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PyLadies is a legitimate organization that has been around for a while. [1]

A simple Google search could help you resolve these inquiries in the future.

[1] http://www.pyladies.com/

Seriously? Come on.. Even if you've only been half paying attention the last several days, you'd realize that this issue is quite serious and personal to a lot of people. If, when you saw this post, all that came to your mind was a smart ass comment.. Please, next time, keep it to yourself.

Supply and demand? Really? There is no limit, no ceiling for things that truly inspire. If you make something with passion and skill - something that inspires others - you are probably going to do very well in life.

From the linked page: "I just got spammed this morning via my dropbox@... custom email address. cc'd on the spam were two other email addresses which belong to the two dropbox accounts that I share folders with. There is no way this was a random spammer guessing addresses as some of the mods are suggesting."

Seems highly unlikely that the situation this person described would result from anything other than dropbox being compromised in some way.

Are we talking about drones or cell phones?

> Having a realistic appraisal of your problems and advantages is a sure sign of delusion and lack of maturity.

I think you meant "Having an unrealistic ..."

You neglected to mention that since 9/11, it would be almost impossible to do now what the hijackers did then. If that were attempted now, a whole plane load of vigilantes would rise up against the hijackers.

Because we can.

"Humanity is better for this exchange on Stackoverflow - we need more discussions like this."

Outstanding. Made me smile. I appreciate the level of grandeur you are attempting to bring to bear on this discussion, but this is a discussion about Game Development by the way.

Running latest version of Chrome here... The videos play when they come into view. They immediately stop playing when they leave view. I actually don't mind that. The videos themselves are each pretty short, so they don't seem like they'd be too distracting if trying to read the content.

"[The news'] obsession with the criminal and the deviant makes us less trusting people. Its obsession with the hurry of the day-to-day makes us less reflective thinkers. Its obsession with surfaces makes us shallow."

I was not saying there is such a thing as a "real programmer." I am not sure where you're getting that from. I was merely attempting to spur some debate surrounding the recent trends towards very superficial "innovations" being put forth by many on Hacker News. I am not saying I have the answers to any of these questions. And, I don't think I am better than anyone for thinking a particular way. I just want to learn and try to understand the world around me. That's it.

Sounds like you have had a bad day, so I won't hold this too much against you.

I suggest you not take all of this so personally.

Have you read the lecture that okal posted the link to? It's from the early 1970's and speaks to the early days of when abstractions were first being implemented for computers in general. Perhaps it is you who does not understand what abstraction means.

I haven't read the whole lecture yet, but you kind of flipped my whole argument on its head. Well done.

I still think it's helpful from time to time to think a bit deeper about the details of what's actually happening below the top couple layers of abstraction, though :)

Sorry. I don't mean you should not use any abstractions. I am saying that you must understand what's happening below those high level abstractions to be able to come up with truly innovative solutions to problems. We should definitely continue using abstractions.

Page loads just fine on Chrome on Ubuntu as well.

I posted this as a reply to the article itself, but I feel I should post it here as well, in case it just gets buried there.

To me, the OP's post is clearly a cry for help, guidance, a "wtf do I do next?"

Been there.. You know what you need to do? Treat life itself like a video game. Win. Stop what you're doing right now. Think really hard about what winning would be for YOU. Write that down on a piece of paper. Done? Good.. now figure out how to get there.

I, too, had a great affection, possibly obsession, with video games at a similar point in my life. I had these grand ideas for video games that I'd like to play, but didn't exist yet. So, I started figuring out what it would take to make them. Now, roughly 6 years later, I'm not in game development, but I am building complex web applications and doing a lot of very interesting things. And, you know what? I'm happy.

You have the drive. Make happiness happen. Don't wait for it to come to you.

"After the post was made, an Astoria police officer received a private Facebook message from someone who tipped her off to Cox-Brown’s post."

I commend whoever reported this to the authorities. People who drive drunk are disgraceful human beings. You are not so important or special that you can endanger the lives of your fellow humans for no other reason than you are incapable of self control.

And yes, he was arrested not simply for posting the message. He was arrested because the police went to investigate, after receiving the tip, and discovered that his car matched the evidence from a reported hit-n-run from the same evening.

Here seems to be the definitive source for the information concerning this incident: http://localleaks.blogs.ru/

I like the concept of user generated content. I haven't been that into games in a very long time at this point, but from what I remember of playing the few MMORPG's that I did play, they always seemed to fall down when it came to making the game world truly respond to user input. What I mean by this is, what if the game world's state was as responsive to your input as say... a forum, or blog comments section, or even a social website?

Well, anyways... I checked out the first game in the article's list of "great" HTML5 games (Contre Jour: http://www.contrejour.ie/#fbid=N0F1LHvfzzM). It was pretty good. Seemed to have relatively unique, interesting game mechanics, nice visuals, and I liked the music.

Government is there to do the things that the individual citizens should not or will not do. The government is not there to "force" you to do things against your will; unless of course your will involves doing things directly at odds with the public good (murder, theft, etc.). If you equate taxes to "forcing" you to give, then you are clearly arguing from a staked out position that clearly misunderstands the things that the government does with your money.

I've seen competitions like this before, but I've never had the time to commit to submitting anything. The rules and guidelines for this particular competition seem simple, straight-forward enough. I fear I, again, won't find the time to participate.

I will have to remember to check back in on this, to see what everyone came up with.

It is very easy to kill someone with a gun.. It is also very easy to imagine how impersonal an experience it can be doing so.

If you have to use a knife to kill someone, you are going to have to get very close to them to do it. You're going to have to be very aware of what you're doing. With a gun.. not so much.

> You have a natural right to self defense from all threats.

Foreign and imaginary.

I think his comment was quite appropriate, and did not feel there was an implication that he thought anyone was dumb for not having known about the alternative approach to getting Reddit data.

Often times programmers and the managers that drive them are way too quick to get going building or solving something with brute force. If they would just be patient and stop for a moment. Spending even a mere 30 minutes extra doing your homework on a problem can save hours or days in dev time.

The word "Loser" might be a bit off putting, but if you can get past that, the approach the author of the article describes is a good way of getting to the core of the person you're interviewing.

I was thinking the same thing. Why was this comment down-voted? Nothing wrong with honesty.

I have limited knowledge of Python / Django, but I have quite a lot of experience dealing with large projects in PHP and many of the frameworks and applications built with it.

Are you using Git for your source control? If so, you may want to start a new branch and work in it before doing any major re-factoring.

To start, I would try to find a small part of the application that you feel would be possible to re-factor in an hour or so. Before changing anything, I would load up the app locally in your browser and navigate to the portion that is dependent upon the code you're going to re-factor. Then I would re-factor things in as small a chunk as possible, constantly checking in the browser to make sure things still work properly. This is a rather bastardized approach to test driven development, but it can be quick and effective.

> The architecture of it all is very monolithic; based on our plans for the future business development, quite a few parts should be decoupled and made more independent of each other.

As a side note.. This type of thing I have seen way too much of in my time in the industry. It's very easy to get carried away and over-engineer a solution. I've found it's best to create a solution that solves only the problems you currently need solved. It's always easier to go back and extend while re-factoring than it is to try to re-factor a giant-freakin'-thing after the fact.

"Wizardry is a task-based library for GraphicsMagick / ImageMagick that focuses on simplicity and getting one thing done right: processing images."

Why I like these words: It's not enough to be able to write code, or even to package up a module for a framework. Knowing that you can't do everything, and that you should not try to do everything, with a single module, is a promising sign in and of itself. Having a clear goal to reach makes getting there all the more possible.

Why do they count a state as having been won by a candidate after only 5%, 10%, or even 25% of the total precincts are reported? That cannot possibly have given a candidate the 51% they need to carry the state.