Comments on: Vote! http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/3426.html Data is ones and zeroes | Software is ones and zeroes and hard work. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mike http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/3426.html#comment-3375 Mike Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:18:33 +0000 http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/?p=3426#comment-3375 It's official: http://www.chipchick.com/2010/02/computer-engineer-barbie.html It’s official:

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]]> By: What do you think of diversity? « Tania Samsonova’s Blog http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/3426.html#comment-3374 What do you think of diversity? « Tania Samsonova’s Blog Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:46:43 +0000 http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/?p=3426#comment-3374 [...] 2010 · Leave a Comment This post started as my comment to Greg Wilson’s blog. Greg posted a link to O’Reilly’s call for diversity. I think that the very concept of increasing [...] [...] 2010 · Leave a Comment This post started as my comment to Greg Wilson’s blog. Greg posted a link to O’Reilly’s call for diversity. I think that the very concept of increasing [...]

]]> By: Tania http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/3426.html#comment-3373 Tania Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:59:13 +0000 http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/?p=3426#comment-3373 Greg, as a woman who's been in IT for about 20 years I must say that the "improving diversity" thing looks like BS to me and insults the very people whom it is supposed to help. Please correct me if I am wrong. Here's my train of reasoning. Either someone deserves to be a speaker at a conference (by the pure merit of their research and speaking skills), or they don't. If they do, then invite them because they are worth it, not because they are minorities. On the other hand, if they don't deserve it but still get invited, this implies the poor things can't do better anyway, so let's condescend to them. Moreover, if e.g. a woman got to be a speaker, there will always be suspicion that she got in by being a minority and not because of her actual achievements. All in all, it seems to me that this policy does more harm than good. Greg, as a woman who’s been in IT for about 20 years I must say that the “improving diversity” thing looks like BS to me and insults the very people whom it is supposed to help. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Here’s my train of reasoning. Either someone deserves to be a speaker at a conference (by the pure merit of their research and speaking skills), or they don’t. If they do, then invite them because they are worth it, not because they are minorities. On the other hand, if they don’t deserve it but still get invited, this implies the poor things can’t do better anyway, so let’s condescend to them.

Moreover, if e.g. a woman got to be a speaker, there will always be suspicion that she got in by being a minority and not because of her actual achievements. All in all, it seems to me that this policy does more harm than good.

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