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by araneae 17y ago
I'll take that at face value, because I'm autistic.
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by araneae 17y ago
Bring up the family if you're a guy; businesses love family guys, they think it makes them more likely to stick around, etc. But if you're a woman... DON'T DO IT. It's the most sure way to not get hired (well, besides the obvious.)
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by araneae 17y ago
I got "if you were a dessert, what would you be" on a college interview. I answered "a frozen honeydew ant" and left it at that. (It's really a dessert in some parts of the world, I swear.) I got waitlisted.
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by araneae 17y ago
My biggest weakness is that I have no respect for authority. I work hard when I want to please someone, but the threat of punishment is the best way to get even worse work out of me. This means that many of my employers and teachers really
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You'll buy more from web ads that know how you think (newscientist.com)
2 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
Google. You can usually find a torrent or something on megaupload. I just got a bunch of e-books I had been trying to take out of the library for years, unsuccessfully (all the copies were missing or somesuch; they were kind of rare.)
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by araneae 17y ago
Blah blah blah. In Shakespeare's day, his plays were ribald entertainment for the masses. People are continuously complaining about how the old ways were better, and one is entitled to one's opinion, but the old ways are in the past and go
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by araneae 17y ago
If it's a symptom of pop culture, then why is Middle English different from Old English? It's a symptom of language, and it's impossible to stop.
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by araneae 17y ago
I've heard that java is both pass-by-value and reference in one class, and then heard that it was pass-by-value only in another. The difference was that the first was at a university that primarily used java, and the second was at a univer
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by araneae 17y ago
The central problem is that people don't understand what "heritable" or "genetic" really means. Every trait you can possibly think of has a genetic basis. I.e. having green hair is heritable, because people who dye their hair funny colors
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by araneae 17y ago
I understand the meaning, but somehow I still don't always see them. I still frequently get complained at by webforms for not filling stuff in. So again; this solution is awesome.
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by araneae 17y ago
I am not agreeable to following the "be civil" guideline. The times when I have been uncivil, I've generally been downvoted, which I think is perfectly fair. However, there are some times when I've been rather rude, and the comments ended
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by araneae 17y ago
The mind knows how, but the soul is unwilling. I know how to tiptoe around people, but I greatly prefer being combative. Which explains why my adviser is currently holding the contents of my bookshelf locked in her office until I comply
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by araneae 17y ago
When I mean honest, I mean honest both literally and emotionally. If I see bullshit, then I actually call it bullshit, instead of calling it "innaccurate." While the two terms may be similar in meaning, they are not equivalent.
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by araneae 17y ago
I'm assuming this is a different Erlang Day than the one I was here for, as I'm still a noob. (And on that note, how many have there been? And can we pick another language for subsequent days plz?)
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by araneae 17y ago
"Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation." I certainly don't say things on HN that I wouldn't say in a face to face conversation, but that's because I'm honest offline as well as on (read: not civil). It
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Online porn often leads high-tech way(usatoday.com)
2 points by araneae 17y ago|1 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
This is exactly the reason why most folks will never program; not because they don't have the capability to be competent, but because we have this odd culture around programming. There's this belief that CS is something that you have to
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by araneae 17y ago
Yup, he is. Now all the ladies will be after him.
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Ground-Breaking Science: Very Old Papers Are Both Awesome and Hilarious(wired.com)
18 points by araneae 17y ago|4 comments
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Is WordPress Killing Web Design?(panelpicker.sxsw.com)
4 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
Re: pair programming. That's been my experience too, but I've only ever done it with people who were much less experienced programmers (i.e. once). It's sounds like you were also working with someone vastly more inexperienced, so it's prob
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Developer Ponders Release of Linux Malware(eweekeurope.co.uk)
4 points by araneae 17y ago|1 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
The comment above you (well right now) indicates that women are less experienced coming into introductory classes. It makes sense that they'll have a higher failure rate, as it's difficult to compete against people who know more than you.
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by araneae 17y ago
I actually agree that it might not be a problem for computer science to not have women in the field. It's really more of a problem for women who want to be in the field. If you had asked, 40 years ago, "why is the lack of women in math,
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by araneae 17y ago
By "make it all female" she means, fills the room with only females. The nerdiness of the room remains the same. The implication is that the percentage of women in a CS class matters less than the decorations on the wall.
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Of Geeks and Girls(scicom.ucsc.edu)
136 points by araneae 17y ago|167 comments
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Advanced Haskell Data Structures: Red-Black Trees(scienceblogs.com)
6 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
This reminds me of one case where a person published a phylogeny, a reader felt that it was flawed, and so they went over the code together. They discovered a major bug which, when fixed, completely invalidated the results. The paper was
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Santa uses R(stackoverflow.com)
4 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments

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