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Cracking jokes at the unfairness as a way to swallow it is very different than cracking jokes as a way to point out how unfair it is to others. I'm not exactly sure which you mean, but it seems like the former, and that is depressingly jaded.

I find the existential dread caused by acknowledging the unfairness a good motivator to try to improve things. There will always be randomness, but life doesn't have to be as deeply flawed as it is today

Don't accept it, try to to change it!

but this critic is almost certainly making perfect the enemy of good in pursuit of an ideal.

Yes, because "good" means preventable poverty related deaths by the millions because it is not profitable to do anything about it \s. Good for you != good, but it is easy to look past that when it isn't right in your face

Doing the right thing — not what’s profitable or power enhancing — isn’t what business is about.

If only society / the global economic system wasn't set up to incentive profit over all else....

a bit?

So, if you would love to clear up the misconceptions, actually answer all of the questions you listed? The only one you answered is about discounts for your product.

Sure, clearly that was hyperbole. All the evidence never points anywhere. This means the vast majority of actual peer reviewed science.

Obviously they are biologically different! That is not the question. The question is: Do these differences make women less interested in tech, or are there less women in tech because experiences they have had since birth make them feel unwelcome or unable.

Is it such a huge deal that most women are not interested in technology?

If this is because they have been systematically discriminated against in tech and primed at a young age with BS like "cars are for boys and dolls are for girls" then yes, absolutely this is a huge deal. If it just so happened that they were not interested because they don't have the "technology gene" then this would not be a big deal, but that is nonsense and all the evidence points to the former.

This isn't quite true. It is up to your issuer if they decide to approve the transaction despite failing AVS or CVV checks. Often they will decline the authorization, but depending on their risk signals, might decide to approve it. Then, the merchant (or the processor they are using) can decide if they want to let the transaction go through despite the failed checks, or call it a decline and reverse the authorization, which removes the pending charge. Crappy terminals might cause the pending authorization to sit there for 1-3 days by delaying or not sending the reversal, but in general that shouldn't be the case.

Anybody else seeing that the site is broken? It says 1 vote still, even after signing and confirming my email.

I can't speak for this book, but Michael Hartl's rails tutorial is what got me addicted to programming, and is largely responsible for me switching majors to CS during my undergrad and getting into the industry. He is a great technical author. Give him your money.

I doubt that either of these outcomes are likely

Part of being a good software engineer is knowing when to do the "wrong" thing (implement something poorly to ship fast). But you must be aware of the trade offs. For early stage companies/products that are struggling for a market it often makes sense to hack things, but at a company that has a large and growing customer base, it rarely does.

Interesting point of view to hear. RE: enums - There is an idiomatic way to do enums in go I believe:

  type MyEnum int

  const (
        A MyEnum = iota
        B
        C
        D
  )

Yeah, events. Which are message queues for most things, api calls if it really needs to be done synchronously

So you have short timeouts and retries that are load balanced to different nodes. But ideally your services are fast even in their 99 percentiles so this isn't an issue. This is much easier to achieve in a small service than a huge complex one.

Add a booking button to your email and embed the Square Appointments widget directly on your website or WordPress site. No coding required. It’s as simple as copy and paste.

End users do not need to install an app

Wow, how do lyft and uber manage to launch the same thing at the same time?

Square gets item level data on each merchant. That means exactly what was sold and when. Plus, they get info about who bought it and can see things like a buisness suddenly getting huge numbers of new buyers as opposed to returning, etc.

I find Google Flights to be much better than Kayak, and so have the couple people I've talked to about the difference. What do you like more about Kayak?

folding@home? hardly nefarious

I think you mean per month?

I'm about to graduate from a US college, and I've never paid for a text book. Very few classes use them for more than supplementary reading or for homework problems. With a combination of learning things online, recorded lectures, finding PDFs of them online, borrowing from a friend, and checking them out from the library, it's been easy to not buy them. I don't think I've actually done either of the last two, which brings up the question: are they even needed? Personally, I think they are largely useless with the wealth of information that is available online.

Many languages have a few "killer" features/libs/uses. I often start with a project that uses one of them. Eg:

ruby => rails

python => nltk,django,opencv,scipy

c++ => opengl,opencv

java => opencv

js => node,angular,ember

clojure => overtone

That way you learn the language and some specific good use cases of it.

same thing happened to me, except I saw the first two lines of the example. weird.

This. I don't think companies that are fighting for qualified employees are turning down candidates because of color. I'm in a CS program at a university and I can only think of a few CS students who aren't white/Asian/Indian. The issue isn't with hiring, but with early exposure and education to all races/genders/whatevers.

She is also raising money to research a new method of oil spill response:

https://experiment.com/projects/can-naturally-occurring-soap...

This is very well put together, and makes me excited about the possibility of writing in the future. mhartl, I did your rails tutorial a few years ago with very little programming background, and it singlehandedly got me interested in programming enough to switch majors and spend all my time learning and building things. Thanks, and congrats on the launch!

Having so many links strewn throughout the article makes reading it very distracting