Social justice trolls do not seem to understand the real repercussions their actions have for members of the demographic they're white knighting.
Whether #blacklivesmatter is authentic or an actual part of the Clinton coronation (as I suspect Trump is), their contempt for Sanders surely gives Clinton a leg up. Excellent tactic, in fact, if they are part of the Clinton coronation. Make news for interrupting a rally for the candidate who is probably the best bet for a remedy for racism (basic guaranteed income will be the death knell for racism--probably the only cure for the cycles of poverty and violence--, not that we'll ever see it in the USA), thus painting him as a racist.
Yes, yes, we all know Cold Fjord is a shill. However, I feel I need to point out that parent comment should be modded troll, not flamebait.
It's actually a quite good troll. Cold Fjord starts by stating the obvious that the KGB really never went away. Then he continues to point out the obvious that Snowden leaked a "priceless cache" of American intelligence secrets. Continuing with the obvious, he states that there is no way Russia will hand Snowden over even if he is a pedophile.
He continues with the obvious that nobody would believe it. Finally, he ends with the coup de grÃce of containing this opinion within Snowden's "fans."
See, here's the danger. There are people who really believe that Assange committed an act of violent sexual assault, which was successfully blown up by Illuminati PR (lamestream media) from two women who merely wanted STD testing. What Cold Fjord is telegraphing here is that his employers wish they could do the same to Snowden, but they are being frustrated by failure.
Good job, Cold Fjord! This is an excellent troll. I wish all shills could be as skilled as you!
The difference is that I want to disable the threat because s/he's clearly mentally incompetent if s/he's coming at me under some delusion that I want to make Christmas and heterosexual marriage illegal or that I had anything to do with shuttering MWMF.
(Personally, as a libertarian, I think MWMF can exclude whomever they want and serve as a resounding reminder that feminism hates trans women! But this is the social justice war....)
That's pretty much my whole issue. My parents made gun safety clear to me since I can remember. This is the only correct childproof technology:
1. Stop! 2. Don't touch. 3. Leave the area. 4. Find an adult.
If I'm being chased down by a man screaming "Merry Christmas you fag!" at me, I don't want to take a chance when I draw that the damned thing won't fire if he's so enraged by whatever homosexuals have done to him that he doesn't realize I'm pointing a decent caliber revolver at him and back down. (Don't worry, Christmas Jihadists! I will aim for a non-lethal shot!)
Same goes for a lesbian who's become enraged that her precious Michigan Womyn's Music Festival lost too many performers and has decided it's time to send somebody to the hospital over it. Yes, I'm that tiny of a person. (And yes, enraged lesbians who are larger than me can be quite frightening. All though, knowing that the MWMF is no more might just explain that enraged lesbian a few months ago. She was quit close to becoming violent. Fortunately her target is much more capable of defending herself without a gun than I am, which is probably the only reason it didn't come to blows. I wish I were making this shit up. Oh, new term: lesbophobe. Proud to be one, TYVM!)
The social justice wars are coming unglued and spilling over into real life. If you're not being a credible threat to my life or the life of somebody I care about, you have nothing to worry about.
I'm not too worried about prevy old men who think the correct response to discovering that I'm not cisfemale is to call the cops. The cops around here are pretty reasonable, and I know which businesses I'm not welcome at. Well, I am somewhat concerned that one day I might literally give some pervy old man a heart attack, but I will return the favor of religiously objecting to being a first responder!
This has to be one of the most beautiful comments I've read lately.
I've found a very easy way to gauge whether a student will succeed or not: put her in front of a command line. If she mostly stays there, you've got a programmer. If she runs away back to the Windows world of GUIs with hidden file extensions, you might have somebody you can train on a few tasks, but you don't have a programmer.
Really, drag and drop programming I've observed doesn't help at all. They merely mask the deeper intellectual laziness and fear of rational thinking for some and for others the fear of losing their identity and becoming an egghead. It's too easy to get strung along by seeming success only to run into "you're a sexist and you're making everything too technical because you don't think women should be programmers!" the minute things get more complicated than having a Disney princess ice skate in simple geometrical patterns.
Show me an English major who reads and writes well, and I will show you a programmer. We like to mock English majors, but I have turned an English major into a programmer before.
A beginning programming course might do well to teach the basics of what's going on in the computer itself, how code - no matter which language - is changed to machine instructions, and talk about the instruction pointer, simple memory allocation (like what happens when you declare a variable).
So much this. I was getting ready to get into pointers and memory locations with my previous student before an asshole manager ran her out of the company. This post will be about the method I use which seems to be wildly more successful than the "sit student in front of computer and tell student what to type" approach (i.e. how code.org does it).
The trick I think is to #1 don't teach new concepts with the computer turned on and #2 turn it into a kind of game where the rules say i.e. ok, this line says let x:= 3, so now we make a space for x and put a 3 in it. Also #3 always start from first concepts, and if introducing a "magic" operation is absolutely necessary, go back later when the student has the necessary tools in her toolkit and actually implement it.
In general I think this is a huge problem with the Everybody Can Code! thing. The "programming" environment I use on a daily basis resembles a poorly done, Turing-incomplete, bug ridden version of Scratch in a way. My "colleagues" who also use this same piece of niche software routinely engage in magical thinking. All my students I tried to mentor before I switched to the "turn the computer off first and start from first concepts" approach also routinely engaged in magical thinking. There is just something about starting out at the high level that encourages magical thinking. It always ends in tears (and various insane accusations, etc, etc).
My general progression is truth tables and (very simple) Boolean algebra, how we can represent integer values and characters as a game of 20^H^H8 questions, the essential tools in the programmer's toolkit (let, if, while, and puts--basically assignment, conditionals, loops, and output), then fizz buzz, then methods, recursion, and iteration, then an exercise with Pythagorean numbers, then array and their basic operations (push, pop, shift, unshift, get, set, remove, insert, sort [this is the only magical operation I allow]), then an exercise with happy numbers (ok, I lied, I include another magical operation here that takes an integer and returns the digits as an array, but have some discussion about what the algorithm would look like), and then we're finally ready to turn the computer on and implement our three exercises in Ruby!*
All exercises are evaluated on paper. Since we're evaluating on paper, we're also dealing with memory locations the student can see for themselves. My pseudocode is a bit of a mish-mash of Ruby and BASIC. Once we have the computer turned on, we use the command line extensively.
There are a few other areas I touch like relational data before going on to pointers and memory locations, but that's only because in the end, I'm teaching somebody how to use a proprietary environment that's a badly done Scratch.
Pointers and memory locations could easily come after the happy numbers exercise. I'm thinking the perfect exercise there would be to introduce linked lists and vectors. I've always wanted to represent a linked list node as a tile with a hole in a corner with an inscribed tile in another corner that also has hole. Use some yarn to represent the smaller one as a pointer and tie it to another tile (another hole in the larger containing tile) to get the idea across. Then have the student implement the array operations from the happy numbers exercise using a more C-ish pseudocode. At this point, since we're actually dealing with memory locations and pointers, it might help to have a linear game board with actual memory locations (the tile and yarn idea wouldn't apply when we actually write the pseudocode) say 0x01 through 0x0F or even a large square board to go up to 0xFF.
That's amazing! Were you smoking cannabis flower or was it something more like psilocybin mushroom?
(iow, perhaps it was your carrier and not Google. Not that I don't hate Google's intrusiveness, but Microsoft is part of the reason I am now considered an enemy to women who wants to control their bodies. Microsoft and their proprietary bullshit paradigm can freeze in Cocytus! Traitors! Wait, that would imply they ever had an allegiance to me. Oh well, feminism says they did so it must be true.)
Hmm... more actors show up on the board. I will look more into the HRC.
Chad Griffin:
Like many organizations and companies throughout our country, HRC has embarked on a thoughtful and comprehensive diversity and inclusion effort with the goals of better representing the communities we serve â" and hiring, nurturing and retaining a workforce that not only looks like America
Heh, looks like America, in other words a complete mess, divorced from its founding principles.
The report notes, âoeSeven out of 31 men who have been promoted have been on staff less than two years (some promoted two times). No women under two years have been promoted.â
The report also notes that âoe[t]rans* people are frequently misgendered with the wrong pronouns, after repeated corrections.â
Oh god! Is this the gay agenda at work? May I get a copy from the HRC?
Eh, I'm just drunk. Further investigation is warranted.
It would be an interesting thing to know more about. If I read TFS correctly (and never TFA, tradition and all that), it seems like a move to shut Karen Sandler out. The tin foil hat comes in if it's because of her supposed genitalia. The media has been relentless in portraying software developers and particularly open source as a bunch of misogynerds and keeps finding convenient victims all over the place. What if Sandler wasn't being a convenient victim?
The fourth shitshow issue is Wayland. We keep hearing about how it will soon replace X, but we've been hearing that since like 2009 and nothing ever materializes.
I'm with the AC that flamed you on this one in particular. When it comes out, it needs to be done right, and AMD and nVidia both need to be on board.
I have Weston (the compositor, not the protocol [Wayland]) 1.9 ready to merge once I settle the dust on some use flag changes I made. (Yes, sometimes I feel like Gentoo with Paludis is only for masochists, but it's correct god damn it!;) ). From what I understand Enlightenment E20 will run over Wayland natively on Weston. I saw some curious use flags. In addition to fbdev support, Weston can apparently just run and talk RDP (rdp use flag), and there's another use flag (screen-sharing) that also enables RDP. Then the most curious one of them all:
xwayland: Enable ability support native X11 applications
I think they accidentally a word there somewhere, but curious if that means what I think it means. Wayland seems to be coming along. I better get my use flag conflicts cleaned up and finally get around to giving Weston a spin. I just hope I'll be able to keep that systemd use flag and other Poetteringware permabanned and still be able to use Weston and Enlightenment.
Ugh, PulseAudio and NetworkManager. Once I had to forcefully remove NetworkManager by the roots from my laptop to connect to wireless reliably. That showed me for using an Ubuntu-derived distro! What's wrong with wpa_supplicant? The config file is not that hard--the only thing I would suggest is that the default config should list an example of a normal WPA setup.
I don't think I've had any problems with D-Bus, but I'm only sporadically able shut down from XFCE. Somebody correct me if that's not D-Bus' fault and I should just make shutdown/reboot/whatever suid. I don't use XDM anyway, so it's no big issue and I've never looked into it.
Let me throw another wonderful piece of Poetteringware from RedHat out there: systemd.
Disclaimer: I've yet to try it, but I still have a bad taste in my mouth from PulseAudio, and Gentoo's default init manager is OpenRC so it's kind of a non-issue for me really in the end (so far).
TERFs are alive and well. Here are some choice comments. (Not accommodating Slashdot's missing unicode support.)
Wendy Lev Â
A women's festival's end where females found freedom, safety, community often for the first time in their lives, is celebrated. This is misogynistic to the core. And lesbophobic. No wonder many lesbians stop supporting orgs that are supposed to stand up for them. And stop supporting trans women.
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Wendy Lev Â
Elle Wong, Im so done with hateful bigots like you, having no clue what women deal with from birth on, and having no respect. That harass lesbians because we arent into penis. Get a grip, the world doesnt revolve around you.
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Responding to Elle Wong  Berea College
THANK YOU TRANS JESUS now this bastion of privilege and exclusion can finally die
Charlotte Schnook  University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Sure, because women are so privileged... Sheesh....
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Responding to Clara Jackson  Works at Center for Spiritual Living Greater Dayton
I thought the same thing... it is a very old story. It is a private business and she isn't breaking any laws, so ultimately it is her decision as the business owner as to what she does... it is just such a shame that people are so unwilling to engage in constructive dialogue...everyone seems so intent on finding ways to prove their point and few seem willing to consider another viewpoint. So long as that is the primary method of "communication" the struggle will continue... not only here but in partisan politics and anywhere there is significantly differing viewpoints... so sad... if only we could respect ourselves and others enough to feel engage in communication with the objective of understanding instead of being right.
Katie Berger Tremaine  Author/Novelist at K. L. Tremaine
Dialogue was attempted for 22 years, you know that, right? It's only in the last couple of years that boycott was called for, because of the ongoing pattern of open contempt from MWMF.
(Note: it would seem I'm doing the exact same thing Jackson is talking about here, but the reason is clear and Tremaine hits the nail on the head. It sounds like the only reason MWMF is closing their doors is because they can't get any artists any more due to their own boneheadedness.)
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Charlotte Schnook (again) Â University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Exactly! Isn't so funny how those to claim to be women, don't understand why women would need to have a space for their shared healing and celebration? We whom have done our research know why they don't get it: because women aren't a class to them, they aren't humans with feelings, just sex objects to be appropriated...
(tl;dr instructions: please go to the "--->" mark and read until the other "--->" mark. Mods: go ahead and mod everybody in this thread off-topic (especially me), but I needed to post GP and this comment as well because I'm about 3 minutes from midnight in my little cold war. There will be mutually assured destruction and probably some other -gategate when/if feminism and I reach midnight.)
Rape culture is the set of ideas about how people should be pressured into sex, or unwanted contact like kissing and sexual touching.
That's where it starts. That's what it should be. Over here in flyover country that turns into an accusation that all men are not only heterosexual, not only tempted to rape, but actually have raped a woman and have access to drugs like Ecstasy.
All this crap about feeling guilty and oppressing men is just that, crap.
Then why does it end up having that effect? I'm not a man (only am in the view of Michigan feminists and other bigots), but I am apparently now being affected in a tangible way. I wish I could live in the world you apparently live in. It sounds much better than my reality at the moment.
Obvious example is obvious. In 2012 every major news organization trumpeted forth news that men's genitals should be mutilated at birth to prevent women from getting a form of HPV that can lead to cervical cancer. Do I even need to point out everything wrong with that even from the standpoint of a prevention measure? The other part of the one-two punch was that the USA was in the middle wringing its hands about whether giving teenage girls the HPV vaccine was moral or not.
If you feel guilty because someone pointed out to you that you should really get informed, enthusiastic consent before getting physical, you have to ask yourself why that makes you uncomfortable.
I'm not sure why that should make me feel uncomfortable. When a TERF proceeds to misgender me, tell me I'm attracted to people I'm not, tell me I have intentions I don't, and tell me that I'm lucky I haven't been caught in the act yet, that's where I start feeling uncomfortable.
When I learn that, should somebody accuse me of raping a specific woman, that there is no possible amount of evidence I could ever present that I didn't even have sex with her, that's when I begin to feel resentment. That's when I begin to realize that I am in a hostile environment.
In fact, the cold war feminism has declared on me really started way back when I was told just that at Grand Valley State University during a presentation that all assigned males were require to attend. I could dismiss everything other time before that I've been on the receiving end of sexism as just attending a crap school district.
It's only recently that the stockpiling of nuclear bombs has begun; before it was just a skirmish here or there. There were even a few months when I scrambled my old UID where I was starting to think I had been wrong about feminism all along.
I'm still receptive to the idea that you're not just posting from an alternate dimension from mine. However, somehow if I'm wrong about feminism, feminism needs to realize it's wrong about me as well, and we need to begin the careful healing process of sealing up the nuclear weapons for good.
I don't know how that can happen. I need access to a local doctor first. I don't know what feminism needs from me other than to magically grow a womb. I'd do it too as soon as they tell me the magic words. I'm somebody who has called out sexual harassment. I'm somebody who mentors women programmers. What else could I possibly do?
If the intention was to show me what being on the receiving end of sexism is like, this is my message to feminism: I fucking get it already.
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I've fucking got it since third grade when I was actively discriminated against unapologetically and with full knowledge on the part of the person
The web can't be "free". Someone's got to pay the bills.
The red site seems to be doing fine.
magical combination of browser add-ons
Ghostery and either AdBlockPlus or uBlock. I haven't used uBlock so I can't offer an endorsement there.
He is protecting your privacy.
Here's where I've probably got my tinfoil on too tight. We know that feminism is involved in this browser. So I have to ask: is this browser really going to protect my privacy?
I've probably dropped enough hints that it would be trivial to dox me (feminism is holding me accountable for things that have happened in real life, not online as far as I know), but wouldn't it be convenient if this browser phoned home with logins to say A Voice for Men and similar websites? It would be easy to identify somebody who's a trans woman, a gay man, an intactivist, or an MHRA (yes, a strange constellation of people that feminism absolutely hates) and then proceed to collect all of their online identities. Sooner or later, the target will access a bank account or pay a bill, then *boom* insta-dox.
I'd keep my eye on this thing. 2015 was merely a warm-up for the ill-termed SJWs and rape culture. It's not just on college campuses any more. In the end, it's probably a distraction from TPP/TTIP/TISA and the Clinton coronation.
So, Elissa Shevinski, noted self-proclaimed feminist and author of the anti-SFBay-discrimination book Lean Out, is working as the Head of Product for a browser startup by Brendan Eich, most famous for being forced out of Mozilla for funding anti-LGBTQ views through funding efforts against CA Prop 8. This is weird.
This is not weird at all. Feminism has always been anti-GBTQ. See the comment I just posted in the Ashley Madison discussion but substitute gay men for trans women. Feminism only fights for homosexual rights when it's the L's rights we're talking about. I can only figure that Eich does not have a quarrel with lesbian marriage.
Well, shoot. I really was thinking about giving this browser a spin. I don't really care about Eich's beliefs, just that he does not profit from my use of whatever browser. Thanks for the heads up about the connection to feminism, AC.
Knowing that feminism is involved, this browser is now dead to me due to the cold war with actual real life consequences for me feminism has declared.
Somebody else can link to squirrelking's Full Life Consequences for the lulz. I have nothing to lol about at the moment.
Just as long as he's not making money off my web activity that will wind up supporting this thing where blacks can marry white women. I demand traditional marriage! Next thing you know, goats will want to marry white women!
That's a part of rape culture. What rape culture really means I've come to find doesn't really have anything to do with the act of rape. It's about FEEL GUILTY! As far as feminism is concerned, the fact that rape cultures require policies that can expel anybody assigned the male gender at birth for any baseless accusation of intention (not even an accusation of the act) is a pleasant side effect.
Also, GP probably considers any sexual act between a cisgendered woman and somebody assigned the male gender at birth to be rape. Why did I need to pull out the much-hated term cisgendered there? Lest we forget, trans women are guilty of metaphysical rape for violating the female form and invading women. I hate to break it to you, anti-SJWs, but this part of your transphobic rhetoric is straight out of 2nd wave feminism.
Logging in to post this even though it'll go to -1 by the top of the hour because what I'm saying is true. Anybody who doubts me should contact their state university and ask to be able to sit through a rape culture presentation. Also look up Camp Trans. They can educate you about feminism's utter hatred for trans women.
Rape culture outside of college campuses is a big reason I'm currently at cold war with feminism. Feminism wants to control my body in retaliation for their perception I want to control cis women's bodies, simply because I was involuntarily placed in a role in a women's health initiative that my cisfemale co-workers refused to participate in.
(Well, I suppose it was voluntary. I could have lost my job, my house, and starved to death instead. However, that's looking like the better choice in hindsight if the place I'm going next week to get my prescriptions renewed has also implemented rape culture.)
Disclaimer: this may hold true only in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and southern Ontario--basically anywhere within the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival reality distortion field, but I understand that rape cultures have been implemented at several other prominent universities across the USA.
Eh, don't sweat it. I'm very anxious for my appointment next week. I'm also very apprehensive that I will be denied a prescription. I've been lashing out, and I deserve to be chided for that.
I'm certain that the amputation I will need to perform (by myself, but I won't do it outside of walking distance to an urgent care registration desk, probably in my car in the parking lot) if I still do not have access to a refill at the end of March is relatively safe. After all, they've had eunuchs since ancient times. It will be effective, and then perhaps I can quit my bitching.
Bonus if what they charge me is less than a proper orchiectomy. I'll be able to wear even sexier jeans!
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Experiences with online IDEs? None, and I'd like to keep it that way, thanks.
Social justice trolls do not seem to understand the real repercussions their actions have for members of the demographic they're white knighting.
Whether #blacklivesmatter is authentic or an actual part of the Clinton coronation (as I suspect Trump is), their contempt for Sanders surely gives Clinton a leg up. Excellent tactic, in fact, if they are part of the Clinton coronation. Make news for interrupting a rally for the candidate who is probably the best bet for a remedy for racism (basic guaranteed income will be the death knell for racism--probably the only cure for the cycles of poverty and violence--, not that we'll ever see it in the USA), thus painting him as a racist.
Yes, yes, we all know Cold Fjord is a shill. However, I feel I need to point out that parent comment should be modded troll, not flamebait.
It's actually a quite good troll. Cold Fjord starts by stating the obvious that the KGB really never went away. Then he continues to point out the obvious that Snowden leaked a "priceless cache" of American intelligence secrets. Continuing with the obvious, he states that there is no way Russia will hand Snowden over even if he is a pedophile.
He continues with the obvious that nobody would believe it. Finally, he ends with the coup de grÃce of containing this opinion within Snowden's "fans."
See, here's the danger. There are people who really believe that Assange committed an act of violent sexual assault, which was successfully blown up by Illuminati PR (lamestream media) from two women who merely wanted STD testing. What Cold Fjord is telegraphing here is that his employers wish they could do the same to Snowden, but they are being frustrated by failure.
Good job, Cold Fjord! This is an excellent troll. I wish all shills could be as skilled as you!
The difference is that I want to disable the threat because s/he's clearly mentally incompetent if s/he's coming at me under some delusion that I want to make Christmas and heterosexual marriage illegal or that I had anything to do with shuttering MWMF.
(Personally, as a libertarian, I think MWMF can exclude whomever they want and serve as a resounding reminder that feminism hates trans women! But this is the social justice war....)
Gah, where's mikeeusa when you need him?
Ok, will do. *sigh*
Damned real world. There's no honor any more.
Oh well.
That's pretty much my whole issue. My parents made gun safety clear to me since I can remember. This is the only correct childproof technology:
1. Stop!
2. Don't touch.
3. Leave the area.
4. Find an adult.
If I'm being chased down by a man screaming "Merry Christmas you fag!" at me, I don't want to take a chance when I draw that the damned thing won't fire if he's so enraged by whatever homosexuals have done to him that he doesn't realize I'm pointing a decent caliber revolver at him and back down. (Don't worry, Christmas Jihadists! I will aim for a non-lethal shot!)
Same goes for a lesbian who's become enraged that her precious Michigan Womyn's Music Festival lost too many performers and has decided it's time to send somebody to the hospital over it. Yes, I'm that tiny of a person. (And yes, enraged lesbians who are larger than me can be quite frightening. All though, knowing that the MWMF is no more might just explain that enraged lesbian a few months ago. She was quit close to becoming violent. Fortunately her target is much more capable of defending herself without a gun than I am, which is probably the only reason it didn't come to blows. I wish I were making this shit up. Oh, new term: lesbophobe. Proud to be one, TYVM!)
The social justice wars are coming unglued and spilling over into real life. If you're not being a credible threat to my life or the life of somebody I care about, you have nothing to worry about.
I'm not too worried about prevy old men who think the correct response to discovering that I'm not cisfemale is to call the cops. The cops around here are pretty reasonable, and I know which businesses I'm not welcome at. Well, I am somewhat concerned that one day I might literally give some pervy old man a heart attack, but I will return the favor of religiously objecting to being a first responder!
This has to be one of the most beautiful comments I've read lately.
I've found a very easy way to gauge whether a student will succeed or not: put her in front of a command line. If she mostly stays there, you've got a programmer. If she runs away back to the Windows world of GUIs with hidden file extensions, you might have somebody you can train on a few tasks, but you don't have a programmer.
Really, drag and drop programming I've observed doesn't help at all. They merely mask the deeper intellectual laziness and fear of rational thinking for some and for others the fear of losing their identity and becoming an egghead. It's too easy to get strung along by seeming success only to run into "you're a sexist and you're making everything too technical because you don't think women should be programmers!" the minute things get more complicated than having a Disney princess ice skate in simple geometrical patterns.
Show me an English major who reads and writes well, and I will show you a programmer. We like to mock English majors, but I have turned an English major into a programmer before.
A beginning programming course might do well to teach the basics of what's going on in the computer itself, how code - no matter which language - is changed to machine instructions, and talk about the instruction pointer, simple memory allocation (like what happens when you declare a variable).
So much this. I was getting ready to get into pointers and memory locations with my previous student before an asshole manager ran her out of the company. This post will be about the method I use which seems to be wildly more successful than the "sit student in front of computer and tell student what to type" approach (i.e. how code.org does it).
The trick I think is to #1 don't teach new concepts with the computer turned on and #2 turn it into a kind of game where the rules say i.e. ok, this line says let x:= 3, so now we make a space for x and put a 3 in it. Also #3 always start from first concepts, and if introducing a "magic" operation is absolutely necessary, go back later when the student has the necessary tools in her toolkit and actually implement it.
In general I think this is a huge problem with the Everybody Can Code! thing. The "programming" environment I use on a daily basis resembles a poorly done, Turing-incomplete, bug ridden version of Scratch in a way. My "colleagues" who also use this same piece of niche software routinely engage in magical thinking. All my students I tried to mentor before I switched to the "turn the computer off first and start from first concepts" approach also routinely engaged in magical thinking. There is just something about starting out at the high level that encourages magical thinking. It always ends in tears (and various insane accusations, etc, etc).
My general progression is truth tables and (very simple) Boolean algebra, how we can represent integer values and characters as a game of 20^H^H8 questions, the essential tools in the programmer's toolkit (let, if, while, and puts--basically assignment, conditionals, loops, and output), then fizz buzz, then methods, recursion, and iteration, then an exercise with Pythagorean numbers, then array and their basic operations (push, pop, shift, unshift, get, set, remove, insert, sort [this is the only magical operation I allow]), then an exercise with happy numbers (ok, I lied, I include another magical operation here that takes an integer and returns the digits as an array, but have some discussion about what the algorithm would look like), and then we're finally ready to turn the computer on and implement our three exercises in Ruby!*
All exercises are evaluated on paper. Since we're evaluating on paper, we're also dealing with memory locations the student can see for themselves. My pseudocode is a bit of a mish-mash of Ruby and BASIC. Once we have the computer turned on, we use the command line extensively.
There are a few other areas I touch like relational data before going on to pointers and memory locations, but that's only because in the end, I'm teaching somebody how to use a proprietary environment that's a badly done Scratch.
Pointers and memory locations could easily come after the happy numbers exercise. I'm thinking the perfect exercise there would be to introduce linked lists and vectors. I've always wanted to represent a linked list node as a tile with a hole in a corner with an inscribed tile in another corner that also has hole. Use some yarn to represent the smaller one as a pointer and tie it to another tile (another hole in the larger containing tile) to get the idea across. Then have the student implement the array operations from the happy numbers exercise using a more C-ish pseudocode. At this point, since we're actually dealing with memory locations and pointers, it might help to have a linear game board with actual memory locations (the tile and yarn idea wouldn't apply when we actually write the pseudocode) say 0x01 through 0x0F or even a large square board to go up to 0xFF.
And of course, once that's complete, we can fina
That's amazing! Were you smoking cannabis flower or was it something more like psilocybin mushroom?
(iow, perhaps it was your carrier and not Google. Not that I don't hate Google's intrusiveness, but Microsoft is part of the reason I am now considered an enemy to women who wants to control their bodies. Microsoft and their proprietary bullshit paradigm can freeze in Cocytus! Traitors! Wait, that would imply they ever had an allegiance to me. Oh well, feminism says they did so it must be true.)
Hmm... more actors show up on the board. I will look more into the HRC.
Chad Griffin:
Like many organizations and companies throughout our country, HRC has embarked on a thoughtful and comprehensive diversity and inclusion effort with the goals of better representing the communities we serve â" and hiring, nurturing and retaining a workforce that not only looks like America
Heh, looks like America, in other words a complete mess, divorced from its founding principles.
The report notes, âoeSeven out of 31 men who have been promoted have been on staff less than two years (some promoted two times). No women under two years have been promoted.â
The report also notes that âoe[t]rans* people are frequently misgendered with the wrong pronouns, after repeated corrections.â
Oh god! Is this the gay agenda at work? May I get a copy from the HRC?
Eh, I'm just drunk. Further investigation is warranted.
Agreed. The style used is nothing like the style of the "Republicans hate children" guy.
Damn, I almost think I like Dicedot! It's almost like when /b used to be good....
You crack me up, whoever you are who keeps going on about what Republicans hate. I'd say you've one-upped the cow/apps guy!
Tin foil hat warning! How can we be so sure?
It would be an interesting thing to know more about. If I read TFS correctly (and never TFA, tradition and all that), it seems like a move to shut Karen Sandler out. The tin foil hat comes in if it's because of her supposed genitalia. The media has been relentless in portraying software developers and particularly open source as a bunch of misogynerds and keeps finding convenient victims all over the place. What if Sandler wasn't being a convenient victim?
The fourth shitshow issue is Wayland. We keep hearing about how it will soon replace X, but we've been hearing that since like 2009 and nothing ever materializes.
I'm with the AC that flamed you on this one in particular. When it comes out, it needs to be done right, and AMD and nVidia both need to be on board.
I have Weston (the compositor, not the protocol [Wayland]) 1.9 ready to merge once I settle the dust on some use flag changes I made. (Yes, sometimes I feel like Gentoo with Paludis is only for masochists, but it's correct god damn it! ;) ). From what I understand Enlightenment E20 will run over Wayland natively on Weston. I saw some curious use flags. In addition to fbdev support, Weston can apparently just run and talk RDP (rdp use flag), and there's another use flag (screen-sharing) that also enables RDP. Then the most curious one of them all:
xwayland: Enable ability support native X11 applications
I think they accidentally a word there somewhere, but curious if that means what I think it means. Wayland seems to be coming along. I better get my use flag conflicts cleaned up and finally get around to giving Weston a spin. I just hope I'll be able to keep that systemd use flag and other Poetteringware permabanned and still be able to use Weston and Enlightenment.
Ugh, PulseAudio and NetworkManager. Once I had to forcefully remove NetworkManager by the roots from my laptop to connect to wireless reliably. That showed me for using an Ubuntu-derived distro! What's wrong with wpa_supplicant? The config file is not that hard--the only thing I would suggest is that the default config should list an example of a normal WPA setup.
I don't think I've had any problems with D-Bus, but I'm only sporadically able shut down from XFCE. Somebody correct me if that's not D-Bus' fault and I should just make shutdown/reboot/whatever suid. I don't use XDM anyway, so it's no big issue and I've never looked into it.
Let me throw another wonderful piece of Poetteringware from RedHat out there: systemd.
Disclaimer: I've yet to try it, but I still have a bad taste in my mouth from PulseAudio, and Gentoo's default init manager is OpenRC so it's kind of a non-issue for me really in the end (so far).
food, mating rights, territory or even to eat the competitor
Let me add natural resources, and then my sig borrowed from Fallout fully applies. War never changes.
Disregard sibling comment, I suck cocks.
See the comments section here.
TERFs are alive and well. Here are some choice comments. (Not accommodating Slashdot's missing unicode support.)
Wendy Lev Â
A women's festival's end where females found freedom, safety, community often for the first time in their lives, is celebrated. This is misogynistic to the core. And lesbophobic. No wonder many lesbians stop supporting orgs that are supposed to stand up for them. And stop supporting trans women.
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Wendy Lev Â
Elle Wong, Im so done with hateful bigots like you, having no clue what women deal with from birth on, and having no respect. That harass lesbians because we arent into penis. Get a grip, the world doesnt revolve around you.
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Responding to Elle Wong  Berea College
THANK YOU TRANS JESUS now this bastion of privilege and exclusion can finally die
Charlotte Schnook  University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Sure, because women are so privileged... Sheesh....
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Responding to Clara Jackson  Works at Center for Spiritual Living Greater Dayton
I thought the same thing... it is a very old story. It is a private business and she isn't breaking any laws, so ultimately it is her decision as the business owner as to what she does... it is just such a shame that people are so unwilling to engage in constructive dialogue...everyone seems so intent on finding ways to prove their point and few seem willing to consider another viewpoint. So long as that is the primary method of "communication" the struggle will continue... not only here but in partisan politics and anywhere there is significantly differing viewpoints... so sad... if only we could respect ourselves and others enough to feel engage in communication with the objective of understanding instead of being right.
Katie Berger Tremaine  Author/Novelist at K. L. Tremaine
Dialogue was attempted for 22 years, you know that, right? It's only in the last couple of years that boycott was called for, because of the ongoing pattern of open contempt from MWMF.
(Note: it would seem I'm doing the exact same thing Jackson is talking about here, but the reason is clear and Tremaine hits the nail on the head. It sounds like the only reason MWMF is closing their doors is because they can't get any artists any more due to their own boneheadedness.)
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Charlotte Schnook (again) Â University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Exactly! Isn't so funny how those to claim to be women, don't understand why women would need to have a space for their shared healing and celebration? We whom have done our research know why they don't get it: because women aren't a class to them, they aren't humans with feelings, just sex objects to be appropriated...
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etc, etc
War never changes.
(tl;dr instructions: please go to the "--->" mark and read until the other "--->" mark. Mods: go ahead and mod everybody in this thread off-topic (especially me), but I needed to post GP and this comment as well because I'm about 3 minutes from midnight in my little cold war. There will be mutually assured destruction and probably some other -gategate when/if feminism and I reach midnight.)
Rape culture is the set of ideas about how people should be pressured into sex, or unwanted contact like kissing and sexual touching.
That's where it starts. That's what it should be. Over here in flyover country that turns into an accusation that all men are not only heterosexual, not only tempted to rape, but actually have raped a woman and have access to drugs like Ecstasy.
All this crap about feeling guilty and oppressing men is just that, crap.
Then why does it end up having that effect? I'm not a man (only am in the view of Michigan feminists and other bigots), but I am apparently now being affected in a tangible way. I wish I could live in the world you apparently live in. It sounds much better than my reality at the moment.
Obvious example is obvious. In 2012 every major news organization trumpeted forth news that men's genitals should be mutilated at birth to prevent women from getting a form of HPV that can lead to cervical cancer. Do I even need to point out everything wrong with that even from the standpoint of a prevention measure? The other part of the one-two punch was that the USA was in the middle wringing its hands about whether giving teenage girls the HPV vaccine was moral or not.
If you feel guilty because someone pointed out to you that you should really get informed, enthusiastic consent before getting physical, you have to ask yourself why that makes you uncomfortable.
I'm not sure why that should make me feel uncomfortable. When a TERF proceeds to misgender me, tell me I'm attracted to people I'm not, tell me I have intentions I don't, and tell me that I'm lucky I haven't been caught in the act yet, that's where I start feeling uncomfortable.
When I learn that, should somebody accuse me of raping a specific woman, that there is no possible amount of evidence I could ever present that I didn't even have sex with her, that's when I begin to feel resentment. That's when I begin to realize that I am in a hostile environment.
In fact, the cold war feminism has declared on me really started way back when I was told just that at Grand Valley State University during a presentation that all assigned males were require to attend. I could dismiss everything other time before that I've been on the receiving end of sexism as just attending a crap school district.
It's only recently that the stockpiling of nuclear bombs has begun; before it was just a skirmish here or there. There were even a few months when I scrambled my old UID where I was starting to think I had been wrong about feminism all along.
I'm still receptive to the idea that you're not just posting from an alternate dimension from mine. However, somehow if I'm wrong about feminism, feminism needs to realize it's wrong about me as well, and we need to begin the careful healing process of sealing up the nuclear weapons for good.
I don't know how that can happen. I need access to a local doctor first. I don't know what feminism needs from me other than to magically grow a womb. I'd do it too as soon as they tell me the magic words. I'm somebody who has called out sexual harassment. I'm somebody who mentors women programmers. What else could I possibly do?
If the intention was to show me what being on the receiving end of sexism is like, this is my message to feminism: I fucking get it already.
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I've fucking got it since third grade when I was actively discriminated against unapologetically and with full knowledge on the part of the person
The web can't be "free". Someone's got to pay the bills.
The red site seems to be doing fine.
magical combination of browser add-ons
Ghostery and either AdBlockPlus or uBlock. I haven't used uBlock so I can't offer an endorsement there.
He is protecting your privacy.
Here's where I've probably got my tinfoil on too tight. We know that feminism is involved in this browser. So I have to ask: is this browser really going to protect my privacy?
I've probably dropped enough hints that it would be trivial to dox me (feminism is holding me accountable for things that have happened in real life, not online as far as I know), but wouldn't it be convenient if this browser phoned home with logins to say A Voice for Men and similar websites? It would be easy to identify somebody who's a trans woman, a gay man, an intactivist, or an MHRA (yes, a strange constellation of people that feminism absolutely hates) and then proceed to collect all of their online identities. Sooner or later, the target will access a bank account or pay a bill, then *boom* insta-dox.
I'd keep my eye on this thing. 2015 was merely a warm-up for the ill-termed SJWs and rape culture. It's not just on college campuses any more. In the end, it's probably a distraction from TPP/TTIP/TISA and the Clinton coronation.
Holy fucking crap.
So, Elissa Shevinski, noted self-proclaimed feminist and author of the anti-SFBay-discrimination book Lean Out, is working as the Head of Product for a browser startup by Brendan Eich, most famous for being forced out of Mozilla for funding anti-LGBTQ views through funding efforts against CA Prop 8. This is weird.
This is not weird at all. Feminism has always been anti-GBTQ. See the comment I just posted in the Ashley Madison discussion but substitute gay men for trans women. Feminism only fights for homosexual rights when it's the L's rights we're talking about. I can only figure that Eich does not have a quarrel with lesbian marriage.
Well, shoot. I really was thinking about giving this browser a spin. I don't really care about Eich's beliefs, just that he does not profit from my use of whatever browser. Thanks for the heads up about the connection to feminism, AC.
Knowing that feminism is involved, this browser is now dead to me due to the cold war with actual real life consequences for me feminism has declared.
Somebody else can link to squirrelking's Full Life Consequences for the lulz. I have nothing to lol about at the moment.
I'll have to give it a try.
Just as long as he's not making money off my web activity that will wind up supporting this thing where blacks can marry white women. I demand traditional marriage! Next thing you know, goats will want to marry white women!
That's a part of rape culture. What rape culture really means I've come to find doesn't really have anything to do with the act of rape. It's about FEEL GUILTY! As far as feminism is concerned, the fact that rape cultures require policies that can expel anybody assigned the male gender at birth for any baseless accusation of intention (not even an accusation of the act) is a pleasant side effect.
Also, GP probably considers any sexual act between a cisgendered woman and somebody assigned the male gender at birth to be rape. Why did I need to pull out the much-hated term cisgendered there? Lest we forget, trans women are guilty of metaphysical rape for violating the female form and invading women. I hate to break it to you, anti-SJWs, but this part of your transphobic rhetoric is straight out of 2nd wave feminism.
Logging in to post this even though it'll go to -1 by the top of the hour because what I'm saying is true. Anybody who doubts me should contact their state university and ask to be able to sit through a rape culture presentation. Also look up Camp Trans. They can educate you about feminism's utter hatred for trans women.
Rape culture outside of college campuses is a big reason I'm currently at cold war with feminism. Feminism wants to control my body in retaliation for their perception I want to control cis women's bodies, simply because I was involuntarily placed in a role in a women's health initiative that my cisfemale co-workers refused to participate in.
(Well, I suppose it was voluntary. I could have lost my job, my house, and starved to death instead. However, that's looking like the better choice in hindsight if the place I'm going next week to get my prescriptions renewed has also implemented rape culture.)
Disclaimer: this may hold true only in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and southern Ontario--basically anywhere within the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival reality distortion field, but I understand that rape cultures have been implemented at several other prominent universities across the USA.
The real crime: using ragged right instead of Knuth and Plass' algorithm!
Eh, don't sweat it. I'm very anxious for my appointment next week. I'm also very apprehensive that I will be denied a prescription. I've been lashing out, and I deserve to be chided for that.
I'm certain that the amputation I will need to perform (by myself, but I won't do it outside of walking distance to an urgent care registration desk, probably in my car in the parking lot) if I still do not have access to a refill at the end of March is relatively safe. After all, they've had eunuchs since ancient times. It will be effective, and then perhaps I can quit my bitching.
Bonus if what they charge me is less than a proper orchiectomy. I'll be able to wear even sexier jeans!