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Wonder Workshop
Company blog · blog.play-i.comculturecareer
Wonder Workshop is the company blog at blog.play-i.com, writing about culture and career. Since 2013, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “How Carnegie Mellon Increased the Proportion of Women in CompSci: 7% to 42%”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment does not judge the writing. It debates the article's framing that women coders must match men's skills to succeed, contrasting it with Carnegie Mellon's intake of students with no prior experience.
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Most-linked posts?
- How Carnegie Mellon Increased the Proportion of Women in CompSci: 7% to 42%3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-12-29
What Hacker News says?
To some extent I wonder if the difference between the two environments is the acceptance of more junior engineers into the ranks. Even the original link suggests that female coders need to have the same skills as the male coders in order to succeed in the field, whereas one of the main bullet points for Carnegie Mellon's success was specifically encouraging students with no prior experience to join the program: http…
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