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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: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @01:40AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @01:40AM (#398442)

    It means a normal male. Many non-normal people can't handle that they're part of a small minority within the total population so they use more complicated words to make their groups seem larger than they actually are. Somehow they believe not being normal is a bad thing so they try very hard to destroy or change the definition of normal.

    If you're talking to some one who uses that phrase, you should probably work yourself out of the conversation. If you stay, you'll probably and accidentally make a few micro-aggressions against the speaker which will then start a shit ton of drama.

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  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Wednesday September 07 2016, @08:26AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Wednesday September 07 2016, @08:26AM (#398616) Journal
    It's also used by people who want to be very explicit. Normal covers a wide variety of things. In a group of programmers, normal probably means male, skinny, with a beard.
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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by art guerrilla on Wednesday September 07 2016, @10:57AM

    by art guerrilla (3082) on Wednesday September 07 2016, @10:57AM (#398641)

    *this*
    my personal theory is that we are so soaked in all the estrogen-mimics and other toxins we don't know shit about, that it is causing a lot of the 'intersex' type combinations which are essentially bad replicants of a binary system...
    BUT, what kind of pisses me off, is NOT that people of WHATEVER gender description they want to assign themselves (whatever floats your boat), but that they represent something like .0000000000000001 % of the population, yet they APPEAR to be dominating libtard issues when we have MUCH BIGGER FISH TO FRY, like, um, i don't know, the destruction of the planet and cessation of all human life...
    you know, minor shit compared to whether i can have my own bathroom and shit...
    (as far as that goes, here is a solution to that bullshit: PANsexual bathrooms everywhere all the time, EVERYBODY use the same stinking bathrooms and get raped and shit... i know, i know, for the chickas in the studio audience, that will be a real comedown from their bathrooms which have couches, and lockers, and changing tables and shit; now all they have is a broken urinal, an empty towel dispenser, and some weird guy in the next stall tapping morse code with his feet...)

    • (Score: 1) by AssCork on Wednesday September 07 2016, @07:38PM

      by AssCork (6255) on Wednesday September 07 2016, @07:38PM (#398837) Journal

      +1 for the Larry Craig [wikipedia.org] reference.
      On a side-note; I knew a girl (coworker, pronouns her/her's/she) who had to pee so bad, she went into the men's room. Afterwards, she described the condition of said restroom as "the worst javascript I've seen all day".

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      Just popped-out of a tight spot. Came out mostly clean, too.