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Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by sigi45 »

Thrillington wrote: post #265
brokenmachine wrote: post #237

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> non-male In what way are the genitals of a programming blog author relevant?

It's now been 2 days since this was posted to hacker news. Here's the gender breakdown for the recommended posts: 209 unique males were mentioned 280 times 21 unique females were mentioned 26 times Excluding GP's comment 14 unique females were mentioned 18 times That ratio of 209 male voices to 21 female is the reason the genitals of a programming blog author is relevant. *There were 11 mentions where I was unable to…

Why?

There are studies who say that 90% of developers are male.

10% from 209 is 21.

Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by KingMob »

exadeci wrote: post #259
wingerlang wrote: post #249

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While the person writing the post pointed it out, only one of the blogs seemed to be about her gender* while the others didn't even mention it as far as I saw. * http://mina.codes/# (extremely so, if I may add)

Of course, I was talking about the fact that, this comment is the second on this thread and that many women act this way. The best programming girls are usually the ones that don't waste their time with this representation of their gender.

Wow.

I'll bet some of them talk about gender/feminism/discrimination/etc because of men still calling them "girls".

Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by ssteigen »

limedaring wrote: post #129

Some amazing non-male developers: — Jen Simmons: http://labs.jensimmons.com/ — Julia Evans: https://jvns.ca/ — Lea Verou: http://lea.verou.me/ — Mina Markham: http://mina.codes/ — Sara Soueidan: https://sarasoueidan.com/articles/ — Sarah Mei: http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/ — Ana Tudor: https://thebabydino.github.io/ — Anna Debenham: http://www.maban.co.uk/

I just created an account specifically so I could thank you for posting this list.

I had never heard of any of these developers before, and now I'm following several of them.

I feel inspired. :)

Re: Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Post by har777 »

limedaring wrote: post #129

Some amazing non-male developers: — Jen Simmons: http://labs.jensimmons.com/ — Julia Evans: https://jvns.ca/ — Lea Verou: http://lea.verou.me/ — Mina Markham: http://mina.codes/ — Sara Soueidan: https://sarasoueidan.com/articles/ — Sarah Mei: http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/ — Ana Tudor: https://thebabydino.github.io/ — Anna Debenham: http://www.maban.co.uk/

Thank you for this !!
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