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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
You're right that "pundit class" is too inflammatory. I've edited my comment. > Should I believe that there's no systematic discrimination? How would I be confident that there's not any? Nobody can prove th
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Right: nobody bonds over building shareholder value. They bond over shared interests. But there are no _universal_ interests, so team-building is a quandary. I think the best you can do is rotate events and make sure most people are interes
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Look at the other extreme: the idea that I might be discouraged (or disallowed) from bonding with my coworkers over shared interests sounds dystopian. You might argue that workplaces shouldn't endorse one particular subculture over an
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
If I understand your parable correctly, you're suggesting that men deliberately mock and reject women trying to enter the field. In my experience, nothing could be further from the truth. I have never, not once, witnessed the behavior
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
A diversity of technical perspectives can be helpful, but there's no reason to suppose that 1) gender diversity correlates to a diversity of technical perspectives, or that 2) to achieve a diversity of technical perspectives, we need t
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
So, for clarity: your answer to my second question is "no, such a world is inherently unfair"? > Programming is a purely intellectual activity, so I would argue that there is no gender or racial advantage one way or the other.
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
You misunderstand. I'm not making a statement on the cause of the gender disparity in computer science. I'm making a higher-order argument about why we're so apt to attribute this difference to discrimination. I hope you unde
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
I don't understand the connection between beer and nerd culture --- or masculine culture, actually, since plenty of women I know love beer.
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
> against its wishes That's the bone of contention here. Nobody is keeping women out of computer science; they're largely just preferring not to enter the field. The point of the article, echoed by many commentators over the pa
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Do you think that in a fair world, it is necessarily the case that every profession is a microcosm of the population as a whole? Let me ask a different way: in a world where no unjustice exists, is it possible for programming to be 80% men?
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
> Why is this a problem First-order logic: if (A AND ~B -> ~C) AND C, then (~A OR B). The persistence of the gender gap in technology despite decades of effort to "fix" it is an annoying refutation of the blank-slate theory
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
I vouched for wtbob's comment. It's important to air these concerns in public; some participants in debates on this topic quickly resort to censorship. I read the deleted comment, and in this instance, and in this instance, the de
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
If the vast majority of HN participants are male, the leaderboard composition is a function of demographics, not some kind of "man filter" you've had to overcome. If your username is so generic that people frequently misgende
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
I think sharing culture can create an esprit de corps, improving morale and group cohesion, especially in times of crisis.
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
> Women are frequently treated in a dismissive fashion by men. Everyone is treated in a dismissive fashioned by everyone . Only evidence and careful reasoning can rebut this default policy. You have presented none. It galls me you int
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Why do you value attention at $0?
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
You're advocating for sterile, culture-less workplaces. You're free to do that, and companies are free to implement your proposed policies. Personally, I wouldn't work for a company that prohibited my expressing nerd culture.
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Yes, I am dismissing your anecdote as mere coincidence. I can't justify on an intellectual basis doing anything else. Am I supposed to just listen and believe? > I have formally and informally studied certain things about social psy
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
> This childhood self-discrimination...needs to be fixed I'm baffled by how you can believe that individual choice can be a problem that needs to be fixed. Do you believe that people should be directed into non-traditional fields ag
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
You have an anecdote. I don't know the timeframe for the events you described, but it's a widespread international connectivity to the internet developed much later outside the US than it did inside it, so all things being equal,
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
The basic dogma of the modern activist is that reality follows language and culture, which implies that if activists can only adequately police language and fiction, real life will eventually match their desires. The world doesn't work
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
This article isn't talking about taking away "exclusive access to jobs" from men. It's hinting at separating geek culture from software development. Let's be honest: the two interests correlate well. You're tal
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
> It does, however, make it harder for most women to participate here I've seen many people make this claim, but I haven't seen anyone back it up with evidence. What do you mean by "harder"? Do you mean "more dif
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Let's suppose I worked at a desk next to yours, and one day, I brought in an elaborate lego Millennium Falcon to put next to my monitor. Would you support a policy that required me to remove this icon of geekdom in the name of making t
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
It's very sad how many people (both male and female) I knew growing up were "extremely good at math and science" until they ran headlong into anti-intellectual American high school culture. I saw people who loved science fict
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Let's suppose that most HN readers are men. There's no obvious gender signaling in your username. (It's two letters long, after all.) What's wrong with someone using the male pronoun as a default until being corrected? D
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
I believe that girls and boys naturally (either through differences in neural architecture, hormone exposure, or early acculturation) simply have different average preferences, and that these preferences manifest over their lifetimes as dif
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
This gem is in the comments: > The average programmer spends only about 30 percent of his/her time working alone. That's nowhere close to my figure. In fact, I can pretty much _only_ program alone. Individual investigation and
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Being gay is fine as far as the influencer class is concerned though. Imagine the brouhaha that would have resulted if instead he'd, say, been outed as being opposed to abortion.
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Substitute the tech buzzwords for real estate ones and your terrifying comment could have come straight out of 2007. You shouldn't be building anything to "flip". That attitude does not lead to a society full of people doing

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