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Yes, the first link addresses a strawman but I bring it up because other people still bring it up. The second link discusses interests and influences for female undergrads majoring…

My personal observation is that last night I stayed up too late reading the linux kernel code. Probably won't help anyone that much.

I like this article because it points out women are also geeky and that it's OK to be geeky. Women just may tend to have a slightly different way of expressing that geekiness. You …

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I play tabletop RPGs which could be considered fake achievement. The types I play however reward creativity and problem solving so I think they have merit.

Quake gave me a sense of direction when I was a teenager. Before that I had either walked very short distances or been driven everywhere. My sense of direction meant I could figure…

Carriers and HW companies may not like making side-by-side comparisons so easy. Alternately there should be names other than A,B,C which are not inherently ranked.

Someone (nokia?) has/had farms of different devices which you could test on remotely. However this is unlikely to be available to run-of-the-mill developers.

Agreed on the numbers. Almost every web browser on the planet can run javascript, independent of operating system or underlying hardware. I don't think you can get more accessible …

The hacker dojo may meet some of your needs.

Good compilers will warn you. Extend this to functions as well. I had a bug like if (foo(b == A)) instead of if(foo(b) == A)

No love for nokia n900 :( Though it is not out yet http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/specifications/ Only comes unlocked in US, 3G only works on tmobile.

According to their research, women started out with much less confidence but by the junior year it has started to level out when the classes become more difficult for both genders.…

Well, obviously Dilbert is an extreme caricature of what happens in most offices, but the comic in and of itself is not a good emissary for the software engineering profession. It …

It's about Dilbert. If I have the skills to go into a profession where I'll be respected or into a profession where I'll be treated, well, shall we say not so well, which will I pi…

I would consider "bugs opened per month" to be a good metric, assuming someone uses the software.

Isn't apple just as bad with itunes and the palm pre? http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67615.html?wlc=1256230659 Google isn't immune either http://phandroid.com/2009/09/25/cyanog…

Also from what I know, which is not much, you should be requesting the ports via request_region. If that fails you should probably not be writing to the ports and should also mean …

More explicit handling of error conditions is also good FWIW - don't see you doing it here. The kernel is not forgiving of using resources your don't have or failing to free resour…

This may not be likely, but - you don't specify a level for your printk statement. It could be your message is just not getting printed to console. Check out info for "/proc/sys/ke…

Second on unnoticed exclusionary behavior. Making sexist assumptions which are "reasonable" because there are not many women in the field may very well be self perpetuating.

Going back to the original topic, I think that being active in FOSS, even at low levels @ a couple hours a week, is a good way to keep evidence of some skillset. This should hopefu…

Female oriented apps with what, pink unicorns and fluffy bunnies? That's a pretty silly statement no matter how you take it. Remember the myth (or the myth of the myth) about nobod…