Thanks for posting. I had a quick look through it. While a lot of it is common sense, it sounds like common sense that some people need to hear. (I hope I'm not among them.) Though I must say, I find some of those points fairly demeaning towards women, actually.
In particular, the "Do compliment" section seems to be suggesting that, unlike men, women need an extra special amount of coddling or they will give up. It reads a bit like a "woman manual", talking about "her" in the third person.
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If she learned bash scripting more
quickly than you did, tell her so. Say, "Wow, you learned bash
scripting after X months. It took me 2*X months to learn that.""It seems to be suggesting that men should treat women the way loving parents might treat an eight-year-old, shying away from criticism, and taking great pains to give self-deprecating compliments. Can't we just treat women as fellow hackers?
(Perhaps I'm just sensitive to that specific style of compliment, as if I catch myself using it, I feel dirty afterwards. It seems to implicitly be suggesting: "Even I, with my vastly superior knowledge of computing, took 2*X months to learn that particular thing. Well done on having bested me in this one specific area.")
Back on the Cory Doctorow topic: That was a great video, Ben, and I re-shared it earlier this week.
Matt
