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Patricia Aas
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Patricia Aas's personal blog at patricia.no covers programming and career. Since 2018, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Survival Tips for Women in Tech”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Linked as the source for a 2022 C++ community controversy over a CppCon speaker convicted of rape and possessing child sexual abuse imagery, including a proposed letter and a safety policy. Comments do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Blog posts and talks by Patricia Aas
Most-linked posts?
- Survival Tips for Women in Tech3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-09-06
- /2022/03/08/proposed-cppcon_safety__transparency_report.html3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-05-24
- CppCon's Failure to Protect the Community2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-08
What Hacker News says?
I am conflicted about this. On one hand I understand the emotional response and find rape and cp incredibly repulsive but on the other hand I wonder if this goes too far since apparently the person served their sentence and it's been a decade since (without any inappropriate or illegal activites?). From their proposed letter[1] they say: "We are not pursuing this person throughout their professional life trying to r…
Comment linking /2022/03/08/proposed-cppcon_safety__include_cpp_position.html
on “CppCon 2022”Submitted GUIs are built at least 2.5 times as a story · 248 points
HN discussionConvicted of rape and in possession of CSAM is all that matters to me. They're going to want to re-offend for the rest of their life. Maybe they will, maybe they won't. Either way we should destroy the individual. https://patricia.no/2022/03/08/proposed-cppcon_safety__trans...
Comment linking /2022/03/08/proposed-cppcon_safety__transparency_report.html
on “I have resigned all my positions in ISO C++ in protest”Submitted A Twitter Off Ramp: A Tutorial for Getting on Mastodon as a story · 175 points
HN discussionPurportedly the individual unnamed herein was "convicted of rape and possession of Child Sexual Abuse Imagery in 2011" https://patricia.no/2022/03/08/proposed-cppcon_safety__trans... Purportedly a "moderate" risk to reoffend
Comment linking /2022/03/08/proposed-cppcon_safety__transparency_report.html
on “I have resigned all my positions in ISO C++ in protest”Submitted Survival Tips for Women in Tech as a story · 64 points
HN discussionThey were probably trying to allude to this[0] past controversy around C++ conferences (you can also google "c++ sex offender" and will find more sources around that). [0]: https://patricia.no/2022/03/08/cppcon.html
Comment linking /2022/03/08/cppcon.html
on “An Open Letter to the Python Software Foundation”Submitted Survival Tips for Women in Tech (2018) as a story · 44 points
HN discussionOkay so I hate to be that person but I'd really caution against sharing Arthur O'Dwyer's work given that they've been essentially ex-communicated from the C++ community. https://patricia.no/2022/03/08/cppcon.html https://patricia.no/2022/03/08/proposed-cppcon_safety__trans... https://izzys.casa/2024/11/on-safe-cxx/
Comment linking /2022/03/08/proposed-cppcon_safety__transparency_report.html
on “Things C++26 define_static_array can't do”Submitted CppCon's Failure to Protect the Community as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Open Letter to the C++ Community as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The fundamental misunderstanding in Team Topologies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Survival Tips for Women in Tech (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trying to build an Open Source browser in 2020 as a story · 1 points
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