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The top 2 money recipients are 2 feminists which have never seen a line of code in their lives (one of them doesn't even have a github account!).

Ashe and Shanley? Ashe is a programmer, and Shanley was working as a programmer until she founded a media startup.

I do find the hangup people have on GitHub in particular weird, though. I have very little code on public GitHub repositories. Why? KDE, GNOME, and Ubuntu all have their own code hosting. I spent years working almost exclusively on projects that were large enough to have their own server farm. And then, of course, there's Sourceforge.

Since more recently published court documents have shown this to be a sexual assault / rape and domestic violence arrest, some statistics are in order.

Particularly relevant is the fact that only 14-18% of sexual assault cases are prosecuted, or 37% for rape alone. http://www.uky.edu/CRVAW/files/TopTen/07_Rape_Prosecution.pd...

Given that, it would actually be highly unusual if he DID go to trial.

Depending on your proportions, some necklines might work better for movement or fit. Like, high necklines on a rectangular t-shirt, if you're well-endowed, have a tendency to creep up and get all chokey. Scoop necks do a better job of this.

Some people might consider scoop neck to be "low cut" (because the collar bones are visible--something generally not accepted/expected of men) while others might not call something "low cut" til cleavage is visible.

Now, a button-up shirt does a nice job of leaving space for your throat so you don't feel like you're choking, but in case you haven't noticed, it can be difficult these days to find button-up shirts for women that have all the buttons. It has become extremely common to manufacture women's blouses without the second button, or rather, with the second button roughly 6 inches below the first one. I suspect this is due to rules in schools and workplaces allowing for the top button to be left unbuttoned. That way, you're following the rule and showing some decolletage. I once went through every button-up blouse I could find at Target. I came away with having found one rack that had shirts with an upper-chest button. (Oh, and if you button all the buttons on one that's missing that upper-chest one, it just gapes open)

If the shirt itself is not quite wide enough to accommodate being well-endowed, a lower neckline can allow the fabric to move horizontally to better fit around the girth involved by opening up a bit wider. On the one hand, you could get a bigger size (if that's even available--there are limits), but if you've got a small waist, there's a tailoring problem for you. And if you've got shoulders that are narrow but a chest that isn't, that's a much more difficult tailoring problem.

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Re: bar. I'd rather be asked "read any good books lately?" than told "that dress makes your boobs look good." But then I'm someone commenting on Hacker News, so that might be to be expected.

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Re: your wife. I suspect there's a standing agreement with her regarding how you interact in terms of expressing your sexuality. I doubt you'd comment to a male coworker on how his trousers make his lower half look, but if you were married to a man, you might to him.

I do #1 backwards because LinuxChix was my introduction to the world of online tech communities.

I like to non-verbally snark, by breaking people's brains.

I wear long skirts all the time, and sometimes I cover my hair. So I must be traditionalist/conservative, right? No, I just don't like how jeans are all about objectifying my butt and also never fit right. Some of my coverings keep my hair nicely off the back of my neck in the summer, others let me have pretty flowy fabric (I like textiles). I'm pretty clearly not a booth babe with that skirt though, so maybe I'm a girlfriend? Oh wait, the shirt I'm wearing is from an Ubuntu Developer Summit. Hmm... Wait, but I'm knitting, back to the girlfriend idea, maybe? Oh nevermind, this is too confusing, how about talking instead of trying to guess?

I have noticed, btw, that a large portion of female developers knit or crochet. Maybe it's because knitting & crochet patterns look a lot like code, complete with for-loops and while-loops. Also, ya know, make a scarf, make a website, make a pie...make stuff!

Or one sexually inappropriate comment, one "fetch me coffee," one "apparently I'm a secretary now..." and one "we're all dudes here right?" type comment.

You can express empathy with the other person though. And in English, at least, this is commonly done using apologetic language, "I am sorry that you feel that way and I understand that you are upset" etc.

No, "I'm sorry I made you feel that way" or "I'm sorry I hurt you."

I don't work for PopVox, so I'm gonna stick with "Congresscritter" :)

Anyway, I guess you were expecting one of those hokey quizzes news sites have that never really cover the bases properly. shrug PV's actual purpose is to enhance constituent communications. That means your messages to Congress route through them so they can sprinkle on loads of metadata and make it easier for the Congressional aids to sort through while at the same time providing public accountability. This personalized bill-by-bill member-by-member thing is newly added on top of that larger main goal.

I use it because I like that accountability thing (transparency, woo!), and I have enough friends that used to have to sort through paper letters to the offices they worked in who have warned me that I will make staffers hate me if I send paper letters ;)

So get your preferred groups to make use of the handy widgets PopVox makes available for easily contacting Congress on whatever their important-bill-of-the-moment is. https://www.popvox.com/services/widgets

(You can embed them in your personal homepage too. It's free. I've got an anti-SOPA one on my homepage.)

If you and ten other people shared a BugMeNot account, that'd mean your opinions and those ten others would all be grouped as one user, meaning it wouldn't ACTUALLY represent your views. Also, Congress requires your REAL name and your REAL address to contact them, otherwise the Congresscritters' online forms reject the email as being not from their constituent.

It's not a paywall. It's free.

Here's how it works: you use PopVox to communicate with Congress, sending support or oppose messages which are publicly tallied so all can see which way any given Congresscritter's distric was leaning. This tool then shows you, bill by bill, whether your two senators and congressperson voted the way you told them to through PopVox.

If you contact them some other way, PopVox can't possibly know that (nor can anyone but your congresscritter, so there's no accountability), so it's useless without an account.

Have you seen this article? http://geekfeminism.org/2010/08/10/restore-meritocracy-in-cs...

One way teachers can even the CS 101 playing field is by doing something totally different than what the kids taught themselves or learned in high school (which is probably object oriented programming, these days).

"Most of them aren't interested in developing, but in functional analysis and leading teams."

That was the impression I had of SEs in general during my undergrad. The CS kids wanted to be developers. The SE kids wanted to be managers.

I don't know about the 70s, but one of my (female) professors worked on the code that took Apollo into space in the 60s.

I ended up here by Googling for "secretpoke spam" so yes, it totally does look like a spam email.

Particularly since the "hint" given narrows it down to married people, people who've moved overseas, and people I can't even get along with for a 5 minute conversation...

I'm Mackenzie in the article. The guy who made the comment about why someone else was agreeing with me...he wasn't new. I don't know about the guy who grabbed/kissed me.

Going a little broader in the tech field... I know of some people in the hacking/security community who are...well, when you're new to the scene, you're warned about them. I can only think of one guy I was warned about, but he's well known. I can think of two others I was told new guys to the scene (particularly if fairly young) should be warned about, and those two are around-since-phreaking-days levels of established and well known. Being icky doesn't mean ostracism.

Yes, it says she went to the police. Where does it say the police didn't care?

Only married in the "divorce proceedings take a while" sense.

The screen's the most important part? I think it's the keyboard. Typing without looking isn't a problem.

wow, our usernames are similar... but yes, +1 for ZaReason. I have two of their systems. The company is a pleasure to deal with.

ZaReason UltraLap SR (c. 2008)

  2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo
  4GB RAM
  250GB hard disk
  iwl4965 802.11n wifi
  Intel 965 graphics (yay open drivers!)
  13" 1280x800 screen
  best laptop keyboard there is (clicky! like a Model M! *heaven*)

Wearing a big black t-shirt from ThinkGeek 2 sizes too big, baggy shorts, white socks pulled up, sneakers, and your hair messy... it's like using the <blink> tag with cyan text on a red background and little animated gifs.

Welcome to being a woman. Remember how the old ideal figure for a woman was a small waist and big hips? It turns out that being shaped that way means shopping for jeans is impossible--unless you want them to be skin-tight on your thighs and rear and so big on your waist that your underwear shows when you bend over. My hips are 37 inches. My waist is...well, Lucky jeans made for a 25 inch waist (their smallest size) are about an inch too big on my waist (and barely possible to pull up over my rear). I have a friend with a 30 inch waist and 44 inch hips. I have no idea how she finds anything that fits her.

My solution is to always wear skirts. I wear long skirts year round. In the winter, I wear leggings under them (stretchy!) for warmth. Maybe you could get a Utilikilt?

Really, though, I suggest you learn to sew. I've been sewing since I was 3 or so. If a toddler can do it, you can do it! I've started taking in my shirts that are too baggy so that they fit my waist properly.

ETA: I have noticed that yoga pants, because of their sheen + stretchiness, can pretend to be slacks for women! One lady I know has pinstriped yoga pants. Looking at her, you'd never know she was wearing comfy pants, not proper slacks.

Firefox, like OpenOffice.org, bundles its own renderer instead of using the OS's renderer. That's why Ubuntu fonts look good, and Firefox fonts look blurry.

I used to think that green on black was the way to go because of that whole "ow, bright light, pain, my eyes!" thing, but it turns out that you can avoid the pain of bright screens and extend your battery life by just turning down the screen brightnesss. I keep mine as low as it goes while still having the backlight on. Though, in a well-lit room, it is possible to read black text on white with the backlight off as well, thus hyper-extending battery life.