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by johnbm 13y ago
What articles like this completely ignore is that toy stores are not divided into a blue boy's section and a pink girl's section. There's the "girl's section", and then there's "everything else".
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by johnbm 13y ago
Until you need to do something with WebGL and you realize you have no idea how to write fast code because you're more than a dozen abstraction layers removed from the silicon.
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by johnbm 13y ago
"I am an absolute moral authority. Apologizing and shutting up is the only acceptable response when I am pissed off. Any protestation will be taken as further evidence of your complicity." Or maybe you're just a self-centred
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by johnbm 13y ago
There are two kinds of developers... those who want a single framework that will solve all their problems and which they never have to look into... and those who like to understand one or more abstraction levels below where they're act
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by johnbm 13y ago
One of the women was singing Assange's praise on Twitter the days before, and it seems she only got upset once she found out he'd slept with another woman during his stay. Even then, the question was initially just about getting h
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by johnbm 13y ago
It's really simple. The more gender equality there is in a country, the more women and men revert to stereotypical occupation choices. That is, there are more female engineers in India or Eastern Europe than in Scandinavia. The countri
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by johnbm 13y ago
"The experiment also shows that attractive women get special treatment in the male-dominated IT industry. The majority of individuals who went out of their way to help Emily Williams were men. The team actually tried a similar test in
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by johnbm 13y ago
Just World fallacy: the belief that things happen for a reason, that bad things happen to those who deserve it, and that the world is ultimately fair. That is, they prefer to believe the government is a superhuman entity that has everyone&#
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by johnbm 13y ago
The plural of anecdote is not data. Richard Lippa has done studies that show the more economic freedom and gender equality a country has, the more men and women choose traditional occupations along gender lines. It's pretty obvious: in
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Feynman's List(dadalovelace.github.io)
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by johnbm 13y ago
The documentary series is Hjernevask and is amazing, not just the episode on gender: http://vimeo.com/user5971760/videos
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by johnbm 13y ago
Answer, because women have in-group bias, and men don't: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15491274
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by johnbm 13y ago
Nope, it's a specific chemical that smells like buttery popcorn, it's what they put on microwave popcorn. It also destroys the lungs of the factory workers who produce it (or people who eat too much of it): http://www.c
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by johnbm 13y ago
> architecture astronauts That's an awesome term for something I never quite had a word for.
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by johnbm 13y ago
That's not true at all. Firstly, any PNG would have a limited resolution, requiring massive file sizes to be indistinguishable from an SVG. Secondly, browsers don't scale bitmaps with perfectly alias-free filtering, which means yo
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by johnbm 13y ago
And big surprise, NYTimes makes it seem like the problem is with Assange not being happy how he's portrayed, rather than it being based on discredited sources, putting people in key roles that never happened, and ignoring that it was a
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by johnbm 13y ago
"I read more of the diplomatic cables published on the Department of State Net Centric Diplomacy. With my insatiable curiosity and interest in geopolitics I became fascinated with them. I read not only the cables on Iraq, but also abou
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by johnbm 13y ago
How many of the people whining about this problem have ever submitted a Linux kernel patch or considered it and said they wouldn't because of him? Name names, thanks.
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by johnbm 13y ago
More astute readers would notice that you didn't actually provide anything to substantiate your arguments other than an 'ironic' ad hominem. Take for example this: http://littlemissgeek.com/about The image it
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by johnbm 13y ago
> Do you need to go to the powder room and have a good cry about it? In other words: "I'm going to emasculate you by comparing you to a woman and giving you stereotypically weak female traits like crying. But YOU'RE the on
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by johnbm 13y ago
Cheer up, I was being cynical because of this specifically: "We need a new planet so we can try new things, create new ideas, and generally liberate ourselves of traditional conventions." Of all the places to try out 'new con
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by johnbm 13y ago
Last time I found an anti-SOPA site that said "Enter your email address and location and we'll send you information tailored to your area." That is, it was placed to suggest you'd get information right now, about how to
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by johnbm 13y ago
So you've moved to Mars. Through a stunning feat of engineering, humanity has designed a ship that can make the journey, land tons of people and equipment without crashing, and has deployed a habitat of some kind intact. Well congratul
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by johnbm 13y ago
The article doesn't provide much citations for "Bicycle helmets do an outstanding job of keeping our skulls intact in a major crash." which is the premise it starts out with and builds its case off. Obvious questions arise...
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by johnbm 13y ago
Don't trust anyone more than you need to. Get everything in writing. Do an honest cost/benefit analysis for all parties involved. What do you think young 20 somethings who work 80 hour weeks at a startup for the promise of stock ownership a
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by johnbm 13y ago
Try changing your font, line/letter spacing, or turning on indentation guidelines. This is mine: http://imgur.com/0BSq6lE
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by johnbm 13y ago
Of course, the crux of the matter is that these feminists still think Disney princesses are the most important role models for girls, thus confirming their own bias, and yet provide no alternatives of their own. Are girls supposed to look u
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by johnbm 13y ago
Most likely they didn't know about img { display: block } and wanted to get rid of baseline spaces in their table-based layout.
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The problem is that this demo page feels like the modern equivalent of a Geocities page. It shows off the technology, but fails to show how it can be used tastefully by using it everywhere without restraint. Additionally, I find many of the
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by johnbm 13y ago
Like most things the Ada Initiative does, this makes no sense once you scratch past the surface. Even if women risk more criticism as newbies, the risk still exists for everyone, and solving it for part of the group only is discrimination.

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