Many people who speak about diversity in tech don't actually have experiences in engineering so they don't understand that race and gender are not that important in engineering. Engineering is very multi-cultural and people care more about nationality than race/gender. There is a huge diversity of nationality and cultures.

No hate on teachers but generally speaking, teachers are not the ambitious type. The school of education at many universities is seen as a joke for people who wanted to party all day.

Is it even a benefit to work instead of taking these hiatuses?

Parenthood can be a vacation or hard work depending on whether you are a good or bad parent. Just being a parent does not mean that it is difficult work. And if it is hard work, it can be easily argued that being a parent is more meaningful work than 99% of corporate jobs.

It's not ridiculous because the alternative is almost impossible to quantify and calculate

It's easy, just like the income tax. Get into every nook and cranny of how things are done and control absolutely everything.

The onus is on the person claiming sexism to prove that the disparities in promotions are the result of sexism.

I hope companies uninterested in the data go undercover as potential buyers and expose these extensions.

Maybe we can crowdsource a purchase to expose them.

i had to dns sinkhole requests to pixel.intenta.io that a browser extension was creating, every site site I visited was sent along in an ajax request to this domain.

Couldn't isolate what extension it was.

Someone else noticed the "page refresh" chrome extension making requests to that domain: https://frenchcoding.com/2015/11/12/faites-attention-aux-ext...

> Couldn't isolate what extension it was.

How not? Disabling them in a bisecting way should be a couple of minutes.

The tech industry shouldn't aim for perfection. It should aim for the average level of negative experiences across all industries, meaning it should have as many of these cases as other industries. It is not really a travesty or an indication of a problem in the tech industry if a few of these cases pop up from time to time.

What is clear is that these cases are publicized to a disproportionate degree when they occur in the tech industry compared to other industries.

You're kind of ignoring the huge chasm of a gap between "perfection" and "average level of negative experiences".

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Giving disproportionate attention to sexism in tech will probably discourage women from entering the field though.

I'm not sure it's just publicity though. It seems like having such a high male ratio can create these kinds of environment. You're right that perfection is probably impossible but I think 0 tolerance is still a good target.

Meta: What do we think about this type of native advertising? Is this allowed on HN?

Yes, it is. This is a forum run by a startup incubator. People are encouraged to promote their work, within reason.

I'm not sure if creep is the best word to use here. Creep is a gendered term like slut or bitch.

Dear lord.

Yes because tech is much more culturally diverse, with large amounts of immigrants and second generation children of immigrants. If you've ever worked at a large tech company, you would know that the average team is very quiet because of the cultural barriers. The few Americans on the team are very introverted and again have a slight cultural barrier even with each other because many of them are the children of immigrants. The frat % is undoubtedly much lower in tech (if it's even represented at all) compared to banking.