MollyR

In one of my college marketing classes, I've heard something similar as the reasoning for commercials as well.

Thanks.

Half of those aren't about pushing men into nursing or teaching, not many are in valued news oulets( abc go). Its mostly blog posts, others are about the difficulties being a male nurse or teacher.

I also just googled "men in nursing" and "men in teaching" as quick sanity check.

Its pretty clear there is nowhere the same level of push we have going for women in tech and nowhere near the same social validation for pushing men into those fields.

I personally find python to be the sweet spot for me with all of its libraries and syntax. I use other languages when I need to squeeze every drop of performance from some hardware.

There has been movements for more female sanitation workers, as for male elementary school teachers and nurses, haven't heard of that. The gender demographics of tech is important due to the perceived wealth and power of Silicon Valley. I personally say perceived because I thinks its the VC's who have the real wealth and power.

This seems pretty cool, extra neat it's in python. I've always had a pipedream to code my own 2d zelda or chrono trigger engine. I just could never figure out where to start.

I just assumed its becoming bimodal due to silicon valley rents being so high.

This is surprising. I used to be like your second student according to my father. He taught me most everything I know, and my brother used to be like your first student.

I found what personally helped me to overcome the insight bridge/gap was I had to read several different books to find the right analogy that helped achieve the "insight".

So what do you actually want from a community then ? It seems like you don't want certain people in it, but at the same time you do want them in it. I'm not sure if I'm understanding it correctly.

Isn't that a good thing though ? More choices, more people will self segregate out.

I think Gab.ai is competitor, thats gaining popularity.

Yea I read that, but I don't see how it really benefits Salesforce. I can see why the executive likes it.

I really can't see salesforce buying twitter. I think a social media giant would gain something from twitter, but not much else.

Sure if they double major.

My company has interviewed many many boot camp candidates for the sole reason we can pay them less and work them harder, and they've also fired a lot. I can't say I approve of the company's philosophy here. But one of the most interesting finding our CTO mentioned is that people from the hard sciences stem are the ones who did the best, and stayed/kept. The humanities and some soft sciences did the worst at pure development.

My uncle runs a korean restaurant, and has a bunch of guns. He keeps a shotgun and a some kind of pistol there. He even took me to an NRA basic safety pistol course which was FULL of women. I was pretty shocked.

Is this really true ? Most of the distress I've seen in my friends is due to bills and student debt, when they have leisure time, their legitimate worries consume them.

I found the only thing that helps is having a strong team lead who identifies this and has the authority to nudge people back on track.

Yea I'm still in shock. Why isn't this getting more airtime ?

This reminds of a scene from I, Robot.

Detective Del Spooner: Human beings have dreams. Even dogs have dreams, but not you, you are just a machine. An imitation of life. Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a... canvas into a beautiful masterpiece?

Sonny: Can you?

Detective Del Spooner: (Doesn't respond,looks irritated)

EDIT : this a scene from the will smith movie

I was thinking the same thing. I'm thinking waste, secrecy,corruption, and uncritical media are good signs. The DNC Wikileaks definitely forced me to open my eyes.

All founders should be full-time to keep the incentives to drive the company forward the same is what I've heard from a couple VC's I've talked too. They also mentioned something called the golden handcuffs.

I really hate the idea of having to recharge my headphones. I'm not a fan of the idea of wireless headphones. The whole adapter issue doesn't seem to bother me that much.

But I do feel it goes against Job's philosophy on stuff. I remember reading he hated the idea of stylus's for the phones because he lost them or thought people would lose them.

wow thanks.

I agree, HR, or talking to a lawyer about the cultural norms and laws is super important. I've seen a few guys with good intentions to help our struggle, but just not socially savvy get in trouble, and just become super bitter against women.

Sorry don't have any answers, but I will say I met my husband at my last job, but I moved on to a new job to avoid the hr issues as he was the Team Lead.

It's actually why I find some of the advice from the other female engineers so troubling. Our relationship attraction first started when he took me for coffee break, to see how I was doing after my 6 month probationary period ended.

Probably another law that will just be applied to the "little people".

I just can't believe Krugman because of a bunch of articles I've read about the secrecy involved. I don't understand how any one actually knows anything about it.

http://www.vox.com/cards/trans-pacific-partnership/what-is-t...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/04/ttip-t...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/04/13/tpp_trans...

I find this whole thing incomprehensible.

Obama is for it, but Warren,Hillary,Trump,Stein are not for it.

Bernie supporters don't trust Hillary to be against it. McAuliffe said Hillary is actually for it.

Assange and Wikileaks say it will lead to the fascist rule of the oligarchy controlling every small part of our lives.

Then there the whole eff stance on it.https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp

I find it all so mind boggling.

Some research shows for women, the prettier you are the easier it is to get ahead maybe the halo effect ? For men there is research that shows the taller you are, the more money you get.

The stuff you mentioned should probably be a separate conversion, but I do think there is probably overlap with the gender issue.

Its not about just technical ability, but social and economic power through jobs.

I'm thinking about having a child, and possibly telecommuting. Did you run into any issues that might have been related to gender ?

I'm pretty sure I'm not planning to tell them I'm pregnant if I can avoid it.

I studied computer science and biology, and yea I agree with this statement. My cs classes were full of guys, my biology classes were full of girls. I remember when a bunch of biology friends found out I was also studying computer science. The comments ranged from "Why, you aren't autistic ?", "Good for you, I can't even imagine how boring it is", and "Yea makes sense, Asians are good at math".

It seemed pretty clear most people considered compsci pretty low on the social status hierarchy.