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by jazzyk 3977 days ago
She obviously was not socially disadvantaged (as many people in inner cities, etc are), since she had a decent paying developer position at GitHub.

Perhaps, just perhaps...instead of spending time dealing with the rug, she could have brushed up on her coding skills (since someone else had to fix her coding defects for her)?

Overcoming social disadvantage requires some work, you know.

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> She obviously was not socially disadvantaged (as many people in inner cities, etc are), since she had a decent paying developer position at GitHub.

She might not be socially disadvantaged with respect to inner city dwellers, but she's still socially disadvantaged with respect to men.

Please don't make me reiterate all of the things that women have to put up with and men don't, especially in tech. Just because she got a job does not mean that we've solved patriarchy.

She got a well-paying development job despite apparently being incompetent.

On what planet is this a "disadvantage"?

She's not evidently incompetent. She apparently wrote some bugs. We all write bugs.

You are a bit too antagonistic and you sound too emotional in your responses. Please be more charitable. I am not able to respond well to such an unfriendly tone.