Perihelion

Amen. I stated earlier that because of this behavior people now treat me (a female) as if I'm just looking to fight. It's disgusting and actively pushing me out of the industry. Sexist men are not my enemy anymore :/

You're exactly the sort of person I'm talking about. People like you are afraid to be comfortable in a work environment for fear that they'll be fired for saying or doing the wrong thing. Provided you aren't a sexist/rapist, I see no reason why you need to be walking on eggshells all the time at a place where you spend a large percentage of your day. It makes me sad that my presence would make you uncomfortable when I haven't said or done anything to you. While you and you alone have the power to change your behavior (and it would be awesome if you gave women the benefit of the doubt because we're not all this way...promise), I really can't place 100% of the blame on you either. Events like this are conditioning people to be afraid of these issues, not solve them.

I just want to come to work, maybe draw stupid things on a white board, make cool shit, and go home. I'd really love it if my vagina wasn't the deciding factor in whether or not I was capable of STEM or whether or not I was capable of working around other human beings.

As a woman in this industry that has been programming since I was ~8, I wasn't offended in the slightest. In my opinion he said there was a problem that he'd have to think about before offering a solution.

"It's easy to be offended by things. It's also obnoxious and often irresponsible."

Personally, this sort of behavior affects my career. When I first started at my current job people were afraid to speak to me because they expected me to get offended at the slightest thing. I want people to treat me equally, but I don't want people to be afraid to come to work because I might sue them for looking at me. That's not what I'm about at all but unfortunately I'm pre-judged to lash out at people when I see something I don't like.

I want everyone to come to work and get fair treatment/compensation/etc. but I feel that incidents like this set all of us back. The discrimination is different now. People don't see me as incapable of STEM, they see me as incapable of working with other people. It sucks. A lot.

I had to use the downloadable Runescape client to get it to work on OSX. It works reasonably well but still sucks that I can't play in my browser anymore. A lot has changed so it's probably worth looking into!

Things are prorated by day, not hour. However, you're still correct - a 512 still works out to be about 64 cents a day.

While there is usually someone active on IRC, the best way to receive a quick response 24/7 is to put in a support ticket.

This isn't quite a one click operation, but this may be of some use to you: http://library.linode.com/linode-platform/migration/migrate-...

I have to disagree with you here. Just because someone writes poor code doesn't necessarily mean that they have the business sense of a rock. If someone writes crappy code but can market it better than the other guys, they'll probably win. I think Tumblr and WordPress both excel at blogging depending on the end user's needs. While they both essentially do the same things, each has its own merits. People who are looking to get into blogging or networking of any sort should definitely consider both. If they've only heard of one or the other and decide to go with it without researching, whatever they choose will probably work best for them.

Having waded through WordPress's code base for a few years, I agree with you to some extent. However, most people aren't going to care. Do you think half of the people who use MySpace, Tumblr, Twitter, etc care what it's written in or what it looks like inside? Facebook and Yahoo even use PHP and seem to do alright (though I admit they've modified it and have money to throw at problems to get them fixed). While I'm sure WordPress's code base drives some people away, people who don't know any better simply won't care.

I'm offended on behalf of all of the smaller projects who basically just got told that their work is worthless.

I'm also offended that the value of a project seems to be based on how well someone can market it. If your project hasn't made a name for itself, then it's worthless, right? Personally, I'm content to hack away on things that no one has heard of because I enjoy what I'm doing. If someone else happens to find it useful, that's awesome. However, deleting things from the Mecca of knowledge-seekers in an attempt to purify it in this manner is nothing short of crapping on the ideals that Wikipedia was built on.

Panic! At the RIR

Nope :)

I think you may be to blame for some of this growth ;) Not that I mind...I've used IRC for ages and I'm glad to see that people are gaining interest in it again.