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Re: France is DOOMED! @freakonomics (NYT) (none / 1)

http://tech.mit.edu/V128/N56/women.html is about the declining population of women in computer science...

by asdf on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 10:45:39 PM EST
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Re: France is DOOMED! @freakonomics (NYT) (none / 0)

CS != IT, by a huge margin. CS is science. IT is (unfortunately) part engineering and mostly superstition.

j/k

Anyway, I agree, I don't see more women. More minorities; definitely, but not more women.

A 'centrist' is someone who's neither on the left, nor on the left.

by nicta (nico＠altiva․fr) on Wed Nov 19th, 2008 at 03:06:00 AM EST
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Re: France is DOOMED! @freakonomics (NYT) (none / 0)

Actually, in France it seems to me many of the "minorities" are recent immigrants, who came to France for university or work, rather than descendants of immigrants.

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Wed Nov 19th, 2008 at 03:43:38 AM EST
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Re: France is DOOMED! @freakonomics (NYT) (none / 0)

Yes, that's also my (empirical) observation.

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.

by Bernard on Wed Nov 19th, 2008 at 03:09:58 PM EST
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