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Well if it makes you feel any better, I'm willing to bet that going forward more male developers will in fact be "shutting their mouths" when there's a female around.

That's not vacation, that's telecommuting.

Co-worker makes racist remarks towards you: "sticks and stones" speech

Co-worker sexually harasses you: "sticks and stones" speech

Co-worker physically assaults you: "sticks and stones" speech, with added punishment if the victim defends himself

And in each case, tell the adult victim how they should be more empathetic to the bully's lot in life.

I agree. Part of the problem is that adults tend to hold kids to a much different standard than they hold themselves. For instance, as an adult, if I'm working in a company where verbal bullying and harassment is a problem, and HR does nothing to address the situation, then I'll just give my two-week notice and move on to another company. Kids on the other hand don't have the option of giving their two-week notice and moving on to another school because of a 'hostile work environment'.

How many adults do you think would stick around at a company if they had to put up with the level of violence and harassment we subject our kids to in schools? And if the only response they got back from management and HR was a "sticks and stones" speech? Forget about it! Which highlights another difference- it's also in a company's own self interest to address these issues seriously, because if they don't, it's gonna effect their bottom line when good employees start leaving. But, what motivation do schools really have- it's not as if their "employees" (students) get to quit if they don't like the way they are being treated.

What does this teach kids? That there is no justice in the world except that which you take by violence?

My son is only two and a half right now. When he gets older my advice to him will be to first go through all of the proper channels in case bullying comes up. Give the system a chance to work, and get some documentation that you did so. And if it does work great. And if it doesn't, a right-cross to the bully's nose is what worked for me when I was a kid. Will this stop the bully from picking on people? Probably not - but it will likely make him stop picking on you. He'll move on to the next victim - one who won't fight back.

It's a great point, and I hated Perl for this very reason. And I'm sure some of it is my defensiveness since this is how I program. But some of it is also my concern that it might signal, during an interview say, that the candidate might not really have a good grasp of pointers. For instance, given the following snippet of code, candidates that didn't really seem to grok pointers wouldn't see that the append() function could not be modifying the list in main():

  struct node {
    int val;
    struct node *next;
  };

  static void append(struct node *list, int val);

  int main(int argc, char **argv)
  {
    struct node *list = NULL;

    append(list, 4);
    ...
  }

  static void append(struct node **list,  int val);

  static void
  append(struct node **list, int val)
  {
    struct node **ppn, *pn;

    if ( (pn = malloc(sizeof *pn)) == NULL) {
        perror("malloc");
        exit(1);
    }

    pn->val = val;
    pn->next = NULL;

    for (ppn = list; *ppn; ppn = &(*ppn)->next)
        /* find tail */;

    *ppn = pn;
  }

But as I said, you make a good point, and I agree that your method is the safer of the two options from a maintainability point of view.

I agree - and as someone who makes his living as a C programmer, I'm sure someone could easily come up with a terse piece of Ruby code that I would view as too clever, and therefore confusing, but which the vast majority of programmers on here would look at and think, "a beginner may be confused by this, but a competent Ruby programmer would not be."

I know some of this comes down to stylistic preferences, and likely some have had bad experiences maintaining code that went overboard with this sort of thing. But I also think that if these snippets of code were being discussed in a forum with a bias towards low-level development, rather than HN, which seems biased towards web development, you'd be seeing some very different responses.

This was actually one of the very first questions we used to ask during interviews at Tenable. I'm honestly kind of amazed it's now seen as some sort of tricky technique. I would think (or hope) most C programmers would see it as basic competence with pointers.

The series of Apple-product thefts has been challenging the police for several years, but this is the first time they have been seen as significantly skewing the crime statistics. “If you just took away the jump in Apple, we’d be down for the year,” Mr. Bloomberg’s press secretary, Marc La Vorgna, said.

http://www.barackobama.com/life-of-julia/

http://www.cactii.net/~bb/linuxreal/grab.jpg

Looks very dated now, but even in it's earliest days I thought looked so much cooler than FVWM. It's kind of amazing how far we've come in terms of visual aesthetics...

"Social media purports to connect us but it often does the exact opposite. The barrier, the anonymity, the lack of accountability; all encourage the worst in people."

It would be doable money-wise but I would think it would be hard to find a company willing to go along with this arrangement- although if people know otherwise I'd love to hear which companies offer this level of flexibility. In the past, others have suggested using the time between jobs for this - but (in the US at least) you'd still need to pay into COBRA if you wanted your health insurance to continue during that time. Also, having worked through the dot-com period at the beginning of the last decade, I'm always a little cautious about assuming that it will be easy to land the next gig.

It seems like there's two lines of discussion around this topic. One, as you've pointed out, is whether people should be liable for the actions of past Americans (ie, whether something like affirmative action should exist in the first place). The second is whether affirmative action is the best way to remedy the mistakes of the past. It seems (to me) like a lot of people disagree more on the second point.

Arguments for or against AA aside, this line of reasoning, where you invalidate somebody's argument based on what demographic group they belong to (white middle class males in this case), really seems like a simple ad hominem argument. You're no longer addressing what is said - only who is saying it.

"Accel decided to pump $50 million into Tenable, a staggering amount even by venture capital standards and the biggest investment that Accel has ever made in a North American company...Its investment in Tenable was five times more than its original Facebook stake."

Reading this I can't help but think of the old "hello world" computer program humor [1] predicated on the idea that the higher the you went up the corporate hierarchy the less computer savvy that person would be:

    New Manager
    ===================

    10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
    20 END

    Middle Manager
    ===================

    mail -s "Hello, world." bob@b12
    Bob, could you please write me a program that prints "Hello, world."?
    I need it by tomorrow.
    ^D

    Senior Manager
    ===================

    % zmail jim
    I need a "Hello, world." program by this afternoon.

    Chief Executive
    ===================

    % letter
    letter: Command not found.
    % mail
    To: ^X ^F ^C
    % help mail
    help: Command not found.

    % damn!
    !: Event unrecognized
    % logout

It doesn't - it sounds like an appeal to authority. My guess is that had the roles been reversed, with Faruk as a male arguing how he didn't see sexism, and Laura as a female arguing otherwise, that the whole "but Faruk worked for Apple and wrote Modenizr" line wouldn't give his viewpoints on sexism more credence with the parent poster.

I never see this point come up much but I can tell you that when I was growing up "geek" was a pejorative term and the guys who were into computers were largely social outcasts. I can remember in high school the kinds of guys who sat on IRC chatting with their little "cyber friends" being made fun of. And I don't think they ever got much of a chance to "exclude" girls since my bet is most of them never had much luck getting one to talk to them in the first place. I don't doubt that sexism helps fuel the gender gap we see in tech, but sometimes it seems like people forget that the original demographic in this industry was by and large made up of socially awkward males who pursued their hobby despite being looked down upon and excluded by others, not because of the heaps of encouragement they were receiving.

I remember a presentation on x25 security from not too long ago that articulated this very point: "Everybody “forgot” about their X.25 direct links":

http://dl.packetstormsecurity.net/hitb05/BT-Raoul-Chiesa-X25...

Personally I had thought all of the public x.25 networks like Sprintnet/Telenet, Datapac, etc. had been shut down at the beginning of the last decade. I'm guessing these must be private networks still running x.25. It would be interesting to hear from anyone not in the US or Canada if their x25 networks are still up - can you still dial into a PAD? Here in the US you used to be able to dial into a 1-800 number and login with phones/phones (or something like that) to get a directory of local dialups in your area which you could then call locally (so you wouldn't get hit with long distance charges).

In scanlogd, I'm using a hash table to lookup source addresses. This works very well for the typical case as long as the hash table is large enough (since the number of addresses we keep is limited anyway). The average lookup time is better than that of a binary search. However, an attacker can choose her addresses (most likely spoofed) to cause hash collisions, effectively replacing the hash table lookup with a linear search. Depending on how many entries we keep, this might make scanlogd not be able to pick new packets up in time.

[1] http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=53&id=13#article

[1] http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/03/indeed-a-hiring-powerhouse.h...