VBullitin surely has some form of plugin setup http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum...e-vb4-platform

Thanks for posting here. I hope you don't mind, I x-posted your OP to the big 7-card eval thread in Software too.

does anyone know if a word exists that is an adjectival form of poe's law -- a word denoting "something already so absurd or extreme that it cannot be parodied." i feel such a word would be at home in the tech world.

Poetic?

Facebook?

does anyone have lots of experience with Tesseract for OCR?

Windows8-y?

Had some time to kill before the football match today and randomly decided to do some programming exercises in Java to see how much I still remember (after doing mostly Prolog and Python).
tl;dr: String related stuff felt really awkward

Looks promising but seems to be a pain to set up locally right now. I don't really want to boot up a cloud instance to try it out and trying locally I've run into a bunch of errors.

took my like an hour or so when i did it months ago on digitalocean. surprised they haven't made it easier yet... i will say i thought the UI was well thought out and nicer than other forums i've used.

funny, but actually not a bad example. i can imagine, say, a 1980s near-future themed scifi movie depicting people's actual 2014 fb behavior, and it being dismissed as ridiculous, as too over the top even for satire. pretty remarkable, actually.

I'll make up a word for you: Fahn

It's an acronym: "Feminist Arguments on Hacker News"

Is this kind of "random" stuff appropriate to give to a girl you are supervising at work? It's complicated, but basically, I took a huge risk bringing her in. Everyone knows this and I'm sure that, at first, everyone figured I was hiring a pretty face. I had to sell her pretty good to everyone just to get her even minimal respect. I certainly don't want to make it look like I prefer her over my coworkers, nor do I want it to look like I have a thing for her.

I feel like the company is exploiting her pretty good. I'm pretty lax on her, not mentioning a lot of things, but I've driven her really hard. I feel guilty about it, but at the same time, pressures are pressures. I know, I'm going to burn in computer hell for this one.

What would be an appropriate gift to give at the "end" of the project. We are on the home-stretch and we are hitting quite a few brick walls right now, but I'm pretty sure that I can press it out soon. Unfortunately, she's low on gas, so I can't predict anything. I'm probably going to enforce a 2-day no coding / recovery period.

Regardless, everyone will try to give me all the credit, which is 95% unfair considering the difference quantifies my help. I certainly don't want to take any of the credit and I personally want to be sure she is rewarded. What's my play here? Gift, no gift? I have a pretty strict policy of no hanging out with coworkers, so no free dinner unless it is a gift card.

Any gift that clearly communicates "job well done gift" is a good choice imo. It's also better than no gift. You'd be shocked how grateful people are for a simple thank you note. Appreciation is awesome.

If you and her are the only two people working on the project a simple gift at work is totally appropriate. If you're part of a bigger team I think you need to keep gifts consistent across the team. You can still tell her that you thought she has done an amazing job.

The 2-day no-coding/recovery period thing seems kind of weird. Just give her an easy/interesting task or tell her to work on whatever ideas she thinks would be helpful. If there's really nothing and she's been putting in a ton of extra time give her a day off of work.

Yea, if you want to give her a paid leave call it that. Having her just sit around the cube doing nothing is lame. Sounds like your organization could use some HR training if the only reason there was "risk" in hiring her was her gender. I tend to think new hardware is the best gift for devs but that's mostly because I think new hardware is best gift period...

I agree with the HR comment, I get some weird vibes about this situation. It just seems like there's unnecessary attention (at your company and not necessarily from you) on the fact that she's female.

I understand you checking about not creeping her out with something like a gift, but in general just treat her with respect and the same way you would a guy. If there are other gender issues at your company don't react by overcompensating. Treat her well and if you see specific issues of gender discrimination - address them. But don't overcompensate for issues that have nothing to do with you (aka if people are quietly thinking you just hired her because she's pretty, that's ultimately their issue as long as her work speaks for itself and you're getting **** done.)

The project is mostly her with my guidance, but also requires my involvement because there are things she isn't able to do. Other people are helping out but they aren't really involved at the same level. The company and job on general is extremely complex, so no it wouldn't be possible to do all of it alone. As far as actual code and database work, she and I are the only ones involved.

She's probably posting more hours than she should be. If the average is like 4 hours of productivity per day, she's doing 8 to 9 and pretty much fizzles after 2 1/2 weeks. I can't just give a paid day off.

You guys are reading too much into the gender thing. The risk would have been there no matter who I brought in. The people that make decisions have no issues here. I'm more concerned about the other employees.

get her a gift card for victorias secret

Cool. And ultimately, there's nothing you can really do about what people think.

In general, I think a good way for a manager to give credit to the people they manage is to start giving them more responsibilities in interacting with other people. It helps them grow professionally and helps them build up credit with other people directly.

True.

Yeah, I do have her go off and talk to people alone. I trust her enough to ask good questions, get everything collected, and figure out how to implement it. Regardless, a major part of my training and management style aims for autonomy. Of course, when information is stuck and we need a hammer, I have to be in attendance. Of course, I already know 90% of what she will discover anyways, but the self-exploration and face-time is incredibly valuable.

I also try to have her in important meetings when relevant, and I will often refer other people to her to answer their questions. Today, someone came in and asked her to do something I normally do (and I'm honestly the only one who can at times) without seeing me first. He just walked up to her and asked if she'd like to try something and they worked it out. I was hanging on the edge of my seat on this one, since it was something completely new and unusual. So, I think it is safe to say that, between her and my efforts, she is gaining quite a bit of respect and interest from other people.

With all that said, and definitely not meant to be sexist here, but women and men communicate differently. I could compliment her until I am blue in the face, but she always assumes I am patronizing and manipulating (this isn't too surprising considering my position). I can be the nicest guy on earth for a week, but one moment of disappointment can wipe all the goodwill out. One of my coworkers joked with me that I should be more accessible: she laughed out loud. Silly statement considering I work in an open office (die open-office plans!), though in a real sense, it is true: she told me that I am hard to approach and it appears like I don't have a minute to be bothered.

What's important? Noticing she got a haircut or her new glasses is worth a million compliments. I hate make it sound so zero-sum.

It took me too long to realize that she really did want my guidance more than I could give, and that she wants to win my approval. For the longest time, I thought she saw me as a nuisance and a jerk. We're all dumb in our own way.

As for the whole situation, I was originally looking for someone to train up and take my place, thus the need for simple SQL. Depending on the perspective, I am either fortunate or unfortunate that I'm in this situation. I probably only want to see this project through, train her a bit more, then start looking for somewhere else to work.

OK, maybe the company doesn't need sensitivity training maybe you do...

I was rearranging my bookshelf today and "The Algorithm Design Manual" caught my eye since I hadn't read it cover to cover and only browsed select parts. I sat down and browsed it a bit and realized I had never seen the link to the authors website before.

Low and behold he has complete lectures with slides online. I know there's always algo-classes questions here so:
http://algorist.com/

[Only tried the 2012 version, seems you're supposed to watch it online and not download it. I'm fine with that and the system is pretty nice (synced slides and lecture video that can be rearranged/resized)]

That's been on my coffee table for a year, good catch on the site. Need to read cover to cover as well

Strangely ironic post.

I was just being honest. I do have a wall-to-wall job. I also know that I'm far from perfect, though I am working on being better every day, and work at it as much as I work at anything I else I learn about.