rjknight

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by rjknight 13y ago
Yeah, this looks like a "Damn you autocorrect!"[1] protection system rather than a serious attempt at censorship. [1] http://www.damnyouautocorrect.com/
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This isn't 'guy' behaviour, it is, to use a colloquialism, knobhead behaviour. The kids in the audience who actually wanted to learn something interesting about science weren't wolf-whistling. The people who are perpet
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Nonsense. It's equivalent to a Victorian child tin miner saying to the slave that he's also had a hard life. The set of people who actually owned slaves was always a tiny minority who were only able to own slaves because they we
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"Robot" is etymologically derived from a Slavic word for slave ("Rab" in Russian, apparently). The existence of robots is not problematic. Treating a human as a robot most definitely is. The existence of slaves, in the
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It's relevant because the majority of open source developers do not have English as a first language.
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You can only invoke Godwin's law after someone else draws a comparison to the Nazis. You cannot invoke it on yourself prior to drawing a comparison to the Holy Inquisition, no matter how far beyond absurdity the situation may be.
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The title is a bit unfortunate. It reminded me of this[1] more than anything else. I can't imagine it's a deliberate reference though. (This must be the first thread where I've actually played a comedy British person.) [1]
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Hmm. I'm probably the kind of person who would try to refuse being influenced by what I believed to be unreasonable pressure. I've said how I think this situation should be handled and I would be willing to defend that. I sup
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Posts drop automatically after 40 votes. If they're upvoted enough, they come back up.
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Nonsense. You're exaggerating the stakes greatly. There are people who want to believe in a great conspiracy of "politically correct" social justice warriors, who are using their political influence to bully corporations and
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There's probably an argument for it, yes. I can't imagine that it's a very good one, but I imagine that it exists. (There's always an argument for the status quo, which is "this is how we've always done it&q
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Fuck Joyent. Seriously. This is something that calls for dialogue, discussion and debate. I seriously hope Ben Noordhuis learns from this. But to say that you would fire someone over this is a sign that you are not a fit company for a re
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I dunno. He said that the pull request was trivial, which could have been meant in the sense that the change is trivial - a one-word change to a code comment that does not affect the program's operation. Commit history space is a
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The user calls the function directly? With what, a magnetized needle and a steady hand?
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I think a better solution would be to select random gendered pronouns This can work, and it's certainly good practice when one is talking about social situations, and is one of the reason that "Alice and Bob" are such endur
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I'm surprised by the disproportionate level of angst from the people who are upset about the use of 'they' in place of 'he'. I can see the point of eliminating both and using 'it' instead, but some of the
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There are a few reasons why a gendered pronoun might be used: 1. To indicate 'a human' as distinct from 'a machine', where 'they' is insufficiently clear 2. To refer to an actual person of known gender 3. Most
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by rjknight 13y ago
Women, Tech Conferences and the Meaning of Life (2011) That great forgotten Monty Python movie...
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I too am confused by the claim that Dojo and YUI are not frameworks, but Backbone is.
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it was considered hugely out of step with people's attitudes .. as expressed via the newspapers and (some) television. It's certainly true that for a politician to do the right thing, it's necessary for them to go against
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I agree with about half of what you say. I think that plenty of social justice rhetoric is about real problems, and it's uncomfortable because it's true. But you're right that not every use of this rhetoric is valid, and so
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That strikes me as unlikely. I might just be naive, but I can't imagine being sued for filtering candidates on their code portfolios. This is a genuine and non-rhetorical question: how does it differ from academic qualifications? Bot
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I don't find too much to disagree with in the observations made in the post, but I'm not sure what useful conclusions emerge. It's clear that women are under-represented and this needs to be addressed. The OP doesn't r
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Well, of course it's discriminatory. The purpose of a hiring process is to discriminate in favour of the kind of people you want to hire and against the kind of people that you don't. I don't think this article really misses
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Who? The original article was written by someone who clearly identifies as "he" - Lee Carp is one of the two cofounders of BayesianWitch. He graduated from the University of Chicago...
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Web servers aren't back end service-type-of-stuff?
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"You have asked Firefox to connect securely to communities.intel.com, but we can't confirm that your connection is secure" Problems?
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"Removed" makes it sound like a sin of commission, where it's more likely that they decided to re-build their website and didn't see a point in having a historical archive of speeches, policy documents etc. on there. To
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"Hundreds per user request" is just wrong. Generally, Drupal opens a single connection per request (and does not use any kind of connection pooling). Perhaps you mean that Drupal issues hundreds of queries per connection? (Which
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No, but Drupal's out-of-the-box page cache caches pages in... the database. Even with pages cached in Memcache, Drupal would open a DB connection by default (it's possible to override this using page_cache_without_database, but no

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