanced don't have debit card payouts publicly available, they only have a landing page which is 'accepting applications'.
Does the idea that thousands of toddlers have been prescribed ADHD-drugs become more or less concerning, once you consider some of those prescriptions may be schemes to acquire pills for diversion to other, unprescribed older users/buyers?
Changing the competitive landscape could very will be the definition of disruption.
Strangely the article makes no mention of Microsoft Mobile, i.e. the unit formerly known as Nokia Devices.

Microsoft has just completed a $7B USD acquisition of a hardware division that has 25,000 employees worldwide. They're not about to get out of hardware now!

After the Nokia purchase, Microsoft's hardware volume is on equivalent scale compared to the major Windows PC vendors. The Surface Pro is the high end of a product range that spans everything from the $90 Lumia 520 to the Xbox. In that role, the new Surface Pro is an important halo product. What's the benefit of killing the Surface today?
I came here to say something similar: that the same action or speech can/will be interpreted very differently based on a whole slew of factors, including gender, ethnicity, or just plainly being different people to begin with. What appears "okay" or "benign" or "in jest" can certainly not be the case for a colleague, whichever gender they may be [1].

In fact, I'd argue that it's hard to perceive the inappropriateness of our own actions in the moment. It's much easier to notice the possible auxiliary effects of our past actions when reflecting on them at a later time. Frankly, I can think of any number of things that I've said or done in the recent past that may have made my female friends and colleagues twitch an eyebrow, but didn't elicit an explicit response because they've learned to just deal with it and let it go, having been in a boys club for so long (one started her career in investment banking). And I'd consider myself to be fairly self-aware of these issues, and yet I've admittedly failed many times over.

edit: and frankly, how many of us voluntarily and regularly look back at our past week/month to think about the ways in which we've failed ourselves and our own principles in this area? We may review the ways in which we failed in our job capacity and reflect on how we can improve, but I think the frequency with which we do the same for our social interactions is much lower.

[1] In fact, I think "I was just kidding" is one of the lamest excuses for actions that at times clearly are not thus.
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"We are your community leaders, your open source contributors, your keynote speakers, and many call us role models."

.... Yeah, ok.
Ask any teacher, and they'll tell you that any given school is only capable of properly serving the middle 90%, or, at best, 95%, of its students.
Daniel Lewin seems like a badass.
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Terrorized though? I'm not sure that being critical of some blog posts rises to that level.
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> Also, he was the CEO of a tech startup, and the tech startup media did all the reporting on it, and all his investors literally said 'congratulations, I'm glad this is behind you' after he pled guilty.

Thank you for spelling it out for me. This bit with the inevstors apparently condoning the behaviour is what I was missing.

So what do you think should happen? The man pleaded guilty and paid his due, presumably.

Should his career be forever destroyed?

I'm curious.
> it seems a bit too attractive to the webporn crowd

Why is this a bad thing? Two adults participating in a consensual tranasction
> I don't remember any stink from me or the people around me :)

I think it takes someone from outside to really tell the difference. It's like going to Iceland and realising the water in the north has a smell of sulfur. After 2-3 days of showering in it / drinking it you don't notice anymore.
Not yet any open source reliable CRM
Psssst. The OP of this article who criticizes Jeff is Jacob Kaplan-Moss. ie: A male.
There is also confirmation bias.
Yeah, that's true. Due respect, but I'm not really worried about those other users, only me. Because I'm a human and I'm selfish.
If Java were actually succinct, it wouldn't be Enterprise™