Top all-time · #3879
the evolving ultrasaurus
Personal blog · ultrasaurus.comprogrammingcareer
the evolving ultrasaurus is a personal blog at ultrasaurus.com about programming and career. Since 2009, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog mainly for its 2009 posts on gender and sex in the Ruby and Rails community, including a presentation discussed in the 'Dear Fellow Rubyists' thread. Commenters cite the posts as evidence.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /sarahblog/2009/04/gender-and-sex-at-gogaruco/6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2009-04-26
- /sarahblog/2009/04/gender-and-sex-at-gogaruco/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-04-26
What Hacker News says?
Checking my rss reader ... https://feld.com/ (VC, but wide ranging) https://mapbrief.com/ Snarky GIS content https://randsinrepose.com/ Management advice for a level I'll never get to :) http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/ Right of center economics https://ultrasaurus.com/ Tech https://www.eugenewei.com/ Big pic tech and society
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted Code != computer science as a story · 198 points
HN discussionThe usual story (as told in Nathan Ensmenger's "The Computer Boys Take Over") has the change earlier than that. He says in the late 1940s to early 1950s lots of women were hired for "coding" positions, which at the time was seen as a a fairly unskilled, clerical work. In the 1950s, the division between high-level "programmers" and route "coders" disappeared, leaving just programmer-coders who did both, and as a resu…
Comment linking /2008/11/declining-number-of-women-studying-computer-science/
on “Most Female and Male Occupations Since 1950”Submitted Essential Rust Tools as a story · 61 points
HN discussion"Lighten up, will ya? Why can’t we all enjoy a little racist caricature?" Everyone deserves a presumption of respect and dignity. I don’t make bigoted caricatures at the expense of others just to make some point about trust and certificates, and I don’t expect other people to enjoy and defend it when someone is ignorant enough to resort to racist caricature. It’s the whole Ruby sexism debate all over again, I guess.…
Comment linking /sarahblog/2009/04/gender-and-sex-at-gogaruco/
on “Bug 647959 – Add Honest Achmed's root certificate”Submitted Memory safety: necessary, not sufficient as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis person meant to insult me. There is really no positive spin you can make on that comment. I didn't bring up feminism, nor did I make anything like a claim that men and women are biologically identical. He made up some things, and then he painted me as a member of some bizarre cult. If he revisits this thread, it will likely be to insult me again. Perhaps he will not. That would be nice. And you may not have mea…
Comment linking /sarahblog/2009/04/gender-and-sex-at-gogaruco/
on “Why men don't listen”Submitted Becoming a technical leader as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAll I know about this is what I learned from Giles Bowkett: http://www.ultrasaurus.com/sarahblog/2009/04/gender-and-sex-... who sounds dead-on correct to me: I put huge slides with four-letter words on the screen when I give presentations, but it never makes anybody feel uncomfortable. But that’s because there’s an art to these things, and I know every time I do it that I might go too far and have to eat my pride an…
Comment linking /sarahblog/2009/04/gender-and-sex-at-gogaruco/
on “A Painful Decision”Submitted Who cares if languages become extinct? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWe don't cause a fuss just when the proportion is not exactly right. We cause a fuss when the proportion is way out of whack and obviously wrong. When like less than 3 percent of Boston Ruby programmers are women, something is blatantly wrong. There are probably more factors at work than mere spontaneous career preference that are causing this seriously skewed distribution. This is not just an abstract inconvenience…
Comment linking /sarahblog/2009/04/gender-and-sex-at-gogaruco/
on “New Rails workshops to bring more women into the Boston software scene”Submitted Writing C Library in Rust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMatt Aimonetti apology still has no links. As such, either google has no record or Matt has not apologized. As such, I would consider this willful disregard if he has seen or heard any comments regarding his presentation. [Edit: There was a non-apology, after all. http://www.ultrasaurus.com/sarahblog/2009/04/gender-and-sex-... -- Really, his wife saw nothing wrong with this?]
Comment linking /sarahblog/2009/04/gender-and-sex-at-gogaruco/
on “Dear Fellow Rubyists”Submitted Subverting Sauron’s Business Model as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGiles Bowkett wins: http://www.ultrasaurus.com/sarahblog/2009/04/gender-and-sex-...
Comment linking /sarahblog/2009/04/gender-and-sex-at-gogaruco/
on “Dear Fellow Rubyists”Submitted Golang philosophy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWow -- go read the presentation (available http://www.ultrasaurus.com/sarahblog/2009/04/gender-and-sex-... ). The kindest thing that can be said about Matt Aimonetti is he simply has no class. Or, apparently, a grownup relationship with women. I was going to criticize the blog hugothefrog linked to for indicting the whole Ruby community because of one asshole, but then I thought about it a little more and really? No…
Comment linking /sarahblog/2009/04/gender-and-sex-at-gogaruco/
on “Dear Fellow Rubyists”Submitted False dichotomy of control vs. sharing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThanks for addressing this head-on and in a professional way. Nothing you said was particularly offensive. Sex sells, and that is a part of life. Do I think that you're a misogynist? No. Nothing you did was even remotely as offensive as the CouchDB talk at GoGaRuCo last year. As a result of the hoopla around that talk, Martin Fowler wrote a fantastic piece that discusses the interaction of gender, programming, profe…
Comment linking /sarahblog/2009/04/gender-and-sex-at-gogaruco/
on “Our New Year’s Resolution For Hiring”Submitted Communication is a technical skill as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou can do something similar with iOS development as well, by implementing a -debugDescription method to return a NSString * object that is then printed out when you use print-object (or po ) from GDB/LLDB. If -debugDescription is not implemented, than the debugger will print out whatever -description returns, instead. -description is the same method that is called when an object is printed out with NSLog(). (more i…
Comment linking /sarahblog/2011/11/debugging-objective-c-in-xcode-for-ios/
on “A simple tip to make your debugging sessions go easier”Submitted The five dysfunctions of a team as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere's my post about the same positions: http://www.ultrasaurus.com/sarahblog/2013/12/work-in-governm...
Comment linking /sarahblog/2013/12/work-in-government-save-the-world/
on “These 3 Federal Government Jobs Might Actually Just Change Everything”Submitted Why more women conference speakers? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIn case you haven't noticed, both men and women (including prominent women like Caterina Fake) called out Yahoo on this event. And previous occasions have been no different, with plenty of women raising their voices. For example, after last spring's CouchDB talk we heard from several women: http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2009/04/25/why-rails-is-still-a... http://www.ultrasaurus.com/sarahblog/2009/04/gender-and-sex-...…
Comment linking /sarahblog/2009/04/gender-and-sex-at-gogaruco/
on a deleted threadSubmitted On choosing RSpec as a test framework as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Diverse genius as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Firebase auth migration from rails/devise as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Declarative Eventing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Full-stack bureaucrat: layers of rules as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
