I asked chatgpt what I should do and now I'm enrolled in a beginer Korean course on Corsera.

I had a two hour slot carved out with which to slack off and surf the net. I had a release last week, I deserve it.

Programming was and still is part of the mandatory curriculum in Australia, so I am surprised to hear you say that. The I hit up Google and it tells me only 45% of high schools in the US do computer science. Wow! Without being forced to do Q Basic in year 8 computer studies class and then Pascal and VB in later years, I also might never have discovered what coding was.

I did CS because I didn't think I could hack it in Electrical Engineering so you may be onto something there...

I went for a job with a company that had a bunch of women in IT programs and was big on their diversity programs and posted heaps of stuff in linkdin about encouraging women in IT etc. Anyway, I sucked at the interview, they asked me to do a bunch of SQL stuff which I rightly should have known, but was too rusty to do because I had been working with an API for the last couple projects and hadn't needed to write any queries, I also bombed a fizzbuzz-like test, and when making a demo program struggled with the right code to do a console writeline because I am used to coding for web backend. They asked me to explain dependency injection and I babbled some crap about inheritance and inversion of control that make no sense. Aaaand they told the recruiter I was shit (because I was) and no thanks. I respect them for not hiring someone they thought sucked just to get a woman on the team. I actually could have done the job well, I was just woefully unprepared for the kind of things you might have to do in a programmer interview. Lesson learned.

I actually think this is the key, not 'women like people not things' but rather societal pressure is still there on the man to being the one who brings home the bacon. Women are free to pursue their passions. I'd say 20% of people studying CS are there because they have a true passion for it and the rest because they like using a computer and couldn't think of anything else to study / want to make a lot of money and think it's the ticket / want a visa to a better country and think it's the ticket. More % of men to women make up the 80% of non-passionate people but in my course a lot of that cohort ended up dropping out anyway, when they found out debugging code wasn't the glamourous lifestyle they imagined for their tech career.

Am I getting mixed up with some other guy who was fired for a 'why women can't be good at tech and my company should stop trying' rant? Maybe there was a different one a couple years earlier?

As a woman who studied CS I don't even know. I did it because I wanted to, not because there were special efforts that tempted me in. I did join a university 'IT Girls' club but aside from getting a free travel mug, there wasn't much point to it.

Really? Googleing gender imbalance in teaching brings up plenty of results, and quotes like:

Head of the NSW Primary Principals Association, Robyn Evans, said schools needed a better gender balance among teachers, particularly in primary schools. “The role modelling, the connections, the different ways people think,” she said.

Ms Evans said the only way to attract more men would be to increase pay. “In my own school ... it’s really tricky getting [male] graduates in,” she said. “Their mates – tradies and the like – earn a whole lot more money than teachers.”

Craig Petersen, from the Secondary Principals Council, agreed. “

And many more.

Anecdotally, my male cousin primary school teacher is hot property, he can have any job he wants, so keen are the school to get more men in at the lower grades.

I agree the biggest reason is probably most women just don't want to. That rant James whatshisface wrote though (and it's been many years since I read it) basically said that any woman who can think in the way that is required to do a tech job is just a freak of nature, because naturally they are not able to use their brains like that. I found it pretty insulting. Men and women can both be taught how to think in the way a tech job requires, should they desire to learn how.

Where the 'celebrity' was used for erectile disfunction ads.

Facebook don't give a shit about upholding standards, as long as people are clicking on stuff. Maybe a few lawsuits will get them to start caring.

Every day I see posts that violote the groups policy on not having completitions where people are asked to 'tag and share' which is not allowed, but there's no way to actually report it. And clearly, they don't bother inforcing it. People have the images stolen and used on clickpage pages, which no consequence whatsoever to the offenders. Maybe if it's cleaned a little I wouldn't hate being on there so much.

Dear blog,

Today I put step one of my devious plan into action. I went to the Slashdot forums, and posted on every programing related story about how there are no paid coding jobs.

Soon, the people will think there are no jobs and find other careers. Then... all the coding jobs will be mine! BWAHAHWHA!!

Can they actually geolocate routers? I always thought it would be valuable to display the distance you are from the router. When connection is crap you'd know if you were getting closer if you walked around. You could work out what shop to stand in front of to leach their wifi. You could track the router down in order to reset it so everyone else gets booted. I wonder if this info is possible to calculate. The developer blog mentions nothing about wifi in the 8.1 updates. For Googles use only, not fpr app developers?

that someone posted 5 days ago, just becuase some dumbarse 'liked' it today?

Because Australia isn't real and we are all actors perpetuating the myth. Hi from 'Melbourne'.

Flooding and erosion? Maybe Australia and New Zealand can sue for all the skin cancer?