FWIW, this resume got me an offer on my dream job (the contract isn't signed yet, so I don't want to say what/where). I can't say for sure I wouldn't have pulled it off with a boring one, but it sounded like it helped get my foot in the door.
If I wanted to work at, say, a bank, or a military contractor, or a big-whatever consulting douchery, I wouldn't have bothered. Since I want to work with smart, creative, like-minded people, I thought expressing my own personality more honestly than on my old resume might be a good approach.
"I'm not sure that being a software developer is really that great a prize..."
How many software developers give it all up to become housekeepers? Not everyone is best suited for any one job, of course, but that hardly suggests that any one arbitrary class alone is not well suited for it.
Considering the average salary, benefits, and job conditions when stacked against many - although certainly not all - careers, being a software developer can be a pretty sweet prize indeed. Finding a non-niche comparable career that is not male dominated to a similar degree is left as an exercise to the reader.
"Any evidence for the idea that inter-group differences between male and female programmers in terms of the kind of ideas they produce is significant?"
I haven't so far turned up any studies specifically answering the question of significance. However, my assertion that including a greater demographic spread "can only lead to a wider variety of ideas in the memepool" seems self-evident; it could hardly lead to less variety or the same amount, even if the difference would wind up being less than we might hope for.
"I can understand the gender-imbalance thing, but do you really think there's a significant dearth of non-white developers? I could have sworn I saw a bunch of Asians and Indians around here somewhere..."
Asian and Indian, yes. Black and Latino, not nearly so much in my experience.
What you've done here is to create a straw man by asserting that gender and race are always meaningless criteria. Adding more developers who don't happen to be white and male to the workforce and to books like these helps to create more developers who don't happen to be white and male to the workforce, which aside from being good for those particular people can only lead to a wider variety of ideas in the memepool, which can only be good for those of us who care about ideas. That would be those of us reading this site, unless I've missed something.
I wonder if this will work inside IE Tab in Firefox. So far as I can tell, it should (and without the performance hit of running VirtualBox inside VMware, at that).
An excellent discussion of how the open source community often tends to (unintentionally) exclude women, and what individual projects can do reverse that trend.
facebook.com/TheMostInterestingManAlive directs to your FB homepage."
facebook.com/TheMostInterestingWomanAlive, on the other hand, returns Page not Found. This all works out ok for me, but my girlfriend finds it all a bit perplexing.