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quenlinlomon This is What it's Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup

Hahahahaha! Really?

>Slashdot "OMG Ponies" April Fool's Day joke

REALLY?!

quenlinlomon Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only

Fallacy fallacy much?

quenlinlomon Richard Stallman - Re: clang vs free software

Go back to Reddit. Hacker News isn't a place where you post memetic responses for peer acceptance.

quenlinlomon Richard Stallman - Re: clang vs free software

The problem with RMS is that he always assumes people to agree with his way of thinking. His uncompromising tone is also a big problem.

I know, programmers are supposed to be emotionless meritocratic robots, but this Old Boys Know Best attitude is precisely why RMS and GCC is losing user share so quickly these days: the extremist meritocracy of programming culture is actually highly male-centric, and it simply scares off all women and any men who are not sexists.

This is why LLVM is gaining so much support these days: it's technically superior, and its development community isn't sexist.

quenlinlomon How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love

Does anyone think that this is really creepy?

I mean, men using dating sites like OkCupid are mostly creepy people already, but actually writing programs to automate stuff on OkCupid?

That's basically fulfilling the prophecy that men are just in for the sex.

quenlinlomon Project Euler

What we need now is more focus towards females. Men are already sufficiently saturated in the maths/CS fields. What we need is to market the idea of maths as fun to more females.

quenlinlomon Windows 9 to be unveiled in April, distances itself from Windows 8

You'd thought somebody would've written an algorithm for detecting blogspam and have it implemented in news aggregator sites already.

quenlinlomon Removed gendered pronouns; replace with neutral, singular "they"

>the popular male opinion

I'm sorry, but opinions don't have genders.

quenlinlomon Removed gendered pronouns; replace with neutral, singular "they"

It also says a lot about the current state of "feminism" (whatever no-true-scotsman definition of the word might take) is with regards to the coding community.

I mean, people can no longer discern if it's a troll or a sincere "feminist" any more without resorting to picking up obvious troll e-mail addresses. (And evern then, the dev of Light Table just accepted the troll pull request.)

quenlinlomon Removed gendered pronouns; replace with neutral, singular "they"

Probably both.

I foresee both sincere and satirical efforts of such extremist "gender neutral" feminist edits to increase in the coming months after the libuv incident.

quenlinlomon The NSA Is Breaking Most Encryption on the Internet

It's been out ten days already before the news agencies decided to report it: https://encyclopediadramatica.se/PRISM#Parabon_Leaks

Magnet link of the alleged software used to break encryption methods: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:f8a942ccff260f7b9035bbf3b8af5c3013e21097&dn=Parabon+Leaks

quenlinlomon Windows 8 more widely used than OS X, IE still on the rise

Chrome has gone from the 'fastest' (whatever that means) and 'leanest' (ditto) to one that has the (penultimate) worst cold start times[1] and worst memory efficiency[2].

[1] http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/chrome-27-firefox-21-ope...

[2] http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/chrome-27-firefox-21-ope...