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> I think these are legitimate questions They are, and the fact that you even have to defend asking them is a non-trivial indicator of how bat-shit crazy the thinking has gotten on…

> BTW Temple University is not an HBCU Which means that instead of one HBCU being ranked on the US News list of best colleges for Computer Science [1] (albeit at the very bottom), …

Sounds like you've found a great indicator of skill then - "does not have a CS degree."

"There exists a young man with no legs who has a stellar collegiate wrestling record. There also exists an athlete in the most prestigious wrestling program in the country who alwa…

> With the exception of #1, it seems all of these strategies are aimed at eliminating signals that skew heavily toward elite-educated men so that the top of your funnel is more div…

> edit: and about "open source" contributions; ethnic minorities and women are far more likely to have worked in large corporations rather than in open source or startups, because …

The fact that a CS degree is neither necessary nor sufficient for being a good programmer does not mean it is a worthless data point.

If I get an applicant who cannot or will not understand what a thought experiment is, they're not getting an interview - I don't care what college they went to. And yes, I register…

> Summary: not discriminating against applicants before speaking to them based on where they're from, where they've worked, what school they went to, how long they've been in the p…