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amy nguyen

26 days

I joined @chalk () as a developer advocate this week! developer advocacy is a new role for me, but the change felt like a no-brainer for me because I'm so excited to tell the world about Chalk. 🎉 #MLOps

Chalk | Data Platform for Machine Learning and Generative AI

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2 years

i am saving this one for many future uses

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6 years

I need every store to adopt this format

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6 years

COWORKER: we need to find the root cause asap ME: *takes long drag* the root cause is that our processes are not robust enough to prevent a person from making this mistake COWORKER: amy please not right now

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2 years

today i am heartbroken because my cat tried to squeeze herself into her old nap spot and couldn't fit anymore and kept trying to get in

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5 years

thread! I want to share the story of my brother's cats and the arc they've been through over the past 8 months. 🐈 this is gouda. my brother walked into a shelter late last year, said "give me your least adoptable cat", and walked out with gouda. she has socks! 🧀🧦

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heyyy it's 10:01am so i'm gonna need you to ᵍᵉᵗ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘᶜᵏ ᵒᵘᵗ ᵒᶠ ᵐʸ ᶜᵒⁿᶠᵉʳᵉⁿᶜᵉ ʳᵒᵒᵐ

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5 years

me playing video games: save every five minutes me writing code: git commit -am "some changes" (+647, -1049)

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5 years

(oh and here's the stinger for anyone staying for more content after the credits)

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2 years

when did everyone decide that databases are represented as cylinders

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6 years

one of my favorite hobbies is to look at the profiles of hypersuccessful people in my age group, get stressed out about not being like them, and then lie down and do nothing about it for hours

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4 years

foolproof strategy for becoming a beloved engineer within your company 1. join an internal tools team 2. ask people what internal tools they wish they had 3. build them 4. "hey you asked for this a few weeks ago and I wanted to let you know it works now!"

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6 years

every time you tell a woman in software engineering that she should switch to a PM role because she's so organized, an angel loses her promotion

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6 years

heyyy it's 10:01am so i'm gonna need you to ᵍᵉᵗ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘᶜᵏ ᵒᵘᵗ ᵒᶠ ᵐʸ ᶜᵒⁿᶠᵉʳᵉⁿᶜᵉ ʳᵒᵒᵐ

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2 years

he was a startup boy she said series c or later boy

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5 years

we can't wipe out all technical debt because it would be unfair to me, who already paid off my technical debt

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4 years

i remember when i first started studying computer science and saw that one study that's like, over 50% of women leave tech within 12 years, and i thought it was super depressing and now i'm like, damn girl who lasts that long

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3 years

i quit my job today. viva la resignación

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4 years

so many people are waiting to travel in order to take PTO. use your PTO!!! we're more than halfway through this hell year. don't wait for something that might not happen for a very long time. even being at home without having to think about work for a few days makes a difference.

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5 years

after that, they got closer and closer, possibly bonding over their love of my brother. when I look back at gouda 8 months ago, who couldn't even come out from under the bed unless she was alone, I feel so happy looking at these pictures.

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6 years

the true power play is walking into your office with a la croix flavor that your office doesn't stock, so that people know you were visiting another tech company 👀

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5 years

for months, I'd been updating my work's #cats slack channel about pumpkin and gouda and their "will they won't they" friendship, and one day I finally got to give the biggest season finale style update: THEIR BUTTS WERE TOUCHING 🚨

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3 years

Google encouraged employees who experienced harassment/assault to use their Employee Assistance Program benefits (provided by Lyra Health), then pressured counselors to provide records of their sessions to use in court when those employees filed lawsuits

‘You’re the Problem’: When They Spoke Up About Misconduct, They Were Offered Mental Health Services...

Former and current Google employees said that H.R. would respond to their workplace complaints by referring them to counseling programs instead of addressing the broader issues.

www.nytimes.com

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5 years

most people: oh no, hacker stole millions of credit applications me: niiiiiice women are hackers too. get that representation!!!! ᵖˡᵉᵃˢᵉ ᵈᵒⁿ'ᵗ ᵃʳʳᵉˢᵗ ᵐᵉ

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FBI says a Seattle woman hacked into a cloud server and stole "likely tens of millions" of credit applications for Capital One

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5 years

my brother recently found a deal for a $15 cat tree (shout out to slickdeals). here they are a few days ago. 😻 the end!

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6 years

downside of open office plan: when someone writes "LOL" to me on slack and I can look over and see them not laughing in real life, my sense of trust in them is eroded

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6 years

a dating app but for finding a group of three other sad people who want to share baskets of dim sum so we can all try more dishes than we can alone 🍤🥟😫

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@amyngyn

3 years

the gross thing about assuming all women in tech are dealing with impostor syndrome is that lots of men take it as permission to position themselves as your mentor rather than your peer

✨ Jean Yang ✨

@jeanqasaur

3 years

Problems people on Twitter think women in tech face, vs the problems women in tech actually face

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5 years

over time, they became friends. they shared a love of my brother's pants (he started putting out a decoy pair for them) and started sleeping near each other.

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5 years

you ever wish jira was your therapist

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5 years

sometimes gouda would get closer to pumpkin. sometimes pumpkin would sit next to her but pretend he didn't notice her. in this picture, pumpkin is tsundere cat and gouda is saying "notice me senpai"

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5 years

this is pumpkin. he joined my family in 2006! he is my round son. he hates other cats. here he is asking my brother to do something about gouda stealing his water (after she started to come out!)

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amy nguyen

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3 years

programmers: do you find yourself mentally drained after work? do you have enough energy to handle personal tasks like making appointments or filling out paperwork? do you ever intentionally "save" mental energy?

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6 years

I set up a homepage with wordpress for my sister and she said she should have made my login "sisadmin" 😭

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6 years

i had a whole rant about this in my "UX design for internal tools" talk last year but i have to rant again: IF YOU BUILD A WEB APP THAT BREAKS BASIC BROWSER FUNCTIONALITY I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN. I WANT A BACK BUTTON. I WANT TO RIGHT CLICK. I WANT TO OPEN IN A NEW FUCKING TAB.

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6 years

went out for korean bbq and made a joke about gettin' jjigae with it and nobody understood me and i died inside a little, in case you were wondering what the irl equivalent of thinking you'll go viral and getting 1 like is

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6 years

work in an open office so you can send bad jokes to your teammates and watch them open your message, shake their head, and tab to a different window

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5 years

who called it polling an endpoint and not keeping up with the jsons

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5 years

my brother slowly got gouda out of her shell. she really did hide under his bed for months, but slowly she started coming out. here she's enjoying nature tv. pumpkin and gouda still hid from each other.

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CTO: X is at 69% right now small brain: reacji "nice" at him normal brain: omg no amy you are a professional expanding brain: he's on the internet he knows what he said galaxy brain: he follows you on twitter just subtweet him he'll know

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5 years

my coworker who is not on twitter: "my understanding is that it's a cultural anger thunderdome and if I'm not on there, people will not get angry at me"

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5 years

brad leone would like to know your location

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5 years

gouda was abused in the past. she yowled when my brother tried to put her in the walk-in closet as her space, hid under the bed, and refused to come out. a previous adopter returned her because she wouldn't come out for months. here's a rare sighting of her coming out for treats.

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amy nguyen

@amyngyn

6 years

muji's products: simple, minimalist, intentionally designed muji's mobile site: two hamburger menus

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amy nguyen

@amyngyn

5 years

this whole interaction is why i am still on twitter

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amy nguyen

@amyngyn

3 years

i'm not typing this out again in tweet form but anyway here's where i'm at with the whole tech thing

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amy nguyen

@amyngyn

4 years

week ???: joined the zoom for my manager 1:1 early and changed my background to a picture of his room to freak him out when he joined

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amy nguyen

@amyngyn

5 years

it's only a software engineer if it was born in the software region of engineer. otherwise it's a sparkling coder.

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@amyngyn

6 years

FRONTEND DEVELOPMENT TIPS: a dialog box is when you add a small window to a screen and prompt a user for input. a dialogue box is when you force your designer and PM into a conference room and refuse to let them out until they make a decision.

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3 years

I tried on some glasses today. I call this one "we'll finish migrating to the new system before launching"

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@amyngyn

6 years

"all successful internet companies have double Os in their name" google facebook yahoo amoozon

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amy nguyen

@amyngyn

7 years

i wrote a talk about designing user-friendly infra tools i found out that infra people were less likely to attend the talk because the title had "design" in it i think i found the problem y'all

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amy nguyen

@amyngyn

3 years

you know what, you're right, i will name and shame. this dude right here

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amy nguyen

@amyngyn

4 years

two claims: - the most obvious way to help an engineering team launch the right features fast is by fixing processes, not writing code - when women/URMs fix processes, it is often seen as a reason they are not a high performer and/or lack technical skills

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amy nguyen

@amyngyn

5 years

bon appetit alignment chart: lawful | neutral | chaotic good gaby chris molly neutral carla claire vinny evil rapo andy brad

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amy nguyen

@amyngyn

6 years

i finally got a salad spinner today. everything will be different now. i'll be a real adult who eats salad at home and makes my own mustard vinaigrette. people who have salad spinners don't have problems.

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amy nguyen

@amyngyn

6 years

how to e-intro two people: 1. hey A, can I introduce you to B? => yes 2. hey B, can I introduce you to A? => yes 3. spend hours agonizing over the email intros where you pretend that A and B didn't already get all the info from you beforehand

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5 years

random girl on tumblr: how many layers of personal opsec are you on? infosec guys: idk like 5 or 6 my dude tumblr: you are like a little baby. watch this:

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amy nguyen

@amyngyn

2 years

me in college: public static void main me today: iced vanilla oat latte

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amy nguyen

@amyngyn

6 years

airport security is what happens when you create an alert for every single incident that happened once and probably will never happen again

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amy nguyen

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6 years

which idiot called it a family tree and not a birthdag

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5 years

"big data" backwards is "a tad big" do you think that was intentional

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amy nguyen

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6 years

tired: 10x engineer wired: kilogirl

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6 years

Early unit of computing power: one "kilogirl" was equivalent to a thousand hours of manual computing labor

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4 years

if you're a senior engineer in terms of experience (which implies many transferable skills!), how do you navigate switching to a team that specializes in a technology (like infra, web) you've never worked with / going back to knowing nothing? how do you not go back to being baby?

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5 years

interviewer: what do you think is your greatest weakness me: sometimes i say something hilarious on slack and nobody acknowledges it and i sulk for days instead of talking about my feelings

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amy nguyen

@amyngyn

5 years

anxiety-driven development is me grepping and debugging by myself for hours instead of asking my teammate a simple question because i just feel like i'm "supposed to" be able to figure something out 😭

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amy nguyen

@amyngyn

6 years

"...yet" is the most powerful tool for promoting a growth mindset. some examples: - I don't know how to use that framework ...yet! - I'm not good at math ...yet! - I don't have the reputational privilege to call out abusers... yet! 😈

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amy nguyen

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7 years

my lyft ratings decoded: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: didn't talk at all ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: missed a couple turns, it's ok ⭐️⭐️⭐️: i never want to get matched with them again but i don't want them fired ⭐️⭐️: said something mildly racist ⭐️: pitched their startup to me

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amy nguyen

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2 years

here is a picture from yesterday where matcha was inexplicably pissed at me and wouldn't let me touch her. my queen

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amy nguyen

@amyngyn

6 years

me, five commands deep into trying to fix whatever shit i messed up in git, and finally asking for help

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amy nguyen

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6 years

i just want an ergo-friendly way to code while lying in bed covered in two blankets with headphones on and using two monitors, is that too much to ask for

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amy nguyen

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3 years

one time i asked a potential manager how many women were on his team and he said "...there's a woman who sits near us!" and i still wonder how she's doing

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amy nguyen

@amyngyn

5 years

so if i just change my screen color and act like an asshole, people will think i'm valuable? why didn't anyone tell me before i spent all that time on cracking the coding interview!

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10x engineers Founders if you ever come across this rare breed of engineers, grab them. If you have a 10x engineer as part of your first few engineers, you increase the odds of your startup success significantly. OK, here is a tough question. How do you spot a 10x engineer?

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6 years

I can't begin to describe how much mental energy I spend constantly running a mental background process that takes potential microaggressions and comes up with excuses for why it was actually fine. All so that I'm not labeled "oversensitive" and so I don't lose my mind at work.

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amy nguyen

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4 years

me user input 🤝 constantly in need of external validation

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amy nguyen

@amyngyn

5 years

how to give your crush hints that you like them - learn their preferred way of receiving praise and praise them that way often - give actionable, insightful feedback on their peer review - emphasize their accomplishments over the past half and the impact they had on the company

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amy nguyen

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4 years

when will cancel culture come for sql

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amy nguyen

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3 years

what habits are we all still carrying around from having that one shitty manager years ago

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amy nguyen

@amyngyn

7 years

LOOK AT ALL THOSE WOMEN WOMEN ARENT A PART OF THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING MY ASS

The Times and The Sunday Times

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7 years

A group of codebreakers who helped to defeat Hitler were reunited at Bletchley Park yesterday

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@amyngyn

2 years

can't believe the nerve of some people

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amy nguyen

@amyngyn

2 years

raise your hand if you've ever had a password manager generate a password for you, not save it, and not preserve it in generated password history 😫

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@amyngyn

5 years

new cache who redis

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@amyngyn

4 years

most engineers would be easier to work with if they talked to a therapist about their unresolved insecurity around never figuring out how to make a good D3 visualization

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amy nguyen

@amyngyn

6 years

a Chipotle ad that just shows a burrito and the words, "you wouldn't roll your own crypto"

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amy nguyen

@amyngyn

5 years

I can't emphasize this enough. Founder-level work hours are for people receiving founder-level compensation and recognition. I think that's something a lot of tech executives have lost sight of.

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It's pretty unreasonable to put founder expectations on, for example, CSR staff who aren't really part of that old agreement. They aren't getting a ton of money or equity. They aren't getting rich. (The people Steve Jobs was notorious for yelling at are all millionaires now!)

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5 years

in all seriousness, while the "must work long hours to become successful" discourse has covered the main argument (yes you can be successful w/ sustainable hours!), we haven't done enough to dispute the unstated premise: "success is what you should be optimizing for in your 20s"

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@amyngyn

7 years

if you message me on slack with just "hi Amy" and wait for me to reply before you tell me why you're messaging me, i hate you.

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@amyngyn

6 years

random twitter troll: if you hate tech so much, why don't you leave because i have no marketable skills that aren't software, dave

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@amyngyn

6 years

take me off this miserable planet

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@amyngyn

6 years

while showing my manager a @SlackHQ app I was developing, I pasted "@ everyone" and unintentionally notified the entire company with, "i have more feelings. and other stuff" i can never come back to work

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@amyngyn

6 years

need a flowchart that's like, - are you literally her mentor - did she ask for career advice - did she express interest in getting closer to the product side of the business no? then you can assume she didn't fall into SWE by accident! she chose this for a reason!

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amy nguyen

@amyngyn

7 years

"but what about people who are afraid to express their sexist opinions now?" THEY CAN LEAVE TOO

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amy nguyen

@amyngyn

7 years

What would you say to a CS student who asks, "Why should I go into tech when I'm being harassed or disrespected now, and I see so many stories about people in industry being harassed/assaulted/undermined?" Looking for perspectives from marginalized folks, not allies, this time.

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amy nguyen

@amyngyn

6 years

wowww /r/femalefashionadvice just dragged me and the rest of silicon valley without even trying

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amy nguyen

@amyngyn

5 years

nobody: girl who went abroad one time: when I was in _barthelona_ guy who took 1 semester of french: in paree, they pronounce it crêpe me trying to fit in: I like fries with mayo now

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amy nguyen

@amyngyn

5 years

i will speak at your conference and diversify your lineup but only if you let me give a talk titled "no you can't use a fucking black box ML anomaly detection algorithm as your source of alerting that's not how this works" hmu

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@amyngyn

5 years

I recently had to text back and forth with a repair person and they didn't know my name so they kept calling me Boss. I like it. powerful. gender neutral. unambiguous who is the boss.

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amy nguyen

@amyngyn

4 years

"strong opinions weakly held" is one of those stupid things tech people say to sound intellectual but actually makes them sound like an asshole

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amy nguyen

@amyngyn

6 years

a thing i'm gonna be pissed off about all day: tech cos paying bootcamp grads (ESPECIALLY WOMEN OF COLOR) tens of thousands of dollars less than salary for new grads. i'm not quibbling over a few thousand. >$20k difference in base salary is absolutely despicable. don't @ me.

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6 years

you: hi me: buying a domain name before even creating a github repository is prudent, a small investment in making a dream into reality, a bet on myself and a display of confidence in my ability to complete this proj--

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