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by srn 17y ago
Yes, the first link addresses a strawman but I bring it up because other people still bring it up. The second link discusses interests and influences for female undergrads majoring in some kind of engineering, not CS, though I still think i
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by srn 17y ago
My personal observation is that last night I stayed up too late reading the linux kernel code. Probably won't help anyone that much.
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by srn 17y ago
I like this article because it points out women are also geeky and that it's OK to be geeky. Women just may tend to have a slightly different way of expressing that geekiness. You want girls to feel comfortable because you want the girls wh
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by srn 17y ago
Check out http://www.opencores.org/
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by srn 17y ago
I play tabletop RPGs which could be considered fake achievement. The types I play however reward creativity and problem solving so I think they have merit.
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by srn 17y ago
Quake gave me a sense of direction when I was a teenager. Before that I had either walked very short distances or been driven everywhere. My sense of direction meant I could figure out that this street was parallel to that street etc. but
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by srn 17y ago
Carriers and HW companies may not like making side-by-side comparisons so easy. Alternately there should be names other than A,B,C which are not inherently ranked.
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by srn 17y ago
Someone (nokia?) has/had farms of different devices which you could test on remotely. However this is unlikely to be available to run-of-the-mill developers.
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by srn 17y ago
Agreed on the numbers. Almost every web browser on the planet can run javascript, independent of operating system or underlying hardware. I don't think you can get more accessible than that
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Headmount computer design runs Linux(linuxfordevices.com)
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by srn 17y ago
The hacker dojo may meet some of your needs.
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by srn 17y ago
Good compilers will warn you. Extend this to functions as well. I had a bug like if (foo(b == A)) instead of if(foo(b) == A)
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by srn 17y ago
No love for nokia n900 :( Though it is not out yet http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/specifications/ Only comes unlocked in US, 3G only works on tmobile.
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by srn 17y ago
According to their research, women started out with much less confidence but by the junior year it has started to level out when the classes become more difficult for both genders. See section "Gap Between Perceived and Actual Ability" and
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by srn 17y ago
Well, obviously Dilbert is an extreme caricature of what happens in most offices, but the comic in and of itself is not a good emissary for the software engineering profession. It unfortunately may have unconsciously biased many people away
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by srn 17y ago
It's about Dilbert. If I have the skills to go into a profession where I'll be respected or into a profession where I'll be treated, well, shall we say not so well, which will I pick?
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by srn 17y ago
I would consider "bugs opened per month" to be a good metric, assuming someone uses the software.
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by srn 17y ago
Isn't apple just as bad with itunes and the palm pre? http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67615.html?wlc=1256230659 Google isn't immune either http://phandroid.com/2009/09/25/cyanogen-gets-cd-from-google... None of these companies are go
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by srn 17y ago
Also from what I know, which is not much, you should be requesting the ports via request_region. If that fails you should probably not be writing to the ports and should also mean you're sharing the port with another module. kernel newbies
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by srn 17y ago
More explicit handling of error conditions is also good FWIW - don't see you doing it here. The kernel is not forgiving of using resources your don't have or failing to free resources acquired.
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by srn 17y ago
This may not be likely, but - you don't specify a level for your printk statement. It could be your message is just not getting printed to console. Check out info for "/proc/sys/kernel/printk" as well as information about syslogd and klo
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by srn 17y ago
Second on unnoticed exclusionary behavior. Making sexist assumptions which are "reasonable" because there are not many women in the field may very well be self perpetuating.
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by srn 17y ago
Going back to the original topic, I think that being active in FOSS, even at low levels @ a couple hours a week, is a good way to keep evidence of some skillset. This should hopefully help getting back into the workforce.
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by srn 17y ago
Female oriented apps with what, pink unicorns and fluffy bunnies? That's a pretty silly statement no matter how you take it. Remember the myth (or the myth of the myth) about nobody needing more than 640K of ram? There will always be oppo
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by srn 17y ago
Listen to music. Get the headphones that encompass your entire ear so you don't hear other people talk. I've done this for 10 years now. Also possibly get people to write you emails instead of dropping by the office even if you're 5 feet a
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by srn 17y ago
I'll have to try applying some of these study techniques, thanks. Wouldn't it be interesting if we taught people how to learn instead of just teaching them the material?
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by srn 17y ago
Sponsored locations.
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by srn 17y ago
I've seriously been thinking about such issues; there is a definitely a point of diminishing returns. Deciding when to cut your losses on maintaining code that is on the limits of your ability to follow is difficult.
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by srn 17y ago
What other unusual languages do people use for linux kernel modules?
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by srn 17y ago
This project is interesting, given that it's open source and you can dynamically add or remove units. As far as power goes, crank down the clock speeds and any processor is going to run cooler. arm is also well known for taking less power.

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