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kanja··on The big bet on "tiny homes" to fix homelessness
These advocates are paid in proportion to how bad the problem is. They're advocating in this way to ensure their income isn't interrupted by solving the problem they're being paid to fix.
kanja··on Python Coroutines with Async and Await
This is pretty great - One feature I really liked from go was channels and the ability for goroutines to communicate with each other. Anyone know there a pep open for a similar idea in the python world?
kanja··on Cryptomarkets Are Gentrifying the Drug Trade
Did they seriously spoil the ending of breaking bad in the first sentence?
kanja··on Fortheon – A multi-language cloud application platform
No python support?
kanja··on Sexist culture and harassment drives GitHub's first female developer to quit
I think we're all in agreement that increasing the diversity of viewpoints going into a decision will lead to an overall stronger result.
kanja··on Apple rejects Tank Battle 1942 for depicting Germans and Russians as "enemies"
My Great-aunt didn't make it out of the camps. WW2 isn't a gray area by any honest interpretation.
kanja··on A JSON field type for Django
Hopefully this will soon be added to django core - it's one of the goals as part of Marc Tamlyn's kickstarter to improve postgres support in django.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mjtamlyn/improved-postg...

kanja··on Investors prefer entrepreneurial ventures pitched by attractive men
This was a little harder to find than I expected:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16555779

"These findings demonstrate that female facial appearance holds detectable cues to reproductive health that are considered attractive by other people."

Found via http://asutriplehelix.org/node/99 which also cites some other related papers

EDIT: I really, really enjoy finding cases where something I assumed to be true is questioned on the grounds of scientific correctness. It is always a wonderful opportunity to bring my thinking closer to reality, no matter if my assumptions are true or false.

kanja··on Being alone
It's no wonder he has such trouble socializing. When you wear self loathing on your sleeve like that, people will respond accordingly. It's wonderful to want to make a better world, but when everything you say, think, or do needs to be excused and caveated you can't help but internalize that.
kanja··on Things that suck in AngularJS
The ember docs have improved immensely over the past few months - they're currently significantly better than the angular docs.
kanja··on EmberFire: Official Firebase bindings for EmberJS
here's the blog post on it: https://www.firebase.com/blog/2013-10-22-firebase-bindings-f...
kanja··on Django Vanilla Views 1.0 released.
I guess I'm in the minority - I really like the class based views for simple crud work. Obviously function based views are a better fit for things that are outside of the simple. but I've had a lot of luck using CBV to simplify crud work.

Interested to try out django vanilla views

kanja··on Why does Hackbright only accept women into the program?
A compelling argument for what? I think they have the right to be sexist. I just think it's crazy to try and brand it as something else. Just be honest.
kanja··on Why does Hackbright only accept women into the program?
They don't allow men in because they're sexist. There is not some special exemption for some classes of people, there are no pigs that are more equal than others.

They feel the sexism is acceptable given the circumstances. In a world where college enrollment for women is significantly higher than enrollment for men I don't agree, and I think many others don't agree either.

kanja··on Tit Stare – We wish to apologise
I can't wait for the similar apology from lulu
kanja··on Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page
Love the easter egg - try "haveabreak" or "up up down down left right left right b a"

:)

kanja··on Craig Zucker: What Happens When a Man Takes on the Feds
Home of the brave, land of the free
kanja··on Tomorrow's Ember 1.0 Release: Things to Know
Because it doesn't - here's a great article examining the scope of the two.

http://eviltrout.com/2013/06/15/ember-vs-angular.html

It's great to make the decision to focus on simplicity over scope - that's a good, defensible choice and I don't think anyone here will fault you for it. But an honest understanding of the extra features you gave up to make that choice will go a long way.

kanja··on Tomorrow's Ember 1.0 Release: Things to Know
This is fantastic news - I'm just finishing up my second Ember app now and I have to say it's pretty amazing how it works. It's a large system with some complex parts, but once you get a handle on what's going on, you can make some truly elegant code. I've been doing javascript/jquery as part of web development for 5 years now, and shifting to ember from raw jquery is as transformative as shifting from cgi scripts to django
kanja··on Float Like a Butterfly: Why AngularJS beat out Ember.js in our stack
This article is flat out wrong about the claims it make on ember-data - an optional dependency. It's trivial to pull data via a standard jquery ajax call and use plain old objects rather than first class models.
kanja··on My experience at a YC startup
Lying about the numbers is never ok - when you ask people to take on risk for you it's inexcusable to be anything but transparent about what exactly they're taking on. The rest of the issues don't really surprise me, but dishonesty is a doozy.
kanja··on When male CEOs have daughters, relative pay for women at their firms goes up
The astute readers wrote you off as soon as you said "menz"
kanja··on When male CEOs have daughters, relative pay for women at their firms goes up
Some questions are simply un-askable in a postmodern intellectual framework. Here's a great primer if you're unfamiliar with it: http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~kwesthue/regiftedxmas12.html
kanja··on Ember.js Persistence Foundation
I'm assuming - and this could be a bad assumption - but based on the continuing updates architecture, if client a changes model a, client b will see an update on model a. How does client b get notified of the change? Does it have some kind of fallback system ala socket.io? Is this not yet part of the project?
kanja··on Ember.js Persistence Foundation
This is super cool - What method is used for continued client side updates? Websockets, polling?
kanja··on Jury finds protester not guilty in chalk-vandalism case
In all of the bad news about the system, this makes me feel pretty good
kanja··on Ember.js 1.0 RC6 released
Looks like you forgot to attach the link?
kanja··on German Girl Turned Away at Border Due to Private Facebook Messages
her actions are extremely harmless in the grand-scheme of things, and it's ridiculous and unsettling that her private conversation was used against her like this.

Surely you're not seriously suggesting that this was in any shape or form acceptable behavior by the state.

kanja··on Sony will allow indie devs to publish their own games on PlayStation 4
Doesn't the PS4 support unity?
kanja··on Open source is not a war zone
Because committing a gender and race based hate crime is the highlight of reasonableness and tolerance. But no, no the people pointing out hate crimes are bad - they're the real problems here.
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