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by swa14 14y ago
Hell, software engineering isn't even engineering. 'you will discover that software engineering has accepted as its charter "How to program if you cannot.".' http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036... "Software engine
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by swa14 14y ago
"Yes, most girls JUST don't like to go into IT." I'm sorry but that's religion, not science. There's an observable difference, which is maybe related to biology, society, or maybe something else completely. What's it's not is magic . Thing
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by swa14 14y ago
"Easy: Look at the gender balance in engineering, and you'll find that there are not many women." True but irrelevant. It's the "just" in "most girls just don't like technology" I object to, like it's an innate aversion against technology t
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by swa14 14y ago
"most girls just don't like technology" The "just" in that line needs a [citation needed], and a pretty good one at that. "There are differences between male and female brains, and this is why they prefer different activities." That might b
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by swa14 14y ago
There's nothing keeping men from wearing skirts in public either. But most of us do not do so because of gender differences ingrained in out society. Identifying yourself by your gender can be harmless and doesn't need to be detrimental to
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by swa14 14y ago
">Richard felt that this "ports tree" of ours made OpenBSD non-free. He came to our mailing lists and lectured to us specifically" to complement this story a little. rms had heard from one source or another that OpenBSD was "completely
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by swa14 14y ago
You must mean the Open BSD guys. FreeBSD is pretty much neutral on the GPL, but BSD licensed software is sort of their "thing", so it's natural they'd prefer a BSD licensed compiler. NetBSD used to be pretty hostile until control was wrest