Posted on 12/29/2016 6:04:45 PM PST by 198ml
By Nahema Marchal | 2:58 pm, December 29, 2016
When the issue of “fake news” came to prominence at the end of this year’s election cycle, traditional media outlets were the firsts to engage in relentless finger-pointing. Journalists everywhere deplored the spread of misleading, lazily reported and, in some cases, totally fabricated stories that had been facilitated by social media.
That’d be ignoring — of course — that in a competitive media climate where virality and accuracy go head-to-head, editors will often go for a catchier headline, at the expense of factual accuracy. And as one writer at HEqual noted, even the respectable BBC is not immune from this kind of sensationalism.
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Is this the foreign propaganda our government is concerned about?
After about 20 years in software development, it hasn’t been my experience that women are better coders. But then, there have been so few women coders that it’s hard to tell. The last time I saw an equal amount of females to males in the software development field was in my first quarter of college in the “Introduction to Programming” class. After that, the female to male ratio dropped drastically.
I’ve spent more time than that in the same industry, and I cannot recall a single time that I even met a genuine female programmer. I’ve worked with female sysadmins who were very good, but programmers? I can actually extend the statement to say that after more than 2 decades in the industry I have never met a female who was even interested in being a programmer, never mind actually being one.
Most real women write better code than me, but it’s in their own language, not mine. Don’t need a cypher to see that.
No offense but ifmone didnt see this was a faoe news story right away,....
I met one woman coder that was at a level I would consider a good male coder. Not great or incredible, but good.
You have to like doing it. That allows greatness.
I have been a programmer for over 30 years.
I have seen the code that women write. It is usually well written, documented and achieves the stated goal.
I have NEVER seen innovative, never before been solved code that was written by a woman.
That code is usually spaghetti written by a guy who hibernates in his cube. It takes other more disciplined coders to normalize it, but it’s that weirdo who solves the core issue and it’s never a woman who wrote it.
Straight from the Office of Feminist Puffery at Fake News, Inc.
I’ve only met two female programmers (genuine coders) after more than 2 decades in IT. Both were better than some of their peers and not as good as others, just like everyone else.
Oh, they mean SOFTWARE code...they are pretty good at other kinds of “code” such as “No dear, NOTHING’S wrong!” and “No dear, I’m not angry, WHY should I be ANGRY?” Guys better be careful what, if anything, they say next! ;)
Most of the females I have seen in IT tend to migrate towards SQL for some reason. LOTS of SQL chicks.
Coding well is even harder. I worked 35 years in the industry and I know.
Wow...that has been my experience as well. DBAs and applications analysts the overwhelming majority.
I knew some good coders in college who were female. In the real world, not so much. Some of those good coders in college didn’t even stick with it and changed majors. In 20 years of real application development, I never worked with or hired a female coder who impressed me.
It’s funny because my Mom was always my mentor and model for Math and computing. My Dad was an engineer, and very good with tools and repairs, and I was a student of his as well, but I am more in the mold of my Mom. She worked with Hamming, who coined the word “bit” for binary digit.
I met Hamming at Murray Hill Bell Labs, through my Mom when I had a summer intern job there. I told him of my idea for a recursive formula for the number of points, lines, faces, etc. of an n-dimensional cube. He replied that there is a closed formula for that and he started to write it on the board, but got a little tangled up. Of course, he was very close, and you can easily look it up.
I remember one time when I was in high school, I was sitting in the kitchen, and I was trying to derive the golden ratio by writing on a paper bag. It’s the solution of a simple quadratic formula, and I was stuck because I was using a and b for my variables, and I couldn’t settle on which one to solve for.
My mom came in and asked what I was doing, and I told her, and she looked up in the air, like one does, and said, “Oh, well that’s the ... square root of ... five ... minus one ... over two ... I think.” Right there on the spot. A trivial matter, but I was then, and remain, quite impressed.
lol. i recall everybody here called that one false.
I’ve worked with and for a couple of very talented women (in the financial industry); in general the rest just let us guys stop working unpaid overtime as “salaried workers” (as they refused to do it). I’m grateful for them for that; they walk out, and I see their taillights leaving as I start my car - they’re always a minute ahead of me, so legally nobody can say a damned thing...
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