@FBDev Ok, here goes.

Linux was created by Microsoft in 1998, in response to a request from the Nigerian ministry of education for an easy-to-use graphical desktop environment for beginners. It's named after Linus Todger, a well-known member of the dogging community in Porthmadog who bought one of the first copies and took it to bed for a week.

Whey protein? Good luck, that stuff makes you shit bricks.

It doesn't tell you to fuck off, it cordially invites you to spend a month writing device drivers or something. What's stopping you?

@fruitfcker ...and farts are from uranus.

I also have sophisticated emotional requirements, honest.

I like the way this thread is basically women talking about their sophisticated emotional requirements and men making knob jokes. It's amusing and terrifying in equal measure.

@jassole Lazy programmers are the best, like lazy mathematicians or lazy engineers. Most innovation happens because someone couldn't be arsed to do something manually.

@phibbs You're lucky she wasn't a real FX trader.

Well volunteered, that man.

@Lensflare He said it's "homewrok", I think that's different.

I didn't even do homework when I was at school. I'm not going to start now.

Easy to use tools allow idiots to slap something together that superficially appears to work but is riddled with bugs.

But they do not cause good programmers to produce bad work. In fact, a good programmer will produce better work with easier-to-use tools than they would with something like C.

Not sure where cuckoldry comes into it though. I'd have thought an old-school C programmer is more likely to be cuckolded because when he goes down a five-day rabbit hole trying to optimise some obscure thing and forgets to eat or wash, there's a risk his wife will feel neglected.

@shovethisrant It can't be that impressive or you'd be able to see it hanging down.

That's nothing. I found a dead badger last weekend.

@jestdotty Climbing the hierarchy, I suppose. Getting good at the politics, like you'd get good at any other game.

@jestdotty Dunno about nicer, but I think the golf thing is broadly the reason for that kind of behaviour, rather than pretending to work. A lot of people like that are genuinely passionate about what they do, but what they do is effectively a game. It's not about getting the job done. I'm not defending them, just trying to understand the motivation.

Only the rain never tires.

@lastNick That guy's a good bullshitter. He's going to go a long way. Largely at the expense of women who don't bullshit.

@jestdotty As in, you've found the same, or you think I'm being too cynical?

@gitstashio Smaller organisations are much less likely to have this problem in my experience.

@idkhow That's how people who are not bullshitters get treated. The gender thing is spurious correlation.

For people like that, it's not about solving the problem. Like golf isn't about putting the ball in the holes. It's about honing your skills at getting the ball in the hole within a carefully defined set of rules, and networking and playing politics with the other people at the club.

Solving problems in an org like that is like going to a golf course, and just walking up to each hole and dropping a ball in it. Everyone looks at you like you're mad.

When choosing people for highly skilled roles, humans generally place more value on bullshit than on actual ability. It so happens that most bullshitters are men. The solution is to stop rewarding bullshit.

My ass has never been rubber ducked, and I'm ok with that.

Are macs not robust enough to withstand touching?

Gen X: one self-blinking LED.

@kiki Is "touching each other's noses" a euphemism?

@retoor If you're one of those people who don't believe the set of genders is isomorphic to Z/2Z then the "bi" part doesn't make sense.

@retoor Yes, nothing to do with pans apparently. Or goats.

PHP is a cruel mistress.

There's a lady in Soho who can sort you out.