For such an incredibly long list of demands... her GitHub profile only listed 4 projects. Very disappointing :p
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Re: Woman Posts Boyfriend Request on GitHub, Requires Access to His Server
#42"I don't discriminate based on looks."
It's always hilarious when women say this, are you saying that somebody with severe disfigurations and scars or someone is morbidly obese would not affect the decision at all?
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#43> "Someone who can tolerate social gaming companies like Zynga..." Welp, most of us on HN are out of the running! ;) But in all seriousness, am I the only one that thinks this is just ridiculous? It would have been funny and one thing had it been a joke, but this just seems crazy to me. Maybe it's because I'm only 23 and I'm not that "desperate". Or maybe it's cause I'm very social and rarely have troubles finding da…
> Maybe it's because I'm only 23 and I'm not that "desperate". It's because you're not a single Japanese woman living in Japan who's in her 30s. She's likely facing enormous pressure from her family and friends to get married. In Japan, women's marriageability is often compared to Christmas cake - expired after 25.
For people who prefert a visual illustration:
http://www.conniewonnie.com/2012/09/single-girl-asian-daught...
Re: Woman Posts Boyfriend Request on GitHub, Requires Access to His Server
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Maybe it's because I'm only 23 and I'm not that "desperate". It's because you're not a single Japanese woman living in Japan who's in her 30s. She's likely facing enormous pressure from her family and friends to get married. In Japan, women's marriageability is often compared to Christmas cake - expired after 25.
I will admit that I'm not super familiar with the Japanese culture. If that was the case, that would make sense. However, if that was also the case, don't you think she would be less strict on the requirements of finding a mate?
The reaction to this is a bit interesting.. There's some understanding, some judgement, some cultural explanations, but nobody seems to be asking whether the fundamental question here. With the web doing all it does today, why is it that it still sucks at making people meet one another?
Actually just made that a ask hn if you think this warrants a bit of introspection. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4688533
Re: Woman Posts Boyfriend Request on GitHub, Requires Access to His Server
#45> "Someone who can tolerate social gaming companies like Zynga..." Welp, most of us on HN are out of the running! ;) But in all seriousness, am I the only one that thinks this is just ridiculous? It would have been funny and one thing had it been a joke, but this just seems crazy to me. Maybe it's because I'm only 23 and I'm not that "desperate". Or maybe it's cause I'm very social and rarely have troubles finding da…
We all have a list of demands/requirements (eg: non-smoker, likes dogs, will put up with my !@#$). Not all people are as blunt about it as this women. What's always funny about these lists is that they are only based on your previous experience and are not necessarily real predictors of future success. If anything a good catch is someone who you want to be with despite the fact they don't score well on your list of r…
> What's always funny about these lists is that they are only based on your previous experience and are not necessarily real predictors of future success.
Probably the same reason and the same problems as with the stereotypical bullet-point-list job requirements.
Re: Woman Posts Boyfriend Request on GitHub, Requires Access to His Server
#46Reminds me of the Application to be my Boyfriend from Best of Craigslist (2009) http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/vic/1396835868.html
Curious: Did you find a boyfriend in the meantime?
I suspect that Andy found it through the aforementioned "Best of Craigslist" and was not the woman looking for a boyfriend.
Re: Woman Posts Boyfriend Request on GitHub, Requires Access to His Server
#47I cant explain why, but this strikes me as quite sad. Not her, really. But the guys that go after her. From the list and her demands I cant imagine a relationship with her would be a happy one. But that is just my opinion tho. (Out of curiosity I counted quickly the requirements I would fulfill : 25, and all her bonus requirements except the access to the server bit. That just screams "paranoid" to me. Why would that…
Most of us have demands for a partner, even if you aren't consciously aware of them. Perhaps not this specific, but who knows? Try writing down the qualities of what your "perfect" mate would be and see what you end up with.
Of course, it's a completely different thing to do that as an exercise for yourself compared to actually publishing it on a social developer site, but to each their own I guess.
Re: Woman Posts Boyfriend Request on GitHub, Requires Access to His Server
#48> "Someone who can tolerate social gaming companies like Zynga..." Welp, most of us on HN are out of the running! ;) But in all seriousness, am I the only one that thinks this is just ridiculous? It would have been funny and one thing had it been a joke, but this just seems crazy to me. Maybe it's because I'm only 23 and I'm not that "desperate". Or maybe it's cause I'm very social and rarely have troubles finding da…
> Maybe it's because I'm only 23 and I'm not that "desperate". It's because you're not a single Japanese woman living in Japan who's in her 30s. She's likely facing enormous pressure from her family and friends to get married. In Japan, women's marriageability is often compared to Christmas cake - expired after 25.
The social pressure does exist, but the Christmas cake thing died down with the Showa era. Nowadays the average wedding age is closer to 30 than to 25.
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#49Account norinori2222 on github has no public projects (except for test repos), no commits to any public projects, what is this, a joke?!
Re: Woman Posts Boyfriend Request on GitHub, Requires Access to His Server
#50I cant explain why, but this strikes me as quite sad. Not her, really. But the guys that go after her. From the list and her demands I cant imagine a relationship with her would be a happy one. But that is just my opinion tho. (Out of curiosity I counted quickly the requirements I would fulfill : 25, and all her bonus requirements except the access to the server bit. That just screams "paranoid" to me. Why would that…
Most of us have demands for a partner, even if you aren't consciously aware of them. Perhaps not this specific, but who knows? Try writing down the qualities of what your "perfect" mate would be and see what you end up with. Of course, it's a completely different thing to do that as an exercise for yourself compared to actually publishing it on a social developer site, but to each their own I guess.
When I sit down and write out a list of qualities I want in my perfect mate I find that I rarely deal in absolutes. And the absolutes are more of the negative kind like I wouldnt want my new spouse to be doing drugs or anything like that. I think the appropriate way is to apply fuzzy logic to the good attributes and average it out.
The thought that just because the mate watches an hour of tv a day instead of the required half hour she would never be interested is horrible to me. This kind of thinking would reduce the act of dating down to just meeting up for five minutes, filling out questionaires and comparing them.