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I don't really see any problem with alcohol at work events in general, but I think it heavily depends on your company culture.

The (~40 person) company I worked at before had beer fridays occasionally and pretty much everyone would join in. We'd all have a beer or two in the afternoon and call it a day. Nobody got inebriated, weird or uncomfortable. Our company was ~25% women (scientists, admin) and they all participated.

I think one difference from our situation versus the audience of this article was that a lot of people in the company had families or were otherwise "mature". I could see how that sort of could be a problem in companies with more of a young male-dominated atmosphere.
This looks really great - not only is the tool itself very useful, but I was surprised to find that it comes with what appears at first read to be really good documentation, with plenty of examples. More software should have docs like this (although a html version of the PDF would be nice).
> Actually, what happened is that it ended up bundled into high functioning autism in the DSM.

Yes, that's the psychological version of politics. Did you really think psychologists would come out and say, "We made a mistake and there's no such thing as Asperger's"? That would be like the Catholic church saying Galileo was right.

What they did say was, "It's not an evidence-based term." Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/health/03asperger.html?pag... That's good enough for me or any other scientist -- it's not real.

The proof that there's no such thing as Asperger's (as a mental illness) has two parts. One, anyone could get the diagnosis through the simple expedient of visiting a psychologist and saying, "I think I have Asperger's". Two, the number of wildly successful people who were said to have Asperger's, including Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein, and Bill Gates, which means if Asperger's is real, then wealth and fame are reliable diagnostic indicators for the condition. That would give "mental illness" a whole new meaning.
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Do you also cringe every time you see a write-up of a male engineer or executive where attention is drawn to his hairstyle, clothes, or shoes?

Example from the same article: "Finally Rosing, a bald man in glasses, began to speak"
I have old files on floppies, too. I'm sure one of these is a Warhol.
As soon as Google+ insisted on real names, they made me realize it was only a vehicle for selling my privacy (pretty much my only motive for leaving Facebook). Now interested in neither.
If you're not careful your shop can become a drinking fraternity first, dev team second. What happens when someone who does not drink wants to join the team ? Well just the fact that he doesn't drink can make the rest of the team feel like they're having less fun and that they "can't have as much fun drinking now" so they might (subconsciously) decide that the highly qualified non-drinker is not a cultural fit. That's fine in an environment where new qualified recruits are easy to come by.. but is that the world we live in ?
Broadly speaking, that's all true, but I have to take a little exception with this:

Likewise, with programmers all that matters is the code. If it's good, you are good.

There's a bit more to it in my experience; I've met some developers who were good at producing code, but less effective at understanding requirements, or working within teams, or accepting that they might have to spend time on tasks they don't want to.

In that sense, it's difficult to hire without getting to know someone at least a little, which implicitly means knowing their gender and race. I think the better approach is to just "not be biased" in the first place. Harder than it sounds, no doubt.
So how come that everyone else around me seems to be able to remain productive and happy even though working on things the are not excited about in any way? It's a question that keeps bugging me.
Indeed, although there are extremes here I feel are quite detrimental.

I am not a fan of the "Liquid Lunch" culture I've seen from contractors working for some crown-owned banks who can't pay 200% bonuses this year, nor am I 100% sold on the mandatory company pub-quizz for new media agencies, feels too much like mandatory fun.

Beer trolley OTOH, I'm in :) IIRC the German SAP dev team breakroom is garnished with beer taps. Might explain a lot about ABAP.
57% - 43% does not seem like a statistically significant difference...
This article explicitly discusses that very point. Don't be a troll.

In any case, there are often attempts to bring more men into heavily female-dominated professions. Teachers and midwives, for example.
I can certainly get behind what you say. I don't have the time/willpower to spell out my position in detail, but I do agree that there are practicalities that need to be ameliorated. Thank you for elucidating them.
The St. Crispin's Day speech? REALLY?
I doubt that any individual super-charger station is a large enough load to be charged for their peak usage. It's a big load but nothing like a smelter or even a small factory.
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I could see how that sort of could be a problem in companies with more of a young male-dominated atmosphere.

That's a good point that I hadn't considered. I'm used to working with a pretty diverse bunch of people already, quite a few with kids; I expect in an environment which is much more 'college-like' the outcome could be very different.
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Felix Salmon's review and analysis based on the book is more informative than the book itself, read it:

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2014/04/21/the-most-ex...
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I recently had a problem with a client as well, and to assuage the headache of dealing with them, I took a half hour to re-watch Mike Monteiro's brilliant talk on the subject:

http://creativemornings.com/talks/mike-monteiro--2/1
Equality is not the answer. There is no equality in nature. We have a discrimination problem, but the opposite of that is not equality, it's respect. Somewhere along the way, people started assuming that if women are equal to men, they would be respected. No. You don't want to be respected because you are equal to other respected people. You should be respected for who you are. If you are a woman, great. Make sure people appreciate that. But don't try to be equal.

Gender equality is a dirty term. Let's end this and stop using it. Gender collaboration and respect is what we need.
Nope. As long as it's wildly profitable, it shall be done.
Because the proportion of men and women is not a measure of how sexist the field is.
No, just the opposite. There would be real costs for those companies that have /8s to move away from them. Meanwhile the gains would be minimal - at best it might allow some organizations to put off moving to IPv6 for a few months.
Some things are thrilling because they are hard. Software development has the amazing quality that everything that is not-hard is automated immediately, leaving little need for humans doing "easy" work. Highly competent developers are sought after because companies know that they cannot be replaced with a group of average developers. What you say has nothing to do with women, it's obvious advice for good manners. I 'll take it, it's polite to stop being dorky around women, but, on work matters, there should be no rounded edges.
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I think if your shop is turning into a fraternity because of a few drinks, you've got bigger problems than the drinking.
Property owners.
Well, exactly. That shows the difference in understanding.
My peers have been obsessed since puberty. They don't have to be lured into the industry because they never could have stayed away. Their 10,000 hours thoroughly shaped them because it came at the expense of a normal social life. Someone who starts at 20 is interested in paychecks, not programming. I would drum today's bottom half out of the industry, not swell their ranks.
Go with Wordpress/Ghost(self hosted) if you want to own your content.

Another thing, many startups use Tumblr because they like it not to be hosted on the same server, so that if your website goes down, your blog will be still up. Tumblr has social features, auto posting to social networks, and all the features listed above except the fact that you're hosting your content on Tumblr servers. Which I don't think should be a problem.
I was actually wondering how Stripe would feel about for-profit open source projects. I don't think they'll be too excited to fund their development.
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I'm a man, so I wouldn't know, but isn't this true of most women too?
Actually, per the Facebook page, he's been arrested in Tokyo.
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The point isn't to limit the viewership, but to target the people you annoy with your notifications.

Sharing to a specific circle only implements privacy control, but it's much too heavy handed - nobody else can see it. Also, you can't change sharing options after the fact, so choosing the right options becomes particularly important.
> I'm sure there's an Autism spectrum upon which Asperger's syndrome lies ...

If voting can create or destroy a mental illness, then everything lies on the autism spectrum -- it's just a matter of talking psychologists into it. Asperger's was voted into existence, and voted out of existence. There was and is no objective scientific evidence for its existence.

> I'm sure that psychology (as distinct from psychiatry) is a scientific discipline ...

If psychology were a scientific discipline, then psychologists would be able to use their research results to dictate what psychiatrists and clinical psychologists can and cannot do in a clinical setting, in the same way that medical research dictates what can and cannot be done in a medical clinic.

But that is not so, and the reason is that psychology isn't a science -- it has no central defining theories, no tests of those theories, and no basis for falsification of those nonexistent theories, all required properties of science.

> so logic dictates that the weak link is your statement that "it was voted out of existence".

That's an uncontroversial fact -- Asperger's was voted into existence, then it was voted out of existence, and science played no part.

It is for these and other reasons that the NIMH recently ruled that the DSM, psychology's "Bible", can no longer be used as the basis for scientific research proposals, for the simple reason that it has no scientific content:

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...

Quote: "The goal of this new manual, as with all previous editions, is to provide a common language for describing psychopathology. While DSM has been described as a “Bible” for the field, it is, at best, a dictionary, creating a set of labels and defining each. The strength of each of the editions of DSM has been “reliability” – each edition has ensured that clinicians use the same terms in the same ways. The weakness is its lack of validity.

Unlike our definitions of ischemic heart disease, lymphoma, or AIDS, the DSM diagnoses are based on a consensus about clusters of clinical symptoms, not any objective laboratory measure. In the rest of medicine, this would be equivalent to creating diagnostic systems based on the nature of chest pain or the quality of fever. Indeed, symptom-based diagnosis, once common in other areas of medicine, has been largely replaced in the past half century as we have understood that symptoms alone rarely indicate the best choice of treatment. Patients with mental disorders deserve better."

The tl;dr: not science.
The future of RSS is finding a way to make users use it without knowing they are using it.

Sadly, more and more platforms are abandoning RSS/atom (hello twitter) --they want no part on anything defined on an RFC that decentralizes and makes it easier to consume a service without entering their site. Other than that I guess XML.

As of % of internet users that use RSS, count me in.
Seriously, if someone (a bank or whoever) was calling me _12 times a day_, they would never get a single penny back from me. There's a line between "trying to contact someone to find out what's going on" and harassment.
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Sounds cool. It's like Vimium for normal users.
For your reading pleasure[1]:

> Researchers found that these separate diagnoses were not consistently applied across different clinics and treatment centers. Anyone diagnosed with one of the four pervasive
developmental disorders (PDD) from DSM-IV should still meet the criteria for ASD in DSM-5 or another,
more accurate DSM-5 diagnosis.

The DSM-V fact sheet indicates that, indeed, rather than being voted out of existence, Aspergers Syndrome was reclassified to help reduce misdiagnoses from varying application of DSM-IV criteria, not because it doesn't exist.

1: http://www.dsm5.org/Documents/Autism%20Spectrum%20Disorder%2...
The problem is that (in anecdotal experience) men and women simply handle it differently - men might get angry, offensive, even aggressive, while women might cry, gossip and manipulate. Different people might evaluate the negative effect of different behaviours differently, but that doesn't mean that any sex is handling rejection any better.
OT, but if you ever find yourself in London I'd be happy to introduce you to some places where my wife cheats on the whole of her native Iwate prefecture[0][1]. They're pricy, but nowhere near as pricy as the local chapter of Nobu.

[0]: Sakana-tei 11 Maddox Street, London W1S 2QF

[1]: http://www.tajima-tei.co.uk/
So is this information scraped from the Netflix website or is this using/relaying the official API that used to exist from Netflix but is now closed to new applicants?

Either way I don't see how Netflix would let this site continue. The domain name containing their brand name probably just makes it more likely to happen.
We tried this in ActionQuake 2 thinking it was a great idea. When we were halfway done with our town we realized it was very boring to play in something realistic. The real world doesn't always present such an interesting landscape for FPS shooters compared to the ones that are designed to be fun to play.
Why is it that every time one want to compare programming to other professions, we look at professions with low social status like car mechanic, nurses, metal worker, secretary and so on.

Instead, I suggest that we compare high education professions with other high education professions. Psychotherapy for example is a highly preferred female profession with about 80% female to male ratio. Veterinaries are 90% female to male. Both is similar to programming in that they are heavily sought of, has high competitive path to employment, and both require years of higher education.

So turning to this article, I wonder, is the advice the article has actually sexist? Would they work in equal manner to get more male therapist or veterinaries, or is the comic strip in the middle of the article much more relevant in actually getting a change in the ratio of profession male and female programmers.
I think it's quite similar to the aspiring actor taking a bus to Hollywood with a backpack and a dream, and roughly the same chances of making it big. Except it's probably easier to make a go at tech outside of SV than to make a go of acting outside of Hollywood (and New York). And a lot easier to bootstrap too. But from the aspirant's point of view it's similar.
I can't believe there's a 90% chance that the class action would be rejected. The companies got off ridiculously cheap. Yet another example of illegal behavior remaining very profitable even after legal action.
I believe that's because Americans are not allowed to drink until they're 21. When they finally get permission, they go berserk.
Caution: This is the closed source fork and not the fork from http://get-popcorn.com or https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-app.

Copied from Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/PopCornTime/comments/232xmf/a_list_o...):

We advise you to not install Time4Popcorn. We will not link to their software anymore from this thread, i did not want to take a side in this but since the application seems to send data to unknown servers and they steal code from other projects... That is what has made me decide not to delete it off the list. No that would not help anyone, i would like everyone to know how bad of a piece of software time4popcorn currently is. Their Mac version currently even links to the Official Popcorn Time version, which is odd? Why would they do that? Oh yes because they can't create their own versions. I have collected several comments from our community about the current suspious activity that time4popcorn has shown us.
I advise you to not install or to delete the app immediatly if you did install it. The developers do have a chance of getting back here in the list, they can send me a PM and prove that i am several other people are completely wrong. On this moment we will strongly advise against the use of this software. We will also delete any and every link to their website and or download pages.
Be warned!
@cesasol commented:
After checking the source code, i could see there is no software beyond nodewebkit under popcorn4time binary, instead they work on this "cloud" http://app.time4popcorn.eu/[25] *deactivate js before going to this link And there is a couple of binary files with the extension php, wich is more than suspicius. After checking in a vbox, they send random data to that server and another two, not only the torrent seeding.
@Sharkiller a Popcorn Time dev has also showed his doubts:
@Foxito they steal code, dont release them, put features that dont work only grow up their userbase who knows for what. for weeks they do interviews for a lot of pages to gain more and more userbase even when their code never works(tvshows). in the code you can find suspicious images to track the users, they don't even are from analytics. after a few weeks they "release" a source code in github that is a clone of the popcorn-official repo, even the links go to that repo. with the commits of the same day. They don't even do a fork only a renamed code. If that is not fishy to you then use it.
@traplover69 commented: The download links on http://get-popcorn.com/download/mac[26] and http://time4popcorn.eu/Popcorn-Time-0.2.9-Mac.tar.gz[27] point to the same file. Both give a shasum of fc00796208ca412b01c3715fb44af191d937ba8a. Any ideas whats happening here?
So be carefull with Time4Popcorn
I still fail to really grasp what Google+ is.

I'd actually rather a de-centralised platform. And prefer a glorious feed organiser.

Very simple open comment/status feed APIs would be more beneficial for the community at large with a pub/sub mechanism that was easy to understand and utilise.

Add an RSS feed for a news website, add a Twitter feed, or friend, add a Facebook (channel for a better word), or whatever. Organise these somehow. Integrate privacy controls. This would probably suit a next generation browser rather than an online silo.
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Lower than expected? Whose expectance? Given Microsofts track record in mobile devices I think no one expected Microsoft to really be able to compete. And given Nokia's track record in smart phones, nobody expected Nokia to be able to push Microsoft up either. But as it is now, it seems they've actually been able to. They've managed to punch a small but significant hole in the Android market, against all odds, by building some truly excellent products.

Who'd have thought Microsoft would some day produce an integrated mobile product that you could prefer over an Apple product without being made out a fool?
I'd love a comeback in the mobile space in 2018! :-)
If the woman is attracted to you then she expects you to make a romantic gesture. If you don't she's hurt. If she's not attracted then such a gesture could hurt her. Policies like no dating is a lot to do with protecting women in the workplace from having to go out of their way expressing themselves. A much better policy could be everyone has to make their intentions clear.
Thank you for your tips and advice :).

AD 1. I recently went through a physical therapy after a knee accident and I noticed a difference in my energy levels and mood in that period of time, during which I had about 1h of exercise every day. So I think it might be a good idea for me to try and include some workout into daily schedule.

AD 2. Could you elaborate a bit more? I tried it once or twice, and I don't really feel it. I usually think out the things before coding them, and I'm having a hard time coordinating that with other person for anything that's even slightly complex.

AD 3. Been on ketogenic diet last year, didn't notice much of a difference in terms of productivity (but I did lose the weight I wanted).
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I think a lot of rules shouldn't be created. It's just enough to speak up.

Someone behaving bad while drinking? Talk to the person the next day.

Two people starting a relationship at work? Talk to them about having a bad time at work when they break up.

There should be only one policy: everyone is equal and deserves respect.
> Where was it shown that was the case?

The investment fell through when Google Ventures claimed it had a conflicting investment. So the most charitable reading is that the investor was clueless, since if he was aware of the conflict-of-interest from the start that would imply he was simply trolling the founders.
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Could slacking off at work be inhereted?
I would suggest hosting an event that benefits the members of your 'underground society', but that attracts the attention of the college population overall. I was a non-business minded, non-tech person that haphazardly attended a Lean Startup Machine workshop in my community. It was one of the most exciting experiences I've had – I learned a lot, exercised skills I didn't know I had, and met people I never would have otherwise.

You could do the same thing. Just be sure to grab as many people from outside your community as feasible, and try to weight the teams in such a way that there is a balance between the entrepreneurs and the newcomers. Diversity of background is essential, but balancing skill sets also brings strength to teams, so ask people to fill out a survey of some kind when they sign up to help you plan the teams.

Keep it inexpensive, provide food/booze where appropriate, and limit the capacity so that there is more interest than you actually invite (enabling you to try it again a few weeks later).

This is unlikely to change the entire culture of the college, but it will bring in new people, new ideas, and perhaps some of the participants will hit on an idea that they can build out into an actual business.