fdiv.net
fdiv.net · Personal blog · on HN since 2012
A programmer's personal blog with Objective-C satire, C tricks like emulating defer, and essays on gender and tech.
What HN saysCommenters link the Objectivist-C satire, the defer emulation in C, and a rebuttal of the book Women Don't Ask.
16HN people shared it
9linked it in comments
11stories submitted
287story points
5 months agolast shared
2012people per year2026
Most-shared posts
- 1Objectivist C5 people · 224 points · first shared 2012 · 73 comments on HN
- 2The pseudo-science and pseudo-feminism of Women Don't Ask3 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 3An Introduction to Objectivist-C3 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 4Emulating defer c clang or gccblocks2 people · first shared 2019
- 5Emulating Swift's “defer” in C, with Clang or GCC+Blocks1 people · 49 points · first shared 2015 · 30 comments on HN
- 6Some thoughts on gender and science/technology magazines1 people · 5 points · first shared 2018 · 1 comments on HN
- 7An Unofficial History of Forms1 people · 3 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 8“The never-ending notary nuisance,” or, “infinite loop at Infinite Loop”1 people · 3 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 9Taxonomy views browser of arbitrary depth1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
cjbprime · 2012-11-27
> See Women Don't Ask: The High Cost of Avoiding Negotiation - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0553383876/
For what it's worth, there's what looks to be a strong rebuttal of most of the things this book says here:
http://fdiv.net/2012/01/20/pseudo-science-and-pseudo-feminism-women-do…
(I'd tend to think that your point stands anyway as being obviously true, but after reading the rebuttal again along with the link to this article I'm not sure anymore.)
jojobas · 2023-08-07
This is some top quality banter, on par with C+Equality and Objectivist C.
https://github.com/TheFeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equality
https://fdiv.net/2012/04/01/introduction-objectivist-c
asplake · 2023-01-20
Objectivist-C (satire): https://fdiv.net/2012/04/01/introduction-objectivist-c
jnwatson · 2021-05-13
gcc and llvm have a cleanup attribute you can use for this. Systemd uses it.
https://fdiv.net/2015/10/08/emulating-defer-c-clang-or-gccblocks
Twirrim · 2019-12-20
http://fdiv.net/2015/10/08/emulating-defer-c-clang-or-gccblocks
The original link works.
kibwen · 2017-06-30
You've just reinvented Objectivist-C! http://fdiv.net/2012/04/01/objectivist-c
geofft · 2015-07-18
Yes, definitely. This is a common hypothesis, and it gets some study. See, for instance,
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Women_Don't_Ask
http://geekfeminism.org/2011/06/17/quick-hit-one-reason-women-make-les…
http://fdiv.net/2012/01/20/pseudo-science-and-pseudo-feminism-women-do…
There is both the possible cause of women being socially conditioned (or biologically wired, or whatever causes this) to be less confrontational, and the possible cause of women finding it riskier / being in worse negotiating positions for structural-inequality reasons.
duncan_bayne · 2014-08-11
/me raises hand
Of course, we all code in Objectivist C ( http://fdiv.net/2012/04/01/objectivist-c ) ;)
But seriously ... I'm actually surprised that there aren't more Objectivists on HN. There's a strong anti-authoritarian streak here, with an emphasis on rationality, independence and capitalism. Take a look at the list of objectivist virtues ( http://wiki.objectivismonline.net/Virtues ):
Rationality, Honesty, Integrity, Productivity, Independence, Pride, and Justice
That list describes a lot of people on HN.
andyjohnson0 · 2013-01-03
That would be objectivist-c: http://fdiv.net/2012/04/01/objectivist-c