Letters to the Editor
brandon
Published Letters: 2
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dubious technical qualifications?
[Read the article: Death threats dog female blogger]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ben Dover wrote:
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The issues here are that Kathy Sierra, a woman of dubious technical qualifications (though she has been a physical trainer!) cries wolf and the hens circle their wagons and automatically presume she is telling the truth and they offer no substantiation for their claims.
I program for a living and would hardly call Kathy Sierra "unqualified." She doesn't need a graduate degree to write books on Java that are geared toward entry-level audiences. She does, however, need a thorough grasp of her subject matter; the popularity of and critical acclaim for her books should speak for itself. Ben Dover, perhaps you are a person of "dubious qualifications", as I'm sure the women you've encountered have informed you.
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nice reasoning
[Read the article: Death threats dog female blogger]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]ltgesq wrote:
angry misogyny is common in the tech world
In college about twenty five years ago, i took a class called "digital electronics". The professor was the sort of female hating gay academic that you see in the sciences and mathematics. The large remainder of the students in the class were clearly destined to experience most of their sex in "lifelike rubber." There was a common thread of female hatred and anger running through the class.
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ed. spelling
Can we conclude that "All Xs are Y" from the premise "There exists an X that is Y"? This question should be easy for someone with legal training to answer, especially so for a defense attorney.