Honestly updates seems to be a more or less solved problem in Win10, for general use at least.

Well... about 3 months ago my Windows 10 machine got stuck updating. Basically it just kept endlessly updating the same update consuming huge amount of resources;

At first I figured i just let it do it's thing so i waited and waited and just kept it running over night. After a few days i noticed it was the exact identical update it kept installing over and over.

I searched online, and many people were having exactly the same problem. At that time there wasn't a solution yet. So in the end, i just gave up...

- i'm a developer btw so i have at least some technical knowledge :)

(can't remember the exact KBxxxxx number unfortunately.)

> We can have magsafe back too. :)

Yes please. Honestly the new format is such a clusterfuck of unwanted features, poor hardware implementation, and removal of wanted features that it makes you wonder how it got out the door.

Hanging onto my circa 2013 MBP until they come up with a more appealing offer, or going elsewhere.

This. I gave up after several rounds of dist-upgrades broke, then fixed, then re-broke things. If you’re making fundamental architectural changes on a regular (monthly) basis, it’s pretty clear you’re not interested in being taken seriously in the business user world.

Stick with LTS releases. Those make no deep changes, and are supported for (with Ubuntu) 5 years.

This is similar to me, but for engineering. Getting jobs via networking is much, much easier than cold-calling an interview.

Talk to your friends and workmates, ex-managers etc. If you've done good work in the past, people will be happy to get you in on the fast track. Companies hate doing interviews, so anything they can do to streamline that process they will generally do.

I'd broaden that to networking in general. Tech presentations also raise your profile, especially with manager types who attend.

Every friend, colleague and former manager that I talk to has either lead to an interview (so I still don't skip interviewing) which I don't pass, but most of the time they just give me the same basic reply of: "I don't know of any job openings but I'll keep an eye out". No matter what time of the year, no matter how they're doing.

I am at a loss for networking ideas.

> 1. Snapchat's design is remarkable for its hidden features that you discover by social-networking

Honest question: isn't this just bad UI design?

No. If you look at snapchat as one of the most addicting games on the market right now, hidden features make complete sense. They increase the 'skill ceiling' of sorts, and dramatically increase user longevity.

I don't think so. It's simple for a firs time user, but has near limitless depth for hardcore users.

Non-snapchat user here. I find this hard to believe.

Occasional Snapchat user here. "Near limitless depth" is definitely overselling the thing.

Are there any good breakdowns for laymen you could point to about this behaviour? It sounds fascinating.

I don't believe the tech industry is necessarily worse than other male-dominated industries, but that's not really an excuse not to try and do better, is it? I like to think that geeks are slightly more enlightened than our business, law, and finance brethren, who all have a bad rap when it comes to sexism.

There will always be sexual differences, and that's fine and healthy, but we should be aiming to treat women as people first in a professional setting.

No, it's an implication that the OP is dressed like a prostitute. That's not cool.

It is difficult to teach tech to women when there is a perceived bias against women in the tech industry. That is the point of this article, and others like it.

There are many efforts going into positive reinforcement for women entering the tech industry, but this is a problem that can and should be attacked from multiple angles. One of those angles is educating men about the effects of their actions toward the few women who do brave the tech community.

Also, creating assumptions based on gender, race, and other physical qualities has a name: prejudice. While there may be more women in sales roles than technical, assuming that every woman in the tech community is in a sales role until proven (vociferously) otherwise, is sexist.

There's nothing wrong with asking what a persons role is, but there are very simple ways to do that without causing offence. For example "What does your role at company XYZ encompass?" Is much nicer than "Are you actually technical?".

Men and women in tech need to be sensitive to this issue, because it is an issue which detriments the community as a whole. Better acceptance of women, and their diverse skills and opinions, will strengthen the community as a whole, and this is a goal we should work towards.

That's kinda the whole point of the article - to raise awareness of an issue that women face. This is not about taking sensitivity classes, it's about accepting that there is a problem, and doing something about it as part of a community that wants to be more accepting towards women.