The quote is completely substantive. Just because you disagree doesn't make it uncivil.
But is the irony of you threatening to ban me for "inflammatory comments" and the quote itself--about the culture of militant political correctness--not lost on you? Do you see the irony?
2. Spend time protesting large tech companies for not hiring enough women. When asked why there should be more women in tech despite hiring ratios exceeding percentage of female CS majors, place hands over ears.
3. Receive free tuition to sub-par accelerator schools that will take your money but will not teach you any of the actual skills required to pass an interview, let alone compete with your male or female counterparts at work who studied CS for 4 years.
4. Demand and obtain job at large corporation you previously protested. Post on twitter about breaking the barrier, offering yourself plenty of self-congratulatory banter. Add the word "geek" to all social media bios.
5. Carry on with your career. Ignore all of the other thousands of hardworking, deserved women in tech who studied CS and succeeded despite astronomical odds, like your counterparts from China and India who had none of the privileges you did. Join them at the water cooler and attempt to socialize with them, ignoring the fact that all of the men and women you work with secretly resent you and see you as incompetent.
6. If anyone questions your abilities, play gender bias card. Place hands over ears, when necessary.
This is all so much easier than just choosing to study CS.
How to be a good male in tech
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1. Don't question any of this. Just blindly accept your company hiring sub-par devs from accelerators, despite the way they threaten the integrity and stability of your company. Diversity is more important than competence. Ask any business owner.
Can't believe this clickbait is at the top of HN. Look at the quality of analysis this guy gives.
>Amazon "Kind of sucks"
>Amazon "has a world-class distribution system"
Which is it?
> I started looking around, comparing prices, and found that this is not unusual. Pretty much anything Amazon sells that is also sold at your local big box store costs much more.
Care to provide even just one example?
> I’m too lazy to figure out which page the first one pops up on, because I gave up on page 12. Even if you sort by Apple as the manufacturer, you get a bewildering array of crap that isn’t what you’re looking for. Walk into an Apple store or Best Buy and you can figure it out in seconds.
I don't know why, but this headline sounds like it's a device to remember something. Like "Every good boy deserves fudge." Like someone was trying to remember "SSMFSD" and they came up with "Sexual selection makes female songbirds drab."
The anti-Amazon, anti-tech circlejerk is so strong right now in Seattle, especially by locals[1]. Search /r/seattle for "amazon" and behold.
[1]locals is a loosely defined term for anyone who was actually raised here (like myself) or who just happened to move here from Portland, SF, LA, or NY before about 2010
>There's a lot of room for unconscious bias to color the information. Research tells us that subtle indicators - names, clubs, addresses, school, previous employment, race, parental status, socio-economic status, etc - may unconsciously affect expectations and assessment of a candidate.
"Here at Google, we're independent, free-thinkers, and we're definitely not influenced by the militant leftist crowd that plagues the Bay Area. That's why you're not allowed to take anything about a person into consideration before hiring them. Literally nothing. We're all the same person in every way and everyone is as talented and special as everyone else. Everything is a bias and should be expunged from your evaluation process."
But is the irony of you threatening to ban me for "inflammatory comments" and the quote itself--about the culture of militant political correctness--not lost on you? Do you see the irony?