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If women decide not to do Computer Science because they don't like their male peers, I think you're right that there is a more fundamental problem: they probably didn't want to do Computer Science that much in the first place. I would never let my classmates determine my career path. Anyone who tries to argue that is a fraud.

It really is no more complicated than this: do what you love, and fuck everyone else.

I mean it when I say I would love to see more female programmers. But it doesn't help anyone by trying to argue it's all the boys' fault there are no women in tech.

If more women were interested in esoteric technical subjects like computer programming or engineering, they would do them. It's that simple. It just so happens there are more guys who are interested in these things.

By making the "women in tech" conversation about anything other than talent, you are immediately creating another "affirmative action" situation.

Why should female applicants get a hand-out over more qualified male applicants? That doesn't do a damn thing other than even out some cosmetic "gender gap."

If I am passionate about programming, having done it from an early age, and I lose a position to a person who just discovered he/she could make a pretty penny at this "computer stuff," well, that really pisses me off.

If I were interested in becoming a cook, I would take the classes and become a cook.

If I were interested in becoming a dancer, I would damn well become a dancer.

You can't just say it's the mens' fault. That is disingenuous and insulting to me as a male programmer.

The fundamental problem has nothing to do with men: it's that women aren't interested at all in computers. They're interested in babies, families, and things that are warm, cuddly and emotional. I'm not being sexist, I am quoting my girlfriend.

I agree a thousand times.

If women want to do tech (read: if they are interested in tech) then they will do tech, and good for them.

But god damn it, stop complaining about it. There may be a distinct lack of women in the industry, but stop acting like it's actually a problem. It would be great to have more, sure, but the industry is doing fine, and so are the women.

If you're interested in something, fucking do it. That's all there is to it.

No one told me to get interested in programming, and if they did I would have told them to fuck off. The same goes for women, and everyone else in the world.

You're completely missing the point.

You wouldn't leak to The New York Times because they have no secure mechanism of any kind for leaking.

WikiLeaks is not just a two-bit news outlet looking for stories. They continue to maintain one of the most innovative and secure systems in the world for leaking sensitive materials.

This is nothing more strawman justification meant to distract us from the real issue. Android has nothing to do with network neutrality. The software on our handsets has no effect on how the ISPs manipulate the Internet.

Sweet. I just uploaded a file so people can use this trick:

http://fwdint.com/media/chrometabs/

There are several torrents floating around that are essentially a compendium of self-reliance information.

I downloaded one a year or two ago. Just a few of the titles included:

- FM 21-76 (US Army Survival Manual)

- Bushcraft (Canadian Scout Manual)

- Knots and lashings

- Caching Techniques

- DIY Shelters

- Food and Water

- Dangerous Plants and Animals

- Edible Wild Plants (Illustrated)

- Farming and Gardening

- Citizens' Homeland Defense Guide

I would recommend storing on several digital mediums (DVDs/Harddrives) in addition to physical print-outs.

This post itself has almost 100 points. Soon it will be on the 100-point threshold page!

I thought the same thing. Twitter's asking for it.

I used to use ScreenToaster, but it stopped working in Chrome on Linux for me. Screencast-o-matic seems to do the job.

True, but it does create a lot of waste.

This is kind of a dumb idea, even on paper (pardon the pun). Deliberately crippling print functionality is a little gimmicky, despite the good intentions of the WWF.

I fail to see any way Wikileaks could be considered "bad for the people." It might be "bad" for secretive figures such as politicians and corporations, but I can't imagine how these leaks could have a negative effect on the general public.

Internet Explorer 6 is dead.

Developers need to forget about it. IE7 is the oldest MS browser our company will test for, unless we are specifically asked otherwise by a client, which will obviously cost more. Supporting old and broken software is not reasonable nor is it even necessary.

If a company can't be bothered to upgrade their systems to support standards which are now years old, my company won't be bothered to support them.

Honestly, it depends on what you want to do.

If you want to keep doing Web development, I won't lie to you: you are probably not going to use 75% of your CS course knowledge. You'll be hacking in JS, HTML, CSS and some backend language, and will probably only come across a CS-related challenge once every year or so. (Depending on your clients' industry and requirements). Your biggest challenge will probably be scaling, but that's something you may never even run into.

If you're talking about more corporate-oriented desktop or integrated software development, you will probably be using more of your core CS skills.

Finally!

So my chances of dying have been doubled?

This article doesn't really disprove PG's point. Remember that Steve Wozniak was an incredible hacker. Sure, Apple has since turned into a locked-down technological empire, but that is probably largely due to Steve Jobs' business savvy, and willingness to give up any hacker culture to make money. But the company was started by one of the most famous hackers of all, and you can bet he had an influence on the culture.

I say build it in HTML5 then ship it with PhoneGap. You'll have the best of both worlds.

I understand how this might be a threat to some online networks and advertising services, but I for one am happy there will be an official Do Not Track list.

You're an incubator incubator?

I think an arduino + dedicated server would make for a pretty expandable platform.

I consider the purchase price of a new domain to be the first, and one of the best, barriers when vetting new ideas.

If I come up with a sweet idea, I sit on it. If after a few weeks the idea is still burning a hole in my pocket, I'll purchase the domain.

Linux desktops will never die.

Yes, I opted out as soon as I knew I could.

After considering all of the angles, we chose Django over Rails. At the end of the day, the biggest difference between the two is the languages they're each based on. And at the end of the day, we prefer Python over Ruby. This is for a number of reasons, including massive community and commercial support, libraries, etc.

This is not to say RoR is not awesome, it's mostly a preference of language.

Aaaand I just stopped using Ubuntu as my desktop distro.

Good SEO is about making your content as easy as possible to index, using semantically meaningful markup and keywords. Bad SEO is about using convoluted tricks to game search engines.

Good SEO is good for the Web, bad SEO is bad for the Web.

I think it's going to be awesome. Between Google's store, Mozilla's, and projects like PhoneGap which allow web apps in native app stores, the Web is far from dead; I personally believe it's becoming the defacto development platform.