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Many people who speak about diversity in tech don't actually have experiences in engineering so they don't understand that race and gender are not that important in engineering. En…

No hate on teachers but generally speaking, teachers are not the ambitious type. The school of education at many universities is seen as a joke for people who wanted to party all d…

Is it even a benefit to work instead of taking these hiatuses? Parenthood can be a vacation or hard work depending on whether you are a good or bad parent. Just being a parent does…

It's not ridiculous because the alternative is almost impossible to quantify and calculate

The onus is on the person claiming sexism to prove that the disparities in promotions are the result of sexism.

I hope companies uninterested in the data go undercover as potential buyers and expose these extensions. Maybe we can crowdsource a purchase to expose them.

The tech industry shouldn't aim for perfection. It should aim for the average level of negative experiences across all industries, meaning it should have as many of these cases as …

Meta: What do we think about this type of native advertising? Is this allowed on HN?

I'm not sure if creep is the best word to use here. Creep is a gendered term like slut or bitch.

Yes because tech is much more culturally diverse, with large amounts of immigrants and second generation children of immigrants. If you've ever worked at a large tech company, you …

> This is people being assholes because they know they can get away with it. The sentiment among many men working in the tech industry is that you can get crucified for making even…

The most logical and clear answer for me (assuming I didn't already screw up by making assumptions about the data format, problem definition, etc.) is: 1. Figure out which appointm…

Has anyone thought of a good redundancy scheme for yubikey? Physical object authentication is great except physical objects are less durable than brain memory (or at least, if my b…

Engaging in identity politics opens up pandora's box :). Men have a more difficult time obtaining social, emotional and physical intimacy with other people (in both romantic and pl…

That's not really relevant since both situations most likely have similar ratios of occurrence when comparing tech to those fields. I can imagine that bosses in the business develo…

Don't work in tech? Business development/marketing/real estate fields are full of young people who boink all the time. It actually happens much less frequently in tech because of t…

Anything that isn't scientific or technical in nature gets downvoted, including posts from the other end of the spectrum like false rape accusations and gamergate. The exception is…

The sales tax in canada is brutal

Or any company with a low % of Americans. Many big tech companies and unicorns have a high immigrant %. There is very high cultural and background diversity in these companies desp…

Attacking someone for ignorance is very unproductive

In most tech contexts, diversity means racial and gender appearance-only diversity. There is very little to no thought put into background or cultural diversity. The different grou…

Specifically getting a CS degree might not be worth it but most bootcampers have a college degree. The selective bootcamps give a priority to people with STEM degrees from good sch…

It's still very trivial to tell a customer rep that you lost your SIM card and have the rep send all new communication to the phone number to a separate SIM card with a pre paid ph…

I remember looking up a list of the cost of tuition + room of colleges somewhere and there were at least 100 colleges that were > $55,000.