ninjac0der

I live in the US of A.... look around.

#edit it's the only form of protest I can think of that might actually affect things, or at least my involvement.

To stop participating as a contributor to this society.

Not everyone has to be completely precise and politically correct to have a conversation, just most of these kinds. Know your audience. :)

I don't think tools like noscript, adblock would be nearly as popular if the content publishers hadn't gotten so greedy. I'll use the verge as an example, it's mostly text content yet hitting any page on their site feels like I'm loading a damn application. I want print, not a shifty application around the print. The pendulum will swing.

No, I would argue the holocaust and more are confusing cultural disagreements with racial stereotyping which have more to do with (surprise!) culture than race. I think it's much more believable that a large group of people grew angry with a culture of racial inclusion in financial matters leading toward the ease of hatred of a racial stereotype than the actual genes involved. Race is the identifier, not the cause.

If it wasn't race, it would family names or family colors/flags, gender, buck-teeth or what-have-you, as shown throughout history. Bickering and bigotry aren't reason for arbitrarily changing things.

So you want me to agree that it's a problem that the male to female ratio isn't equal before you've proven that the inequality is brought about by a bad reason as opposed to a natural and just reason? That greatly reduces my frustration as to why I'm not on board with any of this.

edit: "lets try to fix the disparity through social change" ...as soon as you do the due diligence and convince me it's broken first. Evidence of disparity in no way tells me there is a problem in need of being fixed. It's a lazy way to try and get people behind a misguided white-knighting movement.

Buffet style!

Can I get on the life-raft yet?

Except it doesn't seem like people are saying "lets get this measurement right so we know what needs to be done". Instead it sounds a lot more like a self-righteous group determining what isn't and isn't the correct way to do things so that we can begin getting noise free measurements.

...and they were different, culturally, philosophically, in every case I can think of.

>far more bad has been wrought by assuming differences were innate than assuming they were the result of bias.

I see more people causing harm trying to ignore natural differences, so I must ask, what have you observed that causes you to believe that?

"Don't just stand there, do something."

To me it's too close to reality, working a room to me can only refer to my observation that it's about trying to work each person over in most situations, which I'm sure has more direct negative connotations. Then the icing on the cake, "you can too!"...

I would be more interested in a conversation about the unintended impacts of becoming better at self promotion.

I completely avoided myspace, facebook, and twitter, only to be bitten by google. I started out just using gmail, then Picasa came along. Google didn't really have social overtones at the time, so it seemed safe. Then google music seemed interesting for awhile... and along came G+ to invade everything. So far I've managed to backup and delete everything except for the gmail account. From now on, I'll host and/or build my own apps.

At what point do we stop handing over ideas to the spaz for implementation?

Thank you for that deep level of insight into other peoples thoughts.

>Apologies for the directness, but JFK was ranked as some kind of awesome president because he was killed in office, not because of some magic power he had.

Really? You're holding the secret microphone that allows you to speak for everyone else?

I can think of loads of reasons JFK stood out as an exceptional President, you sir are confused.

It makes me unhappy that this site is still relevant in the tech community after their sloppy security practices.

I'm pretty sure HIPAA made the rule that patients must accept everything billed to insurance (or something to that effect), so I think it makes sense that they would be responsible to making sure it's enforced.

Point being, HIPAA isn't taken very seriously.

When companies advertise on TV that they automatically (patient need not request or accept each order) ship replenishment supplies for C-PAP based on eligibility... yeah... HIPPA is a joke.

I wonder if this has applications relevant to countries trying to ween from our technical infrastructure.

No, I said that as if I'm capable of a dissenting opinion. When men grow boobs to nurse babies and men can naturally incubate babies, I'll start looking deeper into the issue.

Hell, I'm willing to even look past those two. You just let me know when everyone suddenly turns bi-sexual. Until then, the differences are right in front, naturally occurring.

I like how most of the /real/ problems with sexism boil down to nasty people ignoring social correctness while being nasty. I'm sure they just need a reminder that being nasty is socially unacceptable.

It's entertaining watching this vacuum effect in the tech community as we take on nastiness.

Next up, mandatory 9-5 drugs that suppress our evolutionary desires! Finally, real equality in the workplace!

I would take it further and say the whole debate requires one to ignore the fundamental differences between male and female to even arrive at most of these discussions.

I'm not sure I follow this logic. She fessed up to pushing a sexist hiring policy and then tried to justify it by explaining it's just because she enjoys working with other females more?

Well, I enjoy a good laugh... and sexist jokes often make me laugh. Should I apologize?... I feel like I should.

How are you still ignoring that the patent system created the monopoly?

Yes, and it was a useless comment to be sure. My apologies, I try not to go out in public.

What... the... I thought the non-essential government services were shut down right now.

... and here is why I would never use odesk or these services as a coder.

I would see nothing differently. I would still seek to educate other devs to experience other languages so they might change this problem you've pointed out.

I could do awesome stuff with cold fusion if I was still stuck in a previous era. There are much better solutions to the problems of web development.

I get the nature of your comment, but you have to acknowledge that this does nothing to address any of the actual issues that many devs have with PHP. It's not just a problem of perception.