Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018)
by SpicyLemonZest on Thursday December 12, 2019 @05:51PM
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I don't really follow the distinction you're drawing here. If you think that working in isolation is a bad thing, and most programmers should be talking to lots of people all the time, "people who like working alone on challenging tasks are inherently deficient" sounds like an accurate summary of that view. It seems perfectly reasonable for an introvert to say that they don't want to work that way, and that it would be bad for them if your views on how programmers ought to work become more common.
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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018)
by foldr on Thursday December 12, 2019 @05:57PM
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>"people who like working alone on challenging tasks are inherently deficient" sounds like an accurate summary of that view.
???
I don't say that they're deficient as people, or that working in isolation is bad per se. I'm just saying that people who like to work in isolation are unlikely to make good programmers (in the context of a typical programming job).
Personally, I switched to programming from academia, where I really did work in isolation on challenging problems. Now I spend most of my time talking to my colleagues to figure out exactly which not very challenging problem I should be spending my limited time on solving.
Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018)
by jimbokun on Thursday December 12, 2019 @09:45PM
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Ah, so you are in an environment with “not very challenging problems” and you assume all work environments are like that.
Now it makes sense.
Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018)
by foldr on Friday December 13, 2019 @02:02AM
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Nice shade, but here's some in return. If you frequently find your work challenging, then you are not a good programmer (or you are working on problems that aren't primarily programming problems).