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If we talk about gender equality why take into consideration only part of the picture not a whole? Is it fair?

And the so called 'male-chosen' professions generally have higher risk of serious health consequences, injuries or death.

"I used it to great effect in a bar brawl once." My opinion is - you were lucky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KUXTC8g_pk I don't know the guy from the video but I think his ass…

"But if this is the case you should not trust any website with your password anwhere ever". That is why you should use unique password for each site.

This is quite old and probably been posted here: http://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines.... But this in my opinion explains well both why people are seduced by…

Text-to-speech in kindle was really nice feature in my opinion.

I doubt it's a solenoid. Solenoid can be used for galvanic separation in AC circuits not DC. Maybe you mean relay?

Could you explain why? I have quite a bit of experience with Z80 and x86 (16bit) assembly. I remember that I've tried to learn 6502 many years ago but lost interest after a while. …

And the name is already taken: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)

Newsletter is not connecting your subscribers together - add that and you have good old mailing list. One of my friends created such a mailing list for our circle of friends some t…

But they did not use any backdoor. Etchalon is right - if they had to access file system how should they do that if it was encrypted? And you were in control of the situation - nex…

Having GC does not mean that you need to surrender all of control. You just need to know which operations are allocating memory (consing) and which are destructive. In Common Lisp …

Do you have javascript enabled?

Could we please have the way to unlock someones abilty to post comment (delete comment, wait for timeout etc.) described in the FAQ?

You can't do 2-factor authentication with applications that don't support it. You can't do it with, for example, IMAP, period. I am not sure about that at all. For imap for example…

I've just been browsing through news page and I stumbled upon this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2443089 In one of the comments on reddit ascheinberg wrote: Like every singl…

I found this link before posting the question but I still can't imagine how to use javascript call/cc implementation from your article (on the other hand I think I know how to use …

Could someone explain how the 'call/cc in javascript' from the article is supposed to be used? function callcc (f,cc) { f(function(x,k) { cc(x) },cc); }

I used to use vi/vim but one day I stumbled upon Common Lisp and started learning/using emacs because it seemed to be the best ide available for CL. Now I can't imagine living with…

In my opinion it doesn't really matter much - what's important in such stories are emotions, inspiration and education. I agree with other posts that we should try to do good thing…

I don't like the idea of such stealth read-receipts too. I would expect that sooner or later tricks which allow implementation of this feature will be blocked in most email clients…

In my opinion less code means less bugs means better code. Simple as that. And by code I also mean everything that is auto generated, inherited or linked. Of course there are rare …

I agree that we are far from the point when we can say Android is less open than the iPhone. But at the same time I wouldn't be surprised if 'features' like that would drag some de…