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  1. Re:Here's a hypothesis for you on Women Get Pull Requests Accepted More (Except When You Know They're Women) (peerj.com) · · Score: 1

    I think he is saying that women are more pragmatic and stick with programming if they realistically have the aptitude and interest in it. Men may have more reasons to be in programming that aren't related to either one, so some of them produce crap. I don't think this reflects poorly on men or women and seems to match my experiences in the work environment.

  2. Yes, it is technically correct, but misleading in the sense it makes a 5% difference (what is the margin of error again?) look bigger than it is.

  3. Re:Just a thought... on Women Get Pull Requests Accepted More (Except When You Know They're Women) (peerj.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps a women's and man's communication style changes when they are IN vs OUT? I would assume that they sometime have to answer questions about the change. Seriously though if you look at the charts the differences in percentage is so small it's negligible.

  4. Baloney Charts on Women Get Pull Requests Accepted More (Except When You Know They're Women) (peerj.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Charts that show a percentage range (ie. 60% to 80%) instead of the actual percentage (0% to 100%) to exaggerate differences between amounts on the chart.

  5. What a crap summary on Women Get Pull Requests Accepted More (Except When You Know They're Women) (peerj.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    After reading the article it appears that women lead pull acceptance in every case except for one edge case, and not by very much(its like 64% vs 63%). Nothing interesting at all here.

  6. All a PIN does is act as a proxy for a ink signature, an issue that the government hasn't been able to figure out yet.

  7. Re:IRS computer shutdown last week? on Identity Thieves Obtain 100,000 Electronic Filing PINs From IRS System (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    I've had so many issues with the pin I gave up- print out the forms and mail them. It really isn't that hard!

  8. Re:The obvious direction... on Putin's Internet Czar Wants To Ban Windows On Government PCs · · Score: 1

    Poloniumto?

  9. Would love to be hacked and have someone pay my back taxes for me!

  10. Re:Too Bad on Why Stack Overflow Doesn't Care About Ad Blockers · · Score: 1

    Then use ad block

  11. Re:Too Bad on Why Stack Overflow Doesn't Care About Ad Blockers · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately though with flash block a lot of sites will think you have flash installed and will dish up flash instead of html 5... I believe youtube does this. I disabled flash completely a few months ago and have been pleasantly surprised- very few site are flash only. My number one beef with flash is instability and slowness and this is gone now.

  12. Re:This is NOT new on Jeep/Chrysler's New Gearshift Appears To Be Causing Accidents (roadandtrack.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup, had a 63 chrysler new yorker when I was a teen. Could fit a ton of friends in the back of that thing!

  13. Re:I havve older pc's on Why Stack Overflow Doesn't Care About Ad Blockers · · Score: 1

    I hope you have disabled Flash. Trust me, it is a huge upgrade for your computer.

  14. Re:Welcome to the gravitynet on LIGO Will Make Gravitational Waves Announcement on Thursday · · Score: 2

    .... or an alien intelligence has sent us in code the script to a movie about aliens sending plans for a teleportation machine

  15. Re:Mostly for criminals on Talos Secure Workstation Is Free-Software Centric — and $3100 [Updated] · · Score: 1

    It's been more than a decade since there his been a non x86 cpu that is comparable in performance. Good stuff!

  16. Re:Icebergs float on glaciers on NASA Announces That Pluto Has Icebergs Floating On Glaciers of Nitrogen Ice (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    This isn't that uncommon. If you freeze ethanol in liquid nitrogen it turns into a rubbery solid which probably has flow dynamics

  17. Re:On paper, this is a good decision on India Blocks Facebook's Free Basics Internet Service (thestack.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Or maybe it's about a foreign entity putting a bunch of small local providers out of business and then changing their mind about the service being free. I think it is called 'predatory pricing'.

  18. alt-coins on Bitcoin Capitalist Opens Bounty For New Block Cipher · · Score: 1

    Aren't there tens or hundreds of alt coins that have been doing exactly this?

  19. Re:APorsche Self-Drive? on Porsche Builds Photovoltaic Pylon, Offsetting Luddite Position On Self-Drive (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Would love to have a Panamera, since I can't jam my teenage kids in the back of a 911 :-)

  20. Re:APorsche Self-Drive? on Porsche Builds Photovoltaic Pylon, Offsetting Luddite Position On Self-Drive (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    And when this capability is common place (years or decades out) Porsche has the option to change their mind and install these modules into their cars. I think really the point is that Porsche neither desires or needs to spearhead the self driving car initiative.

  21. Re:Context On the Issue on Have Your iPhone 6 Repaired, Only To Get It Bricked By Apple (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    But there is no way to duplicate the information without doing some kind of man in the middle attack first. I think a warning that the hardware has been changed would of sufficed and leave it to the user to determine if it makes sense....

  22. Re:Context On the Issue on Have Your iPhone 6 Repaired, Only To Get It Bricked By Apple (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This sounds like a bogus excuse to me- doesn't the OS/CPU process the fingerprint information? It's a bad design if the sensor does the whole thing.

  23. Maybe the Cayanne but not the Panamera... lots of us like sports cars but have kids etc. If I could afford a Panamera I certainly would not want it to be self driving!

  24. How are humans a small fraction of the shipping weight when you include shielding, life support systems and food that lasts six months?

  25. I don't always talk about meat, but when I do, it's blubbering!