pifflesnort

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by pifflesnort 13y ago
> Ahh, but that's the guts of male privilege isn't it. Their hard-earned success was much easier to come by than a women whose achieved the same level of success. That's what privilege means. It was easier for man to gain that success
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by pifflesnort 13y ago
> As a two word phrase which everyone understands to mean the social theory that men have unearned social, economic, and political advantages or rights that are granted to them solely on the basis of their sex, and which are usually de
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by pifflesnort 13y ago
> Let's put it this way: words change over time, and if the word changed in the 70s (that was before I was even alive), then it's changed, and the words we use _now_ matter _now_. Language is _never_ static. I wholly agree. But the us
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by pifflesnort 13y ago
> 1) There's no 'redefinition' going on here. "However, Money's meaning of the word [gender] did not become widespread until the 1970s, when feminist theory embraced the distinction between biological sex and the social construct of g
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by pifflesnort 13y ago
> Well, let's clear it up then: "Male privilege refers to the social theory that men have unearned social, economic, and political advantages or rights that are granted to them solely on the basis of their sex, and which are usually de
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by pifflesnort 13y ago
> There are two reasons why "female" is problematic: .. Your reply demonstrates some standard rhetorical landmines used by fringe groups: 1) Redefine words within your subculture (in this case: 'gender', 'sex', 'male', and 'female') a
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by pifflesnort 13y ago
> If you can't recognize that men have a vast amount of privilege compared to women, then I don't really know what to say. The locally-defined concept of "male privilege" is quite possibly the least productive gender generalization to
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by pifflesnort 13y ago
Compared to advancing your knowledge of programming, CAD, et al, it's a lot easier to bolster your ego and social standing with video games, so that's what those kids do. I think the solution (for schools, anyway) would be adult-led structu
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by pifflesnort 13y ago
> Are you saying that 90% of the female population has no balls? No. The major hurdles to becoming a programmer are crossed long before it becomes time to put code in a github repository. > Or is it more likely that due the syste
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by pifflesnort 13y ago
> ... except with a passing glance at someone who feels slighted for something that doesn't affect him at all. If the Ada Initiative didn't affect the rest of the industry at all, then they wouldn't be considered effective at their mi
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by pifflesnort 13y ago
To quote another story on the front page: ... that’s what happens when we hold events for women in IT when there aren’t that many women in this industry – we tend to broaden the definition of women in IT. The software industry exists to w
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by pifflesnort 13y ago
In a conversation that's already quite likely to run off the rails, playing a one-sided vocabulary shaming game is unlikely to improve the dialogue.
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by pifflesnort 13y ago
People are also free to criticize Github for any reason they want to. Personally, I think the Ada Initiative is doing far more harm than good. They're pushing a strange brand of coddling and gender privilege.
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by pifflesnort 13y ago
> Instead, they are going on the record and saying its not true. It's not like "going on record" means anything; truth is an oddly malleable thing. What's true today might not be tomorrow, what is said to be true may only be what the
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by pifflesnort 13y ago
Does that make his statement more or less likely to be accurate?
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by pifflesnort 13y ago
Said every founder of every acquired company, ever :) Are you referring to Etacts (acquired by Salesforce)?
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by pifflesnort 13y ago
> Seeing as how I had to google PKI to see what it was, I doubt I'd be able to build a Parse-like service in one afternoon. Then it's something you would learn, and those several afternoons would mean that you'd be well equipped to ta
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by pifflesnort 13y ago
It also means you own the system, don't get screwed over when Parse gets bought, and all for just a little bit of work. Seems like a small amount to pay for something that will essentially run itself indefinitely.
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by pifflesnort 13y ago
> Yes. (at least on iOS, not sure about Android or Win) er, what? It's an afternoon's worth of work, involving basic PKI and TCP sockets. I know it's an afternoon's worth of work, because I've done it in an afternoon.
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by pifflesnort 13y ago
Unfortunately, intentions about how you'll operate after an acquisition are just wishes. There's a huge corporate political apparatus that just paid a lot of money for the right to implant their thumb print on how you do things. You may be
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by pifflesnort 13y ago
> Call people douchebag for their actions. Like choosing to wear a stupid-looking $1,500 distraction-generator?
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by pifflesnort 13y ago
> It wasn't so long ago that you were a douche if you walked around in public talking into a cell phone. You still are. It's still considered rude to subject everyone to your cell phone call. These people walk up to the register whi
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by pifflesnort 13y ago
Now, imagine if you hadn't had to profile at all, or even drop to C, because you'd written algorithmically efficient code, and could rely on the runtime executing it well? Think of all the saved time ...
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by pifflesnort 13y ago
People who believe in proving 'technical inevitability' via probability don't understand shipping a product, from conception, to funding, development, and marketing. People with genuine vision inspire others to lift their work above mediocr
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by pifflesnort 13y ago
> It's a somewhat common stance from people who haven't worked in consumer web before to assume that these strategies are the result of arrogant people looking down and disrespecting their user base. The reality is that no one I know a
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by pifflesnort 13y ago
> Take a dating site as an example - you click on the link to read the message, which causes you to browse more profiles, which causes you to message a few more users - improving your chances of success overall and creating more intera
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by pifflesnort 13y ago
Clearly I hit a nerve by praising Apple. You can argue that they're doing things contrary to what some user's might want, but I have a hard time seeing where they're doing it for self-interested reasons. As far as I can tell, the people on
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by pifflesnort 13y ago
Do you actually believe Apple made those choices to benefit themselves at the cost of their users?
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by pifflesnort 13y ago
> As I said to your other comment, sometimes it's in everyone's best interest to promote engagement. If you're running a product with a strong social component, it isn't an "arbitrary business priority" to want to get people back to th
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by pifflesnort 13y ago
> Define "worse". People will complain about doing all sorts of things that are better for their long-term interests. It's telling that you're comfortable deciding on your user's behalf what is better for their long-term interests, in

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