Ask HN: Would you like to be interviewed about your life as a coder?

Post by drakonka » Thu, Jul 06, 2017, 12:27 PM UTC

owebmaster wrote: post #10

zhte415 wrote: post #7

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Why is it stupid? First, it includes a group of people that do not identify as male or female (physically, or in identity). Then it removes ordinal priority. Take email. In your To: field, who goes first? The person with the email address starting with 'a'? The most senior? A bunch of over-thinking can go into that, which 'people' removes that. Or in email, "Dear All," And then, 'people' could be a team. HN startups…

> And if there was a baby that had changed the world through software, I'd sure like to meet that baby. Children do hack and create things. And kids have influence on others. The smallest thing can inspire another, so yeah, that voice should be included too. Include kids! Or experiences when kids! This is not up to you. It is not your project. "woman and man" are inclusive enough, because they cover 100% born people.…

Post by zachlatta » Fri, Jul 07, 2017, 8:38 PM UTC

greenleek wrote: post #6

whichdan wrote: post #2

I'd recommend changing your tagline from "Meet the men and women..." to "Meet the people..." so that you don't exclude folks who are non-binary or gender-nonconforming.

This is so stupid. So WTF does a person who is neither a man nor woman refer to themselves as? You either have a penis or you don't. Stop twisting the definitions. If you're going to be so asinine about changing it to "people," then hopefully you better not ignore the fact that you're now referring to children and babies, which defeats the entire tone of the website.