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by timaz 3217 days ago
I'm not the owner of that blog.

I'm ok with the article being presented better, but I do think profiting off it bears ill-will. One of my favourite benefits of the internet is the ability to hide yourself. Pretending to be someone else more attractive and making up a story crosses the line for me.

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It's just branding and packaging. If people like buying stuff from a pretty female face, it's not the engineer's sin to satisfy the bias of the customer.
That's a huge problem with the tech community. It's novel to see someone who looks like that with those skills and that gets the views.