The trouble is that it all adds up to paint a picture of a corporate culture that's a little too comfortable being icky.

It's not about who has what data. It's about what's being done with it.

... 21 meals IS a week's supply.

No, but we have an opportunity to be a leader and not a follower. To be on the right side of history, so to speak.

For that, the first step should probably be to have more women in STEM classes so they can get recruited in these industries to begin with.

I've no idea how it currently is, but back when I was studying the ratio was something like 90% male in some curriculums. (There were exceptions, e.g. chemistry or biology, but they were rather rare.) Has this changed since?

A large part of the reason we have so few women in STEM is because of the toxic work culture that surrounds it. We also lose graduates once people decide they have better things to do than deal with sexist assholes all day.

I'm all for encouraging more women getting into STEM, but this needs to be a two-pronged approach. Without dramatic improvements to tech culture encouraging more women to study tech is mostly pointless.

FWIW, my engineering class was ~85% male. My working environments have been consistently 95%+ male. The industry is doing considerably worse than academia.

I think it peaked at some point during the 80's and then declined. Ancedotally, I've certainly met more women who wrote cobol and the like back in the day than women working in my current career. And there are a lot more women in my CS graduate program than I've met working at web startups.

It's a pretty icky thing to say, to be sure. This person set a new world record and she's receiving comments about her appearance? This woman performed an incredible feat of skill and she's being reduced to her looks. Doesn't sound like much of a compliment when you frame it like that, does it? Sounds like sexism to me.

Uhh, he just complimented her on becoming "the greatest Tetris player in the world", an achievement which is 100% unequivocally not due to being female or pretty (the machine does not care), and is not reduced in any shape or form by being either.

yes, when video game developers talk about 'games' they generally mean video game. It's a convenient shorthand in their community. Much how when a computer programmer refers to a 'file' they typically mean a 'computer file' rather than a physical one, when an electronic engineer says 'circuit' they mean an electrical circuit rather than a racing circuit.

Actually, there's nothing in the rules that limits the competition to video games; I wouldn't be surprised if people had created print & play physical games for previous LDs.

People have in fact done so.

References to "source code" apply only to video games.

Are games not a subset of video games?

edited: the word "video" next to the first games

Is that supposed to be an infinite loop?

Oops, fixed.

I don't remember when Barack Obama donated money to suppress gay rights.

State Senators, U.S. Senators, and sitting Presidents don't have to "donate money" to suppress rights. They have more direct mechanisms.

Nice attempt to shift the goal posts, though.

You started comparing Brendan with Obama. If someone says it is different, you're complaining about "nice attempt to shift the goal posts". Kind of easy answer.

So, let me get this straight:

Giving money to politicians who are against same-sex marriage: bad.

Actually being a politician who's against same-sex marriage: perfectly fine.

Is that really your thesis here?

Nope, I haven't stated that. Your continued way of stating things that haven't been said won't lead you anywhere with me. Don't put words into my mouth. I asked to make clear comparisons. You continue not to do so.

Because it needs to be bigger.

Then make it times 2. Or add 5.

"Most blues are subtitled either no sense of wonder or no sense of scale." - Gastr Del Sol

What's that mean? I tried googling the phrase but I didn't get much wiser.

> They are purposefully inserting themselves into a stream of information

to implement a feature that's impossible to do any other way. They have a justification for doing this.