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> I've been using the web since its inception,

Interesting. Maybe that's your problem? I haven't been using the internet since it's inception, and I had no problem understanding what the text boxes where. Yes, I thought the time field was going to be a dropdown, but I quickly adapted when I realised it's a free text input
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Very cool. I've been doing this for about 3 years in Las Vegas for the VegasTech community. It is definitely a great way to meet other people and it keeps you from getting too focused on your own thing and not getting other perspectives.

I've also signed up for startuptravels as it looks to be a great way to create conversations.
> The bigger difference is the accretion (dilution) that the company gets from buying shares below (above) intrinsic value.

Sure, if you believe your stock is overvalued raise cash and retire debt, and if you believe it's undervalued take on debt and buy back shares. That's orthogonal to the issue of "if I want to give back 100$ to my shareholders what's the best way to go about it?".
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Free one advantage not held hostage by Microsoft Updates and overpriced Apple hardware
Its unlikely other OS will do anything but try to maintain and grow their monopolies.
In linux there are tones of media, music, and video programs for free and Libre Office is very good. Microsoft office does have RTD and good web to spreadsheet linking but also has errors in a lot of functions they haven't fixed for about 33 years.
I got the invite a couple days ago but didn't "play" because I don't have the time or inclination, but I have to say the transition revealing the invite was pretty cool. Although I'm an app developer, based on my search history, I would say getting the invite is not based on how much or how often you search coding-related terms or your history of searching, but how nerdy your terms are, which alone is enough to overcome the barrier of entry (like the people here who triggered the invite searching for "python lambda" and "mutex lock"). So, after you get the invite and accept it, then you can log in on Foobar. The reason the HN link is so confusing is because the it goes to the Foobar login page, which assumes you already got the invite.
I think that may accurately describe the field today. But the game board is changing.
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Isn't that what "patent trolls" are doing all day: Sell "insurances" to other companies ....

In the middle ages, some called such things "way toll" and those who asked for it where called "robber-knight".
Not to be pedantic but this:

> Not being in college doesn't mean I can't still learn,
> it just means I have to teach myself, which is what
> I've always done and will continue to do. People may
> judge me based on my lack of college degree, I am at
> peace with that.

Like many people fresh out of high school you do not know what college is, or what it is for. The challenge though is that you have this blank spot in your understanding, there is ample evidence that you have this blank spot (lots of people go to college for some reason and the ones who are successful are vastly more likely to have a degree than not have a degree, etc etc.) and yet you choose you own reasoning over that of what you can observe to make your choice.

This particular issue is rampant with really smart kids because of the misconception that college is about learning as opposed to being about thinking. Your learning skills can be quite strong and completely subverted by a lack of thinking skills.

Anyway, it is not up to us to walk the path for you but you did post here so you get advice for free :-)
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> As for "computer science" moving backwards, I suspect the gender distribution would be similar in any other STEM related major.

You'd be wrong:

http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/14/percentage-of-bachelor....

The percentage of degrees conferred to women in CS is down from 35% in the mid-1980's to under 20% today. The field is in fact moving backwards. Meanwhile, over 40% of the degrees conferred in math & statistics and physical sciences (the "S" and "M" in "STEM") go to women.
The distinction is murky, that's my point. I wonder who invented this term and when? A look at Google Trends shows how it is very recent: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=transpiler
Debian Wheezy (stable) on most of my systems, and Debian Testing on my primary home laptop. I use backports for things like Emacs and Iceweasel/Firefox where I like to have recent versions.

I've been using Linux as my main desktop starting with Red hat 5.1, so that's got to be almost 15 years ago. Moved to Fedora, then Ubuntu, and then finally to Debian.

I've got an old MacBook and I may get a MacBook Air at some point because they're great travel laptops. Hate the keyboard on all Macs I've worked with though. The operating system is fine, I can get work done on OS X.

Occasionally I boot into Windows (7) to play a game but at least half the time Windows will update itself for what seems like an eternity and then reboot automatically straight back into Debian. By that time I've usually forgotten what I needed Windows for.

At work I have a Windows 7 VM for various corporate tools that only work in Windows. Usually use the Outlook web client in Debian for email and calendaring. That works most of the time.
So you'd say that the median performance is higher from the top schools, but that the difference appears less pronounced at the extreme ends of the curve?

Basically this would mean that an average person from Stanford would probably be better than an average person from University of Nowheresville, but that an exceptional person from the latter might be as good as an exceptional person from the former...?

If true this would account for a tendency to try to recruit from top schools, since the odds of getting a better candidate might overall be higher. But it doesn't change the overall social implications much.
Linux seems not to ever suffer from viruses. And you can crash Linux if you try real hard and it starts up again reliably. Linux is far more reliable than Microsoft and same reliable before Mac went to Intel. Don't know how it is now. But its annoying not to have Flash on Mac Hardware. Or not be able to Play Mac Media on Windows as they come out of the box. Though VLC does largely solve that problem as a replacement for the native media players.
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Except now you can't start your commands with $...
I'm really not sure why I'm being downvoted (or even killflagged). The Mozilla Foundation is a US based organisation and has no choice in the matter if the feds come knocking for PRISM signup.
Iphones are not intuitive unless you mean dummies can sort of use them without ever finding out what they are able to do...
This is why I never use STARTTLS on port 25 or 587 when connecting to my mail server. For me, it's 465 or GTFO.

I understand the need for backward compatibility in server-to-server mail transport, but there is absolutely no need for client-to-server mail submission to rely on a hack like STARTTLS.

Whoever decided to deprecate STMPS on port 465 made a big mistake. That was back in 1998, when most people didn't fully grasp the dangers of unencrypted communication. I think SMTPS should be reinstated as a standard for mail submission, and mail services should stop encouraging their customers to move to STARTTLS. That way, you won't have to worry about your mail client's undocumented behavior when a STARTTLS negotiation fails.
What about whitespace? Do you think choosing it or brainfuck has an impact on success?
Neat! Just remember that it's not just who you know--it's what you know! You'll go far.
Because most people can barely work with basic algebraic expressions let alone formal logical systems capable of expressing correctness guarantees.
I use ArchLinux.

The main advantage I have is that I work in an environment where there are thousands of Linux servers. By running something like linux in my day to day life I have learned a lot of my skills which I use in troubleshooting the production hosts.

I also am a big fan of the linux way of development where there are lots of small tools and everything has its specific role. I feel that in Windows this approach to development doesnt exist. I really do not like powershell but this may be due to me being a linux fanboy and not understanding the powershell way of doing things. Which leads me to the point of flexibility of user interface, shell and many different applications to do the same thing. Its a blessing and a curse.

The fact that with Arch I can have the latest packages at my finger tips shortly after their release is fantastic, but can also be a detriment. I have had many times with bad graphics drivers, kernel panics (havent had one for a while) and recently I had a broken golang install.

With regards to moving to a different OS, my biggest pain point is Xmonad. I want to keep Xmonad (or i3) but I cannot do that in either OSX or Windows. If OSX didnt feel so restrictive (brew helps but i shouldn't have to feel like I'm sidestepping the OSX way of working) I would definitely consider it. OSX is a really good tool and can be a great system for developers but it needs to be heavily modified for my use case. With regards to Windows, I dont find it performant enough. Needs too much RAM, too much disk (Windows SXS is the bane of my existence) and just generally has the most obscure undefined behavior. Every time I have booted my Windows partition I have had trouble (granted maybe lack of use is a player) with rebooting from windows updates and the like.
You make good, valid points.

My perspective is that as a student, I don't stand out. My grades/ECs/etc are not very exceptional.
However, as a "rogue" (for lack of a better term) developer, I do stand out. I started making websites in 4th grade, I've worked professionally as a developer since a year after I was legally able to have a job at all, I have an entrepreneurial spirit, I have a history of shipping software, etc. Read that in the least egotistical tone you can (if at all possible) please; I'm walking imposter syndrome in reality.

I'd really like to continue this conversation right now but I think it'll stretch out too long, can we pick back up at this point in person? I'll email you right after I post this.

>I apologize for coming across as negative

I also struggle with wording what I say to sound positive, but you have nothing to worry about, your tone has been very neutral.

EDIT: I sent an email to the address in your profile, if that's not your current email, please tell me so I can send it to the right one.
"It has nothing to do with this conversation" was probably factually untrue, but this comment is not relevant or helpful to this conversation that is for sure. This is a classic de-railment tactic in conversations about gender equality - making it about whether or not men deserve to be blamed more than women in the same position isn't what this thread is even about.

This isn't "are men bad" this is "to what extent do women perceive they are effected by the gender imbalance in tech and the resulting power imbalance and what do they think about it".
Lavabit could do it because they were a small shop (under 10 employees). Do you really think Mozilla is going to pull the pin with over 1000 employees?

More likely would be that they relocate. But relocating over 1000 people would be a massive feat.
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This has the feel of a well-intentioned, but badly executed college paper. The kind that you'd get red ink on it saying 'interesting start, but you have to connect the dots etc...'
> mozilla, like few other companies, has my full faith that they would pull a Lavabit and close up shop before letting something like this completely erode their users' trust.

That trust is an exceptional asset, a unique competitive advantage for Mozilla. None of their for-profit[1] competitors can hope to compete in that area and I think it's especially valuable now that users are becoming aware of privacy and when the behavior of the competition often is so egregious. Mozilla has a chance to solidify their brand for the long term as the IT provider users can trust. If they can do that, IMHO they have a leg up in every market.

[1] I know Mozilla Corp. is for-profit, but profit is not their primary objective.
That example will be horribly skewed by the JVM startup time, which is a known problem, but doesn't affect your program once it's started. It's pretty meaningless to compare programs that short, eg. scripts because noone sane would write them in either C++ or Java.
Linux can't be beat for free music production software!-THats good although using Jack (a bit more sophisto) can be a learning curve at first.
Columbus sailing westward hit land, thinking he had reached India. The evidence supported his assumption at the time, in fact drawing any other conclusion would have been erroneous.

My point is that a handful of studies decades ago may have been correct: then. However, I think any sane person would agree that the conclusions drawn from that era have very little bearing on how the world operates today. Information asymmetry was extremely high in academia back then, because academics were not really scrutinized as they are today.
> Deis = heroku-like interface on top of your own private cloud

There are a few things like Dockerfile deployments and a `deis pull` workflow for importing your docker images from either DockerHub or an in-house registry as an app, but for the most part you have the right idea. Open-source Heroku has been the general elevator pitch but there are a few docker goodies in there.

> and certain other things like Ceph distributed filesystem

That's an implementation detail of the platform itself, not a hard requirement that you need to set up yourself. We spin up a containerized ceph cluster for database, docker-registry and logger HA.

> if you might want to run a non-Linux node, a specific filesystem or node-local configuration for performance, security or other purposes, or have infrastructure that is not feasibly manageable with a manual process, Deis is not currently useful.

We're quite receptive to suggestions and proposals such as compliance, security, node-local configurations et al. We're always happy to discuss changes in either the mailing list or in an issue in order to make the platform work for a range of environments, so it is definitely possible to bridge these two sides together :)
Debian.

1) the customization options (tiling WMs ftw)

2) the ease of replicating the production environment I work with

3) the package managers

4) the everything-is-an-ascii-stream metaphor and the ease of creating and using tiny, tiny executables (e.g. shell scripts, daemons, composable cli utils, etc)

5) the complete and total freedom to install and use whatever I want, whenever I want without ever having to pay for anything at all, and more importantly ever have to ever think about entering a product key or having to register anything.

6) the tiny, tiny performance requirements and extremely wide hardware support

7) the networking toolage (ssh, curl, wget, scp, rsync, etc being either already there or one apt-get away)

8) the general feeling that complicated things are abstracted away only if it's possible to do so. The fact that things break transparently, or at least more transparently than the competition. The fact that it's beneficial to Debian that failures and shortcomings be discussed publicly and at length rather than being held behind closed doors to maintain a credible commercial image.

I would really like it if some OS could re-implement the, as I said, everything-as-an-UTF8-stream w/ networking as a first-class citizen, the blank slate UI to be built from scratch (and a few shells), while shedding the legacy crud of teletype-era in-band signaling keycodes, the X window systems, and so on, which I admit is very, very unlikely as it implies re-implementing almost all of the stack, at once, in a backward-incompatible way, all to re-implement a model (the CLI) that is seen as a technical relic to almost everybody except me and Neal Stephenson.

Let's just say, then, that I will switch OS when someone will be offering a consistent, minimal and usable UI metaphor, while accomodating the motor tics I developed using Vim for the last few years.
In case someone hasn't seen this but is interested, it can be warmly recommended. It's labeled a romantic comedy, but it's really a great social commentary on stereotypical gender expectations and the part of dating culture that's often "just there" and makes it hard to see the forest for the trees.
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The paper you linked to does not say that men and women experience the thing we are haphazardly referring to as "impostor syndrome" in the same way. In fact, it reinforces the claims made on this thread by suggesting that males respond to the phenomenon by developing a higher tolerance for risk.
The lack of HTTPS when using Comcast's XFINITY web mail is still beyond me.
HTTPS is used when logging in, however everything else after that prompt is over basic HTTP (session IDs, inbox data, message data, contacts list, etc). I do not communicate much with my provided Comcast email, but I know others who tie a lot of services to it.
Until Comcast provides standard web security, they endanger their customers as well as whoever else involved (paying Comcast or not).

Careful what you share with user@comcast.net.
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The thing is my question would be how stupid it would have to be for things like spotify -- which, being streaming media, is shitty to run across a VPN, and if you were using carded goods on your home computer, traceable back to you easily, when the dispute for unauthorized use hits..
Much obliged. I'd not heard of Stylish but I'd been making these kind of adjustments (based on similar rules form another less comprehensive site) directly in developer tools, so you've made my life a little easier and I've learnt a little more about good typography.

Thank you.
The form at the bottom is a little confusing for several reasons.

1) You say things like "Here's my offer: I buy you a coffee" and "Tell me about your..." but then the form is all "I'm ________ and I'll meet you ______". Notice the change in who I and you refer to?

2) Adding to the confusing of #1, you have an email address placeholder that is not very obviously a placeholder. It is your.email@gmail.com but what if that is actually your gmail account. Perhaps using the classic something@example.com would make it a little more obvious that it is placeholder. It kind of looks like you have put your own email address since this I'm is you if they were all consistent in this section... but they aren't. This is a classic conundrum of web design. (ie, should a site use "your cart" or "my cart" in the nav?)

Having said that, I work in Berkeley and could probably meet up some day. I don't drink coffee though.
True, but you're assuming they were even remotely systematic about their book keeping.

Depending on how much their income did fluctuate and how irregular their expenses might have been (especially if you consider "one time" expenses like hardware with an indeterminate life expectancy) and if you then consider that they likely had their hand in the cookie jar while also throwing "their own" money back in when they needed to, it can be a huge ball of mud.

You could determine the total loss/gain by adding up the business-related expenses and income, but that assumes they were interested in doing so.

I'm sure they had at least a general idea of how well they were doing "right now" (i.e. assuming no catastrophic hardware failures or drastic changes in revenue, etc), but unless they were certain they weren't making much money (or even operating at a loss), they had no incentive to put their exact net profit/loss into clear terms.

Considering how easy it is to burn large sums of money without really being aware of where it all went, I'd give them the benefit of the doubt that they actually didn't know if they made a ton of money. But I'm fairly certain they knew the general direction they had been heading well enough not to be honest about the specifics.
A friend bought a windows computer and got Windows 7 before that became obsolete and then had to buy new Office because he had WIndows 7 and then a lot of stuff in new Office is slanted to getting you on their cloud service...so Microsoft like Adobe are moving (has moved) to renting the programs instead of actually selling them to you. Indefensible greedy and really good for Linux!
Fallacy of the excluded middle, in admitting only to two possibilities: that there's either an "evil cabal of men trying to keep women out" of the industry, or no systemic problem with gender bias in the industry.

In fact, the most logical explanation for systemic gender bias in the industry involves virtually no intentionality on the part of men, and is still deeply damaging to women.
Okay, I used Ableton on Win7 for a while, and tried to keep making music when I made the switch to Linux, and so far (after 3 years of on-and-off effort) it's been a complete and total failure for me, and I don't know anyone making non-experimental electronic music on Linux.

I'd like to know more about your setup.
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The underlying evolutionary reason is that they are of little to no reproductive value, thus society have evolved to give them a lesser valuation.
Because of the "permatemps" lawsuit against Microsoft back in the day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permatemp), tech companies almost always hire contractors via staffing firms. I'm sure Google is no exception.

I also don't think it's particularly important to this story, but ymmv.
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"Burn" is definitely a proper word to describe what they're doing with their cash.
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Just a quick note, Rackspace has been notoriously slow with getting CoreOS's latest images up, so we've had to work around that with noting that you have to update your machines first before deploying Deis. They just updated to v494 though so it should be good to go IITB now :)
I don't think OP's "here" meant SF, necessarily; their point was that having more women on buses doesn't automatically translate to rich social interactions.
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Note that I'm not arguing for Java. Haskell typeclasses covers both of these use cases (you can make a new type an instance of an existing typeclass, or existing types instances of a new typeclass, without touching any exsisting code) but requires someone to look at it and say "This actually implements the contract that interface assumes." They can be wrong about that, of course, but I think making it explicit helps.

There's also a subtle third case - I import two libraries. One of them defines Drawable, the other has something that looks like it implements Drawable. But it's just happened upon the same signature, and makes different assumptions. Maybe it even says it implements Drawable - but a different Drawable defined in a third library.

As I've said all along, I don't know how often these things are hit in practice. I think so far go development has been comparatively centralized, and so it might be seen less often than it would if it were used everywhere, but that might still be rare enough to not be a problem.