nuaccnt

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by nuaccnt 14y ago
This is the discourse equivalent of going to a party, pulling your pants down in the living room and taking a shit on the floor.
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by nuaccnt 14y ago
Resentment won't help your cause, whatever it is.
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by nuaccnt 14y ago
It would be, if it was provably or probably true. I don't think it is. But I wasn't (and I'm not) going to spend an hour arguing the point. Further reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativ
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by nuaccnt 14y ago
I'd say what for-profit companies do is the best indicator we have of the value of gender balance vs. just-making-something-people-want [to buy]--there's an imbalance in those too. Apple, for example, has an all male executive team. Microso
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by nuaccnt 14y ago
If you want the average consumer to weigh in, fine. Look at download/purchase statistics, canvass users or do focus groups. If you want qualified, passionate and experienced programmers you're out of luck, those are mostly men. An overrepre
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by nuaccnt 14y ago
Probably not. (Except as an unusual coincidence.) Picture from a python conference: http://www.efytimes.com/admin/useradmin/photo/Pycon-UK.jpg As in all the other pictures that appears from a google search it's >90% men. It's perfectl
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by nuaccnt 14y ago
Yes! / to crush the tyranny / let's find ourself a new Robespierre / a Lenin / a Mao / I mean / what could possibly go wrong?
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by nuaccnt 14y ago
"Sometimes you just came out of a screaming fight with your S.O. and dealing with a misogynist on top of that hurt just makes you want to crawl into a hole and die." That's kinda overwrought. Personally I'm very happy people never assume I
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by nuaccnt 14y ago
There's women are more-stupid/less–competent than men sexism and there's women are less likely to have spent time attaining a useless (and kinda dorky) skill at first person shooters non-sexism.