Posts by nethack47

Missing the point really.

I am getting pretty fed up with the focus on a very narrow field as the problem.

Using what is essentially Math there is a different solution to the disproportion.

Say we have 100 students who are going to higher education. I think currently the ratio is 55 female and 45 male but trying to find consistent numbers is almost impossible other than it being more female by at least 5%.

If we have 20 male and 5 female students going to into STEM we have an imbalance there which we could try and fix by pushing more females that way. The problem is that there will be a lot of competition for the spaces which is known by both views of the gender disparity to be less hospitable for women.

Healthcare for instance has a massive imbalance. The workforce is 80-20 including all the technical staff and nursing for example has a 90-10 split. If more men could be encouraged to go into nursing they'd have to come from somewhere since people going for further education doesn't just magically appear but redistribute so STEM would by definition end up with less men applying making room for more women.

I have listened to people trying to explain why their young ones who clearly have a great aptitude for computer science should study something else and I think much of it boils down to "it's something weird I don't understand".

Is this why I get so much ads for VPN providers. Thought it was for watching media in other regions but this makes more sense.

What language?

The pesky terrorists have been using all sorts of ways to obfuscate so what languages are you defining terror content in?

I heard a story about the efficiency of wiretaps back in the 80s which was problematic because the pesky terrorists used things like Gaelic which put a lot of strain on the few that could actually understand it. They already worked out that the solution to terror isn't a lack of data or powers but instead it's manpower.

Anyone want to bet this system will quietly be expanded to block porn, copyrighted content and ultimately things that are bad for you. Anorexia glorification perhaps?

May is reducing the workforce and handing over management and costs for to people who can't bill them for what they want.

I don't mind reading predictions but what bothers me is news outlets retelling it as fact while it the science hasn't gone through any real testing.

We get this a lot with the what we should eat science and over a period of 10-20 years we'll be full circle.

What about the Data Protection Act and the FCA

The DPA mentions encryption quite often which means we will be in breach of either this regulatory law or whatever law the government decides to bring in forcing us to not protect the sensitive data.

Cameron is probably thinking we can have a completely separate consumer and enterprise device ecosystem and that no terrorist will use a business or rooting to get access to encryption.

I don't see what good this will do when the current regulation already lets the state lock you up until you give up your encryption keys.

Dad woes and calculations

I am pretty sure I'll be forced to but that album soon enough as I have a 9 year old daughter but since it's between that and One Direction I'm not enjoying either option really.

Looking at the streams you get a couple of suggestions

$0.006 and $0.0084

SEK0,02 + 0,05

Both look fairly reasonable and I'd say the per song play for an initial song cost on buying an album for $1 works out to be around the same as 500 plays per sale.

With some guesstimates of music consumption I would say you normally listen for the new and shiny song a lot 2 the first two months after which you are sick of it and listening gets more sporadic.

A regular to and from school/work listen makes it at least 2 plays per day for around 60 days but since you might not listen in the weekends it's probably only 50 days. Since it's new and shiny there's a good chance you listen to it a few times more the first week so add 50 more to make the numbers nicer for comparison.

50 days x 2 + 50 spur of the moment listens makes about 150 for that early profitable period when it is the most profitable in sales. Not quite

Looking at when I was young, my friends and my children I am certain the initial numbers tend to be a bit higher.My personal experience with "Everything is awesome" which I happen to have a counter on got over 250 plays since purchase a little while ago.

I guess the recoup from streaming is around half of the album sale over the first year but the cost of albums downloads needs about halving so this is more about trying to keep download prices up than protecting the unique and special.

If it's not then why would Taylor Swifts 1989 be $9.99 as a physical album and $12.99 as a download?

Solution is obvious

Since there is a lack of women in IT in general and programming Ruby in particular we'll just have to sue women. I am sure there is some way this can be motivated along with some moral outrage that women in general are treating IT careers as second class over more social professions.

While we're at it I ask myself how the organizers didn't see the massive stupid hammer descending when answering the original criticism. The obvious solution would have been to quickly swap in 3 female speakers citing scheduling conflicts, personal commitments and perhaps sickness.

Having had to deal with hiring in IT I know how hard it is to find women at all when wading through applicants and stacks of CV's from headhunters and we actively looked for women. I'd say most companies I've worked for the women are given a leg up and are treated as more valued than the male counterparts because they are so rare....