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Does plan9 support 15 different archs with all of their quirks and subarchitectures? WiFi stack? Support for different power modes? Framebuffers? Kernel probes, high resolution timers, extended inbuilt security APIs?

The beauty of plan9 comes from the interface to the userland, not from implementation details and features. If you wanted to add al those features to plan9 I seriously doubt you could get it as lean and quick as Linux.
"Is the question really about how many women programmers there are compared to men?"

I don't know. Is it? My post just riffed on "enough", and briefly mentioned "more". There's no hint of a measure. That was by design.

If it isn't, what is the goal here?

(I'm not trying to be a jerk, or really addressing you specifically. I'm trying to Socrates the conversation up a bit, except unlike Socrates I don't really know where I'm going. This conversation just goes in circles with too many people saying "What we have is bad!", but that's not, well, to borrow a word from another culture, actionable.)
I've done this, and it's fun. It was also a bit of business judo -- I recommended an exceptionally difficult client to one of my competitors. Gave 'em the phone number and everything.
Reading this makes it sound as if implementing trivial things that would be "easy" in traditional environments would be a total pain in the ass in GAE.
Reminds me of the "IE Tab" plugin for firefox, which allows you to render your current tab in ie-format.

It's quite useful when you're designing websites, and also useful when your organisation has legacy apps that only display properly in ie6.
> What you've done here is to create a straw man by asserting that gender and race are always meaningless criteria.

As opposed to the much more popular one of asserting that gender and race never aren't meaningless.
yes, i avoided listing djb's stuff for that very reason.
I think the position you're referring to is concierge, not chaperone.
I believe, if you read the article, the guy interviewed did just that...

You also might want to consider that, these days, decent retail jobs are not the easiest thing to come across.
I think anger is unfair; I font like him much, I don't hold a lot of respect for him as an individual (though I respect his achievements) and I do think that recently he has started to get worse.

But Im not going to sit and rant angrily at him. Commentors on TechCrunch do plenty of that - but y'know every blog has that. TCC just reacts badly to it sometimes :)

Yes there are angry people - your right. Some probably dont like his abrasiveness (It's never worried me; my family are like that so Im used to it), some probably dont like his ethics and get cross (again, never understood that one). Sadly none of this is will change their minds :)

(Just look at Graywolf angrily hounding Matt Cutts day and night over any conspiracy he can formulate in Google blog posts / press release etc. he wont stop no matter how patient Cutts is with him)
It sounds like Apple's approval process includes a part where they run "strings" on the binary and look for the word "beta".
It's definitely an experiment. We'll play techno/rave music, lots of strobe lights and stuff. Technically the party is called Cyberdelia, after the club in the movie. Everyone is dressing up as a hipster/raver/hacker from the movie and encouraged to go by hacker handles all night.

Dancing and drinking and enjoyment all around, I hope.
raise a fund to pay the license fee to upgrade everyone still using windows 2000 or less that are indelibly tied to IE 6?
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I'm hope I don't appear to be trolling or taking things out of context, but it did sort of sound like that, especially if one is skimming:

I offend people by writing. And I do it the same way Michael offends people in person:
"1984" Apple ad. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8

It really does not matter if you think they are right or wrong. Watch the vid and decide if that's what you want to attach your startup fortunes to. I can understand why some funds would have been motivated to focus on iPhone apps last year. At this point, I wouldn't touch an iPhone startup without an ironclad insider contract with Apple.
None of their demos are particularly outlandish. Surface has been duplicated n times; Microsoft has had the best, most polished implementation, that's all. If you look at the real Natal demos, they're certainly doable for a big company like Microsoft. This tablet also isn't anything new; multi-touch PCs have been around for a while.

I'm not even particularly impressed with their interface here. It doesn't have the consistency of design that Apple's does, and it doesn't look particularly intuitive. That doesn't mean that it's vaporware, however; in fact, it probably means the opposite.

Anyway, Microsoft's operating systems are more successful than everyone else's anyway. Windows 7 looks like it will be successful even relative to other Windows releases, no matter what you think of it. The buzz is right, and people are impressed.
You can probably make more taking care of pets than children.
"This also means that, while it's great for the mole rats that they don't get cancer, that doesn't mean they're somehow more immune to cancer than the average human. Even though mole rats are legendary for their longevity -- they can live into their twenties [3] -- the average human has to be less cancer-prone than a mole rat just to get through puberty without needing chemotherapy."

Naively, doesn't this imply that elephants and whales are more immune to cancer than the average human?
It feels like a nice exercise in utilizing the google maps api, but I'm not sure this is solving a real problem. If I want to know when the next detroit tigers home game is (hardly what I consider local here 2 hours outside of detroit), I'm going to ESPN or the tigers site.

Increase the scope to include college games, and include non-mainstream sports (rugby, volleyball, etc.), ditch the map as the main site nav, and you might have something.

And yea, ditch the adwords until you get traffic. I thought it was seo at first.
I see where you are coming from, but I think there is an analogy here that can be raised to what happens at St John's (where I graduated). When I was there, we often had to pretend not to know things, especially in math, so that we wouldn't take advantage of things we knew, which happened especially in lab classes. I think it is a bit like we pretend to physics students that we live in a Newtonian world, and then introduce relativity afterward. For computer science, I think that the article was advocating more of a historical approach than a logical one; it is not hard to draw up a curriculum that starts with logic gates and assembly and progresses to the language de jour, but that starting with something like Babbage's computers and progressing to more modern computers naturally brings up more diverse issues, such as some discussion of analogue computers or how a computer doesn't need to be rebuilt any more for reprogramming. This would not teach any student how to program, but would help the students gain a computing education.
"Four legs good, two legs bad!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8

sorry if you feel I'm slightly mixing metaphors. Sometimes I feel like I'm chatting in a forum of frogs in a pot of rising heat.
I have been fortunate enough to work in an environment where fully half of the developers were women. It was in state government, which is to say, outside industry. My strong suspicion is that sex bias has little to do with the work, but much more to do with the attitudes of corporate software development, which are (inanely) time-to-market driven.
It rubs me the wrong way when people make this sort claim about why others criticise them. Sort of a sophisticated version of a 13 year old girl's mother telling her that the other girls are mean to her because they're jealous. Richard Dawkins makes the same claim when he is confornted: "I realise that I might convince more people by being more strategic or diplomatic. I accept that criticism." (paraphrased) I don't really believe that.

I don't really believe pg when he writes: "I'd rather offend people needlessly than use needless words, and you have to choose one or the other" or ". If you want to please people who are mistaken, you can't simply tell the truth." Actually, it's not that I totally disbelieve him but I think its rationalising in a way that is not entirely intellectually honest. Maybe he rationally agrees with the former. The latter is probably true. But the reasons that we choose our words, our "style" is a lot less rational. In any case, claiming that 'my style is the honest one while the anaemic version that "everyone else" uses and want me to use would be the right one from a persuasion or self promotion perspective,' that is bogus. PG, Arrington & Dawkins have all been successful with their styles. It is doubtful they would have been with the style they describe. Perhaps it is because of the abrasiveness, perhaps not. That's up to discussion.

I understand pg is not defending himself, but he does seem to be defending Arrington in solidarity.

edit:* Something has been bothering me about this comment. I don't disagree with the premise of this essay. I agree with it. Arrington is disliked for reasons unarticulated and possibly unknown to his haters. I'm not even absolutely convinced that this conclusion is wrong. I would be very surprised if the effect it is describing explains everything. A few other explanations seem more likely to me. I am just suspicious of the class of argument put forward in the same way pg is suspicious of the 'heroic generation' arguments.
Amazing work. Thank you.
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A bit of vaporware (or "Microsoft's Secret Newton Killer")
Seen on a T-Shirt: Ray Kurzweil must die.
Why you should buy 5 year old car and sell it after 10 years.
Just saw your reply. That's kickass.
It raises an interesting question in my mind about the merits of conversing here on HN (where you're more likely to begin a conversation) v leaving your thoughts on a linked blog.

I know some HNers do both [1], which presumably has the benefit of acknowledging the source OP at the source, and also participating in our community locally. Is that worth it?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=837930
http://mbed.org/tour/#compiler

Does anyone think the benefits of online compilation outweigh the possible problems (site downtimes, the company going out of business, etc.)?
Interesting. It's going to be a tough sell, particularly if the brick industry doesn't classify them as bricks, technically speaking.

A friend of mine developed a revolutionary new type of concrete block design, a bit like Legos, and poured tons of investment (sadly, some of my larger family's) into setting up relationships with block manufacturers, etc. Even the bricklayers unions loved it, because they could use lower-skilled workers once the foundation course was set. Unfortunately, he could only convince exactly one county in the country to certify it as up to code for building block, so after many years, I assume he's giving up.
Brilliant - it's nice to see a different take on the Valley.

I often wonder along the same lines as you mention; the whole fad thing.

Indeed I was chatting to my boss today about the original dot com boom. At the time he had a decent capital to invest but just didn't think the numbers added up (he made his name in fraud investigation so there was more than just gut feeling to it) and so held off.

Interestingly his comment today was "it's happening again; only worse".
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This doesn't take into consideration the uneven aging of cars depending on driver habits, the cost of lost time spent repairing a car (much less on new cars) or finding a car (much less on new cars as well), etc.
Google is on a roll right now. Wave looks great. The question is if it'll become as prevalent as Gmail or as ignored as Google Docs.
How to Steal a Botnet and What Can Happen When You Do
Which is sad.
Yeah yeah, "I have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too small to contain".

A tweet on HN... good grief...
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It's amazing how recent phones can be and still look like ancient history.
They're so good that there's a fucking line-up to get hired. I think they ran 50+ people in a night just to give an information session on being hired to work in the Apple Store.

It was crazy. I don't think any other retail could pull that off.
They recommend that you subscribe to their downtime-notify group. They post well in advance of scheduled maintenances, and have recently put up a schedule of all such maintenances through the end of the year. It's easy to miss the "you should subscribe here" info though.
I can't wait. Unfortunately being in Sydney, Au this works out to being Monday morning for me but I look forward to the speed ups once this is complete.

Question for any of the Github people reading this will this cause an immediate improvement in the speed of fork queue/network map updates? I had a ticket open when it was delayed up to 3 days a few weeks ago and you mentioned you had some server plans in place for the future so I just want to confirm this is what you were talking about.
It really doesn't matter very much. The main thing the rating system does is allow you to avoid utterly crappy or misrepresented videos. I don't see what difference it makes whether you're avoiding one and two star videos or videos with too many thumbs down.

I don't think changing to a thumbs up or down system would affect my experience of youtube on way or another.
No, I find it annoying (although I can't speak for the community as a whole) when people try to draw such attention to their websites and very rarely click on links to blogs and personal websites on blog or social news comments. If I find a person's comment insightful, then I click on their username, visit the sites they blog on/have made/twitter, and see if they're worth subscribing to.
I recommend this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5ObAgkqicQ to everyone here. Note she was interested in programming from a young age, but nobody encouraged her to be an engineer.
I worked for Apple retail a few years ago. When I was there, it was like working at Empire Records. We were rock stars of the retail world. Every day we went in, provided amazing solutions for our customers and had a blast doing it. We did whatever we had to do in order to get the job done and it very rarely felt like work. One day I worked 13 hours off the clock to make sure one couple I was helping had an amazing experience (there were major issues with a data transfer, dead drive, etc).

At some point, I believe Apple retail started expanding too quickly and Apple corporate didn't know how to handle it. They brought in managers from big box retail stores to try and solve the problem, unfortunately they didn't "get" the culture and a lot of the Apple zealots quit or got fired. They were the ones who provided the best experiences for the customers. Maybe they didn't attach enough extra items to the sales, but they always gave the customer exactly what they needed. And when the time came, that customer would return, and bring back 10 of their friends. I guess it's a lot easier to track # of items per sale than to track customer satisfaction and enthusiasm.

You sly dog! You got me monologuing! I can't believe it. :)
In any case, I met some amazing people there and I'm glad that I was part of Apple retail's growth.
I think if you're a social "hub" yourself, such as an Arrington or a Gruber, it's ideal.

If you're a techie who needs to actually get work done on hard technical problems, it's a total disaster, time- and distraction-wise.

One analogy would be the tech pundit (forget whom it was) who said reading the NYT at breakfast would send him into a mental maelstrom for the rest of the day, on overload. Twitter is like 100 micro-NYTs. ;-)

At least that's my (admittedly short stabs of, now and then) experience.

[Edit:] I suppose if you had a reasonably-sized close group of associates who only twittered a few times a day, you could keep it under control as a 'water cooler' experience.
Damn straight. It seems like a bizarre OS, a little clunky, but it's also very innovative. Now if only they've got quality hardware.
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Hmm, on one hand it looks pretty awesome. On the other hand, it's going to have to do a lot my Pre cannot for me to carry it around. It's got wow factor but not sure about practicality.

Can't wait to see more.
The Referendum
A mouse weighs 20 grams. I weigh somewhere around 100kg. So I consist of approximately 5000 times more cells than a mouse does.

Another fun fact, whalers find tumor scars in whale bodies all the time, but the whales never seem to die of cancer. The probable answer: whales are just too big to care. If I get a tumor the size of a walnut, I might be able to live with it. For a mouse, that would be a disaster. If I get a tumor the size of my head, that's probably game over. But for a whale, it's no big deal. But a mouse, a whale, and a human all have about the same sized cells. So to be fatal, a whale's cancer cells would have to divide a lot more times. Unfortunately, cancer cells experience a lot more mutations than normal ones. Whales are big enough to be able to afford to let the tumors mutate themselves to death.
Why do you say Google docs is ignored? It's unglamorous and low key, but I use it heavily, as do many of my friends.
But if you get closer to being able to do it alone, you will find cofounders with greater ease. Nobody wants to join a team that will fail without them.

I absolutely agree.

I think the perception of bias is because I'm not a developer but I do feel I'm technically competent to know when a developer is full of shit, and when they are really special that I want them on the team. I use to program back in the day before switching to pixels, sometimes it's a regret. :)
Thank you for that; it definitely provided a perspective that I hadn't thought of previously.

However, I don't know that I agree that if people were encouraged the same that it would somehow make the balance 50/50 or even remotely close to that. Of course, my perspective is limited to personal experience.

I have a lot of geeky girls in my family and I know a lot of women who are geeks, and they've all been interested in other geeky pursuits - medicine, psychology, civil engineering, EE, chemistry; none of them have had a remote interest in software specifically. Why? Because it was too boring for them.

Maybe we should bring it on ourselves to make the work seem more interesting if we really want to try to bring some balance to the gender mix.
Of the 45m I only walked away with ~20m net. But besides that, I was in an industry with a lot of very very overpaid people. Some made that much a year. Kept my feet on the ground.
Those who see this as a move somehow "against Microsoft" should realize that nothing would please Microsoft better than to no longer have to support IE6.
I suspect that most people don't know how botnets work. This lecture gives a pretty decent description.
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They are definitely not 2 continuous hours of LDing, and more like the same time length you experienced. I'm just guesstimating how much total time was spent in multiple 20-30 minute LDs over the course of sleeping one night. For me LDs are longer and more "solid" when they happen towards the end of sleeping than the beginning.
What possible downside is there?
b4 i looked at the site i thought it was a great name for the idea i was assuming -- "area" teams in the semi-anonymous onion sense, meaning, local teams like high school, local/division ii/iii college, etc.

not that focusing on the majors is bad -- it's a good idea -- i just thought it worth mentioning that the word "area" conjured up high school and not majors for me.
I think I have seen this article here before and the canned response as well; "If an article can dissuade you from becoming an entrepreneur, then you were never one to begin with."

I normally don't like those snarky responses but I think in this case it is fairly true. But on the other hand, it is easier than ever to create a business online in your spare time and build it up. It all depends on what you value most short term time or long term time and freedom with no definite payout.
agreed. and Apple has the data to make the decision, we don't.

just to say it isn't a sensible policy a priori is incorrect I believe.
I'll believe it when I can walk into a store and buy one.
Is that what lead to "What You Can't Say"?

Can you hint at some of those ideas?
I'm shocked that such a big-data company has missed the mark on ratings by this much. Especially given that they have Flash running in the browser.

If I were YouTube, I would start by automatically ranking the videos by the percentage of times it was completely played but discounting times it was played completely and the page was just left open with no activity (to counteract the people who opened the page and ignored it afterwards, or left their machines idle). Discard the 5% outliers on either end of the spectrum and you should have a pretty decent idea of which videos are popular and which ones are boring.

After all, don't they care mostly about whether the videos are engaging?

It seems like there should be a ton of techniques that they should have already been using to supplement the star ratings in order to fine tune any algorithms they wanted to play with.
So what we are left with is link baiting in english? no thanks... it doesn't need a title like that.
The valley has a whole has been a letdown. The city is nice but no better than many other cities. South bay is a string of ok small towns with little to no decent nightlife.

I've met many fine engineers, plenty of talented and smart people no doubt, but to be honest it's not that there aren't equally smart and talented people elsewhere. I consider some of the people I work with to be world class... but not better than other world class people I've had the pleasure to deal with. Many of whom are hungrier for it. More wild west.

The valley seems like a middle aged club with lots of sycophant youngsters willing to work themselves to death to get in. Plenty of startups rehashing ideas with the occasional, undervalued imho, gem. I think it's easy to argue that the valley is the center of the universe given the incumbent position of privilege it has. There'll be plenty more money made here and plenty more resulting mutual masturbation.

Maybe it was different in past years.

But I can't help but feel that the smartest money looking to build long term world-changing companies might be wondering.. and starting to look elsewhere for the next revolution. There'll be a pullback given the recent economic upheavals but the world is a big place.

Have you been to greenwich village? Faded glory. The left bank in paris.

Like them I don't think the valley is going away. Just succumbing to middleage spread.