While computers are fundamental, programming them is not.

Except that's not just a belief, but results of the studies.
The fact that grown ups are different is clear (although studied as well), but there was a theory about all that being a result of society influence, so scientiest went far into early stages.

Couple of month old babies were examined: girls tended to choose humans, boys tended to choose "things".

Then there was a doubt, that, oh well, maybe those babies were already "spoiled" by the society, so someone went as far as to check one-two day old kids.

Boys were interested in things, girls in human faces. (I didn't know kids could see at that age).

Another studies: increased levels of testesteron have a very clear impact on kids development:
1) it will take longer to learn to speak
2) it will have greater interest for "things" mechanisms etc.

There are numerous studies showing that:
1) girls/women do better on average
2) boys/men are overly represented in both top and bottom parts

Which suddenly explains why Nobel laureats are mostly men, and, cough, CEOs too.

Interest rates also reflect... opportunities.
In fact, German banks feared not that money would not be returned.
In fact, they were giving money to an already bancrupt state, knowing, that Merkel and Co will not let much harm happen to them.

Georgia (Republic of) did came of better, thanks to IMF.
After war with Russia in 2008 and subsequent econimical crisis all over the world, Georgia got money to compensate for harsh decline in foreign direct investment and quickly recovered.

I dislike current populist Greek government (and live in Germany), but there is some injustice in what was done to Greece in my opinion.
Greece f*cked up big time by spending more than earning, there is no question about that.
The problem is, what happened afterwards.
And that was new loans AT INSANE RATES.
Last time I've checked check dept per citizen numbers, Greek was roughly on the level of Germany.
But interest rates they are paying (and that mostly to German banks), oh my goodness:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

So there IS a combination of incompetent reckless government and unfair interest rates. (yeah, if you don't want the money, don't take it, yadayada, I know)
Also see (Charges of hypcrisy (Germany))

Germany stll pays Israel.
Germany "kinda" paid USSR that took most factories it came by.
Germany actually also paid Greece a while ago, although the scale of the payment was nowhere near what current government wants (and even (nominally) much less than they took from Greek bank)

German reparations for World War II/

I missed how you jumped from parents influencing kids choices, to 50/50 parity being the natural thing, if not discriminated.

There are contrary examples of separated twins in different families which you would not like.

You forgot to elaborate how on earth was this about "access to professions regardless of gender".
The idea that gender disparity can only be caused by some sort of discrimination is based pretty much on religious views and have nothing to do with science.

Men and women are different and TEND TO choose different professions. .

I've actually used demo version of the Oculus Rift.
Also, many of colleagues did.
The things will cause sickness to many, no matter the FPS.

Sony's devs also mentioned it, by the way.
One thing is getting rid of sickness caused by rendering glitches, you could fix that.
But there is inherent sickness caused by your eyes seeing what your vestibular system does not experience.

Bottom line:

1) an obvious example of diminishing returns on modern GPUs, also, go check Dark Sorcerer demo on PS4 (PS4 GPU is roughly between AMD 7850 and AMD 7870)

2) somebody managed to bake yet another article about AMD product, without mentioning AMD

Now you can basically officially do your own pre-compilation (check -processor option on javac) if you so wish.

Tons of XML weren't really caused by Java's problems (do you actually remember what was put in them??), more of a fashion thing, now mostly replaced with annotations / cleverly chosen defaults.

Most stuff you were doing with monstrous (my personal opinion) frameworks like Spring are part of the standard Java for quite a while (since 2009).

Did that have positive impact on sales of the corresponding content?
Because if not...

Over nearly 2 decades I work in IT, in most teams I worked with SOME of the guys could do more than 3-5 others together.
Also it had little to do with experience, some guys were just damn good, right out of the university.

I've also seen plenty of very experienced, yet very poor coders.

So no, not just skills you can just learn.

Parent post deserves more than 1 point.

Poker games take time (hours), people grow tired, computers don't.
People struggle at memorizing chances, taking shortcuts, computers have exact picture talking into account every single bit.

All one needs is behavior that is random enough, for human players not to guess if computer is bluffing.

Then, of course, there is luck factor, so results will fluctuate quite a bit.