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Nice job it looks really good.

I don't think that windows coming late to the party is going to be a huge deal. It seems that rather than shooting for being a replacement for ios and android they are shooting for the niche that blackberry holds. Also, they only need to get a moderate amount of users to motivate app developers to explore an untapped market.

I wanted to join the website but it forced me to log in and register with facebook. Which I loathe. Please put in another option.

Wow, what a hero. It takes extreme amounts of bravery to stick to your beliefs in an area like that. It's great to hear she is alive.

Has anybody considered the idea of stealth teaching young kids rather than forcing them to memorize things? Imagine that instead of watching useless cartoons kids where playing games like this (robomind) and or dragon box. Maybe throw in some strategy games that tell accurate history of the world and some economy games. I just feel like this would be extremely effective in teaching younger minds.

I don't see a reason why to be honest. The lumia seems great.

I know I'm making a generalization here but the software industry isn't racist like it is sexist.

I'm kind of disappointed by the comments here. Not just by the fact that people couldn't read the entire article before making judgments but more that I would have thought the people of this website would understand why it's important to bring women into tech.

Women aren't biologically inclined to not like STEM fields (which I sadly see is a popular sentiment). The reason women don't go into these fields is because of the misogynistic culture. The stereotype of a computer whiz is a man. Ask yourself why you never considered becoming a nurse (if you are a man) and you will understand why women reject the idea of working in the tech industry.

There is a huge stereotype that tech is for men. There is a ton of misogyny in the tech sector. The hope is that by bringing women into the tech sector this stereotype ceases to exist. This is important because there are women out there that get interested in tech but society pushes them away because it's not feminine. There is a ton of wasted potential out there.

I don't think she has a problem with the fact that men got 92% of the bathroom facilities. Especially when it was logically justified. I just think she was disillusioned by the fact that there were so few woman at the conference that a decision like that could be justified.

If you already objectively know that the person is qualified the fact that they are attractive is only a plus. I think the study you a mentioning is done with people that do not know the qualifications of the person they are viewing.

I acknowledge that there is a huge sub-conscious prejudice. I don't like how society doesn't focus on all of the types of prejudices that exist. Like I posted before, there is the halo effect, prejudice against women, fat people, old people, people of a different race, people with disabilities, etc.

I refuse to believe that this person (although she is qualified) managed to be hired completely free from any bias and only on her skill.

edit: I don't want anyone to believe I am trying to undersell the prejudice women have to experience daily. It's absolutely horrible that it still happens. I just posted the rest of this because I'm a nihilist and have trouble seeing good things with humanity....

He is trying to point out that unfair bias is everywhere.

"most people will automatically assume an attractive woman has poor skills in X (where X is anything that doesn't involve dealing with customers). "

Could you provide a source on that please? Because from the wording of your statement it seems that what you are claiming is completely anecdotal. I remember studying in one of my psychology courses that attractive people are instantly assumed to be smarter and more successful than unattractive people. It even has a name although I can't think of it right now. If I could I would provide a source.

edit: Here is a source, not really great but it's something. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201108/why...

edit2: The word I was looking for was halo effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_attractiveness_stereot...

Yep. If this was some sort of marketing stunt. It worked.

Georgia Tech student here. One thing I would like to point out is that although the education given by Georgia Tech is excellent, I think that the real reason graduates make so much money is because of the Coop/internship program and the international studies program. It was why I chose to come here in the first place. I don't know the exact statistic but I believe more than 50% of students in Georgia Tech do a coop. In my major (Industrial Engineering), 70% of students do some sort of study abroad or work abroad.

Students that do coops usually get hired by the companies they coop for and they are usually hired at a position higher than entry level. This I believe explains the higher starting salary.

Just so people know, this is not talking about the pricing for windows rt and windows x86, which is what most of us care about.

Not the person that you are responding to but I made this point in my response to him. America's education system only cares about the results. I.E. how well can he do on a standardized test, how good are his grades, etc.

This leads to people taking the easy way out and just memorizing everything without understanding or thinking critically about what they are doing. These people aren't thinking for themselves and instead are just taking everything told to them as fact and regurgitating it when they are asked. This obviously leads to a problem when they become adults and need to make decisions on who is to lead them. Instead of coming to their own conclusion they will listen to their parents, preacher, neighbor, etc. All of whom might have come to their conclusion of who is the best leader faultily.

In Addition: Just to give you guys an example of where this is being most blatantly done, literature classes. I remember in my lit classes that almost 90% of the class did not read the book. Instead they just took the spark notes and memorized key points taking nothing out of the text. As soon as the exam was over they forgot everything.

Well put. They don't realize that a well educated population is a more rational one. It's also one of the reasons why I am against this whole shift in only learning things that are "immediately practical" such as math and science (don't get me wrong, I think math and science are important but other subjects are just as important). It's one of the reasons why I wish philosophy and debate were mandatory courses in most schools. I don't believe making kids memorize multiplication tables when they are in kindergarten is going to help them, especially when they are barely able to comprehend them since they are so cognitively underdeveloped.

In addition: From what I am noticing, the kids that go to college to study degrees that involve dealing with unsolvable or unsolved problems are the kids that understand and not just memorize what they are taught. The education system downplays understanding and focuses on memorization. This obviously comes from America's result based culture. This leads to a population of people that can't think for themselves and only do what they are told. Something that goes against the whole idea of democracy.

TL;DR I believe that at younger ages children should be taught how to think rather than what to memorize.

I'm a college student and this is perfect for me. I know how to use HTML and CSS rudimentarily but know zilch about design. as an out of state student, the university I'm attending isn't cheap. also I don't believe cs majors have any web development courses.

I'm sorry anti-depressants didn't work out for you. Luckily I've only had to try out two different types before finding the one for me. Wellbutrin was my first ad but it made me feel like an emotionless robot. I then got on prozac and rather than make me a robot it made me feel normal. Not exactly happy but definitely not sad. Which is what I was going for anyway. Good luck, also, if you didn't try therapy, i suggest you do.

Thank you for posting this. I have been mildly depressed for the last 8 years. I thought that depression medications and therapy were bogus and I never considered getting help. Mental Illness is such a sensitive issue and there is this belief out there that if you take anti-depressants and do therapy you are being scammed and you are weak. I believed all of this until I had a major depressive episode. I would be sitting in the middle of a lecture and all of a sudden a pain began to grow in my forehead. It was the feeling of wanting to cry but not being able to and the pressure concentrating at a point in the middle of my head. This happened for hours 4 or 5 times a week. After the 4th time I contemplated ending my life I went to my school counselling center. The therapist I saw convinced me to start taking medication and to see her once a week. This was possibly the best decision I have ever made. The medication gave me the boost I needed to actually be receptive to what the therapist was telling me and the therapist helped me change ways of thinking that got me into this mess.

An example: I used to tell my therapist that whenever I was in a social gathering I felt as if I was getting negative reactions from everyone and that I wasn't wanted. Keep in mind, these people invited me to be with them, I didn't tag on.

The main problem with this thought pattern was that you can't "feel" that you are getting a negative reaction. You believe you are getting a negative reaction. I logically understand that I'm not a psychic. I do not know what these people are thinking, yet I believe they don't like me, even though they are inviting me to hang out with them. That doesn't make sense does it.

This is just one example of many.

As for the medication, it worked wonders. I had to try out different types however. The first medication I tried was welbutrin. It worked at first, I actually though about happy things. Probably something most take for granted but it felt like night and day for me. After going up in dosage however it made me feel more like a machine. Then I switched to prozac and have been going strong since. Prozac is working much better for me. I feel normal. Not sad, not necessarily happy all the time, but I am not having extreme pain inducing headaches 5 times a week for hours on end.

One of the ways my therapist framed using medication to me was that if I wasn't depressed the medication wouldn't work first of all. It doesn't magically make you happy. Also, if you are actually depressed, you have extremely low amounts of certain chemicals in your brain that are necessary to properly function. So it's not like you don't have an actual ailment that requires treating.

Also, to those that claim that you can get better from depression by eating better, excersize and sleeping. It's very difficult to put in that sort of effort when you can't get out of bed.

To add: The main thing I want people to get out of this is that we need to remove this negative attitude towards getting treatment for things like depression. I imagine a ton of people that would have gotten help if they weren't afraid of being perceived as weak especially to themselves. Cognitive therapy wont work if you go into a session and expect nothing out of it and are completely uncooperative.

You do know that 4chan has a pretty large gay population right? In fact I would say roughly 70% of that site's viewers are bisexual.

As someone suggested I think that rather than having one really long break there should be more small breaks in between. When I was in middle school I remember one year we were taught how to write in cursive. Summer came and I forgot it completely. We can't expect children to practice and maintain skills they don't even understand the value of over breaks (not that cursive is particularly valuable).

There are already more than enough questions. What I'm wondering is how the president is going to answer anything if the website is down.

r/fitness is good for an average person but I would not say it's as good as you make it out to be. Other bodybuilding and fitness websites are much better. Also, most of the advice on r/fitness comes from /fit/.

I'm still waiting for the 4chan ipo

I completely agree with the article. Are we going to start accusing every modern day author of copying Shakespeare because they share certain themes? What matters is the execution not the idea.

www.udacity.com

start with their cs1101 course then move up from there.

Imagine a machine that could give high quality meals and all you have to do is place in the ingredients... I want one.