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I'm rather tired of hearing that people are a product of their environment. "Its not your fault you dont do anything with your life, its what you were born into" is dumb as hell. A…

How dare Zuckerberg pledge to give away all of his money to make the world a better place! Lets criticize him for that! This kind of journalism is garbage.

While I agree with most of this article, its a bit extreme. I've never liked spam, but is it really that hard to ignore them? I've had a recruiting firm call me 4-5 times and send …

Please back up ANY of those points. From personal experience, I saw girls encouraged to get into STEM...my high school had a STEM program that only took up to 50% males. Not caring…

Without looking at sources, I assumed that the percentages were accurate..and there are quite a few of those. I dont think they come close to making the point that the author is ma…

how is everything stacked against them? None of those 3 things are true. Early education is identical. Most tech companies try very hard to hire women to help their statistics and …

so many tech companies desperately try to hire women...those percentages of women at tech companies are higher than the percentage of women earning/pursuing technical degrees. They…

nope. I completely agree

but the number of women in tech is growing slower than the number of men in tech. To be fair, its not that "its cool now, so they want in the party", its actually that so many wome…

I can honestly say I have never heard the word "brogrammer" Anyway, I like how this article has a lot of facts. I dislike many other things. Diversity is great, it is an awesome th…

neat project. I like it.

Every Computer Engineering undergrad is rejoicing somebody just did their project for them.

False. they just released the data a couple of hours ago. They've had it since your link

".mp4 is fine - was just concerned it might be some proprietary format like Webex uses." Exactly what I was going to say. I've never understood what webex was thinking there

It would be insanely easy to copy data over and over until you hit 100PB. This number still seems crazy

To clarify, I'm not remotely an apple fanboy..but I dont think anybody excepted to continue 20k watches/week. They have sold a lot. The initial sales are done and thats fine. Apple…

They pretty much said it was catastrophically broken...so maybe it IS making a big difference?

Was I the only one extremely disappointed that wasn't actually much related to Musk, nor a serious conversation about the future? It was an interview of a fiction novelist, nothing…

I like this idea a lot more than just "make a website." While that is clearly a valid application of programming, it's not my strong suit and most places already have websites up a…

My work offers paid "Service Learning" time every year (40 hours). As a programmer, I'd really like to contribute in ways other than picking up trash and planting trees in a park. …

This thing is cool, really cool. So the novelty factor easily makes it worth more than another toaster oven. But I can go get another toaster oven on Amazon for 5% of that, so..yea…

yea, lots of us use shells with suggestive text...that doesn't make this less amusing. Now if only someone would make rules for my osx terminal, thatd be great

How much do you think moving to the valley improves the odds of a startups success as opposed to another city, say Atlanta or Raleigh on the east coast?