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| BBC Finally Admits Its Famous ‘Women Write Better Code’ Story Was Fake News |
| 2016-12-30 |
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #16 QA don't count. Yes, how most Requirements Phase meetings begin |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2016-12-30 23:55 |
| #15 I once got into some minor trouble because I told my programming students that they should write error messages in their programs so that their grandmothers could understand them. I also added, "Unless your grandmother is Grace Murray Hopper. She'll understand whatever error message you produce". People said I was being sexist. Actually I was being age-ist. Of course, the comment about RADM Hopper would still stand. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2016-12-30 23:04 |
| #14 I'd always thought women were good at multi-tasking and that the best code writers tended to be the opposite and that folks on the autistic spectrum make good coders because often they can fixate in away others cannot which is one reason Silicon valley is filled with aspergers. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-12-30 21:22 |
| #13 "I met her once" I'm envious, #10 Alan. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2016-12-30 21:05 |
| #12 C'mon BP, not going live but starting the project. To go live you cancel all that time wasting testing and code reviews and func. spec reviews, right? ;^) |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-12-30 20:26 |
| #11 "It's easier to ask foregivness than it is to get permission." Easier, but not better when it comes to putting code live... |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2016-12-30 19:33 |
| #10 John Frum, ain't that the truth. I met her once while I worked at DEC circa 1980ish. Quite a woman. She gave a lecture that ended with the "It's easier to ask foregivness than it is to get permission. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-12-30 13:30 |
| #9 to try and attract more wymyns to STEM curricula, they add A for Arts in STEAM. Thereby totally missing the point... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-12-30 12:53 |
| #8 The Grace Hoppers of the world are truly gems: rare and to be treasured |
| Posted by: John Frum 2016-12-30 11:55 |
| #7 Granted, I didn't write code as long as AlanC did, but I could count the number of fellow female software engineers on one hand, and I was at six different companies. QA / Test does not count. |
| Posted by: Raj 2016-12-30 11:35 |
| #6 Actually it is a logical extension: for all the guys out there with significant female others; why is it that you can never get a 'yes' or 'no' to a simple yes or no question? So the coding ability isn't confined to a binary computer operation, its genetic. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2016-12-30 10:19 |
| #5 30+ years in all phases of software showed me that women just as well or as poorly as men. However, there are damn few women that want to write code as all the requisite attributes are generally not part of their makeup. Good coders have to be able to withstand the constant drumbeat of failure inflicted on them by an infallible machine, shrug it off and try again. This is a rare trait in all of humanity but rarer in the female of the species. They do, however, write great mystery stories. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-12-30 10:11 |
| #4 Another FakeBook monitor gets bitten in the @$$ ? |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2016-12-30 09:12 |
| #3 So we need to ban the BBC because it does fake news, right? Along with CNN, MSNBC and ABC. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2016-12-30 09:07 |
| #2 Considering it's sometimes hard to find women who write code at all, I was kind of wondering if they were being kept in a camp somewhere. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2016-12-30 08:41 |
| #1 Oh, we knew: kind off. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-12-30 04:33 |