has anyone here attended pycon? What's the tone like compared to other tech confs, given that it's named after Monty python?
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 22 March 2013 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
the idiom 'take a joke' is pretty vulgar + offensive
― Mordy, Friday, 22 March 2013 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
Kevin, read your own fucking post!
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 22 March 2013 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
Sounds like the worst thing ever xxp
― dat neggy nilmar (wins), Friday, 22 March 2013 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
Take a joke = bantz, no?
― dat neggy nilmar (wins), Friday, 22 March 2013 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
ah you're right. he said he'd fork a guy's repo. that's a pretty sexist i guess
― k3vin k., Friday, 22 March 2013 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
special guest pycon performance by mc nerdlinger nintendo
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 22 March 2013 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
Otm
― dat neggy nilmar (wins), Friday, 22 March 2013 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
could someone rekindle the argument? i just finished my work but i have to stay for another 40 mins or so. ideally with everyone assuming traditional ilx roles to keep things simple.
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Friday, 22 March 2013 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― Darth Icky (DJP), Friday, 22 March 2013 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
i don't care enough to really get involved this go around tbh - others are more than capable of filling my role i think
― Mordy, Friday, 22 March 2013 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Doz5w2W-jAY
hope this helps
― Kontuszówka reverie (Noodle Vague), Friday, 22 March 2013 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i'm not particularly enjoying playing mordy in this adaptation but the story is sufficiently ridiculous.
― k3vin k., Friday, 22 March 2013 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
tbh, this woman should be awarded the nobel peace prize for not swinging on an IRL xkcd cartoon screeching dick jokes
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 22 March 2013 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
the language python is named after monty python. the conference is just named after the language.
― s.clover, Friday, 22 March 2013 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
xxp that's how i ALWAYS feel
― Mordy, Friday, 22 March 2013 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
The language is reallllly named after Monty python, like the homage is pretty deep, so I'm wondering if juvenile humor was more in the air than say at javaone
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 22 March 2013 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
um i can't tell if i'm being trolled here? python devs tend to be younger and less big corporate and more startupy but that has like nothing to do with the genetic origins of the name of the language, and everything to do with where that language tends to be used. i've heard python conferences have reputations of being pretty chill affairs actually, especially when compared to what was reputedly the rampant dickishness in the ruby community. but as a whole, culturally, this is more about startup-land and not than anything else, i suspect.
lol java was named after coffee i wonder if at javaone everyone is jittery!
― s.clover, Friday, 22 March 2013 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty much
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Friday, 22 March 2013 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
take this joke and shove it
― open the blood gates (elmo argonaut), Friday, 22 March 2013 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
how bout that dude who sparked up a bowl in the middle of pycon, eh?
― diamonddave85, Friday, 22 March 2013 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
I lolled at that, too
developers are really idiots
― Darth Icky (DJP), Friday, 22 March 2013 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
Anti developer language itt really sickening now tbh
― mister borges (darraghmac), Friday, 22 March 2013 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
I'm just saying if you told me at pycon that there were silly walk contests and Spanish Inquisition cosplay, it wouldn't be totally unexpected.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 22 March 2013 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I have no problem believing that literally every person at this thing including the offended woman has a fucking terrible sense of humour
― dat neggy nilmar (wins), Friday, 22 March 2013 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
(python is really huge in scientific computing now btw. a fair number of the people doing that stuff are really impressive.)
― s.clover, Friday, 22 March 2013 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
if richards had interrupted dongle guy by yelling STOPGIMME A BEAT and launched into Nasty Boys, a lot fewer people would've been firedwe have learned nothing from the 1980s
― i petted a bodega cat today. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 22 March 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think the world is ready for a Python conference attempting to recreate the "Nasty" video
at least give the local emergency rooms a heads-up before doing this
― Darth Icky (DJP), Friday, 22 March 2013 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
this shit will be on funny or die by next week, don't front
― i petted a bodega cat today. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 22 March 2013 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
"Among other findings, an Ohio State University study found that graduate students rated research abstracts as having greater “scientific quality” when they thought the abstracts were written by men."
http://www.scilogs.com/communication_breakdown/gender-bias-study-2013/
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 22 March 2013 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.complex.com/tech/2013/03/the-40-hottest-women-in-tech/
lol straight trollin
― 乒乓, Friday, 22 March 2013 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
douse complex.com in gasoline and set it on fire imho
― open the blood gates (elmo argonaut), Friday, 22 March 2013 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
^^^
― Darth Icky (DJP), Friday, 22 March 2013 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
I clicked through to the first entry because I was thinking "well maybe they are trolling by setting this up as a cheesecake list and then they're going to riff off of the nonsexual definition of "hottest" and then the first picture loaded and I was basically like "lol gtfo *clicks back, hopes no one was looking at my cube*"
― Darth Icky (DJP), Friday, 22 March 2013 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
complex.com is basically justdudethings right?
― Heyman (crüt), Friday, 22 March 2013 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
I have trouble expressing just how angry the pervasive, unexamined misogyny in my field makes me.
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Friday, 22 March 2013 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
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― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Friday, 22 March 2013 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
I was assigned to write the 50 Hottest Women in Tech by Complex and it really bummed me out, because the idea of perpetrating the same old gender divisions in an area like tech - which has predominantly been a boy's club throughout history - seemed like kind of a messed up thing to do. It represents the most banal form of internet content that exists. But it's hard to say no to a paycheck.So what I tried to do was see if it was possible to make something called "The 50 Hottest Women in Tech" earnest and empowering and an actual good thing. I pretty much only included normal looking women, who were involved in something really crucial or exciting in the tech space. I made no allusions to their looks in the blurbs, and ended up with simply a long list of very exciting women.Of course when the piece actually ran, I discovered that over half of the women I had included were replaced with people like Morgan Webb, complete with the usual lascivious dialogue. Sigh. It's hard to win when you're writing for Complex, but please know that I tried.
So what I tried to do was see if it was possible to make something called "The 50 Hottest Women in Tech" earnest and empowering and an actual good thing. I pretty much only included normal looking women, who were involved in something really crucial or exciting in the tech space. I made no allusions to their looks in the blurbs, and ended up with simply a long list of very exciting women.
Of course when the piece actually ran, I discovered that over half of the women I had included were replaced with people like Morgan Webb, complete with the usual lascivious dialogue. Sigh. It's hard to win when you're writing for Complex, but please know that I tried.
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rjce0chttps://twitter.com/luke_winkie
― open the blood gates (elmo argonaut), Friday, 22 March 2013 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
You mean the dude who also shouted "you're the hottest" at a woman presenting a talk, while being so drunk he claims not to remember shouting or bowl-sparking, and whose official explanation-of-banning only mentions the bowl-sparking?
Bcz I happen to find "you're the hottest" approx six billion times more offensive than dongle innuendos. This may be because I have never been hot but I was 13 for a while.
(declines to click on complex.com link because I think I've been angry enough this week already)
― susuwatari teenage riot (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 22 March 2013 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
dude's name is winkie, i just want to point that out (no dongle)
― open the blood gates (elmo argonaut), Friday, 22 March 2013 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
― 乒乓, Friday, 22 March 2013 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
just really lol to me since it's p obvious that the higher ups at complex were like, how can we get hits this week... *sees adria richards controversy* *assigns 50 hottest women in tech piece to underling*
I remember going on some weekend school trip where my dad was chaperoning when I was in junior high; I started a "what girls do you think are hot?" conversation that he quickly shut down because it was a bunch of thirteen-year-olds being gross and pervy. I responded with "ok then, what cars do you think are hot?" and got yelled at in front of a bunch of my classmates and told to go to sleep.
Looking back, the takeaways were:
- We were incapable of making a distinction between talking about an entire gender and talking about inanimate masse objects and whenever my thoughts get too icky, I remember that confrontation and wonder how I would feel as the object of a Mandingo conversation. - My dad really wanted to get some sleep that night.
― Darth Icky (DJP), Friday, 22 March 2013 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
Also can someone point out to Mr. Winkie that specifically excluding attractive women is just as problematic as explicitly perving over them?
― Darth Icky (DJP), Friday, 22 March 2013 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
^
― Heyman (crüt), Friday, 22 March 2013 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
i don't know this dude but it reads like he just wanted to focus on people who weren't uncanny valley.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 22 March 2013 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
oh winkiepaws
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 22 March 2013 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
you've been on fire since you got married, dude
― Darth Icky (DJP), Friday, 22 March 2013 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
<333333 CHRIS
― maura, Friday, 22 March 2013 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
I'm gonna put it out there: if you like it, you can take it; if you don't, send it right back: Who is the sexiest woman on this board?
― mookieproof, Friday, 22 March 2013 19:38 (eleven years ago) link