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Agreed, there are hidden teachers you may come across in life that conceal their understanding from the world at large (i.e. remain silent until the student appears).

On the other hand, there are awakened beings like J. Krishnamurti who prattle on endlessly (eloquently so, mind you) about the no-path to awakening.

Also, in the Zen tradition it's pretty common for the master to give Dharma talks, which of course entails lots of talking (Eihei Dogen comes to mind here, saying a lot and revealing little for the rational mind to latch onto).

Probably the best example of "Those who know don't say" in recent times was Ramana Maharshi.
This is partially because converting strings into floating point numbers accurately is a surprisingly subtle thing to get right; the following links describe a bug in a library function that has been around for over 2 decades:

http://www.exploringbinary.com/gays-strtod-returns-zero-for-...

http://www.exploringbinary.com/glibc-strtod-incorrectly-conv...

http://www.exploringbinary.com/a-closer-look-at-the-java-2-2...

http://www.exploringbinary.com/java-hangs-when-converting-2-...

http://www.exploringbinary.com/php-hangs-on-numeric-value-2-...
Any company that has yet to be 'self sustaining' (which is to say a Going Concern in accounting terms) is a start up as far as I am concerned. Until it reaches the point where it generates enough money to keep operating without additional outside investment, it is in danger of going out of business when that outside investment ceases to be available.
That article doesn't actually claim it's discrimination.

Rather, it complains that women don't get enough positive discrimination (ie, discrimination in their favor or against men).

> Some women felt that their work environments were discriminatory, but most reported something milder: the simple discomfort of not fitting in in an otherwise homogenous setting.

That is, the only actionable thing that it suggests is that you should preferentially hire women so they don't feel so lonely, not that there is any actual discrimination to address.
OP here. To all the people flustered that I'm calling "listening politely" and "respecting people" feminist acts, I'll point out that, at the time, the only place you could reasonably expect that behavior in the Linux community was... a feminist collective, LinuxChix.

To this day, women in $COMPUTER_THING groups tend to be overrun by men searching for a civil place to have a technical conversation. It happened with the #debian-women IRC channel too. Just today, another man told me how volunteering for Women Who Code taught him to be more welcoming to newcomers in his own open source project. And have you seen the stickers on Guido Van Rossum's laptop?

So, yeah, it's possible to have these values without identifying as feminist, but in open source software today, explicitly feminist communities are usually the only ones that put these values into practice.
Try setting LANG=C before running the program, or doing setlocale(LC_ALL, "C"). That _might_ improve the speed. In any event, locale handling--such as determining whitespace--will slow things down considerably. I presume this is happening on Linux, and glibc's locale handling is dog slow. Solaris' is ridiculously fast by comparison. Why, I don't know.
Definitely not 'a new development' See my next edit above.
You realize of course that 'in the kitchen with recipes' is like the Cold Fusion of computers right? Ever since Altair first talked about "your very own microcomputer" there has been a "and you can have all your recipes at your fingertips in the kitchen" meme to go along with it. And it has never happened. Seriously, its like the anti-app or something.
Thanks, finally Zen appears.

It's turtles all the way down.
shutup bitch, make me a sandwich
Here's a link to the FAQ section regarding flash memory:

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#flashmem

There's no mention of the 4K alignment issue, however.
Pretending that the definition you gave is actually what drives all the "feminism" movement isn't being honest: it's certainly true for most people, but there is (and always has been) a not-small branch of feminism that is staunchly sexist.
Add some padding, coordinate the colors, change the font to something more distinctive, and you've got yourself a design language.
Your comment suggests a strong confounding factor: feminist communities are likely to be both smaller and more focused on user conduct than technical communities at large.

Without controlling for these factors, attaching the behaviors you do to "feminism" is nothing but saying "good things are done by those who agree with me, and bad things are done by those /others/".

Your argument does nothing to explain why you think this happens, and simply admits you're appropriating them without knowing why the correlation exists in communities.

Classic propaganda.

Ed:

I'm glad I've been downvoted and apologized for because I raised a methodological issue with trying to ascribe behaviors to a community, instead of actually showing me where she discussed why she doesn't think it's either of the (relatively well known) effects I asked about. I couldn't find anywhere she addressed this topic, but I'm entirely open to being corrected.

Here's the wikipedia article on the fallacy I'm claiming is being committed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_caus...

Ed 2:

My latin is terrible these days, lol
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The idea that women are people is not confined to feminism. You could of course argue that all outlooks that regard women as people are de-facto feminist, however this would still not make them feminism. A good example would be ancient Sparta. Their society definitely regarded women as people, however Spartan society is not feminism.
There are several use cases that I know of. One public one is Taobao http://databricks.com/blog/2014/08/14/mining-graph-data-with...
They name names, it becomes a radical feminist attack piece. People would ask, why did she attack so and so? They are so nice and do so many things for the community.

What's with begging the question by saying "it's Valerlie Aurora after all"? It doesn't do anything for someone reading your comment who doesn't know what to think of her.
> It’s likely ‘skank’ in the name is a variation of ‘skunkworks’ which was the team working on the device.

Right, sure it is.

Urban Dictionary is nowhere near the mark then, with widely accepted definitions of the slang term from circa 2004: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Skank

Edit: To be clear I read it as being "trashy", "tacky", "ugly". There are numerous definitions, I wouldn't have attributed (nor imagine anyone else attributing) the most unsavoury definitions to anything.
Looking at it from this angle, one has to observe that we not only do have a terribly high infant mortality rate; many seem to be spawned with the sole purpose of becoming child sacrifice. (Moloch the Great Acquihirer).
The obvious thing to get around the "fragmentation" would
be to leave the chip on the PCB and cut the traces. Then connect your own wires or an upside-down socket from above. Anything I'm missing?
Wouldn't this have a technical issue anyway - the fact that all devices in your home would effectively be grouped under the single IP of your ADSL modem? They could never pinpoint something to an individual. Same problem that the movie studio litigators face going after pirates.
Will you volunteer to filter my social media and email for rape threats, and compensate me for the lifetime earnings loss that is the result of naming someone who controls whether my code gets merged or whether I get invited to the top Linux invite-only summits? I've learned not to name names unless I'm ready to face the consequences of speaking out to protect other people.
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Very well said, sir. I would be interested in finding out the response of your MP.
Nah, that's pretty much the entire industry, even the ones that don't call themselves startups anymore.
Good write-up here by Australian ISP iiNet, who are strongly against the bill

http://blog.iinet.net.au/protecting-your-privacy/
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Can this solve world hunger? I'm guessing making this as non-profit and using the labor and material in under developed countries, may be this can be produced with even lower price or even given away free. Any balanced meal that can be given away free on massive scale can potentially solve the world hunger. In fact it can change world for real. Once food problem is solved, people can live anywhere without worrying about jobs. That even might solve problem of slums and housing. Sure, one still needs sanitation and electricity and other needs like education and clothing - but food had been the most challenging of all needs.
I got hired straight out of college to build a credit card processing system. I had NO idea what I was doing. I was copy/pasting code out of the Stevens Unix/Networking books and working 100 hours a week. This security flaw: http://seclists.org/bugtraq/1997/Nov/58 happened and I remember patching it and shipping a new version while the entire C level staff of a publicly traded company was standing behind my desk.

Yeah, it was stressful. I learned a lot though, not just from the coding under fire, but from that experience AND the aftermath (after the company tanked, you talk to the same C level guys and realize they appreciated the effort and many of them are good friends still).

I want to be coding and building stuff for the rest of my life. If you find it fun and enjoyable now, you'll always have people asking you to build stuff. And then the business side can take over (like... is this a good idea or not) but to be honest you don't even have to worry about that either, because it's not your problem. Code stuff, build stuff.
Sweet, but you gotta make it possible to save the generated heat map somehow. It took around an hour to load my location data here.
Obvious game killing issues -

Any game that would be fun to play would be too dangerous to sell.

I can't see it narratively being more immersive than a simple computer screen/tv. To much disjoint from things in the room/3D open space would stop that hypnotic state people get when concentrating on a screen.

Applications outside games might be interesting. Commercial venues for interactive stories perhaps.
Hopefully c <= 1 :-)
It's a pretty accepted fact that men interrupt women and women do better when they have women authority managers or teachers. It's why there are women's colleges.
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Supporting women in tech is not a “noble goal”; it’s a baseline for civilised behaviour. And while “considering user needs in the design of a system” isn’t necessarily feminist, it is something that is more likely to come up within a space that starts from respect rather than disrespect.

(Blaming users, male or female, is inherently anti-feminist.)
This was already posted. The discussion is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8414129
The Philippines isn't even on the list.
Er, why not? Are reasonable behaviors a scarce commodity?

If the argument is that

1) Feminism is a tradition of empathy and humanism
2) the application of OP's feminist ethos led OP to prioritize the needs of users in a particular way

then isn't this particular manner of operating, by OP's definition, feminist?

You can argue that Feminism is indistinguishable from other sorts of ethos, but it'd be hard to argue that it's not an ethos at all.
"Who's to say they don't already use this capability on a regular basis? As long as you're using an unauthenticated encryption scheme you will never know"

Oh, but we could know. And we should know.

This is a good example of good vs perfect and boolean cost. You are right that we currently don't know how prevalent these attacks are and if they are employed on big scale. But it is possible to know and would make a good research topic and/or a way for the community to raise the bar and know more about the state of Internet.

Yes do MITM on unauth DH is easy. But that does not say anything about the actual application traffic flowing through the connection. A successful, _undetected_ attack must also know and subvert the application traffic to keep the illusion alive.

We could do second level authentication, out-of-band authentication etc at application level to make it possible to detect the MITM. If we do this measurement on large scale and continuously we can find out who and where these attacks are in fact occuring.

IMHO one of the best network security research projects lately is the Spoiled Onions:

http://www.cs.kau.se/philwint/spoiled_onions/

This project aims at monitoring Tor for bad nodes and use out-of-band mechanisms to find things like MITM attacks. Very cool and relevant.
That article has serious problems. It is basing much of its analysis on the idea that the pipeline into tech no longer is highly unbalanced. The sources cited by the article actually show that this is not correct--the pipeline is still very unbalanced.
I've been adding a couple of tablespoons of dark chocolate cocoa powder. The first couple of days, I was kind of barely choking it down, but by day 4, I woke up with a strong craving for it. Now, just over a week into it, I would classify it as mostly neutral in taste and don't mind it at all. I certainly enjoy the ease of pouring a glass from the pitcher in the fridge as opposed to making a sandwich for lunch.

By the way, it really does seem to turn out a lot better if you mix it with room temperature water as the brochure suggests, and also mixing an entire pitcher by shaking seems to come out way smoother than when I was trying to mix just a glass or when I tried to mix it in a blender.
There are many in electrical/mechanical engineering which is I guess considered to be applied physics, to give a couple examples: Thomas Edison and Felix Wankel.
> feminist communities are likely to be both smaller and more focused on user conduct than technical communities at large

Is Python small? I'm sure there were other small linux communities (the term seems almost redundant) who were much less welcoming to women.

I don't know what to say to convince you that open source communities are traditionally hyper male and sexist. It's not so hard to imagine that you might get more contributions from women in an explicitly women friendly space within a larger women unfriendly (to say the least) community.

Here's some reading, I encourage you to read it if you think I'm wrong.

http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4291/33...
Protein shakes that I'm aware of aren't attempting to provide a complete and balanced diet, they are attempting to provide a supplement.
Interesting, they provide their source code. As a datapoint, what kind of average speeds do you get with them?
A very tiny number of high end android phones have 2gb. Most android phones are very low end devices. There is a good section in this overview that shows that many android devices have less than the 512M that google recommends:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/10/02/what-every-app-de...
Steel man. Interesting: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Steel_man . Sort of an idea in the vein of (but stronger than) the Principle of Charity.
As a man I have found the linux community extremely toxic, RTFM etc, over time this has gotten better, but I would hardly call it sexism.
Why would this have to be "uniquely feminist"?

If it's a feminist value, and that's how OP comes by the value... isn't that good enough? Seems like that's a fine way to arrive at human-centric design?

OP's point is actually broader than just human-centric design too. She's not just talking about consideration for users, but also a manner of collaboration w/ other developers too.
Actually, it sounds like an issue completely unrelated to gender at all.
i don't follow your logic. apple sells a lot more than just phones.
When was that brief period in the 2000s where ska got really popular and "skanking" re-entered the public consciousness as a dance style? Because I could imagine that inside Apple people thought of the "silhouettes dancing with iPods" ads as "skankPod" ads. That would make "Skankphone" a pretty obvious nickname for a phone project.
OP seems to have conflated taking a "human-centered" approach with a "feminist" approach. This constant reinforcement in the article about taking the "human" point of view leads me to believe that OP's perception of non-feminists is that they're in the camp of people more likely to take a "non-human-centered" approach. How bizarre.
One thing to note is that the particular problem was known, but all the solutions involved suffering: "“Switch to a slower directory-based method,” or “Use a file size hack that had bugs,” or any number of other unhelpful things".

Maybe this comes from a macho sensibility. Another example is the problem that it's easy for a noob or fat-fingered typist to type "rm -rf *". The current solution is "lump it".

Maybe women are more likely to weight things in favor of not blowing things up (data from actual women needed), and feminism is required to give equal weight to that viewpoint.

Many maybes here. I am spitballing too.
You might find it also makes their stats look better ie % African American employees.

Don't be evil.*

*Unless it's profitable.
I doubt it has anything to do with skunkworks or prostitutes.

My first thought was Skank as a verb, which fits best with the idea of a handicapped/faux iphone.
Regardless of any gender discussion, kudos for the atime hack. It's so much easier to say atime is a dumb feature or that apps relying on it are stupid. But you found a great compromise.
First, Let me just apologize for commentors like ObviousScience[1].

Second, Guido's laptop for those that don't wanna search for it right now - https://adainitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/fword_g...

Third, you definitely have an uphill[2] battle but there are those of us who get the point you're making.

1. http://i.imgur.com/6FOoDLA.png

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8411699
Yes, the steelman is a stronger variation of the typical principle of charity. It goes beyond interpreting your opponent's argument as strongly as possible, all the way to actually fixing your opponent's argument. It's a great technique, one that I'm not as good at as I'd like to be.

On the one hand, arguments supporting feminism that I see tend to be vacuous and borderline dishonest (case in point: this article). But there are sufficiently many smart and honest people who buy into the general theory that it's hard for me to completely reject it. That's why I'm so curious in threads like these, and why I'd love to see a steelman.

Some good steelmen would allow me to draw a reasonable conclusion about the theory itself, rather than merely it's vocal proponents. I could then safely either accept or reject it.
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This is only true if OP's arguments have no content and their qualities are attributed solely to a particular group.

Given that OP's argument does have content that we can evaluate your argument is irrelevant.

So that propaganda thing is just jumping to conclusions.
The OP responded. Basically, linux needs feminist spaces because FOSS communities are traditionally sexist spaces where their contributions are not welcome. The point isn't that no one else could have had the idea, that's absurd. The point is that no one had until that point, so it wasn't trivial. It's the banal idea that if we have spaces where marginalized groups are able to contribute without all of the extra baggage associated with being a part of the group. In the FOSS community, you face extra criticism as a woman.
Remember, you're quoting from a newspaper. Word "startup" in tech crowd (and thus, in media) means "sexy", "hip", "new", "innovative", and is a label you wear to associate with the sexy crowd (as opposed to the old, fossilized world of typical companies and corporations). Some of the features of this community are:

- the thing to brag about at meetups is not profit, but investor money taken and burned

- you need to grow very fast, because it's how you get investor money

- you ain't going to have a profitable business anyway, so you need to have a plan to sell your soul (and users), aka. "an exit"

- working overtime for free is justified, because "startup!"

etc.

But the primary reason for calling yourself "a startup" seems to be the association with "sexy and innovative crowd". You lose the label when you've been around so long that you make a profit and have other startups competing against you.

Evidence: I don't see companies bragging about being "Small Businesses", which would be a legal term.
it might be an ode to boings skunkworks witch designed a lot of their specialized planes, like the SR-71
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works
I'd say the biggest success story so far in making a linux community that listens politely and respects people has been the Ubuntu project and I didn't think that was explicitly feminist. I also think it has flaws in how it implements policy sometimes, but it is so big I would be surprised if it never had any issues and I think in general it has changed the culture of linux community for the better.
Sorry I voted this up. This is just a teaser, the actual article is behind a paywall.
I really love the "in-world" editing. However, I'm not convinced by the description of the scene. Here is what it should look like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paJG7Fy5Few.
OP provided evidence from personal experience: "In these communities, I observed this." You speculated about both qualities of feminist communities and qualities of user group size and composition, and then used that to drive the premise of your argument. That is unsound criticism.
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The sad thing is that our country is so safe, that we have to refer to terrorism nearly two full continents away^ in order to push this issue.

^syria is on the other side of asia, and most people in australia are on the east coast.
Some of us, many of whom are involved in the Ubuntu Women project, spent the better part of a decade working to make Ubuntu that way. I'm glad our work paid off :)
Unfinished game – learn by practice
TL;DR -> https://github.com/rezoner/unfinished-asteroids

Every time I get a new job I am being thrown right into middle of the action. No tutorials, no babysitting - just a real project and a task to complete.

It is a very stressful and frustrating at the beginning - but - after a short while not only I have completed the task - but also have this feeling that in a month of practice I've learned more than in a year of solving theoretical and imaginary problems.

So - I've prepared an unfinished game - and a plot for you as a new employee.

Let me know does it work for you and what was your experience with it.

I am a bit nervous as this is the first time I am trying to make something more emotionally engaging than technical documentation.
And was even in front of the computer, not using the phone! Still, at the moment only writing a comment like that can maybe correct the error. Thanks for understanding.
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Super flat. Digital native.