FT_intern

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by FT_intern 9y ago
> Well, I'd like to know why women weren't interested in programming A better question would be, what are girls doing in their child and teen years instead of isolating themselves in their basement playing video games/trol
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by FT_intern 9y ago
I hope your political beliefs aren't implicitly biasing your teaching against the males. The primary education system seems to be failing males (more female college graduates every year) and it wouldn't help if you added to that.
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by FT_intern 9y ago
Not in the traditional American frat boy sense. I'm estimating that > 50% of programmers in the USA are recent immigrants or the American children of recent immigrants.
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by FT_intern 9y ago
> If it's a simple matter of role-model discouragement, why has it been getting worse? Depending on which data set you look at, the percentage of CS graduates (bachelor's) who were female has been declining since the early to m
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by FT_intern 9y ago
Is it even really a privilege to be into programming in your childhood/teen years? Most kids are not Feynmans. They aren't naturally curious geniuses who are only stopped by a judgmental society and "biases". There is a
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by FT_intern 9y ago
I have no problem with that really. There are thousands of H1B's that are much more talented than 95% of American software engineers and they tend to be at the unicorns and the well paying big companies like FB/Google
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by FT_intern 9y ago
Is there any way for the buyer to see this difference before buying? If not, these specifics don't really matter
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by FT_intern 9y ago
Probably wouldn't work for bigger companies or people who don't want to publicly reveal themselves as the owner of the site. There needs to be a personal element for that to be efficient
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by FT_intern 9y ago
Let's also not forget about the traditional finance companies (Chase, BAML, Citi, Wells Fargo, Amex, etc.). They sell your data and are a large source of the random credit card offers you receive. And you can't opt out.
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by FT_intern 9y ago
> Well sure, but you only have so much time to study for these interviews. Considering the payoff (potentially a $40,000 to $100,000 raise on a 40 hour work week), I think that the amount of time to study for these types of interviews is
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by FT_intern 10y ago
How did the recruiters find out?
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by FT_intern 10y ago
Technology has made maintaining a job infinitely easier for the elderly compared to physical labor jobs. The problem is that many who approach old age are not trained in technology
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by FT_intern 10y ago
Because work ethic is not taught in high school or university (or in American families/society). And many 3rd (or higher) generation Americans have an unhealthy sense of entitlement. Many American teens are told that they are able to b
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by FT_intern 10y ago
Waterloo is best at bleeding great Canadian engineers to the USA
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by FT_intern 10y ago
> Most of the illegal immigrants are travelers who overstay their visas Are there numbers for this compared to border hoppers?
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by FT_intern 10y ago
> by the time they have to pick a university program, they feel so far behind the computer nerds that they don't feel they can compete or succeed in tech At the college level, I think that the social gap gets even worse. Women can g
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by FT_intern 10y ago
> What changes around that age? For tech, males become more introverted. At that age, introverted boys stay at home, play video games, post on bulletin boards (back in the old days), program, read, etc. That is how many boys get into tec
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by FT_intern 10y ago
> often results in a lack of experience and understanding in how to work with women > There's a hell of a lot more challenges that women face in tech than outright harassment. Unintentional sidelining, the bar for proof being mu
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by FT_intern 10y ago
> It is a continual frustration to me that the male-dominated tech community is so bad with these issues Is it? The implication is that tech is worse than other professions in this regard. But it has never been compared to other industri
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by FT_intern 10y ago
It's for the benefit of everyone including you. I find that in these topics, people jump to the problem solving step before problem formulation. In the best case, there might be a response of "because sexism/racism" to &
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by FT_intern 10y ago
the stock says no
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by FT_intern 10y ago
> As to what to do, here some ideas: This is jumping ahead of ourselves. The first step is problem formulation. Is this a problem in the first place? Why? How do we quantify the problem? How do we quantify a resolution?
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by FT_intern 10y ago
> relative to other orgs, which isn't saying much If your org has a higher female % than the population it sources its applicants from, would that not raise more suspicions of sexism?
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by FT_intern 10y ago
There's no need for snark. My point still stands. Statistical significance for upper class men vs. upper class women is never mentioned. The statistics in this instance are cooked and very misleading. It does not prove the author'
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by FT_intern 10y ago
Note that it does not ever say that the difference between upper class women and upper class men was statistically significant. > The differences in callback rates for higher-class women, lower-class men and lower-class women were not s
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by FT_intern 10y ago
If she was attempting to use gender as an independent variable, she should have. The conclusions and research are very incomplete otherwise. It looks like she is just slicing up the data to get the results she wants.
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by FT_intern 10y ago
If I'm reading correctly, there wasn't a p-value for the upper middle class men vs women either
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by FT_intern 10y ago
> employers benefit because they have a wider pool of talent to choose from The OP was arguing that women have a lower expected work output over their career at a company, which is why "economically rational" was used. So the e
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by FT_intern 10y ago
I would guess that it is tougher to secure the OS when you don't own the hardware, although I don't know enough about this to comment
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by FT_intern 10y ago
> Very few engineers in Silicon Valley interact with black engineers. There is little diversity to be gained from black engineers. Black engineers end up in the category of another nerdy American. Race is not a good metric for diversity.

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