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There is absolutely nothing interesting about a developer being female. Nothing. Quite frankly, it confuses and disappoints me that anyone would think that ge
by yalurker 17y ago
There is absolutely nothing interesting about a developer being female. Nothing.
Quite frankly, it confuses and disappoints me that anyone would think that gender matters enough to call attention to it. We're not in the 1950s, let's stop with the notion that it is a big deal when a woman does something that mostly men have done before.
- jv2222 17y agoEven from a mere statistical point of view it's interesting. Take bayesian spam analysis for example. When we examine the corpus, the words that we find "interesting" are the ones that appear "less" in the data-set. Just because I say something's interesting it doesn't mean I'm being sexist - perhaps it's just interesting. Ok, let's reverse this. Is there any profession or hobby that you would find interesting if a male excelled and generally kicked ass at it?
- IsaacSchlueter 17y agoInterestingly, my first parsing of "Awesome Female Coder" not that she's an awesome coder who is female, but rather than she's an awesome female who is a coder. Which may perhaps also be true, of course, but it sounds as if you're saying that there are aspects of her femaleness that are awesome. "Awesome Male Coder" makes me think of Chuck Norris typing machine code by roundhouse kicking his keyboard…
- jamesbritt 17y ago"Ok, let's reverse this. Is there any profession or hobby that you would find interesting if a male excelled and generally kicked ass at it?" Cheerleading. Quilting.
- richtaur 17y agoI've been a professional developer for more than five years now, and I've only worked with about THREE female developers. Three out of probably more than 100. It's notable, get over it.