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I think the argument can be made that the invention of the £Tightrope Support Scaffolding (whatever) made Learning How To Walk A Tightrope significantly easier. Programmer in, Application out.

But you are right of course about the downside of this evolution, which is wasteful use of resources.

If oil would suddenly become 10x cheaper, it would make it easier to drive long distances but would also lead to waste of fuel.
I hope you are joking.

If not, you should know that science is not the opposite of religion. Non-belief (or atheism) is the opposite of religion. Scientific process is often used to disqualify religious nonsense.

Its like saying why should a different rule apply to Hitler when I enjoy eating strawberry ice-cream? Absolutely makes no sense.
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The power law in the article refers to the costs associated with individuals, and to the number of people that were found to have returned to 'normal' life.

So a relatively small number of people are responsible for the majority of the costs attributed to all homeless people (in that case mostly for hospital treatments), they stay homeless because they can't get out or don't want to get out.

Those homeless people that are very motivated to stop being homeless will usually do so, those that are mentally ill or serious substance abusers have little to no chance.

Those that have 'adapted to life on the streets', I find it hard to find fault with them, they chose that path, the problem is with 'us', the ones that are not homeless because we see them as a problem, but they might disagree.

Being homeless is no picknick, but being in the rat race isn't either and some people might prefer the one over the other.
I actually remember reading, recently, that the color division is cultural. Point in fact is that around 1900 and earlier, if color had any meaning at all, it was reversed. Pink, being close to red, was manly. Blue, being close to violet, was womanly.

That the roles are globally reversed now could very well be indicative of a newish cultural shift that has nothing to do with nature, genes or suchlike.
Actually, there are addons for firefox for that - tab kit (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5447/) and tree style tabs (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890/)

Personally I use tab kit. However, for some reason I find it more convenient to have tabs on right.
I've added it to my list.
Heh, I was talking about my 17-year-old self, not my 17-year-old child (a terrifying thought). My point was more that a lot of advice has a catch-22-ish quality in that only experience makes its truth sink in, by which time it's often too late.
Do you really believe that the general perception of programming/IT is "sexy"?
the picture in the article is misleading.
http://www.commodoreusa.net/index.html (middle bottom)

I think they pictured the Pro version. They are making the PC64 one a more authentic replica
I think programmers should plan to retire by 40. Subsequently

live on passive income
become a entrepreneur
become govt employee
The OS X build does not have the side/vertical tabs feature :(

I am really looking forward to switching to Chrome, but I cannot give up vertical tabs on Firefox (using TreeStyleTabs extension)
> "Most of the student's time was spent on math, science, and classical music, which were much, much more painful for me in terms of the sheer amount of practice and rote memorization."

are you saying that science, math and music are areas where rote memorization is a problem? i think most definitely that these are three areas where creativity and critical thinking are far more important than learning a static corpus.

a general problem being discussed here is that any system that isn't being constantly invented by its instructors will tend towards static corpus teaching rather than procedural skills, instincts and passion.
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> people are right to demand more participation of women in the tech world in general

What if the women don't listen to my demands?
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There's a fairly simple algorithm to ending up in jail: commit a crime and get caught for it.

For minor crimes, that's ineffective: You'll be arrested, charged, and released back onto the streets with an order to turn up in court at a later date.

As for why such people don't commit more serious crimes -- homeless people aren't (necessarily) psychopaths. Wanting to have a warm place to sleep and decent meals doesn't mean that they'll go out and kill someone just to get themselves arrested.
Perhaps then being employed is not the solution.
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I understand that sexism might cause companies to not employ women in management/technical positions. But how can this affect whether they create their own successful startups?
> Well women are obviously interested why else would we be having this discussion?

This isn't obvious. If you want to argue this point you need to offer evidence.

> It obviously comes up and the fact that it keeps coming up means there is underlying issue that is not being addressed.

Your conclusion that there is a cause not yet addressed doesn't follow. The recurrence of an argument can just as easily be attributed to arguers who can't admit they're wrong or don't understand their opponents, especially in this case when the arguers aren't female tech startup founders.

> Nobody is saying it's an issue that is easy to address but both educators and women in tech keep bringing up the issue so the incumbents are not doing a good job addressing it.

You didn't specify what the "issue" is. As ahlatimer pointed out, this claim needs support. And again, your conclusion doesn't follow, for the same reasons.

> Plus, it is in everyone interests to have all kinds of people be technologically savvy whether they are male or female.

A trivial statement. Ideally everyone would be savvy at everything. It seems like you're trying to argue that women are capable of something in this space that men are not, but I'm not sure what that is.

Look, it may be that you have valid points, but you're embarrassing yourself with the way you argue them. Read [1] if you don't understand why. You're a consistent DH3, which means you contradict without justifying, hence the downvotes. Anecdotal evidence, studies, careful reasoning (that doesn't use the word "obvious"), etc. would help everyone understand the merits of your point of view better than repetition.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
I can tell you from experience that lots of those "progressive, enlightened males" are a different type of boor. Being treated "special" - in a "nice" way - is almost as unbearable as being mistreated.

I recall a certain world-famous engineer who actually argued with me about the experience of "women in tech." Fact: I'm a woman, he was a man, and there weren't even any female devs at his very famous employer and neither were his close family or friends female devs.

He was "progressive, enlightened" -- on the surface. I've heard lots of people call him "nice." But he was actually insulting and condescending to me, trying to play a More Feminist Than Thou game in order to shore up his ego.

I'm sure that people like that are everywhere, and that certainly didn't turn me off tech. But it's irritating to think that you'd probably consider him a poster boy for "the good guys."
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If that is true, that is so interesting. Can you remember where you read this?
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Another big issue is failing to provide a social security network that actually works in that it helps those in real need and has enough of an incentive to get out of the program again.

Canada's welfare system is just fine, actually. The "Jason" in the article is a good example of how it works -- shortly after becoming homeless, he talked to the welfare office, he found an apartment which rented for the standard welfare rate, and if he hasn't already moved in, he almost certainly will within the next week. The vast majority of instances of homelessness are resolved quickly in exactly this manner.

Why doesn't this happen for the small minority who end up being long-term homeless? To a very large extent, it comes down to one thing: Mentally ill people aren't very good at doing paperwork. People who are addicted to drugs or are schizophrenic aren't very likely to accomplish the steps Jason went through to get welfare-funded housing.
I agree, my little theory about why women don't want to work in IT or study CompSci is that they don't want to hang around with the nerdy types.

Medicine and Law has more prestige.
For better or worse, I'm convinced that this is the reason that PHP took off the way it did. The documentation was clear, concise, easy to access (perhaps the first example of user friendly URLs I can remember), and effective; That each function had user-submitted (moderated) comments was the icing on the cake.

I've seen this (similarly highly-voted) comment made elsewhere. I just don't get it.

The PHP docs are often woefully incomplete in their explanation of functions. The user-submitted comments are the blind leading the lame, often containing competing solutions to the same problems, all of which are incomplete and poorly documented.

Aside from several highly-voted comments in discussions, though, the PHP documentation doesn't seem to be a frequently cited example of quality. I find that strange.
I'm interested in the apeshit protective bit. Have you got something to read on it?
It's also not available to Arab Christians, or people from China, Russia, or a lot of other places. Only 36 countries are in the Visa Waiver program, and you'll notice that the representation of Central and South America, Africa, and Asia is very, very bad.

I personally hate the way US immigration policy works, and I'm American! I live in the EU and my husband is an EU citizen, and we get hassled every time.

But to me, it sounds like you're making excuses - and you're making them personal. That's no problem to me, but it will be a problem to you, because if you're in the habit of excuse-making, you will fail at business no matter what you do.
I think many people would like to institutionalize the homeless

I absolutely do not want to institutionalize the homeless. I want to institutionalize the mentally ill.

For sure there are mentally ill people that are homeless but I'd be highly surprised if that was the majority. For the most part they're just ordinary people down on their luck abandoned by friends and family

You're right that the vast majority of people who become homeless are not mentally ill. However, the vast majority of people who stay homeless are mentally ill.
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Hmm, nothing standard, really... I just used vanilla python and the corpus is some texts and ungrammatical comments I've assembled from various sources...
If you are building a company that can only survive with capital funding, the funders will care very much where your arse is.

The TF model is much much smarter, but it also requires the guts to create a valuable product that you can charge for directly -- not the dream of creating a delicious startup snack to be gobbled up by Google.
> However, the vast majority of people who stay homeless are mentally ill.

That's likely true but it is only a very small portion of the total. And many of those are still not mentally ill, just substance abusers (which has it's own long term effects on mentality, compounding the problem).
Bootstrapping is easy. Shopping yourself around for funding, and then managing your investor's expectations and demands on top of your theoretical customers', is hard.
I tend to agree with this. When an entity takes new power, they fight tooth and nail to keep it, regardless of whether it's "right" for them to have it or not. Bush II massively increased the power of the executive branch with terrorism and fear as an excuse, pushing it farther from a checks-and-balances system towards a checks-against-the-president system. Now that it's been established that the executive has greater power, does anyone think any upcoming president will sit down and say, "welp, time to give some of this up and bring it back to how things used to be!" I don't think so.

Same with civil liberties taken by police and other enforcement. The attitude some (not all, or even the majority of) officers seem to have is the attitude of control and being the boss, not serving and protecting. (Like this article--on what imaginable grounds did the officer think he could arrest a citizen for taking film from within their own house if not because "I don't like being on film, so I'm going to show this person who's boss by arresting them"). When it becomes a case of maintaining some sort of imagined and idealized "order" instead of enforcing specific law, our liberties are eroded; and when we just lay back and take it, they probably aren't coming back, because those erosions then eventually become law as people and enforcers get used to the idea.

There are of course cases where things have been turned around for the better, like civil rights, suffrage, etc. But this more modern trend of slow, steady, and insidious erosion of rights in the name of protecting us is that much more dangerous because we've become convinced we need the protection.

And when the enforcers have the big guns, the ability to detain or throw anyone in prison for almost anything, and a staggeringly complex body of law that requires a small fortune to defend against, things aren't so easy to change anymore. I'm not talking black-helicopter conspiracy theories or anything here, just a general sadness to see us giving up so much of what makes real life free and enjoyable for the illusion of safety from child rapists and terrorists.
many of those are still not mentally ill, just substance abusers

Drug addiction is a form of mental illness.

(Also, many long-term homeless drug addicts are "dual diagnosis", i.e., have some other mental illness as well.)
Yes, except you forgot the brackets again. You should have:

[ A(1-x+x^2) + B(x+2) ] / [ (x+2)(1-x+x^2) ]

You probably knew that, but this is really, really important. Not getting it right now will confuse you a great deal later.

However, now you have this as your numerator:

A(1-x+x^2) + B(x+2) [Eqn *]

Look again at your original problem

- what do you want the numerator to be?

- Expand out Eqn * to remove the brackets.

- What values can you assign to A and B to make Eqn * be the numerator you want?

As a hint, A and B are not simply numbers.
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> Drug addiction is a form of mental illness.

No it isn't. If I inject you with heroin for a couple of weeks steady that makes you a drug addict, but not mentally ill.
This is not true at all. Many and perhaps most people I know don't work full time. My parents for example work 3-4 days a week.
Even if you disregard who you work with, what else do medicine and law have that compsci doesn't?

* your family & friends will be able to grasp what you do

* on average, in those fields you can have a much greater positive impact on other people than you can employed developer

* your field is insulated by the need for education - you don't have to worry about 16-year-olds who think working 20 hour days is fun

* codes of professionalism (whether or not they're slavishly followed)

* regulatory boards that can and do eject bad apples

* very hard to outsource to India or other destination du jour

* law firms and medical practices don't go boom and bust as often as tech firms do

I'm a female developer and I honestly don't care... but then again, I've made myself impossible to compete with. I'd also gnaw off my own leg before working in a corporate tech environment.

Let's face it -- the movie that sums up the life of a corporate developer best is _Office Space_. The IT Crowd doesn't make it much more appealing.

Meanwhile, lawyers and doctors and biotech and all sorts of other fields where there are more women -- they get the awesome shows and movies.
I really don't know. They never gave a reason. Loneliness was common for those poor guys.
To put paper obstacles in the way of those in need that are unable to pass those hurdles is not a system that is 'fine'.
To be fair, it is using interpreted code, which is clearly not allowed. He chose to build something that clearly goes against the terms and then he's hoping for an executive-level exception to the rule because "it's so cool". But if they give him an exception, everyone else will be pointing to how the approval process is inconsistent when they reject someone else's with some form of interpreted code.

So the question of Apple being at fault for not having "clear, comprehensive guidelines" can't really be raised.( In this particular case.)

And so the headline is a bit sensational.
While trying to find the article I stumbled across Straight dope (http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2831/was-pink-origi...), that claims that this idea might well be wrong. I does however, I think, speak out against the idea that pink-girly and blue-boyly is something known to be inherent.

Although I guess the thing I read earlier might well be wong, I'm still not that convinced that colors are that gender based by default.
DSM-IV counts substance abuse as a psychiatric disorder, and research has shown that it is far more effective to treat substance abuse as a health issue than otherwise.

But I think we may have to agree to disagree here.
Interesting how the answers to "what will I wish I'd have done now in 5 years?" and "what will I wish I'd have done now on my deathbed?" can be so different.

The second one is better, I think. With the first, you never stop.
The software wouldn't need to be touch, they could have a separate section for desktop apps.

Can you imagine the revenue stream for Apple if you could get desktop apps on iTunes?

I'm not at all concerned about it as they couldn't make it exclusive, people would run to windows... but they would still achieve a huge market share.

Maybe OS X 10.7?
Yes, the fact that you don't have a specific word for a concept doesn't mean that you don't have a concept

The trick is probably that some concepts are activated when our language center parses more than one word; we don't think about them as separate words. There are plenty of examples in the vocabularies of various languages, one of my favorites is the word 'alarm':

I asked a lot of people in the Italy if they recognize what the word "allarme" comes from. Surprisingly only few recognized the exhortation "all'armi!" (to the weapons!) (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=alarm). Sometimes this effect creates a new word, but sometimes a concept remains indirectly expressed, while the speaker unconsciously extracts the high level meaning of it.

However, I noticed that most of the amateur discussions about linguistics scratch only the surface because mostly only nouns are touched.

For example when I was younger and still living in Croatia. A relative of mine was Macedonian and told me that they have a verb mood that is used when you state something which you are sure that is true, vs only being told that is true.

I'm not really sure what is that, after a bit of research I think it's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferential_mood.

"The inferential mood (abbreviated infer or infr) is used to report a nonwitnessed event without confirming it"

Does this shape the way you think?

After all, even English speakers are able to express the fact that they didn't witness an event; I guess they do, didn't check :-)
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With Facebook, the way it would work is that you have to have 20+ friends to join. So you can create throwaway accounts, but you won't be able to login with them.

That said, it really would be going out of your way to create a throwaway account every time you wanted to be a pervert for just two people. That requires a lot of effort, and while there may be a few people willing to endure it, I doubt it would reach the same level of problems as it has on Chatroulette and co.
Well little girls do love dolls, but just for the record as a parent of two girls they do love LEGO as well. Mine are pretty young but the oldest loves playing with duplo. The big difference to the little boys I know is the games they play with the LEGO. They make pet stores and horse stables and involve their dolls (the smaller ones) in it all.

Perhaps the next generation who grow up with very female friendly computer games and software (like facebook) will have the motivation to learn to program like boys have in the past. While boys might tend to enjoy things like programming for its own sake - I see a lot of reasons for girls to want to be involved in programming in the future.
first of all i don't know the significance of replacing the numerator with capital letters when decomposing partial fractions.i'am not aware of the practical implications of these problems.all i know is it'll come in handy when solving laplace transforms in the future which is used in physics/electrical etc.(that's what i'am after).
and if you are curious to know why i wanna learn these..well i don't have a proper reason.i simply want to!!

i looked back at the original problem but i'am unable to figure out the values to assign to A and B.
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women are better equipped to serve female customers

While it would be difficult to A/B test, I rather suspect that the Y chromosome is not depressing my conversion rates.
Intuit took some heat for this back around 2001~3, thereabouts. One article on the subject can be found here:

http://www.geek.com/articles/news/turbotax-installer-destroy...

I'm kind of surprised there's software still doing this, and shouldn't Windows and its new and improved security have put an end to these kinds of shenanigans on its side?
There is an easy test for what fields women find as having social status. Look at the cover of Harlequinn romance novels.

I conclude that doctors, bankers, marketing executives, writers, poets, dukes, slaveholding Southerners, vampires, werewolves, and Catholic priests are all seen as more desirable than engineers are.
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I think we're already agreeing for the most part: Substance abuse is a different thing than being addicted, you can't use the terms interchangeably.

The one is a mental problem, the other has to do with the brain in a very specific biochemical sense.

I think that for the most part there is plenty of overlap between the two in terms of the people that are afflicted but there is a direct biochemical reason behind being addicted to any drug that is not directly related to mental illness.
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Have you been able to measure engagement of the FB connect users vs. the regular signup users? It's been said that while it's easier to get a user to sign in with FB connect, those users are less likely to stick around and do anything meaningful on the site.
For a moment there I thought you were going to make a completely different joke because of the quote you picked.

It must be my dirty mind at work.
> find that it's a liability because men tend to go apeshit protective when female soldiers get hurt.

Solution: all female battalions.