atrophying

Easy. I don't sit at a computer all day.

Personally, I find I'm a better coder when I get up and move around on a regular basis. I'll work for an hour or two, then go for a walk. Come back, work for another hour or two, go get some coffee from the coffee shop on the other end of campus. Rinse and repeat. Often times I'll be able to work out a problem or have a great idea while I'm walking.

There's this idea that to be a coder you have to be in front of a computer every waking moment, but the most successful programmers and engineers I know are the ones who know when to step away, who leave the work at work, and take care of themselves physically and emotionally. Otherwise, you're right, it's not sustainable at all.

Try again. It's more like, "hey baby, I want to rape you while you're sleeping then fuck you in the ass while you cry ... fucking bitch, why don't you want it?"

That's not a direct quote from my inbox, but it's close.

Speaking as an lady old fart on the Internet, it wasn't nearly this bad 15, 20 years ago. I've spent literally decades in some of these Internet communities, and the level of disrespect women receive on the Internet has skyrocketed in the past 10 years. Used to be that shit like doxing was incredibly rare; now it's an everyday occurrence and has to be factored into most women's social media.

There's also a lot to be said for standing up and saying, "hey, this isn't okay behavior." Because it won't change unless this kind of behavior is brought into the spotlight and their perpetrators left to scurry like roaches.

Speaking as someone who's on the spectrum, just because one is autistic doesn't automatically make them toxic - nor does being toxic automatically make one autistic. This is a really disingenuous and harmful stereotype of people on the spectrum. Autism affects more than just social functioning, and a great number of us, myself included, have no problems behaving in a positive and supportive fashion.

Same, and I've found it so useful I paid for a home license. Don't get me wrong, I love a little CLI action, but Charles is pretty seamless and works great with all of my more complicated localhost dev setups and the weird routing that comes along with that.

Maybe it's just me, but I see the biggest problem in implementing a 2FA policy is the friction of the process. Using a password manager isn't as easy as remembering a single password. Using an offline manager isn't as easy as an online one. This, though ... this is the most over engineered, least user centered thing I've seen in a long time. I couldn't even begin to tell you the amount of task friction and sheer frustration that thing would be for someone like me who logs into and out of properties all day. All for the low price of $130, as if I don't get enough PITA for free.

Free speech is a concept of government. Reddit is a for-proft corporation. It's not censorship, it's a business refining its model.

Joke's on you that you thought reddit was anything but.

10 LET L = "BASIC"

20 LET H = "HELLO WORLD"

30 IF L = "BASIC" GOTO 40

40 PRINT H

50 END

Compared to what the web looked like in '95, it's downright modern.

It's the ghost of HTML 3.2, now with excess DOM manipulation!

Oh god now I'm having flashbacks to <tr align="center"><td colspan="3" nowrap><img src="spacer.gif" height="100" width="150"></td></tr> make it stop.

It's a neat concept, but your privacy policy is going to kill you. It's incredibly boilerplate and vague, with no information about how you actually use the data.

If you want security-conscious folks to use your service (that is, hackers from HN), please provide more information about how you actually plan to use the data and more robust language about security and transparency. There's no way in hell I'd let a third-party like yours access the entirety of my browser history without seeing some evidence of vigorous privacy protection first.

They started picking and choosing which parts of AppData they backed up, but never informed their users and kept on claiming they backed up "everything." See, the backup app used to be set up so you could see what was being excluded, and modify it if need be. I had the entirety of AppData selected as "for backup," then had several bits of saved user data wiped out. One of those was an extension that stored its data in the browser user profile, something I used frequently and had restored a half-dozen times from backup. Then it was gone. Backblaze stopped backing it up, deleted it from their servers, and I had no way to restore it. Three years of data lost and zero effort from Backblaze to recover it, not even an apology.

The technology isn't bad, but their customer service is some of the worst I've ever seen. I was a Backblaze customer for three years and not once did I have what I'd consider a positive experience. If anything goes wrong they leave you hanging. They're not a company I'd ever trust with valuable data again.

Fair warning: Backblaze has a habit of making major changes silently (without any indication to the user), and their customer support is TERRIBLE. I was a customer for several years and never had a positive interaction with their support staff. The final straw was losing several files last year after they changed their backup method without notifying users, a method that contradicted their documentation. I got full IDGAF treatment from their support. That's right - a backup solution failed to backup, then support basically shrugged and said "your loss, too bad, so sad" when I contacted them even though they admitted it was their fault.

Buyer beware when it comes to Backblaze.

Many SV startups display a website with 50% women programmers... all of them cute and young. We know very well they're not here to attract more women to programming.

Really? Are you so shortsighted as to think that an attractive young woman can't actually be a programmer, and that her only actual job function is to appeal to her male coworkers? Despite the fact that the industry skews towards the young and attractive in the first place?

This attitude right here is why so many women have problems in STEM. If we're even remotely attractive we're considered to only be there to appeal to our male coworkers. If we're not attractive we're ignored and belittled. In either case, there's no acceptance of our technical skills. Has it ever occurred to you that maybe women programmers don't exist for the sole purpose of entertaining men, and that the cute and young women you see might actually be - wait for it - programmers?

This is an incredibly misleading title on two studies that has been repeatedly misreported as confirming the absence of gluten sensitivity. In fact, if you get away from the junk science journalism, these studies suggest scientifically sound reasons for non-celiac enteropathy in the absence of an immune-moderated response towards gluten.

That's not even getting into how terribly flawed the selection process was in these studies, and how the selection criteria was designed to exclude those who had been diagnosed with celiac or gluten-sensitive enteropathy in the first place. Or how the first study was so small as to be statistically insignificant. Or how the control also produced gastrointestinal symptoms similar to the experiments.

Also: dude, why don't you worry more about your own diet and less about those of perfect strangers? Who gives a shit why people eat gluten-free? It's their fucking body; quit trying to police their diets because you read some junk science on a blog.

Lady hacker here. Bring it. We'll see who pwns who.

(Also, thank you for proving a point in an amazingly effective fashion - as if "college degree holding males" are the only people capable of working with tech. Your testicles don't automatically make you superior, and my vagina doesn't automatically make me inferior.)

The opportunities are there for those females who want it.

This is a fallacy. The problem isn't that sexism in STEM isn't conscious choice; it's not like those nasty menfolk go out of their way to make women feel unwelcome. It's systemic, a culture where women are perceived as less technically competent, more unstable, less deserving of recognition or promotion. If our names are clearly female-gendered, our papers and conference submissions are accepted less frequently, even if the paper itself is the same. The old joke among women in STEM is that "you have to work twice as hard to get half the credit."

I've been coding for the web since 1996, professionally since 1998. I currently work as a senior software developer for a major retailer, and as you might have guessed, I'm female. Science, tech, engineer, math - all of these fields have gotten significantly more hostile towards women in the years I've been involved with them. Under the guise of "professionality" I've been stalked, harassed, invalidated and belittled - and I've experienced less problems than most of my female colleagues.

I look around at my coworkers, and of the several hundred developers and engineers there, less than 5 are women. 98% of my coworkers are male. I get talked down to by junior developers all the time; they either mistakenly assume I'm new to the field or not a developer at all. These aren't guys trying to make it difficult. They're operating under flawed, sexist assumptions, and that's what makes working in STEM an uphill battle. How many times can you get the message "you're inferior" before you believe it? 100? 1000?

I have a 12 year old cousin who loved programming the first time she tried it. She's smart and driven and would be a great developer. She's already given up on it; would you like to know why? Because she's isolated as a female geek and was teased about being a girl. Arguing that if we don't like it, we can just organize our own whatever is dismissive and reductive. You know what happens when we organize our own whatever? We get harassed and threatened and tons of shit heaped on us because we're women. So don't tell us that it's "there if we want it," because it's not.

How do they make a living if they aren't working at all?

I'm one of those women who left the field after a 10 year career, and then returned several years late. The answer is, our quality of life drops. We end up in alternate careers that usually don't pay as well as tech, but come without the headaches. I worked as a private chef after I left tech. Some of the women I know have become academics in other fields, some pursue completely different careers in non-technical fields, some drop out completely to embrace a SAHM role or some other traditional gender role.

I'm not going to argue about whether this study is right or that one is wrong; but I can tell you from my own anecdotal experience that every year I see less and less women my age in tech. I rejoined IT after that hiatus and there's not a single woman I work with who has the kind of technical expertise I do. The women who have that expertise have all left for greener pastures; for most of them, tech is an uphill battle against ignorance and bias that just gets to be too stressful to deal with.

I'm probably going to get the shit flamed out of me for being a woman daring to comment in a thread about feminism, but fuck it. Maybe the Internet might surprise me.

I'm one of those 56% of women who left mid-career for a non-technical job; I don't have a family of my own, so that wasn't a contributing factor. Sexism was not the primary reason why I left, but it was a major factor in my decision. I returned to the field after a decade because no other job has been as satisfying as coding is, but it's still a really unbalanced field.

The things that most guys don't get is that it's usually not anything they consciously do. It's unconscious behavior. The one I wrestled with the most - and still wrestle with - was the unspoken assumption that because I'm a woman that I'm not technically competent. If I enter a technical conversation with male colleagues, their default stance is that I'm either less knowledgeable than they are (even if I'm the senior dev), or that I'm wrong. Either I get challenged and attacked on what I say, or I'm talked down to like a child. My male colleagues don't treat other men this way, even if the men they're speaking to is non-technical.

It's also about isolation. I'm on a team of 30, but counting myself, there's only two women. The only thing that's unusual about it is that there's two of us. It's far more common for me to be the only woman in the room. I can count the number of female developers I've worked with on one hand with fingers to spare. Tech is an incredibly isolating field for women; we're in an environment that is frequently uncomfortable (and sometimes outright dangerous) with very few allies and even fewer mentors and leaders. The women mentors and leaders we do see are often publicly lambasted and denigrated for existing, or harassed completely out of the field.

It's not getting easier to be a woman in tech, it's getting harder. Used to be I could connect to other women techies online without much difficulty; now we find our community spaces overrun with trolls and strident voices about phantom spectre of "the SJW". I can't read about women coders on places like Slashdot or HN without the legions of comments about how feminism is evil and women are inferior. I'm a developer in a highly specialized field, and I have seriously considered ceasing any contribution to the Internet outside of my code deployments, because there's only so much harassment one person can take before they just give the fuck up.

As a woman who also don't like to track her fitness by pounds, dress size is not a particularly useful metric, because it's so highly variable among manufacturers. I have pants that range from size 8 to size 16. If I tried to measure my fitness by what pant size I wore today, I'd go crazy in record time.

Yeah, the picture is super off-putting; I liked the app concept but any interest I had disappeared when I saw that login screen. It looks like something more suited for Tinder than a health tracking app, and frankly, I'm sick of seeing skimpily clad women as the metric for idealness. It's demeaning and demotivating as hell if you can't fit into that mold. Not to mention that some titillating picture of a woman's ass isn't in any way appropriate for a general interest app in the first place.