On Tuesday 18 August 2009 12:38:36 Ben Finney wrote:
> Hendrik van Rooyen writes:
> > On Tuesday 18 August 2009 06:45:39 Aahz wrote:
> > > Mainly an opportunity to flog the new diversity list.
> >
> > Here my English fails me - flog as in "whip", or flog as in "sell"?
>
> Yes :-)
Thank you that c
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:12:14 +0200, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 August 2009 06:45:39 Aahz wrote:
>> In article ,
>>
>> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> >The comments were made a week ago -- why the sudden flurry of
>> >attention?
>>
>> Mainly an opportunity to flog the new diversity list.
Hendrik van Rooyen writes:
> On Tuesday 18 August 2009 06:45:39 Aahz wrote:
> > Mainly an opportunity to flog the new diversity list.
>
> Here my English fails me - flog as in "whip", or flog as in "sell"?
Yes :-)
--
\ “The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in |
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On Tuesday 18 August 2009 06:45:39 Aahz wrote:
> In article ,
>
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >The comments were made a week ago -- why the sudden flurry of attention?
>
> Mainly an opportunity to flog the new diversity list.
Here my English fails me - flog as in "whip", or flog as in "sell"?
- He
Steven D'Aprano writes:
> The comments were made a week ago -- why the sudden flurry of
> attention?
In my case, it's because I was ignoring the thread in which they were
made. The change of subject drew them to my attention, where I saw the
community response was (IMO) insufficient at the time,
In article ,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>The comments were made a week ago -- why the sudden flurry of attention?
Mainly an opportunity to flog the new diversity list.
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Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/
"I saw `cout' being shifted "Hello world" times
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:31:51 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote:
>> Oh come on, one newbie making an off-color joke is not any sort of
>> reflection of the community as a whole.
>>
>> Anyway it's pretty naive to expect what is now a large community to
>> avoid bad eggs altogether. Price you pay for popula
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Carl Banks wrote:
> On Aug 17, 8:44 am, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
>> In article
>> <461cc6f1-fc23-4bc7-a719-6f29babf8...@o15g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
>> Robert Dailey wrote:
>> >It's a figure of speech. And besides, why would I want programming
>> >adv
On Aug 17, 8:44 am, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
> In article
> <461cc6f1-fc23-4bc7-a719-6f29babf8...@o15g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
> Robert Dailey wrote:
>
>
>
> >It's a figure of speech. And besides, why would I want programming
> >advice from a woman? lol. Thanks for the help.
>
> Well
On 17 Aug, 19:23, Jean-Michel Pichavant
wrote:
>
> Are you suggesting this list reject part of the community regarding its
> sexual orientation, ethnicity, size, culture? If that was the case I'd
> like to know about it.
Careful: you probably meant to write "rejects", not "reject". That
changes t
You'll know that Python is sexist the day you'll find the title 'No
women allowed' on the python main document page.
Good God I hope you're being ironic.
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:23:39 -0700, Jean-Michel Pichavant
wrote:
Aahz wrote:
In article
<461cc6f1-fc23-4bc7-a719-6f29babf8...@o15g20
Aahz wrote:
In article <461cc6f1-fc23-4bc7-a719-6f29babf8...@o15g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
Robert Dailey wrote:
It's a figure of speech. And besides, why would I want programming
advice from a woman? lol. Thanks for the help.
Well, I'm sorry to see this, it means I was wrong about t
In article <461cc6f1-fc23-4bc7-a719-6f29babf8...@o15g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
Robert Dailey wrote:
>
>It's a figure of speech. And besides, why would I want programming
>advice from a woman? lol. Thanks for the help.
Well, I'm sorry to see this, it means I was wrong about the lack of
sexism in
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