University of Waterloo Students Win Facebook's Hackathon

Re:University of Waterloo Students Win Facebook's Hackathon by tetester on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @02:29PM (#4872770)

"Show me the gender distribution of my friends" - 178.72% Male

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Re:University of Waterloo Students Win Facebook's Hackathon by sgreenlay on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @02:39PM (#4872835)

178 is the number, and 72 is the percentage. Unfortunately the comma is easy to mistake for a period.

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Re:University of Waterloo Students Win Facebook's Hackathon by cbhl on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @04:03PM (#4873248)

Sounds like an i18n nightmare waiting to happen; in some locales, the comma is the period and vice versa.

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Re:University of Waterloo Students Win Facebook's Hackathon by tetester on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @02:44PM (#4872856)

I'm the stupid one :(

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Re:University of Waterloo Students Win Facebook's Hackathon by goosling on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @04:37PM (#4873391)

False. There are many women in Waterloo, of which I am one. My chemical engineering class was about 32% female, but many of the programs at Waterloo have more women than male in them.

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Re:University of Waterloo Students Win Facebook's Hackathon by sliverstorm on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @08:59PM (#4874482)

Who says they weren't just using a 200% scale, like alcohol proof? :)

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Re:University of Waterloo Students Win Facebook's Hackathon by guyzero on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @04:16PM (#4873309)

While Waterloo often does seem to be about 178.72% male, parts of engineering are at parity (chem eng was 50/50 a few years back) and there are entire other faculties with lots of lovely people for you to make friends with.

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Re:University of Waterloo Students Win Facebook's Hackathon by CoolGuySteve on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @03:39PM (#4873134)

Sounds about right for a Waterloo CS student.

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