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by clifanatic 10y ago
Not only that, but as somebody who was actually a nerd before it was popular, I'm terrified of the "coolification" of geekiness. As an actual awkward social misfit, I'm pretty sure that if nerdiness actually becomes tre
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by clifanatic 10y ago
I don't think he was being sarcastic at all. I'm sure it's true of younger women.
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The original post was about sexism. If any sub-discussion about sexism is off-topic, why not just delete the entire post?
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> I don't think women have it particularly hard in tech. That's the thing: we'll never know, because no one person has ever really been both. What's disheartening is that everybody seems to think that they _do_ know,
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... if so, then why do asians appear to dominate them?
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by clifanatic 10y ago
Yikes. All he did was present some data (with references) that you dispute. You banned him for that? You seem to be the one who isn't interested in an open-minded and open-hearted discussion about the truth.
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> They need to do their homework, instead of reaching out to the first “tech woman speaker” they can think of ... unless that homework points to a man being the most appropriate speaker?
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> The biggest benefit comes from listing "author of [book you can buy at bookstore]" on your CV What about "[book you could buy at bookstore at one point, but not any more]"?
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by clifanatic 10y ago
Can confirm: I didn't publish for the money, I published for the prestige. Still waiting for all the prestige to roll in...
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> Everyone wants to be the master architect of the groundbreaking new framework in the hip new language. Especially considering that more and more companies are (trying to) use this as a prerequisite for finding any paid work. I can&#x2
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It's also curious that everything that ever seems to be published on diversity - especially in technology - seems to focus either on the percentage of representation of black people or the percentage of representation of women. I gues
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Was her name Grace Hopper?
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> Most of us can only dream of ever achieving that kind of job security. Work on something that nobody else wants to do for 50% of what you could make doing something more fashionable.
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by clifanatic 10y ago
You're not wrong. COBOL programmers aren't paid well AT ALL.
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by clifanatic 10y ago
Wow. I started growing my own vegetables a few years ago, and of course, I eat everything that I can successfully produce. However, I'm always struck by how much different my own tomatoes (for example) look than the ones that I can bu
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by clifanatic 10y ago
Well, I know I'm definitely too weird to get a date. It's nice to think that means I'm intelligent.
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by clifanatic 10y ago
Yeah, watch out there, though. After a certain number of job changes, "too many job changes" becomes a red flag to future potential employers.
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by clifanatic 10y ago
I think it was Scott Adams (Dilbert creator) who said something along the lines of "interview puzzles are an excellent way to determine if the interviewee has seen this particular problem before".
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... or, if something is popular, but (any of) the moderators don't like it for whatever reason, they'll just delete it and it will be as if it never existed.
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by clifanatic 10y ago
Yeah, that's just the thing... there are lots of anti-reddits out there, they're just not very popular. If reddit stopped acting as an echo chamber, all of its users would just leave and find a different echo chamber.
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by clifanatic 10y ago
You should read some of the stuff Eric Meyer (the CSS guy) wrote about watching his daughter succumb to cancer: http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/category/personal/rebecca/ THAT will change the way
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> I prefer using CSS for my styling and javascript for my functionality To play devil's advocate, though... is an accordion or a carousel "functionality" any more than, say, a drop-down or a multi-line input box is? I mea