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by arbutus 12y ago
If you replace 'sexy' with 'viable', this could make sense for pure sciences. Given the size of a student loan it can take to pay for a degree (especially if you need more than just a Bachelor's), pure sciences coul
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by arbutus 12y ago
> hipster is the standard mainstream culture today. Just look around. This is what bothers me so much about the term. Nobody calls themselves a hipster, and in my area at least, nobody who could be accused of being a hipster goes around
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by arbutus 12y ago
This is how I feel about the term. Just read through these comments - everyone has a completely different definition, most of which boil down to a few aspects of some subculture that they personally find annoying.
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by arbutus 12y ago
You should probably read this article: http://jezebel.com/5992479/if-i-admit-that-hating-men-is-a-t... Specifically, this part from the bottom of the article: Feminists do not want you to lose custody of your children
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by arbutus 12y ago
I'm curious how this works for people with long hair. To a certain extent, shampooing less can be great for your hair, for a lot of the reasons discussed in the article about skin care. Sulphates strip out your natural hair oils and do
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by arbutus 12y ago
Anyone who was ever a teenaged girl at any point in their life can confirm that the people who complain the most about drama are generally the people who create the most drama.
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by arbutus 12y ago
There's a piece of info in that article that I think might be a part of the problem: For men, the results were as expected. Hunks were more likely to be called for an interview if they included a photo. Ugly men were better off not in
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Programming is not Engineering(airbladesoftware.com)
10 points by arbutus 12y ago|4 comments
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by arbutus 12y ago
I think that last sentence is the key point here - it doesn't sound like somewhere that would be a very friendly environment in general. This kind of thing wouldn't happen where I work, but either way, the technical interview isn&
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by arbutus 12y ago
This is incredibly false. Any feminist will tell you that most rape does not fit the "large stranger overpowers a woman in the streets" scenario. This is what people are talking about when they talk about rape culture.
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by arbutus 12y ago
It sounds like this is specifically regarding the engineering teams. The graphic shows only twenty people at all at 37Signals.
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by arbutus 12y ago
This is a really frustrating habit. It's basically demanding that you skip any support queues and get helped before everyone else, because you're airing your discontent publicly.
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by arbutus 12y ago
I like it so far. A lot of it was pretty funny, and then the hexadecimal joke killed me. For anyone else who's enjoying it, you should also check out the TV adaptation of JPod. So far the humour feels pretty similar.
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by arbutus 12y ago
That's like saying male nurses should be more worried about the lack of female software engineers than the issues in their own field. This is Hacker News, not Construction News.
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by arbutus 12y ago
Thanks, that is exactly what I'm saying.
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by arbutus 12y ago
It's important to be able to see people who look like your potential future self. There's more to it than just seeing neat work - everyone needs role models. Kids are very perceptive. This girl sounds lucky to have parents who enc
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by arbutus 12y ago
To explain very quickly and generally - a lot of men in CS (and probably in general) tend towards overconfidence, where women with the same skills will be underconfident in themselves. When you're surrounded by people who are ultra con
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by arbutus 13y ago
I don't need to base my opinion off of one guy's account of an incident in a blog post - I have a laundry list of my own very unpleasant experiences as a female developer to base my opinions on. I've also spoken to a great de
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by arbutus 13y ago
"The only real sexism prevalent in the tech industry are the groups of militant feminists setting up endless, patronizing, segregated "coding for girls" meetups." It's easy for this kind of thing to be completely in
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by arbutus 13y ago
I'm curious to hear the answer to these questions from a woman's perspective. I met a few lady engineers through IEEE involvement in university who were further along in their careers, but I haven't met very many other lady d
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by arbutus 13y ago
I didn't know left handed people faced regular discrimination and sexual harassment.
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by arbutus 13y ago
Trying to silence a feminist by shooting down things that they say that don't align with your out of whack view of feminism isn't going to do one single thing to help with the problems you're talking about.
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by arbutus 13y ago
It needs the active word to be highlighted more, and ensure that it's z-index is on the top. Ultimately lost the game because the word I'd locked onto got covered up by a bunch of other words. Fun game though, would play again.
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by arbutus 13y ago
This is really neat. I'm really interested in seeing how all these new fancy CSS3/HTML5 features shape the evolution of casual online games. Back in the day it was either static images, like the Neopets sort of thing (which are st
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by arbutus 13y ago
This seems fairly superficial. I suspect that if you factored in where people are living (suburbs versus urban areas), age would seem to make less of a difference. I'm barely within the 18-25 range, and I walk everywhere. I live downto
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by arbutus 13y ago
From the outside, the state of education in the US seems really worrying. Hard to see the wage gap closing any time soon with the way it sounds like their kids are being educated.
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by arbutus 13y ago
It's not supposed to sell like the 5S, it's supposed to sell like the 4S did when the 5 launched.
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by arbutus 13y ago
Here's some ideas for names for the next release: Tenacious Turkey Threadbare Thrush Tailles Tenrec Tailful Tenrec Thorny Thorny Devil Timely Tarantula Titilating Titmouse
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by arbutus 13y ago
I didn't think this sounded very far outside of current conventional wisdom.
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by arbutus 13y ago
Same. Often I find myself wishing that I could see things as a sequence diagram. I've never worked anywhere where functions were commented with useless English descriptions of the parameters and so on, so I don't really know if th

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