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jedsundwall commented on My Life in Weeks   weeks.ginatrapani.org/... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
sircastor · 6 months ago
I did the same thing! For me though it was a bunch podcasts she was on.
jedsundwall · 6 months ago
She was just on my podcast! https://techsontexts.net/episodes/2025/01/zevin-gina-trapani...

She's the best. :)

jedsundwall commented on Seeking comments on the Data Catalog (DCAT) US standard v3.0   github.com/DOI-DO/dcat-us... · Posted by u/metasemantic
jhoechtl · 2 years ago
How is open data these days? I have the feeling it lost a lot of steam?
jedsundwall · 2 years ago
Open data is dead, long live open data! https://radiant.earth/blog/2023/05/we-dont-talk-about-open-d...

Open data is undeniably a good and important thing, but a lot of people have stumbled thinking that merely making data open would make data useful. It's time to focus on creating useful data products, some of which will be made available under an open license, some of which will not.

jedsundwall commented on "Gangbang Interviews" and "Bikini Shots": Silicon Valley’s Brogrammer Problem   motherjones.com/media/201... · Posted by u/addabjork
Lewisham · 13 years ago
What I find particularly disconcerting about this Van Horn story is not that he wanted to present it (which is terrible in and of itself), but that this guy is 28, went through Digg (who never struck me as a company of idiots), already presented a sexist presentation, and still appears at SXSW either by invitation of him or Path. Why would Path or SXSW allow it? Did he not practice this presentation at Path before heading out? Was this thought to be acceptable by everyone at that company?

He sounded to me like some tragic Van Wilder-esque figure trying to clutch on to those college good times forever.

What is somewhat frustrating about all this stuff is that, while brogrammers or hipsters or whatever Bay Area-clique is in this month, can be targets of derision, the Valley is actually diversifying its personality structure, if not its sex. It's refreshing to see people that have different lifestyles to the geek stereotype, and it's broadening the appeal of these companies.

It's getting easier and easier to sell Computer Science as a career to male undergraduates, because they're seeing that there are people just like them higher up. It's very annoying that those same higher ups are screwing up female motivation.

jedsundwall · 13 years ago
Very well said. It's heartening to see a diversification of "personality structure." It's disheartening to have that reveal how far we still need to go – as a society – to eliminate misogyny.

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