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The breakage with inserting carriage returns in the middle of paragraphs at a fixed display size is already illustrated in the article.

Format flowed is a reasonable response - it actually meets the definition of 'works for most users' that you say is incompetent, I'm just not sure we want to embed 78 characters for the tiny portion of unmaintained email software that can't display the majority of mail they receive - but arguing in the same passive aggressive way you are:

The correct way is removing presentation from content. This is a very basic principle of engineering and if you're against that I'd suggest you might find the incompetence you mention closer to home.

Sounds a bit childish doesn't it? Since you're new here, you might want to read: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They'd only be doing this for a tiny percentage of phones that travel through checkpoints, though- and it's not clear to me what they would be looking for.

If there was a real motivation to secretly snoop on every phone that passed through a TSA checkpoint they'd come up with a better excuse that would allow them to plug in every phone- or they would more likely just be upfront about it. They haven't really tried to be sneaky about any other invasive screenings, to my knowledge.
If women are discouraged from pursuing STEM, then the women who do graduate are expected to be a higher caliber of persistence, and perhaps other measures of ability, than the average male graduate. If the bottom half of women are culled before graduation, whike men are not so culled, then the women who do graduate would be comparable to top half of male graduates.
What methods are you using for #1? It sounds likely that you have Anterior Pelvic Tilt (APT).

Instead of trying "passive solutions" (new desk chairs, standing desk, etc.), I'd try to actively strengthen your core and correct imbalances through stretching.

Here is a link that may be helpful: http://www.t-nation.com/training/trouble-with-the-tilt-corre...
Exception that proves the rule
I refuse to try to say something better than what has already been said if I feel I couldn't do a better job [1]

[1] http://web.calstatela.edu/faculty/tbettch/Frye,%20Oppression...
I feel very uneasy when I hear stories like these. I just can't get into the heads of those people. It's as if I live in a different reality, I just cannot comprehend that. It's such a great pity if a woman gets discouraged from pursuing her goal because of those asswads.

I don't want to leave an impression of turning a blind eye to the problem. I did say that I believe there are people who think like that, but I have a lowly opinion of them.
Meow that's what I call a product demo!
I find this quote interesting, "I'm very girly. My room is purple. I have floral bedding. I think I'll probably be a very feminine engineer. I just don't like the idea of being pigeonholed."

I don't necessarily like it when I'm incredibly pigeonholed, either. However, I'm genuinely at a loss as to the complaint of the title. If not pink, then what color? Would neon green suffice? What about puke? The article complained even about purple.

Now, mayhap I'm wrong and there really isn't some effort at market testing different designs. But, if there are, and it is showing that pink is working... should they stop? A few data points showing that "girly" color selection is bad does not indicate that it fails at large.

I say this as a man that likes the color pink. Used to have a few pink shirts that I wore so much they literally fell apart. Looking to get new ones. Do I wish more men were comfortable with pink? You bet. I genuinely cringe when I hear fellow parents bemoan their child's color choice. No matter what color it is. (Ok... I'll admit I would slightly regret puke green as a favorite color...)

For my hypothesis, if you want to get more women in technology, you should work on making men and women more comfortable working together. This is especially tough on the stereotypical "geek" male. Heck, we have a hard time working together period. Add a woman to the mix and most of us lose it big time. Is it any wonder more of them don't wish to join us?
Your dystopia should include the millions of engineers India graduates each year. In many ways the difference between these groups and US groups is the technology curve, US group offer cutting edge technology while Indian company will build Java backends with awt. If you fall behind the tech curve you might be outsourced.
Giving my feedback about the big things I care about:

The biggest problem I see is that you have no HTTPS support for this site. There are very good reasons for having HTTPS even if you aren't transmitting something you would consider "secret". With modern 64-bit processors and session caching, there's really no excuse for not having HTTPS available on every page. That said, you don't even have HTTPS support during login, which means that password information will be completely sniffable. It's not at all clear from the login popup that this will be the case.

Additionally, the actually design degrades nicely with Javascript turned off, which is commendable, but logging in/signing up is still Javascript-only. Ideally you'd want a site that keeps all the functionality that it can have without Javascript with Javascript enabled. It might look slick for people using Javascript, but you really don't need an in-tab popup for login/signup.
I hope that is going to be acceptable: my laptop is way too old for my battery to hold a charge, and I really only use it when I'm on the road. I'd hate to have to buy a new one simply to get it on the plane :(
What diet/exercise routine are you doing to get there?
Snickers uses "diva" in its ads. The meaning there is "woman-like, and therefore unpleasant way for a man to behave."

As long as women are disrespected culture-wide, any female-gendered term will seem degrading from a male point of view.
I feel torn about the "premature optimization" stuff. On the one hand it's clearly true that we're terrible at predicting bottlenecks and it makes no real sense to second guess them at any fine level of detail. On the other hand, I think about products that I love to use and they are all fast. I think about the first iPhone and how utterly crucial that first user experience was. Did they achieve that by just writing giant gobs of code and then circling back afterwards to fix a few hotspots? I think about how Chrome was such a delight after FireFox got slower and slower and more bogged down. Clearly, Chrome was written from the ground up to avoid that. I am not so sure you can really optimise for performance after the fact, at least not universally. There are times when you have to build it into the very fabric of a project right from the start. Once a project has a giant mass of moderately slow code, there's nothing you can do except rewrite it to get better performance.
You don't need anything else than these two:

For design and logos:
http://thenounproject.com/

For markup/html:
http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/
The eye normalizes for orders-of-magnitude difference in luminance. Presumably, it makes for a good cinematographic choice to avoid the effect, for the same reason it would be grating to be hit with a lens flare every time a shot tracks from indoors to outdoors.

On the other hand, bullet-time would, and should, be red-shifted, which is a whole 'nother thing.
And why aren't they worried about the cargo baggage which also contains electronic devices that are potentially uncharged?

Because you can't swap in a live battery in mid-flight if the device is stuck in the cargo hold, of course. I'm not sure what's so terrible about this, since most people will have a charger with them anyway. If their device happens to be out of battery but they can plug in the charger and demonstrate its safe operation, there's no problem. Indeed, this doesn't strike me as anything particularly new, rather an old story being recycled as churnalism.
I think there is still room for a generalist to make a dent in the world. If you can build full stack apps you're at least worth gold to someone / yourself as a technical cofounder if you can stomach the risk.
Such a system is unworkable. Where are the profits "made" exactly? You can have sales tax, but governments already do that and they aren't satisfied.

The reason taxing a person's income is (relatively) easy is because you can't split a person up. Just count the number of days they spend in a country, if it goes over a certain level then they are resident for tax purposes and away you go. America ignores this of course with citizen based taxation a.k.a. modern slavery but in all the other civilised countries that's how it works.

Now consider Google. A German user goes to YouTube and sees an advert. Is this money made in Germany? Or was it made in America, where the software was developed? Or in America and Switzerland because there's a YouTube team in Switzerland too? Or was it made in Finland where the request was actually processed? Or was it made in Canada because that's where the advertiser is? Or was it made in Ireland because the advertisers contract was with Google Ireland Ltd?

Pretty quickly you realise this is a fools errand. There's no way to say where the money was made in such an international operation. Any definition you come up with will be fought over by governments endlessly because they all want to buy votes by taxing foreign companies which smells to them a lot like free money (and thus free voters).

So we end up with the simplest definition possible - the money is made where the company is headquartered. The headquarters can be anywhere. This solution was arrived at in both America and Europe. It sorta worked for a while because most companies were already established and new companies were small and poor so nobody cared about them much. Now we have the phenomenon of new companies that are extremely profitable, do all their business on the internet and therefore could pick a country to headquarter in purely for tax reasons. Cue moaning and wailing from stupid politicians who ran up enormous debts and now want a bigger slice of the pie.

But attempting to change this simple definition will just reopen pandora's box.

The best solution would be to just finish off the race to the bottom entirely and push corporate tax rates to zero everywhere. This would yield an approximately 25% hole in for example the UK budget. However the money can be made up elsewhere, such as by increasing VAT or personal income taxes. Of course that is politically difficult - people like corporation taxes because they don't like corporations, and taxing them feels like free money too.
I do a lot of walking and I have upped my consumption of hot peppers and watermelon. There might be some other things I am doing.

I have a genetic disorder. Belly bloat is a common side effect. I am making progress, it is just slow. I have previously used hot peppers to good effect to work on this issue. I talked to a phd chemist about it and did some research. The capsaicin opens a channel in the cell membrane at lower than normal temps and helps flush out fluid. It is kind of a biohack for a body with a defective (different) cell channel.

I am not sure what else I can do.
Where do you live? In the center of San Francisco?

In every other place in the world nobody give a damn about the latest technology. They only need something that work for they problems.
Honest, legitimate post that I very much enjoyed.

However I do think posts like this feed in ageism. I say this because it posits that the change is that the author is older and has more things to do, therefore they've fallen out with technology. The take-away invariably being that people who are older and have more things to do have fallen out with technology, whereas the young are still with it, whatever it is.

Let's back up for a moment.

I've worked with people throughout my career who never learned a thing that wasn't specifically taught to them on the job. They had very little curiosity, and an email saying something like "try to look into" would get met with derision. "Is this on the test?" they would effectively ask, when really I was just trying to get people interested in something that might have an impact on our work. So soon enough I have to be very specific and guide people along the technology path.

They left work and played volleyball and worked on their tuner car and went to family events and so on. They learned exactly what was specifically necessary for their job today and tomorrow. Never beyond.

Most of them were 20-ish year olds.

I was the prototypical "love technology around the clock" sort, and I was very, very much the exception. Literally, I know no one who I ever worked with who savored technology like I do.

But there were moments when I lost interest. One was on a return from my honeymoon. Being away from technology for a couple of weeks, suddenly it was all very "Meh". I could easily have taken that moment and said "Oh well, I guess this is what happens when you turn 27. Guess it's time to look into management."

But I didn't because that would be wrong. I lost my mojo and was burned out. Not long after I changed jobs, got recharged, and was at it again.

And I love it. I love the change. I love the technology.
Yes, form is so important on those two, thankfully my girlfriend is following the program as well, so we keep an eye on each other for bad form the best we can.

I'm actually much closer to novice with those than my OHP/BP, which are very far behind.
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Starbucks also makes very little net margin the US, and as an entity pays very little in taxes directly, but that does not mean that the US does not make a lot of tax revenue from Starbucks.

After cost of goods, the gross margin is spent on operations like payroll, marketing, logistics, etc. Each entity in the line pays some form of tax (e.g. VAT in the UK, sales in the US), not to mention the billions in payroll taxes.

It is also surprising that litigation would be seen as so cost-ineffective. Google gets sued 100s of times per year, and I suspect the UK government would have a lot more to gain than the typical claimant.
You didn't say what you do. We have a remote team and would do this for any of the following skillsets: server Java, Rails, FE/JS, designer, sysadmin.
> Where do you think female interest in jewelry comes from? Are you implying that interest in jewelry is inborn in women? You are begging the question

I don't care where it comes from. Do you think that if a woman likes jewelry, she needs to justify it as some inborn attraction before it is acceptable?
I was a swimmer in high school and have been doing it on and off for the last few years (am 27 now). For the last 18 months have been doing squad training 2 - 3 times a week (3k in an hour, pretty high intensity). Am finally feeling back into it so have added a couple of resistance sessions. Try and surf once a week as well.

Swam a 30s for 50 LCM (long course metres) free the other day, which is the fastest I've gone in years. Feels great so now my goal is to get back under 1:03 for 100 LCM.

Exercise is so essential for life.
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What motivates your disdain?

What is this with you programmers that you think that you're the best thing that has happend to this world? It's just a job. No more a job then any other one.

...as evidenced by the equivalent years of training required to, say, use a shovel?

Self obsessed rich kids.

Don't assume that all of us are rich, or even solidly middle class. Sometimes startup founders (unwisely) spend years at or below poverty (been there, done that).

Do assume that anybody with ~average intelligence and above average motivation could become a programmer, though.
Over the past two years, I went from being 1 lbs overweight according to my doctor to 6'1" 175 by gradually starting to run and then then do yoga. I was getting up to six times a week either running 30 mins or 1 - 1.25 hours of yoga, but I hit a limit because of my diet. I just don't eat enough of the right stuff to keep that up and those are moderate (not light) exercises. If I eat sugar and breads it might be technically enough calories, but without the energy to really work out well. I wonder how many people can't get into regular exercise because they don't eat right stuff either.
You are being a troll. You don't know you're talking about [1]. You can do the math to figure out that you're wrong. I already have. If you can contribute anything remotely productive I will respond otherwise have fun building regulation castles in the sky.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-re...
The situation is that a CLA is still required.
Personally, I don't care (I'm just a consumer who is not affected by the CLA). Others care and insulting them as "People who don't know any better" is not right.
What vast resources? How hard it is to pop up a link to your cookie/privacy policy?
Request/Reply pattern makes a poor choice for communication between services - it increases coupling. It doesn't matter much if it comes with HTTP or any other flavour.

Again, Jeppe nails it in very detailed post: http://www.tigerteam.dk/2014/microservices-its-not-only-the-...
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Thanks, I'm forgetting this paper too often...
In any quality legal system there's no such thing as "stretching the boundaries of legality". It's either allowed, or it's not. Once you get into the realm of random bureaucrats issuing opinions that define law you enter a whole world of pain (see: EU right to be forgotten, FTC child protection regulations, US SDN list).

Tax law, being very old and quite well worked out, is pretty specific. Starbucks is not breaking tax law by doing this unless governments give into temptation and try to retroactively change the rules.

The core problem is that attempting to slice up the profits of a fundamentally international business is a losing proposition that can ONLY end in bitter arguments. It's not surprising there are a billion loopholes; it can never be any different. Who is to say what Starbucks beans are worth? If you go in and say, well that's obviously "tax avoidance", you'll immediately hit lots of other much less clear cut cases. But once you abandoned the rules there won't be any way to decide on those less clear cut cases and it'll just turn into chaos.
I dunno. Web developers in Ithaca NY use Angular JS, I know that.
It's not particularly difficult technology to pull off. The actual TSA agents are clearly dumb as rocks, but if you give them a machine that just sucks up data and sends it off to some central repository, they'll have no problem plugging it in.

From my understanding, they already can make sort of "notes" on your file - including books you have in your luggage, that sort of thing. It's not that crazy to imagine that they'd distribute some simple juice-jacking equipment if people are very frequently wanting to plug in.
Looks like a possible candidate for Impostor Syndrome to me
Yes. Men are more concerned with being/appearing strong, again, re-inforced and exaggerated by cultural norms. This also makes us tend to buy relatively useless tools/toys like power tools and big trucks, to make us feel strong. IMO this is a close analogue to the common female concern with aesthetic adornment. Women mock us, justifiably, for the dominance contests we like to get into, stemming from the same desire to be strong.

Of course, women have their own analogues of our dominance contests. The deep fundamentals are the same, what differs is more our interpretation. Both sets of instincts stem from where we first look to power. Heck, they could just be subconscious logical deductions from the physical asymmetries between sexes, and the nature of our reproductive drives, but at that point the distinction almost doesn't matter, because it's still going to outlive any education campaign to stop it.

This all seems obvious to me. We already have abundant evidence of a fundamental difference, it's all around us. It seems a more elegant explanation than all this madness occurring with no trigger at all, which is the view you seem to advocate. I don't know what else I can say.
Picked up a Fitbit flex and aria. I've cut the sugary foods I've consumed out almost completely and have started walking around the city, aiming for 5-7km each day. Not a huge amount but I'm aiming to ramp things up over time.
I only started a couple weeks ago but I'm enjoying it, I feel much better in general already. The tracking is definitely helping me keep on target.
Some people are finding Google's increased fuzziness very frustrating to use.

The lack of ability to specify what should be searched for hinders some searches.

So, there are some spaces for search:

1) better site specific searching. Searching Wikipedia for misspellings (in order to fix them) is frustrating. Searching Amazon is bafflingly awful - I honestly do not understand how Amazon search can stay so so terrible.

2) boolean style operators and stemming choices.

3) I dislike being kept in an English language bubble.
What happened to the tech recruiters that continuously send everyone job offers? Or is that only in the Valley?
You might like Peter Attia's blog, http://eatingacademy.com/. He's an MD and endurance athlete, and does a lot of self-experimentation.
Devops is an attitude more than a particular practice.

So far as AWS, I'm an AWS maniac and I would say it is a bit complicated. You have a huge number of choices and if you pick the wrong ones you will pay in more ways then one.

I've gotten to the top of the learning curve fortunately because I read AWS docs over and over when I work out at the gym, but I've got little interest in working with other cloud platforms because I don't want to climb that hill again.
Most engineers don't consider meetings to be "work". It's pretty normal to only "work" for 4 hours (or even less) and spend the rest of your time on overhead - meetings etc.
Get my resting heart rate below 60 again
Don't be a web developer if you hate fads. There are ERP systems, business systems etc that pretty much use the same tech as 20 years ago...
Oh wow, after reading the description, it sounds exactly like my problem.

Thanks so much for the link! Haven't tried most of the exercises recommended here, and I'll give anything a shot at this point.

I've also never really understood when trainers say to activate, use, or strengthen your core. I do tons of advanced-level ab exercises, but my abs are never activated for my posture. My gut kinda sinks in when I slouch forward. Is it just bad habit?
Service owns it's data. Other services can't access this data directly. Within service, on it's data, you can do as many "joins" as you want.
New plan is get in shape playing ultimate frisbee with friends.
Just inputed my stats on strstd.com, I'm at intermediate in all of them just by following StrongLifts (http://stronglifts.com/) for the past 8 weeks. Highly recommended simple and effective routine.