So a female programmer walks into a bar…
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#3What a creative job advertisement.
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#4What a creative job advertisement.
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#5I'd like to acknowledge the courage of Gosia to put something like this online. (Original post: http://ineedmorehobbies.wordpress.com/2014/05/28/so-a-female... )
It frustrates and angers me knowing the article will almost certainly draw asinine comments and threats that are wholly inappropriate.
It takes a kind of bravery I'm not sure I have, and I can't tell if I do because it isn't required when I write.
The reasons it's needed aside, the signal of this blog that this is a safe place for women to work is important.
To the author, well done, and know that support is out there.
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#6What a creative job advertisement.
Honestly I was expecting a little more meat in the article, and it turned out not to be primarily an article.
On the other hand, I'd love to work with female programmers more. The one I had the pleasure to work with had good insight, took care of legacy code like only a mother can, and documented every wtf line tenfold.
There might be tasks men are genetically more suited to, but women could also bring a lot to the table.
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#7This is a terrible PR article but we might actually need more of these.
That's basically how one changes social stigmas in a society/industry. Just make sure all cool places are doing the exact opposite of unwanted behaviour. If that's not possible, then everybody needs to fake it with PR stunts like this until everyone else believes that's the thing to do.
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#8What a creative job advertisement.
Honestly I was expecting a little more meat in the article, and it turned out not to be primarily an article. On the other hand, I'd love to work with female programmers more. The one I had the pleasure to work with had good insight, took care of legacy code like only a mother can, and documented every wtf line tenfold. There might be tasks men are genetically more suited to, but women could also bring a lot to the t…
Did you just characterize documentation as women's work? Not every woman developer wants to maintain your legacy code while you go off and write features...
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#9What a creative job advertisement.
Honestly I was expecting a little more meat in the article, and it turned out not to be primarily an article. On the other hand, I'd love to work with female programmers more. The one I had the pleasure to work with had good insight, took care of legacy code like only a mother can, and documented every wtf line tenfold. There might be tasks men are genetically more suited to, but women could also bring a lot to the t…
That is the most back-handed set of compliments I've seen in a while - you're doing a great job of entrenching the "HN is irredeemably sexist" image so many people already have.
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#10What a creative job advertisement.
Honestly I was expecting a little more meat in the article, and it turned out not to be primarily an article. On the other hand, I'd love to work with female programmers more. The one I had the pleasure to work with had good insight, took care of legacy code like only a mother can, and documented every wtf line tenfold. There might be tasks men are genetically more suited to, but women could also bring a lot to the t…
> There might be tasks men are genetically more suited to, but
I'm sure that was intended as praise, but it falls short. Astonishingly far short.