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getting nerds to give a shit about people who aren't neurotypical & able-bodied middle+ class white tech boys is the hardest problem in computer science
@quine
I've been thinking about this lately, and how odd that is. Seems to me that if you tell a programmer e.g. "some people can't hear" the response should be "an edge case! Let's refactor everything to support that!"
And similarly, "you've only hired men" should get "this is a bug in our system and I will not sleep until we have rewritten our entire interview process and company culture such that it is fixed."
But those don't seem to be the popular reactions.
