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You might not care about these opportunities but a lot of people not in SF don't have the plethora of meetups, tech talks with free food/drinks, etc where they can learn about cool new tech and that's really cool.

i lol'ed

It's being published externally, so it's a fair criticism.

It's a cultural practice.

Lol, way to be short-sighted.

It's really a PITA to have to scrub the repo before going public with it, but that's what you have to do or risk security leaks.

Currently, when I fill out the form, I have no idea what's going out to the recipients - perhaps a mad libs-esque design would explain why each field, e.g. party title, is necessary :)

Stare?

I'm not sure what this even means. Are you saying there isn't room for efforts like 1) pushing for better recruiting practices 2) teaching grown women to code?

Let's institute a convention to refer to everyone by a unique identifier. Oh wait, that's prison.

That's not much to give credit for. They could certainly have done more to help him recover from this.

Definitely top priority when they're still running Rails 2.3.

Suicides generally don't get reported unless they are exceptional in some way (e.g. celebrities, murder-suicide combo)

My roommate wasn't accepted. He's a software engineer.