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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://weblogs.asp.net/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>The &amp;quot;Steve Rule&amp;quot; Proved True Again</title><link>http://weblogs.asp.net/alex_papadimoulis/archive/2005/04/22/403889.aspx</link><description>Yesterday on The Daily WTF , I mentioned something I called the Steve Rule : in a random sample of programmers, there will be more named Steve then there will be females . What's ironic is that I didn't mean that as a joke. In my personal experience,</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007 SP1 (Build: 20510.895)</generator><item><title>The trouble with data&amp;#8230; &amp;raquo; The Steve Rule</title><link>http://weblogs.asp.net/alex_papadimoulis/archive/2005/04/22/403889.aspx#7009803</link><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:26:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">c06e2b9d-981a-45b4-a55f-ab0d8bbfdc1c:7009803</guid><dc:creator>The trouble with data… » The Steve Rule</dc:creator><author>The trouble with data… » The Steve Rule</author><description>&lt;p&gt;Pingback from &amp;nbsp;The trouble with data&amp;amp;#8230; &amp;amp;raquo; The Steve Rule&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://weblogs.asp.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=7009803" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>This Blog Needs No Name | February | 2009</title><link>http://weblogs.asp.net/alex_papadimoulis/archive/2005/04/22/403889.aspx#6895191</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:58:27 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">c06e2b9d-981a-45b4-a55f-ab0d8bbfdc1c:6895191</guid><dc:creator>This Blog Needs No Name | February | 2009</dc:creator><author>This Blog Needs No Name | February | 2009</author><description>&lt;p&gt;Pingback from &amp;nbsp;This Blog Needs No Name | February | 2009&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://weblogs.asp.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=6895191" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: The "Steve Rule" Proved True Again</title><link>http://weblogs.asp.net/alex_papadimoulis/archive/2005/04/22/403889.aspx#6192904</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 16:17:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">c06e2b9d-981a-45b4-a55f-ab0d8bbfdc1c:6192904</guid><dc:creator>chris christmas</dc:creator><author>chris christmas</author><description>&lt;p&gt;the real wtf is that all 7 of the chrisses are women. &amp;nbsp;Also 90% of the women in IT are named Suresh.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://weblogs.asp.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=6192904" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: The "Steve Rule" Proved True Again</title><link>http://weblogs.asp.net/alex_papadimoulis/archive/2005/04/22/403889.aspx#4326309</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:59:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">c06e2b9d-981a-45b4-a55f-ab0d8bbfdc1c:4326309</guid><dc:creator>kukanov</dc:creator><author>kukanov</author><description>&lt;p&gt;I love you people &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;George&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://weblogs.asp.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=4326309" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: The "Steve Rule" Proved True Again</title><link>http://weblogs.asp.net/alex_papadimoulis/archive/2005/04/22/403889.aspx#405738</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2005 13:37:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">c06e2b9d-981a-45b4-a55f-ab0d8bbfdc1c:405738</guid><dc:creator>Jeff Atwood</dc:creator><author>Jeff Atwood</author><description>Julia Lerman calls this the &amp;quot;Brian&amp;quot; rule based on TechEd 2004 speakers..&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a target="_new" href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000282.html"&gt;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000282.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://weblogs.asp.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=405738" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: The "Steve Rule" Proved True Again</title><link>http://weblogs.asp.net/alex_papadimoulis/archive/2005/04/22/403889.aspx#405555</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2005 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">c06e2b9d-981a-45b4-a55f-ab0d8bbfdc1c:405555</guid><dc:creator>Jon Limjap</dc:creator><author>Jon Limjap</author><description>In my previous job, when we lost our last female, our operations guys created a policy to hire only female On-the-job-trainees for the programming team.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;None of us complained. We even got to hire a female developer after that.&lt;img src="http://weblogs.asp.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=405555" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: The "Steve Rule" Proved True Again</title><link>http://weblogs.asp.net/alex_papadimoulis/archive/2005/04/22/403889.aspx#405435</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2005 13:44:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">c06e2b9d-981a-45b4-a55f-ab0d8bbfdc1c:405435</guid><dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator><author>Steve</author><description>At my last company we had 1 female developer and I was one of the two Steves (although the other one was moving out of development and into management).&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://weblogs.asp.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=405435" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: The "Steve Rule" Proved True Again</title><link>http://weblogs.asp.net/alex_papadimoulis/archive/2005/04/22/403889.aspx#405057</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:55:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">c06e2b9d-981a-45b4-a55f-ab0d8bbfdc1c:405057</guid><dc:creator>Baloney</dc:creator><author>Baloney</author><description>Our team of 10 developers has 3 women and NO duplicate guys names!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This must be the exception that prooves the rule.&lt;img src="http://weblogs.asp.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=405057" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: The "Steve Rule" Proved True Again</title><link>http://weblogs.asp.net/alex_papadimoulis/archive/2005/04/22/403889.aspx#404807</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:53:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">c06e2b9d-981a-45b4-a55f-ab0d8bbfdc1c:404807</guid><dc:creator>Eric Vitiello</dc:creator><author>Eric Vitiello</author><description>Another interesting observation is the number of programmers named &amp;quot;Eric&amp;quot; that have a mustache:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a target="_new" href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/ecsl/"&gt;http://www.catb.org/~esr/ecsl/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://weblogs.asp.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=404807" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: The "Steve Rule" Proved True Again</title><link>http://weblogs.asp.net/alex_papadimoulis/archive/2005/04/22/403889.aspx#404513</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:30:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">c06e2b9d-981a-45b4-a55f-ab0d8bbfdc1c:404513</guid><dc:creator>keeper40k</dc:creator><author>keeper40k</author><description>I don't know about Kristian and Gwen, but could it be that that is a boy named Sue?&lt;img src="http://weblogs.asp.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=404513" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>