Being a woman in computer science, I can’t deny that I’ve seen some sexism over the years. Not the blatant “you can’t do this” sexism that was prevalent thirty years ago, but rather subtle assumptions from people within the industry. I’ve noticed, for example, that if I say that I work for Google and a [...]

So about a month ago, this guy walks into my office and actually starts to do “work.” It was my office first, dammit. I’ve been wondering who this guy he is thinking that he can just destroy my nice, peaceful, solitary office. Turns out that he’s Sean Egan, the lead developer on gaim . Yeah, [...]