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Old 03-21-2013, 03:13 PM
 
Location: Lafayette, CA
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How “dongle” jokes got two people fired

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An incident at the annual Python developer conference has led to allegations of sexism, death threats, the firings of two people, and—apparently—multiple DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks.

The strange saga began Sunday at the PyCon event in Santa Clara, CA, when Adria Richards, a developer evangelist for e-mail vendor SendGrid, overheard jokes being told by two developers sitting behind her during a session. The jokes were sexual in nature, she said. Richards proceeded to take a picture of the developers, then tweeted the photo and asked PyCon organizers to have a word with them.

The story ended with one of the developers getting fired, Richards getting fired, and an apparent denial of service attack against Richard's personal blog and against SendGrid. "Anonymous has reviewed the situation and rendered judgment using their collective wisdom and experience," wrote one anonymous poster in a manifesto. Could the story get any stranger?
The picture of the nerds at "PyCon" just puts the icing on the cake for me. I can't stop laughing at this.
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Old 03-21-2013, 03:28 PM
 
Location: Declezville, CA
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There's a 4-letter word for people like her, and it starts with a c.
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Old 03-21-2013, 03:38 PM
 
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Goes to sausage-fest, offended at overhearing sexual jokes.
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Old 03-21-2013, 03:46 PM
 
Location: Lafayette, CA
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There's a 4-letter word for people like her, and it starts with a c.
Funny thing is she ended up getting fired herself.
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Old 03-21-2013, 03:47 PM
 
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I tell ya Doc, ya gotta watch out for some people with no senses of humor.
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Old 03-21-2013, 03:52 PM
 
Location: Declezville, CA
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Funny thing is she ended up getting fired herself.
There IS a god.

(just kidding)
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Old 03-21-2013, 03:53 PM
 
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There IS a god.

(just kidding)
To late. This missionaries have been dispatched.
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Old 03-21-2013, 04:14 PM
 
Location: Lafayette, CA
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I'm just confused that the geniuses of Silicon Valley couldn't find any other way to resolve this than by firing two developers. This is just reinforcing the nerd stereotype of them being anti-social types with no people skills.
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Old 03-21-2013, 04:26 PM
 
Location: Boulder Creek, CA
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They're geeks. Do we expect any better?
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Old 03-21-2013, 04:27 PM
 
Location: Declezville, CA
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It reads like something from the script to a really crappy film school student movie.
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