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Very well said. In general, I wish people would support each other more in tech. Too often people have a 'deal with it attitude'.

The author points out that she didn't display any of those symptoms.

The entire point of the article is that the way schools grade may discriminate against boys. There are lots of articles about things that may discriminate against women. Society isn't perfect, writing articles that raise awareness is not sexist or discriminatory towards either sex.

To try to be fair, life is often more about obeying arbitrary rules than mastering certain subjects. Many of the things named in the article are important life skills that should be taught and encouraged.

Does the usage of African instead of Guinean bother anyone else? Africa is widely not recognized as a continent of distinct countries and this isn't helping. It's like referring to people from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico as North Americans.

The changing the world line and the bit about a 'week of shame' sounded like complete BS.

But leaks don't just affect panties, I've ruined many sets of sheets, expensive pairs of jeans and even a very nice dress. As a very frugal woman I would buy a pair.

If it prevents leaks like they claim it would be a huge improvement.

This is pretty amazing. I spent grades 5-12 worried about bleeding through to my pants in school. There's already so much going on at that age, dealing with 'learning to be a woman' was just more anxiety.

Even as an adult who can typically tell when my cycle is about to start I still end up with stained undergarments and sometimes pants. The worst is at night when things move around and you wake with stained sheets and ruined pajamas.

Considering I have cheap cotton underwear that is 2-4 years old, if these prevent leaking as they claim they could potentially save me time, anxiety, embarrassment and money.

The wikipedia article on Income inequality in the United States is surprisingly detailed and I highly recommend it if you have any interest on wealth. It's such a polarized topic that the comments almost immediately turn into inaccurate or out of context talking points.

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

The original slides were to the point and effective. The redesign makes them generically prettier at the expense of readability.

Yep. Where I grew up a small amount would get you jail time and it could affect your student. Most stayed away from it.

Now I live in San Francisco and it's a bit of a different story here.

But it's not drivel. Men and women communicate differently, that's supported by many, many studies. She didn't accuse either sex of communicating incorrectly, which is the line you hear from SJWs.

I think she made a good point. Many people have commented that they thought his tone was fine. Others have said his tone sounded patronizing. I don't think anyone is wrong. We can't write off the people who don't share our communication style, which is what you're doing when you call it 'drivel'.

>Disclosure: I'm a privileged white male.

Part of the article explains that women and men communicate differently, I wouldn't enjoy being counseled in that tone.

No one is right or wrong. Just different.

And then she can never work again. Most settlements pay out less than $100,000, not nearly enough to live off. Not worth being blacklisted from future employment because the guys in charge think women need to "lighten up".

Seriously? What do you think is more likely to happen if the woman submits?-

1. She gets a promotion she doesn't totally doesn't deserve because she submitted to sexual harassment by her her boss at work. She's happy about this.

2. She submits to sexual harassment because she is afraid she'll lose her job if she doesn't. She feels dirty and exploited.

And this is unfair to men how? Because they don't have to put up with sexual harassment at work as much?

>Why does privilege mean that white, male, straight, or non-disabled people are not allowed to say "lighten up"

Obviously every situation is different but in general white, straight males have historically set the bar for "offensiveness" and everyone else just had to deal with it. When people speak up and say they're offended by something, maybe dirty jokes in the office, they're told to lighten up.

Why don't you seek out or create a group for Asians and/or work towards raising awareness about the racial discrimination you've experienced?

I'm not highly-education and lived well below the poverty line for the majority of my life. If not for programs like this I would still be there.

Study after study has shown that different groups learn and interact in different ways. Programs like this can teach to those differences without treating them like a defect. For instance, women don't respond to competitive environments the same way men do. Women tend to shutdown while men push forward. I've taught unisex (although it was mostly male) and women only coding classes. Women tend to pair more and help each other. Men tend to work alone.

You don't have to be an expert in a field to criticize it's culture.

Black and hispanics make a combined 30% of the U.S. population but 7.14% of tech workers, if we were a true meritocracy you wouldn't expect those numbers.

Of course, this isn't the fault of the tech industry. People in lower socio-economic classes are not exposed to technology at early ages and often don't have the ability to go college.

So if tech is a meritocracy it's a meritocracy for people in certain classes.

I never, ever blamed the companies, I agree that " not enough black and hispanic people are being exposed to technology as an industry".

> We will try to operate this list without moderation, as we >feel moderation is an impediment to communication.

I feel like everyone wants to hate moderation but it's one of those things, that when used correctly, make a community good.

I'm on several mailing lists that have grown significantly over 3-7 years. I, along with most other founding members, left lists that didn't have any moderation as they inevitably grew into a community similar to what's described in this announcement.

But the mailing lists/forums that had moderate moderation, removing furry porn for example, have continued to grow and continue their initial cause. Good moderation is not censorship, I would even say that people disrupting the core purpose of a community censor more than a good moderator by burying worthwhile content below shit posts.

I'm confused, black and hispanics make a combined 30% of the U.S. population but 7.14% of tech workers and that seems reasonable?

What am I missing here?

This is why I get annoyed when I hear people claim that their workplace is a true meritocracy and 20 of 20 employees are white males. So only white males have the intellectual talent to make it in tech?

I totally get that it's not meant that way, but that's what it looks like to people who are not in SV tech.

Off topic but since this has come up this week several times: Meritocracies seem great in theory but rarely work in practice. What exactly are we measuring? How much code you can write in an hour? The quality of the code? What if you spend more time helping other members of your team with new concepts and that limits the amount of code you can write? What about the people in the office who support you and help you get things done faster? Do we include things like pairing skills?

The only time I worked at company who claimed to be a meritocracy I benefited greatly but people whose skills weren't as easily measured were unfairly left behind. We had a PM quit after being denied a raise and his departure set us back quite a bit, clearly we weren't measuring his value accordingly.

I think I work at the "high-profile agile consultancy" you're talking about.

I've been there two months and I still have no idea who I talk to about X, where X is a variety of things. Before getting staffed on a project I spent time working on whatever I wanted to learn. At several points I wondered if there was someone I should check in with. It felt so weird to just do what I wanted without having to get permission or justify it to someone.

That said, I don't think I could ever go back to reporting to a manager, especially a non-technical manager.

>Maybe it's too much to ask that we say "different things work for different groups of people"?

I couldn't agree more. I think the flat model works at my company because harassment wouldn't be tolerated by anyone. I turned down positions at startups because their culture was too fratty. Even if they had a management system I wouldn't have felt comfortable bringing up issues.

One of the most frustrating things about moving out of poverty to the upper-middle/upper class is being an example of "what a little hard work can do".

They always forget to mention how so many people like myself have had to totally cut off contact with their family, watch friends and family die(gang and drug related murders, overdosing, suicide), how often we struggle with depression because we can't figure out what made us anymore deserving than the people we left behind, and have issues dealing with money in general- luckily I'm on the "save every dime" side of that spectrum.

If hard work is all you need then I know a couple hundred people who should be living in mansions.

As someone who used to ride one of those buses I was understandably annoyed and confused as to why people thought attacking the buses would help housing prices.

Then I spent six weeks abroad with people from all over North and South America. They knew about the protests and thought that the point was raising awareness about growing income inequality. They were totally right. Upon returning home and making an effort to meet some of the organizations that are involved with the protests they explained that while some media outlets and groups who have co-opted their movements are hateful towards new comers, the initial point was to raise awareness about issues.

Not sure if there was a beta but these have been around at least for a couple of months. I was able to tour the inside of several restaurants near my apartment in Pune.

Agreed. I just deleted my LinkedIn due to privacy concerns so I couldn't use this if I wanted to.

Yeah, this actually looks awesome. It address everything I hate about working with icons as a mainly backend developer.

As a female developer, yes, those things are hard to believe.

This is a great example of why I was hesitant of entering the field. You feel totally comfortable saying this when your profile links to your blog with your real name and place of employment. If you're that comfortable in this belief you can't expect me to believe that you don't treat women in your work place differently and with less respect.

Gender roles still very much exist. If something biological were keeping women from entering the IT industry it wouldn't vary so much from culture to culture. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/g/gsf/12220332.0001.103?rgn=main;v...