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Comment by johnnymonster | Hacker News Reader

whats up with the OP and barbie memes?

aphyr is homosexual and isn't afraid to let the world know[1]. I think it is just his own humor. I actually find it pretty hilarious how often he changes his twitter picture and the strange things he switches them to.

It is just a quirk of an incredibly brilliant person, which I personally find hilarious. That being said, he has a great point of view on non-tech things and is a super humble guy. As quoted from the movie Van Wilder, "You shouldn't take life so seriously, you'll never get out alive!"

http://aphyr.com/diversity

https://twitter.com/aphyr/status/479726976471539713

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol @aphyr #homosexual #barbies #makessense

What exactly are you trying to say?

The correlation between being homosexual and liking Barbie dolls, along with the Twitter conversion linked, is hilarious.

As a gay-friendly straight man, I am puzzled by the idea that those gifs are supposed to reflect the author's sexuality. Was that really the author's intent? Serious question. Until I read this answer I did indeed assume that they were "just a quirk of an incredibly brilliant person".

I don't know, I don't judge either way. The way the guy worded that question reminded me of someone I spoke with a few months ago about west Hollywood, so it was more important in my head than it actually is reflected in the article. All of the posts have hilarious memes and are worded in memes. Some people need to realize the internet isn't serious business. This work with Jepesen is truly incredible however. I'm so glad someone is doing it. The end result is that a lot of the fail will be fixed or at least thought about so end users have mitigation strategies. Everyone wins here.

I just figured that it's his way of saying that if you're building distributed systems that lose prodigious amounts of data because you (a) don't implement the right algorithms, and (b) don't appear to have been influenced by the literature, then you might as well be playing with dolls.

IOW, his version of "databases are hard; let's go shopping"

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