Years ago there was a comment here on HN, to the tune of: "when a man fronts a team he's called a leader or a CEO; when a woman does the same she often gets called a figurehead or a fake", and it's one of those things where once I heard it described I started noticing it a lot.

Sexism is so deeply embedded in culture. Yes, I understand people get annoyed by language police, but we have hundreds of years of damage to undo.

That event brought down "Make Magazine" a dozen notches permanently in my mind in an instant.

I respect her a ton for doing what she's doing, and if I remember correctly, she had to install a very elaborate and advanced security system at her home to feel safe.

Sad.

Make: is Make:. Once they set up an isolation ward for nerds away from main exhibit in Maker Faire Tokyo to keep unsightly EE/HAM nerds away from handsome Makers.

They made huge contributions to their Maker movement and gave me $9 Pro Micros, and I’m thankful of it, but I won’t forget that they always are like that.

Probably most of us reason from stereotypes a lot of the time. I'm ashamed to admit I've recommended not hiring a guy I interviewed for a sysadmin job basically because he showed up wearing a suit and tie.

I think we all do but we should recognise it as an issue and come up with strategies and processes to ensure objectivity and reduce discrimination.

I was once told in an interview for a statistician role that the questions were designed for male candidates and I shouldn't worry if I struggle with them. And this was a big FTSE 100 company.

Fuck. Some days you just lose faith in humanity.

Once I got past 40, the only reason to own a "good" suit was to attend funerals.

So I would show up to job interviews in a basic black suit, and I liked the way I felt when I wore it. The old-school attitude about "Dress for Success" is just one more thing that's become retro and ironic these days.

Curious; when did you get started with your career?

01996, but I started programming in 01980. The interview where I was interviewing the sysadmin candidate was in 02004.