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An Open Letter to the Members of the United Brotherhood of the Fraternity of the Y-Chromosome

Posted by: jag in Culture, Gender, Politics 3 years ago

Gentlemen, we need to have a conversation about feminism, privilege, and ourselves.

On inclusivity and tolerance

Posted by: jag in Coding, Culture, Gender, Liberty 3 years, 11 months ago

Last Wednesday, Elia Schito tweeted from his personal account, apparently referring to gender reassignment surgery:

Interviewing and hiring developers

Posted by: jag in Coding, Gender 3 years, 11 months ago

Methodologies and philosophies on screening, interviewing, and hiring software developers go through fads and phases, as popular wisdom is debunked, thought leaders share their methods, and developers themselves are promoted and bring their own experience to bear. Most of us would agree that nobody's really doing this right, and we don't really agree what "right" would look like.

Gender and cultural bias in the programming world

Posted by: jag in Coding, Culture, Gender 4 years, 1 month ago

Almost as soon as it had happened, my Twitter feed was abuzz with the keynote talk that Jacob Kaplan-Moss gave on how the internal mythology of programmer skill distribution leads to excluding and discouraging what must be the vast majority of software engineers. You should watch it, if you haven't:

Risk calculus, gender, and blame

Posted by: jag in Culture, Love and Sex 4 years, 1 month ago

As outlined with appropriate outrage over at the Frisky Fairy, FetLife, the social networking website for kink and fetish enthusiasts, finds itself in a bit of a firestorm with its members over its complacency or ineptitude at protecting its users' privacy, insofar as such things are possible.