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Wow. All of the positive reviews were completely reactionary to the negative reviews. If that doesn't scream "encouraged by upper management" I don't know what does. They read so unauthentically.
I drink far more Coke Vanilla Zero than could possibly be good for someone when at home, and yet when eating out I generally get iced tea with no sweetener. You may know a closet soda addict and not even realize it. :)
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That's a pretty rude and condescending response. Feeling excluded from a particular culture is very different from expecting a task or learning a skill to be easy. Imagine trying to learn a new skill and finding that your peers & superiors in the field are hostile to you but friendly to each other. This is the experience many women report and I've witnessed it myself.
But how will you lowball candidates if you do that?
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Paddy Ashdown describes in his autobiography how one of the survival instructors on his SBS course introduced himself by place a live frog between two slices of bread and eating it and then saying "Survival is simple, if you can do that you will survive, if you can't do that you won't".

[NB For those outside of the UK or Bosnia: Paddy Ashdown is a former UK politican - now in the House of Lords who had a rather interesting career - Royal Marines, SBS, MI6 then politics becoming leaders of the LibDems, the UK's third party].
IIRC Google Authenticator uses a third-party barcode scanner via an intent.
Regardless of the source of the comment, it would be interesting to have the source data to know exactly what they're classifying as "Computer Science" programs. That term has certainly increased in usage over the last several decades, and was not always in use in the decades prior to the 1980s.

So what did the study use in its place?

That's a valid question regardless of who raised it.
There is that too. But I'd say their public complaints about securing the data better is pretty clear evidence they want to bias the system outside of legislative channels as well.
Seems fairly self-evident - personal computers grew out of the electronic hobbyist industry. The first home PCs were kits for Radio Shack geeks. The PC market was firmly established as a split-off from the electronics-geek market until the early '90s or so.
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Are you kidding me?
They just posted some very odd tweets about this story: http://imgur.com/xvjr02Z
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I guess you aren't aware of COBOL for Java and .NET.

http://www.gtsoftware.com/netcobol-2/

http://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/software/developer-to...

http://www.microfocus.com/products/micro-focus-developer/vis...

Or that since COBOL 2002 there is support for OOP, and the standard just got a new revision this year.

Most corporations of enterprise level, seldom write full new applications, rather extensions to existing systems.

So the language depends a lot of the pool of available skills. If the employees are COBOL guys, the new modules will be COBOL as well.
> I got into programming because I couldn't complete a level in a game, and I resorted to cheat-codes and hacks.

While I programmed long before then, that's certainly the reason I started poking at hex editors, and why I remember off the top of my head that 0x63 is 99 and 0x64 is 100.
This is only really true in a purely logical argument. In rational arguments, like the one we're having now, source does affect posterior expectation. That is, someone of unimpeachable character and a history of reliability saying "F" ought to increase your posterior expectation that F. Conversely, someone with deeply questionable character and reliability will affect your posterior expectation of F much less, or perhaps even decreasing the expectation if you sense a motive for skewing the truth.

The source does matter. It is not irrelevant, nor is it an "attack" in the traditional sense to offer evidence that the source might be lying or misguided.
This is interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V36Nn9UpBxk
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I am still approached on almost a weekly basis to help someone build the next "killer app".
On the flip side, when I am interviewing a candidate I always ask when they would be able to start if we were to make them an offer. A currently employed candidate who says "tomorrow" raises huge red flags.
Birthday paradox!
"They were marketed almost exclusively to boys"

You mean exactly like chemistry sets? Yet chemistry is the most equal major in terms of gender of graduates.

I like Planet Money, but this story is unconvincing.
That, I don't know. We'd probably need to go much further back to find an answer.
How can anyone take anything fronted by Brian Cox seriously? He's like an overgrown over-excitable schoolboy.
what's up G! Long time no see. I love Patreon, it turns crowdfunding on it's head. They're more about a subscription model and delivering on an on-going, digitally delivered relationship, as opposed to the big blowout, whale-heavy model of traditional crowdfunding. Flip side of the same coin, I think artists need to basically do both in the future.
I'm not sure what format is next for artists. Honestly I care less about the format as much as I do about the underlying principles, which is finding a way to inject humanity and genuine intimacy into the "sales" process. That's always going to be important in a patronage model. I suppose some sort of CRM element would help with that?
Belittling another person for their experiences in the manner you just did comes across as arrogant and insensitive.

First of all, if you have something to say, say it plainly instead of wrapping it up in passive agressive bullshit.

Secondly, when you've stripped it of outward bullshit and realized how pointless it is, consider not posting it at all.
The best explanation I've come across so far is Roy Baumeister's Is There Anything Good About Men? [0], which explains gender determinisms by regarding the evolutionary history of our species. The article was already posted several times on HN [1].

[0]: http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm

[1]: http://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/prefix/0/Is%20There%2...
Degrees in data entry and word processing? This needs more substantiation than 'my grandma had one.'

Edit: I followed up on that after getting back to the house and I did find some community colleges that offered certificates in word processing and business information systems (which could include data entry), some which might count for credit towards an associate degree. But I remain skeptical that such vocational qualifications were ever the basis of a full degree, or that such qualifications were formerly treated as synonymous with the study of computer science.
I recently ballparked the cost of a home solar charger for my Leaf EV. Came out around half the price of the car ... not cheap, but feasible for someone serious about it.

I do have a propane-powered electrical generator for emergency/backup home power. Some day I'll try charging the Leaf with it.
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> Many restaurants offer only local tap water as a water choice

Amusingly in my neck of the woods, my wife and I noticed a few years ago that most of the Korean restaurants had high-quality filtered water (some advertised local water stores, others we could just taste it).

Makes a huge difference IMHO - too bad more places don't offer good local filtered water - it's cheap and makes the food taste better.
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> So your two piddly links trump their two piddly links?

My first link includes more than one ad featuring girls.

They cited two advertisements and interviews with "hundreds" of students trying to recall why their parents bought computers.

If you're going to make the bold claim that computers "were marketed almost entirely to men and boys," then you've got to present some data on the marketing of the time. Especially when there are counter examples to the claim.

Even something like, "here are ten thousand computer ads from the 80s and boys outnumber girls by a significant margin" would work.
> On a more personal note I have found my $420 Nexus 5 to be on par with an $869 iPhone 6 - and that can't be good for Apple's long-term financial health.

FWIW, I made the exact same switch as well -- Nexus 5 to iPhone 6 -- and I definitely prefer the iPhone.
Loading unsigned drivers and/or accessing hardware directly from userspace in Linux when you are root and have booted with UEFI "Secure Boot" enabled is considered a vulnerability. If it weren't, Microsoft would not sign the shim Linux distributions use.
Tell them 3 weeks. Get escorted politely off former employer when I give notice (its just policy, good luck). Vacation!
You say "ever" but the early history of computing was filled with women. Something caused a change.
Oh really?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/09/mexico-obesity_n_35...

Relevant numbers from the article:

US obesity rate: 31.8%
Mexican obesity rate: 32.8%

Also, Mexican soda exclusively uses cane sugar. I buy Mexican Coke for the new times I drink regular soda for that reason.
Of the ~20 countries I've visited I think only the US had HFCS in the fruit juice. (It tastes funny/unfamiliar, so I notice.)

Instead they contain sugar, natural or added, and about as much as cola (~10%). The cola also has sugar instead of HFCS.
Sure, but "we don't know, therefore let's provisionally go the MRA's unsourced claims," is not a sound interim position.
confd author here.

I'm glad to see this idea validated, and I think consul-template looks pretty awesome and well integrated with consul. consul-template takes advantage of consul specific features such as the consul services API and datacenters, which is really great for consul users. These are things I did not want to add and maintain in confd, since I'm supporting consul, etcd, and environment variables as backends I felt those would be one off features, which really belong in a consul focused tool like this.

Some will ask why did Hashicorp not just contribute to confd? Well they did. They added initial support for consul to confd almost a year ago and have been very helpful with my questions around consul ever since. The contributions go both ways too. I've been a contributor to Hashicorp's Packer project -- I added Ansible and GCE support and various bug fixes.

This is just how opensource works. I'm actually pretty happy to see one of my projects get so much attention and now inspire another project. That's the whole point right?
The Value of a Network – n^2 or n*log(n)?
You know, the only time I've ever heard the term "brave" applied to a large group of people is when the group in question is an army.
I think perhaps you’re confusing WordPerfect with Word. WP, as a DOS tool, was very big on “show formatting” with a syntax much-like HTML. In that mode, you could actually delete formatting with the backspace key while leaving text intact.
>"require the disclosure or retention of data for some regulatory purpose (taxing, telecom regs, "just because", etc.)"

Even better, they may require retention and/or disclosure for "consumer protection".
> Someone is going to drain out all their internal records

What could they possibly have worth stealing?
This is what I do as well, and I also have a little script that creates all the symlinks in my home directory as well. Dead simple, and it works. I was hoping Stow would somehow be an improvement over that but I don't really see how it does anything more for you.
A) I'd love to see a citation about the differences in interest between sexes (or genders for that matter).

B) Even if there is a difference for some statistically significant degree, given the population we are talking about the outliers can matter a tremendous amount (for instance if "only" 20% of women are interested in computers but are forced out due to culture, that is on the order of 30 million humans).

C) Even if there aren't massive amounts of outliers, gender interest continues to not explain why the computer sciences participation decreased over time and other technology professions didn't.
I guess a lot depends on how you draw the line of "new project".
Maybe it doesn't matter. Once a group becomes predominantly one culture, it rapidly slides to that corner of the culture space. Lots of reasons - people hire people they feel comfortable with. People value people they understand more, regarding them as more intelligent or harder working.
I would add:

6. Males are far more likely to enter jobs they're not suitable for

Of all the "programmers" without any aptitude that seem to plague corporate IT departments, virtually none of the ones I've come across have been female. If you take out these frauds when counting programmers, then the gender balance in many IT departments becomes more like the early 1980's. Added: When programming became a perceived status job, the frauds turned up to cheat aptitude tests, lie on their CV about experience and studies, and what not.
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It's not about base desires, it's that some people are simply assholes. No amount of training will overcome someone's asshole nature.

There is a prevalent and totally erroneous school of thought which naively assumes that people do bad things simply because they don't know any better, and so all you have to do is take them aside as you would a misbehaving kindergartener for some "training" and then all will be well. It doesn't work that way. Some people are just assholes and always will be, irrespective of any amount of "training" you give them.
Why should they waste 30 seconds on that? To satisfy you? Very few people really care about this. If they say anything and then it takes longer to deliver than they thought those people will jump down their throat. Better to say nothing and announce when ready.
> Obviously you can argue that it was wrongly decided in the first instance, but that's a different argument.

Isn't it the same argument?

The thing that has changed over time is the nature, quantity and implications of the data held by third parties. Target now knows a daughter is pregnant before her father does, etc.

Against this level of knowledge stored by third parties, the third party doctrine eats the fourth amendment. Which means that "the proposition that the government has at least as much right to access your data for law enforcement purposes as AT&T does for billing purposes" has to be wrong. The principle is defective. Who you call is the business of the phone company because they have to route your calls; how does that make it the business of the government?
Doing the same with garlic should also work. At least for some of them.
Why is the first claim more 'fantastic' than the second? Why are nurture-arguments so often viewed as perfectly innocuous and impartial, while nature-arguments are viewed as so controversial?

Throwing around unsubstantiated claims about how "society molded them into who they are" seems like a very fantastic claim to me. And I see a lot of that kind of argument going around.
Hey Tim,

So what did you end up doing for your roadtrip? Did you find a tool or did you just do it on your own? I'd be curious to see what you ended up using.

Thanks
>I think at this point it would be viewed the same way that smoking is viewed if it weren't for the fact that soda affects only the consumer whereas cigarettes produce second-hand smoke and a suffocating odor that fills the room.

And the addiction, don't forget that horrible, crippling addiction.
I read somewhere that container ships' fuels are the dirtiest of all fuels used everywhere, which made buying electronics really non-green (since they're all come in ships from the other side of the globe). Anyone here knows how accurate this is?
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> Working at places you love and believe in is for trustafarians

Even worse, it bids down the price of labor for people who actually work for a living.
In autofs (which has handled demand-based auto-mounting of network shares quite nicely for decades), you can write executable scripts to handle service discovery for different file-sharing protocols.

In ISC DHCP (I don't know if systemd is handling dhcp or not), you can add shell scripts as pre or post configuration hooks. I set up a cluster where the local hostname is set from DHCP/DNS, rather than vice versa.
Chemistry sets went the other way and have almost entirely gone out of fashion due to health and safety issues.
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You are reading in hostile intent where none exists.

I'll clarify my original post: Letting people drive you out of a field that you are passionate about is bad.
>I can't quite articulate the feelings of isolation and frustration I felt in that class

Male nerd here. My god, I couldn't get along with 90% of my class. They all seemed to be disagreeable in a "technically correct is the best kind of correct" way, but also with lots of arbitrary fanboyism and a complete lack of basic social skills or outside interests. Not to mention the petty competitiveness and complete lack of any team player skills, and usually a huge amount of attitude dismissing these types of skills as useless.

Meh, I suffered through it (and through many coworkers of this type) as the price of business.

I'm not sure why women assume its all roses for men in these fields and classes. I dislike jerks as much as you. Heck, when we do hiring, we aim for social and inter-personal skills first and technical skills last. Its easy to find a difficult non-team player misanthrope who knows x, y, z. He's just hell to work with. I'll take the easier to work with the person who knows just x and can eventually learn y and z.

Also, this female dominated computer industry of 1970s and 80s has been shown to be something of a myth. A lot of those degrees and jobs weren't programming heavy and in practice were mere data entry or computer operator jobs, not necessarily coding. As the industry changed and those jobs moved towards administrative categories so did the women with them. IT departments dont have a team of data entry specialists anymore. They're put elsewhere, or have been eliminated altogether. If anything we have more female coders, who actually code, than ever.
Koum himself issued a statement; Bloomberg and others were simply following up on it.

Posting the court documents is standard Bloomberg operating procedure (they do that for nearly every story the write), though you're right, it may have been uncalled for in this case. But given that Koum himself chose to come forward with a statement, it wasn't exactly yellow journalism for them to write about it.
It doesn't look like the "candidate/employee" signed anything. And if they did, the contract isn't enforceable without consideration. "We are considering you for the job" is not consideration.
A shift happened where computing was seen as something girls didn't do. If not marketing then what caused it? (IMO it started when computing became synonymous with math, if people thought girls couldn't do math then they also couldn't be good with computers).
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It's not unusual at all to find very smart people that just lack the very basic common sense.
Unfortunate, Google has a reputation for killing acquisitions. Let's hope the founders manage to escape and recreate their product after, like Dodgeball vs. Foursquare.
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As I said, it's an interesting question, regardless of the source.

So I went and looked it up, since that seemed more productive than fighting endlessly over it.

The NSF study helpfully includes an appendix that shows what fields they counted as "Computer Science", and it turns out that "Data Processing" and "Data Processing Technician" were indeed counted in that category.

Of course, that says nothing about the relative numbers and how they changed, but it does raise a possible explanation for the shift in numbers as Data Processing died out as a field.

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf13327/pdf/tabb1.pdf
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Wasn't the early-mid-80's when programming/computers held much of a social stigma (ie nerd, geek, etc were insults). The market followed that trend and instead of offering a computer as a consumer gender un-biased product, it was marketed at men.. But even then, if you look at ads from around that time for computers.. It's a computer. It's not something that you can assign a gender to in advertising very effectively. It's the social aspect surrounding computers that does that.

Also I disagree with what nathan_long said regarding "Women felt they must not be "naturally good" at computers, based on how men already knew more". To me that is absurd to assume that woman would think that "men know more than us, so why try"? His third point would be nullified by the associated social stigma during their teen years.
Though this seems like a bit of a hot headed thing to do in itself as well.
It enables http://blog.authy.com/multi-device , which is either very handy or stupid depending on how paranoid you are.
> have always been deeply interested in computers, but have nonetheless felt inexplicably out of place for it

You know what stopped me from becoming a professional programmer? It wasn't the fact that I didn't get to study CS in high-school, nor that I didn't have a PC until I was a university student, nor the lack of Internet access at home until I was 20+ years old, nor the language barrier (English is my third language), nor being limited to free resources by my finances.

Nothing. Nothing stopped me from pursuing my interest.
I think the purpose of the puzzle is one of resource management.

It's not a hard puzzle, and I think that it's too easy to try to overthink it to sound smart, like you've done.

The reasonable assumption is that the four people are on one side of the bridge, and you want to have them all on the other side of the bridge.

The simple answer is that the person that takes 1 minute to cross goes with all of the other people, and then brings the torch back for the rest.

So 10 minutes, 1 back, 7 minutes, 1 back, 2 minutes. Total of 20 minutes.

There isn't anything technically specifying that they have to end up on the opposite side of the bridge at the end, but you wouldn't have a situation where someone really wanted to cross the bridge and end up where they started without a torch, and it indicates that the four people have one torch, which implies that they're a party of 4, not 2 groups on opposite sides of the bridge.

I think it's a good question, because it judges the state of the person being interviewed. Are they just scared away by a simple puzzle? Do they come up with some contrivance to try and show off how smart they are? Do they just come up with a practical solution?

Personally, I'd give the practical answer and say 20 minutes, give or take a bit for transferring the torch and turning around. I'd make the assumption that they were all on one side of the bridge and want to go to the other.

When you're given a request to send a request across a network and send a confirmation across the network, you're not going to go and send the some of the requests to the server, and some of the requests to the client, and some of the responses to the server, and some to the client, just because, despite the implied context, you decided that you could make it a bit faster by doing something that didn't make sense because it technically followed the rules.

You probably think your answer is still better, and that's why it's a decent question.