joycey

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by joycey 12y ago
Sure. I found some fun stats you can look through. With regards to women dropping out of a software development role, it looks like women are dropping out at higher rates than men because they either want to pursue a non-technical career or
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by joycey 12y ago
If you're curious, I can explain to you my personal theory for why there has been such a substantial decrease of women in tech. Most of the developers I know play video games. This is relevant for a couple reasons. Gaming (especially P
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by joycey 12y ago
You are definitely right in that there are biological influences that have caused men and women to want to pursue different career paths. But you must be kidding if you don't believe this effect isn't exacerbated by cultural facto
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by joycey 12y ago
Once you've gone through it all, it doesn't really matter too much whether you started at 12 or 18. But if you start programming when you're 18, and you get stuck, it's much easier to decide to drop out. And women drop o
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by joycey 12y ago
The issue isn't just that the gender gap in tech exists and should be fixed. The bigger issue is that the gap exists, and is actually getting worse over time. There are half as many women studying CS today as there were in the 80'
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by joycey 12y ago
If it was two weeks notice of actually shutting down the service that's alright, but deleting all past entries in two weeks is way too short.
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by joycey 12y ago
A past entry would be awesome to have. I actually never knew about the attach a picture feature until after OhLife got shut down, so I personally don't care too much about that. More importantly, in general the UI could use a facelift.
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by joycey 12y ago
This looks like a viable, albeit less functional, alternative: http://dailydiary.com/