Apologies for downvoting you, I did so based on your original post of just "Seriously .. WTF?". I don't see his post as being WTF-worthy even though I disagree with it, nor do I condone any such posts since they add nothing of value to the discussion.
I interpreted his/her post as not against diversity, but against "diversification" programs like affirmative action as opposed to letting social entropy run its course. I agree with the sentiment somewhat but I don't think it meets the criteria for looking back and asking "what was society thinking?".
You're right that the pressure to actively promote diversity will fade as diversity increases, however I don't really see this as something we'll look back on and say "what were we thinking?"
In my experience micro instances are not suitable for on-demand services since they have no reserved CPU and frequently stop responding for minutes at a time. They're basically a way for Amazon to sell excess RAM to grid computing customers. On the other hand, I tested them a few days after they first became available and was just experimenting with them as a way to test scalability of a product, so things may have changed since then.
It's the technical name for a solid indication. I've never heard it used in common parlance but that's how it's referred to in e.g. the USDOT Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
"Law" is [theoretically] a consensus on "fairness". If we all went around killing each other based on our personal views, well that just wouldn't be very fair, now would it?
The unfortunate truth about humans is that nobody looks down unless it serves to further raise their own status, even if only in a subconscious, primal sort of way (consider how working with the poor is likely to increase respect towards you, and how you may unknowingly seek this praise). It's hardly something unique to feminists.
But that wasn't really pertinent to my point in any case -- I was just trying to save you from categorically stating that an entire movement consisting of many millions of people was somehow arguing for a total bias reversal. Or at least they're not lobbying for it visibly. Maybe they really believe that, but you'd have a hard time getting them to admit to it. That said, I haven't seen any evidence that this is the case.
The left side is cut off and the right side overflows if the window isn't large enough to contain the full layout. Reducing the text size has no effect on the layout width, either. Columnized formats are annoying enough when they work but this one alienated me enough that I didn't even bother reading it.
> But feminists think the top half is men-only, and they want it to be women-only.
Stating this as if it were fact is disingenuous. The feminists that people think of when they think that -- the ones they label "feminazis" -- exist only in their heads as a stereotype. People actually resembling that stereotype of extremity are few and far between and can be safely ignored.
The vast majority of progressively-minded people, even those who call themselves feminists, lobby only for equality/parity, not supremacy.
I'm pretty sure they do it because the keyboard can't source the required 500mA of current. They "proprietarize" it in order to keep people from plugging high-current devices in.
Fedora's Automated Bug Reporting Tool (abrt) uses this to automatically produce crash reports, which you can sanitize and approve to post in a central location for developers. I imagine that Ubuntu does something similar.
It's a free upgrade from warm standby, whereas SR requires a little more configuration. A good SR cluster also requires that log archiving (warm/hot standby) be set up in case the stream gets behind, otherwise you're at the mercy of whatever happens to be in the master's xlog.
I had this happen for a domain renewal at "1&1 Internet Inc.". The card expired and it failed to autorenew, except that A) I wasn't expecting an auto-renewal and B) no notification was ever sent from the company that the domain was expiring or that there was a billing issue. 6 months later the domain actually stopped working (with 6 months left on the registration, of course) and I got a collections notice for $40. I tried to reconcile with the registrar but they told me to pay up to the collector before they'd do anything, so I walked. No domain for 6 months until it expired. I check my credit yearly and have yet to see any mention of it. Of course the normal thing for domain registrars is to let it expire if no payment is received by the expiration date, but this company seems to be geared for web hosting and buddied up with an apparently shady collections agency.
Craigslist is minimal but reasonably well-designed. Amazon on the other hand I would go so far as to call awful. The #1 thing I'm looking for when I open a product page is the details about the product and it's below the fold. But still, they know far more than me about what sells, so I bow to their judgment.
Indeed, micros have twice the peak CPU speed as small instances, but zero guaranteed cycles. Your instance will grind to a halt for minutes at a time when something preempts it. They're basically just a way for Amazon to sell excess RAM.
Indeed, HFCS and sugar are biologically equivalent. The problem is that since it became available it is being put in everything as a substitute for real flavor. People are more likely to buy products that "taste better" when really it's just saturated with sugar.
> For instancen we can keep our number when switching carriers
This has also been possible in the U.S. for as long as cell phones have been widespread. Presumably there is a regulatory reason because I can't imagine a strong reason a carrier would implement it otherwise.
My understanding was that an issue with quotes lagging behind at the NYSE precipitated a kind of "order avalanche" where NYSE's quotes appeared to be better than the rest of the market, thus inviting more order flow, thus pushing their delay even further back until the NBBO spread was big enough to kick a spaceship through.
I'm not an expert but I do love studying all sorts of systems and this seems like an extremely plausible explanation. Pinning it on the HFT bogeyman, less so.
Sounds exactly like me, except I haven't gone back yet. I went to a poorly chosen university, hated it, and left after a year with failing grades. Now I'm happily employed with a small company but I'm positive that I'll go back (to a better school) when I'm ready. I'm lucky to have landed a job the week before I graduated high school without even looking, which I went back to after dropping out.
Trying to communicate with a mix of people who are A) standing too far from the conference phone or B) driving to work and thus drowned out by road noise, not to mention paying attention to either you or the road but not both -- is a waste of time. Plus, people who are not dialed in can't read body language and so they end up talking too long because they can't see how bored everyone else is but nobody wants to be the one to tell them to shut up.
The particular scenario in the article is one in which denormalizing would be not only more efficient, but more correct as well. As the author points out, an invoice should always reflect the order at the time that it was created, not including any subsequent changes in pricing. However, this is strictly a matter of correctness! In order to denormalize, it should either be demonstrably more correct (in which case it is not technically denormalization at all), or a significant performance bottleneck where the cost of maintaining two copies is overshadowed by the savings. Doing so in the name of performance without any proof that there's savings to be had is folly.
http://www.cacert.org/ has been jumping through Mozilla's hoops for years now, and no sign of being accepted. Shame, because they're certainly more secure than the typical "trusted" CA.
My GE microwave has lots of features I never use. However, I can start nuking for 30 seconds or 1-6 minutes by pressing a single button. That "+30 seconds" button is probably be the best feature in the microwave. I won't deny, though, that a laundry list of features may have driven my purchase of this particular model. And since I didn't "test drive" it to see if it has any of the annoying crap like needing to set the date (really?) and time after a power outage just to cook anything like the last one I had -- I just got lucky.
reflog is a pretty neat demonstration of the power inherent in the way git stores data. The backend is just a giant bucket of changesets, and then constructs like branches and tags are pointers into that bucket. You get free undo because git keeps a list of what the HEAD of the branch was each time it changes, so you can rewind by moving the pointer back to where it was. Of course every time you rewrite history (like rebase does) that orphans a whole line of changesets which have been superseded by the newly rewritten ones, which is why you need to (or git needs to) "garbage collect" periodically. Once an orphaned line gets pushed off the end of the reflog, changesets only referenced by those old HEADs can be deleted.
Because the entire discussion is bogged down by people trying to signal how egalitarian they are, and if anyone has a marginally differing viewpoint then they must be distanced as far as possible as violently as possible lest the speaker be perceived as a bigot.
Personally? I don't think this is something that needs to be fixed. If women want to get into tech, they'll get into tech, and that'll be that. Many already have, and many more will continue to do so. Forcing the issue just keeps people on edge, overreacting to try to keep their perceived latent bigotry under wraps.
This seems to be a bug in Google Groups -- if you have an expired session, it forces you to log in. But you were never signed in (or if you signed out) it doesn't ask and goes straight to the article.