Developer Conference Canceled, After Backlash Over Fake Female Speakers

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18 points·ChrisMarshallNY··8 comments

This saga is so strange. Eduards Sizovs has even been creating sockpuppet accounts on HN, saying:

'As a female developer with 60K followers on Instagram, I went through all this:

– “Programmers don’t look like that!” – “You’re fake. Some dude writes your content.” – “Are you a model or a coder?'

Meanwhile, "Julia" aka codingunicorn, has on Twitter "currently building dev.courses" which is a link that just tells people they can buy the domain from Eduards Sizovs.

https://twitter.com/unicorncoding?lang=en

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=codingunicorn

So weird. Would make an interesting novel, I guess?

Reminds me https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29434.Self_Made_Man, where a woman journalist spent a year pretending to be a man to write about it afterward.

Hell, I did that in a MMO and nobody cared, lol.

Why invite women speakers when you can just create fake ones instead?

Evidently it gets your conferences canceled, although you do have close to three years to milk that for all its worth before you blacklist yourself from everywhere.

Eduards Sizovs may be blacklisted, but Katerina Nenastoyaschaya, Angela Madeupname, and Ingrid Noonesdottir can still put on conferences and speak at them!

Maybe they can get together with that company that was on HN's front page today that fronts OnlyFans stars and messages their customers for them.

. lol Have a link?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38447794

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