Woman in tech here. I almost skipped reading the post because I instinctively thought "bro pages", like man pages but for bros. There are lots of bad ideas out there, shame this is a great idea with a name that inadvertantly sabotages it.

They're cancelling four of seven sections, not lectures, due to lack of demand.

All the lectures are still there.

Would be nice if you could select your vehicle and it'd auto select a likely size

This is the first thing I thought about too.

I have no idea what size the tires on my car are. But I do know the make, model (and year) of my car. I'd rather enter these details into the size, and the site could tell me what tyre size is recommended, and as part of that do a search for the prices.

thanks for the feedback, i have been looking into how to get a database of car/tyre sizes.

For the US market, there's at least one company that provides this data. Unfortunately, I can't remember the name, sorry. :(

I do know it exists, though. I used to work for a major American tire manufacturer and maintained a couple of versions of their tire selector application. They would send over a huge file (I think a spreadsheet) with a combination of every year/make/model/trim and its associated OEM tire sizes. I think we also sent over a list of our tires (models and sizes) and they would include that in the db for us. I believe it was left to us to import and normalize it, which was kind of a pain in its own right.

Car make / model - there's only a finite set of these. Take a look at the categories on Autotrader or something similar. Tire Sizes - ask your local mechanic how they would find this out? There's probably a catalogue they would use.

This is like saying, I'm an employer and I want you to expose your fb profile to me so I can see the answers to all the questions it is illegal for me to ask you in your interview.

There's lots of good stuff here: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/definitive-guide-to-the-prima...

You can also type 'movie showtimes' into google and there is a nice interface with maps which shows movies and which theatres they're playing at.

NASA just needs a bigger budget... http://gizmodo.com/5813257/air-conditioning-our-military-cos...

That figure is mostly the costs of running logistical chains in dangerous areas. It includes soldiers lost to attacks on convoys.

I doubt that less convoys will equal fewer attacks - it's just an accounting quirk that the casualties are apportioned to the fuel. The attacks might be less successful, as you won't be spreading the defence so thin, but you wouldn't get a linear reduction in costs.

I sometimes feel like I have the opposite problem. I can come up with the algorithm which requires an understanding of why it works on the problem, but then I lose my train of thought while coding it (albeit this is happening in stressful interview write-on-the-whiteboard-while-I-judge-you situations).

finally, somebody like me :). How the hell should i scale?

I write tests, but do too much testing as the code size grows and that is very limiting.

Ohh, on losing the train of thought thing, this is the very reason why i don't use IDEs, because they freeze at random times. One technique that worked for is solving the problem first of board in a sufficient detail, or writing down as comments how you are going to solve the problem, and slowly fill in the details.

Even if you don't save it explicitly, I find my browser cache is full of facebook photos when I go to clear it, so can retrieve it through there after the fact as well.