ninavizz

Could the guys on this thread please stop it with the "pipeline" discussion?! Few women actually cite that to be an issue. It's distracting. Listen more, talk less.

PG's not God, he's just another person. As am I.

Really? Spend some time in Kentucky, rural areas anywhere, or in Flint Michigan. It's less about finishing any level of education, and more about supportive family access to personal development interests, and an economy you can tap into for work on your way up.

There is no "tech skill shortage," there are barriers that need to be broken to empower non-middle-class, US origin n00bz. Likewise: we need to get past our unhealthy obsession w/ only hiring others who mirror ourselves, personally, in startups.

The below article is a superb read, and I highly encourage as a more complete view on the subject.

https://t.co/pCv7JgF7mF

No, no, no, no, no, no, no to more immigration as a solution to a perceived lack of workers.

https://t.co/pCv7JgF7mF

Nope. Also, a 1999 article posted to support a phenomenon that today is continuing to undercut women and people from disenfranchised communities IN THE US from receiving the support they need to enter the Tech labor force, is pretty lousy. WE need to focus on fixing the problem, not having a pity-party over it in support of some very extreme and reflexive solution-ideas (PG's latest piece).

https://t.co/pCv7JgF7mF

Research has context. Individuals as backseat-scholars, often times miss this context. Conducting and looking-to research studies for a living, I know this well.

Not a conversation I think is worth wasting time or energy on, when a beautiful day and so many other things are just bigger priorities. Macro point: efforts to qualify "normal" in specified groups w/in sociology, are dangerous. Especially for young people on the shit end of that 'normal' stick (in this case, women) the damage far outweighs any possible benefits that you or others could reap from the research.

Black people are dumber than white people, per their DNA—haven't you heard? So claimed the scientist who stole another's work to claim the Nobel (and by coincidence, a woman who'd died years previously was the OG scientist—not verified until years later): http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/james-watson-profi...

Stay away from seeking to validate divisive science that normalizes bad social behavior. It benefits nobody, outside of other scientists seeking such studies as chain-links in more socially beneficial work.

Ethics matter. Live it, breathe it, or please exit the entrepreneur and/or science communities.

Evangelical Christians have these kind of argument tactics down to a science—how to convince anybody through peer-group research w/in communities of scientists intent on "proving" banalities that socialization more often overcomes—and separately, that feed more limiting stereotypes than they benifit anybody or further productive research.

I am a mechanic and a gearhead. A former motorcycle racer, with a pixie physique. An ice hockey player, and a robotics hobbiest. Your praised research has shaped society to present me and others like me with far more barriers, than it has presented to anyone, benefits with any kind.

Hence: my assertion that your evangelism of this research as anything positive. Share some Eugenics research, why not?

Social consequences from non-scientific interpretstions of scientific work, are more often than not dangerous. Leave the science to the scientists, and be a human engaged with other humans as we choose to co-exist.

It's abusive to troll any website posting radical or extreme POVs as "facts." HN is not a place I care to invest my time, and if any person here is sincere in believing that men are superior to women, imho they should be kicked off.

50% of society are women. ~30% of tech employees on avg, are women—with women in technical roles or leadership being far less. Black Americans comprise 13% of our population, and Latino Americans comprise 17% of the population. In Tech, they represent ~2% and ~%3% of our workforce, respectively.

Anybody who does not think this is a significant problem, has no business participating in the creation of products for any human to usw in their lives. None.

That's none of your business. How people "describe" sexual harassment in casual conversation, is not how sexual harassment is judged against policies, rules, and in common-sense consideration when evaluating punishment for making choices that violated another person's boundaries.

Frankly: if the dynamic between two individuals is as such, that for one to walk into a room has been plainly stated to violate the imposed boundaries of another, THAT is harassment. Textbook. Harassment. That's what restraining orders are for.

You're mistaken here, in confusing the internet as a court of public opinion that it is not.

MIT (and all academic institutions) reviews cases in private. Behind closed doors. The same way the court system works. They make and deliver a judgement, after reviewing evidence. Doing so, protects the victims/claimants in cases. It's NOT "MIT is satisfied a person broke the policy," it's "MIT took time to review a complaint, deemed it was valid, and took action."

Filing a complaint RARELY means punishment will happen. Especially in situations of sexual harassment. In my case, my professor was never even admonished.

Grow. Up.

His ego is rewarded by his content remaing online, and presumably he recieves payment for each semestet they're used. He committed a major infraction that at least one student suffered from. There are many brilliant physycists in our world. Fuck this guy.

Are you serious?! I was sexually harassed by one professor (on an aside from inappropriately hit-on by a couple others). Reporting it was scary as hell, but lifted a huge weight from my shoulders. There's not a hope in hell I would have reported his actions if there was a chance the report would be made public, because what happened was so embarassing.

Students look up to their professors. Being persued sexually by one is more demoralizing than almost anything else, and humiliating. Very, very humiliating. Especially when being offered preferential treatment in class, that's unwanted, has been rebuffed, and is being spectated and/or resented by fellow classmates.

You really think transparency for the court of public opinion is more important in the interest of the professor's reputation (with a naieve assumption the professor wasn't doing anything he'd be humilliated by, should those allegations go public), than it is to protect the victim—who's ALREADY been through a humilliating, self-esteem erroding ordeal?!

It's not about sympathy, rather its about empathy. And listening. And mindfulness. Not skills the "ninja coder rockstar" person in their 20s, is likely to either have naturally, or to seek cultivation of. These are cultural problems, not of one "ism" or another.

Problems that are also in part born from young STEM academic over-achievers leaping from mid-degree coursework, and into the fast-paced world of startuptopia. The gap skipped over, is that one of the slower, social & personal-growth experience college life rigors our emotional skills through. That humanities coursework gives us tools of insight into the human condition, to work from. That shitty part-time jobs in food service or retail, teach us how to have a work ethic and value the work of others, through all involved parties being paid degradingly low wages, doing shit work for uncaring managers, but then relishing what little bits of wonder the crappy paychecks make possible after all the personal-growth the humbling work done for them, made subconsciously possible.

We need to all pause from the hustle and bustle of doing things as quickly as possible and with as much risk and for as much money as we each feel we can shoulder. We need to make room to prioritize mindfulness, listening, and just simple human humility. It's not all about people like us. Or, them. We are in this, together.

He who dies with the most toys, is simply dead. Not winning.

Hi Paul—thanks for the kind wisdom-share.

I've been doing research (through many methods) as a UX'er, for years. You're correct, the very personal stuff, is best done in a 1:1 interview.

It's rare for researchers to present a hypothesis to research subjects, before conducting the requisite study.

My four questions are pretty broad/basic, and they map well to my startup's purpose... which is being in the biz, of closing workplace inequality gaps and making workplace cultures more adaptive and welcoming to folks from all walks of life.

That should be plenty, to assuage worriers of my potentially nefarious corporate goals. If it's not, those folks should really go outside and enjoy a sunny day, sometime soon. Or, several.

I'm a n00b, and surveys on HN require 200 karma points. :/

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Hi Nate: I'm somewhat in the same boat. To get my business moving, I will need a CTO partner to drive the ship forward. Getting a minimum-viable-product built though, is all on me. Which I'd gone-out, assuming I could find friends to help me out with. Nope. No time, summer taveling, and everyone's loaded-up with paying work.

I'm a UX'er by trade, a self-taught mechanic/builder by hobby, and languages are my achilles heel with learning. So, I've taken A LOT of flack for many years, for not learning how to code, beyond my basic understanding of how things all fit together, need to support each other, and being able to edit other peoples HTML/CSS.

As a solo-founder however, it's all on me to deliver. Advisors and investors have (as gently as possible) told me that.

https://generalassemb.ly/ is expensive, but it's done a great job in a classroom setting, teaching app frameworks basics to n00bs. When I have the money and the bandwidth, I'm looking forward to taking it. Then there's also https://www.hackerschool.com/about, which is a paid retreat, so expensive on many levels.

I was really impressed with the codeacademy.com experience, and it filled-in many blanks for me that made me feel competent in CSS and HTML, for the first time ever. Using Javascript with JQuery is going to be a much more daunting challenge, because its entire mental model I still don't grok.

But, I'm trying, anyway. I managed to get one critical JQuery piece to work, and the other—I gave-up on but am coding the page, anyway with a static stand-in. I figure that once I've gotten all of the HTML and CSS and what of the JQuery I could do, done, at that point it will be easier to get friends to help me patch the holes. If not, then I will just pay a freelance Javascript person, to spend a day patching holes (and I honestly don't see what holes there will be, taking a day). Remember: Minimum Viable Product, doesn't' need to be fancy. :)

From, a gal who's gone-in kicking and screaming with every bit of learning code... but will probably be a more well rounded CEO, for it.

If Aviary owns any patents in the photo-editing realm, those alone were worth the acquisition to Adobe. Aviary has active partnerships with Yahoo! Mail and others, as their primary built-in photo-editing default utility. The second part of the win for Adobe, is they can now slather the Adobe brand, all over where the Aviary brand is now prominent, in those partnerships. That's what matters to the money folks.

kinhr is also a cute little startup out of Chicago... tho Bamboo is what many local startups use.