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This poll is probably meaningless, but it is a good indication of how many people read HN on Sunday afternoon. 80 votes in 20 minutes, or so. Edit: OK, actually 85 in 19 :)
Have we established how many of us post from what time zone?
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We should care. We like to believe that all our differences do not make a difference, but fortunately and unfortunately they do. For example if YC funds more startups with women you will not see the impact in the next 2 years. But 10 years from now those veterans would have encouraged several younger women to get into technical fields. Everyone will benefit from that. I have had the chance to meet and work with a cou…
Ah, but should YC make a concerted effort to fund startups with women because 'everyone will benefit eventually'? That's hardly fair.
I don't think one needs to look at what good could come of it in the future to consider investing in female-led startups a good idea.
Who cares.
We should care. We like to believe that all our differences do not make a difference, but fortunately and unfortunately they do. For example if YC funds more startups with women you will not see the impact in the next 2 years. But 10 years from now those veterans would have encouraged several younger women to get into technical fields. Everyone will benefit from that. I have had the chance to meet and work with a cou…
I've asked before
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=553145
if any of you know of online discussion sites with a more balanced ratio of male and female participants. I didn't get any answers the last time I asked. The most balanced site I participate on is College Confidential,
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/
which doesn't seem noticeably skewed to me one way or the other.
Who cares.
We should care. We like to believe that all our differences do not make a difference, but fortunately and unfortunately they do. For example if YC funds more startups with women you will not see the impact in the next 2 years. But 10 years from now those veterans would have encouraged several younger women to get into technical fields. Everyone will benefit from that. I have had the chance to meet and work with a cou…
Who cares.
Please stop :( The whole "women in tech", Rails porn thing, please just end it now.
Female here, just voted. I just wanted to say I love Hacker News. I'm an introvert and a nerd before I am a female, so I am of course drawn to Hacker News because it's a great place to find other over-sensitive folks who take themselves, their questions, and other peoples' questions very seriously. As others point out again and again, the quality of discourse here is just really high. Secondarily, but still present,…
don't not read a book because of it's cover. the emphasis on intellectually interesting articles and discussion, as well as culturally and directly moderated civil discourse, is awesome. it makes anyone's presence here more about content than gender or immaturity.
there are certainly comments that make me cringe, but i doubt that is primarily a gender thing.
Semi-relevant: http://xkcd.com/385/ EDIT: I've actually seen this in action. I spoke up about it, and got complete incomprehension in return. People really, really don't notice that they have these sorts of attitudes, and it stinks. Related: http://dev.linuxchix.losurs.org/?q=node/10 I'm leaving my gender unspecified.
Off-topic, I asked the same question on another thread without a response. Other then generic attitude issues, have you ever seen a case of a woman programmer being discriminated against? In my experience, due to their rarity and the environment they tend to be treated very well, both professionally and socially.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
We should care. We like to believe that all our differences do not make a difference, but fortunately and unfortunately they do. For example if YC funds more startups with women you will not see the impact in the next 2 years. But 10 years from now those veterans would have encouraged several younger women to get into technical fields. Everyone will benefit from that. I have had the chance to meet and work with a cou…
Ah, but should YC make a concerted effort to fund startups with women because 'everyone will benefit eventually'? That's hardly fair.