ankurdave

I think you've interpreted that quote exactly the opposite of the way it was intended. Here is slightly more context, which makes it clear that Soh is arguing it is the opponents of this memo who misinterpret any reference to sex differences and "subsequently deny the science around them."

> As a woman who’s worked in academia and within STEM, I didn’t find the memo offensive or sexist in the least. I found it to be a well thought out document, asking for greater tolerance for differences in opinion, and treating people as individuals instead of based on group membership.

> Within the field of neuroscience, sex differences between women and men—when it comes to brain structure and function and associated differences in personality and occupational preferences—are understood to be true, because the evidence for them (thousands of studies) is strong. This is not information that’s considered controversial or up for debate; if you tried to argue otherwise, or for purely social influences, you’d be laughed at.

> Sex researchers recognize that these differences are not inherently supportive of sexism or stratifying opportunities based on sex. It is only because a group of individuals have chosen to interpret them that way, and to subsequently deny the science around them, that we have to have this conversation at a public level.

The zooming keyboard sounds like Dasher: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasher_(software)

You'd use an underscore to form a partially applied function:

    foo.Sort(x.compare _)

And Scala's getters and setters are essentially equivalent to C#'s properties:

    class A {
        private var _x = 0
        def x = _x
        def x_=(value: Int) { _x = value }
    }

    val a = new A
    a.x = 5
    println(a.x)

Could these PDFs be using external images? That would explain the long delays to load images (because they're being downloaded) and the variable PDF reader support.

Here's a StackOverflow post about external images in PDFs: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1833222/adding-external-i...