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I worked on this hard in college. It was partially the "People age out of it..." that others mentioned... but there was one intentional step I did.

I said yes.

I made a decision in my sophmore year of college to say yes. Whenever someone invited me somewhere. Suggested an activity. Wanted to spend time with me in physical space (rather than video gamess) I said yes.

This ultimately helped me discover.. I was more extroverted than I thought. People liked me. My awkward humor was endearing... and a bunch of other things.

But really, I think it required me realizing _People wanted to spend time with me_. So much of the social awkwardness and introversion I experiences was really just my own fear and insecurities that "No one liked me". I wasn't attractive enough, funny enough, smart enough, thin enough, etc, etc. In the end... People liked me how I was.

I didn't verify that he had an MIS degree... but MIS is definitely not the same thing as Computer Science or Engineering. If this is true it's a fairly disingenuous and manipulative article.

IANAL.

I believe that protected classes in the US aren't identifying things such as, "You can't discriminate against a woman". Rather, what they say is, "You can't discriminate based on anything related to gender". There may be some exceptions, like veterans as mentioned above, but they would be the exception.

I'm with you - But in the US I believe this depends on the state. The "To catch a predator" show was specifically done in areas where the law included "intent" as a crime, rather than the actual crime IIRC.

As a child I was diagnosed and took Ritalin for a while. My parents didn't like the way it altered my behavior. However, they then tried coffee twice a day - Breakfast and Lunch (I was in 2nd or 3rd grade).

The coffee worked well. Entering highschool I couldn't stand coffee and didn't do anything to address the ADD symptoms. In college I powered through on other caffeinated beverages. I now enjoy the occasional cup of coffee (1-2 cups a week) and can definitely tell the difference in my ability to focus when I've been drinking coffee and when I haven't.

I'm actually thinking this is either "Kinect" on a tablet and/or eye tracking. The application specifically talks about additional sensors. being used to build apps. I'm not sure head tracking is a strong use case for additional apps. But something with the depth of MS's Kinect or eye tracking could be really interesting.

Question on those 6 weeks. I've heard before that some countries include national holidays in there 5-6 week count. Is that the case here? Generally when Americans are listing their vacation days they are not including what they view as mandatory holidays (Memorial day, july 4th, thanksgiving, christmas, new years, etc).

FWIW, I'm in the US and we have ~5-6 weeks vacation.

I feel like anything like that has to be predicated on not being able to find any book. Which is certainly possible, but I feel like $DISASTER will probably leave behind some libraries and books somewhere. The people would just have to be dedicated to learning the lost info from books + experimentation.

I agree, but that's the very definition of non practical. It doesn't work for 90% of the population. I feel like we should be searching, driving, for solutions that solve everyone's issue not use our issue. We are, for lack of a better word, the "digital 1%". Solutions for us don't necessarily work for everyone.

This doesn't show a full appreciation for gmail's timing.

Prior to gmail I had 4 (5?) different email addresses I moved through with different services. For lots of folks my age (~30) these email addresses we had predating gmail didn't mean anything. They weren't important, they were disposable. Gmail's release coincided with the time for many of us when email addresses starting becoming a thing that mattered. The release lined up with a general shift towards email as a first class communication mechanism.

Thanks to all of the things not covered in the email spec --- we are suffering from a bit of email lock in. We figured with phone numbers we needed to be able to take our phone numbers with us. They're a number people will use to communicate with us for the rest of our lives.

Email is similar, only it's not really practical to update everyone on your email address when you switch email providers. Some folks will argue that you can forward email from one address to another and reply from your new address - this isn't a real solution. You're still dependent on the intermediary solution. Not to mention that most people start typing in your name and just select the first auto complete address that shows up, so you'll have to always use the old service in case someone emails that address.

We really need innovation in email around some kind of portability. I have no idea how to design such a setup --- but right now it definitely feels like I can't leave gmail even if I want to. I have hundreds of people that know my email address as the only way to get in touch with me. I've signed up with my email address as my username at hundreds of sites at this point. Hell, half of those sites don't even let you change the email address of your account.

We're totally locked in.

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I see comments about using your own domain. While this is obviously a choice (and you can even use google apps for domains to interact with the address if you want) it's not a great solution for the masses.

I responded with something similar above. This was my understanding of the various laws (For some / most states).

But... Isn't this why it's legal for "Topless sunbathing photo of celebrity" to show up in the enquirer? They were topless in a public area (Sunbathing on a boat, for instance) and a photographer snapped a photo?

I'm just trying to play the other side of the coin here. It's really unclear to me if revenge porn sites are illegal or just a really asshole thing to do.

Also, In the example you're using... someone sent a sext and that means they were the original photographer, so they own the copyright. It sounds like there are two different types of photos here.

I took a photo of you because you said I could - I own the copyright and can reproduce.

You took a photo of yourself and sent it to me - You're the original photographer, I have no rights to the photo and can't share or reproduce.

Serious question. If you consent today to let me take pictures of you nude... Don't I own the copyright of those pictures? Now, presumably if you and I were dating your consent would be very casual... I'd say, "Hey, mind if I snap some photos" and you'd say, "Go right ahead"... Because I'm quite charming.

A year later I still have these photos and we're not dating any longer. Do I own copyright on photos as the photographer? How far does your casual consent go? Do I need formal consent saying I can reproduce them?

A photo journalist will take a photo of a couple in the park as a child plays in the fountain behind them and use it in the paper the next day. What consent do they need to get from those being photographed?

It just all feels very fuzzy. Presumably most of the nude pictures are taken by someone other than the subject of the photos... meaning the photographer owns the copyright.. I'd think.

Anyone have more info on how this actually plays out?

You forgot the last line: > 'No problem, switch me over. Thanks. Bye'

I like that he is totally cool with switching back to business class. He is just confused that they're freaking out over the extra 50$ a month. That 50$ a month isn't covering the difference between himself and the average consumer class customer.

I feel like I repeat this anec-Data every time one of these posts comes up. This is all fine and good, but I've never worked at a SW company (8 years now) nor had a friend work in a SW company that wasn't constantly hiring. The companies I've worked for pay above market and simply can't find people they're willing to hire.

I'd say that if you copied 10 common "small" - "utility" apps that have already been done to death and worked hard on moving them up in search rankings and whatnot you could make ~ 100$ a day.

There is a question of what constitutes a "small" app. For my purposes I'll assume small is - "can be made in a month @ half time". I know someone making a decent salary on about 8-10 of these types of apps. they vary in technical difficulty and a couple required coming out of pocket a small amount of money for rudimentary design work. But it's definitely doable.

Ah BEEP. I had a grad school project to create a domain specific modeling language that allowed you to diagram the steps for communication and between to systems using BEEP. You'd define the order of messages and the content of the messages the DSML would generate C code that implemented an API to do the communication you'd modeled.

God how I hated grad school.

I can't help but notice that you self identify as "jsmeaton" on HN. The name you didn't like, or choose, initially.

What happens over time to change how we perceive ourselves?

It's a bit more complicated than this. I think you start hitting on the reality towards the end but get detoured by racism in the beginning.

It's all about tribal identification. I don't mean tribes in the historical sense but more akin to Godin's idea of tribes. They're the people you identify with. It's pretty well established that people like people like themselves. This isn't really that crazy. It's easy to see that liking people like yourself isn't the same as hating people that are different, it does often mean you don't respond as warmly though.

Names, just like race, is just one marker, as you described it, that defines what tribe we belong to. We are all in the business of quickly assessing the situation and placing people into tribes mentally, probably unconsciously, as soon as we meet them and we will adjust our perception as we learn more about them, of course.

The point of these rambling paragraphs is that I don't think this is the same as racism, though it certainly can become racism when taken to the extreme. A good example is our friend groups. If we like a certain music, a certain type of game (DnD) then you're likely to end up in a friend group with a very similar set of interests.

This gets expanded to the work place in an interesting way. Lots of hip trendy employers say things like, "We wanted to build a company we loved coming to everyday". Well, in order to love being at the office every day you're going to have to like the people. Does this mean they have to be perfect matches for someone you'd place in your friend group, in your tribe? No. But it does mean they're going to have to match on some of those markers.

Companies talk about "cultural fit" when hiring, hell it's on the front page here pretty regularly. In my estimation this isn't that far from not hiring people based on race. Instead we're not hiring based on some other set of markers other than race. What we're really talking about is cultural-ism where we discriminate based on particular subcultures, and markers for those subcultures.

I won't argue fairness or anything like that but I do think it's important to explore the ideas that we discriminate against people regularly and only ascribe malice when it's down for racial reasons.

(Not that it should matter but I'm black and I run a team of about 16 people (all white) doing sales/product management/project management/ software development in the South)

Ah, here we'd only butter a sandwich if it were being fried (Grilled cheese or grilled ham & cheese)

I know it's a bit silly but the thing that jumped out about your comment and the parent comment is the butter. You butter a hame and cheese sandwich? Is this a cultural thing I'm not familiar with? zooms off to google to check

I made it to the robot full of prerecorded videos before my eyebrow went up and alarms and whistles went off in my brain.

I'd hope that is the furthest anyone would have to go to se the absurdity. I'd be interested if anyone made it past that before noticing it was a joke.

Using C++ professionally for a while now (College, grad school, embedded sw) the best two complete IDEs I've found are SlickEdit (Cross platform) and Visual studio. If you've not tried SlickEdit I definitely suggest it (They have a trial).

Additionally, they have an interesting blog post here describing whether they are an IDE or editor here:

http://blog.slickedit.com/2007/08/editor-or-ide/

tl;dr SlickEdit has no built in compiler or debugger. It's other IDE level support is fantastic though and it was perfect for embedded development work where you're building from the command line (Which you can connect to the SlickEdit Project) and debugging using GDB.

I've said it before, I'll say it again. Every coding job I've ever been in has ben "Always hiring". We just can't find enough people worth hiring.

We have been small groups, not pursuing H1-B visas or anything and it's possible H1B's are being given grunt work... However, the graph in this article, and really the central tenent that "we have so many tech workers not being hired, hire them first" is complete malarkey. I've gone to Undergrad and grad school. I've TA'd... The fact that even two thirds of those students find jobs (As the article claims) astounds me. Thats a higher number than I'd imagine. In two years TAing at a large research university I think I saw maybe 4 students I'd hire go through the program.

Watch the first couple of videos.. It's pretty clever and cool. Doesn't look like it'll be fat friendly. All that aside, let's pretend like we're responsible adults for a second. The video, especially the end of the first, sort've makes me think this might be the "line". People have talked about violence in video games, and realism, and for the most part I don't think there is any real issue today, it's all malarkey. Something like this, however, changes the game. It's suddenly a very different experience when you have the VR goggles on and the VR running board and you gun down civilians in CoD, or kill XYZ in random FPS.

tl;dr. Does the omni + oculus rift increase realism enough that violent games require extra caution?

What can you tell us about the quality of life for prisoners in TDCJ?

Where is the line between giving prisoners something to do vs giving them to much?

Are we working on ways to keep prisons from being "Criminal University"?

Thats a good point. Most of the folks I'm talking about were in my PhD cohort and we all decided the PhD wasn't for us (My PhD program left a very bad taste in my mouth towards higher ed). I've known a few Masters students who got stipends but the majority were PhD students.

Maybe this depends greatly on the particular discipline you're in. In the US it's not that difficult to get your Master's degree in C.S. for free + monthly stipend, at least in my experience.

I know a number of people across the natural science disciplines who TA'd / RA'd their way through Grad School. I might be misunderstanding how common this is but it seems any discussion of Grad School cost should discuss the fact that natural science students will often get paid to go to Grad School in the US.