heterogenic

So... Tearing down a straw man then.

You could've just said "yes".

(The operative part of that reply was "hours after it was amended". Your rant, and 90% of the other replies on this thread, added nothing at all to the conversation besides typical red pill douche-baggery.)

I was under the impression that amending > editing if the text in question had been discussed or quoted.

In the (extremely) unlikely event that I post here again, I'll be sure to stealth edit any changes instead.

And your reason for posting this pedantic diatribe hours after the original post was corrected to "objectified female bodies" is... What? To revel in a pedantic takedown of a straw man?

If muscular men were dramatically underrepresented in STEM careers, and particularly EE, then I would have a problem with that.

If you really want to pursue this line of thinking, what if a female nurse had posted a hobby page wherein she documented all the ways nurses most often contaminate hospitals or traumatize children, and all the "example" nurses in the pictures were male.

But really, that's not a perfect analogy. Female bodies != male bodies in our culture, particularly in STEM careers. It is at best impolite (and at worst creating a hostile work/study environment) to use these images in a page on a university website.

I assume you're not serious...

But maybe you're not seeing the same images as everyone else. Most of us see these on his page: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/bchafy/test_rgb/testrgb.jpg http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/bchafy/test_rgb/3girl_test3.JPG http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/bchafy/test_rgb/3girl_test.JPG

In fact, all of his non-technical images are of scantily clad or posing women. That's fine in some contexts, but definitely not professional or welcoming to female students.

Aaaaand... That makes it appropriate how?

Honestly, the fact that all his "demo" screens are filled with porn, on a university page, is almost as interesting (in a sociological sense) as the actual clever image multiplexing hack.

I just hope he's only a student, and not in a position of responsibility. (Not that that necessarily makes it OK, but at least it would reflect less on the institution).

edit: ok, not porn, "objectified female bodies". Because that makes it more appropriate?

Evidence of what?

You can see the admissions essay requirements on the linked page.

It's interesting that one of the only Ivy programs which is essentially immune to this gaming of the system is Harvard Business School, which allows only one semi-optional free-form essay ("What else would you like us to know?":(http://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/application-process/Pages/...) and requires a follow-up letter to every in-person interview.

The irony of course is that the scions of empires and children of privilege who are being groomed for leadership essentially get a free pass at admissions. (Which has a sort of logic when you consider that they form the backbone of the class power network almost immediately upon graduation).

(As an HBS graduate I have mixed feelings about the overall privilege distribution, but admit to having no plausible suggestions of how to address it.)

3 significant failures, one of them big.

My conclusion is that for a multitude of reasons (most of which are well known) having involved investors reduces my chances of success considerably. And all they offer is money.

Money is cheap.

The happiest moment of my entrepreneurial life was after my second exit, when I realized that I could self-fund/bootstrap my next venture comfortably and never deal with a VC again.

Meddling, conniving & power-drunk busybodies, all of them.

swoon

Aaaand, that's one more op system I can look forward to replacing with Redis.

Totally off-topic, but I have such a fangirl crush on Salvatore Sanfilippo... Every time he posts I get butterflies.

> I would hypothesize that this is false.

Citation required.

You may want to Google the meaning of "hypothesis"...

Not necessarily.

You're assuming that the factors which drive women out of engineering do so independent of ability.

I would hypothesize that this is false, that the most interested and passionate women are least likely to be nudged out. Google should be comparing its ratio to that of their potential pool, which is presumably skewed high. If that's true, they should be expecting to get closer to 50%. (Not exactly 50, but better than the holistic ratio at least.).

Also, they can look at their specific source pools to get a less hypothetical target. Berkeley is ~50/50, for example. (http://www.wired.com/2014/02/berkeley-women/). But retroactively

I can verify that, when inebriated, I am a terrible judge of character, and trust many people I shouldn't (even when my friends try to warn me off)... The number of times I've gone out questing while drunk and ended up in the company of some loser (while wearing sub-optimal gear) is uncomfortably high. The next morning my memory is almost always corrupted. Only by sheer luck have I not yet been fragged in a PvP area (and having rolled female this life, I wouldn't have much chance of defending myself.)

Clearly, this is not a bug, but a feature.

I'd love to see a comparison among the same sample set between Java8 & Scala as the next environment they're likely to use.

Scala has been "the next big thing" for a while now, but I'm just not convinced that the Java ecosystem is looking for a next thing at all.

To be clear: I absolutely agree that we can do better than Java, and though I prefer Clojure, Scala is certainly a step up. I'm just not convinced that the practical realities of its user base are enough to drive that change, which limits my willingness to move my organization in that direction.

Doesn't make it not true.

Ready, player one?

Not it, but it does about the same thing. Thanks!

As we move intelligence to the client, we're starting to use a lot of data queries which were never meant for the wire. (Particularly in IT applications.)

Having a way to filter in those cases would save having to write & maintain a whole new CRUD layer. In the long run, it could even lead to more efficient queries when objects are composed of many records.

Help me out here HN... I remember somewhere seeing an API format where you passed up the empty JSON object which you wanted filled and returned.

Something like:

  (request)
  {username:"",address:"",credits:""}

  (response)  
  {username:"Manilow, Barry", address:"Hollywood Bowl", credits: 99}  
  

I was so ready to be frustrated at yet another creepy/misogynistic PUA article, but this is really not that bad.

Lines like:

He's found results by giving girls genuine compliments,

has finally internalized the notion that women like sex too.

helping women by training men to be better communicators.

empowers men like Seth by helping them understand what they have to offer women.

I wish more of the awkward guys in the bay area (or even NYC) would follow this advice.

How about just "because disregarding/discouraging half of our potential talent means half the geniuses, half the coding buddies and work friends, half the workhorses and half the inspirations. It is a virtual certainty that in those millions of missing engineers is a software revolution we never rode. We are all missing shoulders to stand on, and see less far as a result.".

Even if you disregard the engineering shortage, doubling the pool and taking the to half dramatically shifts the curve of ability and passion of our workmates. We're all missing out.

I find this a bit implausible...

"How much money" exists in the world is not a terribly difficult number to ballpark. When someone stashes money offshore it doesn't disappear, it just becomes unidentifiable. It still goes into TBills, bonds, equity, etc; and that we can measure.

And at a more granular level, the offshore banks in question need to state and verify their assets in order to issue loans, and without loans they can't generate interest. We may not know who it belongs to, but we know it's there.

There's a lot of tax evasion out there. A _lot_. But it's easy enough to do through legal loopholes that few jump through these kinds of hoops.

If he doesn't like gay marriage, he doesn't have to get gay married. But contributing a significant amount of money to take away that option from someone else is wrong. And to believe it's his right to take that option away is wrong.

I have a same-sex partner, Brendan is willing to work and make a real effort to take away our recognition. To unmarry our children's parents. To eliminate our shared benefits, and impair the other 1148 rights conferred by marriage.

I am not happy that my money and time might go towards his salary and to further empower his views, so it's a logical decision for me to boycott his company. Many others feel similarly.

To be fair, at any point he could have said "My views have evolved, and I no longer think it is my right to deny others marriage.". He chose not to.

Not saying it's easy or even plausible (though just asking nicely would probably do it for verification). Just that it'd be nice.

Totally serious.

Try to imagine reading this as a female developer/founder. It's not that it's all crazy/insulting/aaargh, but enough is. And it's happening without our input.

So. Frustrating.

You know what I'd love to see the next time one of these inflammatory gender-related posts comes up?

One thread that only women are allowed to post to. No men to challenge them, play devil's advocate or otherwise defend their privilege. Just one place for us to say our piece without being downvoted into oblivion, where our voice can be heard (in all its glorious heterogeneity).

Because that's what's missing in this conversation about women in tech. Women.

Carry on mansplaining your way through it boys... I'll be over here building things.

You mean like 2013 was the year of the smart watch?