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jecjec | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Women in tech, how do you find non-toxic work environments?

You are absolutely starting out with the wrong mindset. Assuming the worst is absolutely a mindset that self-fulfills.

Based on your use of racist and sexist language, OP, I would probably NEVER hire you and I actively seek to keep people like you out of my organizations.

jecjec | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)

Ivory Clasp (www.ivoryclasp.com) is looking for Engineer #2 to join our team! Ivory Clasp is a technology driven retail company. As an engineer at Ivory Clasp you would be using data and technology to change the way women shop – from integrating data science into physical product design to developing reverse logistics software to support the next generation of retail. This is an opportunity to gain experience working with a highly cross-functional team on projects that directly impact key business metrics. This role is based in Downtown Los Angeles.

In this position, you will:

• Implement new features

• Fix bugs and improve upon existing infrastructure

• Brainstorm on technical and functional solutions

• Contribute on cross-functional projects

• Analyze data and gather requirements

• Write quality unit tests

• Pair program with the CTO

• Balance speed vs. depth of solution – be able to both hack and engineer, and know which approach to take when

Our Stack:

• Ruby 2.3

• Ruby on Rails 5.1

• Webpack 2

• MySQL

• Elastic Beanstalk

• React

• Redux

• Sidekiq (in the future)

• ElasticCache (in the future)

• various other Ruby on Rails tools such as Devise, Kaminari, Factory Girl etc.

Email me at joseph.e.combs at gee mail DOT com to find out more!

jecjec | 8 years ago | on: Accidentally Stopping a Global Cyber Attack

This is not accidental. Not even close!

This story, if true, details a person who profiled this malware and correctly logged the network requests it was making and then correctly identified a fundamental vulnerability in the software. This is not an accident at all - it is rather a profile in supreme competence. We should recognize it as such.

jecjec | 8 years ago | on: The Gender Pay Gap Is Largely Because of Motherhood

I totally reject your frame of "women earn less than men." Mainly because 'earnings' are not the only thing people should be measured by. They should probably be the LAST.

Women do productive things that are harder to account for in standard GDP metrics. Does GDP count the implied value of rearing a child? The years of care that go into motherhood? Does GDP go up $40 when a mom teaches a young child some words for an hour? It would if it was a tutor but it doesn't when it's just a parent.

The frame of "women earn less than men" is used to implicitly degrade the life choices of women. I personally just learned that a friend's mom is a foster mother. That is an incredible level of generosity that is outside of my comprehension. Is her being a foster mother worthless because it isn't in wage statistics? She earns a modest income by accounting standards, but the actual value she creates is much higher. Should we tell her to learn to code instead?

jecjec | 8 years ago | on: The Gender Pay Gap Is Largely Because of Motherhood

On the average of millions of privately arranged employment agreements, the employee's marginal value absolutely (slightly) exceeds their salary. You have to make a strong case that the labor market does not exhibit the properties of close to perfect competition: there are many buyers, and many sellers, of labor.

Sure, there are obviously exceptions to this calculation in both directions: how else can you explain Marissa Mayer's severance package? How else can you explain DHH's wage of $0 for maintaining Ruby on Rails?

If you can make a compelling case on this topic you can probably get published in major academic journals.

jecjec | 8 years ago | on: The Gender Pay Gap Is Largely Because of Motherhood

The wage gap just doesn't exist. It doesn't exist because different occupations create different amounts of value. Why can't people accept this fact? Why can't people accept that women may want to live their lives differently from men?

Women choose to engage in different productive tasks than men do. It's why you generally don't see women working oil fields or cutting trees or building buildings or being DJs or yes, spending 16 hours straight coding. It's also why you generally don't see men being homemakers, teaching young children, nursing, etc. More power to the people who CHOOSE to go against these norms, if they so desire.

Why tell women to do things they don't want to do? Why imply that what they've chosen to do isn't good enough?

jecjec | 9 years ago | on: Don't Give Silicon Valley More H1B Visas

The H1B program needs to be ended immediately. It's an outrageous giveaway to corporations. It represents deliberate attempt to reduce the relative price of labor in the American economy.

jecjec | 9 years ago | on: Amazon is piloting teams with a 30-hour workweek

The most important thing about this is that it will give other companies institutional cover to implement this within their firms.

I love my job but I have had jobs I've hated. Work sucks, go Amazon. If widely adopted, this would represent a massive reduction in taxation imposed on the average American family. A two-income family working 25% less hours pays over 25% less in taxes. Progressive taxes work both ways, Feds :)

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