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railsdude | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Dating Ring (YC W14) – We do the work, you do the dating

> I would think that OKC, etc. would in the end benefit from their contribution.

That's BS and you know it. If that were the case, OP's startup should've bought ads on OKC and OKC would be glad to sell ad space. I really doubt that OKC or its parent company will sell ads to a competitor dating site.

railsdude | 12 years ago | on: There is no gender gap in tech salaries

> Asians are considered privileged academically. In America they get better grades than average, on average.

So studying more and harder and partying less is considered a privilege?

railsdude | 12 years ago | on: Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only

> Python == Snake == Slang for male genitalia

You jest, but in 2012 someone from the PSF made a "joke", at PyCon, asking people, men and women: "want to see my one-eyed snake?".

Unfortunately, the same Python feminists that are ready to burn anyone who disagree with them regarding the use of a pronoun [1], for instance, were very quiet and dismissive about that other, and bigger, issue. [2]

[1] https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015 [2] https://twitter.com/zedshaw/status/390012555688546304

railsdude | 12 years ago | on: Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only

We should compile in a Wiki (or something similar) everything that might make someone uncomfortable.

That way, we can look up and make sure this thing never happens. Then, with any luck, a strawperson (not strawman) will never feel like that for something on the internet again.

railsdude | 12 years ago | on: Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of the world

> that privilege doesn't exist because you haven't been on the wrong side does no good to yourself or society.

Know who is on the wrong side? Poor people born in 3rd world countries, with no food, jobs, infrastructure, nothing. On the top of that, a lot of them live in a freaking civil war.

People born in the USA, man or woman, who is middle-class+, is privileged beyond any dream of the majority of the world population.

railsdude | 12 years ago | on: The Next Phase of Node.js

That's beyond distasteful. Node.js seems to be the new Rails/Ruby community, from a couple of years ago, drama-wise.

And, ironically, this is on his profile: "I don't look at this site much, because it turns people into jerks."

railsdude | 13 years ago | on: Dad hacks Donkey Kong for his daughter; Pauline now saves Mario

It's nice to see the difference between someone who sees something wrong and actually does something about it just because and someone who asks the Internet for money and deliver a video 9 months later.

Also, for something that took 9 months and loads of money, there isn't really anything new there that hasn't been said before.

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