I think I just sprained something from rolling my eyes so hard

[tim]

Why I want to set the entire open-source community on fire sometimes: the comments on this post and this post. (The latter of which is from one of my ex-bosses although I ran into it randomly, w00.)

Apparently, if you suggest that using a picture of a woman's bare ass on the title slide of a technical talk might not be the best idea if you want to make women feel welcome in CS, that is ~censorship~. I also can't decide whether it's those comments are the most special, or the ones asking whether also including pictures of naked men in the slides would have made it OK. Also see: examples of more or less every tactic mentioned in the link to "Derailing for Dummies" I posted before this.

I guess it's another entry for the Male Programmer Privilege Checklist. Also, I feel like I need to burn some more reddit karma, brb.

Comments

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I'm seized with the notion of using possessives to document memory ownership rules to the compiler (for languages primitive enough to need them!).

your void *malloc(size_t n); // caller owns returned data
void free(my void *ptr); // called takes ownership
my const char *getenv(const char *s); // called still owns return value

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

It's been done (http://www.pmg.lcs.mit.edu/~chandra/publications/popl03.pdf) (pdf), but not with that syntax. You should suggest it to them :-)