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.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Tuesday September 06 2016, @11:10PM
Please keep up with the convo. He is the JavaScript messiah because his personal website contains NO JAVASCRIPT!
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by RamiK on Wednesday September 07 2016, @12:19AM
Consider his target audience: Have you ever met a JavaScript developer that isn't running NoScript, uBlock or both?
To quote every web\app\mmo developer I met, "Oh hell No. I don't use that shit! I just sell it.".
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by Webweasel on Wednesday September 07 2016, @09:10AM
WOW.
You must be exposed to competent people. Where do you find them?
My dev's have no idea about noscript. One of them put an open spam relay page up (Send custom mail and content from a webpage, no login etc). Luckily, they only got to send 280,000 emails before it was noticed and taken down.
My infosec (sic) dept popped down last week. "Why does your pc contact this IP so much?" One reverse lookup later (wow how did you do that? says infosec) "Its noscript updating itself, it does a check every time I open firefox" Infosec: Whats noscript?
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