I think what they are really trying to do is to get these 10k girls some equivalent to that "informal experience" the boys have... but I don't see how you can ever really come up with something similar delivered by external pressure, rather than innate desire to learn.

Getting more girls into the coding pipeline early would seem to be more a matter of figuring out ways ad reasons that would naturally draw girls to start learning to code in the same way boys do.

When my daughter's guidance councilor recommended that she do the pre-med requirements in college and go to medical school, I rejoiced.

You rejoiced that she probably now will not join and industry with the greatest ability at any point in history to have someone work on what they want, with who they want. Sad.

STEM fields are being offshored

Only the crappy work where the quality of results do not matter; who wanted those jobs anyway?

the working conditions suck

In what way? I'm a consultant, I get to choose the hours I work and take as much vacation as I like. In a job I actually enjoy doing.

The work conditions only suck if you allow them to suck. At this point anyone who is good at programming, especially a female, can write their won ticket.

the profession is filled with bullies and misogynists.

Let me take a guess - you are in California, right? Because I've seen that there, but pretty much no-where else. Businesses do not have time for such people as they are inherently unproductive.

And again, you can choose who you work with so simply do not work with those people. From what I have seen over decades, they are a tiny minority of the actual people you can work with.

By the way, if you actually had a problem with misogynists, you would be quaking in your boots at the thought of her entering the medical profession - where inherently most women are assumed to be nurses... What makes you think that field is not a thousand times worse than the tiny world of problems you know?

What makes you think the job will suck less, not more, when the stress of being a doctor is so incredibly high? What makes you think she will not be living under the cloud of med school debt for five decades as the amount of money doctors makes declines? Are you not rejoicing at the career equivalent of being sent to the front lines in WWI?

Because boys get more informal opportunities for computing experience outside of school,

What is that supposed to mean? Both boys and girls use technology equally outside of school as far as I can tell, in terms of access to technology or use of family laptops...

The only thing I can THINK the mean by this, by the very indirect wording, is that boys play more games. Specifically Minecraft. If that's so, say that,

But, I'm not sure Minecraft is truly a direct bridge to programming some seem to think it is... other games are actually a hinderance to learning to program, rather than a help - anything that absorbs time is to some degree taking away time you can learn to use to program.

When you strongly regulate something the effects are negative for the consumer! What an astounding shock that must be to everyone except the people who tried to warn you!

And if it's "automatic", almost by definition it's always online & thus vulnerable to a potentially WORSE (insofar as data recovery is concerned) mode of failure... encryption by ransomware.

Seriously. Name one... ONE... NAS or online backup solution that allows continuous adhoc writing, but acts like a virtual WORM filesystem and merely marks obsolete files as 'deleted' without actually deleting them, so that any attempt by ransomware to encrypt the files on the backup drive would simply fill up the drive until the ransomware crashed (and quite possibly provide an early warning of what it was up to).

In some ways, it feels like we've gone backwards over the past 20 years. Capacities have increased exponentially, but new hard drives seem to drop like flies compared to drives from 10-20 years ago. And often, they fail in creative ways that RAID (1, 5, 10, or whatever) can't save you from (golden example: OCZ's second-generation SSDs with Sandforce controllers that simultaneously omitted the supercapacitor needed to make sure the drive never lost power during writes (to save about a dollar per drive) AND disabled the multi-step safety measures Sandforce built into the default firmware (because it made the drives slow).

"Precedent" implies this is the first time something like this happened. The trend is quite clear: don't depend on anything offered by Google for your business, as Google will just take it away at a whim. It's one thing to use their service opportunistically: this week they're the best choice, but we could use someone else next week. But to build your business around a Google service shows you're really not paying attention.

Complicated how? It's the simplest way to manage lightweight containers at scale. It's not about what happens on any one machine (that's a well-solved problem), it's about fleet management in a way that decouples the hardware from the needs or the software, without the overhead of a full OS per container. I don't think it adds much value at the scale of a few machines, maybe not even at a few dozen machines.

Please read what I wrote again, since you apparently did not the first time (or are too stupid to misunderstand my point, unlikely as you have a login). Indeed, your reply was passingly unrelated to anything I said?

For the slow among you: I can take a license plate from someone else's car, put it on mine, and now to all the automated readers I am them. Why look who was close by the bank that was robbed! It wasn't me, it was the OTHER guy in a red Civic. Sucks to be them.

Because multiple cars don't share the same license plate.

That's a pretty stupid statement given anyone with a screwdriver can render it false in about a minute.

If you ever want to frame someone, go to a mall and find a vehicle with similar make and color... I leave the rest to your imagination.

That is a good point, I just figured that would all be streamed up and removed but it could easily impact disk space.

It's designed to solve a deployment problem, not a security problem. People really like VMs for managing deployments - everything together in one image, no conflicts to resolve, very easy. Images can be shared internally or in an open-source way. Docker gives you that with far less overhead, so if you have a lot of very small "servers", you can cram them together in a VM (just like with jails), but without the security of VMs or jails.

For a single server, jails just seem better, but for managing a fleet, especially in the cloud, Docker has the infrastructure built.

Yes, if there's one thing professional programmers (and their PHBs) love, it's code that's almost certain to work.

The reason that's OK for everyone is that it's also "Almost Certain" to work in the original place also...

It's just that each placement has different values and flavors of "Almost". :-)

Since it's so easy to replace the drive in the first place, this seem like kind of non-news... it will be helpful for some non-technical people but most people are probably not coming close to filling up the drives Sony currently ships with.

And people do in fact need to CARE about the earth and the future of humanity if this is to be solved.

I have done more real good for the Earth than most posters here will in a lifetime.

I am also strongly against the AGW madness to "do something", because I can see how none of it is based on science, only the "truthiness" flavor or science.

I can see the direction it is heading with terrible ideas that basically end in terraforming our own perfectly working Earth ecosystem.

I can also see everyone ignoring the only real danger there is to humanity, and that is an ice age - not a mild warming that improves agriculture and does little else.

I can see people distort natural changes in climate over time into terrible dangers for personal and political gain. In the end I suppose that matters little, it's just a slightly different monkey on the top of the hill at the end of the day, but the part of me that dislikes con men is unhappy to see such a large con fool so many rubes until they loose much before catching on.

If people actually cared, they would wake up and call out the charlatans. If the Pope's paper has that effect truly, it will be good though not the direction he intended.