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...to watch with my significant half?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Wow, great summary reviews.
Maybe you should think about going into that type of thing as your main line of business. 
It could be the OG-MDB (IMDB got nothing on you). 
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A few years ago they did lots of those fluffy "let's pretend we all like each other really and get to know each other better". Around Valentine's Day we were asked to name our top choices for things like "Local Restaurant", "Favourite drink for Valentine's Day" and "Best film to watch with your partner".  
My responses were "Maccy D's", "Doombar" and "Tora, Tora, Tora"[^].
Funnily enough the missus actually enjoyed the film when we finally watched it but she's no fan of Doombar. Shame really.
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Tora, Tora, Tora  good movie!
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It's a trap !!!
You know she'll override your suggestion.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I recommend Happy Accidents. It is a romantic movie on the surface, but it is also a pretty good sci-fi. It's very upbeat.
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Well, it depends on the desired end-state, doesn't it?
Serendipity, or (the newer) Thomas Crown Affair.
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Assuming she's not Haredi, Femme (Candida Royale): IMDB[^]
An adult video - written and directed by a woman.
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This is not (in Israel) for lack of encouragement. I mentor a robotics team in a girls school, and we have great difficulty finding girls who will (a) join the team, and (b) do some work. The team in the boy's school, OTOH, has to turn away participants.
(They are also much more successful than the girls' team  )
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OriginalGriff wrote: So why have we so few women in the industry today?
When I was in college half of the class were girls, but slowly dropped out for different reasons, even some of them were very good at it...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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When I was at Uni, out of a year holding 100+ Computer Science students, three were female ... and all three got First Class degrees in the end.
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OriginalGriff wrote: So why have we so few women in the industry today?
Is that really a question? In the old days they needed a small army of people around every computer who first wired up the programs, later punched cards or 'wove' those ferrite core 'ROMs' mentioned in the article and finally got around to the luxury of actually typing source code. Many women started as code monkeys, found that thy liked the job and went on to less basic jobs. And today? The armies of 'typists' are gone and recruiters look for nerds who have written their first code before they could walk and can recite the current buzzwords in an interview. How many girlie nerds do you know?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Not many - but I think that's more a cultural thing than innate: the "conditioning" young girls get from an early age still encourages an interest in hair / makeup / horses / anything pink1 rather than anything technical. And frankly, the boys we seem to be getting coming into the industry are complete morons / lazy b*st*rds2 if QA is anything to go by.
1 - delete as applicable.
2 - delete if applicable.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Not many - but I think that's more a cultural thing than innate: the "conditioning" young girls get from an early age still encourages an interest in hair / makeup / horses / anything pink1 rather than anything technical.
I really do not envy 'you can do everything Barbie' for having to meet all those new expectations on top of some nice old ones. Still, I think they mostly do the conditioning themselves. They use these things to work out their pecking order even before they get into highschool.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Why do I have the feeling that if you printed out the source for just the stupid calculator in Windows 10, the stack of paper would go higher?
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It probably would, and the NASA pile is in assembler! 
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Lack of male ego.
Building software is like developing real estate from a empty field of weeds. We like to say "I'm a developer" and "See I made that".
Without that drive well as annoying as it can be, at least permits the propitiation of the species.
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Makes me feel really happy and proud being a MVP of codeproject. This community has given me immense knowledge, competitiveness and confidence.
Just wanted to thanks everyone who over the years have mentored me.
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I loved that it is not about an other fancy platform to share your life all over the net, but something that looks really useful, especially on remote locations with lower infrastructure...
Well done! 
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Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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