liedra

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by liedra 14y ago
Wow, sorry, you really have no idea. It's not 80 hrs per week, sure, but it's certainly more than you're giving us credit for. My percentages are base for what an early career should expect in their first couple of years with a permanent
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by liedra 14y ago
As a fellow academic I totally agree - people outside really don't know what it takes to run a successful course - it's not just wandering in and rambling for an hour about stuff you like, it's highly structured, requires a lot of preparati
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by liedra 14y ago
The thing is you can kinda coast if you want to. But in the UK at least you have to churn out at least 4 high quality papers every 6 years to be included in the "Research Excellence Framework", the assessment of the research quality of the
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by liedra 14y ago
Wow, your hours on preparing lectures, grant proposal writing, dealing with students, etc. are all way underestimated. A solid grant proposal that is likely to get funded (often in a super competitive field with maybe 8% acceptance rate) ca
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by liedra 14y ago
Once again, depends where you go. I've been in supermarkets where the self checkout registers mess up so frequently that the attendants basically rush over, swipe their card, whack something on the keypad, then disappear to the next red fla
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by liedra 14y ago
Perhaps some examples of licences could be good on the front page. I wasn't really sure what to search for, and all the ones I put in weren't found, and then I'm not a lawyer so I wouldn't be able to tl;dr very well.
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by liedra 14y ago
This is a very culturally biased view of what "professional" means. You would probably get a different response if you were to go outside America. (this is more an argument against the "no exceptions" part of your point above)
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by liedra 14y ago
There's no need to be rude. Everyone has different experiences. Not everyone is assertive or has the opportunity to learn to be assertive. Especially when social expectation is against them.
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by liedra 14y ago
Just a point about this discussion point - just because a situation is worse elsewhere doesn't make it acceptable in tech. I agree that sometimes it goes a little overboard. But there are also genuine moments when sexist bullshit should be
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by liedra 14y ago
Ahh, I see. Well, kudos for improving your life. Keep it up! :)
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by liedra 14y ago
Yeah, to be fair, I am getting a bit better than I was 10 years ago about this stuff. I'm now far more likely to call someone out on bs than I was back then. But it's taken a long time and a lot of skin-thickening to get that courage up.
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by liedra 14y ago
I'd like to know how you could have a full female perspective without being female. Let me know when that's possible! I'd love to be able to have a full male perspective about things!
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by liedra 14y ago
Thanks, you've captured my thoughts absolutely. Some of the comments in this post make me really frustrated - it's almost a one step forward, two steps back type thing. Having to jump into the fray every time someone starts talking about th
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by liedra 14y ago
Are you serious? There are many reasons why one mightn't speak out at the time. I'm going to jump to the major conclusion that you're male and have never encountered a situation like this before. If you were female, with all the different s
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by liedra 14y ago
You're very privileged to have grown up in a social setting that rewards you for your assertiveness. Not everyone, and especially women, has had the same environment and socio-cultural expectation of them. It'd be lovely to foster a culture
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by liedra 14y ago
Sure, it's the right thing to do, that doesn't make it easy. And saying "well, you should have done this" when it's quite difficult to do is moving the responsibility for how the situation progressed to the victim. The fact that these situa
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by liedra 14y ago
I'm also terrible at doing this, too. I think you're right though - it is easier to do it for someone else! But when you're in a confrontational situation that you haven't sought (unlike a salary negotiation, which you have probably sought)
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by liedra 14y ago
I'm not really sure what you are talking about here but, uh, thanks? I think?
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by liedra 14y ago
It can be really hard in a situation like that to stand up for yourself, especially if you don't want to cause a public fuss. I'm female, and at PAX East I was approached a couple of times (at social events, by attendees) and rather inappro
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by liedra 14y ago
This is quite interesting. I did some archery a few years back (recurve bow) and picked up a second hand, 50lb bow, which, apparently, for a slender early 20s female would be "quite tough" to draw, but I managed it, and got quite good (and
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by liedra 14y ago
Thank you, seriously. The slippery slope argument is just so infuriating when really all that's necessary is a little human decency.
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by liedra 14y ago
Nope, I definitely meant "ignorant". You have no idea what it's like to be a woman in technology, I'll bet, and your attitude is very indicative of this. I didn't say anything about unwed mothers. Once again, acceptance is not the same as a
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by liedra 14y ago
You're completely missing the point. Sexist and racist jokes shouldn't be acceptable anywhere, not in India, not in Europe, not in Sticksville, Stickscountry. Acceptance is not the same as acceptability.
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by liedra 14y ago
Well they clearly think it's acceptable or the site wouldn't exist in the first place. Besides, I said "might". I probably should have said "some people", but the fact that I have to defend a site that points out abhorrent behaviour towards
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by liedra 14y ago
It's not just in the US, and it's not a "funny cultural thing". Your whole post is extremely ignorant. It's attitudes like yours that make people think that racism and sexism is acceptable behaviour. It's not.
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by liedra 14y ago
Are you serious?! This was a professional event. There is a known issue with lack of women in tech. Dell specifically has a site dedicated to encouraging women in tech. Women have come out again and again and said that these sorts of jokes
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by liedra 14y ago
I didn't say it was "all men". I said, deliberately, "some men". I know of many, very supportive, men in technology, who understand what it is to get this stuff right. It's a real shame that there are some who wilfully ignore the issue's ex
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by liedra 14y ago
So you don't think it was inappropriate in a professional setting to make women, which the company goes out of its way to actually attempt to encourage into the industry (they have a specific site for encouragement of women in technology on
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by liedra 14y ago
This was theoretically a professional partner event. You wouldn't get a comedian on stage cracking racist jokes at those, so why should sexist jokes be acceptable? Perhaps you should actually read the original report by the Danish blogger:
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by liedra 15y ago
I'll give you a piece of my mind if you keep going on about this! (not really, just giving an example :)

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