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Some workers are pretty interchangeable. If Sarah can assemble parts at the same rate as Sven, then the employer shouldn't care who does it, right? However, for specialized positio…

Using 'girl' to mean 'someone to whom I am attracted' is a poor choice of words. For one, I assume they are adult women, not girls, that attract you. For another, it alienates a nu…

I bet a huge percentage of people dying are over 65 and have Medicare. You need numbers for those outside of that safety net to compare.

Because you're still working, you get 8-9 hours a day off from being responsible for the immediate care of the baby. Your wife probably feels like she gets zero hours off. Is she e…

The young boys have sometimes been worse than the old ones. When I talk to CTOs in their 30s, I feel like they take me more seriously and much less suspiciously than the 24 year ol…

Maybe it's complicated by the fact that many people transition after the point where they already have ideas or plans for their future careers. One woman I talked to actually trans…

I think scared is appropriate, inasmuch as it's a synonym for afraid. People want to choose a career they feel they can succeed in, and many women feel afraid that they can't succe…

Damn you, auto-correct. That's "agender."

There are people who identify as genderqueer, who don't fit into any gender identity, and people who identify as a gender, who don't have a gender identity.

I've been to a conference for undergraduate GSMs in tech, and while I don't have any statistics, it felt like there were almost as many transwomen/genderqueer presenting as female …

Depression is work. If you haven't done the things your doctor has told you to do, and at least given them an honest effort, that should really be your first step.

I agree. This has just been blown so catastrophically out of proportion, and for no good reason. Neither Adria nor the developers did anything worth getting fired over.

So the jokes weren't sexist. They were still sexual, which was still forbidden.

Tweeting a picture isn't a DEFCON 4 response. I don't really think that it's that problematic- they were breaking the rules of the conference that they had agreed to, and calling s…

I think I would talk to them about what the work is like behind the scenes. Coding is a lot like coming up with a recipe. You have to think really hard about what goes into a cake …

You should either change the way you get random clouds or increase your database. I got a bunch of repeats in very few clicks. If you do it the way that iTunes comes up with a shuf…

You should either change the way you get random clouds or increase your database. I got a bunch of repeats in very few clicks. If you do it the way that iTunes comes up with a shuf…

It doesn't make anybody feel singled out though. People affected by suicide and depression are much less visible of a population, and I think they'd be a lot less likely to have ne…