Comment Minus (Score 1) 1
Minus all the (infinitely more valuable) information that will be LOST with the thousands of plants, animals and languages that will go extinct this year
Comment Re:Removes more than it adds (Score 1) 202
So paper has better search than bits? Not on the planet I'm living on.
Good grief, knowledge and education are not all about the efficiency of search algorithms. A luddite dystopian scifi novel called, they want their villain back.
Comment Re:Most obvious use (Score 1) 310
I don't need a new NIC card - I have an Advanced Reduced Instruction Set Computer Machine Processor.
Comment If I were a zebra (Score 1) 58
I'd look into getting some long trenchcoats, for anonymity.
Comment Re:Lawsuit maybe? (Score 1) 369
Oh haha i get it, it's sexist. Clever!
Comment Re:Clothed coders have been extinct for years, (Score 1) 369
ah .... brisk!
Comment Re:Lawsuit maybe? (Score 1) 369
If you work in a place that they have to be better to show they're as good, or one in which they have to be determined in order to stay due to the misogyny, then you work in a backwards place full of cavemen.
You mean like slashdot?
Comment Re:Lawsuit maybe? (Score 1) 369
Oh, shove your stupid ass jokes back where they came from.
Sincerely,
another woman coder who's probably smarter than you
Sincerely,
another woman coder who's probably smarter than you
Comment Re:Eww (Score 3, Interesting) 369
Just to go out on a limb and take this conversation at all seriously, consider at least that many people have medical requirements for clothing, prescription footwear, etc. And follow along those lines, it's a disability/accessibility issue.
Comment Re:FastTrack? (Score 0) 102
No, it means they get a toll discount on the Bay Bridge.
Comment No surprise (Score 1) 2
This is pretty typical of my experience and that of most women I know in tech. The only surprising part is that I read about it on Slashdot, which is normally dominated by sexist men patting themselves on the back.
*braces*
*braces*
Submission + - Should public libraries become "Hacker Spaces" ? (makezine.com)
ptorrone writes: "Public libraries — the availability of free education for all — represent the collective commitment of a community to their future. They symbolize what is most important, a commitment to educating the next generation. The role of a public library should also adapt over time, and that time is finally here. It’s time to plan how we’re going to build the future and what place public libraries have, should have, or won’t have. MAKE's latest article encourages everyone to start talking about one of our great resources, the public library, and its future."
Comment Link is broken. (Score 1) 6
Here's a better link: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/magazine/27FOB-WWLN-t.html
Comment Re:Pfft (Score 1) 417
Hitler had gay friends ... until he had them killed.
True story.
True story.
Comment LOL (Score 1) 417
A slashdotted LJ entry. Slow news day?
