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Is there a point to this article? I agree that women often get the short end of the stick in the valley (and I personally despise the brogrammer culture that ha
by leapinglemur55 13y ago
Is there a point to this article? I agree that women often get the short end of the stick in the valley (and I personally despise the brogrammer culture that has sprung up), but simply complaining about problems like this won't do anything to make them go away.
- antr 13y agoThe author doesn't live in the valley. I don't think this issue is "his" problem to solve, he is simply saying that he is going to avoid it.
- liedra 13y agoThe more people who come out saying it's unacceptable the more likely there is to be a paradigm shift, at least, that's how I hope it will go. Another voice to add to those decrying the brogrammer culture is always welcome.
- not_paul_graham 13y agoBy what he has written, he could also write a similar article about why he doesn't want his daughter to work in NYC (assuming his daughter chooses finance over technology). There is no real content in this article and more people saying something is unacceptable doesn't necessarily lead to a paradigm shift. Some examples I can think of: -> Vietnam War (or all the other war) protesters. -> Women needing to take their husband's or father's permission to step out of their households in countries like Saudi Arabia, etc.
- hrktb 13y agoHe wanted to state that he has a daughter, and he'll be there to decide where she can work and cannot. This github thing is dirty and full of jerks watched over by old men, and he doesn't want her to touch that. For equality's sake.