Comment Re:seriously guys? (Score 1) 570
One year starting from when?
If they mean "within one year of event X" then there's a perfectly clear phrase for that. Why not use it?
Comment CSS (Score 0) 184
Can they do CSS properly at 4chan?
Comment Re:too expensive (Score 1) 229
I was looking at this.
Gender and Tenure Diversity In GitHub Teams Relate To Higher Productivity 106
New submitter Bogdan Vasilescu writes: Diversity in teams is a double-edged sword. Increased team diversity results in more varied backgrounds and ideas, providing the team with access to broader information, enhanced creativity, adaptability, and problem solving skills. However, due to greater perceived differences in values, norms, and communication styles in more diverse teams, members become more likely to engage in stereotyping, cliquishness, and conflict.
In a recent study, researchers from University of California, Davis and Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands have analyzed the effects of gender and tenure diversity on productivity and turnover for more than 23,000 open-source projects on GitHub. Using regression modeling, they showed that after controlling for team size and other confounds (such as a project's age, development model, or amount of social activity), both gender and tenure diversity are positive and significant predictors of productivity, together explaining a small but significant fraction of the data variability. On an economic and societal scale, these findings suggest that added investments in educational and professional training efforts and outreach for female programmers will likely result in added overall value.
The paper describing the results (preprint PDF here) will be presented at the prestigious ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, in Seoul, South Korea, in April 2015.
In a recent study, researchers from University of California, Davis and Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands have analyzed the effects of gender and tenure diversity on productivity and turnover for more than 23,000 open-source projects on GitHub. Using regression modeling, they showed that after controlling for team size and other confounds (such as a project's age, development model, or amount of social activity), both gender and tenure diversity are positive and significant predictors of productivity, together explaining a small but significant fraction of the data variability. On an economic and societal scale, these findings suggest that added investments in educational and professional training efforts and outreach for female programmers will likely result in added overall value.
The paper describing the results (preprint PDF here) will be presented at the prestigious ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, in Seoul, South Korea, in April 2015.
Comment Re:I reckon (Score 1) 290
Another example of trying to impose a technical solution on a human problem.
You're supposed to shout "Candygram".
The Most Popular Passwords Are Still "123456" and "password" 197
BarbaraHudson writes: The Independent lists the most popular passwords for 2014, and once again, "123456" tops the list, followed by "password" and "12345" at #3 (lots of Spaceballs fans out there?) . "qwerty" still makes the list, but there are some new entries in the top 25, including "superman", "batman", and "696969". The passwords used were mostly from North American and Western European leaks.
Comment Re:too expensive (Score 1) 229
If you try to board a flight with a new business-grade laptop the TSA might steal it.
If you try to board a flight with this thing they'll definitely shoot you.
Comment Yay for timothy! (Score 2) 290
Title: "Police Nation-Wide Use Wall-Penetrating Radars To Peer Into Homes"
Summary: "it does not show a picture of what's happening inside"
P.S. Layout's still fucked. If you're too dumb to fix it just revert to the old one already.
Comment I reckon (Score 2) 290
Have they tried ringing the doorbell? I could supply them with a device to do that at, what, half the price of these doohickeys.
Sid Meier's New Game Is About Starships 227
jones_supa writes: The next game from the mind of veteran strategy and simulation game designer Sid Meier has been revealed. 2K and Firaxis Games have announced Sid Meier's Starships, a turn-based interstellar strategy game scheduled to arrive in early 2015 for Windows, OS X, and iOS (iPad). In the game, you control a fleet of starships as you journey through the galaxy to complete missions, protect planets and their inhabitants, and build a planetary federation. As you trek through the stars, you will be challenged to expand your federation's influence and reach. You shall also amass futuristic technology and take part in combat using a deep roster of customizable ships. When designing Starships, Meier was intrigued by the idea of exploring the next chapter in the story of Civilization: Beyond Earth. "What happens after we colonize our new home and eventually build starships to take to the stars? What has become of our long-lost brothers and sisters from the planet Earth," Meier asks. "My goal was to create an experience that focuses on starship design and combat within a universe filled with interstellar adventure, diplomacy, and exploration."
Comment Re:Google hates widescreens (Score 1) 117
Slashdot hates all screens. Gotta love that horizontal scrolling!
President Obama Will Kibbitz With YouTube Stars 105
theodp (442580) writes "For better or worse, YouTube stars are a big deal these days. Last December, Microsoft and Code.org turned to YouTube Stars iJustine and The Fine Brothers to help recruit the nation's K-12 schookids for the Hour of Code. And next week, in what the White House is touting as the State of the YOUnion , President Obama will turn to a trio of YouTube Stars for advice on the issues of day following his State of the Union Address. "We're inviting a handful of YouTube creators to the White House to talk with the President in person," explains the White House Blog, "and you can watch it all live on Thursday, January 22. YouTube creators Bethany Mota, GloZell, and Hank Green will interview President Obama about the issues care they most about and what they're hearing from their audiences." Commenting on the choice of the YouTube interviewers, CNN's David Acosta asked (confused) WH Press Secretary Josh Earnest, "I'm just curious, was 'Charlie Bit My Finger' or 'David After Dentist' not available?" So, how long until the U.S. is redistricted into YouTube Channels?"
Comment Re: a better question (Score 1) 592
pull that out of your ass
What goes up must come down. We are talking about Mac users, after all...
Comment Re:Long Game + Lazy Prosecution (Score 1) 562
if encrypted data is your only source of evidence, you're either really bad at your job or prosecuting a thought crime.
I never said "only", that's entirely your invention.
Let's say I have other evidence (mysterious trucks seen moving, tip-offs or whatever) that you're selling something you shouldn't to someone you shouldn't. We know that a middleman made a payment of X amount on date Y to account Z, but we don't know who account Z belongs to. That would be the icing on the cake. So I get a warrant, naming the thing to be searched for and so on.
Why does it make sense that if you have financial records on paper they're available but electronic ones aren't?
Comment Re:Jetpacks! (Score 1) 105
Be thankful you can escape using your jetpack, then!
