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Re:Women: Learn to Program This Summer by Grustaf on Sunday March 24, 2019 @04:55PM (#19478722)
We were talking about the existence of gender based 90/10 skews.

As to femle programmers in the 1950’s, do you really think that is comparable?

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Re:Women: Learn to Program This Summer by wsy on Monday March 25, 2019 @08:32AM (#19481922)
Yes, in the context of a program to educate women specifically about how to code.

Comparable to what? I mentioned programming in the 1950s because all traits labeled in this discussion as "boys/males biologically have more of it than girls/women" have been as important for programming in the 1950s as they are now, it seems to me

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Re:Women: Learn to Program This Summer by Grustaf on Monday March 25, 2019 @12:07PM (#19483754)
So you think the women that worked as “computers” in the fifties entered the field because they had a passion for electronic machines?
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Re:Women: Learn to Program This Summer by wsy on Monday March 25, 2019 @06:36PM (#19487387)
These women were much more into 'things' than 'people'.

It would be your turn now to explain which biological characteristics of men cause a 90/10 distribution in coders today, and do not apply to coding in the 1950s.

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