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Well, yes lots of Americans do care who comes into the country and from where and there is nothing wrong with that. Lots of people also don't buy the cheapest meat, cheapest coffee, cheapest clothing, etc.
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The actual spam and completely incoherent questions are deleted. So what you're left with is things that are actually legitimate questions, so don't merit admins intervening and deleting, but which touch a nerve in some other way; like people asking about how to send out large volumes of (presumably) unsolicited email, people asking homework questions, and the like.

Also, note that some of these "most downvoted questions" are also among the most upvoted as well, having very large positive scores, like https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1642028/what-is-the-name.... Once a question becomes famous enough, there are likely to be a number of contrarians who don't like it and downvote it, and eventually that can add up.

And then if you look in the comments of some of them, that seems to be not too bad but which have more downvotes than you'd expect, they got a downvote brigade because they complained about a few downvotes on meta. Pretty lame that people do that, but it happens.
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> An alternate hypothesis is that merit is not uniformly distributed and Asian males simply have more of it. But that's where the "pretty people" will just call me a racist/sexist "creep" who can't get laid, and intellectual discussion stops.

I think that you yourself are falling into the stereotyping trap here. There are people that would take offence at what you said, but there are also people on the other side of your discussion that would argue that those Asian males gained though skills through privileges that are not evenly distributed in society.
> in a global economy, don't we also believe in a global workforce

So open the borders and let anyone who wants to come in come in and work any job they want - let them vote as well.

Until that happens, I have a problem with this.
For me really I have my personal mail on my home desktop via thunderbird and there is zero reason to ever have it anyplace else.

Nothing is life is so important it can't wait until I get home for an answer. If it is so important like work email then they will provide me with a phone and an email account which they do. I'll gladly carry that. But for my personal use. I just don't see the point. Do I really need to see that recruiters email right now? Do I really need to see the amazon shipment confirmation right now? Nope.

I have all of my passwords in a keepass db which is also only accessible via my home desktop. I can't access anything even if I needed to since everything has its own pw which I don't know.

As I said. Nothing is that important.
really dude you will buy that for home use .
If more people knew how to write compilers, is it likely that programming languages will be better?
as a vegan, I hate stuff like this. I'm vegan for my health. I see nothing but insanity in recreating high-fat foods from different materials, so that I can keep the obesity but get rid of the good taste.
Depending upon the router they do have some bug but the things is the vendor don't give much damn about it.
This seems kind of interesting except for Quay Valley[1] which is the figment of someone's over active imagination. A much more interesting idea would be to build a Hyper loop between Fresno and San Luis Obispo.

[1] Quay Valley, the quintessential real estate scam :-) For those of you who don't know, this is located on Interstate 5 between Highway 41 and Highway 46 call it due west of Delano. Now zoom in on the satellite view. What you see is the dry, parched soil of the central valley, without access to water reverted back to its native desert scrub form. This is some of the cheapest land you can buy in California if you don't require water rights.
A lot of science fiction had that goal as well - through looking into the future they often held a lens up to the present.
> Do you think, by your standards, there is some
> sort of a Jewish "discriminatory behavior" at
> play here?

Yes. No doubt. Jewish men have certain forms of privilege, which makes it easier for some of them to access elite scientific institutions.

They also have several axes in which they lack privilege. Those axes are less significant in the earning of a Nobel prize.

You seem to think you've discovered intersectionality and it is a huge surprise. Or that people who are interested in a more just society would somehow recoil from identifying power differentials favouring groups that also suffer forms of oppression. That is the opposite of my experience dealing with the people who actually write and research on this topic.
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> It was a pretty good question

No, this is not a good question for StackOverflow. You simply asked for someone to write code for you, which is not what StackOverflow is intended to be for. It is intended for help on a particular specific problem you are having with your own code.
If you like a hobby C compiler, check nwcc(Nils Weller's C Compiler) too.

http://nwcc.sourceforge.net/

nwcc is a bit more mature. It supports multiple architectures, multiple OSes, and it can bootstrap GCC.
Not necessarily. The unpopular point of view is that some are just prejudiced, regardless of the group that surrounds them.
I just looked at the first 5 candidates sitting in my recruiterbox account (hiring for a position in Delhi). Not a single one listed parents, marital status, birth location, age, height or weight.

You are correct that outside IT, hiring decisions rely heavily on the community. Within most serious IT firms, which definitively include Infosys and Tata, hiring is roughly as meritocratic as it is in the west. That's due to simple market forces - your community is simply not big enough or smart enough that you can hire exclusively from within it.

("Community" refers to a narrow slice of your ethnic group, e.g. Parsis, Gujus or Conkanis.)
Actually, that's exactly the kind of question that StackOverflow wants to discourage; people just using it as requests for someone else to write their code for them.
To add on top of that, even with great data analysis skill, I had another blog-post talking about it requires all the product, data, and engineering skills together to make a good data science team. http://ml.posthaven.com/why-building-a-data-science-team-is-...
Looking the PDF over again you don't need malloc, that was a quirk of our implementation. We had separated public/private structs, meaning private variables were inaccessible by non-class methods (and thus also unable to be instantiated statically by other code modules.)

(Our implementation was not very good.)
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> * Fully disabling HTML mail is still an exercise in frustration.

Shouldn't View > Message Body As > Simple Text do that for you?
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In my opinion, no. Programming language progress is bottlenecked on adoption, and then language design. Implementation is not a bottleneck.
1) How many jobs that are known for attracting socially adjusted, good looking men can you name where most of the winners are women?

2) How many high social status, well varied jobs can you name where most of the winners are women?

Law is both high status and favors people who are attractive and have good social skills. According to [1], women are 34% of the law industry compared with 12.33% of software engineers [2].

3) You defeat your point in your own parentheses.

Not really, because there is still a gender gap in math and physics, and so this just means (3) does not explain all of the gender gap in CS.

EDIT: I'm not going to reply to any comment that isn't a reply to this. You don't have to agree with the way that the delay before you can respond to a post grows exponentially as thread depth increases, but threads are unreadable if you try to circumvent it.

[1] http://www.americanbar.org/groups/women/resources/statistics...

[2] http://qz.com/143967/the-tech-industrys-woman-problem-statis...
K&R, then Hanson's "C Interfaces and Implementations".
If you want to define "privilege" as pretty much anything which causes merit to be non-uniformly distributed, then the fact that Asian males are overrepresented due to privilege is tautologically true.

Similarly, water is wet.

All you've really said is "I assign the word 'privilege' to whatever the cause is for Asian males performing well in tech." That's not really relevant to this discussion.

[edit: Sago, I think you've gotten off track. hackeruser was using the term "privilege" differently than you, treating it somewhat analogously to wealth and power and orthogonal to merit. When you use the word to describe anything that might cause disparities in merit, you are describing something far different than him.]
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They weren't available in my country when I started up.

They're probably somewhat of an option today, sure. But I suspect they'd still only garner 10-20% of sales at best. First mover advantage and all that...
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Echoing other sentiments, this is not a good question at all. You haven't shown code that you've tried, you're not asking a specific question about the problem you're having writing such code, and (worst) you're basically asking someone to write the code for you. This is a code request, NOT a question about coding.
One thing that Thunderbird reports back to servers is telemetry usage, which helps provide feedback on whether or not rare charsets (e.g., VISCII) need to be supported or how much weight should be placed on implementation of, say, NTLM or GSSAPI.

Also, Thunderbird permits neither JavaScript nor plugins to run in emails. It does permit plugins in cases such as displaying an RSS feed inline.
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There's a deep, wonderful irony in someone writing on TechCrunch about possible disturbances in the sanctity of software development.
Compilier design and programming language design are two very diffierent things.

Perhaps someone could even make the argument that a programming language is BEST designed by someone who doesn't know how to make a compiler?

The choices for a programming language should purely be based on the language, and on the user experience. In the design phase no thought will be given to compiler design (initially) and all of that will eventually be hiddden as implementaiton details.
Right, so even in fields you've been able to pick, you've not been able to show that women are the majority of the winners. You can say they're a little less frequently trumped by men. But you still have minorities in both cases.

Where are all these competent women who are eschewing tech because of the lack of hot guys? Which fields are they dominating?
The point is that 'merit' is systemically produced. It is a function of money, aspiration, parental ambition, education, culturation, and many other factors. Another way to phrase this is 'privilege', though that word is considered some kind of anathema by people who don't like to see their elevated status and capabilities as somehow a function of their environment.

I don't think anyone is really arguing that privilege affects merit, but to say that what makes up merit can be called privilege is to say that they are one and the same, which they are note. Of course access to resources to grow whatever talent you have, and allow you to make the most of your ambition will affect your merit, but to discount talent and ambition entirely by making the conversation entirely about privilege is to error in the other direction.

In modern western societies we attempt to smooth the privilege curve through socializing some aspects of it, such as education, and to differing degrees, health. While obviously not perfect, I would argue that we at least attempt to mitigate the problem by supplementing the biggest differentiators in merit that are based on privilege. Beyond that, what do you suggest? I don't think it's possible to eliminate the benefit of privilege, entire nations have gone to war to try, and the result was not what what I would call a success by that criteria.

Meritocracy has the benefit of shepherding those most capable and qualified into the positions where they can do the most. There may be a system better for the individual and society, but I would need quite a bit of info and evidence before I endorsed it.

>> But that's where the "pretty people" will just call me a racist/sexist "creep" who can't get laid, and intellectual discussion stops.

> Anyone who actually understands the last 20 years of social science, far from 'stopping intellectual discussion' are more likely to recognize that you've simply not found out or understood the issue. Which can, of course, be a sin of racism or sexism, if one is willingly ignorant. But can just be naivete or a Dunning Kruger effect.

Did you really just do that? Did you just respond to someone complaining about how the conversation eventually degrades into the opposition tossing out labels instead of arguments by stating he's either racist, sexist or ignorant?
That's true, but more people thinking about a problem makes breakthroughs more likely.
At that turning radius... it can't possibly go that fast?
> Same with the comment about using "chemicals".

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9126026
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> As a business owner...

Yeah, but what if your contact at the client is not a stake holder in the company but an employe?
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The first one I looked at, "Favourite Programming Cartoons", was a blast.

But hey, we've always been at war with Eurasia.
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A functional computer for $56. Not the best but probably a lot faster than the one you paid $2500 for.
objective and meritocratic nerd hiring practices (e.g. hire-by-github, death by brainteaser)

That selects for adequately privileged (generally) white males with the spare time to create projects on github and a particular interest in brain-teasers.

To my knowledge, hiring in all fields is an utter joke, with essentially zero research ever having been performed. It's entirely based on bias and guided by HR-fueled fears of lawsuits.
Long compile times are bad user experience, and language design influences this.

Performance is also extremely important for language ux, and there are certainly constructs that will prevent your language from ever being efficient. Someone completely unfamiliar with compiler design could easily add these to the language on features that are simply not worth it, even in his or her own eyes.

Besides, have you ever looked back on something and said 'Gee, I wish I knew less about this when I started'
> If they are all for equality and against "arbitrary lines", they can start by paying those immigrant workers the same...

I agree, but it would have to come with granting an H1B to every applicant or having an open door immigration policy. Otherwise it's not paying them the same, it's "segregating" them to India where they have to suffer lower wages. Much like black people not being allowed to work in high paying jobs.

It's amazing that people can believe it's wrong to discriminate against race (accident of birth) while at the same time insist on discrimination against nationality (almost the same accident of birth).
It was actually established in 1967 in "Journey to Babel", when his mother said "When you were five years old and came home stiff-lipped, anguished, because the other boys tormented you saying that you weren't really Vulcan. I watched you, knowing that inside that the human part of you was crying and I cried, too."
No one has or should have stranglehold on nor should claim to own an industry (territorialism). Industries just are -they don't care who the constituents are. People come and go. Does it matter what it once was, and what it's becoming? No. Stop the provincialism and the bemoaning of the illegitimate successors. Things change. They are meant to. People will always try to seek success wherever it can be found, now it's tech, decades from now it will be something else.

I really don't get this. Most people acknowledge there should be a more even balance of women in technology. But, the diversity is only welcome if the women are other nerds? If non nerds want to come to the party, that's despoiling things?

No one owns industries. Yes industries have a history and there were important people who started industries, but they mature and they become part of the mainstream --stop bemoaning this. Accept that things which become mainstream have to acquire aspects of the mainstream.

Of course, this is tech crunch and always wants to eat their cake and have it too.
I want a world where ethnicity, sex, and other body attributes do not matter very much. In that future world, body attributes would matter much less than they do today. So I advocate paying as little attention to them as possible today.

Other people seem to want the same thing, but they advocate a world view that specifically considers ethnicity, and sex, and other body attributes. I feel certain it's well-intentioned, but it's racism, sexism, etc.

Further, that worldview encourages codifying racism and sexism, and making them part of our workplaces. It has become normal for universities to tweak points on admissions applications, and for big companies to publish pie charts about their progress toward diversity. But this is just more racism and sexism. If you have to add an ethnicity column to your employee database and periodically release ethnicity pie charts to show how unracist you are, I hope it is obvious that something is very wrong.

We shouldn't try to use old bad ideas to increase justice. Justice will increase naturally when we discard old bad ideas.

Every day, we're putting down bricks, building the world of the future. Let's put down the kind of bricks that suit the world we actually want.
Having a consistent style actually helps a lot in large code bases. But these days, this can be automated with clang-format, so I agree that it's a bit silly that this is checked manually.

The bit about reusing i is a good catch though, that's not just a code-style thing but a real potential bug.
This post is from August of last year, and there was already a post about it at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8143905
> Even if there were no legal or immigration costs (which there definitely is), it seems to me they could easily do the same by getting someone from a less prosperous part of the US and moving them to, say, CA. I'm sure this happens all the time.

This logic seems wrong: if a person moves from somewhere to CA, they should now be paid a CA-level salary. Consider that at any point they can quit, and to every other employer they will look like a regular CA job market participant, so the other employers would offer them a CA-level salary. So you can't, in fact, hire someone from outside CA and have them work in CA at a low salary: they would just quickly move to a similar but higher-paid job.

This logic breaks down with visas that restrict your choice of employers. If your freedom to pick your employer is taken away, then your logic is correct: it would be possible to hire someone in CA at a low salary, without them immediately switching jobs, because they are forbidden from doing that.

The 20% premium that the company collects on the salary is (at least partially) a consequence of this lack of employee's freedom in the labour market. Without this restriction you would expect skill-adjusted salaries to be equal for visa and non-visa employees. It's not even anything to do with immigration per se, just this type of visa.
> Assuming that someone goes on a vegan diet and ends up unhealthy because of it is a bit much.

There are a number of people that tout themselves as ex-vegans because they went vegan, (probably) didn't eat a well-balanced enough diet, went to their doctor (who said "LOL just eat meat silly!"), got better, and then become staunch anti-vegans.

I think this happens because people try to just cut out non-vegan things from their current diet, and think that their work is done.
The nerd subculture is composed of White males among others, and certainly not dominated by them. It's funny you say nerds have a misogynistic dark side because often a group of nerds first congregate because they weren't interested in spending effort to be popular or attractive and so were a group of rejects and misfits hanging out with each other. You can force some women into 'nerd culture' to make it diversified but then the misfits and rejects are only going to leave and make another group because, well, they're rejected and seen as misfits by the other people you forcefully put in there.

The same will occur in the tech industry, as you forcefully insert people from other subcultures into the tech industry, rejects and misfits that first started the industry up will be, well, seen as misfits and become rejected, and will thus leave. The tech industry will become more diversified and conformist, and the misfits and rejects will move on to other things, and then some big wave of change will come from those other things, and those other things would be full of misfits and rejects who happen to be white males, (well america is majority white, what else do you expect), and then we can start this misogyny debate all over again.

You can't force everyone to work well with misfits and rejects. Though you can kick out the misfits and rejects, there will always be misfits and rejects, if not here, then they will be somewhere else, working on what society has ignored, so far.
>>Implementation is not a bottleneck.

Lets not forget what comes first. C++11 adoption was held back a few years because MSVC didn't have support for those features.
That's a nice post hoc rationalization but in practice it doesn't actually come up. I don't have any other app with the same semantics as Gmail. For instance, what app combines forward/next navigation with selecting, labeling and archiving? Unlike vim which I miss in native text fields, there is no context outside of Gmail that the muscle memory wants to kick in; the corollary being that there is not a comprehensive set of OS default shortcuts that maps cleanly to the set of things I want to do in email. In fact Mailplane does attempt this for Gmail so you get ⌘-n, etc, but the common ones are really not sufficient to cover a power user's email workflow—you're going to need to learn a few things specifically for your client of choice regardless of what that is.
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It could be less privilege and more a long cultural history of intellectual activity and thus, being raised in an environment that encourages these kind of endeavors.
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