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Diversity

So many assumptions

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There was a comment at Yegge’s post about good Agile, bad Agile that caught my eye: To the people who complained that because they have other priorities besides programming (families, hobbies, etc) they’ve been lumped in a “lesser programmers” category I can only say this: if you have other priorities besides programming, […]

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Diversity

Role Models

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A couple of items surfaced recently about the lack of women in science and technology, including a NYTimes op-ed piece rejecting the recent study about women in sciences and another weblogger writing about the importance of having women as role models (via Sour Duck. The latter, in particular, caught my attention because when I was studying science […]

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Writing

Comments to comments

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I don’t remember this being written about anywhere, and I don’t know how old the ability is, but you can now add comments to individual product reviews at Amazon. As an author, what a wonderful way of responding to comments on one’s work. For others, what a great way to get […]