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This is probably the best comment I've ever read on HN, and it sums up my feelings about a vast majority of complaint threads on this forum. Especially this: "
by nhangen 14y ago
This is probably the best comment I've ever read on HN, and it sums up my feelings about a vast majority of complaint threads on this forum. Especially this:
"Software has apparently become some sort of social cause, instead of an engineering discipline."
- shadowspar 14y agoNascent awareness of sexism and corresponding initiatives to deal with it aren't something that's limited to software at all. Science, academia, and the skeptic/atheist community are all in the midst of similar changes right now as well.
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- wpietri 14y agoPeople make software for other people. We do it in the context of a society of people. That is our industry. There are times when you can ignore the people and focus on the machines. But only for a little while, and only if you do a lot of careful work before and after.