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The OP responded. Basically, linux needs feminist spaces because FOSS communities are traditionally sexist spaces where their contributions are not welcome. The point isn't that no…

> feminist communities are likely to be both smaller and more focused on user conduct than technical communities at large Is Python small? I'm sure there were other small linux com…

It's a pretty accepted fact that men interrupt women and women do better when they have women authority managers or teachers. It's why there are women's colleges.

They name names, it becomes a radical feminist attack piece. People would ask, why did she attack so and so? They are so nice and do so many things for the community. What's with b…

I recently started on Zoloft, and despite how afraid I was of it and how many bad experiences I read online, it's been fantastic. Could you elaborate more on your experience?

It sounds like being a postdoc stressed him.

I like this article, and I tend to agree with its conclusions about which ones are most common on most platforms, but isn't this at best heuristics and at worst wrong assumptions? …

The way that people talk about the fruit is the intended effect of their marketing. It's kind of hard to ignore, when they've been so successful at becoming a lifestyle brand. Even…

It's a business/marketing term, no? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_(business)

> "it's unusual for women to be clever enough to program so we're making a song-and-dance about these ones" The more examples you see of people like you programming, the less of a …

Are you actually suggesting that other minorities might be more successful in America if they were less visible?

Did you just characterize documentation as women's work? Not every woman developer wants to maintain your legacy code while you go off and write features...

What are the restrictions on attachment sizes?

My go to resource for a fast combination of Google Web Fonts is this: http://hellohappy.org/beautiful-web-type/ Not a huge resource, but it is sort of what you're asking for.

I have a criticism. I think most people are not fit to criticize the vast majority of the people they interact with. You are not a mindreader and who the hell are you to judge a st…

Another possibility you should consider is that people don't like to rain on other people's parades. They also saw what happened to Julie and probably would not have been treated v…

> Some people really like attention. Really? Like what? Can you give an example relevant to this discussion? > Alternately, she might have not expected the harassment Lol, I don't …

I think it's fair to assume that in most work places people hold back criticism from their employers, no? Why this need to assume anything anyone says is as equally likely to be tr…

Yeah, that's fair. I'm not sure GitHub's verifiable claims are worth anything though. I think there are some good reasons to assume Julie's credibility. Like other whistleblowers, …

Is that usually how things work? I thought we tend to believe whistleblowers over the institutions with financial interests that they speak out against? Obviously I'm not saying ev…

We don't know that now. We just know that no one was willing to admit to a company hired investigator (as impartial as defunkt claims they are, would you feel comfortable voicing a…

This doesn't contribute anything to the discussion but instead writes off anyone who might be angry about the handling of this and the public reaction as "mob." Part of having this…

If you think that blogs like this are a threat to feminism, I don't think we're working with the same definition of feminism. Can you please explain how you are defending feminism …

> rational actor What does economic theory have to do with it? Rational choice theory is about making assumptions about what economic choices people will make when reasoning about …