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Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers

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Re: Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers

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Post by belorn »

ceol wrote: post #95
belorn wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would that matter? Surely, only those with expenses for attending hacker school can ask for a grant that repays expenses for attending hacker school. Those with expenses for attending a chocolate factory visit can not ask for this grant. That should not be considered when judging who should be granted money regarding expenses for attending hacker school. The chocolate factory has nothing to do with this grant.

> Surely, only those with expenses for attending hacker school can ask for a grant that repays expenses for attending hacker school. They aren't repaying. They're paying. The grant is given so that they don't have to pay. Do you understand exactly what the grant is doing? It's giving money to women who already qualify for the school but can't afford the expenses of living in NYC during their time there. This has noth…

Out of the people who is attending the school, they give a grant to those who qualify the requirement of being a woman. That it. No other qualification or requirements made.

Its true they don't care about chocolate factories. They also don't care about the qualification for attending the school. The way Google will judge the people attending the school is on the single aspect of gender. This is what I said in my first post. Rather than judging people based on their actions, they would rather judge a woman on the basis that she is a woman.

Re: Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers

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Post by belorn »

enneff wrote: post #100
belorn wrote: post #33

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While a noble view, its is obviously not shared by Google. They would rather judge a woman on the basis that she is a woman.

The grants are not merit based, so Google is not judging these women at all. The grants are to help restore the gender imbalance in software engineering. You seem to be having trouble understanding this.

Not all judgments are merit based.

Re: Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers

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Post by Lizzardhisss »

psbp wrote: post #19
eru wrote: post #13

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Go for it. In the worst case, you have a secret weapon in whatever other non-coding career you are pursuing.

Not according to a majority of commenters in the Obama coding thread.

Well, I'm in the gaming industry right now, so at the very least learning how to code could just fill out my skill set. I think there is a difference between pushing something like coding vs teaching or nursing. Yes, in many cases pushing people to enter those fields where there was a deficit at the time will flood them with applicants later on. However, we aren't really building many more schools or hospitals. But more and more companies need people who can code. And more and professions rely on, or at least benefit from knowing how to code. Years ago animation had nothing to do with coding, but now knowing python or action script is almost required.

Re: Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers

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Post by eru »

Lizzardhisss wrote: post #103
psbp wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not according to a majority of commenters in the Obama coding thread.

Well, I'm in the gaming industry right now, so at the very least learning how to code could just fill out my skill set. I think there is a difference between pushing something like coding vs teaching or nursing. Yes, in many cases pushing people to enter those fields where there was a deficit at the time will flood them with applicants later on. However, we aren't really building many more schools or hospitals. But m…

Any profession that teaches computing can benefit from some coding skills. (And similarly, any profession where you ever produce some written words can benefit from learning how to write well.)

Re: Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers

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Post by voidr »

I find this sexist, it discriminates against men. If it would be the other way around we would see an endless stream of blogposts on HN complaining about how sexist Google is. This right here is a good example of the damage the hypocrite feminists are doing to the industry.

Programming should not be about how you were born, it should be about skills and merit.

Re: Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers

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Post by eru »

eru wrote: post #104
Lizzardhisss wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, I'm in the gaming industry right now, so at the very least learning how to code could just fill out my skill set. I think there is a difference between pushing something like coding vs teaching or nursing. Yes, in many cases pushing people to enter those fields where there was a deficit at the time will flood them with applicants later on. However, we aren't really building many more schools or hospitals. But m…

Any profession that teaches computing can benefit from some coding skills. (And similarly, any profession where you ever produce some written words can benefit from learning how to write well.)

'teaches' -> 'touches'.

Re: Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers

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Post by mostafaberg »

CmonDev wrote: post #55
mostafaberg wrote: post #34

Consider this, what if the title was "Google sponsors over $150k of grants for male programmers" ?

Then it would've been sexist. Did no one tell you being a white straight healthy male is a crime?

Exactly ;), that's why I'm always hiding from the world behind my screens !
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