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Quick-release cadence and free upgrades may stretch out refresh cycles even further "Such milestones -- Windows 95, Windows XP and most recently, Windows 7 -- were a crucial part of the OEM (original equipment manufacturer) strategy."
Lets see... six years between 95 and XP. Eight years between XP and 7. And now two(ish) years between 8 and 9. Could it be that people just don't need new hardware yet...?
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Kevin Priddle wrote: Could it be that people just don't need new hardware yet...?
I would say that 8 was not so successfull as they would have wished to. So they need something new to come out...
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Silicon Valley has been wracked with controversies about sexism lately. Only 17 percent of Google's technical employees are women. Tech conference organizers routinely post speaker lists that skew male. The female cofounder of Tinder was allegedly harassed and erased from corporate history last year. Yet some people still minimize the problem.
Their argument: Since the tech industry is populated by meritocratic rationalists, it would be impossible for a talented female engineer not to rise to the top. Therefore, if few women are in the industry, the problem is not sexism but the absence of some innate capacity or interest on the part of (most) women. In other words, the dearth of women in tech is only natural.
Having grown up in India and worked as a coder in the US, I find this line of reasoning specious. What say CodeProject on the matter?
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Having been in the industry for some 30+ years now, I have had the occasion to work with a number of men and women. Yes, the vast majority were men (as inferred by the article).
Of the women... I can only think of 1 or 2 that seemed to actually enjoy the work, let alone the environment. A number of them had degrees in other fields (chemical engineering, math), but found themselves in the industry by accident, not by design.
Does that mean that there is a sexism issue? Not that I've seen.
Where I work, people are part of a team; their gender is irrelavent. What is relavent is: can you do the job at hand?
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Tim Carmichael wrote: gender is irrelavent. What is relavent is: can you do the job at hand?
/ravi
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Tim Carmichael wrote: Of the women... I can only think of 1 or 2 that seemed to actually enjoy the work, let alone the environment.
Maybe that's because the male-dominated environment is actually off-putting to women. To my mind that's the biggest indication of a problem. Exemplified by the Ruby conference which actually used porn to make jokes in their slides.
I simply do not believe that women are less capable than men at computing. It's like politics, where everyone decries all-woman shortlists as unfair to women, because people will feel they only got there to fill a quota. Thing is, if you're only attracting or recruiting male candidates, you already have a selection bias going on. Taking steps to address it is just truly being commited to equal opportunities.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The giant flood of near-identical opinion pieces isn't solving the problem (assuming it is a problem). People have been complaining about it for a decade and nothing serious has happened. It's just polarizing. The biggest echo-chamber is the "women can program too"-camp, but they're too busy agreeing and congratulating each other on their progressiveness to ever do anything. The other camp are unorganized barbarians, venting their anger incoherently in the responses to all of those opinion pieces.
Both sides are useless, and the opinion pieces are just written because they're click bait.
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I dunno what India can teach Silicon valley about women - but i'm sure it'd be at the back of a bus.
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MCAD
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Quote: What say CodeProject on the matter?
I have an idea, run some challenges and give out some cool prizes which women's are very much interested in  Let us see whether there's any difference in fellow women programmers participating or interacting in Lounge for that matter.
Thanks,
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A draft of a new UN report seen by The New York Times warns that our planet is at risk of "severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts" if the world's governments don't quickly alter their course and do more to limit the emissions of greenhouse gases. The report, drafted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says that we are already nearing a temperature at which the ice sheet covering Greenland is expected to begin melting — an unstoppable process that could raise global sea levels by 23 feet and bring other extremes of climate including heat waves and torrential rain. The Borg were right.
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Apple's a hardware company, Microsoft's a software company, and Google makes almost all of its income from advertising. All three companies have been trying for years to diversify their revenue streams. How's that working out? Hint: Google still makes all their money by annoying you with that same ad that follows you around like your annoying little brother.
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With Hollywood hovering in the background looking for cash, last month the High Court ordered Kim Dotcom to reveal in detail where he's getting all his money from. The Mega founder isn't ready to give in though, and is putting up a fight ahead of an appeal hearing in October. Is it that big of a secret? See: Game of Thrones downloads.
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Levels is on a quest to launch 12 “startups” in just 12 months, and he’s a third of the way home now. 12!? In 12 months!? Sheesh, I can barely keep my blog updated.
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Reminds me of a scene from the Simpsons where Bart is seen playing three games of Chess at once to the amazement of bystanders, only to lose all three games.
Launching twelve startups in twelve months is only impressive if any of them do in any way well
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That's nothing. I just launched 12 start-ups in the last 12 minutes. But, I've already shut down eleven of them.  Now, start-up number 12...where'd I put you?
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I do not know where that 12 start-ups will be after 12 months, but the author is a jerk..."global warming"?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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So he launches 12 useless startups, as though there weren't enough of them. Just go to Windows store eh?
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
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Kevin Priddle wrote: Levels is on a quest to launch 12 “startups” in just 12 months,
Well, if I counted every startup I've created a Heroku repository for, I could easily come close to that.
Marc
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Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have discovered that humans prefer increased autonomy for robots. So ditch management and hire C3PO is what you're saying?
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It's totally true. I am very happy with my Robot Overlord and it's not just because he's standing here overlording me either.
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The problem with the research is the starting point - the most important thing in the word is to play with Lego blocks?
Also - they found that team performance is better with more robot autonomy, not that humans prefer it...That robot overlords who make us happier is b*****t to create interest where there is not much (we already knew robots can help us - see car industry)...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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I reckon there's an easier way; most humans would be happier when fed.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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... and a computer determined this right?!
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When the Snowden leaks dropped last year, some feared that the reveal widespread state surveillance would be followed by a clamping down on transparency efforts. A new Pew Research poll suggests that the effect is more in line with Kafka than Orwell, however: the threat of ubiquitous surveillance may have resulted in a self-imposed cooling effect on online discussion. Cooler and crisper than the Ice Bucket Challenge.
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VMware, beset on all sides by containers, public clouds and other existential threats, embraced them all. Every single one of them. There is only one path to a united future: I call it love.
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