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  1. Re:What about low-income boys? on Learn-to-Code Program For 10,000 Low-Income Girls · · Score: 1

    No, there isn't a good reason. Period. Segregation has been shown historically to cause far more problems than it solves.

  2. Re:What about low-income boys? on Learn-to-Code Program For 10,000 Low-Income Girls · · Score: 1

    That's because there isn't a good reason for having a girls-only class. There are plenty of good reasons to keep classes co-ed though.

    The real issue is you think the solution to unequal opportunity is favouritism, which is so stupid it borders on mind-blowing.

  3. Re: Sad, isn't it? on The Town That Banned Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    It's not great for the non-crazy people who live there that understand the reason for the ban. The I feel badly for the scientists that now have to put up with a whole new brand of fucking idiot.

  4. Re:What about low-income boys? on Learn-to-Code Program For 10,000 Low-Income Girls · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually, the moment you say "it's for black people only", you've made it racist. If you feed anyone in the area that needs it, it becomes equal opportunity.

  5. Here it comes... on Learn-to-Code Program For 10,000 Low-Income Girls · · Score: 1

    ...the truly sexist programs are arriving. Before these kinds of programs just went to the people who needed them. Now they're going to the gender they think needs them.

  6. Re:Equality on Are Girl-Focused Engineering Toys Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes? · · Score: 1

    She didn't get in to these occupations until my sister and I were close to being able to function unsupervised. A lot of these jobs weren't ones she took because she wanted to, she took them because she had to in order to make enough money to feed us all and keep up the house payments. I think she would have preferred to be a home maker. My point here is that if you really want to do these things, you can do them. Your gender is pretty much irrelevant. Being female might (and I stress might, since bodies can vary wildly) make it more difficult if the job is physically demanding, but your only real limitations beyond biology (in the same way I'll never be a UFC fighter) are the ones that you impose on yourself.

    There's nothing wrong with being a stay at home mom. Being a mother **IS** a job, and it's one that many men feel is hard. Or at least, I think it's hard. I most definitely don't mean to marginalize those people.

  7. Re:Equality on Are Girl-Focused Engineering Toys Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My mother was a fire fighter, a logger, a paramedic, a construction worker, and many other things. She became a single parent when I was about 12 years old. She defied the imagined odds by:

    1) actually getting the education/certification to perform these jobs, which is more considerable than you think. Especially if retraining later in life. A lot of these jobs have many optional certifications that can improve your pay/standing and make you more employable. She has held more tickets than any other person I've ever known.

    2) proving she was completely capable by actually doing the work.

    3) strength training to be able to withstand physically demanding jobs. Logging for 10 hours is harder than you think.

    4) not acting like a baby when things got tough

    5) not sitting around complaining about how it's a man's world, and a women can't make it

    The real problem isn't that women are incapable. It's that most women don't have the fortitude to continue in the face of adversity. It's easier to give up, find a man who was raised to do all the heavy lifting and undesirable jobs and move on to having kids. It's not that women are inherently lazy, it's that they perceive certain jobs to be easier than others, and they prefer that which they consider easier.

  8. Re:*All* of them?!?? on Microsoft Announces Xbox One Backward Compatibility · · Score: 1

    Found the video online. You can see it here: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox...

  9. Re:*All* of them?!?? on Microsoft Announces Xbox One Backward Compatibility · · Score: 1

    Having just watched a video with one of the key devs involved (it's a featured video on the xbox one right now) they describe it as an emulation wrapper. The game itself is not "ported", rather, it's wrapped in code that completely emulates the xbox 360 and maps commands to the xbox one APIs. It even emulates the 360 xbox menu and other items.

    It actually makes us both right to some degree. It's not really a port, but it's also not quite a virtual machine. They did make it clear that the chief hurdle is licensing and not the software itself.

  10. Re:*All* of them?!?? on Microsoft Announces Xbox One Backward Compatibility · · Score: 1

    This just restates things which are in TFA and it doesn't confirm or deny what you're saying.

  11. Re:*All* of them?!?? on Microsoft Announces Xbox One Backward Compatibility · · Score: 1

    Given that TFA is pretty light on details, can you point me to the definitive source of information that outlines this is actually what they're doing?

  12. Re:Cue non-programmers linking "A fractal of bad d on PHP At 20: From Pet Project To Powerhouse · · Score: 1

    OK, so you don't know what a programmer is. Got it.

  13. Re:*All* of them?!?? on Microsoft Announces Xbox One Backward Compatibility · · Score: 1

    "It's not possible." ...and yet, virtual machines exist to run xbox 360 games on an x86 PC ( http://xenia.jp/ ), and they're made by people who don't have access to the documentation for the hardware. How exactly was this impossible again?

  14. Re:*All* of them?!?? on Microsoft Announces Xbox One Backward Compatibility · · Score: 1

    >Both are x86 hardware.

    No, they aren't. The xbox 360 is PowerPC architecture ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) while the XBox One is x86 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ).

  15. Re:Now make a good joystick again... on Logitech Introduces G29, G920 Racing Wheels For PS3, PS4, Xbox One and PC · · Score: 1

    Except "they" becomes a much smaller group, and most of us will just go "meh" and move on with our lives.

  16. Re:Angular momentum at the park on Turning a Nail Polish Disaster Into a Teachable Math Moment · · Score: 1

    Do not underestimate the power of gnutella!

  17. The struggle on NASA Building Air Traffic Control System For Drones · · Score: 1

    Is it just me, or is NASA really struggling to maintain relevancy? This doesn't seem like the sort of issue NASA should be concerned with.

  18. Just what we need... on Drone Racing Poised To Go Mainstream · · Score: 1

    ...another really terrible reality TV show.

  19. Re:Angular momentum at the park on Turning a Nail Polish Disaster Into a Teachable Math Moment · · Score: 5, Informative

    He should be too. Have you seen what septic engineers make these days? No seriously, it's insane. Some of them even get in to the six figures.

  20. Re:A poor workman... on PHP At 20: From Pet Project To Powerhouse · · Score: 2

    ...and yet, despite all the issues you see with PHP, they're still using a language derived from it. Even though they have more than enough manpower and money to remove it entirely if they so choose.

  21. Re:Cue non-programmers linking "A fractal of bad d on PHP At 20: From Pet Project To Powerhouse · · Score: 2

    Please define "programmer" for us.

  22. Wouldn't want to work at either place. on Why Apple and Google Made Their Own Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    The thing about companies of that magnitude is that unless you're a rockstar programmer (most of us aren't) you're just signing up for some bullshit lord of the flies atmosphere where the job is so internally competitive that it becomes overly stressful and completely unenjoyable. Yes the pay is probably good, however the environment is anything but healthy.

  23. Bell, talking about "socially acceptable behaviour" and "theft".

    Has anyone had a look at Bell Canada's pricing and services lately? They epitomize theft.

  24. Nope, but they should stop trying to look like the good guys. The number of human rights violations that plants they work with have racked up is amazing, and it's not getting better. They ship all the jobs overseas to china where they can abuse all their workers, and then sell the products for a 500% markup.

    They constantly attempt to put on this air that they're working for the greater good, but it's bullshit. Apple is as evil as they come. They work for greater profit and nothing else.

  25. Anyone at Apple trying to sound altruistic just looks like the pot calling the kettle black.