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johnplaxton

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    Comment #6430789

    It wouldn't be sexist if he wrote "how I taught my girlfriend to program". Imagine if it said "how to teach your black friend to program". Why only black friends? Why only girlfrie…

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    Comment #6430055

    Why is it "teach your girlfriend"? Why does he presume that his audience has a girlfriend who needs to be taught, rather than a boyfriend? You can't say "well he has a girlfriend s…

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    Comment #6430045

    Then why does he say "teach your girlfriend" rather than teach your partner, or teach your friend, or teach someone? If the fact that it is his girlfriend is just his situation, wh…

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    Comment #6407808

    The internet is the world-wide network of computers. The web is HTTP and HTML and other such technologies, that may or may not run on top of the internet, but when they do they for…