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This is an excellent commentary on the worthlessness of evolutionary psychology to explain social mechanisms or, in fact, anything at all. But I'm still not sur
by marvin 13y ago
This is an excellent commentary on the worthlessness of evolutionary psychology to explain social mechanisms or, in fact, anything at all. But I'm still not sure what the piece is trying to say about the software industry. Obviously that women have in fact had a big role in the development of computer technology, but I'm getting the feeling that the author is trying to say something more than this...
- mkr-hn 13y agoHaven't you ever seen the lengthy screeds about natural gender roles every time a post on gender and the workplace hits HN's front page? This is a parody of those.
- jamesaguilar 13y agoAnd of the abysmal Dave Winer article linked at the top of the blog post.
- bchjam 13y agoI think satire is the wrong way to approach this. It makes the author seem kind of immature and I really doubt it would do much to get the point across to the likes of the author of the article this was in response to. The cherry picking of historical examples seems kind of weak and takes a lot of space. It actually seems to emphasize how few female programmers there were in history because it can only name a few cases of historical notability and totally ignores all the work they built on top of. It really seems to try and be misleading, not just satirical. How does this help anything?