Tag: sexism
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The amazing @shanley
Some people you just have to admire because no matter how hard the bad guys (and in this case they are guys) try to put them down, and how personally vulnerable they feel, they just right back up.
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Chemistry sets redux
As I remarked before, the main problem with today’s chemistry sets is that they are inane to the point of boredom. I bought my eldest daughter one a few years ago and we both gave up on it because it was so tedious. But that does not justify Tesco’s claim that they are only for […]
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The PyCon row
I have never written any Python. Maybe that might change in the future, but not soon I think. So PyCon, a big conference for Python developers, normally would not matter to me, especially as it is on another continent. But this year’s PyCon saw a huge row about allegedly offensive and sexist behaviour. In my […]
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Geeklist spamming people
I had never heard of Geeklist until last week, when I received an email from them and then read the story about their promotion of “brogramming” and abusive response to being called out for it. The email came first – and as I had never head of them this – Hi, my name is Jenny […]
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Nasty computer scientists (again)
My gut feeling is that we are about to see another “internet bubble” burst: money has again flooded in to the development community (partly because in a recessionary environment cash is being hoarded just about everywhere else), skilled staff are in short supply and a massive IPO (Facebook) is about to happen, which will only, […]
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