bird_in_hand

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by bird_in_hand 12y ago
Some workers are pretty interchangeable. If Sarah can assemble parts at the same rate as Sven, then the employer shouldn't care who does it, right? However, for specialized positions or ones that are knowledge-based, this doesn't
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by bird_in_hand 13y ago
Using 'girl' to mean 'someone to whom I am attracted' is a poor choice of words. For one, I assume they are adult women, not girls, that attract you. For another, it alienates a number of your readers who aren't att
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by bird_in_hand 13y ago
I bet a huge percentage of people dying are over 65 and have Medicare. You need numbers for those outside of that safety net to compare.
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by bird_in_hand 13y ago
Because you're still working, you get 8-9 hours a day off from being responsible for the immediate care of the baby. Your wife probably feels like she gets zero hours off. Is she eager to get back to work or just to get out of the house and
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by bird_in_hand 13y ago
The young boys have sometimes been worse than the old ones. When I talk to CTOs in their 30s, I feel like they take me more seriously and much less suspiciously than the 24 year olds.
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by bird_in_hand 13y ago
Maybe it's complicated by the fact that many people transition after the point where they already have ideas or plans for their future careers. One woman I talked to actually transitioned in between getting a job offer at a major tech compa
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by bird_in_hand 13y ago
I think scared is appropriate, inasmuch as it's a synonym for afraid. People want to choose a career they feel they can succeed in, and many women feel afraid that they can't succeed in tech, for a lot of reasons. Men feel it too, but being
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by bird_in_hand 13y ago
Damn you, auto-correct. That's "agender."
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by bird_in_hand 13y ago
There are people who identify as genderqueer, who don't fit into any gender identity, and people who identify as a gender, who don't have a gender identity.
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by bird_in_hand 13y ago
I've been to a conference for undergraduate GSMs in tech, and while I don't have any statistics, it felt like there were almost as many transwomen/genderqueer presenting as female as there were women (and still many more men and transmen).
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by bird_in_hand 13y ago
Depression is work. If you haven't done the things your doctor has told you to do, and at least given them an honest effort, that should really be your first step.
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by bird_in_hand 14y ago
I agree. This has just been blown so catastrophically out of proportion, and for no good reason. Neither Adria nor the developers did anything worth getting fired over.
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by bird_in_hand 14y ago
So the jokes weren't sexist. They were still sexual, which was still forbidden.
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by bird_in_hand 14y ago
Tweeting a picture isn't a DEFCON 4 response. I don't really think that it's that problematic- they were breaking the rules of the conference that they had agreed to, and calling someone out publicly is a very common method of enforcing soc
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by bird_in_hand 14y ago
I think I would talk to them about what the work is like behind the scenes. Coding is a lot like coming up with a recipe. You have to think really hard about what goes into a cake and when, or else when someone tries to follow the recipe th
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by bird_in_hand 14y ago
You should either change the way you get random clouds or increase your database. I got a bunch of repeats in very few clicks. If you do it the way that iTunes comes up with a shuffle list, for instance, by creating a randomly seeded list w
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by bird_in_hand 14y ago
It doesn't make anybody feel singled out though. People affected by suicide and depression are much less visible of a population, and I think they'd be a lot less likely to have negative experiences at the conference as a direct consequence