• VanillaGorilla@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I was so glad we had a woman join our dev team some months ago. It’s more fun, more relaxed and we are able to get better results as we just cover a wider area of skills. People gatekeeping programming to include only men are idiots.

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    1 year ago

    Tbf, the original photo was already discounting her abilities. Saying “can program code” for a lead SWE is saying like “can do calculus” for a physicist.

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      1 year ago

      In their defense, maybe the post was written by some journalist with no technical background at all and doesn’t know the difference.