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The geeky culture behind the open source industry
Breaking down geek stereotypes in open source
I'm a newcomer to the tech industry. I don't have a degree in Computer Science or Engineering. I'm a writer by trade and training, so coming to work for Red Hat after years of freelancing and crappy office jobs was a real shock. Which is to say, a pleasant shock. Tattoos? Sure. Pink hair? Oh, yes. Start time? Whatever suits you best. And unlike other places I've worked, not a single man has expected me to make them a cup of coffee, and nobody tells me to "smile love, nobody likes a sadsack in the office!" (I frown when I concentrate. I'm sorry! And by that I mean I'm totally not sorry.)
What's more, I work in a department full of women. This was also unexpected—I'd been led to believe that women didn't work in IT, and so I came in bracing for more male-dominated office life. But there are heaps of women in my office. Well, I should qualify—heaps of women on my floor. Engineering? Not so much. There are lots more women in the "periphery" of tech, such as technical writing and business management, but engineering is still hopelessly male-dominated. Why is that?
From the Women in Technology (WiT) Education Foundation:
"In 2008, women received 57% of all undergraduate degrees but represented only 18% of all Computer and Information Sciences undergraduate degrees. There has been a 79% decline, between 2000 and 2008, in the number of incoming undergraduate women interested in majoring in Computer Science. As a result, only 27% of computer scientists today are female."
I find that really interesting. In the course of researching this piece, I read a lot of troubling stories from women in the industry. This quote from an article in Fast Company stood out to me:
"It's tiring always being first, always being different, always being the one who has to adapt, denying important parts of yourself just to get the chance to do your job. It's like being a stranger in a strange land, where you speak the language but nobody learns yours. That's why even women who do well in development end up leaving mid-career."
What is the strange land? What is the language of the tech industry? As a newcomer, and a woman, it's immediate and noticeable, but oddly hard to articulate. It goes deeper than the plethora of buzz-words and over-determined jargon. I think it's a cultural problem, and I don't just mean in the standard "men-and-women-can't-get-along" kind of way.
I don't mean to start a fight here, but I think the tech industry, and open source in particular, is snobby. Geek culture is so deeply insinuated into every part of this industry it forms a barrier of entry to everybody already not inducted by a nearly life-long process of immersion. Just like any culture, there are acceptable and unacceptable ways to dress, shows to watch, books to read, hobbies to engage in, and modes of communication.
It's also understandable to a degree how suspicious geeks can be of non-geeks. The exclusionary nature of geek culture works both ways: mainstream society's relationship with geek culture seems to be torn between opportunistic profiteering (Big Bang Theory) and downright antagonism (every "nerd" movie trope). But an unfortunate by-product of this is a seriously insular culture that has been wrapped around the tech industry. That culture could do a lot to be more welcoming in general, but more welcoming to women specifically.
It returns to this notion of working somewhere "where you speak the language but nobody learns yours." I'm nerdy, geeky, dorky, whatever. I was the weird kid in high school. I read comic books, I play Dungeons and Dragons. I also like shoes, and handbags, and musical theatre, and I pay too much for haircuts. I bulk-bought makeup in Walmart last time I was in the States like there was an oncoming fashion apocalypse.
Despite the fact that I definitely consider myself die-hard geeky, apparently I don't fit the girl-geek stereotype—maybe geek girls don't shave their heads and get a lot of tattoos? I lack the pre-requisite shyness? (It was a long slog but I grew out of it eventually...) I'm actually not sure why I get disqualified. I own a NASA shirt! Nonetheless, I therefore run the risk of being accused of the ultimate insult against geek puritanism: the fake geek girl. I won't speak too much about this recent phenomenon, but apparently now there are girls invading the land of geekdom and appropriating cultural icons as fashion accessories without any knowledge or understanding of their history or significance. I can see how this is problematic, and there's a big debate to be had about cultural appropriation there, but automatically dismissing anyone who isn't deemed "appropriately geeky"—especially women, because this vitriol seems to be focused on women—isn't exactly going to facilitate the kind of growth most of us would like to see in open source. Authenticity should only be discussed in terms of desire to be a part of the open source community, not in terms of what clothes you wear or what books you read.
Not only do I have to constantly prove my worth as a non-technical person in a highly technical world, I also have to contend with the notion that I'm just trying to disguise myself as someone nerdy in order to fit in with the misfits. (How does that logic even work?) So I ask you, if we can't even trust women from our own highly insular culture, then how are other women ever going to feel welcome in our industry, so caught up in said culture? By failing to disrupt the narrative that entwines geek culture with IT, we're alienating everyone who already feels like IT is inaccessible, especially women.
I nominate open source particularly because even by tech industry standards, this is the hardcore stuff. When I tell other IT people I work for a Linux company even they sometimes get the haunted look of somebody about to be bombarded with a bunch of stuff they don't know or care about. I really like it though. I like the passion people have. I like that innovation and progress are the big markers of success, and that good ideas are going to naturally work their way to the top. This sort of natural selection shouldn't be limited by who can produce some geek cred. I know it's worn like a badge of pride, but it shouldn't devalue other social structures, especially feminine social structures, in the process.
It's got to be hard to have the best ideas when we're missing a huge chunk of the population. Imagine how many brilliant potential software engineers are being lost to other industries because they feel like there isn't any space for pink high heels in IT? Should femininity be a foreign language barrier that women need to overcome in order to have a career? And why should women have to prove their geekiness even when it is genuine? We need to better delineate between the tech industry and geek culture, because ultimately, being snobby in open source is bad for business.
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Excellent article. After working in the Information technology sector for over 7 years, I see that somewhere the reason surrounding inclusion is also cultural. In India, the growth of IT sector empowered women by making them financially independent, broadening their perspectives, giving them an opportunity to travel globally and become professionally sound. In spite of this, the number of women relative to men in projects is very low. A significant number of women also leave their job for a few years after marriage and that , as a result, acts as a deterrent to their hiring in the first place. My view here is restricted to the Indian I.T sector and I am just highlighting one of the causes of this imbalance based on my experiences in one particular cutlure. Technology industry on a whole needs to be more flexible and inclusive in creating working patterns suitable to women. With an advent of a lot online platforms that teach women how to code along with corporate policies that zero in on inclusion, I do see a positive change coming up the geek world.
Thanks again for this insightful article!!!
Yeah, I think the same problem shows up in different cultures with a different face. Absolutely, India has seen a phenomenal rise in the growth in I.T and open source culture and this rise has changed the mindset of people and has impacted, both positively and negatively different sections of Indian society including women.
Thanks for your insightful thoughts.
Hi ma'am Jodi and hi sir Aseem. This is great article, good job ma'am. I agree to what sir Aseem said, in the end of the day culture is definitely a big factor.
I agree Sir Kristian. What struck me after reading your comment was a quote by the great management thinker Peter Drucker: "Culture eats strategy over breakfast." :-)
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"The first is a certain breed of rabid feminism has found themselves a new front to wage their war on men. They've figured out that attacking men in corporate board rooms gets them ignored, and attacking men in blue collar industries gets them a vulgar response and then ignored."
This kind of language makes me really uncomfortable. It reminds me of
Here is my paraphrase of your comment. Note this is based on my interpretation, and may not be what you meant:
"I like this article, because it doesn't threaten me personally. The angry feminist mob (the 'other' feminists that I feel threatened by) is ineffective in the boardroom and against blue collar workers, but IT professionals are powerless against it as they are sensitive and socially obtuse. They are now afraid because their peers are getting blacklisted from conferences and are getting attacked by the angry feminist mob's allies. Men who behave badly shouldn't suffer consequences; women need to work harder to prove to those men they are worthy to earn their respect."
It feels to me like you are making generalizations and using stereotypes to paint feminists as an angry mob and to paint IT professionals as sensitive and socially obtuse people. Women should not have to work harder to earn respect in order to be treated as equals. They already do work harder just to be in tech in the first place. Not all IT professionals are male, and not all IT professionals have any issues with social skills.
Also, there isn't any reason for anyone to be afraid of being blacklisted or losing their job unless they're actually doing something inappropriate. If someone is afraid, then my guess is that they don't understand why the people in the incidents you seem to be alluding to were in the wrong. In that case, the solution is to educate YOURSELF and do not try to dictate to women on what terms they are allowed to stick up for themselves in your community.
Just my thoughts. I don't mean to offend. Reading your comment gave me a very strong negative reaction and I wanted to explain why.
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The problem I have with this discussion is that it is basically a women's problem: their peers are not choosing a career in IT. So, start there. You'd be doing a far better job there than men ever would. However, it is always turned into a men's problem by really (without any significant argumentation or research) trying to find anything in the environment that puts off women. The argumentation is, "half of the population should be women, it isn't, so there is something there that is putting them off".
The first question should however be: SHOULD half the population be women? The argument against that is, that there ARE women that are in it, so it is possible. Yes, but that's not how nature works. You'll always find some instances in any end of a Gauss curve, but that doesn't mean both Gauss curves for both populations should completely overlap. But tell that to people who adopted the axiom that it should. Hard discussion. Not very scientific in all, but that's ideology for you. "Why" is always the hardest question in science.
So we has the "angry feminist mob" brought us in FOSS the last years. First, there were some regrettable incidents of sexual harassment, some adolescent jokes and it was "sexism" that was the main cause that drove people out of IT. Regrettable as it is, it happens. A few paragraphs of an old, rather large report on FOSS were ripped out of context and here we go.
I spend quite some time on forums and usegroups - and yes, people get rude, it sometimes gets personal, but I wouldn't say its the best place to collect sexist jokes - or worse. Homosexuals are far worse off in my experience, I've seen instances of that. It would be nice to research how many male homosexuals are put off working in IT by comparison. Still, most moderated groups are quite clean and most have even strengthened their policy.
I've spend HOURS ripping fore mentioned report apart, because I honestly can't think that "sexism" is the cause. Most nerds are much to busy ripping each other apart on the quality of their code (shorter, faster) than harassing their female peers. In one usenet group there is a women. She's amongst the leaders of that group and has been for years. Nobody even thinks of her as "a woman", simply another peer. I learned Z80 assembly from a womens book. It never even crossed my mind it is a woman!
But that one died down. Now it's about "geekism" and again: it's the fault of men. I honestly have respect for the female programmers who JUST DO THEIR THING and they're GOOD at it. They don't throw brown paper sessions in order to "evaluate why women are not so numerous in IT", they code, they learn and get better. That's how you solve it.
If you're so worried about too few women in IT, get out and get them in. Teach them and teach them more. Put up some good code that will help all. Create your own ecosystem and culture if you must and stop chasing your tails.
Don't blame - that won't get you anywhere - solve the problem. The problem is not that there are too many males in IT, there are too few women. The males didn't create this problem by going into an all female environment and kick the women out, the women did by not joining them. There's your problem - and hence your solution.
You didn't read my comment or you did and didn't understand it.
Read the paraphrase of your comment I wrote, again:
"I like this article, because it doesn't threaten me personally. The angry feminist mob (the 'other' feminists that I feel threatened by) is ineffective in the boardroom and against blue collar workers, but IT professionals are powerless against it as they are sensitive and socially obtuse. They are now afraid because their peers are getting blacklisted from conferences and are getting attacked by the angry feminist mob's allies. Men who behave badly shouldn't suffer consequences; women need to work harder to prove to those men they are worthy to earn their respect."
You were specifically calling out Jodi's article as acceptable to you, in contrast to some unnamed set of attitudes ("the angry feminist mob") that you disagree with.
"They've figured out that attacking men in corporate board rooms gets them ignored, "
They, they, they. Who is the they? Why do you keep talking about this they?
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Replying to an unnecessarily long wall of text -
"Do you believe angry feminists of this kind do not exist? Are they *solely* a phantom in the minds of men, a fantasy demagogue used to strike down valid points?"
Yes, I believe they are an imaginary construct. Prove me wrong and name a few.
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How was I hostile? Because I commented on how long your comment was?
I want to learn more about this angry feminist mob. Who are they? What are they doing? Tell me more.
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". It's beyond absurd to presume that zero such people exist, and I think you know that. "
Okay cool. So if they exist.... I'll ask for the third time: who are they? Let's see some articles about the things they're doing. I mean, it's a mob right, so there's got to be multiple of them.
" You can't even bring the people who *want* to see things your way onto your side. Q.E.D."
Ad hominem
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"The first is a certain breed of rabid feminism has found themselves a new front to wage their war on men."
Darn! I'm never going to get to find out who they are! The mystery continues! Maybe they are like Batman... they must wear masks and only come out at night.
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If you were actually trying to be positive, you wouldn't be posting massive essays of complex self-justification.
The article isn't about you. Throughout the comment thread you've been hugely long-winded and self-important and clinging on to pointless technicalities. Take a step back, look at the last six essays you've posted, and ask yourself what they've contributed to...anything, really, beyond your own self-image. If the answer is nothing, perhaps now would be a good time to just stop.
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Your original comment was not positive.
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You posted two lines saying you liked this article, solely as a preface to your next 40 lines, which were an elaborate, self-satisfied attack piece on some sort of mysterious conspiracy:
"The first is a certain breed of rabid feminism has found themselves a new front to wage their war on men."
"Thus began this new campaign to draw attention to feminism by attacking IT professionals."
"But this wave of attacks and stories of people losing their jobs and being blacklisted from events and being attacked by their "white knight" peers has lead to paranoia among IT professionals."
"Men in technology are learning to distance themselves, not speak out on the topic, and just plainly avoid females in the industry for fear of having your career wrecked because you said the wrong thing at the wrong time."
"And as I've seen many successful women in technology blog about, call out those rabidly attacking men in technology for the frauds they are."
"I hope many men in technology read it and realize that the *real* women in technology are not trying to attack our culture, they're just trying to claim their place in it."
That's not being positive: it's cynically using Jodi's attempt at a constructive message as a platform to present your own entirely negative (and, quite frankly, paranoid) theory, for which you provided precisely zero objective support. Things only got worse from there.
i'd like to see some examples of this war that you are talking about. so far i have mostly seen people writing about bad behavior and some may have been directly attacking that behavior. there were also stories about people loosing jobs for that behavior, like this one:
this story certainly explains the fear you are talking about.
the problem is, i see no attack in that story. just a polite request with an unfortunate outcome. (and completely besides the point, it shows that twitter or a weblog is not a place for a semi-private message that probably was only directed at conference staff or participants.)
we shouldn't have to fear to get fired, but if we can get fired for merely pointing out bad behavior then we might as well stop communicating altogether. that certainly can't be the outcome we want...
but where are those attacks that seek to divide men and women?
at worst there are some that seek to divide those that behave inappropriately from the rest.
and where do you draw the line between calling attention to the issue and calling attention to oneself?
how do you even tell the difference?
as i write this, i can't even tell the difference for me. (yes, there is a voice in my head telling me that i am only drawing attention to myself with this reply and my opinion is not helpful enough to be worth posting.)
a last point: i certainly hope that women in technology are not just trying to claim their place in our culture, but that they are actively trying to change it! because to many believe that we should not have to change to make women comfortable in our communities. we do need to change. we do need to learn this language that these people from that other planet bring to us.
greetings, eMBee.
Nerds don't have to put any effort into being nerdy; they just are. If you put any effort into being a geek, you're not being honest with others or yourself.
I don't doubt that is/was your experience, but I am having trouble getting my head around it. Is that really what it's like for the majority of Women in IT?
In 35+ years I can't say that I was ever aware of anything like your experience, or maybe it's that my reactions to things like men apologising for tell an "off colour" joke were more along the lines of "you should know by now I don't fucking swear", preferably delivered deadpan.
Maybe it was my competitive nature, I just never felt inadequate, or never allowed anyone to make me feel that way. I just did my thing to the best of my ability, and moved on when I wanted something different.
I'm a geek, I've always been a geek, even before I knew what that was. But I doubt I've ever looked like a geek, you usually have to wait for me to start talking.
Being a nerd, this has a high level of "duh?" for me. First, geeks don't look at attire, they are much too preoccupied with what they're working on to notice. Worst case scenario: they don't even notice themselves anymore after a 12 hour hack session. Abbreviations: they're part of the job. If you don't know what SOAP is you're probably not qualified to do what you're supposed to do. It's not "that thingy", it has a (short) name. You'll find the same thing when you're working in the police force or as a chemist or astronomer.
If you're awesome at what you're doing, you'll get respect. Even more so in FOSS, because you're behind a terminal in a galaxy far, far away and nobody notices your pink heels. But most probably: when you're thinking about pink heels while working, you may not be dedicated enough to do this work.
It's got to be hard to have the best ideas when we're missing a huge chunk of the population.
this is the most important reason why we need more women in IT in general and in Free Software especially, and why gender parity is a worthy goal, and also why gender in itself is a quality that needs to be considered when making hiring decisions.
the best candidate is not the one who is the best programmer or writer or whatever the job is about, but the person who brings the most diversity into the team.
unity in diversity is the only way forward. this applies to all human endeavors. we need to embrace this diversity and learn how to build teams and communities which can take advantage of it.
greetings, eMBee.
There are plenty of other professions where there is a surplus of women. Still, I don't find articles telling women to get out of there and/or asking men to join. So I don't think "gender equality" is so very important after all - and consequently neither is diversity. This makes moot of your other arguments as well, BTW. Furthermore, there is a general lack of scientific evidence of WHY these goals are worth achieving in the first place.
a search for "more men in {kindergarten,elementary,nursing,childcare,housework,PR,social work,...}" will show you lots of articles.
searching for "why gender diversity is important" will also yield plenty of reading.
greetings, eMBee.
Ideologically, yes, but not where it leads to shorter production times, better products, etc. Quantify!
Women have 18% of the cs degrees but 27% of the cs jobs? 79% decrease in undergraduate entry?
Based on those figures, women are over represented, and are apparently not interested in IT in the first place.
What is the end goal? 50% of IT will be female? In a interested population where only 20% are female? That could only be achieved through strong discrimination against male applicants.
it could also be achieved by changing IT to make it more interesting for women.
you have to ask why they are not interested. maybe they are interested in computing but not in working in a male dominated environment?
greetings, eMBee.
Assumptions! That may very well not be the reason why there are many women in IT. Ok, I'll quantify this for you. About 60% of the FOSS projects are one-man projects. If your assumption was right, half of those would be women, since they won't have to deal with men. Furthermore, if women did want to collaborate with women, you'd see plenty of "all-female" project. You don't see those as well. That opens up some serious questions. Are women unable to startup projects without the aid of men? Are they not capable to organize themselves? Don't they like IT enough to startup single-developer projects? I don't say either of these assumptions are true, but they're just as true or false as those you put up.
When I was interviewing at prospective colleges, a CS professor discouraged me from pursuing CS. Not because he didn't think I could make it, but because the ratio was so bad it wouldn't be the best environment.
Of course I took it the wrong way, got mad, and studied it :) But most people when told by a professor in a field to not study it probably would have listened.
Women are not interested in IT, so change IT to suit the interests of women? I'm not sure I follow... IT exists to fill a need, like other industries. It wasn't specially designed to appeal to anyone. Change it into what, and by what means?
If women won't join an industry because it is male-dominated, that seems like a chicken-egg problem. I don't think women are that petty anyway (certainly none i know)
"Women are not interested in IT, so change IT to suit the interests of women?"
No. Women are plenty interested in IT. It's the limited environments in which they can practice it that are the problem. A number of studies have been done on this. Here is one summary of a small selection of the research:
What is actually tested here is whether women like to work in a room full of star trek memorabilia or something else. That's it, nothing more nothing less. That's the only thing it proves. I've debunked loads of these studies which do not address the main question: do people like to code or not?
Given the fact that even in the most optimum work circumstances (in your own place, where nobody can see you - or: women only coding project) women do not code, I can only conclude they do not want to code. Period. The rest is only circumstantial.
Hi Hans, you missed the point. It's not about whether women do or don't naturally enjoy programming. (They do. Women were in majority in programming in the 1940's / 1950's. E.g. it was women who worked on the ENIAC. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing#Timeline_of_women_in_co... for more highlights)
It's about whether or not there is a problem, and there is. It has nothing to do with whether or not women can code or enjoy coding. It's about 1,000 papercuts that make it extremely and needlessly difficult in order for them to do so.
"Given the fact that even in the most optimum work circumstances (in your own place, where nobody can see you - or: women only coding project) women do not code, I can only conclude they do not want to code. Period. The rest is only circumstantial."
This is a lie. Where do you get this information from? What women-only coding projects are you familiar with? Plenty of women code on Dreamwidth, for example.
No, there's not a problem. It's not a problem that there is a gender difference - apart from an ideological one. Products are coming out just fine. That was a difference in the 60ies when there were too few programmers.
All the arguments you are posing here is beating around the bush, based on a wrong assumption: "there ought to be 50% women, so something is keeping them from doing it". May be there isn't. May be women just like doing other things. But that may probably not be researched because (a) it CANNOT be true (b) it's impossible to differentiate between nature and nurture influences.
And where do women have the right to claim "special treatment" when it comes to the simple concept of earning a buck? Ever talked to people on a production line? Or waitresses in cafes? Or people doing two jobs at a time to get by?
And where the figures go: 60% of all FOSS projects are single-developer projects. You may expect that 50% are women. And they're not.
Finally, a piece of Wikepdia: ENIAC was conceived and designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert of the University of Pennsylvania.[12] The team of design engineers assisting the development included Robert F. Shaw (function tables), Jeffrey Chuan Chu (divider/square-rooter), Thomas Kite Sharpless (master programmer), Arthur Burks (multiplier), Harry Huskey (reader/printer) and Jack Davis (accumulators).
Attitudes like yours are a big part of the problem. A problem can't be solved if it isn't recognized.
"there ought to be 50% women, so something is keeping them from doing it"
First of all, I never said there ought to be 50% women. Secondly, I am a female programmer, and there have been a number of roadblocks put in my way that I know have discouraged other women from going farther in the field. Those roadblocks start at an early age for girls and progress right up through college and in industry. I know because I have experienced them. Do not purport to understand my experience.
Read a little bit more about the ENIAC. Most of the men you mention were the people who built it or worked on the hardware. The programmers were women. You can't selectively read about something and prove a point that way.
You missed this rather large section of the Wikipedia article you quoted from:
"In 1997, the six women who did most of the programming of ENIAC were inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame.[22][23] As they were called by each other in 1946, they were Kay McNulty, Betty Jennings, Betty Snyder, Marlyn Wescoff, Fran Bilas and Ruth Lichterman.[24][25] Jennifer S. Light's essay, "When Computers Were Women", documents and describes the role of the women of ENIAC as well as outlines the historical omission or downplay of women's roles in computer science history.[26] The role of the ENIAC programmers was also treated in a 2010 documentary film by LeAnn Erickson.[27]"
It is no coincidence that Jennifer Light wrote about the historical omission or downplay of women's roles in computer science history.
You also missed the picture at the top of the article showing Betty Jean Jennings and Fran Bilas programming ENIAC.
After reading a few articles (and their comments) on this issue, all I can think of saying is this:
" On the field of battle, it matters not whether your armour fits the deep amber of your eyes. All that matters is how well you can swing your axe."
A fairly geeky way of saying it, but I feel it sums up my viewpoint fairly well.
I don't really like likening working on open source projects as a 'field of battle.' It's not a war.
This is a nice article and you should be proud of it. However, I also saw what Hans and Zileene saw: your article spent a lot of time on look-and-feel issues. Had you said that you had written x articles, y books, and converted z people to OSS, but still have not been accepted, then I think your argument would have been much stronger.
I understand your feeling that nobody had learned your language. However, I am curious. Do you think the engineers you mention feel the same way, at-least on occasion? Also, describe for me what they do?
If a man had written this article, would you be asking for the same credentials?
LOL! If I were a woman, would ask me that question? Oh, snap!
If you reread my comment, I am saying that the author (as intelligent and gifted as she is) did not put forward her best arguments and I gave an example of what I think would be a stronger argument. I am sorry, but that is all there is here. I understand the passion, etc.; however, you seem to assume that I would not ask the same of a male (presumably because I am male). Perhaps I am female and care about the issue and feel that this is not the best argument. Perhaps I am male and feel that this is not the best argument. Perhaps I am a member of a minority and feel that this is not the best argument. Perhaps I am a male and I have a mother, wife, daughter, or niece that I care very much about. You don't know. Suppose a male were to make a hasty judgement about you? Would that be sexism, haste, or poor judgement? By the way, I require the same work ethic of other PEOPLE that I require of myself. Note the use of people as opposed to males or females.
On my second paragraph, which you didn't comment on, the author expressed a connection to someone who said she felt like she had learned the language (of engineering, I assume), but nobody learned her language. What I had hoped to do is stimulate a discussion and make a point. Everyone feels that nobody understands them on occasion. What we usually fail to realize, is that we are very likely guilty of the same sin. I have no doubt that the author feels that she has learned the language of the engineers; however, I also suspect that the engineers in questions feel that she hasn't. It is funny how these things play out.
As for learning the language of the engineers, I am the alpha geek (senior engineer) where I work and I will give you my language. When I am designing hardware, I am creating a beautiful a sculpture, but it is more than that. It is a functional sculpture that will perform complex science to help humanity. When I am writing software, I am writing a novel with elegant algorithms. Sure the novel is in a language (C++) that most humans don't read, but it is a story none-the-less. It is a story constructed with great care, precision, and intent. I craft my words like a writer of a human language (if I could only do the same for human language, *sigh*). When doing the theoretical work, I love an elegant theory, equation, or physical system. These things excite me like other people are excited by makeup or pink heels (OK, couldn't resist the reference. I know that wasn't fair.). Seriously, these things excite me like someone who is a writer. Hmmm, it seems I may understand something about non-geek writers after all. However, if you don't see the beauty, elegance, and creativity of the software and hardware around you, then you haven't bothered to learn my language or to understand me.
My two cents (as they say) anyway.


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Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, Americas last large-scale romantic-style garden, will award prizes totaling more than $2,000 to poets - young and old - who best capture Magnolia as an idyllic garden of romance.
Judges will award prizes to poets who emulate the sensibility of romantic poets, stir the emotions and celebrate the natural world.
Entries will be judged in adult and young adult divisions.
The Rev. John Grimké Drayton is credited with adopting a romantic style of gardening at Magnolia after visiting Europe in the 1800s as the Romantic Movement swept Europe and America. In addition to garden design, the Romantic Movement touched many aspects of European and American society and inspired poetry.
When Tom Johnson, Magnolias executive director, guides visitors on walks through the gardens, he emphasizes that the romantic style of gardening sets Magnolia apart from other gardens. Unlike most of Americas gardens, which are formal and seek to control nature, Magnolia cooperates with nature to create a tranquil landscape like Eden where humanity and nature are in harmony, Johnson said.
Adult and young adult divisions entries in the Garden of Romance poetry contest should be in the vein of poets such as William Wordsworth, John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley of England and Celia Thaxter, Henry David Thoreau and Emily Dickinson of the United States.
A Wordsworth quote inscribed on a small sign at Magnolias entrance reads: Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
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Entries in the adult division will be judged by Marjory Wentworth, South Carolina poet laureate; and Dr. Jacquelyn Markham, an award-winning poet. Entries in the youth division will be judged by Donna Adams, reference and young adult librarian, Otranto Road Regional Library in North Charleston; and Willette Wilkins, creative writing teacher, North Charleston Cultural Arts Department.
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The Stetson lacrosse team (0-4) fell to William & Mary (2-3) by a score of 21-3 on Saturday morning at the Athletic Training Center. Freshmen Danielle Horgan, Paige Levesque, and Maylis Broderick each scored for the Hatters in the defeat.
The Tribe, who play a very difficult schedule, already competed with against No. 7 Duke and No. 13 Ohio State this season. Riding a three-game losing streak before Saturday, William & Mary got out to a hot start against the Hatters.
Taelor Salmon scored the first two goals of the game within a minute and a half of each other to give the Tribe a 2-0 lead. William & Mary went on to score the first eight goals of the game before Stetson's Danielle Horgan put the Hatters on the board with 10:35 to play in the first half. Her third goal of the season, the freshman scored unassisted to make it 8-1.
After the Tribe countered with another score, the Hatters' Maylis Broderick scored on a free position to cut the deficit to 9-2 with 7:54 remaining in the first period. It marked the freshman's first career goal. William & Mary then rattled off four straight to take a 13-2 lead into halftime.
Kyrsten Mackrides, who finished the first half with back-to-back goals, scored the first goal of the second half for the Tribe. Stetson countered when freshman Paige Levesque scored off of an assist from Mary Kate O'Sullivan to make it 14-3 in favor of William & Mary. The goal was Levesque's third of the season.
William & Mary then went on to score the final seven goals of the contest, and earn the 21-3 victory. The Tribe improved to 2-3 on the season, while Stetson fell to 0-4 in its first season for the program.
Stetson freshman Whitney Meyers faced a multitude of shots from the Tribe attack, recording a season high 17 saves for the Hatters. The goalkeeper also added three ground balls and caused three turnovers in the defeat.
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Bishop England pushed Battery Creek to the brink Tuesday on Daniel Island but came up short with first place in Region VI on the line.
Facing a 20-point deficit in the waning minutes of the end of the third quarter, the Bishops flipped a switch and trapped with a full-court press the Dolphins couldn't solve. Back-to-back threes from B.J. Grevey helped Bishop England (6-6, 2-1) close the quarter with eight unanswered points. The run boiled over into the fourth quarter, growing into a 19-4 rally through the first six minutes.
Holding on to a seven-point lead with two minutes to play, Battery Creek missed the front-end of three straight one-and-ones. Bishop England couldn't convert on any at the other end, letting Battery Creek escape with a 66-62 win. The loss is the Bishops' first in-conference and gives the Dolphins a one-game lead in Region VI.
"When you lose by four points like that, you can look back and see all sorts of ways we could have found those two baskets at the end," Bishop England head coach Bryan Grevey said. "But we fell behind big in the first half and, looking back, if we play better in that first quarter, we probably win the game."
The Bishops were outscored 17-9 in the first quarter. Battery Creek junior center Eric Freeman had his way in the paint most of the night, scoring six in the first quarter and adding eight in the second on his way to a game-high 27 points. Freeman scored seven in the third until the Bishops lured the big man into a couple quick fouls and turned up the pressure on the Dolphins' backcourt.
"He's a big, strong kid with great low-post moves," Grevey said. "He made some great moves tonight but in the second half I thought we did a much better job on, not only him, but their whole team.
"We just became more aggressive. We attacked the ball better. Instead of being passive, we stepped up the intensity and were able to create some turnovers and easy scores. We really did a good job of coming back but by then we already had dug ourselves too big of a hole."
The Bishops finished with 13 steals but gave away 28 turnovers. Dillon Corbett led Bishop England with 16 points and five rebounds. Grevey scored 11 points on 3-of-6 shooting from three, while Taylor Howell added seven points and five steals, and Griffin Herbet scored 10.
Battery Creek narrowly outrebounded Bishop England 21-17. Devontae Wilson scored 14 points and was the only Dolphin besides Freeman in double figures.
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Mary Harriet Moore and Michele Boykin combined for 47 points Tuesday to lead the Lady Bishops into first place in Region VI with a 67-43 home win over Battery Creek.
Moore added 12 rebounds, seven blocks and six assists. It's the fourth straight double-double for the senior center and second straight with at least 20 points and 10 rebounds. Boykin finished with 10 steals for her second double-double of the season.
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There are a couple of givens about living in the Deep South. First, since we have palm trees, a beach and big alligators, we can presume we will have hot, muggy summers and mild temperate winters.
And it will not snow (or ice) in my front yard.
If it does snow (or ice) in the South its only supposed to do it once every three or four years, make the ground and the trees look all pretty, and be gone by noon the next day.
It is not supposed to do the following:
Cut off cable.
Cut off power, hence cutting off my heat.
Freeze my car shut.
Or break tree branches to fall across the roads, cars, and power lines that may result in a loop-back of the above three items.
I am a modern man.
I dont aspire to be on Survivor.
I dont dream about running around lost in the woods, surviving on grubs and ants, and building a lean-to with pine bows and a thatch of tree branches in order to survive the frosty night.
When I flip the light switch I expect light.
When I turn on the water faucet, I expect water, hot and cold at my leisure.
I want all 150 TV channels that offer nothing to watch.
And I dont want to sit around in the dark for hours on end, my only light provided by a scented Yankee candles I chose not to give out last year as Christmas presents.
I was without power for more than 12 hours, and I know there are many of you out there that have endured much worse.
And yes, it goes without saying I am thankful for the power-company linemen that worked tirelessly through the dark and cold to give me my light and heat back.
My only source of food was a one-pound box of spaghetti, which I had to cook of course. Except for a few remaining hot chocolate packets, I had eaten all my emergency food rations during the last ice storm. I presumed that living in the South I would be inconvenienced until about noon the next day when I could chip the ice off my car and head back to the store to restock.
I had no clue it would last for three days.
Thursday was worse than Wednesday, and Friday proved the worst of all as we began to dig out from under all this frozen stuff.
The strangest thing of all though, occurred around 9:30 p.m. that Friday night.
I was lying on the couch lost in thought. My shirt was pulled up to my armpits, as you have to allow your tummy time to breathe every now and again.
Watching an Avengers movie, I sipped on a cup of lemonade and munched on Cheez-its crackers.
I looked down and my tummy rumbled.
But then something strange happened, the rest of the house rumbled a little bit with it.
I thought, Whoa, that mustve been one bad taco.
Until I heard word about the earthquake the next morning, and it gave me pause to offer a commentary to my northern brethren: This is the South where we endure tornadoes, hurricanes, snowstorms, and yes, earthquakes. Only in the South can we say this snowstorm caused the worst widespread damage weve seen weather-wise since Hurricane Hugo, and then sit through a 4.4 earthquake that evening mild by earthquake standards, but an earthquake nonetheless.
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Okay, Im a busy psychiatrist. I have a bunch of stuff (and people) to worry about. Not much different I guess than most folk. How do I know its time to write? In my gut is a familiar un-haute blend of emotion. It could be described as a mixture of angst + frustration + a sense of lack of control + adaptive attempt at humor and culminating in a desire to simply drop the task altogether.
Thank you for asking. I wanted to tell you about it. The emotional state described above is simply the trigger to ventilate.
So we live in a connected world. It is a world of information overload and instant world-wide communication. Whats your weapon of choice for staying aware of change and feeling connected? Is it Twitter, ordinary E-mail (which in itself seems extraordinary), Facebook, Linked-In, Cellular Phones? Probably we all use more than one.
All this seems so distant from postal letters sent via trans-oceanic mail remember (or not) Par Avion ? That was the parlance for mail sent in an airplane. Todays world of communication is somewhat different from growing up talking to people on telephones with party-line service. (Some of you may not even know what is meant by the term party line. It was a telephone line shared by more than one household and you had to wait until it was not being used by your neighbors to use it yourself. Sometimes neighbors just listened in on your conversations so they would know whats going on. Other times you might have to ask if they could curtail their conversation in order for you to make an urgent call.)
Indeed change is occurring with such accelerating rapidness that admittedly, I am glad I dont have another lifetime to live. I suspect I would find myself spending more time adjusting than actually enjoying life.
Dont get me wrong. I love the big T (technology) and all its benefits. In fact, technology is enabling me to ventilate via writing this article and getting it out to you people all over this land. And this land now consists of the entire world. Really did I just say the entire world?
Intrusion into otherwise happy life: ATT (a very large communications corporation) sends us a letter. Your office contract of 36 months will expire on 16 May. You need to contact this office. It does not provide for a consequence. Rather, the letter lets you wonder Or else what? Lets see, they could cut off our office phone lines? That would not be good for business.
My wife, a real people person loved by all, tries to remedy the situation. The person at the other ends starts talking Geek to her. Its hard for her to compare Geek to Apples and Oranges. Ann (my darling wife) still remembers the last incident where we were persuaded to change plans and ended up paying more than the prior plan despite the so called savings. She therefore asked me, rightfully, to look into the situation.
Well, I called 4 times (despite it being a vacation day) and each time I was told that all of Santas Helpers were busy.
If you wait, your call will be taken in the order it was received. I wondered to myself if I am next up, or if I am the last in a list of 100? Not having any way of knowing I hung up for the first 3 times. On the 4th call, I decided I would utilize speakerphone and attempt to do something else while waiting. This worked and someone eventually answered the phone. Meanwhile, I was not sitting like a statue with the handset at my ear feeling as if I was a worthless person having nothing to do except to waste precious moments of my lifetime.
But, everything is so complex. After 2 hours of browsing ATTs website and 30 minutes talking with Charles (Im certain he must have a last name but he did not offer it.) I was even more perplexed. Charles required my approval for him to discuss a competing company, Comcast. Oh yes, the entire conversation was also recorded. (Thats the topic for another future article HIPAA regulations.)
So, I want you to really get the picture. My job was simple just keep the office phones from going off and be certain we dont get fleeced.
Yet, so far, the simple task has taken hours of time between my wife and I being on the phone and perusing ATTs website which probably has 1,000+ pages. My conversation with ATT staff is recorded as if I might be a terrorist.
And during the conversation about phone lines, the salesman introduces the importance of adding Internet service into the bundle. By the way, there was no fine print to examine because we were having a telephone conversation. I did ask if he could send an email to me with all the stats. He was not certain if he could do that (natch). After speaking with his supervisor they decided they could send an email once I had made up my mind about a plan.
I ended up making no decisions. Before I can make a good decision I realized I have to undergo a similar de-humanizing wasting time experience with Comcast.
Otherwise, I wont have enough information to make a good decision about the Internet aspect of the service.
Making a good decision is the ultimate satisfaction for me. With pride I think to myself that I took on the big corporations I won (as if that is truly possible.) Making a bad decision is hard to accept. It would require me to repeat the entire process But dont we all have things to do? Exposing ones self to this battle of decision making should come with a governmental warning. Caution dealing with large corporations for personal services can be disruptive to daily accomplishments and to your mental wellbeing. It is precisely because of this danger that once I make the decision, I go for the longest term contracts. Could anybody put up with on an annual basis?
Well, you now have the particulars of what occurred. But internally I realize as our mutual dependency and world connectedness grows, we individuals lose privacy and control over our lives. The day of chopping down our own Christmas Trees appears gone. Increasingly, we have to depend upon huge corporations for the everything. These corporations are vested in growing themselves, not in being neighborly. The new society and its technology is advancing uncomfortably fast. What it leaves behind is a way of life that was perhaps more kind, more human, more manageable and arguably less stressful
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Monday, June 16, 2014
Dear Editor:
County government has one responsibility that supersedes all others and that is its obligation to provide for the publics safety. While that statement may seem obvious, for many who live and work in Berkeley County it is a sad reality that county government is drastically failing at that obligation.
Here are the facts: over the last eight years Berkeley County has grown by 30% or 42,000 people, and Berkeley Countys budget has grown by over 33% or $12,000,000 a year. Yet despite all of this growth and additional revenue, Berkeley County has not approved one additional patrol officer or one additional EMS technician in that same 8-year period.
Worse yet, we are not even adequately maintaining the existing equipment that we have. Half of the Sheriff departments vehicle fleet has over 150,000 miles on it and one third of our ambulance fleet has over 200,000 miles on it. And we have no formal replacement plan in place. This year the EMS department asked for four replacement ambulances needing a minimum of two and Supervisor Davis approved one. The Sheriff asked for 30 replacement patrol vehicles, needing a minimum of 15 and Supervisor Davis approved zero. Sadly, the Sherriff has had to resort to requesting donated used vehicles from the Town of Moncks Corner just to get by.
Plus this population growth has obviously put a strain on the public safety system itself. Just this month our county EMS director stated at a budget workshop that the strain on the current EMS system is extreme and it is seven days a week that at one time or another we do not have any available ambulances to send out and weve had to contact Charleston and Dorchester County for assistance. She asked for two additional ambulance stations and Supervisor Davis approved zero.
As you can probably guess this strain has put an unprecedented amount of stress on our public safety employees. The county now mandates that many work overtime and then punishes them financially for doing so. Under a convoluted county overtime system our public safety officers pay rate actually goes down the more hours they work. To alleviate this overtime, the Sheriff asked for 8 more patrol officers and EMS has asked for 12 more EMS technicians. Supervisor Davis has approved zero.
All of this has got to stop. Our public safety employees deserve better and our citizens deserve better. And this is not an issue of funding as last year we ran a $1.8 million surplus and this coming budget year we are anticipating over $3 million in new revenue. It is not an issue of funding it is an issue of priorities.
What sort of message does it send to the public when Supervisor Davis approves the construction and equipping of a fitness center for administration employees over the health and safety of the public? What sort of message does it send to our first responders?
Last year we were able to amend Supervisor Daviss budget to at least stop things from getting worse. We replaced 15 sheriffs vehicles, 3 ambulances and hired 7 detention center officers over the objection of the Supervisor. This year we will try to do similar but all we can do is stop the bleeding until we get a supervisor that prioritizes public safety.
Berkeley County needs a change at the top. Mayor Bill Peagler is leader with a proven record on public safety and he is committed to fixing these problems.
We are asking and pleading for the publics help. Please take a few minutes out of your day on June 24th to cast a vote for Bill Peagler for Berkeley County Supervisor. Even if you did not vote in the primary you can still vote in the runoff. Together we can make a difference.
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The Haji-Mart is the corner store where you can get your 40's, lotto tickets, smokes, and some other odds and ends. They are almost always run buy someone of Indian origin, like Apu on The Simpsons. Schenectady is the original home of the Haji-Mart. It's their #1 export to the world.
Apu (in almost indecipherable Indian accent)"Hello and welcome to my haji-Mart, what can I do for you today? We have a special on Colt 45 today, and our hot dogs are now almost 75% rectum free"
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The one-stop-shops run by local national AAFES subcontractors in Iraq. They sell most everything that the PX doesn't, and are your number-one source for cheap local souvenirs and hajii vision DVDs.
Oh man, I forgot haji mart is closed on Fridays. Where will I buy my pirated DVDs and cheap perfume?
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a convenient store run by those of Middle-Eastern or Indian decent.
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DxOMark review for the Leaf Aptus 75sTuesday February 03 2009 Sensor Review
The Leaf Aptus 75s was launched during Photokina 2006. With a DxOMark Sensor score of 77.3, Leaf takes the lead for dxomark.com rankings for medium format cameras (as of February 3, 2009).
Key sensor characteristics
The Leaf Aptus 75s features a very high resolution medium format CCD with 33.28 Mpix and a 14-bit Analog/Digital (A/D) converter, and its pixel pitch is larger (7.2 µm) compared to those of the latest high-resolution DSLRs. With such a large area, photographers can expect the sensor to be very sensitive and with low noise. ISO Latitude ranges from 50 to 800—the largest range provided by any medium format camera currently in the dxomark.com database.
Key performance factors
With respect to their general use, the two most significant dxomark.com rankings for medium format are Color Depth and Dynamic Range. And both results for the Aptus 75s are impressive: a Color Depth score of 24.7 (average for 4 medium format cameras = 24.1) and Dynamic Range score of 12.5 (average = 12.4).
Our measurements show that the ISO Sensitivity settings of the camera are real (that is, all ISO Sensitivity settings are obtained by applying a gain, analog or digital, before RAW delivery) for the entire ISO Latitude range of 50 to 800.
As for (non-normalized) screen results, Color Depth (22.2) and Dynamic Range (11.43) remain good enough to allow for larger prints at high DPI.
Despite the 75s's excellent scores, it should be noted that this technology is now two years old, and results for the latest high-end DSLRs show an impressive increase in RAW image quality sensor performance (see overall ranking).
Disclaimer: This dxomark review evaluates only the selected camera's RAW sensor performance metrics (i.e., Color Depth, Dynamic Range, and Low-Light ISO), and should not be construed as a review of the camera's overall performance, as it does not address such other important criteria as image signal processing, mechanical robustness, ease of use, flexibility, optics, value for money, etc. While RAW sensor performance is critically important, it is not the only factor that should be taken into consideration when choosing a digital camera.
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