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A comment on Sex Machine: Get gender from first name in Ruby.

Re:Sex Machine: Get gender from first name in Ruby by dgreensp on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @08:07PM (#5561744)
How is this useful?

The answer is convention over configuration. See, if we institute a societal convention that your gender is derived from your first name (automatically by a Ruby program), it will save a lot of time and energy and make the world more DRY.

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Re:Sex Machine: Get gender from first name in Ruby by ftay on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @08:29PM (#5561828)
Let's institute a convention to refer to everyone by a unique identifier. Oh wait, that's prison.
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