venantius

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1. 271.▲
   by venantius 14y ago

   I don't think there's anything implicitly linking the people in her article to HN, either. We don't have a monopoly on the word "hacker," after all.
2. 272.▲
   by venantius 14y ago

   At no point does she explicitly cite HN. The post is directed to all "hackers."
3. 273.▲
   by venantius 14y ago

   She does explicitly acknowledge her own lack of technical knowledge (e.g. where she notes that she was not qualified to evaluate the technical components of the cryptoparty manual). And still, we should hope to be a community that embraces
4. 274.▲
   by venantius 14y ago

   It's so hard to know what to say in response to stuff like this. I want to believe that there's a consensus amongst the enlightened hacker community that the type of sexist behavior described is Not Acceptable, but it seems hardly a week go