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Lulu: An App No One Should Accept

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Re: Lulu: An App No One Should Accept

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Post by lovehashbrowns »

wpietri wrote: post #27
shanelja wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem in this case is that in the same way women are most often the recipients of sexual discrimination, men are most often the recipient of being decried as sexual discriminators. It's so easy to look down on someone identifying as male as being discriminant but when the opposite is true, the male point of view is often ignored. Simply put, we are expected to man up, whereas women are expected to stand up.

I don't think it's quite as dramatic as you say. But personally I'm ok with it. Men have been getting the good end of sexual discrimination for centuries. Owning property. Voting. Higher education. Being allowed to practice a profession. Being favored by marriage laws. Being favored by social biases. Like Peter Parker and Voltaire say, "With great power comes great responsibility." Having received a substantial boost…

That is the worst way to go about this because it DOESN'T ACTUALLY FIX THE PROBLEM. It just makes it worse. Particularly because you are punishing people, men, who have never participated in the subjugation of women. This whole counter racism, counter sexism thing is just making things worst. It is basically just shifting the balance. What does that do for actually fixing the problem? Not a damn thing. Your attitude is vile and it is the same attitude that led to women being treated the way they were in history.

Re: Lulu: An App No One Should Accept

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Post by cheez »

jimzvz wrote: post #90
neya wrote: post #69

Where are all the feminists now? This is the perfect example of double-standards implied by women. Imagine an alternative scenario where men could rate their female counterparts on the basis of their 'assets' as defined by some vague methodology. Imagine how much fire under men would be, with ALL men being broadly labelled as sexists because this app was targeted at men. I am seriously asking - Where are all the femi…

> I am seriously asking - Where are all the feminists now? Especially the ones who know this app.. Don't worry, they are certainly ready with the argument that it is the "patriarchy" that makes this app acceptable but not the reverse.

I thought this was amazing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvYyGTmcP80

"A woman is rude and abusive? PATRIRACHY!"

Re: Lulu: An App No One Should Accept

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Post by StavrosK »

duaneb wrote: post #86
StavrosK wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As the former CTO of that company, I really doubt this. When I was there, the app was built on Django, and I left some pretty competent people behind, so I'm quite sure they wouldn't have made a mistake so rudimentary. However, I don't know what happened after I left, so there might have been some dubious decisions.

If there's one thing the internet has taught me, there is no such thing as ironclad code. OpenBSD still has security vulnerabilities, and I highly doubt Lulu's security chops are as good. That said, I'm not trying to doubt the skill of Lulu's employees. Just warning that vulnerabilities are always a possibility.

Oh, sure. I'm just saying that, as far as I know, nobody ever wrote inline SQL, so the specific vulnerability would be unlikely.

Re: Lulu: An App No One Should Accept

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Post by Flimm »

shanelja wrote: post #28
dash2 wrote: post #10

I think it's hilarious and a brilliant idea. Everyone knows that dating is a lemons market, what's wrong with trying to fix it? And presumably you can rate things how you want... so if people want to put #Big.Feet or #AlwaysPays, that's their choice.

That you felt the need to make a new account simply to post this comment shows that you don't fully agree with your own point of view.

No, it doesn't. Social shame does not imply lack of conviction or misinformation.

Re: Lulu: An App No One Should Accept

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Post by Blockhead »

peterkelly wrote: post #53
StavrosK wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As the former CTO of that company, I really doubt this. When I was there, the app was built on Django, and I left some pretty competent people behind, so I'm quite sure they wouldn't have made a mistake so rudimentary. However, I don't know what happened after I left, so there might have been some dubious decisions.

It was a joke BTW ;)

Oops, thought I clicked on HN... How'd I end up on Reddit?

Re: Lulu: An App No One Should Accept

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Post by StavrosK »

_p62c wrote: post #54
StavrosK wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As the former CTO of that company, I really doubt this. When I was there, the app was built on Django, and I left some pretty competent people behind, so I'm quite sure they wouldn't have made a mistake so rudimentary. However, I don't know what happened after I left, so there might have been some dubious decisions.

Facebook and Google have to do a lot of penetration tests to keep their security in tip-top shape, sure, they have a much larger attack vector in terms of code but my point is there: Where there is public facing code, there is vulnerability. Regardless of if you are built on Django, CodeIgniter, Rails or super-secret-obfuscated-language-mark-two, no application is bullet proof and it would be trivial for any highly s…

I was talking about SQL injections specifically, not all vulnerabilities.

Re: Lulu: An App No One Should Accept

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Post by jtbigwoo »

neya wrote: post #69

Where are all the feminists now? This is the perfect example of double-standards implied by women. Imagine an alternative scenario where men could rate their female counterparts on the basis of their 'assets' as defined by some vague methodology. Imagine how much fire under men would be, with ALL men being broadly labelled as sexists because this app was targeted at men. I am seriously asking - Where are all the femi…

They're here:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/02/07/lulu_app_for...

and here:

http://jezebel.com/5982867/the-creepy-new-yelp-for-boys-and-...

Do you not know how to use google?

Re: Lulu: An App No One Should Accept

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Post by jiggy2011 »

jshakes wrote: post #24

As a guy, I couldn't care less that these kinds of things exist. This app will be used exclusively by a superficial audience who I would have absolutely no interest in meeting. If anything, I'd quite like to end up on this with extremely negative reviews just so the horrible people using this will stay the fuck away from me.

Imagine you were going to go out on a date with a new woman and you knew there was a "review" of her online that you could download for free in 10 seconds.

Would you not be tempted to at least look? I mean you know it's just superficial crap, but you might have a look; just for laughs of course..

Or you meet a new girl out somewhere and get her phone number, then your buddy comes to you and says "haha, dude that chick you met.. says here she gives a terrible blowjob! LOL!"

I mean, you'd like to think that stuff wouldn't colour your judgement at all..

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