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so here's the cool thing about heat. creating heat is one of the few things that we can actually do with amazing efficiency, nearly 100% in fact.
so i'm not sure what you think thermodynamics has to do with this, but even a 7th grader could tell you that running a computer is actually a very effective and efficient way to generate heat from electricity.
now, when sending servers out to a bunch of different locations and keeping track of them, i would say that a logistics manager is pretty darn useful. here's the definition, in case you aren't clear: http://www.merriam-webster.com...
when it comes to creating a distributed system of servers that handle programming tasks and then report their findings back to a central source, i'd probably want a hot-dog vendor to plan that out for me. wait, no, i'd want a programmer, that's right.
what are your qualifications, oh anonymous coward?
clearly you are an expert in this field and have done all the necessary research to determine whether this could be pursued in a trial rollout.
unfortunately, the project is not being run by experts such as yourself, it is being run by random dudes that just troll the internet posting drivel in comment threads. they are doomed!
look up summertime temperatures in netherlands.
yep! those greedy women, asking for equal pay and equal opportunities. so ENVIOUS and GREEDY of them!
sure, i'll play along, even though you already know the answer to your own question.
I don't think anyone would argue that men and women are physically equivalent. men are, on average, bigger and stronger. so men and women have different leagues.
so that's your argument - programming is analogous to sports, that women are inferior coders? because their brains aren't as strong as men's brains?
It's a terrible metric. The test would pass if a female developer wrote a simple function and other female developer called it somewhere else. The function need not even do anything at all or be in anyway important to the project. The simple function and the call to it may be the only code contributed to the project by those individuals.
Do we get to feel good about our project and pat ourselves on the back for being progressive after passing this test even though it's utterly meaningless?
no, you should feel like an asshat for trying to game the system, and missing the entire fucking point. it's not a test in the sense of, 'oh you passed the test, move on to round two'. it's more of a tool for self-reflection. it's a way to see if your company/project/whatever is anywhere near gender equality.
Any industry which does not appeal to ~half of its prospective workers might want to spend a bit of time trying to figure out why, instead of getting all defensive and blaming everyone and everything else for the issue.
Why? The logging industry isn't likely losing any sleep over the lack of female lumberjacks and I doubt the child daycare industry cares one iota about the lack of male workers. No one seems to be jumping on their backs about any kind of sex-based disparity and trying to shove inane tests like the above down everyone's throat is going to do more harm than good because it just serves to alienate people.
neither the logging industry nor the child care industry are particularly prestigious, well-paying, or difficult to break into. aka, nobody cares about those fields, they just aren't important enough to worry about, when there are more important conversations to be having.
Yes they do, and yes they did. And yet, no suit has been filed.
Unless that happens, and unless Google loses, saying that Google violated anti-trust law is pure speculation on your part.
are you a lawyer? care to cite the exact law they are breaking, along with court precedent of a comparable case?
except that robbing banks is a crime, while ordering your search results however you like is not.
they made the product, they can decide how it functions. if they want to put google products first, that's their right. if you don't like it, use bing.
btw, i imagine that if you search on bing you will find MSDN, MSNBC, etc tends to dominate the rankings for their respective categories.
oh, so despite google playing fast and loose with its own product rankings, it's still the best tool available?
well then.
Oh noes, socialism!
Sign me up. We are the only first world country WITHOUT single payer, and we have the most fucked health care. I don't think that is a coincidence.
I surely hope that we make it to a single payer system in my lifetime, but there is no way in hell that you could have gotten something like that passed out of the blue.
think of obamacare as a road towards single payer. a shitty road perhaps, one filled with potholes, but one that i am happy to take nonetheless.
"More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined." -- Fred Brooks, Jr., _The Mythical Man Month_
