To any woman who has ever complained about the ratio of females to males in tech, I say: try going to a hacking conference. With few exceptions, most hackers I met were men who showed very little interest in anything beyond code. And jiujitsu. Hackers love jiujitsu. It is the physical equivalent of solving puzzles, they tell me. I was neither male, a coder, nor particularly interested in getting squashed in a ground fight. So, you see, I had problems.

