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By jdupuis on April 17, 2014.
  • Up to Here With Trolls?
  • This Is What It’s Like To Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meet-up
  • An Open Letter to Brogrammers
  • So You’ve Got Yourself a Policy. Now What?
  • Technology’s Man Problem
  • Why the ‘Open’ Internet Is So Closed to Women
  • The Brutal Ageism of Tech Years of experience, plenty of talent, completely obsolete

  • Silicon Valley’s Youth Problem
  • New Study: Internet Trolls Are Often Machiavellian Sadists
  • Twitter I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down
  • Something’s Wrong When Sarah’s Quiet
  • The Brogrammer Effect: Women Are a Small (and Shrinking) Share of Computer Workers
  • Hey Silicon Valley! Not every problem can be solved by giving people internet access or teaching them to code
  • Don’t You Dare Say "Disruptive" It's the most pernicious cliché of our time
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