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Referenced story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7847351

It now reads "master's candidates in finance", which is a program at Princeton: http://www.princeton.edu/bcf/graduate/

This comports quite well with my personal experience. In late 1999 I happened to pick up XP Explained and set about to try this testing thing. At the time, there wasn't any "Unit Tests == Fast Tests" thing. What we did on our project was have two different types of tests: "Fast" tests and "SlowAndExpensive" tests, that we ran separately. But there wasn't much some fundamental distinction between them. That came a lot later.

I just experienced the other side of this problem yesterday. I was checking out a job applicant who had a lot of repositories and I couldn't easily figure out which ones really mattered. Fortunately, he also had his own portfolio site. The github profile was effectively useless.

Rest of the paragraph for understanding: "This is meant to distinguish Mozilla from most organizations and hold us to a higher standard. But this time we failed to listen, to engage, and to be guided by our community."

They're saying they have a culture of openness in decision-making, but chose their CEO in a way contrary to that.

When did he apologize? I just googled "Brendan Eich apology" and the best I got was a readwriteweb article from only 3 days ago entitled "Brendan Eich: Just Apologize For Supporting Proposition 8" [1]. Can you cite something with an apology in it?

[1] http://readwrite.com/2014/03/28/brendan-eich-mozilla-ceo-pro...

Sounds like that's his plan, judging by the end of the coffeescript article (which was published just 2 days ago)

"Realistically, the issues I have raised with CoffeeScript don’t come up every day. Ultimately though, they are enough to say we need something better. I hope to share some thoughts soon on what such a solution might look like. However, based on feedback in the comments, we’ll need to discuss JavaScript linters first."

There's plenty of ways for people to take advantage of their employers and the law does effectively nothing for the aggrieved.

One case I directly encountered was a young, white male who was responsible for procurement for a small company I was working for. It turned out he was ordering all kinds of stuff for himself (the one thing I remember is he bought a game console with it). He was fired and the police were called. Their response was basically, since he had permission to order stuff, they weren't going to pursue it.

The law failed here, too! But let me tell you what didn't happen: nobody decided to use that as a reason to not hire young, white males. What did happen, correctly, was some additional controls were put in to prevent abuse.

This isn't much different from someone getting mugged by someone from a different class or race and then concluding that "those people" can't be trusted. Sad.

I looked at the wiki page and I don't see anything that addresses these points (I'm omitting points that seem to be covered):

- Bitcoin is not a unit of account as no price of goods and services is set in Bitcoin unit nor it ever will.

- Bitcoin isn’t means of payment as few transactions in Bitcoin. And given its volatility all who accept it convert it right back into $/€/¥

- Bitcoin isn’t a store of value as little wealth is in Bitcoin and no assets in it

Am I missing something?

Here's a direct quote from the Newsweek article:

"Of course, there is also the chance "Satoshi Nakamoto" is a pseudonym, but that raises the question why someone who wishes to remain anonymous would choose such a distinctive name."

I'd say that at least indicates the journalist admits the possibility.

Paul Krugman, who won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics, has been very critical of Bitcoin. See, e.g. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/28/bitcoin-is-evil/

What would it look like to, as you put it "attack the cause of inequality - our cultural differences and biases"? What would you do?

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FWIW, you're faulting him for a claim he isn't making. He says it's the best development book he's read, not the best development book in general. There's a big difference.

Reference for those that don't get it (I had to look it up): http://www.timecube.com/ Original image appears about 1/3 of the way down.

Captious, nit-picky behavior in a professional context usually signals to me that there is another problem that is worth attending to. e.g. A person raising a series of petty objections in a meeting may have deeper problems with the plan that she can't yet articulate, or is being put in a position of apparent but not real authority (that is, "the ship has sailed" on a decision without real agreement being reached).

Telling someone to more or less shut up might pay off in the short term, as in make a particular meeting go faster, but in the long haul you're ignoring a pretty telling symptom.

Why does it matter that the jerk be properly classified?

So, what you're arguing is that a good way to improve inclusivity is to be open-minded when someone calls a woman a "whore"?

As I read the article, the AG is targeting AirBNB, not individuals. The article calls the subpoena, "part of an investigation into whether the company is breaking the law by allowing its users to rent rooms in private homes." It certainly seems reasonable as part of such an investigation to determine the scope of illegal activity, which would require finding out fine-grained details on individual hosts.

compuserve

Which is itself quite similar to the French Republican Calendar adopted after the revolution, and which was used for about 13 years. This divided the year into 12 months, each composed of 3 weeks of 10 days each. At the end of the year there were 5 'extra' days (or 6 in the case of leap years).

http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-french.html

from http://www.reddit.com/wiki/licensing

"To apply, or if you still have questions after carefully reading all of the above, send an email to licensing@reddit.com."

Reddit has a page about the alien logo, http://www.reddit.com/about/alien/

"We require a license to use these logos in anything outside reddit, both for free and for profit."

You left off three words from the quote in the NYTimes article. "...and Jew lies" This is quite the omission.

The full quote is 'Spamhaus acted, he wrote, “without any court verdict, just by blackmail of suppliers and Jew lies.” When I read that, I get a very different picture than simply one of an aggrieved businessman working in a grey area.

Here's his non-apology http://justcramer.com/2013/01/24/being-wrong-on-the-internet...

You can look at http://www.openwifinyc.com/ for lots of places, with indications of speed and outlet availability.

There's tons of places in NYC, but here's a few places I've been known to frequent

- Cafe Amrita, near 110th St and Central Park West. Generally has a pleasant buzz. I've noticed other techie types there, but not tons. They kick out the laptop crowd out on weekends, and at night they become more of a bar.

- Tea Spot, near MacDougal and West 3rd in the Village. A smallish place that has always been pretty quiet when I've worked there. NYU students are most of their customers, I reckon.

- Cosi near 23rd st and 6th Ave, in Chelsea. This is a chain, but this particular Cosi is well-lit, has good internet service, is large, and never seems to be very busy.

- As others have noted, New York Public Libraries are often great places to work. I sometimes sneak off from my office to use the Hudson Park Library, which is near Leroy and 7th ave in the Village. Its a tiny little branch library, but its quiet and the internet service is fast. There's a lot of little branches like that, look on the web site for locations.

Previous discussion

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4326647

bane is a similar tool that pathod-interested users might be interested in.

https://github.com/danielwellman/bane

From the readme: "If you are building an application, you may depend on third-party servers or web services for your data. Most of the time these services are reliable, but at some point they will behave in an unusual manner - such as connecting but never respond, sending data very slowly, or sending an unexpected response. To ensure your application survives these scenarios, you should test your application against these bad behaviors. Bane helps you recreate these scenarios by standing in for your third-party servers and responding in several nefarious ways."