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If you replace 'sexy' with 'viable', this could make sense for pure sciences. Given the size of a student loan it can take to pay for a degree (especially if you need more than jus…

> hipster is the standard mainstream culture today. Just look around. This is what bothers me so much about the term. Nobody calls themselves a hipster, and in my area at least, no…

This is how I feel about the term. Just read through these comments - everyone has a completely different definition, most of which boil down to a few aspects of some subculture th…

You should probably read this article: http://jezebel.com/5992479/if-i-admit-that-hating-men-is-a-t... Specifically, this part from the bottom of the article: Feminists do not want…

I'm curious how this works for people with long hair. To a certain extent, shampooing less can be great for your hair, for a lot of the reasons discussed in the article about skin …

Anyone who was ever a teenaged girl at any point in their life can confirm that the people who complain the most about drama are generally the people who create the most drama.

There's a piece of info in that article that I think might be a part of the problem: For men, the results were as expected. Hunks were more likely to be called for an interview if …

I think that last sentence is the key point here - it doesn't sound like somewhere that would be a very friendly environment in general. This kind of thing wouldn't happen where I …

This is incredibly false. Any feminist will tell you that most rape does not fit the "large stranger overpowers a woman in the streets" scenario. This is what people are talking ab…

It sounds like this is specifically regarding the engineering teams. The graphic shows only twenty people at all at 37Signals.

This is a really frustrating habit. It's basically demanding that you skip any support queues and get helped before everyone else, because you're airing your discontent publicly.

I like it so far. A lot of it was pretty funny, and then the hexadecimal joke killed me. For anyone else who's enjoying it, you should also check out the TV adaptation of JPod. So …

That's like saying male nurses should be more worried about the lack of female software engineers than the issues in their own field. This is Hacker News, not Construction News.

Thanks, that is exactly what I'm saying.

It's important to be able to see people who look like your potential future self. There's more to it than just seeing neat work - everyone needs role models. Kids are very percepti…

To explain very quickly and generally - a lot of men in CS (and probably in general) tend towards overconfidence, where women with the same skills will be underconfident in themsel…

I don't need to base my opinion off of one guy's account of an incident in a blog post - I have a laundry list of my own very unpleasant experiences as a female developer to base m…

"The only real sexism prevalent in the tech industry are the groups of militant feminists setting up endless, patronizing, segregated "coding for girls" meetups." It's easy for thi…

I'm curious to hear the answer to these questions from a woman's perspective. I met a few lady engineers through IEEE involvement in university who were further along in their care…

I didn't know left handed people faced regular discrimination and sexual harassment.

Trying to silence a feminist by shooting down things that they say that don't align with your out of whack view of feminism isn't going to do one single thing to help with the prob…

It needs the active word to be highlighted more, and ensure that it's z-index is on the top. Ultimately lost the game because the word I'd locked onto got covered up by a bunch of …

This is really neat. I'm really interested in seeing how all these new fancy CSS3/HTML5 features shape the evolution of casual online games. Back in the day it was either static im…

This seems fairly superficial. I suspect that if you factored in where people are living (suburbs versus urban areas), age would seem to make less of a difference. I'm barely withi…