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Ask HN: Would you like to be interviewed about your life as a coder?

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We're working on a site and docuseries about coders. Our goal is to show that coding is awesome, and we want to do that by making coders (e.g., you) look as awesome as possible.

Would you be interested in speaking with us, and potentially appearing on the site or the docuseries?

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I'd recommend changing your tagline from "Meet the men and women..." to "Meet the people..." so that you don't exclude folks who are non-binary or gender-nonconforming.

That's a good point. We'll do that.

Just so you know, a lot of people think it's really freaky how any and all sexual perversions and confusions are considered "normal" and "healthy" today. To be honest, i think the obsession with LGBTQ may scare normal people away from the field. So you may make the change, but I wouldn't recommend putting much about it on the site.

There are people that don't feel addressed adequately as neither man nor woman? I thought we had some man that want to be called woman and some woman that want to be called man but a third option I never heard. Which is? Should they be addressed the way they want or should people dismiss this immature behavior?

They sometimes make up their own preferred pronouns. Personally I am not that invested in other people's gender identities and don't mind addressing people however they want. The flipside though is that I also have no desire to memorize a bunch of pronouns for different people (names are hard enough), so if I somehow knew 5 different individuals who each had their own preferred pronoun I'd probably just not bother.

This is so stupid. So WTF does a person who is neither a man nor woman refer to themselves as? You either have a penis or you don't. Stop twisting the definitions. If you're going to be so asinine about changing it to "people," then hopefully you better not ignore the fact that you're now referring to children and babies, which defeats the entire tone of the website.

Why is it stupid?

First, it includes a group of people that do not identify as male or female (physically, or in identity).

Then it removes ordinal priority. Take email. In your To: field, who goes first? The person with the email address starting with 'a'? The most senior? A bunch of over-thinking can go into that, which 'people' removes that. Or in email, "Dear All,"

And then, 'people' could be a team. HN startups seem to be all about, though not exclusively, teams that are co-founders; what one achieves would not be possible without the other. So 'people' makes logical sense where pairs or teams are included.

And if there was a baby that had changed the world through software, I'd sure like to meet that baby. Children do hack and create things. And kids have influence on others. The smallest thing can inspire another, so yeah, that voice should be included too. Include kids! Or experiences when kids!

> And if there was a baby that had changed the world through software, I'd sure like to meet that baby. Children do hack and create things. And kids have influence on others. The smallest thing can inspire another, so yeah, that voice should be included too. Include kids! Or experiences when kids!

This is not up to you. It is not your project. "woman and man" are inclusive enough, because they cover 100% born people. You can have an even more sensitive (not inclusive because 100% is the limit) approach but it is a matter of taste, nobody is entitled to be lecturing people about how should they approach their customers.

I don't think they were lecturing, it was just a suggestion - one that the OP who is involved with the project seems to have decided to take on-board.

I don't think your personal opinion of people who don't identify as a man or a woman is at all relevant to the suggestion, though. I also doubt anyone would read the sentence "Meet the people who created the software that powers the modern world." and conclude that they're going to be meeting some babies.

> You either have a penis or you don't. Stop twisting the definitions.

This is not true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex

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