Re:What I Didn't Say
by crassus on Monday December 30, 2013 @04:36PM
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He was part of pronoun-gate? That was one of the stupidest, most counter-productive brouhahas of all time. Something tells me that purging your best devs for being insufficiently progressive is not going to attract more females.
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Re:What I Didn't Say
by jsmthrowaway on Monday December 30, 2013 @04:40PM
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Alex Gaynor was the catalyst for pronoun-gate, and reflects a prevailing attitude among a large number of the founding and old-school Django developers. I had the privilege to meet them and spend some social time with them at a past PyCon and I saw some of the attitudes firsthand, but they were remarkably more muted and respectable in person. Online, well...