lindseybieda

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Coding As Play(rarlindseysmash.com)
1 points by lindseybieda 13y ago|0 comments
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by lindseybieda 14y ago
Nursing is a reinforcing of traditional gender roles. It being female dominated is a bad thing to. This wasn't brought up here because this is about a girl who wants to be a programmer not a little boy that ways to be nurse. You know, I'm t
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by lindseybieda 14y ago
There's a lot of factors retarding the balance. There's been a number of studies on it. There's the stereotype threat and the common notion that women are bad a math. There's been a number of sexist comments and incidents within the field (
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Conferences Must Be Active to Promote Diversity (with maths)(blog.davewilkinsonii.com)
1 points by lindseybieda 14y ago|0 comments
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In the Case of Brit Ruby We All Lose(rarlindseysmash.com)
1 points by lindseybieda 14y ago|0 comments
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The Antirez Principle(blog.davewilkinsonii.com)
2 points by lindseybieda 14y ago|0 comments
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by lindseybieda 14y ago
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents - evidence of misogynistic culture.
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by lindseybieda 15y ago
So that's why the percent was higher for CS degrees and then steadily declined, there was interest and now there is less http://rarlindseysmash.com/images/entries/degrees.png . Something is happening here.
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by lindseybieda 15y ago
It's up to everyone in the community to fix this. No matter what their sex or race. It's just a matter of being a more open and welcoming community. I'm sure there are fellow female (and other minority) programmers reading the comments on t
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by lindseybieda 15y ago
The overall trend right now shows the opposite: http://rarlindseysmash.com/images/entries/degrees.png this isn't an issue that is going to self correct and people trying to take steps to remedy a problem should not be lambasted by the com
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by lindseybieda 15y ago
http://rarlindseysmash.com/images/entries/degrees.png This is a graph that shows the percent of women receiving degrees in each field - you'll notice that there is a peak and then a sudden drop off for computer science. Though, for actual
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Gender and Entrepreneurs And Who Gets Tired(vanessafox.com)
6 points by lindseybieda 15y ago|0 comments
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Penelope Trunk’s Skewed Perceptions Of The World, Part 2(women2.org)
1 points by lindseybieda 15y ago|0 comments
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by lindseybieda 15y ago
I'm not sure why people still take Penelope Trunk seriously. http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2011/08/16/blueprint-for-a-wom... This should be enough to convince you that she is full of shit. She doesn't practice what she preaches and holds
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Delicious Data: Ethnicity of Computing and the U.S. Population(rarlindseysmash.com)
1 points by lindseybieda 15y ago|0 comments
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by lindseybieda 15y ago
It's often been considered a problem in the states because there is a lack of women in the tech field. The high presence of booth babes at tech related events is rather disturbing for those few women in the field. I'd honestly be more okay
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The Elephant in the Computer Lab(rarlindseysmash.com)
6 points by lindseybieda 15y ago|0 comments
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by lindseybieda 16y ago
I learned photoshop before I learned to program, because I was really interested in art when I was young so I wanted to learn how to color my drawings in it after I scanned them in. My interests took a large shift since then, but I still ca
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by lindseybieda 16y ago
The more interesting aspect is that Javascript and Ruby are equivalent. At least perl/php/python are related.