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> You mention you had amblyopia, I'm curious how you got rid of it?

I had surgery.

In my particular case (large-angle strabismus) this was the only sensible option - no amount of therapy would've helped in my case.

If you'd consider a surgery, I'd suggest to talk to at least two different independent doctors (the best you can find and afford) and ask for their opinions on what your possible options are. I basically got a consistent firm "no, not for your condition" and that was it. However, I've heard that for small angles there are ways to fix things with therapy.

Of course, it's somewhat scary but, thankfully, everything went well. The surgery itself proved to be no big deal - sedatives did magic. I was quite nervous, but a few pills I was given had really fixed that. However, there is always a chance of mistake or something not going well, so, of course, one must be wary.

Actually, I had two surgeries. First one was a little bit off and while it corrected most of the problem, a very small angle was still left. I've went through some therapy but, unfortunately, despite my doctor's expectations the muscle had failed to stretch sufficiently.

However, that therapy had semi-fixed the amblyopia - after some exercises with synoptophore I was able to mentally force myself to see with both eyes (with double vision, of course, since alignment was still off). So, after the second surgely, right after the anesthesia paralysis wore off I got my binocular vision back. And I'd say, in my opinion that was really worth it.
And they didn't even weigh in on the science, they just said the science was irrelevant if it caused a "hostile working environment".
I'm looking for a solution for creating short and clean screen casts for teaching programming.

I want to be able to prepare my scripts in advance and then play them when recording (or directly converting to something i can put in a webpage).

The best solution I've found to time is https://github.com/gu-fan/autotype.vim ... but in my tries it was flickering a bit too much.

Does anybody know a good, lightweight and free software solution that allows to move the cursor during the editing?
I don't disagree with you, but I call BS on the OP:

1. 20-hour days are not actually worked, not even by slave labor.

2. Sacrificing your personal life for your employer is pathological, not heroic.
I'm going to be working on OpenFaaS full-time
Drawing conclusions about "innate" differences between men and women from this data doesn't seem valid. There's a lot of research left to eliminate confounding effects on participation that aren't covered or investigated by the "Global Gender Gap Index" (e.g. cultural attitudes towards women in STEM, or on-the-job discrimination). Scatter-plotting two datasets available on the internet doesn't feel like enough research for me to dismiss reports from women that they are discouraged from CS before, and during, their careers.

The trendline cited in the article isn't even conclusive, either—eliminating outliers would reduce it almost to noise. Even if it were, there hasn't, to date, been any reasonable explanation for why women's "innate" biology would make them any less interested in professions whose parameters and limitations are purely human-constructed and invented in the past century. Whatever happened during the evolution of the sexes was certainly not informed by the interestingness of C++.
You're right on. I've found it useful to typologize my searches to take advantage of specialty information portals. For example I use NIH for medical, MDN for webdev, specific subreddits or forums for other projects. This helps counterbalance the currently weakened global search (Google) outcomes.
Isn't treating women differently from men sexist by definition?

If we want equality, let's treat everyone equally. No special programs for any gender.

We're constantly told that men and women are the same, and that you can even switch between them any time you want, but then we hear the complaints that gender X does better/worse at task Z. This narrative doesn't make any sense to me.
And some time after that a future where all of these are produced in the same factory from cell culture, and real sheep are rare.
> Why are still people still confused about this?

Maybe because "positive discrimination" is pursued using equality of outcomes as a key indicator?
San Francisco proper is physically much smaller than New York City, 231 sq. miles vs 468.

In fact, San Francisco measures only 47 square miles. And that's if you round upward.
> Well they might act differently, unless they're from a country like Hungary, Russia, or Sweden, and then they are just like men in math.

Could you clarify what does this mean (what is special about Hungary, Russia, Sweden)?
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1,5 years ago, i was suicidal (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13051611).

1 week after posting this. I got a visit from the police.
Apparently, someone gave them the ip and it took them a week to locate me. They wanted to take me to the hospital to check if i had mental problems. Of course they couldn't force me to go.
I assured them that i would fix my problems and make a therapy. It was a wakeup call for me.

Fast-forward to now:
I am working in an e-commerce company in switzerland. I almost have no debts (last payment in may 2018) and my coworkers are like family to me.
My life turned 180 degrees.

THANK YOU, STRANGER
i owe you a lot!
He's calling himself a "co-founding shareholder" though, which appears to be undisputed. (Not that weasel-wording is much better than outright lying.)
I doubt that any of that has anything to do with the reasons that there's no "mass Linux desktop adoption".

And I wouldn't count Linux running Windows in a VM most of the time as a "Linux desktop".
Let's turn the argument on it's head.

Statistics say boys are more heavily inclined to have a STEM career. Does this mean they feel they cannot consider a career in other fields like teaching, nursing or other female-dominated fields?

As a woman I often wonder, what's so great about STEM aside from the paycheck? It depends on your bosses (or being your own if you are lucky and that way inclined), but I don't think we've shown many girls that STEM is really rewarding and it looks on TV like it involves a lot of staring at computer screens. Boring! So I expect that will change when we get to use more interactive interfaces. Also, I hope society does more work to let boys grow up feeling STEM isn't their only hope.
Could it be that at least some of the errors are due to autocomplete in the IDE? This came to my mind at the very first example given and I have been guilty of this by pressing "return" at the first option offered by the IDE instead of scrolling down to the correct one first. This feature of an IDE (as much as I like it) makes it even easier to think already about the next task.
One of the problems of the Lisp approach with extreme flexibility: it's amplifying the programmer. One can write extremely dumb code in Lisp - in many dimensions. Well trained/educated programmers can use it to their advantage, but the opposite is creating easily unmaintainable software.

But in enterprise OO software (-> Java) you can get similar effects once there are enough layers of factories, special purpose DSLs, greenspunning, etc.
But your salary is about your place individually, not about gigantic groups of people.
I have not open-sourced my code since it's a gross hack I did in one afternoon.

It looks exactly like the screenshot of that project. Very interesting that I thought of the same solution without knowing jijimaku.
To add my 2 cents, I was employed in Macon, Georgia by a small software firm around the time the Bush administrating was drumming up support to attack Iraq.
I was opposed to it and let my feelings be known amongst my colleagues. My colleagues would agree with my POV, go home and then come back the next day and attack me. The cycle repeated itself a few times before I realized they were going home to Fox News everyday. Unfortunately for me, I discussed these opinions in the cafetaria. When they downsized a short while later, I was the first one to be let go. Since then I never discuss politics at work, even with folks I trust,
The clues about flouride’s long-term action, and role as medication are usually avoided, because the medical curiosities that demonstrated flouride’s interaction with bone and tooth chemistry, and pointed the way to it’s discovery are possibly unsettling, and hinder the sales pitch of flouride in general.

And of course there’s the politicized paranoia of contaminating the public water supply, and who should get to decide such things, and why they might choose to do it.

But, those stories usually focus on intrigue, and don’t explain much about the chemistry of the element flourine, ionic compounds, or much of anything else, and dissolve into hand-wavey boogie men.

You basically get two incomplete pictures of the same story. What both sides leave out is that flouride has medical utility, but while toxicity is a potential risk, it’s not some mysterious subversive threat, and the benefits weigh favorably against the side effects.

Also, no one ever tells you that a little bit won’t hurt. Opponents offer hysterics of zero tolerance for poisonous toxic waste and brain damage. See also, Dr. Strangelove, and the idea of precious bodily fluids.

Meanwhile, advocates never tell you that you might be okay with flouride toothpaste just once a week, and no flouride at all the rest of the week, brushing with just pure, ordinary water (Mandrake). Instead, advocates advise twice a day, ...no more, but certainly no less.

And proponents of public flouridated water usually sidestep the premise of prescriptive public health as offering a leg up to people who might not have disposable income for toothpaste. Charity chafes all sides. Some might be too proud to accept the premise of assistance. Others bristling at the undertones of that idea amounting to other people’s needs conflicting with the autonomy of those with the capacity for choice between such options.
May, could, would…
>engineer or a doctor

These are both STEM fields (Science, technology, engineering, mathematics). Doctor is a crossover in my view, anyway. Sounds like she would like more autonomy with her career choices, rather than not be in a STEM field.
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This is like the things you develop yourself as a child although broken down and over simplified.

Maybe this should just be for the less intelligent children who do not have the skills to learn their own more efficient method.

I can see this wasting too much of an able pupils time.

Do you have streaming in America where you filter off children by ability like in Europe?, If so then maybe this is good for the lower streams to gain them insight into what more able pupils do anyway. (Though maybe not so convoluted).
Iran has more women engineers and graduates overall. I'm told it can be as much as 75%. I half suspect that it's two things. The society at large is very gender unequal but applied engineering wants outcomes enough that it overcomes societal distortion to get capable women into roles for mutual benefit.

The second reason is that highly skilled Iranian women stem graduates qualify for immigration points in receiving economies like Australia.

I've worked with some, and know some. They're good. The system works for them as individuals if not in the wider sense of what we'd want in an equal society.
Ecommerce is hard but its also telling that Gucci can't just sell on their own website, while they have a site where you can buy Gucci they are also forced to have an amazon presence as well. Amazon are a big deal because people want to put out their personal information on the web as little as possible. The more you can get everything you need from Amazon you can limit your exposure to your credit card being on the web only to Amazon and not to hundreds of individual sites. Maybe in the future if the world goes to crypto Amazon will lose this advantage. But for now they have a big advantage in the breadth of items they offer such that even a powerful brand like Gucci is forced to sell on Amazon even though they have their own website and in theory could impose a monopoly over access to Gucci products on their own website. However that requires shoppers to setup their credit card on Gucci, another site besides Amazon. Every other site you have to sign up for you're taking a risk with your personal information being misused. Amazon's lack of being hacked for persona information is one of the huge drivers of this consumer loyalty even when Amazon often make mistakes, they don't make the mistake of leaking your credit card information. They might marked something as delivered when its not and have brutal restocking fees but people are willing to put up with the nasty parts of Amazon because they feel their credit card is safe on file with them.
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I agree on both. Honestly, much of my long hours were due to my inexperience rather than supernatural productivity. If I were to do the same work with what I know now, I'd do it very differently with far fewer hours (probably).

That said, the point OP was making is that in a startup origin story, there's a significant perception gap between those who actually moved the needle and those who claim to have done so. Those who actually drove the bus and those who rode it. Time and again, I've seen the latter people take advantage of the relative reticence of the former.

It's probably more like, "relative to this guy who tried to kill my company early on and later claimed undue credit for its founding, this dedicated early employee surely seemed like she worked 20+ hour days and sacrificed everything for me."
Whenever such studies or analyses come up in the media, I find that people are often eager to jump to causative conclusions on the lines of "oh females must have a natural inclination towards 'softer' fields" or (as in case of this article) "In wealthy nations, they believe that they have the freedom to pursue those alternatives and not worry so much that they pay less." However, even if we ignore the obvious correlation vs causation fallacy at play here, these conclusions conveniently ignore a million other societal factors that affect such decisions. For instance, as much of a gender-equality-utopia Scandinavian countries are, they're certainly not free of gender roles and the societal institutions that enforce those. While of course anecdotal, several of my friends from these countries have talked about how they faced invisible, passive-aggressive forms of bullying from fellow students (a large majority of them reportedly female) for having 'geeky' interests such as math. When presented with other options that may eventually be equally or slightly less fulfilling, but come without the social pressure, it makes sense to most people to go with the flow. So much for "natural inclinations"...
> Though their numbers are growing, only 27 percent of all students taking the AP Computer Science exam in the United States are female. The gender gap only grows worse from there

So if women are choosing not to enter certain fields the "gender gap" is worse? That's to say some people are so idealistic that they would rather remove a woman's freedom to choose her career and force her into a job she doesn't want to do just to satisfy some BS ideology?

A "gender gap" is only bad if women are prevented from entering a field for some reason. If they simply don't want to, then more power to them. Surely the most important thing is the right to choose one's own career, not applying social pressure to women.

It's the same with the recent trend of getting rid of "track girls" at F1. So now pretty girls who want to be models can no longer find as much work they enjoy.
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I wonder if they had just moved to enable Amazon pay instead of opening up shop on Amazon it would have enabled them to use people's exiting amazon accounts without having to open up shop directly on amazon where they can do things like randomly put your items on sale etc...
I would say 10x engineer is someone who doesn't need a team.
Who simply don't need the security of the incidental monopolies like Google or Facebook to deliver a great product used by lots of happy customers.

How many devs would pass this test? Hardly, that many.

Engineers at Google can simply have smart people who they can leverage, easy access to experts and specialized contractors and if all fails, no need to worry there is ad tech monopoly in place which keeps minting money.

You simply cannot discuss "Engineer" without also talking about the constraints involved.

Engineers at these companies are worse engineers since the most important constraints are already taken care by their respective monopolies.
By the way: Props to dang for making all this possible. HN is very lucky to have him.
This gets played out in all companies every day: You do something interesting in your spare time, your manager jumps on it out of nowhere to take credit and soon enough he is the visionary leader while you get transformed in to dude doing engineering implementation of his ideas.

Lot of big projects where you will see one of the executives or managers attached, the real work - including vision - is many times done by that engineer working away in his/her weekends. I know of at least two Ted talks (one from Google exec) where the real person having the idea and doing the work never ever gets even mentioned.

Very recently this is exactly what happened my current job. I hate the guy who is nakedly and blatantly taking all the credit of my work. There is nothing I can do because he is favorite in the upper management chain. I don't even get to present my own work because he has convinced the upper management that I'm just an engineer and not good at executive-level presentations. Unlike Arrington, there is nothing I can do except leave the job but when I try that I get grilled through stupid CS questions. Meanwhile my manager was ironically featured in TechCrunch for all the work I did.

The credit stealing by managers in tech world is huge huge huge problem.
I used to eulogize my role in the early internet because being one of ten thousand felt good. Now I keep quiet about it because I doubt I did much of value and none of it persists. The real work was done by people we all know and me and my fellow nine thousand mainly were early adopters with minor bug reports to our name. Work is work.

It feels like some people prefer to mythologize their roots but I think deprecation is safer.
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Thanks. I did a quick Google and was surprised at the figure. Yours makes much more sense.

From Wikipedia:

City and county
231.89 sq mi (600.59 km2)

• Land
46.89 sq mi (121.46 km2)

• Water
185.00 sq mi (479.14 km2)

So both figures are correct from some perspective, but yours is the more relevant for purposes of talking about building stuff.
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> Sacrificing your personal life for your employer is pathological, not heroic

This isn't an article about heroism. Keith Teare claims he co-founded TechCrunch. Arrington says "no" and then details why.

One part of the "why" is about value-adding output. Arrington "could never get [Teare] to write anything, or help pay any bills." Co-founders add value; Keith didn't do that.

The second part of the "why" is about input. Output requires input. But it's fair to highlight both, in part to block claims of unappreciated work. In highlighting Heather's "20 hour days" and "sacrificing [of] her personal life," Arrington draws into contrast the difference between someone he considers a co-founder and someone he doesn't.

> 20-hour days are not actually worked

Founded a company. Worked twenty-hour days. Deceptively easy to do if you're chasing a short-term deliverable across multiple time zones. (Short-term because this tactic is obviously unsustainable.)
Personally the reason I'm hesitant to entertain this argument is that code is so awesome - you can reach a billion (1,000,000,000) people practically overnight if your idea is good enough. While women traditionally are more interested in the design/social impact of what they're doing, if the engineering environment is easy enough there's no reason they can't code it themselves. And they are highly incentivized to do so.

I personally look at the outcome (you can reach a billion people just by having a cool idea and sitting down and doing it) then look at the hurdles to that outcome.

One of the hurdles is that engineers love wasting literally hundreds of each others' hours. If I were building something as a newbie, people have no trouble sending me off on a wild goose chase to spend a hundred hours with my head in documentation. When an alternative ecosystem lets me literally type a single line and it's done. (In this case the first ecosystem hates my time and the second one respects it.)

This isn't really related to gender, but it's another hurdle. So when you look at the incentive (reaching people, fame, fortune, money), if there is a highly unequal distribution you have to look at some of the hurdles.

By the way no one knows your gender online when you're learning stuff, you can use a non-gendered username and get treated exactly the same asking stuff online and so forth.

In this case the hurdle is artificial: being cooped up with a computer while the tools you're trying to use waste thousands of your hours. But it's still a hurdle that impacts genders in a different way, and that matters.
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are you implying that male students who go for stem don't face bullying akin to being "geeky" or "nerds"? Please...
Meh. Put yourself in Arrington's 2005 shoes. When you're starting, nobody cares about you. He agreed to put someone on his crappy un-famous little blog to keep him happy... At the time, getting anyone to care was the hard part, not worrying about if a decade from now they'd use your reputation to scam people.

I think Arrington did a great job of showing both sides of the story. Keith clearly was vaguely involved, and Arrington admitted he didn't care until it started being used to scam people. I think that's a fair line to put your foot down and write a blog post.
It's called work for a reason!
Variations of this has been growing for a long while. You can't be proud to be man or white; and you shouldn't be proud of success if you belong to that group. Unless your success is something that has benefited someone not in that group.
Boys desire for large pay checks could be explained by patriarchal/societal expectations that they must be the main bread winner in a household
> You do something interesting in your space time, your manager jumps on it out of nowhere to take credit

This is unfortunate, but not what happened here. Better analogy: you do something interesting; your roommate takes credit to hock junk securities.
Find an industry that interests you. Focus on the delivery of your projects. There's more to finishing than just churning out code. You'll get the same reward you used get from hobby coding. Make the financial reward is a side benefit.
This was exactly what I was trying to say. The list notation just fits perfectly with everything else just so nice. And though we could talk about the possibilities in the mathematical sense, its hard to many things you do in lisp in non lisp languages.
Touched a nerve did I? Sorry to puncture your sense of entitlement.
maybe not biology, but personality wise (either due to social upbringing/expectations or genetic imprinting etc) I noticed far more men then women who are of the type who are more comfortable to work with things rather then people. I know I fall into this category.