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Does the OP know you can hide stories from everyone but your closest circle of friends and family? Honestly every time I see anything from an acquaintance I played beer pong with 5 years ago, I click on "hide all publications by this guy", and voila.

Facebook has already thought of that problem for you, OP.

Yes! I'm particularly writing stuff for the baremetal IPMI, as far as I know we don't have any of this on production though

I arrived at CERN when the decisions about this were made already, so I'm mostly involved with the actual implementation. I would say that the main reason is that a lot of experiments (not just the higgs boson search) are going on here right now. Somehow you need to distribute resources and let people do stuff with them and the centrally managed Openstack/Puppet stack vastly facilitates the task. The fact these solutions are open source and we can add our stuff (or others) on top of the code is also quite important for us.

If anyone has any questions about this, I'm part of one of the teams mentioned on the article and I'll be happy to answer them

They demo'ed this with Listerine instead of real alcohol and it worked well. Honestly I'm tempted to buy a Drinkshield.

It's funny you mention this when a lot of these cables show how the US government was pressuring the Spanish government to join NATO and more recently to legislate in favor of the American media lobby. Obviously it's both parties fault, but I don't particularly like when my country and the people who are supposed to be my representatives are constantly subject to American wishes. They are definitely polite, but their requests and intentions are as selfish as it can be.

I have an Asus as well, I'm on 13.04 and my card is a NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 635M with 2GB DDR3 VRAM. Bumblebee seems to work well with the latest nouveau drivers, I normally use the intel chipset for everything but playing Counter Strike. I spent a lot of time trying to fix this as well but nowadays it's pretty easy, for me it was just installing the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau driver from xorg-edgers then bumblebee and boom: optimus works.

If I had to recommend a laptop, I'd recommend this one, an Asus K56CM:

https://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/K56CM/

Probably like 3 or 4 months ago I would not recommend it, but these days optimus support is decent at least for a typical setup.

PS: get an SSD for that computer and you'll have the ultimate linux dev. laptop right there.

About 1/4th I'd say, another 1/3rd is thinking about architectural decisions (or restructuring bits that are broken) and the rest is mundane work including meetings. I work on infrastructure stuff

So the idea is to create special events for women in tech so that they are not special any more? Honestly I see that argument as flawed.

Gender issues do come into play when you segregate people like this. Some women like to go to these events, some don't. Have you ever thought about how do men feel? Or just because they are generally in a different position it doesn't matter if they're discriminated against?

This thing sounds to me like trying to justify robbing a thief, one automatically becomes a thief after doing it no matter how much sugar you want to use to coat the action.

tl;dr:

'&&' is a boolean and 'and' is for control flow

On my experience, everyone in the Netherlands speaks English. I had problems getting by in Berlin and I know some basic notions of German (had to use English when that wasn't enough), English does NOT cut it, you need at least some basic German (maybe 1 or 2 months of studying).

In my experience, you pretty much learn this on the fly. You don't know how to do X, you google it, if you do X often enough, you'll eventually learn. After a while you end up mastering most of the unix suite (ls, grep, awk, du, etc..) so instead of googling stuff you write it.

Unlike fundamentals (think books like SICP, Introduction to Algorithms, K&R, the Dragon book, et al), this is just a collection of useful commands that do not bring barely any collateral learning aside from learning the 'UNIX' way.

If you really want to put up the effort to learn this, and you don't have any projects or anything that requires this knowledge, I've noticed lots of tech offices have a copy of UNIX in a nutshell always have a copy around. I've checked it out myself and it's pretty useful (I already 'know'), not sure how good is it for learning this stuff from the ground up.

+1 for videos. They make it much more enjoyable but it can be a lot of work :( Are you going to publish quizzes and assignments?

-- why vim.

Don't want to create a flame thread, but I felt the urge to reply.

I was really skeptical of vim as an editor just like you are, until I (and I am so glad I did) forced myself to use vim for a month for ALL my text editing. The linux kernel is old, does that make it less useful? That's not a valid argument at all.

It certainly takes some time to learn how to do things, macros, search and replace, move blocks of text, install some good plugins, etc... All of this is incredibly fast and ergonomic as opposed to move your right hand to the arrow keys every now and then. Textmate, Gedit, Redcar, pretty much other text editor has just a subset of features that vim has (emacs being the exception where vim might be a subset of emacs). Learning vim is just like learning a sort of new way of talking to your editor. ":wq" is obvious once you learn the words. It means write and quit. Another big advantage I see is I can work remotely through SSH and be instantly super productive with an editor that doesn't get in my way. I learnt vim before doing this, now I pretty much do all my coding on remote machines where using Textmate would simply be losing a lot of time after a few days.

It is not a replacement for IntelliJ Idea, Eclipse, Visual Studio, or any IDE. IDE's help you in a different way that sometimes can be more valuable than having a powerful tool to edit code. Programming JavaEE apps for instance is something I just find way easier to do with an IDE.

I agree, the user has to put a lot of effort to be able to understand and make vim work for him as an amazing editor. Spending time learning how to use a computer program is something we are not used to do these days but in the case of vim it pays off.

--- OP

Back to the original topic, I agree opening the results on a web browser sort of defeats the point for me as well. If you can find a way to render the articles and comments texts nicely in a terminal I would find it a lot more useful though. Maybe you can reuse the parsing work the fellows at Pulse.me have done, I can't find the feed if there's any though :( . Best of luck!

"introverts, while usually contributing a lot more"

I need some factual data confirming that.

CERN. We got too excited and started using it for EVERYTHING (it started just being part of the LHC data analyzing project) and it didn't work in some cases, but for some projects it fitted in perfectly.

http://lanyrd.com/2012/mongonyc/stqzc/

A laptop with multiple external monitors and a clicky keyboard :)

Living in Spain at the age of 19 with no college degree, no matter how sharp your skills are, is truly a pain in the ass. It sounds like your parents were able to support you, did you never consider to move back with them then figure out your job prospects in the UK? I'm just imagining you're the son of one of the many British expats that live on the Canary Islands/Andalusian/Valencia coast. There aren't many tech jobs around there but I saw a few companies started by people in these typical expat areas that might be willing to take people like you (given you like Spain enough to stay in). Did you ever consider to stay with your family in Spain and try to get a college degree in there? In any case, glad to see it's working out so far. The best thing when you're in a hole is there's a lot of room for improvement.

CERN programmer/devops here, but it involves lots of startup-y stuff like Rails to be honest. I share your impression of HN but there are quite a few nuggets of knowledge that I take away from reading this everyday.

As a guy working on a Rails app that takes 5000ms avg to render a partial, this is likely going into production now.

I am latino (Spanish), though white looking male. Been an immigrant everywhere I lived for 3 years and my accent though slight is noticeable. I never felt anything like what you said, but then again it might just be me.

It doesn't harm me, again, I hope these women become outstanding programmers, it's just I don't fully grasp how this is socially acceptable. The Swedish guy who posted here made a good point. I understand the causes, but as we develop as a society, these kind of things become less and less affirmative action and rather become more discrimination. If you ask me, I would understand something like this in Arabia Saudi and I'd even be involved if I lived in there.

The fact that black people were treated bad in the past wouldn't justify if you were treated as an slave just to compensate for what your ancestors did.

I don't see why this is unequal nowadays for women or other minorities but it IS unequal to men (don't think anyone can't see that fact). Equality should be the goal, not being treated differently depending on your gender.

Will sound like an asshole to many people, but:

  Hackbright Academy Turns Men Into Developers In 10 Weeks

  Hackbright Academy Turns Blacks Into Developers In 10 Weeks

  Hackbright Academy Turns Whites Into Developers In 10 Weeks

Do we really need MORE discrimination? If I go ahead and try to join in, they will say "sorry, no men accepted"? That sounds equally as bad to me as "sorry, no woman accepted" or "sorry, no latinos accepted".

Can anybody explain?

I honestly hope the girls will get the skills they're looking for in 10 weeks, and I support that, but I truly don't get why do they have to discriminate against. Maybe so they get media coverage?

Asus S56CA + 180GB SSD + extra 4GB RAM (it only has two slots and one of them comes with a 2GB memory).

http://www.asus.com/Notebooks/Superior_Mobility/S56CM/

Would be around $1000 and its a beast. It's powerful enough for everything you will want to do, battery is about 4.5 hours, and it has this NVIDIA Optimus technology that switches between a powerful GT 635 and Intel Ivybridge depending on your graphical needs so battery doesn't drain out that quickly. I play Counter Strike: Global offensive on high res and it works perfectly. 4 different VMs? The SSD handles it. Need to develop 3d stuff on Android? No probs. You'll need Bumblebee (OS project) to handle both GPUs but it's easy as pie to install.

Also its an ultrabook so pretty thin. Not as lightweight as I'd like it to be but still very portable.

I’m wondering what’s your opinion about how does it affect to have on your resume some great places to work at, but that might not be so well known in the US tech world as they’re not the usual Google, FB etc.. I’m talking about places like CERN, Fermilab, Max Planck Institute for Physics or the MIT Medialab. Do you think these matter as much as Google on a resume?

How about having ‘old boring’ companies like IBM or Oracle on your resume?

What was your schedule like during hackNY?

You can still receive texts when you're abroad for free from your bank (I rely on this..) . As for not having a cellphone.. I'm kinda puzzled they didn't give you other option.

What is wrong with paying rent in Switzerland? I've lived in several countries and here (Geneva) they handle rent payments pretty well, it's just doing it online/taking one paper to the atm (with UBS), honestly I see no faults in that

Still you'd be able to save the number-imei then post on our behalf to Whatsapp.

Honestly I don't get the deal with Germany forbidding access to so many youtube videos. I've been there on vacation a few times and it was nearly impossible to find some (legitimate uploaded) songs in youtube, even from the VEVO channel. Big thumbs down for GEMA.

Their policy (verbatim):

"Whoever wants to playback or perform music in public in Germany will become, as a rule by doing this, a customer of GEMA."

Translation: "We don't give a damn about you being the owner of your creations or if you want to use non-restrictive licenses (CC for instance), you'll give us money whether you like it or not"