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Perhaps it does. I can't press RET while my three other fingertips rests on j, k, l. But I can press Ctrl (or Caps-Lock which I've remapped) comfortably with resting fingers on s, d, f.
Because San Francisco greatly perceives itself, and desperately wants to remain, as a small friendly hamlet of sorts. It wants to have its cake and eat it too: the prestige and economy of a world city, and the friendliness and pleasantness of a small town.

Because also San Francisco perceives itself as radical - this is true both in SF tech and outside of it - and perceives mass urbanization as symptom of all that is stodgy, traditional, and old (see: Chicago, New York City, London, etc).

"Manhattanization" is a pejorative with no defense in the city - "being like New York" is anathema to a large number of people, and suggesting that SF should be like other skyward cities is immediately painting a giant bulls-eye on your own head and a guarantee that you'll never be a meaningful participant in civic discourse.

In simple words, SF hates skyward-building because its worst fear is becoming New York City.

To answer your questions more directly:

- The city government, in response to voter demand, opposes most development outside of the downtown core, where there are actually plenty of tall buildings (almost entirely commercial). As a (shitty) compromise they've marked out a section of previously underdeveloped light industry just south of downtown for active development. This is where most of the action is. It's also not connected to mass transit, and there's currently an expensive project underway to build a brand new subway line to connect this area of town. This, despite other parts of SF being underdeveloped and already accessible to transit.

- The population of San Francisco, and this includes the techies, loudly opposes dense developments. San Francisco is well known for its picturesque neighborhoods of colorful old Victorian houses. The long-time residents are loathe to see this disappear in favor of mid-rises or high-rises, and the wealthy newcomers are loathe to lose what is an aesthetic gain. Neither side seems willing to admit that the price of their aesthetic preference comes directly out of their pocket book. Proposals to knock these houses down in favor of denser housing are opposed across the board and across the wealth spectrum.

All of this is official policy: http://www.sf-planning.org/ftp/General_Plan/index.htm - specifically this one: "That existing housing and neighborhood character be conserved and protected in order to preserve the cultural and economic diversity of our neighborhoods;"
If you want feedback, make it easy for your users. For example by having your email address on every page.

Two days ago, you didn't. I see that now you've added it to your footer.
Notice the question mark after the "lack of skills" - I'm just saying this may be one reason among others. Not everything revolves around gender.
I feel that both ethnic and gender diversity can improve many work environments, be it software development or nursing.

Maybe men should start advocating for more boys in <insert female dominate industry here>? Sounds like a good Superbowl Ad campaign!

Side note: I remember in my first year of university there was like 30 girls and 1 boy in the nursing faculty. Everyone cheered on that lucky guy :P
Wait until you hear about how The New York Times works. You pay a monthly subscription fee and have to look at ads.
Let's call these "reforms" for what they are - a shameless and unjustified money grab by the government.
I would think that 'fad' playes a role sometimes and in some areas, but that it is neither sufficient nor necessary to describe language adoption.

But there are mechanisms which may look like 'fad'. For example in the academic community a lot of progress is only incremental and people need something new to publish incremental results.

Industry demands from Universities to teach the language de jour.

'Industry analysts' give technology guidance and tell companies what to use.

Often it is seems 'modern to reinvent everything. Look at Clojure, a Lisp dialect which is basically zero backwards compatible. It allows people to reimplement the old stuff, sometimes in slightly different ways and claim some achievement. You also don't have to deal with the old people, which 'know it already' or with 'old' technology. The community is self-selected to newcomers and those willing to reimplement old stuff and to invent newish stuff.

It is also about communicating ideas. If one uses a language few speak, one gets less attention, mindshare, etc. Thus use something which in the hype cycle is on an increasing angle, where the attention of many is easier to get. If one wants to promote a new framework, better use a popular language underneath it. Otherwise it could be nicely engineered, but few will hear of it, few will try it and few people will use it.

Also some technologies are popular - like the JVM - and this allows to leverage engineering efforts by others. Popular technologies often seem to be ported widely and seem to have more active maintenance.
Show everyone what you're reading. Fork ReadingList.
Define wasted. Was it burned? Unless you are talking about military expenditures, which have some of the lowest economic multipliers, it paid someone's salary, who in turn went and participated in the economy. Was it ideally spent? No, but read some Edward Denning: you can spend more money ensuring that only the right people get money or you can just wrote checks and accept statistical levels of error.
Yes, that's almost certainly what happened - but that doesn't make it better. It's none of their fucking business!! This is not something that belongs in a CRM database!
What's weird is that people assume that this has to do with programming specifically, instead of the larger workings of gender as a social construction and hierarchy (laid upon the material reality of sex dimorphism). Discussing gender isn't weird, men (and many women) just aren't very literate about the thing.
imho, I think we should target less popular and possibly more important situations (all relative, I know) such as helping people in 3rd world nations to get better access to IT & education.
E-cigarette use is almost entirely in place of cigarette use, so it should probably be encouraged. I doubt the vapour is dangerous second hand.
>>Our solution was to simply make a small set of our classes for girls only.

Your solution will make the problem worse. Because nothing will really change in the way boys work, and you will see the same late night, whole night, full weekend culture among them.

Girl's classes will see a far little attendance totally detached from culture in the other part of world. Soon the rewards will dry out and move towards crazy work culture and attendance in girls classes will decline.
It would be really nice to see more females in the industry, but I rally have to ask myself if those artificial promotions will help much.
I never learned to program because of some courses or because the industry needed me, I started programming because I wanted to create things. There was just a natural interest in computers and how they work, that's what drove and often still drives me today.
If females have the same passion and/or will to create things, then I don't see what is stopping them from doing so. Sure it might be intimidating to work in a rather male-dominated profession, but personally I have enough of all the generalization that is happening. Not every company/community is unable to respect anyone just because of their gender. Then again maybe it's quite a bit different here in Europe.
A gun for women - is killing a solution, or a way to kill solutions?
For black tea too, temperature is really important (it should be boiling). Never order black tea in the States, you'll receive a teabag along with container of tepid water.
Ive often wondered the same. I occasionally chew on some nicotine gum (usually 1mg, then an hour later another 1mg) as I find it helps me focus. I suspect its better then smoking, but by how much seems fairly unknown.
Brian Chesky: The 'Sharing Economy' and Its Enemies
As far as I know, the only emission from must e-cigs is water vapor. I'm not a fan of second hand smoke at all, but a friend if mine uses an e-cigarette and it doesn't bother me or my wife in the slightest.

Given my experience with them, I'm of the opinion that people who gripe about them are being judgmental based on the association with smoking actual cigarettes, which is legitimately disgusting.
>>those conditions would suffice for a class action against the employer.

What good would that do?

If you pass laws that make it difficult to start and sustain a competitive company, next time around you will see such companies would be starting up in some other country.

Now the whole ecosystem suffers.
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The fact that companies collect and trade this hugely personal, emotional information about their customers in order to fake a small-town general store atmosphere where the guy at the counter knows everyone's personal history, when in fact it's just a minimum wage call center drone looking at a CRM database.
What is DevOps? - In Simple English
Well, that's cool. While I totally get the point of what the OP was trying to do (and it's awesome trying to be make female coders/founders more visible), I have to confess that as a fellow 'girl of HackerNews', I think the title could be less leading and a bit more constructive.

There are other female founders out there that code. I'm sorry to say that you're not the first, nor the last. It's about how we get MORE female founders and female coders to increase the diversity of the startup world.

(Incidentally, I'm female, a startup founder and I code. )
I appreciate the feedback, especially as a fellow hiker.

A number of people now have mentioned that the first page is not working, so that's something I'm going to reevaluate. I need more info there beyond a daunting search box. At the moment, you can type in the name of a hike and it will show up, e.g. try "The Narrows". The site assumes hikes are named. If you're searching for a location, then you need to go to the maps. I should probably support searching for a location via the search box, e.g. if you search for colorado it will show you all the hikes in colorado, or zoom you into colorado on the map.

Maps. Currently the way to get to the maps is from the lat / lng link in the info box on the side. This will take you to a full screen map with a dot for that location. From here, I'd like to add support for GPX routes, but that is not implemented. It's interesting that you're keen on having maps as the focus because I find that maps aren't that useful for me when researching a hike, I just want the highlights - distance, elevation gain, elevation max, and then I want to see pictures of what the hike has to offer.

Thanks for the encouragement, I'm taking a lot from these comments and will have plenty to work on.
Just curious why you think nursing is bad pay? Or what do you consider to be bad?

Where I live (Vancouver, BC.) entry level (students) pay for nurses is $50K/year. Average earnings for nurses I believe is on the order of $70-90K/year though.
Could this be a consequence of a single ring-circuit for the whole house? I am not familiar with how exactly those work with circuit breakers.
primitivesuave was literally recounting their own experience with young children; are they "sexist", or is describing reality just not to your liking? What does "acting like boys" even mean, may I ask? primitivesuave was taking about the toxic masculinity that involves macho superiority and violence, sorry if it upsets you that that's what masculinity involves.

primitivesuave wasn't talking about genitals, they were talking about gender, and you know this -- "acting like boys" has nothing to do with genitals -- but seem profoundly confused and angry about it.
Note that Android uses a Linux kernel, but a fair amount of BSD in the libs and userland.
you mean to run a "competitive company" you have to abuse your employees? I know a lot of companies that are the best in their business and never have to.

It is just unfortunate for India that our so-called IT Industry is just marketing itself as cheap and easy-to-abuse labour.
The only thing suspicious is the propaganda machine which is creating this never ending list of gender-tech articles and their associated divisionist jargon.

Social construct theory is dead. Girls who have a genuine interest in technology couldn't care less about the sex of their coworkers (because if they did then they would be sexists).
Among the type of people who think "'welfare state' describes the kind of society I wish to live in", welfare state does not mean "we pay people to be slackers", it means "we have fairly robust systems for preventing the vagaries of life from materially impacting our citizens."

n.b. Not to infringe upon the HN politics rule but, for avoidance of doubt, the above does not describe my personal politics.
the "Four mile trail" is 9.6 miles :)
http://hike.io/hikes/four-mile-trail
I think it is pretty certain that car exhaust is harmful. Did you drive today?
Thanks! All changes go through a review process before they are pushed live. I get an email for each change and then can either accept or reject it.

I'm using Mailgun to do the mail stuff: https://github.com/zaknelson/hike.io/blob/master/server/util...
Perfectly legal in the US, as long as you're salaried.
A charitable interpretation of his comment: many women suck, just as many men suck. People who suck are treated as bad programmers. A subset of the women who are treated as bad programmers assume it is due to their gender rather than their poor ability.

An equivalent claim which I made in real life:

Steve, an old school NY boy with a south-asian family: "She dissed me because I'm brown."

Me, another old school NY boy more Italian than anything else: "She dissed you because your a bridge&tunnel boy rather than a wealthy hipster in $200 skinny jeans. She'd have dissed me too."
If you went to a small store regularly, would it be creepy for the employees to know that about you? Why is it creepy for a big business to know the same thing? It's normal for businesses to get to know their customers.
Good point. I've done this in the past (i.e. back when I was at university) - speed up cooking ramen noodles (or "super noodles") by pouring a boiled kettle into the hot pan.

But these days my kettle is almost solely used as a stand-by "tea making device" :)
> But some components have gotten to be big enough that they're entire projects in themselves, usually cross-platform and not integrated with any one OS's development. Some of these are adopted into the BSD core respositories and customized so they form part of the integrated offering, but a number are just left in ports and run mostly unmodified.

I think this is pretty much what OP was trying to say, but his choice of words didn't make it obvious. The major difference between *BSD (OpenBSD is particularly picky about this) and Linux is that the "base" system is supposed to be fully-functional and well-integrated, from kernel to userspace, whereas Linux is "just" the kernel.

There are good uses to both models. I found the latter to be very useful in embedded systems, where you often need that kind of flexibility. I found the latter to be, frankly, a lot more useful on the desktop. To this day, I have to consult my notes every time I need to set up wireless on a Linux box without wicd or NetworkManager. The fact that a system with OpenBSD's reputation actually gets to do that easier is a good testimony to the merits of well-integrated userspace tools.
http://www.trulia.com/for_sale/San_Francisco,CA/37.719154916...

Looking at that, the adage seems to hold true -- prices appear to fall off as you radiate away from the heart of the city. There's even a 1BR/1BA near the ocean by the USS San Francisco Memorial for $425k.
Maybe it's a loop hike? I'm not sure, I will have to ask my girlfriend, she added that one :)
Tongue in cheek, but I think there might be a point here struggling to see the light of day...

Why? I mean, why would women want to get into coding?

If one is not already working with computers, from the outside world, its a crappy job, and the money isn't better than many other things. Not to mention the insane hours culture. Women have a clean sheet choice. Why work in an office, killing your brain on hugely complex things for not much extra money, sat in front of what is essentially a complex toy?

Has it ever occurred to people that perhaps girls take an objective choice based on purely the work and reward (money or psychological) and make a wise choice to do something else?

Also, coders are seen widely was geeky, spotty, awkward, weirdos, who cant get laid. And, um, they are often banging on about getting more women in the workplace. From a girls POV, that's sounding a bit iffy at best.

My attitude is to just let women do what they want to do, and if I get a CV from one, well, I dont want to know if its a woman or not. I just want the skills. I dont care if its a man, woman, or what ever. Just don't get in anyones way and let nature take its course.

But personally, I cant help thinking women are making a smart choice, and going for better way to spend life earning a crust. I mean, really, look at what we do. Its a terrible way to be. And we know this is true because even the big tech companies go out of their way trying to make offices and environments fun and exciting. And that is for men. Heh, even men hate it, and need a bouincy toy to distract them!!! I don't see many of other companies going this far. Why? Because the job is awful.

So, men, stop trying to shit up womens lives by making them feel bad for not wanting to work down the mine.... sorry, code.

XXXXX love you all, obviously ;)
This may not be entirely related, but I've been building an open-source kernel in z80 assembly for three and a half years now: https://github.com/KnightOS/kernel

I might chime in with a perspective of someone working on 70s hardware without memory protection, ring modes, or enough RAM to page it around. In my system, all processes run as root (since we can't stop them from doing so on a z80), and share one big memory block. The kernel takes up the first 0x500 bytes of memory (which can be changed at kernel compile time), and the remaining 0x7A00 bytes of memory is distributed among the "userspace". Programs allocate memory here in a first-come, first-serve basis, and their own program memory, stack, and allocated space are all thrown together in this big userland memory space.

Not sure if that's a valuable perspective, but thought you might find it interesting. Here's some links:

https://github.com/KnightOS/kernel/blob/master/docs/memory.m...

https://github.com/KnightOS/kernel/blob/master/src/00/memory...
The other comments here are talking more about the work-life balance issues that might be causing the gender gap... but I personally just think it's to do with parents/relatives, role models, and the time between grade 1 and grade 12.

I myself am a coder because I loved modding games when I was younger. I do like creating things regardless, but I got to that point because a childhood friend shared PC games with me (games that his uncle shared with him)... and then you end up spending a large chunk of your childhood on the computer, so it's natural to progress down that path. But I know both guys and girls that played games like me and chose not to do a career that is computer-related.

It'd be great to have more gender balance in computer science, but actually in all fields too. I found in my art history classes in college that the class was around 80-90% female, for every class I took. This was basically the opposite of my computer science classes...

Man though, it's tough to judge society in the present lol.
See also: Cable TV.
Kettle on the hob sounds so much more fun then boiling water at the touch of a button.

I feel like there needs to be some ceremony to the tea making, it cant just be pored from a tap there needs to be some kind of wait preceding it.
Even accepting it as a questionable hypothesis is ridiculous. Everything does not revolve around gender, which is why a lot of people (not just 'some women') question why this industry revolves entirely around the male gender. Comments like yours help exacerbate that.
Hmm, I'm from Europe and when I read SWAT I think of highly trained and fit special forces.

Now the guys on the photo look like your "off the shelf" cops that couldn't sprint 100 meters without coughing heavily.

Is this a consequence of every small town police now having a SWAT team? Or were SWAT teams always composed of "average joes" and the highly trained special forces just a product of Hollywood?

Genuinely curious.
Because it was fake.
The moment the accurate physics were broken to kill of Clooney was the moment it lsot my attention.
I already was very bored of the story (no I don't need an action packed movie to entertain me), and the thing I liked was that they were being realistic in space. But then they screwed that up. (Clooney got "pulled" away from whatshername while tension should have already pulled him back, there was no spin involved either)
//end of off topic
Being a woman does not give person any extra value. Show us something interesting or go back in the kitchen.
Posts like these get high views. I'd say it's more of a link-bait thing.
Gender isn't "just a binary label," it's a system of normalized roles, and girls and women, historically and now, were/are steered to roles that involve carework, "womenly" professions, etc.

In this system, women who find interest in coding, despite all the pressures to just stick to their role, need all the role models they can get. Could you tell me, did you read the article before making this comment?
Someone typed it into a computer at some time in the past, and after information is in a computer, it remaining in a computer is a much safer bet than "And then it got deleted and we never spoke about it again."

For example, suppose a marketing company has a computer system which organizes people by households. They call a household and ask for a particular member. She's recently deceased. They type a note on that household's record, with the intention that the next person accessing that record knows that they should under no circumstances ask for the daughter who recently passed away in tragic circumstances. Some years later, a software or process bug results in that record getting entered into a mail merge.
>I would never consider a female coder to be any different from a male one

You literally segregated males from females in your coding class. That is considering them to be different.

>female students of the 11 - 17 age group learn significantly better when they are amongst their peers.

So male students aren't peers of female students? Really?

I'm pretty sure you're not being purposefully malicious, but jeeze... Your philosophy is kinda broken, you don't really seem to realize the (incredibly sexist) assumptions you're making, and that's going to lead to reinforcing a gender divide, not solving any problems.
It's just the burning of any plant material and inhaling the smoke, that's bad. Smoke is little particles of ash and soot that clog up your lungs. Smoking weed also messes up your lungs.
I think the problem should be tackled from both sides.

The people who already make up the tech field, mostly men, should absolutely behave in a professional(non-frat-boy) manner as you say.

_AND_ everyone already in the tech field should let girls & women outside of the field know that they are welcome & fully capable of entering the tech field by showing more role-models and more blogs like this one.
Can you explain your comment a little bit?

From the way I understand it, this is a way to get large companies to pay the same amount of tax as smaller companies.
"Social construct theory is dead"

Are you serious? When did it "die", again?
I wouldn't say it's "not dangerous" but definitely a lot less dangerous and offensive than smoke. 100%