A programmer's personal blog with Objective-C satire, C tricks like emulating defer, and essays on gender and tech.
Commenters link the Objectivist-C satire, the defer emulation in C, and a rebuttal of the book Women Don't Ask.
Yes, definitely. This is a common hypothesis, and it gets some study. See, for instance,
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Women_Don't_Ask
http://geekfeminism.org/2011/06/17/quick-hit-one-reason-women-make-less-money/
http://fdiv.net/2012/01/20/pseudo-science-and-pseudo-feminism-women-dont-ask
There is both the possible cause of women being socially conditioned (or biologically wired, or whatever causes this) to be less confrontational, and the possible cause of women finding it riskier / being in worse negotiating positions for structural-inequality reasons.
/me raises hand
Of course, we all code in Objectivist C ( http://fdiv.net/2012/04/01/objectivist-c ) ;)
But seriously ... I'm actually surprised that there aren't more Objectivists on HN. There's a strong anti-authoritarian streak here, with an emphasis on rationality, independence and capitalism. Take a look at the list of objectivist virtues ( http://wiki.objectivismonline.net/Virtues ):
Rationality, Honesty, Integrity, Productivity, Independence, Pride, and Justice
That list describes a lot of people on HN.
> See Women Don't Ask: The High Cost of Avoiding Negotiation - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0553383876/
For what it's worth, there's what looks to be a strong rebuttal of most of the things this book says here:
http://fdiv.net/2012/01/20/pseudo-science-and-pseudo-feminism-women-dont-ask
(I'd tend to think that your point stands anyway as being obviously true, but after reading the rebuttal again along with the link to this article I'm not sure anymore.)
This is some top quality banter, on par with C+Equality and Objectivist C.
https://github.com/TheFeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equality
https://fdiv.net/2012/04/01/introduction-objectivist-c
gcc and llvm have a cleanup attribute you can use for this. Systemd uses it.
https://fdiv.net/2015/10/08/emulating-defer-c-clang-or-gccblocks
http://fdiv.net/2015/10/08/emulating-defer-c-clang-or-gccblocks
The original link works.