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I don't use couchdb, so can someone explain what that candy bar picture is in reference to?

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earl 16y ago
Matt something-or-other gave a presentation at golden gate ruby conference titled something like making couch db perform like a porn star. He then filled the slides with gratuitous pictures of mostly-naked women. When told that women were offended by seeing a supposedly professional conference covered with T&A like a frat boy circle jerk, Matt basically told them they were being too sensitive. He finally apologized, though I'm dubious about the sincerity and doubt most people understand why filling slides with mostly naked women like that is a problem. Given he's now cracking jokes about it on his twitter page, I'm pretty sure my doubts were right. Cue the internet mysogynist brigade to bitch on behalf of Matt for getting called on acting like a 12 year old asshole who's lived in the basement with his dad's playboys for his whole life.
- chc 16y ago
  The point of the pictures was not to titillate — they were precisely equivalent to the silly cat pictures and Dilbert cartoons used to add levity to many presentations. It didn't go over well, but it's going way too far to insult Matt over a joke that fell flat — there was nothing woman-belittling about it, just some people aren't comfortable with silly pictures of (clothed) porn stars, including a male actor IIRC. Modulo that one presentation, Matt's contributions to the Ruby community have been quite substantial and always a class act.
spatulon 16y ago
* Matt Aimonetti gives a talk entitled "Perform like a pr0n star." * This upsets a lot of people, not least because it served to make women feel excluded from the Ruby community. * Presumably as a way of diffusing the tension, somebody sends a picture of a Yorkie bar with its "It's not for girls" slogan to Aimonetti, suggesting it could come in useful the next time he gives a talk. * Aimonetti responds with "haha, good one thanks." Coda Hale's implication (as I read it) is that Aimonetti had learned nothing and wasn't taking the issue anything like as seriously as he ought.
djhworld 16y ago
The Yorkie is a chocolate bar that is sold in the UK only (I think? I'm not sure) and is quite chunky in terms of the amount of chocolate you get per chunk. I think the reasoning behind the marketing 'it's not for girls' was because in the 80s/90s the best selling chocolate bar in the UK (and still is) is the Cadbury Dairy Milk and their marketing campaigns pushed the bars as being a woman's best friend, which I guess Nestle felt there was a gap in the market to push a so-called 'manly' bar of chocolate. I guess you could compare it too Diet Coke vs. Coke Zero. It's kind of hard to explain and from an outsiders perspective it does seem wildly offensive to women, but here in the UK it's more of just a bit of humour that people don't really take too seriously
- Semiapies 16y ago
  It's sold in the US, too.

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earl 16y ago

Matt something-or-other gave a presentation at golden gate ruby conference titled something like making couch db perform like a porn star. He then filled the slides with gratuitous pictures of mostly-naked women. When told that women were offended by seeing a supposedly professional conference covered with T&A like a frat boy circle jerk, Matt basically told them they were being too sensitive. He finally apologized, though I'm dubious about the sincerity and doubt most people understand why filling slides with mostly naked women like that is a problem. Given he's now cracking jokes about it on his twitter page, I'm pretty sure my doubts were right. Cue the internet mysogynist brigade to bitch on behalf of Matt for getting called on acting like a 12 year old asshole who's lived in the basement with his dad's playboys for his whole life.

chc 16y ago
The point of the pictures was not to titillate — they were precisely equivalent to the silly cat pictures and Dilbert cartoons used to add levity to many presentations. It didn't go over well, but it's going way too far to insult Matt over a joke that fell flat — there was nothing woman-belittling about it, just some people aren't comfortable with silly pictures of (clothed) porn stars, including a male actor IIRC. Modulo that one presentation, Matt's contributions to the Ruby community have been quite substantial and always a class act.

spatulon 16y ago

* Matt Aimonetti gives a talk entitled "Perform like a pr0n star." * This upsets a lot of people, not least because it served to make women feel excluded from the Ruby community. * Presumably as a way of diffusing the tension, somebody sends a picture of a Yorkie bar with its "It's not for girls" slogan to Aimonetti, suggesting it could come in useful the next time he gives a talk. * Aimonetti responds with "haha, good one thanks." Coda Hale's implication (as I read it) is that Aimonetti had learned nothing and wasn't taking the issue anything like as seriously as he ought.

djhworld 16y ago

The Yorkie is a chocolate bar that is sold in the UK only (I think? I'm not sure) and is quite chunky in terms of the amount of chocolate you get per chunk. I think the reasoning behind the marketing 'it's not for girls' was because in the 80s/90s the best selling chocolate bar in the UK (and still is) is the Cadbury Dairy Milk and their marketing campaigns pushed the bars as being a woman's best friend, which I guess Nestle felt there was a gap in the market to push a so-called 'manly' bar of chocolate. I guess you could compare it too Diet Coke vs. Coke Zero. It's kind of hard to explain and from an outsiders perspective it does seem wildly offensive to women, but here in the UK it's more of just a bit of humour that people don't really take too seriously

Semiapies 16y ago
It's sold in the US, too.