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by bct 14y ago
You really think candidates are (or could be) chosen based on anything even remotely related to those abilities?
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by bct 14y ago
No mechanism, just a damaged bicycle.
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by bct 14y ago
I haven't watched the video yet either, but I'm guessing he's talking about Datomic's design, which would make this a good place to start: http://docs.datomic.com/architecture.html
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by bct 14y ago
Yup, having your bike slide off the road is no fun. A studded front tire helps a lot.
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by bct 14y ago
I think you had the wrong URL in your clipboard :)
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by bct 14y ago
From the docs: "If the app does not respond with 2XX, then the server should try again later." "Shirley has her client in maintenence mode; jerrold.me will attempt to deliver the notification later using an exponential backoff algorithm."
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by bct 14y ago
Having a good product is necessary, but far from sufficient.
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by bct 14y ago
I don't mean this in a cruel way (I'd really like this to succeed), but that's a list of features, not a plan for getting adoption. Figuring out how to bootstrap network effects is critical.
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by bct 14y ago
How impotent it always was .
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by bct 14y ago
> Basically it's complicated in structure [...] but simple in interface, and that's pretty much the right place to be. Thanks for posting this, this is a great analysis. It gets right to the heart of many of the disagreements I have wit
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by bct 14y ago
It's too bad that opposition to changes like this is often expressed so trollishly. There's a real tradeoff here (of simplicity and of portability) that gets glossed over.
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by bct 14y ago
It is. And the server doesn't even feed PhantomJS the HTML that it can generate, PhantomJS has to make another request to the server. I wonder if it can be made to recurse? https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/master/packages/spider...
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by bct 14y ago
The article links the wikipedia page on stereotype threat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat , which has plenty of references to studies demonstrating how this differs from other types of anxiety.
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by bct 14y ago
The entire article is about personal experiences that have prevented people from doing the things that they're interested in. It doesn't say anything about what society wants, or ideal demographic ratios, or whatever. This isn't about philo
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by bct 14y ago
> no one is complaining about low presence of men in female-dominated industries. Do you actually know that?
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by bct 14y ago
You're mixing different layers of worrying. People underperform because they're worrying about problem X (confirming stereotypes). Let's refer to this as problem Y (stereotype threat). Education about problem X would be counterproductive; t
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by bct 14y ago
IMO modern web browser internals are more complex and less fun to work on than 1991-era Unix clones. I'm not being defensive of this project, I'm being critical of the direction web architecture is going.
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by bct 14y ago
Uzbl isn't really written in one language. uzbl-core (the Webkit wrapper) is written in C, the event-processing framework and tabbed-browsing wrapper are written in Python, and much of the functionality is handled by external scripts writte
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by bct 14y ago
> I mean, it's not like HTML layout engines or JS-interpreters are somehow impossible to write from scratch. Today's web standards are large & complex enough that it is practically impossible without a full-time team.
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by bct 14y ago
I'm bothered that that blog doesn't distinguish between sites that (A) email generated passwords for new accounts and sites that (B) email plaintext passwords for existing accounts.
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by bct 14y ago
Without the villain the fragile egos here at HN might have actually read & responded to the post, instead of using it as another opportunity to argue about gender politics.
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by bct 14y ago
> Painting men as super villains in some grand 'Dan Brown'ian plot of conspiracy against women will NOT work. Nobody believes this! There's no conspiracy at work. But there is is a long history of gender-based discrimination, and cultur
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by bct 14y ago
> the woman was acting like a bimbo Classy.
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by bct 14y ago
> [...] play dumb, bat her eyelashes and flip her hair [...] The fact that you frame it in such a stereotypical way speaks volumes about the attitudes at work here.
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by bct 14y ago
> That's not a call for single-sex education. The author was not calling for single-sex education, he was calling for us to find & support ways of giving new people "a more comfortable entrance into our general community".
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by bct 14y ago
It's sad, but (relative) newness is a pretty big feature; it gets attention, and attention gets users. The web has no attention span. You're either brand-new and hyped beyond realism, or ancient and boring.
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by bct 14y ago
Interesting. It looks similar to the vim plugin fugitive: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2975
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by bct 14y ago
> The other 10% can (assuming Wayland is successful) use Xorg... That's not very convincing. Assuming Wayland is successful, Xorg may vanish; that certainly seems to be what a lot of people are hoping.
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by bct 14y ago
I get a scrollbar in that pane when it's too small to display all the labels. That makes it pretty obvious, it's strange that you don't have one.
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by bct 15y ago
That's why you hang out on IRC (or the mailing list or wherever) and ask if anyone's working on it before you start.

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