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See Phil Greenspun on women in science: http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science

The trouble with rules that remain on the books despite not usually being enforced is that they create opportunities for selective enforcement when they decide to crack down on you for other reasons, such as your political views.

Sounds like you're well on your way to the right attitude for that store visit ;-)

I've always thought Dasher (project at http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/ ) was interesting. It's intended for people with disabilities, but maybe it could be adapted for program text entry?

Great to hear themes are close! I know lots of people like the black-background-light-print look, but it's essentially unusable for me--serious eye strain. I'm eagerly awaiting a theme with dark print on light background so I can give Bespin another try.

I keep wondering what they did about the finger holes.

Store encrypted data redundantly in the cloud, with peer-to-peer crypto magic for key distribution?

I have no idea how you'd protect against one of your "friends" deciding to release your stuff in plaintext.

Very true. I've already got a nice mixer, so I use it.

Tip: Use the bread-maker (or a heavy-duty mixer with dough hook) to save time on the initial mixing and kneading, but do the remaining steps by hand -- it's much more satisfying, and once you practice a bit, you'll get better bread. You'll spend a little more time, but it's worth it.

Take a weekend and check out Central or Eastern Washington. Lots of sun here, though not much of a tech startup scene.

I think your scale is off a bit. I'm not sure what "these far off galaxies" refers to, but according to this Wikipedia page:

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

all the local group galaxies are within 10 million light years of Earth.

For that matter, some of the "life is everywhere" theories assume many space-faring civilizations within our own Milky Way galaxy, which is only(!) about 100,000 light years across.

Nice. Just registered. Various glitches on the website where you fill out a form (received via https), hit submit, and get the API error page saying https required.

What I'd like to try sometime is NIX ( http://nixos.org/nix/ ). Getting it to work well on OSX would be the trick.

Edit: They say it should run on Mac OS X.

Received a recommendation for this book this morning, because I had bought Peter Norvig's PAIP and other books on Lisp.

The first form screams "Add me to your prospects database, so your automation can start your sales people hounding me". The second form softens that impression a bit. I suspect it might work better on me.

Maybe you had to be in the right mood for it. I found it very entertaining, though long. I liked the neophilia vs neophobia with mushrooms. Referring back to the white-on-yellow highlighting several paragraphs along is a clever way to unify the piece. I suspect the author spent quite some time writing this -- it only appears to be a disorganized rambling rant.

Someone in the thread mentions a plan that seemed inevitable at that time to convert GNU emacs to the guile flavor of scheme. Obviously that never happened. Does anybody know the story?

I gave up after the first 30 seconds of the main talk. Does the audio get any better later on?

Reminds me of interfaces in Google Go. No rigid class hierarchy to cram our objects into. Just implement a list of methods and you're good.

I think there is some truth in the advice to avoid sub-vocalizing. It seems to improve my reading speed, but does take an effort. The other day I was reading something that included a word I have some trouble pronouncing (sorry, don't remember what it was now). I noticed I was pausing over that word every time I encountered it, trying to solve the puzzle of how to pronounce it. When I made an effort to stop that, I sped up my reading quite a bit.

Thanks for mentioning Monoprice. Cool company.

Very cool. Here's one for Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice:

http://diagrammr.com/edit?key=dvvAjKyVhCs

A new technology needs to be MUCH better than any technology it hopes to supplant. Of course "better" can have many different meanings.

Is Parrot 1.0.0 radically better than other (non-perl) VMs?

Sussman is one of the authors of Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics. Free web version online.

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

Nice summary.

On finding a problem you'd be happy working on for a few years, he said "fall in love with the problem". I like that.

One of the interviewers asked what source control he used, and admitted that he himself just makes directory tree backups periodically. Peldi spent some time explaining why you should use source control. He himself started with Perforce since that's what he knew, then switched to svn because he's a boring old fart. The cool kids use git or hg.

I use 3oz cans, feed my cat 1/2 can at a time, and still have quite a bit left over.

You're driving away new submissions by asking for a login or registration at that stage. At this point you can't afford any barriers between the submitter and getting their item up on the list.

I suppose you could include the login/registration info on the submission page, but I'd allow anonymous submission.

Not the kind of stuff I'm interested in shopping for, but seems like it might appeal to some. I'd think it might work for a lot of product categories where people have strong views and like to exchange them. For shoppers on a quest for a particular item, your competition is probably the reviews on Amazon.

I'd recommend larger, higher-resolution pictures behind the thumbnails, or perhaps at the individual article level.

Wasn't TMA1 located in Tycho Crater (near side)?

They mention it fairly often on the day-time market-watching shows on CNBC.