robertpateii

The photographer wasn't without recognition. He is now a published co-author in a scientific journal. That's something.

White on black can create a very difficulty reading experience. It may increase the contrast, but that's not the only factor in readability.

I personally prefer light text on dark background, but never white on black. Silver an a dark blue works great for me. But font and font weight are also factors.

Because of all those factors, black text on white background is more forgiving and more broadly expected. Which is why my websites are black on white but my vim color scheme is "darkblue".

"Understand the differences between these things, and don't mash them all together. They each have unique requirements."

PSR-2 isn't trying to say that there is one correct answer. Instead they're trying to provide a single answer from the many valid possibilities.

"When various authors collaborate across multiple projects, it helps to have one set of guidelines to be used among all those projects"

I would too. they were memorable for me. Different strokes for different folks.

I just star anything that needs response and leave everything in the inbox.

If you need it, you can add different color stars to represent whatever you want.

I don't understand why people feel the need to archive. Seems like procrastination through over-optimization to me.

If he still plays diablo 2, he's used to games being obscenely cheap per hour of play. As is, 1000 hours for 50 dollars.

Also, he said exactly how much he thinks his $60 is worth in very specific terms: all the Indian food he can buy for $40 and Torchlight 2.

You should have calculated for inflation. Without it, your numbers appear misleading.

7.5 billion in 1987 is the equivalent of 15.1 billion today.

So they've had no effective increase in budget. Which helps us to choose the right question: Are they doing more today than they were doing in 1987? And what could they do with more budget?

you make it sound like it has to be one or the other.

I'm curious why this was down voted into being grayed out, within 20 minutes of being posted and with no replies to it.

edit: seems it got better.

Ah, great. That's a good update. Go does end up responding well at 1000 concurrent requests for real memory. But a spike in virtual memory means it's paging all that extra data, right? Doesn't that normally slow things down? what's interesting is Go still maintains a similar requests per second.

of course, for a front end guy, Node is still the most exciting thing on the block simply because it is server-side javascript. The fact that it's not much worse than the latest greatest compiled language is pretty exciting to me.

This test shows Node handling 100 requests simultaneously just as easily as handling them separately.

However Go's memory usage increases by about 5X.

So what happens when you reach 1000 simultaneous requests? Which will perform better then?

I think this is called "selection bias."

So you're saying that it's not about punishing the criminals, that it's about deterring people from becoming criminals.

It's arguable if that kind of policy is effective.

Also, it comes across like folks actually are still mad about it.

No easy answer to this. All the tech companies do it, and if you start legislating the loopholes closed, they'll go to another state and maybe even another country. And you can't expect the companies to change on their own. They'd be sued if they didn't exploit all legal means of increasing shareholder profits.

I think it will take smart legislation added in increments over the course of years and years. good luck with that, Congress.

Regardless, if it wasn't for facebook it would be happening on flickr or instagram or any other sharing site.

The problem is a legal one, not something that facebook can simply add as a feature. (Though they do have a way to report a photo in addition to untagging it. And then you explain why that photo violates privacy laws. https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=217091804975136#How-do-I-...)

I wasn't making any sort of proclamation like that.

I'm asking why the authors think that nature and nurture is not a sufficient explanation for the preferences of college age adults.

I brought up cultural bias specifically because it's something that people are used to trying to change, as opposed to genetics.

Let me rephrase. Using 75% implies a certain level of authority I don't have.

"I think it will take a bigger imbalance before people start worrying about a gender imbalance in favor of men."

Do bias, discrimination, and biological differences not drive preferences? Kids internalize the bias of the culture around them at an early age.

Why is this a mystery to the authors?

Referenced Quote from Article: "While bias, discrimination, and biological differences may have some secondary influence, they found, women simply prefer careers that don't involve math over careers in engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, computer science, and chemistry. Why this is so remains unanswered."

Some Related Material: Podcast interview by Scott Hanselman on this same topic(http://www.hanselminutes.com/303/improving-diversity-in-tech...)

"Significantly" is an exaggeration. The numbers i found (http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=News_Room&...) said that women earn 57% of all BS degrees.

I imagine it'd have to get closer to 75% before people actually started worrying about men's graduation rates.

What you say is true, but it would still be true if Facebook didn't exist. It will always be true because Internet.

This site is named Hacker News. The word Hacker is used in the hacking things together, apart, and back again sense. Like a hobbyist. What else were you expecting from this crowd?

Personally, I usually avoid listening to anecdotal evidence on something that has a huge body of scientific research behind it.

http://www.choosemyplate.gov/

This law is broader than I'd prefer but I don't see how it's clearly unjust. Do you feel the same way about perjury? If not, what's the dividing line between the two?

At my office, we'd probably never replace our big CMS for managing the marketing website, but I could definitely see using node for microsites or apps. There's lots of possibilities.

nonsense. on both Google+ and Facebook you can quite easily lump everyone into one group/circle and leave your default posting level set Public.

just because a service provides more options doesn't mean you have to use them if you don't want to.

edit: granted, twitter's culture is more open to following strangers than facebook. my experience on Google+ has been a nice blend of the two extremes, so far.

i've never seen that before, but it's an interesting concept. Maybe the idea is to not distract the reader from reading the primary content, but offering an easy way to get more data on the writer should the reader choose.

It worked great for me, I didn't even notice the sidebar and read the article beginning to end happily. It's hard to say if it would work for everyone w/o some testing of course.

lately there's been a big push in the US government for an increase in teleworking. if you need specific examples, a 2010 telework report is available on this page: http://www.telework.gov/. There may be other public studies too with some hard data in them.

There's also a white paper linked on this page http://www.lifesize.com/Industry_Solutions/Government_Soluti... (but you have to register for it.)

full disclosure: i work at www.lifesize.com and we do eat our own dog food. One of my team members has been working remotely in another state for several months and many of our team often work from home.

I develop frequently without internet access because it removes a huge distraction. But my first step was to download to my local drive all the the documentation for the language and tools I'm using.

But tough questions? Yea, use the internet. It's like that old tech support cheat sheet comic by xkcd. "Have you been at it more than half an hour? Ask someone for help. "

In theory, all those jobless people would now also not need to buy cars and could spend the savings on learning a how to do the new jobs created by all that extra money that's being spent on stuff besides cars.

In reality, changing careers is hard. Fortunately the government supports this some with low-interest loans, unemployment benefits, etc. Yet evidently it's not enough.

Is the potential to win 300 dollars and make 10 cents per sale competitive with other relatively easy ways designers can make money with their art? That's a 2.5% commission on a $4 greeting card!

CafePress Shops offers 10% commission and RedBubble lets the artist set their own markup over the base cost of the item. I'm sure there other similar stores out there, right? How does Chirply intend to compete?