alexkarbiv (u/alexkarbiv)

alexkarbiv commented on Here We Go Again wingolog.org/archives/202... · Posted by u/lastgeniusua

ip34162 · 5 years ago

Seems like RMS's Achilles' heel is harassment towards women, over the years, even after being made aware of it politely by others.

In that light, these are classic reads on the topic (copy pasting another comment):

[1] Why are There so Few Female Computer Scientists (Ellen Spertus, 1991)

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7040

[2] How to Encourage Women in Linux (Val Henson, 2002)

https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/

[3] What Happens to Us Does Not Happen to Most of You (Kathryn S. McKinley, 2018)

https://www.sigarch.org/what-happens-to-us-does-not-happen-t...

[4] Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing (Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher, 2001)

https://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Clubhouse-Women-Computing-P...

[5] The Elephant in the Valley (by Michele Madansky and Trae Vassallo, 2015)

https://www.elephantinthevalley.com/

Also the news of RMS coming back seems to have been hidden from even FSF members.

https://twitter.com/fsf/status/1374399897558917128

alexkarbiv · 5 years ago

Patricia Torvalds uses Apple products.

alexkarbiv commented on Go Developer Survey 2020 Results blog.golang.org/survey202... · Posted by u/radimm

postpostpost · 5 years ago

Black Lives Matter is just the name for a political movement and organization aligned with Critical Social Justice and specifically Critical Race Theory which actually dispenses with the idea of meritocracy as a worthwhile goal (see postmeritocracy.org for an explanation of this view; the author of that site is Coraline Ada Ehmke, author of the Contributor Covenant, which has been adopted by many projects including Golang)

The diversity you're talking about uses the definition everyone is familiar with from English.

The diversity Black Lives Matter is talking about is a technical term with the definition coming from Critical Race Theory, which defines whites as the least diverse categorically due to historically injustices against BIPOC folx.

> The idea of focusing diversity isn't at odds with focusing on competence

It is explicitly such, as stated by the movement you defend.

alexkarbiv · 5 years ago

Don't "overthink". Just obey corporations, don't question or doubt their agents, propagandists, storytellers("theorists"), city mayors, kapo, etc.

alexkarbiv commented on Go Developer Survey 2020 Results blog.golang.org/survey202... · Posted by u/radimm

alexkarbiv · 5 years ago

Go is good. Based on decades long research and experiments of Rob Pike and others.

It's interesting to read comments by employees of american corporations that act like members of a national-socialist organization(of workers).

There are people from Europe(not western) that became almost suicidal after working in those environments in US. Main principles of some organizations are pathological lying and suppression of free speech in any forms.

That banner is like a test of obedience. Anyone who questions it - is problematic, "toxic". It doesn't matter what that banner contains.

Obey. "They Live" movie.(1988, John Carpenter)

alexkarbiv commented on GNU Guile 2.1.4 released lists.gnu.org/archive/htm... · Posted by u/rekado

shakna · 10 years ago

Getting to use Scheme was almost an accident.

We had a dual Python/C stack, where we basically had a prototype in Python, running for small clients, and then a better C one for embedded devices.

We decided that was a bad idea, and went to rewrite the C for both consumer and embedded devices.

However, the lack of progress had the manager investigating all kinds of things, like MicroPython.

I had been playing around with Scheme in my spare time, and pointed out that Scheme was almost as fast as C, and almost as fast as Python for prototyping.

They handed me a test to see if Scheme was suitable -> Rewrite our Python prototype in Scheme, within three weeks.

Because of how consistent Scheme is, and how close Python's syntax is to it, it only took me three days.

With the decent C output of Gambit's compiler, I wrote a script that modified it to work on our embedded devices as well, in another three days.

The manager was sold, and our whole team moved to Scheme.

I was very unpopular for a few months.

As to the actual project? The little I can say, as it isn't launched yet, is that it's a kit designed for schools.

alexkarbiv · 9 years ago

>I was very unpopular for a few months.

Cython.