It's sad that programming is starting to mean more and more politics.

It's involved politics ever since more than two people were doing it.

Are you sad that it's being made explicit and being talked about or that it's being talked about in terms of identity politics?

Not the OC, but it seems like there are more an more outsiders coming in and trying to enforce their politics while not contributing anything. I think this has always happened, but it seems like there's been an uptick recently and that worries me.

Can you name some of these outsiders? Most of the people I've seen involved in promoting social justice in the open source community are themselves open source contributors.

Well, CoralineAda with that whole Opal thing for one. I guess I was unclear, I didn't mean outsiders as in people who don't contribute to open source as much as outsiders who don't contribute to specific projects coming into those projects and trying to impose a COC. Perhaps I'm overreacting.

What about her bad behavior which affected many redditors?

More interesting doesn't necessarily mean more productive.

> the history of Russian timepieces is rich

By stealing other people's watches at the end of WW2 [1].

[1]: http://history.stackexchange.com/questions/9264/why-did-sovi...

I don't understand why the upper comment was downvotted without any explanation, when it's not far from the truth. Even if the people like the event, it's still a marketing stunt similar to hackathons or other competitions.

It probably cuts down on people signing up for a lark and then not showing up.

It's not a constructive comment. It's obvious that it has marketing benefits, and the poster's connotations were that there was something wrong with that, without giving a reason.

If diversity matters so much and it should reflect the customer population, then perhaps Google (or any other company for that matter) should hire less smart or even dumb people. After all 47.5% of the population has an IQ between 70 and 100.

As early product testers, absolutely. It's one thing to put yourself "in the user's shoes" as far as unfamiliarity with a product, it's another entirely to pretend to have 30-50 fewer IQ points. This could produce some valuable insights :)

I think you might be missing the point of his comparison. The claim he's discussing is that your workforce overall should reflect your customer base, not that your product testers (much more directly related to the customer base) should reflect it. What throwaway54984 is saying is that this claim doesn't seem to hold water, through the counterexample of diversity of IQ. Dismissing it with "it only works if you limit them to product testing" is really just strengthening his argument.

I wasn't disagreeing with the assertion he was making; my comment was intended to complement the point, not refute it. Apologies for not making that more clear.

oh my b. Totally agree with your comment without the underlying point I (wrongly) assumed it was making.

No. I couldn't care less about political correctness.

That's a good attitude. Political correctness is insane.

But you don't need a new throwaway account for each "bold" statement you make. Speak up, though. The world needs more people waking others up.

I wonder what would have happened if he had an opinion on other sensitive topics, let's say he would have been for making heroine available over the counter just like beer in a supermarket. Would this be too much even for the liberal Mozilla?