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I agree, but I feel this post is not really about that. It applies to guys equally. It's just that the author happens to be female. At least it was very relatab

• fossuser 11y ago
  Yeah the core of the article is that it's good to admit ignorance and ask questions - that's how you learn quickly. Paradoxically people will actually think you're smarter for it anyway - it's often when you pretend you know something you don't that you appear dumb. The gender commentary is a distraction.
• iherbig 11y ago
  I think the problem that krstck is trying to address is not so much that the anecdote is invalid, but that prefacing it with "I'm a female programmer" colors the rest of the anecdote. Instead of it being a general anecdote which may be relatable to everyone in the field, it's specifically an anecdote about being a woman in computing. And krstck is saying there are certain problems that come along with that coloring of things.
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