stephp

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by stephp 12y ago
By definition, spam is unsolicited. If someone gives a website their email address, and they are sent website-related content, it's not spam. If the receiver doesn't like it, it's called email-the-receiver-didn't-like, a
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by stephp 13y ago
There are several of these people/stories out there. All still use some kind of currency, though. Usually favors, or they trade physical things. What's wrong with a paycheck when you're doing work that solves a problem? It&#x
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by stephp 13y ago
Beautifully said. My mind always goes there too.
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by stephp 13y ago
Sorry, I hate to be this person, but do you know who the high-paid, "celebrity" hair stylists are? Men. If you look at all the communications careers-- teachers, psychologists, marketers. Men make the most money and have the most
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by stephp 13y ago
You're obviously not even trying to understand this.
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by stephp 13y ago
To be clear, what we're talking about here is not a simple interpersonal issue. It's sexism within a company. It doesn't matter whether the source of that sexism is the way the men treat women, or whether its the way a high-p
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by stephp 13y ago
Women can absolutely be sexist towards other women-- as in a jealousy scenario. Sexism is being targeted because of your gender. The fact that this is not obvious explains a lot.
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by stephp 13y ago
Have you ever heard of gaslighting? I don't know what actually happened with this woman either, but it is unfair to say, "Tell us what exact event caused this." Many people have developed PTSD from a traumatic childhood withi
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by stephp 13y ago
Says a person who has obviously never been in such a situation and can't even imagine the reality. It's cartoon-ish to say, "Well then I'd sue and everything would be worth it." Know why most women don't sue? D
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by stephp 13y ago
She never said GitHub "wasn't like that" as much as that she was doing her best to change the situation from inside of her own company (GitHub). She encouraged women to join GitHub because of the change she was working on cre
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by stephp 13y ago
Not all women are extroverts? I'm a woman and could go without seeing people for a very long time. I think this is a huge misunderstanding of what it means to have a preference for the "social." It's about the purpose be
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by stephp 13y ago
You really want to present this law as a matter of women wanting an "out"? You have no idea why anyone is advocating for this. I have no problem talking "men's issues." I have a problem, though, talking about men&#x
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by stephp 13y ago
You can't see the irony in this.
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by stephp 13y ago
HN readers in these gender discussions are so outright condescending, hateful, and knowingly, deliberately unreasonable-- not to mention "othering"-- it makes me consider never coming to this website ever again. Thank you for bein
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by stephp 13y ago
I have to disagree, because I don't see what being tech-savvy has to do with it. There are therapists, landscapers, used car dealers, craftsmen, accountants, etc. All kinds of people are small business owners and have company blogs. Ma
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by stephp 13y ago
This is the part that confuses me, I guess. The business owner gets the email. It sounds spammy. Maybe they fall for it anyway and receive the article to post. But don't they then realize that it's crappy? It's not as if spam
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by stephp 13y ago
Exactly. I've been an avid guest blogger, and it has never had anything to do with Google. It's about a wide-reaching, respected brand vouching for my work. There's no PR more valuable than when a relevant influencer grants y
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by stephp 13y ago
I'm not sure if this is an insult, but it reads like one.
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by stephp 13y ago
To add my own experiential insight as a female who started coding at 11 (without the aid or encouragment of a parent like you!)... Reflecting on my thought processes at that age, I remember it being entirely about 2 things: 1. Expression. N
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by stephp 13y ago
I've been considering what interested my 11-year-old {female} self about programming. The question keeps popping up, and the only answers I've seen are so vague that I feel something of a moral obligation to offer my own specific
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by stephp 13y ago
To state the obvious: female rape jokes are everywhere, all the time. Both are terrible, of course.
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by stephp 13y ago
Saying "your average uncle joe" does not ring sexist to me? You're drawing a comparison, to whomever you want to, and not making any radical assumption about a specified group of people. As for your rape anecdote... I hope yo
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by stephp 13y ago
I read a study once that said people who think they have no bias are the most behaviorally biased people of all.
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by stephp 13y ago
Truth. I figured after Facebook started using "they" in a singular sense that the grammar rules would change. They have only unofficially.
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by stephp 13y ago
I definitely wouldn't have reacted if I was personally involved in this. However, I do think it's worth pointing out how masculine pronouns can wear a girl down over time / create general awkwardness (ie: Send your "web
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by stephp 13y ago
Yes, I am completely fascinated by this too. Kinda makes one paranoid, though! One article I read was cleverly headlined something like, "You are what your grandpa eats."
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by stephp 13y ago
I did notice this. I wonder if "Y Combinator" being in the title has something to with it reaching popularity again and again. My curiosity-- has anyone here actually used Storenvy? Sounds like a nice guy for a founder, and the pr
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by stephp 13y ago
Ugh. This was my problem with Google+ too. Everything you do ripples out into the rest of the internet in a creepy way. When I was freelancing, I emailed back and forth with potential clients through the Gmail interface. One day I saw this
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by stephp 13y ago
Exactly. Whoever thinks admissions people, recruiters, or anyone else can fully put aside their bias to make a decision is scarily ill-informed. Most of it happens subconsciously. Thus the push for diversity among decision-makers in busines
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by stephp 13y ago
Also: anyone who has freelanced knows that those clients who are most reluctant to pay are the worst people to work with, right? So why do we assume that everyone trying to cheat his system is Tiny Tim? lol Maybe it's not good to rewar

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