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https://mastodon.technology is chock full of geeks, so the local timeline is all people's hacks and bugs and side projects. It's one of the older instances, and it's maintained by …

I love how many ways there are to do this. My version uses empty Git commits: https://github.com/ellotheth/dotfiles/blob/master/bash_funcs...

To tack on some more folks well-known in the outside world (some of these signed up last year and aren't active now): - Michael W. Lucas, author: https://bsd.network/@mwlucas - Ama…

I initially bumped on this one too, but "obligation to consider" doesn't mean "obligation to quit their jobs over". You consider the ethical implications, you push back against man…

> you can be labeled as sexist You'd have to take those data points in isolation and conclude "men like money more than women" to earn that label. I don't think anyone is surprised…

Nono, just the classical guitarists who play my music flawlessly with a minuscule fraction of the effort needed on violin. You with your frets and extra strings and inability to su…

As a violinist with a degree in performance: I harbor eternal bitterness towards you and the rest of your kind.

Sure. Quoting from the History of Apollo On-Board Guidance, Navigation, and Control (David G. Hoag, 1976): "Each of these later [complex manned] missions was assigned the responsib…

Cool. I'm going to go with NASA, MIT, Wired[0], and the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory History of Apollo On-Board Guidance, Navigation, and Control[1] as my sources of information…

NASA[0][3] and MIT[1][2] both agree that Apollo 11 ran her software (where "her software" means "software she and her team wrote", not "software she wrote entirely on her own"). Th…

What are you balancing by pointing out that she was a junior programmer who relied on the real key people? Are there incorrect references to her achievements in this comment thread…

It's heartening to see this thread land so solidly on the intersection of sexism and ageism. You're right, assuming older generations are technically incompetent is wrong, mean, an…

Me.

> if for a second you think (exceptions excluded) women, during pregnancy and first months of a newborn can run a business without sacrificing something I'm not an entrepreneur, bu…

> The guy was taken out of context and clearly said he was trying to explain why the number of female founders was less. His thoughts had to do with not many of them applying becau…

> It is certainly possible to write a spaghetti component that would do everything. So...like PHP, then?

Right, your comment argued that "view logic, domain/business logic and database boilerplate code intermixed in a single file" is not "ancient history in the PHP world". Which it is…

Author here, happy to answer any questions.

Author here, just noticed this submission. Happy to answer any questions. (You may also be interested in the discussions on Proggit[0] and /r/golang[1].) [0] https://www.reddit.com…

Yup. It adds an extra identity verification layer, whether your script is served over SSL or not.

Use your words, kind of like you just did. Throwing a disorder around as an insult is always the wrong choice.

It's about quality, not quantity. http://wheresitup.com/results/54c732d88c3dcf8416232c91

Very slick! Reminds me of a slimmed-down version of the Where's It Up API ( https://api.wheresitup.com/ ), but with monitoring. (Full disclosure: I've done some work for the Where'…

Ithaca is full of hippies, it doesn't count. /s (GREETINGS, MY ITHACAN BROTHER)