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A friend of mine went to linux.conf.au and went along to one of the 'women in open source' conferences. At the start of the conference, the presenter was talking about how insidious sexism is in the tech industry and what an uphill battle it is to fight against it. She asked for the women in the room to raise their hands if they feel they've encountered sexism holding them back in their careers.

My friend raised her hand - and in horror, the presenter recognised her as the woman she'd assumed was someone's partner back at the registration desk and tried to get to sign the partner's program (=daily things to do while your techy partner is doing the conference). Yes, the female anti-sexism speaker had herself assumed a female delegate was merely a hanger-on, solely because of her gender.

It's both "ha ha" funny and disturbing funny, that sexism is so ingrained that someone who should absolutely know better still fell prey to it.
To all the people in this thread who seem so absolutely sure that the gender differences are strictly biological, do you fancy telling us what exactly makes you so sure? Last time I checked there was no evidence to support this idea.

Obviously there are easily observed physiological differences in brain structure and in the endocrine system etc, however it is a massive leap to go from that to asserting that observed differences in behaviour are down to this rather than down to societal factors.

Separating nature from nurture is notoriously difficult, and in a community which endlessly holds P=NP to be an open question, it is absolutely laughable to assume that these biological differences map one to one onto the observed behavioural differences, when there is such a huge and obvious confounding factor looming over everything.

We cannot all sit around waiting for six sigmas out of CERN before we can say we've found the higgs, and then just jump merrily onto simplistic biological arguments which happen to conveniently favour our social/political/economic hegemony.
Looking like a contestant for America's next top model will get her farther than not looking like a contestant on America's next top model -- physical attractiveness positively correlated with earnings.

But I think we're talking more about attitude and mindset than actual looks.
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Yes. Though even games that have dominant pure strategies in theory, like chess or go can be fun to compete in. Because humans don't have access to the optimal strategies, execution skill and gambling creep in.

(Gambling in the sense: You can create more or less complicated situations. There's more or less apparent entropy in the game you are playing then.)
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/me grins

You don't get off that lightly. I am not straw-manning your argument, and i was not the one to raise the issue of eating disorders.

My point is that you are ignoring context. Telling someone that they are pretty is not just a one off event that you are offering to another person, to be held in a pristine platonic form. It is an event that takes place in the gestalt of their daily interactions, and more specifically within the context of their interactions with you (and/or people like you).

Is a complement about their attractiveness the first thing that they are greeted with? Does their attractiveness have bearing on the social context at hand? (in a work context? in a bar? at a conference discussing technical issues?)

> Of course I don't think telling somebody they are pretty will cure their disorders.

Really? Cause this sure makes it sounds like you do. At the very least it makes you sound really insensitive to the causes of anorexia nervosa and the factors that go into reenforcing them:

> Also, telling somebody they are pretty does NOT imply that you consider anorexic looks to be pretty. In fact, it might give that person a good feeling about herself which just might counter the urge to become anorexic.
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If I'm understanding you correctly, you're saying that looking attractive for women is basically a biological imperative? The problem, as I see it, is that the evolved visual cues signalling good reproductive health are not in the slightest bit similar to what the media purport to be attractive today.

Look for example at Neolithic figurines... women with large bellies, ample bosoms, wide hips. That's not what's plastered all over magazines and TV.
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The maps app is blocked/isn't available in China, so it makes sense to replace it here.
developer.android.com was blocked in China.

That didn't stop companies making the phones and installing the OS (through a third party or with special permission, or most likely through a proxy). There was some fork in Chinese, which could be accessed.

Also, I think the App store was blocked, and a Chinese App store set up instead.
Yes, Even I don't understand how giving a good complement can do any harm and that too to an extent this article points. In fact the opposite is true, if you call a kid stupid or ugly it can be him/her very discouraging.

Also the point on women seeking beauty to ensure the get the alpha male from the pack is very true.
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Twitter and Facebook also have script tags sitting on most websites so technically those scripts could do whatever they wanted to your page. I believe it's possible, however, to create LIKE and TWEET buttons using direct iframe tags with no need for a lib. That's the method i prefer.
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> those people aren't there to make purchasing decisions

He didn't say they couldn't make purchasing decisions. Besides, there's still likely to be some value in being front-of-mind when people go back to their companies.
Actually men also consider intelligence when looking for mates, for example for 2 equally attractive female most males will go for the smartest one.

Anecdotal evidence: I've been told that a lot of females get more attention from males when they use gadgets.
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If you're looking for a service that's live, I've been using http://crossbrowsertesting.com/ happily for the last two or three years.

Also, if you're testing emails in different clients (worse than IE6 compatibility testing IMHO), I highly recommend http://litmus.com/
When was this? I'm able to visit developer.android.com fine here...even go to my android market publisher profile to publish apps.
"GoDaddy have decided to block DNS traffic rather then invest in their infrastructure to handle the additional load"

The article doesn't say that at all, it specifically mentions that this is not the reason for the block. Did you read it before commenting?
Blame socalized medicine gone too far for this one. It pays to get labeled as a 'condition' rather than just sucking it up and getting on with your life...

I personally know a 'depressed' individual who has been living off the government for 6 years now. Physically able, mentally capable but according to her psychologist too sad to work...
I think it's because he believes that "real" tech reporters will do all the disclosure that is necessary.

Is there any evidence that TechCrunch _hasn't_ done necessary disclosure?
#links are excellent for usability on pages that don't try to coerce it into representing something it isn't.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Fragment_iden...

Having named anchors so people can link to specific sections is good. Having some javascript mess around with storing state in them, not so much.
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Had the Adamo been $1000 it would have sold amazingly well. The problem was it was close to $2000.
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There is no logical reason to believe that an AOL/Arrington backed VC fund could be anything other than a conflict of interest.

In any sane universe, Mike Arrington would actually step down and announce his choice to leave TC because of this potential conflict.
In the tablet market Android is still pretty invisible. Saying that it won is just wrong, at least for the tablet market. It might win in the future but it certainly hasn’t yet.
I agree that iOS has won but the "fragmentation" issue that was spouted since day one is way over sensationalized. If Amazon strips out all of the Google products it shouldn't be considered "Android" but the first true branch. It again reinforces how open Google and Android are.
> Now to all girls who reject me to settle with a alpha male, when you discover a decade later I'm more financially rich. Please don't call that women's oppression. That just making wrong decisions and paying for it later.

So, the fact that you found a game you can play and win at, justifies the mistreatment of people losing at other games? ;)

I appreciate your point, and i agree that people who are strong-willed enough can break the game, but that still doesn't change the fact that they're expected to play. The fact that society values different things at different stages of life doesn't mean that the game that you're good at is any fairer than the games you were bad at when society valued youth, vitality and ability to hit and/or catch a ball. All that's different is that you're winning :P

I dig that the internet is all about flying your freak-flag, but there are still common standards that society expects you to adhere to. When you go grocery shopping, or when you pass your neighbors on your way to work, or when you're out with your friends and you've got to deal with the bouncers at a club, or a bar tender at a pub. All of these places have expected APIs, and if you behave out of their bounds you have to do on the fly content negotiation, and some people will be tolerant and accept such negotiations, and other people are just going to fire back "request denied".

I agree to an extent that we control how much we let that get to us. But there are a lot of things that go into our mental health and stability. If your family is also constantly haranguing you about the same shit you get from everyone else, you have no safe quarter to be yourself (again except maybe the internets). That's not really a healthy/sane way to live.

I'm not Indian, but the Chinese side of my family totally thinks that my worth (both as an individual and as a representative of my family) is attached to my financial stability and whether i've got a "real job" or not. Let me tell you, i have gotten a lot less flack now that i'm not freelancing. They were also weirded out that i got married prior to reaching that point of financial stability. But that in a way is the benefit of being the son of immigrants. The things that society judges me by are different from the metrics that my family judges me by. That's something that people like me can play to my advantage, or for some people, it means that they get the worst of both worlds, they can't win either in society's perception (and stay true to their family) or visa versa.

The fundamental question is how optional each of these games are. I don't take it for granted that they are optional. I think that taking the position that women have a choice to play the game is a difficult one for me to accept.
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Can someone get this up and running somewhere? Also, what's with using "make" on Javascript projects?
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I agree that it is the first true branch, with more to come. Is Android becoming a mobile OS kernal, rather than a full-stack OS?
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>I've tried getting apps reviewed by review websites

Which review websites? And did you write to them asking nicely to be featured or did you give them a "back-hander?"
I'm a bit wary of any system that automatically supplies identity information to a website. Under a system like this, how would you decide 'I don't fully trust this site so give it a different email address and fake name'.
Flame me away...

I can't show sympathy to any person who can actually work hard and do something, but just doesn't and keeps blaming every outside reason for why they can't.

Looks, poverty, opportunities etc etc all buzz words matter. But none of them matter more than personal will to rise beyond, get moving and do some work.

Sitting on time and opportunities and letting them go by as time flies over the years. And then at the end of an era blaming 'looks' and other stuff for failure doesn't deserve any sympathy.

I would rather show sympathy towards people who are disabled physically or other wise. But perfectly healthy people giving reasons as to why they couldn't do what they wanted, while they could actually have by work don't deserve any mercy.
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In my experience, there are some personality traits that cause some to people to strive far harder than others.

I think a strong desire to rectify deep rooted feelings of discontent and dissatisfaction can lead some people to work far harder than others - but in these cases actually achieving, eventually leads to a feeling of happiness.

EDIT: Down-voted for this? Seriously?
This lame "OMG APPLE IS BREAKING INTO PEOPLE'S HOUSES" story has been thoroughly debunked. Apple employees did NOT pose as SFPD police officers, the police officers assisted them, and the employees asked the tenants for permission to enter the house.
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I'm doing it to test out how long it'd take to load the game when it's live online.
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Wondering that nobody gets it: that's just a desperate post to AOL/Schoenfeld that he wants to become TC's new head

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Here's the real story:
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I think I may have just had a brain hemorrhage.
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Ah, this is amusingly true.

I suppose the ubiquitous nature of smart phones gives the common person more exposure to software than ever before, therefore compelling some to pitch half baked app ideas ('how about an app like Facebook, but in 3D!').

You never know though, there might be some buried gold in some suggestions. You just need your stupid-crap filter set on high :)
There are quite a few parallels with the way women are pressured to be pretty and men are pressured to be wildly successful. Both are likely damaging if allowed to increase uncontrolled and can lead to a variety of different mental health related issues. Just something to be aware of.
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Off topic: They use the Semantic Versioning Specification ( http://semver.org/ ). Interesting, I had never heard of this. Are there many projects using it? It sounds very similar to the Package Versioning Policy ( http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Package_versioning_policy ) which many Haskell packages use, only not specific to one language.
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> Again, a completely different branch of Android is forming, it's like desktop Linux all over again (and we all remember how well that went when it came to dislodging Windows).

I for one am optimistic though, as Google-branded Android already is in commanding market position. I think these non-cooperating Android distributions might serve as a good motivator for Google to improve their work.
I don't take it for granted that they are optional. I think that taking the position that women have a choice to play the game is a difficult one for me to accept.

This is something that even I agree, Here in India a lot of women are helpless and clearly driven by social pressures. Often under poverty and caste obligations.

But we are not talking about that section of women here. We are talking of girls(in the article) who in very clear conscious have the choice to spent their time, money and resources in a particular way. But don't take the best way out, and take the wrong choice.

This is utmost bad decision making, not a social problem. Otherwise every other social persuasion or thought can become your life problem.
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> Only Apple seems willing or able to put the consumer first.

Ironically, the story began with a note on how Apple puts the UK consumer last.
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My favourite idiotic ruby gem: Tenderlove's NeverSayDie, which allows you to resuce segfaults.

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I seem to remember a gem that allowed for inline assembly too, but perhaps fortunately I can't remember what it's called.
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I think I understand the author's point and repeated use of the term "stupidity" keeps the article on a theme and sounds somewhat nove.

However, I think his point would be a lot clearer if he would stop using "stupidity" when he means "ignorance".
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If "the only platform that supports DirectX" you mean "Windows", and therefore that "only games that run on Windows" means what I imagine it would have to, then... well, I for one don't think that's a problematic sample to draw conclusions from. In fact, if you want to get an idea about video games, especially (but not only) ones that run on computers, this is actually one of the better samples you could pick ;)
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Ok, the OEMs offer such customizability that it hurts margins and offers a silly customer experience.

But they might have chased this model for a more complex reason than "all these companies are idiots."

Maybe OEMs found, with the ubiquity of components, that if they don't compete with customization, they invite competition from homebuilt PCs, or PCs built and shipped out of some guy's basement. Maybe they're walking an awkward tightrope which Apple avoids by making its own OS.
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I don't think requests for citations by replying commenters is worthwhile.

If a comment piques your interest, or simply your curiosity, Google Scholar can provide support (or disproof) readily and to a much greater, and especially more broad ranging, extent than is possible in a comment. And you will find a citation quicker than waiting for the original commenter to provide one, even if the person actually replies with a citation rather than just ignoring you.

If you can't find support, then that is a good point to bring up in a reply.

ADDED: Please note that I am not against people providing links to supporting information. The best way to get an upvote from me is to provide a link to an interesting paper or site.
A TechCrunch article about TechCrunch barely raises my eyebrows nowadays.
Link to his pastebin:

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And to his latest post:

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The problem is that the TC ethics statement doesn't really help. There's too many problems of conflict of interest.

I wrote up an article about them prior to Arrington's resignation:

http://blog.imranghory.org/michael-arringtons-unsolvable-con...
Then I worked it out... they were acting as they were expected to (either by our perception or theirs) on a night out; shove on the lipstick, revert to street talk, laugh at fart jokes and play dumb around the men.

I'm think, like me, you're British :-) So you probably know that British men generally go out and do exactly the same thing (minus the lipstick). The average British bloke on a night out is, unless he's on the pull, as dumb as a rock, generally rat-arsed and talking total bollocks with his mates ;-)

Dumbing down on a night out isn't a gender-based pursuit.
The easiest way to get these is either to be in control of them yourself or for your manager to have an engineering pedigree (i.e. be a more senior developer) rather than just a manager by career.
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I loved this. I couldn't agree more. I don't really have any great salient points or anecdotes to add but I would love to live in a world where more people think this way. As a thought experiment though, what would it take to change this? Could this be published advice to parents? Parenting classes, post-natal something? I don't know. Prescriptive stuff is clearly not going to be popular, but in the spirit of the article - if you had a magic wand, what would you do to spread this thinking?
Nice cliffhanger.