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Re:In defence of Douglas Crockford by jacalata on Sunday September 04, 2016 @03:30AM (#12423244)
Why are you using "quotes" around women? It also sounds like you are unfamiliar with the job of developer evangelist (which Richards held) - it is actually a pretty common position in the programming industry, perhaps not so much around electrical engineering. Here's an explanation - https://sendgrid.com/blog/explained-developer-evangelism-par...
Re:In defence of Douglas Crockford by hgcarter on Sunday September 04, 2016 @04:56AM (#12423439)
I suspect she put the quotes because "real women" code and don't talk, just like "real men".

Developer evangelist is a nonsense job that can be useful to a company to attract certain funding, nothing more. It's the politically correct version of a booth babe.

Re:In defence of Douglas Crockford by labrador on Sunday September 04, 2016 @06:13AM (#12423639)
I suspect the quotes around "woman" are about trans men who start speaking for all women after they transition. I imagine some women are bothered by this. I have no evidence of this, just trying to explain the quotes.