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Yes, that you be more verbose in your communication.

I simply do not believe it was not possible to make a panel including women with relevant things to say.

You should research “manel” .... you’ll find “no women applied to speak” is almost always the excuse and it’s really inadequate and just a way to try to literally excuse the outcome. You have a much greater obligation than to just wait for applicants and then shrug and say “wel no women applied”.

It’s very silly to say you value diversity with a panel of all men, whilst pointing to the people who organized the conference to say that’s your diversity. “All the brainy men are doing the talking and being smart while all the assistants and helpers and organizers and running around helping them”. Ugh. I’d advise you to put that line of argument in the nearest garbage bin... it is not going to lead to people thinks “oh yes they employ women, that is an excellent and inclusive diversity strategy and shows deep commitment to diversity”. That’s like saying “hey I have a mother, that’s my diversity strategy”.

If you want to save your conference from possible cancellation then it’s in your interest to replace 2 of those men with at least 2 women before the internet gets wind of this.

And when asked, don’t make the lame excuse you gave me.... you should say “yes that’s a terrible mistake we handled it badly and were fixing it fast.” It sounds stupid to say “we couldn’t get any women”.

And it sounds doubly stupid and deeply patronizing to say “we deeply value diversity, look at all our helper women”.

Frankly sir you seem to lack wisdom.

And you’re in for a big shock if you think you’ll get to the end of this conference with only me raising the issue.

If I were you I’d take all information regarding the panel offline and say you’re revising it, until you fix it properly. That might save you.

What do I think? Well since you asked.....

I think that any conference that in 2018 creates a panel consisting of all men is frankly, more stupid than can really be grasped.

It’s called a “Manel” and once this gets onto Twitter this conference will be crucified.

There will be much apologizing, excuse making, back pedaling, explaining that ‘we tried but there’s no females who know anything about RabbitMQ’ and then finally the existing speakers, under public pressure, risk pulling out and then the conference risk being cancelled.

At a minimum, Microsoft will be targeted and the Microsoft speaker will pull out, followed by the others who care about the public perception.

Almost certainly Pivotal and Goldman Sachs will pull out too.

Let’s wait and see how much of this actually happens.

Context?

I dread releasing my next project and having these questions asked.

It should be simple but it’s so hard for the developer to see they have not explained the basics.

And if your project don’t explain the basics fast, people leave in seconds.

Internet companies need to refuse to serve ISPs who throttle.

“Oh we can’t get YouTube google and Netflix on this ISP? We’ll leave for one who does provide them.”

Restricting services can cut both ways.

Why don’t these retro remake computers use actual 8 bit CPUs?

8bit CPUs are still available aren’t they?

I don’t get it. If it doesn’t have an 8bit cpu then how is it anything else but a modern machine?

Can someone explain what this is about?

Hindsight is 20/20.

I remember when zuckerberg turned down $1B from yahoo and I couldn’t believe how stupid and greedy he must be to turn that down.

Bill Gates didn’t get going with his philanthropy till later.

I suggest an automated system that identifies ISPs that throttle traffic.

Internet companies ban service to those ISPs.

What use is an ISP if the internet companies refuse to serve it?

It would make any ISP deeply reluctant to be caught throttling.

Actually I was referring to google.

Google would survive without China.

Whether or not a company / person actually has values is completely different from what they say about having values.

If you truly have values, then your actions are aligned with, consistent with, and demonstrate your stated values.

It’s easy to talk about having values. Usually the pretense is dropped when the chance to advance self interest like money comes up.

I’ve had chrome books as a possible purchase.

That’s finished now.

I want my machine to be my machine.

Google can F off.

YouTube needs to ban accounts that republish TV news.

Most people lack the courage to honestly deliver bad news.

Errr... playfulness at work doesn’t really provide a connection with the sort of Toy market being proposed here. Just because there were toys literally in googles fun style of work doesn’t mean they’re children literally playing with toys.

The author graduated university 2006. Assuming this was the beginning of his careeer, then he seems to be looking back fancifully on events he wasn’t party to.

Looks like they are wrapping javascript functions instead of just using the functions.

Lean startup is not about trying to fail fast.

Banks treat IT systems as of no value, they outsource overseas, they seriously think any developer brain is the same as any other.

Banks treat development as just like call centers... they know they have to pay for warm bodies, any warm body will do.

Stripe started really really well with its developer, library and documentation support. In fact I think that’s a very large part of their initial success.

At some point they lost that focus and dropped the ball. For example for a very long time they had no direct support for reactjs even when it was hugely popular, instead you had to go find some third party library which is a terrible thing to have to do for implementation of payment code.

Maybe they’re improved and started supporting actively the technologies developers are using.

Mailman 3

GitHub gists

I used to always visit techmeme but it became almost exclusively focused on google Apple amazon Microsoft Facebook Netflix. I’m going to go have a look right now to see if that’s still true.

Some of the Infocom games certainly used compression I believe by doing things like using 4 or 5 bits for characters instead of 8. I couldn’t tell you where I read that though.

There’s passion for you.

It’s a great thing that JSON adequate.

It’s a great pity that JSON isn't much better.

It would be great if JSON had comments, more thorough typing and determinism so that data structures could be compared. Apart from that it’s streets ahead of XML.

What was it? I can’t read Washington post.