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Please provide evidence for your claims about cheating.

Secondly there is no issue with treating women with respect in the workplace and have fun with them after.
yes, it is a failure.
it is essentially all profit at this point

Then, no. If it's on autopilot and making money it's a success.

Now it's time to build another $100/mo success until you get enough of them to buy that private island you're always wanted...
I used Opera, when it still was paid-for software, because it was light and fast. I left Opera when they started including everything but the kitchen sink (Mail client, etc.) in the browser.

I never quite understood why they did not release the applications separately. They probably wanted to compete with the Mozilla suite.
Would be very interested if you could find a link (had brief unsuccessful look myself)
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It is not technically possible because to use the service, a web site has to change their hosting provider to Google. There are no longer any servers outside Google hosting the content, if I understand the bit about DNS change correctly.
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I'm not always a big fan of Cato but a short blog post isn't really the place for a full dissertation on libertarian education perspectives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Transracial_Adoption_...
The education system is broken and has been for decades. The supporters of the system re-characterize criticism of the system into "attacks" on teachers (ie. union membership) and demand more money.

The establishment "won" their side of the argument in many states -- states that richly compensated employees (the payscale in most NY school districts ends at $110k, plus 65% pension for life) and administrators (typical school superintendents make $175k in NY) and built lots of new schools. Yet those investments yielded marginal "value" at best.

Until recently, the critics were mostly focused on religion (ie. Catholic schooling dominated education in many areas until fairly recently), monetary issues (taxes) and ideological stuff (unions suck).

That seems to be changing now. Movements like the Khan Academy are bringing scientific methods focused on outcomes to education. There was a recent "Freakonomics" podcast talking about how the New York City school system is experimenting with multi-modal learning, which seems to be successful in its early stages.
It's interesting that this is occurring in an academic environment.

Yet in athletics, China (or perhaps most Asian countries) tend not to perform as well in team events compared to Western nations.
Just recently, I decided to switch from "work-to-order" and enter the startup arena... Things are fast here... Sites, apps, services launching every hour.

Last week I saw an article on techcrunch about a startup and saw some of my ideas in their app. That is cool... but, how will I be called when launching similar features?

So... here's an experiment that we came up with as our very first product:

http://www.custodly.com/

Give it a try! Tell us what you think! :)
I don't think we need to get to 50% - I would just like it so that women don't feel like they're pushed out - some of it is cultural (it's easier to believe that you can't do something as well as the next person when the messages around you reinforce that this isn't the right field to you) - but some of it is a negative atmosphere created by the sexist jerks.

And it's not most, or even many of the guys I've worked with, but it just takes one or two to complete ruin an environment. Had a had a child when I had planned to, I can almost guaranteeing that I wouldn't have bothered returning to software development.

It's better now - I don't know if it's because I work in a different city, with different people, or maybe I'm just older and the younger women deal with the same old crap. It'll still pop up from time to time - and I'm getting better at seeing the warning signs that someone is going to be that person, deal with it before it saps any of the remaining enjoyment I have for the field.
Tried their test. It was slower on my site...

http://blog.craigrcannon.com/post/8170801499/my-site-tested-...
Here in Australia the latest version is to form a corporation wholly owned by the government, to take on massive debts through that corporation, but then a) refuse to release details of what it's up to, citing "commercial-in-confidence" and b) leaving it off the government's balance sheet, even though everyone knows who the debt really belongs to.

The first example I saw was in the Northern Territory in 2000 when the Power and Water Authority was "corporatised". Something similar is happening with NBN Co, which while representing The Greatest Infrastructure Investment Evar, will also apparently Cost Nothing, Honest.
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So, if you had quite a few good teachers, and only a few bad ones, doesn't that entirely invalidate your first 2 paragraphs?

I know that anecdote < data but surely anecdote > ramblings, right?
Oh, just grow a pair. And a sense of humor. Sexy is GOOD.

I SO wish more posts contained sexy images (of any gender) than your repressed, frustrated, fearful and boringly unfunny drivel.
I'm glad to see it's finally available.

I'm especially happy to see some of the language syntax that makes your standard try/catch/finally blocks a little cleaner and less error prone.
I am in a similar situation. The start up bug bit me in May. I had several ideas. I picked the one I thought would be easiest.

I thought I would get my beta version out by now but it's been hard. Some changes that I have made that have helped me:

- I do not work more than 40 hours at my work anymore..even if it feels like it's the end of the world. Surprisingly, this has made me more focused at work. I do the same amount of work in a shorter amout of time.

- As other hackers have mentioned, I set up a scheduled time to work on my start-up. Initally, I began with working on the weekends but I was too distracted by other fun things that I could be doing. The times that work best for me are during lunch breaks and before/after work during weekdays.

- I made it clear to my husband that I will be busy during the weekdays but free over the weekends. This way he had no major expections of me over the weekdays. I think getting him Starcraft 2 also helped :P (j/k)

- I wanted to read books about how to start a business, google analytics, etc..I pretty much paid fines to the library without going though a chapter. Then I discovered audio books. I listen to them on my drive to work. I finished 4-hour work week in 2-2 weeks and am onto to another one.

Lessons learned for the future:

- Don't spend too much time designing the site...just get a template that has worked for others.

- Don't have deadlines at the end of the summer. I noticed that I am more busy over the weekends in the summer.

- Don't venture into new technologies if you already have skills that you can do with.

Sometimes, you just have to do both. You'll figure out the way that works best for you. Hang in there.
You may be right. Like I said, it has been a while since I last used Opera (several years) and then there were many instances where I had to switch to other browsers to be able to proceed. Most annoyingly, my online banking would work in Firefox (and I'm sure in IE), but not in Opera. These things made it very annoying for daily use.

Maybe it is not fair to blame Opera for quirks and deviations from standards any more than others. The difference is that Opera has such a small market share that developers don't account for Opera's quirks as much as they do for IE, Firefox and Webkit.
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But this is already occurring for students enrolled in extracurricular math programs like Kumon that accelerate their math skills. Khan Academy isn't doing anything that Kumon isn't already doing other than adding a few more science subjects.
It does have socks proxy support now, just FYI.
also C + memory management = Go
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In any human endeavor there's an execution component that scientists tend to overlook. You can't just form study groups and expect everyone to excel. The details add up and you end up with a successful program.

The original article states that Treisman's grant ran out, but all of Berkeley was eager to get a part of the program, it changed hands and then went downhill from there, so I guess the guys who inherited the program overlooked the finer details that made it successful in the first place.
I think the term 'dead in the water' is mostly reserved for things that are... dead. The iPhone is far from dead and a 27% or 28% market share is quite compelling.

Of course, there is only one iPhone, and those that want something else (like me) have lots of options, but a 28% market share for what is essentially one sku is quite impressive.
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If you ran a school with complete authority, how would you handle these cases?

(I don't mean that rhetorically; I'm curious to see some hacker brainstorming.)
...and the point is? a) Many of the leading abolitionists in America and Europe were white and b) if we're in agreeance that the majority of comsci professionals are men, and that comsci professionals make up much of HN, then it's not surprising that this discussion, or any discussion on HN, was initiated by a male.
Android's need isn't Apple's fear. Android's need is high market share, Apple's need is user engagement/entertainment (not market, as flash and so on 'badly' prove). Apple do perfectly well with low market share, I wish they wouldn't bother trying getting any further but when you make something so good you can only do so much to keep it out of the hands of some people.
Could also mean that some teachers don't want the headache of dealing with a class with even greater disparities in skill and knowledge. It's hard enough dealing with a couple students bored in class cause they already know it. It's even harder to deal with half the class bored cause they already know it.

Or it could really mean anything. Removed from context and the teacher's deeper reasoning, these quotes are largely useless. Maybe it was just the really lazy teachers who didn't want to deal with kids asking more advance questions who talked to them. Could be -anything-.

Trying to squeeze more analysis out of this will just result in all sorts of confirmation biases regarding teachers and the education system.
Could you modify it "to not take a random quote from out of context and extrapolate a false portrayal of a system"?
Does anyone have a link to the changelog?
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this would refute the hypothesis that women avoid IT due to sexism.

No, it wouldn't refute anything. For instance, in the medical field, we've had a hundred years to correct the gender imbalance, and people have fought hard, both in education and in hiring practices, to get it where it is. So, while the medical field may have as many sexist jerks, there have been failsafes put into place to correct for their behavior.

IT has no such procedures. So we can either change our culture to be less sexist than other fields, or we can put in those hiring and education procedures.

And to be honest, I don't consider it much of a reason to pat ourselves on the back if we're less sexist than, say, the financial industry.

This is our house, let's clean it.
OP here. Title was supposed to read "Scripting languages are all you need for getting from 0K - 10K users". Didnt have space so I truncated it.

Very eyeopening post by the founder.
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I think the innocence behind that statement comes from the difficulty a teacher will face if s/he must teach students with diverse learning needs (child A is learning timestables while child B has moved on to trigonometry).

That said, I think a teacher should suck it up for the sake of students in this sort of situation. At worst, we find ways to reorganize teachers and students based on students' self-progress.
I don't see a "What's new in Java 7" in the above link. Where can a read about it? thanks
"circle jerk" eh???? tsk tsk. typical.

(just kidding! :p)

EDIT: it is a serious issue/question, tho, in my opinion, that bears discussing. So we're "not finding solutions." Does that mean we should a) forget about it, it's unsolvable/not a problem or b) Keep discussing it until we are coming up with solutions?

Another important point is context. Is it OK to make a joke about women in the kitchen with your female BFF? Sure, if she's OK with it and knows you're joking. Is it OK to make the same joke in a public/professional forum? Pretty much always "no." Just because your black friend "thinks your joke is hilarious" doesn't mean you should whip it out at an industry conference.
Here: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/
So, if I get offended because I see someone shout out at an Indian woman crossing the street "Fuck off back to pakiland you dirty paki", I've made the situation worse? Can you explain what I should do in such a situation, or even better, what would you do?
I get the desire for differentiation, it's important otherwise why would someone choose your product over another. I think it's key though to better understand the words that your competitors are using to describe the problem/space coupled with the words that consumers are using to describe the problem/space. Understanding this word-scape will help you to better craft your on-page copy along with identifying the words that best describe your unique value proposition.

I'd also consider studying/contacting the twitter followers of your competitors. That would be a direct method of identifying solid potential leads.

Who are your competitors? Can you give me links to at least 3 of them?
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What about shoes proxy support?
it just takes one or two to complete ruin an environment

People seem to forget this. All it takes it the complacency of most men to let those one or two blowhards create a hostile environment.
Oh I see, that's even better.
There are lots of problems in computational Biology. Some can be solved by more processing time, for some you need to have better software, and for others more experimental data is necessary.
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> "Is that really what differentiates programming from fields with more social interaction (like sales) or fields with more of a human aspect (like health care and medicine)?"

If you're implying that programming just isn't work that most women are interested in, you'll have to more-precisely indicate what it is about programming that puts them off, given that accounting has no such problems.

Every accounting department I've ever seen is at least half female and many have a female majority.

Surely there are different skills involved, but many overlap in type [1] and it's a bit of a stretch to imply accounting is any closer to stereotypical female-dominated fields like social work, sales or health-care.

[1] Technical, precise, largely impersonal -- there's even database, script and simple application work
Or cheated.

I went to a mid-tier public college. Certain cliques of asian students with no ability to communicate verbally in English were somehow able to produce amazing criticisms of 19th century english poetry.

It's difficult not to draw a parallel between people like that and the fraternity people (who were incapable of communicating in English for other reasons) who achieved similar feats.
"We are talking about the same women who fought tooth and nail for things like the right to vote and who do lots of really tough things like raise a family (often alone). Are we to believe that a few sexist programmers scare off these same women?"

Just because we can fight doesn't mean we should have to...
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This article is pretty relevant, whatever side you are on, it's worth a read.

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http://blog.fawny.org/2010/07/28/stubbornella/

Bear in mind that the author is not a computer scientist, and views narrow-minded geekery with some distaste. But he raises quite a few interesting points. I quote:

>“Underrepresentation” is an insulting concept. Who exactly gets to decide how many women should hold down jobs in a certain field? Who then gets to decide when too few women hold down those jobs? In short, who says women are underrepresented in technology? Who sets the quota?
I don’t exactly hear complaints that men are underrepresented in kindergarten teaching and nursing. (Actually, there are men in nursing, but many of them are gay. So are lots of male teachers. Perhaps that explains why this is a topic women’s advocates do not want to discuss.)

>“Merit” is a misnomer. Hence “women[’s] being unable to compete on merit” means nothing. But the airy dismissal of merit as a real issue incurs collateral damage. There isn’t any dispute that typical female brains differ from typical male brains, though the extent of the differences is disputed. Susan Pinker, in The Sexual Paradox, characterizes the differences as significant, while Lise Eliot, in Pink Brain, Blue Brain, argues that within-sex differences dwarf between-sex differences.
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Here's a tip - most laws are reasonable. Besides, no-one is likely to accuse you of harassment unless they actually feel harassed, and want to really screw you over.

Are we talking about a boss frequently asking an employee on a date, despite the power difference, and the employee saying no several times? A co-worker making crude and embarrassing remarks, using sleazy pick-up lines, pulling pranks, and other crap? Or is it like asking someone, "hey, so ... would you like to go on a date sometime? I'm free this Saturday, would you like coffee" once or twice. One of these things is not like the others.

You are allowed to ask a co-worker on a date, in most jurisdictions. Even if you aren't, you are only likely to be accused of anything if someone feels really pissed off at you. You aren't allowed to behave in a way that is making someone feel harassed.
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a. You're looking at the original, which is in PG's original essay. The second version doesn't have that link at all.

b. It's not talking about "developed to replace," it's talking about "was developed in response to a perceived problem."
I may be in the process of updating a very neglected cakephp site. When I created the site, I had heard of Symfony but went with cakephp. I've not followed either framework for well over a year, so could you please give your reasons for Symfony and against cakephp?
It does seem a bit strange that this story from June breaks just days after AirBnB rakes in 112 million in funding.
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This is a fine example of supplying a quote from an imaginary adversary to show how much better your own position is.

The proponent is just using the popularity of the khan schools to frame the bashing of public schools.
Worth noting (as the article doesn't, nor the first thoughts of many I heard) is that this is files stored on the website, which doesn't apply to torrents.
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I think code examples are something that are best included in the "getting started" section of documentation. It gives the user a quick, usable, concise illustration of how to perform the most basic tasks. Sometimes that's all you need and this is frequently omitted by some software documentation.

Test cases are certainly useful if you need to dive into comprehensive/advanced usage of the API. But if you just want to "get started", a huge vat of unit tests can be daunting.
That image confuses me..

Edid:
You change the link didnt you? Im talking about the image from here: http://blogs.oracle.com/theplanetarium/entry/summarizing_jav...
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The conversation is getting posed like there's this tidal wave of sexism

A constant grind of sexism is more dangerous to the well-being of any social group than a tidal wave. That's the problem, nothing alienates more than the constant grind of bullshit.

please consider the harm by association to those of us who are not sexist.

If people don't want to be harmed by association, then they should take an actively anti-sexist stance, and push for that within the industry.
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There are different situations where commenting on looks is appropriate and when it isn't.

If the two know each other well as friends then that's just guys commenting on a woman's looks. The line between professional and friendly discussion in blurred anyway. Like you said, women do the same thing when amongst friends.

If they didn't know each other that well then all discussion should stay mostly professional. If a comment like this is made then it either indicates that the Director considers women's looks part of a professional appraising of their abilities or he is awkward at making conversation.
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Actually, I work with a load of men (and a chunk of women), and this kind of conversation never comes up in the office, because it is understood to be deeply inappropriate for a work environment.
BT and Talktalk both have publically supported the users' rights to torrent (as it isn't really outlawed yet, this will change instantly when torrents are banned). The shaping isn't bad, other than not torrenting in the evening I can't notice it.
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Welcome to the sixties, Java!

Sorry, I couldn't help it >:D
In the interest of fairness it should probably be pointed out that Dworkin rejected that interpretation of her work.
The claim is that Microsoft developed C# in response to the perceived problem that Java was controlled by Sun.

Sensible or not, seems a reasonable interpretation. 8-)
Job stability? Reasonable hours? Promotion prospects, without working like a maniac?

Women tend to value those things, often more than men.

Also, women in IT are often undervalued. A boss will assume they have no real talent, for some reason. While a guy who shows any ability will often be seen as a genius. People just don't assume that girls are hardcore hackers, while they assume that any guy who talks the talk (and wears are really bad t-shirt) is. I know I think that way, but I'm aware of it, so I can consciously compensate.
At least link to the kickstarter project: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elegantinvention/isostic...

Looks awesome though, I'll grab one. And I bet that I'm able to change the microSD card ;)
They pretty much do albeit indirectly, they do have my (incomplete) web history from a bunch of site with like buttons and other such means. I'm not arguing Google has more then most but they all have enough to build a fairly complete profile of me.