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Because she identifies with Jew, then she's being repressed.
Because she identifies with Black, then she's being repressed.
Because she identifies with Woman, then she's being repressed.

In other words, you're going to repress her, whether you like it or not! So stay away from her, or you'll end up in his place.
What you call modesty I call self-awareness.
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> Adria did not feel safe at PyCon. This should be a huge problem for us.

I don't know what to think of her explanations, which may or may not be sincere, and may or may not have been made up after the fact. Lack of non-white males in the tech industry is definitely a larger issue than this individual case.

> I don't think Adria is very focused on these guys, and for a lot of people that comes off as hatred or a lack of empathy — especially because we, as guys, empathise in particular with Hank. So her lack of acknowledgement is so easily felt as cruel.

I wouldn't go as far as hatred, but lack of empathy, certainly. Judging from her "I wouldn't make jokes if I had kids" comment, she clearly believes he had it coming.
I doubt you have worked for long and experienced atleast one episode of the cleanup following a substantial damage. If you are really as fast as you claim you are, I suspect you have never worked with anyone before :)
The situation is different because there isn't a 2000+ year history of Java developers discriminating against Lisp developers.
That depends. If you think that somebody who feels limited empathy with someone who lost their job (and quickly got another one) is "irreparably damaged for life", then perhaps yes.

But you could think of it in the opposite way as well: Perhaps our empathy should be directed more towards those that have it toughest in life, and less towards those with whom we can easily identify? In that case I'd say it's the 4chan guys that are "irreparably damaged", and the HN crowd obsessed with Hank's restitution... well, "damaged" but perhaps not "irreparably". ;)
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C was supposed to be replaced by C++ a long time ago, but a lot of systems programmers, particularly in open source, have reverted back to vanilla C because C++ is too complicated or provides abstractions that are not needed for the problem. But on the Windows platform C++ has mostly replaced C, and on the Mac / OSX platform Objective-C has basically replaced C.

There are a few other newer systems programming languages like D, Go, and Nim, but these all have garbage collection and so are unsuitable for many of the use cases for C/C++. I understand D and Nim allow you to turn GC off, but then you also lose memory safety so it's equivalent to using C++ from that perspective.

I believe Rust is the most promising new systems programming language because its compiler enforces memory safety without garbage collection. But it's just recently hit 1.0 so it may be a while before it becomes very widely adopted.
I bought the collector's edition.

I think I probably spent less than 10 hours on the game.

It might be my worst disappointment in gaming.

While not just because of this issue, I now usually wait for games to be out for a couple months before I buy. That way I can see what the 'regular people' think about the game.

That being said, I was young and it is very possible that the pre-release reviews were bad and I just didn't notice.
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Why is the lack of gender diversity in tech an obvious problem? Women can do whatever they want to do, if they aren't in tech, they probably don't want to be there. You might say something about discrimination or sexism or some such thing, however I am highly skeptical of that. I have been a programmer for 10+ years and never saw any kind of negative discrimination against women. I have seen many examples of positive discrimination in their favour. I think that people find ways to do the things they want to do, and women don't want to be in tech, so they aren't.
It is utterly mind-boggling that someone can feel threatened by a comment about big dongles or forking someone's repo. I'm sorry, but at this point, you need to seek professional help, and you are trivializing the threats that many women feel every single day by creating threats and persecution where there is none.
I think the parent comment's referring to the ability to write code quickly. At least, that was my first impression.
It doesn't draw the connection directly, but part of the training program deals with technical interviews and getting the fellows more practice, and hopefully more comfort, with them. My guess is that once people have been through some mock interviews, the intimidation factor goes down quite a bit.
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The comment has so little substance that it's not promoting any meaningful discussion. I don't think the problem is your opinion or that you are outraged, it's how you chose to express it.

Add details like who should go to prison, why, where did they cross the line, are they actually violating a law or do we need a new law, is it a problem with the system or with the individuals. All of these would be interesting things to discuss and would make your comment more meaningful. Right now I'm not even sure who you would like to see in prison.
Your post makes me severely question your grasp of the legal system in the United States. Racism and sexism are not illegal, though they are bullshit and wrong. Discrimination and undue preference are illegal in housing and employment contexts. They are not illegal in social contexts, and is regularly wielded against women and minorities to their (and, by extension, society's) detriment.

Sexualized jokes like this--and mind you, this isn't defending or excusing Richards's actions, which I find unconscionable--do enforce stereotypes around who's allowed to participate. "Overwhelmingly masculine culture," for lack of a better phrase, encapsulates that sort of behavior, and it's historically and to this day exclusive of women. You are asking for diagrams, you are asking for logic, about something that's got hundreds, if not thousands, of years of baggage. This isn't something you can feed into your Turing machine. When people say you're hurting them, you need to accept that rather than trying to reason yourself into "well, I'm really not." That's just part of being a decent human.

None of that is to say this should have been a huge thing--of course Hank shouldn't have been fired, and had his employers acted like adults I don't think this would have spiraled as it did. But Hank's still wrong. That doesn't make him a bad person, and I think, from reading this and some other stuff, that he understands his error in this thing. I'm wrong all the fucking time about this stuff. But I suck it up, I make good on my mistakes, and I do better next time.
I think the world needs a "reference to fiction" sentiment analysis browser plugin - probably with a tvtropes backend for maximum distraction capabilities.
What about C#? :)
Users don't want to give their email address because they (rightly) believe they will be spammed.

Also a single tap is still often much easier than typing a full email address, especially on mobile.
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I'd be interested in seeing how using this with MySQL compares to Neo4j from a performance standpoint.
That might make her a feminist by definition, but it's far away from some of the more visible factions of feminism. I wouldn't assume she identifies as a feminist just because she agrees with some of the core tenets.
I have no interest in being a part of any group that coddles and enables paranoia.
Several people have already mentioned it here, but I'm also very pleased to read this line:

"Hall asked a simple question: Why didn't Chipps, a brilliant engineer, ever apply to work at Fog Creek? Chipps said she didn't think she would make it through their rigorous testing process."

I do think that the grueling and intimidating software interview process is a very serious problem in our field. This one sentence hints at the extent of the harm.
Gotcha. I didn't recall it being extra glossy, but that makes sense now!
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Yes. YC will not fund the company that will invent something new. They will fund a company that looks like it might be a good business and make money. These two things aren't inherently incompatible in theory. But we've seen time and time again in practice that they are. To invent new things you need Xerox Parc (the PC) or a big government program (the Internet). To make a lot of money off the inventions, you need Apple. The ecosystem needs both kinds of companies. Unfortunately (for the future of ideas) YC will select the latter type only.
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Yeah, Persona is such a simple solution to an annoying problem. I really hope Mozilla makes a second push as I've been enjoying how easily it solves the authentication for small apps.
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Judging from my personal viewpoints and experiences (aka the usual YMMV), from those few feminists I know, most fall +- into this category. Much less narcisstic/sociopatic, but same breed. What I mean by this - looking very hard for any case of man/woman disparity in our society, ignoring that some professions are just better for men (and some for women, and others are +-equal). What is interesting is their lack of objectiveness - they will discuss and shame for long time situation in their current/previous work, how horrible is the situation in their western country, yet they are almost oblivious to horrible treatment of women that happens region-wide half around the globe (ie "yeah it's horrible how women can't drive in saudi arabia, BUT! that last job i had, one guy told me I women are happier when they bring up kids back home and not doing career! How horrible is that! How did he dare!" - roughly real conversations I had :))
Or - all is bad because of men. But rather don't look at the mess in their lives.

I wish I finally meet some easy-to-communicate feminist girl, who is actually trying to change things in this world for women for better. I really wish so... but right now they are just a joke, to me & to my girlfriend.

Maybe best feminist women are those who don't run around shouting how much feminist they are, but instead they let results of their efforts speak for themselves. Did I tell you I really wish to meet such a person?
I charge whatever I can get! Rates also have to do with where you are, who you know, reputation, and what other offers you have on the table. That being said, here is what I would estimate each at:

-Website templates
I buy all of mine from themeforest for like $30. I don't see why anyone would do otherwise unless they needed something really custom. I don't like designing website templates, so I would charge $200/hr (a.k.a. I'll never do this)

-E-commerce websites
$75/hr

-Wordpress/Joomla themes
Again buy themes from themeforest cheap. Wordpress site maintenance and installation seems to go for $20-$50/hr around here.

-Some SEO from time to time
Experts will charge as much as $100/hr, basic stuff like putting meta tags in or running a google ads campaign could go as low as $20/hr

-Adding responsiveness to websites
Nowadays this often means starting from scratch. I try to quote for the whole project on something like this, but to give you an idea I would say around $40 an hour (give or take 20)

-Website designs
Same as above. ~$40

-Dynamic websites
I'm assuming this means webapp? I charge around $85/hr for webapps. Usually using angular. I also have started putting the webapps through cordova/phonegap, which is an easy upsell.

And to icpmacdo's point:
-remote backend development
Same as webapps, around $85/hr seems to be the magic number. This is VERY dependant on who you know and where they are located.

Note: All of my rates may seem high for people who find projects online, not in person. They may seem low for experts in their given field. Also, I find the larger the company, the higher the rate. For backend work you could probably get double that if you are an expert in large corporation java work.
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There is some balance between "compulsive hoarding" and preservation. I actually agree that it's an ultimately futile effort--and not very fruitful--to obsess over preserving every bit of text, audio, and video that's ever been posted to the Internet. On the other hand, preserving the content of Usenet or even Geocities do strike me as worth some disk space and won't happen organically for the most part. And the sort of people who have the mindset to do that preservation probably inherently have a bit of the compulsive hoarder about them. On balance, I think it's a good thing.
Programmers often make spatial location a property of an when using object oriented programming. As you observe, doing so makes translating the state of the entire universe more complex than it might otherwise be.
Thanks for sharing this! The only thing I had found was stuff like SportsXML, etc. but it took me weeks to just get a demo data dump for a single game and the pricing was way too much to bite off.
I would consider email address "identifying information". I think if you're hesitant about signing up for a service because you're worried they might be the type of company that will waste your time (making you sign up before convincing you they offer something valuable), then you probably aren't in a place where you want to put the decision in their hands of whether or not to spam you incessantly until you unsubscribe.
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For some reason, gmail classifies nearly all of the transactional email I get from Amazon (order acknowledgements, shipping notifications, etc) as spam, and no matter how many I catch and un-mark, it won't stop.

Spam classification is a hard problem, but I don't think they've put the false-positive/false-negative tradeoff in the right place, and they really need some safety valves like offering to whitelist an address when you un-mark it as spam.
No, I have seen the site on a 1080p monitor, on my desktop (Firefox on Linux). That's how it looks for me: http://imgur.com/aL1KxqZ

Edit: to be sure I just tested it with Chromium. It looks the same, but most animations aren't even fluent (about 5fps), making the whole thing worse. And this is by no means a slow computer.
I don't know that I've ever had a false negative (spam in my inbox) in my gmail, and I've had it for just over 7 years now. I also don't know that I've ever had a false positive, but I tend to not check my spam folder very often so it's possible I've missed things.

Maybe I'm just an outlier, but I'm perfectly content with my gmail.
Being late in the discussion, I wondered how many times in the thread the word "unconscious" had been used. Well, it came back as "zero". This, I think, reflects what happened to psychology/psychiatry over the past, say, 30 years and at least in the US: the generalization of an homomorphism between the brain and the current state of data computing. Although a very useful concept, the "unconscious" has been dropped because it doesn't fit in this morphism. Or does it? Low level processes are somewhat "unconscious" to computer operation. There are memory leaks and odd stuff happening with memory blocks that one could see as the expression of an unconscious. But, as some people pointed out, this aspect is only a sort of malfunction of the system. The beauty of the unconscious in the brain is that it is productive. Strictly whatever it does serves a purpose: it can be protective (as in dissociation to tolerate trauma), it can be optimizing (as in handling survival functions in the background), it can be productive (by constantly scanning its database and I/O for patterns, convergences, anomalies, etc.) and, I believe, it is the very source of creativity. To the point that I wonder if data computing might not benefit from emulating such a sub-architecture...
As people pointed out, we all dissociate, somehow, in our days and that’s because we have an unconscious that does all that.
It has been a huge loss for psychology to lose the unconscious to the data computing model. And it might be a huge loss for data computing to not try to emulate our unconscious.
It's far from 'the rest of the world.' The United States has far more POSes than any other country that has fully implemented Chip and PIN. Considering even small countries have only switched over in the past few years, it's far from surprising that the US hasn't transitioned yet.

That being said, Chip & PIN is making inroads in the US. Visa is doing its liability shift in October of this year, which should make it more attractive to vendors.
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First social login is nice for a user, I also don't care enough about the app to sign up, have to remember what username plus another password (or more realistically, generate another password with lastpass, but oh your site doesn't like 80 character alphanumeric logins because you don't like the ampersand or you've limited it to 32 characters or whatever I've lost interest) maybe i need to verify the email to complete the login or something I don't know I've wandered off. Now it's not that I don't want them to know who I am, I'm ok when them knowing my email, I just don't trust them not too post on my wall or subscribe me to notifications or whatever (this is why the google social login is IMO nicer because you can clearly switch a box to make it not visible to anyone but you)

Secondly as a developer social login is nice because A) users like it (see above) and B) you off load much of the work of having to deal with authentication and authorization.
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Think of this as a special case (and even more limited) version of that, but with special reassuring text from facebook.
Not really.. you provide the base code, and the consumer of your package generates the specific types they need. As the package author, you don't actually generate any of the concrete implementations.
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We will support customized appleScript so that means you can write a little script that outputs to .txt format.

This is coming in the next update.
I wouldn't have such a problem with its false positive rate if they at least learned from them better.

It doesn't seem to matter how many times I mark an email as "Not Spam". The next day an email from the same sender from the same server with the same Received: path will land right back in Spam again.

I realize that gmail can't immediately globally unblock based on "Not Spam" reports (otherwise spammers would ruin things by marking their own bulk mail) but could they at least apply them to my mailbox?

I guess adding the senders to my address book would help, but it seems like a silly thing to have to do. I already told it that a message is "Not spam", can't it take it from there?
I don't agree with framing this as men vs women. And your post does it quite a bit.

> But I've been trying very hard to imagine what it's like to go to PyCon as a minority

No. It is a programming conference. It is not a forced place to be, it is not torture, it a programming conference. Framing this as some kind of a jungle full of dangers, rapists and murders lurking behind their little laptops, wearing geeky t-shirts is a bit crazy.

There are real inappropriate comments, sexual innuendos, harassment, both in the workplace and during conferences but this wasn't it.

By blowing this up she is fighting against her own cause because it diminishes the importance and impact of those things. It brings them down to the level of "oh crazy irrationality, and overreacting" which is the typical excuse for dismissing them. Next time someone is really harassed, the offender can just say "Oh she is pulling an Aria on me" or something to that effect.

> — that she should not have to apologise for it.

Yes she should have. Everyone expected Hank to apologize And he did. Not expecting her to apologies further excusing her lack of empathy is discriminatory and sexist.

> And you have to wonder — did Hank get another job so fast because our field is dominated by men, and they are likely to feel for him and have the same initial reactions as we do when reading this article?

I don't wonder. I am quite sure he got a job because others realized he was a decent person, who said a stupid thing, made a mistake, apologized for it. A person you want working for you. It wasn't because he had a penis or because he was white.

Adria on the other hand showed her character and her character is not one I would want on my team. She is manipulative, lacks empathy, likes controversy, and promotes discrimination and sexism.
I can't even believe this is the kind of comment that gets upvoted on HN nowadays. "Go was made by smart old people and is therefore good. If you don't understand it's good, you're stupid and I refuse to listen to you."
We don't have a demo but http://bauncms.com is built using Baun. Despite having similar features to Pico, this is a complete rewrite using modern PHP standards. I sold Pico a while ago and sadly the project seems dead. I'm hoping to go much further with Baun.
I love reading about StackOverflow, particularly their infrastructure.

The site has been a useful resource for so many years, and it works so well. It was a joy to discover that it all ran on like two racks worth of servers, and still does. Having seen corporate intranet portals, with maybe a thousand daily active users, running on excessive* hardware (needlessly, of course), it's like a breath of fresh air.

*EDIT: Removed hyperbole. Not more hardware, but too much nonetheless.
(1) Reminds me of a friend I had in college. He'd optimize everything. But he never sat down to crunch where his time really went. Sure he saved an hour a year on this, or 2 hours on that. But he still watched a couple hours of TV a day, that's about 28 days a year he could've reclaimed (14 if he just cut it back to 1 hour). We spend around 120 days a year sleeping. About 90 days spent at work or commuting for the average full-time employee (assuming no overtime). That leaves around 150 days for leisure, pleasure, relationships, other obligations, etc. Seems silly to try and get an hour of that back instead of trying to get days and weeks back. Once you have those weeks back, that 10 seconds extra at the register doesn't seem so bad.
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Let me give you an amen on this. A dozen years ago I was lucky enough to work with on-line pioneer Stewart Brand [1] on Long Bets [2]. We were talking about putting a discussion system on, and I just assumed it would be threaded. But it was his view that linear was much better. He thought (and I now agree) that linear systems force people to say more complete things, while threads drastically increase the ability of people to bicker. The bickering is compelling for the small number of people involved, but rarely interesting to anybody else, and can drown out the good discussion.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Brand

[2] http://longbets.org/
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Hi HN,

If your role involves market research, I would love to talk to you.

If you know of a marketing analyst, I'm hoping that you can pass this message on as a favour - I'll owe you one. Either a beer or coffee.

Context:
I'm building a customer analytics platform for small and medium-sized businesses and wanted to connect with marketing analysts in the industry to learn and get feedback on my product.