CodeBabes.com
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I may be a little late to the party, but I'm confused by CodeBabes. Satire? Sexist? Sexy? Supportive? Something??
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No, the satire one is CodeDicks. (slightly more safe-for-work than the link in Alex's post because the people are wearing significantly more clothing)
Filed under: Why the fuck do I need to put four asterisks to get bold inside my italics?
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I think that made an appearance somewhere. Maybe in the Bad Ideas Thread?
Right or wrong, most of the code they write will be TRWTF.
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Satire? Sexist? Sexy? Supportive? Something??
"Repulsive" is the word you're looking for.
I mean, fuck. Fuck. This is why we can't have nice things. This is why programmers are perceived as perpetually virgin nerds who couldn't talk to a female if their life depended on it, so they make sites like this. This is an insult to every programmer, and a double insult to every female programmer.
And for the first time in my life, I'm actually, no joke, fucking offended.
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And for the first time in my life, I'm actually, no joke, fucking offended.
I believe this less than I believed Michelle Obama.
This reminds me of playing Strip Poker on my Commodore 64. Good times.
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Satire? Sexist? Sexy? Supportive? Something??
In any case, someone thought that it was a Good Idea. What exactly they thought was the good idea is mysterious, but my gast is flabbered anyway with each possible interpretation I can come up with on short order.
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What exactly they thought was the good idea is mysterious
Why do you think it's a bad idea? Is it a better or worse idea than using female names for hurricanes?
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Why do you think it's a bad idea? Is it a better or worse idea than using female names for hurricanes?
The only hurricanes I can name off the top of my head have female names. There's a correlation here somewhere, but it's probably not causation. How many male names do you know of that start with "S" and aren't also female names, for example?
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How many male names do you know of that start with "S" and aren't also female names, for example?
Eh...Steve, Sam and Stuart come immediately to mind. Get a baby name book. I'm sure there are plenty.
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Also, the person who published the study is a professor of marketing. Take from that what you will.
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Eh...Steve, Sam and Stuart come immediately to mind. Get a baby name book. I'm sure there are plenty.
Never met a woman named "Sam"? As in short for "Samantha"?
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As in, actually named "Samantha", not "Sam"?
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Wouldn't the male be named "Samuel" or something like that?
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Doesn't make it any less gender-neutral.
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Or Samson.
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Then it wouldn't be a cromulent answer to ben's question.
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Why not?
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Sanjay
Subramaniam
Santosh
Sameer
SohamSo many...
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Likely this idea was thought up by the Buzzword Throwers.
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As Hurricane Sameer bears down on the Gulf Coast, many Americans have become confused and reported the hurricane both to the DHS and neighborhood watch, inspired by the "See something, say something" anti-terrorism campaign. Residents have been seen stocking up on ammunition and weaponry, rather than the recommended water, batteries, and canned food. One local man was quoted as saying, "That rag-head ain't getting in my trailer! Let dem A-Rabs come, I'll show 'em the true meaning of Patriotism - the business of my AR-15!"
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Actually, this quote tells you all you need to know about this "study":
@WaPo said:The study excluded Katrina and Audrey, outlier storms that would skew the model.
I'm sure the thing is WTF all the way down, but that bit really cracks me up.
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Excluding the extreme events is dangerous, but including them can cause other problems (unless you've got a lot of other non-extreme data too). Data collection is a tricky thing, which is why I never do it…
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Interesting - Sameer mean gust of wind.
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Data collection is a tricky thing, which is why I never do it…
I, too, prefer to just pull data out of my ass to fit my hypothesis.
Filed under: everybody does that right?
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Why do you think it's a bad idea? Is it a better or worse idea than using female names for hurricanes?
Filed under: OMG I think they really mean it!, facepalm
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Excluding the extreme events is dangerous
What I like about this is that the actual topic is extreme weather. This whole thing doesn't strike me as serious enough to dig into, but I wonder if they decided to exclude those a priori. Because if not, they're full of shit and should be excluded from ever publishing anything again.
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What I like about this is that the actual topic is extreme weather.
Is it? Or is the topic response to extreme weather and they're excluding ones where official evacuations were organised (because those change behaviour patterns substantively)?Data collection is for
suckersscientists.
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- Samuel
- Scott
- Sebastian
- Steven
- Sean
- Seth
- Simon
- Spencer
- Shane
- Santiago
- Shane
- Saul
- Stan
- Sergio
- Skeet
- Sheldon
- Stuart
- Silas
- Solomon
- Sawyer
- Sullivan
- Seamus
- Salvador
- Sven
- Sid
- Sylvester
- Sander
- Sergio
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Is it? Or is the topic response to extreme weather and they're excluding ones where official evacuations were organised (because those change behaviour patterns substantively)?
Whatever it is, extreme weather is part of it. I think they just saw, OUTLIER! and realized that their p-values wouldn't clear the publication threshold so they threw out the inconvenient data using some bullshit rationalization.
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Except that Katrina killed about 30 times as many people as the average storm. And Audrey killed 10 or so times more than the average storm. Including them would have "helped" the p-value.
The Real WTF is that the Washington Post commenting system lets you report comments that you disagree with. If you click report, you get four options:
- Spam
- Offensive
- Disagree
- Off-topic
Also, the second WTF is that there's a guy named "Moderator1" and you can't reply to his posts.
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Except that Katrina killed about 30 times as many people as the average storm. And Audrey killed 10 or so times more than the average storm. Including them would have "helped" the p-value.
Hmm...right. Well, it definitely would have killed whatever they were reporting for correlation
@One of the authors said:
People imagining a ‘female’ hurricane were not as willing to seek shelter.
Here's another WTF. Who cares about imaginary hurricanes? Those don't get news coverage talking about how certain areas should evacuate or whatever.
These guys would have been doing something more useful to society if they'd been coding to get a chick to take her clothes off.
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coding to get a chick to take her clothes off.
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@boomzilla said:
coding to get a chick to take her clothes off.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Ok, here it is.
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Do you think Japanese name all their typhoons with -chan?
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Don't think so:
Japan Tembin Usagi Kammuri Koppu Tokage
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I am curious about the research for these storms:
Ewiniar - Chuuk traditional storm god
Prapiroon - God of rain
Jelawat - A fresh water fish
Gaemi - Ant
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In fact, I suggest that USA hurricanes be named like old testament (arch)angels or Aztec gods (*where pronounceable).
People definitely gonna run from Metatron 2014.
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I liked this bit from TFA I linked:
@The Onion said:
"When the big hurricane struck Florida in 1998, I was scared until I found out its name was Earl," Panama City, FL citizen Sam Hewer said. "I went to high school with a guy named Earl. He was a little wild, but ultimately harmless. In fact, we used to make fun of him. So when the storm hit and destroyed my house, it didn't seem so bad. It was like, 'Oh, there goes Earl again.'"
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@The Onion said:
"When the big hurricane struck Florida in 1998, I was scared until I found out its name was Earl," Panama City, FL citizen Sam Hewer said. "I went to high school with a guy named Earl. He was a little wild, but ultimately harmless. In fact, we used to make fun of him. So when the storm hit and destroyed my house, it didn't seem so bad. It was like, 'Oh, there goes Earl again.'"
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1989's Hurricane Hugo was the most destructive in terms of dollars of damage done up until that time (subsequent storms have reduced it to eleventh-worst). The only Hugo I'd ever heard of before that was the boyfriend in "Bye Bye Birdie", and it's hard to think of that kind of carnage coming out of Bobby Rydell.
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Satire? Sexist? Sexy? Supportive?
The adjective we're looking for here is: wrong. Plain and simply wrong.
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Explain.
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Wait, let me get some popcorn first!
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Hugo is a silly name.
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Hugo is a silly name.
You can still build a brand out of it... but it seems to have fallen out of favour a couple of decades ago, I can't remember a "Hugo" from school or college.