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is there really any reason to expect the students who didn't take free points in exchange for privacy to outperform the observed group?

Sure, the results pertain more to excluding the internet from the classroom, but really that's just splitting hairs imo

Good designers and programmers do care about people of all ages, colors, orientations, genders, and ability. If tech is to make the biggest positive impact possible everyone must be on board.

A terminal mux. Mux is short for multiplexer, which chooses between different inputs. It is a tool for running keeping multiple terminal sessions open at the same time. These sessions can be attached and detached from, which is often helpful when working on a remote machine you may want to access from different work stations.

Screen is a similar program.

I don't understand how race, gender, and class in particular can possibly be separated out from tech any more so than software patents. A community that has been so obsessed with disrupting any and all aspects of life can't ethically refuse to discuss the consequences of doing so.

But that's exactly the point.

All growing up we were told, "Be a generalist, not a specialist" There was no other acceptable route, so all the "good" kids identified patterns to get ahead.

That leaves many of us barking up when we notice a pattern. Of course, a generalization is a big bundle of things: abstractions, ceteris paribus, the act of generalizing, a general statement, pattern naming

“So, …” What? 11 years ago

Why in the world would "male geeks" want to indicate they have given a topic serious thought any more often than "female geeks"?

I don't have the expertise to dissect this code, so I will choose instead to criticize the name of the project. My opinion is valuable, relevant, and provokes further discussion.

[dead] 12 years ago

oh you know, same old, same old.

...oh and anonymous functions and default behavior in interfaces, and Streams, which are basically way better collections.

Breaking down FRP 12 years ago

Since it's not mentioned in the article, FRP stands for Functional Reactive Programming