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It's amusing to me that the second thing she had him do was sing in front of a crowd. I essentially did the same thing, using karaoke to shed social anxiety. While I certainly wasn't at the level of this guy to begin with, I can guarantee you the first time I ever did karaoke at a bar I was shaking pretty violently, and I had to be extremely drunk to even consider it. Now? I can go up completely sober and really not think twice about it, and the social anxiety I used to feel in most social situations very rarely rears it's head.

While I'm just speculating since this doesn't seem like the type of thing I really want to give my Facebook credentials to, it seems that it wouldn't be especially anonymous if the people who are 'dueling' don't have a lot of mutual friends with each other.

The goal of internet drama is to make the instigator and everyone they know laugh at what they've done. The initial 'poke' will generate some of that, but a 'successful' attack will generate days of discussion that 'everyone' laughs at. I get that there are lots of people who don't understand this on this forum, but, asking for citations to understand concepts that are described on wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama) is a bit ridiculous, don't you agree?

You do realize that discussing internet drama is what spurs people to create internet drama, right?

Her opening statement closely resembles what I felt seeing another jeanhsu article about gender. I also thought it was woefully ironic when she mentioned that she has tried to avoid the topic of gender, when in actuality, that's the only correlation I have to her at this point.

Jean -- if you don't want to be known as the person who only talks about gender issues, at the very least, try to intersperse some technical discussions into your gender articles. Or, better yet, write articles about tech instead of the fact that you're female.

The tools built into the more recent versions of Visual Studio (which I believe are different from the Web Application Stress tool) are quite good for modeling accurate load testing. Setting up specific scenarios that are each then segmented into percentages of the overall load test was super straightforward with the test suite tools.

More likely, they've accepted that this is the best their lives are going to amount to. They're never going to create anything of value so the only way to 'earn' their riches is via litigation.

As a human being, it's hard not to be touched by that story.

I don't look at it as jumping through hoops, it's just as much for your benefit as it is for the company. Yes, you can quit at any time (of course, in California, you can be fired at any time also) but it's much cleaner if you both go into a trial period trying each other out. Should you decide the company isn't up to your standards, there's no pressure you stay, and you have a clearer expectation at that point of what you'd expect from compensation.

Congratulations on being the exception to the rule.

I've done a lot of scraping on a variety of projects, and basically as long as you keep your scrapers from going out of control, you won't get banned.

It implies that having the skills to pick up any woman you want (in his specific case, he wants blonde haired white women) is an achievement in life worth respect. You may disagree with that, but I can assure you those skills translate to all aspects of social interaction. In the context of the original article, this is one of the ways that people can radically improve their social skills and positively impact all areas of their life.

How is that the wrong attitude?

I think you should read the original article that quote is from (http://nymag.com/news/features/asian-americans-2011-5/) because the remainder of your comment makes it clear you didn't understand what you've quoted. It certainly has nothing to do with putting women on a pedestal, in fact, it's quite the opposite.

One of the lists of 'worst interview questions' he linked had #10 as:

What interests you about our company?

Which made me realize how antiquated and outdated that list was. If a company DIDN'T ask me that, there's very little chance I'd take the job.

http://edgerails.info/articles/what-s-new-in-edge-rails/2011... is a good synopsis of IdentityMap.

I just mean that it implies that finding cheap hosting for a ruby webapp is problematic. If the purpose of that statement is to say that more places will support Python than Ruby, then it should probably be worded differently.

I thought it was a pretty good article until I got to:

"Since they are often used for the creation of webapps one should consider the deployment issue. Most web hosting companies provide cheap Python hosting, but very few companies provide Ruby hosting."

Which pretty much killed it. Doesn't Heroku alone pretty much blow this statement away?

That's like arguing that electricity isn't available because you don't agree with how PG&E operates. Just because you don't want to give them your money doesn't mean they cease to exist.

The point remains that Comcast is still offering connections that are quite fast, and it's completely feasible (and expected) that they'd reach gigabit connects in the next 10 years.

And Comcast in San Francisco (at least in the mission) offers a 50mbit connect that (when I've had it in the past) works better than advertised. I think peak downloads we saw were just over 7MB/s.

What's the problem?

I'm not modifying a list there, I'm modifying the privacy settings of a wall post I'm in the process of making. When making a wall post, there's a little padlock and from selecting the customize option, you can target an update to a list. In this specific case, See Everything is a list I've created. Adding people to that list after this update has already been posted does exactly what you describe, it allows me to maintain just that list and they sell all previous and future things that I limit to it. While I don't use this much for status updates, I use it heavily for restricting photo albums.

It's also not for all wall posts unless you check the box at the bottom of that dialog setting it as the default.

I've been working on something like this, but from a different angle at http://lifetrckr.com/

It's all functional, even though it's extremely bare at this point, but the goal is to help people distill all these things they do online into a single readable format. For the initial pass for me, it seemed easiest to take all of that 'stuff' and turn it into a calendar subscription. It's a neat and simple way to visualize all of these things that are floating around out there.

So as not to highjack this post, the biggest problem I saw with The Locker Project is that it's very unfriendly to normal users. I'm sure eventually apps will be built on top of that people can run locally to view and manage their data, but in the mean time, it's very much a toy for geeks and not much more.

If you scroll down to ~10 hours ago (2PM PST on Sunday) that's where he makes the first tweets about Helicopters in Abbottabad.

EA is no longer using Erlang, at least none of the code related to this project. I was engineering manager for the rupture team at the tail end of our time at EA. Our entire backend was built using Erlang, and ufortunately the existing MySQL drivers were less than stable, forcing us to build our own.

I didn't really interpret it like that. While there's certainly situations where one feels burned out and lacking motivation, I think his point was more about entire fields of work that you find demoralizing.

For me, this is mostly doing design work. It's a necessary evil on small projects, but I really struggle with it a lot of the time because I'm not especially good at it, while I think I have a pretty good eye for what looks like shit and what doesn't. With programming, even the most menial tasks I can get lost in much easier.

Not true:

http://min.us/lnx0gs is me posting a status update that can only be seen by a list of people that I've created.

Group messaging is certainly not an ideal solution to it, but I think it's probably better than any focused solution. It's one of those problems that any solution that is focused on solving that problem is useless far too often to ever take hold. The best solution to this is something that makes it easier to communicate with people -- not something that makes it easier to 'plan instant events'.

I imagine the example is pretty indicative of how it works. Better to have a crappy example than no example at all.

Sennheiser makes fantastic products, even if they occasionally like to cripple them (http://mikebeauchamp.com/misc/sennheiser-hd-555-to-hd-595-mo...) and the sound quality is significantly higher than anything by Bose at a similar price point.

I think this is a problem that's going to be solved more correctly via things like group messaging rather than a direct solution, but it's certainly an interesting problem to tackle.

Actually, I'd imagine it's one of most common ways people siphon money out of credit cards. Any self-service kiosk is probably one of the only ways to immediately turn a printed credit card into something tangible.