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If the Rails community were full of powerful ideas they wouldn't have problems attracting and maintaining an audience of like-minded folk (including women). So
by _pius 18y ago
If the Rails community were full of powerful ideas they wouldn't have problems attracting and maintaining an audience of like-minded folk (including women).
So I guess the math, computer science, and physics communities are also full of Macbook-toting "trendoids" who lack "powerful ideas."
I don't get why you'd cheapen the point you were making with gratuitous Rails bashing.
- bitwize 18y agoI don't see math, CS, or physics scholars giving presentations with the kind of obnoxious 'tude that seems endemic to the rails community. For the most part -- if they're any good -- they let the concepts they're presenting speak for themselves.
- _pius 18y agoThe comment I was responding to implied that the reason why Rails doesn't have a lot of women in its community is because it isn't "full of powerful ideas." That is, of course, nonsense.
- bitwize 18y agoI see more women involved in academic math and CS than I do in Rails (and many other industrial computing communities for that regard). And Rails conferences used to be a lot more female-friendly than now. Women are turned off when your ego exceeds your actual capability, and somewhere along the way the Rails community took the ego path.