On managing outrage in Silicon Valley

Re:On managing outrage in Silicon Valley by Udik on Monday August 07, 2017 @07:11PM (#14952060)

> Testosterone has effects on competition, so there could still be bias there

Oh. And that would be a biological, innate difference in behaviour between men and women, wouldn't it?

And even if women are as good as men at maths or computer programming- which wouldn't surprise me much- can't they be just less interested in it, just in the same way they're less interested (as you seem to imply) in competition?

And could I be as good as the average woman in teaching or as a nurse? Possible. Am I interested in it? No.

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Re:On managing outrage in Silicon Valley by lawnchair_larry on Monday August 07, 2017 @09:23PM (#14952735)

I don't know why those are directed at me. I didn't say otherwise!

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Re:On managing outrage in Silicon Valley by s73ver on Monday August 07, 2017 @07:55PM (#14952301)

But are they less interested just because? Or less interested because of things like Uber?

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Re:On managing outrage in Silicon Valley by Udik on Monday August 07, 2017 @08:22PM (#14952407)

Because, do you think sitting eight hours a day behind a desk trying to find a way to instruct a machine to do something you already know how to do, is a particularly appealing job? Can you imagine the amount of fulfilling human interactions a nurse has every day in the hours you spend looking at that damn screen? I mean, maybe they don't do it just because they can actually do something better.

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Re:On managing outrage in Silicon Valley by s73ver on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @12:24PM (#14959443)

I mean, I clearly do as that is my profession. And I really don't think the decision is between "nurse" and "software engineer".

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