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by jd0 13y ago
I posted that after this convo occurred but I guess they were right, I hate fedoras!
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by jd0 13y ago
Naw I'd call it accurate.
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by jd0 13y ago
You're taking what I said a little too literally. Take a look at my response to another commenter where I clarify my hula-hoop statement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7408735
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by jd0 13y ago
It's possible to recognize the attractive features of someone while still being conscious of their humanity. Obviously there are degrees of attention you can give someone based on their looks that goes from socially acceptable to socia
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by jd0 13y ago
And I, as a male, try not to stare at anybody because I'm not a fucking asshole.
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by jd0 13y ago
To clarify for many of you, you don't need someone shouting "I HATE WOMEN" for sexism to be occurring. The sexism in this scenario is subtle and persistent, something that likely tainted all of the workplace interactions at g
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by jd0 13y ago
This is the sort of fucked up attitude that's turning the public increasingly against the tech industry. The attitude seems to be "we can do anything that we want, because we're smart and we know the loopholes"
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by jd0 13y ago
To use a metaphor you might understand I think you're programming around the bug instead of debugging. Maybe, shocking as it is, women are reacting to real injustices in these cases that you read about in "any article or blog pos
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by jd0 13y ago
Well put!
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by jd0 13y ago
Today a child died after a long and painful battle with cancer. lol wtf Perhaps you are only sick of the burden of your own unexamined piety and belief the universe must obey your whims. we're getting existential now
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by jd0 13y ago
This can look like "victim-blaming", but it's really more-than-anything a yearning for people to keep their standards of evidence high I don't buy it. The "hacker type" despite self-professing as a logical bu
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by jd0 13y ago
Did you read the whole article? It starts out explaining her struggles as a woman with the company. It also addresses her creepy suitor.
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by jd0 13y ago
You put those words in my mouth, buddy. To clarify, social ineptitude combined with a degree of self-assured narcissism, resulting in a total disregard for the opinions of other people which don't jive with the most "logical"
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by jd0 13y ago
Because human beings have a desire to express opinion and emotion? Your attitude is the same as a lot of the socially inept that roam the valley and this message board. If This Isn't The Most Efficient Logical Course Of Action (accordi
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by jd0 13y ago
Fuck hacker news. I only come here to be mad at people.
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by jd0 13y ago
I'm glad to see a lot of people sticking up for her here in the comments but an equal number of these comments disgust me. Take a look at the gender disparity in the top 10 tech companies. Most of them are about 80% male. It's not
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by jd0 13y ago
The ultimate sign of a piece of shit with no social comprehension is a programmer who uses the not equal relational operator in conversation. Human lives are not as simple as the PHP you write at your day job, dude. Then you turn it into s
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by jd0 13y ago
If you don't want to fork over the $400 to pass the paywall and view this article, check out vallywag's summation: http://valleywag.gawker.com/paul-graham-says-women-havent-be...
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by jd0 13y ago
Yes you're correct, I honestly don't know what the achievement gap is for other science fields - so I don't know if it's worse in CS for people of color.
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by jd0 13y ago
Whoops! I now realize that it was flagged by users not removed by mods. I honestly haven't used HN in years until yesterday so I forgot how it all works. Also I was drunk when I made this post. c:
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by jd0 13y ago
I'm addressing CS because it's relevant to me. It's a community that I participate in so I'm addressing this issue in my community. Honestly though, the gap between women and men in CS is far greater than other fields.
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by jd0 13y ago
Maybe you're right, (maybe) all the women statistically disappearing from the computing field are moving to other engineering and science jobs. We could throw any number of untested theories at that simple statistic. Honestly though, t
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by jd0 13y ago
Not to discredit your success, but your example is an anecdote, and it is not the usual one. Only about 10% of people in the computing industry are women. See my recent comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6879
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by jd0 13y ago
"They are excellent articles, and I feel bad about doing so." Then you're part of the problem! The attitude is, if it doesn't fit the "Hacker News" relevancy stereotype then flag away. Have you not wondered or
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by jd0 13y ago
All of your proofs are personal anecdotes. If you need some empirical evidence check this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6879195 Or do some research on computer science demographics.
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by jd0 13y ago
If you have a harder time accessing these supposedly raceless-genderless systems, then you can't participate. Research has shown that the utopian vision of the internet being the ultimate equalizer was never realized.. groups still div
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by jd0 13y ago
Thanks for the anecdotes - I'm looking at statistics. The hostility may not be apparent (to you) but it's structural and it's real. see this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6879195
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by jd0 13y ago
Thanks for your response. In reference to your addressing the word "hostile" check this recent comment I made to try and clarify the use of that word: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6879195 That comment only
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by jd0 13y ago
This post was very briefly on the top of /ask but now it's gone from that page altogether... honestly that's fucked up! It seems like it was a moderator decision, older posts with less comments and upvotes remain, why was thi
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by jd0 13y ago
I know discussion here is reasonable, and that's partially why I brought it up here on HN vs anywhere else, but check my recent comment for clarification: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6879195

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