May you live in interesting times.
Wow, with NoScript on I see only a blank page with a bunch of NoScript links.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/03/12/short.sleepers.daylight... I am not sure how you can get better at something which is most likely genetic. I work full time and have a not terrible commute, and if I want to eat…
I like the bizarro social context expression. It's a great way to describe how I work with female programmers and both my project managers are female and nothing like the described behavior would ever be tolerated for a…
Still, why would you want someone as a manager who would keep his own wife's car locked up at work because she failed to be properly respectful?Still, why would you want someone as a manager who would keep his own…
Because being young does not mean you have to be immature, and sexism should have nothing do with either immaturity and youth.
I don't know about you, but I deal with jerks all of the damn time. But luckily no more or less than all of my peers. This would be very different if I was a woman. And we wouldn't reduce male interaction by 50%, we…
job interviews in which she was shown pictures of her interviewer's bare ass; Holly horror story! Sadly I am not surprised to hear this, because I've heard many similar stories. And yet out of the very large number of…
I can't seem to find a study which showed that while only %3 of men ever make such comments, women involved in our community experience this a steady stream of subtle harassment. And the sad fact is that this is due to…
No, the plot of Inception really is very complicated, unless you're a computer programmer Personal anecdote: My friend who is in marketing and is not at all a geek also thinks if you have half a brain the plot is…
Why are there no birds even close to the weight of adult human males? Why do birds have a huge keel-like breastbone on which equally huge and powerful flight muscles attach? If energy required to take of scales…
Absolutely fake. If this is not obvious to you, learn more physics.
Should I give up everything to be a bus driver, a photographer, and move to a quiet town, leave the city and all of my skills and knowledge? Nah, just take a really long vacation. Like a year or two.
What do you think of the approach to TV censorship in Europe, where fantasy violence is blurred, but nudity and sex are not?
Offices, real offices for each developer are best. However, open-plan is still better than cubicles. Cubicles share all the problems of open-plans + you stare at the walls of your cubicle. I'd love to have an office but…
I don't think you should be down-voted. I find your thinking process fascinating.
My understanding is that hydrocarbon using fuel cells run hot, really, really HOT. Which is why they are regularly used in race cars, but not in many other places.
The answer to the question Baker posed lay in a set of mathematical rules called an algorithm. I never cease to be amazed just how low the math level is in our culture. And how acceptable it is to be publicly that math…
nations with higher atheism are the ones with the least problems It should be plain to see that development came first, then more atheism. This should be very obvious in Europe's history. I think you're confusing a…
On the Anglophone Internet for sure, dominated as it is by the US and UK. But what ever Scandinavian or Dutch written parts of the Internet there might be, small as they are, should be refreshingly free of Victorian…
We try to do the same thing for C++, Java, and Python, but it doesn't work as well because the process is manual. Use http://astyle.sourceforge.net and add it to your build process and/or commit or push/pull hooks of…
If you are an experienced C/C++ hacker, this article will hurt your brain.
It's an article oriented to relating to non-programmers what it is like to learn to program I am not sure that is true. I think it is one very non-technical person's experience with self-thought Ruby. And as such it is…
Well the US military involvement does mean it gets some of the lowest priced oil. What's the price of a gallon of gasoline up to in Europe now, $9 or something? I think most of the time it is something like triple what…
It is true the OECD countries are currently bending the developing world over backwards. But this does not mean that the OECD needs that kind of advantage. We might not be as rich without it, but we would still be quite…
May you live in interesting times.
Wow, with NoScript on I see only a blank page with a bunch of NoScript links.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/03/12/short.sleepers.daylight... I am not sure how you can get better at something which is most likely genetic. I work full time and have a not terrible commute, and if I want to eat…
I like the bizarro social context expression. It's a great way to describe how I work with female programmers and both my project managers are female and nothing like the described behavior would ever be tolerated for a…
Still, why would you want someone as a manager who would keep his own wife's car locked up at work because she failed to be properly respectful?Still, why would you want someone as a manager who would keep his own…
Because being young does not mean you have to be immature, and sexism should have nothing do with either immaturity and youth.
I don't know about you, but I deal with jerks all of the damn time. But luckily no more or less than all of my peers. This would be very different if I was a woman. And we wouldn't reduce male interaction by 50%, we…
job interviews in which she was shown pictures of her interviewer's bare ass; Holly horror story! Sadly I am not surprised to hear this, because I've heard many similar stories. And yet out of the very large number of…
I can't seem to find a study which showed that while only %3 of men ever make such comments, women involved in our community experience this a steady stream of subtle harassment. And the sad fact is that this is due to…
No, the plot of Inception really is very complicated, unless you're a computer programmer Personal anecdote: My friend who is in marketing and is not at all a geek also thinks if you have half a brain the plot is…
Why are there no birds even close to the weight of adult human males? Why do birds have a huge keel-like breastbone on which equally huge and powerful flight muscles attach? If energy required to take of scales…
Absolutely fake. If this is not obvious to you, learn more physics.
Should I give up everything to be a bus driver, a photographer, and move to a quiet town, leave the city and all of my skills and knowledge? Nah, just take a really long vacation. Like a year or two.
What do you think of the approach to TV censorship in Europe, where fantasy violence is blurred, but nudity and sex are not?
Offices, real offices for each developer are best. However, open-plan is still better than cubicles. Cubicles share all the problems of open-plans + you stare at the walls of your cubicle. I'd love to have an office but…
I don't think you should be down-voted. I find your thinking process fascinating.
My understanding is that hydrocarbon using fuel cells run hot, really, really HOT. Which is why they are regularly used in race cars, but not in many other places.
The answer to the question Baker posed lay in a set of mathematical rules called an algorithm. I never cease to be amazed just how low the math level is in our culture. And how acceptable it is to be publicly that math…
nations with higher atheism are the ones with the least problems It should be plain to see that development came first, then more atheism. This should be very obvious in Europe's history. I think you're confusing a…
On the Anglophone Internet for sure, dominated as it is by the US and UK. But what ever Scandinavian or Dutch written parts of the Internet there might be, small as they are, should be refreshingly free of Victorian…
We try to do the same thing for C++, Java, and Python, but it doesn't work as well because the process is manual. Use http://astyle.sourceforge.net and add it to your build process and/or commit or push/pull hooks of…
If you are an experienced C/C++ hacker, this article will hurt your brain.
It's an article oriented to relating to non-programmers what it is like to learn to program I am not sure that is true. I think it is one very non-technical person's experience with self-thought Ruby. And as such it is…
Well the US military involvement does mean it gets some of the lowest priced oil. What's the price of a gallon of gasoline up to in Europe now, $9 or something? I think most of the time it is something like triple what…
It is true the OECD countries are currently bending the developing world over backwards. But this does not mean that the OECD needs that kind of advantage. We might not be as rich without it, but we would still be quite…