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"The company has an office in eastern Washington state that's basically a call center, full of headsetted women in cubicles who make calls all day long to potentially disabled Americans, trying to help them discover and document their disabilities"

Why am I not surprised that getting people on disability has become an industry. I very much believe that governments should look after people who need help but there seems to be a significant lack of accountability when it comes to disability.

Does anyone know the details American of politics of disability? Welfare, social security and health care are constantly in the political news but I do not recall seeing much about disability. As someone who regular consumer of political text I find this surprising. Especially given the size of the program.

Mybatis migrations is also a great alternative for schema migrations

http://www.mybatis.org/migrations/index.html

It is made by the Mybatis team but it not dependent on the Mybatis object mapping framework or on Java. It runs from the command line.

I think the key here is to treat everyone like people. By publicly shaming two individuals and associating them with sexism they are being turned into figureheads for sexism. Real people make mistakes, say stupid things, are affected by their environments and upbringing, have prejudices and biases that they acquired from a life-time of interacting with other people. Everyone is like this, many people do not even realize what some of their biases or prejudices are. Turning them into into figureheads strips away the complexity and says "these guys are what is wrong". Which is complete and utter bullshit. They were just two guys having a private conversation.

If someone says something in private that you disagree with then you should bring it up with them in private or get and intermediary, like the conference organizers to. They may have been very sensitive to gender issues and sympathetic to her agenda but she will never know because she never put the effort into discussing it with them.

I no doubt he knows very well what TDD is. Even if he is being as dogmatic as plinkplonk claims I still think his advice has merit because this and the last post are great justifications for automated testing. Attacking dogmatic TDD seems beside the point to me.

I interpret Bob's post as saying that having automated tests is critical, not that TDD is the one and only way to test. I know he uses the acronym TDD but his logic all points toward the value of automated tests and he did not mention that TDD is the only way to do it.

When looked at in this light his advice is spot on for me. The kind of projects I work on would quickly get bogged down and have high failure chances without automated tests. When my current employer was in the startup phase they ignored testing, were making tones of money, hired tones of devs and wrote tons of code. At least they wrote tons of code for the first couple years then they hit a wall where it became incredibly difficult to add new functionality. Now that they have been writing automated tests for 5 years new functionality is comparatively easy to add to anything but that original project (which is still running making money but very hard to change). This is server side financial processing, user management, business logic code.

No

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_law_of_headlines

The tea party uses this to great effect. At one point they had training sessions where they would encourage people to go online and post canned comments in an attempt to discredit and delegitimize their political opponents.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGB8Uuffi4M

With anything as elite as MIT there is bound to be a few very self centered narcissists.

Could be a reason why they chose LG for the Nexus 4.

What about http://imgur.com/BOaFPtn

So compact yet so powerful.

Ah the good old days, when computers were so simple and yet so mysterious and exciting at the same time.

So much time and effort by talented people being used for such useless purposes. So monarchic.

Does anyone know if invalidating patents affects previous settlements? Could the company that settled sue for their money back?

I'm curious what people on HN believe the future holds for Bitcoins.

I expect the US government will step in in the not to far future and severely restrict the ability to legitimately exchange Bitcoins for dollars. I'm not passing any judgement on Bitcoins themselves, it just seems unlikely to me that people in places of power will be ok with an independent currency.

Good point, but some communities seem more civil than others. I went from theoretical computer science to development and there was a noticeable drop in civility. Of course the theoretical computer science community is tiny when compared to software development.

I'm loving the great supportive comments in this thread however.

The irony, it burns. I have a feeling there is an apology incoming. Everyone screws up and most people will poke some fun at some point. Seems like one of those off instances for him.

I mostly agree with you but it seems to me elitist behaviour like this has a lot of tacit acceptance among developers. I have seen it many times in my career, and have also noticed that workplaces where is is not acceptable tend to make everyone more productive.

Developer elitism at it again. The dev community really needs to lose this trait.

Too bad Google missed out on buying Sun.

True but I have a lot more faith in a tightly integrated 8 person team than some off the shelf bloat-ware customization project.

$97 million for this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCeSIS. The BC government was milked. A system for a few thousand school administrators costing that much and could not handle the load? The ineptitude boggles my mind.

Awesome to see there are some smart people out there fighting back.