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Source: https://twitter.com/starsandrobots/status/994267277460619265

Here's another example, written before this whole incident: https://twitter.com/corbett/status/994012399656042496

I remember there was an episode on the podcast The Daily where Michael Barbaro interviewed a reporter who worked on the Harvey Weinstein story. I think they said that The New York …

I guess time will tell. Before Travis left Uber was without a COO, CFO, CMO, SVP of business, and SVP of engineering. I recall reading something about how they were having trouble …

Anyone who says that this guy's opinion shouldn't matter should consider that he likely interviews female candidates, sits on hiring committees that evaluate female candidates, dec…

As a former Girl Scout I think this is excellent. I think it'll be much easier to get girls to explore STEM activities if it's associated with an organization they're already invol…

I can't wait for drones to deliver organic quinoa straight to my door.

Especially as a younger female engineer, I consciously try to avoid looking younger since people consistently underestimate my technical abilities. I'm also average height for a wo…

That's definitely true, and I would argue that "casual work attire" is even more ambiguous for women. One of the things I realized during my first internship is that "casual" and "…

The gender wage gap does exist. It's simply a fact that women earn less than men. The real question then, is why. Is it because sexist managers pay women less money than men? Are w…

As another user posted I would say the university Facebook meme pages have filled the void left by Yik Yak: inside jokes for people in your school. It's not anonymous, but the gene…

Suppose the amount of sexism in Silicon Valley is average, or even below average. Do you think that means there's nothing we can do and that we should just accept it as a fact of l…

True, but her claims haven't been denied by anyone. And a lot of her claims should have a paper trail. Either she was propositioned by her manager over corp chat, or she wasn't. Ei…

> To generate excitement for X-Men: Apocalypse, 20th Century Fox ran a Sponsored Lens campaign that let users turn themselves into the iconic characters in the upcoming movie. In o…

I believe the difference is that Apple/Google are okay with turning over user data on a case-by-case basis provided there's a proper subpoena from a judge, but not okay with buildi…

If you're saying this to suggest that students from Stanford or similar schools are able to attain better offers, then sure. If you're saying this to suggest that companies give st…

Sometimes the district lines can change depending on what year you enter the school, which could split up siblings, but I'm pretty sure this is still the exception and not the norm…

Regressive taxes are usually not very popular.

I haven't been able to find an academic study specifically looking at software engineering or tech jobs, but there are other studies I've seen that send out identical resumes (with…

I use GitHub, but I concede Bitbucket has cooler features (free private repos, password protected repos, etc). It can't beat GitHub's UI/UX and community though.

I've contributed to the development of Signal 2.0, and you can also check out this blog post. https://whispersystems.org/blog/signal/ On Android you can use RedPhone for secure cal…

For desktop- https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Browser

I grew up in the Bay Area and that sounds about right. To live comfortably while raising a family in a South Bay suburb you pretty much need both parents making six figure salaries…