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Besides the obvious omissions of women, it's always hard for me to take an article seriously when there are obvious spelling errors.
by steffan 13y ago
Besides the obvious omissions of women, it's always hard for me to take an article seriously when there are obvious spelling errors.
- overgard 13y agoOh jesus, not this. If you included the subtleties of women's fashion you'd make the article about 4x longer. There's just way more going on there.
- steffan 13y agoI'm not trying to white-knight here. I know plenty of women engineers that fall into those categories as well - engineer/hoodie, sales/suit, etc. Would it be that hard in the Bay Area to find a woman engineer in jeans and a hoodie? It doesn't require an in-depth analysis of the entire breadth of womens' fashion to imply that yes, there are women engineers, and yes, a lot of them dress exactly like the men.
- stefan_kendall 13y ago"You know plenty of women." Great anecdote, bro. I'm sure that represents an accurate percentage representation of the population.
- steffan 13y agoNowhere did I make any claims as to the representation of women in the engineering / SV population other than that it is a non-zero quantity. Is it really that unreasonable not to ignore their participation?
- wyclif 13y agoAgreed. I thought, "Great, more political correctness juking on HN, exactly what it needs." What percentage of VCs, engineers, and coders are men again? To write an article like this isn't sexist. It's describing fashion for 90+% of the field as it exists now.
- steffan 13y agoAlso, I'm surprised at the response to my OP since my original complaint was about the misspellings.