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Perhaps it sounds a bit sexist, but I don't know many women that are actually intrigued by CS/CE. The females in my graduating class are very good at what they do, and very zealous about their work, but this is really the exception to the rule and not the rule itself. The motivating reason for this has nothing to to with the antisocial "nerd barrier", but with the nature of the work. Can we start to gripe about why there aren't more men in the fashion industry?

The point of view taken here is effectively that the author doesn't encourage women to enter these fields because of the possibility of encountering an awkward social situation and being exposed to equal opportunity employment, however this issue is going to arise in ANY male dominated career.

The point about needing to connect in fields outside of ones work is also an incredible load of shit. I have more social interactions with friends that are completely outside of the tech world than those within. I'm a gearhead as well as a developer, and my girlfriend has begun to introduce me to the world of hair fashion (I color her roots on occasion). Because of these experiences, I end up with plenty of social interactions with loads of individuals that give me strange looks when I go on about the newest framework I'm playing with, or the excitement over a new linux kernel.

People have different interests, its as simple as that. Sometimes, people only want to live their work and nothing else. You should be encouraged to do what you love, not discouraged because of some superficial office drama.
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While I see what you are getting at, I think this is a very linear view of wealth building and the world, and based on one too many assumptions about things like what constitutes a competitive advantage, and that giving money to more efficient producers in turn creates more wealth...

I do agree that you have a responsibility to yourself to utilize your resources as efficiently as possible, but I hardly think that responsibility extends to everyone participating in the market.

The simple reality is that people make purchase decisions based on emotions and justify their purchase after the decision is made with logic and reasoning.

Whatever logic helps you sleep at night is fine with me, but the reality is we are beasts of emotion and make our decisions based on those emotions.
Her point about why she wouldn't recommend other women to be engineers is completely overshadowed with her workplace woes.

I get it, she dislikes her office culture, but that doesn't explain why she'd pick such a gender specific title. I think it's a complete over-generalization to use her experiences in her field to warn other females. To be honest, it feels like a sympathy piece.
Just the fact that tech is a male dominated field means that we should be encouraging more young girls to go into it.

And correct me if I am wrong, but can't you move in a different social circle than your colleagues? You don't have to restrict yourself to your colleagues and if you are a social being, then you will not find it difficult to find yourself the circle that you would like.
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This was discussed before at

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2970007
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Serious question: do you think there's a business model in creating a modular living floor system?
Can Indian businesses deduct expenses from income? That would solve the investment tax problem.
That would be an incredible, sci-fi level achievement, but it would not be a "perpetual motion machine" in the common sense, because it would derive its power from the sun rather than producing it internally.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion
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Add to that the mapping companies, lala.com, Fingerworks for multitouch, Siri, PA Semi and Intrinsity for semiconductors, and a whole lot of other tiny but massively differentiating pieces[1] to their "experience" stack.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisition...
It kind of did.
It sounds more like she's in a lame job where the technical staff has no interests outside of tech. I sympathize with that. When hiring, I search out well rounded individuals. It is a little easier at my company because we're a restaurant-focused startup, but still... the number of engineers I've met with no hobbies or even interests outside of tech seems to outnumber the ones who do.

It sounds more like the poster should find another job. Maybe go work in tech at a company that actually works in one of her other interests.
Are the issues caused by her gender, or because her co-workers can't see outside the box? I'm not sure this is a gender thing, to be honest.
> If the majority of people weren't so politically indifferent, there would be a higher probability of change.

I think of it as temporal theft. The theft being private losses socialized via bailouts, govt deficits to prop the economy, and QE. It occurred at time t, but the loss isn't felt till t+n, so there's a lag during which most people grumble but mostly are indifferent.

t+n will be when either:

1. Prices begin to hyperinflate commensurate with the multiple rounds of Federal Reserve QE. This could happen if Bernanke, Krugman, et all turn out to be wrong about the ability to hyperinflate the currency into a liquidity trap without commensurate price rises, then contract the money supply again as the economy emerges from the liquidity trap, thereby avoiding price hyperinflation. It could also happen if their exit strategy is wrong.

2. Foreign governments stop buying US debt en mass, forcing higher interest rates to entice buyers (or more Fed buying, further increasing money supply, see #1), leading to a slowdown and recession or depression.

3. Despite the Fed's best efforts to the contrary, a deflationary debt collapse domino effect happens anyway, possibly started by the European PIIGS taking the Icelandic route and defaulting on their debt to private banks, and ending with US states doing the same thing, leading to another recession or depression. Most unlikely scenario.

There's nothing free in this world, and those losses are going to paid for by someone, one way or another. The financial system has already ensured it won't be them. When it happens the majority of people won't be so indifferent anymore.
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C is far from "terribly verbose".
Some context: This is the first time a computer has beaten a professional in a slow game on a full-size board with a 4-stone handicap or less, putting the computer's strength above that of all but the most dedicated amateur players. Few people expected this result going into the match. It's also worth noting that the hardware was just a small cluster of four PCs, not extravagant.
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Edison: Innovation is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
The last paragraph suggests a new organisation for a company: one where people can job share high value jobs, in return for an average salary.

Here's an example. Let's say I am capable of earning $160,000 a year, if I work 5 days a week in a role that is optimally suited to my skills. The problem is that this role leaves me with little time for my family (or other projects) and an excess of money. What I really want is to work 2 days a week for a salary of $64,000.

The above is hard to do in the current employment system. The closest options seem to be:

1) Take part time work. Typically part time work pays a much lower hourly rate, so to get my $64,000, I'm having to work 5 days/week. No gain, only pain.

2) Go into contracting. Fine for a single person, but too unstable with dependents.

3) Work for some number of years, then quit for a number of years. Demolishes the CV, making it hard to return to work, and leads to an unbalanced all or nothing relationship with the family.

4) Doesn't seem to exist.

Option 4) might be a company that specialises in allowing high value people to work limited hours, at what they do best. It would require a new way of organising things.

a) Systems to eliminate the "fixed cost" of employing someone, allowing many people to be employed in place of one, at the same cost.

b) Systems to allow multiple people to efficiently time share on a task.

c) Systems to allow people to rapidly pick up where they left off on a task.

d) Systems to allow a person to remain up to speed on a discipline, even with restricted working hours (ie. reducing the fixed cost to the employee).

It would be interesting to see how such a company would go competing against traditional a company of full-time employees. Assuming the negatives a)-d), above, could be solved, the benefits would be:

i) A fresh, productive, low stress, "burn out free" workforce.

ii) With some flexability of hours by healthy workers, the elimination of holes in the workforce, due sickness or unexpected events.

iii) The ability to very rapidly bring extra resources to bear (eg. some people work 4 days/week) under special circumstances.

iv) A larger employment pool, by including people who would would normally be precluded from full-time work. (How to make the model work well while not eliminating those who want a full-time job.)

Points a)-d) would seem to be fodder for a start-up, which would dog food its own system. The selling point could a competitive advantage, delivered by points i)-iv).

EDIT: formatting + spelling
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Thanks for sharing. I'll look at this later.
It seems like only half of the problems she mentions are actually because she's a woman in a male-dominated field, and the other half are just because she has broader interests than most of them.

It seems the best solution for the first problem is still to get more women in the field. I can't say for sure, but I bet it would help the second problem, too. I wish she wouldn't give up.
For example:

http://www.google.com/gwt/x?q=hacker+news&ei=d6xmT8nQB4S...

Note that I had to specifically choose "mobile view" to get this.
Does this mean that the entire Android userland will run on a vanilla 3.3 kernel?
Not only excellent library support, but also a large array of productivity tools ranging from superb IDE, static code analysis, build+dependency tools, great Continuous Integration, etc.
Is this a gender-issue post or one about how the startup/tech world is uninteresting?

It seemed like she switched themes halfway through the post
Trello, source code control, fogbugz and lots of notepaper. Basically, treat and run your personal projects as if they were professional ones and you can't go too wrong (also makes it easier and quicker to get extra pairs of hands involved if the side project takes off and becomes a major project).

Task wise, I start with brainstorming, then ui/program flow mockups (usually in balsamiq), then systems arch/planning (i.e. what server roles, how many and what sort of network layout) then I finally get coding. Coding tasks themselves are broken down in to semi logical chunks e.g. backend api, frontend (html/css), glue layer (stuff like form validation and handing off to backend api), auth layer etc.
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No, it's one he uses. He talked about it several times. Here's a photo of his desktop: http://micro.dentarg.net/post/18516355410/linus-torvalds-has...

And here's a quote of his in his G+ blog: "Point me to a better laptop. Trust me, I tried. They don't exist. It's sad. They are all big and clunky." (Someone suggesting Lenovo) "no, Lenovo doesn't. I have the Lenovo X1. It's bigger, plasticky, and has worse battery life."

(As for above, probably he has one for his kids too or his kids also use his --or he just mentioned it in the example above to refer to a usability issue for the "common user").

In the past he also had a G5 (Linux) as his desktop machine, and an iBook with OS X for writing his autobiography.
Because dcurtis holds Netflix stock ... So he wants it to happen ... So saying it is very likely to happen makes it seem more plausible increasing the value of his investment if others believe the hype and buy.

This is the American Airlines website of financial analysis blog posts IMO.
Hmmm, You tie money with a definition of a modern 'job'.

The way I see people used eat, get cured of disease and live how we live today. Without the traditional definition of a job as we know today.

People will have to continue to work to make a living. But it may not necessarily be a job meant in the sense of working for large corporate etc.
Yep, and he just released his bayesian alg he talks about here: https://github.com/Poincare/Bayesian.go
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Is multitasking controversial to HN?
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With limited exceptions when a buyer and seller mutually agree to trade time for money I am of the opinion that is a moral win for both sides. "You talk, we pay" sounds a lot more like the clearly acceptable "You code, we pay" than it does any of the exceptions.
What's the baseline? When the baseline is terrible, getting 100x performance is not a big deal.

No good engineer would cite "100X improvement" without quantifying the baseline level. This is PR, not engineering and not science.
It's disappointing to see someone in a technical context be so handwavey. "Girls aren't interested in math, simple as that," is a way of being ok with ignorance, not an actual argument.

One should be suspicious of that style of argument at all times, but doubly so when it's convenient to the speaker.
That's the Google Wireless Transcoder and you're about five years late to the party.

http://google.com/gwt/n

Also, it has nothing to do with scraping (though the whole point of the directory is to be scraped) and Google does not run its own ads on it (any ads that are stripped out are because Javascript is stripped out)..

By in large it sucks. But then again, browsing the web on a device this was meant for always sucks.
Because installing software sucks, this is auto-updated by default and will always be optimized for your processor.
I've done concurrent programming in both Python and Go, and to be fair to Python, its standard library queue class (http://docs.python.org/library/queue.html) is very close to Go's channels so it does CSP style concurrency quite nicely.

However, Go's goroutines are IMHO superior to Python threads since they're much more lightweight and can run in parallel on multi-core CPUs and you can have a lot more of them.

Go gets it right by putting goroutines and channels into the core language to encourage CSP style concurrency, but putting other more traditional, but harder-to-use, concurrency primitives like mutexes into the standard library.
But are her co-workers not seeing out of the box because she's female? Just my 2c.
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PCs dropping from $10000 to $300 are not representative of almost anything about the last 30 years. Holding up PC prices or CPU speeds as an example of general economics is particularly contrived.
Your entire post is contained in its first twelve words.
It instead was "nerds are too nerdy"
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was shocked to see Elon tear up a bit when the interviewer asks him about Buzz Aldrin's criticisms.
When I look at this graph:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=microsoft+market+cap+no...

I see that the market cap for Microsoft dropped by about $30bn on the ex-dividend day.
Wow.

This reads like a good reason to advise people with wide interests not to go into the IT field as there's a good chance they'll end up in a bubble where all they talk about is IT.

There's nothing in here that specifically applies to women, nor applies to the wider field of Engineering.

For goodness sake woman if you're trapped in an IT ghetto then get the f*k out.

I've got women friends that went the trade route and became certified electricians later transferring to programming after running their own businesses - they're loving IT after male dominated site work. Another acquaintance has a background in pure / applied mathematics, she founded an Engineering/Math/Comp. Sci. faculty, hard work but no complaints.

My cousin has been in Civil Engineering for two decades and she's practically running a large transnational now, loves her job.

A scary reason that might reasonably justify telling young girls not to go into geology is that they might end up on a remote mine site as the sole female and getting continuously sexually harassed and eyed up as a potential rape victim. That's a very real issue.

Hanging out with a bunch of geeks that talk about nothing but their D12's and their Rails code is certainly not for everyone, I agree, but please don't use that as a reason to advise women to avoid Engineering.
As another woman in tech I read this hesitantly and find I don't agree with the argument she is making here. While my workplace is also dominated with men I have learnt to manage communication differences and stand on the merit of my work. Yes, I consistently get belittled in small ways, mostly by older clients, but if this is what I have to deal with it's a small thing and easily brushed off - and I know it will disappear in time as our demographic loses those who are not used to non-stereotypical people in their environment. But I want to state that I'm a little older than her, and certainly in my 20s I would rail against the hegemony at any chance I got. I made noise and I'm glad I did - in all the arguments and frustration I was able to figure out who I am and where I want to be. She needs to consider herself a pioneer and revel in that - to celebrate her difference and what she can accomplish, and in that different perspective what she brings to her field. If there are those that resist around her, she has a choice to push back harder or move to another environment.

I'd like to comment on her point that her co-workers are myopic in their interests: this is irrelevant to her argument as she could just as easily be a male whose interests lie outside of the status quo. I have seen many different kinds of people work together, and in the right environment acceptance is key. She may find that switching jobs give her a totally new outlook. Let me provide a short example: I am not a gamer and have really no interest. But I am fascinated by the mechanics and functionality of how a massive game such as WoW is created. So if a conversation turns to a gaming topic, I know that I have an opportunity to learn something (how does Blizzard scale, what is their stack/languages etc). There is no topic that cannot be made interesting.

This comment here depressed me however: "Yawn. Then quit, whatever. Stop bitching about it. The only thing I ever hear about from "women in tech" is complaining, and it's boring."

This is completely unfair and unhelpful. She has a complaint, and it is important for her to feel she can express this without fear of personal attack. Comments like this is the reason things don't change, because we fear being called out as 'emotional' or 'unreasonable'. A younger, or less confident person, will take comments like these personally and wonder if their concerns are valid. She has every right to enter the debate on her own terms and we should approach her concerns reasonably and fairly. Losing any brilliant mind because of suppressed expression would be a tragedy.
Here's a summary of the article:

* author cannot write portable C sockets code

* author cannot handle C/C++

* author believes his app would be too slow in Python, later abandons App, but retains his bias against Python

* Go has no parens for if/for

* Go has unicode support

* Go has closures "like salt shakers"

* Go is cohesively designed

* Go has nice libraries

Go may or may not be a good language, but this kind of argument is not going to win me over.
I think you guys are focusing too much on the "how is this about women" aspect and not the message. I agree that the bulk of her argument does not depend on her being a women. Let's move on.

Isn't it true that there's a lack of intellectual diversity? Most good programmers read about technology, code, and do technical things, but do they have worldly wisdom? To quote Charlie Munger:

“You must know the big ideas in the big disciplines, and use them routinely — all of them, not just a few. Most people are trained in one model — economics, for example — and try to solve all problems in one way. You know the old saying: to the man with a hammer, the world looks like a nail. This is a dumb way of handling problems.”

I think by only focusing on one thing, a lot of programmers miss out on being better. This theme recurs everywhere. Feynman used to talk about using a "different box of tools" which enabled him to solve many problems. He would also keep many problems in his head and whenever he learned a new trick, he would apply that trick to all his problems. Every now and then he'd solve a big problem and people would say he's a genius!

Gian-Carlo Rota, the MIT mathematician, once wrote that Erdos and Hilbert (prolific mathematicians) had many interesting results, but it seemed they used the same tricks over and over everywhere - they just had different strategies.

It's impossible to develop new mental models or add to your toolbox when you're learning what everyone else is learning. But if you explore beyond your boundaries, then you'll pick up new things which will not only make your life richer but also help you in your endeavors.
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If you plan to write a blog post about other German computer/electronics pioneers, why not pick Heinz Nixdorf:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Nixdorf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixdorf_Computer_AG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqGZBUs7wP4
I was surprised that the author thinks the syntax of Haskell is no better than that of C++. Let's look at a typical example. In Haskell, the signature for sort is

sort :: Ord a => [a] -> [a]

which just says that it takes a list of comparable things and returns another list of the same type. Here's the type signature for sort in C++:

template <class RandomAccessIterator, class Compare>
void sort ( RandomAccessIterator first, RandomAccessIterator last, Compare comp );

The difference in terseness and clarity is a big reason why I use Haskell when I have a choice.
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This is a tad out of point but as a male developer in Singapore, I face the exact opposite situation. I have a hard time finding similar minded developers who love the bleeding edge, tech startups, *nix vs Apple debates, etc. I'd love to go to a conference, and just immerse myself in tech talks that go DEEP into detail, and then have drinks, and thrash talk about Ubuntu, and still end up using it.

Consider yourself lucky, ms dev.
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Yeah, very impressive for someone of his age, I wish there were more kids like him.