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posted by n1 on Tuesday September 06 2016, @09:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-conference-for-old-men dept.

Douglas Crockford (JSON, JSLint, JSMin, Javascript: The Good Parts) is a founding father of modern Javascript. He is a frequent speaker on the Javascript circuit and, until recently, was the scheduled as the keynote speaker for the Nodevember Conference. For reasons no one can explain, he was removed from the conference schedule to help foster inclusivity. No one (including Crockford) knows why he was banned. Internet commenters have speculated it may have been due to a talk titled "Monads and Gonads" or slut shaming the "promiscuous" web or a his use of the gender (and species) exclusive phrase "hanging out there like a pair of dog balls". Others believe it's because he's a curmudgeon (aka grumpy old white cis heterosexual man). One of the Nodevember organizers (not involved with the decision to ban Crockford) has stepped down.

This is not the first time Crockford has experienced censorship -- he previously ported Maniac Mansion to the NES.


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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday September 06 2016, @10:31PM

    by Arik (4543) on Tuesday September 06 2016, @10:31PM (#398324) Journal
    I assume you meant 'his website contains zero javascript' as that's an easy typo I make myself often, and otherwise it makes no sense.

    And so I checked. And became more confused.

    I got off work 4 hours ago and I'm not in the most alert state so maybe I missed it, but I can't seem to find any ecmascript at http://crockford.com/

    But noscript nonetheless claims to block something there.

    Not sure if my old eyes are failing or if noscript failed to parse the thing properly.

    (Which reminds me to mention how utterly backwards firefox is - you have to download an extension to *block* something you should have to explicitly allow to begin with. Sad thing is other browsers are mostly even worse.)

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 06 2016, @10:37PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 06 2016, @10:37PM (#398331)

    Know your tools.
    NoScript does a lot more than just block javascript.

    Oh wait, what was I thinking? The guy who deliberately posts in tt font despite the textbox input widget not looking any different isn't someone anyone would expect to know much of anything.

  • (Score: 2) by Username on Tuesday September 06 2016, @10:54PM

    by Username (4557) on Tuesday September 06 2016, @10:54PM (#398341)

    I was gonna go with, “he’s like the JS messiah, his site has zero javascript.” I rewrote it because I thought there would be too many commas, independent clauses and what not. Plus, I heard the women of SoylentNews get turned on on by dangerous dark triad men, and there’s nothing more dangerous on SN than not previewing.

    I opened it in dragonfly(opera) and the only js was the default opera.js.

    • (Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday September 06 2016, @11:24PM

      by Arik (4543) on Tuesday September 06 2016, @11:24PM (#398358) Journal
      That's interesting. I don't think there is any there. Certainly the page works fine without it! which is rare and praiseworthy in 2016.

      I may decide to break some taboos tomorrow and read TFA. If he's complaining that the language is fine for its intended purpose but everyone is misusing it, then he might well get some sympathy from me.
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