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By your description it's both. But exculpating one party and relegating them to gender-biased solutions is not a solution at all.

It's not about gender. From your point of view it's about character weakness. A woman has bad experiences with men, so she should be trained to seek haven among women? If she wants…

Also, I fear that groups of women programming might not get the same experience as if they were also programming with men. I'm skeptical of the value of gender-biased environments …

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." When you understand that Hemingway quote, you will realize that all ratings services are inherently useless w…

The problem with the 10x vs. 1x statement is that the 10x people are not constantly 10x better than the median. The environment in which they are placed has a lot to do with it. Ci…

I have to second gallerytungsten's comment. I've been approached a dozen times by business people offering me equity for my development time. I committed to and completed three pro…

Two data points, yours and mine, are hardly enough to draw a lesson from. Lesson: Don't jump to conclusions and teach others lessons based on your hurt feelings. The majority of th…

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/29547/Study_Female_Spend_... The study you linked is more recent, but such a massive swing in the other direction is probably not indicative of r…

Exploit doesn't always have a negative connotation, and neither does manipulate. Cheating is irrelevant to the discussion. If you think exploitation is only about cheating, then yo…

Working smart is getting someone or something else to do your work for you. That's one definition, and in the case of VCs, it's how they work. VCs don't invest in a company. They i…

I've tried Adderall a few times and never got the productivity burst that users claim to receive. It tends to have the opposite effect on me. My attention darts everywhere and my s…

I graduated right before the peak of the 2000 dotcom bust, and I got a two exploding offers that I didn't accept. The offer I ended up taking was the opposite of an exploding offer…

No. Not all the users are real. Companies employ various methods to create the illusion of activity on their dating sites. You also have to account for spammers/scammers. If you wa…

Currently they're bandwidth bound, but I'm dissolving that. In the next year I imagine that it'll move to being more memory bound. Then that will turn into being bound by I/O, but …

We deliver video content. We have a CDN that properly encodes and serves our content. All I need is to handle the HTTP requests for the "directory" of videos. A shared environment …

Can anyone else comment on experiences with Linode (and equivalent alternatives)? I'm considering moving a group of servers off expensive dedicated hosting ($400/server) to a VPS s…

How many social chat rooms can exist simultaneously? World of Warcraft, Second Life, Everquest, Facebook, Google Hangouts, Shaker, etc. Their success basically depends on marketing…

I've taken psilocybin mushrooms twice. I've also read plenty of literature about psychedelics and the nature of reality. My experience is difficult to describe, because it was most…

Did you check out Festival/Festvox/Cepstral? http://festvox.org/ Festival/Festvox are free to use. I built an Arabic speech synthesizer with it in the spring of 2002 for a class pr…