whiterabbit2

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by whiterabbit2 12y ago
Where those women "to protect" are treated like babies who have no say of their own.
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by whiterabbit2 12y ago
No, it's more like you learn through media that you talk has been cancelled because of some organization's "biased interpretation of unclear events".
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by whiterabbit2 12y ago
So, women who signed up to those repositories had no say in this decision? I think they should've been asked first, what THEY want. Some projects might have contributors on GitHub. Ada Initiative promises to accommodate those people, b
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by whiterabbit2 12y ago
An agreement that a spouse shouldn't work in the office. Gosh, this is even worse then the original complaint. In California you can't have such agreements, this is marital status discrimination. I don't know what kind of job
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by whiterabbit2 13y ago
Very good post, right on. I'm a woman, dealt with a number of more unpleasant situations, but wouldn't accept my life shuttered because somebody told me so. It's only beneficial for drama queens/kings, while naive peopl
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by whiterabbit2 13y ago
It depends on the definition of "talented". If "me myself and everybody like me" then it's very logical.
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by whiterabbit2 13y ago
I tried my own comments from this page. The majority gives me around 70-85% male (I'm a feminine female). But adding one comment which was talking "childcare" and such gave me "only" a weak male (saying it might ind
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by whiterabbit2 13y ago
I looked up Hungarian laws, and the problem is not the government involvement, but that there is a huge difference between maternity and paternity leave (3 years vs 5 days). This somehow doesn't fit "anti-discrimination", as
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by whiterabbit2 13y ago
For tech companies it shouldn't be a problem to interview candidates blindly. Give some questions as written tests and coding assignments. If talking is necessary, there is software changing voice pitch. Skype has a plugin like that. J
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by whiterabbit2 13y ago
I have saved a really good booklet from my past employer about sexual harassment. Sexual harassment is actually gender neutral, and it doesn't have to be about sexual advances. Moreover, a man can be harassed by another man, as much as
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by whiterabbit2 13y ago
Women "more likely" to drop out to provide childcare doesn't make it "100% women". But without fixing problems of families with small children (lack of affordable childcare, culture of long hours and such), anti-dis
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by whiterabbit2 13y ago
> Some set of hiring managers assumed a mother with kids would likely focus more on family then career. In the present times, some set of managers would assume it for ANY woman of childbearing age. And if a woman doesn't have kids,
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by whiterabbit2 13y ago
REALLY? I'm a subscriber of a few lists for women in tech (Systers included), only one posted the link (followed by no comments). Systers tech talk posted nothing. Systers-dev and -foss, neither. Although, I'm probably subscribed to wrong g
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by whiterabbit2 13y ago
It's exactly "the teacher" telling an adult woman that she needs a private repository because learning coding is hard, and she needs extra protection from having it open sourced. Women just can't go ahead and do open source, period, they ne
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by whiterabbit2 13y ago
I agree. However I still don't see how a "dongle" joke (regardless of conference policies) makes it to "sexism towards women" as appeared on the Richards' blog. I think the point is to say "I myself am not comfortable with this kinds of jok
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by whiterabbit2 14y ago
Oh, I would say "none of his f*cking business". As a woman, you don't need to even be a developer to get this kind of "attention" on a regular basis.
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by whiterabbit2 14y ago
What's always very frustrating, some guy may hold a grudge or be sexist... but why does he always find so many supporters, like those who visited his web site and sent this woman emails? People who shouldn't have anything against this woman
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by whiterabbit2 14y ago
Except women have a good chance to be turned down before even being seen in person... (unless, their resume clearly indicates they are juniors and they have nice pictures on FB). And, yeah, the "approval" thing is actually something like "a
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by whiterabbit2 14y ago
To those who keep arguing whether the complains were valid. There is just one thing that makes it racist - referring to "culture fit" and then letting this guy go wasn't a "joke". This is discrimination.
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by whiterabbit2 14y ago
I find that it's laziness and inertia. Looking at the developer's code and running it, reading their articles on the subject and such requires more work then reading the line "10+ years" and we're done!
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by whiterabbit2 14y ago
My school didn't have computers, and my parents didn't see a point of buying me one, even when I made a decision to go to college. So, I built one. It took some time to collect the better parts as my own money was very limited. I collected