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Comment Many words, few actions (Score 0) 479

I've seen people talk about hiring women in the executive suite at tech firms and in tech itself for decades, but little action.

1. Make sure you get as many female interns as male interns. If not, go back to how you recruit, cause you're doing it wrong.

2. Pay women the same as men. Period. No exceptions. Yes, I know you pretend you do, but internal data shows it's a lie.

3. Actually hire twice the industry standard percent of women. Require double the promotion rate per unit of women. There are many excuses, but they are always excuses, and in my long history in tech, I've rarely seen unqualified women. You just shut them out cause they don't get obsessed by the same stuff you do, and you have 1960s visions of gender roles in actual practice.

4. As to other diversity, a lot of the comments are the exact same as 1-3. And you know it.

Submission + - Seattle CEO Wants to Hire "Binders Full of Women" Into Tech (geekwire.com)

reifman writes: Fizzmint CEO Tarah Wheeler Van Vlack says she "never had a problem with Mitt Romney’s use of the phrase 'binders full of women' ... Instead of congratulating him for his realization and his attempt to (awkwardly) rectify the situation, we crucified him for not already having a network of accomplished women." The scarcity of women in tech is a central issue in Seattle where Amazon's growth is literally reshaping the city but the company refuses to release its technology workforce diversity numbers and its been criticized for interviewing practices that put female candidates on a "horrifying steeplechase [by] careless and non-people-oriented technologists." Says Van Vlack, "It’s stupid on every level not to acknowledge the obstacles women face when they try to join a tech company." She suggests three concrete steps for technology leaders to attract more women into the fold: 1) Push your technical recruiters to hit 20% thresholds for female candidates 2) Challenge and question your personal assumptions about the leadership skills of women in technology and 3) Transparently and openly take a stand to improve your company's diversity figures.

Submission + - IEEE: New H-1B bill will 'help destroy' U.S. tech workforce (computerworld.com)

dcblogs writes: New legislation being pushed by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) to hike the H-1B visa cap is drawing criticism and warnings that it will lead to an increase in offshoring of tech jobs. IEEE-USA said the legislation, introduced by a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Tuesday, will "help destroy" the U.S. tech workforce with guest workers. Other critics, including Ron Hira, a professor of public policy at Howard University and a leading researcher on the issue, said the bill gives the tech industry "a huge increase in the supply of lower-cost foreign guest workers so they can undercut and replace American workers." Hira said this bill "will result in an exponential rise of American jobs being shipped overseas." Technically, the bill is a reintroduction of the earlier "I-Square" bill, but it includes enough revisions to be considered new. It increases the H-1B visa cap to 195,000 (instead of an earlier 300,000 cap), and eliminates the cap on people who earn an advanced degree in a STEM (science, technology, education and math) field. Hatch, who is the No. 2 ranking senator in the GOP-controlled chamber, was joined by co-sponsors Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) in backing the legislation.

Comment We already have faster Internet2 - 40 and 100 Gbps (Score 1) 417

Technically, we already have a fast 40 and 100 Gbps - yes, I said Gigabit per second.

It's at most major research universities.

My building and one a couple blocks away have 100 Gbps ports and we have 40 Gbps in most buildings on campus.

We just don't let you use them.

Glad to hear we'll join the First World Nations that have decent speeds on the civilian side.

Comment Re:More stuff done (Score 5, Funny) 112

One wrong line of code and all my work-inappropriate stuff will suddenly be thrown in the face of co-workers while they are trying to do their jobs.

I trust this about as far as an ant can spit.

Actually, some spitting variants of ants can do a pretty good job. The formic acid has some neurotoxins that let them stun their prey.

But, yeah, totally agree.

Comment Re:Buying one this year or next (Score 1) 181

yes I know Eastsiders in Bellevue pay for 1/3 coal but they're deadenders

Geographical bigotry is still bigotry.

Dude I live in the Center of the Universe, in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle.

We are who we are.

How are you liking my vision of Seattle so far? Adapt or die.

All your future is belong to fossil fuel disinvestment.

Comment Buying one this year or next (Score 1) 181

Either a Tesla C or a Chevy Bolt.

Or maybe the iBMW.

Not picky. Electricity is dirt cheap and 100 percent green at both my workplace and my home.

(and before you coal and fossil fuel guys criticize it, I mean that literally, I own solar PV cells on the Seattle Aquarium and pay for 100 percent Green electric through the 100 percent level at Seattle City Light, yes I know Eastsiders in Bellevue pay for 1/3 coal but they're deadenders, Seattle rules!)

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