Caveat Lector: While I play on both Digg and Fark, I have a greater affinity for Fark/Total Fark. Its just where I went first. I've hoisted a tasty beverage with many of those loveable farkers.
If Digg added moderators and allow users to, oh i don't know vote, on links before they get posted then essentially you have what we have on Fark/Total Fark. Total Farkers get to view all links before they get posted to fark.com. We even get to vote on them now. Not to say that we users have the final say in what gets posted. There is that added overlay of Mods and Admins that add a bit of surprise or control depending on how you look at it.
To be honest, this is fine by me. They keep it tidy. I just find it interesting that Digg may morph into Fark.
Couple of things:
There are plenty of women in IT nowadays; however, this still isn't true in engineering.
Being an ee major meant I was typically the only girl in my class. Also, I got used to being the only one. When I stumbled into IT from engineering, I found there to be plenty of women in this space. However, whenever we run into each other, we always tend to keep to ourselves like similarly charged particles.
When it comes to tbe boy's club, I've almost never been or felt left out because of my (sad) ability to outgeek someone. On those rare occasions where I felt shut out, it was mainly due to the predefined mindset of a specific individual and not the group as a whole.
Now when it comes to the non-technial wives of the boy's club...that's a whole other story. Those folks typically are threatened by our kind.
The first time I read this I laughed so hard I started crying. Or, maybe I was crying because I was forced to acknowledge a supposed brilliant mind put that much faith in their processing application's dictionary to be scientifically accurate.
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Caveat Lector: While I play on both Digg and Fark, I have a greater affinity for Fark/Total Fark. Its just where I went first. I've hoisted a tasty beverage with many of those loveable farkers.
If Digg added moderators and allow users to, oh i don't know vote, on links before they get posted then essentially you have what we have on Fark/Total Fark. Total Farkers get to view all links before they get posted to fark.com. We even get to vote on them now. Not to say that we users have the final say in what gets posted. There is that added overlay of Mods and Admins that add a bit of surprise or control depending on how you look at it. To be honest, this is fine by me. They keep it tidy. I just find it interesting that Digg may morph into Fark.
Being an ee major meant I was typically the only girl in my class. Also, I got used to being the only one. When I stumbled into IT from engineering, I found there to be plenty of women in this space. However, whenever we run into each other, we always tend to keep to ourselves like similarly charged particles.
When it comes to tbe boy's club, I've almost never been or felt left out because of my (sad) ability to outgeek someone. On those rare occasions where I felt shut out, it was mainly due to the predefined mindset of a specific individual and not the group as a whole.
Now when it comes to the non-technial wives of the boy's club...that's a whole other story. Those folks typically are threatened by our kind.
The first time I read this I laughed so hard I started crying. Or, maybe I was crying because I was forced to acknowledge a supposed brilliant mind put that much faith in their processing application's dictionary to be scientifically accurate.
If this is real,
then one could probably use Morse code on their laptop, in a sort of laptop meets the telegraph. I mean, why not?
The connection is killed after 30 minutes? That's generous.