fmdud's comments

fmdud | 11 years ago | on: Death to the Gamer

>This isn't to defend misogynistic gamers (who I sincerely hope are an increasingly small fraction of gamers that just happen to be extremely vocal on the internet.

It's in the industry, too. It's not just a vocal minority.

fmdud | 11 years ago | on: How can an introvert Asian engineer like me make friends?

Try and get interested in something outside of the tech bubble, preferably something which takes you outside.

Brush up on conversational English. Don't sweat the fact you don't have a car. If people don't want to hang out with you because you don't have a nice car, find different people.

The advice here is good - learn to be happy and comfortable on your own. That doesn't mean wallow in your loneliness, but don't think that someone will come along and magically make you happy. It doesn't work that way. If you are comfortable on your own, you'll be the kind of person that other people are interested in. It's only difficult to meet people/women if your life isn't worth being a part of. Make your life interesting enough for yourself that other people will want to take part.

Good luck. If you want to talk more, I'm at fareeddudhia at gmail.com

fmdud | 12 years ago | on: It's Different for Girls

I've seen this argument so many times at this point they blur into one. It's a watered down version of "She was asking for it" when talking about about a rape case. The way someone looks or the clothes they have on doesn't give you carte blanche to harass/assault them.

I'll show you what I mean:

>If you are an attractive woman and want to do business under such potential circumstance, then your best bet is to try to make yourself look unattractive.

This is the exact same kind of victim blaming as in "She was asking for it". He's telling women to make themselves look unattractive, implying that they are partially to blame for their own harassment because of what they were wearing, or how they looked. Saying "well, it's bound to happen" isn't good enough.

>You can't have it both ways.

>And if instead, you just want to pin all the blame on men for being pigs and expect them to change, well good luck with that.

These two quotes both show that he really is talking about harassment and assault. The OP article wasn't talking about relatively harmless (if inappropriate) workplace flirting; some couples meet at work. That happens. The difference is that those kind of things generally begin with very subtle signals over an extended period of time. The context of this article, this thread, and implicitly this comment (by explicitly agreeing that women are asking for this harassment to stop) is one of harassment and assault.

>You can't lure a client with your looks and then always expect totally platonic behavior from them.

>Mother Nature quite clearly has other designs.

I don't need to break this down. It's so shitty.

fmdud | 12 years ago | on: It's Different for Girls

Sorry, this is a pretty fucking horrible comment.

>You can't lure a client with your looks >And if instead, you just want to pin all the blame on men for being pigs and expect them to change, well good luck with that.

It's perfectly reasonable to expect men to not commit sexual assault in the workplace. What world are you living in where anything like this is remotely acceptable?

fmdud | 12 years ago | on: How slow is Python really? Or how fast is your language?

Holy false comparison, Batman!

Why would you use Numpy for arrays that small? Oh, looks like someone actually just wrote it in CPython, no Numpy, and it clocked in at 0.283s. Which is fine. It's Python.

This thread reminds me of the scene in RoboCop where Peter Weller gets shot to pieces. Peter Weller is Python and the criminals are the other languages.

fmdud | 12 years ago | on: Never judge a programmer by their commit history

I think this could be shortened to 'Never judge a programmer'.

Seriously though, outside of an interview environment or training, why are we trying to assess people's capabilities anyway?

This kind of penis-measuring contest is so prevalent in our industry; it makes people incredibly afraid of actually putting themselves out there and helping to create. Judging other people is a bad trait. Simple as that.

fmdud | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Insultingly simple configuration for Python applications

Hi everyone, I'm showing HN a tool I created to help my configure my Django projects. I've since open-sourced it, and hopefully someone else finds it as useful!

It works as follows: It prompts the user for configuration defined in a customisable, git-commitable 'schema' file, and outputs a git-ignored 'data' file.

Any reconfiguration uses the data file to provide defaults for the prompts.

Prompts are regex-validated, and there's support for only accepting a value from a predefined list of values.

Questions/Comments/Feedback/Pull requests welcome!

fmdud | 12 years ago

Heads up, apparently the page doesn't exist?
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