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> Unhappy with: Hatred for IE conditional comments, web fonts, and the video tag. ( but confused since he advocated for both web fonts and the video tag?? )

The question was "what would you banish? what would you add?"

His response was like:

Banish: Conditional Comments
Add (past): web-fonts, video tag
Add (future): Pagination.

I was confused as well, and had to read it like 4 times until it made sense.
Ok, so we dealt with a single black person—now what about the community?
Sure, maybe he answered a completely different question about asking for raises in general and not about the gender gap, but that's definitely not what was asked and it's still a crummy answer.

And I am sorry to say that women often make less then men even doing the same job with the same qualifications. That was the whole point of the question! One of the theories for part of this pay gap is that women are less willing to ask for raises. See e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male%E2%80%93female_income_disp...
You shouldn't and wouldn't rely unfailingly on what other cars merely report. If the car in front of you insists its maintaining speed while your own readings indicate its slamming on its brakes, you should assume it's slamming on its brakes.

However, if the car three cars in front of you just broadcast "I'm doing an emergency stop right now", that's really valuable data. The human in your car won't know anything is wrong for at least a second. The human driver behind you would know about it before the human driver in front of you.
Device Mode and Mobile Emulation in Chrome
Maybe monad in python
There is work in progress to add the ability to remove a device from a pool. So, hopefully in the not too distant future, that work will land in illumos and migrate to all the downstream implementations (e.g. linux, mac, and freebsd).
That query improvement was for a third-party extension storing data outside PostgreSQL (cstore_fdw), and has no effect on core Postgres.
I am still unable to understand what Malala is doing and why is she so great. Of course she is way better than an average teenager but I just do not understand the whole hoopla, she is safe and warm far away from SWAT valley in UK, and get to rub shoulders with powerful people who are interested in photo-op. Her ability to attain access is great but is it Nobel Peace Prize worthy.

Nobel Peace Prize lost shine for me. I still think their pure sciences awards are the gold standard, on the border on economics and completely disappointed in the peace prize.
I have not used zfs because when I read about it I found the expand-contract procedure overly complicated. (1) Caveats when planning for expansion should be addressed.

(1) http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/ars-wa...
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I thought the error checking (scrubbing) only works if you have multiple drives set up in a RAID.
I was a physicist before becoming an engineer, and I love to hear about all that science during the Nobel Prize season, but the Peace Prize is my favorite. I would even say it's the only one to be "useful" (is it really useful to award money to someone sometimes many years after (s)he has retired from doing any research?)

The Peace prize is different, by nature it is always non-consensual, because there would be no reason to award a Peace Prize if there were not someone else who is waging a war, denying other people their basic rights or doing other Bad Things. Today it's the Taliban and the child exploiters who are the bad guys pointed out by the prize. Last year it was the Syrian dictatorship, in 2011 the Chinese government.

When Obama was given the Peace Prize, I was also shocked in disbelief, and like most people I think it was not deserved. But then I saw that some people in the US were not simply shacking their head, they were foaming with rage. Coincidentally, they were the same people who supported, and sometimes continued to justify the disastrous foreign policy of the previous administration. And that make me think this prize was actually well awarded. It was not deserved by Obama, and I think the Nobel committee, by giving him the prize at the beginning of his presidency before he could actually do anything for or against peace, was almost explicitly saying that they didn't care that he didn't deserved it. This prize was a middle finger to the Bush administration and I think that middle finger was well deserved.

The same goes for other polemical awards. Al Gore got it, and it made all the climate science deniers mad. Yasser Arafat got it and the Israeli political right got crazy.

It's not always like this (The Red Cross got the prize a number of times, and nobody disagrees with it), but often, if you don't understand why a Nobel Peace Prize is awarded, look at who it pisses off.
Or, "Ok Google, set a timer for 5 minutes" on Android
Who offers production Level support? Certification? No one AFAICS. I wonder why you didn't mention that.
I don't understand the point of correcting him. If you see that the CEO of a major tech company thinks this way, you shouldn't jump to correct him, we should look at society as a whole and see how someone could arrive at that conclusion. Asking a question about what a woman should do when she wants to ask for a raise is a bad idea on a lot of levels. There are very significant problems with gender and race in society, but asking a person who neither has to ask for raises, nor is a woman is a bad idea. Creating questions based on a problem like this is shortsighted, because this problem isn't going to be solved on an individual basis.
If you come to Freiheit.com next week (16. Oct 2014) to the Clojure User Group Meeting in Hamburg/Germany, I'll demo the Dynamic Windows user interface of a real Symbolics Lisp Machine. Including its command shell called 'Dynamic Lisp Listener'.

http://www.meetup.com/ClojureUserGroupHH/events/207314372/
A somewhat insightful take on that:
http://www.ianwelsh.net/why-africa-cant-handle-ebola-the-des...
They are, but with a price: The price is that they can't show up again at their former company, but now are at their next with ALL the benefits. I usually chose that. Noone gives it to you (on the silver plate). You have to demand it. It's a struggle for everyone. Which is a change (to former times): My dad happily got old in one company (IN ONCE CITY, with friends, family and everything there). HE got the promotions and raises. WHAT changed ?!?
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It's a nice idea to only repeat things like that if you can find some decent source for it. Here's one:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/09/us-health-ebola-us...

(Well, I think it's useful to provide a source for something like that, it cuts at least 1 step out of the game of telephone that may ensue.)
I, for one, have given almost nothing back to the CSS. I don't read the papers, get involved with testing, implementation, or any of that. I don't even deserve table-based layouts.
So Senator Inhofe's concerns about the health of our servicemen sent over there, and how this will play out over the long term (this money is not going to last more than 6 months), are unwarranted, a ruse for parochialism?

Note the DoD is currently using already budgeted money, this is for the future.
It's standard manager-talk, worrying about how to keep a lid on the company's #1 expense: salary.

Not that I agree with his viewpoint, but it's not hard, at all, to grok where he's coming from.
You can google "timer 4 minutes" or "timer 200 seconds" to get equivalent timers. The reverse also works "3 minute timer" as described by herf. Google bug: "Timer 4:50 minutes" gives you a timer for 450 minutes.

Also "timer 450" gives you a timer for 450 minutes. Oddly "timer 62" does not give you a timer at all.

"timer 6h" gives you a timer for "19h 28m 55s". What?

1a = 2 27 06

1h = 14 26 24

1o = 2 25 56

1p = 2 25 37

1 = 2 24 59

1! = 2 24 04

1@ = 2 23 51

1# = 2 23 36
Somewhat... In a straight line ya, not in a road course (most likely). Definitely agree with you on the point of price and yet, it's sort of hard to compare them. If drag racing/street racing is what you're after yah, Dodge all the way.
People voted him in. He was Change and Hope personified.
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Those aren't intentionally indexed and persisted.
From the user's perspective its easy to say: it looks simple, so why shouldn't it be simple to maintain? I don't think its reasonable to compare Synergy to other projects unless you've actually tried to develop the code.

I'm not really sure how we can come across as a large company, there's only 2 of us right now.

Your post baffles me.
What cultural differences exist between New York and Silicon Valley?
No problem. It's really a shame to have such a high bar for using dedup. It either fits a given workload extremely well, or can be extremely detrimental.

There's been talk in the developer community about ways to address the usability of dedup, but so far nothing has gone further than small prototypes.
I doubt mr Obama is at all African, he was born in Honolulu for crying out loud.
All this crap with African-American is annoying and needs to stop.
You don't call white citizens European-American, do you?
Agreed, but it's especially odious in the context of a reducing the gender pay gap at a conference for women.
I use DuckDuckGo's version of this every morning when I make tea.
People voted Obama in. He was Change and Hope personified. Americans actually loved him when he was elected.

Of course people can change their minds, but you must remember not to rewrite history
That's exactly what Google did to Microsoft when they opened the office in Kirkland. About six people in my group left right away, and I'm sure dozens more since then.

And the reaction by Microsoft was exactly what you describe. Ignore it for a year or two.
FYI human eyesight is near 24MP equivalent. Its actually pretty high res.
One of the VPS providers I use has provided a shellscript that has worked consistently for me, even on older distributions where a patched package isn't available:

https://github.com/pbkwee/deshellshock/blob/master/deshellsh...
The Peace Prize has pretty much always been about trying to aid the efforts of a person or organization rather than a recognition of achievement.
Our downloads dropped to 25% (which is sad), but our income has doubled (allowing us to double our team size).
I think you are rather confused, you judged Poettering guilty not me. You need to prove that he is, not I that he is not. Sure you not a prosecuting attorney but I would expect the same idea of innocent until proven guilty to apply in as well as out of court.

You are "free not to use" his work, you are not free to force others not to use his work. If anyone thinks Systemd is banana's and wants to use it in their system/distro then they are free to do so. You are not free to force them not to use it. You are free to try to convince them that it would be better if they don't and they are free to be convinced or not.

By the way JACK is for professional audio work, PulseAudio is for consumer audio. Different users, different needs, and yet neatly complementary and cooperative with PulseAudio deferring to JACK2 when its running.
Totally agree to your point.

I personally don't have much of experience with different layout systems used in other fields, yet what I got from working with ActionScript3 (flex) layout methods few years ago and then recent experience with current android layout system, just brings back the appreciation of CSS.

It might not be perfect, easily becomes complicated, but it works and allows great flexibility.
zfs is a great FS, which add many modern concept such as zpool, and also put volume manager and fs together. storage and fs should be easy as this way. and it's in good quality on Solaris, I miss Solaris.
Windows 8.1 release and Windows 10 announcements both got flagged off the front page multiple times before finally an article was successful enough to stick around for a few hours. Same thing with the Surface Pro 3 and Windows Phone 8.1. Meanwhile iOS 8 had an article for each new feature for days.

The admins explained it that the Microsoft news triggers the flamewar prevention they built, and it happens almost every time. Microsoft articles need admins to explicitly allow them on the front page, or they're gone in minutes.
When you do everything from inside JS (as Pete advocates) then you have a real programming language to work with. Inline JS in the HTML is much less expressive.
>Sure, maybe he answered a completely different question about asking for raises in general and not about the gender gap, but that's definitely not what was asked

From the article, it sounds like what was asked to me. The article says he was asked "how women should ask for raises". We don't know if this is what was actually asked (it's not quoted in the article) or if the author assumed a general question about raise-asking referred specifically to women due to the venue. If someone has a video where we can get some additional context, that'd be great. Otherwise, I don't think we have enough data to really argue about it. You assume the implicit context and political baggage since this was posed at a woman's conference, and I don't, and I don't think Nadella did either.

>it's still a crummy answer

I think it's a fine answer. It's what he thinks about the topic. Maybe you disagree with him and think it's a poorly-reasoned opinion, but it's still a good answer, that is, it's still an actual response to the question that's reflective of his real opinion.

As to wage gap, agreed it's not something to get into here, but here's one link from a non-partisan source. [1] I was just talking to Democratic activists that freely admitted this and believe the problem is that women are kept out of career by subtle social forces, not that they get paid way less than men for the same title/position. The DNC site wants to leave this ambiguous because they know people will be much less incensed by these perceived subtle social forces than by an obvious inequity. I'll leave it at that.

[1] http://www.zebrafactcheck.com/dnc-muddles-wage-gap-issue/
Or The Verge comments? Or Slashdot?
Opening in Incognito/Private-browsing mode yields the same results for me as well.
Yes, this destroys all of my use cases.
Happened to my cousin many years ago, except they offered to triple his salary.

People don't see how insulting this is. Internally, you've already decided you are underpaying me by half, and think I'm a sucker.
You're right. People sometimes take it as being the official Humanity's Stamp of most noble person, or whatever. It's an award that some people choose to give every year. It has a lot (A LOT) of repercussion, it's highly political (in the case of the peace prize), but it's still a choice by a few.
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Yes I do prefer one good benchmark over ton of stale manuals. The good written benchmark code should show the best possible aspect of the language: how the code looks when it has to compete in speed too. If the code is demonstrably cleaner and almost as fast as C, then it can be a winner. If it's more than 2 times slower, I don't care, unless it has some fantastic libraries or framework which solves something much easier than other languages.

Fast and looking nice when solving something like a real problem. Benchmarks can demonstrate that. Manuals and references typically not.
Unfortunately in the current climate you're unlikely to see someone even try to develop a competitor to CSS, JavaScript, or HTML.

The problem is that those technologies are all held hostage by at least two inefficient committees, and enough browser vendors have signed on to that to make doing anything without their approval near impossible.

So let's say you had a magical CSS replacement which is perfect in every way, that's ten years in committee which is a back and forward process where they can effectively force you to alter the design for obscure reasons, and then even after that you have to convince every single browser vendor to implement it, and only then FINALLY will it take another ten years for all browsers to support your new syntax so you can use it freely without worrying about incompatibility.
ZFS writes a checksum when it writes data. So you can tell whether your data is corrupted, even if you don't have the redundancy to restore the corrupted data.
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Are you referencing this thread? https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/zfs-macos/qguq6LCf1Q...

I've heard this but I haven't actually confirmed anywhere official that ZFS will try to scrub your data due to a parity flip in ram values. Where in the manuals do they talk about it? (I'm actually curious about if it's just a rumor or if it's acknowledged)
Users were supposed to be able to override the styles of their pages, but have you ever tried to do that lately?

That probably has more to do with the "appification" of web sites than anything else, where huge amounts of JS and CSS are used together to produce a poor imitation of a desktop application. Pages that aren't SPAs are far more amenable to styling changes, and are often quite readable (or even more readable) even with all author-CSS disabled.

When CSS is being generated by programs, you might as well have those programs generate inline styles - what would we lose? And we would gain in simplicity.

I see inline styles as being more of a "one-off" thing, while CSS selectors can affect many nodes in the tree, so I think both have their uses. The "simplicity" is offset by the increased memory consumption and overhead of parsing every inline style, when much of them will be the same. You could argue that pages could be compressed and maybe browsers could use methods to identify duplicate styles so they can also compress them in-memory, but why do all that (i.e. making every client, on every page reload, have to expend the resources to derive this information) when you can group together common styles under one selector for which the browser will naturally treat as one object?
"It ended?" Was my thought when it ended. It was getting really interesting. I think an interview with the two of them on Charlie Rose would be the right format to explore YC and how it came into being and evolved.
Write Jasmin (JVM instructions) code directly in Groovy files – work in progress
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Mersenne Prime Checker – A non-winning IOCCC contest entry
> If it goes well nobody cares, if you slip up then everyone jumps all over you and calls you a sexist.

Most things in life are like this. Do what's expected and it's just another day. Fuck up and you'd better prepare for a shitstorm.
While this article doesn't necessarily present anything new, I thought I'd chime in with some related information.

In males (at least), the hormone Testosterone is primarily responsible for sex drive (along with sufficiently low amounts of Estrogen). It's been studied quite extensively -- but webmd does a pretty good job of summarizing Testosterone's effect on libido in men: http://www.webmd.com/men/how-low-testosterone-can-affect-you...
“I doubt mr Obama is at all African”

<Baracks> father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a Luo from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Kenya

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama
Software Existentialism
I'll definitely try it... good idea
Error detection can always be used, but error correction may or may not be available (it depends on the type of block). Metadata blocks are redundant even on a single drive pool; so if you just have a partial failure (e.g. overwrite a metadata block) it might be able to correct the block using another redundant copy on the same drive. Data blocks will require a redundant pool configuration, though, as these are not store redundantly by default (e.g. multiple drives in a raidz or mirror).
From my perspective what this series of very good lectures has triggered is a common introspective conversation, here in the comments section, that far outweighs the content of the lectures in value.

There is some very smart, intuitive and perceptive people hanging out here; I wish there was an even better algorithm to make these stand out.

Noise is the curse of a community (such as HN, slashdot, reddit -- any social circle come to think of it) as it get more popular; everyone has a different view of what is hacking, startups and noise, as the community broadens the focus dissolves.

This series has drawn out very good reflexion, IMHO.
There seems to be a big problem with innumeracy in responding to this epidemic. The number of ebola cases is doubling every 15 to 20 days. I guess people don't "get" exponential growth. Otherwise how are there so many statements about resource needs without a time tradeoff mentioned? Liberia needs about 3000 beds today to isolate patients, but only has about 600 currently. The US is helping to build more treatment centers totalling about 2000 more beds... but on a 5-12 week timeframe (to accomodate using Liberian engineers and local resources). In 5 weeks, the need will be for around 12000 beds! Do the leaders just not get the math? Or how else isn't the answer "do it the fastest way possible and nevermind who gets slighted or misses their cut of the business"!
We're getting into tricky territory with words :)

I think it's important to make a distinction between clever emergent processes that people are involved in but aren't in control of and those that people made and are in control in. The distinction is vague, and arguable.

I'm generally pretty down on systems (politics and economics are really burdened by these) which overreach by overstating our understanding of things. Just because a theory is the best we've got, doesn't mean it's good enough to be made operational. When people start getting grandiose with their social and political theories I think of 18th century surgery.
IPython already makes for a pretty good bash/zsh/etc replacement for many things. You can get a GUI using the IPython notebooks as well.
While I haven't made the switch completely yet, I always keep an IPython session around in an extra tab, since it is very often just much simpler to do something there than in bash.
It's 2014 and browsers are only now starting to add native support for CSS variables. CSS would be so much easier and cleaner if it supported conditional logic (for layouts) and more powerful variables.
any chance the console output of the battle can be sent to the account? this would make fixing bugs easier... or if "see todays battle" allows you to click on each hero and see there stats & console output.

really great by the way!
Some people are excited about programming in the sense that they can "make the computer do stuff". But the way I see it, I make the computer "do stuff" by just simply pressing the power-on button. And writing a "hello world" doesn't make the computer accomplish more than to write the same string in a word processor.

Maybe some people should just be reminded that programming is not fundamentally different from using a computer in general. Just that you have more fine-grained control.
Calling the work of someone who releases free software that they may have well hacked together in their free time downright shameful seems quite offensive and disregards the work they put into the project. Perhaps the OP had no need to use this code for non-English alphabets or is simply in the early stages and hasn't had the opportunity to fully test and implement this.

Regardless, I think people should be applauded for releasing their work instead of shamed. And of course, if it's not a lot of work, a pull request would likely be appreciated ;)
I think the appropriate term for languages like FORTH and assembly is "untyped."
You should ask same question for past Noble Peace Winners do :)
The trouble is, once you have a corrupted ZFS, there's no good way to recover it. That's why it's vital to make sure nothing bad happens in the first place.