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Kent Sharkey wrote: Seems ironic for a language that treats whitespace so significantly
More like heteronormative white privileged space!
(I am so going to be kicked into the soapbox... must resist temptation...)
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Guido wrote: “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. “A guy who knows less than that woman might honestly believe [he is right], so they present a much more confident image.”
..because men are supposedly better at defending, or what?
Any woman who works in science needs to withstand peer-pressure and defend their claims. None of them have complained yet about the unfair advantages of men.
If someone is not comfortable about claiming that they are right, it is usually not gender-based, but based on them judging theirself and their (lack of) knowledge. If you can explain why you are right, then that is a non-problem.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote:
Any woman who works in science needs to withstand peer-pressure and defend their claims. None of them have complained yet about the unfair advantages of men.
No, female scientists have complained about having a harder time than their male counterparts. Not too vocally for fear of retribution because academic fields tend to be small where everyone knows everyone, but I've come across them.
It probably also varies field to field, since they tend to be more insular and self-regulating
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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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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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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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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.
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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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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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