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I'm not a fan of the new UI... it's a much worse experience if you're coming in late & catching up.

ghurlmanon Git, Cloud, Node, Metro, is Microsoft starting to get a little bit cool?

For their purposes (Node = another thing running on Azure), it is just another platform. It's not their job to sell the platforms, just host them.

ghurlmanon Just Landed for iPhone helps you pick someone up from the airport.

You should probably not automatically play audio. Or, if you must have audio, don't automatically play the video.

ghurlmanon What should we do about Wikipedia's mature content problem?

Google's default search, even the image search, filters for porn.

ghurlmanon Top Technologies Used By YC Companies

Frontpage Server Extensions != Frontpage

That said, I too am horrified. Maybe some of the newer ASP.net deployment stuff appears to be plain vanilla FPSE from the outside.

ghurlmanon A safer git checkout

I've worked with developers that went days without committing... it was maddening.

ghurlmanon New Normal: Majority Of Unemployed Attended College

An entitled attitude is never justified, despite how much the attitude holder believes it so.

ghurlmanon In war for talent, 'brogrammers' will be losers

This is the first place I remember seeing it, still very much a bit of satire at the time:

http://www.quora.com/Brogramming/How-does-a-programmer-becom...

ghurlmanon Overpriced Developer Conferences

Javits may be a lot of things, but it's definitely not a place to hold a conference/convention if you're trying to keep costs down.

ghurlmanon "Gangbang Interviews" and "Bikini Shots": Silicon Valley’s Brogrammer Problem

True indeed; othering is othering, be it over-bro-ing or ignorant defense of "nerd culture".

ghurlmanon "Gangbang Interviews" and "Bikini Shots": Silicon Valley’s Brogrammer Problem

Nor did I want to try and produce some sort of WAG percentage of programmers that would/wouldn't want to.

ghurlmanon "Gangbang Interviews" and "Bikini Shots": Silicon Valley’s Brogrammer Problem

[citation needed]

Please? I'm curious if this is local to you, or a more widespread thing.

ghurlmanon "Gangbang Interviews" and "Bikini Shots": Silicon Valley’s Brogrammer Problem

And not just women either. It's ridiculous to assume that 100% of the best/qualified programmers would want to work at a place like that.

ghurlmanon The Invention of Jaywalking

Just the findings that involve charges stemming from the penal code, and involve being found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt vs. the civil standard of a preponderance of evidence.

ghurlmanon The Invention of Jaywalking

What state do you live in where vehicular manslaughter isn't a felony charge? Rich and/or well-connected folks notwithstanding...

ghurlmanon The Invention of Jaywalking

If you think a ticket can't be punished with jail time, try not paying one and then don't show up to court.

ghurlmanon The Invention of Jaywalking

It is indeed a criminal charge. By paying the ticket, you are submitting a guilty plea. A low-level charge, sure (depending on the ticket), but a charge nevertheless.

ghurlmanon Staff-leasing company "steals" my resumé; should I let them get away with it?

I learned to add a Creative Commons notation & URL to the full license to every copy of my resume I've handed out for years now. It won't prevent spammers, but it does give easy grounds to get stuff like this pulled down.

ghurlmanon Windows Phone is headed for a life of fragmentation

Your guess is as good as anyone's.

ghurlmanon 9 year old's DIY Cardboard Arcade gets Flash mobbed: Video

I think what you're aiming for here is ignorance, not stupidity; but I agree with what you're saying - it truly is bliss.

ghurlmanon 60 minutes: Is sugar toxic?

That's correct, I misremembered, but cannot edit my original post. Sorry! :/

ghurlmanon 60 minutes: Is sugar toxic?

The crux of the piece, as I heard it, was that sugar is about as bad as fat when it comes to causes of heart disease and heart attacks, that HFCS is, in fact, worse than cane sugar because of the way the liver processes them, AND that the brain responds to sugar about the same way it does cocaine, and proves to be about as addictive.

So, toxic might a little strong, but when the doctors that worked on these studies recommend no more than about 100g/day of added sugars in your diet, less than what's in a can of soda, "large quantities" may not mean what you think it means either.

ghurlmanon [dead]

A very hood question indeed. Perhaps there's a touch of ostrich syndrome going around?

ghurlmanon Apology from Geeklist

Well, if that isn't a bunch of BS, then I don't know what is. I'm guessing a flag army took care of them, but there's no way to know from here.

ghurlmanon Apology from Geeklist

I expected at least a reference to them taking down one of their repos[1] to hide further criticism, but found none.

[1] https://github.com/geeklist/jennifer

ghurlmanon Female coders, lighten up

"Female coders lighten up" and "Female Coders, lighten up" have two very different meanings, the latter being the actual headline.

ghurlmanon Newspapers Lose $10 Dollars in Print for Every $1 Gained Online

No, that's your potassium deficiency. Eat a banana.

ghurlmanon This American Life retracts their Apple/China story

Site is unresponsive... This is the whole of the retraction text:

"Regrettably, we have discovered that one of our most popular episodes was partially fabricated. This week, we devote the entire hour to detailing the errors in "Mr. Daisey Goes to the Apple Factory,[1]" Mike Daisey’s story about visiting Foxconn, an Apple supplier factory in China. Rob Schmitz[2], a reporter for Marketplace, raises doubts on much of Daisey's story."

[1] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/454/m... [2] http://www.marketplace.org/people/rob-schmitz

ghurlmanon Your Coffee Shop Doesn’t Use Two-Phase Commit (Starbucks async processing model)

Starbucks was doing this long before there were Apple stores.

ghurlmanon Uncle Sam: If It Ends in .Com, It’s .Seizable

Is this just a result of Visa, Mastercard, AmEx, etc. being American companies? Are there no non-American credit card conglomerates out there?