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Re: Y Combinator Resources for Developers

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Post by Sileni »

dragonwriter wrote: post #28
teddyh wrote: post #6

Under the “ Ask a Female Engineer ” heading, I wish they would include a link to https://communequation.wordpress.com/2017/07/05/im-not-a-wom... for an alternate viewpoint, in order to reduce the echo chamber effect.

On the one question currently in that section, they have a diversity of viewpoints from the panel. There's no evident echo chamber effect. Anyhow, it would be rejecting the argument of the blog post to link to it there, and the blog post itself is a bit of an increase incoherent mess (the author proudly identifies as female, adopting one label, and seems to equally proudly adopt the tech worker label, yet rejects the…

I didn't read her article that way. I read it as "Creating a new box to push people into defeats the purpose of opening up the boxes of 'Women' and 'Tech Workers'". She's alright with the labels of "Woman" and "Tech Worker" because they're (relatively) open groups. There's a wide range of people who fit into them. On the other hand, when people are talking about "Women in Tech", there's an image, and expectations surrounding that.

Embracing her identity as a woman gives her a place to build her character from. Being a "Woman in Tech", the way she's using the term, pigeonholes her into acting or looking a certain way, for fear of the dissonance it might create for someone else.

Re: Y Combinator Resources for Developers

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Post by nabnob »

teddyh wrote: post #6

Under the “ Ask a Female Engineer ” heading, I wish they would include a link to https://communequation.wordpress.com/2017/07/05/im-not-a-wom... for an alternate viewpoint, in order to reduce the echo chamber effect.

I find myself somewhere in between the two viewpoints - I think there are a lot of factors that lead women in the United States to pursue careers outside of STEM, and factors that cause women in STEM to leave their tech careers later in life. I don't think it's a coincidence that many of the women in STEM that I know (including myself) are first or second-generation immigrants.

At the same time, I'm skeptical of attempts to increase the number of women in STEM fields, especially those sponsored by major tech companies or venture capitalists. They seem like thinly-veiled attempts to increase the pool of potential workers and decrease wages - the same way that these tech companies lobby to increase the number of H1B visas. I think the best way to work towards ending discrimination towards women in the industry, and also discrimination towards immigrants (without decreasing wages) is organizing tech workers collectively.

Re: Y Combinator Resources for Developers

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Post by [deleted] »

teddyh wrote: post #38
porpoisely wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be nice if there was an "Ask a Male Engineer" blog section also to get a more diverse viewpoint. It would be interesting to see the differences or similarities in opinions, perspectives and experiences of both genders. Or maybe just an "Ask an Engineer" blog where both genders' views are provided.

The viewpoints of male engineers are not particularly interesting, because they are the majority. The viewpoints of minority groups are interesting, but , the very categorization of “ Ask a Female Engineer ” excludes all women who feel like the article I linked to (and apparently there are more than a few of them). Furthermore, the category “ Ask a Female Engineer ” does not even acknowledge the existence of this vie…

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Re: Y Combinator Resources for Developers

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Post by TonnyGaric »

acquiretoast wrote: post #44

Link is plain http for me. I thought all .dev domains were https?

>I though all .dev domains were https

If you go to http://yc.dev, you get an HTTP 307 (Internal redirect) to https://yc.dev.

https://get.dev/#benefits says: >The .dev top-level domain is included on the HSTS preload list, making HTTPS required on all connections to .dev websites and pages without needing individual HSTS registration or configuration.

Re: Y Combinator Resources for Developers

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Post by amielucha »

pault wrote: post #35
porpoisely wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be nice if there was an "Ask a Male Engineer" blog section also to get a more diverse viewpoint. It would be interesting to see the differences or similarities in opinions, perspectives and experiences of both genders. Or maybe just an "Ask an Engineer" blog where both genders' views are provided.

I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not, but I think we all know that "ask an engineer" means "ask a male engineer" 99% of the time. Edit: I was just guessing at the ratio of male to female engineers, so maybe I overestimated the imbalance, but I think the point stands.

No, it doesn't. It means "ask an engineer", and every engineer should know that due to lack of specificity the term does not exclude female engineers. Would you also imply that "ask a doctor" means "ask a male doctor"? What about "ask a nurse" or "ask a teacher"?

Re: Y Combinator Resources for Developers

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Post by skellera »

nathan_f77 wrote: post #5

Wow, it looks like they paid $11,500 for the yc.dev and ycombinator.dev domains [1]. (I guess that's a pretty small amount of money for YC.) I have my eye on some short .dev domains too, but I'm hoping to get one for $350. [2] https://domains.google/tld/dev/

Someone had mentioned that there was a limited brand/copyright phase before the $11k phase that was cheaper. Pretty sure they would fall into that.

Hopefully someone who knows the details could chime in on that.

Re: Y Combinator Resources for Developers

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Post by PavlovsCat »

dragonwriter wrote: post #28
teddyh wrote: post #6

Under the “ Ask a Female Engineer ” heading, I wish they would include a link to https://communequation.wordpress.com/2017/07/05/im-not-a-wom... for an alternate viewpoint, in order to reduce the echo chamber effect.

On the one question currently in that section, they have a diversity of viewpoints from the panel. There's no evident echo chamber effect. Anyhow, it would be rejecting the argument of the blog post to link to it there, and the blog post itself is a bit of an increase incoherent mess (the author proudly identifies as female, adopting one label, and seems to equally proudly adopt the tech worker label, yet rejects the…

Sure, but overdoing it and confusing labels and abstractions with the things they represent can also keep a human from being more aware of the world and their deeds in it. I gladly reject the label "women in tech", but mostly because I actually do reject the label "tech" (and all stemming from that) to begin with, that's an umbrella so huge as to be meaningless. It's like "business", yeah I know what it is, just like I know what "technology" means, for any sensible use of these words, there's a million occurances where it's just padding at best, a cloak at worst, precisely a tool to not accurately model the real world, but a platonic simplified one that is easier to navigate than the infinitely fuzzy mess reality is.
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