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by bct 15y ago
> What would be weirder, seeing the page either render fully or blow up, or seeing a page start rendering and then at some point be replaced by an error message? Who says the page has to be replaced? Webkit and Opera (IIRC) happily rend
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by bct 16y ago
> This whole premise is stupid. We don't seem to have a problem with the lack of female linesmen, plumbers, construction workers, electricians, HVAC specialists, or garbage men. So why do you think that is? It sounds to me like evidence
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by bct 16y ago
The extent to which it is natural is a diversion (as seen by the inevitable responses to your comment). More damning, I think, are the experiences that many women have said discourage them from being programmers, e.g.: http://geekfeminis
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by bct 16y ago
People who say that women are discouraged from computer science don't mean that women are literally told they shouldn't become programmers, either.
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by bct 16y ago
> I do concede, though, that I was overly facetious in describing what men do as "actual stuff". 1. It's not funny. 2. People actually believe that (even if you don't). 3. That's the problem!
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by bct 17y ago
> The minute you introduce a microformat into your HTML, the semantics of the class attribute have been permanently altered. http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.5.2 > The class attribute has several roles in HTML:
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by bct 17y ago
Malaysia has much higher proportions of women in Computer Science (~50%). It's almost as if it's purely a cultural and social issue...
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by bct 17y ago
It looked to me like you were saying that feminism has/had nothing to say about how women reinforce patriarchal norms, or that it focusses on men's behaviour much more than on women's. That's simply not true. Sorry if I've overreacted, the
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by bct 17y ago
This is a good place to start: http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/ It's a rather broad resource, but to be honest I'm just starting to get into the subject. My earlier snarkiness was caused by frustration at how quickly people are wi
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by bct 17y ago
And even when it makes sense it can be pretty damned tedious. (Of course, for the "joke" to be anything other than self-indulgent the reference can't be all that obscure, so what's the point?) The convergence of "geek culture" and "internet
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by bct 17y ago
How much feminist material have you read? IMO your theory is very silly.
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by bct 17y ago
> That's an established difference between men and women. It is? And it's cross-cultural? I'm astonished by the amount of "men and women are just different , everybody knows that!" going on in this thread.
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by bct 17y ago
I didn't mean it as an attack, after all there is no accounting for taste. Unless you like XKCD, in which case you are a bad person and you should feel bad.
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by bct 17y ago
You don't even have to be an extrovert to be bored by what passes for culture in "geek" circles.
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Self Binding Service (encrypting things to hide them from yourself)(enthusiasm.cozy.org)
12 points by bct 17y ago|2 comments
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by bct 17y ago
Ruby has a lot of web frameworks too. All your experience means is that you don't pay much attention to Ruby (which is fine, I'm only vaguely aware of the 3 you listed for Python)
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by bct 17y ago
The "like"s you use in your examples make your point a tautology - "writing an IDE like Eclipse Idea or NetBeans" basically means "writing a big DE". There are other models for each of your examples that can reduce the size and complexity o
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by bct 17y ago
Webapps and x86 have "won" too, but if you think nobody writes code for anything else you're awfully sheltered.
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by bct 17y ago
> all the comforts that something like Visual Studio gives What are these, anyhow? Whenever I've used Visual Studio or Eclipse it's felt like a burden.
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by bct 17y ago
The lack of ethnic minorities is an indicator of cultural and behavioral homogeneity, not the definition of it (i.e. the important question is why weren't there any ethnic minorities there?). And yeah, the teacher's response was unjustifi
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by bct 17y ago
The problem is that subsidies and encouragement make people forget that actually, yes, it is possible to go places and have a job without a car. And as they forget, it slowly stops being true.
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by bct 17y ago
The city I'm in doesn't seem to have those problems. Maybe it's a problem with your city (or your perception of cities) rather than cities in general?
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by bct 17y ago
There's a lot of waste involved, and a lot of suburbs get free rides on the infrastructure of the urban areas they're attached to. I don't know if they're evil, but it looks to me like they combine the worst aspects of urban living with the
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by bct 17y ago
Saying "politics is a religion for many who lean left" is deliberately inflammatory. You don't get to blame the topic of conversation for your own bad behaviour.
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by bct 17y ago
> If _everyone_ did that in their own corner of the world, we'd get the result we wanted. That's awfully naive. Systemic problems can't be fixed piece-by-piece, and it ignores the fact that there are people actively working against thes
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by bct 17y ago
Bitching about people bitching about it does worse than squat.
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by bct 17y ago
Right, which is why a lot of people are inclined to believe that _why's not responsible for this or that there's something else going on.
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by bct 17y ago
I was just thinking to myself today, the internet needs more places for American right-libertarians to talk about politics. Good to see that Hacker News is stepping up to fill that gap.
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by bct 17y ago
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch... It's not that long. I have yet to see a paragraph-length description that is an accurate summary of it (and blog-entry-length descriptions cause a lot of confusion).
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by bct 17y ago
Uzbl's gotten a lot faster since it learned to talk to the cookie handler over a socket (rather than spawning a new handler for every request). That was committed a week or two ago.

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