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by NextUserName 13y ago
OK, bear with me for a moment, but why would a CEO who is so openly and blatantly sexist have accepted a women interviewee in the first place? I am inclined to thing that either he was either testing her, or this is fiction.
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by NextUserName 13y ago
> I then turned inward. I thought of the women in my life, my wife of almost 18yrs and my little 4.5 year old daughters. What would they think of their father for not saying anything and letting this jerk spew his sexist beliefs? I am c
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by NextUserName 13y ago
> - Women are "less ambitious" because they perceive, often rightly, that their path up the ladder is blocked. What evidence is there to support this? There are biological differences (I am talking brain structure and chemistr
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by NextUserName 13y ago
OK, I spent a few minutes Googling and came up with some stuff. Probably not near the quality of what I used to have access too, but... > Women miss work more often than men because of personal illness and depression. http://
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by NextUserName 13y ago
Well in any case, check my account age before accusing me of creating an account to post on a thread weeks in the future.
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by NextUserName 13y ago
When I was in the military, we had decades of compiled data to reflect this (from internal and external sources). I will look around the web (much like you can). I do not have access to this data anymore, but I saw the same type of data dur
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by NextUserName 13y ago
So none of these other things mean anything to a potential employer then? Connections to get a tech job necessary? Sure, maybe if you want to work at Google or Microsoft straight out of college. Otherwise, no (startups anyone?).
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by NextUserName 13y ago
Fake? You mean yours is real? You should know (since you are a veteran here) that you cannot post on a thread that was created before your account. Guess not...
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by NextUserName 13y ago
Edit: if you want to down-vote this, go ahead, but please tell me which one of the facts I have written is incorrect. I also welcome opposing viewpoints with explanations. I am merely providing some of the reasons that men are hired above w
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by NextUserName 13y ago
> Anyone who works regularly with people from other countries will recognize this right away. Your brain goes into a sort of fuzzy recognition mode searching for meaning rather than critiquing flaws. This is an interesting reason. I hav
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by NextUserName 13y ago
They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalte
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by NextUserName 13y ago
> The billionaire investor has been trying to get the online marketplace for months to spin off its PayPal platform from its Internet retail business. The poor billionaire is used to getting his way and now he is pouting and ranting...
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by NextUserName 13y ago
> Why did it become socially acceptable for prosecutors to throw around 100-year threats, though Because the media has been doing it for 20+ years. The news is more "interesting" when big numbers like that are thrown around.
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by NextUserName 13y ago
They are doing this to try and stave off regulators and to get their acquisition of Time Warner done. "a goodwill gesture as it hopes to complete a $45 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable." http://www.pcworld.com&#
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by NextUserName 13y ago
Why is this news? CarPlay can run on top of any platform (it could run on windows if it was ported there) just as a VNC client can. They are essentially the same concept. Apple is actually playing catch up with the Android centric MirrorLin
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by NextUserName 13y ago
IntelliJ is great, but I personally have found this feature to be minimally helpful and non-intuitive. I hope others benefit more than I have. Perhaps I shouldn't knock it, but I think that the time could have been spent on more worthw
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by NextUserName 13y ago
I agree that his may be part of the difference, but here is my experience. There IS a gender gap, but with it a matching skills/abilities gap. I have experienced this first hand with dozens of women. A rare couple of them were top notc
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by NextUserName 13y ago
I keep waiting to see a car that comes with a tables built into the dash. There are many modders who have accomplished this already, it just seems like the next big thing. Voice control, apps, awesome.