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When I was growing up, we had lots of these. None of the pedestrian buttons did anything (neither sped up the light nor made noise/indications for the blind). The result was that people learned to ignore them.

Fast forward to now, when the city is trying to become less car-centric, and new buttons are being put up that actually work (when you press them, the pedestrian lane becomes the next in line for the green light, and if you don't press it then it only very rarely or never gets green).

The result is people become agitated at the how slow the pedestrian lights go, because of course noone presses the button when they've been trained not to.

These kinds of design patterns will come back to bite you. Make things transparent and don't try to manipulate people like this.
NOTHING in the Norwegian media about this, and that concerns me deeply!
It's similar to the patience people have to put up with ads, or crapware, or most of the mobile apps being useless and ugly and broken. I think most of the people just don't expect anything better, blindly accepting whatever is there because they can't imagine that technology could actually be good.

I can, and I sometimes wish I couldn't - so that web and mobile experience wouldn't be so goddamn annoying.
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Falling asleep in less than 10 minutes is a strong sign that you have a chronic sleep deficit.

A chronic sleep deficit significantly impacts your mental abilities. So in other words, you may be working long hours, but they are very likely to be much less effective hours than if you were getting a proper night's sleep every night.
> I see it as an ideology.

Some parts of it -- sure -- but an ideology firmly based on evidence. Just like deciding that spending public funds on the design of the first computers or the internet -- or any technology -- is an ideology based on evidence. I'm not asking you to accept the ideology, though. You don't want to build computers -- fine! But sexism is as real as electrons.

I am sure some CS professors have strong opinions on whether we should build self-driving cars. Their ideology doesn't make their research any less valid. In fact, I'd expect CS professors to be very much "pro-tech" because they know better than the average person what's possible. Similarly, it's only to be expected that researchers studying sexism or racism will be very much opposed to them, because they know better than the average person how harmful they are. Their ideology doesn't disqualify their research, either.

> It's either "our way, or the old way"

What way? I just look at the research. You have a different explanation for how species evolve or why women make less money than men, put it out there so it can be studied. We can't "teach the controversy" because there is no controversy to teach. There's the vast majority of researchers on one hand, and a small yet vocal group of deniers on the other.

> the current mainstream thoughts on sexism

I don't know what you mean by that; I do know what the studies tell us about how sexism spreads, what it looks like, and what its consequences are. You may have a very different understanding of what sexism is from how the academic studies define it, but to me what you said sounds just like "the current mainstream thoughts on evolution". You just arbitrarily chose to disqualify a vast body of research because it doesn't jive with your gut feelings on the subject.

> On my beliefs, suffice it to say: I don't like sexism

I don't think you understand. Whether or not you like sexism is irrelevant. What matters first of all -- before we get to ideology -- is to study how certain power structures perpetuate themselves in society. Once you know that -- and only then -- you can decide what to do about it if anything. I don't like that people can't fly. But I know that the reason we can't is that we don't have wings, and the reason for that is evolutionary, and the mechanism is genetic. So, to make people fly we can either change their genes -- which may be hard or easy, safe or dangerous, ethically problematic or not -- or decide on some other way of dealing with it (building airplanes, for example). Luckily, thanks to decades of research, we already know quite a bit about sexism -- just as we know quite a bit about the limits to human flight -- so there's no need to start from first principles and/or total ignorance every time we discuss it. When we discuss human flights we can talk about genes and aerodynamics -- we don't need to treat the subject so mysteriously and suspiciously. Same goes for sexism.
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Regarding image-google-chart, and other google APIs: I was going to voice my support for this complaint, as I have a number of still popular projects that use it (and will need fixes or updates), but I had to rethink that.

Conclusion: free lunch is over. Some of us developers are learning that we can't rely on a free (or even paid) service for any long term.
That's not what idempotent means. It doesn't mean it produces the same side effects every time, it means multiple calls are equivalent to a single call.
I think that was his point. The test doesn't consider any placebo effects, whereas placebo effects may have an actual effect in real life.
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How do you work with colleagues who write messy code?
Context: I work in a small start up, 3 people. Two of us are dev's. I myself try and strive to make my code readable and maintainable, to explain my self as often as possible and to help out the other dev with learning things that help us communicate (git etc).

The other dev is fantastic at getting things done asap, which is great for shipping but as soon as things get a little too complicated and he is struggling with his code base, he attempts to off load the problem onto me to solve (deferring to my experience).

I should note that, though we are equal part in founding the company, he has taken on more of a technical lead role.

The Problem: I keep being passed these problems to solve that should be simple but because of his bad coding practices (copy and paste code all the time, ignore failing tests, premature optimisations etc) it takes me a long time to:

A: grok his code (making me look bad because i'm mean't to be the experienced one)

B: make non-breaking changes (there are no tests, the code base is very messy, both in abstractions and format)

Any advice on how to tackle this? Perhaps approaching a conversation to make him aware in a way that won't burn any bridges?
Actually, unless you are working on your own, you will find as you get more experienced, you will be spending more time on tasks other than coding, such as design, mentoring, etc...
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Yes, but if the person winning the lottery is part of the lottery company, or has connections to it, a lot of suspicion seems warranted.
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I'm assuming that the person telling the story did not flagrantly lie. Obviously, before proceeding with professional/legal repercussions, all the claims should be heavily scrutinized.

However - if the claims are true, you do not believe they merit repercussion and that the actions of the VC are just harmless 'date invitations'?
They could do like Singapore and tax cars out of existence.

http://www.expatsingapore.com/content/view/1152
Plus, it gives you something to do while you wait. More socially acceptable than picking your nose if anything.
It's funny. He seems to hate all Google products yet is fully absorbed in the Google universe.
This is insane...
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Sorry, I really didn't mean for this post to come off how a lot of people seem to be taking it. I just figured there might be other people out there who run into the same issues I do, so I figured I'd share what has helped me.

I make sure to exercise every day: bike + swim + p90x occasionally. I think that exercise is just as important as the rest of what I'm talking about here, I suppose I should have gone into more depth on that in the post.
To be fair, it all started with #!/bin/sh
It was well established in the 1930s that workers peak productivity is at about 40 hours of work a week.

Anyone who thinks they can be more productive at double that, for long periods, is either superhuman, or deluding themselves.

Get out, see your family, watch a movie, go for a walk. Be a human, and not a programming machine.
I am honestly completely unqualified to comment on how good their product is. I know very little about the 'dating application' space. I did find the comments about finding funding to be somewhat entitled, but I guess most people who go through YC compare themselves to their (very highly successful) peers.
Yes please! I'm so tired of all the annoying bloat all over the web that makes (not only) older browsers die just thinking about visiting the sites. It looks like the "progress" nowadays is going for "more complex and resource-demanding with less features and control".
I haven't paid much attention to the way studios work recently, but people used to record using flat response headphones (which make music sound, well, flat - great for hearing everything but not pleasant for music) and mix using Yamaha NS10 speakers, which were considered to be a good simulation of the average (slightly rubbish) kit that listeners might have.

If people say 'these are great studio speakers but I would never use them at home', perhaps they're using speakers designed to have a flat response.
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I tried to use PGP (gnupg) but it doesn't seem to be simple even for an advanced user. Since I use Debian already it means that I implicitly trust Debian maintainers. So I explicitly trusted one Debian maintainer in gnupg. From there I thought that verifying other keys would be a breeze since I have a trusted guy in the strong set. While there are online tools (at least one) to find trust paths between IDs I didn't find a tool that does this automatically and verify signatures through this. This should be seamless without manually tracking down trust paths, manually importing keys that I don't want just to verify an ID 2-4 hops away.

Here is my concern with the WOT: it's not clear what signatures mean. It could mean "This guy can give out valid signatures" or "I verified that this guy's name is John Doe" or "This is the key used to sign Debian isos", but these are all implicit. Typically it's the first two which makes it hard to use PGP with pseudonyms. When you verify a signature in PGP you want the following chain:

o--I trust this guy's signatures-->o--I trust this guy's signatures-->o--I know this guy-->o

Other concerns: any way to rotate the master key would be nice. I wouldn't assume that my master key won't be compromised in the next 50 years .Then I would have to rebuild my whole WOT and revoke my previous master key (If I can). Key distributon should be decentralized.

Maybe I'm missing something, but this is my takeaway and I really tried to like PGP and gnupg. Maybe Google will solve some of these concerns on their interface but I wouldn't bet on it. I'm not surprised that PGP isn't widely used. I would really like a safe end-to-end encryption implementation that is easy to use.
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At least in the US, 'ex post facto' laws are specifically forbidden by the Constitution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law
FYI: ten years ago, we had e-mail, Flickr, Smugmug, web galleries, halfway decent digital cameras.

Also, the thread starter was setting up a straw man, no one said that developing photos yourself was better. Just that the experience of many web applications is not so good.

(Personally, I use BTSync's and/or Dropbox's photo sync, so that it shows up as a file on my machines. Sharing works fine as well, especially since Dropbox has the family-friendly Carousel that pulls photos of regular Dropbox.)
Let's say you're a man, and the tables have turned -- men are the long-oppressed sex, and you need to turn to women investors to raise money for a business:

How would you feel if you showed up to an event to raise money for your budding business, but instead of serious conversations with the mostly-female crowd of investors, most seem childishly interested in glancing at and discussing your butt, or perhaps feeling your biceps. You keep trying to bring the conversation back from butts and biceps to YourCompany, and finally one of the investors interjects that no, they only invest in "serious" companies (coded language which you know means: companies founded by people that look like themselves), but that they do like feisty men, and perhaps they could invite you out for a drink or two sometime.

Would that not be infuriating? How would you feel if you had listened to that conversation play out in front of you? What would you want to do in response? Would you empathize with the experience of the person that came to talk business but is instead treated as a sex object? Or would you laugh, because it amuses you to watch someone carelessly crush the dreams and soul of someone that doesn't look like you?

Date invitation, in certain inappropriate contexts, while not illegal per se, ought to be punished via civil means.
Possibly, although I don't know if that has to be the case.

I fall asleep extremely quickly no matter how well rested I am. It's not based on how tired I am but rather the approach I explain the post.
The answer is to improve the heating system so it can be set per worker. This dovetails nicely with giving people rooms - and their own thermostat dial.

Death to open plan offices, I say.
> What has happened instead is that the tone seemed to suggest that it is easy for white men* to succeed.

Having read the article I can say I did not get that impression at all. The article argues it's easier for men to be funded than women and that there are implicit biases at work in the VC-funding-system that unfairly disadvantage women. This sounds perfectly reasonable to me; it's a common and valid criticism made by feminists all the time.
Benchmark has been on a tear in VC not seen since KP did it in the mid/late 90s. they are absolutely the best in the business right now
Except nobody actually said the words "man up" — it was the OP's own paraphrasing of a general sentiment they observed, which they then turned around and labeled as sexist for using the word "man", all in the same sentence. I've never seen such an impressive turnaround time on a strawman.
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Don't let management get a hold of this.
"Sweden has a documented history of sending political prisoners to other countries."

Political prisoners? No, that's absolute bullshit.

Stop parroting other people without checking your facts.

The UK has extradited multiple people to the US. Your narrative is incorrect.
What are you talking about? Picasa (which is now Google Photos) has been around since 2002.
If it was legal when the actions occurred, you cannot be tried. Similarly, if you committed a crime before the law was changed to allow it, then you have still broken the law.
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The very last thing that the PLATO is is an ancestor of Khan Academy.
It all will depend on the dissatisfaction with "Windows as a service".

If there is a real benefit for companies, things can change fast ... see the history of UNIX and Linux. ReactOS is where Linux was in 1996.
Thank you for your honesty. It's refreshing and I appreciate it.

I'm not sure if your response is an attempt at a counter argument, but the line "... standard methods and media types are used to indicate semantics and exchange information, and responses explicitly indicate cacheability" is exactly the point I'm making.

If the original author was keen to make their API RESTful (which I'm not particularly sure they are. Aside from the couple of minor issues people have already raised, there is nothing wrong with a JSON API served over HTTP. It's just not RESTful), they would standardize their media-types (by registering them with IANA) and document their custom HTTP verbs via a RFC. That is what is required to be truely RESTful.

In the example I gave, showed that by adhering to the principles of REST, they could actually simplify their API dramatically whilst allowing others to lean on their work (by implementing their own services that use their newly registered media-types).

Again, all this is documented in Fieldings dissertation. It is dense reading and very academic, but it's worth reading. I personally found it very enlightening.
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Because it eliminates uncertainty? To sustain that 60% MoM growth rate, you’re going to have to recruit staff to match (this is a relatively high-touch company by the sounds of things - no scaling out your staff to millions of users each!) What happens if growth stalls for a few months just after you recruit a bunch of new staff? Oops, cash crunch: you fail to make payroll & the company goes bankrupt.

On the other hand, if you play it safe & employ the minimum number of staff to make payroll even under conservative MoM growth predictions, you risk poor service killing your word of mouth under an influx of new users.

Either of these outcomes could bite you at any point: if you’re re-investing your income straight back into the company in order to get the maximum growth rates then your exposure to short term user volatility is very high.
Depends who "people" were. Somebody who knows nothing is going to hear "Debian", somebody with a little more tech in their blood will hear "Debian... Yeah, that's right, Linux" and I'll save the "Debian GNU/Linux" for people trying to make a point about nomenclature.

My point wasn't that it's super important you call these things by the right name, it's that you were and you were getting it wrong still.
> Conclusion: free lunch is over. Some of us developers are learning that we can't rely on a free (or even paid) service for any long term.

I totally agree. SaaS is ephemeral. Personally I don't expect to see a SaaS site being active for more than two-three years, because the goal of most startups is to get bought, at which point they'll happily let the product die or turn into a piece of crap. If I use a third party service, I do that with an expectation that my project is temporary and will die/get superseded faster than the service it relies on.
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It's a drug. It's full of harmful chemicals because of the way it's processed. It affects mind and body, often negatively. But it's great money maker so we will be hearing more about its "benefits" in a near future.
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These kind of responses are exactly the reason behind her first paragraph.

"I have struggled with writing this blog post for months. Unless I have an absolutely perfect, bulletproof business (which I do not), I'm easily written off as someone blaming my failures on my gender."

It is a genuine problem that she is trying to raise awareness for. Why she struggles writing it is because she knows that she'll get your kind of response. She knows it will make her look weak, she knows it might label her a trouble maker not worth investing in.

The really frustrating thing is that you're in a similar position, so you should know that women have a harder time than you. You're the first one that should be jumping up and down and jumping to her defense. You should be outraged at the things that happened.

The point isn't even the lack of investment which is is what you're focussing on. The point is that to get that investment she has to accept: groping, comments on looks, date requests.
Agree 100%. I'm a co-founder on an early stage startup, so the only people I have the time to mentor right now are the other members of the team.
The study linked here is one step in trying to find out how many of those claims are credible. What I found interesting about this link, which I heard about from a medical genetics researcher, is that the British Gut Study is connected to the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS), which has been going on for twenty years, so it will include some data that are from a genetically sensitive study design. That makes it easier (but not completely easy) to tease out environmental influences on gut microbes from individual genetic influences on gut microbes. The study also includes some data on the twins' health and some other variables of interest. The TEDS research program and all of its study subjects are based in Britain, but the study design is of such interest around the world that the United States federal government helps fund it.
If you're interested in attempting to get your software to work on other OSes through Wine, my company would be thrilled to talk to you. That's exactly what we do :)
>clients tend to see software quality as the least important attribute of the three.

It's the one attribute they can't see.
Canned air is your friend, any time you want something very cold in a hurry.
I just managed to bulk select and download 100 photos from Google Photos within 15 seconds of trying.
>The worst I have seen was a team of several hundred people who, on $200 half-broken laptops, were running - in parallel - 500MB Excel files for hours every day, which basically did a few linear operations on about 30 variables, before joining the results in a superfile itself taking up to 20 minutes just to open on a gaming-specced desktop.

This is my nightmare. I work on a sharedrive with large Excel files that conk out Excel. We are working on building a tool to do this work but it is slow going.
Property values in the U.S. do seem to be appreciating the fastest in denser urban areas. I'm not sure it's precisely a sea change in favor of urbanism, but it's certainly a different trend than, say, the '70s, when urban property was losing value relative to suburban property in many cities.

This extends even to cities that aren't traditionally very urbanized, like Houston: in the past 15 years, inside-610 property has been a much hotter market than outside-610 property.
Business is the definition of 'Mean Streets'.

Your post reads like you are 9 years old. Welcome to the real world.
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The problem is probably that failure in some countries of Europe leads to a different, more complex, legal situation that failure in other places. In most cases is almost guaranteed by the current law (and the absence of well developped second opportunity laws) that if you are small you will be systematically crushed for the next 10 years or so. The current fear of failure in some european countries is totally justified.
its simple. guy is guilty probably. sweden is tough on that kind of thing. its got nothing to do with the leaks.
People with a bit of patience? It's really not that long to wait.
And if it keeps childish acts such as this from happening, we're all the better for it.
Yes the version @ http://emacsformacosx.com/ is much better.
//go:fancy

seems more appropriate.
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Meh. I hear your gripe, but I think your proposed solution is not that much of an improvement. You're also basing all of this on the idea that comments are "free form". Where is that gospel? I like the idea that comments are more than just blabber. I like the idea that, when structured some way, they take on new meanings.

I think this is a semantic argument.
It was practically unavailable in my area anyway. I'd already grown tired of fixing some really bad errors on the maps surrounding my neighborhood and workplace only to have the fixes reverted by someone or something else.
You, sir, have made my Monday morning.