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This should be titled "The programmer's spouse" instead of the programmer's wife. This makes it seem like being female is the cause of having a non-technical pe
by restruct 17y ago
This should be titled "The programmer's spouse" instead of the programmer's wife. This makes it seem like being female is the cause of having a non-technical perspective.
He says "She knows about as much as you’d expect an optometrist wife of a programmer to know about computers", but are we supposed to expect something different from an optometrist husband of a programmer?
There should be more links about programming and science at Hacker News, not some heterosexual male programmer's anecdotes about his wife, with a title which suggests that there is a pattern among the behaviour of wives of programmers.
- jimbokun 17y agoMy guess is that it is entitled "The programmer's wife" because the author is male and his spouse is female.
- restruct 17y agoThen shouldn't it be "A programmer's wife"?
- scott_s 17y agoIt's probably a play on The Time Traveler's Wife.
- gloob 17y ago"The", as an article, is applied to individuals in all sorts of situations. If, for instance, I say "The apple is red," I'm probably not making an assertion that should be generalized to all apples, but rather speaking about a specific one.