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'Too hot to be an engineer' – women mark Ada Lovelace Day

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Post by MelissaJawa »

pswilson14 wrote: post #7
tsotha wrote: post #5

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>It really isn't that hard to avoid saying offensive and distasteful things to women (or anyone else, actually). No, actually, for some guys it is hard. If it's not hard for you, well, that's great. But the world is full of clumsy men.

Part of professional life is understanding how to communicate with others and how to know before you say something how it will be taken. Some people aren't good at this, and those people should work on it until they get better at it. I wouldn't blame anyone who makes an honest effort. But many more people in my experience simply aren't interested in learning how to communicate with people that are different from them…

Thank you. Blaming "PC Culture" is people being on the ignorant defensive.

Re: 'Too hot to be an engineer' – women mark Ada Lovelace Day

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Post by OJFord »

dragonwriter wrote: post #19
OJFord wrote: post #17

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Really? I would prefer 'code-sharing service' even if the point is to emphasise the sharing over the version control - makes it clear that we're talking about the program code, not about distributing binaries. The lay audience understands the "code"/"program" distinction; to me, saying "program-sharing service" suggests somewhere the layman can download a program from (e.g. cnet) - Github sort of offers this now with…

> The lay audience understands the "code"/"program" distinction In my experience, professional business people with a day to day involvement as business SMEs on IT projects are quite likely not to really make the distinction you insist the "lay audience" understands, and I doubt very much that the general lay audience, with even less awareness of computing, does.

Sure they do. They think we all look like characters straight out of _Hackers_, writing funny glyphs and doing crazy things really fast - and they know sure as hell the programs they end up using don't look like that.

I guess what I'm driving at is that if you told my little brother that "Github is a program-sharing service" he'd think be thinking it was an app store.

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