As a woman in tech, I'd like to thank the men in this thread who obviously get what the problem is here. This sort of stuff can only change with a concerted effort from both men and women to change the culture. And it's small steps like standing up to sexist jerks and calling out people who engage in activities like this that will get us closer to our destination.

Really, men in tech need to stop thinking that they're somehow not part of the problem and are therefore free to make jokes about it.

You become part of the problem when you do stuff like this.

You don't see white people going around using the word "nigga" lightly, why should it be OK for this sort of joke to be made at a tech conference? It's not OK. It may never be OK. So just stop doing it. You're not Louis CK, you didn't make a career of comedy. Don't think you can tread the line of these social issues and not have it blow up in your face.

> You don't see white people going around using the word "nigga" lightly, why should it be OK for this sort of joke to be made at a tech conference?

Because people who think these are the same thing are delusional.

Except they weren't originally developed to be used by literal eyes of evil. They were the skype of the time, pretty much.

Sounds like someone's bitter. Or trying to stave off competition. :)

I don't see what's so radical here. It sounds like any other branded clothing/etc. sales-based job, really.

This is a failing of your supervisor and university if you have this experience in a UK university. I'm currently supervising PhD students at De Montfort University and we are required by the university to have AT LEAST monthly meetings with our students (usually 2-3 supervisors per student too). We support our students with seminar and theoretical workshop series, and encourage and support our particularly promising students to produce papers and submit them to conferences and journals.

There is a LOT of hand holding that goes on in our PhD programme. But your mileage may vary. I've heard that Russell Group universities can be a particularly mixed bag in this regard, but academics at other universities without such big names have more to gain by supporting our students.

What's your point? I have several friends (and myself as well) that deleted their accounts and they were actual active users.

Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised by this too! I had the birthday, an address, and something about one of my standing orders that I had to pick from. It was nice to not have to explain yourself to a real person either. You just had to confirm whether the transactions were real ones. I just have a normal Barclays account, too, nothing special.

Really cute! It'd be nice to be able to share a mockup with friends somehow.

Thanks, thats on the roadmap. We'll be able to turn the 3D css to pngs soon.

I had a lot of fun with it, and the only way I could share myy creation was to screenshot.... Personally I look at it as another revenue model. Make a model of Keene Reeves and sell it to his fans etc.

https://plus.google.com/116059998563577101552/posts/Up1kKojQ...

What alternative OS can I run on the device?

I'm in the UK. It's also useless for finding things - it has petrol stations in places they don't exist near my house, and restaurants that closed down years ago. It also sucks for anything but driving - I don't have a car so I walk everywhere and its coverage of pedestrian zones in my city is woeful (unlike google maps). Also, public transport options are nonexistent (unlike google maps). Pretty useless for me really.