I am in the software industry. But these sorts of comments alienate me. In fact, I considered not even looking at the comments for this article, because I knew I'd see plenty that would be alienating / saddening / just plain (c)rude. It doesn't keep me out of the industry - but it sends a clear "you, because you are female, are not one of us" message. You get that enough in the community, you start avoiding the community, or you just dread getting involved. And that creates a boys' club of networking and information sharing.

So I wade into slashdot, dailywtf, etc with a clothespin on my nose, donning metaphorical armor every time, steeling myself against the inevitable comments that, if they don't explicitly say I'm a crap coder because I have ovaries, at least make it clear that the presumed audience is entirely male, and I don't belong.

If you think it would be neat to have more women in the software community - or at least don't want to be a dick - consider whether your post is implicitly addressed to other men, and therefore sends the message that women aren't part of your community.

Even better:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Zeus+Crimeware+Kit

Continued from above.
One thing I forgot: Our process provides templates for all the BS documents we all hate to write. Half the effort is done by the boiler-plate and the only thing I have to write is my creative part about how I'm getting the job done.

I feel sorry for all you guys. I've worked in "no process" companies before and it sucks. No requirements, no process, no cohesion. Politics were rampant. It was just plain elementary.

These days I work in a company that's been CMMI level 3 certified for years and we have a process in place for each level of necessity; light, medium, heavy, manned-flight. All of our requirements are part of the contract, before any design even begins, and if they change the customer must pay for the change. It's a joy and my creativity is unleashed, not restrained.

Process is not your enemy. It's the lack of buyin. Everyone must participate and ensure the process is held. Requirements definition is part of process and if you don't have stable requirements, you aint got shit.

Again, I love working within our process, whether it's the light one or the manned-flight one. It's well defined and provides a schedule, but doesn't tell me how to write my design/code/test, just that I get it reviewed at all of the proper phases.

Should I refer to you as Dunning or Kruger?

Not this time. I'll really give him credit where it's due. He was a really good real-time embedded developer. His code is clean. His thoughts clear and complete. I've participated in many design, code, and test reviews on his work and it's all of the highest quality. He's just a total asshole who, I've heard, has made others cry at meetings due to his acidic nature.

Please don't miss my point. Your experiences make you human and valuable, but it's the attitude that matters most. You can believe everyone in the world, except yourself, are morons. That may or may not be the case. I don't believe you are correct, but that's not my point.

My point is, "It's the attitude that matters most." My guy was derogatory and rude. He did not attend group events, but that doesn't matter. It was his demeaning attitude and antisocial behavior that made him such a negative influence. People avoided him. He ignored direct orders from our, at the time, boss, who was a completely capable and talented leader. He really was/is a fantastic technical specialist, but one I never want to work with again.

"It's the attitude that matters most."

I think I must work with you. I'm not saying this IS you, but the people that I've met who hold this opinion "It is bad enough that I have to work with a moron" seem to feel that way about EVERYONE. If everyone is a moron and you are the only person worth a shit, then does that say that out of the entire human race, you (and all of the people like you) are the only ones who AREN'T morons? I mean, the lunch thing is only a small facet of a bigger deal, YOUR ATTITUDE is SHIT!!! I just had you kicked off my program and told the management I never wanted that HIGHLY capable, VERY strong technical person on my team again because his attitude was so bad it was negatively impacting the entire project.

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It certainly seems I should be able to allow a few of the things they want to access, but not all, and do it at the OS level.
The developers will just have to level up their gracefulness to handle being disallowed.

To install or not to install is not the right (or only) question.

There must be a better way. One question is whether anyone who makes money off of this cares what is right or wrong and that includes Google. it's all about how much money they can make off us.

Some of my co-workers are running windows 7, and if they log into their workstations using remote desktop, it can cause the system to become unresponsive, and they have to force a reboot. Has anyone seen this? Does anyone have a workaround? I run windows 7 at home, but have no interest in running it at work if I'll have this same problem.

Have you ever considered people other than you may have a different lifestyle and thus different likes and dislikes than you? Just because you don't see the point, does that make it completely useless for everyone in the world? Hmmmm.

Let's just be completely racist here and say that there might be some people from India who have been delivered VERY spicy food since they were in utero and probably have a tolerance (and also desire) for heat that you couldn't come close to comprehending. Does that make them macho show-offs? I don't think so.

I know more forces than the Marine Corps are acting in Libya right now, but I was a Marine and the President most certainly has the authority to exert military force without declaring war any time he wants to.
I also know wikipedia isn't an authoritative source, but here's the WP discussion on the USMC on that topic.

Yes, you are.
There's a slight but incredible difference between

and "What could I use this for?"
It's like the difference between "That's crap" and "I think there's a better way."
You don't think so, but it comes off as block-headed.
It's negative and derogatory. I'm so sick of negative responses I can barely stand it.

Does it ever get old stifling peoples creativity?
I can think of lots of reasons I would like this.
I have a server at home.
I would like to edit something at home, from work. That's one trivial example.
Do you ever get tired of shooting down somebody else's idea just because it doesn't immediately fit whatever is in your head RIGHT NOW?
Give it a second. Stop to think before you call somebody else crap and maybe just bite your F'ing tongue.

Wow, did you go to my school?
We did VAX/VMS until we declared and then DEC UNIX in higher level classes.
In either case, the professor taught concepts and, being a smaller school, we figured out the tool on our own, with no TA support but with the help of a required text book "Unix For The Impatient".

I spent personal time figuring out Slackware, etc. along with friends, for fun.

Now that I'm in industry, the same applies; learn the tool on your own, there's no time or money available for you to have support on something that you should be smart enough to figure out yourself. It's the concept that matters, now buckle down and git to work.