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Seriously, where's my GIR?! And sorry but this doesn't look a thing like the real Irken language.

Yeah, naming fail. He's going to have a real hard time with people finding his language: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irken, http://www.google.com/search?q=Irken
Which is what blip.fm does :) Hesitant to keep adding stuff to the UI, but it might be helpful.
Has VB.NET changed much over the last seven or eight years? I've not used it in awhile, but after spending the last year working with the latest release of C#, why would anyone lament the passing of VB?
I think it's likely that your male peers, those who are interested in excellence, are also feeling that same pressure. I'm not suggesting that everything is equal, because it patently isn't, but the constant pressure to exceed the abilities of your peers is common, and I believe is motivating and even healthy. Someone's got to be the best at foo; if foo is important, why should you be the best at it and let others be the best at bar, baaz, quux, etc?

I've also obviously made mistakes and while the mistake spotlight is shining in your face, it feels pretty magnified, especially if you're one who has previously earned significant technical respect. For three years, I led the group in our company responsible for post-morteming every production issue, and reporting to our business leadership in a weekly meeting every issue that cost us more than $2000. In all that time, and in the rest of my two decades in the field, I don't think I've ever sensed a whiff of "you made that mistake because of your extra X chromosome..." (unfamiliar with Leah Culver, but will google now)
You sure have an interesting topic for your Extended Essay (assume that's what it is), mine 4 years ago was pretty geeky but not quite the same level. Get a good advisor and good luck!
Despite having thoughts about quiting due to the reasons discussed in the article I actually quit due to a lack of communication, or to put it better, due to a large amount of miscommunication.

I believe good communication is the key to any relationship. Where there is no communication or a lot of miscommunication (where the parties involved do not really understanding what it is being said) problems will arise.

What I learned is from now on to talk through everything and never let things pass by. Is there something that bothers you? Talk. Is there something that seems a bit odd? Talk. Do you think your partner is bothered by something? Talk.
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my wife works in public health, a field that seems to be 90% female. My wife's office is much more gender skewed than mine.

If doctors didn't make so much $, I am convinced that women would make up the majority of doctors.
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So what do they propose to avoid the underproduction of "information goods"?
I don't understand these types of articles. Who cares if you're a woman or a man programmer? The distinction is really irrelevant, but articles like these continue to perpetuate it as if there is an important difference.
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I've never really figured out why wear a wristwatch. I think I last had one when I was in elementary school, early 90's. By high school I had dropped the habit.

I don't care about glamorous shiny and expensive things, so that's no reason to wear a watch, really.

I rarely need to check the time and whenever I do, I can usually just see it somewhere: the city is full of clocks, especially the places where you might want to know the time, like tram stops and subway stations.

When I'm at work my computer conveniently tells me the time so that I can appear at a meeting roughly on time.

If I really, really need to have the time then I can use my cellphone. Well, I don't have my cellphone with me all the time, so I can't always do that either. Especially if I'm going alone and have no rendezvous coming up, I don't have it.

If I'm cycling around on a summer day, that's usually without the watch I don't have and without the cellphone I don't want to carry with me, so I can usually tell when it will soon be the evening and to turn my heading back to home.

A few times I've just asked for the time. That's quite as low-tech as it goes.
I absolutely think it's a problem that the vast majority of elementary school teachers are women.

I don't think it's inherently terrible to have fields that are dominated by one gender or another but I do think that in the case of school teachers men are being pushed away by social forces and it's detrimental to all children to be taught only by women.
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This is great, last night I went to bed thinking "How could Google just walk away from this problem without fixing it, don't they have backups, what about corporate users?"

And this morning "we have backups, we're restoring, oh and we're trying to fix what caused it in the first place"
As far as I'm concerned this is a problem worse than the "no female engineers" problem. Little boys need role models and examples to grow into men. Even those with a good dad need them.

And I bet that other teachers appreciate there being a man around, just as I have found that a workplace that includes women engineers is a much nicer place to work than one that doesn't.
While I partially agree with you...

> No accounts or emails were deleted

This is not true. During the affected time period, those accounts could not receive email, and sent out permanent failure bounce messages. If you were one of the affected and you were sent an important email during that time... You didn't get it, and you might never get it.
The likelihood that you will see a blog post about the
"benefits of being a male software engineer" is exactly the
same as the likelihood to see a blog post about the
"benefits of being a male social worker".

You draw the wrong conclusion from this observation. You are not taking into account that male social workers are nowhere near as inclined to keep a blog as software engineers are. In fact, in more traditional media, regular stories about the working experiences of, for instance, male nurses have been quite common for decades.
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Microsoft has rev'd the language a few times and brought C# and VB.NET to parity language wise (that is what they say there is probably lots room for discussion). For example with the release of VB.NET 10 in VS 2010 they finally removed the need for "_" in line continuations. All that being said I am a C# developer so I only know what I hear at conferences and tech talks.
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While this may certainly be interesting for a few people here, it is most certainly not "Hacker News", Ben.
There's nothing wrong with copy-paste programming. It's perfectly OK to copy some code of a blog/SO/github/etc. And there are online businesses worth hundreds of millions built on copy/paste as the method of code reuse. You may not like it, it may be harder to maintain, but it works in the real world.
I don't think it's as rude. If my phone goes off I check because it might genuinely be more important - if I excuse myself from a social conversation because a client website just went offline, I don't think that would be considered rude. (If it was a social message / call, the AFK interaction obviously gets priority)
Silverlight, HTML5 and Windows Phone 7, according to http://fixwpf.org/.
ya its for my extended essay and im really enjoying it(weird i know) but im probably heading into Business+Physiology for Uni so something to do with motivation was logical for me. Not really happy with my supervisor but im getting it checked by other people as well. What did you do yours on?
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What parity? There is stuff like XML literals in VB and unsafe pointers in C#.
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I am a twenty-something and the idea of a watch that never needs winding and keeps good time definitely appeals to me. For something so basic, reliability trumps flashiness - and on the engineering appeal, it's far more impressive and elegant than any digital watch (to me, a complex system of interlocking gears is less understandable, and so more awe-inspiring, than a watch that is also a computer. Big deal, I already have a computer!)
It seems to me that agile tortoise doesn't "get it". Regardless of Wolfram Alpha's licence, it's Wolfram's decision as to what you can and can't do. That was made clear in the licence.

The bottom line is that Agile Tortoise didn't study the licence hard enough, if he had he would've seen that Wolfram Alpha wasn't the right fit for his tool. If he'd have looked further he'd have probably seen that http://duckduckgo.com/ has an API that he may well have been able to use to get the same results.

Instead he may now have to modify his software and probably resubmit it to Apple for review.

Measure twice, cut once. This applies as much to software licensing as carpentry.
Everyone is copying media. _EVERYONE_. How can it NOT be socially acceptable ?

The other 30% just doesn't realize that lending a game or buying a game and selling it after you've finished it is exactly the same thing as what an internet pirate is doing.
You could be of the minority that thinks X is wrong, but why should the law enforce your opinion on X?
After ME spending the last year working with Lisp and Ocaml, why would ANYONE use .NET?
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The 70% figure surprised me; I expected 90% or higher.
Abandoning VB.NET for C# is like abandoning Coke for Pepsi or Smarties for M&Ms. They have far more in common than any other two languages in the stack that you undoubtedly use to build apps. This isn't a bad thing, but it does make the choice pretty trivial. "Abandon" it, and if it doesn't work out, just switch back.

C# and VB.NET are even closer to each other than C# and Java. The former share an entire runtime, the latter share a similar syntax. (and yes, C#/VB.NET/CLR/DLR is getting to be quite different than the similar Java ecosystem).
Also, even if they shower less often, they still don't stink as badly. Women start sweating at a higher temperature than men, so tend to sweat considerably less.
If copyright laws were reasonable then people would not find it acceptable to break them.
Since I know that both teams are lurking here:

If an inPulse watch had an accelerometer and could double as a WakeMate (connected to their iPhone app and website, etc.) it would be great.

Just sayin'...
Are you referring to this edition with the comment on how up to date it is? The release date says Feb 2011. Is that just for the ePub version of older material, or is this a revised edition?
I admit, I haven't read the entire checklist. When the first item on it is blatantly wrong, I kind of got turned off.

Go read about the advantages women have in hiring in the sciences: http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12062&page=R1

Anecdotally, women are also given advantages in big corporate IT, but I'm not aware of any studies. Corporations are generally loath to give away data on stuff like this, who knows what lawsuits it might bring.

I only skimmed the rest, but I found 14) particularly amusing. The politicians who stole my lunch [1], my freedom and my money all have a penis (just like me). This is a privilege how?

[1] In Jersey City, where I live and work, Steven Fulops chased away the food trucks to protect subway.
Bought. Thanks for the pointer!
Maybe that's because illegal copying violates no natural law and is in fact allowable under a common understanding of property rights. If I own a hard drive, I can store anything I want on it. Copyright limits that natural property right by saying you can't store certain media or images that have been designated as "copyrighted" on your own property. This idea is foreign to most cultures and nearly all ancient societies.
There's a difference in kind, it seems to me, between acquiring proficiency in a particular technology - like using a slide rule or an abacus or a scientific calculator or JSON serialization on a REST interface - and developing habits of planning, working and time management to maximize productivity in any technical context.

These days, my job requirements throw lots of new technologies my way, but my basic approach to learning a technique, incorporating it into my workflow and completing a project remains more or less consistent.

By all means, eliminate busywork and seek efficiencies that get you to your solution more quickly; but don't fall into the trap of thinking an all-nighter on bennies is a viable replacement for organization and self-discipline.
Everyone has an opinion and everyone wants to differentiate his answer which in turn, given enough answers (700 roughly) all the talks turn to be 'must-see'. Quora become boring with these subjective questions.

anyway here is my answer a year ago : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=443008
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1745322 <- Previous submission of this item

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1746916 <- Follow-up : "(How to Write a ((Better) Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))"

Some discussion on each.
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Yes everything you say is correct.

In particular I like your comment about signalling which is spot on. I would say this would be the main reason anyone bothers to do an arts degree these days. Ultimately, these are in fact the evolutionarily designed QA processes which have actually worked reasonably well up until now.

But we've reached the point where they are clearly holding us back. Being able to socialise with a certain class may well have reliably indicated competence or excellence in a field in the past. The rigours of specialisation almost entirely wipe out that correlation. We've got millions of people being produced out of universities that actually can't do anything. And it's not just in arts that this is a problem - how many posts are we seeing here on HN from people saying they've done a computer science degree but can't code for shit?

That the upper echelons of academe are in fact SO incredibly status orientated suggests that what many of the best academics are actually doing revolves more around signalling procedures than actually making a real contribution of knowledge. and while I accept that this seems like an extreme conclusion - I've seen it time and time again. Many of the academics who have achieved the most status outside the academic community actually have reputations for not doing very much at all. It's certainly not all - but so many more than most of you would initially guess.
Lending a game is not exactly the same thing as piracy, in that case there is one copy that is being shared. When you pirate something, two people have a copy and can use at the same time in different locations.
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What's wrong with "copyright infringement"?
As a sign of good faith in the community here, I've removed the link for now :)
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"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sometimes the men want to dress up too. If I wore a tie every day I'm sure I'd hate the bloody thing, but it is nice to occasionally get the boost one gets from dressing up. But a tie at work is definitely taboo, much more than a mini-skirt, since it sends really strong signals.

The only time I've worn a tie at work is when I've had a funeral in the afternoon, and when I drove straight to work after a party in Montreal. A suit with that slept-in look sends signals, but it doesn't imply to your co-workers that you have political ambitions.
Well I just bought a new TV that can play DivX and XVid. I don't think I can watch Netflix or anything like that, because Samsung does not yet implement it (?maybe Netflix, but I am not in the US, so no use for me).

What I could probably do is bittorrent movies and watch them on my TV.

I occasionally rent movies from the store, but I always overpay because it takes me too long to return them. Somehow bittorrent seems like the only sensible option. I wouldn't mind paying, but they don't let me.
A phony ADD/ADHD diagnosis is cheating because getting diagnosed as a "learning disability" entitles you to special accommodation.
You're also a party to a felony, since you are either committing insurance fraud from the bogus prescription or are an accessory to fraud by illicitly purchasing the pills from someone.

When I was in college 15 years ago, I personally knew of at least a half dozen people who managed to get themselves diagnosed with late onset ADD or ADHD. Getting the diagnosis was trivially easy -- drug ads in major magazines at the time often included "quizzes" that happened to be very similar to whatever the doctor was told to ask by the pharmaceutical sales chick.

The reason? You got "special accommodation" for your "disability" (ie. you get to take tests alone in a comfy chair in a private office without time limits) and you could easily sell or abuse the drugs that were prescribed. Many classes in the engineering programs were open-book exams -- being able to use a book for an unlimited period of time instead of the 60 minute window that you normally had was a tremendous advantage.

I really don't care about the "learning outcomes", but I do care that we're creating a culture where casual abuse of medical diagnoses and health insurance for personal gain is acceptable.
They probably do, but I even recognize the bias in myself. Even having experienced the wrong end of it, I often recognize myself subconsciously defaulting to less respect to another woman in technical matters.

Down in her comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2274993 pamelafox linked a blog post she had written about it being good to be a girl in CS, but that post references a previous one she'd written in which she talks about her experience in Model UN in school, where she found herself doing the same thing. Automatically requiring other girls to 'prove' themselves more than the boys before she had respect for them as a speaker. (That post is here: http://blog.pamelafox.org/2009/10/should-i-defend-my-cred-ye...)

I try to be conscious of it, but again, I know what it's like to be on the receiving end. If this is a bias even other women aware of the problem have and have to consciously fight in themselves, how many others (men and women) don't even get as far as recognizing it?
Something that's always irked me is that the recording industry, and artists themselves, seem to have this notion that every advance in technology should benefit them, despite them often having no effort in the development of these technologies.

Secondly, I imagine most everyone here has seen that picture of what its like watching a non-pirated dvd vs a pirated one.....the non-pirated one takes forever to get through all their copyright warnings, movie previews, etc. If they'd show their paying customers a bit more respect they might get some in return.
I know the guidelines well, and knew this was in there. I guess my threshold for things "good hackers would find interesting" is higher than this particular story. (I suspect - or rather hope - that that is the case for the majority of people who still visit HN, too). Also see:

http://al3x.net/2011/02/22/solving-the-hacker-news-problem.h...
I can't speak for them; my viewpoint is that since information goods are non rivalrous and non excludable, they are likely to be underproduced, and therefore it makes sense to fund them from public subsidy.

But how to channel taxes to produce the information goods people want? My proposal is to set up a series of "Content Compensation Funds" and taxpayers get to choose which fund their taxes go to -- http://cabalamat.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/a-broadband-tax-fo...
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Right, but the reason most people watch award shows has nothing to do with the movies themselves.
I've had similar experiences. I think it's possible that the deck is stacked enough against women getting into positions of power that in general the women who get promoted past a certain level are the ones who overcompensate and act more like the stereotypical "ruthless businessman". Then again, that's kind of true for guys too (although to a lesser extent).
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Previously yes. There were many things in life I much rather not do. When I was in college, yes, there were courses I find rather unimportant and didn't find interest in going but went for the purpose of passing the course, etc... But I assume you're asking currently. Before, I did what I needed to do and didn't care about dedicating time to anything specific so finding motivation was never more than getting something done. Now, I work towards stuff I love doing so finding motivation isn't as hard.
The problem, I think, is that we need to discriminate between maybe-questionably-fair-use copyright infringement (like sharing) and real, for-profit, hawking of pirated goods.
Yes you probably should. I did a lot of VB programming between about 1997 and 2005, then largely abandoned it in favour of C# and C++. Why did I change? VB and VB.NET came with a lot of limitations which other languages didn't have, particularly with regard to object oriented features and the ability to do very low level tasks at speed (like moving pixels around). Also, I wanted to move to languages which were essentially platform neutral, such that I could use a Linux OS most of the time.
Added this in the comment box:

I'm not actually employed by anybody - there ARE people on Open Source who are self-employed. You should add that as an option.

Also - You might want to consider making the last question (about what need OpenSource fullfills) into a multiple-choice question. I would tick the last three boxes, but had to settle for the most important (that might have been your goal, of course).

Lastly - Call it Free and Open Source Software. There are people who care about the distinction.
I've been seeing more and more of these "best _____" questions on Quora and I can't help thinking it doesn't really fit the Quora mold very well. I emailed them asking that they implement a feature making it easier for people to create lists. The problem right now is that if I post 5 suggestions, and someone votes up my answer because they agree with one of those 5, that information is blurred. It should split those suggestions into 5 separately votable answers.

That said, I think that one of the biggest entrepreneurial opportunities on the web is recommendation of content. I sometimes think about how much stuff there is to experience, from books to movies to music, and it depresses me that I'll only ever be able to enjoy a tiny, tiny fraction of it all before I die. With that in mind, I'd like to know I'm experiencing the best this world has to offer. It's a complicated problem, but I have my wallet ready for the person who solves it.
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