So, I was supposed to go to the US next week for FSE, but I am not. I am cancelling because of Trump. Why? On a philosophical note. There is a famous musical in the Netherlands about a famous resistance hero (that actually existed) called Soldaat van Oranje (Soldier of Orange) It is a typical story […]
My feminism is one of broken promises
I wrote most of this post before the elections, but I figured today was a good day to finalize and officially come out as a feminist. Because today, the biggest lie we all want to believe has been debunked. “Girls, if you work hard enough, you can achieve anything.” Turns out, you cannot. One of the reasons […]
Not all opinions
For all readers a bit less “in” the tech scene: an interesting thing happened in the last few days. First Paul Graham tweeted: If Trump wins, I'm joining the Resistance. — Paul Graham (@paulg) October 11, 2016 Understandably, people asked him to start by denouncing one of his partners, Peter Thiel, a known Trump supporter. […]
On codes of conduct
I know it has been forever since I wrote something! It is summer and I am working at MSR and I have picked up few new side projects, and more excuses 🙂 But this topic has been on my to write list for a long time, so let’s go and talk about the idea of […]
On leaving your politics at home
Prelude I guess most of my readers in tech know what this post is about. This post is about the idea that at a conference on programming (or any other professional topic) it is possible to leave your political views at home. In the (functional) programming space is a very recent and hot controversy at this […]
