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Covert racism and sexism is bad enough (and it does indeed exist), but using overt racism and sexism as a means of compensating for the covert side is equally dangerous, and more that just a little hypocritical.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 24-May-19 8:37am.
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I may look like a white man, but I identify as a hispanic woman. If he doesn't mentor me, I'll sue him for discrimination.
His "sensitivities" are gonna start to get sticky, and smell funny.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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#realJSOP wrote: I may look like a white man, but I identify as a hispanic woman. If he doesn't mentor me, I'll sue him for discrimination.
Now THAT made me laugh out loud.
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Quote: “It’s not just about writing the code, but you have stand up for your code and defend your code, and there is a certain male attitude that is endemic in many projects where a woman would just not feel comfortable claiming that she is right,” he explained.
To suggest that women aren't capable of defending their code and that they need men like Guido is sheer arrogance and patronising to any woman in the field.
Quote: “The first time I heard the term unconscious bias was maybe five years ago and it was an eye opener.” It’s changed him, and he thinks it could change others.
There is absolutely no scientific link between unconscious bias and behaviour, this is why it has never been used within a court room. What is inside someone's head is not important, it's what the person does and their behaviour that's important. After all, we can have certain thoughts in our head, but never act on them. And it's impossible to stop unconscious bias, seeing as it's unconscious and we are therefore not conscious of it.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Dominic Burford wrote: To suggest that women aren't capable of defending their code and that they need men like Guido is sheer arrogance and patronising to any woman in the field.
It's what is nowadays known as - the soft bigotry of low expectations.
In some ways it's even more problematic than explicit bigotry because it allows the person making the claims to appear virtuous.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: It's what is nowadays known as - the soft bigotry of low expectations.
Exactly. If I was a woman I would feel deeply insulted and patronised by his statements.
GuyThiebaut wrote: In some ways it's even more problematic than explicit bigotry because it allows the person making the claims to appear virtuous.
I couldn't agree more.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Luckily, I am not interested in mentoring him on things other than the weird, flash-in-the-pan language, Python.
So there! Nyah, nyah, nyah! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Described as a health product, it would work with a mobile app. "I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over."
Was there any question as to what I'd quote for this one? (I'm so boring and predictable. I need an AI to help.)
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It's only because their psychopathic boss doesn't have any human emotions, and he wants to learn how to fake them better.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It still has to go through the House before it lands on the president's desk. That should stop almost one robocall from happening
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But it won pass in the house, because, Trump would probably sign it, and we can't have anything happen in DC that would be misconstrued as "common ground", or "cooperation", or especially what's good for their constituents.
But big question - how in the hell do they implement any meaningful enforcement?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Microsoft is removing several old and outdated features from Windows 10 starting with the May 2019 Update. Here's what those features are. Sad news for those fans of ... nah, not seeing anything missable
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Online marketplace eBay has revealed how it boosted performance of a demanding web app by 50x using WebAssembly. "Do you wanna go faster?"
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Machine learning researchers have produced a system that can recreate lifelike motion from just a single frame of a person’s face, opening up the possibility of animating not just photos but also paintings. I think I saw this already on that Harry Potter documentary series
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They should run it against something like The Weeping Woman by Picasso[^] , now that would be interesting and creepy all at the same time!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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We’re thrilled to announce the beta of GitHub Sponsors, a new way to financially support the developers who build the open source software you use every day. "So put another dime in the jukebox, baby"
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Part of the reason this is such a persistent myth is because Kay himself said it in 1998 An object-oriented rant (OOR)
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While correctly stating that Simula predated Smalltalk, the article fails to account for earlier programs that had the concept of objects. They were fairly common in the LISP community (although the term OOP wasn't used), and Sutherland's famous Sketchpad program extensively used Objects and Templates (prototypes) in the 1960's.
All of which could have been seen with a tiny amount of Wikipedia research.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Ireland’s Data Protection Commission says its probe will examine whether Google’s processing of data in advertising transactions breaches EU privacy rules. You can't investigate what doesn't exist, can you?
I'm sure they're dreading another fine.
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Given that Google has 6000 employees in Ireland (albeit for tax reasons) don't expect the Irish to come down too hard on them.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Microsoft's Windows 10 is suffering from a serious security issue, according to a new report. Why do I feel I could use that headline daily?
More "security researchers". Grrrr.
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Quote: ... Could Let Hackers Gain Full Access to Your PC ...
... the vulnerability won't necessarily allow hackers or malware to gain access to your machine ...
I guess local privilege escalation bugs don't make for sufficiently click-bait-y headlines. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I was going to say that when my dog or cat (who are the only ones with access) are smart enough to work on my computer I will let them do whatever they want with full privilege, as long as they pay the bills!
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After ordering cat toys, the cat would just reformat your system (which is the digital equivalent of pushing off the edge of a desk.)
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So you are telling me that no matter what happens, I never need to worry about the vulnerability in that article! That's good news! 
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