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I've been a Wikipedia editor for ages, and I have noticed this. You can't wait around for other people to reply.

Generally if I'm about to do something potentially controversial, I write a comment on it in the talk thread, and then I go ahead and do it. If others have a problem with it they'll fix it. You kind of have to have a "ask for forgiveness" attitude towards non-active pages.

Very cool! I use cycle for this which only does averaging, which works okay but it's seriously old and clonky. I was wondering why someone hadn't done this already.

It's breast cancer.

Those who have a pregnancy before 20 years of age versus those who have a pregnancy after 35 years of age show a 50% reduction in their risk of breast cancer.

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/prevention/breast/hea...

Breast cancer is one of the more common cancers in woman.

Having your first pregnancy before 20 versus after 35 lowers your chance of breast cancer by 50%.

For each birth, breast cancer risk decreases by 7%.

For each year of breast feeding, breast cancer risks decreases by 4%

Source: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/prevention/breast/hea...

The mechanism isn't entirely worked out, but the hypothesis is that immature breast cells are more likely to cause cancer, and that pregnancy and breastfeeding cause breast cells to mature into cells that are less likely to become cancerous.

This paper explores the mechanism more: http://erc.endocrinology-journals.org/content/14/4/907.full

My neighbor has 5 hens- he gave us eggs when we first moved in. I ate them, but honestly I could not get over the visible smears of poo on them. So for me, they tasted icky, but I'm sure it was entirely psychological.

I went to Cornell, and I never witnessed any sort of collaboration of this sort.

I did have a professor tell us an anecdote of discovering such "collaboration" in his classes and tell us he wouldn't stand for it (and yes, they were Chinese), but that's the only encounter I had.

As the new mother of a 3 month old, I'm really getting a taste of how much it must suck to be in a wheelchair. The stroller can't go into half the places I try to visit. Even the bank wasn't wheelchair accessible. And in many stores, even if they are on the ground floor, the aisles are too narrow to navigate.

>Unfortunately, all continuing to enforce how special women are (either positively or negatively, in this case) is to keep women thinking they need specialised tools to succeed.

It emphasizes it to you. As a woman, it painstakingly obvious I am "special." At the last tech event I was at I was one of three women; one was the girlfriend of the organizer, one was a non technical person looking for technical help for a start-up, and the other was me. I felt awkward and stood out like a sore thumb. There's nothing that a bunch of women trying to raise money to encourage women to be in tech could do to make me feel MORE awkward at events where it's obvious I stand out.

Look, I think the project itself is kind of silly. But it could bring more women into tech. And more women in tech won't make me stand out more; it will make me stand out LESS. That's the only way it's going to shake out.

As a female Django dev, I'm glad I wasn't there. That would have made me feel extremely unwelcome.

>my point was just that wearing low-cut tops and dressing for sex appeal are usually correlated.

I didn't start wearing low-cut tops and dresses until I started breast-feeding because they make it easier to pull out your boobs.

>Why do women wear low-cut dresses if not to attract male attention (in the majority of cases)?

I would say for the most part it's not all that conscious. We buy the dress if we like it. In some cases we might not buy it if it looks too revealing, or buy it because it's especially sexy, but for the most part dresses are cut to the style of the day and it has little to do with the intentions of the woman wearing them.

Personally I've started consciously looking for low-cut tops and dresses for the first time in my life, because they're easier to breastfeed in. Most of my dresses and tops are cut too high to do that easily so I need to expand my wardrobe. So sorry, all that cleavage is not for you, it's for my baby :).

>My personal well-being (as well as my privacy and, I truly believe, my safety) are not worth the risk and grief.

Jesus. Melodramatic much?

I've been a low level Wikipedia editor for many years. I have edited and written a smattering of articles, and it has never been a waste of time, and certainly not dangerous to my SAFETY.

I don't know if anyone has gotten any value from my articles, but I have. I have written articles to help study for exams back in college, I've written articles to help my keep track of the TV schedule of a favorite but unpopular TV show, and I've written articles about favorite but unpopular books. I've also written and edited articles that I use as references for my work.

I never got involved in the "politics" of Wikipedia; I just care about making the content better for personal use. Maybe this is where this guy went wrong. Simply editing articles is not a waste of time, even if you're the only one that reads them. At the very least it helps you.

I wish it allowed you enter an hourly wage, since that's what I make.

I could annualize it but I don't actually work full time so that wouldn't be accurate.

When I took cs 100 as a freshman in college, I had never programmed before. I was in the "bottom hump." I would have failed that little quiz if I took it my first semester.

Unlike every other discipline, programming is a completely different way of thinking from what we're exposed to in public schooling. It takes time for your brain to change the way it thinks.

It's not impossible to learn; I learned. It just took me more than one semester of being exposed to something for the very first time. The reason for the two humps are people who have been exposed to programming and those who have not; it's why it appears in intro classes but not in the later ones.

Oh no, I'm going to be that person.

Thank science! (And also those people who participated in a campaign to help him get a match.)

My mom was diagnosed with a rare variant of AML (APML or APL) in April 2011. When she was admitted to the hospital, she had at maximum one or two days left to live before she would have hemorrhaged to death without medical attention (no platelets).

When APML was first discovered in 1957, the average patient lived 2 weeks and the death rate was 100%. "God" didn't save a single person with APML prior to 1957.

Now the "cure" rate of APML is 95%. It's pretty astounding. My mom has now lived 10 months longer than she would have without modern medical science and hopefully will live a good deal longer because of it.

My mom is incredibly thankful, not to God (who she believes in), but to modern medicine. She even decided to not invite my Christian Scientist cousins to my wedding (which she was able to attend 4 months after her diagnosis) because she strongly feels that people who disregard medical science in favor of God are literally wishing her dead.

Yup, AML sucks. My mother was diagnosed with APML in April 2011, which is a variant of AML with a much better prognosis (more like 90% than 50%). I was so relieved when we found out it wasn't AML proper and she wouldn't need a transplant, but it did get me to finally sign up for bethematch.org. Not everyone is "lucky" enough to get APML.

My mother is in great physical condition, and certainly not overweight, but she still managed to destroy her shoulder doing yoga.

So while it's true that people in poor condition shouldn't do yoga, there are still risks to people in good condition.

You can believe that something is both heritable and flexible. Most personality traits are at maximum about 50% heritable; I don't think that's so bad.

This one is free: http://ipsur.org/

I haven't really looked into it though, so read at your own risk!

>Now use what you’ve learned in a project. For the love of pete do not use it on a project you get paid for, unless you have an explicit understanding with your employer that you are using something you’ve never used before, and will probably get it totally wrong and have to rip it up and start again in six months. Otherwise, use it on a personal project. A small personal project.

Whoops.

To be fair, with my current project there was an expectation that this was a going to be a month long "use and dump it" project.

Well, I just got hired for the rest of the year to expand my horrible, horrible mistakes. It was my first django project and I didn't realize you have to explicitly define relationships in the model on related fields in order to do joins. Now there's too much data and legacy code to go back, and I'm stuck pulling up related fields in other tables one by one... kill me now.

>and your viral coefficient > 1.0 !

Unless you're an epidemiologist, and then let your R0 be < 1.

I notice there's some random guy on there named Paul Graham. He seems confused as to why so many people have added him to their circles...

As a non-designer doing all my own design, I appreciate these "copy paste this nice looking CSS" posts.

I think generally this might not be about relationships per se, but simply what kind of person you are.

It would seem weird to me to be in a relationship with a person and not get involved in their field; but that's just because I'm that kind of person. I view everyone as a potential teacher. When I dated a physicist, I got into physics; a computer scientist, computer science; a Go player, I learned to play Go; an epidemiologist, I learned epidemiology.

But not everyone is like that, in fact probably most people are not... so it probably has less to do with your relationship and more about personality type.

I do find it a little bit odd, though. I guess some careers aren't that interesting or you don't spend that much time thinking about them at home so there isn't any reason to share it with your SO.

But my husband is an academic, so his academic side is "always on," so to speak. I feel like some coders are like that too. If you're the kind that's always thinking about your work I think it would we weird if you don't share that with your wife. Last night before bed I read him a paper he needed to read. Granted, I think I only read the abstract before falling asleep, but I like that we share things with each other.

I find it amusing that godaddy.com is the second most searched for domain.

It depends on what branch of CS you're in.

Just like computer science is not about computers, it's also not really about programming. Certainly there's overlap. I have a pH.D. student friend who works on proving the correctness of programs. He doesn't write code, he writes proofs. Of course he'd be more rusty in C than a full time C dev.

But I also have pH.D. students that build proof-of-concept software. Yeah, they're not optimized in the way that live software is optimized, but they can certainly code.

And I really have to wonder where you went to school if "most" of the TAs and profs "can't code" and what kind of standard you have. That was not my experience at all when I went to school.

Damn, that's really awesome. It seems like a cool way to get into web programming from other fields since they don't require RoR or even a programming background. I might have considered it if my due date wasn't in May...

It's absolutely a data structure question. You have to know what functions are available to you from within the data structure.

For instance, in a singly linked list you only have the function "getNext()" and "getHead()"; in a doubly linked list, you have additionally have the function "getPrev()" and "getTail()". If parent asked me this question in an interview I'd probably jokingly say "well, you didn't specify doubly or singly, so I'd just call getTail and then getPrev until I was done!" And then I'd write a recursive function for a singly linked list because everyone likes recursion.

How could you possibly answer this question if you didn't know what a linked list was? If you never took a data structures class, you probably used "lists" but you have no idea what the bare bones construction is. Just using lists doesn't mean you know how to write one from scratch.

As someone moving from the U.S. (possibly) to London in a few years, that's actually pretty comforting. I'm mostly self taught so any hardcore CS problems will throw me. I CAN reverse a linked list, but only if it's a doubly linked list :). (Ok, kidding, I can reverse a singly linked list, but ask me what heapsort is and I would definitely have to look it up.)