deadghost

Off the top of my head, they already exist for music/dance studios and real estate. You just don't come across them because you aren't looking.

Are women actually being driven out of the tech community or are all these articles I read about discrimination against women in tech just a vocal minority?

I also don't get the feminist push for more female programmers, scientists, etc. You mean you WANT your kind to sit in isolation for long periods of time, day in and day out, for years at a time? To me, it's something you fall into like drug and alcohol abuse, but more positive.

Online, no one knows you're a dog.

From the comments: >Here's another really radical idea; how about.....eating them?

At first I wondered, "What? Eating? Eating what?" until I realized he was referring to baby hippos. Then I wondered what baby hippos taste like; veal? It's so stupid it might work.

>They also mention using a "two-handed technique" and "moderate traction."

I was comfortable with the article until this.

Getting the vim portions working in emacs was surprisingly easy. I didn't have a significantly modified vim so there wasn't much to port. Stuff like mapping jj to esc and Y to y$ was simple enough. I don't notice any difference between evil and vim.

I'm still trying to figure out the emacs portions of emacs. I don't have the work flow quite right; things like buffer management, saving sessions, shell in emacs, etc.

What? GUI programming more powerful than colorful text? You're gonna have to back that statement up.

I think the keywords are "developer community". People aren't going to trust each other if there's no sense of community. Are the people around you friends you haven't met or just plain strangers?

I went through Learn Python the Hard Way years ago when I was a newbie programmer trying to wean off spaghetti php. I recall it didn't explain things thoroughly and often said FIGURE IT OUT YOURSELF HERE'S SOME CODE AND EXERCISES.

I ended up cutting my teeth on K&R instead which improved my coding abilities significantly.

Zed's style and personality just don't appeal to me.

I read "month" as "day" and thought holy crap this guy is destroying it!

I only saw two sites he made in his resume(two including the blog itself) and I'm surprised that's all it takes for $70k job. A lot of it is probably due to strong self-promotion and initiative rather than raw programming prowess.