Programmer privilege: As an Asian male computer science major, everyone gave me the benefit of the doubt.

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Programmer privilege: As an Asian male computer science major, everyone gave me the benefit of the doubt..

“For every white or Asian male expert programmer you know, imagine a parallel universe where they were of another ethnicity and/or gender.”

Yup. I was lucky enough to have a number of mentors who treated me as “equal”, but I also had more than a few who did not. (Those ones are a big part of the reason I had to quit my tenured job at UCalgary.)

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