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killa_bee on Aug 5, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: How I explained MapReduce to my Wife?

sexist title (and the use of a COOKING METAPHOR for chrissakes). surely this is why there are so few women in computer science.

dionidium on Aug 5, 2011 | [–]

It's not notable that he was able to explain it to his wife because she's a woman, it's notable because she's not in the field. This is really pretty obvious (and explicitly stated in the article).

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