Sometimes that works, but shops often dictate or encourage certain styles and practices that may hinder "personal productivity" practices so that the team can do maintenance.

And it's not just a matter of typing: there are screwy schedules, screwy deadlines, fickle requesters, etc. If you finish coding fast, they'll make you install software, fix Outlook, clean printers or whatnot.

Yes, it's a living, but typically one plateaus early salary-wise. Why not encourage women to be sys admins or high-end application trainers? Why focus on coding?

Is the goal to find more labor, or to help women?

Who cares! Coding is on average a dead-end job with long hours. Why not talk about good long-term careers for women instead, rather than high burn-and-churn jobs? Coders happen to be demand right now, but we've seen bubbles before, and will probably see them again.

Thanks for reminding me why nobody goes to lunch with nerds :-)

Send up a bosomy leather-clad babe and people just may pay to watch. That's one way to fund it.

Then kids may mistake Daleks for Ents.

I'm curious, in UK, do you Tea Partiers actually drink tea?

In the USA we call them "drones"

Kids will get to program a Dalek to make him more powerful.

"Look, my Dalek is now so powerful it writes my code for me!"

Wait, how do you know a Dalek is a "him"?

Dude, it's harder to hide your porn that way

Clippy...no way to turn him off

You can, but you'd have to go through the pod bay doors without a space helmet. I found that cheat tip on a black monolith found in the dumpster.

"Luke, use the Fork"

"Being a security company, we wanna keep our mistakes secure."

What, they haven't found a subtle and quiet way to sneak in like the N-S-A does?

If done right, such animations can be helpful to newbies, showing the relationship between the icon and the newly opened window (versus say a randomly popping message or spam). But after a while such "training wheels" get annoying and slow you down.