Archive for October, 2010

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question: This a “what should we do” question, but a fairly specific one. Recent discussions, particularly Restore meritocracy in CS using an obscure functional language , have left ...

The Haecken miniconf at linux.conf.au (January in Brisbane, Australia) has extended their Call for Papers until October 22. Sir, Can You Help Me With This?: a transman comments on becoming a goto guy: This is ...

This is cross-posted at Restructure! There is a common idea that women are underrepresented in tech startups because we are “nurturing and not risk-taking enough by nature”, an idea often proposed and upvoted in Hacker ...

This is a guest post by Jessica Hamrick. Jessica Hamrick is a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology pursuing a bachelor’s degree in computer science with a bent towards artificial intelligence. She is is ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our commenters. Here’s another clothing question, although I suppose that it could be expanded to gendered behavior in general. I’ve read geek women (on this site ...