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magma··on Why is computer science a sausage fest?
Most of the arguments made seem to suggest there is discrimination in CS education, and subsequently in the workspace.

Even if we assume this to be true, How does this explain the lack of women in open source projects?

Further, the author seems to reserve a special place for the Rockstar developer. Personally having been rescued a few times by such Rockstar coworker's all nighters, I have only respect and awe for such Rockstars.

magma··on Ask HN: Food hacks for eating well?
Good advice on drinking water only after about 30 minutes after the meal. A useful side effect of this optimized digestion process is significantly reduced burping! :-)

Also don't eat anything at least 3-4 hours before you sleep. This creates a period of extended fasting while you sleep, which helps with weight loss.

magma··on Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet
Pretty cool demo. I use Vimperator[1] to do most of my browsing. The experience is quite good. It would be interesting if Tab Candy will have apis to drive these features. Then vimperator commands could call them like,

:group Work - current tab into the Work group

:switch Todo - switch to the Todo group

etc

The features look great. But after using Vimperator, I prefer keyboard alternatives to the drag-and-drop stuff shown.

[1] - http://vimperator.org

magma··on Austrialia censors 90% of web censorship plan to avoid "unnecessary debate"
I'm curious as to how the elections are going to change this policy. As suggested in the thread, they are trying to keep things quiet until the elections.

However what happens if the Labor party loses. Is the opposition going to support this as well?

magma··on Ask HN: What timezone is HN running on?
Thanks, good stuff.

I am going to give the HN once a day a real go for a few weeks, see how it goes..

magma··on Ask HN: Music while coding
I prefer to listen to the same track over and over again. Sometimes I do this with a new song, and listen to the same thing for the entire day.

I find this less distracting that listening to a radio station or a long playlist.

I generally pick the song in the morning depending on my mood.

magma··on Ask HN: How do I sell a PDF document?
Try the Kagi Content Delivery Service. You upload to their servers and they send links to the customer, etc

http://www.kagi.com/kagisolutions/digital.php?page=content

The charge is around 8%, which gets better if you sell more.

magma··on Ask HN: What timezone is HN running on?
Yes. I saw that I few days ago. It's a nice site. Wouldn't that mean 2 separate timezones, HN's and the Daily's?

I would still love to know how the rollover of each day happens.

magma··on Nigerian Internet use increasing
The data on India is interesting. I would have thought there would be more than 50 million internet users in India. That's only about 4 per 100 people.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.NET.BBND.P2

These numbers might be projections