jaemison

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by jaemison 3y ago
Location: Irvine, CA (US) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Not at the moment but willing to discuss hybrid work arrangements Technologies: Languages - Primarily Go, Typescript, some experience with Python. Infra - AWS (Lambda/Edge, Dyn
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by jaemison 8y ago
Believe it or not, one of the worst things that you can do is try to ignore it. Ask any minority why “I don’t even see race, just people” is so infuriating. By ignoring the issue, you are also effectively minimizing or erasing the other per
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by jaemison 8y ago
The rebuttal is “these facts were cherry-picked to support the author’s interpretation of observable events.” From the article: “He also said that he himself was overlooked for a job that he was more qualified for, which was given to a woma
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by jaemison 8y ago
Sorry, I should have been more clear. Hundreds of millions included spending in categories not directly allocated to homeless services but impact line items in other budget categories related to homeless services like housing, public health
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by jaemison 8y ago
Disclaimer: Amazon is my employer, thoughts on the article my own. The agenda in the article is the head tax currently being debated and fought in Seattle city council. This is absolutely a hit piece that sounds very much the same as what h
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by jaemison 9y ago
I’m not sure if the problem is that the average HN reader doesn’t believe that sexism is everywhere or if the problem is that the average HN reader doesn’t believe that sexism as it exists today is a large, interesting problem that needs to
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by jaemison 9y ago
I think that's the source of my confusion. I've generally accepted that women's issues are uninteresting to this audience unless it's about a startup disrupting some issue and that's ok. I'm more curious why t
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by jaemison 9y ago
No. What I am saying is that I don't fully understand the logic that dictates that while both articles I pointed to discuss women's autonomy and the right to decide how use their reproductive organs, only one issue relating to th
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by jaemison 9y ago
That's the one! Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14944904
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by jaemison 9y ago
I love how in the past hour, a NYT op-ed discussing motherhood and women's agency is flagged as irrelevant but an article on decriminalizing prostitution is at the top of hacker news with a lengthy discussion on the nuances of policy a
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by jaemison 9y ago
I cannot imagine why someone who works with catty gossips and you, who reduces her achievements to female stereotypes, would act as if they are operating in a hostile work environment. Look, I wasn't there and I don't know this wo
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by jaemison 9y ago
That feeling of being "insufficiently nerdy" and the mild paranoia that arises from being subconsciously labelled as such by your peers is one of many things I've learned to deal with on a daily basis. I'm certain there
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by jaemison 9y ago
Engadget summary: https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/02/facebook-coding-sexism-a... I don't work for Facebook so I can't speak to their particular culture problems, but I am a female SDE working at on