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    Quote Originally Posted by Prelude View Post
    >On another board there's mostly women, so my default stance there is "she".
    Is it a programming board?
    Quote Originally Posted by abachler View Post
    That makes me wonder if perhaps there isnt a gender imbalance among programmers, but maybe just self segregation on to male and female websites
    Hehe, it's a Harry Potter fandom board.
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    Everyone here's a dude unless proven otherwise, so far as I'm concerned. I think Prelude's the only lady.

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    Last edited by twomers; 02-04-2008 at 04:45 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Elysia View Post
    Some people who are actually she can take offense at being called he. Happened once here on cboard, as I saw it. Probably happened more times, as well. Might even work the other way around.
    So the golden rule is:..............
    Ask them to specify it in general discussion board.

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    Quote Originally Posted by twomers View Post
    Everyone here's a dude unless proven otherwise, so far as I'm concerned. I think Prelude's the only lady.
    You didn't read Todd's post ?
    Manly man. Arrrrrgh. (just in case "Todd" wasn't clear enough.)

    I think I know where you are going with this, and I'm pretty sure Elysia is female!!
    And yeah, there is username "Aia" who has a beautiful girl's avatar. So IMO, there are 3 girls, 1Obait-Ku (CornedBee) and (n-4) boys.
    Last edited by abh!shek; 02-04-2008 at 08:52 PM.

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    I think todd is a woman in disguise and Elysia is a bot

    Edit: and twomers is a very smart cocker spaniel and Prelude is not a lady because she scares me.
    Last edited by Mario F.; 02-04-2008 at 08:54 PM.
    Originally Posted by brewbuck:
    Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mario F. View Post
    I think todd is a woman in disguise and Elysia is a bot

    I don't think a bot can enter forums bcoz while signing up, they tell you to "see" a random image and write the alphabets in a box ( A4GRL, something like that). That is to prevent automated registration by bots.

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    yes. but this is a female bot we are talking here. That's double the wickedness.
    Originally Posted by brewbuck:
    Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mario F. View Post
    yes. but this is a female bot we are talking here. That's double the wickedness.
    yeah, a bot which prints an error as soon as she sees some "Bad indention". lol
    Last edited by abh!shek; 02-05-2008 at 03:19 AM.

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    some bots are very smart. And then there's AI and stuff.
    Originally Posted by brewbuck:
    Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.

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    Ok, here's proof. I'm the tall one (in the front - not the comb-over geek to the back left). Smart and handsome, and a babe for a wife!
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    Wow. That spared me putting up my photo.

    I'm just like the comb-over geek.
    Originally Posted by brewbuck:
    Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.

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    abk C/C++ has almost no female programmers. so don't worry the 0.00001% (if they exist) !
    and if you really wanna see female programmers join a python board

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    Quote Originally Posted by manav View Post
    abk C/C++ has almost no female programmers.
    Huh?

    Only on the same floor with me are sitting more than 5 "female C/C++ programmers". And the building has 11 floors... And this is not a single High-Tech building in the district...

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    Quote Originally Posted by vart View Post
    Huh?

    Only on the same floor with me are sitting more than 5 "female C/C++ programmers". And the building has 11 floors... And this is not a single High-Tech building in the district...

    Hard to beleive you...
    Look close enough, there should be 50000 "male C/C++ programmers"
    And it's just that your place happens to have some "female C/C++ programmers", otherwise to prove my point, just take the fraction from the board members.
    The board members are not localized, they represent a broader, world wide, view.

    You will also come to the same conclusion. 0.00001%

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