From fa0c8382ea55987e4e3b6544cb6cb4682cda43d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: km0 Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 01:05:53 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] RTFM ??? not sure though, more contex could benefit --- chapters/01_who_is_reading.md | 11 ++++++++--- queue.md | 1 + 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/chapters/01_who_is_reading.md b/chapters/01_who_is_reading.md index 52d6fca..fa1fa5d 100644 --- a/chapters/01_who_is_reading.md +++ b/chapters/01_who_is_reading.md @@ -77,13 +77,18 @@ It's ok, someone could argue, every question that can be asked on Stack Overflow But it's not rare for these places to feel unwelcoming, or even hostile. In 2018, Stack Overflow pubblicly admitted that there was a problem concerning their userbase. The platform felt unfriendly for _outsiders_ (what a choice of words) such as newer coders, women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups (Hanlon, 2018). -Far from being just a Stack Overflow problem, machism is deeply embedded in the IT discourse, soaking through technical writings as well. The denigrating expressions of superiority in matters concerning programming that Marino calls _encoded chauvinism_ (Marino, 2020) constitute the main ingredient in the brew of toxic geek masculinity. Real programmers don't use this code editor. Real programmers don't use this programming language. Real programmers don't care about others feelings. Etc. +Far from being just a Stack Overflow problem, machism is deeply embedded in the IT discourse, soaking through technical writings as well. -Ellen Ullman accounts on the emotional dumbness of her male collegues give an insight of a problematic behavior first intercepted and then capitalized by the IT industry (Ullman, 1997; 2017). +The denigrating expressions of superiority in matters concerning programming that Marino calls _encoded chauvinism_ (Marino, 2020) constitute the main ingredient in the brew of toxic geek masculinity. Real programmers don't use this code editor. Real programmers don't use this programming language. Real programmers don't care about others feelings. Real programmers read the fucking manual. Etc. +Ellen Ullman accounts on the emotional dumbness of her male collegues give an insight of a problematic behavior first intercepted and then capitalized by the IT industry (Ullman, 1997; 2017). + +`--> RTFM etc, but strange transition ?` + +minimal violence +good name for a band -minimal violence - embedded and encoded in technical culture - read the f~ manual diff --git a/queue.md b/queue.md index b14fb63..d16f48e 100644 --- a/queue.md +++ b/queue.md @@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ - [A Research UNIX Reader: Annotated Excerpts from the Programmer’s Manual, 1971-1986](https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/reader.pdf) - Sphere 300 corporation user manual (the one Supi sent) - Franklin Ace 100 user manual (the one Jian sent) +- [The Jargon File](http://www.catb.org)