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Lines of code is not, and will never be a metric for gauging project contribution. Most of that 850,000 lines of code is likely boilerplate setup code.

I'm really glad that option is there. I had an emergency involving a seizing dog and a round trip to the vets office. The driver was incredible and would have gotten a whole $9 if …

I worked in a US based office for a global company. The benefits were pretty awesome- down to them paying for my home internet, but our US based benefits were still quite weak when…

Women also have to deal with those arrogant colleagues, and then we get to deal with the outright sexist ones and the ones who don't realize they are treating us differently becaus…

>That's more of a consequence of the erosion of anonymity in the Internet, than you being a woman. No it's a consequence of men seeking out my social profiles on other sites and of…

>getting along takes work, takes giving people the benefit of the doubt, and it takes leaving your ego at the door. And once again, why do you think that women haven't already exam…

I always give people the benefit of the doubt? Why would you think that women aren't? I am an awkward person with social anxiety. The idea that women like myself aren't already doi…

Why would you think that women are looking for something to get offended about? If I was looking for something to get offended about I wouldn't hide behind male usernames on Stacko…

I am a female programmer in my mid thirties. I've had careers before tech, I learn new things all the time. I have the ability to tell the difference when someone is treating me a …

Can you show an example of this?

>I don't know if it's a poorly throught through PR stunt or if it's just a vanity / mid-life crisis thing, but it sure wasn't executed smartly. Or he just wanted to do what he thou…

I make at least one round trip flight at least once a week. The thoroughness and extent of my search varies greatly depending on which co-workers I am traveling with. When I am tra…

This made me realize I don't even own an FM radion anymore. I need to grab one for my emergency kit.

Jumping between projects can also be seen as spreading knowledge and good practices around. It would probably be much easier for them to stick to one thing but that wouldn't fully …

I spent an obsessive night searching through documents via online 'reading rooms'. I don't have the links anymore but theres mounds of documentation showing intelligence agencies d…

Men and women are socialized in different ways. You're using an awful lot of conjecture to make points I wasn't touching and never intended to. When either gender does something ou…

Clearly that individual is not representative of any culture or larger movement. It also has nothing to do with this conversation.

There are so many little things you can do to make everyone feel welcome and comfortable, a lot of companies do these things for women and minorities but everyone benefits. -regula…

I think they are talking about tech buses, not public transit.

>Maybe I'm too geeky and other people actually need physical humans like themself to cling to? :) That's a weird idea. A huge issue is that many, many people don't recognize that n…

Women are socialized to be more social. https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

The PDX Ruby meetup had so many women, the feeling was amazing! People were far more social before and after the meetup than anything I every witness in SF, and I try to go to 2-3 …

Women in Tech aren't a hive mind. Like the author states out everyone is different. Heck, there even differences in companies, regions, industries, ect. The reason I point this out…

Yep. My employer based insurance was cheap but they dropped me when I got cancer. They wouldn't have covered much anyway I later found out.