>Your phrasing "chose to have kids" betrays some of your underlying beliefs
I did suspect that underlying your opinion was a desire to discriminate in favor of parents/against non parents.
This would fit in with the double standard I highlighted in my first comment.
This was also because you mentioned "parents" in the context of diversity (which is weirdly unique). I threw that phrase out there to see if it triggered you.
>To your second point, I can't think of a single thing I would let be a proxy for technical skill in an interview process -- certainly not some commits to open source
I've not worked with a huge number of developers who have made > 3 significant pull requests to a serious OSS project but every single one has been stellar.
I've worked with a lot of developers who can do the cracking the coding interview dance who sucked and even more who interview well in other ways.
I don't discriminate in favor of or against any particular group and am not a parent myself, though I have parents. I do recognize that many parents are often particularly overworked and can't jump through the same hoops you have time to jump through, which is why the example came to mind. That's all, no offense or "triggering" (???) intended and apologies if it came across like I was trying to rile you up. Per HN guidelines, you should be taking the strongest form of any argument though, to be fair. Regardless, I think you've gotten your point across and I believe I understand your motivations.
I did suspect that underlying your opinion was a desire to discriminate in favor of parents/against non parents.
This would fit in with the double standard I highlighted in my first comment.
This was also because you mentioned "parents" in the context of diversity (which is weirdly unique). I threw that phrase out there to see if it triggered you.
>To your second point, I can't think of a single thing I would let be a proxy for technical skill in an interview process -- certainly not some commits to open source
I've not worked with a huge number of developers who have made > 3 significant pull requests to a serious OSS project but every single one has been stellar.
I've worked with a lot of developers who can do the cracking the coding interview dance who sucked and even more who interview well in other ways.