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by joycey 7y ago
Source: https://twitter.com/starsandrobots/status/994267277460619265
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by joycey 7y ago
Here's another example, written before this whole incident: https://twitter.com/corbett/status/994012399656042496
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by joycey 9y ago
I remember there was an episode on the podcast The Daily where Michael Barbaro interviewed a reporter who worked on the Harvey Weinstein story. I think they said that The New York Times had tried to pursue this story in the past, but they r
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by joycey 9y ago
I guess time will tell. Before Travis left Uber was without a COO, CFO, CMO, SVP of business, and SVP of engineering. I recall reading something about how they were having trouble recruiting senior level execs willing to work with Travis. I
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by joycey 9y ago
Anyone who says that this guy's opinion shouldn't matter should consider that he likely interviews female candidates, sits on hiring committees that evaluate female candidates, decides whether or not female engineers get promoted,
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by joycey 9y ago
As a former Girl Scout I think this is excellent. I think it'll be much easier to get girls to explore STEM activities if it's associated with an organization they're already involved in.
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by joycey 9y ago
I can't wait for drones to deliver organic quinoa straight to my door.
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by joycey 9y ago
Especially as a younger female engineer, I consciously try to avoid looking younger since people consistently underestimate my technical abilities. I'm also average height for a woman but typically the shortest one on my team, so if I
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by joycey 9y ago
That's definitely true, and I would argue that "casual work attire" is even more ambiguous for women. One of the things I realized during my first internship is that "casual" and "casual work appropriate"
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by joycey 9y ago
The gender wage gap does exist. It's simply a fact that women earn less than men. The real question then, is why. Is it because sexist managers pay women less money than men? Are women less likely to negotiate their offers as aggressiv
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by joycey 9y ago
As another user posted I would say the university Facebook meme pages have filled the void left by Yik Yak: inside jokes for people in your school. It's not anonymous, but the general use case and type of content is very similar.
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by joycey 10y ago
Suppose the amount of sexism in Silicon Valley is average, or even below average. Do you think that means there's nothing we can do and that we should just accept it as a fact of life? I would say that so long as the amount of sexism i
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by joycey 10y ago
True, but her claims haven't been denied by anyone. And a lot of her claims should have a paper trail. Either she was propositioned by her manager over corp chat, or she wasn't. Either she emailed HR these screenshots, or she didn
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by joycey 10y ago
> To generate excitement for X-Men: Apocalypse, 20th Century Fox ran a Sponsored Lens campaign that let users turn themselves into the iconic characters in the upcoming movie. In one day, people spent a collective 56 years playing with t
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by joycey 11y ago
I believe the difference is that Apple/Google are okay with turning over user data on a case-by-case basis provided there's a proper subpoena from a judge, but not okay with building a tool for the FBI that will allow them to look
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by joycey 11y ago
If you're saying this to suggest that students from Stanford or similar schools are able to attain better offers, then sure. If you're saying this to suggest that companies give students from Stanford vs students from "worse&
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by joycey 11y ago
Sometimes the district lines can change depending on what year you enter the school, which could split up siblings, but I'm pretty sure this is still the exception and not the norm.
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by joycey 11y ago
Regressive taxes are usually not very popular.
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by joycey 11y ago
I haven't been able to find an academic study specifically looking at software engineering or tech jobs, but there are other studies I've seen that send out identical resumes (with just the name changed) suggesting that men are ge
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by joycey 12y ago
I use GitHub, but I concede Bitbucket has cooler features (free private repos, password protected repos, etc). It can't beat GitHub's UI/UX and community though.
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by joycey 12y ago
I've contributed to the development of Signal 2.0, and you can also check out this blog post. https://whispersystems.org/blog/signal/ On Android you can use RedPhone for secure calls and TextSecure for secure
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by joycey 12y ago
For desktop- https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Browser
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by joycey 12y ago
I grew up in the Bay Area and that sounds about right. To live comfortably while raising a family in a South Bay suburb you pretty much need both parents making six figure salaries.
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by joycey 12y ago
Here's something I think should get more love and is pretty relevant: a service that will automatically pay a percentage of Bitcoin donations for every submission to a GitHub repository: https://github.com/WhisperSystem
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by joycey 12y ago
They are not eliminating testing. This was really bad wording. When I interviewed in Redmond with Microsoft, I was told that Microsoft used to hire SDE's (software development engineers) and SDET's (software development engineers
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by joycey 12y ago
Facebook's ad revenue share has been increasing, while Google's has been decreasing. In just two years, Google has gone from owning 10x as much ad revenue share as Facebook to just 2x [0]. Facebook has much more data on its users
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by joycey 12y ago
Obviously tech is more of a meritocracy than other industries, but I think this article is meant to be a critique of the often-told narrative that the tech industry is a pure meritocracy where everything is fair and even and perfect. Just b
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Uber Partners with USC's “Safe Ride Home” Program(transnet.usc.edu)
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by joycey 12y ago
You're right. The focus should be on ensuring men and women have equal opportunities, but the only way to measure that is by measuring participation. And from the disparity in participation, this either means that women have less oppor
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by joycey 12y ago
Well, that's the thing. You can't even prove that any factor has any effect at all. All I know is that from my anecdotal experience a lot of my male peers got into programming tangentially through gaming because they liked playing

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