Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by 77pt77 on Sunday November 20, 2016 @09:35AM (#12999017)

> Douglas Crockford, uninvited from NodeVember, the general opinion is that he said something that a woman didn't like

Anything to back that up?

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Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by tnone on Sunday November 20, 2016 @10:10AM (#12999172)

This post compares the allegations with the harmless actual quotes:

http://atom-morgan.github.io/in-defense-of-douglas-crockford

This appears to have been the instigator:

https://twitter.com/nexxylove/status/771503661956501504

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Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by iNerdier on Sunday November 20, 2016 @11:39AM (#12999647)

I don't get how either of those quotes could be seen as attacking anyone.

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Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by tnone on Sunday November 20, 2016 @11:55AM (#12999743)

Congratulations, you've just discovered the truth behind the entire women in tech moral panic.

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Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by 77pt77 on Sunday November 20, 2016 @12:24PM (#12999906)

Maybe because you are mentally sane.

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Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by woah on Sunday November 20, 2016 @09:51AM (#12999085)

I don't want to look for it right now, but somebody dug up a "do you have the gonads for monads" speech and was offended by the mention of gonads. I think the conference that uninvited him ended up reinviting him.

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Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by 0xCMP on Sunday November 20, 2016 @12:50PM (#13000054)

side note: This happened without his involvement in social media at all. Others, collectively, used social media to get that effect.

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