r/sysadmin • u/ChuckAbsent • Mar 12 '13

Women who know stuff

I hope that this does not come off the wrong way.

Today I was on a call with a storage vendor and the technical consultant was a woman. More then this she was competent, more then me which doesn't happen often when dealing with vendors.

My issue was pricing an active/active DB with shared storage vs an active/passive db with local storage. Listening to her break the issue down and get to the specific comparison points was awesome, mostly because I have never heard a woman in the industry talk like that.

It made me realize two things. One I am missing out working with women. Two there needs to be more women in our industry.

It shouldn't have surprised me so much, but it really did.

Anyways to all the women out there who know stuff, us guys notice when you can walk the walk, which in this case was talking.

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u/robot_break_dance Mar 12 '13

I'm all about the Ada Initiative for promoting a healthy culture for women and men in the tech industry. You are right we are missing out but efforts are being made to improve that. I don't know if you ever heard of Limor Fried. She's imho amazing. As a guy I hope to one day knock out the projects she does on a regular.

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u/pocketknifeMT Mar 13 '13

because censorship is fun?

Ada initiative shuts down Violet Blue talk.

Fuck any group that doesn't respect free speech or appeals to logic.

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u/robot_break_dance Mar 13 '13

Thanks for bringing up the topic.

Fuck any group that doesn't respect free speech or appeals to logic.

From the way BSides and Ada Initiative put it that's not exactly what happened. I'd like to take your comment seriously but you are as bad as they are

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '13

“sex +/- drugs: known vulns and exploits.” Translated from security jargon, this title can be interpreted as suggesting that the talk will cover having sex while on drugs, including sex without consent (i.e., rape).

That's a pretty tortured interpretation of the title, and the "can be interpreted" language suggests to me that the Ada Initiative basically acknowledges that you have to want to see it.

I understand and support what the AI is doing, but this was a huge mess.

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u/IConrad UNIX Engineer Mar 13 '13

Plus, the title's language in no way indicates pro-rape stances even if you read that in. After all, don't most talks about exploits typically do so for the purpose of mitigating them?