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And startups (in my limited experience) don't generally need IT / sysadmin co-founders. For my company (5 employees), we just use SaaS for any IT needs (dropbox, google apps, salesfoce, 37 signals). Combine that with our Mac setups, and your skillset isn't in great demand.

As a sysadmin who prefers startups, I must, sadly, agree, at least for pure software play early in their growth.

Fortunately, I can't imagine this to be true for a startup that would be doing said SaaS or otherwise competing in an arena where hardware or database knowledge is a significant advantage. Now to see if I can convince investors of this...
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Or "melon patch."
you have kids hitting Multivariate Calculus and Differential Equations who haven't seen a proof in their lives.

Really? My AP Calc class was not very proof-focus (probably because the AP Calc test was not), but 10th grade (~15-16 y.o.) Geometry was mostly just proofs. As was Trigonometry. This was 10 years ago, but those same teachers are still at my old school. Presumably they teach the same material. I guess this is atypical? That's too bad, because those trig proofs were actually kinda fun.
One anecdote that I heard from people involved with the CMU admissions criteria for CS. In addition to GPA, leadership skills, etc. they used to also look for something interesting technical that you'd done prior to college. They have now removed that criteria from the selection process because they found that it did not correlate with success upon coming to CMU, but it did correlate with gender.
On someone's complaint about Google setting up a special grant program for women, OP writes:

This stinks of jealousy. Why not be happy for the female students? Why rain on someone else’s parade? Something good happening to someone else seems to disgust fringley. Frankly, it comes off as childish.

That's a terrible argument. Can't you say that about any form of discrimination? "So what if all the nice houses and neighborhoods and schools and drinking fountains and restrooms and universities are all restricted to white people? Can't you be happy for them? Why rain on someone else's parade?" There are good arguments to be made for reverse discrimination, but "can't you be happy for someone else?" isn't one of them.

Other issues:

I believe CS and Web Development currently select for certain masculine qualities that are largely unrelated to someone’s prowess as a coder. I believe it is these tangential code-cowboy qualities women are unable or unwilling to emulate, and not their skill or capacity for abstraction, problem solving, creative thinking, or communication — All of which actually make them better developers.

Then she lists a lot of code-cowboy vs. good-developer differences, involving things like "working in teams" and "understanding human elements" and "respecting people" (which are implicitly feminine traits, according to the OP, unlike the focused solitude that "code-cowboys" employ.) This is triply problematic--she dismisses out of hand the idea that men are better than women at abstract reasoning and such, but implicitly argues that the qualities of "good developers" are feminine and the qualities of "code cowboys" are both bad for development and masculine.

After all this, she complains that her talents were viewed as better suited to management, when all that supposedly-feminine stuff like teamwork and respecting people are important parts of management.

Incidentally, I think the reason for the gender gap is something she pointed out in all of this--women are less likely than men to engage in deeply focused solitary activities. Unlike her, I don't see the deep focus and solitude of programming as a bad thing at all--even if it does keep out women.

EDIT HISTORY: Added "There are good arguments to be made for reverse discrimination..." sentence.
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>ignoring punctuation like ? and !

Google has done this since launch, I don't think it's a recent trend. I agree though that searching for programming information isn't great. (It's even harder with math.)

I doubt you'll find MFA spam to be better on DDG than on Google, but please, if you see a query where they are beating us. Send it over. :) I can guarantee you that I'll get a lot of eyes looking at it.
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For pretty much all of my coding life, I distanced myself from the other people doing CS. I stayed and worked hard at it because I enjoy it, and definitely out of no love for the "dominant culture".

Yes, we're all a socially inept bunch of geeks, whatever. Socially inept girls should fit right in, and the rest of the girls can do what I did - ignore it, and just focus on learning.
Although I disagree with the author (groupon is not sitting on a legal timebomb), I think this is an important topic for entrepreneurs to understand.

My family had a company that got caught up in a trademark dispute. It was a lot of he said, she said, as we fought over who had used the name first. In the end, the lawyers bankrupt both companies as they fought for the name. It's important when you're starting a business to avoid entanglements over trademarks, and honestly, if you do encounter a problem, you're better off just giving up your name and picking a new one than draining all your resources in a trademark dispute.
While totally conceding the part about younger players being more likely to be spurred into comp sci by video games I do contest the hardcore games as a gateway drug theory. I think the thing that pulls kids in is the creativity of the games and the effect that the game has on them. So a fun casual game in my opinion would have the same pulling power as the latest version of crysis. fwiw this is subjective and I dont have any data to back this up.

One further point - maybe the 40% number is a recent phenomenon and it will take time for it to translate into more women entering computer science.
If women have the same potential both to succeed at computer science and to enjoy the work as men do, the underrepresentation of women in the field is a sign of problems that, if fixed, would result in more people leading more fulfilling lives. I think that is worth spending money on, and Google seems to agree.

Moreover, if one's goal is to benefit the field of computer science rather than just help individuals choose careers they are better suited for, targeting highly capable women when applying such fixes would have the most return on investment. If these same grants were given out without regard to gender, they would result in less capability added to the field per dollar.
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"CS education also focuses a lot of effort on puzzles and very abstract concepts when practical applications where you can see the why and how might work better for women (and a hell of a lot of men). I like yummy algorithms, but we could make CS education more accessible by putting them in context."

Why must we make a field more accessible? It would also be more accessible if we just threw BS degrees off the back of a parade float. But, sorry, programming is at its core thinking about the abstract, learning to realize that, although you are writing in python/json/xml/rpc/wtf you are really just doing discrete mathematics. CS programs should not teach in the specifics, because frankly, the specifics don't matter.

This was the same argument that the women in physics tried to make when I was an undergraduate. Appalled at the poor retention rate of women in first year physics programs, the solution was to make first year physics more 'accessible' (i guess this means easier). I'm sorry, but this is not the right way of thinking about the problem. Raise the students up, do not bend the program to raise numbers.

Diversity is great, but context free grammers and recursive descent parsers are greater.
Fair enough, the special interest game is no fun[1]. But I'll take a bet on the stars aligning in Texas over California finding efficient building practices any day.

In Texas, given all the immigration from other states, the prospect of the population doubling in a few decades and little place left to build freeways, I think there's a growing understanding among policymakers that higher-density transportation will be a necessity going forward. There's a long-term trend of immigration & congestion supporting the eventual adoption of a rail plan, it's just a matter of time.

On the other side, I don't see any trends in California pointing towards sane governance, apart from the possibility of a constitutional convention (http://www.repaircalifornia.org/), which is hardly a safe bet.

So there's good reason to hope for Texas, I'd say, despite the history.

[1] incidentally, I hear that to get the airlines on board, the new Texas HSR plan terminates at the airports specifically, while the earlier plan focused stops at city centers, which might have been better for TOD, but then this makes for inter-modality.
Yeah, I just mentioned driving to point out the distances, because that's how Americans understand distance between cities. If you'd take the train to Paris why wouldn't you take the train to Dublin? (Or, well, to the ferry dock, and then the ferry to Dublin?)

While we're at it, you don't have any contact info in your profile, so I'll ask here--what made you assume I was Canadian and not American? :)
Except, they're _not_ just assumptions of sexism. You should at least skim the MIT study she refers to in her article (http://web.mit.edu/fnl/women/women.html). It was an eye-opening, empirical study showing that discrimination did exist – and that it didn't look like ordinary bigotry.

I can't help but think that it's only possible to get worked up about reverse discrimination if you don't believe that the "forward" discrimination exists in the first place.
When they were playing around with their SearchWiki system, there was an 'X' next to all results that you could click to make them go away, which I was pretty excited about, until I realized it didn't actually permanently banish that site; just removed it from the current results page.

There are a bunch of greasemonkey scripts to let you blacklist specific sites from Google results, but relatively frequent changes to Google's results page seem to make them always fall behind, so it's hard to find a consistently working one. This is the best-maintained one I can find, and it's actually not currently working: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/44418
Ask HN: Phone interview etiquette - How late is too late?
(A throwaway account - I'm an active HN participant)

So I had a bunch of phone interviews with an awesome company which you all have no doubt heard of. The interviews went really well (in my opinion, of course), but here's the issue...while I was told by the interviewer that I'd be contacted for an on-site interview "in a couple of days", it's been a week.

So what should I do at this point? I've already sent in my thank-you-for-the-interview email. Should I move on, and think all is lost? Should I send a reminder email (since it's already been a week) asking if they've any update?

Damn, I feel gutted.
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Contact them and ask them about the status. Sometimes applications fall through cracks and a reach out from you can put the train back on the track.
I don't know about that. Since we're going on anecdotal evidence, out of my 25 or so friends who play videogames, I'm the only one who programs.

An analog to your statement would be:
"I like movies" often translates into "I want to work in the film industry"
Maybe that's what the majority will be doing in 250 years, I couldn't tell you. But no matter what fantasies we indulge in a hypothetical simulation, this world here still exists, and eventually we will have to leave this planet or perish. I don't know about anyone else, but even given a fantastic simulation-world, I would treat it as just another game to distract me, possibly for a long-distance voyage across the stars. This is of course assuming we can't improve our intelligence any further, and with higher intelligence I might find something much more pleasing and interesting in the real world than the simulation, or desire to write out the part of me that likes the simulation.
Not only is it a bad argument, it starts from a completely false hypothesis - the universities I graduated from had excellent programs which assumed no previous knowledge and I know that the best universities in EU have the same, if not higher, standards.

Also, something to think about: since the founding of the uni I got my MSc degree from, less than 3% of first-year students were women. You could count them with your fingers. The problem starts really, really early in a kid's education.
> I think the thing that pulls kids in is the creativity of the games and the effect that the game has on them.

This is absolutely what pulls kids into games. What pulls kids into knowledge about computers is the realization that better hardware means they can play "better" games. This means they wind up with a pretty good conceptual map of computers at an early age. That gives them a huge advantage at programming over someone who just sees computers as a black box.
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Having recently bid on a project for a notorious government agency (cough cough POSTAL SERVICE) you can be assured that your work has to be done and submitted before the deadline and not a millisecond later... but they can take their own sweet millenium in getting back to you (if ever). That's just the way it works.
Totally with you, but the other commentators in this thread were suggesting that 23andMe shouldn't exist in its current form, which I _strongly_ disagree with.
Yeah. This sort of burn-out is definitely the extreme, but it's also the rarest. I think there's a far more common level of burn-out (perhaps "brown-out") which misses a few of the more serious symptoms and yet seriously impacts ongoing productivity and motivation.

The danger of defining burn-out as only this extreme is that there are a lot of people with milder though serious cases who may not appreciate that it's a problem.
The only tech event that I have been to since I've lived in NYC is the Techcrunch Disrupt that just recently happened. I had fun but I am still adjusting to the world of tech. I was a hip hop DJ & club security guard in a former life and that was the main focus of my social interactions. I would come home from the club and then code Python or C# until 7am.

I plan on attending more tech events in the city and try to meet more people. I still have a lot to learn and I think going to more tech events would be a great teacher.
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> 12-20 hours a week working on two of my own projects.
> on monetizing my own projects
> find myself a bit disappointed at how much progress I am making

Something easy to struggle with is knowing when to let go, as counterintuitive as it seems, perhaps it's time for an entirely new project?
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Hard drives didn't completely eliminate tape either, but they did chase it off into specialized applications where capacity was more important than speed. Flash will do the same thing to magnetic storage. Superior power consumption, form-factor, and speed will eventually push magnetic storage out of consumer devices. Most people can get by perfectly well with the SSD capacities available today, much less the drives that will be available in ten years.
You’re absolutely right about “the only way people would get worked up about reverse discrimination,” of course. What I object to is her assigning evil intentions to people she’s never met.
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I haven't had a look at 3.0 yet. What's the effort like to upgrade? I have this suspicion that it's basically going to be a major rewrite for most of my projects with all the new apis and deprecation. It's almost as if it were a completely separate project that offered some degree of Rails compatibility to help people transition. However, that's the impression I get from reading things - how is it in practice for those who have updated significant code bases?
The analogy to breathing is a bad one, because breathing air is not an addiction, it is a physical need. If you stop breathing, you die. If you stop reading HN or Reddit or Facebook, you don't die.

So, saying that an addiction is about things you "don't want to want" makes sense if you add the caveat that it applies to things you don't need to survive as a human being.

EDIT: I should add that another way in which the breathing analogy fails is that for addictions, usually we refer to things that you do so much that it adversely impacts your everyday life in the sense it puts you in danger losing your job, your spouse, your friends, etc, or even if you don't lose them, you reduce your productivity and thus your overall chance at success in life. Even though we need to breathe every second, no one has lost their job or friends because they "breathed too much".
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It also doesn't seem to account for the reduction in gender diversity over the past 20 years or so. Around 1990, women were around 35% of CS majors, and today, they're around 17%. What accounts for that drop? I don't think it can be "puzzles and very abstract concepts". If anything, the core theory/systems/PLs areas have declined as a proportion of the overall CS curriculum over that time period, and more applications-focused areas have increased in prominence. Many CS departments now have HCI faculty and classes, for example, which virtually none did in 1990, and there's lots more robotics and other explicitly applications-oriented areas in the curriculum as well.

Not that I know why there's been a decline in women in CS over the past 20 years, either. But I think any explanation of why there aren't many women in CS now has to account for why there were more women in CS in 1990--- despite CS not being that much different at the time, and probably actually more "hardcore" systems/theory oriented.
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"You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly."

Based on available statistics, middle schoolers and high schoolers spend 4-5 hours a day watching TV. But in middle school and high school, I heard my classmates discussing television fairly infrequently, presumably because TV is not a very cool subject to discuss. So the guy who didn't watch any TV (me) didn't seem weird--for that reason, at least.
But that is how it works. I delegate my vote to my MP, and they vote on my behalf in Parliament.
Give me some examples if you can. I'll send them around.
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Nobody's addicted to air. You need air: just enough to get along. But you don't try to inhale as much as you can; you don't get sick getting too much of it -- although there is enough air around to inflate yourself like a balloon if you were actually addicted to it.

Addiction is when you take too much of something; under 5 cigarettes a day don't give you cancer; 1 glass of wine a day actually makes you healthier. But if you get addicted to tobacco or alcohol (or bad food) these things end up killing you.

Incidentally can modern addictions pg's talking about, really kill you? Can you die from Internet addiction? Porn/TV/Farmville addiction? If they can't kill you can they be called "addictive"...?
"Actual inflation = A + B * (output gap) + Expected inflation"

Typical economic equation with a whole bunch of poorly defined fudge variables that can fit absolutely any data set and is completely lacking in falsifiability.

"But here’s the thing: the inflation-adjusted Phillips curve predicts not just deflation, but accelerating deflation in the face of a really prolonged economic slump."

Ah.. But what causes a prolonged economic slump? Deflation.. and what causes an end to the economic slump, inflation. So what causes inflation and deflation? Consumer Psychology? Animal Spirits? High Interest Rates? Low Interest Rates? Equations where you can plug in the right numbers and get the results that match the historical data set?

Ok Krugman, stop pussy footing around. You want us to blow out the deficit just like Japan did and have the government spend trillions on infrastructure and the fed to keep interest rates at zero forever.

What this will do is make sure that the economy stays in deflation until the entire generation that is mired in debt up to their eyeballs and lives paycheck to paycheck goes broke, or in the case of student loans, dies. See you on the other side of the Kondratieff wave in about 20 years pal. I know you'll take all the credit for it.
Agreed. My fiancee and myself have been going through a K-1 visa since January, and while it's nearly over, I still have to fly to another city to get an interview before I get my visa.

As far as I'm aware, the K-1 visa is one of the fastest processed visas, and it's been 7 months without making a single mistake. I'd hate to think how long it would be on another visa, or worse, if we had made a mistake along the way.
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> so many tools, so much software that would only need a small tweek.

I'm not sure about that. ISA is an implementation detail, a popup in your IDE.

Any existing Windows or Mac app that needs to go mobile will in the least need an interface overhaul (true for iOS and WP7) and at most need to adopt completely new mobile APIs.
I think all the math is based on the known costs of EC2 services at various rate plans. All the people posting dollar figures here and on reddit are drawing from these know costs.
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