I never understood some of this. Last time I went to a convention (decades ago) women were well represented. A 500-to-3 ratio would have seemed bizarre.
I think it depends on what type of con you're going to, and what you do while you're there. In my experience, there seem to be more women LARP'ing and less women in miniature gaming. My experience was also 10+ years ago, so perhaps things have changed?
Women were well accepted in computing. But computing was necessarily nerdy either at the time, instead it was a professional career. It's strange, because right now at 50 years old I am in a job with the least number of women in my sphere of work than I've ever had before. When there are women they are great, but they're standouts meaning much much better than average. Seems to show that women have to work harder, or be willing to put up with more, to get and keep the technical job. My conclusion is that since things have changed for the worse over time that there is indeed something wrong with the culture and it's not just due to the lame excuse that women innately don't like computers.
An aside: I was having coffee with a co-worker/buddy yesterday, and we were chatting about this issue. My favorite (in a sad, ironic way) quote was: "Well, [Scaramush], thinking about it, I haven't really worked with many technical women. So I don't really know much about your species". My whatnow?;)
Yeah, I don't buy that excuse either, particularly since it looks like women passed men as a % of internet users ~2000, so clearly there's an interest in using them, of not learning how they work.
BTW, in my career I've seen many woman shunted out of straight up technical positions into management or PM positions. I don't think it malicious or even conscious, but I see it at a much higher rate than men. My current working theory is that girls are praised more for soft/communication skills than boys are, so they tend to develop them more. When a women demonstrates them, they're immediately given an opportunity to do more communication/people stuff, which though opportunity costs means they're not coding/doing straight up technical work. It becomes this feedback loop that slowly pushes women into these positions through unintended consequences.
On the other hand, the amount of overt misogyny I see is most common on slashdot and rarely visible out in real life (or maybe I need to get out more).
Yeah, if it was as obvious in RL as it is online, in some ways it would be easier since you'd have fewer people telling you there's no problem:(
So... that joke wasn't funny until the end, right? Why is that?
Actually, I think it has more to do with the way our brains process language than anything about the subject (http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304256404579449180386537694). It works the same way the joke in my sig does, confounding your expectation of what's coming next.
Because at some point, man-bashing became socially acceptable, kinda like lawyer jokes, etc. Personally, I do find the twist of that one amusing, but if it were the other way around...
Actually, I think it depends what you mean by "acceptable" and by who. People in the majority have been making minorities the butt of jokes for all of recorded history. It seems to me a relatively recent phenomenon people have decided it's not acceptable to make jokes about minorities at least in public (just look at Bugs Bunny cartoons from the 50s and 60s for examples of stereotypes for humor). Why do you think that changed? Do you think it's a change for the better? I think not shitting on people with less power makes all of us better people, but YMMV.
I think the point is, yes, we do realize that there are a lot of jerks out there. They are jerks for a variety of reasons. Beyond that are the true pieces of sh** like this guy [in the article] and those that kill their family. Unfortunately we - based on our gender - are somehow associated with this guy. It's not a *MAN* problem, it's a human problem.
Hm. If Rodgers shot people because he thought he heard aliens, or because God told him to do it, I might agree with you. But this crime was specifically targeted against women. I'll let Gawker make the argument for me: http://gawker.com/why-is-it-so... (wow, that's a sentence I never thought I'd write)
Mario saves the princess? Is that because men identify women are useless and weak, or because they want to be heroic.
How about "the way they get to show heroism is by rescuing weak women, and that's fucked up?"
Just because they might like to be "Thor" doesn't mean that they wouldn't appreciate Janeway, Ripley, or Sarah Conner doing the same for us dudes.
Sure, there are always exceptions. I actually have a pet theory that part of reason for Sci Fi's surge in popularity in my lifetime is because it allows for more strong women characters, which in turn draws women to Sci Fi. The fact that a strong woman character has to be as outlandish as aliens is depressing as shit, but that's a story for another day;)
Honestly, I'm not Urkle or even a Leonard. When I was younger I admit to be a complete dork (and annoying to girls and guy both), but that was a social awkwardness I grew out of.
This being/., it'd be kind of shocking if you weren't some kind of dork;););) I think this is a self-selecting group of dorks (myself included).
The same a**holes that women have so hard a time get a leg up with are the ones that regular guys have issues with, and the thing is, we DO make an issue of it. Maybe not right away in the open, but a "that wasn't cool" or "that was totally unprofessional" when a moment is available to do so. I've dealt with some pretty horrible women too, both personally and professionally (though I'd admit, professionally women do come out on top overall).
I'm sorry -- I don't get where you're going with this paragraph? Is it that assholes are assholes to everyone? If so, there's a difference between someone shitting on your because of who they are, and someone shitting on you because of who you are. I've experienced both, and the latter is infinitely more painful.
I'd argue the military is a harder job than IT, regardless of gender.
Your argument is curious to me: Because there are other places that are bad/worse, we should put up with bad treatment? It's kind of like saying "There are people dying, so don't treat that broken arm, you whiner!".
Fascinating post, thanks for sharing. I'm a man, and I'm really trying to understand and help. It's extremely tiring to be told that that's impossible and that my help is unwanted. Please don't interpret my questions/statements as some sort of an attack as that's not my intention (I don't mean to assume your reaction, but it's a pretty common reaction to any follow-up questions about this kind of thing...).
No problem. Let's see how this goes:)
We live in a world where literally yesterday a woman was stoned to death by her family for failing to live her life they way they wanted. (http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/28/world/asia/pakistan-pregnant-woman-killed/).
That's terrible, but bad things happen to people of all stripes all the time for terrible reasons. That sounds incredibly callous, I know, but we live in a world where only 70 years ago 11 million people were killed simply because they had the wrong religion, disability, or ethnicity. My ability to help in any of these cases is very limited, although I do what I can. But the rest of your post is about *our* (I assume you mean Western) culture, so I'm not quite sure what your point is here? There's all sorts of terrible (to us) stuff happening in other cultures, but I'm not sure how any of it is relevant to this discussion - if so, please elaborate. Frankly, stoning a woman to death is pretty tame compared to e.g. everything in North Korea.
I cited it as an example of the logical (and terrible) conclusion when women are treated as possessions/trophies, but mostly because it was fresh in my mind (it just happened). Maybe Steubenville would have been a better choice, since being not in the US makes it easier to say "that doesn't happen here"?
And yeah, absolutely: Bad shit happens to all kinds of people all the time. Does that make it any less bad, or any less worthy of being deplored? To me, there's a difference between bad shit happening to you because bad shit is happening to everyone (e.g. Earthquake! Flood!), or because of something you have (robbery, mugging) vs. bad shit happening to you because of who you are. It's infinitely more personal when someone targets you because of your gender, or race and equally bad when it happens to anyone, at any point in time. I think we all lose if we get into an "awful-olympic" -- bad things happening to one group doesn't absolve thinking, rational, caring people from responding strong to a different bad thing.
That link doesn't work for me - I'm not sure which cover you're referring to (the anchor doesn't seem to do anything). I see a whole bunch of recent ones implying that the gunman was crazy ("Childhood snub set me off", "Rage of the virgin", etc).
D'oh. Sorry. The link was supposed to be to the post cover: "Killer Crush: Childhood snub set me off". The image is of the young woman who was named by Rodger in his manifesto.
If you meant to link to the former, I'm not sure that I'd equate "a demonstrated madman blamed a woman, among other things, in his ramblings" with "our culture... blames her if she rejects them". Not even the Post (a pretty terrible trash rag) was making that claim.
True, it's a PoS. But it has the 6th highest circulation of all newspapers in the US (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_United_States_by_circulation). So we're not talking some fringe part of the culture.
I wasn't trying to make a point about what some batshit crazy dude claimed as the source of his problem. I was trying to make a point about how we as a culture are digesting this event, as evidenced by that article. Taking aside the fact that it's abhorrent to me that they'd even try to put the spin on this that she was somehow even aware, let alone culpable for his actions (the label "Killer Crush" next to your picture is pretty pejorative in my book) -- They publish
I haven't posted on Slashdot in years, but the response to this story made me want to come out of the woodwork.
So far In the comments I've seen: --He isn't really a nerd! NOFP! --Nerds don't hit on girls, so NOFP! --He's using a stereotype! I'm not that guy, so NMFP!
I'm a woman working in a technical field and I've been at this game since 1996. In my current company, the men here outnumber me 9-1. When you add in a love of geeky pursuits (at one convention, I remember counting 3 women in a group of 500 men), I've spent a lot of time being one of the guys.
In the beginning, it was exciting -- thrilling!-- to be the only woman in a meeting. I was the exception! I was going to make it! I was better than those girly-girls with their silly pursuits. But, not only do I realize that was a stupid-ass position that reinforced the perceptions of women's interests being lesser than men, I'm just tired of it. Tired of little backhanded bullshit comments. Tired of having to laugh at stupid sexist shit to be one of the boys. And especially tired of being told there's no problem. And this is not just me. Again, it's necessarily a small data pool (see % above), but I've never met a woman who didn't have at least 3 stories about bullshit at work. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04...
Again, it's not that I can't hack it. I can. This isn't a poor me, come and save me post. At this point, my hide is tempered steel -- fucking bring it, world. It's that I shouldn't have to, and as I said above, it's fucking exhausting.
And it's more than just eating shit at work: We live in a world where literally yesterday a woman was stoned to death by her family for failing to live her life they way they wanted. (http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/28/world/asia/pakistan-pregnant-woman-killed/) . Our culture shames a woman for accepting sexual advances and blames her if she rejects them (http://nypost.com/cover/#covers-1401159702). There is literally no way to win as a woman.
Look, guys. Even if you've done a ton of soul searching, and you genuinely believe you're not part of the problem, go to the next step. The women around you are hurting. They're exhausted. They're being gaslighted (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting) left, right and center. So if you genuinely think you're not making things works, figure out how to make it better. Find a woman to mentor. If you're in a meeting, and a woman's voice isn't getting heard, help her (although, please avoid mansplaining (i.e. "What Jane really means to say is...."). If someone say some bullshit about women in your workplace, call them out on it.
Sorry for this long cri de coeur, but you guys are my peeps and the responses broke my heart. You're my guys, my people, my tribe. Can't you back us up?
I'm often called to do code reviews, but even with checklists, I'm always concerned that I'm not providing quality feedback. Does anyone have any suggestion on ways to improve the quality of my code reviews?
Other than hanging out with people who do good code reviews, does anyone have any suggestions on how to improve one's code review skills?
As a programmer in the middle of a death march (I'm not taking a break, it's compiling, I swear!), I don't think I've ever seen a better description of the process of development in my life:P
I mean seriously, what do programmers do? They get a requirement, and then they obsess over how it can be broken down into its component tasks until either they go mad, or the fucking thing works.
I've never used Flickr, but I have been using Gallery now for about 2 years. It's Open Source, based on PHP and MySQL. I've had to do two complete machine moves in that time, and it's handled them both flawlessly.
I think of all the OS projects I've used (and I've been at this a while now), Gallery has brought me the most pleasure. I had more or less put down my digital camera, because I found sharing, storing and cataloging photos publicly too much of a pain. Being able to share my photos with my friends and family has just been a real joy for me. (And before someone says it, they're pictures of my garden, not pr0n;) ).
Gallery also has a hook to buy photos from Shutterbug (but I haven't been very happy with them so far).
One of my friends in college had a lab job working for Martha McClintock. Primarily, Professor McClintock focuses on the evolutionary function of hormone-behavior interactions, particularly their role in sexual selection. If you look at her c.v., she's done a lot of work with rats.
This was my friend's fabulous job at her lab. He would introduce a female rat into a cage with a male rat. He would watch while the two rats did or did not have sex. He would photograph them immediately after the act, particularly the female's fur (I can't remember why). Then he would take the female rat and douche it. Yes, all day long he would douche and watch rats fornicate.
If you were going to build a house for yourself with network cable in the walls, why would you use something that burns readily and creates loads of toxic smoke?
Heh....Mental image:
The AlphaGeek's house is on fire. Flames are shooting up the walls and out of the broken windows. The fishtank is boiling and the cat's on fire.
Where is AlphaGeek? He's standing in the middle of the inferno, clawing at the walls screaming "My wires! My wires!".
Here's the reason you need to go to school to an American bar and an English pub:
In an English pub, the majority of drinks served are beer or cider. Once you can pour a pint, you're all set.
Americans are much more partial to weird funky mixed drinks. At least once a night, you'll get some chump who wants to play "stump the bartender". Long Island Ice Teas, Buttery Nipples, Kamikazes, Sex on the Beach...They name it, you have to be able to mix it. That's the kind of crap you learn in American bartending school
What this says about the different cultures, I can't even begin to guess.;)
"I don't know what planet this is, but goddamn the women are hot! Send a probe *snicker* immediately!"
This might actually be a good thing. Once Congress saw "the evidence" tape, they'd be clambering for more manned space missions. How much do you want to bet they'd all be trying to do John Glen-like space junkets --
"My fellow Americans, It's my patriotic duty as a Senator to be the first embassador to Planet Porn. I take this sacrifice on my self for my love of boo..uh, Space! Right Space!"
Huhn. Interesting analysis. I'd think that LOTR played up Arwen's role to get women into the theatre, not to make (male) geeks happy. If you wanted to make the (male) geeks happy, it'd be a safer route to make a 100% true-to-the-book renditon, since fan-boys are notoriously whiny about missing scenes/details, etc, than make changes.
There's plenty of sexist crap in Sci-Fi (Heinlein springs to mind) but it seems to be more balanced that "mainline" action films. Still not sure why.
So what's an underrated movie, if you don't like those two? (Remember, this isn't a test to name the most obscure POC arthouse "film" you can think of to prove you've got a giant pen...uh, brain. Think fun, interesting movies that you actually just get a kick out of watching)
Trinity's breasts?. Dude, what version are you watching?;)
I mean, I like quite a bit Carrie Anne Moss, but the first word that comes to mind when I think of her is not "stacked". She's what? A "B" cup? Maybe? The outfits she wears (although they're extremely tight;) ) aren't that revealing. We never see any skin, let alone cleavage. The other interesting thing about her is that she was fairly old (by action movie action actress standards) when she made this movie (32).
I think the reason she connects so well is because she simply kicks ASS. The first time I saw the Matrix, I knew nothing about it going in I was absolutely and completely blown away by the solid ASS KICKING Trinity delivers in the first 10 minutes. I was completely sold on the movie.
It seems like Sci Fi is more open to the idea of the ass kicking lead chick. Check out Linda Hamilton and Sigourney Weaver for more proof. I wonder why this is so much more common in Sci Fi movies than in general release action movies, which tend to be all-male affairs?
Okay, Asshole withdrawn. And I take back the things I said about your mother, too. And your choice to toy dogs. And your predilection for bottle water. And...well, you get the idea.;)
Kind of a trollish written message. He got, what? 1/2 a dozen people to bite. I'd say rather than reading comprehension for the readers, the author needs composition classes.
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I never understood some of this. Last time I went to a convention (decades ago) women were well represented. A 500-to-3 ratio would have seemed bizarre.
I think it depends on what type of con you're going to, and what you do while you're there. In my experience, there seem to be more women LARP'ing and less women in miniature gaming. My experience was also 10+ years ago, so perhaps things have changed?
Women were well accepted in computing. But computing was necessarily nerdy either at the time, instead it was a professional career. It's strange, because right now at 50 years old I am in a job with the least number of women in my sphere of work than I've ever had before. When there are women they are great, but they're standouts meaning much much better than average. Seems to show that women have to work harder, or be willing to put up with more, to get and keep the technical job. My conclusion is that since things have changed for the worse over time that there is indeed something wrong with the culture and it's not just due to the lame excuse that women innately don't like computers.
An aside: I was having coffee with a co-worker/buddy yesterday, and we were chatting about this issue. My favorite (in a sad, ironic way) quote was: "Well, [Scaramush], thinking about it, I haven't really worked with many technical women. So I don't really know much about your species". My whatnow? ;)
Yeah, I don't buy that excuse either, particularly since it looks like women passed men as a % of internet users ~2000, so clearly there's an interest in using them, of not learning how they work.
BTW, in my career I've seen many woman shunted out of straight up technical positions into management or PM positions. I don't think it malicious or even conscious, but I see it at a much higher rate than men. My current working theory is that girls are praised more for soft/communication skills than boys are, so they tend to develop them more. When a women demonstrates them, they're immediately given an opportunity to do more communication/people stuff, which though opportunity costs means they're not coding/doing straight up technical work. It becomes this feedback loop that slowly pushes women into these positions through unintended consequences.
On the other hand, the amount of overt misogyny I see is most common on slashdot and rarely visible out in real life (or maybe I need to get out more).
Yeah, if it was as obvious in RL as it is online, in some ways it would be easier since you'd have fewer people telling you there's no problem :(
So... that joke wasn't funny until the end, right? Why is that?
Actually, I think it has more to do with the way our brains process language than anything about the subject (http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304256404579449180386537694). It works the same way the joke in my sig does, confounding your expectation of what's coming next.
Because at some point, man-bashing became socially acceptable, kinda like lawyer jokes, etc. Personally, I do find the twist of that one amusing, but if it were the other way around...
Actually, I think it depends what you mean by "acceptable" and by who. People in the majority have been making minorities the butt of jokes for all of recorded history. It seems to me a relatively recent phenomenon people have decided it's not acceptable to make jokes about minorities at least in public (just look at Bugs Bunny cartoons from the 50s and 60s for examples of stereotypes for humor). Why do you think that changed? Do you think it's a change for the better? I think not shitting on people with less power makes all of us better people, but YMMV.
I think the point is, yes, we do realize that there are a lot of jerks out there. They are jerks for a variety of reasons. Beyond that are the true pieces of sh** like this guy [in the article] and those that kill their family. Unfortunately we - based on our gender - are somehow associated with this guy. It's not a *MAN* problem, it's a human problem.
Hm. If Rodgers shot people because he thought he heard aliens, or because God told him to do it, I might agree with you. But this crime was specifically targeted against women. I'll let Gawker make the argument for me: http://gawker.com/why-is-it-so... (wow, that's a sentence I never thought I'd write)
Mario saves the princess? Is that because men identify women are useless and weak, or because they want to be heroic.
How about "the way they get to show heroism is by rescuing weak women, and that's fucked up?"
Just because they might like to be "Thor" doesn't mean that they wouldn't appreciate Janeway, Ripley, or Sarah Conner doing the same for us dudes.
Sure, there are always exceptions. I actually have a pet theory that part of reason for Sci Fi's surge in popularity in my lifetime is because it allows for more strong women characters, which in turn draws women to Sci Fi. The fact that a strong woman character has to be as outlandish as aliens is depressing as shit, but that's a story for another day ;)
Honestly, I'm not Urkle or even a Leonard. When I was younger I admit to be a complete dork (and annoying to girls and guy both), but that was a social awkwardness I grew out of.
This being /., it'd be kind of shocking if you weren't some kind of dork ;) ;) ;) I think this is a self-selecting group of dorks (myself included).
The same a**holes that women have so hard a time get a leg up with are the ones that regular guys have issues with, and the thing is, we DO make an issue of it. Maybe not right away in the open, but a "that wasn't cool" or "that was totally unprofessional" when a moment is available to do so. I've dealt with some pretty horrible women too, both personally and professionally (though I'd admit, professionally women do come out on top overall).
I'm sorry -- I don't get where you're going with this paragraph? Is it that assholes are assholes to everyone? If so, there's a difference between someone shitting on your because of who they are, and someone shitting on you because of who you are. I've experienced both, and the latter is infinitely more painful.
Also, it's good that you call someone
I'd argue the military is a harder job than IT, regardless of gender.
Your argument is curious to me: Because there are other places that are bad/worse, we should put up with bad treatment? It's kind of like saying "There are people dying, so don't treat that broken arm, you whiner!".
Fascinating post, thanks for sharing. I'm a man, and I'm really trying to understand and help. It's extremely tiring to be told that that's impossible and that my help is unwanted. Please don't interpret my questions/statements as some sort of an attack as that's not my intention (I don't mean to assume your reaction, but it's a pretty common reaction to any follow-up questions about this kind of thing...).
No problem. Let's see how this goes :)
We live in a world where literally yesterday a woman was stoned to death by her family for failing to live her life they way they wanted. (http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/28/world/asia/pakistan-pregnant-woman-killed/) .
That's terrible, but bad things happen to people of all stripes all the time for terrible reasons. That sounds incredibly callous, I know, but we live in a world where only 70 years ago 11 million people were killed simply because they had the wrong religion, disability, or ethnicity. My ability to help in any of these cases is very limited, although I do what I can. But the rest of your post is about *our* (I assume you mean Western) culture, so I'm not quite sure what your point is here? There's all sorts of terrible (to us) stuff happening in other cultures, but I'm not sure how any of it is relevant to this discussion - if so, please elaborate. Frankly, stoning a woman to death is pretty tame compared to e.g. everything in North Korea.
I cited it as an example of the logical (and terrible) conclusion when women are treated as possessions/trophies, but mostly because it was fresh in my mind (it just happened). Maybe Steubenville would have been a better choice, since being not in the US makes it easier to say "that doesn't happen here"?
And yeah, absolutely: Bad shit happens to all kinds of people all the time. Does that make it any less bad, or any less worthy of being deplored? To me, there's a difference between bad shit happening to you because bad shit is happening to everyone (e.g. Earthquake! Flood!), or because of something you have (robbery, mugging) vs. bad shit happening to you because of who you are. It's infinitely more personal when someone targets you because of your gender, or race and equally bad when it happens to anyone, at any point in time. I think we all lose if we get into an "awful-olympic" -- bad things happening to one group doesn't absolve thinking, rational, caring people from responding strong to a different bad thing.
That link doesn't work for me - I'm not sure which cover you're referring to (the anchor doesn't seem to do anything). I see a whole bunch of recent ones implying that the gunman was crazy ("Childhood snub set me off", "Rage of the virgin", etc).
D'oh. Sorry. The link was supposed to be to the post cover: "Killer Crush: Childhood snub set me off". The image is of the young woman who was named by Rodger in his manifesto.
If you meant to link to the former, I'm not sure that I'd equate "a demonstrated madman blamed a woman, among other things, in his ramblings" with "our culture... blames her if she rejects them". Not even the Post (a pretty terrible trash rag) was making that claim.
True, it's a PoS. But it has the 6th highest circulation of all newspapers in the US (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_United_States_by_circulation). So we're not talking some fringe part of the culture.
I wasn't trying to make a point about what some batshit crazy dude claimed as the source of his problem. I was trying to make a point about how we as a culture are digesting this event, as evidenced by that article. Taking aside the fact that it's abhorrent to me that they'd even try to put the spin on this that she was somehow even aware, let alone culpable for his actions (the label "Killer Crush" next to your picture is pretty pejorative in my book) -- They publish
I haven't posted on Slashdot in years, but the response to this story made me want to come out of the woodwork.
So far In the comments I've seen:
--He isn't really a nerd! NOFP!
--Nerds don't hit on girls, so NOFP!
--He's using a stereotype! I'm not that guy, so NMFP!
I'm a woman working in a technical field and I've been at this game since 1996. In my current company, the men here outnumber me 9-1. When you add in a love of geeky pursuits (at one convention, I remember counting 3 women in a group of 500 men), I've spent a lot of time being one of the guys.
In the beginning, it was exciting -- thrilling!-- to be the only woman in a meeting. I was the exception! I was going to make it! I was better than those girly-girls with their silly pursuits. But, not only do I realize that was a stupid-ass position that reinforced the perceptions of women's interests being lesser than men, I'm just tired of it. Tired of little backhanded bullshit comments. Tired of having to laugh at stupid sexist shit to be one of the boys. And especially tired of being told there's no problem. And this is not just me. Again, it's necessarily a small data pool (see % above), but I've never met a woman who didn't have at least 3 stories about bullshit at work. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04...
Again, it's not that I can't hack it. I can. This isn't a poor me, come and save me post. At this point, my hide is tempered steel -- fucking bring it, world. It's that I shouldn't have to, and as I said above, it's fucking exhausting.
And it's more than just eating shit at work: We live in a world where literally yesterday a woman was stoned to death by her family for failing to live her life they way they wanted. (http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/28/world/asia/pakistan-pregnant-woman-killed/) . Our culture shames a woman for accepting sexual advances and blames her if she rejects them (http://nypost.com/cover/#covers-1401159702). There is literally no way to win as a woman.
Look, guys. Even if you've done a ton of soul searching, and you genuinely believe you're not part of the problem, go to the next step. The women around you are hurting. They're exhausted. They're being gaslighted (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting) left, right and center. So if you genuinely think you're not making things works, figure out how to make it better. Find a woman to mentor. If you're in a meeting, and a woman's voice isn't getting heard, help her (although, please avoid mansplaining (i.e. "What Jane really means to say is...."). If someone say some bullshit about women in your workplace, call them out on it.
Sorry for this long cri de coeur, but you guys are my peeps and the responses broke my heart. You're my guys, my people, my tribe. Can't you back us up?
Math nerds ftw!
I'm often called to do code reviews, but even with checklists, I'm always concerned that I'm not providing quality feedback. Does anyone have any suggestion on ways to improve the quality of my code reviews?
Other than hanging out with people who do good code reviews, does anyone have any suggestions on how to improve one's code review skills?
The phrase you're looking for here is "Security through Obscurity".
Enjoy. :P
I just donated $100 on Amazon.com!!
"On" or "to"?
...when I saw the phrase "task-obsessiveness".
:P
As a programmer in the middle of a death march (I'm not taking a break, it's compiling, I swear!), I don't think I've ever seen a better description of the process of development in my life
I mean seriously, what do programmers do? They get a requirement, and then they obsess over how it can be broken down into its component tasks until either they go mad, or the fucking thing works.
Okay, back at it...
Really? What hardware are you using for the photoframes? Can you tell me/us a bit more about your set up?
I've never used Flickr, but I have been using Gallery now for about 2 years. It's Open Source, based on PHP and MySQL. I've had to do two complete machine moves in that time, and it's handled them both flawlessly.
I think of all the OS projects I've used (and I've been at this a while now), Gallery has brought me the most pleasure. I had more or less put down my digital camera, because I found sharing, storing and cataloging photos publicly too much of a pain. Being able to share my photos with my friends and family has just been a real joy for me. (And before someone says it, they're pictures of my garden, not pr0n
Gallery also has a hook to buy photos from Shutterbug (but I haven't been very happy with them so far).
Thanks Gallery!
(imagines Ken being swarmed by thousands of tiny Nancies....)
Wait a minute...hold the phone...
Simba wanted to boff his mother?
*shudder*
Dude, I totally missed that!
One of my friends in college had a lab job working for Martha McClintock. Primarily, Professor McClintock focuses on the evolutionary function of hormone-behavior interactions, particularly their role in sexual selection. If you look at her c.v., she's done a lot of work with rats.
This was my friend's fabulous job at her lab. He would introduce a female rat into a cage with a male rat. He would watch while the two rats did or did not have sex. He would photograph them immediately after the act, particularly the female's fur (I can't remember why). Then he would take the female rat and douche it. Yes, all day long he would douche and watch rats fornicate.
Worst. Job. Ever.
...is metabolized in the body to the toxic substance formaldehyde
Oh, excellent! You'll be buff and perfectly preserved. Double win!
I have no clue what a network function variable is; I pulled it out of my ass...
Ah, an excellent example, typical of most code comments. Well done!
If you were going to build a house for yourself with network cable in the walls, why would you use something that burns readily and creates loads of toxic smoke?
Heh....Mental image:
The AlphaGeek's house is on fire. Flames are shooting up the walls and out of the broken windows. The fishtank is boiling and the cat's on fire.
Where is AlphaGeek? He's standing in the middle of the inferno, clawing at the walls screaming "My wires! My wires!".
Yeesh.
Here's the reason you need to go to school to an American bar and an English pub:
;)
In an English pub, the majority of drinks served are beer or cider. Once you can pour a pint, you're all set.
Americans are much more partial to weird funky mixed drinks. At least once a night, you'll get some chump who wants to play "stump the bartender". Long Island Ice Teas, Buttery Nipples, Kamikazes, Sex on the Beach...They name it, you have to be able to mix it. That's the kind of crap you learn in American bartending school
What this says about the different cultures, I can't even begin to guess.
Yeah, I can just hear NASA now:
"I don't know what planet this is, but goddamn the women are hot! Send a probe *snicker* immediately!"
This might actually be a good thing. Once Congress saw "the evidence" tape, they'd be clambering for more manned space missions. How much do you want to bet they'd all be trying to do John Glen-like space junkets --
"My fellow Americans, It's my patriotic duty as a Senator to be the first embassador to Planet Porn. I take this sacrifice on my self for my love of boo..uh, Space! Right Space!"
Huhn. Interesting analysis. I'd think that LOTR played up Arwen's role to get women into the theatre, not to make (male) geeks happy. If you wanted to make the (male) geeks happy, it'd be a safer route to make a 100% true-to-the-book renditon, since fan-boys are notoriously whiny about missing scenes/details, etc, than make changes.
There's plenty of sexist crap in Sci-Fi (Heinlein springs to mind) but it seems to be more balanced that "mainline" action films. Still not sure why.
50 comments, and 25 of them are about the Simpsons. And you know what the sad part is? Not one of them has spelled "Maude Flanders" name right.
;) ;)
Remember, boys: It's M-A-U-D-E.
Not:
Mad (personal favorite)
Mod
Maud
I tell you. Get killed off by a T-Shirt cannon and all respect is gone...
So what's an underrated movie, if you don't like those two? (Remember, this isn't a test to name the most obscure POC arthouse "film" you can think of to prove you've got a giant pen...uh, brain. Think fun, interesting movies that you actually just get a kick out of watching)
Trinity's breasts?. Dude, what version are you watching? ;)
;) ) aren't that revealing. We never see any skin, let alone cleavage. The other interesting thing about her is that she was fairly old (by action movie action actress standards) when she made this movie (32).
I mean, I like quite a bit Carrie Anne Moss, but the first word that comes to mind when I think of her is not "stacked". She's what? A "B" cup? Maybe? The outfits she wears (although they're extremely tight
I think the reason she connects so well is because she simply kicks ASS. The first time I saw the Matrix, I knew nothing about it going in I was absolutely and completely blown away by the solid ASS KICKING Trinity delivers in the first 10 minutes. I was completely sold on the movie.
It seems like Sci Fi is more open to the idea of the ass kicking lead chick. Check out Linda Hamilton and Sigourney Weaver for more proof. I wonder why this is so much more common in Sci Fi movies than in general release action movies, which tend to be all-male affairs?
Okay, Asshole withdrawn. And I take back the things I said about your mother, too. And your choice to toy dogs. And your predilection for bottle water. And...well, you get the idea. ;)
Kind of a trollish written message. He got, what? 1/2 a dozen people to bite. I'd say rather than reading comprehension for the readers, the author needs composition classes.