> These people hurt our communities. They lurk in IRC channels waiting to harass new programmers. These are the types of people who discourage women from partic

> These people hurt our communities. They lurk in IRC channels waiting to harass new programmers. These are the types of people who discourage women from participating in classrooms and within our open source communities. These high-and-mighty types that only desire to proclaim their superiority and describe to you the exact composition of your inferiority, even if you are merely trying to learn. Zed Shaw discourages learning and opensource, rly? You probably missed the Learn X The Hard Way series he puts up a shitload of work in so newcommers can actually learn efficiently to code. And what on earth that has to do with women?! You're seriously barking at the wrong tree. //edit: btw for your amusement http://web.archive.org/web/20080103072111/http://www.zedshaw.com/rants/rails_is_a_ghetto.html http://web.archive.org/web/20080103072111/http://www.zedshaw... enjoy