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Netflix employees stage a trans solidarity walkout, pose list of demands

TechCrunch LA

The employees who participated in the walkout want Netflix to “adopt measures to avoid future instances of platforming transphobia and hate speech,” they wrote in a letter. But Sarandos doubled down on his defense of the special, writing an internal email that “content on screen doesn’t directly translate to real-world harm.”

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JS Saturday | Javascript Beginner to Advanced in One Day!

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Troy Miles , A designer and developer of software since 1979 writing games in assembly and C. Hattan Shobokshi , a Microsoft Community Contributor, Speaker and Senior Software Engineer. Hattan is responsible for developing applications on a variety of platforms including web and mobile devices.

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Sexism Still Exists in Tech | Blatant Trolling at DeveloperWeek 2015

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Erin Craig of Wolfram, Dominique DeGuzman of Twilio, Ana Martinez of Zendesk and Maira Benjamin of Pandora all joined in the conversation to discuss their experiences in pursuing careers in software engineering. Several Gamergaters have also stated that she must have gotten others to write the code for her.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms. Communications: Of course comms companies are springing up globally including WhatsApp, Line, KakaoTalk, WeChat and the dominant platforms of Facebook & Twitter. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area.

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Interview with Jonathan Lehmann and James Chung, KarmaGoat

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James Chung: My previous background is in software engineering. I spent six years in e-commerce, developing e-commerce platforms, and am pretty familiar with that. The site looks to be very well executed, where did you get the technology expertise to pull off the site?

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