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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @01:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @01:59AM (#398455)

    But GP does have a good point that someone who believes "timezones and patriarchy" are the hardest things in CS needs a proper encounter with a clue brick or ten.
    I'll cast the first stone: Leap seconds.

    I don't think you've thought that through very well.
    You can write code to handle leap-seconds and pretty much any other case of non-monotonic time changes.
    There are probably libraries that will handle all that complexity for you.

    But you can't code a fix to social problems, include but not limited to, patriarchy.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @02:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @02:27AM (#398479)

    you can't code a fix to social problems, include but not limited to, patriarchy.

    DC Fontana already did it. DC is code for Dorothy Catherine.

    There was a time before social coding and github profile photos, when everyone used nicknames instead of real names, and nobody cared about gender identity. With few exceptions. Julianne Frances Haugh made sure everyone who bothered to read the manual knew a woman implemented shadow passwords.

    There was a time like Martin Luther King dreamed of, when code was judged by quality and usefulness instead of authorship. It was a time when no one cared that the Bash shell was authored by Brian Fox, who happens to be a black man.

    The time for tolerance has passed, and we live in another era of prejudice.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @04:28AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @04:28AM (#398548)

      Because nobody works face to face in real life anymore.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @05:09AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @05:09AM (#398570)

        Telecommuting is impossible because PHBs need blowjobs to justify the existence of PHBs.

  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday September 07 2016, @06:44AM

    by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday September 07 2016, @06:44AM (#398596)

    > I don't think you've thought that through very well.
    > You can write code to handle leap-seconds and pretty much any other case of non-monotonic time changes.

    I know that you haven't thought that through, because I've been in many discussions with people having to quickly sync to the exact time regardless of when a system booted or when it last shut down. The show must go on, and a second is an enormous time to be off by.
    You can google the various issues that keep popping up with every leap second (the last one was finally better than the previous one, which had been pretty bad).
    Far from trivial.

    > But you can't code a fix to social problems, include but not limited to, patriarchy.

    socialIssues = launchNukes(all, all, now);