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Ah, making sweeping generalisations of one demographic containing about 80m people and another of 330m people. Bound to be a good tactic.
No way, I refuse to believe it.
Have you got any more on this? Would be interested to read.
I.e. men.
Like IT: There was no money in it, just a load of guys doing it for the love of it. 20 years later there's huge money in it, those guys who were there at the start are at the top of the pile and the women who never previously showed an interest in it are on the sidelines screaming "BUT WHAT ABOUT THE WOMYN??!?!".
This whole equality war in IT is becoming incredibly tiring. Endless attacks from a transparent supremacy movement whose members were calling people in IT "nerds" 10 years ago.
If the previous demographic was 50/50 and each were contributing a similar amount of cash to the sport, therefore supporting its commercial viability, why would such a move take place?
Because it's easier to be a big fish in a small pond.
Is that you, Obama? What is this nonsense?
>Things are bad right now, but they're getting better.
Things - socially, politically and economically - are continuing to get worse for the average person.
What world are you living on?
Source code isn't written to be shared or to entertain others with. Quite the opposite, in fact, as we strive to protect source while still releasing the products built from it.
A bit of an idiotic comparison really.
This is the kicker. It sounds like an absolutely fantastic opportunity...so long as you still get your normal vacation days to take as you want.
If this is meant to replace vacation time though then it's simply another contribution in the race to the work/life balance bottom.
They may not explicitly disqualify men from attending, but the language on the site and the proceeding application form makes it very clear who they want, and do not want, there.
To be clear though, I don't care one way or another. I find these type of events to be laughable at best, but they're only a small part of this bizarre, gender war fueled narrative we're having pushed into the IT industry every day by online "journalists" who've never even been a part of it.
If you go on Reddit, for example, you'll find plenty of highly upvoted articles discussing Chinese or Russian "propaganda", and an outright rejection of any suggestion that the US or its allies engage in the same behaviours themselves, despite there being overwhelming evidence supporting it.
It must be nice to be so efficient at propaganda that the very people you're targeting with it digest it so well that they'll promote the same agenda without second thought wherever they possibly can.
This is about as incorrect a statement as one could make on the issue.
That's a pretty terrible, and indeed entitled, attitude to hold I must say.
>I haven't used it in a while (I don't make many presentations) but I still keep getting and responding to bug reports. What's my responsibility here? I am happy to open source my code, but I don't want the extra work of maintaining something I rarely use.
Then don't. Invite others to collaborate and submit patches themselves.
Except advances in biotech...or at least I'm drastically hoping so.
http://sites.miis.edu/educationinegypt/files/2013/05/CIEsala...
We're not looking for a lifeboat, humanity is simply looking for another planet to screw up.
I would pay a considerable amount, probably capped at 10k, for a service that was able to provide me with an accurate, detailed and thorough description of my personal lineage...but I can't seem to find any services that offer it.
The culture of bending anything to suit the agenda / narrative where one's feelings are prioritized over reality.
It allows them to take something non-gendered and create an absolute shitstorm from it.
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Because tech isn't an industry any more, it's part of mainstream culture, and thus tech "news" has to be watered down or diluted to suit the mainstream audience, hence tech "news" segments being filled with celebrity news and opinion pieces on how evil the industry is because men got into it first.
I attended the Dublin Web Summit[1] recently where talks were given by industry giants including Peter Thiel, John Sculley and many more [2]. It also included a talk by Eva Longoria which amounted to a bizarre and comparatively unsubstantial interview about the life of a celebrity and yet the same tech media reported it as the highlight of the week. Indeed it was the most tweeted about talk of the entire event.
So this is the direction mainstream tech culture is going in, and as tech remains "cool", and being a "geek" remains a quirky attribute people stick on their Twitter profiles, we can expect much more of it to come.
1. http://websummit.net/ If you haven't already heard of it
2. http://websummit.net/speakers Speakers list
Can I ask for some opinions on this...
What if we took this approach, which is one I personally support as I don't think trying to retrofit equality into the industry by way of gender quotas is right at all, but yet the outcome is the same? What if, after investing time and effort into getting children into technology at a very young age, regardless of demographic, we still see white and asian males dominate the field 20 years down the line?
Do we accept that outcome? Or how much harder will we push to force equality in this area?
By the time we finished the degree, there were no women.
And yet tech companies are now being told that in order to bring about equality, they must hire the comparatively tiny number of women making it through these courses over similarly qualified men, simply for the sake of doing so.
Worse yet. We claim women are social in a positive manner, and then claim men being social are promoting a negative "bro" culture, something that isn't inclusive of women or has an explicit agenda if it is.