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What a creative job advertisement.
by unfamiliar 12y ago
What a creative job advertisement.
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- pestaa 12y agoHonestly I was expecting a little more meat in the article, and it turned out not to be primarily an article. On the other hand, I'd love to work with female programmers more. The one I had the pleasure to work with had good insight, took care of legacy code like only a mother can, and documented every wtf line tenfold. There might be tasks men are genetically more suited to, but women could also bring a lot to the table.
- hashbanged 12y agoDid you just characterize documentation as women's work? Not every woman developer wants to maintain your legacy code while you go off and write features...
- pja 12y agoThat is the most back-handed set of compliments I've seen in a while - you're doing a great job of entrenching the "HN is irredeemably sexist" image so many people already have.
- romanovcode 12y agoThis is one person who states his opinion, saying that "HN is irredeemably sexist" because of one person is irredeemably stupid.
- SideburnsOfDoom 12y ago> There might be tasks men are genetically more suited to, but I'm sure that was intended as praise, but it falls short. Astonishingly far short.
- theop 12y agothere are jobs where men are genetically more suited for but we don't have to hunt bare hands anymore so it's not a big problem nowadays
- SideburnsOfDoom 12y agoThere may be things that the average man is a bit better at than the average woman and vice versa, but individual variation is much larger than this. A decent coder is far from the competency profile of an average person of their gender anyway, so that average is not even relevant.
- chc 12y agoI believe this is what's now called "Peggy Olsoning."
- lnanek2 12y agoIt's always less exciting to hear that there isn't a problem somewhere than that there is, I guess. Sorry you weren't entertained.