There was no control group to check how significant that number (13 out of 30) was[1]. This article is very misleading (but at least mentions that the study was not peer reviewed).
What about a thriving Free Software ecosystem where the code can be audited and modified, and where the best apps (i.e. the ones that follow what users generally accept to be a standard of "respect" to your machine and its user, as well as doing their job) bubble up to the top?
Using various Ubuntu-based distros and Free Software apps over the last 8 years, I have never felt like any program was overstepping the boundaries.
You are using a version that has reached its end of life months ago. If you are looking for stability, you should stick to LTS versions. 16.04 should be reliable enough by now, and you can stick to it for years.
The 2010 version you speak of should be 10.04. Or do you mean 14.04, which was released in 2014?
Soooo this article challenges the original article's validity with stuff like:
> There are far more male users on GitHub then one could argue that men are in fact far better at coding because far more are actually doing it and many women are missing in action. Perhaps the small number of women who get involved are marginally better on average, but they would still be vastly outnumbered by men who are equally or more capable
How is this more valid? They complain that the study is not scientifically peer-reviewed (which is fair enough, I don't challenge that) and then come up with this dodgy analysis? Gee they sound stupid.
This could be valid with any number of probability distributions.
Comparing two populations (in the statistical sense) is tricky, especially if you have a huge difference between them. Then you can make some really weird claims, especially by omission.
What does "women write better code" mean? It could mean any number of things. Some I thought of:
* On average, a woman will write better code than a man. This is saying the mean of the "woman code quality" distribution is higher than that of the "man code quality" distribution. But again this metric is problematic without standard deviation. Because if there are simply more men than women who code, you still have a better chance at hiring a man who codes better than average if you can exclude the lower part through some bound (e.g. basic aptitude tests or interview), especially for long-tail distributions.
* Woman as a whole group write better code. I don't even know what this might mean, but maybe they aren't so obsessed about writing shitty javascript frameworks. Could be interesting for a psychologist. I just made a few things up for the sake of an example explanation: E.g. that the "women" population prefers to code on an existing project vs alone (i.e. new project), that that population prefers projects with a more social structure and therefore pull requests so through smoother because everybody know everyone, etc.
So you really can't say anything for sure without the data, but you can make up click-bait-y articles. Note how there are conveniently no graphs in the article, just a picture of a redheaded women looking at a laptop.
Fascinating how the dude says he has no way to validate the science because he's not versed enough, and goes on to explain why climate models are not credible because of their complexity.
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Shame the author promotes the use of Spotify so much, for two reasons:
- the ridiculous amount of money going to artists (i.e. the ones who do want money for their music), although you could argue that you would generate revenue for every play the song gets, rather than a one-off amount when buying it (although, pretty sure it still doesn't compare);
- having Spotify means everyone will ask you to play your favourite song, and you'll have less of an excuse not to, which is a massive PITA.
Contrary to what the article says, Mixxx is cross-platform (GNU/Linux, Mac, Windows). I really recommend that amazing piece of Free Software. It is the only DJing software I use.
...everyone will ask you to play your favourite song, and you'll have less of an excuse not to, which is a massive PITA.
Sure it's a pain, but at least coming from the standpoint of playing in conventional bands, I've found that audiences love it when you can play requests.
