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Re:As a Woman in Tech, I Realized: These Are Not My People by tptacek on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @05:19PM (#14973729)
No, his argument is straightforward and lots of other people have made it before. A shorter way of saying it would be "if you don't like the same kinds of video games as most other developers, you are likely to be made to feel unwelcome".
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Re:As a Woman in Tech, I Realized: These Are Not My People by js8 on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @05:46PM (#14974001)
> "if you don't like the same kinds of video games as most other developers, you are likely to be made to feel unwelcome"

Funny, I don't like the same kinds of video games as most other developers. I like Minecraft, and only one colleague I know who enjoys it is a (very smart) woman, although she is a tech writer, not a developer (she is perfectly capable of programming, in fact it is her hobby, she just likes writing better).

So please, don't stereotype. :-)

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Re:As a Woman in Tech, I Realized: These Are Not My People by tptacek on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @05:53PM (#14974064)
I'm deliberately oversimplifying. If you:

1. Like sports

2. Wear expensive or formal clothing

3. Dislike video games

4. Are uninterested in science fiction

5. Don't drink

6. Are over 50

... you'll find valley software development culturally inhospitable. Obviously, lots of well-dressed 50 year old baseball fans have programming jobs. But those people don't "read" as software developers, and if you take those people and strip away their resumes, they will underperform people that don't have those characteristics in software development interviews.

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Re:As a Woman in Tech, I Realized: These Are Not My People by needlessly2 on Thursday August 10, 2017 @05:04PM (#14984269)
i'm a guy and i don't enjoy video games any more. I just feel i've grown out of that phase when I was 15. I'd rather go swimming, hiking, and try out different restaurants/bars.
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