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by jballanc 13y ago
A quick Google search of the phrase "build an animated display" with one of the following strings appended to the end reveals the answer, I should think: "raspberry pi" -- 1,060,000 results "linux" -- 4,890,000
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by jballanc 13y ago
I honestly don't think anyone is trivializing anyone's commitment. Rather, I think what Ashe and James are pointing out is that the opportunity to contribute to OSS is not distributed equally between the sexes and races. Who&#x2
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by jballanc 13y ago
Right. If the people combing through GitHub profiles are not, themselves, technically proficient (i.e. recruiters) then we will find people being rewarded for quantity over quality. Taken to an extreme, this can lead to communities that bec
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The point is, the lack of diversity in the Open Source community is greater than the lack of diversity in CS education programs. You'd be less likely to hire a black female if you said "send us your GitHub profile" than i
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> I understand this is a fact, but how this can be used against Github as a resumé or against OSS on your free time, I have a hard time seeing that. It comes off as incredibly stupid. I really don't think anyone is saying not to
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by jballanc 13y ago
Beatniks. That's what we'll get. The Beats were a genuine movement of talented, hard working literary types. They were hip. They were cool. They were who everyone wanted to be, so people started emulating their dress, their manner
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The article does not say that conference talks, tweets, books, etc. should be used for hiring decisions and only GitHub should not. It says (right there at the end), that hiring is hard and any shortcut to try and get around that fact i
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by jballanc 13y ago
As with most things in life, the problem is one of lazy thinking. It goes something like this: "We want to hire good coders. How do we do that?" "Well, we can ask them to write code during the interview." "Yes, but
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by jballanc 13y ago
From a mathematical/theoretical point of view, this is an interesting article, but I think it misses the larger point of programming language paradigms. Yes, the PL researchers have their reasons for creating languages that are object
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An interview with J Craig Venter, the man who sequenced the human genome(arstechnica.com)
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If I'm not mistaken, Kotlin predates Dart...
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For what it's worth, this makes my video-just-released-yesterday talk from the Wicked Good Ruby Conference outdated! If you'd like a better understanding of what's going on with #eval, though, it might still be of some use:
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New in RubyMotion: Mavericks, #eval for OS X, Instruments, Xcode Asset Catalogs(blog.rubymotion.com)
5 points by jballanc 13y ago|1 comments
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Feelings don't preclude a meritocracy, but the snippet I quoted implies that Martin's decision to disavow Ubuntu is (at least in part) a reaction to the lack of an apology. That is, he has made a decision based not on the merits o
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by jballanc 13y ago
Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon did: http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/ubu...
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That would be true if the vast majority of people could have their emotional reactions but still make decisions based on pure merit. How many people do you know like that? Do you think this describes the majority of the people in the FOSS w
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by jballanc 13y ago
From the article: > I cannot remember that I have ever been insulted in public, in fact I'm not used to getting insulted at all. And if people normally are able to say sorry. I and many others asked Mark to withdraw his comment and
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by jballanc 13y ago
The title is a direct reference to an article from the front-page of HN yesterday titled "Why Meteor will kill Ruby on Rails" article: http://differential.io/blog/meteor-killin-rails HN discussion: https:&#x
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Phusion Passenger 4.0.23 released, supports the Meteor framework(blog.phusion.nl)
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I don't disagree, which is why I'm wondering if this is a case of not having enough money to continue supporting these projects, or a case of seeing the momentum or the need for support in open source changing to something new. So
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by jballanc 13y ago
So Engine Yard ends their support of JRuby in 2012. Then, just a few weeks ago, they end support for Rubinius. Now, they'll be ending support for RVM next week... A shift in strategy? Financial troubles? Either way, it seems they need
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Openbay Launches To Connect Car Owners With Local Mechanics(techcrunch.com)
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I think a lot of the objections/concerns in this thread would more-or-less melt away when you consider that we already have practically self-flying planes. Crashes? Contingency protocols? Hacking? Bugs? All these have and are continuin
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by jballanc 13y ago
If you interpret the title as referencing a general decline (as opposed to a specific decline in these metrics) and attempting to explain that decline with the charts presented, then perhaps you'd accept this as evidence of a decline:
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by jballanc 13y ago
I think you're right, but only partially. In addition to being the only industrialized nation in the world left mostly untouched by the war, it was also the prime destination for the world's best and brightest looking for someplac
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by jballanc 13y ago
+1 from Ankara (and sometimes Bodrum) I honestly didn't know what category to choose... I think Eastern Europe, Mediterranean Europe, and Middle East could all potentially qualify.
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The Tao of Apple(techpinions.com)
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Eloy Durán joins the RubyMotion team(blog.rubymotion.com)
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I find the narrative from the Wikipedia page on Lisp Machines to be really enlightening (far more so than a dry chart like TFA): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine . In particular, I think it is much easier to u
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by jballanc 13y ago
The lesson, or at least the lesson I've learned from dealing with lawyers at companies big and small, is that lawyering is a practice in making sure nothing can possibly go wrong. In a way, lawyers are the QA team for the legal world.

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