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> You have it flipped. "This group of people with a neurodevelopmental disorder are more inclined to X and therefore industry of X has more of them." > Which is an entirely valid t…

> Would you rather take coding advice from the person who wrote a ball of mud in PHP, or John Carmack? Depends on what I'm doing. Maybe I'm indeed going to write some ball of mud (…

> Interesting that she is autistic. Autism is apparently more common among boys than girls. Could this be one reason why tech attracts more men than women? "Maybe this group of peo…

> So... more perceptive women, who see from the outset [...] Way to diss the authors' intelligence.

> Sometimes these things are easy to miss, but once you are on the lookout its a slippery slope to thinking that almost everything happening to you is because of your gender and it…

Why wouldn't you shoehorn a language who's ergonomics and limitations have been argued for by how it would fit for concurrent (web)server code in larger projects into application d…

And such a good one!

One day, one day I will see a Canadian talk about Canada without whining about the cold or the winter straight off the bat.

> I'm interested in facts and non-emotional analysis; Pff. You're intention and the point you want to prove is ridiculously transparent. Don't try to pass it off as neutral and fac…

What is the euphemism for "prudes"?

So? Is that something to be ashamed of? Like the sibling wrote, they mark such things as being not-safe-for-casual-browsing.

> Millenials have a relatively low birth rate compared to the Gen Xers at the same age, due, perhaps, to the economic situation. If you are not raising kids, you have a lot more fr…

If it so happens that people who are having problems with the running time of tests have something like on the order of as much test code as they have "actual" code, I'm not surpri…

What about, dropping Christopher Walken onto Pluto?

Not visiting websites that you don't like has the effect of making you less cynical IME.

> Anyway: USA! USA! (I kid!) Go humanity! Well it was a grand old dick-waving contest in the 60s. Why not now as well.

> Taking the stick from my teammates for being enough of a nerd to set this up? Are you 12? Who gives a shit about shit-talking...

Spotify on Linux: clicking on things often feels slightly janky and laggy. How fitting! And the spacebar will 80% of the time page down rather than pause the music, something which…

> You'll be sad to known It wouldn't be so sad if it wasn't so noticeable.

> parse The quote consists of seven words, where a word in this context is a lexical unit that consists of alphanumeric characters, and the words are separated by some kind of whit…

Humanity is also full of cynical assholes.

That sounds reasonable; only observe one side of the conflict and none of what might have provoked it and base your whole opinion on that.

> Using the name of this language in a workplace creates a hostile working environment[1]. Oh my, thanks for the laugh. I half imagined a Dilbert scenario when reading that. It's w…