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Small open source projects are a far better measure of this phenomenon. It's completely unaffected by salary, no one gets paid, completely free of bias, you have to do everything yourself. And yet the disparity is enormous.

You are very wrong to suggest that men are not discouraged from taking this career path as well.

> variation within a gender group is much larger than the variation between genders.

You're measuring the wrong thing. If you look at the top percentage of performers in these fields then the differences become striking.

If you don't have children then two people can live off of one person's income far more easily. It is children that are the huge money sink. Just saying.

Working endlessly without a break. Very, very dumb.

Get a de-humidifier. They are cheaper than AC, much more convenient, and usually just as effective.

It appears hugely likely that this is intentional.

Worst type of bug that could possibly exist, and unnoticed by the general public for so long. Incredible. Something like this could trivially be detected with basic prng tests. I'm certain that there are groups that discovered this long ago!

This may not fit your way of looking at this problem but please, read on.

One of the most fun things about python, or any terse loose language, is that you can now write amazingly massive amounts of code without having to do exhaustive checking as you go. For example, in C, a non-expert will often end up having to write tons of tiny functions, recompiling, and testing _constantly_ in order to avoid the hell that is having written a large chunk of code containing one tiny error and not being able to find that error even after hours of debugging.

Just the other day I reimplemented a rather large network protocol coded in C into ~1500 lines of python all at once. When it was done I decided, with some trepidation, to just run the whole thing and see what happens. It worked! Soon after, my test code did find one small type error in an obscure edge part of the code, but the good feeling from getting the immediate success didn't go away!

So the bad practice is not having tests/asserts anyway -- regardless of whether your language has type checking. He is right that just running as much as possible can be much more encouraging and even FUN, for beginners especially.

It seems that you're still implying that python is only good enough for lowly sysadmin tasks?

Being able to code fast one-offs to solve problems or automate tasks is one of the strongest reasons to get into programming in the first place. This is hugely useful in engineering for example, not just in minimum wage grunt jobs. Scheme/Lisp facilitate this VERY poorly.

Python is maps far better to how problems are commonly presented, very rarely has gotchas that would make you drag out some advanced programming construct, and has batteries included at a level which scheme/lisp may NEVER catch up with:)

All of the world is not calculus! Spend all your time playing in that area and you won't become a very well rounded or capable programmer/engineer.

It's not that it's hard, it's just that it violates the readability tenet of python. You can see online GVR himself scolding people for producing semi-functional code because it turns out to be a mess.

What is market value of interns in your area? I always have wondered this because this seems to vary widely. Where I've lived it's been between $9 - $15.

Yes, I looked up a few poker bots yesterday and those sites said that the bots are generally more profitable on no-limit with experienced (predictable) players. I can dig up the links again if anyone wants.

Spend more money right when your income is in highest jeopardy? Most of us wish.

I'd suggest just going in the summer while you're still employed and office activity has slowed anyway. My plan, anyway.

No social life !=> no sex life...

Entrepreneurs are more efficient!

Yup, bunch of closed minded people who are jerks.

What's wrong with breaking up function arguments onto multiple lines?

Come on, everyone should take a break now and then.

The comment you cite has enough made up data and weak reasoning to make the daily mail look respectable. For actual data, let us turn to the internet. The February 2007 report involving chimpanzees does lend credibility to this orangutan picture:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02...

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11234

Not at all. Plenty of examples come to mind where they're inversely correlated. Working long and hard for cash can wreck social life.

Yes, more advice from people that failed at least a few times instead of know-it-alls who think their anecdote is the huge secret to success.

Keep telling yourselves what you want to hear. Morons. And don't dead me bro.

Over generalization is when you generalize to a group larger than is applicable. This is the same group and a very accurate generalization on his part.

Too bad only robots will comply.

Yeah you can have it both ways, it's called getting a regular job and having some stock options.

Starting a business sucks. Failure rates are often just as high, no big reward to look forward to, your peers who work a fourth as hard in regular jobs usually get more money. Unless you're already rich, starting a business is the worst of everything.

Not everyone with a family to support has tons of money saved up so they can go without income for a year. Almost none do.

I have no idea how you could possibly say "No it doesn't".

I used to run 50 bittorrent downloads simultaneously off of my kuro just fine. A wrist watch could handle it.