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The real question should be: why does a class respond proportionately badly to the 'helpful jerk'?

We can't reasonably say this is a female specific phenomenon when our only point of reference is a female-only class. Send the guy to a bunch of different classes (of mixed and single gender, and of mixed skill-level) and see how they all respond.

If one guy is monopolising the time and help available in the class, it stands to reason that everyone else will lose interest, because there is no longer time and attention available to them.

And if this guy is asking questions that far exceed the average skill level of the class, it also stands to reason that the class will lose interest because they can't understand any of it.

I'd like to know why the volunteers were accepting of this guy when at least one of them (the OP) was well aware of how detrimental his presence was to the class as a whole. And I'd like to know this guy's motivations for joining a class to wave his intellectual dick about.
I read on BBC that flame used state of the art encryption for its code based on a paper published in 2008. Apparently, they even came up with their own variant of the encryption scheme

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18365844
I would imagine he/she was referring to the power of Google and Facebook to analyze & exploit the data of billions of people, something that is perhaps uniquely available to them, that the average man will never obtain or have access to this data
Large numbers of people living into advanced age is a relatively modern phenomenon. Ten thousand years ago you were likely to die of something like malaria or waterborne illness before reaching your 70s.

For a more recent comparison -- cancer deaths have been on the rise while cardiovascular deaths have been in decline.
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actually, anygender playing dumb to get help from the teacher/TA seems to be common. especially in a TA/student situation is where I see that a lot.
Given that all the women there had explicitly signed up to do programming, I doubt that any of them have eyes that glaze over at the mention of computers. Surprisingly for some people, there are variations among women just as there are variations among men. I'm pretty sure that most men also have no interest in computer programming. Finally: http://xkcd.com/385/
I was just at the Berlin Buzzwords conference last week. Microsoft Azure was a platinum sponsor, and hired two 20-something girls dressed in skin-tight silver jumpsuits. They walked around handing out bags of Gummy Bears with flyers for Azure. Nobody was impressed, and the whole idea as kind of ridiculous. Given the level of maturity at that conference, it was completely out of place. It does not surprise me there was nearly zero activity at their conference booth.
I had to rage-stop this video halfway through... this is ridiculous.

In this day and age, I would have thought that the developer community has come to realize that sexism is out and inclusiveness is in (no, adding a "(and vaginas)" is not inclusive). We had our fun, but it significantly damaged our culture and firmly planted our female participation at 15-20%, with a female OSS contribution rate of 1.5-5%. We (I'm speaking to the straight, white males out there) are the main reason for this.

And it's not just females, either. Our frequent raunchy behavior typically focuses on heteronormative jokes, staying completely ignorant and offensive to the LGBTQ folks out there.

So here's the deal, Microsoft: you have some work to do. First, you do something about this, like fire the decision-makers involved (publicly or privately, your choice). Next, issue a real apology that goes well beyond "we're looking into this." Then, grab a crapton of money—say $3 million... $1 million for each minute of the song—and donate it to programmer-centric inclusive groups. Speaking as primarily a Rails dev, my brainstorming is biased, but here's a good list to get started: Rails Bridge, Girl Develop It, DevChix, etc. Make certain that there's no way to tie this large donation to furthering Microsoft-specific causes; you need to heal dev community at large that you just brutally damaged.

I understand this "skit" probably didn't come from Redmond, but that's the price you pay for growing to the size of Microsoft. Microsoft Redmond hired/approved the folks running the branch that did this skit. Letting Redmond skate by on this is like (and wow, I'm going to use a totally unfair comparison here... apologies) letting a mob boss off the hook because a lieutenant actually planned & performed a criminal act.

What a depressing state of affairs.
I had a language class once with a student that was clearly not at our level constantly asking questions that the other students all already knew. As a mature adult, I attributed this lack of consideration for others to the individual, not the entire gender.
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Not true, or rather, not completely true. It depends on whether you're talking from the point of view of the employer or the employee.

If I'm employing someone, a competitor can't easily employ them at the same time (sort-of excludable, up until they quit). And the costs of training an employee are usually fairly fixed - paying for a course plus wages - so they're rivalrous, since an extra training course will cost the same.

As an employee, on the other hand, I can certainly deny my training/experience to those who don't pay for it (ie. it's excludable).

The original point was that maintaining a pool of skilled employees is in the best interests of a group of companies even if they're rivals, since more people with the skill will tend to drive wages down. If, on the other hand, they neglect training and fewer people are available, then production suffers and wages go up. The "public" in this case is the group of companies.
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...it can still be done completely in your head, as opposed to other schemes ("real" hashing schemes, password managers)

I'm using a free password manager (KeePassX) with the file hosted on Dropbox for a couple of years now. I've not had any major trouble with it.

People might like to note, though, that my 16 character randomly password (lowercase letters and numbers for over 128 bits of entropy) was still cracked during the LinkedIn incident. I'm switching to 24 character passwords now.
At the risk of sounding petty let me say that, I am male and I can only speak about my part of the problem.

1. Do I feel bad about women achieving stuff in life ?
Yes.

2. Am I ashamed of the above fact?
Yes.

Lets face it, from what I have been able to figure out, this is the case with a lot of men in this world. Question we must be asking is : how do we go about solving this problem?
This is not as simple as just developing empathy for the other sex, because according to current customs and expectations: men are expected to be taking care of women, women should be trading up etc.

Whenever the question of equality of sexes come in tech, the arguments are always split into two factions. One side argues that there is no such thing as discrimination of sex in tech. It is a meritocracy and that is the only way it can be, and women are not in tech because they do not want to be / are naturally less talented in programming. The other side argues this is not the case and that you feel so only because you have no daughter/are a virgin/you are a basement dwelling looser.This line of thinking is not productive. Painting men as super villains in some grand 'Dan Brown'ian plot of conspiracy against women will NOT work.Especially with nerds. I am not saying anything excuses sexist behaviour just that villifying them may satisfy your ego, but will not accomplish anything.
The war laws are specifying when/how you can risk civilians -- there will always be dead civilians in a war, you are required to try to minimise that.

If you would want to be serious (somehow I doubt it), either (a) argue against the war laws or (b) argue that usa breaks them.

Note that in this case, the terrorists target civilians and seem to use their own civilians as shields. You have no problem with that?
Depends on the code imo. If its vicious 3D code that is fully of tricky optimization then a pile of comments is perfect.
I agree with most of this with the exception of number 3. While taxes can be a large burden on any firm, new or old, if an investor is selling his/her shares, presumably they are cashing out of their company and stuffing it in their personal bank account. Exemption from taxes at that point just seems more like a handout to those who are already successful rather then a real incentive for investment. Am I missing something here?
Would love to get a published collection of their brain teasers. Those were always a good way to pass time during car rides.
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these questions seemed designed to show off his own knowledge, or to challenge the instructor.

Yes, Dave was showing off to an audience of women.

she asked me a question she giggled and told me she had no idea what the project was about, or what to do.

Yes, the woman was acting like a bimbo to elicit male help.

Congrats, you now have the grasp of female/male dynamics usually figured out by middle school.

I’d never really believed in single sex education

Wow, a thousand years of human culture tossed away in one generation by ideological fanatics pretending that women and men are "equal" and one guy finally figures out maybe tradition exists for a reason. Ask any woman who went to an all-girls school if she missed having to be in the same classroom as boys.

I saw that women only groups are not creating a more insular community of women, but rather offering these women a more comfortable entrance into our general community.

Amazing! How was this brilliant guy to know he could have asked his grandmother and saved himself all that trouble?

The jerk factor also reminded me of why we in the Free Software community need to be taking issues of civility seriously, and not letting the idea of “free speech” get in the way of maintaining a safe place for discussion.

You get your group to be 50/50 male/female and you are going to drive away lots of competent men because showing off their skills, bragging, and one-upping other men is one of the primary motivations to excel at your chosen field. A "safe space" for women is often a "boring space" for men.

But sure, go ahead, I'm sure this problem will be easy to solve with just the right technical fix. In fact, I can think of one technical fix the ancient Chinese used to make "safe men" for keeping their harems.

"There are no statutes capable of controlling the relations between men and women." -- Secretary
Yup. The problem with vim is that it has way too many buttons you have to press to unbreak it.
Ask HN: How much do employers value an online portfolio/blog?
Is running a portfolio or blog a good professional move to make? Has anyone here ever been hired or been offered work thanks to their online presence?

How many hackers out there run their own personal blog?
Very respectable of id to release it. I bet the could still get some sold cash from it if they kept it closed.
"which employs a bunch of 40-something suburbanites"

right, because only 20something kids in cutoff jeans and tshirts who live in SF/NY are capable of writing truly excellent code.
There are programs that given enough time will come up with piece values for arbitrary board games like chess. Non random board games are actually one of the easier things to translate into computer code, the problem is games like go are inherently difficult. I suspect with perfect play the first go player completely dominates the board just like with smaller boards that have been solved, but the ultra aggressive gameplay required to pull this off is impossible to pull off with any sort of reasonable hardware. So, it's really a question of discovering heuristics that allow computationally reasonable pay to still create an acceptable level of imperfect play, and piece values are just one of those heuristics. Perfect play in chess can ignore positional concepts and just look for paths that either force a checkmate or a tie.

The problem with language translation is you need to understand the context of an idea before you can accurately translate it which is why humans have such issues translating technical content they don't understand.

That said, humans can decode things that are close to linguistic gibberish so even a poor translation is often good enough. Google translate is already rather useful though a great set of heuristics despite an endless array of edge cases it fumbles though. It's a useful path that get's ever more expensive the more demanding the problem.
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Yes, that's the one.

At least all the ones I've met in Romania (and I've met quite a few) have tried to help me see the error of my ways and believe in the extremely literal interpretation of the creation myth as fact.
> We can't reasonably say this is a female specific phenomenon when our only point of reference is a female-only class.

Then why is the article about gender at all?
i tried keepass, but it doesn't really work well in linux

The integration might be less than for Windows and OS X. It works great for me on those systems, though.

i don't have my passwords on other computers.

I just keep a KeePass file in Dropbox. I also have a KeePass app on my phone.
So the article only mentions one PaaS provider, Engine Yard. Oh yeah, they supplied the graphics.
Yes, this wasn't offensive to non-male-heteros - it was just offensive. Yet I have to say I'm still laughing and it being completely over the top lends it a certain element of 'this is too ridiculous to be considered a serious attempt to empower the hegemony'. It's bad taste in general, rather than offensive to any one party.
It's "hard", not "very hard". Many high-level language implementations have true threaded parallelism; a GIL is a stop-gap to avoid rebuilding an existing sequential interpreter, but it's not an essential component.
Ask HN: Where to find contract designers?
With Sortfolio dying any day now, what other sites do you recommend to find contract designers?

I'm already aware of Dribbble and Forrst.
First of all, choosing nursery rhymes or movie titles isn't much better than choosing dictionary words. That strategy has been shown to have low entropy. Multiword passwords are easier to remember, but you need something actually random. If you want a strong multiword password, it's a good idea to have an actual RNG do it for you, so you can use something like http://passphra.se/. If they don't already, hackers will soon have dictionaries that will crack passwords like "ring around the rosy" and "there is no spoon" as easily as "champagne", but they're never going to crack a password like "eager man dirt fly" in better than brute force time.

OK, so with that out of the way, let's say you've chosen a weak (and common) password. If people start using this self-salting scheme, it's a fair bet someone else that will use the same self-salt as you, and that means two identical hashes in the database. That's bad news.

But it's also easy to fix. Simply choose some fixed salt to also add to your password. It could be the first two letters of your username, for example. That way, if "bobmarley" and "jackblack" both have the password "champagne" and both used the first four letters of the website for their salt, then on linked in one will be "linkbochampagne" and the other will be "linkjachampagne", and they can rest knowing that it's very unlikely that their password will hash the same as someone else's.
"Do I feel bad about women achieving stuff in life ? Yes."

is there a typo there? at the moment it reads like other people's (women's) successes make you feel bad.
I totally missed your last statement:

"By contrast, in physics, thermodynamics is firmly based on the microscale discipline of statistical mechanics."

Thermodynamics is absolutely the most aggregate branch of physics. delta(E_int) = delta(Q) - Work always works for a system regardless of your microscopic model - statistical mechanics is just one model to explain aggregate quantities that arise ie temperature, pressure etc. - micro-level structure is hardly measurable in thermodynamics.

Thanks for giving me this great example to help disprove you :)
I really like Fabians source code reviews. Would love to see engines like Unreal being open-sourced to compare how they work internally. Would be a nice perspective. I.e. Unreal was much better in out-door scenes and I think the maps where not heavily preprocessed like in Quake et.al. What was their way of tackling the problem?

In case there are any resources that describe the technical details, would be nice If someone could post a link.
Isn't that putting a lot of trust into Dropbox, and into your own ability to make sure that you never accidentally leave a computer logged in on Dropbox?
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If you pull it out, does everything fall down?
It does, but it's a lousy approach.

Some_Developer "m104, I screwed up the system because I pushed out the development build on production."

m104 "Well Some_Developer, next time you make a list or you're fired, you should be kicking yourself for this mistake"

That doesn't solve the problem of why Some_Developer was doing a build, why Some_Developer could have done a dev build on production and why there is no pre-production environment.

If you read the blog post (http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2012/05/22/blameless-postmortems... ) you'll see that there are two opposing views to human error. The side I stand rather firmly on is the idea that if ANY person can bring our system down with a few keystrokes or cause hours of pain then we have a VULNERABILITY in the system. I don't care about fat fingering, I don't need to remind people they are stupid, I don't need to give warnings or last chances. I don't care about WHO ore WHY I want to know HOW to fix it.

Reprimanding for human error achieves the opposite effect and is a common trait of weak/inexperienced management.
" … without resorting to password managers"

What do you find so hard about "resorting to password managers"?

For me, I reckon adopting 1Password has _reduced_ the amount of hassle dealing with passwords causes me. 95+% of every website login has become command-slash-return. Registering for new sites has added a single click to the "do you want to save this login" popup.

Since I always carry my smartphone, I've _always_ got my passwords securely stored in my pocket, as well as on my Pad, laptop, and work machine. I find it hard to understand why people _don't_ use some sort of password safe software…
Unless I'm misreading this (and I have the mother of all migraines at present so it's possible) weren't both the author of the post and Dave volunteers helping out rather than students? In which case shouldn't whoever was running the session just shut them down since the whole point is to help the people attending to learn rather than intellectual willy waving?

I used to be Dave when I was younger (still am if I don't keep a lid on it; I'm sure empathy is a wonderful thing but I've just had to learn to fake it over the years). So my preferred solution would have been to ask "does anyone else have any questions or are the rest of you secure enough in your own ability to not feel the need to advertise?". But then I guess there'd have been two jerks in the room and only one of them being helpful.
Sure the querystring looks stupid, but if finding an new MD5 collision attack to build a fake Microsoft certificate is the job of a lamer, I don't know how to call myself ...
They dont open source the latest version. Tech 5 already came out.
I downloaded this free app 'inkflow' a week or two ago when it was featured in the app store. The interface could be better, but over all I love how simplistic it is. I definitely recommend it. I think there's a version for iPad as well.
Which is what Git does: every commit actually is a directory/file tree and a small note a.k.a. `commit message'. You could re-create the effect by hand, by placing `.commit' file in root of the multiple directories you speak of.

However, Git (and any other DVCS) does the bookkeeping and keeps you from missing that one small detail at 4AM.

Also, it's much faster to git-commit than to copy 150MB of sources by hand; mostly because Git avoids work where sensible. Ditto for git-diff.
Even if you have no real interest in C, check out K&R if you haven't. It's a near flawless (imo) example of technical writing and language introduction.
The KeePass file has its own encryption. Just devise one password with enough entropy.
Yeah! Those sneaky women! All of em will con you and all us men into helping them. Sneaky deceitful women.</sarcasm>

And people wonder why women don't like male dominated tech events
Even such a bluff is ethically grey, and a dark shade at that.