It's part of the problem, but not all of the problem. There are plenty of women who want to be in STEM fields, and have pushed for that in spite of everything. It's hard to actually get into a STEM job as a woman,…
> Let's see if there's any intellectual honesty here Have you tried looking, before just assuming that such things don't already exist? I mean, a simple Google search will find plenty of industry groups, in multiple…
No problem. Those excerpts were basically designed to be misleading, for the purpose of pushing an agenda (the "GG totally doesn't harass women, you [insert gendered insult towards women here]" angle). The basic tactic…
#3 is... a bunch of paranoid conspiracy theory bullshit. Let's have a look at the first entry. I'll probably get bored after a few of these, but... whatever. Charge 1 - Leigh Alexander stands accused of writing an…
I'm not blinded by my own perspective. I actually happen to listen to people, hear their opinions, and want to try to understand them. I don't tell people that their opinions or point of view are wrong, and shouldn't be…
I suspect that would be a post-hoc rationalization. One of the ways we fool ourselves into believing that we're being rational, when we really aren't. Men are more likely to pipe up with ideas - good or bad - because…
> not having the necessary information to make those biases could result in ideas actually being judged in a vacuum Potentially, yes. It certainly can happen, but it can also go horribly wrong for a whole variety of…
So the university being paranoid about being sued is the students' fault? > being silenced Nobody is being silenced by the students. What the students want is for professors to stop being assholes towards anyone that's…
No, he's right A bi-elliptic transfer is used for transferring between two orbits around the same body. In some situations, this is more efficient than a straightforward Hohmann transfer, at the cost of taking much,…
Unwarranted hostility aside... The fact that Varnish changed over the years neither invalidates this article, nor vindicates Squid's design. On any remotely modern system (say, 2006 or later), Squid's design is absurd.…
GCC didn't ignore the Windows C++ ABI. Windows doesn't have a platform C++ ABI. Microsoft consider MSVC's C++ ABI as being internal to the compiler. They don't guarantee that the ABI won't change between major versions,…
Except... Freezing point of water: 32°F Average human body temperature (oral): 98.2°F So that's 66.2°F, not 64°F. Those two temperatures were the original reference points for the Fahrenheit scale, and body temperature…
The introduction of pepper.js is particularly interesting. It's a re-implementation of (some of?) the Pepper API on top of the standard web APIs, so you can write stuff for PNaCl but also compile it using enscripten for…
The word you're after is "agender". So, pretty close. The answer is - whatever they tell you to. Some would prefer "they". Others wouldn't care if you use "him" or "her". Yet others prefer some invented pronoun (there's…
Parties do indeed submit full rankings, which are published. http://www.abc.net.au/news/federal-election-2013/guide/gtv/ Only the summaries get reported, for obvious reasons.
ASP.net used to do user agent sniffing extensively. It used it for feature detection, but also to serve different HTML and JavaScript to different browsers. I think it still does, actually, but I've not looked at it in…
While you might be right in part, Microsoft still shot themselves in the foot with this one. Some parts of the original plan were actually a good idea, if you think of the Xbox One as being purely for digital downloads.…
It's possible that there's some engineering reason why they haven't. From a quick search and skimming a couple of research papers, it looks like magnetic bearings are used on smaller craft, but it sounds like they're…
Huffman coding alone wouldn't do a lot in that example. Huffman coding lets you build a prefix code to pack symbols into variable length sequences of bits, depending on the frequency of the symbol. A dictionary encoder,…
I think you're completely missing the point. Let's assume, for a moment, that your position is basically right - that we need to come up with a language-independent VM, and that JavaScript isn't going to cut it. We'll…
You're doing it wrong. Not that I can blame you - unless you take the time to work it out, or find someone else to tell you, it's easy to have trouble finding resources. The key is knowing where they are, and the best…
Good point. Their tool is obviously useful, even though something like this might not be the best use case for it. The HUD thing - it looks like they screwed up the post-processing effects somehow. As far as I remember,…
Worse, they didn't actually get a 15% speedup. They reduced the frame time from 16.7ms (around 60FPS) to 15.3ms (around 65 FPS), which is only a speedup of something like 7%. They didn't seem to mention how much they're…
It actually does use it's own heap allocator, with some additional allocators built on top of it. I don't know if it also uses the system / libc allocator for anything, but I'd be surprised if it did. Aside from glQuake…
Not really. The lighting in Half Life 2 was based on static lightmaps. They were very fancy lightmaps, which enabled them to use techniques such as normal mapping or specular reflections, which are normally incompatible…
It's part of the problem, but not all of the problem. There are plenty of women who want to be in STEM fields, and have pushed for that in spite of everything. It's hard to actually get into a STEM job as a woman,…
> Let's see if there's any intellectual honesty here Have you tried looking, before just assuming that such things don't already exist? I mean, a simple Google search will find plenty of industry groups, in multiple…
No problem. Those excerpts were basically designed to be misleading, for the purpose of pushing an agenda (the "GG totally doesn't harass women, you [insert gendered insult towards women here]" angle). The basic tactic…
#3 is... a bunch of paranoid conspiracy theory bullshit. Let's have a look at the first entry. I'll probably get bored after a few of these, but... whatever. Charge 1 - Leigh Alexander stands accused of writing an…
I'm not blinded by my own perspective. I actually happen to listen to people, hear their opinions, and want to try to understand them. I don't tell people that their opinions or point of view are wrong, and shouldn't be…
I suspect that would be a post-hoc rationalization. One of the ways we fool ourselves into believing that we're being rational, when we really aren't. Men are more likely to pipe up with ideas - good or bad - because…
> not having the necessary information to make those biases could result in ideas actually being judged in a vacuum Potentially, yes. It certainly can happen, but it can also go horribly wrong for a whole variety of…
So the university being paranoid about being sued is the students' fault? > being silenced Nobody is being silenced by the students. What the students want is for professors to stop being assholes towards anyone that's…
No, he's right A bi-elliptic transfer is used for transferring between two orbits around the same body. In some situations, this is more efficient than a straightforward Hohmann transfer, at the cost of taking much,…
Unwarranted hostility aside... The fact that Varnish changed over the years neither invalidates this article, nor vindicates Squid's design. On any remotely modern system (say, 2006 or later), Squid's design is absurd.…
GCC didn't ignore the Windows C++ ABI. Windows doesn't have a platform C++ ABI. Microsoft consider MSVC's C++ ABI as being internal to the compiler. They don't guarantee that the ABI won't change between major versions,…
Except... Freezing point of water: 32°F Average human body temperature (oral): 98.2°F So that's 66.2°F, not 64°F. Those two temperatures were the original reference points for the Fahrenheit scale, and body temperature…
The introduction of pepper.js is particularly interesting. It's a re-implementation of (some of?) the Pepper API on top of the standard web APIs, so you can write stuff for PNaCl but also compile it using enscripten for…
The word you're after is "agender". So, pretty close. The answer is - whatever they tell you to. Some would prefer "they". Others wouldn't care if you use "him" or "her". Yet others prefer some invented pronoun (there's…
Parties do indeed submit full rankings, which are published. http://www.abc.net.au/news/federal-election-2013/guide/gtv/ Only the summaries get reported, for obvious reasons.
ASP.net used to do user agent sniffing extensively. It used it for feature detection, but also to serve different HTML and JavaScript to different browsers. I think it still does, actually, but I've not looked at it in…
While you might be right in part, Microsoft still shot themselves in the foot with this one. Some parts of the original plan were actually a good idea, if you think of the Xbox One as being purely for digital downloads.…
It's possible that there's some engineering reason why they haven't. From a quick search and skimming a couple of research papers, it looks like magnetic bearings are used on smaller craft, but it sounds like they're…
Huffman coding alone wouldn't do a lot in that example. Huffman coding lets you build a prefix code to pack symbols into variable length sequences of bits, depending on the frequency of the symbol. A dictionary encoder,…
I think you're completely missing the point. Let's assume, for a moment, that your position is basically right - that we need to come up with a language-independent VM, and that JavaScript isn't going to cut it. We'll…
You're doing it wrong. Not that I can blame you - unless you take the time to work it out, or find someone else to tell you, it's easy to have trouble finding resources. The key is knowing where they are, and the best…
Good point. Their tool is obviously useful, even though something like this might not be the best use case for it. The HUD thing - it looks like they screwed up the post-processing effects somehow. As far as I remember,…
Worse, they didn't actually get a 15% speedup. They reduced the frame time from 16.7ms (around 60FPS) to 15.3ms (around 65 FPS), which is only a speedup of something like 7%. They didn't seem to mention how much they're…
It actually does use it's own heap allocator, with some additional allocators built on top of it. I don't know if it also uses the system / libc allocator for anything, but I'd be surprised if it did. Aside from glQuake…
Not really. The lighting in Half Life 2 was based on static lightmaps. They were very fancy lightmaps, which enabled them to use techniques such as normal mapping or specular reflections, which are normally incompatible…