Joe McMahon
- Website: pemungkah.com
- About: Blogging about Perl, wandering off into compatibility issues with other things, like Python and Django.
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Commented on What exactly is going on at Perlmonks?
The problem with, "well, it was just one bad joke" is that it's the death of a thousand cuts. Yeah, that one little thing this person did "wasn't that big a deal". And the one this other person said wasn't...
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Commented on What exactly is going on at Perlmonks?
To put it in software terms: I'm trying to say I'm seeing an error, cutting and pasting the message into the bug report - and you're insisting that the code is working just fine for you and I'm just a...
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Commented on What exactly is going on at Perlmonks?
Its [sic] sexist to make statements like 'frat-boy humour scares women away', yet you don't seem to have a problem with that. Really. So it's sexist to point out that sexist behavior is off-putting to anyone who cares about it?...
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Commented on What exactly is going on at Perlmonks?
Calling it "faux" says "I choose to deny your feelings about this because your expressing them make me feel bad, because only nasty people choose to make jokes that make other people feel bad, and I'm nice, so your feelings...
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Commented on What exactly is going on at Perlmonks?
My point is that "man-hours" isn't necessary. You can say "hours" and not lose any essential meaning. That's why I said, okay, not enough to get too exercised about...but when point two specifically turned on having used "man-hours" to make...
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Posted What exactly is going on at Perlmonks? to Joe McMahon
I went back to Perlmonks for the first time in quite some time, and was greeted with by a poll titled "How many man-hours would you estimate you have invested in learning Perl?" - okay, could have been hours, not enough to make a big deal of, I'm trying not to make every interaction on the site…
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Commented on "White knight", a meditation
Exactly. It's a derail-in-a-label. "I've decided to change the conversation to talking about how you're a shallow, cynical, and manipulative person now, whether or not it's true, since I don't want to let anyone else think objectively about how much...
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Posted "White knight", a meditation to Joe McMahon
If you think "white knight" is a crap term, a convenient argument-by-dismissal tactic, then you probably already know all this, but there may be some useful ideas for the next time someone attempts to spring this on you.
On the other hand, if you're one of those who think it's the scored…
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Commented on Social diagnostics
Therefore, you're entirely entitled to get annoyed, offended and even angry as imply a member of homo sapiens, on your own behalf. *forehead slap* Perfect. That is what I will do, because you're totally right. I didn't, and don't,...
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Posted Social diagnostics to Joe McMahon
First, a huge thank-you to all the folks who have commented on my post (whether they agree with it or not) and who have followed up on Perlmonks to say "well, I think this might be correct" -…
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Posted Why I'm considering dropping Perlmonks to Joe McMahon
A couple days ago, a comic strip was posted to Perlmonks that really got up my nose. For those of you who don’t want to bother linking through, the strip compares Perl with Moose to Perl having a “boob…
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Posted git svn vs. svn2git (vs. "svn2git") to Joe McMahon
If you're ever in the position of needing to convert a large (in our case around 32000 revisions) Subversion repository to a Git repository, you should know
- git svn is agonizingly slow, and falls over at regular intervals (apparently memory problems; symptom is "git svn di…
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Posted I Want My Objective-C to Joe McMahon
The other day, as they idea of the defined-dereference operator (~> is the favorite at the moment), I proposed the idea of implementing a pragma that changed what Perl does when it's faced with a dereference of, or a message sent to, undef. Right now, of course, it dies.
This bit me hard t…
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Posted MIME::Base64 and pearlclutching to Joe McMahon
I've been working on WhiteHat's new sourcecode scanner, and one of the things we need to do is transmit snippets of source code around inside of XML. Since many XML parseres are notoriously sensitive to…
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Posted Look, I Just Paid the Bill to Joe McMahon
If you visit the Silicon Valley Perl Mongers Meetup site, you'll see that I'm now listed as the organizer. This is not strictly true - Ian Kluft is still our primary organizer, but due to the…
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Matt S Trout (mst) commented on
Social diagnostics
Swillert wrote:
By calling it out for being offensive and/or alienating.
As Joe said - "I didn't, and don't, want to see it either." Neither do I.
If you believe that members of a particular group are being offended by something but you aren't ... first look into yourself and ask why you aren't offended too.
Disliking gross sexualisation because gross sexualisation is horrible works out well, it just requires us to stop and think and realise …
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Sawyer X commented on
"White knight", a meditation
I don't have time to write much, nor think you should waste time on it, but I do want to state I agree with you, and with what Andy said.
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educated_foo commented on
What exactly is going on at Perlmonks?
No, I just think you're being obnoxious and playing to "the crowd," for some version thereof. But you can believe what you want, and even tell me that *I* believe what you want...
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Ether commented on
What exactly is going on at Perlmonks?
> No, I just think you're ... playing to "the crowd"
I find it troubling that you are unwilling to accept Joe's opinion at face value, regardless of whether you agree with it or not.
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preaction commented on
What exactly is going on at Perlmonks?
"Man-hours" could have been perfectly innocent. "I refuse to acknowledge the term man hours, you patriarchical pig," made "man-hours" fully self-aware, and then belittled everyone who might have said "Hey, you know, you could have just said 'hours' here."
This is different from the PyCon incident in that the joke at PyCon was not joking about sexism. The PyCon jokes may have been juvenile and even sex_ist_, but they were not a joke about sex_ism_.
The PyCon joke was not on the people who are fighting for equality. This one is, and that is why it is repugnant.
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