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Is that a serious question? 'Cause I can think of enough ways women are made to feel unwelcome at these events without the added bonuses of envy and/or resentment.

No, because I don't get to tell you what to do. All I get to do is tell you what I think, and I think you cried "Troll!" at someone's honest attempt to participate in a discussion.…

I don't regard rape as a fate worse than death. It should be regarded as a crime worthy of prosecution to the fullest extent of the law, and right now it isn't. If people in the ar…

An attack on culture is not an attack on community. You're part of the community by default, but you can be better than the failings of its culture. No one is baiting anyone here e…

Everyone has hormones, most people have sex drives, and a lot of people drink. It's only the douchebags that attribute their awful behavior to the mysterious power of physiology an…

Your comment should get downvoted to oblivion for its sheer lack of originality, panache, and basic human empathy, but let me humor you with a response: When 1 in N women can serve…

As a longtime Apple product fanslave I've got to say, something like this would be welcome competition. Apple's obsession with sickly-sweet sentimentality (seriously, who uses Face…

You might want to update that link, as it lands you on page 3 of the article.

I think kids (usually boys) with behavioral problems getting misdiagnosed with ADHD is more due to the conformist structure of our godawful school system than delusional parents. P…

I appreciate the attempted compliment. It's nice to consider myself interesting and clever. Unfortunately, it's not so nice when I'm unmedicated to lose my train of thought constan…

Revised: NYT: Ahem. LINKBAIT!!!!!114!234 Okay, now that I have your attention: "News!" BB: facepalm You're really not helping. NYT: Oh and PS, Pao's husband is TEH GAY!!!! BB: Seri…

> Apart from that, saying that women did not contribute enough to the Internet, is like saying black people did not contribute enough to the invention of cars; it's mostly true, bu…

> For every woman who contributed in some way to the founding of the internet, there were hundreds of men. That's just reality, and to use that fact to argue any point about the st…

So has anyone here crashed a conference or convention? I've wanted to but haven't for fear of someone recognizing me.

And certainly flies in the face of the whole "women at startups are a liability because they could be pulled away from work by having babies" arguments we were seeing last week in …

My inaugural post to HN. Article is by Faruk Ateş of Modernizr with writing help from me and a couple other badasses. Hope y'all enjoy.

Then please, tell us what we should be doing, in concrete examples, to ensure equal opportunity for historically disadvantaged minorities in this industry. Honestly, I'm all ears.

Durr hurr yeah cuz women complain all the time about stupid shit amirite fellas? You are the problem.

Way to assume every founder is a straight guy.

It would be really great if one could view the pertinent parts of this site (users' pages) on an iPhone, but "WHOAH THIS IS MOBILE!" is the redirect I'm getting. Sigh.