> The author just want a medal saying they're Technical. Whatever this means, it is important to them.
I don't think that's quite it.
> I guess technical is "techbros and their salary"
That is it, from what I can tell. "Technical" is "you get US coastal techbro power and money". Which, most "technical" (lower-case) people working in computing also don't get, even in the US.
This author wants sciency work in fields with more women in them than computing has, to be valued in terms of pay and prestige as capital-T "Technical", and defines "Technical" such that people deciding who gets that pay are somehow within it (rather than very much not within it, as would be the case for most of the category I think the median HN user would call lower-case t "technical", which is part of why so much of the essay is hard to follow until you've figured that out)
This is why the piece is so hard to follow: this isn't made clear until way down near the bottom.
I actually read your comment while still around the halfway mark of the piece, and assumed it was reductive and way off the mark, but I think you've located the actual heart of it, now that I've finished reading it.
I don't think that's quite it.
> I guess technical is "techbros and their salary"
That is it, from what I can tell. "Technical" is "you get US coastal techbro power and money". Which, most "technical" (lower-case) people working in computing also don't get, even in the US.
This author wants sciency work in fields with more women in them than computing has, to be valued in terms of pay and prestige as capital-T "Technical", and defines "Technical" such that people deciding who gets that pay are somehow within it (rather than very much not within it, as would be the case for most of the category I think the median HN user would call lower-case t "technical", which is part of why so much of the essay is hard to follow until you've figured that out)
This is why the piece is so hard to follow: this isn't made clear until way down near the bottom.
I actually read your comment while still around the halfway mark of the piece, and assumed it was reductive and way off the mark, but I think you've located the actual heart of it, now that I've finished reading it.