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> From my experience there are relatively few women who really get in the trenches. have you ever heard of the word "bias"? > Staring at logs in a terminal an

> From my experience there are relatively few women who really get in the trenches. have you ever heard of the word "bias"? > Staring at logs in a terminal and sifting through endless YAML not so much. i did not know that one gender could be better at this work. that seems like huge news if true. and yes, you sound like a reactionary. coward ass throwaway account.

randomdata 2y ago
> i did not know that one gender could be better at this work. that seems like huge news if true. There is research that has shown that men are, on average, better at single-focus tasks. And, indeed, it was huge news at the time the research was published – at least as huge as being reported in major news publications is. It wouldn't be huge news now. We quickly grow bored and tired of widely reported things from the past. Humans, of all genders it seems, tend to seek novelty.
- greenie_beans 2y ago
  please share this, i'm dying to read this.
  - randomdata 2y ago
    RIP
    - greenie_beans 2y ago
      dang, i guess i'll die never knowing the truth
      - randomdata 2y ago
        I assumed you were already dead by the time I got to reading your response. One does not normally tell you that they are dying if they expect to still be around for a long time. Shame on me for assuming. What is the expected lifespan for someone diagnosed with your condition?
        greenie_beans 2y ago
        i'm posting from the grave!!
kjksf 2y ago
Name a prominent open source project created be and led by a woman. Who created and contributes to linux kernel, python, c, c++, go, python, ruby, ruby on rails, php, wordpress, ghost, SumatraPDF, zig, oding, nim, nodejs, deno, bun. I could just keep listing major open source projects because I literally cannot think of a single one created and led by a woman. And if you find one, it still doesn't negate the 100 to 1 ratio. Open source, unlike jobs, are pure meritocracy. A woman can create a GitHub account and start coding just as easily as a man. There are no gatekeepers and open source contributors / maintainers are abused by random people as a matter of course. To me it's reality. To you, somehow, saying that out loud is bias. And to be clear: I don't think there's anything preventing women from learning to code and contributing at a high level and I've known a few that do. But for some reason they overwhelmingly don't. The stats are brutal.
- greenie_beans 2y ago
  go ask claude to give you feedback about this comment, because it shows a misunderstanding of how a male-dominated society works if this is what you think about women in tech. edit: nvm i did about this entire comment thread: https://claude.site/artifacts/b1f6e916-a21b-420b-9081-dec62bdda15c https://claude.site/artifacts/b1f6e916-a21b-420b-9081-dec62b... and specifically responding to all of your claims: https://claude.site/artifacts/401d407d-ef53-4cdf-84fd-cd79b563982d https://claude.site/artifacts/401d407d-ef53-4cdf-84fd-cd79b5...

randomdata 2y ago

> i did not know that one gender could be better at this work. that seems like huge news if true. There is research that has shown that men are, on average, better at single-focus tasks. And, indeed, it was huge news at the time the research was published – at least as huge as being reported in major news publications is. It wouldn't be huge news now. We quickly grow bored and tired of widely reported things from the past. Humans, of all genders it seems, tend to seek novelty.

greenie_beans 2y ago
please share this, i'm dying to read this.
- randomdata 2y ago
  RIP
  - greenie_beans 2y ago
    dang, i guess i'll die never knowing the truth
    - randomdata 2y ago
      I assumed you were already dead by the time I got to reading your response. One does not normally tell you that they are dying if they expect to still be around for a long time. Shame on me for assuming. What is the expected lifespan for someone diagnosed with your condition?
      - greenie_beans 2y ago
        i'm posting from the grave!!

kjksf 2y ago

Name a prominent open source project created be and led by a woman. Who created and contributes to linux kernel, python, c, c++, go, python, ruby, ruby on rails, php, wordpress, ghost, SumatraPDF, zig, oding, nim, nodejs, deno, bun. I could just keep listing major open source projects because I literally cannot think of a single one created and led by a woman. And if you find one, it still doesn't negate the 100 to 1 ratio. Open source, unlike jobs, are pure meritocracy. A woman can create a GitHub account and start coding just as easily as a man. There are no gatekeepers and open source contributors / maintainers are abused by random people as a matter of course. To me it's reality. To you, somehow, saying that out loud is bias. And to be clear: I don't think there's anything preventing women from learning to code and contributing at a high level and I've known a few that do. But for some reason they overwhelmingly don't. The stats are brutal.

greenie_beans 2y ago
go ask claude to give you feedback about this comment, because it shows a misunderstanding of how a male-dominated society works if this is what you think about women in tech. edit: nvm i did about this entire comment thread: https://claude.site/artifacts/b1f6e916-a21b-420b-9081-dec62bdda15c https://claude.site/artifacts/b1f6e916-a21b-420b-9081-dec62b... and specifically responding to all of your claims: https://claude.site/artifacts/401d407d-ef53-4cdf-84fd-cd79b563982d https://claude.site/artifacts/401d407d-ef53-4cdf-84fd-cd79b5...