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I think women are better programmers because they have less ego and are typically more interested in the gear rather than the pissing contest Here's a statisti
by mynameishere 19y ago
I think women are better programmers because they have less ego and are typically more interested in the gear rather than the pissing contest
Here's a statistic: 99 percent of all achievements in computer science come from men. But, hey, I'm no statistician, so maybe I'll just trust some off-the-cuff twaddle from random jerks.
I try to show them how to properly graph a run chart and they're indignant.
Just wondering: Is this guy hacking device drivers? OpenGl? Maybe he's tweaking the last bit of sweat out of microsoft's C++ compiler? No...he's clearly doing CRUD work. Performance issues in CRUD work are solved by RAM and memcached, not screwing around in Excel. That's why your co-workers are indignant: You don't understand your trade.
If we want to only verify one single query on a database then what's stopping us? Stupidity that's what.
Because there are 6000 queries, and not all of us can spend all-day-all-night screwing around with Excel.
The classic example of this is the Pet Store
"The Pet Store" isn't the classic example of jack.
Then I hit the DB2 database and about crapped my pants. Almost all of the queries performed great, except one query that had sub-second response on average, but a 60 second standard deviation!
...my own statistics are a little rusty. If the average is .5, and the SD is 60, doesn't that mean that certain runs should be choking so hard that the log file would...just freeze. I mean, break out the Excel if you want, but I've seen log files choke before, and it's usually obvious what the problem is: The entry at the bottom.
"It's not the database, it's IBM's DB2 configuration.
LOL. DB2's configuration being a part of...what then?
The next day we had IBM fixing the problem (turned out to be a single update index command) and we all kept our jobs.
Our hero! (Self-proclaimed)
That's what a proper analysis method can do for you.
Or just watching the log file.
- jamiequint 19y ago> Here's a statistic: 99 percent of all achievements in computer science come from men. Ummm....wouldn't that be because ~99% of all coders are men?
- mynameishere 19y agoUmmm...no raw numbers http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:_0JxL7T75-sJ:www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.pdf+occupation+statistics+by+gender&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:_0JxL7T75-sJ:www.bls.go... versus prominent programmers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programmers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programmers I would suggest if you strip off some of the dubious or ceremonial entries ("ada") the picture gets worse still.
- jamiequint 19y agoComputer Programmers .... 3.9% I count 9 women out of about 230 which comes out to... 3.91% What is the point you are trying to make anyway? Are you going to go on to tell me black people suck at programming to because they don't compose 25% of that list (but do compose 25% of graduates in CS from the stats you linked)? Get over yourself.
- mynameishere 19y agoWomen comprise 25.3 percent, not 3.9 percent.
- jamiequint 19y agofair enough, I misread the chart, but my last statement still stands (with numbers swapped 3.9% black, 25% female). Your point?
- bvttf 19y agoHis point was that female programmers aren't superior to male ones. Remember he quoted "women are better programmers because they have less ego". Which is a huge load on both counts.
- Tichy 19y agoReplying to that by "no, men are better programmers than women" doesn't seem the way to go. Especially in response to a rant about faulty statistics skills. That argument with 99% whatever certainly was extremely faulty (I can't even begin to describe how faulty, it is just waaaaaaay off). It just goes to show that some carefulness with statistics would be a good idea. Anyway, that response basically proved the point of the article.
- tx 19y agoIs this guy hacking device drivers? OpenGl? Maybe he's tweaking the last bit of sweat out of microsoft's C++ compiler? No...he's clearly doing CRUD work This guy wrote Mongrel, which is a very solid HTTP server - the most common way to deploy Ruby applications these days. Also he was one of the guys on ruby-lang who discovered nasty bugs in Ruby's threading implementation (everybody else just preferred bitching about "unreliable" Ruby threads and memory leaks)
- mynameishere 19y agoGreat. An a-hole with credentials. Still, he's clearly doing CRUD work in the provided example. It's not my fault that he wasn't on the list, but to show I'm a good sport I added him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programmers#S http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programmers#S
- jamesbritt 19y ago> the most common way to deploy Ruby applications these days Say what? Are you sure you aren't conflating Ruby with Rails?
- tx 19y agoNo I am not. You can use mongrel with any framework you want.
- jamesbritt 19y agoFramework? Not every Ruby app is a Web app. I've written dozens of Ruby apps, but only some of them run on the Web.