jd75

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by jd75 7y ago
Women's domestic enslavement was a wonderful thing.
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by jd75 7y ago
Did I miss something, or does this article say that, for example, if one parent lost 5 children, that means that on average 5 parents lost 1 child each? It's an interesting topic and the recent bumps on the graph have me wondering what
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by jd75 7y ago
My grandma had cancer. A doctor had ignored her complaining of throat pain for too long, and it didn't look good. The doctor who told us chemo was an option was pushing my grandma really hard to just go ahead and die instead of trying
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by jd75 8y ago
No, I mean I don't get promoted for trying to hear what other people say, while managers can't say enough nice things about the hipster-ass who breaks everything he touches trying to turn it into GraphQL no matter what. But I didn
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by jd75 8y ago
People love to work with me, but managers love all of those flaws.
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by jd75 8y ago
it was probably mostly because "everyone's doing it", but i'm glad we did. a little harder to bail when the going gets tough when the in-laws' friends have given you a cuisinart. ;)
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by jd75 8y ago
I didn't want kids until I was 14 and my mom had an oopsie-baby. The intense love I felt for my baby sister changed my mind. And I wasn't wrong -- despite many, many, many drawbacks to having children, I love them just the way I&#
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by jd75 8y ago
Everyone's goals vary, but I got married because I wanted kids and I wanted help raising them from someone with a vested interest in doing so.
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by jd75 8y ago
I'm not sure I could identify my "core values" in a crowd -- where I feel lucky is in the "healthy discussions". My husband and I don't hit each other with too many of the Four Horsemen: https://www.
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by jd75 8y ago
I personally love me some alone time, but yeah, as a lady, tech is a little too lonely even for me. Something that I think would help is if the social types in the engineering department (often men!) would post interesting tech events in Sl
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by jd75 9y ago
Given that another comment says she "suddenly" crossed three lanes of traffic and was on the far side of the car when she was hit, my suspicion is that the car thought she was riding the bike. Of course all of us computers know th
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by jd75 9y ago
>This could have been any of us. Not me! I know I'm not biologically ill-suited to geek out.
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by jd75 9y ago
Or any woman, apparently, since the author never met one who has a pile of electronic components stored away for some day.
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by jd75 9y ago
Why would Ajit Pai care what we think? How much money have we given the GOP? What kushy job do we have lined up for him if he does what we want?
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by jd75 9y ago
I enjoy making things with code. I like earning a check. Why do you stay in your job? It makes me sad to think my kids will think I didn't do enough for them one day, but dads have been working full-time for ages. You're not the f
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by jd75 9y ago
The policies are better than nothing, because you meet people facing the same biases you do and realize you aren't a lunatic weirdo. But in my utopia, everyone takes the implicit associations tests, has the courage to take in the parts
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by jd75 9y ago
Of course your sister should make her own choices, but the pressure on a mom in tech to leave is still absolutely immense. The more of us who tough it out, the better for our daughters.
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by jd75 9y ago
Where "fun" is defined by people who got funding. http://fortune.com/2017/03/13/female-founders-venture-capita...
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by jd75 9y ago
> it's like there's an army of internet people waiting for you to mess up and will punish you with controversy and/or honestly try and get you fired. It sounds like you can relate to existing as a person who is different i
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by jd75 9y ago
I like having events where women can get together without getting hit on or talked down to and where you've often encountered the same kinds of problems. However. At my last job, there was just constant pressure from HR to go to these
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by jd75 9y ago
It's been said already, but these products were destroyed by support-forum-as-documentation. You can get a light blinking on an Arduino in five minutes. On the Edison, it took all my free time for a couple days to even figure out what
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by jd75 9y ago
The fact that I'm seeing your comment at all suggests they've improved in the last few years. This is the first time I've bothered to comment on HN, as a woman interested in the topic of "Women in Tech" in ages, bec
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by jd75 12y ago
Alternately, also as a woman in tech, we could expect employers not to lump us all together and to judge men who resort to using slurs more harshly than women who don't like having slurs used against them.
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by jd75 12y ago
I know someone who works at the IRS. It is seriously being defunded, by people like Darrell Issa. If Issa wants forever records of all emails, that costs.
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by jd75 12y ago
Republicans cherry-picked the data. The IRS targeted liberal groups more, based on the information we have. http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2014/04/23/3429722/irs-rec...
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by jd75 12y ago
They targeted progressive groups to a greater extent, based on the information we have. http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2014/04/23/3429722/irs-rec...
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by jd75 12y ago
I didn't link my ID's, then one day I clicked the wrong button and ended up using YouTube with my real, full name (gross!). I looked for my playlist containing all the private videos I'd uploaded of my small children and it w
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by jd75 12y ago
Which is a lot of pressure. ~A mom