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> Given that anyone with even a basic understanding of history

Y'know how some film might have "hackers trying to break the FBI's firewall key"? And we all laugh because those film makers are so stupid about technology? Or how a newspaper will tell you how magnets and cabbage will cure your brain age?

Find some forums for historians[1], and you'll see historians laugh at how bad common understanding of history is.

Many people don't have an understand of basic history.

[1] e.g. http://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/
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In this thread there are two accounts describing how some banks require extra verification before their cards can be added to Apple Pay... and sombe banks don't.

Apparently, Apple gave the banks the hooks they needed to eliminate the type of fraud the article describes but they didn't do it.

How is this Apple's fault?
That's because the average men has a phobia of being labeled an homosexual.
For me consciousness is "the ability to analyze and influence your own thoughts".

This might not correspond 100% to what philosophers mean, but it has the immense advantage of making consciousness a well defined concept, and even measurable.
The thing about the Pokewalker and other Nintendo accessories is that they are cool, collectible, and recognizable. Having a Pokewalker app on your phone isn't fashionable in the same way having a Poke Ball clipped to your belt is.
>Like Zuck? Drew Houston? It's easy to rattle off a dozen names who wouldn't have started their company if they'd worked at a big company for 5 years.

Outliers. It's all well and good to strive to do the same, but it isn't going to happen for the vast majority of people. And how can you presume what they would've done after going to work?

>Empirically, you're wrong about that. There are now over a thousand YC alums who prove you don't need it.

The business world is much, much larger than those 1000 alum. They are a drop in the bucket.

Where is all your data on the failures?

I have no qualms with the incubator industry, but I think most people have it backwards: the best path for most people is getting work experience first. For a few driven people with good ideas, head to start up world.
Is it fair to say putting your heart into something makes you an amateur at something ?

I dunno, this feels off. Did I misunderstand the analogy ?
For those who don't write C, could you explain what is significant about this change? I'm guessing the earlier version was some kind of subtle bug?
Yes. When a person is conscious of a disk on the screen, their brain scans look very different from when they do not detect the disk. And there isn't just one part of the brain that changes. I'm not saying fMRI is a great tool for this, but it seems like a pretty clear conclusion.
> Why can't we just code like professionals ?

What does that mean? Suit and tie? Clean shaven, short back and sides?
What Is Activity Centered Design?
A GeoDjango based site to track incidents in real-time
Smaller aircraft powered by more modern tech and engineering? Sure, I don't doubt that.

But when you compare it to a car, you imply something that the average person might buy (or be able to afford) and I just don't see that happening soon. Even hobbyist quadcopters and "drones" are throwing the FAA for a loop so I can't imagine more than the private-jet-set buying a smaller, personal aircraft and paying to license and fuel the thing just to make a run to the grocery store or commute to work.

Smaller, "smarter" aircraft aren't the same thing as flying cars in the way most people will interpret the term.
This is just another instance of Nintendo's ancient management being demolished by what they think consumers "don't really want".

Another instance would be their refusal to embrace internet multiplayer. A final instance, which they are still guilty of, is piss-poor hardware in their consoles. Nobody can port a game to Nintendo because they have to make a subpar product compared to what they can make on the other consoles.

That's why you only really see first party games on Nintendo consoles. There are some third party releases, but you'd be much, much better off buying the same game on an xbox/playstation.

Watch them figure out the free to play revolution somewhere around 2022, when everyone else is extremely tired of the idea.
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You really don't sound much different than those who seek to prevent people from moving in, let alone building to accommodate them. Meaning, come up with a neutral sounding reason to block undesirables from coming into the neighborhood.

Density would be too high, we must preserve cultural heritage, green space laws, restrictions on building heights, builds designated as heritage sites, and on and on and on.

If you build up or down you can accommodate a larger number of people. The key word here is "build". This activity is prevented by an amazing number of rules, regulations, and laws, all of which have nice sounding names but the end result is the same.

Zoning boards and those involved in creating political districts all need to be managed by as neutral groups as possible. All work needs to be as public as possible as well. Preventing someone from building more housing is not really different than the government condemning the land and taking it.
NYC's is on the order of Paris of London by way of comparison.

Washington D.C. (within the city) is a bit like a second tier European city, still quite good within the city, but D.C. has a huge metro area and it's spotty in the outer bits. There's lots of different jurisdictions that don't always integrate their bus systems well and building out the metro system has been slow going.

Portland has an excellent integrated system.

Chicago, Seattle, Boston, have decent, but limited systems.

However, even in places with almost no effective rail system, like Orlando, there's usually a comprehensive public bus system. They just run slowly, but they're relatively cheap, transfers are usually free and will get you close to where you want to go. Most public transport in L.A., for example, consists of the bus system.
When America had slavery, and apartheid, black men used to be referred to as "boy".
That as well. You don't think of it that way, but the place is arid.
It was. Their models made the assumption that debt ratings were accurate, and they were substituting leveraged mortgage backed securities with AA ratings for risk-free debt. They also underestimated the effects that a liquidity crunch would have - any asset model backed by volatile assets assumes liquidity, but doesn't tell you what will happen in a period of non-liquidity.

Most models assume financial markets are a continuous function, when in reality markets are mostly continuous with periodic step functions. When you hit a period with a step function, the market is either being irrational or correcting prior irrationality. You can't predict these step functions with any accuracy; though many of the big investment banks knew it was coming a year or two in advance. But even if you can predict them, there is no good way to model them.

Goldman Sachs, for all its faults, is run by exceptionally competent people. They came out of the downturn stronger than they went in. They understand the models well because they built most of them. But there were plenty of large market players at Lehman, Merrill, Nationwide, etc. who were ignorant of the problems until it was too late. These are the people who just did what the model told them to because it was making them money, and they didn't understand the risk exposure they really had.
Ask HN: Your lead developer got bored. What to do?
Imagine you have a company with 50 people and several development teams. One of the best developers get bored and want to leave a company if there will be no interesting tasks. What you will do in this case? try to retain him somehow? let him go?
WebM is dying – since Microsoft and Apple aren't implementing it, you're basically asking whether it's worth doubling your file storage to support a format available in maybe 60% of browsers versus one supported by 90%:

http://caniuse.com/#feat=webm
http://caniuse.com/#feat=mpeg4

That's even more compelling when you remember that the only browser which had releases with support for WebM but not H.264 is Firefox and that's been phasing out for awhile: support for H.264 shipped in FF21 on Windows, FF26 on Linux and FF35 on OS X.

Unless you have a lot of Mac users who don't upgrade, it's probably not worth the hassle particularly since WebM doesn't compress as well as H.264. If VP9 ships that story could change if it delivers an advantage over H.265 compelling enough to get Microsoft or Apple to integrate it or the larger video sides to add it to their toolchain. For most places it'd have to be really compelling to be worth nearly doubling their storage costs.
I think it was because Toby Schachman couldn't think of good exercises on more advanced topics. I would guess this struggle influenced his later work - Shadershop:

http://tobyschachman.com/Shadershop/

(Check it out, it's super cool.)
IMO it's a dynamic equilibrium, with too large resources you'll accept sub optimal situations. Think Google c++ build times. I agree living below acceptable conditions is unnecessary drag but it's good to wave back and forth. An exercise in awareness.
This is really interesting to me.

Do you have other stories or experiences to share about programming on "strict" systems like medical devices ?

Stuff like coding styles, rules, practices and the likes.
I would give anything right now to have had someone actually have taught me collaboration and conversation when I was a kid. I remember crying multiple nights in elementary school because I didn't have friends and didn't know how to work with people. At the very least, I wish I'd known about How to Win Friends and Influence People before high school.
Alternatively, search for the title on Google and it lets you past the paywall.
The Things Everyone Does Wrong When Committing Pull Requests
For those that like me may be mislead by the title, the "open" is as in "open API", not "open-source software".

The days where Google supported an open Android system are gone, gone, gone.
The Pancake at the Bottom: A Mythical Journey into Transfinity (1999)
Yes, I am aware. But then again I phrased my original statement to show that there was a small frequency of use of these terms. Where females (in my area) have a very high frequency of referring to each other as girls. Almost like "woman" is a formal term.
Yes, appending "in browser APIs" or something similar to the title would be less clickbaity.
My 5 year old just got into Mario, and I was surprised I couldn't buy a copy of the original Super Mario Bros for her iPad. So I bought it on the Wii (not a great experience btw), and she loves it.

They'd get my money either way. Nostalgia is a great marketing tool.
Sometimes seeing the closing tag is rather useful for the very reason you mention, to know which tag is closing. The simple fact that once it was popular to use a comment to identify the id or class of the closed element at the bottom of a long file suggests it's a problem to consider.
Fuzzy Math That's Creating Many Billion-Dollar Tech Valuations
Those rumors around medical sharing psych records with the administration were around when I was there (undergrad, class of '05).
I know nintendo probably won't be developing anything in house for this since it seems like they're giving out their ip, but if they made an mmo android/iphone pokemon game i would shut up and let them take my money.
You "heard"?
"I personally prefer using data structures as html as long as I can, then rendering the html to a string at the last moment."

I'd go so far as to say that is the correct way to do it and anybody doing anything else is doing it wrong. Anything other than "immediately parse all incoming data to internal structures" and "serialize internal structures at the last possible moment" is just crazy insane to deal with, and unfortunately, when it comes to the web, "crazy insane" immediately leads to "insecure".
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I disagree with 2 things.

Firstly - I feel there are very few socialists today who would still support the old Soviet regimes (and other similar totalitarian implementations worldwide). In Orwell's time, this was much more common because it was a political situation people were living in, nowadays it's just something from history, so it's much easier to judge. I totally agree that anyone who is still looking up to Stalin today shouldn't be taken seriously.

Secondly - the supposed inherence of values that support capitalism is completely false. Every system has its way of promoting values that it is based on and can benefit from. In past regimes, this was mostly state driven propaganda, in modern capitalism it's popular culture. Anthropologists and sociologists can easily point to a bunch of cultures that developed value systems very different from ours, simply because they were isolated or affected by different influences.

Throughout history, the currently employed system always tries to assert itself as "the natural state of people" in order to be superior to anything else in comparison, but I firmly believe political discussions remain much more rational if we agree that every economic/political system is just a man-made construct.
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Virginia school suspends an 11-year-old for one year over a leaf that wasn’t MJ
We mostly don't know if it is already "in the wild" or not, if it will be found independently during the embargo period, if it will leak out of one of the organizations "in the know", ...

Didn't people find traces of hearthbleed attacks that happened months before it was published?

There are good arguments for very short embargo periods, especially if you mostly care about the security of your users. (of course, in a perfect world every vendor would be willing/able to release patches after 24 h or so, and it wouldn't matter, but we don't have one of those...)
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The biggest discoveries come from listening to your heart
> What is now considered a male-dominated field, was once defined as “women’s work.”

Once? It's naive to think that these attitudes do not persist, albeit in somewhat disguised forms, perhaps.

At some universities, for instance, engineers regard CS majors as "wimps". Engineering is hard, CS is soft.

Moreover, think about how there is an attitude that some "softer" or "easier" programming is lower on the pecking order. While programming as a broad category may not be "women's work", web design (even with client and server scripting) is "for girls" and, say, writing drivers for a network switch is for "real men".

Oh, the hard/soft stereotyping in digital tech is alive and kicking!
If you really want to keep him, I would give him free reign on a project he wants to do. It can either be related to the company or not, but let him do a side project for work. It can be either a week or a month or more if you are comfortable. He is probably just burned out. Really I would just try to get to the root of the problem and see what he wants to change and work with him to get there.
> Conversation

I know barely any adults (late 20s, early 30s) who know how to do this. The concept of "conversationalist" is lost in modern society, you have to be watching whatever junk is on TV in order to communicate with people - god forbid you want to talk about something genuinely interesting.
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I guess not professional appearance but professional standards.

Ex.I might expect a professional python programmer to follow PEP8 code style.

I think rather than coding like boy or coding like girl, we should be aspiring to be professional or at least competent .
That's the far bigger and inclusive problem.
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Using Trello as a Tool to Manage Sprints for Agile and Scrum
Probably a reference to Leibniz having discovered/invented the binary number system back in the 1679 [1]. He also worked on theories of algorithms and designed calculating machines [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_number#History

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz#Compu...
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Professional means getting paid, but there is a nuance of doing a proper job to deserve pay (even if there is no pay); a FOSS project that hasn't received even a dime in donations can be professionally developed.
> I also feel Lovelace tend to distract the subject on women in computing.

Given that, as someone has already mentioned in the comments, there are people that hold the view that women are always at least second best to a man in regards to ability in computing because they are female, the fact that the first 'programmer' did so without documentation on a machine that existed in theory was a woman is very much central to the subject.
What are you really paying your ESP for?
> The attitude should be to aim for zero death by suicide. That's acheivable for places like MIT.

I agree zero should be the goal, but I don't think it's necessarily achievable. There are multiple factors involved, and the school only controls some of them. Some of them aren't really controllable. (There were multiple suicides at MIT while I was there; none of them were simple cases of "the school didn't pay enough attention".)
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> It becomes increasingly important to value each member of a programming team regardless of gender, age, race, or creed to attract and keep the best minds to build our future software.

And this is actually what you don't want to do. You don't want to ignore gender, age, race, or creed. You want people to understand it, be open to the value it brings, connect with others outside their comfort zone, and embrace the differences. Doing things 'regardless' is how we've got here in the first place. We are all different. Ignoring those differences is not helping the problem.
I've had many clients on AWS rack up six-figure monthly bills unnecessarily simply because they didn't realize how to design for cost.. it's not a silver bullet. Those penny fractions add up fast. There are a lot of tricks to save money.
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Coding doesn't involve as much kinetic and immediate action, and I can't imagine it being infantilized. When it comes to violence, you can be weak, and so "like a girl". "Driving like a woman" I think means to drive naively, like a child, which women have generally been seen as equivalent to for thousands of years. (Edit: not that I agree with any of that, of course; it's how gender is constructed)
Ask him what would be an interesting task s/he would like to work on. Maybe it might be interesting to the company too.
I got basketballs and golf clubs. I had to beg my dad to get me my first amiga 500. He agreed only because he thought I'd might get rich from it one day. So my interest, to the best that I can tell, was self originated.
The professional puts the customer's heart into something, not his own.

My heart says I should spend the next ten weeks optimizing this interesting function that gets called once a year, because all higher priority tasks look like boring grunt work.
Price control (not just rent control) causes similar effects in all industries.
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Actually, does anyone have data on the average student debt of MIT grads. To start a company, Even with a million $ seed, the founders can take home around 80k. Will that be sufficient to afford the monthly debt payments ? This might be a huge factor for grads while making the choice to startup or join a big company. A large company can at least guarantee a consistent loan repayment schedule. It's immensely difficult to start a company with a large debt hanging above your head.
> Why can't we just code like professionals ?

That would pretty much mean the death of almost every open source project that depends on unpaid amateurs.
I dare say "it is intended to be very terse" answers that.

Cleaner, yes, but more keystrokes!
It wouldn't be properly UNIX-like without randomly omitting vowels.
Interesting. Consciousness is the only thing I'm sure of that exists.
How to easily add a bunch of automated tests to a project that has none
> free to play

They're a little more ahead on that one: http://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-video-games/pokemon-shuffl...
I always liked some of the ideas from Zope/Plone's template language, specifically the TAL (most basic) bit. When one adds macros/includes, some of the benefits fades a bit away: but it's nice to be able to have templates that can be rendered as-is in browsers, with a meaningful preview:

<html>
<!-- ... you'd need to include static css etc --!>
<table>
<tr tal:repeat="item here.cart">
<td tal:content="repeat.item.number">1</td>
<td tal:content="item.description">Widget</td>
<td tal:content="item.price">$1.50</td>
</tr>
</table>
</html>

https://chameleon.readthedocs.org/en/latest/reference.html#b...

With html5 one gets some of the same benefits for free -- I guess the basic insight is to allow there to be demo/dummy content that can be rendered as/is valid html(5) -- and have the templating system replace it gracefully.

Also of some interest is the xml/xsl-based theming support for Plone, allowing taking standard html, add a few rules, have diazo write the xsl -- and use the html (content and all) as a template:

http://docs.diazo.org/en/latest/index.html

http://www.treebrolly.com/blog/turbo-plone-theming-with-xdv-...

http://www.uwosh.edu/ploneprojects/docs/how-tos/how-to-use-d...

(Note this is actually mixing up two different types of templating, even if both do text-substitution. One is more of the "string interpolation/macro expansion" (aka you could just have used m4 to make the html) -- and the other is more themeing related: twisting appearances while semantics stay the same. They're conflated mostly because semantic html mark-up doesn't a) quite work and b) isn't actually supported by CSS (independent of semantics, because structure confers meaning in html, so with different structure, comes a need to either morph the structure (diazo) or rewrite (parts of) the CSS.

The new way to side-step this issue, is to rather than standardize on good/sensible html-markup (aka: the zen garden approach that has worked for some 15 years now), but rather to move from html/xhtml/xml to json -- pretending that just because the tree is wrapped up in curly-braces and semicolons rather than bracket-tags, it's no longer a tree, and order and levels, and siblings magically cease to make a difference (aka the "lisp pipe dream -- we're too cool for assoc, we already have cons"-approach). But as long as we're on the web (and probably in many other places as well, such as desktop ui, we'll have the equivalent of structured documents, where both structure and tagging makes a difference -- and the need to go from various trees to various documents, and to map differently structured documents to each other. And interpolating simple plain-old-data-trees into a template for a document is going to be a different task from translating parts of one document to another. Even if both data and documents are represented as json (or xml or html or xhmtl or...)).
As a developer I agree whole heartedly that it would be much more convenient if they did but you can't just expect public and semi-public entities to follow technological trends without getting a share of the benefits.
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Whether or not someone is "act[ing] like [women] need [their] protection" is relative assessment and you haven't even accused anyone of fitting the description.
But before you work that out you need to define what you mean by 'more conscious'....