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Just because other issues exists in the world doesn't invalidate issues elsewhere. There will always be someone who has it worse than you. The next time you talk about your "feels"…

I think the part where she pointed out that not every sexist thing is overtly sexist really resonated with me. Not everything is so blatant that you can report it. If I confronted …

I think you hit the nail on the head here and probably why so many engineering jobs are gained through personal referrals instead of cold resumes. I know that's how I got hired at …

I just started using this and I'm already a complete convert! I've been using google keep, any.do, and google calendar to keep track of slightly different things since no one app f…

You're right, she totally should have "battled for relevancy" despite being called a "slut" and a "whore" while the CEO does nothing about it. Obviously, she just wasn't trying har…

It also seems quite arbitrary to compare LOC's between all those products. It seems like it would vary greatly depending on the language and other factors (No idea of the metric in…

It really gives "famous last words" a whole new meaning since all your tweets and Facebook statuses are forever immortalized. It makes me wonder what seemingly mundane thing will b…

It's very unsettling. I'm still in college but I've had a couple friends who have passed. I just don't have the heart to unfriend their accounts. Once in a while, I'll be browsing …

This happened with the first friend I ever made taking my CS degree. We were in a lot of classes together and corresponded on a semi-regular basis on Facebook over school breaks an…

I think this is an interesting point. I remember being so intimidated when I started my CS degree thinking that software developers just "know" all these things. Now, I know me and…

I think it's definitely possible to flood the market, it's just difficult to make that generalization because STEM can mean a wide variety of things. There's so many STEM fields th…

Well, frankly, STEM has a reputation of being hard because, well, it IS difficult. It requires certain kinds of critical thinking that the K-12 education system can fail to adequat…

Hell, my job is programming and even the estimates I give are probably wrong.

Yeah, same thing for me. The action was too quick for me to notice that it was intentional. I would just leave the help window open on first time use until the user decides to clos…

This is a bummer but I admire how they've handled the acquisition. I was an avid user of Punchfork until its acquisition and was bummed with the way they handled user data (More in…

Really neat. I was really itching to use CTRL+Z though. I screwed up the first image I tried to clip. Maybe have a walkthrough of the features when the user first uses it? I didnt …

Endorsements have lost all meaning whatsoever. 3 people have endorsed me for OS X for some reason even though I don't have it listed in my skills. I've never owned an Apple product…

There's always this one: https://twitter.com/Horse_Recruiter

Meh, doesn't seem worth paying $350 just find out about new Dropbox products when it'll probably be on Hacker News the same day they make the announcement anyway. :)

To be fair, Django has excellent documentation and a great online community of bloggers and people to poke with questions. I've rarely come to a situation where I was truly off on …

Well, it's interesting to note that Tammy Glotfelty, the prosecutor who decided to giver her two felony charges, but decided not to charge another (white) teenager who shot and kil…

There was a blog post a couple days ago that said it really well: http://trishkhoo.com/2013/04/i-knew-exactly-how-she-felt/ "that’s what happens when we hold events for women in IT…

While I agree it would be silly or her to refuse to go just based on some club she was in in high school, I'd be willing to bet she's been exposed to more women in tech groups thro…

I'm really glad to see an article like this and it's exactly how I feel about a lot of women in tech events. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only woman who feels this way and it's a …

Have you seen the state of some government websites today? Sure they're "minimal" (often not, sometimes they're just plain ugly) but almost always difficult to navigate. You undere…