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It seems like a borderline example. I feel that the "brogrammer" stereotype was invented up mainly because the nerd stereotype was too sympathetic. I'm genuinely curious if there a…

Did I say that persecuted nerds have the right to cordon off CS as a refuge for their culture? I thought that I said the opposite. Your later comments suggest that you break things…

Note I'm submitting this article with with its title unchanged, but the story is more notable for having been removed from Forbes as a violation of their terms of service. I think …

This was a very well written and balanced article. I want to contribute a reason why I think that many men in tech hold back from fully endorsing this viewpoint. The reason is that…

It makes sense. Advertising is inefficient, wasting people's time and attention for the gain of the advertiser. Advertisements have long been used as a form of micropayment, to fun…

If one looks at GDP per capita or life expectancy, progress did not stop or slow in the 50's. I think the main difference is that progress is now made in much smaller increments. E…

I don't go out of my way to modify my language (although I can see how without extra context, like the fact that I met these people at a social event not a professional event, you …

I thought the principle you and the other poster were arguing for, was to minimize conflict. In the case of "bro" the conflict arises from a feminist critique of the word's usage i…

I agree. The intentionally prevocational logo (a Menorah) has put me off CLISP[0], I would guess many others too. [0] See the explanation at http://www.clisp.org/impnotes/faq.html#…

Sounds like the real asshole is the person who instead of trying to understand and critique people with different opinions, simply lambasts them as "assholes". A great example of t…

The worst stories of sexual harassment I've heard have always been from women in the social sciences. I commented on this to two girls doing PhD's in social psychology, who were de…

I would like to see nerd elitism and nerd bashing both stop. Some people claim that to be a programmer you need to have a certain personality or hobbies, and this is wrong. But ner…

But people complaining about "corporate censorship" are smart well informed people? How is internet.org controlling what website people get to see different from, for example, YouT…

I wasn't saying that Facebook should be regulated like shopping malls. I was saying that people who say that private censorship is not problematic, do not have an answer for things…

I hope this gives some pause for people who advocate the XKCD line on free speech[0]. While not every platform should be required to host every kind of content, when a platform bec…

Article reposted here: http://techraptor.net/content/there-is-no-diversity-crisis-i...

Unqualified as I am, I feel compelled to give some commentary. This is the real deal. As the article describes, the Nobel Prize was awarded for a discovery of facts that are incons…

>countless new techbros with no respect for Seattle culture who spend 11hrs/day at work and don't have time to develop a personality romping around town give it a real bad reputati…

And creating "fragile" models because they don't have the tools to reproduce their own experiments. How many authors of academic papers in ML could reproduce the exact same results…

Yet another way that privileged White males from the tech industry oppress women.

In my high school they didn't know the word "techie" so they had a different word for kids they considered quite and boring. Ironically it was the same word they used to describe p…

I'm guessing that he means that his work is closely related to arithmetic geometry (which I was once told was one of the hardest fields in pure math), and so someone with no backgr…