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needlessly2

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    Comment #15015891

    >Would you rather hire someone with an official degree from a community college or someone that attended a CS Academy and worked for three years? obviously, one would eventually tr…

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    Comment #15015106

    i'm actually not down voting you. However, other people are.

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    Comment #15015101

    because we shouldn't encourage young boys gender equality?? you're dumb

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    Comment #15011674

    years ago, diversity had almost nothing to do with women. It was about underrepresented minorities such as Blacks, Latinos, etc.. It didn't really pertain to white women

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    Comment #15011644

    what if we started young boys to get interested in gender studies?

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    Comment #15008979

    okay. stop throwing a tantrum because you were wrong

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    Comment #14994247

    >You can't arbitrarily say that the line stops at one thing I never said that or implied that. You misinterpreted. It makes zero sense to bring up rape when talking about this Goog…

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    Comment #14993542

    >$120k is San Fran could easily be a worse quality of life than $40k in Central America (too broad to say for certain). this is the dumbest thing i've heard today. Stop exaggeratin…

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    Comment #14992917

    >Many don't know their way around a UNIX environment and have never written code outside IntelliJ on a fancy macbook i'm pretty sure you mean Windows. Developing on Windows is most…

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    Comment #14992795

    i'm always confused when people confuse males in tech as fratty. It makes zero sense. And it shows a lack of understanding in males. For the most part, guys who code for fun are mo…

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    Comment #14992038

    >I think this whole claiming that being a victim as a self-fulfilling prophecy is flawed. It's hard to say a trans woman who's been murdered or raped had it coming. wow, looks like…

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    Comment #14991117

    >“She’s good for a woman, so even though she doesn’t do as well as that guy, she still gets the same scores because she’s in the women’s league.” But it would still be viewed as se…

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    Comment #14990837

    This a little bit of overlap, but I don't think there's significant overlap between gamers and software developers. Writing code and playing a video are two very different experien…

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    Comment #14990719

    as far as i know, the forum part is not true. It was emailed internally to a bunch of people

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    Comment #14989286

    for liberals, it reinforces preconceived notion in tech. and also because the media has lots of power.

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    Comment #14984308

    i've always noticed that there are more loner guys than loner girls.

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    Comment #14984269

    i'm a guy and i don't enjoy video games any more. I just feel i've grown out of that phase when I was 15. I'd rather go swimming, hiking, and try out different restaurants/bars.

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    Comment #14983956

    also doctors and lawyers already have 70+ hour weeks. They're too exhausted for any side projects. Easier to do that if you have a 40 hour week

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    Comment #14983793

    >The founders themselves often started programming as kids i'm not sure where you get this conclusion that those who enjoy extracurricular programming often started as kids. Usuall…

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    Comment #14983271

    I kind of disagree with the gaming part. I'm almost sure that most hardcore gamers actually never become part of the CS/SWE crowd because of video game addiction. Gaming and softwa…

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    Comment #14968229

    this is very dumb. Facebook allows you to reconnect with old friends more easily or meet new people in person. YouTube has some of the best resources to learn software development,…

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    Comment #14968085

    > it's so complicated >fails to actually explain anything at all, except for saying "plz don't down vote me" and a bunch of random generalizations

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    Comment #14968055

    and why would men at Google ask for raises while women at Google would not? Obviously, both groups have competitive skills in the industry. I'm sure you will bring up the studies t…

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    Comment #14967953

    >dynamic of personal choices and psychology is so complicated and so contingent to personal background and current state So these women choose to have lower salaries even though th…

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    Comment #14967914

    For Google, the rope was already dosed in kerosene. The guy who wrote the manifesto just lit the fire.