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An interesting question might be what percentage of male developers are public speakers? And what percentage of female developers are public speakers?

I am certainly not in a position to make an educated guess, do you want to make any sort of estimate?

I appreciate the response.

So you're telling me there are more public speaking workshops for male developers than female developers? I'm not sure I believe that. I think ALL developers could benefit from this workshop. And that inviting all developers would still provide women the skills they need to become successful public speakers.

I agree, this is not a zero sum game, but github just turned it into one.

If you are a github employee and now have public speaking skills on your resume as well perhaps as a speech or two at a conference, your career will probably do better than the male github employee without, who, contrary to your claims, is underserved with public speaking workshops and the networking opportunities they will provide.

This should be an event put on by a women's organization, sponsored by github.

As a github event, it is alienating, off putting, sexist, and creepy.

Male programmers need public speaking skills just as much as female programmers do.

What this tells me for the nth time, is that github as a company has their head wedged, and I would never want a job with them, they are clearly sexist, agenda driven, and whether explicit or not will almost certainly have quotas favoring women developers.

Edit: It's a shame downvotes do not require that a comment in reply first be made.

I would have loved to see an Occupy 2.0 like movement with marches or protests on the Mall, at NSA HQ, on the streets in front of their parking lot, at their freeway offramps, and at the AT&T building in San Francisco.

(Hey! There is an event at the AT&T building. Good! https://www.facebook.com/events/614121478661276/)

Protests in front of the White House.

Protests on the steps of Capitol Hill.

Protests wherever President Obama speaks for the next 30 days.

Local protests in front of Federal Courthouses.

Local protests at your Senator and Representative's office.

I sadly believe all these banners are mockable and worse than useless. The day we fight back? There wasn't even an intentional Internet blackout today!

I'm glad you reposted this. I am not sure what HN etiquette is for that. Some articles really do deserve a repost and this is one.

And yes, looks like it will take after Tasha Yar, and die repeatedly.

Almost. I agree dick was too harsh, and in fact, it was shaming. And I do think that if one "side" is not contributing resentment can build up that no one wants. I do take issue with the notion of "sides" and I think it should be left to each couple, working as a couple to determine what fair contributions are, and shouldn't be left to popular culture pundits to declare that this is the era of 50/50 sharing and only regressive neanderthals would think otherwise.

I'm out, I have to do a Costco run.

I am not going to prescribe what chores are manly and panty wetting when we disagree on premise of what "fair share" means. And yes, you can redefine the problem such that you think there are no obvious manly chores left in your apartment, but I think that is left up to each couple.

I think you should reconsider your phrasing "dick" as well as your concept of "fair share". Both appear pretty sexist and derogatory to me.

Have a good evening.

Um, household chores are not unlimited, and there are many that are considered manly, and still, still, you don't respond to my repeated statement, nothing about doing manly chores, or being manly necessitates being a dick.

What someone does at home is probably limited by available time, and not limited by lack of things to do.

Given what you've stated, I would hope the manly man would build them a roof for their home.

I still don't see any requirement or suggestion that being manly somehow implies dickish behavior at home or with his partner.

It certainly doesn't seem to follow that "manly man who takes out the trash and fixes the car, roof, and does the lawn" has to be a dick in any manner as you put it.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/14/men-wom... reports that men spend 10 more hours than women doing paid work at work while women spend six more hours than men doing household work. That's not being a dick either, and is considered manly by many.

Original paper here: http://www.asanet.org/journals/ASR/Feb13ASRFeature.pdf

Science Daily writeup: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130130082258.ht...

Slate: http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/03/28/guys_who_do_...

Write from U of Washington where the research was done here: http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/01/29/more-sex-for-marri...

Married men and women who divide household chores in traditional ways report having more sex than couples who share so-called men’s and women’s work, according to a new study co-authored by sociologists at the University of Washington.

Other studies have found that husbands got more sex if they did more housework, implying that sex was in exchange for housework. But those studies did not factor in what types of chores the husbands were doing.

The new study, published in the February issue of the journal American Sociological Review, shows that sex isn’t a bargaining chip. Instead, sex is linked to what types of chores each spouse completes.

Couples who follow traditional gender roles around the house – wives doing the cooking, cleaning and shopping; men doing yard work, paying bills and auto maintenance – reported greater sexual frequency.

“The results show that gender still organizes quite a bit of everyday life in marriage,” said co-author Julie Brines, a UW associate professor of sociology. “In particular, it seems that the gender identities husbands and wives express through the chores they do also help structure sexual behavior.”

Thank you for taking the time to post this (and format it.) I definitely appreciate it.

Not sure where I got the impression NASA had adopted such a dramatic shift in focus.

Perhaps my memory is wrong, or the emphasis less that I recall, but I remember fundamental change in NASA's direction in the late 90s or early 2000s that explicitly focused NASA's work on Earth.

Some of this was a result of remote sensing tech coming into it's golden age, some as a result of climate change needs, and a lot was a result of NASA needing to find a source of funding.

But I can't find anything extensive about that on the web at this moment.

It's a shame this link is being overlooked.

Susan's article answers many of the questions I have regarding the current culture war.

I am glad this debate took place though many people advise never to debate Creationists.

Scientists that refuse to debate Creationists in front of a public audience have no standing to rise in front of a city council or state committee and demand Creationism not be taught.

We should not be afraid of debate. Is Science and reason and evidence that weak?

And why on earth should we be in some sort of superior position where we insist Creationism not be taught in schools but insist we will not debate the issue?

So of course it is important that scientists and others that want to keep Creationism out of schools publicly debate Creationists.

That said, it doesn’t mean we cannot discuss proper forums, admission policies, moderation, voting, or format of the debate.

Sorry to be that guy, but I would never refer to stack overflow as a great community.

It might be a great site to get questions answered, but I feel no sense of community from there.

I'd sooner ask Kim Jong Un about how to build strong familial relationships.

If I type suicide into google, google gives me a special infobox providing me information on how to seek help.

suicide.org tells me:

About 33% of rape victims have suicidal thought. About 13% of rape victims will attempt suicide.

I think these factoids provide abundant evidence the question is relevant to the world and industry these students will graduate into.

You can decide for yourself if feminism and political correctness in the universities are helping or harming academic education and research.

On reddit today, I came across this site:

www.honestandroidgames.com

Honest Android Games

Every game that is featured on this site is either completely free with no advertising, has a one time up front cost or one time IAP to unlock the full content ad free. All screenshots are from a Nexus 7 2013, full sized and un-cropped.

I am not sure how any of what happened then is Hacker News, however, when I read that article a few days ago, I was impressed with how well written it was and how much misinformation is spread about Woody Allen.

I hope that Malone (Dylan) Farrow can heal and recover.

The whole thing does strike me as false memory syndrome along with a huge dose of parental alienation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory_syndrome

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_alienation

I keep on swearing to myself I'm going to create a Chrome extension that kills all the sliders, slideshows, and welcome pop-up windows of the world.

It's actually worse. One is just speech, the other is stealing property from California.

I have to say, this puts Vinod Khosla markedly ahead of Tom Perkins.

Good to hear! I am looking forward to seeing it.

I don't take any test or poll unless you tell me ahead of time I won't have to give you my email address or facebook login or any of that crap to get the results and unless you give me a true and realistic understanding of the test's length and the time to complete it.

If only they had an android app that would sync directories!

We must read a different HN and participate in different industries.

> They don't want or need special treatment.

Many women these days are certainly expressing that they want special treatment. The question is if they need it, and if they are representative of women in IT as a whole.

Maybe HN should have an intentional name obfuscator. You sign up, you're assigned a random handle. It's consistent and has no meaning other than as a pointer.

What do off color jokes have to do with sexism?

As an example, the dongle joke had nothing to do with sexism.

I am not trying to shame you but have you ever been around groups of women as they work or play? Off color jokes are typical of the species homo sapiens in 2014.

That's really ugly. I can understand why you felt the need to create a new throwaway to hide behind.

I prefer using speech to communicate, dialog, argue, persuade.

I dislike using speech to bully, name call, police.