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I was watching "hacker reviews hacking scenes from movies", and god forbid they brought a woman to do the analysis. A lot of butt hurt boys in the comments, that women left the kitchen and got into programming.
This aside, the combination of ignorance and arrogance was just wow. I mean, if you want to be a dick, at least back it up with skills.
Don't make claims about how "GUI is the single most important piece of any software". *laughing in embedded programming*

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    Also, he told a woman who was a computer science student, that her degree was irrelevant. What.
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    Nowhere in that comment you posted is a mention about a kitchen or the fact the reviewer is a woman.

    Unless you happened to crop a tame comment, that's your own bias speaking.

    With a title like "hacker reviews X", honestly I'd expect anything BUT a STUDENT. I haven't watched the video, and I don't feel inclined to do so either.

    My bias tells me it's gonna be the equivalent of an annoying student who just finished Psychology 101 and thinks they can analyze people. :)
  • 6
    @nitnip The reviewer was a perfectly certified cyber person (a woman), who also served 10 years in the Israeli Military Intelligence in cyber security roles, and then proceeded to industry roles, and research.
    That guy was talking trash in the comments, and a CS student, who is a girl, told him that GUI is not that important. So he lashed out.
    This are two separate incidents.
    So no, it's not my bias. If you use the word simping and bash women for absolutely no reason (he could not find fault in the cyber lady's analysis), then you have issues with women.
  • 8
    @NickyBones So the commenter bashed a comp-sci student -who happened to be a woman-.

    Why do you try to turn that into a misoginy thing?
  • 4
    @nitnip The comment was related to the second part of being fucking ignorant but talking like you are the shit. But the fact that he used "simping" when people pointed out the woman's analysis was solid, tells you enough about HIS bias.
  • 3
    @nitnip He started by bashing a cyber security expert who did the review. Was I unclear? "and god forbid they brought a woman to do the analysis".
    Then he proceeded to insult the CS student. It's not a very complex scenario.
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    @nitnip I turned it into a misogyny thing because it is. If you don't want to watch the video and read the comments, why are you arguing with me?
    When people comment "she is not a real hacker, but the other 3 guys that did the analysis before are the real shit", you get the vibe that her being a woman is their real problem.
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    @NickyBones it was unclear to me, yes. The only context I had besides that was that cropped comment.

    Adding the simping part to the image would have greatly helped paint the guy as the dick you describe :)
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    @nitnip The simping part is in the image - it's in the last sentence....
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    Care to name the channel or share a link to the video, because I can't find any video with that exact title and results with a similar title don't seem to be the right video.

    As for the quoted comment, it seems like an application developer that's mad GUIs were slighted and who (I would say rightly) values the opinions of software engineers over computer scientists. I could be wrong, but it's hard to tell from one out-of-context post.
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    @NotJeckel Ugh, in many places there is only a computer science degree, and after that you get a job as a software developer. I have never heard of a degree in "computer programming".
    I have been working as a software engineer for 4+ years, and never heard of "personas" until I took a UX course in *computer science* M.Sc. So I think making this differentiation is rather pointless.
    https://youtube.com/watch/...
    The title is "Hacker Rates 12 Hacking Scenes In Movies And TV | How Real Is It?"
  • 1
    More misogynistic vibes, for the unconvinced.
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    Who said there were "computer programming" degrees? The best coders are self-taught and very well may not have any degrees at all.

    As for the video, while I was searching before I watched it and read several pages of the comments. The vast vast vast majority are positive and the few negative comments I see are people trying to justify why she was wrong about the their pet favorite scene.

    Are there sexist comments under the video? I have no doubt. Do they represent any statistically significant portion? Very unlikely.

    But, whatever, it's your rant, go off all you want.
  • 0
    @NotJeckel The guy you were trying to justify claimed to have a degree in "computer programming". That's right up there in the screen-shot-comment I attached to the main post.
    The main point of the post was actually making fun of arrogant idiots, and I never claimed to make statistics about toxic comments.
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    @NotJeckel i have no doubt that self taught programmers can be functional, but good is a stretch. at best they can type a clean code, but the guys I've met usually don't even know why you shouldn't go around using delete on a database or basic concepts like that. maybe a degree is not necessary to get a job, but it's foolish to think a degree doesn't make a difference
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    @NickyBones You're of course right, the opening quote did mention such degrees. I should have been clearer and worded my sentence better for what I intended to say, such as "Where did I defend". So, my bad.

    @darksideofyay Then our experiences differ greatly. Nine out of ten degreed coders I've worked with aren't worth the paper their degree is printed on, while half of the self-taught programmers I've met could at least code their way out of a problem.
  • 0
    "GUI is the single most important piece of any software"

    If you want to SELL your software, it's absolutelly true.

    UI/UX is WAY more important than code.

    And that comming from purelly backend dev who hates everything ux/ui related.

    But your potentiel client will only see ux/ui, so that part makes the salle 99% of the time.
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    @NoToJavaScript It really depends on the system. When you have a product that is purely software, and is also for the average user, then GUI is important for sales. But when you are selling an aerial defense system, buyers will be more impressed by a 99% interception rate than fancy menus. They will pay even if the GUI is bad - the operators are anyway specialized people who train to use these systems.
  • 2
    YouTube comments are the pits sometimes, man. The other day in a fairly niche corner of the website I saw someone defending an estranged member of the YouTube group I watch who was forcefully booted from the group for being an atrocious sexual predator to fans and coworkers alike. His argument was basically just that he didn't care he was a sexual predator and that everyone should just chill out because his content was good.

    Also a terminal emulator is technically a GUI anyways even though nobody considers it to be. Punch card operators would agree with me, at least.
  • 1
    What do you mean GUI, the terminal is right there?

    Embedded devs rise up*

    *and also please write better debug tools I beg you
  • 0
    @AlgoRythm I am honestly conflicted about this topic. If someone was a decent composer and also a raging Nazi, should I not listen to his music if I find it enjoyable? I would for sure not buy it, but if it's free on YouTube, I might listen anyway.
    As for content creators who make money from my views, I'd definitely not watch their channels if they are rapists, racists, or any other type of scum.
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    @NickyBones honestly I don't care about their work. But I don't support the person or them making anything new and profiting from it
  • 2
    from the comment, he sounds like a ui/frontend guy.

    which makes the rest of it - the smug, the arrogance, the bad grammar, and the stupidity - quite normal.
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