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Re:Why reading a book 100 times is a great idea on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @10:04PM (#9031361)

Lots of books I want to reread but hard to justify when I already have more books on my "to-read" list than I can read in a lifetime. I do, however, try and re-read Dune once a year.

Off-topic but since I've got books on the brain: I recently started reading the Foundation and am kicking myself for not reading it sooner.

Re:Why reading a book 100 times is a great idea on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @09:56PM (#9031350)

Indeed. Tons of kids' shows have adult-themed subtext sprinkled in. Kids wont catch it but it makes the shows more bearable for parents.

Spongebob has some good ones.

Re:Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @06:40PM (#9030662)

>I suspect this plays out in the dating scene as well (e.g., a small percentage of men sleep with a disproportionately large percentage of women)

I've seen studies that say 20% of men get the vast majority of women and sex.

Re:Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @06:23PM (#9030585)

Care to elaborate? I don't see anything wrong with this and can't imagine how it "sums up everything that's wrong with programmers and the community in general".

It's a very clever and interesting piece of automation.

Re:What Silicon Valley Thinks of Women on Friday January 30, 2015 @02:09AM (#8970846)

Exactly. The diversity hand wringers could be targeting any industry they want right now but are lasering in on tech.

They smell the blood in the water.

Re:I don’t know what to do, you guys on Friday January 30, 2015 @01:56AM (#8970807)

Many of the "social justice" crowd get off on the moral superiority they feel from engaging in rabid political correctness.

Unfortunately for them, moral superiority is by definition a positional good, a good whose value rapidly diminishes as PC concepts become increasingly mainstream. Thus they seek increasingly extreme levels of political correctness to signal their status as being above the common rabble.

Re:What Silicon Valley Thinks of Women on Thursday January 29, 2015 @07:52PM (#8969861)

The slide share only attempts to address difference in ability, not inclination. If women are just as capable programmers, but, on average, tend to have a natural inclination towards more social and nurturing roles (teacher, nurse, etc... fields with the highest % of women) then we would still expect the same gender ratio skew we see.

Most troubling, any mention that innate biological differences between the genders could play a role in the skewed gender ratios is not even considered in these diversity attack articles. It has become a thoughtcrime.

Re:What Silicon Valley Thinks of Women on Thursday January 29, 2015 @10:03AM (#8966476)

Or the skewed gender ratios in various fields are due to innate biological differences.

Sexual dimorphism, which includes psychological traits, extends to humans as well. We are animals too after all.

What an age we live in. Nearly every animal on earth, including our closests primate relatives, have innate morphological and behavioural differences between male and female. Yet noticing that homo sapiens exhibit the same differences has become a thought-crime of the highest order.

These differences cause a tendency for men and women to gravitate towards certain fields. Skewed sex ratios in a profession do not necessarily indicate discrimination and its time to stop pointing and sputtering when not everything is 50/50.

Re:What Silicon Valley Thinks of Women on Thursday January 29, 2015 @01:42AM (#8964695)

You do see also occasional diversity attacks against the really high earners (managers, sales, finance, corp. law, certain posh local FD/PD, maybe some doctors?) but since they don't seem to flinch much, they're pretty much left alone.

I posted a question elsewhere in this thread asking why the tech industry has been getting the brunt of the diversity shakedown. I think this is part of the puzzle.

The type of mind that lends itself well to tech tends to have less political acumen and social intelligence. We're prone to taking things too literally and sometimes miss the bullshit below the surface.

Are we really expected to believe that people who write software are any more sexist than lawyers or the population in general?

Let's call the diversity hounding of tech exactly what it is: the playground bully picking on the kid who they know wont fight back.

Re:What Silicon Valley Thinks of Women on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @11:09PM (#8964284)

"Gang-Bang Interviews"? Really?

SV tech is getting the diversity shakedown hard these days. Plenty of other fields have sex ratios just as skewed. Why is tech getting the brunt?

Re:HackerSurfing: Free Housing and Food for Engineers Visiting SF on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @10:45PM (#8964201)

I had the same reaction. If I'm going to be in interviews (however informal) all day for multiple days I'd need to lock myself away in the evening to recharge. I get the impression dinner, drinks, hanging out in the evening would be a part of this as well.

Interesting idea otherwise. Never been to San Francisco/SV and would love to get a taste of what the environment is like there. Maybe an AirBnB for a few days in a hacker house?