Why refer to these women as 'girls'? It'd certainly stick out if anyone said that a bunch of 'boys' had learned to program a computer – it would be implied/assumed that children were doing the programming.
I've always associated the word "girl" more with gender than age, so it's very natural for me to refer to a woman as a "girl" when talking to someone informally. On the other hand, in my mind "boy" has a strong association with with age as well as gender, but "guy" doesn't. So "guys" and "girls" are my generic go-to words when referring to someone's gender without regard to their age. I'm guessing I'm probably not an oddity, since I acquired these associations while growing up with mainstream media like most people.
The words are ambiguous and overlap with a lot of sexist and even racist (calling all Black men "boy") behaviors, so it is unclear sometimes if a particular usage is sexist
Is that something specific to this particular story? When the police chief says "the boys down in ballistics have their hands full with the shootout last night" we don't assume he's talking about children.
Sure, but the title of this is "Girl figures out how to program giant computer".
"The boy down in ballistics got in a shootout" is not something our hypothetical police chief would say.
The title also implies some level of surprise that 'girl' 'figured out' this 'giant computer'.
It might seem like a nitpick, but stuff like this adds up. I used to call women 'girls' occasionally, but I stopped when I realized that I'd rarely use 'boy' if the gender was flipped.
While SOPA and PROTECT-IP deserve to burn for all the obvious reasons, this ‘infographic’ is appalling. It’s rare to see propaganda as brazenly deceitful as the “self-censorship diagram” and “startup chart”.
Using fake data to scare the masses is beyond shameful — it’s exactly the kind of tactic employed by the RIAA and every other evil corporate lobby in existence. It’s like Batman trying to catch a bad guy by stealing his gun and shooting at him.
"You might wonder, Hey, don’t you feel like a jerk walking around the city talking to your phone? But here’s the thing: Siri, by default, kicks in when you hold the iPhone up to your ear, so you can talk to it and it looks like you’re on a phone call."
I started the website as a senior design project in 2005. My team won a $10k entrepreneurship contest, but we were all finishing college and drowning in debt, so we split the prize up and went our separate ways. I intended to sell, but never got around to it.
I learned this the hard way when I presold books through Google Checkout. I mistakenly read the UK ToS which, unlike the US ToS, allowed preorders. Once we'd amassed more than $40k, they contacted us via email to let us know we had run afoul of their policy.
I pleaded with them to give me time to fulfill the orders, and to their credit, they did. They kept 100% of the funds until I sent them notification that I had shipped every package.
Nowadays, even though I only use them to process a couple thousand dollars per month, they are perpetually sitting on $1,000 of my funds as a protection against chargebacks/fraud. I was told that if I wanted that money, I had to close my account and wait 3 months for the funds to "clear". I've asked for the cap to be lowered, but they never bothered to respond.
Got my HP Laserjet (CP1518) cartridges to last literally 2x as long by setting the manual override. The printer will complain for months that it's out of ink, all the while printing beautifully.
I read Investing for Dummies back in 2004. It taught me all the basics I needed to know -- mostly lingo, since I had no clue what all the TLAs meant.
I had just gotten my hands on a few thousand dollars that I knew would otherwise be wasted on an unnecessary purchase, so I signed up with Ameritrade (back in 2004 when it was much less user-friendly) and had to read the book before I felt confident enough to actually place an order.
The book advised me to buy what I knew, and to only buy something I planned on holding for a long time. Luckily I had just tried out a Powerbook for the first time and was blown away, so I bought a bunch of Apple stock.
it was a sort of a joke... I don't think anyone takes me seriously when it comes to the stock market--especially after I say I don't own any stocks! :-)
Seconding this. Just started using it last week, learned everything I needed to know in a distraction-filled day or two. Any CSS pro could pick up HAML/SASS in a matter of hours, if not less.
Pretty one-sided, but I suppose a domain name can only belong to one side of any argument.
For the uninitiated, Fundable was a site where you could input a dollar amount and accept donations towards that 'goal'. If the goal wasn't reached within a certain time period, the money was returned to the individual donors. If the goal was reached, the money was released to whoever initiated the campaign, minus a hefty 7% commission fee.
As far as I could tell (I used it back in 2007 but quickly jumped ship when I realized how rickety it was) it was pretty much a giant Paypal API with bad UX and even worse customer service.
I don't think so -- Fundable was targeted toward much larger transactions ($5k+ campaigns weren't rare, iirc) and specifically set up to 'self destruct' if the goal wasn't met.
So for example, if you had a small neighborhood looking to fund the purchase of a $5,000 water well and they only raised $4,000, everyone who donated was supposed to get their money back.
