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Re:Did blind orchestra auditions benefit women? by chobeat on Sunday May 12, 2019 @06:40AM (#19891157)
but for sure they cannot have the perspective of a woman. And a white bro cannot have the perspective of an Indian or a Chinese or a Quechua.

Asserting that white brogrammers cannot embody some perspectives doesn't say that they have a uniform background. It just asserts that your team will be made encompassing just that set of perspectives.

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Re:Did blind orchestra auditions benefit women? by growlist on Sunday May 12, 2019 @06:52AM (#19891191)
I've never seen rigorous scientific proof that these claims for the nebulous benefits of 'perspective' are real, outside of issues that are highly specific to a particular group - and let's be honest, we are all far more similar than we are different (highly unfashionable view, I know).
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Re:Did blind orchestra auditions benefit women? by bufferoverflow on Sunday May 12, 2019 @07:12AM (#19891247)
Give me an IT perspective that a man can't possibly have, but a woman can.

Give me an IT perspective that a white man can't possibly have, but an Indian/Chinese can.

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Re:Did blind orchestra auditions benefit women? by DanBC on Sunday May 12, 2019 @07:15AM (#19891252)
Period tracking apps are often written by men and fail to be actually useful to women because they miss a bunch of stuff.

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/11/13/18079458/menstrual-...

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Re:Did blind orchestra auditions benefit women? by treis on Sunday May 12, 2019 @10:40AM (#19892153)
That's a pretty dumb article. For example:

>Glow was even worse. The first onboarding screen asks users to choose their “journey” and provides three choices: avoiding pregnancy, trying to conceive, and fertility treatments.

If you go to https://glowing.com/ you can see their tag line is "Modern care for your fertility". So a good chunk of the article is nothing more than complaining that Glow isn't what they want it to be.

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Re:Did blind orchestra auditions benefit women? by layoutIfNeeded on Sunday May 12, 2019 @09:22AM (#19891706)
>a white bro

Please don't do this on HN.

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