Great article, and all very true, but this sentiment:

"Hacker culture is extremely open and meritocratic."

...is clearly more aspirational than accurate. A week of working with developers, reading hacker news, hanging out on reddit, or mentioning Ron Paul on Twitter will disabuse anyone of that notion. Hackers (like me) may want to think of ourselves that way, but our culture is just as suffused with sexism and racism as anything else.

What can we do to make it true?