Willing to relocate: Not at the moment but willing to discuss hybrid work arrangements
Technologies: Languages - Primarily Go, Typescript, some experience with Python. Infra - AWS (Lambda/Edge, DynamoDB, APIGateway, some EKS) & CDK. Other - Apollo/GraphQL, React, Canvas2D/WebGL.
Bio: If there's a neat summary for a career that has included development on everything from original cancer research, companion interactive web experiences for live television, an in-browser user-generated content editor for a 3d javascript rendering engine, and editor tools for desktop live broadcasting software I have yet to find it.
Nearly 10 years of industry experience, primarily in the media and entertainment industries working on high-performance frontend experiences. As a senior SDE in the trust and safety space for the past year, I've spent that time working on system design and migration plans for legacy services which included tasks like rearchitecting core abstractions, schema migration from SQL to NoSQL while supporting existing application access patterns, etc.
Preference would be for opportunities in web application spaces doing novel things in the browser that would benefit from knowledge of browser internals and rendering, happy to chat about your company's product space and examples of problems your products are trying to solve.
Believe it or not, one of the worst things that you can do is try to ignore it. Ask any minority why “I don’t even see race, just people” is so infuriating. By ignoring the issue, you are also effectively minimizing or erasing the other person’s experience as not the majority.
Let your coworker come to you as they are. Take them to coffee, get to know them, and ask how you can help them feel welcome and be at their best at work. Sounds like a lot of work and effort on your part, but the burden is on you the majority to earn back the trust broken by lived experience.
This is also not guaranteed to work. You’re fighting against a mindset developed over someone’s lifetime that’s akin to an alarm that you might think is noisy and not tuned properly but has become necessary for this person’s survival and psychological safety because they face threats to those things at a frequency and level you never have to see.
Racism isn’t the act of acknowledging someone’s otherness, it’s letting that otherness drive your interactions with someone and not giving them the opportunity to talk about who they are as a person. Racism is every time you go to lunch, it’s a barbecue place and you don’t invite your coworker because you don’t want them to think you’re stereotyping but you also don’t want to talk to them so you just go without them anyway without asking your coworker if they want to come because it’s easier. Racism isn’t the act of starting the uncomfortable conversations, it’s not giving those conversations a time and place to happen at all.
The rebuttal is “these facts were cherry-picked to support the author’s interpretation of observable events.”
From the article:
“He also said that he himself was overlooked for a job that he was more qualified for, which was given to a woman.” If we start with a hypothesis of equal capability, his graph shows that women are being passed over for career opportunities in favor of less qualified men more often than the reverse is true. Facts don’t lie, but with subjective context they can be used to tell stories.
Sorry, I should have been more clear. Hundreds of millions included spending in categories not directly allocated to homeless services but impact line items in other budget categories related to homeless services like housing, public health, legal representation, etc.
Somewhat misleading, but so is saying that the city only spends what is directly allocated for the homeless services line item to maintain the status quo that isn’t working.
Disclaimer: Amazon is my employer, thoughts on the article my own.
The agenda in the article is the head tax currently being debated and fought in Seattle city council. This is absolutely a hit piece that sounds very much the same as what has been in the local papers.
The glaring issue not mentioned in the article is that Seattle already spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year for homeless services and the reason no one wants to give the city more money is because the homeless situation is so insanely bad given the money they have spent. Money is not going to fix the problem.
I’m also biased because I got punched in the head by a homeless person on the way to/from work and that fact alone is not enough to de-anonymize me. Right now there is a man screaming “fuck” at the top of his lungs at 8am, the same person who last week I saw punching a car trying to pull out of a parking spot.
If the city could promise a genuine solution other than just shrugging these crimes off, I promise you everyone living in Seattle city limits would support that tax. Unfortunately, the problem continues to get worse not better.
I’m not sure if the problem is that the average HN reader doesn’t believe that sexism is everywhere or if the problem is that the average HN reader doesn’t believe that sexism as it exists today is a large, interesting problem that needs to be solved.
I would love to see this experiment done as a function of time of day in the user’s IP location. There have already been studies showing higher rates of abusive behavior towards women from low-status males[1] and if internet activity follows general population entertainment consumption trends from television we can infer that there is a higher likelihood of someone being low-status active on the internet during daytime working hours.
I think that's the source of my confusion. I've generally accepted that women's issues are uninteresting to this audience unless it's about a startup disrupting some issue and that's ok. I'm more curious why this particular aspect of this particular issue is so interesting and worth discussing.
Say we legalize prostitution in the United States. What if a sex worker gets pregnant? Does the client have any obligation to support that child? Can the client sue for false advertising of an implied reproduction-free sex organ?
Laws governing social issues are messy and interesting but not technical. My point is it's a frivolous distinction to separate motherhood and women's rights from sex work because at the end of the day they are the same issue.
No. What I am saying is that I don't fully understand the logic that dictates that while both articles I pointed to discuss women's autonomy and the right to decide how use their reproductive organs, only one issue relating to that is worth talking about in great detail and that is the one that discusses the legislating of vaginas in the vein of other topics like income inequality, homelessness, etc.
I love how in the past hour, a NYT op-ed discussing motherhood and women's agency is flagged as irrelevant but an article on decriminalizing prostitution is at the top of hacker news with a lengthy discussion on the nuances of policy and practice /s
I cannot imagine why someone who works with catty gossips and you, who reduces her achievements to female stereotypes, would act as if they are operating in a hostile work environment.
Look, I wasn't there and I don't know this woman. People aren't stupid and know when someone actively dislikes them. You couldn't make it through a single post without implying that she was unqualified and using sex organs to get ahead of you. Do you really think you were somehow able to make it through a whole work day without broadcasting your intense disdain for her?
That feeling of being "insufficiently nerdy" and the mild paranoia that arises from being subconsciously labelled as such by your peers is one of many things I've learned to deal with on a daily basis. I'm certain there are many others that can relate. I think part of the problem is that we don't have these empathy-building conversations at work, which is a shame because there is evidence that empathy towards teammates is part of building successful teams[1].
In general, I wish we would stop framing discussions of improving diversity in tech as a zero-sum game in which the collective experience of one group is by default more valid than the collective experience of another group. Bad hiring heuristics and mental shortcuts for what makes a person a good engineer hurt everyone who gets eliminated from contention before being given a chance to do the job, not just the person who checks off the most boxes on the EEOC reporting section of the job application.
I don't work for Facebook so I can't speak to their particular culture problems, but I am a female SDE working at one of the "big-5" and I deal with this on a near-daily basis.
Examples include:
- having to chase down specific individuals and sit down with them to walk them through my code review
- waiting for approvals on code reviews while other engineers, not wanting to be blocked on my work, copy and paste my code directly into their branches and open new code reviews which have no problem getting approvals.
- getting approvals quickly only on work that can't possibly break anything important (CSS! /s).
If anyone has any suggestions for how to get assigned more interesting tasks that don't take weeks to get through code review, I'm all ears. Forgive me for sounding ignorant, but rather than getting bogged down in statistics and senior engineer distribution (because let's be serious - if women can't get code reviews on important feature work, they weren't getting to senior engineer anyway) let's take the raw data at face value and start with the hypothesis that this is a real problem related to how men and women interact when placed in a high-pressure team situation and focus on addressing that problem first please.
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Not at the moment but willing to discuss hybrid work arrangements
Technologies: Languages - Primarily Go, Typescript, some experience with Python. Infra - AWS (Lambda/Edge, DynamoDB, APIGateway, some EKS) & CDK. Other - Apollo/GraphQL, React, Canvas2D/WebGL.
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UVlqrKyV8V6MF-8PsjLwRW8driP...
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Bio: If there's a neat summary for a career that has included development on everything from original cancer research, companion interactive web experiences for live television, an in-browser user-generated content editor for a 3d javascript rendering engine, and editor tools for desktop live broadcasting software I have yet to find it.
Nearly 10 years of industry experience, primarily in the media and entertainment industries working on high-performance frontend experiences. As a senior SDE in the trust and safety space for the past year, I've spent that time working on system design and migration plans for legacy services which included tasks like rearchitecting core abstractions, schema migration from SQL to NoSQL while supporting existing application access patterns, etc.
Preference would be for opportunities in web application spaces doing novel things in the browser that would benefit from knowledge of browser internals and rendering, happy to chat about your company's product space and examples of problems your products are trying to solve.